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Jack Fraser
@muninnherself.bsky.social
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Writes stuff, edits things, looks at rocks

https://jackiefraser.co.uk/

#DailyMegalith #MDANT #RNA
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muninnherself.bsky.social
Jack Fraser @muninnherself.bsky.social · Nov 14
I write books. They might not be your sort of thing but maybe you know someone who’d like them. They’re about middle-aged people falling in love.

I also work on other people’s books. The one on the right I am particularly proud of.

I post about writing, editing, and rocks, amongst other stuff.
A stack of paperbacks. Various editions of The Bookshop of Second Chances and The Beginning of Everything The cover of The Old Stones, a gazetteer of megalithic sites in Britain and Ireland
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aoibheni.bsky.social
All right, crafty folks.
I need everyone who sees this to keep a look out for the following shawls. They were lost by FedEx on the way to Barcelona Knits, and have been declared "unrecoverable".
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This is thoussands of euros of work & materials, not to mention their value at Trunk Shows & Workshops.
A blonde haired white woman wearing black is standing in front of a light pink wall and is holding out a large gold and purple tunisian crochet shawl A close up of a pair of hands holding a section of a gold and purple shawl. The section has laternative stripes of the two colours. An over-head photo of a blue and orange curving shawl laid out on a wooden floor. A close up of a blue and orange shawl laid out of a wooden floor, showing the triangular segments that make it up.
December 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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poorfrankraw.co.uk
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You may know that in 2014 I had a rare type of #cancer - Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma in my windpipe. The amazing #NHS team in Nottm & Derby saved my life. Later I met other patients through SalivaryGlandCancer.uk and I am proud to say I am now a trustee of that charity...
Logo for Salivary Gland Cancer UK, a small charity. Hand carved #lettering - FECK
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
muninnherself.bsky.social
OH so there are TWO Wicked films? I'd missed this and wondered why everyone was talking about it again.

What's that you say? Finger on the pulse of popular culture? Moi?
December 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
muninnherself.bsky.social
I enjoyed this sauce-based thread, you might also enjoy it, but I am forced to mention that there's only one 'd' in Fanny Cradock.
dankaszeta.bsky.social Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d
I'm going to reproduce a saucy thread I did some years ago in the other place. It is divisive and produces many odd statements and flushes out parochial opinions.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Job interview
[Scene is a JOB INTERVIEW. The bosses taking the interview are FATHER and MOTHER CHRISTMAS. In the chair across the desk from is the interviewee: RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER, sitting legs crossed. Rudolph is effusive and expressive with his hands / hooves.] RUDOLPH: ...and in addition to my sleigh-pulling experience, l just genuinely love working with other reindeer. I mean I'm a real 'reindeer reindeer' you know? Haha! FATHER CHRISTMAS [Looking delighted]: Wonderful! Well, I think we've found our candidate... So, uh... Rudolph with your nose so bright... ...won't you guide my sleigh tonight? [A chilly pause. We focus on Rudolph, who folds his arms, looks away in silent fury, his nose casting light about the room as he does so. He drags his eyes back to Father Christmas, his expression now of pure, cold contempt.] RUDOLPH: So this is about my nose. FATHER CHRISTMAS: One of my bulbs has gone. RUDOLPH: Go to Halfords! FATHER CHRISTMAS: It's closed till Tuesday. RUDOLPH: No, right, OK... I get it... this is like a narrative thing for you, isn't it? [Rolling his eyes, gesticulating, getting more angry as he begins to rant]: Like...powerful white male saves the shunned outsider by making a gimmick of their difference? [We see Father and Mother Christmas looking awkward, a bit scared, askance at each other] RUDOLPH: So in your head, what, like, the other reindeer who've bullied me my whole life will suddenly start respecting Mr Fog Lamp up front? [Rudolph is waving his hooves now] I mean, I notice you haven't interviewed my AUNTY for this job. Rita the Red-Arsed Reindeer? She applied! Her nose is even brighter than mine, but because the disease has spread to her ARSE she's not the right KIND of diversity mascot... [Finally Rudolph stands up, knocking his chair backwards. Father Christmas looks shocked, Mother Christmas looks terrified.] RUDOLPH: This is BULLSHIT! FATHER CHRISTMAS: SECURITY...! [A little Elf enters to tackle Rudolph] [Ends]
December 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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sarahseeandersen.bsky.social
The image is of a comic. Panel one depicts Santa Claus. He says, "Have you been naughty or nice?" Panel two depicts a happy dog. He says, "I am ALWAYS a good boy." Santa responds "Very nice!" Panel three depicts Santa again. He says "...And you?" Panel four depicts an orange cat climbing a Christmas tree, turning his head to look back at Santa.
December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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johnreppion.bsky.social
The Labyrinths of Troy - a piece from me written for @dailygrail.com on Arthur Machen, Folklore, Archaeology, and Magic
www.dailygrail.com/2017/07/the-...
The Labyrinths of Troy
THE SECRETS OF THE SECRETS OF THE SECRETS I remembered that it was on that hill that nurse taught me to play an old game called ‘Troy Town,’ in which one had to dance, and wind in and out on a pattern...
www.dailygrail.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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leemadgwick.bsky.social
Latest painting (acrylic on canvas)
Small white building on pillars with steps. ‘Prompt This’ with an image of a middle finger sticking up is graffitied along the top.
December 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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christhebarker.bsky.social
Ok hive mind I need some advice. Have we got any eBay experts in the house? Or people who know a lot about mailing framed prints? Make yourself known if you might be able to help me work out how I need to list these framed prints and what to do about collection or delivery. I’m a bit stumped!
December 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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rjbarker.bsky.social
Writer friends! Who are you using to print off Bookplates?
December 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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lynnnothegger.bsky.social
Next time you are at a Xmas market and they are selling the Erzgebirge wooden animals - take a closer look. Cause this is the amazing way they are made.

youtu.be/NWNg2Ns8JJE?...
Manufaktur Werner Reifentiere
YouTube video by So geht sächsisch.
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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jessothomson.co.uk
Contact us if you have been affected by the policy changes of Girl Guiding or the Women's Institute. This could be as an individual, or because you lead a local Brownie group who don't want this policy change. We want to help protect trans inclusion.

goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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maximpetergriff.bsky.social
3/12/25 - nocturn
small hours big time salt marsh / jaws of Humber flat - moon's on - tide's out curlew / curlew sound at pillbox by the creek
December 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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joannechocolat.bsky.social
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 17:
A good editor is essential. They act as your first reader, one with insights into the industry, and provide the objective overview that you, by definition, can't have. Not all editors may be suitable for you, just as all agents may not be suitable. Choose wisely.
December 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
muninnherself.bsky.social
I made a Mari Lwyd pic to swap at the folklore evening. I was quite pleased with it.
A small (tiny!) wooden frame with a painting of a decorated horse skull on black paper
December 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
muninnherself.bsky.social
Got some coal from Krampus at the Farnham Folklore open mic.
A piece of coal.
December 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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classicalalan.bsky.social
I am currently holding a 20% off sale on my Etsy shop, including this original ink drawing of Wayland's Smithy, a Neolithic long barrow close to the Ridgeway in Oxfordshire.
Check out my art inspired by megalithic monuments and folklore here: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#TombTuesday
A black and white ink drawing of the entrance to Wayland's Smithy.
December 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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markharris.bsky.social
For World AIDS Day, which is Dec. 1 and which is being ignored by the Trump administration because they dislike the World Health Organization, other countries, science, and queer people, I'm reposting a piece I wrote earlier this year. (They also hate history.) www.vulture.com/article/hiv-...
The List Keepers
The AIDS crisis shattered Broadway, and the scope of the loss has never been fully accounted for. Some kept their own records.
www.vulture.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. Part 2 of 2:
8. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer runs into a 34-year-old painter at a party and the painter says to the writer that he is just back from Los Angeles and he says with some surprise that he had a really good time there and he asks why does she think that happened and says it's because New York is so boring now that Los Angeles is fun in comparison and that's true and it's one reason but the real reason is that they don't know the people who are dying there. 9. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has dinner every night for 11 nights in a row with the same 32-year-old musician while he waits for his biopsy to come back because luckily for her she is the only one he trusts enough to tell. 10. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer… …trying to make plans to go out of town flips through her appointment book and hears herself say, ''Well, I have a funeral on Tuesday, lunch with my editor on Wednesday, a memorial service on Thursday, so I guess I could come on Friday, unless, of course, Robert dies.'' 11. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when the world's most famous artist dies of complications following surgery at the age of 61 it doesn't seem like he really died at all - it seems like he got off easy. 12. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that at a rather grand dinner held at a venerable New York cultural institution and catered by a company famous for the beauty of its waiters a 39-year-old painter remarks to a 36-year-old writer that the company in question doesn't seem to employ as many really handsome boys as it used to and the writer replies, ''Well, it doesn't always pay to be popular.''
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:
1. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when a 36-year-old writer is asked on a network news show about the Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community particularly in regard to the Well-Known Preponderance of Homosexuals in the Arts she replies that if you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with ''Let's Make a Deal.'' The interviewer's lack of response compels her to conclude that he has no idea what she is talking about and she realizes that soon many of those who do know what she is talking about will be what is generally regarded as dead. 2. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that on New Year's Eve Day… …a 36-year-old writer takes a 31-year-old photographer to get a chest X-ray and listens to him say with what can only be described as a certain guarded hope, ''Maybe I just have lung cancer.'' 3. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has a telephone conversation with a dying 41-year-old book editor whom even the most practiced verbal assassin has called the last of the Southern gentlemen and hears him say in a hoarse whisper, ''I'm sorry but I just hate old people. I look at them and think, 'Why don't you die?' '' 4. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that an aspiring little avant-garde movie director approaches a fairly famous actor in a restaurant and attempts to make social hay out of the fact that they met at Antonio's and will undoubtedly see each other at Charles's and Antonio's and Charles's are not parties and Antonio's and Charles's are not bars and Antonio's and Charles's are not summer houses in chic Tuscan towns - Antonio's and Charles's are funerals. 5. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer is on the telephone with a 38-year-old art director making arrangements to go together the following morning to the funeral of a 27-year-old architect and the art director says to the writer, ''If you get there first sit near the front where we usually sit and save me the seat on the aisle.'' 6. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 24-year-old ballet dancer is in the hospital for 10 days following an emergency appendectomy and nobody goes to visit him because everyone is really busy and after all he's not dying or anything. 7. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer takes time out at a memorial service for the world's pre-eminent makeup artist and a man worth any number of interesting new painters to get angry because the makeup artist's best friend and eulogist uses a story that she has for years been hoarding for her book which she can't write anymore anyway unless she writes it as a historical novel because it's about a world that in the last few years has disappeared almost entirely.
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Bidding is now open on my fuzzy felt Mari Lwyd, along with so many other wonderful works of art.
All funds go to domestic violence charities, please do bid if you can afford to and feel able, it would be great to raise as much money as possible🐴💀👻
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/15748996...
A brightly coloured Mari Lwyd surrounded by flowers all made of fuzzy felt on a black velvet background, the horse skull in profile facing right with their white sheet and rainbow ribbons billowing as they dance
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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happytoast.co.uk
What’s behind door number one on your HappyToast advent calendar?
A yellow number one on a red background with yellow curly borders
December 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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nataliehaynes.bsky.social
The day has come! Ancient Animal Advent 2025! 🐾🕯️🎄We'll be sharing a different ancient animal (spotted in a museum) every day. Who's as excited as this little pig? His hooves are so ready to go dancing.
A black ceramic flask in the shape of a pig, pictured in a museum display.
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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peterhuestis.bsky.social
It's National Cookie Cutter Day! Graphite and watercolor drawings from the Index of American Design by Helen Hobart, Franklyn Syres, Michael Rekucki, and Adolph Opstad:
December 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM