Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale)
@belovedsnail.bsky.social
reads, walks & occasionally eats.
Likes conversations. Posts pictures of her pets.
Retailer. Mentor. Sometime MeFite. Perpetually restless.
Living in the Hague. She/her. 🇳🇱/🇺🇸
Opinions are my own.
Likes conversations. Posts pictures of her pets.
Retailer. Mentor. Sometime MeFite. Perpetually restless.
Living in the Hague. She/her. 🇳🇱/🇺🇸
Opinions are my own.
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Shylights, Studio Drift. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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I've written and deleted posts about this about 10 x already.
I'll just say this:
People are struggling right now for many reasons. There's been a real shift in how people reply to each other on this site over the last few weeks. Please be kind. You never know what someone is going through.
I'll just say this:
People are struggling right now for many reasons. There's been a real shift in how people reply to each other on this site over the last few weeks. Please be kind. You never know what someone is going through.
January 5, 2026 at 7:17 PM
I've written and deleted posts about this about 10 x already.
I'll just say this:
People are struggling right now for many reasons. There's been a real shift in how people reply to each other on this site over the last few weeks. Please be kind. You never know what someone is going through.
I'll just say this:
People are struggling right now for many reasons. There's been a real shift in how people reply to each other on this site over the last few weeks. Please be kind. You never know what someone is going through.
Chat, how long can I leave my Christmas Tree lights up before I become Miss Havisham?
January 5, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Chat, how long can I leave my Christmas Tree lights up before I become Miss Havisham?
Today's Earworm
I come to bury MTV and not to praise it etc etc
I come to bury MTV and not to praise it etc etc
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Official Video)
YouTube video by CyndiLauperVEVO
www.youtube.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Today's Earworm
I come to bury MTV and not to praise it etc etc
I come to bury MTV and not to praise it etc etc
It was extremely Monday out there today.
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
It was extremely Monday out there today.
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January 5, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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Not enough people have been posting ducks on ice.
We can't fix all the problems in the world in 2026, but we can fix this. 🪶
We can't fix all the problems in the world in 2026, but we can fix this. 🪶
January 4, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Not enough people have been posting ducks on ice.
We can't fix all the problems in the world in 2026, but we can fix this. 🪶
We can't fix all the problems in the world in 2026, but we can fix this. 🪶
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No snow here yet so the hellebores are still happy 🥰 wishing everyone a happy (belated) new year and a lovely start to 2026 🥳 🌱
January 4, 2026 at 1:06 PM
No snow here yet so the hellebores are still happy 🥰 wishing everyone a happy (belated) new year and a lovely start to 2026 🥳 🌱
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Endless Column, by Constantin Brâncuși, 1938, 📸 by @stephenmally
January 4, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Endless Column, by Constantin Brâncuși, 1938, 📸 by @stephenmally
Middle age means I get more excited by a Falke hiking sock sale than a date.
January 4, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Middle age means I get more excited by a Falke hiking sock sale than a date.
This song has been earworming me for weeks now. I barely remembered it until it snapped back into my head:
Ariel - Dean Friedman
YouTube video by Dean Friedman
youtu.be
January 4, 2026 at 6:17 PM
This song has been earworming me for weeks now. I barely remembered it until it snapped back into my head:
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The European project hasn’t been this urgent since the end of WW2. Security in economy, technology and food is as important as traditional defence.
Europe has to protect itself from Russia, US and China.
As consumers, buy European whenever you can.
Europe has to protect itself from Russia, US and China.
As consumers, buy European whenever you can.
January 3, 2026 at 10:20 AM
The European project hasn’t been this urgent since the end of WW2. Security in economy, technology and food is as important as traditional defence.
Europe has to protect itself from Russia, US and China.
As consumers, buy European whenever you can.
Europe has to protect itself from Russia, US and China.
As consumers, buy European whenever you can.
I tried to get him excited about playing outside in the snow. This was not a rousing success.
January 4, 2026 at 3:25 PM
I tried to get him excited about playing outside in the snow. This was not a rousing success.
The Kempis is not what I expected, to be honest. I thought it would be more difficult to read and I did not expect it to be so moving.
Obviously the chapters on being a good monk are not so useful for me, but I get why this is a classic.
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Obviously the chapters on being a good monk are not so useful for me, but I get why this is a classic.
💙📚
January 4, 2026 at 9:49 AM
The Kempis is not what I expected, to be honest. I thought it would be more difficult to read and I did not expect it to be so moving.
Obviously the chapters on being a good monk are not so useful for me, but I get why this is a classic.
💙📚
Obviously the chapters on being a good monk are not so useful for me, but I get why this is a classic.
💙📚
"If you cannot be at one with yourself all the time, try to be so at least once a day, particularly in the morning or evening."
Thomas à Kempis, from The Imitation of Christ
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Thomas à Kempis, from The Imitation of Christ
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January 4, 2026 at 9:47 AM
"If you cannot be at one with yourself all the time, try to be so at least once a day, particularly in the morning or evening."
Thomas à Kempis, from The Imitation of Christ
💙📚
Thomas à Kempis, from The Imitation of Christ
💙📚
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Keith Haring Journals, January 3, 1988
January 4, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Keith Haring Journals, January 3, 1988
I was feeling more hopeful before this attack, and today I’m reminded this administration uses timing and outrage to make themselves feel inevitable.
It may be foolish, but I think I’m going back to nurturing the hope.
It may be foolish, but I think I’m going back to nurturing the hope.
January 4, 2026 at 5:51 AM
I was feeling more hopeful before this attack, and today I’m reminded this administration uses timing and outrage to make themselves feel inevitable.
It may be foolish, but I think I’m going back to nurturing the hope.
It may be foolish, but I think I’m going back to nurturing the hope.
Night all. It’s been a day. I’ve got my “distant surf” loop playing and I’m going to sleep.
January 3, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Night all. It’s been a day. I’ve got my “distant surf” loop playing and I’m going to sleep.
I have out-lazied my elder Chihuahua. Please clap.
January 3, 2026 at 8:22 PM
I have out-lazied my elder Chihuahua. Please clap.
Name a villain you would invite to dinner.
January 3, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Name a villain you would invite to dinner.
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I’m going to go darn socks for a bit but I leave you with this Hannah Arendt quote from ‘The Origins of Totalitarianism’:
‘The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility: he can never admit an error....
‘The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility: he can never admit an error....
January 3, 2026 at 5:16 PM
I’m going to go darn socks for a bit but I leave you with this Hannah Arendt quote from ‘The Origins of Totalitarianism’:
‘The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility: he can never admit an error....
‘The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility: he can never admit an error....
I must be running a fever since 3/4 pets are lovingly glued to my side.
January 3, 2026 at 12:49 PM
I must be running a fever since 3/4 pets are lovingly glued to my side.
"Calm that obsessive search for knowledge, for there is great discord and deception in it."
Thomas à Kempis, from The Imitation of Christ
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Thomas à Kempis, from The Imitation of Christ
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January 3, 2026 at 11:45 AM
"Calm that obsessive search for knowledge, for there is great discord and deception in it."
Thomas à Kempis, from The Imitation of Christ
💙📚
Thomas à Kempis, from The Imitation of Christ
💙📚
on top of everything else, I'm fighting off a cold/flu. My energy to do anything except read and doomscroll is roughly zero.
January 3, 2026 at 11:37 AM
on top of everything else, I'm fighting off a cold/flu. My energy to do anything except read and doomscroll is roughly zero.