Grail Seeker
@grailseeker.bsky.social
Recumbent tri(c)k(st)er. Interests: myth, legend, folklore, symbolism, spirit of place, hauntology, psychogeography, environmental art, ecospirituality, apophenia, weirdness, forteana, metaphysics, mythopoeia, neurodivergence.
Now in full distribution! The Megalithic Imperative: A 3rd Stone Anthology by Neil Mortimer 🪨 Collecting a decade of cutting edge writing about archaeology, earth mysteries, folklore, and myth in our ancient landscapes. Purchase now strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-mega...
My last speaking engagement this year will be at the wonderful @treadwells-books.bsky.social where I will be talking about re-enchantment as resistance; communities of story and the importance of links between folklore and place. www.tickettailor.com/events/tread.... I hope to see some of you there.
Buy tickets – Hookland with David Southwell – In-Person Lecture – Treadwells Books
Hookland with David Southwell – In-Person Lecture – Treadwells Books, Thu 24 Sep 2026 - The creator of England's imagined lost county on re-enchantment as resistance. Through near-daily postings in th...
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Erik Davis just uploaded all his old Expanding Mind interviews to YouTube, well worth exploring. Here's the one with me, just after the release of my book North, discussing 'ice monsters, the trauma of the agricultural revolution, and the social politics hidden in myth.' youtu.be/8vPz-cmedXg?...
Expanding Mind with Erik Davis - The Polar Cosmos - November 23rd, 2014
YouTube video by Burning Shore
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This is interesting & necessary; everyone should create an acct & document your non-consent ASAP "A public, machine-readable record of how AI may use a person's likeness, voice, & movement. Identity is intellectual property: each person decides what is & isn't allowed." (Registry link in replies)
Actor and Producer Cate Blanchett and EU Parliament Member Eva Maydell Launch RSL Media Human Consent Registry to Protect Identity in the Age of AI | RSL Media Newsroom
Registry opens today to the public, providing a free and practical way for people to declare how AI systems may use their name, image, likeness and other identity attributes, promoting transparency an...
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As promised to link to my first actual Hookland book. It is only small, but covers a lot of the ghost soil. If enough of you buy it and like it there will be a Volume Two. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123 It will also be available in an actual bookshop soon.
It's been months since I've had a commission, so if you aren't in need of one, or can't afford one at the moment, I would still appreciate it if you can at least give a like and reshare. absurdbydesign.com
How do you stay cool in Hookland? You visit a parish church and become part of its congregation of shades. You climb into a portal tomb and lie you back against its cooling stone as you listen to the heatless whispers of the ancestral dead.
The Holy Grail of Arthurian Manuscripts is for auction at Christie’s www.medievalists.net/2026/06/holy... #Arthurian #medieval
The Holy Grail of Arthurian Manuscripts is for auction at Christie’s - Medievalists.net
One of the most important surviving manuscripts of Arthurian literature is set to go under the hammer at Christie’s this July, carrying an estimated value of up to £2 million. Christopher Berard…
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Which begs the questions: How do we know we don't do this? Who are 'we'?
Grail Seeker@grailseeker.bsky.social · 2mo agoThought experiment: If people could swap bodies with each other, nothing would change.
I promised you a book cover for Hookland Fragments Volume One at Midsummer and here it is:
Went back to my favourite Nightjar haunt yesterday, after an aborted visit last full moon, thanks to a nearby poacher. The birds are easier to observe and record thanks to the reflection of the sky in the pond.
Just thinking about the likely impact on LLMs of all the sarcasm (i.e. people saying the opposite of what they mean) on social media.
As Hookland is occasionally sweary and most definitely mentions words like Hell on a regular basis, you may want to enable the adult content filters on Bluesky as the county is definitely going to be on the new naughty step.
I think people forget the “you can’t change your sex” slogan is a newer line of GC rhetoric with only recent purchase. For nearly a century “sex change” was an accepted term, and while deployed clumsily and poorly, it was also understood as a reality the nuances of which were largely irrelevant.
Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · 3mo ago"changing sex shouldn't relegate you to an underclass" is also a broad statement that doesn't need to nail down every dimension of changing sex--social, phenotypic, or otherwise--while being concise about the heart of the issue.
Have just asked the publisher of the first Hookland booklet if they could put the following after the ISBN details: The author of the work would like to give fair warning to anyone intending to pirate this book that they will activate a curse embedded in its text if they do so.
Association is a fundamental principle uniting physics, biology, and mind, Jarosek suggests. Coherence emerges through the relational act of association itself, which can be seen as the connective tissue not only of meaning, but of reality itself. www.essentiafoundation.org/association-...
Association as causation: the fabric of meaning and existence itself
This essay proposes association as a fundamental principle uniting physics, biology, and mind. Rather than treating causation as either upward (from parts to wholes) or downward (from wholes to parts)...
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Trying out the Kagi search engine kagi.com, but with this handy AI removing CSS codeberg.org/zerodogg/kag.... So far, so good.
kagi-no-ai
Remove all AI-features from the Kagi search engine
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![these are old stones - underneath are broken stones and fallen leaves or plants - anything of the things above [which may look like sky or sea] are just other kinds of stone](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xfzrlvoasopsasccdcubzmia/bafkreiddyo7piixz5rzplqjoazbshik7w3ixwulclbad2xvksigx7t5sre)
