From the medieval ‘Ministry of Silly Walks’ - 13th century, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 229, f. 326r @MedMilMedicine #globalmuseum #humour #humor #medieval #manuscripts
Fleurish Folk
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Researching women in #folklore & comparative #myth INFJ 🇨🇦 owned by 3 cats 🌸 #amwriting * No DM's thx
Nature-killing, sound polluting #DataCenters & oil piplines - @mark-carney.bsky.social you've guaranteed Libs won't EARN my #VOTE in the next elxn. You're selling Canadians, my sons & grandkids future out - the #Environment be damned! You might as well be a CONservative. So much for #ElbowsUP!😒
Send a Letter: Demand Transparency from AI Data Centres Alberta and Canada have stated that multiple Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centres will not be subject to Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) this is irresponsible & unacceptable! #AbPoli #AbLeg #NoGasForAI #CdnPoli #Climate
Send a Letter: Demand Transparency from AI Data Centres - Alberta Wilderness Association
Alberta and Canada have stated that multiple Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centres will not be subject to Environmental Impact...
albertawilderness.ca
Prior to being elected prime minister, Carney dubbed climate change “an existential threat.” This week, he... greased the skids for a suite of LNG projects and a new million barrel-per-day oil pipeline to the West Coast. @chrishatch.bsky.social mailchi.mp/nationalobse... #bcpoli #cdnpoli
Brookfield’s website boasts of “owning the backbone of the global economy.” By keeping his shares while PM, Carney could have a conflict on nearly every major policy decision affecting energy, transportation & infrastructure, including airport privatization www.thestar.com/politics/fed... #cdnpoli
Mark Carney sidelined from at least 17 government deliberations because of corporate conflicts
The revelation is contained in letters that the Privy Council Office sent to a parliamentary committee that probed the ‘screens’ that Carney set up last year to protect himself from conflicts of inter...
thestar.com
Time to acknowledge we do not have a Capitalist Free Enterprise economic system. It is Corporate Socialism & has pretty well always been. What is now called the Epstein Class was smarter in the past as they would at least throw some bread crumbs our way after taking our bread #cdnpoli #abpoli
The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com · 3mo agoCanadian #taxpayers will foot the bill for the new #pipeline from Alberta’s oil sands to the B.C. coast. After an unsuccessful scramble to line up private money, Smith & Carney announced that the #WestCoastPipeline will be a partnership between the prov govt and federally-owned #TransMountainCorp.
Mark Carney promises to take climate change seriously once every other problem on Earth is solved
Mark Carney promises to take climate change seriously once every other problem on Earth is solved
"Things are tough right now. And as the saying goes, ‘when the going gets tough, quit doing the hard stuff and just cling to what kind of worked in the past.'"
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Journey around the planet as spring awakens the natural world, bringing with it a blossoming of new life and new challenges. Wild Spring Watch free on knowledge.ca #knowledgenetwork #springvibes #animals #blossoming #wildlife #nature #babyanimals #wildspring
In my native Ayrshire and adopted Cumbrian dialects, 'tod' is fox. In lore, fox carries a magic pearl that brings good luck to whomever finds it more: Folklore of the Lake District by Stephen G. Rae folklorepress.co.uk art: Spry Fox by Maryana Kniazevych #FairytaleTuesday
Legend tells that the cunning fox, wishing to move more quietly, turned to the mischievous fairy folk for help. They fashioned a flower of soft, bell-shaped blooms to slip over his paws, muffling each step. From this, it is said, foxgloves took their name. #FairytaleTuesday
May 3rd - A Journey with Goddess. Maia - one of the Pleiades and Greek goddess of growth. Maia is associated with springtime, fertility, the fruitful flourishing of life. She lives in the mountains, far from people. The older I get, the more this seems like a great life choice 😉 #WitchSky
A little patch of blue in the garden is a welcome site! 💙 Scottish folklore states that b/c they're a favourite flower of the fairies it's bad luck to pick bluebells & take them indoors. #fairy #folklore #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardensky
A witch ghost for #PhantomsFriday what with it just having been #WalpurgisNacht The ghost of Betty, a reputed witch, was reported to sit on the churchyard wall of St Gregory’s, Tredington, smoking a pipe. In life, she would sit on top of a willow tree in Honington slowly putting on her stockings
Excellent essay by Allan Johnson exploring mail-order occultism in the early 20th century. publicdomainreview.org/essay/magic-...
Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occult
What allowed occultism to blossom in the United States at the turn of the 20th century? Linotype machines, cheap pulp paper, and newly improved postal networks. Allan Johnson investigates the forgotte...
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Dandelion clocks looking like an army of spirit orbs.
Reporters Without Borders release the 2026 World Press Freedom Index The U.S. didn’t make the top 50 & dropped under +ru^^p 1. Norway 2. Netherlands 3. Estonia 4. Denmark 5. Sweden 6. Finland 7. Ireland 8. Switzerland 9. Luxembourg 10. Portugal 14. Germany 18. UK & 20. Canada rsf.org/en/index
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RSF's World Press Freedom Index aims to compare the level of press freedom enjoyed by journalists and media in 180 countries and territories.
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Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
wired.com
“This fascinating and formidably well-researched book has completely changed my view of fairies.” Thank you to Ian Bradley for this terrific review of ‘Fairies: A History’ in @churchtimes.bsky.social: www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Book review: Fairies: A history by Francis Young
Ian Bradley revises his understanding of fairies
churchtimes.co.uk
Philippe Vachier's tarot from 1639, republished by Yves Renaud of Tarot de Marseille Heritage. Oldest surviving complete tarot from Marseille. Notable for its use of purple colour, instead of the dark blue popular later, which we are more familiar with today #TarotTuesday #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot
"The Book of Divination", a Lubok print from the collection of Dmitriĭ Aleksandrovich Rovinskiĭ (1824-1895). See more highlights from the collection here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/d-a-rovinskiis-collection-of-russian-lubki-18th%E2%80%9319th-century/
#SundayStonework #StoneworkSunday #Neolithic owl-faced idol 4300-4000 BC from chamber tomb excavated 1968 in Arnesano near Lecce, Puglia. 🏺 It has similarities w examples found in Cyprus + in Crete. Buried w ceramics associated w cult of Diana. in MArTA - Taranto arch museum #ancientbluesky
Frederick Church, 'The Witch's Daughter' (1881) #OwlishMonday #owl #witch #witchcraft #illustration #oldillustrations #artsky
Saw first orange-tipped butterfly of the year yesterday. It was enjoying the beautiful dandelions in my wilded garden (along with peacock butterflies, bumblebees, hoverflies, and assorted small shiny beetles) #butterflies #wilding
Major news! A long-lost episode of one of my all-time favourite series West Country Tales from 1982 has just re-emerged onto Youtube!! The channel has also posted the rest of the 1st season, with promises of the 2nd to follow, and they're all in great quality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZLC...
WESTCOUNTRY TALES S1E1 - The Sabbatical
YouTube video by 5PY Heritage
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The ‘Table de Sacrifice,’ 100 meters north of the stone alignments at Kerzérho, Erdeven, Brittany. In local folklore, this stone is ‘where the blood flows.’ #StandingStoneSunday 📷 June, 2023
