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Random views myne owne. Canadian. Seeker of #Hiraeth. Mother of a resting Cello-wing Daughter. A latter-day OOwl fancier (with a good dose of Wren-fancying too). #KDrama Addict. Learning 中文. Spins woolly yarns & story threads
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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · Jan 18
Daughter gazing over Solway Firth, 2017 x
Daughter gazing over Solway Firth, 2017
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Danny Robins @dannyrobins.bsky.social · 3d
🎃UNCANNY HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN: DAY 12🎃

Today we have a mysterious one for you - this is Case 12: No Children Allowed🚫

Are the incidents Tessa describes pure coincidence? Or proof of the paranormal?

Send your questions, theories - and perhaps your own paranormal experiences! - to [email protected]!
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Danny Robins @dannyrobins.bsky.social · 2d
👻🎃 UNCANNY HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN: DAY 13🎃👻

Today’s spoonful of spooky is Case 13: Descent Into Darkness 🕯

A particularly chilling case to send shivers down you as we count down to Halloween and a brand new #Uncanny podcast series!

Send your questions and theories to [email protected]! 👻
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Danny Robins @dannyrobins.bsky.social · 1d
Loving this #Uncanny decoration by LittleFeltBird over on Insta - and the fact that you have a Halloween Tree!

Anyone else got one of those?

#Uncannycommunity
#Fanart
#Halloween
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Danny Robins @dannyrobins.bsky.social · 1d
👻🎃 UNCANNY HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN: DAY 14🎃👻

Things are about to get potentially extraterrestrial with Case 14: The Glowing Man💡

What did Mark see on this famous site of alleged UFO encounters?

Send all your questions and theories on this case to [email protected]! 👻
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Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social · 19h
Thank you to @iwm21.bsky.social for this link. I have to confess I love a good graveyard. You can learn so much about peoples’ lives who didn’t make it into the history books, about attitudes to death and burial and headstones are wonderful microcosms of nature too
Tombstone tourism: Why visiting graveyards is becoming so popular
A growing number of tourists are “rebelling against tick-box travel” by ditching the popular sights for a trip to the graveyard.
www.euronews.com
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 22h
I am once again begging you to boycott Tesla
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.
Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times
Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...
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The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social · 19h
Episode 179: WITCHCRAFT - A HISTORY IN 13 TRIALS

Listen free at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-179.... or on your podcast app

or watch the interview on my YouTube channel at youtu.be/9pmAeCTqdtI and subscribe for future video releases.

@witchesetc.bsky.social returns to the Folklore Podcast!
Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials title card
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Nat Doig @weirdinthewade.bsky.social · 23h
A quick video update for you about the return of Weird in the Wade on the 27th October! I'm so excited to be back!
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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social · 23h
#DailyGhost
14) NEGATIVE GHOST
Lady Elizabeth Hoby of Bisham Abbey thrashed her young son William to death for his slovenliness. Her ghost is seen, forever washing her hands in a floating basin, coming from a bedroom there. She appears as though in photographic negative: all colours reversed.
Haunted England by Christiana Hole (1940/51)
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John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social · 1d
#DailyGhost
13) CRAZY MARY'S HOLE
The cliffs near Pakefield beach (Lowestoft) are walked by the ghost of a woman named Mary. Driven mad with grief when her lover was lost at sea, she wandered the cliffs in life, and continues to do so. The gully in which she died is known as Crazy Mary's Hole.
Haunted Lowestoft by Ivan A W Bunn and Henry Baker (2010)
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 23h
I got my first taste of archival research when visited the BBC written Archives as a 3rd year undergrad in 2001 to research my dissertation.

I studied the papers relating to radio programme 'Ack-Ack Beer-Beer', broadcast in WWII for Anti-Aircraft and Balloon Barrage personnel.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23h
For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 23h
Yet another wake up call about the scale & cost of #climate risk. That’s why we urgently need a National Climate Resilience Plan with emphasis on local funding, nature based solutions & community resilience - pls sign & share petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk
Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds
www.theguardian.com
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Dr Kathleen Cronie @kathleencronie.bsky.social · 23h
I've spoken a lot about this - I noticed so many uni lecturers teaching online during COVID, using their voices differently and tiring themselves out. The instinct to use the voice changes in a large room, we use our bodies differently.

#voice #teaching

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...
Actors trained during pandemic lack vocal power and range, says RSC leader
Daniel Evans says young drama graduates who learned voice work online missed out on the physical presence of theatre training
www.theguardian.com
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range dan @rangedan.bsky.social · 1d
Portal in a puddle that is a reflection of the sun passing by a break in the clouds. The gravel road is flanked by dry grass, brush and brambles. Beyond that several trees in silhouette across the foto under heavily clouded skies with an opening in them that the sun is shining through ☮️
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Sister 7 @dubeateo.bsky.social · 1d
Ich wünsche euch allen einen guten Start in die neue Woche
Auf grau-grünen, schmalen Blättern sitz ein ganz kleiner, roter, rundlicher Marienkäfer mit zwei Punkten.
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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 1d
Juvelyn & her 5 children were sleeping when the earthquake struck earlier this month. As soon as she realized what was happening, she rushed her family outside for safety. They have no reliable source of food right now, so WCK is making sure they get the meals they need. #ChefsForPhilippines
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d
Jeremy Clarkson discovered that Private Healthcare is a con, and actually if he gets sick he still has to use the NHS.
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Rob L @pops.pictures · 4d
A real dearth of birds lately, so another …

Fiery Skipper (Hylephila phyleus) on Aster, Middlegrounds Metropark, Toledo, Ohio, USA, October 2025. ©2025 #butterfly #insects #insectphotography #nature #photography #naturephotography #flowers #flowerphotography #bloomscrolling #toledo #ohio #autumn
A close-up of a tiny, brown and orangish-tan Fiery Skipper butterfly consuming nectar from the yellow center of a small white Aster flower against a blurred background of drying foliage on a sunny, warm early autumn day.
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Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 1d
#MedievalMonday Inside the 12th century church of Teampall Mholuaidh (St Moluag's church) on the Isle of Lewis, #Scotland

You can really feel the age in here!

#history #archaeology #churches #photooftheday
The inside of an old stone church with rugged grey walls and altar at the end. Modern wooden roof vaults and benches fill the interior
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 2d
The vaulted undercroft at Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire. The abbey was originally established by Benedictine monks from St Mary's Abbey in York in 1132 and became one of the largest Cistercian houses in England. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #FountainsAbbey #Yorkshire
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 1d
“Pretty cool, Dewey. … Hey! Shake the jar and see if
they’ll fight!”
“Pretty cool, Dewey. … Hey! Shake the jar and see if they’ll fight!”
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Solivagant @wanderingsag.bsky.social · 1d
Emil Nolde
Sonnenblumen, 1935
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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 1d
Golden Leaves Over Water - by Dorset landscape artist, Henrietta Hoyer Millar

Love this artist's work, too...

#art #landscapes #autumn
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Solivagant @wanderingsag.bsky.social · 1d
History and I
Find all the Witchcraft that we need
Around us, every Day—

~Emily Dickinson

Francesca Woodman. 1977
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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 1d
#MolluscMonday: Rather nice example of the Lower Lias bivalve Gryphaea in life position, Westbury-on-Severn, Gloucestershire.
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