Christmas is coming soon dont forget to turn on your cars Christmas lights! Or maybe it already turned the lights on by itself!

TOMORROW - FRIDAY 05.12.2025 December Future Karaoke event will open with a mini-launch of RAGGED BAND OF TRAVELLERS, our latest poetry collection edited by Jon Stone. There will be a chance to buy some of our pamphlets and books. FREE event, book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-kar...

Tonight! Retro toys meets DnD, as @angliaruskin.bsky.social meets @calquepress.bsky.social for new poetry and the book launch of Ragged Band of Travellers! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-kar...

Hello Monday. 🖼️ Woman with Swan, Maggie Taylor.

The wonderful Dr Juliette Wood from @folkloresociety.bsky.social answers folklore questions for @wired.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=i61j... (Thanks to @saydescarlett.substack.com for the find)

I wrote about queer vampires and their castles, the death drive and sexy, sexy Walt Whitman, over on the @sidekickbooks.bsky.social Substack. 🧛🏳️‍🌈🏰

In case you haven't seen our latest trailer, hop inside the dark coach for the Vampire's Castle! 🦇🧛‍♀️🏰 youtu.be/HnrunnHfLgg?...

I just spoke to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as he left police custody following his arrest at immigration court. Here’s what he said:

Is there any way to give surplus Creon to those who need it (UK) instead of seeing this essential drug be disposed of by pharmacists? I know there was a shortage three months back and don't want to waste it.

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I wish I lived in a country where Republicans had at least half the balls of E. Jean Carroll, Stormy Daniels, Christine Blasey Ford, Anita Hill, or the Epstein survivors.

Late capitalism hoping we've forgotten about towels.

#folklore writers, assemble!

hey @sfpoetry.bsky.social polish your darlings

Here’s a medieval owl for you #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay #SomethingBeautiful

Not entirely sure I can live without this

Women of Internetland (and sure, if anyone else has feelings on the matter): if a male friend pisses with the door open and the bathroom is close to where you're sitting, is it OK? I wigged out a little at a friend who did this but my partner agrees with him that it's so you can 'keep talking'.

#WordoftheDay : fuzzy-ganny is caterpillar in Cumbrian dialects some day, that caterpillar will wake up as a butterfly or moth, so it's often associated with transformative magic bardofcumberland.com/folklore/ #folklore #nature #Cumbria 📷 by me

Well, apparently my field of fucks IS barren.

Feldgeisters are German corn spirits shaped as various animals or in human forms. A Getreidehahn is a rooster-shaped feldgeister who lies in wait to peck out children's eyes. 🎨Arthur Rackham redbubble.com/shop/ap/3525... #FolkyFriday #art #folklore #illustration #vintage #harvest #mythology #Lammas

I was already hopelessly crushing on @alancumming.bsky.social and then he used his Kimmel guest host slot to deliver this gorgeous, witty, ferocious war cry on behalf of trans people in America. Joining the queue of bridesmaids in 3, 2… www.youtube.com/watch?v=T90x...

Looking forward to the @writerscentre.bsky.social City of Literature Publishing Fair this Sunday in the incredible Dragon Hall, Norwich! Time to hoof it down to the Library of Things for the trolley!📚🛒🐲

SUBMISSIONS EXTENSION. Want to be part of the Ten Poets series? Fancy playing the part of Jacquotte Delahaye or Jonathan Harker? We've extended our latest call for submissions to 19 June. Share far and wide! sidekickbooks.com/booklab/subm...

Oh no. We're hitting the 'scour Farmfoods flyers for inspo' stage of #NaPoWriMo.

We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

Dr Theatre kicked in and I had a lovely time doing my council funeral crash course. Poppy’s funerals are a great bunch, always trying to learn and innovate. www.poppysfunerals.co.uk

So my brother and I have a shared childhood TV trauma that almost nobody else seems to remember. Until recently, I hadn't thought to look it up on YouTube. Anyone else remember the Naughty Tortie Man who used to prowl the studios of Saturday morning show What's Up, Doc? youtu.be/kfff3ts6DsQ?...

However, marks on pews inside churches aren’t always apotropaic. Another pew inside Llantrisant old church has the inscription 'CHWAEN WENN.' This likely refers to the 17th-century house in the parish of that name and symbolises the ownership of the pew. 7/7

Dress for the job I want? Okay! *sheds my fleshy prison*

"If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data," said Staffan Lindberg, head of the Varieties of Democracy project, run out of Sweden's University of Gothenburg. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

BUNNY KICK BUNNY KICK

A cartoon for @theguardian.com books.

Geriatric Penguins Get a ‘Retirement Home’ at New England Aquarium - The New York Times

i will never apologize for a post

Every one of these guys is a fashion inspiration

Hotaterio, a fancy scallop prince, is a mascot for the Hokkaido Fisheries Cooperative.

Had a really nice chat with the server at a petrol station, both of us laughing like old friends, and then at the end he was like, ‘And mate, please if you could leave a Google review.’ And I was all, Oh yeah, of course I absolutely will; and now I can never go to that petrol station again.

Privatised water has failed. Just look at your water bills or the sewage pouring into our rivers. Steve Reed - include public ownership as an option in your independent commission on the water sector. Sign the petition! weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...

'Bridge over Waterfall' - Takahashi Shotei, 1924. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

I am no longer accepting the argument "there are bigger problems than this!" unless you are personally working to stop the ultimate Heat Death of the Universe.

As we see... “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” -- bookshop.org/a/1095/97800... #HannahArendt *affiliate link

Meanwhile, on Reddit...

Totally epic autograph!

This may seem obvious, but...