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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 1h

I don’t read Japanese, unfortunately. Several Buddhist priests are buried there, but I don’t know if he is one.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 23h

Add "For Tax Purposes" to a movie: Let the Right One In For Tax Purposes

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

There are many beautiful monuments in the Japanese Cemetery of Colma, California, but this one with its swooping calligraphy is one of my favorites. Day 15: language #31DaysOfGraves

Black granite headstone for the Kiyono family with very stylized Japanese calligraphy painted in white. Two vases stand in front of the headstone along with offering cups.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The floor of the New Haven Crypt is covered in brick. Each of the historic monuments has a margin of dirt around it so the stones can breathe. During the day, filled with visitors, the. crypt felt peaceful and still. Wonder what it’s like in the dark? Day 14: brick #31DaysOfGraves

Table tomb beside a headstone that is tilting to the left. Smaller headstones made of marble or sandstone crowd behind them.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The tule homes were ordinary once. They were everywhere. I was envisioning what once was, before the invasion: something so comfortable and common, on the unceded Ramytush Ohlone land.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

One of the most unusual things I’ve ever found in a cemetery is J. Seward Johnson’s Crack the Whip statue in Sunset Hills Cemetery in Michigan. A chain of life-size bronze children hold hands in the middle of a field. It’s incredible to see. Day 13: unusual #31DaysOfGraves

Perspective of the Crack the Whip statue group of 7 childsize bronze figures holding hands. A bright pink and yellow autumn tree stands behind them.

Closeup of the Crack the Whip statue. A boy in cutoffs and a headband almost loses his balance. He holds hands with a girl who’s lost one shoe.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Before the Spanish invaded, the Ramaytush Ohlone lived in tule homes in what became San Francisco. This one stands in the cemetery at Mission Dolores, where thousands of enslaved Ohlone people were buried in graves no longer marked. Day 12: ordinary #31DaysOfGraves

Small round building with a conical roof built of tule reeds surrounded by gravestones. A stone cross stands behind it.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

All mine go in Little Free Libraries. It’s a good excuse to go on a scavenger hunt to look for LFLs.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Humor is in the eye of the beholder…and the angle of the photographer. This monument in Resurrection Cemetery in Michigan is really poignant if you look at it another way. Day 11: humorous #31DaysOfGraves

Two red granite headstones are separated by a weathered sad-faced statue of a bulldog.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What do you think inspired it? 💀

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Now used as a public golf course, this was once the San Francisco City Cemetery. When the city voted to remove the graves early in the 20th century, the headstones were moved — but the bodies were not. This structure is all that remains of the Chinese mortuary temple. Day 10: missing #31DaysofGraves

Portal to the historic Chinese mortuary temple at the Lincoln Park Golf Course stands beneath towering cypress trees.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I love the lettering on this little stone. It belongs to Our Darling Eddie in Union Cemetery in Kansas City. I had this lovely day to myself, drifting from stone to stone as they called to me. Day 9: lettering #31DaysOfGraves

A round indentation surrounds a child angel, reclining on a pile of clouds.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When will we get to edit things? Is = in. Sigh.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The classic animal is a graveyard: the Wombwell lion at Highgate. It was a stormy evening with thunder rolling across the city, but everything was at the height of green. I can’t wait to go back again. Day 8: Animal #31DaysOfGraves

Statue of a maned male lion with a sad expression atop the monument of Robert Wombwell, surrounded by ferns.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I haven’t lived in Michigan in decades, but the first cemetery I ever visited still feels like home. I miss it in every season. Day 7: home #31DaysOfGraves

Country cemetery with fallen leaves and stormy sky in Michigan just before my father died.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Rainy day in Montmartre Cemetery with raindrops on immortelles. Not my first rainy day in a cemetery by far, but this one had the advantage of leaving my family alone in the cemetery when everyone else ran for the exits. It was like being alone in Paris. Day 6: weather. #31DaysOfGraves

Classical white French family tomb stands behind a recumbent red granite cross topped with pink ceramic roses. Rain is falling and everything shines.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Day 5: Vehicle is a hard one. I’m going to go with this Ghost Bike. Although it doesn’t mark a gravesite, it did stand in memory of a victim of a fatal accident in my old neighborhood. #31DaysOfGraves

Bicycle with no handlebars or gears painted white and surrounded by bouquets of flowers on the median of Alemany Boulevard. It marks the site of a fatal bike accident.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Remember! Ghosts are not just for October. They are for Christmas, the anniversaries of unavenged murders, and really any time you least expect them.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One of the honors of my life was being invited to speak at the San Francisco Columbarium. No new cemetery book to promote this year, unfortunately. Maybe next year? Day 4: Entrance #31DaysOfGraves

Exterior of the San Francisco columbarium at night with light pouring out the open door.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of the most beautiful collections of stained glass is at Cypress Lawn in Colma, California. The light under this glass dome is magical. Day 3: glass #31DaysOfGraves

Stained glass ceiling in blue and red at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Day 3 of #31DaysOfGraves - Glass Scotland has been endowed with a remarkable inheritance of of 18th century #MementoMori symbol laden monuments, but many are now fragile and endangered. In 2008, this early example of an Adam & Eve stone in Lyne Kirkyard was restored and placed in a glass case.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s so beautiful. It’s a shame they don’t make it any more.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the first grave monuments that spoke to me stands in the little cemetery down the road from the farm where I grew up. This is one of my favorite cemetery in autumn photos, too. Day 2: urn. #31DaysOfGraves

Zinc obelisk monument surmounted by an ornate urn topped with a zinc eternal flame. The urn stands against a vivid blue sky. A tree with orange leaves is in the corner of the photo.

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I spent one of my most memorable Mother’s Days with my family exploring the cemetery in Dublin, California. Such a lovely place. Day 1: flowers. #31DaysOfGraves

Black granite monument marked Dublin Cemetery illustrated by a man pushing a hand plow surrounded by bright orange nasturtium flowers.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 29/09/2026

Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a day Teach a man to transform permanently into a fish, you'll probably never hear from him again

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Chad Savage @savagesinister.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jack Skellington sings "There are few who deny; at what I do, I am the best." I wanna know who those few are, and their reasoning...

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Jack Skellington in Red - The Nightmare Before Christmas

ALT: Jack Skellington in Red - The Nightmare Before Christmas

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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

Give me hedge and a cloud-omened sky and I'll give you a witch-telling of tomorrow. Give me autumn lanes to walk and verges to harvest and I'll make my witch-graft a healing of illnesses yet to knock at door of winter. Let the land be my calendar of magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The natural world that so astonished Annie Dillard & Wendell Berry is right outside your front door, right now, hungry to be encountered. Encounter it. Be an instrument of awe.

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Dr Anna Fairley Nielsson @annaandthedead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#31DaysOfGraves prompts are ready for October 1st 2026! 🪦Welcoming posts from graveyards, cemeteries, or related places throughout October. No rules - interpret however and wherever you want, but AI is strongly discouraged. Browse previous posts using the tag. Translations welcome, German is below 👇

An image of the New Jewish Cemetery, Kraków, overlaid with text:
#31 Days of Graves
Day 1: Flower
Day 2: Urn
Day 3: Glass
Day 4: Entrance
Day 5: Vehicle
Day 6: Weather
Day 7: Home
Day 8: Animal
Day 9: Lettering
Day 10: Missing
Day 11: Humorous
Day 12: Ordinary
Day 13: Unusual
Day 14: Brick
Day 15: Language
Day 16: Faith
Day 17: Music
Day 18: Earth
Day 19: Water
Day 20: Fire
Day 21: Air
Day 22: Mourning
Day 23: Wings
Day 24: Contrast
Day 25: Tree
Day 26: Accident
Day 27: Portrait
Day 28: Landscape
Day 29: Fruits/Vegetables
Day 30: Colour
Day 31: Memento Mori

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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Can it be Halloween yet?

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Tamika Thompson @tamikathompson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Horror writing is political. www.instagram.com/reel/DcOro90...

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

3 high school girls from the movie Mean Girls in a car say “Get in loser. We’re reclaiming the em dash from the little robots.”

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There is no good use of generative AI because the technology was built on theft of creative labor. If that position surprises you from an artist whose life's work was scraped and used without permission to train trillion dollar technology, educate yourself. www.michaelwhelan.com/faq/#digital...

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 12/08/2026

Hyping @morbidloren.bsky.social and Automatism Press, but I’m a little biased due to appearing in the 20th anniversary issue of Morbid Curiosity later this year :)

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Automatism Press

Website for Automatism Press

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

No artist ever just wanted the end result. Every artist of any kind wants to see the product of their labours, the expression of their dreams, their struggle realised. The process is the art, the end result is the prize. Anyone who thinks any gen-ai is art fails to understand this simple truth.

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Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A book is not a product like the shelf upon which it sits. Art is not a product like the frame in which it is displayed. If you think of stories or art like that sort of product, if you use AI to "create" it, you are not a storyteller. You are not an artist. This is not an opinion. It's a fact. 5/6

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NPR @npr.org · 25/07/2026

Back in the '90s, I learned the art of staying cool in Egypt. At that time, air conditioning was not common. In the extremely hot summer of 2026, how are people managing? n.pr/4pC2Rzw

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COMIC: Temps are predicted to hit 106 in Egypt this week. How do people stay cool?

Back in the '90s, I learned the art of staying cool in Egypt. At that time, air conditioning was not common. In the extremely hot summer of 2026, how are people managing?

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