ge-flit, n.n: contention, discord; dispute, quarrel or altercation; separation (resulting from conflict). (yeh-VLIT / jɛ-ˈvlɪt) #OldEnglish #WOTD

“He wouldn’t be the first radio ham in Hookland to become convinced creatures are living in the cold static between stations.” “The first to try and blow up a BBC transmitter though.” “Not even the first to do that. The path between static beasts and bombs is well trod.” - #DICallaghan & #DSNokes

When your country's collective ability to bullshit on the internet is extensive enough to shape AI slop.

🐋

Modern studios expect us to pay good money to go to the theater and they don't offer us even one fish-horse hand-painted by French ladies.

ge-endebyrdan, wk.v: to set in order, arrange, dispose. (yeh-EN-duh-BUER-dahn / jɛ-ˈɛn-də-ˌbyr-dan) #OldEnglish #WOTD

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 2 No one does bleak-but-beautiful-winter like artist Rowland Hilder

🫜

‘Fossil fuel companies were given privileged, insider access to confidential drafts of legislation during a two-year campaign to weaken oil and gas regulation and overturn the offshore exploration ban’ - RNZ My Stuff #cartoon today #nzpol #FossilFuels

#RailNews: Passengers aboard the Kingston Flyer were robbed at gunpoint when their train was stopped in Fairlight, in Southland. The bandits were imitating the popular 1975 Cadbury television commercial, the Great Crunchie Train Robbery. Via Otago Daily Times: www.odt.co.nz/southland/hu...

Seltzer was cheap, easy to clean, non-harmful and it showed up well on the screen. What's not to like?

Quadbox has been replaced by Pelebox.

On the lowering of the Clean Car Standard, right after COP30. My #cartoon today #NZpol #CleanCarStandard #Emissions #FossilFuels

People ask why I followed The Hum wanting trite answers about a disaffected youth looking for direction. Walking The Hum pylon-to-pylon gave me spiritual direction, but no-one wants to hear about my devotional relationship to the land's electric leys. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH

Marc Chagall - Lunaria 1967

On this day 24th November 1877 the novel Black Beauty was first published. Anna Sewell said she wrote the novel "to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses" Artist: Harry Wingfield

Meanwhile, in other volcanic activity, check out this eruption plume from Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia. It's its first, at least according to the Global Volcanism Program's records, in recorded history. So, how about that? You live in a moment when a novel volcanic event occurred.

Hookland holds the dialect word of holscad – a shadow cast by something that is patently not there, a shadow of something which was once there, but now no longer exists. #Hookland #WOTD

Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

GOLDEN DREAM (1982) Acrylic - 24” X 30” Ever since I started using symbolism in paintings, I’ve naturally defined different types and uses of it. All symbolism serves the basic desire to convey thoughts and feelings that can’t be expressed adequately (or as economically) in other ways. 1/5

The November 20, 1933 M7.3 #earthquake offshore Baffin Island, #Nunavut triggered submarine landslides. See some of the latest research here: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.... 🧪⚒️🌊

Semeru, Indonesia is erupting. Communities are being evacuated. Incredible footage of pyroclastic density currents in the news. youtube.com/watch?v=ducv...

sprǣc-hūs, n.n: a house for speaking. (SPRATCH-HOOS / ˈspræːtʃ-ˌhuːs) #OldEnglish #WOTD

2 old illustrations on retro-space inspiration.

Okay, last post about it.

#LocomotiveNews: Locomotive Josephine at the Toitū Otago Settlers Museum has reinstated Josephine’s 1925 pinstripes. The stripes were repainted by Portobello sign writer Shem Sutherland.

IDEAS for a book are a dime a dozen. The hard part is making that idea work.

It feels like they are being purposefully, flagrantly cruel in the shittiest way possible.

My very first serious writing fandom. I dabbled before this, but I have an actual oeuvre in The Sentinel.

Truth. I know this because I read on AO3.

Yes, I know that my retirement will take a severe hit but still...

lǣce-īren, n.n: lancet, physician's knife. (LATCH-uh-EE-ren / ˈlæː-tʃə-ˌiː-rɛn) #OldEnglish #WOTD

Everything prior to 1948 is closer in time to Charles Dickens than to late 2025.

#MSH45 | Nov. 14, 1980 Spokane's KREM airs a segment from Portland's KGW, its chopper's camera lingers on a wintry St. Helens—snow piled deep across the shattered rim, steam drifting lazily from fumaroles. Then they play back October’s eruption tape, stripping away all but the volcano’s own voice.

🧪 ADHD isn’t just a childhood condition. Our major review pulls together genetics, neuroimaging, comorbidities, and treatment data to map what adult ADHD actually looks like : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

#RailNews: Once finished, a cycle trail involving two large historic railway tunnels would span a largely flat trail between Dunedin and Mosgiel. Via Stuff: www.stuff.co.nz/travel/36088...

How many people died in the Black Death? www.medievalists.net/2023/11/how-... #BlackDeath

Christchurch is a.) one of the closest cities to R'lyeh and b.) where the US Antarctic programme planes land, so it's kinda screwed in both The Thing and Lovecraft scenarios

I enjoy Hookland because I've always loved the macabre, and Hookland expresses the unease of wrongness in the everyday. What about that is nostalgia? Unless it's nostalgia for my discovery of old-style horror short story collections when I was in my early teens?

CHANUR’S BREAKOUT (1991) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30” X 22” An opportunity to paint C.J. Cherryh’s catlike Hani was always welcome. I was fortunate to have done several covers for this popular series, yet for CHANUR’S LEGACY I came up with more new concepts than ever before. 1/5

and johnny is my main man he's the keeper of the keys he'll put your mind at ease he's guaranteed to please back by popular demand look around, my little friend jubilation in the land freddie gettin' ready rock steady when johnny strikes up the band