I had no idea this had existed. London’s Lost Peak: What on Earth was Whitechapel Mount?

Well, only ten...

The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!

Easy to type... yep, be using that a bunch. Thanks @marynmck.bsky.social & @katemckean.bsky.social ("You used an Ai image as precursor, and so I didn't read your content." is the only version of that I can think of, that makes sense, so I'm goin' with it.)

Early joggers stunned this week when the body of a Chuck E. Cheese animatronic washed up on the rocks of Metro Beach. Robot removed, bt the discovery has inspired a memorial w/visitors leaving Chuck E. Chs plushes, tokens, & a man pouring Pepsi frm a C.E.Chs cup quietly saying “This is for Charles.”

So very sorry to hear that Bud Cort has passed. Harold And Maude is one of my favorites. Thanks for the bizarre & loving little experience.

We've homed this cat for 5 years. She's come for pets, sat next to me, and sat on my lap for extended periods. She's never fallen asleep on my lap. Until last night. 5 years Verklempt when I wasn't aware of how much my heels hurt on the coffee table. But I was NOT taking my legs down #Cat -amonday

Walking out of the kitchen at 2AM. #Cat contemplating murder.

Ray Cummings sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cummin... died on this day, so here are some interior magazine illustrations to his stories (Artist: 1, 3 & 4 HW Wesso, 2 Damon Knight):

Ahem: MY Fantastic Four (for longer than most of yas have been alive).

Take a look. Lots of talent and beauty, here.

Indy the Dog just won Best Horror/Thriller Performance at the Astra Film Awards for GOOD BOY, beating out Ethan Hawke and Alison Brie, among others. I've been telling everyone who will listen that this dang dog is one of the best Actors I've seen perform, this year.

This is a fun video. A muntjak (a type of deer, not antelope) and Indian rhino playing in the snow. It looks like they're really having a great time :)

soon, the DOJ is going to have to release more Epstein Files to divert attention from the ICE murder

Cases where police moved out of the way of moving vehicle and exercised deadly force, with more in thread. - Kirby vs. Duva (2008): Officers cannot create or avoid danger and then use deadly force anyway. Shooting after the officer was no longer in danger was unconstitutional.

An excellent breakdown of the currently-available footage. Please remember that Trump said the man with the gun was "... viciously ran over" and "it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital."

A really easy New Year's resolution you can make is to try adding better alt text to your images. Even if you don't do it 100% of the time, wholeassing alt text on some of your works means accounts like mine will share it!

Share someone who looks stylish wearing gloves.

this is what happens when you let George W Bush skate on illegally invading Iraq

"In the dead of night. It was dark and deadly." OMG.

Hoping this is not the first scene of a dystopian movie.

Teared me up.

Ed "Emsh" Emshwiller (1925-1990) was Cover Artist for Science Fiction Magazines frm 1951-1979, most notably for Galaxy Science Fiction, where he created these Holiday covers w/an alien Santa Claus & the races he regularly encountered. Anyone finding the covers for 1952 & 1955, kindly add them? 1/2

2/2 Ed "Emsh" Emshwiller (1925-1990) was Cover Artist for Science Fiction Magazines frm 1951-1979, most notably for Galaxy Science Fiction, where he created these Holiday covers w/an alien Santa Claus & the races he regularly encountered. Merry Christmas! #Artsky

Fuck Ai. If they can't get their heads around the thievery and soullessness and "no creation process" of it, even the clueless people can grasp that Data Centers are the current Big Bad for the environment.

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

Some Bsky search tips

2/2 His article for Life Magazine abt eating human flesh destroyed his career. Ultimately checked himself into insane asylum & shortly after, committed suicide. "All his books are very good, bt also, chillingly, depict a man moving farther & farther away frm civilization into t heart of darkness."

Wm Seabrook lived w/Bedouins, wrote ADVENTURES IN ARABIA. Visited Haiti, learned abt voodoo, wrote THE MAGIC ISLAND. Met Aleister Crowley, delved Black Magic/Satanism, wrote WITHCRAFT IN THE WORLD TODAY. Final adventure led to South America, found a tribe which practiced cannibalism... - 1/2 but no

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Lan Caihe, the most enigmatic of the Eight Immortals, blurred the lines of gender and class in Chinese #folklore. Draped in tattered blue robes, one boot on and one foot bare, they wandered the streets singing, half-mad and wholly divine. Sometimes dressed as a woman, 1/2

This looks terribly sad.

I mean, I don't want to be xenophobic, but from my nearly 50 years of intense research, that's probably not such a great idea...

“The city that never sleeps” sounds glamorous in your twenties but now I’m like “maybe it should”

Tell me that lie of the land sleeping all winter and I'll laugh in your face. Tell you of all the trees I've talked to this morning before the frost retreated from sun. Relay conversations with cold spirits, my communion with stretching shadows. – #EmilyCBanting #1982 #WitchSky

We have to listen to bigoted handwringing about how we have to abandon trans people and marginalized communities and immigrants while the clearest election winning message is right there.

Day 9 of the #HooklandChristmasTree has us pulling the Apple Man from the box, finding him a branch. A painted china charm of him sleeping in his tree, a group of boys at its base whipping and hollering to wake him. How else to get apples for roasted cider to feed the Bone Horse?

Day 8 of the #HooklandChristmasTree decoration and the glass Ghost Bear finds a place. A semi-opaque spectre, he reflects silver tinsel, white fairy lights while haunting the branches. All the other ornaments seem to keep a respectful distance away, almost as if they can hear his roar for revenge.

Day 7 of the #HooklandChristmasTree. We hang the water folk St. Nicholas toy. Not the plump red-coated icon of most, but a ragged bishop fishing for Stay Belows with a ham dangling from his crosier. Yesterday was his feast and a little too much apple brandy was drunk on the canal.

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Thanks #WIPSnips. This comes via the last 3 pages of my HERETIC meets EVENT HORIZON Horror Feature. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Day 6 of the #HooklandChristmasTree decoration and the Clapperclaw is taken from tin. No-one knows how the crow-headed figure came to be part of the dressing, but everyone is too afraid to suggest throwing it out. We give it a high branch for it talons to grip, let its glass eyes seek out new prey.

Day five of the #HooklandChristmasTree decoration and the Star Wraith haunts a branch. The hooded figurine, face and body made from constellations of enamelled stars, seems to float more than dangle. Oddly, the stars seem to have shifted position each time you look closely at it.

Day 4 of the #HooklandChristmasTree. We drape the Bell Hill Worm, remember legends of dragon-carved paths. The stuffed felt snake is an old friend. Its silver stitches glitter, its scales bounce faery light colours. When we turn away, it seems to slither to a different branch.

Day 3 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. We take out the Dudman and Sackling Child. No-one remembers who made the scarecrow's twists of clothed straw, the stuffed potato sack of prophesying infant. Best we put it on a back branch lest we hear it whispering of tomorrow’s woes.

Day 2 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. We gently take the Master of Moss from box. He’s old and fragile, made from twig, clay and clumps of Moss gathered on Barrowcross. We find him a respectful place on the tree and hope he sleeps the season. His waking would be terrible

If you're silly enough not to Follow @hookland.bsky.social, I'll be sharing their #HooklandChristmasTree postings here. But do yourself the favor of having the best magical realism writings on #Bluesky appear in yer own Feed and maybe you'll receive your own Creepy Christmas "blessings."