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Grail Seeker @grailseeker.bsky.social · 7h

Robin tracks, picnic table, Leith Hill

Random human footprints in sand overlaid with bird track going bottom to top of image.

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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 9h

St Michael's, Somerton Wyverns, I reckon.

The wooden roof of a church with much decorative carving and creatures who I suspect are Wyverns but it is not possible to count their legs, if they have any.

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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 29/09/2026

"If we are to reinvest the world with meaning, I suggest we use the fragments of our old shattered mythologies to build ourselves a new one." -- Alan Moore in 'And What Are We Supposed To Do With All These Busted Myths' (additional short essay in the special edition of 'I Hear a New World').

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Grail Seeker @grailseeker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Met some lovely people on my evening trike in Sussex, pre @lunatraktors.bsky.social gig.

View of sunlit heathland with rainbow cloud and reflection of dog walker in wing mirror.

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Leigh Wright @wyrddaze.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wyrd Daze is back with a bumper issue 1 – 119 pages of extraordinary music, art & writing! There's a link to the free PDF on my blog: wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/w...

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Strange Attractor Press @strangeattractor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Now in full distribution! The Megalithic Imperative: A 3rd Stone Anthology by Neil Mortimer 🪨 Collecting a decade of cutting edge writing about archaeology, earth mysteries, folklore, and myth in our ancient landscapes. Purchase now strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-mega...

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My last speaking engagement this year will be at the wonderful @treadwells-books.bsky.social where I will be talking about re-enchantment as resistance; communities of story and the importance of links between folklore and place. www.tickettailor.com/events/tread.... I hope to see some of you there.

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Buy tickets – Hookland with David Southwell – In-Person Lecture – Treadwells Books

Hookland with David Southwell – In-Person Lecture – Treadwells Books, Thu 24 Sep 2026 - The creator of England's imagined lost county on re-enchantment as resistance. Through near-daily postings in th...

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Gyrus @gyrus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Erik Davis just uploaded all his old Expanding Mind interviews to YouTube, well worth exploring. Here's the one with me, just after the release of my book North, discussing 'ice monsters, the trauma of the agricultural revolution, and the social politics hidden in myth.' youtu.be/8vPz-cmedXg?...

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Expanding Mind with Erik Davis - The Polar Cosmos - November 23rd, 2014

YouTube video by Burning Shore

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 09/07/2026

This is interesting & necessary; everyone should create an acct & document your non-consent ASAP "A public, machine-readable record of how AI may use a person's likeness, voice, & movement. Identity is intellectual property: each person decides what is & isn't allowed." (Registry link in replies)

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Actor and Producer Cate Blanchett and EU Parliament Member Eva Maydell Launch RSL Media Human Consent Registry to Protect Identity in the Age of AI | RSL Media Newsroom

Registry opens today to the public, providing a free and practical way for people to declare how AI systems may use their name, image, likeness and other identity attributes, promoting transparency an...

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

As promised to link to my first actual Hookland book. It is only small, but covers a lot of the ghost soil. If enough of you buy it and like it there will be a Volume Two. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123 It will also be available in an actual bookshop soon.

The coverplate of the book HOOKLAND FRAGMENTS VOLUME ONE by David Southwell featuring a picture of the Ghost Bear of Hookland by Maria Strutz and the following blurb:

I firmly believe David Southwell’s Hookland to be one of the great
imaginative achievements of our age. One that will one day be
spoken of the way Lovecraft’s Mythos is now. Hookland is the
folklore of the county that exists on the edge of our vision, an
unseen but sensed Britain that is at once familiar and strange.
It is the land just to the left of where we live. David’s work is
made even more remarkable by his open invitation for all to
come and play there. Though of course visitors to Hookland
must be wary, the county exacts its price from us all. – R.J.
Barker, award-winning author of bestsellers such as The Bone
Ships and Gods of Wyrdwood.

As a visitor I am more frequently in Hookland than the barrows
and chalk downs of my childhood. – Roger Clarke, best-selling
author of A Natural History of Ghosts.

Hookland is gold standard eldritch world building. – Ian
Simmons, Fortean Times news editor.

This a shimmering place of deep time, cold wars, old gods and
ever renewing mysteries.The heartland and home county of the
restless and the outsider, a lamp glow to welcome the lost, a
pole star for those who dare to step into the dark and follow its
glorious glowing ghostlight. – Rose Ruane. Artist and writer of
Birding and This Is Yesterday.

Hookland has been called many things. Psychic shrapnel
embedded in place. A re-wilding of folklore. The English Eerie
told in strange fragments. According to its creator David
Southwell, nothing in Hookland is made up, just remembered
differently.

Hookland Fragments Volume One offers both an introduction to
Hookland and an exploration of its agenda of re-enchantment
as resistance.

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Red Pill Junkie @redpilljunkie.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's been months since I've had a commission, so if you aren't in need of one, or can't afford one at the moment, I would still appreciate it if you can at least give a like and reshare. absurdbydesign.com

poster illustration featuring the Argentinian character Mafalda alongside her friends, wearing spacesuits and observing the Earth from above.

Drawn by Miguel Romero (absurdbydesign.com)

Personal commission showing the commissioner surrounded by a menagerie of non human entities, inspired by actual close encounter reports. The Gulf Breeze UFO is in the background

Drawn by Miguel Romero (absurdbydesign.com)

Digital illustration showing a couple (the author's parents when they were young),

Drawn by Miguel Romero (absurdbydesign.com)

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

How do you stay cool in Hookland? You visit a parish church and become part of its congregation of shades. You climb into a portal tomb and lie you back against its cooling stone as you listen to the heatless whispers of the ancestral dead.

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Grail Seeker @grailseeker.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Which begs the questions: How do we know we don't do this? Who are 'we'?

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I promised you a book cover for Hookland Fragments Volume One at Midsummer and here it is:

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Grail Seeker @grailseeker.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Went back to my favourite Nightjar haunt yesterday, after an aborted visit last full moon, thanks to a nearby poacher. The birds are easier to observe and record thanks to the reflection of the sky in the pond.

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Grail Seeker @grailseeker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Just thinking about the likely impact on LLMs of all the sarcasm (i.e. people saying the opposite of what they mean) on social media.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

As Hookland is occasionally sweary and most definitely mentions words like Hell on a regular basis, you may want to enable the adult content filters on Bluesky as the county is definitely going to be on the new naughty step.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I think people forget the “you can’t change your sex” slogan is a newer line of GC rhetoric with only recent purchase. For nearly a century “sex change” was an accepted term, and while deployed clumsily and poorly, it was also understood as a reality the nuances of which were largely irrelevant.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Have just asked the publisher of the first Hookland booklet if they could put the following after the ISBN details: The author of the work would like to give fair warning to anyone intending to pirate this book that they will activate a curse embedded in its text if they do so.

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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

▫️ the underneath ▫️

these are old stones - underneath are broken stones and fallen leaves or plants - anything of the things above [which may look like sky or sea] are just other kinds of stone

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Bernardo Kastrup @bernardokastrup.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Association is a fundamental principle uniting physics, biology, and mind, Jarosek suggests. Coherence emerges through the relational act of association itself, which can be seen as the connective tissue not only of meaning, but of reality itself. www.essentiafoundation.org/association-...

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Association as causation: the fabric of meaning and existence itself

This essay proposes association as a fundamental principle uniting physics, biology, and mind. Rather than treating causation as either upward (from parts to wholes) or downward (from wholes to parts)...

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Grail Seeker @grailseeker.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Trying out the Kagi search engine kagi.com, but with this handy AI removing CSS codeberg.org/zerodogg/kag.... So far, so good.

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kagi-no-ai

Remove all AI-features from the Kagi search engine

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Tommie Kelly @tommiekelly.com · 13/05/2026

Did Gordo White just die? WTF?

A screenshot of a text announcement on a dark background under the heading 'Announcement'. The text reads: 'I write to share the heartbreaking news that Gordon has passed away. Gordon left this world while travelling in Peru - following his life's passion - learning and experiencing traditional magic and shamanic practice so he could continue to teach and help others successfully navigate life. Rune Soup - and you, the community - were Gordon's proudest achievement. I know many of you will feel his loss greatly. I encourage you to find each other, and your family and friends to help process his loss. I've set up a space...'. The bottom of the image shows mobile app navigation icons like reply, email, and trash.

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Dark Galloway @darkgalloway.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Watcher of the skies. The Wren's Egg, a glacial erratic accompanied by a pair of small standing stones, aligned to the Midwinter Sunset, in the Machars of Galloway. #Scotland #AncientHistory #StandingStoneSunday #blackandwhitephotography #SouthernScotland

Atmospheric black and white photo of a ground-fast boulder in a grassy field. There are trees in the middle distance and dramatic dark clouds above.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The full photo of the average size Kingdom of Kent oak tree, and an average size citizen The tree is Majesty, the largest oak tree in Europe, & my son Oliver, who is 6 feet 6 inches 🙂🌳

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Grail Seeker @grailseeker.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

My kids went out to vote and came back with a 17-year-old stray cat. If the vet gets no response from his owners after two days, we'll take him to a shelter.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Just occurred to me, using very basic biological metaphor, we have with LLMs created a virus that attacks information validity. All of our structures for making and confirming factual information are under attack from LLM created information that mimics healthy information enough to get established

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

If you are told of seemingly impossible encounters, journeys into high strangeness and your first impulse is to demand they be declared hoax or hallucination, then I pity you. If your need for cosy certainty trumps the possibility of wonder, you are imaginatively impoverished. – Brian Danbury, 1981

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This is amazing, a stunning discovery Can someone who's more familiar with paleontology tell me what the yellow and orange is about? Is it a dye the preparators are using, and if so why?

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Grail Seeker @grailseeker.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Six damselflies currently emerging from my pond.

Macro shot of a damsel fly’s head, with large compound eyes.

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Grail Seeker @grailseeker.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Some highlights from yesterday’s Beltain Festival at @butserancientfarm.co.uk

A ’Wicker Man’ depicting the ‘Amesbury Archer’.

Archaeologist Phil Harding, sporting a brimmed hat, enthuses about flint while clutching an arrowhead, in a reconstructed Iron Age roundhouse full of Beltain revellers.

A somewhat wary young lady gives a birch tree stump a wide berth, as it pauses in the middle of a path. Bare human legs, from the knees down, can be seen below the base of the stump.

Facing each other, two rows of female dancers from the Beltane Border Morris side, dressed in black ragged costumes and wielding sticks, step forward with a yell.

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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 30/04/2026

THE PYLON PEOPLE RETURN ⚡️📡⚡️ Seven years have passed since the first Pylon People release. Seven years that somehow feel like a century of bad signals, dead air, black fields, and voices coming through the static. ⚡️📡⚡️Available on Bandcamp only: pylonpeople.bandcamp.com/album/hookla...

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Hookland Transmission #2: The Electric Ley, by Pylon People

5 track album

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Grail Seeker @grailseeker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A wonderful evening listening to @cultauthor.bsky.social’s inspiring talk on the roots of #Hookland in England’s ghost soil.

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Mark Chickenf1sh @chickenf1sh.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Tbh the best thing about this article is the list of academics lining up to absolutely savage the total ignorance of the AI bros re the field they claim to be experts in.

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