@profontography.bsky.social
Ghost fiction, esp. MR James, Europe and Buster Keaton.
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It's real, and it's mind-blowing.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
November 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
It's real, and it's mind-blowing.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
Strangely appropriate as I have just read Helen Grant's excellent story in Hellebore's new anthology!
@helengrantsays.bsky.social
@helleborezine.bsky.social
@helengrantsays.bsky.social
@helleborezine.bsky.social
“These Siths or Fairies… are said to be of middle nature between Man & Angel… somewhat of the nature of a condensed cloud”
Robert Kirk’s SECRET COMMONWEALTH OF ELVES, FAUNS & FAIRIES (c.1691) sought to unify the natural & supernatural worlds
#BookWormSat #C17
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/the-...
Robert Kirk’s SECRET COMMONWEALTH OF ELVES, FAUNS & FAIRIES (c.1691) sought to unify the natural & supernatural worlds
#BookWormSat #C17
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/the-...
The (super)natural worlds of Robert Kirk: Fairies, Beasts, Landscapes and Lychnobious Liminalities - The Bottle Imp
On 14 May 1692 Rev. Robert Kirk (1644–1692), an accomplished Gaelic scholar and Episcopalian minister of Aberfoyle, set off for an evening stroll on the Doon Hill behind the manse. When he did not ret...
www.thebottleimp.org.uk
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Strangely appropriate as I have just read Helen Grant's excellent story in Hellebore's new anthology!
@helengrantsays.bsky.social
@helleborezine.bsky.social
@helengrantsays.bsky.social
@helleborezine.bsky.social
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Saturday morning listening. One of the best box sets I've heard, the voice, the songs, the sound quality... the one and only Roy Orbison
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Saturday morning listening. One of the best box sets I've heard, the voice, the songs, the sound quality... the one and only Roy Orbison
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Britain's ministry of defence has made 49 visits to Israel in the first 20 months of Israel's genocide in Gaza – 37 of those visits were in secret.
More from Declassified UK: www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...
More from Declassified UK: www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...
British military made at least 49 trips to Israel during Gaza war
Frequency of visits is four times higher than previously reported.
www.declassifieduk.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Britain's ministry of defence has made 49 visits to Israel in the first 20 months of Israel's genocide in Gaza – 37 of those visits were in secret.
More from Declassified UK: www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...
More from Declassified UK: www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...
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What exactly is the Chancellor going to do?
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
What exactly is the Chancellor going to do?
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Stewart Lee's latest offering to @thenerve.news covers the BBC scandal. Lee invokes The Golem, a gak Pogle (?), and the slightly nauseating image of Robbie Gibb as a squatting "toad made of farts". The lol moment for me was his description of a Premier Inn at 1am. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would
I may seem like an unlikely candidate. But at least I understand that the first step to facing down the organisation’s malevolent opponents is to stop appeasing them
www.thenerve.news
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Stewart Lee's latest offering to @thenerve.news covers the BBC scandal. Lee invokes The Golem, a gak Pogle (?), and the slightly nauseating image of Robbie Gibb as a squatting "toad made of farts". The lol moment for me was his description of a Premier Inn at 1am. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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As the avian flu spreads worldwide, it's devastating marine mammal populations www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n... @npr.org
As the avian flu spreads worldwide, it's devastating marine mammal populations
The avian flu is devastating marine mammal populations. A new survey finds that nearly half of breeding females in the world's largest population of southern elephant seals were killed by the virus.
www.npr.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
As the avian flu spreads worldwide, it's devastating marine mammal populations www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n... @npr.org
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More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém (Brazil), 12% up from last year’s talks in Baku, Azerbaijan.
What should be the most serious, urgent talks on the planet continue to be a farce.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What should be the most serious, urgent talks on the planet continue to be a farce.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém (Brazil), 12% up from last year’s talks in Baku, Azerbaijan.
What should be the most serious, urgent talks on the planet continue to be a farce.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What should be the most serious, urgent talks on the planet continue to be a farce.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Next Sunday. Screening an ultra rare BBC Christmas ghost story and celebrating the 20th anniversary of the superb A View from a Hill, plus a chat with its writer, Peter Harness.
Details and tickets:
Details and tickets:
A Birmingham Ghost Story + Peter Harness Q&A | Midlands Arts Centre
The BBC became well known in the 70s for producing popular anthology series Ghost Stories For Christmas, but Birmingham’s Pebble Mill had its own anthology
macbirmingham.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Next Sunday. Screening an ultra rare BBC Christmas ghost story and celebrating the 20th anniversary of the superb A View from a Hill, plus a chat with its writer, Peter Harness.
Details and tickets:
Details and tickets:
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Hen Harrier Susie, whose chicks were stamped to death on a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor in 2022, has been found dead on a N Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries.
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Hen Harrier ‘Susie’, whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries
If ever there was an example demonstrating the high level of persecution faced by Hen Harriers on UK grouse moors, the lack of consequences for the offenders, and the lack of justice for the victim…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Hen Harrier Susie, whose chicks were stamped to death on a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor in 2022, has been found dead on a N Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries.
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
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No wonder we are one of the most nature-depleted corners of this battered planet, with #biodiversity is a terrible state
Hen Harrier Susie, whose chicks were stamped to death on a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor in 2022, has been found dead on a N Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries.
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Hen Harrier ‘Susie’, whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries
If ever there was an example demonstrating the high level of persecution faced by Hen Harriers on UK grouse moors, the lack of consequences for the offenders, and the lack of justice for the victim…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
No wonder we are one of the most nature-depleted corners of this battered planet, with #biodiversity is a terrible state
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Aleister Crowley Reads Occult Poetry in the Only Known Recordings of His Voice (1920)
Aleister Crowley Reads Occult Poetry in the Only Known Recordings of His Voice (1920)
Image by Jules Jacot Guillarmod, via Wikimedia Commons
In 2016, we brought you a rather strange story about the rivalry between poet William Butler Yeats and magician Aleister Crowley.
www.openculture.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Aleister Crowley Reads Occult Poetry in the Only Known Recordings of His Voice (1920)
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I'm not sure that Gary Lineker can be the new Director General of the BBC, but it would be hilarious so hard to say no to the idea.
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I'm not sure that Gary Lineker can be the new Director General of the BBC, but it would be hilarious so hard to say no to the idea.
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I’m selling original artwork like this, an unpublished illustration I made for The Woman in Black. I’ll post the originals & their prices on here & you can also purchase giclee prints for £75 (Free P&P - UK only - but I also ship internationally) visit nicktankard.co.uk to see more.
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I’m selling original artwork like this, an unpublished illustration I made for The Woman in Black. I’ll post the originals & their prices on here & you can also purchase giclee prints for £75 (Free P&P - UK only - but I also ship internationally) visit nicktankard.co.uk to see more.
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It is rapidly getting to the point where it doesn't make a difference. Labour are already saying that marginalised groups have the choice between the hangman and the firing squad, the outcome remains the same. Those defending them show they don't care about human rights, only their own.
This is political blackmail dressed up as pragmatism. Justifying their nasty policies with “Reform will be worse”.
November 14, 2025 at 7:28 AM
It is rapidly getting to the point where it doesn't make a difference. Labour are already saying that marginalised groups have the choice between the hangman and the firing squad, the outcome remains the same. Those defending them show they don't care about human rights, only their own.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Do please join me on World Soil Day, 5 December, 2pm GMT, for the global launch of the most exciting thing I’ve ever been involved with:
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, which explores how a new scientific concept, ‘soilsmology’, is shaking up our und...
We are delighted to invite you to the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, ‘Soilsmology: Transforming our Understanding of Soil’, which explores how an eme...
us02web.zoom.us
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Do please join me on World Soil Day, 5 December, 2pm GMT, for the global launch of the most exciting thing I’ve ever been involved with:
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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A fabulous advert for @helleborezine.bsky.social
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A fabulous advert for @helleborezine.bsky.social
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A fabulous advert for @helleborezine.bsky.social
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A fabulous advert for @helleborezine.bsky.social
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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New episode tomorrow! @nicholasroyle.bsky.social is a writer of short stories and novels, the editor of the Best British Short Stories and founder of @nightjarpress.bsky.social! I had the pleasure of meeting him and talk about his beautiful short story collection “Paris Fantastique”. Stay tuned!
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
New episode tomorrow! @nicholasroyle.bsky.social is a writer of short stories and novels, the editor of the Best British Short Stories and founder of @nightjarpress.bsky.social! I had the pleasure of meeting him and talk about his beautiful short story collection “Paris Fantastique”. Stay tuned!
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Nearly two million U.S. turkeys have died from bird flu in recent months. An agricultural economist explains what ongoing outbreaks could mean for Thanksgiving meals
Are Turkeys at Risk of Bird Flu This Thanksgiving?
Nearly two million U.S. turkeys have died from bird flu in recent months. An agricultural economist explains what ongoing outbreaks could mean for Thanksgiving meals
www.scientificamerican.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Nearly two million U.S. turkeys have died from bird flu in recent months. An agricultural economist explains what ongoing outbreaks could mean for Thanksgiving meals
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Wes Streeting has received £225k from private healthcare donors in the past year and I just don't think my morals could be bought for the price of half a London flat. I don't know if I have a number that would make me sell my country's health service down the river but Wes and I are different.
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wes Streeting has received £225k from private healthcare donors in the past year and I just don't think my morals could be bought for the price of half a London flat. I don't know if I have a number that would make me sell my country's health service down the river but Wes and I are different.
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Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
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 4:30 PM
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?