Rest in power, Alice Wong. We were Twitter mutuals for a while and we exchanged a bunch of dms about Chinese food and ice cream. She said she could not eat most foods due to her disability but she enjoyed talking about and reading about them. She was also […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Without good sleep you cannot recover, and nightmares stand in the way of good sleep. Good thing for the Baku, the Eater of Dreams: this anteater-looking oddity of Japanese folklore devours bad dreams and the spirits that produce them. #FolkyFriday

I have a page on Wikipedia, but not on Grottipedia. arxiv.org/abs/2511.09685

"Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing": https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing

There's a solution to this, and it doesn't involve commercial publishers. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

🌞 Hello #fediverse! This is GBH #news bringing you the world from #boston. It's 49F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi. Newly released Epstein emails mention a wide array of powerful men, including Trump. The US Justice Department is suing to block redistricting efforts in California that […]

#BookologyThursday #BookChatWeekly #Celtic: `The Tuatha Dé Danann choose as their new ruler Bodb the Red, eldest son of the Dagda. Two competitors approved this choice, two didn‘t. Mider refused to give hostages, as was the custom, to Bodb Derg, and fled with […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

One of the most complex games ever made despite its simplicity, Go was invented in China around the 4th century BCE. Black and white stones are placed on intersections, with the goal of owning the most territory by game's end. #FolkloreThursday

#FolkloreThursday #JapaneseFolklore

I want to make it clear: this is not a victory. They will still get to charge developers who don't even distribute on their app store, just like Apple do […]

#LegendaryWednesday with your baking legends, your kitchen dessert traditions, candied rituals, & sweet deities #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `Cathal mac Finguine was a good king, who governed Munster; a great warrior prince was he. A warrior of […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#aurora ribbons from cockpit of a flight heading to Fort MacMurray #alberta as major solar storm hits earth.

#FairyTaleTuesday: We encounter an insular #Celtic motif in a very altered form in the fairy tale „Les Fées“ of Charles Perrault. In Irish literature, the Sovereignty Goddess of the country appears in the form of an ugly old woman at a well. There she demands […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#FairyTaleTuesday: The #mermaid (Merrow, Morrough, Moruach, Moruadh, Maighdean-mara, Ben-Varrey, Mary Morgan) which we meet again in the fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen is a continental and insular folkloric figure […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

A brief excerpt from Michael Higgins farewell address https://imgur.com/gallery/brief-wonderful-fourteen-years-TyjfiBG

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate

The Protomen - "Calling Out" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Wh3hq2EPQ

At this point, it’s clear that the Hamburglar, Dr Evil, and Sideshow Bob are advising Chuck Schumer.

"Waterline" on #climatechange by James Colomina in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Connar Recommends: Predator Badlands, if you liked Dark Horse Comics run of Alien, Predator, or Alien Vs. Predator, then you will enjoy Predator Badlands.

Happy #N7Day ! To celebrate Mass Effect, I suggest you read my story of the SSV Normandy SR-1 design. 🫡

We’re excited to release Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!) […]

#FolkloreThursday: “The Exile of the Sons of Usnech” `owes its popularity to the fact that it tells the tragic love story of the beautiful but ill-starred Derdriu (Deirdre), the Helen of ancient Irish tradition. Fated from birth to bring misfortune to others […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

RE: https://actu.blois.fr/@villedeblois/115486831898803392 Welcome, @villedeblois! We are happy to help, and work with more cities or other civic organisations that want to join the Fediverse!

The akugyo (悪魚) has the head and arms of a woman and breathes fire, a malevolent Japanese mermaid who ensnares the ships of sailors in rocks and then breaks the ship, devouring them. Japanese lords have tried to take her down, and failed. #WyrdWednesday 🖼: Sabnock_

Not to mention that American votes influence electoral dynamics in other countries. We would prefer it not to be the case, but this country sets the tone. And the tone up until today was that we cannot escape the far right and its billionaire allies.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115492635409809971 Today, we're taking our first step into the moderation tools we've been wanting to build for Bridgy Fed for a while now. The reason we're launching this small iteration first is that: (1) it's recently become more urgent for our […]

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: "I will go out against them alone," said Forne, the youngest son of the King of Lochlann in front of the King of the World. `With that he put on his battle suit, and he went among the Fianna of Ireland, and a red-edged sword in each […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `#Oisin gave out a great shout against the King of Lochlann's son. "Stop here with me, king's son," he said, "until I fight with you for the Fianna." "I give my word it is short the delay will be," said Forne. Then he himself and […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: "I swear by the oath of my people," said the King of Lochlann to the King of the World, "if any man of the armies goes out against the Fianna before myself and my three sons, we will not go at all, for we would not get the […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/114837239641362654 IN OTHER #teenvogue NEWS so some of y’all found my July call to Mackenzie Scott to buy out the editorial crew from Teen Vogue and set them up in a new publication to rival them and all arts, culture & politics mags. with news of Condé […]

Here's another #fep for representing torrents on activitypub :) short, sweet, and with a reference implementation and tests! towards a federated bittorrent tracker with #sciop ! PR: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/714 Discussion […]

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `#Cuchulain parted from Scáth, and turned to go back to Erin, and a magic mist overtook him so that he knew not how he went, or by what road he came to the borders of the white-flecked, green-waved ocean, but he found Manannan’s […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

A little teaser taste of my story "The Strange Addiction of Johnny Peculiar" from the upcoming ACCURSED TALES, an anthology set in the TTRPG horror-hope-punk world of CURSEBORNE. www.curseborne.com

can't hype it enough https://jellyfin.org/

Hello again, Scotland. Jetlagged and frazzled but still had to pause and snap some of the last light after driving up into Glencoe. #photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #scotland #rain

#Samhain is said to be the time when the veil that separates the worlds of the living and the dead is at its thinnest - apart from Faculty Meetings.

Halloween is the subject of numerous moral panics regarding cyanide-laced candy or razorblades hidden in Reeces. While they are overwhelmingly bunk, they are often based on singular events that happened long ago. #FolkyFriday #Halloween

#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `On the second morning after the eve of #Samhan Cascorach went out to the same cairn, and set his people about it, and the wolves came there and stretched themselves to listen to the music. And Cascorach was saying to them: "If you […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `Every year after the eve of #Samhain three she-wolves came out of the Cave of Cruachan and destroyed the sheep and wethers in the district, before going back into the cave again. These were the three daughters of Airetach, of the […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Made famous by the Crow, October 30 is considered Devil's Night in the North American Rust Belt, though known by other names such as Mischief Night. Full of more tricks than treats, these range from simple pranks to arson, particularly in 1980s Detroit. #Halloween #Folklore

It looks as if centrists have ousted the far-right Prime Minister in The Netherlands in today's election, and Rob Jetten is the frontrunner to become the new prime minister. He would be the first openly gay Dutch Prime Minister. #Netherlands

Last Call for summoning The Candy Witch :)

Good people sometimes look like weirdos, bad people sometimes look like kindly grandpas, and if you can't acknowledge that you can be mistaken in your first impressions all you're really saying is that you can be duped easily by bad faith actors.

The Cailleach accepts offerings of bread, often burnt, varying by region and time of year. In autumn, near Samhain, she accepts this gift for her time of year has begun. #LegendaryWednesday

Fear the coming of the Dullahan, a headless horseman of Ireland. Wielding a human spine and its own head, it is said to be the spirit of a dark god, Crom Dubh, constantly riding. When he stops, he speaks your name: and sucks away your soul. #WyrdWednesday 🖼: M. Munoz

While modern lore says the veil between worlds is thinned at days like Beltane or Samhain, older lore seems to suggest something beyond the Spiritualist layer: at Samhain, the Fair Folk are forced from their homes and forced to wander the land in promenade. #LegendaryWednesday