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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

A man travels to gorgeous vistas in order to paint his own shirt patterns. more here: www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/11/a-co… photographer: www.fabianschubert.com #photography #art

Next to a stone wall and cottage, before a misty bay and mountains, a man in a yellow-and-black striped shirt paints a canvas with the same pattern

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Letter from Georgia Sothern, a renowned #burlesque dancer of the 1940s, to H.L. Mencken: "In recent years there has been a great deal of uniformed criticism of my profession. Most of it is without foundation and arises because of the unfortunate word […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

old poster for Empire Burlesk [sic], featuring "that fiery redhead, Georgia Sothern"

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

211 years ago on October 15, Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on the remote island St. Helena under British guard. He later died there. #history #France #UK #Napoleon #meme #historymemes #onthisday

meme: boy band from Europe, boy banned from Europe

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

That's not a quandary! If you support the corporation or can't be bothered to think or care - whatever, you'll cross the picket line. But if you support the strike, then, I promise, you can be 100% successful at *not driving to the casino and walking through […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

'I never thought I would cross a picket line': Some Encore patrons who support the strike still want to gamble. People who frequent the Encore Boston Harbor casino in Everett are faced with a quandary: whether to cross the picket line.

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

There's nothing like Red Sox - Yankees in the playoffs. I am going to take this far too seriously. Feel free to mute me until Thursday. SOX IN 2! ⚾ #RedSox #nyyankees #nyyanks #mlb #baseball

Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz, Ted Williams, and Carl Yastrzemski

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Don't believe the doomers! There are still bargains to be found, even in #SomervilleMA . #boston #TrashCheese #costofliving

Atop a trash bin on the sidewalk, an open platter of cheese cubes and pepperoni

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Happy Friday you weirdos. I hope your #weekend matches this vibe. (reverse cover of It's a Game, 1977 album by the Bay City Rollers) #1970s #1970smusic I think the band were ahead of their time. Not musically; but just because they're all looking at […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Four apparently nude men, shown from the waist up, float semi-transparently amid stars and galaxies above a black and white checkerboard surface

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

#Boston area, and all friends of #labor - Support the Encore casino workers, who have been on #strike for two weeks! (Info below is from the Greater Boston Labor Council; I don't work for them) UNITE HERE Local 26 and Teamsters Local 25 Encore workers have […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Now that you mention it, yeah, we do live at a weird point in world history #influencer #hindu #wtf

What the hell is Lakshmi-maxxxing? A wellness influencer repackaged a Hindu goddess as self-optimization. Then came the backlash.

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

1971 album cover Whatnauts - Reaching for the Stars

Three men stand magnificently on a large fountain, each with one arm reaching up toward ... something, but who can say what?

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

illusory mural of Poseidon in Torreilles, France artist info below #streetart #Mural #mythology

mural on a round building gives it the appearance of being an open round space with columns, containing a statue of Poseidon's upper body holding a trident

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

The #WhiteSox just signed Tommy Pham! This will be Pham's 11th team and 13th playing stint in the last 9 seasons. Now the White Sox and Mets have each signed Pham on two non-consecutive occasions. Who's gonna be next?! […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Moe, labeled MLB, throws out Barney, labeled Tommy Pham. Barney reappears behind Moe

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Red Sox - Yankees, a weekend series, late summer, with real postseason stakes for both teams. This is what it's all about. The Sox swept them in the last series June 25-28, which kicked off their magic month of almost perfect baseball. The Yankees are still […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Love that dirty water. Boston you're my home

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Why is this a headline? How could he possibly know?! And if he DID know ... why give away your gambling edge on Kalshi, by telling the press? smh #lindsayclancy #usnews #copyediting #massachusetts

Lindsay Clancy lawyer says he has "no way of knowing" how long jury will take on verdict

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

I don't wish to be culturally insensitive, but are we SURE this isn't a typo? #baseball #mlb #RedSox #arizonadiamondbacks

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

"Patel’s new study ... found a 15% increase in traffic fatalities on the days major new albums are released, compared with the days immediately before and after." Article: archive.ph/GK4Sm Study […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Marge and Homer Simpson rock out in the car with their eyes closed

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Dock Ellis, one of baseball's greatest personalities - and a damn fine pitcher for a few years - wore hair curlers on the field during warmups in 1973. The league commissioner ordered him to stop (because ... ?). Ellis often called out racial prejudice in […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

black and white photo of a mustached African-American man wearing a Pirates warmup jacket and his head covered in curlers

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

"Jack danced on, completely at ease, while around him people started to edge away with startled glances . . ." from Fantastic Adventures magazine, January 1947 h/t @SFFMagazineCovers #illustration #weirdart #1940s #invisibility #scifi

Black and white illustration of a man in a tuxedo holding his arms out as if dancing with a partner. The partner seems to be a woman wearing high heels, who is invisible from the thighs up

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

This quote is related (in my opinion) to the idea of prevalence induced concept change. When we learn about a problem and then take steps to solve or avoid it, we also (unintentionally) get way too good at noticing more and more subtle branches of the problem […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

The truth that many people never understand is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

Thomas Merton, 1948

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

[stylized nude painting] La dance (Bacchante), by Jean Metzinger, 1906. Looks like a mosaic, but it's oil on canvas #MosaicMonday #metzinger #painting #nudeart #dance

Bright rectangles of color form a picture of a nude woman dancing in front of green and yellow trees

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Hot ladies of summer ☀️ Woman with a Fan, by Jean Metzinger, 1913 oil painting Fan, by Kawano Kaoru, "Shôwa period, before 1965" woodblock print #art #painting #woodblockprint #France #japan #heatwave #metzinger #japanesewoodblock

cubist style painting of a European woman in an elaborate hat, holding a folded up paper fan

woodcut simple image of a young Japanese woman with long black hair holding a large open paper fan

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

TIL Kate Winslet held her breath for 7 minutes 14 seconds while recording an underwater stunt in Avatar 2. She broke Tom Cruise's record of six minutes from one of the Mission Impossible movies […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Kate Winslet as a blue alien and as herself

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such Chinese hybrids in't. www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewat… #joerogan #infowars

Joe Rogan to Alex Jones, 4:21.49 p.m:
Hey brother you texted my old number. I didn’t say anything bad about you, in fact I gave you credit for being right about a lot of shit including these Chinese monkey pig hybrids. I might have mentioned you drinking, but it was just as an excuse for you. If you don’t want me to mention it again I won’t.
Hope all is well.

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

At the Cycle-Race Track (Au Vélodrome) Jean Metzinger, 1911 Metzinger's earlier art had a bright impressionist style like Van Gogh's, and over time he moved toward what would become cubism. I really like the transparent and cubist elements here. But it's […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

A semi geometric style painting of a male cyclist in an old fashioned helmet. Parts of him are transparent, revealing the crowd and velodrome behind him

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

England (football) delenda est If that means I'm cheering for Argentina tomorrow, so be it #fifa #worldcup #england #argentina #wc2026

meme, When the colonies don't text you back (wigged redcoat crying)

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

What a win for the #RedSox! It wasn't going very well for most of the afternoon. Someone should come up with a pithy saying about the point in the game at which a player or observer should consider the contest, in effect, "over" #baseball #mlb #mets

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

I like that this quote doesn't say whether it was herself, or the friend, who neglected the friendship until it was lost. Somebody wouldn't "cross the street." And that was as consequential as a death. Text or call an old friend TODAY. You don't need to say […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Virginia Woolf, 1931

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

The new pro #baseball league for women revealed its team names, logos, and the stories behind each. Boston Hunters, NY Heights, SF Firebells, and LA Queens. Pretty cool - each squad is named for an individual woman who was a pioneer in that city. Putting my […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Back in the silent film era, theaters used hand-colored lantern slides to advertise their Coming Attractions. I'd gladly pay the full nickel to see these four! - Saved By Wireless (1915) - The Craving: A Dramatic Wonder-Play with Startling Photographic […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Saved By Wireless, with a man hanging from a propeller airplane in flight

The Craving, with the visual special effect of five bathing beauties apparently swimming in a cocktail glass

Carl Laemelle offers Tsuru Aoki in "A Tokio Siren"

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Performers backstage at Cleveland's Alpine Village Playhouse, 1941 photo by Helene Sroka #cleveland #ohio #thewaywewere #1940s #theatre #oldphoto #blackandwhite

black and white photo of a man dressed sort of like Groucho Marx, a tall and hatless man in a lighter suit, and woman with crossed eyes, presumably for comic effect, wearing a frilly dress. They are all mugging for the camera with one knee raised and their right feet off the ground

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Discover America blacklight poster, early 1970s Who's down for a road trip to ... Sing Sing? The prison? Okay, whatever, let's gooo 🇺🇸 #1970s #the70s #oldposter #posters #americana #america250 #Motorcycle #California #newyork #retro

Fuchsia background with yellow font saying Discover America. An apparently male figure has his back to the viewer and is holding the handlebars of a motorcycle. On the back of his jacket are brightly colored patches from famous locations including Haight-Ashbury, Disneyland, and Sing Sing

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Patriotism comes in many flavors. I'm 100% sincere when I say stuff like this, in real life, makes me happy to be an American and a baseball fan. (headline from The Onion, but it's not exaggerating reality) #baseball #satire #theonion #4thofjuly

satirical headline in the baseball section, "Moment of silence followed by hot dog race"

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

I would invite this guy to join the Rational Misanthrope club, but no one ever comes to the meetings #humility #cynical #misanthropy #quote #quotes #quotation

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Giuseppe Baretti, 1766

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

No matter how bad of a season the #RedSox might have ... the Yankees can always lose too. And it always brings a smile to my heart. 🧹🧹🧹 #mlb #nyyankees #yankees #baseball

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

JD Vance is actually right. But lacks the self-awareness to really get *why* #ushistory #uspol #Corruption

Vance, an admirer of Richard Nixon, says Watergate would be 'a 12 hour news story' today

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

handbill for "#Boston Tea Party" psychedelic concert, September 1967 "Environmental Experiences in Light-Sound-Dance" featuring bands called The Mushroom and The Hallucinations My favorite detail is the public transit and walking directions, for a world […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

The Boston tea party
Environmental experiences in light-sound-dance
September 22 and 23
The mushroom
The hallucinations
$3, 8pm, 53 Berkeley St

Take MBTA to Arlington Station, use Berkeley Street exit and walk a few blocks south against the traffic

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

TIL that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a "small country" according to at least one #WorldCup journalist 🙄 (their population is 117 million, larger than Turkey or Germany or Vietnam) #football #geography #africa #drcongo

Four countries qualified for the first time - Curacao, Cape Verde, Jordan, and Uzbekistan. Six other small countries are in the tournament for just the second time - Congo, Haiti, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Panama, Qatar, and Iraq.

A map showing the comparative size of DR Congo. It is larger than Western Europe

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Far-Out Iron Ons, by the Topps Company, 1975 Decorate your own #1970s t-shirt! Featuring: - Let's streak! - Bazooka Gum - Master of Kung Fu #retro #1970sfashion #70s #genx #americana #fashion #diy #culturalhistory

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Tonight's #RedSox game is going to be on national TV, and happens to be when the Tartan Army (Scotland supporters) are going to Fenway Park en masse. I hope they have a great time and appreciate live #baseball on a beautiful summer night. Although the Sox […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

Boston media's tendency to find a local connection to every story, no matter how tenuous, is well-known. (And mocked.) It has the unintended effect of making New England look less important, not more. Can't they just say that Gordon Wood died? Or stick with […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Gordon Wood, American Revolution expert cited in 'Good Will Hunting,' fatally struck by car in Rhode Island parking lot

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

Fans of #FOSS and/or #football! ⚽ Here's a very simple, ad-free, open-source Android app for the World Cup schedule and scores: f-droid.org/packages/com.dasp.world… #opensource #soccer #worldcup #wc2026 #fifa #fdroid #android

Screenshot of app, with three tabs: All, Today, and Results

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