For #Caturday: a funeral procession of elderly women with cats in their arms, following the coffin of a dead cat, 1789. Image: Wellcome Collection

You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

Phantom mansions can appear in the night, only to vanish again. #phantomsfriday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Musicians_at_the_Witches%27_Dance

New banner for events (because I have needed one a while and finally pulled my finger out) Tis a pretty thing with the passing place window #books #booksky #scifi

whew, this Marge Piercy poem

One heck of a yarn, based on a contemporary Arthur Pendragon, relayed in that crisp, wry & often hilarious manner that C.J. Stone has mastered over the decades. I much recommend this deep-dive into British counterculture!! Get your copy now and you won't regret a single minute of reading time.

Did you know that the art on the cards in my Minoan Tarot deck comes from actual Minoan artifacts? I bet you'll recognize some of the images, like the Snake Goddess from Knossos. www.minoantarot.com #Minoan #Tarot #TarotSky

‘Bee-autiful’ gold pendant from Bronze Age Crete 🐝 ❤️ Minoan jewellery inspired by nature 3,800 years ago! The ‘Malia Bee Pendant’ is said to represent a pair of bees placing a drop of honey into a honeycomb. Heraklion Archaeological Museum #Archaeology

Labyrinth of the Day London SE23, constructed in 2013 🌀🌿🐾

Sometimes people ask me how medieval people could possibly catch so many eels. Welll...it's because there were So. Many. Eels. How many? Currently, every year, c. 1 billion elvers (baby eels) come ashore in Europe. And this is more than a 90% decline from historic levels. 1/2

Come with me and explore an ancient Minoan building dedicated to coming-of-age rites for girls and boys! lauraidaeja.substack.com/p/minoan-com... #Minoan #Pagan #PaganSky

Henchir el Begar, the second largest Roman olive oil mill in the entire Roman Empire and the largest in Tunisia, dating to the 2nd century CE. More 1/

In Senegal, a 2,000‑year‑old iron workshop sheds new light on the past. #Archaeology phys.org/news/2026-05...

Soft tears of rain come to the field. The ghost soil answers their call. Voices of the buried dead drift towards its edge, whispering harsh prophecies. For this is strange England and its conversation of constant augury. This is the now bullied spirits of then and tomorrow. – #DAKilroy, 1982

what kind of world do we live in where someone with a degree cant even get a job at a grocery store. like what the actual fuck

It's the beginning of blackberry season where I live. Remember to give the first berry to the faeries and land spirits. After that, you can eat all you want! #berries #wildcrafting #foraging

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

"You’re going to get left behind if you don’t use AI.” Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long-form, and books without needing AI summaries.

They can get back to me when they have fully functional androids that do laundry, dishes, clean toilets, mop floors, wash windows, walk the dog, and change diapers. I don't need giant warehouses 24/7/365 computing the maximum amount I will pay for a streaming platform or a pound of butter!

I mean. I dedicated a whole book to my 3 decades long grudge...

Spanish Moss is "The Veil" in my magical writings. It isn't a parasite - it's an air plant; absorbing only what the wind, fog, & bark from tree bring to it. The ultimate architecture for listening to unseen currents. What might it teach you? #SwampLifeSunday #Nature #Okefenokee #FolkWitch

“There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.” ― Rumi

Heads up for any artists/writers/etc currently using Linktree to point people to their work: from 5 July they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E.

This week’s Minoan Tarot cards offer a little reassurance despite <gestures vaguely at everything> lauraidaeja.substack.com/p/in-the-car... #Minoan #Tarot #TarotSky

The Ears of the Hare, Fables of La Fontaine, Percy J. Billinghurst, 1899.

Here’s an ancient amber bear to wish you a happy weekend! Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen 📷 by me

A ca. 4,500-year-old seed bag from #Egypt, made from reed-grass. It's still in fantastic condition due to the arid desert climate. On display at Neues Museum Berlin. 📷 me

#FindsFriday Ysceifiog Torc, gold, Middle Bronze Age, 1300-1150BC. Discovery method: Found whilst clearing land between a cairn of stones and a lime kiln in 1816, Ysceifiog, Flintshire. On loan from private collection.

This is the book that started it all! Now in its second edition, Ariadne's Thread was my first published Minoan-themed book. It inspired me to start the Ariadne's Tribe Facebook group that grew into a full-blown spiritual tradition. www.lauraperryauthor.com/ariadnes-thr... #Pagan #Minoan #PaganSky

THIS 👇 Most of my titles are available on Hoopla and the Palace Project via your local library.

Is this discussion happening right now in my office work, about how IA suppose to help minorities cuz they don’t have money to pay a designer. Obviously this “let’s justify IA discussion was bring by white folks, not for black and brown folks”. Here some points to consider.

Going off this, I have seen so many "help ND people get jobs" posts online and they're all about AI. I am autistic and staunchly anti-AI. Idk why some AI job would be for me, except that they think training AI is drudge work and I'm a drudge to them.

This book offers a unique way of viewing the runes and working with them. As a long-time devotee of rune work, I really enjoyed the journey the book took me on. lauraidaeja.substack.com/p/book-revie... #Pagan #PaganSky #books

Ok, who was streaking in the British Museum? Because "certain members of the staff" has the sound of "especially you, Derek." about it.

The Forbidden Lamp CarmesJocelin

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

hey, fellow brits and europeans in this heat wave! If you're on any of these you're more sensitive to the heat. Make sure you drink water, stay in the shade, and avoid over-exertion.

I saw someone posting about how some readers on TikTok only read dialogue and not description in books, so they can read them faster and I don’t understand this gamification of reading to the point where the number of books read is more important than enjoying and savouring them as works of art.

Also: if you must walk your dog in a heatwave, do it first thing in the morning. The hottest part of the day is usually between 4-5 and it doesn't even really start to cool down properly until the small hours of the morning. Most heatstroke cases I have seen were late afternoon / early evening.

Your aim for heat safety should be keeping your dog *not panting*. If they’re panting, they’re heat stressed. If they’re panting at home try to think of ways to cool them, and absolutely don’t even *think* about taking them out. If they start to pant during exercise, stop.

Some more crafting, this time a bracelet with a mix of modern and vintage glass beads. Making things with my hands helps keep me grounded in these Interesting Times. #Crafting #Jewelry #ArtsAndCrafts #MakingThings

to = ➡️ two = 2️⃣ too = ➕ Toto = 🙏🌧️⬇️🌍

In addition to working on my laptop, I also edit by hand on printed-out manuscripts. I see stuff that way that I completely miss on the screen.

This is horribly disturbing.

Weasel

We cross the threshold of a stone circle and are engulfed by a sense of ongoing ritual. Engulfed by a sense of intimate lithic conversations, power dynamics unfolding across slow centuries. The Long Neolithic is palpable. The Long Neolithic is living. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

The forest is always calling us... #NatureSky #WitchSky

The amazing Berlin gold hat is one of four gold hats known to date. Three were found in Germany, one in France. The purpose of this #BronzeAge objects are unknown. They are all similar in shape and pattern. Their conical shape resembles a wizard’s hat, which led to speculations that...🧵1/3 📷 me