Danish dancer Nini Theilade in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935).
Ian Simmons
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Curator, Fortean Times news editor, blockchain ontologist, author of Haunted London and the forthcoming Little Book of London Lore, cognitive dissident and discontent provider - all opinions are my own
what was already true in 1986 seems genuinely prophetic now: “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
"The late Cambridge sociology professor Jason Arday took his own life this month after a sustained campaign against him by the rightwing press, or “the press” as it is also known." www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: Ofcom won’t touch GB News. But now it’s demanding a right of reply for jokes
The regulator has ruled against me over a mistake I made about an ex-Tufton Street campaign manager on a comedy show. The consequences seem like bad news for off-the-cuff banter
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Happy birthday to Mary Shelley whose idea of taking her boyfriends home to meet her mom was having sex with them on top of her mother’s grave  Goth AF before we could even fully appreciate the term 
I will point out again Clement Attlee LABOUR PRIME MINISTER. Nationalised Water, Rail, Healthcare and Housing and created more than 2,000,000 jobs working for the Government in just 5 years. That. Is. How. It. Is. DONE
Planning permission is not a problem because the billionaires AI Data Centres get approved without anyone able to stop them. So actual GOVERNMENT projects should go through with no delay at all.
I know contact tracing is soooo 2020 and people have been brainwashed to downplay exposure to disease, but this is something absolutely no one should fuck around with Get those babies treated for rabies because once you notice any symptoms, it’s already too late  
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 2d ago"The zoo was in Durham County on Aug. 16 and Aug. 23 for separate private events. The zoo also made stops in Statesville, Lexington, Watauga County, Burke County and Mocksville between July 28 and Aug. 27. In Lexington, the zoo was part of a back-to-school bash." RABID! GOATS! AT! SCHOOL!
Sex, bat, horror, sex - The Birthday Party #BookWormSat
Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Two unemployed actors make a visit to a relative's rural cottage
Andy Diggle@andydiggle.bsky.social · 3d agoMake your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Radical antifa professor disrupts German archaeology project.
Emma Goldman said this 130 years ago. Then was jailed in the USA for over a year for saying "Ask for work, ask for bread, then take bread." Because they claimed she was trying to start a riot. Nothing has change since.
If you said to me “from here on out all art is 400,000 identical wood blocks in a former train station and visitors can arrange them however they want” I would understand something had been lost, but I would not be unhappy
Reminder that Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 is a film about three women taking over an office and introducing free childcare, paid vacation, and flexible hours, resulting in a 20% increase in productivity.
A day after Trump refuses to send a delegation to join 30 other world leaders in Kyiv to commemorate Ukraine's 35th year of Independence, he posts photos of himself with the dictator of North Korea and sends a delegation to Moscow. Just to show the world where his priorities lie.
Pocket full of John the Conqueror root, black cat bone, and a heavy midnight dread. When the Delta blues sing of a hellhound on the trail, it’s the relentless padding of spirit paws walking behind you down a moonlit back road. youtu.be/G2URlDdDTMo?... #WyrdWednesday #Conjure #Hellhound #DeltaBlues
Hell Hound On My Trail
YouTube video by Robert Johnson - Topic
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Tim Curry was not the 80-year-old Home Alone 2 cast member we were asking for.
#WyrdWednesday The Black Dog of Newgate haunted the walls and environs of Newgate prison for years. Prisoners there were so poorly treated they resorted to cannibalism. One victim was a sorcerer who then returned as a spectral dog and hunted down his murderers one by one. Img: John Atkinson Grimshaw
If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.
Craig Calcaterra@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 6d agoRIP to a motherfucking icon.
Y'all... the Band of the Coldstream Guards performed "9 to 5" in front of Buckingham Palace in honor of Dolly Parton.
Every drag show this weekend is going to have to make some very hard choices
Whoever asked God to kill the 80 year old in a wig, who wears high heels and a corset - BE MORE SPECIFIC!
#WyrdWednesday A cousin of Norfolk's more infamous Black Shuck is Owd Rugman - a huge, shaggy coated, fiery-eyed canine who lurks around the churchyards of Lenwade & Attlebridge at midnight ...
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
In 1977, Vincent Price starred in a one-man-show where he played openly gay Oscar Wilde. The show was condemned by anti-gay activist Anita Bryant. When asked about her condemnation, Price replied that Wilde had already written a play about Anita: “A Woman of No Importance.”
It will take the Earth 50,000 years to cooldown to the temperature it was in 2005. That is how permanent Climate Change is.
As a child, folklore collector FW Bennett heard a witch predict that his grandfather would die in 5 days. When asked how she knew, she said that her dog told her by its howls. Bennett’s grandfather died at 9am on the 5th day. #WyrdWednesday
