David From The Blackwood Lagoon
@ghostforest.bsky.social
Whimsical nihilist. Passionately apathetic. Humanist misanthrope.
Pinned
While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped
Thro’ many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,
And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing
Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thro’ many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,
And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing
Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lillian Gish (left), 1920
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Lillian Gish (left), 1920
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I'm not sure what it says but I can't really laugh at "jokes" anymore. Like "Tuesday implies the existence of Onesday". Yeah. Whatever. I only enjoy "lies". "I was Prince's nanny and later his wet nurse. I gave suck to the musical artist 'Prince' until he was 49 years old." Cool. Tell me everything.
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I'm not sure what it says but I can't really laugh at "jokes" anymore. Like "Tuesday implies the existence of Onesday". Yeah. Whatever. I only enjoy "lies". "I was Prince's nanny and later his wet nurse. I gave suck to the musical artist 'Prince' until he was 49 years old." Cool. Tell me everything.
I saw someone on instagram call Nick Cave a “no talent” and I’m reminded that the worst part of the internet is that it makes you aware of the existence of people of such profound shitheadedness that you wouldn’t have thought possible.
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I saw someone on instagram call Nick Cave a “no talent” and I’m reminded that the worst part of the internet is that it makes you aware of the existence of people of such profound shitheadedness that you wouldn’t have thought possible.
I like how you can make a post on here about some random niche subject, like badminton or something, and then the next day you'll have a like from an account called crazee4badminton*.
(* I thought about making a joke using the word "shuttlecock" but that sort of thing is beneath me)
(* I thought about making a joke using the word "shuttlecock" but that sort of thing is beneath me)
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I like how you can make a post on here about some random niche subject, like badminton or something, and then the next day you'll have a like from an account called crazee4badminton*.
(* I thought about making a joke using the word "shuttlecock" but that sort of thing is beneath me)
(* I thought about making a joke using the word "shuttlecock" but that sort of thing is beneath me)
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Catacombe dei Cappuccini Palermo
~ abaco/barcroft
~ abaco/barcroft
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Catacombe dei Cappuccini Palermo
~ abaco/barcroft
~ abaco/barcroft
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Daily bunny no.3147 got everyone a slice
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Daily bunny no.3147 got everyone a slice
One time I was driving in really slow traffic and there was an Amazon delivery van in the lane next to me wanting to get over. So, in working class solidarity, I waved for them to merge in front of me. When they did I saw that they had a bumper sticker that said "Please let me merge or I'll cry."
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
One time I was driving in really slow traffic and there was an Amazon delivery van in the lane next to me wanting to get over. So, in working class solidarity, I waved for them to merge in front of me. When they did I saw that they had a bumper sticker that said "Please let me merge or I'll cry."
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every full moon i drive three miles down the backroads to an ancient little cemetery and fall asleep on the witch's grave
November 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM
every full moon i drive three miles down the backroads to an ancient little cemetery and fall asleep on the witch's grave
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On this, the 104th birthday of Rodney Dangerfield, let us remember this immortal, deeply compassionate passage from his friend Norm Macdonald's book BASED ON A TRUE STORY.
November 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
On this, the 104th birthday of Rodney Dangerfield, let us remember this immortal, deeply compassionate passage from his friend Norm Macdonald's book BASED ON A TRUE STORY.
I had to delete a post I made yesterday because it was becoming popular and it makes me deeply uncomfortable when too many people like anything I do.
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I had to delete a post I made yesterday because it was becoming popular and it makes me deeply uncomfortable when too many people like anything I do.
TIL: Peter Sellers and his Goon Show castmates all hated the song "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller. So Sellers had it played at his funeral, so they would all have to suffer through it. I love that.
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
TIL: Peter Sellers and his Goon Show castmates all hated the song "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller. So Sellers had it played at his funeral, so they would all have to suffer through it. I love that.
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You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
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i'm obsessed with this Kliban
November 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
i'm obsessed with this Kliban
My all time favorite comic isn't available anywhere online. It was in a book I had when I was a kid. It was entitled "If wildlife got fan mail" and it featured a raccoon reading a letter that said "I just want you to know I think you're a hell of a raccoon. Keep up the good work."
this is a post where you (yes, YOU) can and should reply with underrated comic strips or other comic-y jokes. could be an unheralded entry from a classic strip or maybe a lesser-known strip altogether.
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
My all time favorite comic isn't available anywhere online. It was in a book I had when I was a kid. It was entitled "If wildlife got fan mail" and it featured a raccoon reading a letter that said "I just want you to know I think you're a hell of a raccoon. Keep up the good work."
No matter how many times I read about Theosophy, I still can't say that I know anything about it. It's like the information just refuses to stick in my brain.
November 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
No matter how many times I read about Theosophy, I still can't say that I know anything about it. It's like the information just refuses to stick in my brain.
A) That's not what being homeless means.
B) If anyone deserves to actually be homeless, it's him.
C) I gotta admit, the idea of vacationing in Cyprus and going to a nightclub for some light entertainment and fuckin' Kevin Spacey walking out on stage is kinda hilarious.
B) If anyone deserves to actually be homeless, it's him.
C) I gotta admit, the idea of vacationing in Cyprus and going to a nightclub for some light entertainment and fuckin' Kevin Spacey walking out on stage is kinda hilarious.
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A) That's not what being homeless means.
B) If anyone deserves to actually be homeless, it's him.
C) I gotta admit, the idea of vacationing in Cyprus and going to a nightclub for some light entertainment and fuckin' Kevin Spacey walking out on stage is kinda hilarious.
B) If anyone deserves to actually be homeless, it's him.
C) I gotta admit, the idea of vacationing in Cyprus and going to a nightclub for some light entertainment and fuckin' Kevin Spacey walking out on stage is kinda hilarious.
Sometimes I like to put sweetened condensed milk in my espresso. It's my half-ass version of Vietnamese coffee.
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Sometimes I like to put sweetened condensed milk in my espresso. It's my half-ass version of Vietnamese coffee.
P.G. Wodehouse's character Ukridge often exclaims "Upon my Sam!" After exhaustive research into the origins of this phrase, the general consensus seems to be "we dunno, it's just something people used to say."
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
P.G. Wodehouse's character Ukridge often exclaims "Upon my Sam!" After exhaustive research into the origins of this phrase, the general consensus seems to be "we dunno, it's just something people used to say."
Coming from a background of metal and hardcore where micsharing and sing-alongs are the entire point of going to shows... different strokes, I guess.
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Coming from a background of metal and hardcore where micsharing and sing-alongs are the entire point of going to shows... different strokes, I guess.
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Hello Friday.
One of Sylvia Plath’s sketches.
One of Sylvia Plath’s sketches.
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Hello Friday.
One of Sylvia Plath’s sketches.
One of Sylvia Plath’s sketches.
I'm genuinely considering starting the world's most pointless Substack. Like, the pointlessness would be the entire premise. Absolutely no politics or references to contemporary culture whatsoever.
November 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I'm genuinely considering starting the world's most pointless Substack. Like, the pointlessness would be the entire premise. Absolutely no politics or references to contemporary culture whatsoever.
Man, just think, Davey Havok probably used to skateboard in that parking lot.
world's largest redwood tree service station, ukiah, california, 1991
November 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Man, just think, Davey Havok probably used to skateboard in that parking lot.
I worked at my last regular job for just over nine years. If you make it to ten years they give you a free Pendleton* blanket. That's how much I hated that job by the end. Even the promise of a really nice blanket wasn't enough to keep me there another year.
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I worked at my last regular job for just over nine years. If you make it to ten years they give you a free Pendleton* blanket. That's how much I hated that job by the end. Even the promise of a really nice blanket wasn't enough to keep me there another year.
Jesus, say what you will about America, and I'm as aware as anyone is of how fucked up things are becoming here... but this is precisely why it's so important that we have the Constitution to guarantee things like the right to a trial by jury, and why it's so important to not let it be undermined.
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
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UK politics live – latest updates
Criminals will be stopped from “gaming the system” by choosing trial by jury in order to increase the chances of proceedings collapsing, the courts minister has said, promising to enact radical changes to limit jury trials by the next election.
Drug dealers and career criminals were “laughing in the dock” knowing cases can take years to come to trial, Sarah Sackman told the Guardian, saying inaction would be a road to “chaos and ruin”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Jesus, say what you will about America, and I'm as aware as anyone is of how fucked up things are becoming here... but this is precisely why it's so important that we have the Constitution to guarantee things like the right to a trial by jury, and why it's so important to not let it be undermined.