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Indigenous artifacts from the Vatican collection returning to Canada today

A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage. Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word. A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).

Only 3 days left until Terror Camp V! 🤩❄️ Which of our keynotes are you most excited about? ✨

Cowlitz comedian Joey Clift has a new animated short–Pow! follows a young Native kid at a bustling intertribal powwow. The short includes lessons in Native activism and even uses actual audio from the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Watch it here:

More Greenland photos, featuring some geology. Scoresbysund has some fantastic exposures of columnar basalts, which are ~55 million years old (young for Greenland rocks!) related to flood basalts when the Atlantic was opening up. Fantastical shapes and fall tundra colors

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

He IS a captain—a TEAM captain! We can't wait to welcome Christos Lawton (Hodgson) back to Terror Camp!

Who's that steward? It's.... Edward Ashley (Gibson), coming to Terror Camp for the first time to compete in our polar quiz show!!!!

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

the toe goblin has come to collect

Berger Victoria

Did you know you can support the Terror Pin-up Calendar RIGHT NOW? 👀 Our BigCartel will close ON HALLOWEEN, so make sure to grab your copy before the end of the month! 🎃 12 months of 🔥 HOT 🔥 cold lads await! #TheTerror theterrorpinup.bigcartel.com/product/cale...

Googly eyes make EVERYTHING better

check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby

Last year I set up four polar bear sampling stations in our study area at Alert (Nunavut, Canada). Goal: collect pictures and hairs to document the understudied Arctic Basin population. This one, from 8 August 2025, is our first good photo ! 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦑🦊 (barbed wire for genetic hair collection visible)

📣 TERROR CAMP V PROGRAM ANNOUNCED! Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam... We’re thrilled to bring you a fantastic line-up of presentations for Terror Camp V, from deep dives into Inuit texts and polar history to queer naval fiction & scurvy. Find out what we've got in store! 🤩

One summer, when I was seven, my parents sent me to live with two aunts in PARKLIFE. I did not want to go. The elderly have that effect on children. PARKLIFE! But they loved me. And I grew to love them. PARKLIFE! ... but I am hungry. I am hungry, and want to PARKLIVE

4th October 1859 was a regular day for Joseph Taylor Goodsir. Wake early, think about God, pinch of snuff, meet brother John, read the day's post. Which included an letter sent by sister Jane to their brother Harry of #HMSErebus in Jan 1848, and returned 11 years later as "undeliverable".

USB-port Convention The Signal Jam Cardiogram B

My Longest “Devastating News, Lads” Ever

Just as written records from the lost Franklin Expedition were within reach, Canada is having to pull the plug on archaeological excavation of HMS Erebus & Terror. loganzachary.substack.com/p/illuminato...

Not before time, news on 2024’s finds from the investigation on Erebus & Terror, with some very interesting items found including a raincoat! welcome is the news Parks Canada won’t be doing any further active research on the wrecks, at least for the time being. parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nu/e...

A very happy birthday to Alexander McDonald, born in Laurencekirk #OTD in 1817. Alexander was assistant surgeon on #HMSTerror and was lost with the #FranklinExpedition. And he was, without doubt, goth AF. @scottpolar.bsky.social holds some of his letters: each one sealed with a blood red skull.

The spirit of Taco Bell Fest is eternal

Good news... we're extending our submission deadline! You now have until September 5th to send us your proposals: whether it's for 5, 15, or 30 minute long presentations, we want to hear from you! 🤩❄️🖋️ Submit your abstract here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1u3x...

Hollywood producer (chomping cigar): so whaddaya got for me, Laura Me: how about... Austin Powers is thrown back in time and has to convert the Slavs Producer: ... mmm. whaddaya call it Me: Shagolitic Producer (cigar falling out of mouth, grabbing phone): clear stages 4 and 21, we're filming NOW

I think what he learned in boating school is this, which also explains why the Franklin Expedition never came back bsky.app/profile/keit...

Lindsey's account is such a great resource for the history of medicine. Friends, doctors fans, and fellow multiples, all you need is an email. Used the template below with the following addition, at least partly in case there's a filter on identical messages. Plus there's a point to make

The Stromness Museum has no idea that mentioning John Rae, who went looking for the Franklin Expedition as depicted in AMC’s The Terror (2018), on Bluesky was the smartest thing their marketing team could have done

I'm thrilled that @issygapp.bsky.social are co-editing the *fifth* series for @nichecanada.bsky.social on Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North-this time, on "States of the Field–New Research in Arctic Pasts." We want to hear from up and coming Arctic researchers! niche-canada.org/2025/08/04/c...

its come to my attention that some of you dont know about the JCR corset incident that sent me spiraling into months of pure insanity so here we go. on the 1819 parry expedition they put on a production of the citizen in which jcr's corset ripped open pinup style and they published a POEM about it

Jane, Lady Franklin died OTD in 1875, aged 83. She was interred in the catacombs of Kensal Green Cemetery, and I'm not kidding when I say that getting down there to pay my respects in person was one of the best days of my life. www.illuminator.blog/p/jane-catac...

The Terror (2018) ep. 9

armfish alert! armfish alert!

"Sir Edward Belcher went off to hunt for D." "D was secured and brought on board." I can't express how relieved I was to realise that "D" in this case was short for "ditto". Ah, log books. #AdventuresInArchives

Not to be dramatic, but these are some of the best photos I’ve seen all year

They are writing a letter to Lady Jane

Charming Nasca lobster-shaped vessel from Peru 🦞 AD 300-600 📷 Walters Art Museum art.thewalters.org/object/2009.... #Archaeology

Apparently it’s 10 years today since I discovered that adding googly eyes to the tap on a wine box makes it look like Shaun the Sheep.

It's the 100th anniversary of the death of French composer Erik Satie today. When I visited his gaff in Honfleur earlier this year I was delighted to discover some unexpected ship content, scratched into the original plaster of the house.

Butthole Confidential

Wow thanks for reducing the text resolution so bad it looks like each letter has been rolled in lint

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