I've had a number of reports from people who purchased tickets for last night's online Fairy Tales discussion, but didn't receive a link to access the talk. If you've had that problem, please report it to the British Library, who will sort out your link to the recording of the talk: boxoffice@bl.uk
Bit of a last-minute one, but me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will be bringing the Scarred For Life Folk Horror show to Whitby's Hand of Glory Festival next Friday 1 May at 9pm - and it's free. You heard me: free!
Mayday weekend in Goth Central? It's like folklore Christmas!
A number of space science organizations offered support for Isaacman's nomination because he is a proponent of space exploration and claimed he would support science. But now that science is on the chopping block -- and human spaceflight isn't -- he is volunteering to give NASA the DOGE treatment.
graphic with blue sky background with images of distorted flowers. Text reads every Earth Day we talk about sustainable living but what about sustainable dying?
Every Earth Day we talk about sustainable living. But what about sustainable dying?
Modern deathcare can carry a surprising environmental footprint. Conventional burial often involves hardwood caskets, concrete vaults, & embalming chemicals. Cremation relies on fossil fuels & produces emissions.
Well well well, something a bit different - Rogue Trooper movie, based upon the character from the 2000AD (where Judge Deeds also comes from) by @manmademoon.bsky.social
('Soonish' Duncan?!?!)
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This week is MS Awareness Week. MS is unpredictable and affects everyone differently. This year's theme is challenging MS assumptions and the impact these misconceptions can have.
If you’re living with MS in Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West, please get in touch. #MSThinkAgain
My new post, on the Elizabethan 'Case of Mines', which turns out to have lots of interesting bits just below the surface.
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Did you know that in China, apples are a good luck food because the word is similar to "safety", while in Japan it's the KitKat because it sounds like "I'm bound to win"? Hence class snacks for our last Folklore Studies workshop of the semester 😭
Philippa Carter @extispex.bsky.social reviews 'The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History', by Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social
@bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
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Three books about the artist Monet, lined up so the spines read Monet, Monet, Monet.
Must be fonet
in the rich man's world
a "cross" to mark the name of Ann Cross, in lieu of a signature
The highly satisfying mark of Ann Cross, Somerset 1748
@markhailwood.bsky.social
It is said that the opposite of noise is silence. This isn’t true. Silence is only the absence of noise.
– The Light Fantastic
Quick reminder to Tolkien Society members, get your award votes in! Just a few days left.
Royal Mail scandal.
2nd-class post will be delivered every other weekday, scrapped on Saturdays.
Company hasn't met any letter delivery targets since privatisation, so regulator reduces targets.
Price won't be reduced for worse service
Promise of £500m investment by ripping off customers.
Average UK fat cat pay surges to £5.9m, up 18%.
Exec pay and perks rise 4.5 times faster than a typical UK worker pay
Shareholders asked to approve new average 200% surge in CEO pay.
Govts preach pay restraint to workers, do nothing to curb fat-cattery.
Great to see my piece ‘Who Dwells Within These Trees?’, about sacred trees and fairies as tree spirits, in the latest @helleborezine.bsky.social 🌳
Yet more evidence that Reform UK has a Covid Conspiracy problem.
A candidate in Swindon has endorsed antisemitic claims that the pandemic was "planned" by "the Rothchilds".
Last week, we wrote to Nigel Farage urging him to act.
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Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing.
These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted.
Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc
New video, about my Clouseau piece, and how it was nearly ruined by a chemical reaction:
www.youtube.com/shorts/mNOVG...
#caricature #art
Very sorry to hear that the poet J.H. Prynne has died, at the age of 89. Here, from 10 years ago, is my attempt to describe the man and the work
This👇 is why @aoc.bsky.social is so briliant 😊
It builds on Alice’s great deep dive for @goodlawproject.org on how Orban’s thinktanks funded by Russian oil pay vast sums to Roger Scuton Legacy Foundation (whose directors include Michael Gove & James Orr) + £10k/month to Britain’s favourite AI-enhanced failed politician MattGPT
“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.”
—Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief American Prosecutor, Nuremberg, 1946
If they think I'm going to be intimidated by deliberately misgendering on mail sent to my home they are in for a shock!
I do not bow to threats, In fact I'm off to use a female bathroom that it is my legal and human right to use.
I will always be a woman. Fact!
A laptop with a smiling woman with the caption “100,000 women say no to transphobia” the text above reads “Check us out on the latest Cool2BTrans podcast…”
We were delighted to join Katie Neeves on @cool2btrans.bsky.social to talk about our work and support for the trans+ community.
Thank you so much, Katie, for inviting us on!
Listen in here: youtu.be/LPFaD9E1dlc and don’t forget to check out the other great episodes on the Cool2BTrans channel!
Will you join us in fighting to protect trans workers?
1. Write to your MP about the workplace regs: actionnetwork.org/letters/fix-...
2. Let us know if your employer has changed their approach to trans inclusion: form.typeform.com/to/uycRij58
#Trans #TransRights #TransWorkers #TransAlly
Making it safer and easier for people to travel by bike helps to address transport poverty.
Cycle lanes, like this one in Glasgow, connecting communities to the city centre, reflect the everyday journeys that people make, helping them to get from home to work, school, shops and vital services.
