This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

Feels like the only sensible thing to do today is sit and read from 9 to 5… - Michael

#Pollinators I found this wet carpenter bee (Xylocopa sp.) at dawn sleeping on the underside of a leaf. You may think what you do in your yard is insignificant, but it's the whole universe to many pollinators. Support the pollinators by planting more natives & using no landscape-wide poisons.

Happening tonight, online, and in person, in Shoreditch, London. Doors from 7pm, talk beginning at 8pm. Ticket link below ⬇️🙂

Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉@reblambert.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is happening tomorrow night, in Shoreditch , London , but I’ve just discovered that it’ll be available online too. Entry is from 7pm, & my talk begins at 8pm. Would be lovely to see some of you there, virtually, or in-person, if you’re about 🙂 www.eventbrite.com/e/ponderings...

This is happening tomorrow night, in Shoreditch , London , but I’ve just discovered that it’ll be available online too. Entry is from 7pm, & my talk begins at 8pm. Would be lovely to see some of you there, virtually, or in-person, if you’re about 🙂 www.eventbrite.com/e/ponderings...

Absolutely going to about the point here but even if you have zero interest in UFOs, folklore, the paranormal or just general high weirdness, this is an astonishing resource for graphic design inspiration god, I love zines...

John Power Jr.@johnpower.bsky.social · 5d ago

holy shit, I just found an incredible archive of UFO zines and magazines from around the world, some dating back to the 1950s. this is like Christmas come early. though also I have got so much to do right now so this absolutely could not have come at a worse time 🥴 files.afu.se/Downloads/?d...

[watching megacorps pulp truckloads of rare books to train the very bots that are tanking our collective literacy] so weird that academics hate this, must be some kind of echo chamber

Disgusting. What a vile monster.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 6d ago

Ken Paxton’s office helped bury records involving hundreds of lab animals, including at least 100 dogs subjected to painful testing. Now, Meidas News has obtained disturbing photos and video of what he fought to keep hidden.

The Wednesday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Silicon Valley dreams of authoritarianism, rectangular buildings uncovered at Göbekli Tepe may have been homes, the electrical blackout that could devastate America, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2026/08/news...

News Briefs 19-08-2026

Most drugs might be illegal, but you’ve always got the Grail news briefs to blow your mind with… Quote of the Day Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you might j...

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John Keir Cross sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cross_... Henri Falk sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/falk_h... and Veronica Roth sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/roth_v... were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Richard Powers, Robin Jacques, Georges Hautot and [couldn't identify])

This stunning beauty arrived today. One of my passions is to collect hollow earth literature. ‘Beyond the Verge’, was published in 1896. Illustrated, this early science fiction novel places the ten lost tribes of Israel in the hollow earth. There’s a hole at the (north)pole!

The Mississippi lynchings of black people. It’s a tradition down south.

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A young mother of four was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi. Now a local council member is calling for a federal investigation into Tasia Fortune’s death. Her case comes as questions still surround the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells. Suri Crowe reports.

From my collection: the complete run of Telonic Research Bulletin from George Hunt Williamson’s Telonic Research Center. He founded this ufo club in 1954; Barkun says he left in 1955, yet these issues are from 1955 to 1956 with many articles by him. Photos of a five sided ufo and the man himself.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Flight of the Triangle August 12, 1993 — Lethbridge, Alberta 1/ 12:30 a.m. Two friends are watching the Perseid meteor shower in a dark school yard in North Lethbridge, Alberta,

I just saw a piece in @thebookseller.com about this fundraiser - to protect and share a collection of over one million Black books in the UK, a labour of love by one collector, Baba Pepukayi, but a vital resource for the nation. www.gofundme.com/f/save-1-mil... Please share, and donate if you can.

Donate to Save 1 Million Black Books, organized by Black British Book Festival

Save 1 Million Black Books One of Britain's Largest Collections of Black Books… Black British Book Festival needs your support for Save 1 Million Black Books

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Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

24 July 1929 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Livia Klein, was born. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- 📖 Deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/

Meditation of the day: Why we call it a Cthulhu MYTHOS

Perverted By Language Collage made from Ladybird books, Wills cigarette cards, Babycham coaster, 1960s Vogue & Woman magazines & 1960s wallpaper, acrylic marker, watercolour, felt tip

"Ten well-documented UAP/UFO contact cases spanning 1952 to the present century are examined with specific attention to the theological and philosophical content communicated by reported non-human entities to human percipients...": rayboeche.substack.com/p/doctrines-...

DOCTRINES OF DEVILS

Comparison of Religious and Philosophical Messaging in Ten UAP Contact Cases (1952–2020) A Theological and Phenomenological Analysis

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1 like = 1 little-known fact about Lovecraft or his fiction

These are my girls and a Resuscitation Annie replacement mask.

Two times The Unknown Woman of the Seine. Resting on one of my very few walls that isn’t completely book lined. Took me years to find her - and when I finally did, she was just a street away. The other is a smaller version, made in Germany in 1939.

Book catalogue project, entry 710: The Garden of Fear (1945, Crawford Publishing House) by Robert E. Howard, L. A. Eshbach, H. P. Lovecraft, Miles B. Breuer, David H. Keller. Chapbook. Tanned pages, some wear. Green cover.

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Book catalogue project, entry 709:The Challenge from Beyond Drafts (2029, Robert E. Howard Foundation Press) by Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft, Frank Belknap Long, Rob Roehm (Ed.), John Bullard (Ed.). Chapbook. Clean pages, minimal wear.

My latest find takes me on a journey to 1920s German-Austrian occult orders as Pansophia, Bauherren, Loge Hekate and Faternitas Saturni. A descent into the dark heart of German-Austrian esoterism. A small window on the absolute elsewhere (1918-1933), slammed shut when the Nazis came to power.

I found this obscure publication, only 22 copies published. Much non-human contact occurred in the G:.D:., its offshoots and members during their 19th century astral travel rituals. I wrote a 7,000 word paper on astral travel that was published in the ‘UFO Encyclopedia’, 4th edition, this year.

I'm always disappointed to receive a limited edition, indie press hardback only to find that it's print on demand. 1/2

Look what the cat dragged in:

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@valancourtbooks.bsky.social were the guys who at first were cordially and we had nice conversations - but then blocked me over at Twitter (now X) because I dared voice my concern about their republication of a highly mysoginist book that was based on a true torture-femicide.