Allie Nickell

One ghost pushing another ghost on a swing hung from a tree over graveyard headstones, a full moon shines overhead. Illustration.

Goodnight.
🖼️ Laurie A Conley #31DaysofHalloween #Gothtober

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Small painting of red triangle of a barn above a sea of yellow wheat, in a blue sky filled with white clouds.

In 1928, Georgia O’Keeffe returned to her home state of Wisconsin for a few months. During this trip, the artist revisited the barns she had known in her youth.

O’Keeffe described the barns as "wonderful—not what is ordinarily called picturesque—They just seem alive all the way through."

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already. It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

RIP Diane Keaton, 79, one of a kind

Was the mssing one curated by Jake (and had his pinned post at the top)?

😄. I see it as a 'Winter Punderland'.

Who do we write to to make that a thing?

Reading someone's reminiscences of a series of events, and they can't be correct as presented as they don't fit with the confirmed facts / dates. So now to work out which bits are reliable, and which bits need to be treated with caution, and how the material can best be used.

Get well soon 💐

From attics to gardens, pine martens on move in Northern Ireland BBC News - Northern Ireland

From attics to gardens, pine martens on move in Northern Ireland
[ From BBC News NI ]

Here is a baby otter to end the week

Barry the Blue Tit listened carefully as I explained that the rising cost of peanuts meant he wasn't going to be getting them every time I visited. #ukbirds #wildlife #nature #EastCoastKin

For those interested in the work currently being done on Mother and Baby Homes in Northern Ireland. #IrishGenealogy

The Making of María Corina Machado | Caracas Chronicles She moderated her tone in the lead-up to July 28, but Machado is now engaging with the MAGA camp. How did she get here after 25 years?

María Corina Machado does not fit neatly into a Left-Right binary.

Thank you!

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Have hit the limits of both sites now - if anyone knows where I might find issues of the Irish Times from 1946 and 1948-50 without buying a full newspaper subscription, please let me know. (The Internet Archive has nothing after 1945, and FmP/BNA has 1947 but nothing else in the 1940s).

Woman in Dutch beach cold case named after 21 years An Interpol-led operation has identified German citizen Eva Maria Pommer after a police tip-off.

DNA bringing home the answers again. #OperationIdentifyMe sounds like a great piece of collaborative policing, and I'm pleased that it's bringing answers to the families of missing people.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #dna #genealogy

I'm worried about the 34 people who found this review helpful.

Very wise, the path to madness that way lies...

It's a secret hidden in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, closely guarded by leprechauns.

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Genearosity
I'm at my #FamilySearch Center this afternoon, if any genies need lookups.
#SpreadTheWord
@alliethinks.bsky.social @allthosebefore.bsky.social @shamrockgen.bsky.social @atcherleyons.bsky.social

YouTube video by Robert E Fuller Stoat Kit Goes Wild On Trampoline | Discover Wildlife | Robert E Fuller

The ultimate bouncing stoat. The dismount never fails to make me chortle...

A head-on view of a Stoat with all four feet off the ground, crossing a path on the Somerset Levels.

It’s always a joy to see a Stoat, even if only very briefly. This one bounced across a path at RSPB Greylake in the Somerset Levels this morning & I managed just a single photo before it disappeared into the vegetation.
#ukwildlife

It's not due to be released until November, so you're safe for a few more weeks. Not a Pepsi fan, but I could be persuaded to try a gingerbread version if it wasn't too sickly.

Can I have yours then?

If anyone can point me to a source of this in Belfast, I'm in. #NornIrnBru

Even now a crack team of Scottish culinary scientists are racing against time to discover a way to deep fry it.

Poor little books.