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Bluesky has four kinds of users

Bluesky has four kinds of users

Bluesky has four kinds of users

Everything can be sorted into Eurovision or Gamergate

Hope you're allowed more time with the living than the dead.

Happy Monday from Henry Fonda and Jack Lemmon, shown here relaxing on a Hawaiian beach during a break in filming MISTER ROBERTS, 1954. (Photo by Slim Aarons)

Just a week left to grab selected Second Run Blu-rays at '2 for £16' @rarewaves.bsky.social - offer ends 3rd November! tinyurl.com/49x4bvu3

#SpookySunday A legend of Cornwall says that the spirit of a broken-hearted maiden will follow her deceiver in the form of a white hare (invisible to all but him) until his death. The hare may also warn others of an oncoming storm. A tale told in the cigarette cards below (from 1936)

From Andrew Haggard's 'Ghost Of Erminstein', 1892. Not a ghost I would mess with. It's difficult to read the signature but I think this is another Paul Hardy illustration. #SpookySunday #ghost #ghosts #Victorian

Sound effects records featuring spooky noises were popular in the ‘60s and ‘70s and supplied the soundtracks to countless Halloween parties. Many of the LPs had radio play-style stories on one side and sound effects like screams, groans, creaking doors and clanking chains on the other. #SpookySunday

Too cutsey for the vampire costume? @stinasdemons.com

Boo! @erinalexander.bsky.social

An excellent question for #SpookySunday.

YEATS & VAMPIRES The poet W. B. Yeats read about #vampires in Ennemoser's History of Magic 1852. Vampires feature in his poem 'Oil and Blood' 'Under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet' #31DaysOfHalloween

An anonymous poet wrote a ribald parody of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," published in 1927 as "The Mortal." The poem went through many hands and was reprinted in different forms in subsequent decades. This blogpost presents four variations of the slightly nsfw poem. deepcuts.blog/2026/10/24/l...

Taking this energy into the weekend. Take care of each other, be kind to yourself, and try to knock a few movies off your to-watch list! Talk to you all next week. #fridayfun #roydelespacio #deafcrocodile #romerolovesyou

Happy Una O'Connor's birthday!

"This cult 1970s guitar singer-songwriter stole my garden implement!" "Nick Drake?" That's what John Martyn did, yes."

This is incredibly moving. "Randolph (Randy) Mantooth 's ashes are with Kevin Tighe in Squad 51 Randy leaves Station 127s (51s) for the last time. On October 17th Randy's Celebration of Life was held at the Station." 📸 Los Angeles County Fire Museum/IG www.instagram.com/lacofiremuse...

My 2026 Cliff Richard calendar arrived today. It's spectacularly poor for a piece of official memorabilia, with super-low-budget photography, tacky design and the most banal captions. I fucking love it.

Happy Birthday to Bela Lugosi, a man who could really rock a turban. #botd

Happy birthday to the immortal Bela Lugosi (BOTD in 1882). Here's my oldie moldy recycled review of Glen or Glenda: cinematiccatharsis.blogspot.com/2014/07/cine... #filmsky #moviesky #horrorsky

Last year, I looked at Creative Nonfiction Before Creative Nonfiction — seven mostly neglected examples of the techniques of creative nonfiction being used long before the term was invented. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Here’s the first in a series of four lino prints inspired by the weird carved guys featured on church misericords. This first guy can be found at Great Malvern Priory. Prints will be available (in limited quantities) in the shop from 12 00 (GMT) on Friday 23rd Oct... 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

Musical Monday: Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959) cometoverhollywood.com/2026/10/19/m...

Drop a WEREWOLF

I've posted this before but I'm going to post it again because it didn't get much love on that inferior Friday thing. An example of the spooky penny broadsheets sold in the early 1800s. They never seemed to learn that a picture tells a 1000 words, thereby making a 1000 words redundant. #SpookySunday

"In the room the women come and go/Talking of Michelangelo." Only in the case of Isa Glenn's Transport, it’s round and round the women go, talking of every other soul trapped on a hot, slow steamer from San Francisco to Manila. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Here’s a delightful thread about a Ouija board that mysteriously kept reappearing despite being thrown away multiple times. #SpookySunday

A THIN #GHOST Is one of my favourite book titles. The original decorative cloth cover with spider's web design published by Edward Arnold in 1919 is as ghoulishly good as M. R. James's writing. A #gothic gem of a book #SpookySunday #Booksky #31daysofHalloween

The Ghost of the Violin is song about, well, a ghost who plays the violin. It was written in 1912 by Ted Snyder and Bert Kalmar, who had a massive hit a decade later with Who’s Sorry Now? It’s a bit silly but it was popular in vaudeville and quite few artists recorded it. #SpookySunday

The opening ceremony of Ebbw Vale National Eistedfodd, 1958. Lots more archive photos, the construction of the circle #StandingStoneSunday , and how it looks now are on our page. More Gorsedd circles in the coming weeks, do you have any photos you can share? More 1/

Thinking about the thrift store in Wales that had so many donated copies of 50 Shades of Grey they built a fort out of them.

NEW CANARY ALBUM Over 2 hours of the 1952 recordings by the 45-member gamelan and dance ensemble that appeared in London and across the U.S. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/baline...

#Booktober Day 16: kicking off the weekend with a selection of haunted inns and pubs. As ever, looking for more local ones over on Weirdo Dublin Pubs…hard to top the cover of the Worcestershire one.

"You do that illustration of Prometheus getting his liver torn out?" "Sure did boss, really fucking sexy just like you asked." "Thank you, I am a closeted ad executive, and this is the only way I can safely access gay erotica." "Anytime, boss."

Random cover from the TBR pile: The Fair to Middling, by Arthur Calder-Marshall (1959) The children of the Winterbottome School for Incapacitated Orphans visit the fair and discover capacities in themselves they never imagined.

A BEAUTIFUL VAMPIRE Lady Deverish drains the life force of her entire family, including her dog, to remain young and beautiful. Amazingly this little known #Vampire story was published as early as 1896 by Arabella Kenealy, it predates Dracula #31daysofHalloween #Gothtober

NEW TWO-HOUR CANARY ALBUM Virtuoso clarinetist Costas Gadinis (b. 1890) was the most prolific Greek-American recoding musician of the 1930s-40s. The 41 tracks presented here represent about two-thirds of his output during his final six years on disc. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/we-see...

MURDERERS AMONG US: Anti-Fascism Films from East Germany's DEFA Studios, Title reveal #2: THE AXE OF WANDSBEK (DAS BEIL VON WANDSBEK) – 1951, 110 min., dir. Falk Harnack. #deafcrocodile #defa #bluray #physicalmedia #antifascism #blurayboxset

Lisa’s annual series of posts of spooky books is a delight. And I love the way she poses the books with complementary artifacts.

Did you know that Burt Bacharach wrote the music for theme song for The Blob and that Mack David, the brother of Bacharach’s long time collaborator Hal wrote the lyrics?

It is 2326, future alien archaeologists arrive on earth to see if the rumours of it one being inhabited are true. There's nothing left, just dust. Wait, one of them found something, a fragment, it has text on it, the rumours are true! They analyse it... it says... Ea-nāṣir.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Archduke Franz Ferdinand posing as a mummy on a trip to Cairo (1896). 📷 Heymann & Co