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Connar Green
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Unremarkable Irish physicist and mathematician, local nuisance, and somewhat obscure harbinger of the paranormal.

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Democracy shouldn’t end at the login screen.

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December 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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#mythologymonday #Celtic: The #cailleach aka Hag of Storms „lived (and rumour has it, lives still!) in the Beara just in the south of Ireland, and a wandering friar came to her house, for he had heard tell of a woman of great age, so old that even she herself […]

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December 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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The Wild Hunt of the Untersberg
wiki.sunkencastles.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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...wind and the sound of someone calling 'ikuzo' which is like the English 'timber' to indicate a tree is about to fall. It is believed to be the tengu playing tricks as they are known to conjure fierce winds.
🎨1. Matthew Meyer @yokai.com
2. Tengu statue on Mount Takao
3. Utagawa Hiroshige
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December 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Tengu daoshi is a supernatural phenomenon in #JapaneseFolklore believed to be caused by #yokai known as tengu. It occurs when the sound of a large tree falling can be heard in the forest, yet no sign of a fallen tree can be found. It is often accompanied by a strong gust of...
#MythologyMonday
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December 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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In Japanese mythology Fujin is a Shinto wind kami (god) usually portrayed as a fearsome-looking deity sitting on or walking over the clouds and carrying a sack containing the winds. This print depicts Fujin blowing the gust of wind from the huge sack on his back.
#MythologyMonday #JapaneseFolklore
December 29, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Otakemaru is a powerful Japanese oni (demon). For years he terrorised the emperor's army by creating a violent storm to prevent them from capturing him. Eventually he was killed but his spirit continued to haunt Japan until it reformed his body & started again.
🎨M. Meyer @yokai.com
#MythologyMonday
December 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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I was recently reminded of this.

A couple decades ago, I wrote a short paper that described how the basic approaches of cryptography and computer security lead to an efficient and practical privilege escalation attack against master-keyed mechanical lock, which I published in IEEE Security and […]
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December 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books.
December 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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December 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Has anyone had laser eye surgery? How did it go?
#pleaseboost
December 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
December 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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You will be visited by three spirits
December 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Alright lads, he has arrived Dublin so you know that means, off to bed with you lot, Nollaig Shona everyone https://youtu.be/8DbVuccB7K8
December 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Cuairt San Nioclás (A Visit from Saint Nicholas) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y0q8d59BBA
December 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir
December 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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#fairytaletuesday #celtic: `On the Isle of Man December 21 was formerly called Laa'l Fingan, "Fingan's feast-day." St. Fingan, or Finnian, was the first of the great Irish scholars, being especially devoted to the study and exposition of Scripture. The […]

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December 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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#fairytaletuesday #celtic: `It was formerly the custom for fiddlers to go round in this way before Christmas. They stopped and played at the houses where they thought they were likely to receive a fee, wished the inmates individually "good morning," called the […]

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December 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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#fairytaletuesday #celtic: `Holly was regarded with superstition. If brought into the house before Christmas Eve strife, family quarrels, and disputes would ensue. Here it may be mentioned that the old people said, if you pluck a sprig of holly in flower […]

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December 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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OH MY GOD THEY DID
Oh did they do that thing where they're just another layer in the PDF.
I have to presume they’ve redacted all these Epstein documents in such a hamfisted way that you just need to dial up the brightness in Photoshop to be able to read them
December 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Cinnamon Roll and Danish Pastry met Shogun Santa~! 🏯🎄🎅

#littletokyo #losangeles #california #christmas #merchtodon #photo #photography #plushtodon #santa #shogunsanta #winter
December 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM