Primate archaeology. Homo sapiens and other genus Homo v non-humans - just a matter of degree.

Crows - would they make a better job of running the world? Moveover, fur-less great apes, you f*cked up.

#succulents #cacti #sansevieria #snakeplant #houseplant Useful for Brits (particularly) who love cacti, succulents and snake plants (classed as succulents) - bcss.org.uk

#sansevieria #snakeplant #houseplants. Useful for USians (particularly) who love snake plants - dev.sansevieria-international.org

#succulents #aloe #houseplants Wow!

#succulents #houseplants "The interviewees believe that consumers range from naïve online purchasers who lack awareness of the consequences of their purchasing behaviours, such as stimulating the demand for illegally harvested plants, to specialist collectors who knowingly seek rare, novel, or

Fuck me, fuck you and fuck all humans.

So folks, have a glance at the posts that follow and decide 1) if we have hope and all get together we can still mitigate climate change and halt extinctions, or 2)

You see, all the (justifiable) strictly human disturbing stuff is happening within a far bigger and more frightening context, the breakdown of the living systems and systems that sustain life on this planet. Eat, drink and be merry because the future is nothing but a burnt out car in a desert.

Clip, clop, clip, clop. Horseman of the Apocalypse, Pestilence, travels far and wide. You are living on a planet where life (as we know it) is dying or will die. @serenaribena.bsky.social, perhaps of interest to you. www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/12...

#succulents #houseplants #gothgardening Interesting guide to dark/"black" succulents. How to keep them dark - "stress" them with as much light as possible! But heat (summer) and overwatering will reduce darkness. treecarezone.com/black-succul...

"Only a man could believe tha sky had bollocks to begin with ..." 🤣 T. M. Boone, 'Con Men, Contests and RetCons' in free to read Issue 9, Summer 2025, Aothen Magazine. aothenmagazine.com#issue9pdf1

Important if you read academic papers whatever your interest or level.

A very interesting talk for you this morning with @kristervasshus.bsky.social about the possible entomological etymology of some difficult names we encounter in early runic inscriptions and in later Norse literature too. youtu.be/39_uVHStoXk

We are, now and for some time, living through a Fimbulvetr, which will only worsen, on the way to a Ragnarok.

@runskra.bsky.social For those grappling with mythology - seems it can be analysed by identifying components.

#snakeplant #sansevieria #houseplant #gothgardening Is this the Goth-yist snake plant? Hope to have one day. 'Black Diamond'

#snakeplant #sansevieria #houseplants Good guide to snake plant, sansevieria varieties here - www.ourhouseplants.com/guides/snake...

Important to know if propagating snake plant by leaf cuttings.

Once Sansevieria now Dracaena. Plant taxonomists - the devils! 😄

The Goth hellebore you've been waiting for!

Two revealing exhibitions explore how the British Empire used plants as a tool of colonialism. observer.com/2026/01/at-l...

Interesting - another male/female/hermaphrodite idol, i.e. very clear triangular genital area = female, stick a phallus in the hole = male or both male and female. Also clearly (or fairly clear) single sexed figures*

Burials are one of the key ways archaeologists understand past communities, and Hannah Rissanen's 'Umgang mit den Toten' (Dealing with the dead) is "a modern and multifaceted version of the well-studied topic of funerary rites" 🆓 in our #NewBookChronicle doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

So ... if AMOC stops??? 🤔

Maybe Prometheus deserved his punishment ...

Plants and humans.

Good or bad? More plants taken from the wild? Herbal remedies filling the gaps in decaying health systems?

New Year's Resolution (something I don't/never have subscribed to but useful framing) - I'm tired of my diletanteism re. aspects of heathen/pagan belief and mythology. May well be posting a lot less about this. May delete some posts already here - thanks to those who read.

A Cumbria-Cambridgeshire #TheWinter10 from the #NewYearPlantHunt. Daisy, Groundsel, Sweet violet, Smooth hawksbeard, Cow parsley, Red dead nettle, Shepherd’s purse, Ivy-leaved toadflax, Sticky mouseear, Field forget-me-not and another Daisy. #WildflowerHour

Monster 🌱🪴 #Houseplants #PlantSky #GreenSat

A female tugging at her hair in grief? Compare behaviour with the painting below, late C19th. Ritualised grief as essential part of correctly sending the dead on their journey into death. Frigg and other weeping goddesses are not expressing personal distress but enacting first rites of the dead.

“In the soil, we are all the same, merely bodies, merely water, merely cells becoming other cells…” – Rebecca Tamás Quote, essay - wortjournal.com/product/this...

@wortjournal.com Explore wortjournal.com shop for some intriguing stuff - wortjournal.com/product/mush...

Free unitedplantsavers.org/journal-of-m...

This is a vital issue - climate change means 1) the natural world is changing, which means 2) you can't rely on the natural world. There is NO escape back to nature/natural living. Plants are gonna die, go extinct, be less nutritious, just alter themselves to survive.

Colourfully useful!

A recent experiment reveals how order can emerge from restless motion. Though not chaos in the technical sense, Brownian systems show how randomness can sustain structure, inviting careful reflection alongside humanity’s oldest creation stories. wildhunt.org/2025/12/the-... #pagan #chaos #order

@runskra.bsky.social Loki and the death of Balder. IMO, these myths are accretion upon accretion, a bit from here added, a bit from there added - there is no *true* story to find. Therefore, non-academics are free to make what they want of them and academics can have a career teasing out

Water Spirituality. First the void, khaos, abyss, etc, which is or is succeeded by water. Life from water. Water flowing to Death.

Burial, mortuary, watery graves, caves. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Taking over, marriage ... so very common!

Blessed Winter Solstice and Yule to everyone in the Northern Hemisphere, and may your coming year be bright and full of happiness. To honour the sacrifice of the Holly King, my latest blog explores some of the folklore of this sacred plant. www.herbalhegemone.co.uk/post/holly-a...

'Perthro - the Cosmic Cauldron' Makes me think of Hvergelmir: all rivers run from that "boiling spring" ... and all waters bring us to Hel through which the serpents of Hvergelmir slither.

Life. Death. Fate. Cloth. "The space to which women had exclusive access also had deep supernatural connotations. This space was the dyngja, a small room built away from a main house and partially buried underground. There was no recognizable, formal door to enter

UTISETA - "Utiseta is the Norse practice of sitting out. It is usually done with an intention in mind, for example to gain wisdom or enlightenment on a situation..."

still going

I think I'm going to adopt this person as my vǫlva. Her message is directly relevant to a lot of stuff I've been struggling with for a year, and she just wrapped it up in a snowball. Boom.