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Scarab @configures.penguicon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

Really excellent reading of Fritz Leiber's spooky *The Black Gondolier*, set in Venice *Beach*, and reminding me of the X-Files seasons with black oil. Death Panel: A Death Panel #Halloween (10/31/24) Episode webpage: soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a-death-p… Media file: […]

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Scarab @configures.penguicon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2025

#BlackJoy is beautiful! Fun listening to The Atlas Obscura Podcast: The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (from August) Episode webpage: www.stitcher.com Media file […]

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Scarab @configures.penguicon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2025

#BlackJoy is beautiful! Fun listening to The Atlas Obscura Podcast: The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (from August) Episode webpage: www.stitcher.com Media file […]

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aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2024

used the #waybackmachine at work today, to find the download link for an outdated software version that the vendor still had available, but had hidden by removing the links. it's the little things

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Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD @christosargyrop.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2024

From Facebook ..... I just learned the professional way to say "I told you so": "This was identified early on as a likely outcome."

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Scarab @configures.penguicon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2024

#Tusky app isn't letting me post my fall foliage or pie pictures tonight, on my Android Samsung phone, updated the other night. Restart and off for 5 minutes then back on didn't fix. 1-3MB photos. Anyone else having similar (500 error) problems?

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Scarab @configures.penguicon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2024

Episode about a great Vietnam War(and beyod) reporter who paid a high price for her service. B&H Photography Podcast: Pioneering Photojournalist Catherine Leroy Episode webpage: bhphotopodcast.libsyn.com/pioneerin… Media file […]

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Trixter of the Moon Council @trixter.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2024

One of my favorite things about subtitles is seeing how they describe the music and sound effects, and what they choose to describe. So this starts with some good "(ominous music)". #monsterdon

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2024

anyway have basically the last of the fall foliage, it was pretty #photography #foliage #leaves #autumn #autumnLeaves #clouds

a tall cloudy sky with textured clouds and more dramatic clouds at the horizon with a flank of red and orange trees also at the horizon past a large green field. a bike trail curves around on the left

the playfully dramatic high contrast clouds from the previous photo with a swarth of mostly red trees below, a couple still green and orange. a building and small pavillon sit at the base of the trees from centre left to right, bike path and green field in front.

bike trail cutting into the distance, bright orange and yellow trees on the left, green with yellow highlights on the right, a cloudy sky overhead

a pair of tall deciduous trees with a third behind and between them, a double-headed streetlight centred behind. The leftmost is predominantly yellow with hints of orange and green, the right a mix of red and green, the centre a solid vibrant red

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Scarab @configures.penguicon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2024

Death Panel podcast episode: New York (Times) War Crimes w/ Members of WAWOG (10/24/24) Episode webpage: soundcloud.com/deathpanel/new-york-… Media file […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2024

This seems like a good place to re-up an academic job at Georgetown that will be a great opportunity for someone. We've got an open position for a Professor of Computer Science, Ethics, and Society. This will be a senior appointment (with a named chair) in CS, with a joint research appointment […]

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Tucker McKnight @tuckerm.us · 04/11/2024

#THEM feels like it could've been the first movie in the Pronoun Horror series, followed by: - They (2002) - It (2017) - Us (2019) #Monsterdon

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rednikki @rednikki.toot.boston.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2024

Your friendly neighborhood poll worker would like to remind you: It's against the law in most states to wear items that promote one specific campaign into a polling place. Many states have expanded this to coded language such as "Let's Go Brandon" gear, "Childless cat lady" clothes, etc. We […]

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2024

A judge rules that Rudy Giuliani must fork over his luxurious NYC apartment and other valuables to two Georgia election workers he defamed. www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-giuliani-…

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2024

woah it's overstock sale day at Dracula City! look at these values! (from mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/113…) #monsterdon #DraculaCity

Basil Rathbone, Peter Lorrie, Vincent Price, and I think Boris Karloff all hanging around in various coffins. Lorrie is holding a lit candelabra; Price is reading Variety, apparently outloud, relaying some bit of news to everyone else, who are looking at him with interest.

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Scarab @configures.penguicon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2024

I like this battle-hardened cat on the logo of the FBI's Cyber Action Team (CAT), with a computer tech background: www.pinterest.com/pin/8428065177425… #caturday

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2024

Who you gonna call if you try to vote in person on Tue and face denial, intimidation, misinformation, other problems? To report in English, call or text 866-OUR-VOTE. Have this number ready on a piece of paper or your phone. The same service (different phone numbers) is available in Spanish […]

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DecaturNature @decaturnature.theatl.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2024

Rideshare2Vote is proving rides to the polls in GA, TX, and a 17 other states. It's staffed by volunteers and offers wheelchair vans too. rideshare2voteaware.org/request-a-r… Rides are also available from Lyft and the New Georgia Project (who pays for lyft and Uber rides, I think) […]

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Dr. Amy H. Sturgis 📖 @drahsturgis.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2024

I’m delighted to be leading a special #Halloween-themed seminar tonight for undergraduate students on the brilliant “Usher II” by #RayBradbury. “Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other […]

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Dr. Amy H. Sturgis 📖 @drahsturgis.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2024

Just in time for #Halloween, here is my talk for the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville on “Why You Should Read #Frankenstein”! #MaryShelley #Gothic #Horror #ScienceFiction youtu.be/19gOThR5dZw

Pictured is a black-and-white image of a hardback copy of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley held upright by two carved skulls, one realistic and one embellished with steampunk flourishes.

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Dr. Amy H. Sturgis 📖 @drahsturgis.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2024

#Halloween Countdown, Day 17 Today's text is the short story “The Invisible Girl” (1833) by #MaryShelley. Quote: "Some say it is burnt by witches, some say by smugglers; but this I know, two parties have been to search, and found nothing but the bare […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

The cover of Mary Shelley: Gothic Tales with black-and-white artwork depicting Gothic scenes. The focal point is a specter-like young woman with black eyes.

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Scarab @configures.penguicon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2024

New "'Funny,' Not Funny" episode now out: I discuss my favorite #Halloween book and my favorite #RogerZelazny book, #ANightInTheLonesomeOctober, on @jiminfantino and Lionel Cassin's #podcast with them and other guest Julia Tenney. Listen & enjoy! […]

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Scarab @configures.penguicon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2024

This month, I've enjoyed listening to some back episodes of this relaxed* spooky Latin American #podcast hosted by twin sisters. This one from 2021 has a funny bit about #Mothman near the start, then gets a little more serious. Espooky Tales: El Hombre Polilla (Mothman) Episode webpage […]

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Scarab @configures.penguicon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2024

This soothing #podcast episode discusses the Rider–Waite–Smith #tarot deck, and I'm pleased that it mentions illustrator Pamela Colman Smith by her full name. Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories: Scorpio’s Dreamy Day on Earth Episode webpage: getsleepy.com Media file […]

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Scarab @configures.penguicon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2024

This comparison of extractive data collection (*Data Grab*) to the resource stealing (Land Grab) that primarily drove the evils of *colonialism* makes for a very effective framework. #TechWontSaveUs podcast episode: The Threat of Data Colonialism w/ Ulises A. Mejias & Nick Couldry Episode […]

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2024

Dracula city! DRACULA CITY! This weekend only, take advantage of our special liquidation sale! Buy nine Draculas, get the 10th one for just one penny! #DraculaCity #WeSellDraculas #AndThatsAll #monsterdon #dracula

a still frame from the UHF faux commercial for Spatula City, changed to Dracula City, with a woman in a light blue dress surrounded by an arc of Draculas: Leslie Nielsen, Bela Lugosi, Kate O'Mara, Klaus Kinski, The Count from Sesame Street, William Marshall, Alyson Hannigan, Peter Cushing, and whoever the hell played the Space Vampire in Buck Rodgers. Jutting in at an angle from the left is Vampire Princess Miyu, saying DRACULA CITY in red on black text. The woman is holding a Robot Dracula from Robot Chicken.

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Jaap Burger @burger-jaap.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2024

The dominant narrative is that electric vehicles are heavily subsidised. In fact, it's fossil fuel cars that are still heavily subsidised in key European markets. Removing fossil fuel subsidies also means less spending on electric vehicles to compensate for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Map illustrating fossil fuel subsidies for petrol and diesel company cars in several EU countries, totaling €42 billion annually. Key data include total subsidies in billions (€) and fossil fuel subsidies per car (€) for countries like Germany (€13.7bn, €6,950 per car), France (€6.4bn, €5,903 per car), Poland (€6,1bn, €8,410 per car), Italy (€16bn, €14,943 per car), Spain (€0.1bn, €96 per car) and UK (€0bn, €0 per car).

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GERM @germ.deletethis.lol · 20/10/2024

A little #SilentSunday walk this morning in #Connecticut

Trees in vibrant hues of yellow, orange, and red against a blue sky, reflected in a still pond like glass

A shaded bridge over a creek in the woods

A maple tree in bright yellow hues from below against a blue sky

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Dr. Amy H. Sturgis 📖 @drahsturgis.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2024

In publishing, the people who work behind the scenes rarely get their due. But on Oct. 1, 2024, at least, one industry pioneer got the limelight. On that day, PBS aired “Judy-Lynn del Rey: The Galaxy Gal,” the first episode of its new documentary series “Renegades,” which highlights […]

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Scarab @configures.penguicon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2024

Chilling 2023 episode about gendered looks-policing ("you should fix that") and violence against women in South Korea, although at the end of the interview, the author claims it's a fun book and she loves getting facials. This Condé Nast podcast has a lot of cognitive dissonance, glamorizing […]

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Scarab @configures.penguicon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2024

I've been reading #VictorLaValle's horror novel *The Devil In Silver* for October, involving involuntary psychiatric commitment and (maybe) a more traditional monster. Death Panel podcast episodes on the carceral care industry make this even more chilling. This new episode discusses new […]

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2024

yeah, now is definitely the time for art critique #monsterdon #Dracula1974

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2024

"Have you ever heard of Nosferatu?" "That's the ship from ALIEN, isn't it?" #monsterdon #Dracula1974

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2024

🎶 dracula city we sell draculas 🎵! and that's all! 🎶 #monsterdon

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Scarab @configures.penguicon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2024

I don't see one of these every day! From my errands this morning, near a small coffee shop. I don't think my photo does it justice. I couldn't figure out the best angle to show its lines off, but it was very pleasant to come across. #ClassicCars

Shiny green Plymouth ("classic car") next to a green park (complete with man at picnic table on this warm fall day) and a lovely blue sky.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

Image: a floodlight projects the image of a bat onto the sky. Buildings are aflame and clouds of smoke rise ominously. Inside his apartment, Batman reads a novel with a scowl.

Caption: The crime wave raged across Gotham City, but it was book club tomorrow and Batman had, once again, left a great deal of the reading until the last minute.

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Scarab @configures.penguicon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2024

Interesting dive into entanglements and aspects of Iran-Contra that I had not realized in the 1980s. The Lawfare Podcast: Leon Neyfakh on Iran–Contra and Other Scandals Episode webpage: shows.acast.com/lawfare/episodes/60… Media file […]

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Scarab @configures.penguicon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2024

A spooky, swampy, Southern tale as we approach Hallowe'en! EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast: "Fish Head" by Irvin S. Cobb Episode webpage: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/enc… Media file […]

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Kamala Harris News Group 2.0 @kamalaharriswin.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2024

From Rick Wilson “Don’t drink the poison. In the next 20+ days, you’ll be offered poison many, many times. It will come from the Trump campaign, the mainstream media, fellow Democrats, and friends. The poison, in this case, will be that of electoral despair. The purpose of negative […]

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Dr. Amy H. Sturgis 📖 @drahsturgis.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2024

#Halloween Countdown, Day 6 A second #AnnRadcliffe novel read and savored by women working in the 19th-century mills in Lowell, Massachusetts was The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). Quote: “… I am not so much afraid of faeries, as of ghosts, and they say […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

Illustration from The Mysteries of Udolpho (1806 edition), black and white, depicting a woman with a candle investigating a swooning figure.

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Dr. Amy H. Sturgis 📖 @drahsturgis.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2024

#Halloween Countdown, Day 11 Some of the Gothic works deemed “horrid” by #JaneAusten in 1818’s Northanger Abbey (“are you sure they are all horrid?”) are available online, so let’s shift this countdown to those dark and delicious novels. (One is The […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

Vintage black-and-white illustration of Kornis Castle in Romania, surrounded by trees and fields.

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Dr. Amy H. Sturgis 📖 @drahsturgis.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2024

#Halloween Countdown, Day Today’s creepy #Gothic novel, also mentioned as “horrid” in Northanger Abbey, is The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest (1794) written by Carl Friedrich Kahlert (under pseudonym) and translated by Peter Teuthold. Quote […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

Title page from the first edition and first volume of The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest.

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Scarab @configures.penguicon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2024

For the spookiest month of the year, I'm leading a library Zoom discussion on Jane Austen's #NorthangerAbbey at 6:30 pm on October 17. Join us for Gothic novel geeking, gaslighting analysis, and gowns! mcpl.libnet.info/event/11142216 I'll also quote from some #Gothic novels mentioned in […]

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Dr. Amy H. Sturgis 📖 @drahsturgis.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2024

“I took Jack his slippers this evening and lay at his feet before a roaring fire while he smoked his pipe, sipped sherry, and read the newspaper. He read aloud everything involving killings, arsons, mutilations, grave robberies, church desecrations, and unusual thefts. It is very pleasant just […]

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