@gnomecunning.bsky.social
Researcher. Historian. Artish. Devious gnomefolk.
SOME OF Y'ALL never been told how to treat a fairy by the well, and IT SHOWS.
Come learn how to deal with fairies and other useful things as we put on our lil DIY folk plays for #Folklife in Seattle on Saturday, May 24th in the Eve Alvord Theatre. 5:45-6:30PM.
Come learn how to deal with fairies and other useful things as we put on our lil DIY folk plays for #Folklife in Seattle on Saturday, May 24th in the Eve Alvord Theatre. 5:45-6:30PM.
May 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
SOME OF Y'ALL never been told how to treat a fairy by the well, and IT SHOWS.
Come learn how to deal with fairies and other useful things as we put on our lil DIY folk plays for #Folklife in Seattle on Saturday, May 24th in the Eve Alvord Theatre. 5:45-6:30PM.
Come learn how to deal with fairies and other useful things as we put on our lil DIY folk plays for #Folklife in Seattle on Saturday, May 24th in the Eve Alvord Theatre. 5:45-6:30PM.
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Close to 150 community members rallied at Batavia ICE detention facility in upstate NY demanding the release of UFW farm worker leaders who were targeted for arrest and detention last Friday. #WeFeedYou
May 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Close to 150 community members rallied at Batavia ICE detention facility in upstate NY demanding the release of UFW farm worker leaders who were targeted for arrest and detention last Friday. #WeFeedYou
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An exciting announcement from Ffern, who have just launched the Ffern Folk Foundation – and an annual grant of £50,000 to fund one or more folk practitioners to progress their work and bring it to a wider audience: bit.ly/3GrcIpy
Artwork: Lukas the Illustrator
Boss Morris image: Hollie Fernando
Artwork: Lukas the Illustrator
Boss Morris image: Hollie Fernando
April 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
An exciting announcement from Ffern, who have just launched the Ffern Folk Foundation – and an annual grant of £50,000 to fund one or more folk practitioners to progress their work and bring it to a wider audience: bit.ly/3GrcIpy
Artwork: Lukas the Illustrator
Boss Morris image: Hollie Fernando
Artwork: Lukas the Illustrator
Boss Morris image: Hollie Fernando
gofund.me/bba70d3e My nephew's father died in January. It was unexpected and very sudden. Please consider sharing. Thank you.
Donate to Support Christian Murphy's family, organized by Z Hudelot
My nephew's father, Christian Murphy, passed away unexpectedly in January of this year (20… Z Hudelot needs your support for Support Christian Murphy's family
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April 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
gofund.me/bba70d3e My nephew's father died in January. It was unexpected and very sudden. Please consider sharing. Thank you.
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Wow the exact thing genAI creators intended, for their users to become psychologically dependent and chemically addicted to their product, is happening, who could have seen this coming
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futurism.com/the-byte/cha...
Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot
ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.
futurism.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Wow the exact thing genAI creators intended, for their users to become psychologically dependent and chemically addicted to their product, is happening, who could have seen this coming
futurism.com/the-byte/cha...
futurism.com/the-byte/cha...
Our little mumming-inspired folk play entity is going to perform at Northwest Folklife in May!
The plays are very short, DIY, and easy enough for anyone in the community to get involved.
Hoping to have some fun and inspire folks to make art in their communities with what they have available.
The plays are very short, DIY, and easy enough for anyone in the community to get involved.
Hoping to have some fun and inspire folks to make art in their communities with what they have available.
March 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Our little mumming-inspired folk play entity is going to perform at Northwest Folklife in May!
The plays are very short, DIY, and easy enough for anyone in the community to get involved.
Hoping to have some fun and inspire folks to make art in their communities with what they have available.
The plays are very short, DIY, and easy enough for anyone in the community to get involved.
Hoping to have some fun and inspire folks to make art in their communities with what they have available.
This is a Cheez-It tree.
My little nephew was told to pick a piece of produce for lunch, but kept asking for Cheez-Its. We went back and forth, then he disappeared and reappeared, presenting me with this incontrovertible evidence that Cheez-Its are in-fact produce.
My little nephew was told to pick a piece of produce for lunch, but kept asking for Cheez-Its. We went back and forth, then he disappeared and reappeared, presenting me with this incontrovertible evidence that Cheez-Its are in-fact produce.
March 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is a Cheez-It tree.
My little nephew was told to pick a piece of produce for lunch, but kept asking for Cheez-Its. We went back and forth, then he disappeared and reappeared, presenting me with this incontrovertible evidence that Cheez-Its are in-fact produce.
My little nephew was told to pick a piece of produce for lunch, but kept asking for Cheez-Its. We went back and forth, then he disappeared and reappeared, presenting me with this incontrovertible evidence that Cheez-Its are in-fact produce.
Leaving the cool, rainy mountains for the burning hot edge of the Great Plains caused my child heart and body a great deal of grief and panic.
Even as an unwilling invader, countless oaks and chirping, buzzing creatures lent me comfort.
The woods welcomed me, so long as I respected the place.
Even as an unwilling invader, countless oaks and chirping, buzzing creatures lent me comfort.
The woods welcomed me, so long as I respected the place.
March 18, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Leaving the cool, rainy mountains for the burning hot edge of the Great Plains caused my child heart and body a great deal of grief and panic.
Even as an unwilling invader, countless oaks and chirping, buzzing creatures lent me comfort.
The woods welcomed me, so long as I respected the place.
Even as an unwilling invader, countless oaks and chirping, buzzing creatures lent me comfort.
The woods welcomed me, so long as I respected the place.
I haven't seen any conversation about how to make local community when you're actually afraid of your neighbors. The posts I usually see are about a general social anxiety, and not "I am afraid my neighbors may be transphobes".
The small town I grew up in ran me out for my religion and being queer
The small town I grew up in ran me out for my religion and being queer
"Build a new society?" My brother in Christ, you cannot even build a relationship with your neighbor.
March 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I haven't seen any conversation about how to make local community when you're actually afraid of your neighbors. The posts I usually see are about a general social anxiety, and not "I am afraid my neighbors may be transphobes".
The small town I grew up in ran me out for my religion and being queer
The small town I grew up in ran me out for my religion and being queer
Bsky is... not fun.
I know the world is on fire, but we're going to need to remember what we want and what's good about being alive.
Just reacting to horror ain't it.
I know the world is on fire, but we're going to need to remember what we want and what's good about being alive.
Just reacting to horror ain't it.
March 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Bsky is... not fun.
I know the world is on fire, but we're going to need to remember what we want and what's good about being alive.
Just reacting to horror ain't it.
I know the world is on fire, but we're going to need to remember what we want and what's good about being alive.
Just reacting to horror ain't it.
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Super excited to share that my book on network analysis and visualization as a method for book history will be out soon!! It's basically a how-to-start guide for book historians interested in networks 😃 www.arc-humanities.org/978180270268...
#dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky
#dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky
March 8, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Super excited to share that my book on network analysis and visualization as a method for book history will be out soon!! It's basically a how-to-start guide for book historians interested in networks 😃 www.arc-humanities.org/978180270268...
#dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky
#dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky
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shoutout to horny elves
Elves sometimes need songs to wake them in summer according to premodern Icelandic tradition, and it must be women to sing it, coaxing them and their desires. Without elves, nothing will grow, so women sowing seeds sing to coax the elves to fertility. #FolkyFriday
March 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
shoutout to horny elves
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chasing bigotries is just a total political dead end. okay, today’s it is trans people. tomorrow it is black people in positions of influence. then it’s immigrants and refugees and so on and so forth.
March 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
chasing bigotries is just a total political dead end. okay, today’s it is trans people. tomorrow it is black people in positions of influence. then it’s immigrants and refugees and so on and so forth.
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
“Five to six times more Inuit children are placed in out of home care compared to Danish children. They are often placed in Danish homes with minimum contact to their Inuit parents.”
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polarjournal.net/people-of-gr...
People of Greenland are protesting the forced removal of their children
In cases of forced removals of children, Danish authorities do not sufficiently consider how culturally different the people of Greenland are.
polarjournal.net
March 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
“Five to six times more Inuit children are placed in out of home care compared to Danish children. They are often placed in Danish homes with minimum contact to their Inuit parents.”
polarjournal.net/people-of-gr...
polarjournal.net/people-of-gr...
Writing a folk song. What rhymes with "an acceleration cult has become the feds and is gettin' ready to kill us all"?
February 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Writing a folk song. What rhymes with "an acceleration cult has become the feds and is gettin' ready to kill us all"?
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hi
February 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
hi
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February 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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If you haven't heard my "serial killers are just violent misogynists and treating them like masterminds is tired" rant, now you have.
Fictional Serial Killers: I am a sophisticated and cultured genius who has fixated on a mytho-cultural fetish which drives my horrible work.
Real Serial Killers: I hate women and kill sex workers and the homeless because cops don't care about them.
Real Serial Killers: I hate women and kill sex workers and the homeless because cops don't care about them.
February 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
If you haven't heard my "serial killers are just violent misogynists and treating them like masterminds is tired" rant, now you have.
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“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker
February 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker
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New report claims historic preservation leads to displacement in Pittsburgh's Black neighborhoods. What do folks in historic preservation think? 🗃️ static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc6e...
February 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
New report claims historic preservation leads to displacement in Pittsburgh's Black neighborhoods. What do folks in historic preservation think? 🗃️ static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc6e...
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(1/6) Why the federal funding chaos disproportionately affects Native Americans:
February 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
(1/6) Why the federal funding chaos disproportionately affects Native Americans:
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On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.
February 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.