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Witch Doctor
@witchdoctor.bsky.social
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Socialist. Scientist.

Professional drug expert.

Amateur macabre medical historian.
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Header image by George Wylesol.

Nothing I do on here represents or is on behalf of my employer.
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witchdoctor.bsky.social
Thanks, I hate it. 🧪 #Neuroskyence
nataliajagielska.bsky.social Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 4d
AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
Royal Society B cover with AI generated image of endocasts.
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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kieraevebutler.bsky.social
New from me: We have entered an age of polio denialism. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The anti-vax movement's wildest claim yet: Polio wasn't so bad
Add this to vaccines make you magnetic, cause AIDS, and measles is not a big deal.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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briagha1994.bsky.social
Tonight, I got it off the needles, and I wove in all the ends, but I still need to wash it and block the ever loving bejesus out of it. But it's almost 10 pm so it'll have to wait until tomorrow.

#knitters #knitting #knit #knitsky #yarn #🧶 #handknitting #RavenwoodDragonCloak #TourdeFleece2025
Finished Ravenwood Dragon Cloak before blocking laying on a white sheet. The piece is knitted in handdyed merino and silk yarn in blue, purple, and green.
November 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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surgeonshall.bsky.social
This is a hip joint prosthesis. It has been specifically designed to withstand compression stress.

#TriviaTuesday
surgeonshall.bsky.social Surgeons' Hall Museums @surgeonshall.bsky.social · 4d
For #TriviaTuesday this week we have this object from the 1970s. It is 11 cm long. Do you know what it is?
A right-angled stainless steel object with holes drilled along the side.
November 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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who.int
The sexually transmitted disease #gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics.

Countries need to
🛡️ Strengthen surveillance
🔬 Improve diagnostic capacity
💊 Ensure equitable access to new treatments for sexually transmitted infections

https://bit.ly/3XAo8we
Blue background with text highlighting the danger of untreatable gonorrhoea and a comic-style 'OMG!' bubble.
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
witchdoctor.bsky.social
A meme that says, “If you’re cold, they’re cold. Bring your unspeakable horrors from the abyss inside.” There is a rusty area (presumably on a boat) with a window looking down, showing several deep sea creatures staring back.
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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dannygibson.bsky.social
Another little Mycena species emerging from lichen - the local peat bog is now alive with smaller fungi fruiting bodies #fungi #fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms
Mycena species emerging from lichen
November 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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thislemontwist.bsky.social
It's slime mold and jelly fungus time! This might be witch's butter or Dacrymyces chrysospermus. It's from a park down the street that I took my dog to today. 🌱
An orange fungus that looks like squishy noodles sits on a wooden branch on the forest floor.
November 16, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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protik.bsky.social
how cool and scary is our planet
The 'Finger of Death' that Freezes Everything it Touches | Earth's Great Seasons | BBC Earth
YouTube video by BBC Earth
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
Eel smuggling is a major problem today. But it's not new!

In 1463, London city officials arrested 9 Zeeland merchants who tried to slip 97 barrels of salted eels past customs at Billingsgate. They wanted to avoid import fees, but wound up facing a £40 fine.
🗃️🧪
Meme. Medieval drawing of a cooper, putting the lid on a barrel with a hammer, while surrounded by other barrels. The man -- we'll call him Ædwallow-- is wearing a pink shirt and blue leggings, as if he's planning on going to gender reveal party later and he wants to cover all his bases. He's wearing a somewhat shapeless red hat that might -- or might not -- keep his ears warm. He has a white apron tied around his waist. He is clean-shaven, and his face looks young. His expression is terribly intense, and it doesn't take much imagination to believe that he is sealing his rival in this barrel. Perhaps this was a man named Flord whom Ædwallow had called a friend in his youth, until he had ran off with Ædwallow's mother to live a life of crime together as petty toast thieves in Malta. Ævence spent years tracking them down, & now's he's caught them and stuffed them in barrels to ship back home, for reasons only he knows. Meme text reads: "Staring down the barrel of a too-eelaborate plan"
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Fun fact: By the 1880s, people were so worried about how rundown & shabby the White House bathrooms were, when President Garfield died (from an infection from assassin’s bullet 2 months earlier), rumors circulated that the true cause was poisoning by sewer gas from the White House's faulty toilets
adamrothman.bsky.social Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 21d
This is like Drunk History meets This Old House
“Art Deco doesn’t go with, you know, 1850 and civil wars and all of the problems,” Mr. Trump said. “But what does is statuary marble. So I ripped it apart and we built the bathroom. It’s absolutely gorgeous and totally in keeping with that time.”
November 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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chriswoodyard.bsky.social
#Caturday goals.
c. 1890 Special Collections Dept. Univ. of Delaware Library
Cream colored bookplate showing a black cat reading an open book with a candle beside it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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witchdoctor.bsky.social
Happy Halloween🖤 #13DaysOfHalloween Day 13 is the Pacific blackdragon, one of the blackest (no joke, called ultrablack) animals, determined by whether they reflect <0.5% of the light hitting it. They live a couple hundred to ~2000 yards deep and have a bioluminescent lure they use to attract prey 🧪
The Pacific blackdragon, found in the deep sea, is one of the species of black fish that absorb almost all of the light that hits their surfaces, according to a study by Smithsonian and Duke University scientists. This fish uses a bioluminescent lure to attract potential prey while its black skin and transparent, anti-reflective teeth help it stay undetected in the darkness of the ocean. Photo: Karen Osborn/Smithsonian
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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chriswoodyard.bsky.social
My daughter, who runs Sewn Company, is a hand-sewing instructor and historic sewing/clothing consultant. She tells the story of my haunted vintage clothing store as she sews in this video.
youtu.be/fZoFAM8u-d0?...
#ghoststories #Halloween #vintageclothing #hauntings
Telling a Ghost Story and Handsewing
YouTube video by Sewn Company
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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katestrasdin.bsky.social
This #Halloween, Madeleine Vionnet is offering all of the witchy stitches with her 1927 Araignée gown, a pale and ethereal design dripping with a beaded cobweb #madparisfr #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A mannequin posed before a shadowy background wearing a pale sleeveless dress, the bottom portion of the skirt decorated with a beaded cobweb design
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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hbtyson.bsky.social
Mild plant horror 🌱🌿
Digital illustration depicting a hooded figure. Her face is not visible, but in its place are stylized shoots protruding from the hood’s opening. Dark mountains are visible in the background. Digital illustration styled as if it were printed on an old battered card. It depicts a character whose head is replaced by black branches. Digital illustration in the style of a vintage storybook. A man peacefully sits in a sparse forest with his back against a tree stump. Muted red flowers grow out of his chest. Below the illustration reads “several flowers bloomed from his chest.” Digital illustration in the style of old print. It displays three plants in various states of transformation. All are growing vague animal-like bodies: one birdlike, one serpentine, and the other humanoid.
October 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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saskajanet.bsky.social
Common Raven #birds 🎃
Head and shoulders portrait of a huge black bird looking down.
October 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
witchdoctor.bsky.social
Wishing everyone a happy Halloween! The scariest thing about today is that it’s the deadliest day for child pedestrians, so please stay safe, and stay off the road if possible 🖤

If you’re like to see all of my black- (or very dark red or purple) themed #13DaysOfHalloween 🧪 posts, click here! 👇🏽
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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chriswoodyard.bsky.social
Skelly and Moulder wish you a happy #Halloween!
Two black flamingos painted with skeletons against a background of bushes and leaves covering yards.
October 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com
Image: three figures in protective suits watch from behind a screen as a child approaches a door-like mechanical structure in which stands a man. Between them is an amorphous glowing shape. Caption: Scientists at the institute of halloween studies have succeeded in creating "The treak": a quantum state that is simultaneously trick and treat. It is stable for a millionth of a second before decaying into a half-hearted prank and a mediocre candy bar.
October 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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chriswoodyard.bsky.social
#PhantomsFriday An Overwhelming Odour of Corruption
"Even in the broad day the shuffling, unsteady steps would come down the stair, accompanied by the odour of death..."
A malodorous and malign ghost at Holly Cottage.
hauntedohiobooks.com/news/an-over...
A wax figure in a miniature coffin showing a corpse in an advanced stage of decomposition. A memento mori.
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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jessemlocker.bsky.social
Carstian Luyckx, Memento Mori with musical instruments, books, sheet music, skeleton, skulls, and armor, Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 92.5 cm (Private collection)
A complex painting full of skeletons, skulls, instruments, books, and other objects representing the vanity of all human ambition. More here: https://www.kollerauktionen.ch/en/330501-0092-1184-luyckx_-carstian.-memento-mori-1184_447438.html?RecPos=9
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 AM
witchdoctor.bsky.social
Happy Halloween🖤 #13DaysOfHalloween Day 13 is the Pacific blackdragon, one of the blackest (no joke, called ultrablack) animals, determined by whether they reflect <0.5% of the light hitting it. They live a couple hundred to ~2000 yards deep and have a bioluminescent lure they use to attract prey 🧪
The Pacific blackdragon, found in the deep sea, is one of the species of black fish that absorb almost all of the light that hits their surfaces, according to a study by Smithsonian and Duke University scientists. This fish uses a bioluminescent lure to attract potential prey while its black skin and transparent, anti-reflective teeth help it stay undetected in the darkness of the ocean. Photo: Karen Osborn/Smithsonian
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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mag2art.bsky.social
An iPSC heart muscle cell forming sarcomeres videoed through a microscope by Emma Koory for 20 h before it dies most dramatically. This was our first try on a new microscope, and Emma now has the imaging parameters dialed in so her cells do not go POP! Alpha-actinin-2 is shown. #CellBiology
October 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM