David Haraldson
@lostdiarist.bsky.social
Professional Alter Ego. Manc. Psychogeography, deep maps, hauntology, zines, games, music, art, photography, sci-fi, & horror—& any gubbins that sheds new light on old places. (He/him) Was LostDiarist & MrBlipvert on the Bird Site.
GPA, NJ, & VT
GPA, NJ, & VT
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David Haraldson
@lostdiarist.bsky.social
· Apr 24
Increasingly noticing that the real insurmountable division in the world is not dog or cat owners but Adrian Chiles fans & Adrian Chiles haterz (who secretly wish they were him).
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GREATaceous news. Looks like the dinosaurs at @Jerseysaurus have found a new home in #AltanticCity.
njbiz.com/field-statio...
njbiz.com/field-statio...
Field Station: Dinosaurs finds new home in Atlantic City - NJBIZ
Field Station: Dinosaurs will close in Bergen County, but the iconic attraction is rolling the dice on a new home at Showboat Atlantic City
njbiz.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
GREATaceous news. Looks like the dinosaurs at @Jerseysaurus have found a new home in #AltanticCity.
njbiz.com/field-statio...
njbiz.com/field-statio...
TTRPGers / Titterpiggers: Have you considered incorporating psychogeographic dérives / drifts into prep for your games set in real world places? Eh, eh? Applies to GothicPunk, UrbanFantasy, Cyberpunk, Superheroes, Espionage, Historical games etc. etc.
December 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
TTRPGers / Titterpiggers: Have you considered incorporating psychogeographic dérives / drifts into prep for your games set in real world places? Eh, eh? Applies to GothicPunk, UrbanFantasy, Cyberpunk, Superheroes, Espionage, Historical games etc. etc.
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Fancy a convivial, critically engaged wander? First Sunday this Sunday so the LRM will gather for #Manchester #Psychogeography, all welcome, free. 2pm Dec 7 James Grigor Square, River Street for a journey to the centre of the world de/re/deconstructing the city centre to erect a Mancunian Omphalos
December 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Fancy a convivial, critically engaged wander? First Sunday this Sunday so the LRM will gather for #Manchester #Psychogeography, all welcome, free. 2pm Dec 7 James Grigor Square, River Street for a journey to the centre of the world de/re/deconstructing the city centre to erect a Mancunian Omphalos
Reader, I still have not attended the local Goth/ EDM night. 🦇
Things achieved in Montpelier, Vermont?
-- Property taxes paid;
-- Got my first ever parking ticket;
-- Started scoping out essentials (record shop & bookstores);
-- Checking out the city's restaurants.
Hope to get to the Goth/ EDM night in a couple of months!
-- Property taxes paid;
-- Got my first ever parking ticket;
-- Started scoping out essentials (record shop & bookstores);
-- Checking out the city's restaurants.
Hope to get to the Goth/ EDM night in a couple of months!
December 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Reader, I still have not attended the local Goth/ EDM night. 🦇
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Glasshouse, a scenario for FiveEvil by @malcolmcraig.bsky.social is closing in on the finish line. I’ve been working away on art for it today.
You get the general theme.
I’m sure these locations simply look threatening, and nothing terrible will happen there. handiwork.games/fiveevil
#fiveevil
You get the general theme.
I’m sure these locations simply look threatening, and nothing terrible will happen there. handiwork.games/fiveevil
#fiveevil
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Glasshouse, a scenario for FiveEvil by @malcolmcraig.bsky.social is closing in on the finish line. I’ve been working away on art for it today.
You get the general theme.
I’m sure these locations simply look threatening, and nothing terrible will happen there. handiwork.games/fiveevil
#fiveevil
You get the general theme.
I’m sure these locations simply look threatening, and nothing terrible will happen there. handiwork.games/fiveevil
#fiveevil
Some absolute classic covers in the “Women running from spooky houses” genre in Mlle Ghoul / S. Elizabeth’s blog post about Hector Garrido: unquietthings.com/a-baleful-be...
A Baleful Beauty: The Art Of Hector Garrido
I first officially learned of Argentinian artist Hector Garrido when attempting to figure out the artist of the livid, crimson-shrouded book cover with an aggressive succubus hollering at a raven u…
unquietthings.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Some absolute classic covers in the “Women running from spooky houses” genre in Mlle Ghoul / S. Elizabeth’s blog post about Hector Garrido: unquietthings.com/a-baleful-be...
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24hr tracking your children via phone apps 👎
Scheduled chats on a payphone 👍
Getting them to call home on a ham radio frequency 👊
Scheduled chats on a payphone 👍
Getting them to call home on a ham radio frequency 👊
Back when I was in uni, the dorm rooms had phones,
but long-distance phone calls still cost significant money;
we called occasionally or when there was news,
and my parents called their parents weekly to catch up.
Roommate used ham radio to call his dad instead of phone :-)
but long-distance phone calls still cost significant money;
we called occasionally or when there was news,
and my parents called their parents weekly to catch up.
Roommate used ham radio to call his dad instead of phone :-)
December 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
24hr tracking your children via phone apps 👎
Scheduled chats on a payphone 👍
Getting them to call home on a ham radio frequency 👊
Scheduled chats on a payphone 👍
Getting them to call home on a ham radio frequency 👊
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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?
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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The ghost is often a manifestation of things we ought to know, but cannot interpret correctly. A failure of translation across time, across place. For few truly speak the language of mystery, the tongues of the dead. - Rev. Æthelstan Morley, Church of England ghost-layer
December 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The ghost is often a manifestation of things we ought to know, but cannot interpret correctly. A failure of translation across time, across place. For few truly speak the language of mystery, the tongues of the dead. - Rev. Æthelstan Morley, Church of England ghost-layer
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I very rarely re-read books - I can’t even remember the last time - but I’ve been inspired by @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social revisit of To The Lighthouse, and the recognition that books hit different at different ages
So I’m re-reading a fav from my youth - Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1940)
#booksky
So I’m re-reading a fav from my youth - Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1940)
#booksky
December 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I very rarely re-read books - I can’t even remember the last time - but I’ve been inspired by @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social revisit of To The Lighthouse, and the recognition that books hit different at different ages
So I’m re-reading a fav from my youth - Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1940)
#booksky
So I’m re-reading a fav from my youth - Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1940)
#booksky
An experiment in psychogeographic practice: Walking in Pairs, on the Walking Without a Donkey blog. #psychogeography 🚶 walkingwithoutadonkey.com/2025/09/07/w...
Walking in Pairs
This is a new collaboration between Kristina Rothstein and Tamsin Grainger where we walk together, apart. Kristina is in Vancouver, Canada, and I am in Edinburgh, Scotland. Last week, we walked at …
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December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
An experiment in psychogeographic practice: Walking in Pairs, on the Walking Without a Donkey blog. #psychogeography 🚶 walkingwithoutadonkey.com/2025/09/07/w...
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Sounds didn't fold until 1991. Do you remember when they republished, and was it a reissue of this?
December 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Sounds didn't fold until 1991. Do you remember when they republished, and was it a reissue of this?
I have come to peace with my being the kind of poster for whom 9 likes is a post “blowing up on Blue Sky.” 🦋✌️
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I have come to peace with my being the kind of poster for whom 9 likes is a post “blowing up on Blue Sky.” 🦋✌️
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The EU are removing their de minimis threshold next year. So that will be the EU added to the growing list of places that I can’t sell to.
As a small business it’s getting harder and harder to keep going.
Fuck brexit and all who sail in her. 🤬
As a small business it’s getting harder and harder to keep going.
Fuck brexit and all who sail in her. 🤬
a man sitting at a desk with a panda bear on his arm
Alt: A Panda smashing up an office
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The EU are removing their de minimis threshold next year. So that will be the EU added to the growing list of places that I can’t sell to.
As a small business it’s getting harder and harder to keep going.
Fuck brexit and all who sail in her. 🤬
As a small business it’s getting harder and harder to keep going.
Fuck brexit and all who sail in her. 🤬
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That feeling when your new book has just come out but then you have to change your email signature & all the banners on your socials & website from pre-order to OUT NOW and you're still a bit fragile from all the celebrations🎉 #HouseholdLore #Booksky #BookologyThursday #FolkloreThursday #WritersLife
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
That feeling when your new book has just come out but then you have to change your email signature & all the banners on your socials & website from pre-order to OUT NOW and you're still a bit fragile from all the celebrations🎉 #HouseholdLore #Booksky #BookologyThursday #FolkloreThursday #WritersLife
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I've been working on the script for a game based on #Welsh myth. You can wishlist it on Steam here: store.steampowered.com/app/3067260/...
Tales from the Mabinogion on Steam
Venture into the medieval kingdom of Dyfed in Tales from the Mabinogion. As King Pryderi, traverse dense forests, rugged mountains, and windswept coastlines. Uncover long-held secrets, face the forces...
store.steampowered.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I've been working on the script for a game based on #Welsh myth. You can wishlist it on Steam here: store.steampowered.com/app/3067260/...
Help wanted: Desperately seeking old music newspaper cover/ front page.
I vividly recall seeing a photograph of an old inky music paper on the occasion of Elvis's death with the headline, "Remember Him Like This." Re-published by a rival newspaper (NME), when the competitor (Sounds?) folded (1/2)
I vividly recall seeing a photograph of an old inky music paper on the occasion of Elvis's death with the headline, "Remember Him Like This." Re-published by a rival newspaper (NME), when the competitor (Sounds?) folded (1/2)
December 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Help wanted: Desperately seeking old music newspaper cover/ front page.
I vividly recall seeing a photograph of an old inky music paper on the occasion of Elvis's death with the headline, "Remember Him Like This." Re-published by a rival newspaper (NME), when the competitor (Sounds?) folded (1/2)
I vividly recall seeing a photograph of an old inky music paper on the occasion of Elvis's death with the headline, "Remember Him Like This." Re-published by a rival newspaper (NME), when the competitor (Sounds?) folded (1/2)
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Get ready to holiday shop with us at the New Jersey Punk Rock Flea Market's Wreck the Halls event! Dec. 13th and 14th in Jackson, NJ. We'll have all the usual merch there including Issue #64. Details in the link!
weirdnj.com/weird-news/n...
weirdnj.com/weird-news/n...
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Get ready to holiday shop with us at the New Jersey Punk Rock Flea Market's Wreck the Halls event! Dec. 13th and 14th in Jackson, NJ. We'll have all the usual merch there including Issue #64. Details in the link!
weirdnj.com/weird-news/n...
weirdnj.com/weird-news/n...
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Quick sketch in biro from this morning. The way the ash trees have hung on to bundles of keys is quite striking this year.
December 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Quick sketch in biro from this morning. The way the ash trees have hung on to bundles of keys is quite striking this year.
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AI can kill people.
Examples include posts about:
Mushroom identification
Medical diagnoses
Safe routes for walking on hills...
Examples include posts about:
Mushroom identification
Medical diagnoses
Safe routes for walking on hills...
This is a heads-up about fake AI accounts which have proliferated across social media.
The screenshot is from a genuine thread asking for advice on a mountain route; there are plenty of useful, real human replies.
The attempted reply (we stopped it) looks very real - but it is from an AI bot.
The screenshot is from a genuine thread asking for advice on a mountain route; there are plenty of useful, real human replies.
The attempted reply (we stopped it) looks very real - but it is from an AI bot.
December 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
AI can kill people.
Examples include posts about:
Mushroom identification
Medical diagnoses
Safe routes for walking on hills...
Examples include posts about:
Mushroom identification
Medical diagnoses
Safe routes for walking on hills...
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
Saw this in a bookstore recently. I am “intrigued.” (Theodora Goss, Letters from an Imaginary Country.)
Hello! Letters from an Imaginary Country by Theodora Goss has just arrived & although it was ahem a Christmas present to myself I couldn’t resist… Fantastical short stories.
December 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Saw this in a bookstore recently. I am “intrigued.” (Theodora Goss, Letters from an Imaginary Country.)
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Looks like a fascinating issue.
Lisa Conway works with analog synths, reel-to-reel, and alphorns! Mali Obomsawin taps into jazz, folk, and Abenaki roots. Susie Ibarra opens ears to nature’s rhythms. Kalun Leung slides into uncharted territory. Marek Tyler’s ASKO echoes nêhiyaw ways of living. www.musicworks.ca/whats-inside...
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Looks like a fascinating issue.