Alright y'all. This is finally happening.

🦇 A group of bats can be called a colony, a cauldron, or even a cloud. But with over 1,500 bat species worldwide (and 18 here in the UK!), we think it’s time to get a little more imaginative. Surely our brilliant bats deserve names as unique as they are. Join our campaign and help us #NameThatBat

They call it a ceasefire. But when I close my eyes, I still hear the drones. ✅ Read more on my page. gofund.me/66ae089c

Ahmed’s phone is breaking down. His phone is the lifeline for his entire family. I’m hoping we can work toward buying a new one before he risks losing access to his campaign funds, his extended family, emergency alerts, etc. Last I heard they cost $1000. Couldn’t check tho, his phone was frozen🥴

This weekend is Aberdeen's Queer Arts Festival and I'm waiting to go into an event and they're playing a song with the chorus "don't fuck a fascist, that dick ain't worth it" followed up by Cabaret

On the plus side my eyes are healthy ("textbook photos"), but on the negative I have just spent a small fortune on new glasses - I'm trying out extra active transitions lenses because walking around in the bright does bother me but there's zero chance of me carrying around sunglasses

The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

i ❤️ kakapos

Mohammed's new campaign is here: chuffed.org/project/1565... If anyone can share and/or donate please do

Reminded of this particular piece of joy. The Bad Shepherds (with Ade Edmonson) bringing the punk to Steeleye Span. I can't ever hear this song now without thinking of this... interpretation youtube.com/watch?v=ZPYV...

LRP I am breaking up with Pocketcasts after many years because they have an AI chatbot responding to their emails. I was only writing to them to say I loved their product but would love x feature. I've found an alternative that has the feature I wanted but I would never have looked without the AI!

[opens customer support chat] "this chat uses AI to solve your query. AI can make mistakes" jesus christ i am going to set my computer on fire

We have had a fabulous start for the kickstarter for printed versions of the Rhynie big book, but we need MORE! Please support our project by buying yourself a printed copy of the Rhynie monograph! You have till 6th December to do so! www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...

Do I know anyone who would like a steam key for realMyst: masterpiece edition, Riven (1997 version) or URU: Complete Chronicles? Got a Humble Bundle that contained them but I have these already, and there is the option to gift so if anyone wants them, shout!

Cool interview with the songwriters/performer of Golden from KPop Demon Hunters explaining how the song evolved youtu.be/FxEX_GWwE7M?...

Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

#HillfortsFriday 🧐🤔 The enormous & majestic Treryn Dinas coastal promontory fort, West Penwith, Cornwall 🤩, seen with a dawn sun rising through cloud. Home of the magical Logan Rock, perched high on a wall of granite at the heart of the liminal outcrop 📷 Yesterday

Day off in lieu today so have treated myself to some Banffshire style butteries for my breakfast. If you haven't encountered a buttery/ rowie, they're a bit like a flat, dense croissant. Banffshire style have a touch of oats in them and they're my new favourite!

In Penny Lane, the beatles say that a nurse is selling poppies from a tray but then fail to make it clear that any of the other characters are wearing theirs, or that the beatles themselves all have one on as they should. MR MCCARTNEY MUST ANSWER FOR THIS

This Norwegian stabbur, ca 1700, one of the oldest buildings in the region. Used to store foods & other things off of the ground, away from animals. I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons. We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely! imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb

Some pages freed from behind their paywall. This Electra project continues to evolve, and while I really like these images, this isn't her final form!

View at your own peril

The whole "OMG a prisoner has been mistakenly released" thing is such shit. No one gave a toss till it was an asylum seeker released.Last year, 262 prisoners - five a week - were released from prisons/courts before they should have been. Zero front-page reporting. www.theguardian.com/society/2...

I was just leafing through 1725 occult tome The Secret Magic of Abramelin the Mage in search of scary invocations for the BOOK, and I came across this list of subordinate spirits to the princes of Hell.

CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: ‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’ Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...

Can we help Ahmad? gofund.me/69f962fc

I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?

When I was young, there was a 6 month period where my dad was away in the Falkland's. My sisters wrote him a letter explaining how we were going to a bonfire for 'Gay Fox Night'. This is what happens when your mother has a strong Northern Irish accent and is the main influence on your accent.

If you haven't picked this up yet, go get it.

I was about to complain about people setting off fireworks and then I realised it literally is Fireworks Night.

Please help Eslam and her family 💕💸🍉 #mutualaid #helpsky

Instant earworm of the theme

Death in the Spires ebook is on cheap at Amazon UK in November! Get your Edwardian academia murder mystery with extra pining right here! (I do not control sales for this book, I don't know if it will price drop anywhere else, sorry.) www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Spires...

What's that you say? It's #CoosDay?

There's a new Unfamiliars page today, read it or don't whatever, I don't have the fortitude to make a little banner thing for it theunfamiliars.site

POST celebrates Aberdeen's culture, and remarkable people. As well as our fantastic website, we hang out in the following dark corners of the social web: BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/postabdn.com Threads: www.threads.net/@postabdn Masto: mastodon.social/@postabdn Instagram: www.instagram.com/postabdn/

Keep talking about the genocide in Sudan. Keep putting pressure on the government to sanction the UAE and to bring an end to this horrifying situation. Link to @theguardian.com on Sudan published 3rd November 2025: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There is a little bluesky meme going around asking what your “curry order” is, which is not aimed at a community I am part of, but I am going through a Goodness Gracious Me renaissance right now so here’s the classic for everyone’s delight youtu.be/H-uEx_hEXAM?...

Heraklion Museum of Archaeology - Day 1 (some of my faves)

Julian of Norwich spotted on the new Florence and the Machine album:

You can only see Salvation in the preview but if you click you'll see the arrangement known as Education, Salvation, Damnation (central library, St Mark's church and the theatre)

Library haul. Clear is for LGBT+ bookclub, the Two Roberts was from the queer artists panel I saw a few weeks ago at Wayword. It's a novel about the two artists Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun who were in a long term relationship after meeting at Glasgow art school in the '30s

"The Festive Big Green Book Swap" is back! Let me know the kind of stuff you like reading. I'll match you up with someone with similar tastes. I'll post you both a book I think you'll like (+ choc & tea)! Read, chat & eat choc! Just £15 DETAILS HERE! biggreenbookshop.com/index.php

Something lovely for the weekend! Magical amber animals from the Mesolithic. Carved between 10,000-7,000 years ago. Amber can generate static electricity⚡️ For their ancient owners, these small animals could give off sparks in the dark and make hair stand on end, as if by magic✨ 📷 me #Archaeology

Just in case anyone is like me and excited to buy ebooks from Bookshop dot org to benefit a bookshop, you can only read most of them in their own proprietary app, so you can't, say, put them on your e-reader. You know, where you might like to read them.

I am in the shopping centre on a different floor and several units away and I can smell Lush.

Ironically, I would like to ‘dislike’ this post

Netherlands, are you okay?