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The new Boggart and Banshee episode: The Green Children of Woolpit: Fairies or Foreigners? Simon and Chris celebrate the new book by John Clark on the Green Children: two children with ‘leek-green’ skin who said that they came from a twilight ‘St Martin’s Land’. www.buzzsprout.com/1859647/epis...

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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

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I’m thinking we should spread this news about the firings at NOAA as far and wide as possible. Like cancer research, weather forecasting seems likely to be broadly popular across the political spectrum. apnews.com/article/nati...

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In Chinese #mythology, nine blazing suns scorched the earth, threatening humanity's survival. Hou Yi, legendary archer, became humanity's savior. With divine precision, he shot down eight celestial sons, transforming them into mystical three-legged crows, 1/2

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Congrats, everyone—the Elon boycott is working! Reports indicate that Tesla inventory is swelling, especially with Cybertrucks piling up outside their factory. Keep the boycott going, and don’t forget—today is the Economic Blackout!

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If you can’t wait for our next issue and you’d like to know as soon as it drops, do sign up to our newsletter and we’ll notify you: helleborezine.substack.com. In the meantime, all our back issues, plus our travel guide and card game are available on helleborebooks.com.

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The next episode of The Folklore Podcast will feature a focus on Cornish folklore with guest @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social Due to my being at the UK Ghost Story Festival this weekend, this episode will drop slightly later than usual - expected Monday

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Cornish folklore, folk horror and the allure of the sea. I had an absolute whale of a time (geddit?! 🐳) talking about Dissonance of Bird Song and Cornish folklore. My book features dark merfolk, and strange pacts with the sea: Join us beneath the waves… 🌊 #folklore #folkhorror #cornwall

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Since Trump has claimed Elon doesn’t run DOGE, we wanted to make sure you know who is running our government. This list has been updated with 15 names.

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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A message from the legendary Dunnes Stores strikers who were vilified by Irish media 40 years ago for refusing to handle goods from apartheid South Africa.

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"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker." ✒#FrederickDouglass, African-American escaped slave, abolitionist, lecturer, and editor, #DOTD 20 February 1895. #Literature #Politics

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Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field? Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities! We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here: environmentalhumanities.org Contact us if you have any questions.

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I'm digging how this WWII guide is basically "gum up fascism by being an energy vampire." Let Colin Robinson be your guide in the fight against fascism. The link: www.404media.co/declassified...

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SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

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Not a depiction of Romanies but a good example of the racialisation present in the early 19th century. 'Gypsying' was term used for picnicking, which Cruikshank is satirising here.

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I'm delighted to share the advert for a collaborative PhD which I'll be co-supervising with Dr Paddy Fitzgerald of the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies (Omagh). This project, 'Finding "home" in a cultural landscape of migration & belonging' has a deadline of 10 March www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

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In #JapaneseFolklore it is believed that bodies of water often have a nushi, or guardian spirit, that can take various forms including dragons, snakes and in the case of the pond at Joren Falls on the Izu Peninsula, a spider. Full tale here: www.curiousordinary.com/2024/03/jore... #WyrdWednesday

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Painter Melissa Scott-Miller, one of the many fantastic contemporary artists interviewed for the womensart1 book 'Unlocking Women's Art' .....via all good bookshops :)

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Our festival theme in 2025 is 'Between the Lines' —a space of hidden histories, shifting borders, and unspoken meanings. Read more: www.beinghumanfestival.org/news/between...

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In Nov 2023, I participated in a @britishlibrary.bsky.social event devoted to faeries in literature, folklore, and balladry with @ellenkushner.bsky.social, Jeannette Ng, @profrmaslen.bsky.social, and Sam Lee. I've only just discovered that a recording is available online at: youtu.be/pF_mr0ETyQA?...

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Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

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Because 1m-2m people died?

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I am so, so tired. And I know you are, too. Here's “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution, it became a hospital.

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It's our first @crems-york.bsky.social seminar of the semester today at 6pm! @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social will be talking to us about the 'Torments and Travails of Jamestown'. This is hybrid, so do register to join us online too! See you later!! www.york.ac.uk/crems/events... #earlymodern 🗃️

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We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

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Irrationality. Ema Sullivan-Bissett (Free access available until 24 February.) "titles in the Cambridge Elements series are short. Our charge sheet of irrationalities is not." www.cambridge.org/core/element... #Philosophy

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Darwin's birthday is always a good excuse to share these delightful drawings by his children, some of them on the back of the manuscript of On the Origin of Species.

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Golden Plovers resting with Lapwings at RSPB Titchwell today for #BirdsSeenIn2025

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One underreported facet of the Great University Crisis is the contribution of a small number of consultancy firms who recommend: Centralise functions Cut small courses Reduce student options Abolish loads of joint awards Chop staff headcount This is exactly* what you must not do. (1/3)

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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labour are fucking atrocious. who is this ad for? nobody sees this ad and is thinking ‘wow, this is good stuff!’. keir starmer is fucking embarrassing.

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Folk Witch book challenge A book per day (as you’re able), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best history & folklore books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #Folklore #Witchsky #FolkWitch #folkwitchbookchallenge

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Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.

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Yuko Hosaka, contemporary Japanese illustrator and printmaker #WomensArt

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FINAL CALL! Booking closes at 4:30pm today, and we kick off at 6:30pm with our opening slot with Ally Wilkes! www.eventbrite.com/e/fears-of-t...

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Sea and boat,1988 by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham #womensart

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TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.

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Elon Musk is taking away your free speech rights to access public information.

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NEW: DoJ employees asked for guarantees in writing for the deferred resignation Fork in the Road plan. They were sent this. It strips the signer of the right to sue, and also says if you commit a felony, you’re not eligible for federal employment. Oh, the irony.

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EXCLUSIVE: The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.

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Call for Papers: British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies – What Happens Now Conference (BACLS-WHN) 10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling Proposal Deadline: Friday, 7 February docs.google.com/forms/d/1MQD...

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Our Bloomsbury book series examines those lingering revenants of the past & ghostly "lost futures" so central to the critical concepts of hauntology & spectrality. Does this sound like your research? Then please, be in touch! 👻 #Hauntology #Hauntings #FolkHorror

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Congratulations to Maisha Wester on the publication of ‘African American Gothic in the Era of Black Lives Matter’: open access for the next four weeks from our series Cambridge Elements in the Gothic. @dalegothic96.bsky.social

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Just published: Maisha Wester’s new book ‘African American Gothic in the Era of Black Lives Matter’ in our Elements in the Gothic series. Open Access for 4 weeks!https://url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/2YLXCRM64iLE0xJi9fQS1cqzO?domain=cambridge.org @angelawright1794.bsky.social

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