Justin Hopper

Justin Hopper

@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social

Writer. Uncanny Landscapes podcast. Belbury Poly - The Path. Obsolete Spells. Chanctonbury Rings. The Old Weird Albion. https://linktr.ee/oldweirdalbion

1,477 Followers 211 Following 243 Posts Joined Sep 2023
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Gotta say, renewing one’s club 50 Railcard is a minor but particular type of devastating activity…

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East Anglian Landscape Network Colchester A gathering to meet like-minded artists, archaeologists, activists and more interested in contemporary landscape practices.

Daniel & Clara will be speakers at the next East Anglian Landscape Network meetup - March 21st in Colchester, North Essex. Sign up for free tix here tinyurl.com/EALNCol

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Landscape Imaginary with Daniel & Clara: Uncanny Landscapes S3E5 Artists Daniel & Clara discuss their work, concerned with the way humans gaze upon and interact with landscapes and the natural world. Plus events and announcements.

New Uncanny Landscapes podcast ep is out with artists Daniel & Clara discussing their work in the realm of 'landscape imaginary', asking questions of how we might understand the human gaze upon, and relationship to, the natural world.

uncannylandscapes.substack.com/p/landscape-...

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4 days ago
An illustration of an owl with head slightly tilted and crescent moon above. Poem text reads "かたむいた月のふくろうとして" I am unsure of an appropriate translation.

'Owl and Crescent Moon' - Kozaki Kan, ca. 1990s.
#OwlishMonday #JapaneseArt

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5 days ago

If you have a 10 yr old you likely already know this, but… six hunters is out.

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6 days ago

Being old is wild.

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6 days ago

Making stir fry while enjoying straight bourbon and BBC Radio 3 Unwind muthaluvvaas.

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Out in August! 💚 cup.columbia.edu/book/body-ho... #horror #bodyhorror

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1 week ago

Original first line of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear And Loathing In South Wiltshire.

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East Anglian Landscape Network Colchester A gathering to meet like-minded artists, archaeologists, activists and more interested in contemporary landscape practices.

21st of March in Colchester - first North Essex gathering via the East Anglian Landscape Network, a new opportunity to hear from and meet people from a variety of landscape-related fields in the arts, sciences and community. Tix are free but filling up; info and signup: tinyurl.com/EALNCol

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1 week ago

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

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1 week ago

Stumbled across this excellent exhibition on my morning walk last week. Went back again for a second look and bumped into @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social who’s written this wonderful essay about the show...

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Oh, excellent!! I'll be there.

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We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher everywhere in March - England, Scotland, Europe, tour of Italy, more. I'll be in Lisbon to intro it & perform a set of my ghost box stuff with João of Beautify Junkyards 26 March! Rio in Dalston, London, on 28th! Links: www.closeandremote.net/portfolio/we...

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every time peter tork mouths someone else's lines YouTube video by maz

love an incredibly niche supercut

www.youtube.com/watch?v=drOk...

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The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 466) “I spotted some marionettes in a dusty old window in the Cotswolds,” explains writer Simon Avery. “And they were arranged in a tableau that suggested the spectres of the 1970s and ‘80s to me. Sepia…

My latest @forteantimes.bsky.social Haunted Generation column now on the website... hello @simonavery.bsky.social @beckgoldsmith.bsky.social @jondixcomposer.bsky.social @buriedtreasure.bsky.social @subexotic.bsky.social @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social and more
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/02/25/t...

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Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

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2 weeks ago
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The Medieval Drone Society II, by Laura Cannell 8 track album

THE MEDIEVAL DRONE SOCIETY II is OUT TODAY 🎻 I have been obsessed / inspired by 14th century poet/composer Guillame de Machaut's music for at least 20 years! I have fragmented & explored the spaces between the notes & dreamt it into new music. Ltd Ed CD/DL
brawlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-me...

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Plotlands with David Knight: Uncanny Landscapes podcast S2E3 Architect David Knight talks about the makeshift communities called 'plotlands', the anarchist writer Colin Ward who championed them and the way they inspire placemaking today.

There's a great episode of @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social's Uncanny Landscapes podcast that explores the rise of plotlands in the between wars period and Colin Ward's anarchism that I'd highly recommend 👍
substack.com/@uncannyland...

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Dead the Long Year. Back in action thanks to a care package from #farwestpress in the spring-ish sunshine!

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my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

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2 weeks ago

Any suggestions for recent ish creative-nonfiction books that tell reported and/or researched stories, removed from the author (as in they don’t have first-hand knowledge), in a cool & compelling, novelistic way?

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Loved this book. Big recommend to folk-horror and/or weird-landscape fans.

Ben will be on Uncanny Landscapes soon!

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2 weeks ago

That brings the total arrests so far over the contents of the Epstein files to two. Both British. None in the United States.

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Mind How You Go On paintings of edgelands, landscapes of power and powerlessness and what spaces have been left for us to imagine within. (Exhibition in London through Saturday 28 Feb.)

On/inspired by the exhibition 'Mind How You Go', edgelands and landscapes of power/powerlessness. (image: joanna whittle)
uncannylandscapes.substack.com/p/mind-how-y...

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Wire - Eardrum Buzz YouTube video by ohnoitisnathan66

Here's the star-studded video for Wire's Eardrum Buzz. Who can you spot? Happy birthday to Graham Lewis!
youtu.be/DXu_XWMF0RA

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Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

Found this compelling. harpers.org/archive/2026...

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2 weeks ago

No cheating, your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.

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3 weeks ago

Thanks so much @ianrankin1.bsky.social 🙏

We could really use your support out there if you’re able to join us at one of these shows.

All 🎟s: linktr.ee/wasylyk

@claypipemusic.bsky.social

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Under water, in denial: is Europe drowning out the climate crisis? Even as weather extremes worsen, the voices calling for the rolling back of environmental rules have grown louder and more influential

"This is Europe’s new reality: under water in winter, withered in summer. Yet even as the weather extremes worsen, the voices of denial have grown louder and more influential."

Excellent piece on the distance between lived realities and ideological denial.

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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