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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten

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Guy living in New England, he/him ✅ #history, art, weird old pics, and #trivia ✅ #quotations and surprising eloquence spotted in the wild ✅ #baseball, especially […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ hear-me.social/@SPF, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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

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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Paul Giulan @pgiulan.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and […]

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

#queerhistory and selection bias for historians: "We tend to picture the pre-Stonewall closet as a waiting room, full of gay people biding their time until liberation let them out.... But there were many more Jenkinses than Kamenys: men whose same-sex encounters remained secret, whose […]

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Wow, congrats to the Brewers! Playoff magic. Winning it on the road ain't so bad IF you get to celebrate on Dodgers turf. Now Ohtani can bet on them to win it all ... #nlcs #mlb #mlbplayoffs #milwaukeebrewers #baseball

👻 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

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

#scifi #satire "Founded 12,000 years ago ... Abaddon the Despoiler’s Black Crusades are the Galaxy’s leading provider of alternative administrative, tactical, theological, and interdimensional logistics solutions (as well as applied psychic technology) to a highly specialized enthusiast […]

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Some good news www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6vg9nj4l… #LGBTQ #lgbtqia #Hungary #Europe #humanrights

Hungarian parliament scraps Orbán's anti-LGBTQ measures

LGBTQ and human rights activists warmly welcomed the move, but call for changes to other Orbán-era laws.

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

The Pope's team blows it against Cleveland. Jobu wins again #mlb #movies #baseball #guardians #cleveland #whitesox

It is very bad to steal Jobu's rum

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

As a word-nerd, on some level I admire the White House and Dept of War since they decided to attack Iran. About every two weeks, for 8 months now, they've need to come up with new, more-intense adjectives and verbs to describe how the next US attack or sanction is REALLY gonna bring victory […]

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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

The Mercator projection has seriously misled us about the size of the Vatican

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

In 1993, Robert Parish pled guilty to marijuana possession while he was a player for the Boston Celtics. And now he's a dealer! (legally) www.berkshireeagle.com/localsports/… […]

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I don't think it's especially bad that the US military is going to broadcast an execution. The death penalty itself is wrong. Making the choice to watch it, except perhaps if you knew one of the original victims, indicates you're a messed up person. But for decades, executions in the US have […]

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Good morning #baseball fans Happy Yankees Elimination Day, to all mankind #mlb #RedSox #rays #tampabayrays #orioles #baltimoreorioles #bluejays

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@Quasit a sincere good luck!

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The results are in bananas 1 Buddha 0

👻 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.

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

ploi•ter•ing: "pretending to work when you're not" This word is so useful that posting it *feels* like a real accomplishment. (I am at work) #TIL #trivia #words #antiwork #QuietQuitting #Productivity

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

current status: on the #Rays bandwagon #baseball #mlb #RedSox

t shirt says Anti Yankees Social Club

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

"After the brutal January 2026 crackdown, teachers unions in Iran are not backing down on their demands for fair wages, free education and free expression." wagingnonviolence.org/2026/10/iran-… #iran #unions #teachers

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Iran’s teachers movement perseveres against all odds

Teachers unions in Iran are surviving a post-January 2026 crackdown without backing down on demands for fair wages, free education and free expression.

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

It's waaaay too early to generalize about, or evaluate, the Mamdani administration IMO .... But aside from that bit, I think Cory Doctorow makes a good argument here: pluralistic.net/2026/10/01/data-cen… And if FDR viewed politics the same way, then you can be […]

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Game 2 vs. the #Yankees Let's go #RedSox #mlb #baseball #nyyankees #meme

I didn't hear no bell

👻 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

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

from "Advice to a Lady in Autumn" by Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1763 The whole poem has crisp autumn imagery, like this: "At twelve you may walk, for at this time o' the year, the sun, like your wit, is as mild, as 'tis clear: But mark in the meadows the ruin of Time; take the hint, and let life […]

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

#DetroitTigers Tip-of-the-cap to Justin Verlander. Everyone could see he was a Hall of Famer after just a few seasons; then he kept on going. As a #RedSox fan - sorry if this is gauche - I remember the 2013 ALCS as unrelenting tension in my guts, hoping my team could try and beat Tigers […]

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

ul•tra•cre•pi•dar•i•an adjective "giving opinions on subjects the speaker knows nothing about" I like this one, because 'ultra-' makes it sound like a compliment! related: ultracrepidarianism #TIL #words #trivia #vocabulary #snark #english

👻 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

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

excerpt from "To a Sad Daughter" by Michael Ondaatje #fatherhood #poetry One afternoon I stepped into your room. You were sitting at the desk where I now write this. Forsythia outside the window and sun spilled over you like a thick yellow miracle as if another planet was coaxing you out of the […]

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

As a Red Sox fan who loved Rafael Devers, these thoughts bring me to a very dark place: Devers is having a great year (.865 OPS, 37 HR) with the #SFGiants, who are collectively having a very bad year. It occurs to me that the Yankees haven't gotten much offense from their third basemen. NY […]

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

philtrum, noun the groove between your nose and upper lip #TIL #words #anatomy #trivia

👻 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

👻 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]

Local 26, UNITE-HERE

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I'm not, in general, interested in taking ecstasy. But if someone offered me one with Muammar Gaddafi's face on it ... 😁 (I'm so angry that not one of the news articles has a pic of the pills) www.mandurahmail.com.au/story/93493…

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Drugs stamped with Gaddafi's face seized in Libya

Thousands of ecstasy pills moulded into the shape of ousted leader Muammar ‌Gaddafi's head and shoulders have been...

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I turned to speak to God about the world's despair but to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there. God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh) God found I wasn't there at least not over half. Robert Frost, 1926 #poem #poetry #religion #atheism #quote #quotes #quotation #robertfrost

👻 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.

👻 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?

👻 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

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

Sumnima Udas, a member of Nepal's parliament, on the recent rockslide that killed thousands in her country: "But this isn’t karma. The climate is changing, and human activity is changing it. Our resilience becomes a quiet abandonment, a way for the rest of the world to admire how well we absorb […]

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Who's the FOX producer who thought we'd want to see a montage of fans chewing ballpark food? I'm considering getting my mouth permanently wired shut, now 🤢 #mlb #baseball #RedSox #orioles #baltimoreorioles

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

[Star Wars - The Ninth Jedi discussion (no spoilers beyond what's in the trailer)] I just finished the 8 episodes and would like to hear what others think. Overall it's worth watching especially if you like Visions. Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r70AWJ-zJS4 The trailer suggests two […]

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

RE: hear-me.social/@SPF/113704837624293… Farmer and poet Wendell Berry has died at 92. I wish I'd come across his books earlier in life. A great American, who wrote his own best eulogy: "The old, whose bodies encrust their lives, die, and that is well. They unhinder what has […]

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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

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

Absolutely ridiculous! Mickey G.O.A.T. #RedSox #baseball #mlb

backup utility guy Mickey Gaspar has the third highest OPS in a calendar month in baseball history, behind only Ted Williams and Barry Bonds

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

"About 25 percent of children died in their first year and another 15 percent by their tenth. The median English child thus grew up in a home with one sibling and two parents in their thirties or forties, being in this respect just like the median English child today." […]

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👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

This is one of the most elegant little things I've ever seen posted on a blog or social media. (< 1 minute to read) www.futilitycloset.com/2026/08/30/i…

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quidam n. an unknown person oppidan n. an inhabitant of a town obrute v. to overwhelm, bury; to cover over recumbentibus n. a knockdown blow The “sitting man” is numbered among the victims of Vesuvius in 79 CE. He died crouching in a corner of his house, holding a scarf over his mouth.

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

"The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty." Sara Hooker #lifelessons #quotes #quote #quotation

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

What's the favored way around paywalls lately? archive.__ isn't working for the page I want. If it matters for anyone's moral calculation - I do pay for local journalism (elsewhere), and this site is asking for $60/month (Feel free to respond just to me if you'd rather not publicize your […]

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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

👻 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

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

LUCIFUGOUS, adj lu·cif·u·gous "light-fleeing" used to describe sins, demons, or resolutely staying in bed #words #trivia

👻 Spooky Phantoms Frighten @spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Troubleshooting: This is odd. The Tusky app stopped working yesterday but only for my hear-me.social account when my VPN is on. When I switch to an account with another instance, it works fine regardless of VPN. Any ideas? @admin #tusky #tuskyapp #tuskysupport #askfedi @Tusky