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#myth
, researching women in
#fairytales
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#folklore
INFJ 🌸 🇨🇦
#amwriting
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The etymology of the feminine word "Hag" suggests its earlier meaning meant "diviner or soothsayer". In N. European paganism *Hægtesse may have meant a "magic woman with prophetic & oracular power". 🪄 * hagatusjon, Hexe, haghetisse, & hagzusa. 🎨 Marie Abrams Lawson, ca 1937
#Witchsky
#myth
#pagan
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Cats being instructed In the art of mouse-catching by an owl - Lombard School, ca 1700, unknown artist
#art
#cats
#caturday
#owls
#owlishmonday
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Mirabella
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My idea of a witchy potion haven - (1 of 2) the 2nd photo is the cat that would sell me magic potions in the woods
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"The Body of the White Cat Grew Large and was Transformed into that of a Girl" 🐾👣 - Art by Jennie Harbour, ca 1921
#caturday
#cats
#transformation
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Lit Hub
4 days ago
“Who are we as a species if we allow monarch butterflies, a living symbol of metamorphosis, to cease to exist?” Terry Tempest Williams on the plight of the monarch butterfly.
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Terry Tempest Williams on the Plight of the Monarch Butterfly
Tell me what supernatural life / Is painted on your wings, the poet Homero Aridjis writes of monarch butterflies. He knows the migrations, the flaming butterflies, from his childhood when they retu…
https://buff.ly/p89IqgN
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Justin Burning
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The best part about writing a book is planning and researching. The worst part about writing a book is writing the book.
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The Guardian
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‘Our consciousness is under siege’: Michael Pollan on chatbots, social media and mental freedom
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‘Our consciousness is under siege’: Michael Pollan on chatbots, social media and mental freedom
In his new book, the celebrated author explains why we need ‘consciousness hygiene’ to defend ourselves from AI and dopamine-driven algorithms
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/mar/05/michael-pollan-book-a-world-appears-consciousness-hygiene?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1772766880
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BookCat
2 days ago
Welcome to
#BookologyThursday
Join us today as
#BookologyThursday
takes a pastoral jaunt through literature, art & lore with the theme: 🍃🐑IDYLLIC IDYLS🐑🍃 🎨 Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)
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Illustration from Tove Jansson's book 'The Moomins and the Great Flood' (1945)
#Womensart
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BookCat
2 days ago
Dreaming fox. art by Fang Chuxiong
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
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He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
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Scott Horton
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Adam Johnson: I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack
No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thecolumn/p/corporate-media-buries-story-of-us?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Christina Orlando
4 days ago
Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!
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Chris Packham
9 days ago
What a fox bathing spot , shared by
@jonheslop.com
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#FoxOfTheDay
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Rebecca Buxton
4 days ago
FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely!
philjobs.org/job/show/30997
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PhD in Political and Social Philosophy, University of Bristol - PhilJobs:JFP PhD in Political and Social Philosophy, University of Bristol
An international database of jobs for philosophers
https://philjobs.org/job/show/30997
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Andrew Kurjata
6 days ago
Canada's former foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy: "We invoke international law and the 'rules based order' when adversaries engage in unlawful actions, but abandon those same rules entirely when it's the Americans — whose gov't 60% of Canadians see as a threat"
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Lloyd Axworthy: Canada once rejected America’s aggressive, unlawful foreign policy. Today Mark Carney embraced it
By endorsing preventive strikes on Iran during ongoing diplomacy, and after Washington itself shredded the previous agreement, we are embracing the very doctrine we used to reject, writes Lloyd Axwort...
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/lloyd-axworthy-canada-once-rejected-americas-aggressive-unlawful-foreign-policy-today-mark-carney-embraced-it/article_ef30c408-5712-4783-b09b-f0ea84abd83a.html
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Hilary R Sparkes
5 days ago
Ducks on my pond in a pot basking in the Spring sunshine
#SmallBeauties
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Open Culture
4 days ago
An Animated History of Cats: How Over 10,000 Years the Cat Went from Wild Predator to Sofa Sidekick
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An Animated History of Cats: How Over 10,000 Years the Cat Went from Wild Predator to Sofa Sidekick
Dogs sees us as their masters while cats sees us as their slaves. - Anonymous The next time your friend’s pet cat sinks its fangs into your wrist, bear in mind that the beast is probably still laborin...
https://www.openculture.com/2019/01/an-animated-history-of-cats.html
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BookCat
4 days ago
And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home ~Dylan Thomas This week
#BookologyThursday
takes a pastoral jaunt in literature, art & lore with the theme: 🍃🐏IDYLLIC IDYLS🐑🍃 🎨Dora Carrington (1921)
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Scott Smith
5 days ago
In these times of strife, I find myself with far more empathy than a lot of other people. What Elon Musk said is a horrific example of what we are witnessing daily during this regime.
#USDemocracy
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Sande
5 days ago
Take me 🙋🏾♀️
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Charlie Angus
6 days ago
RIP Terry Watkinson of Max Webster. First group I ever saw. They blew my mind. An incredible talent. Go to the angels.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=27wc...
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Max Webster-Let Go The Line
YouTube video by MaxMachine75
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27wcXqRtrsM&list=RD27wcXqRtrsM&start_radio=1
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curious ordinary
6 days ago
'Owl on Tree Stump' - Tejima Keizaburo, ca. 1980s.
#OwlishMonday
#JapaneseArt
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New concentration camps &
#ICE
presence in blue states. If djt declares a state of emergency & suspends
#elections
, they're already in place to quell dissent & haul people away.
washingtonmorning.com/2026/02/27/l...
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Legal Scholars Warn Against Donald Trump Declaring A National Emergency To Seize Election Control - Washington Morning
Legal scholars and constitutional experts warn that Donald Trump declaring a national emergency to control elections could trigger an unprecedented crisis.
https://washingtonmorning.com/2026/02/27/legal-scholars-warn-against-donald-trump-declaring-a-national-emergency-to-seize-election-control/
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Graham Annable
9 days ago
Here's the finished image once again! "She had never fully perfected the spell to turn her worst enemies into cats."
#grickledoodle
#cartoon
#drawing
#art
#funny
#humor
#horror
#witch
#cats
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How and when to see the total lunar
#eclipse
on March 3 in Canada. 🌚
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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How and when to see the total lunar eclipse on March 3 | CBC News
In the early morning hours of March 3, the moon will glide through Earth's shadow, producing a total lunar eclipse across Canada. But what you see depends on where you are.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/total-lunar-eclipse-9.7107151
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Visio Smaragdina
over 1 year ago
In this episode of Rupert, our intrepid little bear receives instruction in sorcery from Baphomet; he eats the magic berries and thus obtains a vision of PAN.
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#MorbidMarch
7 days ago
Art. Writing. Reading recs. Music. Folklore. History. Science. Whatever each day's prompt inspires, whether it's creative work or something to help stoke morbid imaginings. Then on March 31st, same thing but no prompt. Don't forget to tag
#MorbidMarch
. Please use alt text on your images. No A.I.
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BooBooKitty
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Your pets have joined a class action suit against you for posting their photos without consent.
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Primroses and dandelion along top of bank covered in moss, ivy, pennywort, hart's tongue ferns, grass
#Dartmoor
#Devon
#WildflowerHour
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Gwen Pearson
6 days ago
Timeline cleanse. These amazing animals are not spiders, but Opiliones, arachnid cousins.
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Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, for the first day of the month.
#March
#rabbits
🐇
#superstitions
(Feeding white rabbits, by Frederick Morgan, ca 1904)
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columbo screenshots
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Türker
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Laura Grace Weldon
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Nina Willburger
15 days ago
Please support the petition against the planned
#closure
of
#Archaeology
at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition
weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...
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Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin
Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/schliessung-des-instituts-fur-archaologie-an-der-hu-berlin?share=be6555a9-dd57-4d41-a001-fd9ad9a772d2&source=mailto_link&utm_medium=recommendation&utm_source=mailto_link
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Nina Willburger
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A hand made of bronze and gold. It has been interpreted as the earliest proshetic hand for a casualty of conflict, a symbol for the status of the bearer. However, the solar symbols on the cuff suggest that it had also a cosmological significance. Found in Prêles, ...🧵1/2
#archaeology
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SelineSigil
11 days ago
Spring Is for Monsters, Ancient Rituals, and Scary Stories From haunting tales of the Bell Witch to child-eating swamp monsters, the season is full of frights.
#Folklore
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/spr...
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Spring Is for Monsters, Ancient Rituals, and Scary Stories
From haunting tales of the Bell Witch to child-eating swamp monsters, the season is full of frights.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/spring-scary-stories-monsters-rituals-rites
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Kelly Robinson
10 days ago
"She could not help setting the door a little ajar, just to peep in, when—Pop! out flew the Moon." Kay Nielsen (illustrator). East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North. New York: G.H. Doran, 1922.
#art
#fairytales
#childrensbooks
#books
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Thinking the Steele dossier, aka Trump–Russia dossier, needs another look. Much of it has since been corroborated.
#krasnov
#russianasset
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_...
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Steele dossier - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_dossier
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The Guardian
10 days ago
Tropical plants flowering months earlier or later because of climate crisis – study
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Tropical plants flowering months earlier or later because of climate crisis – study
Changes threaten ecosystems as flowering falls out of sync with fruit-eating, seed-dispersing animals and pollinators
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/25/tropical-plants-flower-shifted-months-climate-breakdown-aoe?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1772047872
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Open Culture
11 days ago
When Aldous Huxley Wrote a Script for Disney’s Alice in Wonderland
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When Aldous Huxley Wrote a Script for Disney’s Alice in Wonderland
Many filmmakers have tried to adapt Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but none, in the estimation of most enthusiasts of either Alice or animation, have fully succeeded.
https://www.openculture.com/2014/12/when-aldous-huxley-wrote-a-script-for-disneys-alice-in-wonderland.html
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Nsignificannot
13 days ago
Yes, billionaires will control our food supply and the few family farmers left will vaporize.
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Nina Willburger
15 days ago
A stunning
#Neolithic
rock crystal arrowhead found in the pile-dwelling settlement of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, dating from around 3500 BC. The raw material was not available in the immediate area, but came from the Alps. Rock crystal has been mined in the Swiss Alps since the early Mesolithic.🧵1/3 🏺
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Pirjo Sundqvist
15 days ago
A forest knows things. They wire themselves up underground. There are brains down there, ones our own brains aren’t shaped to see. Root plasticity, solving problems and making decisions. Fungal synapses. Link enough trees together, and a forest grows aware. 💚 ― Richard Powers
#ForestFriday
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SelineSigil
16 days ago
EAGLE FOLKLORE: IMPLICATIONS FOR SPECIES’ CONSERVATION AND EXTINCTION
#Folklore
www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
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Eagle folklore: Implications for species’ conservation and extinction
Tracey Hayes’ PhD research seeks to investigate the folk beliefs, narratives and traditions related to eagles in Ireland’s National Folklore Collection, housed in University College Dublin.
https://www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene-biodiversity/news/2025/eagle-folklore/
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Excellent read: Who's Behind the Hard-Right in
#Canada
? A Reference Guide to Canada's
#Disinformation
Network.
#cdnpoli
#idu
#fascism
thedemocracydefender.substack.com/p/whos-behin...
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Who's Behind the Hard-Right in Canada? A Reference Guide to Canada's Disinformation Network
From "Freedom" to Dominion: Mapping Canada's Nationalist Turn
https://thedemocracydefender.substack.com/p/whos-behind-the-hard-right-in-canada?r=6d2sr1&shareImageVariant=overlay&triedRedirect=true
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Normal Island News
17 days ago
RIP to all the American soldiers who are about to die to protect a paedophile from accountability 😭😭😭
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Chapps
18 days ago
This weird and wonderful Greek amphoriskos (flask) depicts a bird-man, but the explanation is astonishing. It almost certainly relates to Aristophanes' famous comedy 'The Birds' (first produced 415/414 BCE) and may represent a costume worn by members of the chorus. 🏺
#ancientbluesky
#MetMuseum
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