#hookland folk please contact me on Signal or by bsky DMs if you still have them. My Signal details are in my pinned post. If you love Hookland, we need you in the working group. Things need doing. If you are in touch with others who aren't here, give them my details. Help is necessary, now.

Daniel is a Cherokee citizen by the way!

"Yet the myths will not fit us ready-made. It is the meaning of the poet's trade To re-create the fables and revive In men the energies by which they live, - #ADHope, 'An Epistle from Holofernes'

Are LLMs even theoretically capable of admitting they don't know something. If so, what would that look like in practice?

Life is an act of narrative will. Often it is an act of own will against the narratives of our family, the editing that they try to impose to align it with their own mythology. How often do we long for a blank page where we can write ourselves and be the reader seeing ourself in the words.

Things are getting scary financial wise. Haven't had a commission in months & old former clients who promised me they were going to call me 'real soon' are ghosting me I've never had a client reaching out from Bsky, but I'll try once again: please visit absurdbydesign.com to check my illustrations

Was this before the zebra crossing?

Take the blue pill: phys.org/news/2025-10...

Our platform is ready. Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4. Rolling out to co-op members first.

"Imagination should be used not to escape reality, but to create it." ~ Colin Wilson

"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans." -Douglas Adams

Brian Fang discusses why mathematics developed without empirical motivation turned out to precisely describe the physical patterns of nature: Nature is itself the expression of mind-like structures also directly present in the human intellect. www.essentiafoundation.org/why-mathemat...

Just seen what some tasteless twat has done to my childhood home, sold a few years ago when my parents died. TV in every room, zebra-striped sofa, large pattern wallpaper and generic animal 'art' everywhere, front garden gravelled, back garden neglected apart from the old oak, which has been felled.

Fucking great rabbithole. wiby.me

See also: "One bad apple spoils the barrel."

Contacting the dead.

Autumn scene.

Found a dumped geological collection, (and a sand dollar), complete with catalogue numbers. On a local heath. All I need now is the catalogue.

1/ It looks like something from a galaxy far, far away, but this is the Harvest Moon rising over Titterstone Clee. The sky was a vivid blend of pink and purple, contrasting with the cool tones of the radar dome below. I had reached the summit with plenty of time to spare and... #Shropshire

Scared of my own shadow.

AN ANCIENTE MAPPE of FAIRYLAND newly discovered and set forth. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918. I have a copy of this map of fairyland by Bernard Sleigh in my study to ponder other worlds. It's filled with awe and wonder.

Exciting news! HELLEBORE’s first short story anthology is here! 9 new tales of the supernatural and the strange by Ramsey Campbell, Ally Wilkes, Reggie Oliver, Helen Grant and more, set in some of the most beguiling locations of Occult Britain. 👉🏼 Pre-order now to secure your copy: helleborezine.com

Beauty and repellency.

Popped into Morville Church, Shropshire on the way back from Bridgnorth for a dose of some early Norman architecture and to see the fab font with its ‘green man’ style heads. I did a quick #lidar scan with the phone so you can give it a twirl & have a look… skfb.ly/pBBoP

🎧 What is the hauntological music scene? Away from the Top 40 and set against the backdrop of a post-Brexit Britain and ongoing environmental crisis, these sonic experiments offer more than nostalgia, they reimagine England’s place in the world. 🔗 kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/listening-...

Technologically advance a band: OMD > ELO

The Rise & Fall of Silver Apples: The 1960s Electronic Band That Built Their Own Synthesizer, Produced Two Pioneering Albums, and Then Faded into Obscurity

Fractal.

The web of life.

Ready for a new issue? Pre-orders for The Mirror Issue are now open worldwide! ✨🪞✨ Mirror magic, ritual masks, films that cast a spell, doppelgängers and fetches, changelings, evil portraits, spirit traps and much more. 👉🏼 helleborezine.com

Superb camera placement during the Epstein denial segment of this press conference... 👌

If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts. Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app

Slightly diminish a book Brave World (one previous owner)

Best I can do on my phone.

Test emergency alert came in 4 precious minutes late for me.

Space Root

Ivy Bee getting busy

Found a detached caterpillar’s bum at Brookwood Cemetery.

In a land that had cried out for the Latchless door... Order page is up! thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/product/the-... By @taliskimberley.bsky.social , Illustrated by me, with foreword by @hookland.bsky.social This is a small book (A5) UK only for now. Limited edition, signed and numbered.

Fresh from the oven: our interview with Joshua Cutchin about his new book, Fourth Wall Phantoms youtu.be/Tq3YwCSRxu0?...

“The sacrality of kingship, for whatever reason, is deeply bound up with the health of the king. Perhaps it is because, as Shakespeare well understood, the burden of kingship is itself a kind of debility.” @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social on the frailty of kingship.

Any Sandown Clown fans in the house?

Sunday afternoon trike with a wholesome family summer holiday vibe on the Basingstoke Canal. Lots of waving back at boaters.

We’re new to Bluesky so please do help us in getting the word out: After an involuntary 2-year hiatus, we’re back with a new issue. The Sound & Vision Issue is available to pre-order now! www.cunning-folk.com/shop/the-sou...

Dr. Lucido argues that his psychology experiments, entailing subliminal suggestions—priming—of subjects, corroborates the ‘consciousness causes collapse’ interpretation of quantum mechanics. Here he makes his case in an accessible manner. www.essentiafoundation.org/has-experime...

A 20m-long mural has been created to mark 60 years since a string of UFO sightings in a town. It depicts the "Warminster Thing" – a UFO linked to many strange sounds and sightings, reports Sophie Parker for BBC News. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...