The fourth best seller in Magic and Alchemy on Amazon? Ding dong! #HouseholdLore #WritingCommunity #Littlewins #Folklore #Booksky

Wow. BBC Radio 2 reporting Trump's disgusting racism as jocular. Another low in calling out this behaviour.

So, hedgehogs. It’s not just me, the ancient Egyptians were also in awe of these spiny mammals. A very, very old Eygptian hedgehog seal. sainsburycentre.ac.uk/art_object_c...

some recs for Black history month! (and always!)

Ghosts. I finished writing this book twenty years ago. Still very pleased with it. You can buy the paperback new or e-book for around £12-15. link.springer.com/book/10.1057...

Believe it or not, on Sunday in the northern hemisphere we will have finished the darkest 14 weeks of the year. The other 38 are basically OK for daylight. We are essentially through now.

I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny

It has been quite a week! We all need a timeline cleanse. Have a great weekend, everyone! An Egyptian relief plaque with a face of an #owl 🦉. The owl hieroglyph represents the sound m. Late Period–Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt, 400–30 BC. 📷 Metropolitan Museum

Had a dream last night about applying to do a PhD about rat speaking. Seemed like a genius idea at the time.

Slime mold, Craterium minutum on lichen, Parmelia sulcata. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends The slime mold sporangia are only about 2 to 3mm high.

A few tickets left for tonight’s HORROR SHOW with Mark Gatiss, Alice Lowe and David McAlmont Kings Place, London www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/com...

Saw this on Instagram earlier, and it floored me. You need to stay for the entire 19 seconds...

And yet BBC Radio Two news bulletins were quite happy to advertise it without any critical analysis this morning. Sigh.

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Ok who do I have to bribe with stroopwafels to get access to this place? I promise I won't steal or even touch anything and will only be being weird and talking to the artefacts like a silly old history addict. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Got told, again, to keep politics out of my posting here as it will affect my book sales. Fuck that. My readership mostly knows my politics and doesn't give a fuck. And if you're a nazi cunt, or want to appease nazi cunts, you're not going to like my books anyway.

Read it here: www.nationalfolkloresurvey.co.uk/news/househo...

'If we shut ourselves off from recognising ourselves in others, we create a dearth of empathy and that is a very dangerous path to start walking down’ - folklorist @lilithepunk.bsky.social tells us about her new book, her varied career, and how folklore can help us in these uncertain times.

Should anyone be enjoying a riffle through Household Lore, it would be jolly nice if you could mention it to the Guardian. Pretty please... 💜 #booksky #writerslife #amreading #readingsky #readsky www.theguardian.com/books/2022/f...

The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."

Amazing news that Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK a mere 194 days since her husband, Rael Braverman, left Reform UK for comments they made criticising his wife.

Margaret W. Rossiter coined the term “Matilda effect” to describe the bias against acknowledging the achievements of women scientists. Some cases illustrating the Matilda effect include Eunice Foote, Rosalind Franklin, & Jocelyn Bell Burnell #Womeninstem paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2022/03/07/e...

‘Reports about Alderaan’s explosion are conflicting,’ reports BBC News. ‘The Emperor says a “defensive shot” was fired, while others claim the planet was destroyed in an unprovoked attack’

puffer fish gas bladder looks like a molar 👍🏻

Richie’s birthday present scene is one of Bottom’s best. Rik Mayall goes from childlike excitement to bitter resentment, then horniness to naive confusion as Eddie explains his real present. See Ade Edmondson has to pause near the end to allow the audience reaction to subside after a brilliant gag.

Mark Gatiss, Alice Lowe, Davud McAlmont and me are coming to Kings Place in London next week to talk MONSTERS www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/com... (here is a little bit of a monster poem)

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

1/21/1879 — b. Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, British botanist, mycologist, professor of botany, lecturer. Researcher of fungal genetics; president of the British Mycological Society (1928). Commandant, Women’s Royal Air Force (1918); OBE ('19) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #PlantSky #SciSky #HistSci #military

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Home is where the folklore is! Just picked up this fantastic book by @lilithepunk.bsky.social showcasing all the weird folklore surrounding every part of the home. This will certainly change how you view your place.

Well, that's our Tuesday evenings taken care of for the next couple of months... sussexpast.co.uk/whats-on/

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to The Pogues Sinead O'Connor Jethro Tull The Police Midge Ure

🚨 Date for the diary 🚨 on 4 Feb we’ll be at @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social for a lunchtime talk on all things Survey: how the project came to be and emerging findings. So come along to see what folklore is potent in England today.

Letter in Times today

They really need to turn his 'member' into a Blue Peter style totaliser

The jaw is afterwards sawn into slabs, and piled away like joists for building houses.

FISH!! #MosaicMonday

Coprolites aren't my favourite type of fossil, but they're a solid #2.

I have been feeling a lot of anger lately due to our political climate. Dolly made this video today for her 80th birthday to benefit pediatric cancer. We can’t lose hope. youtu.be/McaD2PG8jOE

Votive Plaque: Owl (Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 BCE) Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

ENDS TODAY!

I've reviewed another book, a classic this time. 'The ties that bound, peasant families in medieval England', by Barbara A. Hanawalt (1986) You can read it here; fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/01/17/b... Or here; fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/book-revie... Some teasers in this thread:

I'm collecting children's folklore for a forthcoming podcast theme - what do you remember believing as a kid, or what games did you play? And what do YOUR kids do for rites, games, and stories they pass on? Let me know! forms.gle/D8mLW7q2um5Z...

Presenting: the "Waistcoat So Structured I Am Quite Sure The Lapels Could Stop A Bullet" a.k.a. "Honour the fabric through craftsmanship". A couple of years ago I had the luck of visiting Oban, in the western coast of Scotland, and even better: the Harris Tweed shop, made in the Outer Hebrides.

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2026 is the National Year of Reading and here is the first in my ONE MINUTE INTERVIEW series to introduce books through their creators, and give a flavour for each book and its interesting creation process! This week you’ll meet incomparable author and illustrator @louiestowell.bsky.social ❤️

Rebel Rebel Sorrow Diamond Dogs Space Oddity Ashes to Ashes Heroes Fame Oh! You Pretty Things Never Let Me Down Absolute Beginners

Bloody loved Quite Ugly One Morning. I think I've still got my copy... Shall look out for this!