Neil Hopkins
@thermalsatsuma.bsky.social
Grognard and Iaidoka. Fond of cats, gin, swords and ttrpgs.
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Our haiku prompts for 11/15-11/22.
The month's half gone as we count down to midwinter/midsummer.
Feel free to use any form of the prompt.
North South
11/15 Classic Road
11/16 Rust Sap
11/17 Pine Admiration
11/18 Rake Ants
11/19 Withering Tea
11/20 Bonfire Chick
11/21 Hot Tea Melody
11/22 […]
The month's half gone as we count down to midwinter/midsummer.
Feel free to use any form of the prompt.
North South
11/15 Classic Road
11/16 Rust Sap
11/17 Pine Admiration
11/18 Rake Ants
11/19 Withering Tea
11/20 Bonfire Chick
11/21 Hot Tea Melody
11/22 […]
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mastodon.world
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Our haiku prompts for 11/15-11/22.
The month's half gone as we count down to midwinter/midsummer.
Feel free to use any form of the prompt.
North South
11/15 Classic Road
11/16 Rust Sap
11/17 Pine Admiration
11/18 Rake Ants
11/19 Withering Tea
11/20 Bonfire Chick
11/21 Hot Tea Melody
11/22 […]
The month's half gone as we count down to midwinter/midsummer.
Feel free to use any form of the prompt.
North South
11/15 Classic Road
11/16 Rust Sap
11/17 Pine Admiration
11/18 Rake Ants
11/19 Withering Tea
11/20 Bonfire Chick
11/21 Hot Tea Melody
11/22 […]
#DailyHaikuPrompt #Classic
Rock, cars and Mozart
All things that have earned the right
To be called classic
Rock, cars and Mozart
All things that have earned the right
To be called classic
November 15, 2025 at 6:34 AM
#DailyHaikuPrompt #Classic
Rock, cars and Mozart
All things that have earned the right
To be called classic
Rock, cars and Mozart
All things that have earned the right
To be called classic
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At the reenactment markets today. This is the best shop name I've ever seen!
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
At the reenactment markets today. This is the best shop name I've ever seen!
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This has so many quotable phrases and its so damn awesome, stop what you are doing and watch it please.
Behavior bio people, check out this guy's experience training an octopus!
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
This has so many quotable phrases and its so damn awesome, stop what you are doing and watch it please.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #WinterMoon
Silver light glistens
On frost rimed fields and hedges
Neath a winter moon
Silver light glistens
On frost rimed fields and hedges
Neath a winter moon
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
#DailyHaikuPrompt #WinterMoon
Silver light glistens
On frost rimed fields and hedges
Neath a winter moon
Silver light glistens
On frost rimed fields and hedges
Neath a winter moon
1. Cats
2. Swords
3. Gin
4. Moomins
5. Sunny days
6. Spaghetti
7. Finding a new band to listen to
8. Solving a programming problem
9. Writing a haiku
10. Playing TTRPGs with good pals
2. Swords
3. Gin
4. Moomins
5. Sunny days
6. Spaghetti
7. Finding a new band to listen to
8. Solving a programming problem
9. Writing a haiku
10. Playing TTRPGs with good pals
Get to know your mutuals! 10 things I like (no particular order)
1. Dark nights
2. Frost
3. Stroopwafels
4. Old fashioned tea roses
5. Naps on sunny afternoons
6. Synthwave
7. Architecture
8. Stationery
9. Art supplies of any kind
10. Schlocky 80s horror movies
1. Dark nights
2. Frost
3. Stroopwafels
4. Old fashioned tea roses
5. Naps on sunny afternoons
6. Synthwave
7. Architecture
8. Stationery
9. Art supplies of any kind
10. Schlocky 80s horror movies
Get to know your mutuals! 10 things I like (no particular order)
1. Rainey days.
2. Conversations with my children
3. Enthusiastic about a ttrpg.
4. Cheesecake.
5. Dramatised audio books.
6. Cherries.
7. Drawing (if the mood is right)
8. Trying different Rums
9. Clean underwear
0. Birds flying
1. Rainey days.
2. Conversations with my children
3. Enthusiastic about a ttrpg.
4. Cheesecake.
5. Dramatised audio books.
6. Cherries.
7. Drawing (if the mood is right)
8. Trying different Rums
9. Clean underwear
0. Birds flying
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
1. Cats
2. Swords
3. Gin
4. Moomins
5. Sunny days
6. Spaghetti
7. Finding a new band to listen to
8. Solving a programming problem
9. Writing a haiku
10. Playing TTRPGs with good pals
2. Swords
3. Gin
4. Moomins
5. Sunny days
6. Spaghetti
7. Finding a new band to listen to
8. Solving a programming problem
9. Writing a haiku
10. Playing TTRPGs with good pals
#DailyHaikuPrompt #Mask #FirstSnow #Lush
Hedgehog huffing home
First flakes falling featherlike
Lush leaves lining lair
Hedgehog huffing home
First flakes falling featherlike
Lush leaves lining lair
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
#DailyHaikuPrompt #Mask #FirstSnow #Lush
Hedgehog huffing home
First flakes falling featherlike
Lush leaves lining lair
Hedgehog huffing home
First flakes falling featherlike
Lush leaves lining lair
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I'm 2 followers off 1.5K. I'd have more of that if I didn't block all the suspiciously lady-only-following accounts, but it would be nice to reach the next milestone. So if you're interested in TTRPGs, sketching, memes and snark, I'm yer woman.
Here's a Godzilla meme to tempt you in.
Here's a Godzilla meme to tempt you in.
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I'm 2 followers off 1.5K. I'd have more of that if I didn't block all the suspiciously lady-only-following accounts, but it would be nice to reach the next milestone. So if you're interested in TTRPGs, sketching, memes and snark, I'm yer woman.
Here's a Godzilla meme to tempt you in.
Here's a Godzilla meme to tempt you in.
November 12, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Do I have any friends in/near Hartlepool? Mads is trying to find a cheap hotel there to stay in before her university drama interview and its hard to tell over the Internet which are the horrific ones and which are the serviceable but cheap ones.
Looking on trip advisor but still a bit lost.
Looking on trip advisor but still a bit lost.
November 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Do I have any friends in/near Hartlepool? Mads is trying to find a cheap hotel there to stay in before her university drama interview and its hard to tell over the Internet which are the horrific ones and which are the serviceable but cheap ones.
Looking on trip advisor but still a bit lost.
Looking on trip advisor but still a bit lost.
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 AM
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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On a personal note, I’m selling my beloved electric guitar as it’s less suited for our stage show than the studio and I’ll be on primary live axe duties going forward. This guitar’s appeared on most of the Fold catalogue. Here’s the listing if you’re interested:
reverb.com/item/9165357...
reverb.com/item/9165357...
Vintage Early 70s Voxton X-215 Hollowbody (Gibson ES-175 Copy), Excellent Condition, With Old Hard Case | Reverb
Bought in 2009 from a pawn shop in New Orleans, this guitar has been maintained in a smoke free environment ever since. It is in excellent condition, as close to its original state as one might hope f...
reverb.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
On a personal note, I’m selling my beloved electric guitar as it’s less suited for our stage show than the studio and I’ll be on primary live axe duties going forward. This guitar’s appeared on most of the Fold catalogue. Here’s the listing if you’re interested:
reverb.com/item/9165357...
reverb.com/item/9165357...
Ruth failing to understand the meaning of “secret” #TheArchers
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Ruth failing to understand the meaning of “secret” #TheArchers
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For Remembrance Sunday a repost of my blog post about the WW1 experiences of my great granddad from Melrose in the Scottish Borders. vivsancestry.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/r...
Remembering great-granddad’s WW1 service, 100 years after he enlisted
This week has seen many events commemorating the 100th anniversary of Britain joining World War One. My great-granddad John Dodds served during the war, as did my husband’s great-granddad Edw…
vivsancestry.wordpress.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
For Remembrance Sunday a repost of my blog post about the WW1 experiences of my great granddad from Melrose in the Scottish Borders. vivsancestry.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/r...
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"I'm efreet I can't do that, Dave."
more remastered Otherworld for Fenris shopping, soon!
more remastered Otherworld for Fenris shopping, soon!
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
"I'm efreet I can't do that, Dave."
more remastered Otherworld for Fenris shopping, soon!
more remastered Otherworld for Fenris shopping, soon!
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Our haiku prompts for 11/8 - 11/15
Feel free to use any form of the prompt or even not at all.
Not every day will be inspired, but every day will dawn.
11/08 Clear Day New Clothes
11/09 Turnips Flirt
11/10 Fireplace Patio
11/11 Fading Children
11/12 Mask Lost
11/13 First snow Lush
11/14 […]
Feel free to use any form of the prompt or even not at all.
Not every day will be inspired, but every day will dawn.
11/08 Clear Day New Clothes
11/09 Turnips Flirt
11/10 Fireplace Patio
11/11 Fading Children
11/12 Mask Lost
11/13 First snow Lush
11/14 […]
Original post on mastodon.world
mastodon.world
November 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Our haiku prompts for 11/8 - 11/15
Feel free to use any form of the prompt or even not at all.
Not every day will be inspired, but every day will dawn.
11/08 Clear Day New Clothes
11/09 Turnips Flirt
11/10 Fireplace Patio
11/11 Fading Children
11/12 Mask Lost
11/13 First snow Lush
11/14 […]
Feel free to use any form of the prompt or even not at all.
Not every day will be inspired, but every day will dawn.
11/08 Clear Day New Clothes
11/09 Turnips Flirt
11/10 Fireplace Patio
11/11 Fading Children
11/12 Mask Lost
11/13 First snow Lush
11/14 […]
#DailyHaikuPrompt #ClearDay
The weather vane turns
Yesterday’s clouds now fading
South wind, clear morning
The weather vane turns
Yesterday’s clouds now fading
South wind, clear morning
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
#DailyHaikuPrompt #ClearDay
The weather vane turns
Yesterday’s clouds now fading
South wind, clear morning
The weather vane turns
Yesterday’s clouds now fading
South wind, clear morning
Who is Veronica Chambers? Has she been mentioned before? #TheArchers
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Who is Veronica Chambers? Has she been mentioned before? #TheArchers
Where’s the nearest chippy to Ambridge? Surely it will be cold before Neil gets home. #TheArchers
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Where’s the nearest chippy to Ambridge? Surely it will be cold before Neil gets home. #TheArchers
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“A nation that’s divided against itself cannot stand.”
— Fannie Lou Hamer, as featured on our new EP 10 Past Midnight, out now:
fold.bandcamp.com/album/10-pas...
— Fannie Lou Hamer, as featured on our new EP 10 Past Midnight, out now:
fold.bandcamp.com/album/10-pas...
10 Past Midnight, by Fold
8 track album
fold.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
“A nation that’s divided against itself cannot stand.”
— Fannie Lou Hamer, as featured on our new EP 10 Past Midnight, out now:
fold.bandcamp.com/album/10-pas...
— Fannie Lou Hamer, as featured on our new EP 10 Past Midnight, out now:
fold.bandcamp.com/album/10-pas...
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM
So the hearses outside weren’t a clue then? #TheArchers
November 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
So the hearses outside weren’t a clue then? #TheArchers
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM