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01micko@diaspora.glasswings.com
Michael

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241027.html #bat #nebula #spooky #astronomy

Explanation: What is the most spook-tacular nebula in the galaxy? One contender is LDN 43, which bears an astonishing resemblance to a vast cosmic bat flying amongst the stars on a dark Halloween night. Located about 1400 light years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, this molecular cloud is dense enough to block light not only from background stars, but from wisps of gas lit up by the nearby reflection nebula LBN 7. Far from being a harbinger of death, this 12-light year-long filament of gas and dust is actually a stellar nursery. Glowing with eerie light, the bat is lit up from inside by dense gaseous knots that have just formed young stars.

katherinebond@diasp.org
Katherine Bond

It’s almost mid-October and things are getting spookier. What’s your favorite spooky book?

So many good ones. Some of mine are: Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Stand, and of course, anything Poe. Also a fan of the Pendergast series by Preston and Child.

#autumn #spooky #books

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steelnomad@diasp.org
steelnomad

Digging Through the Archives of Scarfolk, the Internet’s Creepiest Fake Town

... In 1978, the town of Scarfolk, in northwest England, cut its police budget in half. This drastic measure was followed by a wave of violent crime. To deal with the influx of dead bodies, the remaining police did the obvious thing—they teamed up with the “Keep Britain Tidy” campaign, and encouraged citizens, especially children, to pick up “victim debris” themselves.

If this sounds too grotesque to be true, don’t worry—it is! There were never any smiling, appendage-finding kids in Scarfolk, because Scarfolk never existed. But the town’s online presence is meticulously detailed and impressively #creepy. For three years, graphic designer Richard Littler has been using his design skills and bone-dry wit to write a whole history of Scarfolk, a fictional, supernatural-tinged town that finds humor in #dystopia, and is closer to today’s world than we might like to think.

#internet #dystopian #spooky

Digging Through the Archives of Scarfolk, the Internet's Creepiest Fake Town

Haunted TV shows, surveillance owls, liver-based children's toys—nothing is too weird for Scarfolk.

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