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Laura Perry

@templemom.bsky.social
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Founder and Temple Mom of Ariadne's Tribe - inclusive Minoan spirituality. Polytheist, animist. Tarotist, herbalist, gardener. They/them. Profile pic is my original art. www.lauraperryauthor.com

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Laura Perry @templemom.bsky.social · 9h
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 10h
Sika deer resting along the pavement and median strip in Nara, Japan.
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Mark 'J' Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 10h
I started writing this with no idea how angry I was going to become half way through when I went to check my name I got very angry, and had to take a moment to calm down Important advice to new authors included #booksky #writrrsky #amwriting #publishing #blog markhayesblog.com/2026/10/05/w...
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What’s in a Name
Before I begin, let me offer some advice to writers looking to self publish for the first time. A simple piece of advice, and one I wish someone had offered me a little over 11 years ago when I pub…
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
ALERTE: PUMPKIN WOLFE
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Folklore of Scotland @folklorescotland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#WorldAnimalDay 🦔 in Scottish language, 'urchin' is hedgehog In a creation myth, the entire world was just a big lake, and it was a giant hedgehog who brought earth in it's needles, thus creating dry land.
A hedgehog sits atop a mossy stump
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Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#Hedgehog alert 🥰
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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fairy doors #FolkloreSunday medieval lore spoke of fairy mounds, fairy forts, and natural openings in the earth or hillsides that served as portals to an underground realm. historymedieval.com/medieval-fai...
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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A Long Compton woman, a reputed witch, lay dying surrounded by relatives. She begged them to leave but after hearing bangs & crashes they rushed back in to see a black pigeon fly out the window. The woman was dead and her possessions were strewn about the room. #FolkloreSunday
Skeleton of young pigeon
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The Swamp Wytch @theswampwytch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Swamps and bogs don't just consume; they preserve. The muck holds ancient secrets, from prehistoric sacrifices to the perfectly preserved Tollund Man. The bog is a timeless threshold between the living and the dead. #SwampLifeSunday #Ancestors #Nature #WitchSky
A Great Egret stands poised at the edge of dark swamp water amid lush lily pads, framed by massive cypress trunks draped in Spanish moss and a weathered cypress knee.

English: Okefenokee Swamp Nov 2016
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Catherine Gogerty @catherinegogerty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Day 4 Twa Corbies The bleak ballad in the Beautiful Scots language telling of two crows eating the corpse of a dead knight, I have illustrated this before but I wanted to try something abit different with an effigy
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Laura Perry @templemom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This week’s Minoan Tarot cards help us find beauty in the world and lean into our personal power as we navigate these Interesting Times. lauraidaeja.substack.com/p/in-the-car... #Minoan #MinoanTarot #Tarot #TarotSky
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In the cards this week: dreaming and acting
We can find joy in the balance of the two
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The timeless beauty of ancient glass! This Roman glass scent bottle is around 2,000 years old, yet its elegant design feels surprisingly modern! British Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a small Roman scent bottle made of cobalt-blue mould-blown glass in the form of a scallop shell. At the top it has a cylindrical neck with an out-turned rim. There is a thin, curved, handle either side of the neck. The top of each handle is attached to the neck, and the bottom is attached to the top of the scallop shell. Bottle dimensions: height 8.5 cm, diameter 5.2 cm. Dated AD 25-100. It is displayed on a circular, clear perspex (?) stand in a British Museum display case. The bottle was bequeathed to the British Museum by Felix Slade in 1869.
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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don’t usually post songs here but I’m going for a witch theme this month so here’s ‘Season of the Witch’ by Donovan to set the mood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q54H...
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Donovan - Season Of The Witch
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Folklore of Scotland @folklorescotland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#FridayReads my: "Folklore of Scotland" Come on a magical journey in faerie tales and folk horror; let me introduce you to the magical creatures of Scottish folklore more: folkloreofscotland.com 📚 ships to UK via the website, and worldwide
Image of the book entitled Folklore of Scotland by Stephen G Rae, depicts a dwarf man and his animal companions
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The Swamp Wytch @theswampwytch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Water nymph, mud crawler, aerial master, and lethal spark of fire - the dragonfly holds all four corners of the wild. They are my fierce allies in the swamp and across the threshold of dreams. A quiet perch on an outstretched finger seals our bond. #FolkWitchFriday #Animism #FolkWitch
A first-person view of my outstretched left forearm against green grass. A real, metallic blue dragonfly perches calmly atop an upright middle finger, directly aligning with an intricate blue tattoo below of a winged skeleton key with dragonfly wings and a witch-foot symbol.
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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A vintage Halloween postcard depicts a masked, pumpkin-headed figure smoking a cigarette while walking through a pumpkin patch under a stylized sun.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We walk passed buildings that leak ghosts. We are window watched. We are scratched with shadows. A psychic toll is paid for our navigations in headache, in a pressing into the back of the neck. This is our phantom reality. – #DAKilroy #Ghosts
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Grebcomics 🐸 @grebcomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
that time of year again! 🍂
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Laura Perry @templemom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can Adelphos forgive himself and open his heart to love once again? A gentle tale of grief and redemption, this story is very lightly spicy, heavily angsty, and full of longed-for happy endings. www.lauraperryauthor.com/leap-a-love-... #Minoan #HistoricalFiction #GayRomance
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Leap! A Love Story by Laura Perry
Can Adelphos forgive himself and open his heart to love once again? A gentle tale of grief and redemption, this story is very lightly steamy, heavily angsty, and full of longed-for happy endings.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
From the Natural History Cabinet of Anna Blackburne (1768) by James Bolton.
White-cheeked Starling, bramble and Eurasian Comma and Seven-Spotted Ladybird Beetle on leaf, painted illustration.
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Do ponies living wild on a hillfort have Iron Age chariot dreams? The beautiful inhabitants of Traprain Law, East Lothian. #HillfortsWednesday
Wild ponies grazing on a grassy hilltop.
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Lisa Eddy @lisaeddy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New Moon in Libra 2026: Justice, Grace & Tarot Spread | Angelorum angelorum.co/astrology/ne...
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New Moon in Libra 2026: Justice, Grace & Tarot Spread | Angelorum
Explore the New Moon in Libra 2026 through Justice, Archangel Zuriel, St Francis Borgia and a five-card Tarot spread for right relationship.
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Teresa @teresaj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Im still here as I ever was Said the moon through the clouds Though you wont always see me Cancelled out, disallowed I ll be here as I ever was Shining dark Beneath my shroud Evermore, nevermore Burning black Behind my shroud.... -TJ Sept 2026
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The Swamp Wytch @theswampwytch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Georgia's "Nessie" is called Altamaha-ha. Said to be a quite large & long creature, Altamaha-ha has been seen in the Darien coastal region & elsewhere in McIntosh County. #WyrdWednesday #Georgia #Cryptid en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamah...
Artist rendering of what Altamaha-ha may look like, based on accounts.

ARTIST: Rick Spears
From the book: "Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures That May or May Not Exist" by:  Kelly Milner Halls, Rick Spears, Roxyanne Young, Darby Creek Publishing, 2006"
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Phil Watson @frenchmegaliths.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Before it fell or was pulled over and broke into 4 pieces the Grand Menhir Brisé in Locmariaquer (Morbihan) would have stood just over 20m tall. Estimated to weigh c.300 tons it is made of stone from a source 4km away.
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Laura Perry @templemom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A book review for you today: a genre-bending dystopian sci-fi flavored thriller that leans heavily into spiritual territory. lauraidaeja.substack.com/p/book-revie... #books #BookReview #SciFi #spirituality
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Book Review: The Hereafter
A sci-fi flavored thriller that leans heavily into spiritual territory
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look at it! 🌈
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Mark 'J' Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A little bit of fiction for a Tuesday lunch time #steampunk #quickreads #blog #writersky markhayesblog.com/2024/09/24/a...
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A Gentleman
“It seems to me, that the use of lockpicks should fall under the remit of a gentleman’s valet, rather than the gentleman himself.” Benjamin West grumbled just after he snapped his second pick in qu…
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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Goblin Market' by Frank Craig. #FairyTaleTuesday #fairy #fairies #faerie #poetry
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amirite tho
White text on yellow-orange ombré background that reads:
Don't let Al ruin your writing.
It's your writing.
Ruin it yourself.

Amirite
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Taion the Gnome @taionthegnome.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Moon dressed in shadow Cloud whisps slither over her A wood Moths delight #WitchSky
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Laura Perry @templemom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's goldenrod season! We have several different kinds of this native wildflower on our property, to help out the pollinators at this time of year when other food sources are in decline. #wildflowers #NativeWildflowers #goldenrod
Closeup photo of a goldenrod bloom cluster. Tiny golden yellow blooms grow in a roughly cone-shaped cluster along the end of a stem that's leaning downward due to the weight of the flowers.
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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'Still Dancing' by Jonathan Labillois In honour and remembrance of the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Clothworker’s Detail of the Day: This striking Moroccan akhnif (cloak) is woven from wool and goat hair, with geometric patterns and a red eye motif thought to protect against the evil eye. It was worn by Amazigh and Jewish men, offering warmth and water resistance in Morocco’s mountainous regions.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
never skip leg day
An oil painting of a giant white ox, with a massive body and extremely tiny legs. He stands solemnly in a field beneath a moody sky, as if presiding over some kind battle.
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Almost done penciling this thing. Gonna be a blast to ink.
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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 27/09/2026
Books readers love but don't recommend (or warn people away from even while recommending): A thread. Hi, I'm AK, and I write a series people love (privately, in my inboxes) which has won multiple awards and accolades. Here's why people generally don't recommend it. 🧵
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yes, the west coast of Denmark was connected to the Mesolithic landscape known as Doggerland. Here’s a map of Doggerland as it looked around 11,000 years ago, by Olav Odé/ National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, Netherlands.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The map comes from the article on this link: archaeology.org/issues/march...
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Letter from Doggerland - Mapping a Vanished Landscape - Archaeology Magazine - March/April 2022
Evidence of a lost Mesolithic world lies deep beneath the dark waters of the North Sea
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 24/09/2026
in the age of AI, making art is a radical act
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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BOOK OF DREAMS & GHOSTS 1897 Andrew Lang, best known for the coloured fairy books, was President of the Society for Psychical Research. The book poses some fundamental questions: Do you believe in ghosts? How do you define a ghost? One of the best looking ghost books. That cover! #SpookySunday
Longman cover for Lang's Dreams and Ghosts
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Laura Perry @templemom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This week’s Minoan Tarot cards include a dip into a fascinating pattern that traces back through the three years I’ve been doing these readings. lauraidaeja.substack.com/p/in-the-car... #Minoan #MinoanTarot #Tarot #TarotSky
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In the cards this week: reason and self-control
Keep your wits about you and stay focused
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Oliver B @oliverb108.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#witchcraft A regular reminder that it doesn't matter how 'well-known', 'renowned' and 'highly influental' someone is in witchcraft/occult/magic spaces, or is an 'elder', etc. Bigotry, fascism, racism, white supremacy, transphobia (and so on) is NOT excusable. Do NOT support those people.
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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#MinCup26 Quarterfinal 1 It’s a rich red start to the quarterfinals as two components of brass face off with zinc ore #Sphalerite is up against copper-rich #Cuprite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
Split photo of a glossy ruby-red chunk of sphalerite, slightly rounded, amongst smaller clear crystals and a gleaming ruby-red cube of cuprite jutting from a yellow matrix.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Are you aware that the AI-generated online encyclopedia #Grokipedia is creating and publishing entries on academics and their work? I recently found my entry, and some is correct, some is wrong, and all of this is collected from various websites only. #academicchatter grokipedia.com/page/Daniel_...
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Daniel Bellingradt — Grokipedia
Daniel Bellingradt is a German historian and communication scholar known for his research on early modern media history, book history, paper markets, and the materiality of communication flows. He spe
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