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@paracelsian.bsky.social
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Pagan, RE Teacher, Letter-carver, Metalhead, ex-Dog-walker, wanna-be runner, post-Cancer. "The only proof, of who you are is in the way you hear the truth. Don't be scared, live to win, although they're always gonna tell you it's a sin".

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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 15h
That y&b overlap is going to be a pig to cut.
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
There are gigs and gigs, but nobody does it like Rammstein. I was in the "Feuerzone" in Cardiff... They filmed the concert in Mexico City... If you've never seen what they do, you might want to sit down and get some headphones... youtu.be/UxmdCABl1EY?...
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Rammstein - Live in Mexico City - Sonne (Official Video)
YouTube video by Rammstein Official
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Surely not...
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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 14/10/2026
Why oh why do I carve lettering on stone, by hand? It's a fair question. In 2 minutes and 38 seconds I can answer that question: youtu.be/QRwrt_3MCp8 #lettering #pevsner #madebyhand
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Why carve lettering by hand?
YouTube video by Frank Raw
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Bravo. Well said.
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Here you go... All my Photos. photos.app.goo.gl/GtzjKwVY6Jme...
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Lettercutting Armenia · Oct 20 – 24, 2019 📸
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Bravo.
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
But did they decipher your analemma?
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Here we are again... Another exceptional warm week is looming n Europe with temperatures up to 35C in Spain. Only the central Mediterranean will have pretty normal conditions.
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Didn't show up in the west maybe. Pretty well analysed in Upanishads and Pali Canon...
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Have you seen any Armenian memorials? Fabulous tradition of carved memorials (often on the side of the house where the person lived - so many to be found in Yerevan).
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Script surely, rather than font - the latter is purely digital. (Pardon the #lettercutting pedantry).
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Indeed, I was having a conversation today where the expression "a critical mass of fuckwittage"was used...
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Once again the US government are taking the warning from a great Sci fi book and going "Oh that's a great plan"... #LivestreamExecutions. #otemporaomores
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Haaretz's detailed story on the Israeli gulags, in which nearly 10,000 Palestinians are held, vast majority of them have not been charged or convicted. These are crimes against humanity. archive.ph/LdVXQ
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Check out @cstross.bsky.social 's Laundry Files... That's the core of it.
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
so very sorry. Sending you all lots of love.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A few years ago I carved this sheep counting stone for my brother in law's farm... Look who admired it today on a visit to look at tree planting! #NorOnMyBingoCard
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you're free, the wonderful Mrs Jamison (& her gang of musical marvels) are doing a concert of her series of Modern Folk Songs and Dances based on stories of Welsh Witches. S. Brent Village hall on 17th October (see poster). DM me for tix. #Folklore #Witches #FolkMusic #OneNightOnly
"Don't Slight the Witch". A collection of Songs and Dances by Sian Jamison. Performed by Y Gwrachod. Saturday 17th October, 7:30  South Brent Village Hall. Pay what you can afford - £10/£8/£5.
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Spectacular Plymouth sunset this evening...
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
youtu.be/R0DGY3iH9ao?...
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"Stormtroops & Freikorps Again" - Marsh Family parody of "Time Warp" from Rocky Horror Picture Show
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
💖🤎🧡 love is love 💖💚💛
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cheers, don't do FB though. Will just have to work out when I can see you...
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Damn...
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is staggeringly amazing @pantheistband.bsky.social (& of course I find this just after they've played in Plymouth!) youtu.be/vPtUlZBxOnQ?...
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Pantheïst- The Final Journey (DOOM METAL ARGONAUTA RECORDS)
YouTube video by Pantheist
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A relevant and brilliant parody... "Blackshirts and Freikorps again" by the Marsh Family... youtu.be/R0DGY3iH9ao?...
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"Stormtroops & Freikorps Again" - Marsh Family parody of "Time Warp" from Rocky Horror Picture Show
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sending you both so much love. We lost both our gorgeous dogs this year, and it is awful. The price we pay for love.
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yes. I had the Ocean Liner one, as the ship on the front (& a few drawings inside) were the SS Canberra. My dad was Chief Officer, and we would visit him every other Saturday in Southampton when I was little. The ship was my playground, and I was spoiled rotten by the Goanese crew.
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Such a lovely boy.
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Now that it has at last been delivered, I can share this (belated) wedding present that I carved over the summer. #Lettercutting
Rounded slab of slate engraved "Lisa and Matt" Ampersand gilded.
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You were lucky to get to the signing...
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
He's cool. looking forward to seeing them again later this year! (Though he did have difficulties with his head orientation at Desertfest...)
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Looks more scary onstage at Desertfest!
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
All the stuff on BBC news tonight about how "the ticketing organisations would recognise and deal with bad actors" (over the return of Oasis)... Of course Ticketmaster ARE the bad actors - greedy scalping bastards.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner.
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Apocalypse Muppet.
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Huey Vietnam Helicopters at Sunset - Ride Of The Valkyries
ALT: Huey Vietnam Helicopters at Sunset - Ride Of The Valkyries
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Brilliant
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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This, à propos of nothing, is what “1000 cranes” looks like when hung up at a particular shrine to pray for good exam results
Origami cranes
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A couple of cracking doom metal bands at The Junction in Plymouth Tonight... The excellent "Nomad Lizard" - new to me but outstanding & headliners "Froglord". & some guy in a knitted pink gimp suit in the moshpit because #metal.
Nomad Lizard
Guy in a knitted pink gimp suit moshing...



Froglord
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Maybe, but if it's going to be an expanse character treating the one ring like Tom Bombadil, it isn't him...
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The Expanse Avasarala
ALT: The Expanse Avasarala
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Lodge 49
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Beat me to it...
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
So smart!
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
*Looks like we're in for some real-deal G7 climate-crisis survival, after all those years and years of costume-play prepperpunk *Expect to have the ruling oligarchs loudly blaming you for your own suffering *Also, if you efficiently save your own community, expect to be repressed by armed police
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Terminate... with extreme prejudice".
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Very Obviously He Has Gone Insane - Apocalypse Now
ALT: Very Obviously He Has Gone Insane - Apocalypse Now
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wishing you a speedy and easy recovery.
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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When winter returns I will go back to my duffle coat, which my parents brought me when I was 12 (in 1980)
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