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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 4h

A THRILLING HALLOWEEN Postcard, Samson Brothers, ca. 1910. Toronto Reference Library, ARTS-PC-126

Three pumpkin spirits (?) flying through the air on terrified black cats.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hungry Bone Syndrome sounds like something a child would make up to get out of PE.

Hungry bone syndrome is a term used to describe the hypocalcaemia (often severe and symptomatic) that can follow the treatment of conditions in which hypercalcae-mia has been associated with increased bone resorption.
With parathyroid adenomas and in hypercalcaemic thyrotoxicosis, prolonged suppression of normal PTH production may contribute to the hypocalcaemia. Hungry bone syndrome should be anticipated and should be preventable by the provision of vitamin D and calcium before and after sur-gery; this is also the treatment if the condition does

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

''Is this your pussy?'' Halloween postcard, ca. 1909. Ref ARTS-PC-128, Toronto Public Library

Someone with a pumpkin for a head holding a black cat.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Merry Hallowe'en, circa 1910. ARTS-PC-101, Toronto Reference Library.

Some mischievous looking vegetables gathered around a jackolantern. As they do.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Halloween postcard, circa 1913. Ref ARTS-PC-133, Toronto Public Library.

A black cat flying through the sky, as they are wont to do, ridden by a skeleton and two ghouls. There is a cavalcade of jackolanterns in the bottom right corner.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Halloween card, circa 1900-1930? Ref 33333200999445, New York Public Library.

A witch riding a jackolantern pulled by three bats. Text reads: ON HALLOWEEN BEWARE OF YE SPELL OF WITCHRAFT

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Halloween card. American, 1908. Ref 33333200999429, New York Public Library.

A witch flying in an aeroplane made of playing cards. Text reads:
Tis Halloween and Im here again/ from the man in the moon in an aeroplane/ my charms are new and right up to date/ to tell by the Cards your fortune and fate.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sukkot (1894/1895) Leopold Pilichowski, 1869-1933. This painting may have belonged to Isser and Friedl Reifer, who fled their home in Vienna in 1938. Via the Jewish Museum.

Men holding the Four Species and hugging each other.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hadji Ephraim Benguiat and members of his family—probably his wife, Rebecca, and daughter Luna—pose for a photograph during Sukkot, ca. 1875. They stand by the sukkah at their home in Smyrna, modern-day Izmir. Via the Jewish Museum.

Hadji holds a lulav (a palm branch bound with sprigs of myrtle and willow) and an etrog (citron fruit) in his hands, both ceremonial objects associated with the holiday. The Benguiats were observant Jews in a port city with a robust multiethnic population.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sukkot (Das Laubhütten-Fest) Moritz David Oppenheim, 1867. Via the Jewish Museum. Chag sameach!

A family celebrates Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, commemorating the dwellings of the Israelites during their wanderings in the desert. The sukkah, or booth, is usually decorated with fruit and foliage appropriate for the autumn harvest.
While father presides, raising his wine glass for the blessing, his wife and beautiful daughter gaze adoringly at the baby. Outside the sukkah, an attractive maid carries a tureen of steaming soup that amusingly catches the cat's attention. Two Christian schoolboys watch the celebration with ardent curiosity.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From ‘The Intermediate Sex’ (1908) Look babe I just think you might enjoy breaking some of the seven seals to your soul, cmon try oestrogen

“If the soul of woman in its usual form represents a secret closed with seven seals, it is, when prisoners in the sturdy body of a man and fused with some of the motives of manhood, a far more enigmatic scripture whose sibylline meaning one can never be really sure…”

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I haven't been in the Greedy Cat age bracket for about twenty years, but I don't remember "Greedy Cat and the Angel Investor" or "Greedy Cat Learns about Downsizing his Workforce".

Greedy Cat (a NZ early reader book about a naughty cat) is advertised as a series about philosophy, psychology, finance, investment, and business.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Leather doll, UK, 1830s. Each foot has a nail through it, used to attach her to a stand. Ref B.2:1-2001, V & A Museum.

This pedlar doll was made around 1830-1840 in England. It was probably produced by C.H. White of Milton, near Portsmouth, as he was one of the few commerical producers of dolls such as this. However, the original stand is missing making it difficult to identify.

The doll is wearing a cream-coloured outfit with a bright red cape. Her head is made from kid leather and has stitched-in facial features to make her look more lifelike. Her basket of wares feature treasures such as gloves, necklaces, scissors, playing cards, balls, and bellows, among other items.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Doll, 1925. Possibly representing a Basque peasant. Ref MISC.7-1938, V & A Museum.

Doll, moulded and painted papier-mâché, fabric, French, 1925.
Freddy Kreuger vibes tbh

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"You may have seen recent media coverage indicating that the ACT Party intends to campaign on ending targeted Māori and Pacific admission pathways into medical programmes..." Email everyone in a health professional programme at Otago got this morning.

It is important to be clear that all applicants to the University of Otago’s MB ChB programme must meet the same academic threshold to be eligible for admission, irrespective of the admission category or pathway through which they apply. Targeted admission pathways do not lower or waive this threshold.

Once admitted, every medical student completes the same programme, is assessed against the same academic, clinical and professional standards, and must demonstrate the same graduate outcomes.

The evidence supporting targeted admission pathways is well established. These pathways help address the longstanding under-representation of Māori and Pacific peoples within the medical workforce and contribute to a health workforce that better reflects and responds to the communities it serves. This is essential to delivering equitable, culturally safe and responsive healthcare and improving health outcomes across Aotearoa New Zealand.

Claims that targeted admission pathways lower standards or compromise the quality of medical graduates are not supported by the evidence. Our analysis of student progression and graduate outcomes provides no evidence of declining graduate quality. All graduates must meet the standards required by the University and the relevant professional and accreditation bodies.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Is There A Heaven for Pumpkinheads? Halloween card circa 1901, United States.

Autochrome photo. A group of people wearing pumpkin heads reading a book called HEAVEN AND HOW TO GET THERE.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is a children's play about Jesus, who as I understand it is some kind of car. I am not familiar with the New Testament, when did they sell him???

Girl: In the Fourth Stage, the lovely car is brought into the showroom for sale.
Boy: Now the Fifth Stage is to understand what a car is for. A car is not just beautiful to look at, its true purpose is to get inside and drive to wherever you want.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Is this normal Christian theology or theology from the Cars universe, what do you MEAN driving the car makes it alive like Jesus

The Fifth stage is called The Resurrection. Here Gd raises Jesus alive again so that his spirit can live in us. This is just like the fifth stage of how to make a car. Only when we get inside a car and drive in it then the car becomes alive and we can feel how wonderful the car is.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Illustration from "L'onanisme- a treaties on the diseases caused by masturbation." Samuel-Auguste Tissot, 1836. Wellcome Collection.

Black and white drawing of a teenage girl looking bored.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"Just as the doctor has fixed me in my arm and leg bath, a wasp threatens to settle on my nose." Etching, May 1869. Ref 572649i, Wellcome Collection.

A man visiting a health resort with his limbs immobilized is watching a wasp flying near him; bath tub in the background.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"Now that party's distrust of the electoral system and the popular will has surfaced again, with National leader Christopher Luxon dismissing the coalition-building that underpins MMP." NZF is sending emails calling Luxon a threat to our democracy, this is not a joke

It is not widely appreciated that Winston Peters played a critical role in bringing electoral reform into the political mainstream.

It was his championing of the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform report of 1986 that directly led to the National Party making its 1990 campaign promise to let New Zealanders decide.

And New Zealanders did decide, by referenda in 1992 and 1993, to adopt the MMP (Mixed Member Proportional) system over the existing FPP (First Past the Post) system.

This was despite both National and Labour actively campaigning against reform and even adding 20 extra list MPs in an attempt to reduce its attraction.

The Royal Commission also noted that the Māori electorate seats would no longer be required under MMP, as all parties would ensure Māori representation within their parliamentary teams.

Winston's arguments in the late 1980s still resonate today. MMP lead to a fairer electoral system, produced a more representative Parliament, and generally stopped a single governing party from imposing radical policies without a popular mandate.

The National Party has never genuinely accepted the popular will. Former Prime Minister John Key tested the electorate again in 2011 by asking whether New Zealanders wanted to keep MMP. Again, New Zealanders overwhelmingly voted "yes".

Now that party's distrust of the electoral system and the popular will has surfaced again, with National leader Christopher Luxon dismissing the coalition-building that underpins MMP. He wants a Cabinet solely composed of National MPs.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

So I got reprimanded for writing ‘what’s wrong with you’ in the tutorial this morning but that is what I’d say

You only have a few Surgicutts left and your supplier is out of stock. A colleague suggests soaking them in disinfectant and reusing them. What is your response (2 main points?)

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I’m sorry little snow woman I did not have a proper scarf to give you

Tiny snow girl on the ground, wearing my sock as a scarf

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Sorry, but as a New Zealander creating New Zealand is not something to be proud of

The empire wasn’t bad. It was the greatest achievement in human history. It created Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and America.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I misread this and for a brief second, lived in a world full of cigarette-smoking sea mammals

Some deep-diving marine mammal species are known to contain concentrations of carbon monoxide in their blood that resembles levels seen in chronic cigarette smokers, which may provide benefits against hypoxia.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Can anyone recommend an actually free flash card app, AlgoApp shrunk the number of cards you can study per day to 80 and I wasn’t that impressed with them to begin with

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“Alarm One, for example, a California-based home-security company, was sued in 2006 by a saleswoman for subjecting her to […] motivational spankings. In Provo, Utah, a supervisor subjected an employee to waterboarding as part of a "motivational exercise." From Barbara Ehrenreich’s ‘Smile or Die.’

Not all the motivational methods applied to salespeople feature rewards and incentives. In a workplace environment where employees have few if any rights, some companies resort to motivating their salespeople in ways that are cruel or even kinky. Alarm One, for example, a California-based home-security company, was sued in 2006 by a saleswoman for subjecting her to what could be called motivational spankings. The spankings, usually administered with the metal yard signs of competing companies, were meant to spur competition between teams of salespersons. As one salesman testified, "Basically, you'd get up in front of the room, put your hands on the wall, bend over, and get hit with the sign." Other punishments for underperforming salespersons included having eggs broken on their heads or whipped cream sprayed on their faces and being forced to wear diapers. (Since both men and women were subjected to them, the spankings did not qualify as sexual harassment, and the woman lost her suit.)
An even more disturbing case comes from Prosper Inc. in Provo, Utah, where in May 2007

supervisor subjected an employee to waterboarding as part of a "motivational exercise." The employee, who had volunteered for the experience without knowing what was involved, was taken outside, told to lie down with his head pointed downhill, and held in place by fellow employees while the supervisor poured water into his nose and mouth.
"You saw how hard Chad fought for air right there," the supervisor reportedly told the sales team. "I want you to go back inside and fight that hard to make sales."l While insisting that the company does not condone torture, Prosper management has had nothing to say about this supervisor's more routine motivational practices, like drawing mustaches on employees' faces and making them work standing up all day. Oddly enough, Prosper is itself in the business of selling
"motivation" to other companies.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Figure (priest?) made of lobster and crab claws. England, circa 1875. Ref AP.40-1875, V & A Museum.

Figure made from lobster and crab claws, with hair and hat, mounted on a wooden base.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Doll head mould, twentieth century. Burbank Toys, England. Ref MISC.735-1986, V & A Museum.

Mould of a baby head for making dolls. Nickel and copper. The baby has no eyes.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Baby's reins, British, circa 1930. Ref MISC.557-1991, V & A Museum.

Leather harness with three bells on the front. Its a toddler leash from the Great Depression.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Boy's skeleton suit, England, ca. 1805. The skeleton suit was fashionable from the 1780s onwards. At the time, it was considered boys’ clothing, as trousers were associated with the military. All-in-one outfits were designed for all children to wear from ~1900. Ref T.165&A-1915, V & A Museum.

Boy's skeleton suit of a pale yellowish cloth known as nankeen, consisting of a jacket and trousers.

The jacket is cut high at the neck with small lapels and straight at the waist. There are elbow length sleeves and a button through front.

The trousers are cut tight at the waist with ankle length legs and a button through small fall front.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"On Highway 1, near Weber Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. From Arkansas heading for California" Photo by Dorothea Lange, 1938 Ref CIRC.82-1973, V & A Museum.

Black and white photo. Group of children in the back of a covered wagon. Two young men are mending a wheel on the road.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

'Ivanhoe' Part of a set by Wedgwood & Sons, 1882. The scene is Rebecca giving a purse of money to Gurth. Ref WE.84-2025, V & A Museum.

Plate, pearl ware with blue transfer printing, showing a scene from the Ivanhoe story in the centre, the rim decorated with turkeys, pigeons, fish, rabbits, geese, chickens and six roundels showing other characters of the story.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"Spring" Boris Zarokhin, 1982 Ref E.1061-2003, V & A Museum.

Etching and drypoint on paper. Centre image is a peasant with a horse- drawn plough, diagonally across the picture plane; above and behind him are other peasants, one handling cut saplings and two others fishing; in the foreground two women peasants are tending soil/plants, elsewhere in the image are a church, a bear, a bee keeper etc.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Königsberg, 1928 FA Paneth, autochrome. Ref RPS.1530-2020, V & A Museum.

Small boy with two life-size cartoon soldiers. The soldiers are armed with Flit.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Radio artists, PBS [i.e., Palestine Broadcasting Service], Jerusalem, 1936. Ref 2019704532, Library of Congress.

Seated left to right: Yahya al-Suʻudi singer and oud; Egyptian qanun player; Arteen Santurji, santur; Ibrahim ʻAbdel-ʻAl, qanun; and Ramiz al-Zagha, oud. Standing right to left: Jamil ʻUwais, Yusuf Radwan, oud, Jalil Rukab, violin; Tawfiq Jawhariyya, flute; and Baseel Sarwa, riqq.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Sikh Family Sheltering from the Blitz in an Alcove, Christ Church, Spitalfields. Bill Brandt, 1940 Ref PH.68-1978, V & A Museum.

A black and white photograph of a man seated in an alcove wearing a turban holding a small child who is reclining on his lap. Seated alongside him is a woman with a head scarf.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

'A discussion.' Photograph by John Cimon Warburg at the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition held in London. Autochrome. Ref RPS.1187-2020, V & A Museum.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

'In the Stocks.' Photograph by John Cimon Warburg, 1908, autochrome Ref RPS.1217-2020, V & A Museum.

Miserable fella in what I think is Tirolean costume? His feet are in stocks.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Scholars at a Lecture William Hogarth, 1736 Ref F.118:138, V & A Museum.

Etching depicting a group of male academics and students, many wearing mortar boards, gathered around a professor who reads form a book inscribed 'Datur Vacuum'.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Astronomia Playing Cards. Manufactured by Francis Moon, London, 1829. Ref ENG64, Beinicke Library.

Playing card showing the Cancer, Leo, and Virgo constellations.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

William Horton's illustration in Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum. Leonard Smithers, London, 1899.

Really grumpy guy watching the pendulum slowly descend. Kind of looks like Markiplier?

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"God! I cannot walk on Earth because of the wings thou gavest me!" Illustration by William Horton from The Annals of Psychical Science. Volume Seven, 1908.

An angel on a thorny cliff pleading with the heavens.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"Die Vivisektion des Menschen". From Der Arzt in der Karikatur by Friedrich Krauss, 1927. Via the Wellcome Collection.

An anatomy class. Rabbits and rats are dissecting a struggling anatomy teacher, as other animals look on.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"The Gap". Illustration from "A Book of Images", William Thomas Horton (1898). Internet Archive.

Two massive cliffs with a tiny tiny house at the tip of each. Black and white line art.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Illustration from "A Book of Images", William Thomas Horton (1898). Internet Archive.

Black and white line art of a giant wave about to destroy a small English seaside town.

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