Thea Sabin
@theasabin.bsky.social
Author, Wicca for Beginners. I write about birds, bats, folklore, history, art, archaeology, things spooky and spiritual, monsters, and VERY bad movies. Ideal day is a hike with my sassy parrot to a Neolithic stone circle for a picnic that includes cheese.
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🥊 The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559.
🎏 The two main allegorical figures compete against each other in this parody of a late medieval joust: on the left, the plump Carnival and lean Lent on the right.
🗃️ #arthistory #art #skystorians #medievalsky #MardiGras
🎏 The two main allegorical figures compete against each other in this parody of a late medieval joust: on the left, the plump Carnival and lean Lent on the right.
🗃️ #arthistory #art #skystorians #medievalsky #MardiGras
February 17, 2026 at 7:36 PM
🥊 The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559.
🎏 The two main allegorical figures compete against each other in this parody of a late medieval joust: on the left, the plump Carnival and lean Lent on the right.
🗃️ #arthistory #art #skystorians #medievalsky #MardiGras
🎏 The two main allegorical figures compete against each other in this parody of a late medieval joust: on the left, the plump Carnival and lean Lent on the right.
🗃️ #arthistory #art #skystorians #medievalsky #MardiGras
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#ProcB in @sciam.bsky.social | Acoustic flow velocity manipulations affect the flight velocity of free-ranging pipistrelle bats: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
‘Bat accelerator’ unlocks new clues to how these animals navigate
Bats use echolocation to get around, but it wasn’t clear how these creatures managed to navigate dense environments—until now
www.scientificamerican.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:01 PM
#ProcB in @sciam.bsky.social | Acoustic flow velocity manipulations affect the flight velocity of free-ranging pipistrelle bats: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
—The Declaration of Independence
—The Declaration of Independence
February 16, 2026 at 10:01 PM
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
—The Declaration of Independence
—The Declaration of Independence
February 17, 2026 at 2:03 AM
My thought process right now: Since @jwr1ghtbra1n.bsky.social fell on his sword and hosted quite possibly the worst movie we’ve ever shown, do I double down with truly awful flick next week, or go for a palate cleanser? Wonder if there’s any easily available Neil Breen. #Riffotronic
@jwr1ghtbra1n.bsky.social You've won the Gold. No one can beat this one or should. We survived & that's something. Thanks friends Happy Valentines Day 🫶🏻🥂🖖 #riffotronic
February 17, 2026 at 1:58 AM
My thought process right now: Since @jwr1ghtbra1n.bsky.social fell on his sword and hosted quite possibly the worst movie we’ve ever shown, do I double down with truly awful flick next week, or go for a palate cleanser? Wonder if there’s any easily available Neil Breen. #Riffotronic
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Born on this day British artist, illustrator, writer, publisher & occultist Pamela Colman Smith akas as *Pixie* 1878
Light a candle and prepare her favorite drink in her honor: Opal Hush - Cabernet, Lemonade and Fizzy Water.
Pamela Colman Smith photographed by Gertrude Kasebier
#Witchsky
Light a candle and prepare her favorite drink in her honor: Opal Hush - Cabernet, Lemonade and Fizzy Water.
Pamela Colman Smith photographed by Gertrude Kasebier
#Witchsky
February 16, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Born on this day British artist, illustrator, writer, publisher & occultist Pamela Colman Smith akas as *Pixie* 1878
Light a candle and prepare her favorite drink in her honor: Opal Hush - Cabernet, Lemonade and Fizzy Water.
Pamela Colman Smith photographed by Gertrude Kasebier
#Witchsky
Light a candle and prepare her favorite drink in her honor: Opal Hush - Cabernet, Lemonade and Fizzy Water.
Pamela Colman Smith photographed by Gertrude Kasebier
#Witchsky
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Read and share all over..he nails it
February 16, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Read and share all over..he nails it
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Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
February 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
Thinking I may need to set up an OnlyFans for Little Miss the #cat to pay for my car repairs (and possibly a new fridge.) People would pay to see this, right? 😆
February 16, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Thinking I may need to set up an OnlyFans for Little Miss the #cat to pay for my car repairs (and possibly a new fridge.) People would pay to see this, right? 😆
In #Minnesota, when your fridge dies in winter, you food out in the porch, aka the Auxiliary Fridge. Everything from my fridge is now in a cooler on the back deck, hopefully safe from racoons, coyotes, possums, squirrels, and rats. Rats ate through my trash bin, so hoping a metal Coleman is enough.
February 16, 2026 at 5:52 AM
In #Minnesota, when your fridge dies in winter, you food out in the porch, aka the Auxiliary Fridge. Everything from my fridge is now in a cooler on the back deck, hopefully safe from racoons, coyotes, possums, squirrels, and rats. Rats ate through my trash bin, so hoping a metal Coleman is enough.
Her Nibs the #Parrot is just sitting here in stunned silence. I think we may need a Rodan marathon to snap her out of it. #Riffotronic
February 15, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Her Nibs the #Parrot is just sitting here in stunned silence. I think we may need a Rodan marathon to snap her out of it. #Riffotronic
Everyone blowing up at the end was quite satisfying, but not worth sitting through the rest of it for. Thanks @jwr1ghtbra1n.bsky.social ! #Riffotronic
February 15, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Everyone blowing up at the end was quite satisfying, but not worth sitting through the rest of it for. Thanks @jwr1ghtbra1n.bsky.social ! #Riffotronic
There's a little Sid and Marty Krofft in this movie. #Riffotronic
February 15, 2026 at 2:11 AM
There's a little Sid and Marty Krofft in this movie. #Riffotronic
No, movie, no stealing Cab Calloway songs. #Riffotronic
February 15, 2026 at 2:03 AM
No, movie, no stealing Cab Calloway songs. #Riffotronic
Yes! Hundreds of Beavers is wonderful. This is most definitely not. But they both have a lot of frenetic energy. #Riffotronic
I recommend watching Hundreds of Beavers to wash this movie out of your brains. #riffotronic
February 15, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Yes! Hundreds of Beavers is wonderful. This is most definitely not. But they both have a lot of frenetic energy. #Riffotronic
So now we've shown movies with frog-man sex two weeks in a row. What are the odds? #Riffotrnic
February 15, 2026 at 1:59 AM
So now we've shown movies with frog-man sex two weeks in a row. What are the odds? #Riffotrnic
I think the teacher's lip liner is made of Super Elastic Bubble Plastic. Or dry hot glue. #Riffotronic
February 15, 2026 at 1:44 AM
I think the teacher's lip liner is made of Super Elastic Bubble Plastic. Or dry hot glue. #Riffotronic
Wonder if Disney sued whoever made this over the mouse ears. #Riffotronic
February 15, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Wonder if Disney sued whoever made this over the mouse ears. #Riffotronic
Suddenly all of surrealist avant garde French cinema makes sense. Thanks, #Riffotronic!
February 15, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Suddenly all of surrealist avant garde French cinema makes sense. Thanks, #Riffotronic!
@jwr1ghtbra1n.bsky.social this is worse than the necrophilia movie and the puppet-worm movie put together. Bravo! #Riffotronic
February 15, 2026 at 1:28 AM
@jwr1ghtbra1n.bsky.social this is worse than the necrophilia movie and the puppet-worm movie put together. Bravo! #Riffotronic
This is the movie that joke, "It didn't get released--it escaped!" was created for. #Riffotronic
Apparently this was filmed independently in 1978, was finished in 1980, and got released in 1981. #Riffotronic
February 15, 2026 at 1:15 AM
This is the movie that joke, "It didn't get released--it escaped!" was created for. #Riffotronic
This is Lemon Grove Kids bad. This is Jan-Gel bad. And that's the lowest thing on my movie scale. Even lower than Invasion of the Star Creatures. #riffotronic
February 15, 2026 at 1:14 AM
This is Lemon Grove Kids bad. This is Jan-Gel bad. And that's the lowest thing on my movie scale. Even lower than Invasion of the Star Creatures. #riffotronic
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@barackobama.bsky.social: "When I was POTUS, I suppose I could have simply unilaterally ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."
February 14, 2026 at 5:42 PM
@barackobama.bsky.social: "When I was POTUS, I suppose I could have simply unilaterally ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."
You’re only doing what one of us would have done anyway eventually. And if The Apple ever shows up streaming somewhere that’s easily accessible and free, I’ll host it, so you’re not alone. #riffotronic
Okay. Okay. This may well be my last outing as a host of Riffotronic...because of my movie choice for tonight.
Tonight's offering to the gods of misrule will be...
FORBIDDEN ZONE (1980) starring Danny Elfman and Herve Villechaize.
And soon after I will go into hiding.
#Riffotronic
Tonight's offering to the gods of misrule will be...
FORBIDDEN ZONE (1980) starring Danny Elfman and Herve Villechaize.
And soon after I will go into hiding.
#Riffotronic
February 15, 2026 at 12:10 AM
You’re only doing what one of us would have done anyway eventually. And if The Apple ever shows up streaming somewhere that’s easily accessible and free, I’ll host it, so you’re not alone. #riffotronic