Clotilde
@clothildek.bsky.social
Books, cathedrals, swimming in lakes, cooking, politics. Cat-lover sadly cursed by allergies.
I came downstairs this morning to discover that the teens had been doing mysterious late-night calculations. And possibly spilling them out of a glass. Have they been imbibing mathematics in some strange late-night ritual? It's half-term, so I won't find out until they get out of bed at around 2pm.
February 16, 2026 at 9:19 AM
I came downstairs this morning to discover that the teens had been doing mysterious late-night calculations. And possibly spilling them out of a glass. Have they been imbibing mathematics in some strange late-night ritual? It's half-term, so I won't find out until they get out of bed at around 2pm.
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Oh, you want these romances, you say? Congrats, they exist!
Historical bicycle riders: A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
Victorian werewolves: Soulless by Gail Carriger
Queer dragon shifters: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha (aka the horny dragon book)
Hockey historical: Puck and Prejudice by Lia Riley
Historical bicycle riders: A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
Victorian werewolves: Soulless by Gail Carriger
Queer dragon shifters: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha (aka the horny dragon book)
Hockey historical: Puck and Prejudice by Lia Riley
February 15, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Oh, you want these romances, you say? Congrats, they exist!
Historical bicycle riders: A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
Victorian werewolves: Soulless by Gail Carriger
Queer dragon shifters: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha (aka the horny dragon book)
Hockey historical: Puck and Prejudice by Lia Riley
Historical bicycle riders: A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
Victorian werewolves: Soulless by Gail Carriger
Queer dragon shifters: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha (aka the horny dragon book)
Hockey historical: Puck and Prejudice by Lia Riley
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UK folks: if we care about what is happening in the US with ICE, we must take steps to push back against anti-immigrant and refugee policy by our own government.
Fill out this consultation. It really doesn't take long. Amnesty have put together a super clear and helpful guide to follow.
Fill out this consultation. It really doesn't take long. Amnesty have put together a super clear and helpful guide to follow.
media.amnesty.org.uk
February 12, 2026 at 9:52 AM
UK folks: if we care about what is happening in the US with ICE, we must take steps to push back against anti-immigrant and refugee policy by our own government.
Fill out this consultation. It really doesn't take long. Amnesty have put together a super clear and helpful guide to follow.
Fill out this consultation. It really doesn't take long. Amnesty have put together a super clear and helpful guide to follow.
I was sad because a few weeks ago I had planned to make marmalade but my oranges went mouldy and all the shops had stopped stocking Seville oranges. But a lovely colleague found some and passed a bag on to me!
#tinyjoys
#tinyjoys
February 11, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I was sad because a few weeks ago I had planned to make marmalade but my oranges went mouldy and all the shops had stopped stocking Seville oranges. But a lovely colleague found some and passed a bag on to me!
#tinyjoys
#tinyjoys
I'm reading a romance novel in which the hot rich businessman who has to get married or lose control of the family business is a stained glass magnate, and I want to live in a world where not only does everyone find true love but also where stained glass is a big money spinner.
February 8, 2026 at 8:29 PM
I'm reading a romance novel in which the hot rich businessman who has to get married or lose control of the family business is a stained glass magnate, and I want to live in a world where not only does everyone find true love but also where stained glass is a big money spinner.
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Congratulations to Sociology.
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 7, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Congratulations to Sociology.
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this is really easy with the guide -- some people are saying 30 minutes but it didn't even take me that long. guide is particularly useful for the questions that are obviously leading/loaded, it just tells you not to bother answering them.
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
www.amnesty.org.uk
February 5, 2026 at 1:31 PM
this is really easy with the guide -- some people are saying 30 minutes but it didn't even take me that long. guide is particularly useful for the questions that are obviously leading/loaded, it just tells you not to bother answering them.
I think that I will never stop being irritated by the bother/rather rhyme in "On the Street Where You Live" from My Fair Lady, a musical where pronunciation of English accents is a huge part of the plot.
February 4, 2026 at 11:50 PM
I think that I will never stop being irritated by the bother/rather rhyme in "On the Street Where You Live" from My Fair Lady, a musical where pronunciation of English accents is a huge part of the plot.
1. Women and Myth
2. Equity and Trusts
3. Nineteenth Century French literature
4. Dissertation: The Politics of Landscape in Jane Austen's novels
5. Introduction to Old English
2. Equity and Trusts
3. Nineteenth Century French literature
4. Dissertation: The Politics of Landscape in Jane Austen's novels
5. Introduction to Old English
5 classes you took in university
1. Introduction to Byzantine History
2. Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon Cultural History
3. The Reformation in Mecklenburg
4. German literature of the Crusades
5. NT Greek
1. Introduction to Byzantine History
2. Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon Cultural History
3. The Reformation in Mecklenburg
4. German literature of the Crusades
5. NT Greek
5 classes you took in university:
1. Invertebrate anatomy
2. Environmental biology
3. Evolutionary psychology
4. Symbiosis and parasitology
5. Dissertation: Self directed behaviour in the Sulawesi Black Crested Macaque.
1. Invertebrate anatomy
2. Environmental biology
3. Evolutionary psychology
4. Symbiosis and parasitology
5. Dissertation: Self directed behaviour in the Sulawesi Black Crested Macaque.
February 1, 2026 at 12:07 PM
1. Women and Myth
2. Equity and Trusts
3. Nineteenth Century French literature
4. Dissertation: The Politics of Landscape in Jane Austen's novels
5. Introduction to Old English
2. Equity and Trusts
3. Nineteenth Century French literature
4. Dissertation: The Politics of Landscape in Jane Austen's novels
5. Introduction to Old English
Everything's kind of shit right now, but I just made celeriac soup with tiny pork and fennel meatballs and it is delicious and comforting.
January 21, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Everything's kind of shit right now, but I just made celeriac soup with tiny pork and fennel meatballs and it is delicious and comforting.
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Pastors working for ICE
Sex workers running mutual aid for immigrants
Which one looks more like Jesus???
Sex workers running mutual aid for immigrants
Which one looks more like Jesus???
January 21, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Pastors working for ICE
Sex workers running mutual aid for immigrants
Which one looks more like Jesus???
Sex workers running mutual aid for immigrants
Which one looks more like Jesus???
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See?
All breaking news is learned by seeing an out of context post at the top of the page and trying to make sense of it when you can only focus with one eye and can't decide whether you need to piss badly enough to have to get up yet.
January 21, 2026 at 6:30 AM
See?
This makes me so sad when I compare it to the RBS "The People's Money" banknotes which make functional design into beautiful pieces of pocket art and were designed by Scottish creatives to tell meaningful local stories.
NEW: Glasgow City Council has just approved a massive AI-generated mural to be painted in the city centre.
The illustration of Scottish elements inexplicably contains a bald eagle.
The planner says those upset about it are "keyboard warriors" who should "calm down"
The illustration of Scottish elements inexplicably contains a bald eagle.
The planner says those upset about it are "keyboard warriors" who should "calm down"
January 20, 2026 at 1:43 PM
This makes me so sad when I compare it to the RBS "The People's Money" banknotes which make functional design into beautiful pieces of pocket art and were designed by Scottish creatives to tell meaningful local stories.
My expectations for this were high because Secret Byrd was so good, but this was possibly even better: powerful, moving and beautiful. Avoid the restricted view seats, because the view was restricted to the extent that I couldn't always tell who was on stage.
youtu.be/aJkJ-eeXxqY?...
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Death of Gesualdo TRAILER
YouTube video by Bill Barclay
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January 18, 2026 at 8:28 PM
My expectations for this were high because Secret Byrd was so good, but this was possibly even better: powerful, moving and beautiful. Avoid the restricted view seats, because the view was restricted to the extent that I couldn't always tell who was on stage.
youtu.be/aJkJ-eeXxqY?...
youtu.be/aJkJ-eeXxqY?...
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The new Barbie comes with a range of accessories to reflect her status as an autistic woman, such as:
- noise-cancelling headphones
- a fidget spinner
- intense social media scrutiny about how she's Being Autistic Wrong
- noise-cancelling headphones
- a fidget spinner
- intense social media scrutiny about how she's Being Autistic Wrong
January 12, 2026 at 5:10 PM
The new Barbie comes with a range of accessories to reflect her status as an autistic woman, such as:
- noise-cancelling headphones
- a fidget spinner
- intense social media scrutiny about how she's Being Autistic Wrong
- noise-cancelling headphones
- a fidget spinner
- intense social media scrutiny about how she's Being Autistic Wrong
This film sounds wonderful and watching it is now very much on my to do list.
This was fun when it came out a few years back, has an incredible fight between the two sisters, worth watching
POLITE SOCIETY 📽️ debuts on British television on Wednesday night and don't miss it, it's hysterical intheirownleague.com/2023/01/29/p...
January 16, 2026 at 8:55 PM
This film sounds wonderful and watching it is now very much on my to do list.
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Congratulations to North of North!
When the Writers Guild of Canada announced the nominees for its 30th annual awards, North of North appeared five times, sweeping every nomination for the Comedy Series category.
redpopnews.com/north-of-nor...
#redpopnews #northofnorth #indigisky
When the Writers Guild of Canada announced the nominees for its 30th annual awards, North of North appeared five times, sweeping every nomination for the Comedy Series category.
redpopnews.com/north-of-nor...
#redpopnews #northofnorth #indigisky
North of North Earns All Five Comedy Series Nominations for the 2026 WGC SCREENWRITING AWARDS
North of North sweeps the Comedy series category, as the Writers Guild of Canada marks30 years of honouring excellence in Canadian screenwriting.
redpopnews.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Congratulations to North of North!
When the Writers Guild of Canada announced the nominees for its 30th annual awards, North of North appeared five times, sweeping every nomination for the Comedy Series category.
redpopnews.com/north-of-nor...
#redpopnews #northofnorth #indigisky
When the Writers Guild of Canada announced the nominees for its 30th annual awards, North of North appeared five times, sweeping every nomination for the Comedy Series category.
redpopnews.com/north-of-nor...
#redpopnews #northofnorth #indigisky
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Competition! For any artists or interested people the Beer Can Chair Competition is on for 2026 and is seriously awesome.
$3k NZD first place.
All you have to do is construct a chair out of a beer can.
Last years results were stunning. Pictures of them on the site❤️ www.beerchaircompetition.co.nz
$3k NZD first place.
All you have to do is construct a chair out of a beer can.
Last years results were stunning. Pictures of them on the site❤️ www.beerchaircompetition.co.nz
January 14, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Competition! For any artists or interested people the Beer Can Chair Competition is on for 2026 and is seriously awesome.
$3k NZD first place.
All you have to do is construct a chair out of a beer can.
Last years results were stunning. Pictures of them on the site❤️ www.beerchaircompetition.co.nz
$3k NZD first place.
All you have to do is construct a chair out of a beer can.
Last years results were stunning. Pictures of them on the site❤️ www.beerchaircompetition.co.nz
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Someone's just 1.27 centimetred my joke about cockneys and the metric system.
January 13, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Someone's just 1.27 centimetred my joke about cockneys and the metric system.
I'm old enough to have grown up in a time when standing against Naziism was patriotic and pre-ghost Ebeneezer Scrooge wasn't an aspirational role model.
Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45
January 13, 2026 at 10:08 AM
I'm old enough to have grown up in a time when standing against Naziism was patriotic and pre-ghost Ebeneezer Scrooge wasn't an aspirational role model.
The Lagan (and after that the Arve, the Thames and the Ouse).
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.
Mine is the Patuxent.
Mine is the Patuxent.
January 12, 2026 at 9:06 PM
The Lagan (and after that the Arve, the Thames and the Ouse).
When I was into modern paganism I mostly ended up hanging out with a lot of queer anarchists and learning more about consensus decision-making, how to make events more accessible.
Guys, I was only *pretending* to be a white supremacist in order to be liked and trusted by white suprematists on an explicitly white supremacist dating site :)
January 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM
When I was into modern paganism I mostly ended up hanging out with a lot of queer anarchists and learning more about consensus decision-making, how to make events more accessible.
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we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
I am not vegetarian. But up until recently, if I ate out, I would choose a vegetarian option because I prefer beans and tofu and vegetables and grains and cheese and yogurt to meat. Now I generally end up eating meat because the choice is between meat and fake meat that gives me stomach cramps.
The problem with impossible burgers is simple: the best veggie burgers all look and taste like veggie burgers, you can see bits of veggie in them, etc
The market for people who want to not eat meat, but pretend to, is tiny
This is why Beyond Meat is going bankrupt
www.fooddive.com/news/beyond-...
The market for people who want to not eat meat, but pretend to, is tiny
This is why Beyond Meat is going bankrupt
www.fooddive.com/news/beyond-...
Beyond Meat taking longer to pay its bills as plant-based sales plunge
The company said it is “not planning to file for bankruptcy” even as data shows an increase in overdue payments.
www.fooddive.com
January 11, 2026 at 9:42 PM
I am not vegetarian. But up until recently, if I ate out, I would choose a vegetarian option because I prefer beans and tofu and vegetables and grains and cheese and yogurt to meat. Now I generally end up eating meat because the choice is between meat and fake meat that gives me stomach cramps.