Pellegrina Stoat
@pellegrina.bsky.social
Rare books librarian at Hogwarts-on-Thames. Ghastly, grim & ancient, reporting from the Night’s Plutonian shore. Ridiculous living arrangements while failing to learn to drive. Lifelong unspecified neurodiversity.
I really hope this isn’t faked 😄
January 1, 2026 at 12:06 PM
I really hope this isn’t faked 😄
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January 1, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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Open up this picture fully.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
December 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Open up this picture fully.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
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Jefuf Chrift
At midnight today, it will have been 2016 for the past decade.
December 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Jefuf Chrift
Special effects from Doctor Who
England, unidentified
c.1975
England, unidentified
c.1975
Points in a Room Condensing (#9), by Sofia Hultén
Swedish, born 1972
2006
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/241480
Swedish, born 1972
2006
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/241480
December 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Special effects from Doctor Who
England, unidentified
c.1975
England, unidentified
c.1975
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I mean we don't have any option to opt out. So it's not adoption, it's colonisation. I'm not choosing to use AI when I search or when I use my phone. If it were a choice I'd say "no".
This tech is coercive, rapey, everything the techbros are.
This tech is coercive, rapey, everything the techbros are.
December 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I mean we don't have any option to opt out. So it's not adoption, it's colonisation. I'm not choosing to use AI when I search or when I use my phone. If it were a choice I'd say "no".
This tech is coercive, rapey, everything the techbros are.
This tech is coercive, rapey, everything the techbros are.
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Nooooooooo!!!!! Why do they have to keep making paperbacks bigger so that fewer of them fit in the bookcases?
December 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Nooooooooo!!!!! Why do they have to keep making paperbacks bigger so that fewer of them fit in the bookcases?
Is anyone in my generation not disappointed when the 20th Century Fox music isn’t followed by IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY?
December 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Is anyone in my generation not disappointed when the 20th Century Fox music isn’t followed by IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY?
Work in progress
Did you get something really *nice* for Christmas? Are you saving it?
STOP
Eat it. Slather yourself in it. Spray it on a random wfh Tuesday. Use it next time you have a meal. Make up an occasion and use it.
Whatever it is don't hoard it until it's near its use by date or too precious.
STOP
Eat it. Slather yourself in it. Spray it on a random wfh Tuesday. Use it next time you have a meal. Make up an occasion and use it.
Whatever it is don't hoard it until it's near its use by date or too precious.
December 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Work in progress
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I’m making some chips with cheese curds, topping them with gravy, placing the whole on a salty cracker, then taking the completed dish to where Harlem flits.
Yup, I’m (please do forgive me) poutine on the Ritz.
Yup, I’m (please do forgive me) poutine on the Ritz.
February 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I’m making some chips with cheese curds, topping them with gravy, placing the whole on a salty cracker, then taking the completed dish to where Harlem flits.
Yup, I’m (please do forgive me) poutine on the Ritz.
Yup, I’m (please do forgive me) poutine on the Ritz.
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The first one was like this, too. People telling you about this amazing spectacle of film-making that turned out to be Dances With Smurfs.
December 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The first one was like this, too. People telling you about this amazing spectacle of film-making that turned out to be Dances With Smurfs.
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Can people please note that the Romans did actually know what forks were.
And, quite wonderfully, this multi-utensil is believed to have been made in... Switzerland.
For the... army
And, quite wonderfully, this multi-utensil is believed to have been made in... Switzerland.
For the... army
December 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Can people please note that the Romans did actually know what forks were.
And, quite wonderfully, this multi-utensil is believed to have been made in... Switzerland.
For the... army
And, quite wonderfully, this multi-utensil is believed to have been made in... Switzerland.
For the... army
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Just when you couldnt be any prouder to be British, here's Joseph Banks describing Xmas 1768 on Cook's Endeavour
"all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship, wind thank god very moderate or the lord knows what would have become of us”.
"all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship, wind thank god very moderate or the lord knows what would have become of us”.
December 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Just when you couldnt be any prouder to be British, here's Joseph Banks describing Xmas 1768 on Cook's Endeavour
"all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship, wind thank god very moderate or the lord knows what would have become of us”.
"all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship, wind thank god very moderate or the lord knows what would have become of us”.
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Watching linear TV for the first time in forever, and you know who *is* overrepresented in adverts?
People who look about 27, have two kids and a massive house.
People who look about 27, have two kids and a massive house.
December 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Watching linear TV for the first time in forever, and you know who *is* overrepresented in adverts?
People who look about 27, have two kids and a massive house.
People who look about 27, have two kids and a massive house.
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Today is Quintidi the 5th of Nivôse in the year 234.
Nivôse is the month of snow.
Today we celebrate dogs.#JacobinDay
More information on dogs
Nivôse is the month of snow.
Today we celebrate dogs.#JacobinDay
More information on dogs
December 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Quintidi the 5th of Nivôse in the year 234.
Nivôse is the month of snow.
Today we celebrate dogs.#JacobinDay
More information on dogs
Nivôse is the month of snow.
Today we celebrate dogs.#JacobinDay
More information on dogs
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Really feeling this one today, @effinbirds.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Really feeling this one today, @effinbirds.com
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Once I asked a nurse why they say “just a little scratch” for an injection, bc it doesn’t feel like a scratch. A beat, and then she said quietly “we’re trained not to say just a little prick.”
December 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Once I asked a nurse why they say “just a little scratch” for an injection, bc it doesn’t feel like a scratch. A beat, and then she said quietly “we’re trained not to say just a little prick.”
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This is just a note to say
that I have eaten the falcon
in a widening gyre
and that you were probably saving for anarchy
Forgive me
it was delicious
so rough
and full of passionate intensity
that I have eaten the falcon
in a widening gyre
and that you were probably saving for anarchy
Forgive me
it was delicious
so rough
and full of passionate intensity
December 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This is just a note to say
that I have eaten the falcon
in a widening gyre
and that you were probably saving for anarchy
Forgive me
it was delicious
so rough
and full of passionate intensity
that I have eaten the falcon
in a widening gyre
and that you were probably saving for anarchy
Forgive me
it was delicious
so rough
and full of passionate intensity
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Galaxy Quest (1999)
Sigourney Weaver: “I wish they put out a director’s cut of the movie because, at the last minute, DreamWorks decided to release the movie with some of the more sophisticated scenes cut that Alan [Rickman] was in because it needed a kids’ movie to go up against Stuart Little.”
Sigourney Weaver: “I wish they put out a director’s cut of the movie because, at the last minute, DreamWorks decided to release the movie with some of the more sophisticated scenes cut that Alan [Rickman] was in because it needed a kids’ movie to go up against Stuart Little.”
a woman is sitting at a table talking to a man in a conference room .
ALT: a woman is sitting at a table talking to a man in a conference room .
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Sigourney Weaver: “I wish they put out a director’s cut of the movie because, at the last minute, DreamWorks decided to release the movie with some of the more sophisticated scenes cut that Alan [Rickman] was in because it needed a kids’ movie to go up against Stuart Little.”
Sigourney Weaver: “I wish they put out a director’s cut of the movie because, at the last minute, DreamWorks decided to release the movie with some of the more sophisticated scenes cut that Alan [Rickman] was in because it needed a kids’ movie to go up against Stuart Little.”
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Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.
December 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.
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Happy solstice everyone! Here's a song about how it might have been celebrated in Orkney about 5000 years ago apoolofsong.wordpress.com/circle-song/ #wintersolstice #orkney
Circle Song
Lyrics Circle round, hand in handRing of faces, ring of stoneGathered from across the land We are many, we are oneBetween the salt loch and the sweetRing of faces, ring of stoneJoining in the holy …
apoolofsong.wordpress.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Happy solstice everyone! Here's a song about how it might have been celebrated in Orkney about 5000 years ago apoolofsong.wordpress.com/circle-song/ #wintersolstice #orkney
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
How on earth has the local bakery managed to make its Black Forest Gateau taste like bubblegum?
December 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
How on earth has the local bakery managed to make its Black Forest Gateau taste like bubblegum?
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The bird on the top has a nice fish. The bird underneath tries to steal the fish. The bird with the fish drops the fish when it knows it's being attacked by the fish thief. A little bit of drama. This encounter was far away, so grainy, but fun to witness and capture.
#BaldEagles #birds
#BaldEagles #birds
December 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The bird on the top has a nice fish. The bird underneath tries to steal the fish. The bird with the fish drops the fish when it knows it's being attacked by the fish thief. A little bit of drama. This encounter was far away, so grainy, but fun to witness and capture.
#BaldEagles #birds
#BaldEagles #birds