🚨 Bill C-22 would force every Canadian internet provider, messaging app, and cloud service to build surveillance backdoors & store a year of your private data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US — compromising up to a million people. Tell your MP […]

New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Comparing cosmic shear nulling methods for Stage-IV surveys" by Naomi Clare Robertson & Alex Hall (U. Edinburgh, UK) https://doi.org/10.33232/001c.161724

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `High King Art mac Cuinn had a one night stand with Achtan, daughter of a druid/smith named Olc Acha. One night, however, as Achtan slept, exhausted from her day‘s travelling, `a she-wolf came out of the forest and carried off the […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

The position of the heavens mattered in ancient cultures, to the point rulers would plan wars to get the stars in the right position before attacking a foe. Bad stars spelled doom: that is the origin of the word disaster (dus+aster=bad star in Ancient Greek). #MythologyMonday

The Navajo's old Black God was slowly making the lights in the night's sky. Coyote became impatient, throwing the bag of stars, making the Milky Way. Black God did not illuminate them all: some stars are bright, some dim, and some sections of night have no stars. #MythologyMonday

Among the Four Symbols of East Asia lore, the Vermillion Bird represents the South and its quadrant of stars, master of summer and red, with the planet Mars as its guide. Ancient roads are often named the Vermilion Bird in China, Korea, and Japan. #MythologyMonday 🖼️: M. Meyer

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `#Newgrange was the palace (Brú) of #Bóand, goddess of the river beneath the mound. It was Bóand (sometimes called #Eithne) who first lived here with #Elcmar (sometimes #Nechtan). When she decided to take the #Dagda as her lover, she […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Today is the day I learned that Takashi Yamazaki, Godzilla Minus One's director, worked on Star Fox's 1993 puppets 🤯 It was the perfect distinctive visual identity for this game, they should have continued.

'A generation of Irish people are sad today': Former Bosco presenter Gráinne Uí Mhaitiú dies aged 72 https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41838873.html

“You underestimate the true POWER of the Care Bear Stare!”

Brain: Go to bed. Me: ☝️ The Aniara: concept design by architects Rutger Sjögrim (of Secretary architecture), Andreas Nordström, and Elsa Kristina Sundin, and chemist Fredrik Andersson.

Me: (repairing my weather station) Anna: Hey Doc, can I ask you question? Me: Shoot, what’s troubling you? Anna: The Irish tradition is to always refer to the fae indirectly, right? Me: That’s right. Anna: So why don’t you ever call them things like the fair folk or the good neighbors? Me […]

🆕 blog! “NHS Goes To War Against Open Source” The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still […]

A merry Walpurgisnacht to all!

In early modern European folklore, witch's ointment is a salve by which witches could fly, rubbed on either their bodies or on objects like brooms. Made from the fat of children and various herbs, the herbs were likely a hallucinogen and the fat not human. #WyrdWednesday

Toads have long been associated with witches as familiars of choice, both as the source of healing salves and deadly poisons. Toads as familiars appear in the Scottish witch trials of James VI, who faced attempted poisoning by toady witches. #WyrdWednesday

#FairyTaleTuesday: `#Beltane, beginning at sundown on the eve of the Celtic festival, was a day when the door to the #Otherworld opened sufficiently for #fairies and the dead to communicate with the living. Beltane was a festival for the living, when vibrant […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

RE: https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116478297177233678 Friends don't let friends use GoDaddy. You shouldn't let your enemies use GoDaddy either. It's that bad

When your assassination conspiracy theory is just the plot of Nine Inch Nails' 2007 album "Year Zero"

Shoshone sun dances are held in late spring, healing rituals where men dance and prostrate themselves, sometimes tied to hooks, before the sun, healing the tribe and bringing blessings for the year to come. #MythologyMonday

Dawn leads to spring, at least in Japan: Amaterasu's absence left the world in deathly winter, so the dawn goddess Ame-no-Uzume danced with reckless abandon to bring back the sun. Spring and cherry blossoms were born at the sun's return. #MythologyMonday 🖼: AnticiaJK

It was a disease, they said, that made them dance: dance until they died! The local wolf spider, called a tarantula, had poison that made bodies convulse. The story of the tarantella, somewhat apocryphal, likely is cover that the folk dance is probably pagan. #MythologyMonday

Shiva dances the tandava, invoking his role as Creator and Destroyer all at once with powerful, quick movements represent creation, preservation, and destruction and is done spontaneously and joyously: Shiva is always smiling during the tandava. #MythologyMonday

#mythologymonday #celtic: `From the earliest times, the Tuatha De Danann danced the Crane Curse (https://www.facebook.com/groups/emeraldislestories/posts/1285648240270217/), as Lugh of the long arm did when he prepared his warriors for battle with that dread and sorcerous race, the Fomors, who […]

Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us for Monday's theme: DANCE! Which myths feature dancing, a dance or ball, or moving to a rhythm? Write out your story and use the hashtag #mythologymonday for boosts. See you soon!

Now that is the question...

Important to remember this for this #alienday

Alien (1979): Patches by Ron Cobb

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `A frightening incident was reported to have occurred in the usually quiet market town of Bungay, in Suffolk, England in the late 16th century. During the Morning Service at St. Mary’s Church a terrible and violent storm broke out. The […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

TIMELINE CLEANSER Or how, in a single scene, the U-wing becomes a classic ship of the saga.

#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: „A local man had caught a Leprechaun. Because it didn't help him find a treasure, he put it in an oak chest. On the evening of the 10th day, the farmer claimed: "Darragh Fort is on fire!" Only then did the "gankeynogue" (= little […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

I think we could all use a little pick me up https://youtu.be/w4tjvbLn8Xs?si=uJDDFqcUM0158dkD

Extreme weather in Nordic lore is caused by Thurses, chaotic nature spirits that cause great shifts in the natural world. These include Jotnar, the giants, and if the name isn't obvious, Thor himself: Thor's mother is the Earth. #WyrdWednesday 🖼: T. A. Sahsnotasvriunt

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic #EarthDay: `Upon parting with his father #Lugh went forward from Teamhair westward, to the hills that were called afterwards Gairech and Ilgairech, and to the ford of the Shannon that is now called Athluain, and to Bearna […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

📷 Natural Frame — By Collettivo FX in Palermo, Italy 🇮🇹 A Reason To Smile (8 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2026/04/21/incredible-street-art-that-make-people-smile/

In Finnish folklore, a jumala is a god who rules over a wide domain (such as nature) while a haltija is more of a localized deity -- the supernatural protector of a particular place (such as a specific forest or lake) or the original progenitor of an animal species. 🎨N. N. Brut #FairyTaleTuesday

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Beara, the daughter of the King of Spain, was very shining and beautiful, and her father had a mind to know who would be her husband, and he sent for his Druid and asked the question of him. "I can tell you that," said the Druid […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

mastodon.social is currently undergoing a major Denial of Service (DDOS) incident. The team is working on this as a matter of priority. Thank you for your patience! #mastodon #mastoadmin https://status.mastodon.social/cmo730jrm05ailojla22drifc

If a tree reaches 100 years of age, its soul develops the ability to manifest out of its body. In Japan this is called a Kodama (木霊), a tree with a manifesting spirit. What form they take varies, and they can defend their forest with force. #FolkloreSunday 🖼: M. Meyer

Little people of the forest is a global phenomenon, a band of wild people who live in the forests, be they tricksters or friendly. Whether the Memegwesi seen by the Algonquin, the Nisse of Scandinavia, or the Menehune of Hawaii, watch out for the wild ones. #FolkloreSunday

New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Bayesian Cosmic Void Finding with Graph Flows" by Leander Thiele (U. Tokyo, Japan) doi.org/10.33232/001...

Russel Vought is the architect and executor of the Trump administration’s destruction of the federal government. As a self-avowed Christian Nationalist, he embodies the cruelest visions of all the extreme elements of the right-wing, making him essential to the success of the Republican […]

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Two living birds let down a dead one on an island; and it was not long till it rose up living, and the three went away together. When Manannan's daughter saw that, she said: "There might be some cure for my man on the island, the way […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

The 1926 Irish Census An interesting little booklet arrived in the post yesterday. It gives an overview of the 1926 census, which has just been made available online. This was the first census to be taken after the end of the War of Independence and the creation of the Irish Free State. The census…

👻 Ghost Sculpture — By Visitors in Varenna 🇮🇹 How to Have Fun In The Summer (9 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2026/04/18/street-art-of-cheerful-murals-beach-carvings-and-nature-sized-sculptures/

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `The study conducted by Marta Mazzoli and Emanuela Paribeni on the Pulica necropolis in Lunigiana sheds light on the complex dynamics of the borderlands between the #Celtic, Ligurian and Etruscan worlds. The burials, dating from […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Wisdom for the ages #shitpost #meme #FromReddit #outlook #space#meme#shitpost#outlook#fromreddit#artemis2

Recommendation for the weekend: "#AgeVerification Laws and #FreeSoftware: A Legal Expert Tells Us What's Actually at Stake" by @techlore with @fsfe 's @pjitendra#freesoftware. https://techlore.tech/age-verification-laws-and-free-software-fsfe-interview-techlore-talks/

I guess I heard about original sin I heard the dudes blamed the chick I heard the chick blamed the snake And I heard they were naked when they got busted And I heard things ain't been the same since