Kim D. Stryker

Whether you’re a fan of Hallowe’en or not, you have to give it credit for being the last line of defence against Christmas advancing even earlier into the year, a ragtag gang of goths holding the line against a battalion of baubled barbarians

It's Halloween month — and it's also #AmericanArchivesMonth, so it's only right that we bring you a ghost story from 1972.

Bill Crabtree and the Clinch Valley Boys perform a song about a hitchhiker's ghostly encounter with "Big Josie," animated by Glenn Palumbo's drawings.

📷 Appalshop Archive

Tis the season

Stately homes, pubs and theatres have commodified their phantoms. Turned them into neat little stories, spectre-magnets to draw in visitors with ache for ghost-glimpse. Then there are the places where shades and their stories are feral. Unowned, uncurated spots. I hold to these. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

A winding path between flat fields towards a coastal horizon. The sky is blue, the scattering of trees untroubled by breeze. It is late in the year, but winter has no claim upon this place yet.

The year cools. Untroubled skies become rare. These are the last days where the witch walks without coating her boots in mud. Our place in the year may change the spirits that speak, but it never diminishes the land's magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Cancel Christmas aka Blackout Black Friday is gaining steam fast as Americans stare at the reality of fascism and the poverty it brings with it. Families torn apart by ICE have already had their holidays cancelled without choice.

“The time for fantasy is over”

you love to see it ❤️

Who's going to be at #AFS2025 this weekend?

The Menderes River in Greece, the source of the word Meander. A picture of a river not a straight line but running left to right and back again, like a squiggle from an infants pen. It is surrounded by green fields.

The word MEANDER comes from Maiandros, the Greek name for a winding river in Turkey.

Over time this word has meant: confusion, to wander aimlessly, a winding passage.

I love it, b/c the river & the word make me think of a dotty old man's path as he wanders around the house looking for his keys.

Sure a ring is nice, but pie!

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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We're off to the fair for #FolkyFriday today! 🖤

Our theme this week is "Autumnals Fairs, Festivals, and Animals Brought to Market!"

From Samhain to Goose Fairs to Pack Fairs and beyond, it's a very folky season!

Tag related posts, art, songs and customs #FolkyFriday for shares until 6pm UK time!

www.kpbs.org/events/2025/... Introducing Yokai: Supernatural Creatures from Japanese #Folklore

Education is more than job training.

I bet you soup from an actual cauldron hits so hard

Fall Folk Arts Festival at Exchange Place 2025: A Deep Dive into 19th-Century Farm Life and Local Culture in Kingsport, Tennessee- What You Must Know - Travel And Tour World The Fall Folk Arts Festival at Exchange Place in Kingsport, Tennessee offers a unique cultural experience, enhancing tourism with arts, crafts, and history.

This Fall Folk Arts Festival is this weekend and it looks amazing! www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article... #tennessee #folklore #folkloring #lore #folkart #folkcrafts

a small brown dog leaps up from behind a pile of crunchy brown leaves. her eyes and mouth are open wide, and her big floppy ears are extended out like wings to either side.

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

Things I grew.

The Restaurant List 2025

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Midday snoring.

Why Trump’s attack on the Smithsonian matters | Kimberlé Crenshaw and Jason Stanley The president’s assault on US museums, education and memory is a critical dimension of his fascist aims

"A people who cannot remember their past are a people who cannot resist a fascist future," in "Why Trump’s attack on the Smithsonian matters" by @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social and Jason Stanley via @theguardian.com

Defend the #FreedomtoLearn and #TeachTruth

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me: “The language of the universe is mathematics”

MY YOUNGER CHILD: “lol no it’s my booty”

me: “……factually incorrect. it’s actually math”

This story has been on my mind all the time since Donnie Darko has been prez.

The Farnese Artemis or Artemis of Ephesus is a 2nd-century AD

Brutal. Love his cold delivery.

I initially read this as "huge soapy tits" and was like, WTF is going on here?? 🤪

A Glow-Up Gone Awry

A Glow-Up Gone Awry www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/w...

I love how crazy Spainish people get with their holy art restoration efforts. Anyone remember the Jesus Monkey?

nothing like a popsicle on a hot day!

BREAKING: THE WEAPONIZED SANDWICH CONTAINED SALAMI

A bottom bun and burger patty sides in one side of a container, as a person is about to place the top bun, lettuce,tomato, cheese, and pickles onto it from the other side

An ad for the McDLT, with an open-face burger sitting on a wood table, with a head of lettuce, crock of mayo, and two whole tomatoes sitting behind it

McDonald's McD.L.T. (1984-1991): A gimmick from McDonald's, that featured novel two sided styrafoam packaging--with the bottom bun and burger patty in one side, and the lettuce, tomato, cheese, pickles, sauces, and top bun in the other, keeping the hot ingredients hot, and cool ones cool