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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Re-introducing a Hookland childhood nightmare/beloved icon. Mr. Lookout – the ghost bear mascot of the Hookland Tourist Board's 'I-See! series of books'. The scarrer of many a child's imaginations as depicted by @tomsbrown.bsky.social. #MrLookout #Hookland

A ghost bear. A big, fat ghost bear. Wearing spectacles, holding what appears to be a bone wand. Trust me, it is one scary bear. The text says: Mr. Lookout

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

from Grimm's Fairy Tales — Elenore Abbott, 1920

Painting of a woman in green with long red hair dealing beside a very ferocious looking dragon - Chinese influence on that Dragon I think

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 28/09/2026

#Kiwiana Fred Dagg in fine form.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 25/09/2026

Timely reminder that if this incompetent govt hadn't wasted hundreds of millions of dollars & years of missed opportunities, the new ferries would be operating the Cook Straight now

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

syn-grin, n.n: the toil or snare which a sin constitutes. (SUEN-GRIN / ˈsyn-ˌgrɪn) #OldEnglish #WOTD

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Zohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nothing unites people across the political spectrum like deciding an invisible illness that disproportionately affects women is actually hysteria

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some gates make you wary of climbing over or opening them. You have this weird sense that crossing their threshold will deliver you somewhere else. Faery or some parallel dimension that is simultaneously familiar yet alien. My danger radar is weak, but not that weak. – #MattAdams

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 25/09/2026

I saw this last year and I'm so glad it's got an official publication!!!

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

PURSUIT (1982) Acrylic - 30” x 20” Occasionally it is fun to do an action-filled scene. This exciting book by Alan Dean Foster afforded the perfect opportunity. #art #booksky 🪐📚

In a frantic flight through the woods, a fierce ostrich-like bird bends its sinuous neck as it corners around a massive tree. With a powerful talon, it grips rock and seeks footing with its other leg raised. Mounted on its back gripping reins is a redheaded man in a vibrant blue coat. A serpent coils around his shoulder and down his extended arm. The serpent spreads kaleidoscopic wings and hisses in displeasure. A badger-like creature springs out of their path.

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Big Art Thread @bigartthread.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Illustrations from a fashion calendar by French artist Martha Romme, 1919.

Fashion illustration in a flat, decorative style depicting a white woman wearing a voluminous white dress with a blue and red border, swinging a long colorful floral garland

Fashion illustration in a flat, decorative style depicting a white woman wearing a long blue coat with white fur lining and a big fur muff, standing on white ground against a black sky with white stars.

Fashion illustration in a flat, decorative style depicting a white woman wearing a puffy white dress with blue and red pattern and long strings of gray pearls, standing on white tile floor against a black sky with white stars and colorful hanging lanterns.

Fashion illustration in a flat, decorative style depicting a white woman wearing a voluminous white dress with a blue and red vertical stripes, smiling and posing under cherry blossom branches.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 25/09/2026

Dying fabric the medieval way, because you know, medieval people LOVED COLOUR!! youtu.be/tQFtKDWUe3I?...

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I Tried Medieval Dyeing

YouTube video by V. Birchwood

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

PEEKABOO FUZZIES (1983) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 16” x 22” The Fuzzy Sapiens created by H. Beam Piper first appeared in the early 1960's and were a welcome contrast to the menacing aliens that seemed to dominate science fiction of the day. #art #booksky 🪐📚

A pair of adorable furry creatures poke their heads out from the cover of dense tropical vegetation. Their huge eyes are strikingly green, cat-like and glossy so that the treetops reflect in the light. Their noses lie long, wide, and flat. Their mouths aren't pronounced like an ape, but thin lips and the slit of their mouths does seem ape-like. Long tufts of light brown hair sweep outward around the eyes like a flaring mane, giving their faces a disproportionately wide countenance. Hair over the pate is smoothed back of their heads. Cat-like ears—soft rounded triangles—are set above and just outside their big eyes. One thick-fingered paw, lacking claws or nails of any sort, extends as if pushing the alien foliage aside.

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

weorc-mann, m.n: one who works, a labourer. (WEH-ork-MAHN / ˈwɛɔrk-ˌman) #OldEnglish #WOTD

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 21/09/2026

BRB, just popping in the machine to go wish H.G. Wells happy birthday! You can guess my favourite book of his, I read it many times, I also loved the films, even the bad ones and I loved this comic version of my favourite story when I was a kid:

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As Summer approaches, remember to Slip Slop Slap. Australia has found some sunscreens to be far below the labelled SPF, leading to higher risk of skin cancer. In #NZ, NZ First stopped the Therapeutics Act being implemented - which would have made misleading SPF label illegal. #kiwi #australia

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The bébé. Photo from my collection, 1956.

Black and white photo of a light skinned woman seen from the chest down, sitting on a kitchen chair. She’s wearing a light blouse and skirt and has a beautiful little longhaired tabby kitten in her lap.

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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 20/09/2026

the difference between fine art and illustration is nothing more than the economic class of the artist making it and that of their patrons.

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Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We have our Bird of the Year 2026! Little karure is a "conservation success story, going from just five birds in the 1980s to about 350 today." But it is still critically endangered. "98,920 validated votes cast this year ... 88 percent of those have come from right here in Aotearoa New Zealand."

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Black robin bucks shy tag to take Bird of the Year 2026

The diminutive karure black robin has won Bird of the Year.

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Kelly Whyte @kellywhyte.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm sure it's obvious to anyone; if they cared about nutrition, we wouldn't have Seymour slop. If they cared about healthcare, we wouldn't have the current staffing crisis. If they cared about research, they wouldn't have cut funding to the bone. Look at what they do, not what they say. #nzpol

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New Zealand First reveals plan for 'bold shift' in healthcare

New Zealand First has released its plan to "Make NZ Healthy", promising to put prevention at the centre of healthcare if re-elected.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's not just menhirs that enjoy continuing veneration. Many glacial erratics are on the routes of modern lithic pilgrims and assorted stone botherers. The deposited rocks serve to anchor folklore whether it's tales of Old Clip's anvil or boulders thrown by giants. – Dr. M. Benn

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

wow its amazing how much lighter i feel after completing an extremely daunting task that's been weighing on me for months. i guess procrastination really does lead to more stress. good thing i'll definitely remember this for all future daunting tasks

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

lār-lēast, f.n: lack of learning or instruction. (LAHR-LAY-ost / ˈlaːr-ˌleːast) #OldEnglish #WOTD

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J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A while ago I mentioned that Bruce Boxleitner and I were helping Warners with the launch of their Babylon 5 YouTube channel. As part of that, the first of three brand new half-hour-plus interviews/discussions between me and Bruce will go online on Monday. www.youtube.com/@Babylon5

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Babylon 5

You’ve arrived at Babylon 5, the last, best hope for peace. A neutral station standing at the crossroads of galactic powers, where ambassadors, soldiers, traders, and dreamers all have a stake in the ...

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Misha Collins @mishacollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today, Castiel turns 18! Welcome to adulthood, buddy. Make good choices. #HappyBirthdayCastiel 🎈🎂🎉 @creationent.bsky.social

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Mx. Moz @mleelunsford.com · 15/09/2026

Old concept I tried that I wanted to try again on. Print available here: mleelunsford-shop.fourthwall.com/products/whe...

A parody Scooby-Doo piece trying to look like a 1960's thriller movie poster

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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paulinabarry.bsky.social @paulinabarry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This kowhai might be the most beautiful one in all of Dunedin right now! #tree #trees #Dunedin #dunnerstunner #spring #flowers

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History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The photo shows the Vinicunca or "Rainbow Mountains" in Peru. The mountain’s colors are formed by sedimentary layers that have been exposed by erosion. The colors range from red, brown, pale green to pale yellow, caused by weathering of iron-minerals 🇵🇪🌈

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

At first it was thought stencilled images might be the logo for a band. Further research has shown them to be a representation of The Doom Tree, a symbol core to the eco-cult Garden of Dust. – Sophie Morley of Woden College's Graffiti Research and Formalisation Team (GRAFT), 1982

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New life goal unlocked: old woman who suddenly appears by the edge of the forest holding her cat. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a woman wearing a long dark dress. She is standing on the far side of a wire fence in front of a wall of snowy trees. She looks at the camera with a smile and holds up a beautiful striped tabby cat.

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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 17/09/2026

RIP Peter Max 🙏🎨 "If any artist was responsible for defining the visual vocabulary of the 1960s, it was Peter Max, whose vividly fluorescent paintings, posters and graphic imagery were ubiquitous during the era of flower children and the Age of Aquarius."-Matt Schudel

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Pew ends that functions in many churches as wooden bestiaries are often polished by playful hands of children bored by the drone of a poor Sunday homily. It interests me to see which animals they will not touch. For instance, they refuse to handle the Fethrower. – #CLNolan

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Mab of the Antipodes @mab-browne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Loathe, loathe, loathe them. Apparently being able to live off your wages is a bad thing? Bah!!!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man

ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST, THEN THERE IS NOTHING BUT BLIND OBLIVION. AND EVEN OBLIVION MUST END SOMEDAY. LORD, WILL YOU GRANT ME JUST A LITTLE TIME? FOR THE PROPER BALANCE OF THINGS. TO RETURN WHAT WAS GIVEN. FOR THE SAKE OF PRISONERS AND THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS.

Death took a step backwards.

It was impossible to read expression in Azrael's features.

Death glanced sideways at the servants.

LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

eald-hād, m.n: old age. (EH-ald-hawd / ˈɛald-haːd) #OldEnglish #WOTD

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There are spirits of the stair that announce themselves in a sudden burst of perfume, laughter or unmistakable sound of children running up and down. Yet we must be honest, there are also stair spectres that shove. Predatory phantoms that delight in downfall. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

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Tomb Heintjes @hogansalley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“Josie and the Pussycats” premiered Sept 12, 1970. They were created by artist Dan DeCarlo, whose wife was named Josie. (Valerie was the first Black character on Saturday AM cartoons.) Melody's singing was by Cheryl Ladd—her first TV work. (Credited as Cherie Moor, Ladd was born Cheryl Stoppelmoor.)

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History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

September 8, 1966, 60 years ago #OTD, the first episode of #StarTrek - The Original Series aired in the #US (2 days after #Canada). "The Man Trap" features already a bit of #geology as halite (or salt) plays an important role 👽 ⚒ www.bressan-geoconsult.eu/geological-s...

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026

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