Broomsticks aren’t the only items witches use for flying. One stormy night sometime in the late 19th C, a Darlingscott farmer getting his horses in to shelter saw Betty H., a reputed local witch, fly by on a hurdle. #FolkloreSunday #Halloween

Your own personal guardian angel protects you from your own personal demon. Somehow this is not comforting! But perhaps Domenichino meant it to be in 1615, and today is his birthday.

Day 21: You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen "A million candles burning for the help that never came 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ You want it darker We kill the flame" Released October 21, 2016, 17 days before Cohen's death. #HalloweenCountdownSongs youtu.be/v0nmHymgM7Y

this movie is so good. i need to watch it again this year

Speaking of fruit with opinions, I give you, the glorious Biting Pear of Salamanca, as painted by @tkingfisher.com

BURLESQUE DEVIL GIRL Silkscreen Print is now on sale! An 18" x 24" five color print, printed in day-glo fluorescent inks, guaranteed to be eye-searing! Signed and numbered edition of 100 $55 theartofcoop.bigcartel.com/product/burl...

The Raccoonobahn living up to its name. 😁 #mammals

43 years ago this group of friends went to a special Eagles concert in Antartica. They never returned.

We saw you across the post-apocalyptic irradiated wasteland & really like your vibe

Sinnataggen (The Angry Boy), by Gustav Vigeland, 1928, 📸 by @alykhankr.bsky.social

To know a pond is some 30-foot at its deepest, has a surface area of nearly 12 hectacres is thing. To know it has pike another. However, only with a layer of folkloric knowing comes the wisdom and wonder that it's home to a Stay Below. – #CLNolan #FolkloreFriday

"Until we go bankrupt or are fully devoured by one of the three beasts, things are going to be business as usual here. That means doing the job of two and a half employees without complaining."

It’s that time of year again, time repost the best thing I ever made

Listening to a bunch of Warren Zevon in prep for a tribute concert this weekend and it's crazy how many 30-40 year old songs seem like they were written about this current moment. Which I guess is somewhat comforting in a weird way.

This is just a jam. Sadly, I do not have this on vinyl.

I know I’m not team bovid, but it would take a heart of stone not to admire this 10,600 year old Aurochs from Vig in Denmark. #archaeology 🏺

It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

Spec script about Drew Struzan and Phil Hartman meeting in their early careers as album cover designers and having an adventure.

RIP legendary illustrator Drew Struzan.

The Lamar-East Texas A&M 'Bad Beats' segment was an instant classic on SportsCenter with SVP. 🏈📺🎙️💸😂

Good morning from Gare du Midi in Brussels! I'm railing and sailing to Dublin today and thought I would bring you along with me. The journey will be 1) the Eurostar to London 2) a train to Holyhead with a change in Chester and 3) a ferry to Dublin. Crossing my fingers it goes smoothly🤞🏻

After trillions of Euro in investment and years of grueling (and some say dangerous) experimentation, the Large Pasta Collider has yielded another critical breakthrough in the fundamental physics of pasta dishes.

I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping.

those Batman screentests reminded me of this cultural artifact - the pilot for The Munsters, with a different Lily and Eddie - I'm still obsessed with Happy Derman youtu.be/pXI6ywpKbd8?...

You know you're getting old when the dream job you wanted as a teenager is now on the list of Critically Endangered Crafts (matte painting, filmmaking)

in this week's newsletter! I explain the tenets of the diet I invented, called "an eye for an eye", and which involves.....well I think it may be easier if you just read it: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/do-you-thi... [free to read]

Kaleb Horton’s mom has written some comments and asked to spread her thanks for everyone online who’s been sharing their appreciations: “you all made my suffering feel more bearable. Thank you so much and God Bless you all.” @lukeoneil47.bsky.social @nedraggett.bsky.social @alexnpress.bsky.social

When a parish church presents itself as a fortress, it's fair to ask what are those who pray inside it so afraid of? Every Englishman's home may be his castle, but why does an omnipotent God need battlements? In certain spots, I believe they shiver from fear of folklore. – #CLNolan

In this fascinating new blog post, @thinkuhi.bsky.social MLitt Viking Studies student, Stephen Barnaby, discusses his research into Norse place names and the history of Caithness in northern Scotland. institutefornorthernstudies.com/2025/09/01/s...

It’s the 19th anniversary of billionaire art collector (not that there are many other varieties of art collector) Steve Wynn showing off the Picasso he’d just sold for a (then) record $139m, and – while gesticulating at the masterpiece – putting his elbow through it

Facebook Memories has reminded me of that painting of a large Nicolas Cage trying to breastfeed a small Nicolas Cage. Morning all

I believe this is a winner in the #goth eye spy game - crow on gravestone as seen through a rain bejewelled spiderweb.

Another piece of Hookland dialect I am very fond of it 'wight-wrey' – a swerve in the path or road ahead which one instinctively knows the turning of will lead to the revelation of a ghost or other unholy terror. – #CLNolan, BBC National Programme talk, 1934 #WOTD #Hookland

Starting another re-watch of The Twilight Zone, here's an image from the opening, with Desi Arnaz introducing the pilot episode, "The Time Element" in place of Rod Serling. The show was part of The Desilu Playhouse before the show launched. 1958, 67 years ago.

It’s the 412th anniversary of the burial of Henry, Baron de Ros, infant son and heir of Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland, whose tragic early demise led to the only gravestone in any English church which mentions sorcery – because, OF COURSE, he was done in by witches

one day when I was a teen, my dad walked in my room while I was listening to a 50s rockabilly comp, saw the Collins Kids on the cover, and said "hey did you know you're related to them?" Larry and Lorrie were my dad's cousins.

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“The most dangerous message you could have is ‘we should all come together and find common ground.’...anytime anyone wants to bring people together, they figure out a way to tar and feather the person.” - Bill Burr podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

this little scene was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a guidebook for how we construct our society

'Mississippi' Fred McDowell 🎶'Write Me a Few of Your Lines' #bluesmusic

people were reliably apprised of the existence of Moby Dick, and the havoc he had made

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First day of my Philosophy of Cosmology class! I'm interpreting "cosmology" pretty broadly. There will be three main topics: 1) Anthropics and the multiverse; 2) The arrow of time; 3) Quantum foundations, especially Many-Worlds. The idea of self-locating uncertainties will be a common thread.

Consider that the whale has nothing that can properly be called a neck; on the contrary, where his head and body seem to join, there, in that very place, is the thickest part of him.

In an unusual religious scene by Helmont, Saint Anthony seems rather bemused by the legion of demons here to tempt him, including A+ nudie riding a dragon.

It’s Peter Sellers’ 100th birthday. If you’re feeling down today, watch this. I have a feeling it might make you feel a little better. youtu.be/64yianfGvzc?...