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Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. We’re haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what it’s worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.

It's Christmas Day, and that means the Xmas Cones are spawning before their seasonal die-back. Here a juvenile displays its venomous ganglia. Though an invasive species—toxic to all indigenous ecosystems—they do have a strange, eerie beauty. #FolkHorror #Hookland #SpeculativeFiction #Folklore

More tiny adorable riots, please.

Give yourself the gift of no more AI bullshit at the top of your Google searches this Xmas. pumpkinnmayo.com/posts/disabl...

May you all successfully pull the red thread of festivity from your seasonal crotches this Xmas Eve.

Being from the UK and a member of the late part of Generation X means having to live with the fact that every photo from your childhood resembles a still from a cultishly acclaimed but commercially disappointing folk horror film. ESPECIALLY IF THEY ACTUALLY ARE... www.tom-cox.com/some-photos-...

#SurveillancePricing has been on the rise for some time. "The FTC’s initial findings revealed that details like a person’s precise location or browser history can be frequently used to target individual consumers with different prices for the same goods and services."

We're so happy that this mad project — described by one review as "Mike Oldfield on ketamine" — is reaching people. Look out for a new episode of @threeravenspod.bsky.social out today where we discuss the ideas behind it...

This month’s @thequietus.com Organic Intelligence antidote to the algorithm newsletter is Laura Cannell’s guide to earlyish Christmas music 🎶🎄🎻😇 thequietus.com/subscriber-a...

Treat yourself to a little classic point-and-click #FolkHorror this Yuletide.

Wishing you all a merry #WinterSolstice and #StandingStoneSunday from Brú na Bóinne (aka Newgrange), where the dawn sun broke through some spectacular clouds onto hundreds of lovely smiling faces.

Just managed to navigate IKEA Dublin, find and buy two picture frames, then get back to the van in UNDER 12 MINUTES. Truly, the #Solstice energy is with us.

Five minutes to go! Hopefully we won't be the only people at this premiere. But if we are, it means we get to eat all the canapés.

One hour to go until Yarrow premieres on YouTube, festive #FolkHorror fans. It's a lyric video so you can sing along... youtu.be/91PMDBz3LWE?...

This seems like a very good list for those who prefer their Yuletides dark and twisted. And night we recommend this soundtrack to go with your festive #FolkHorror? lunatraktors.bandcamp.com/track/solsti...

And it's out! Please enjoy this dark tale of betrayal and defiance for #WinterSolstice, and join us later for the video premiere—tonight at 7pm on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=91PM... Bandcamp: lunatraktors.bandcamp.com/track/yarrow... #FolkSky #MusicSky #BroadsideBallad #Traditional

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For #WinterSolstice, we're releasing Yarrow. Here's a peek behind the scenes at Luna studios... Video premiere on YouTube this Friday-subscribe here: bit.ly/49eu7xn

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Cultural erasure! Isn't that when a foreign power takes control of your resources and legal system, confiscates your cultural treasures, and bans your native language from the education system and professional life? Strange to hear it's happening to Europeans - aren't they usually the ones who...

Episode 184, out now THIRST: RIVERS AND FOLKLORE Listen at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-184.... For more, watch the interview and music video at youtu.be/DLPIzpXBh3w This episode features river folklore, a discussion with @darrensimpson44.bsky.social & music from @lunatraktors.bsky.social

Really pleased to have our remixed version of Yarrow in @folklorepod.bsky.social. Yarrow comes out on Friday but you can get a first listen here tomorrow!

COMING SOON The next episode of The Folklore Podcast is out tomorrow. In THIRST: RIVERS AND FOLKLORE I'll be chatting a little bit about some of the folklore associated with rivers, there will be a major guest interview with @darrensimpson44.bsky.social and music from @lunatraktors.bsky.social

Can't wait for Robin Ince to get as many column inches in the national press over his actual establishment silencing due to his stance on lgbt+ rights as phobes get over their former friends not wanting to hang out so much any more

Unions and international solidarity saved civilisation from capitalist fascism and the super rich before, and they can do it again!

Our remastered version of Yarrow comes out next Friday! Available everywhere except Spotify.

If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

Private equity curse. Company on Burnley bought by PE to cut staff by 90%. Loyalty counts for nothing. Typical PE business model - cut staff/wages, high debt, asset stripping, price hikes, sweat assets, profit shifting, tax abuse, extract high returns, move on to the next victim.

This goes for music too! Do you want to support the weird stuff we do, but can't buy anything? Post about it! Write a micro review! Tell a friend! It helps us so much — personal recommendations are the absolute best marketing out there. Whenever you do this, you really help us keep going.

URGENT!! We are on our last day to raise funds to stay housed this month. We need to sell 5 more blind boxes or digital art bundles. Just FIVE! Thank you so much for your ongoing support!! tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com

#AI isn't just ripping off musicians, writers and artists — it's beginning to rip everyone else off too.

Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour. Govts stigmatize people claiming benefits as scroungers, claim fraud is rife. Silence on corporate welfare, tax abuse by corporations/rich. HMRC failed to collect over £500bn tax since 2010.

A multicoloured colony of deep lichen on the Piper Stone at Athgreany Circle in County Wicklow, Ireland. Any #lichenologist fancy hazarding a guess at what these species might be? #StandingStoneSunday

It's International Day of Persons with Disabilities - #IDPwD. Clair's visually impaired (one eye, and that one has issues too). Carli has mobility, chronic pain and sensory challenges. We're both a bit neurodivergent! We believe improving access helps everyone, regardless of their own needs.

🥁 We'll be in Ireland until our Autumn UK tour, but anyone stuck in Blighty in the Merry Merry Month of May should attend to this madness. 👇

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

We're working on this little 70s #PsychFolk number for an artist's video with the Museum of Roadside Magic - #SpecFic + #AltFolk #Folklore... (Do you need sound for a thing you're making? Get in touch - we offer special rates for independent artists and charity projects.)

UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts. If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split

A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

Björk - sheer legendary perfection. Incredible groundbreaking music, performance art, costume, dance and visuals. And groundbreaking environmental activism too. www.nme.com/news/music/b...

Data scraping as digital colonialism - sounds about right. theconversation.com/digital-colo...

#AI is developing rapidly, and by that we mean getting much, much worse: "rates of chatbots [admitting they didn't know] went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025 [while] repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#TheWolvesAreRunning. For anyone wishing to celebrate, it's the first night of the #BoxOfDelights tonight, so Yule must be beginning... archive.org/details/box-...

Wishing everyone a very fuck you EHRC on this #TransDayOfRemembrance. Love to all you trans cousins out there.

Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.

Your daily reminder that the fossil fuel industry is propped up by billions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies and a multimillion dollar campaign to spread climate disinformation. 💵

Pure genius here from @sleafordmods.bsky.social and their partners in crime. youtu.be/SyVICFIQlDg?...

Help us fight for British wildlife: protectthewild.shop/collections/...

As everyone knows, the ancient season of #Yule officially begins on November 21st, when the #BoxOfDelights was first screened on the BBC back in 1984. That makes it five days until the Box is opened... youtu.be/-BxxdE9GvZc?...