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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

this is the wise council of sages that live next to my desk and advise me on every decision . #mywisecouncilofsages

Four decorated photo cards with pictures of Roald Amundsen, Herman Melville, the Fram (a sailing ship), and William Blake

Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

explorersweb.com/half-starved... Researching this expedition was really fascinating; I’m surprised it isn’t more well known today. For anyone interested in learning more, Mikkelsen’s own books, ‘Lost in the Arctic’ and ‘Two Against the Ice’ are great accounts.

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Half-Starved, Three-Quarters Crazy: How Two Explorers Survived Alone in Northern Greenland in 1911-12 » Explorersweb

Few have endured what Ejnar Mikkelsen and Iver Iversen did. Abandoned by their ship, these two Danes spent two winters in a tiny hut in northern Greenland.

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

👀 adding to my list…

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Reynier Squillace @mountreynier.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Okay! In the wake of the whole "we live inside a black hole" thing getting picked up all over the place, a quick guide to assessing astronomy papers for reliability without more than a cursory knowledge of the field. Here are some red flags to look out for:

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

For the Mignonette case in particular: - Brian A Simpson, ‘Cannibalism and the Common Law: The Story of the Tragic Last Voyage of the Mignonette’ - “In Warm Blood: Some Historical and Procedural Aspects of Regina v. Dudley and Stephens.” The University of Chicago Law Review

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

For survival cannibalism in general, and this case in context: - Lewis Petrinovich, ´The Cannibal Within’, 2000 - Gerald Porter ‘The Tender Cabin Boy: Cannibalism and the Subject’, Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 2002 (2/3)

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I wrote this article a while back for ExplorersWeb about a key maritime cannibalism case but I wanted to add some more in depth resources for anyone curious about survival cannibalism and “the custom of the sea” (1/3) #history #maritimehistory #cannibalism explorersweb.com/how-cannibal...

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How Cannibalism on the High Seas Became Illegal » Explorersweb

The Custom of the Sea gave sailors who ate their comrades in a survival situation a pass -- until this 1884 tragedy.

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

without a doubt this is one of the worst pictures of roald amundsen. it means more to me than i can even express. fucking look at him

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

high altitude le morte d’arthur 2 hallucinations r a very well known phenomena. read a book

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

automatic writing is so funny to me “woah guys i know it looks like i just wrote this but i stg it was a ghost this is so crazy” how did anyone buy that

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I did, yeah! its hardly super accurate but the vibe is what matters lol

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

MY FEARS WERE JUSTIFIED AN POST LOST HIM HES GONA FOREVER

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

fuck i wish i was in the victorian navy. my workplace never has Free Knife For Everyone Day

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

everyone look at the little polar explorer i made

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDREAS VESALIUS 🎂🎁✨💀

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

chapter six… the secret, forbidden chapter…

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Ross Expedition @rossexpedition.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Ross and several officers from Erebus go aboard Terror in the evening. Terror's new kittens are shown to Ross on a warmed plate.

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

like okay roald i admit it youre serving. stop buying so many hats and pay back the norwegian government

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

always a new fuckass hat with this dude

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

bisclavret you will always be famous

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

guy in your trench who thinks hes funny: you know they call it the great war but it hasnt been great for me! guy who went to the pole: this isnt as bad as antarctica rat eating your gangrenous foot: *eats your foot*

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

i campaigned so hard against it but alack 😔

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R @bessler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

In an interstellar travel world you KNOW there would be a devoted fandom for early planetary exploration. "oh my god did you hear they found Jamie Dawson's remains on Gliese 2b"

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

one if by land, two if by sea, three if by air, four if they tunnel in underground, five for if they open a sort of space-time wormhole, six if— actually paul, you should really be writing this down

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

i would have put him in a glass jar with a leaf and stock and poked holes in the lid so he could breath and i would only shake the jar a little and maybe also put the jar in the freezer

a photo of apsley cherry-gerrard looking very polite

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

okay now ive finished the worst journey in the world and the cherry biography what am i supposed to do now huh. where is my friend apsley cherry-gerrard i miss that stupid tory boytoy so bad

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

i dont believe in capital punishment but people who vape on the train…

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

this may be an unpopular opinion but i think polar explorers who died badly were kind of asking for it. why are you even in antarctica man.

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

kind of got too attached to this crocodile envelope painting. dk if i can bring myself to mail him tbh

A painting of a crocodile on a brown envelope. The addresses are covered in sticky notes.

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

david byrne if he was a lost shepherd boy

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Lou @grollican.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

ill be completely level rn. a tumblr post told me i had to make an intro post on here or i would be shot to death a thousand times. hello i am a real human person!! i might post art. i might post about medieval lit. i might post about history. i probably will forget about this and post nothing

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