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Dan Mitchell

@specileptic.bsky.social
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Folklorist, writer, comedian, storyteller. PhD candidate. Friend of nature, hugger of trees. Uncommon Folk- my folklore podcast is available everywhere uncommonfolk.buzzsprout.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'Accounts described elephants selecting particular plants when they seemed unwell, and mothers reportedly giving medicinal plant material to their calves. ...the researchers concluded that the elephants use 35 different plant species, and that 25 of those are known locally to have medicinal uses.'
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Elephants treat themselves with medicinal plants, witnesses say
African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick, research reveals.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2026
ended up talking to the 4th grader this morning about fascists, which can be hard to explain simply. i said fascists get mad the world isn't how they want, so they make up a story: things used to be good, but certain people ruined it, and if we just get rid of them everything will be good again
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You're a version of you. But don't forget, in the multiverse there are infinite yous with various coloured ticks-red, green, obsidian. Even the tickless versions of you have worth. Don't let your big blue tick define you
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 09/09/2026
INSIDE YOU THERE ARE TWO OUTLOOKS
NEITHER ARE WORKING
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026
Look, guys, the data centers really need that water to make more csam
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Number 10 North just looks like an annoying restaurant in zone one where a mediocre burger is £26 and when it arrives you ask where the chips are the waiter tells you "those are ordered separately" and you order them and they're £7 and come in a little metal bucket for cunts.
no 10 north
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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
He's back 😄 #archaeohistories
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Well maybe I want a hench forehead
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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I suspect this Great British Potato is whistling the Colonel Bogey March
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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This is good, but we all know that really, it should be a long string of sausages and the fox should be being chased by a red faced, moustachioed, irate butcher who is wearing a blue and white striped apron and a straw hat
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Man, this is so incredibly cool. www.popsci.com/environment/...
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Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.
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Hwaet @cog1.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Oh DO fuck off.
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
That is an absolutely amazing album. It gives me chills every time. Obviously The Four Horsemen is the stand out but each track has something about it
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Fans of Welsh History, Folklore and Boardgames. Have you even seen or played the game of #Gwyddbwyll ? Its a game with similar vibes to chess mentioned in 11th/12th century Folktale classic the Mabinogi #Mabinogion and I've read differing descriptions of the game.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country
SECRETARY RUBIO: Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Irans had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have had a much different country.
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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
FRANCE: we're fancy WORLD: ok FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch WORLD: FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
STICK IT ON A FIVE POUND NOTE
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Red kite with sausage roll snapped by Banbury photographer
Mark Hopkins managed to get some pictures of the bird from his back garden.
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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 13/03/2026
“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”
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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
That's because they coddle them too much now. Back in my day, it only took 20 years for T-Rexes to fully mature, because they had discipline. Spare the rod, spoil the terrible tyrant lizard. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
sciencedaily.com
T. rex took 40 years to reach full size, study finds
Tyrannosaurus rex may have taken far longer to grow up than scientists once thought. By analyzing growth rings in fossilized leg bones from 17 tyrannosaur specimens and using new statistical methods, ...
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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Well, that explains the erratic delivery times.
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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
!! … ah
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
A modern-day tragedy, BUT YOU CAN HELP. 1 Like = 1 Pray 1 Share = 10,000 Prays
Local newspaper ad board:  
MOULDY ROLLS RUINED FAMILY BBQ.
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It looks like she's lying on the pelt of her giant ancestor, contemplating vengeance, then seeing a snack and thinking better of it
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This story is truly something. I'm imagining the 'tiny people' like the lemmings in the 90s video game phenomenon Lemmings. Marching towards you in a solemn line. Shaking their little heads at you. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
bbc.co.uk
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The cheapness of that rent makes me think that rock is igneous or has igneous cladding
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Look at you and your incredibly niche name drop. Mine is I swam in a moat at midnight as Riley from Buffy's body double.
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I'm there today, drinking mulled cider and enjoying the familiar clack of horses teeth and folk music
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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I am tired of Earth. These people.
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Like someone put face paint on a hemorrhoid
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
It just reminds me of this
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 28/12/2025
Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
A Lord of the Rings band called Durin Durin
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
My son made one in school. It looks like a hand grenade made by an Ent.
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Thank you!
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Ruth Husko @dankackroyd.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This is what The Cardigans were talking about when they wrote ‘My Favourite Game’ #totp
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time
Mr Men x Agatha Christie crossover with Mr Poirot in Mischief on the Nile

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSHOPMr Men x Agatha Christie crossover with Little Kiss Marple in Muddle at the Vicarage 

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSHOP
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This is part of the new citizenship test
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I can't say I know which Nerys, but I know the others!
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Thank you! This is 100% in my wheelhouse and I am very interested
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The magpie has returned with friends and family
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.
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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Good morning Bluesky !
The slow but real progression into fascism as charted by the évolution of the lego police officier

Lego police officier looking meaner and meaner.
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
This week I have had a red kite and a buzzard in the garden. Yesterday a magpie came into the house. Either something has died nearby or I'm getting a load of omens.
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The Magnificent Shite
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Why is Rod Stewart making Glastonbury political? Artists should just shut up and perform
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Yeah, I like the actors but can't see any of them as Bond. Especially Tom Holland who is Spiderman and also quite short
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Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
It Ain't Tart Hot Mum
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