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Ferdiad @oldmanferdiad.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

This year’s Samhuinn tumpshie lanterns. /|\ While I remain team #NeepsNotPumpkins all carvable veg are welcome: I’ll be on the lookout for kohlrabi and manglewurzles next year! #Samhuinn #Samhain #Ancestors #JackOLantern #druidry #UrbanDruidry #TumpshieLantern #DruidSky

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Ferdiad @oldmanferdiad.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Jack-o-lantern carving as a warmup for carving the tumshie lanterns tomorrow 🎃 /|\ #NeepsNotPumpkins #Samhuinn #Samhain #JackOLantern #Druidry #UrbanDruidry #DruidSky

Small pumpkin carved into a smiling Jack o lantern and lit with a candle

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Ferdiad @oldmanferdiad.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Never not a good evening for a walk beside the river. 🩵💚🤍💙 #Thames #TamesisGrove #UrbanDruidry #Druidry #DruidSky /|\

The River Thames facing west from Blackfriars. It is early evening and low tide with the gravelly foreshore visible.

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Ferdiad @oldmanferdiad.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Low energy kind of day so I thought I’d make pickled rhubarb

A preserving jar full of thinly sliced rhubarb pickling in brine.

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Ferdiad @oldmanferdiad.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Fortunate Fires marked the gateway to summer as #TamesisGrove celebrated our #Bealtaine ritual. May the blessings of the flames bring us what we need as the wheel turns. /|\ #UrbanDruidry #Druidry #obob #beltane #ritual #DruidSky

Bealtaine fire burns safely in a small cast-iron cauldron on the woodland floor

Bealtaine altar wreathed in hawthorn blossoms: a tea light candle lit in a white lantern

Druid altar on the woodland floor wreathed by hawthorn blossoms. Within, a lit lantern; bowl of water; decorated stone and smouldering herb bundle mark the quarters

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Ferdiad @oldmanferdiad.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Hedgerows full of Hawthorn blossoms for Bealtaine. Blessings of sunshine and thorn as the gates of summer open! /|\ #bealtaine #beltane #UrbanDruidry #Druidry #DruidLife #DruidSky

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 17/04/2025

Please more cisgender people do this. Read @jessothomson.co.uk's and @goodlawproject.bsky.social's articles on the impact of the supreme court ruling and demand primary legislation to urgently safeguard trans rights.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 16/04/2025

Please cis people step up on this one. Get loud and make it clear there is a problem here.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 16/04/2025

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment. The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

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UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010

The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country

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Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Clive Barker gets it. faroutmagazine.co.uk/hellraiser-c...

Noting Rowling’s vast financial success, Barker felt that Rowling’s newfound position of fame ought to exclude her from discussing trans rights. He added, “It really just seems redundant for a woman as successful, as validated in the world, as Ms Rowling, to be negative, to be disruptive if you will, to a very beaten up subculture. These are human beings. She has no right to opine, I think, upon the lives of human beings that she does not know.”

“I feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are,” Barker continued. “And certainly transgender people are on the edge of our culture. And here you have one of the most successful people in the frigging world – Ms Rowling. Going after a very emotionally vulnerable portion of our culture. It just seems unnecessary and unfair.”

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Ferdiad @oldmanferdiad.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The balance of light and dark, gratitude for spring time and dramatic thunder and lightning. All part of a lovely Spring Equinox celebration with the Tamesis Druids. /|\ #TamesisGrove #SpringEquinox #AlbanEilir #UrbanDruidry #DruidLife #obod #pagan #druid #druidsky

A spring equinox altar on bare earth showing magical tools and decorations: a lantern, incense censer, bowl of earth and bowl of water. Three empty pots wait to have seeds planted. Flower petals are
scattered in a circle

Heavy thunderclouds over the London skyline as viewed from Primrose Hill in the late afternoon

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 07/03/2025

#Labour INTEND to kill disabled people. It's not accidental. They know. And when they say "savings" you need to hear "cuts that will kill the most vulnerable."

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Stacey Demarco @themodernwitch.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

There is this weird bullshit about 'spiritual folks not involving themselves in politics. If you don't actively stand up for justice, for human rights, for fair-mindedness, for moderation, for LOVE - then, WTF is your spiritual practise good for? Dress ups? Show? Nice aesthetic? #witchsky

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Ferdiad @oldmanferdiad.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It’s better to light a Wicker Man than curse the darkness. 🔥🔥🔥

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k1956 @k1956.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Steve North is president of Unison - screenshots from the other place

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Sin Blaché ♣️ @sinblache.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

You guys, @gaystheword.bsky.social is here. Now it's a party. Go follow them.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

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Ferdiad @oldmanferdiad.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Happy Birthday Pamela “Pixie” Coleman Smith, 1877-1951. Visionary artist and member of the Golden Dawn who illustrated the 1909 Rider Waite Smith #tarot which is arguably the most recognisable modern deck.

An illustration of Pamela Coleman Smith in the style of one of her own tarot cards, labelled The Visionary. Other tarot cards from the “Pixie Pop” deck and the “Vintage Tarot” deck are displayed around her. They sit in a cloth patterned with peacock feathers.

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Ferdiad @oldmanferdiad.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I never see #PlayingCards just laying in the street. Some folk seem to find them all over the place. Nothing so evocative as an Ace of Spades ♠️, just a cheery yellow one Uno card. But it made me smile. #UrbanDruidry /|\

A yellow one Uno playing card lies discarded on the pavement.

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T. Thorn Coyle they/them @thorncoyle.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Holy Brigid: In these times of conflagration That engulf the skies at night… Light the fire that guides our way. Kindle within us the flame of inspiration. We speak your name…. #imbolc

digital collage of a candle and flame with texture. Poem text reads:

Holy Brigid:
In these times of conflagration
That engulf the skies at night…
Light the fire that guides our way.
Kindle within us the flame of inspiration.

We speak your name.

Holy Brigid:
In these times of grief and anger
And these days of stolen lives…
Pour out the quenching waters from your well.
Come, bathe our tear stained faces.

We call to you with voices raised.

Holy Brigid:
In these times of love and rage
And these days when hatred stalks our streets…
Strike bright metal on your anvil.
Forge us tools that we can use to fight for justice.

With all our might and breath.

Holy Brigid:
In these times of fear and division
And these days that tear our hearts and souls apart…
Wrap your mantle around our shoulders.
Remind us we are loved, and we can love.

We ask for your assistance.

Holy Brigid:
Forge us. Shape us. Kindle us. Comfort us.
So we rise up, all together, firm and strong.

Holy Brigid:
Be here now.

T. Thorn Coyle 2015/2025

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Ferdiad @oldmanferdiad.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

There were worse places to celebrate Imbolc. /|\🕯️🌱🕯️/|\ #imbolc #druidry #UrbanDruidry #StoneCircle #Druidsky

Later afternoon overlooking Hilly Fields stone circle: a small stone circle built atop a hill in a South London park as an art project for the Millennium. The grass is lush green from rain but sodden and muddy; the trees are dark, bare boughed silhouettes. The sky is pale blue as the light fades, with bands of clouds tinted in pinks and golds by the setting sun.

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Ferdiad @oldmanferdiad.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Celebrating the waking of the land with the Tamesis Grove druids. Windswept hilltop? Check. Stone circle? Check. Mud? You better believe it. The magical so often meets the mundane. /|\ #druidry #UrbanDruidry #imbolc #TamesisGrove

Imbolc altar on a cracked stone slab in the ground showing various objects including a Brigid’s Cross, lantern, wand and Awen symbol.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 31/01/2025

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

Bugs and Daffy standing by a tree, sign reads DUCK SEASON, then RABBIT SEASON then ELMER SEASON, and they both glare ominously off camera

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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/01/2025

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men "Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices."

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This makes the radar face make so much more sense…

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Ferdiad @oldmanferdiad.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

A very nice wassail yesterday in a community garden and orchard /|\

Slices of toasted bread with cutout shapes of stars and hearts hanging in the bare boughs of an apple tree in a small orchard

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

About as succinct as it gets

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Frankenstein Iscariot @deaconblues1979.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I need my witch siblings to do a whole better about AI images in 2025. Don’t post them and don’t show hospitality to those that do. We do magick, we don’t need to use the plagiarism machine that boils lakes. #witchsky

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iDrood @idrood.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

“ No, honestly. Store bought is fine!” #UrbanDruidry #JustDruid

The oak and mistletoe ritual depicted by Henri-Paul Motte (1900) -A priest arrayed in white vestments climbs the tree via a ladder onto a constructed platform. Other druids are on the platform and more are gathered at the base of the tree in a grove. Wiith a golden sickle, cuts down the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloak.

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas to all

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

An app that matches up ND people by pairing one person who’s currently hyperfixating on a subject with another who’s dying to infodump on that same subject

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Ferdiad @oldmanferdiad.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Solstice Blessings from that most mysterious of sacred sites: Pengehenge /|\

A trio of brutalist upright concrete pillars with uncomfortable concrete benches built into the base of each in a rather bleak paved square surrounded by railings and bare trees

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@Christopher Penczak @christopherpenczak.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

If you start listening to the BBC's rendition of The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper today, Dec 20, and do 1 episode a day, you'll be in alignment with the story's timeline. This has become a new yearly tradition for me. Superb radio play! Look for it amid podcasts. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

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BBC World Service - The Dark Is Rising

A young boy’s time-travelling fight against ancient evil

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

🚨NEWS🚨 Government goes back on it's word, and fails to implement personal emergency evacuation plans (PEEPs) as recommended by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry report. DR UK: 'The interests of private business are being prioritised over people's lives.' www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/governm...

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Government Fails to Implement Emergency Evacuation Plans | Disability Rights UK

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Ferdiad @oldmanferdiad.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Celebrating another circle around the sun at the magestic Pengehenge. /|\ #DruidSky

Three somewhat dilapidated brutalist upright concrete slabs with uncomfortable concrete benches around their bases are situated in an open area covered in fallen leaves and surrounded by tall railings and other concrete uprights. It is raining heavily.
The caption reads “Celebrating another circle around the sun at the majestic Pengehenge”.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

If we engage with trolls, the algorithm spreads them. If we block, it doesn’t. They know this; they use us by baiting us. By attempting to stand up to them alone, we feed them. They win. While blocking may seem like running away, if we all do it together, they are quashed. Team Block & Quash!

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Amelia Leonards Art @amelialeonardsart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The number of people who look at my paintings then ask if owls really have antlers is staggering. Of course they do, duh. #owl #bird #fantasy #magic #fae

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T. Thorn Coyle they/them @thorncoyle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Today is the Trans Day of Remembrance, which began in 1999 to mourn transgender people murdered globally in the previous year, particularly Black trans women. #TDOR #TransRightsAreHumanRights #lgbtq (The prayer is in alt text on image)

Prayer for Our Beloved Dead

Hermaphroditus, look at the names of the dead.
Ardhanarisvara, read the names of the dead.
Melek Ta'us, remember the names of the dead.
Eris, look at the names of the dead.
Antinous, read the names of the dead.
Hoor-paar-kraat, remember the names of the dead.
Tlazolteotl, look at the names of the dead.
Azathoth, look at the names of the dead.
Pomba-Gira, read the names of the dead.
Inanna, remember the names of the dead.
Baphomet, look at the names of the dead.
Avalokitesvara, read the names of the dead.
Faro, remember the names of the dead.
Ymir, look at the names of the dead.
Indra, read the names of the dead.
Ometeotl, remember the names of the dead.
Asushunamir, carry our tears.

Prayer by Tristissima and T.Thorn Coyle

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Simon Groth @simongroth.com · 17/11/2024

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for ‘training’ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.

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