David Haraldson
@lostdiarist.bsky.social
Professional Alter Ego. Manc. Psychogeography, deep maps, hauntology, zines, games, music, art, photography, sci-fi, & horror—& any gubbins that sheds new light on old places. (He/him) Was LostDiarist & MrBlipvert on the Bird Site.
GPA, NJ, & VT
GPA, NJ, & VT
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David Haraldson
@lostdiarist.bsky.social
· Apr 24
Increasingly noticing that the real insurmountable division in the world is not dog or cat owners but Adrian Chiles fans & Adrian Chiles haterz (who secretly wish they were him).
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I got my @badsquiddogames.bsky.social Resistance figures! These are a brilliant commemoration of the resistance against fascism in World War 2. They also make great character figures.
I've shot them here in black and white against the World War Ruins Backdrop Book. Packing pre-orders right now!
I've shot them here in black and white against the World War Ruins Backdrop Book. Packing pre-orders right now!
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I got my @badsquiddogames.bsky.social Resistance figures! These are a brilliant commemoration of the resistance against fascism in World War 2. They also make great character figures.
I've shot them here in black and white against the World War Ruins Backdrop Book. Packing pre-orders right now!
I've shot them here in black and white against the World War Ruins Backdrop Book. Packing pre-orders right now!
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Hurrah! My article on the Twilight 2000 RPG in the Journal of American Studies is now open access (OA), so anyone who wants to can have a read. OA is important to me, as I want my work on RPG history to go beyond the academy and reach the gaming public.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces | Journal of American Studie...
When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces
www.cambridge.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Hurrah! My article on the Twilight 2000 RPG in the Journal of American Studies is now open access (OA), so anyone who wants to can have a read. OA is important to me, as I want my work on RPG history to go beyond the academy and reach the gaming public.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposting for later!
Also, this a cracking little set. And Jarvis performing in a confined space is quie something
youtu.be/x_KlY-AegeE?...
youtu.be/x_KlY-AegeE?...
Pulp: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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November 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Reposting for later!
You know what? I AM growing more conservative in my old age. I want to see universal free health care for all, free college & university education, a social safety net, Murdoch out of all news media, robust trade unions, & a well-funded BBC. Like we had, when I were a lad.
November 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
You know what? I AM growing more conservative in my old age. I want to see universal free health care for all, free college & university education, a social safety net, Murdoch out of all news media, robust trade unions, & a well-funded BBC. Like we had, when I were a lad.
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?
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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?
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we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
we need a department of kerning
Shout out to @julianrwpower.bsky.social for his byline that quotes a belter of a song that is on my road-trip playlist & never fails to make me smile.
But which song, you ask? It’s Immaterial.
(I‘ll get my coat.)
But which song, you ask? It’s Immaterial.
(I‘ll get my coat.)
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Shout out to @julianrwpower.bsky.social for his byline that quotes a belter of a song that is on my road-trip playlist & never fails to make me smile.
But which song, you ask? It’s Immaterial.
(I‘ll get my coat.)
But which song, you ask? It’s Immaterial.
(I‘ll get my coat.)
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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A sneaky weekend drop of the new GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, in which we spend 3 hours talking about a book that is 80 pages long! It's worth it, though, as few texts have been as impactful on how we talk about our present moment as Mark Fisher's CAPITALIST REALISM:
rangedtouch.com/2025/10/31/8...
rangedtouch.com/2025/10/31/8...
November 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A sneaky weekend drop of the new GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, in which we spend 3 hours talking about a book that is 80 pages long! It's worth it, though, as few texts have been as impactful on how we talk about our present moment as Mark Fisher's CAPITALIST REALISM:
rangedtouch.com/2025/10/31/8...
rangedtouch.com/2025/10/31/8...
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Engrossed in Morag Rose's new book: The Feminist Art of Walking. Current chapter's discussion of exercise, ableism & inaccessibility of nature for those w/ energy limiting conditions (4.7M UK) is echoed in lack of planned, regular, safe rest stops in many active travel schemes. @thelrm.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Engrossed in Morag Rose's new book: The Feminist Art of Walking. Current chapter's discussion of exercise, ableism & inaccessibility of nature for those w/ energy limiting conditions (4.7M UK) is echoed in lack of planned, regular, safe rest stops in many active travel schemes. @thelrm.bsky.social
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Ok I had to go find the clip bc this is the energy I will be bringing when anyone ever asks me if I use this ugly nonsense
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQun5Qr...
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQun5Qr...
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Ok I had to go find the clip bc this is the energy I will be bringing when anyone ever asks me if I use this ugly nonsense
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQun5Qr...
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQun5Qr...
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Any way
idk, i've managed to not use chatgpt or whatever a single time and still am somehow getting things done and doing well at my job bc i use things like:
having conversations with other people!
reading!
my own brain to think of things!
having conversations with other people!
reading!
my own brain to think of things!
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Any way
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Mm hm. No mention of the sexism Franklin was constantly forced to endure in this cosy little, “they were all respectful colleagues, actually” article.
![Comments from Watson and Crick reveal the gender harassment that Franklin endured in the lab. Throughout The Double Helix, Watson's famous 1968 book recounting the race to the famous structure, Watson condescendingly refers to Franklin as "Rosy," a nickname never used to
her face. "There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents," he writes, though neglecting to critique his male colleagues' cosmetic or sartorial choices.
He adds that her "belligerent moods" interfered with Wilkins' ability to "maintain a dominant position that would allow him to think unhindered about DNA." For that reason, " [c]learly Rosy had to go or be put in her place. ... The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was in another person's lab." In the 1993 book Nobel Prize Women in Science, Crick was quoted as saying, "I'm afraid we always used to adopt-let's say, a patronizing attitude towards her."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:icsm7hd2dok5lxddyrig4gbt/bafkreiewhgtr2ax623ct6za3ap67uvjdxz5sjac7nirhnhcohb4gl75xii@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Mm hm. No mention of the sexism Franklin was constantly forced to endure in this cosy little, “they were all respectful colleagues, actually” article.
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The Double Helix shenanigans are getting a lot of discussion following Watson's death. This article is DJing the rounds. It's a really interesting read. But I'm interested in people's take on it.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The Double Helix shenanigans are getting a lot of discussion following Watson's death. This article is DJing the rounds. It's a really interesting read. But I'm interested in people's take on it.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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My first experience with Hammer Horror was via a couple of sets of bubblegum cards in the mid-1970s. These pictures in this blog post look a lot like them. “Shocking Laffs”? Anyone else remember these?
cobwebbedroom.blogspot.com/2008/05/shoc...
cobwebbedroom.blogspot.com/2008/05/shoc...
'SHOCKING LAFFS' Bubble Gum Cards
Similiar to the American 'You'll Die Laughing' bubble gum cards that came out during the 1960's/70's. 'Shocking Laffs' a.k.a.Shock Theatre w...
cobwebbedroom.blogspot.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
My first experience with Hammer Horror was via a couple of sets of bubblegum cards in the mid-1970s. These pictures in this blog post look a lot like them. “Shocking Laffs”? Anyone else remember these?
cobwebbedroom.blogspot.com/2008/05/shoc...
cobwebbedroom.blogspot.com/2008/05/shoc...
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Starting to suspect that Monster movies are not necessarily Horror movies. 😱
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Starting to suspect that Monster movies are not necessarily Horror movies. 😱
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I am looking to buy a DVD of Walter Ungerer’s Vermont folk horror film, The Animal (1976). But it looks like Dark Horse Films’ website has been out for the count for a few years. Anyone have any leads? expcinema.org/site/en/even...
The Animal by Walter Ungerer
Vermont International Film Festival (VTIFF), in collaboration with the Vermont Archive Movie Project (VAMP), presents:THE ANIMAL by Walter Ungerer. 75 minutes. 1976.Shot in Vermont and digitally remas...
expcinema.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I am looking to buy a DVD of Walter Ungerer’s Vermont folk horror film, The Animal (1976). But it looks like Dark Horse Films’ website has been out for the count for a few years. Anyone have any leads? expcinema.org/site/en/even...
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I painted this autumn scene a few years ago. medium: Photoshop
October 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I painted this autumn scene a few years ago. medium: Photoshop
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This is the car that my parents used at their wedding 55 yrs ago. It was at a car show where I live and the man who chauffeur them still owns it and remembered them.
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is the car that my parents used at their wedding 55 yrs ago. It was at a car show where I live and the man who chauffeur them still owns it and remembered them.
Well, the "Skinhead" & "Suedehead" books, I think I dimly knew about. (Thanks, Steven Patrick Morrissey.) But do any folks know anything about Richard Allen's other novels, including "Knuckle Girls," "Sorts," & "Smoothies"? 📚💙 #booksky
projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2025/11/rich...
projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2025/11/rich...
Richard Allen's Skinhead
the blog about vintage and modern space toys, Project SWORD, SpaceX and Golden Astronaut, Monsters, sci-fi and vintage toys
projectswordtoys.blogspot.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Well, the "Skinhead" & "Suedehead" books, I think I dimly knew about. (Thanks, Steven Patrick Morrissey.) But do any folks know anything about Richard Allen's other novels, including "Knuckle Girls," "Sorts," & "Smoothies"? 📚💙 #booksky
projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2025/11/rich...
projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2025/11/rich...
Starting to suspect that Monster movies are not necessarily Horror movies. 😱
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Starting to suspect that Monster movies are not necessarily Horror movies. 😱
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This Norwegian stabbur, ca 1700, one of the oldest buildings in the region. Used to store foods & other things off of the ground, away from animals.
I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons.
We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely!
imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb
I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons.
We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely!
imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This Norwegian stabbur, ca 1700, one of the oldest buildings in the region. Used to store foods & other things off of the ground, away from animals.
I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons.
We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely!
imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb
I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons.
We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely!
imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb