his psychologist recommended that he make new friends so he joined a cult

I only just read about this and thought it should circulate. It's a program to help Black single mothers in Jackson, Mississippi by giving them an extra guaranteed income for 12 months.

Pre-orders now open for my novel PARCH MARKS 💚💛 In a future Britain, archeologist Eva Sinclair investigates the mysterious fern-like patterns left by drought around the long-dry riverbed of an ancient massacre site. Release due September 1st www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

Redhead study I did in 2016. Having fun looking back at some old stuff! I've always loved red hair, and even more... freckles! #redhead #freckles #watercolour #portrait

Reminder to sporadically check on your goths in this heat. Check under logs/in shaded graveyards and leave out a little dish of water at dusk.

Victory #art

When the weather gets hot, please take special care for the goths in your life. With their floor-length coats, platform shoes, and velvet capes, it’s hard for them to thermoregulate as we do.

#PhantomsFriday New acquisition found earlier today in a charity bookshop, 'Ghosts of the Lake Counties' by Gerald Findler from 1977, with a number of line drawings by E. Gower of the ghosts within.

Paranapiacaba is a misty, British-built railway village in Santo André, Brazil, famed as the "Brazilian Silent Hill". Its abandoned train yards, Victorian architecture, and dense, rolling fog #PhantomsFriday 🧵

As the term "mancy" originally referred to divination, originally "necromancy" was less about raising zombies and more about using the dead to predict the future, such as by throwing bones, studying entrails, or summoning a prophetic ghost for questioning. 🎨Ebenezer Sibley #PhantomsFriday

I am so, so happy to share this link for the Eat the Rich anthology! First of all, this was the project of the late Eirik Gumeny, who was such a kind soul who loved horror. And I get to share with you my dark, twisted tale of a wealthy CEO whose trees have... plans for him. Preorders are open!

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY The Pullman strike is put down, business owners lay out plans to attack the closed shop, Sidney Hillman dies, and more. Find out more at tinyurl.com/3tb53fde #LaborHistory #Pennsylvania #SanFrancisco

I just remember learning about when the Teapot Dome scandal was a) treated as a scandal in the press, and b) led to sweeping regulatory and legislative changes to try to prevent it from happening again, and it’s just weird to see a swath of the country say “no, we thought that was good, actually.”

Wrote a GFM update for anyone who has supported me, so I might as well boost my fund. I'm working as hard as I can, but struggling to get anywhere. I need whatever help you can give. As I say in my update, my birthday's in October, and thinking of aging in a body that hurts to live in is scaring me.

Ghost Bride #PhantomsFriday ~painted on wood using acrylic and ink

#ForteanFriday #PhantomsFriday The Photograph of a Spectral Dog A Spiritualist “infidel” tells of a photograph taken of his long-dead dog with a mysterious ghostly woman. hauntedohiobooks.com/news/photogr...

'The Haunted Mirror' by Odilon Redon, 1890. #PhantomsFriday #haunted #ghost #OdilonRedon #art

Elizabeth "Lizzie" and Mary "May" Bangs were sisters who specialized in slate-writing and spirit portrait seances. Trouble with the law and scandals led to investigations which revealed the tricks the sisters used to con clients (including Isaac Funk, co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls). #PhantomsFriday

If you would steal from the dead, you should be willing to accept the... consequences. #phantomsfriday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Ring

“Intense malignity in an intense will and aided by natural means within the reach of science may produce effects… It might thus haunt the walls of a human habitation with spectral revivals of all guilty thoughts and guilty deeds once conceived and done within those walls.” [1/2 #PhantomsFriday

#PhantomsFriday The Spectre on the Line, P. Hardy. From The Biography of a Locomotive Engine, Henry Frith, 1891. While I haven't found the story it illustrates, there is a genre of ghost stories with the theme "ghost flags down train when bridge is washed out/about to collapse."

Night watchman mistakes telegraph operator for dead wife's ghost and shoots him dead... ... I have questions. — from the Kendallville Standed, December 23rd, 1892 #PhantomsFriday

Ghosts was an anthology comic published by DC from 1971 through 1982. Each issue featured a few original stories and, occasionally, a one page true ghost encounter drawn from the files of Ripley’s Believe It or Not. The covers were almost always bangers like this one. #PhantomsFriday

Daffy Duck's "Quackbusters" (Warner Brothers, 1988). Daffy Duck establishes a ghost-busting business. It was the last time Mel Blanc provided the voices of the various Looney Tunes characters before his death on July 10th, 1989. #PhantomsFriday #LooneyTunes #MelBlanc

Cock crow sends spirits back to their cemeteries, in this illustration by the great Arthur Rackham. #PhantomsFriday #ArthurRackham #ghosts #art

Pevensey Castle, #Sussex, is one of the oldest in the UK - most of its outer walls are #Roman. It saw the first battle of the Norman Conquest. All its #ghosts are martial. They include: A Roman centurion, a medieval army rushing up from the beach and the sounds of ancient fighting. #PhantomsFriday

The Hound of Roslin Castle is the ghost of a huge dog. It's English master was killed during a battle, and the dog attacked his killer but was swiftly killed by Scottish soldiers. The dog's ghost still walks the Castle grounds #PhantomsFriday #Scotland art: Barry Moser

RT @ghostlytales.bsky.social #PhantomsFriday

Many here know nurse Soad and her son Omar, and the suffering she endured during the war, including hunger and displacement after their home was destroyed and she lost many family members 🚨She needs our help to buy her child Omar's medication; she still needs $210 to pay for it🙏🏽 tinyurl.com/4rdnwyzx

Last morning of the Netherlands trip. Good to return to Amsterdam's Oude Kerk with their handsome clutch of recently restored 15th century carved weird guys. Seeing these on my first trip here a few years back got me hooked on misericords...

Alright yall, work some magic ✨ Ahmed takes care of traumatized children. And our duty is to take care of him, STILL facing state violence even after being displaced from Gaza. Help him eat & stay housed for a month and contact a lawyer. 375/1334 in three weeks: chuffed.org/project/ahmedf

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💔 Please don’t scroll past. Ahmed is just a little boy in terrible pain. Painful sores are spreading across his body, his fever is dangerously high. His family fears every hour. Even $5 could help him get urgent treatment. Please donate and share. 🙏🥺 chuffed.org/project/1839...

Man, nobody could build a shithouse like the WPA.

for a minute there I could feel my fingernails, a.k.a., the 10th circle of hell

"Falling Stars" (Sternschnuppen) by the German artist Franz von Stuck, painted around 1912.

What are you up to this Saturday because I'm doing a talk! Come and join us for a little potted history of sapphic romance! 10am and 7pm BST online and open to all 10 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1992673284... 7 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1992673304...

Your daily affirmation: There's no time like the present to let your antlers grow, literally or metaphorically. Never give up.

My name is Jillian Crowell. I love taking pictures of hot people and making them even hotter like my smoking smoking hot vampire girlfriend. And I want to take *your* picture. Taking bookings for photoshoots across PA, NJ, DE, MD, CT, and MA.

ICE shot this man, a loving husband and father of three, dead, for the crime of going to work Tuesday morning. His family's gofundme for funeral/services is about halfway to its goal gofund.me/660ca4364

It's my pleasure to announce that, after a two year tumultuous journey, this anthology is officially set to release into the wild. Kickstarter rewards are being fulfilled as we speak, and you, yes you, can get your hands on a copy now. bookshop.org/p/books/eat-...

#13MorbidMondays I just realized I missed this on monday, woops. Acanthus can't trust their own intuition most times, so they tend to ask another person what they think. Cypress tends to trust his intuition and usually goes with his gut.

Om jameel:Why have you left these little wounded birds without support? Without your kindness, these fragile flowers of childhood continue to fade.My kids are pleading for your compassion. We urgently need raise $300 to food&Shoulder inflammation injections for their mom🙏 chuffed.org/project/1839...

A while ago I translated the entirety of "Jolene" into Old English and I wish I still had it. Gonna have to redo it at some point. Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene Ic beseceþ du, afon ne min mann! Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Ic beseceþ du, ne du cunnan!

Hello, I am several dozens of perfectionist OCD compulsions built around trying to make sure that no one sees me make mistakes, because as a child I internalized all the praise I got when I was smart and good at things in the most toxic way possible, and I endorse this message.

Final one for #WyrdWednesday. (A newspaper cartoon by Hans Arnold from - and I can't think why I'm assuming this - the 1970s.) #mermaid

The Kraken 'Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth...' The Kraken, by Alfred Tennyson (circa 1830) 🎨 by Northern Tides Gallery #WyrdWednesday

General submissions for Issue 3 are now OPEN!!! Queer authors, send us your speculative fiction and poetry! We can’t wait to read your work! 🪐 Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/ 🗡️ Pay: 8 cents/word, $50 poem 🌈 Deadline: July 21st, 11:59 pm Eastern