The Ghost Story, Alfred Bestall, 1930 #Christmasghoststories

Anyone looking for the full map or wondering who made it, it’s the work of Matt Brown and it’s here. open.substack.com/pub/londonis...

Wait. What? 🤯 (Possibly my biggest surprise of 2025. As a leftist, environmentalist, AI vegan, I am not sure how to process the idea of DeSantis as another AI sceptic.) www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Sharing this, a belatedly—no, wait! Is there ever really a bad time to share The Beiderbecke Trilogy?

HARES...get the HARES

I have nwver had a tatoo. Torn between: - the Uffington White Horse - Manchester’s coat of arms - the “three hares” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_h...

Well, that was unnecessarily negative re: folk horror. Friends, forgive me. I still like it. But I need ... something else to fortify my soul.

I cannot say enough how much I love George Parr's essay "Hours Peaceful and Things Mundane: Detectorists and the Non-Violent Approach to Folkloric Storytelling" in the fourth issue of the Waiting for You fanzine. Yours, a Little Tired of Folk Horror. temporalboundary.bigcartel.com/product/wait...

Another of my intermittent posts asking if there are any fans of psychogeography, hauntology, deep maps, &/ or phenomenology in Vermont &/ or New England. Looking to connect.

I am looking for material evidence of failed futures—futures that never came to pass—in #Vermont & #NewEngland. Literature, film & TV, music, & architecture (f’rex, ruined geodesic domes & Brutalist architecture). Can anyone help a fella out? #Hauntology, #Hauntological, #1970s?

Right. Partner-in-Crime is away. So it's going to be me and a salad and a fake beer, the cat and some catnip, and Way of the Morris. (Yes, I am nearly 15 years late with this but I only received the DVD as a Christmas present, this year. 🎁🎄)

This Christmas, we rewatched The Princess Bride (fairytale movie) and In Bruges (“It's like a fucking fairytale or something”). An interesting pairing.

Sigh. Twitter.

I got this wonderful gift from my bestie @gaogaigirl.bsky.social today! A small sculpture based on the folklore of the swallow stone! weeee!

We've also assembled the ULTIMATE FUN PACK - our biggest-ever collection of Croydon Spaceport goodies! What could be nicer for the municipal-space-programme enthusiast in your life? colossive.com/product/croy...

Here at Colossive Towers we've put together the SOUND AND VISION pack, which includes a copy of Ad Astra Per Croydon - the zine that started it all - and the Croydon Spaceport Tapes CD (complete with a download code) colossive.com/product/croy...

2025 has been a funny year with various ups and downs, but one thing that delighted me was some of my flapdoodle becoming the basis of a wonderful album. Check it out, if you haven't already! Huge thanks to all at @tcfsr.bsky.social tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/the-cr...

After reading Ice, I’m wondering which work by Anna Kavan to read next. This summary by @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social looks useful … but do any Kavan fans have recs for someone who grooves on SF, horror, psychogeography? sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kavan_... ( @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social ?)

dress your desk for the job you want (opera ghost) not the job you have (video editor)

Fumbled my scheduling roll and did not get a Christmas edition if my favourite UK listings magazine ordered in time. Alas!

Wow.

Sinister or reassuring message viewed from the bus yesterday. you are content

Oops. Almost forgot the book cover. What a title!

Really interesting thread on Alanis Obomsawin! 🎬

Deep in angry political thoughts. So I missed a favourite stopping point. #RoutineWalk

Just to remind you that the livestream of the solstice sunrise from Newgrange starts 12 hours from now. heritageireland.ie/visit/newgra...

#NowListening to Vashti Bunyan’s “Just Another Diamond Day.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_An...

I’m in the mood for Yule Goats… (From Reddit)

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 20: Saved You a Seat October 2016 Years ago our kid ran ahead to save us a seat in our favourite Saturday morning coffee place, and when I caught up to him a couple of minutes later he was already deep into his book. If I’d tried to stage this shot it would never have worked.

Delighted for Aja, and I'm going to continue the trail of thanks... she was recommended to us by the great @jaymoussamann.bsky.social!

Psychogeographers! Flaneurs! Please share your tips for refreshing a routine solitary walk! What are your best & favourite practices?

Morning. Winter Hare, Vanessa Bowman.

GenX always knew that the retirement dream our parents had was going to end in a rugpull, but we never predicted we could take our depression to Grok Therapist, Inc. and for that we are duly chastened.

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Rewatching Deadwood. No, I am in no way inspired to do a deep dive into the San Francisco (where I lived for 6 years) Gold Rush for a TTRPG. Why do you ask?

There we go. Confirmed. The Christmas subplot from the novel of Hunt for Red October does turn up (albeit briefly) in the film. Therefore Hunt for Red October is a Christmas film. One "ho ho ho", Vasily, and one "ho ho ho" only...

Mixed feelings about this. Was I just really VERY VERY WRONG about Flowered Up, back in the day? www.withguitars.com/flowered-ups...

One of those promos the BBC used to be so good at making. A raft of comedy talent on display here

Any zinesters from the Green Mountain State in the Blue Sky? I’m hoping to find Vermonters who make zines (fanzines, perzines, APA zines, subzines, etc.), as I’ll be spending more time in Vermont. 🙂

Tomorrow I'm in #Chester for the last #FeministArtOfWalking event of 2025. Join me at books on the walls 2-3pm for a reading and chat. No ticket or purchase needed, but might I suggest a signed book is a lovely Christmas gift? @plutopress.bsky.social (story filled walk pic from a previous visit)

The Groke is a ghost like character in Tove Jansson's Moomin stories. She embodies the idea of the darkness, the cold. Tove loved all things scary & unknown #WomensArt #Winter ❄️

'AI is coming' I tell the museum stakeholders as I proudly cut the ribbon of our new Artificial Insemination exhibition

Looking forward to the international virtual sheepdog trials and new, young audiences excited to see the latest episode of One Man and His Dog drop.

is this the same one i saw a couple videos for like a year or two ago or are there now two border collie-based games in development

“I’m not crying; you’re crying.“

Them: we made a whole tv commercial out of AIs Me: ***whatever the heck this is intensifies***

I take it that @handiworkgames.bsky.social has seen this? 🤿🪣 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Apparently, a couple of my Blue Sky accounts are blocked for being: 1/ pro a “political movement” I loathe & despise; OR … 2/ being pro-LLM AI art/ scraping for LLM. Words fail me.

"This is not an essay about psychogeography or being a flâneur, it is a question of what about settling somewhere is it that resists what is otherwise one of life’s great pleasures." @sylvswarren.bsky.social writes about familiar walks she describes as 'mizmazes. [via @thearsonista.bsky.social]

Another structural city-deity, because I take psychogeography too literally and fantastically