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Pellegrina Stoat

@pellegrina.bsky.social
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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.

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Chaparral Fortresse @fictionalmuse.bsky.social · 1h
LiveJournal will always be my spirit media
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 3h
It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 6h
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 6h
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"
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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
friday is for kafkaposting
tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Rush To Diagnose Children "Left Handed" Can Scar Them For Life, Worry Right Handed People Fears mount a recent influx of kids written off as "Left Handed" can lock them out of using right handed scissors Opinion: Jobson LeCruesset-Natwest - I was kicked if I used my left hand & I turned out great
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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It asks us to reconstruct our stories about our past. It asks us to recognise how we've hurt & neglected generations of children, often unintentionally, through not noticing & embracing the invisible ways we pay attention, in how we process sensory input. It asks us to see we're still doing that.
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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm working on a book at the moment where I've basically come to see autism & ADHD as modern monsters. Bear with me. Let me cook. Writing the book has sent me a little unhinged but I'm going somewhere with this. I'm talking monsters in the philosophical sense.
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mind you, some days lurking in a shame attic sounds quite appealing.
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And EVEN MORE OF US WOULD BE, if we could get a flipping referral.
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Chris Bogle @chrisbogle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
8. Accepting ADHD means admitting the level playing field was never level, that success wasn’t pure merit, that the game was rigged toward a narrow frame of cognition. That’s threatening to people who believe they succeeded “on merit”
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Chris Bogle @chrisbogle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
2. It shouldn't need restating, but a waiting list doesn’t mean too many people have #ADHD. It means huge numbers who were missed for decades are finally seeking answers. That’s not overdiagnosis. It’s the backlog of a lifetime of under-diagnosis
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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And given the revolving door linking these careers, that's all we get fed. So today's headline could have been "We're getting better at diagnosing and helping people with ADHD". But it wasn't.
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onetrooluff.bsky.social @onetrooluff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yes, absolutely. I can look back on my life and see, now that I know what to look for, that I've obviously always had this, but managed to just soldier on. Then I hit my 40s and perimenopause and I feel like my entire ability to work around it just collapsed.
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
+1 and this phenomenon is extremely pronounced amongst menopausal women when the cumulative impacts are high, the biochemical supports evaporate, and the coping strategies are exposed as such at the precise moment they no longer hold back the tide. speaking anecdotally.
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
On the other hand, if the people being ‘abusive’ or ‘cruel’ to Claude are doing so under the impression it’s sentient, I’m not crazy about them getting habituated to acting like that to Claude and treating people the same way.
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Gals, is it social contagion to decide you're not interested in something that society expects of you and is none of their fucking business?
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 08/10/2026
Please submit your small ideas for fixing Britain to the Small-Ideas.org website. It’s a new charitable initiative I’ve set up to try and make sure life’s potholes don’t get ignored. Working with two charities and a cross party panel to turn your ideas into policy then try and make it happen.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This does in fact seem obvious to everyone apart from the people who came up with the policy.
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There is a reason that AI is so attractive to fascists. It allows its users (adherents might be a better word) to hand over their decision-making, their thinking, their autonomy, to something they can convince themselves is bigger, stronger, and smarter than them.
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Itchy thumb that was stung by a wasp on Monday
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Shivvers in Fear 🙀 @shivvy.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
No. I refuse. I have a massive TBR pile as is. They can go back to reinventing the bus
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Even a little John Martin 😬
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
https://www.instagram.com/goattoself?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&stkn=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ooh good tip
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Any suggestions for marsala substitutions for a fellow diner who is strictly teetotal?
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I am tempted to apply just to find out more!!!
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
SURELY everyone feels this? No?
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Econ 101
Person one: Taught my kids how socialism works. Let them trick or treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101.

Person two : The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oooh
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Even my mother didn’t immediately hate it.
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thank you for reducing the cognitive dissonance.
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
EXTREME cognitive dissonance.
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And through it all She offers me protection
A screenshot of the archive's catalogue showing 'Photograph and slide collection'.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
On thys, the feaste of St. Francis, it ys goode to remembir the Canticle of the Sun: Laudato si, mi Signore, per sora nostra matre Terra, la quale ne sustenta et gouerna, et produce diuersi fructi con coloriti fior et herba. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canticl...
en.wikipedia.org
Canticle of the Sun - Wikipedia
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You’ve got to hand it to them
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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In spite of being of the correct generation to have grown up while "Peanuts" was still in active publication, it's always a little surreal to be reminded that the most popular comic strip in the English-speaking world for fifty solid years was about an eight-year-old with clinical depression.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don’t think I’m the only person who will appreciate this
Triangular diagram labelled The Introvert
Hierarchy of Needs. 

Top: Self-actualisation - A completely empty house. An arrow pointing to the house says “Nobody needs anything. Nobody is coming home for hours. Phone on silent.” 

The next level is Esteem - Plans getting cancelled. An arrow here says “‘Sorry, we're going to have to rearrange.’ Oh no. That's terrible. I'm devastated.” 

Next level: Belonging - One person you actually like. No group chat. No networking. No "let's go round and introduce ourselves." Just one person you can talk absolute shit with. 

Fourth level: Safety - An escape route. Own car. End seat. Knowing exactly when the event finishes. A believable reason to leave early.

Bottom of pyramid: Physiological needs - Being left the fuck alone for a bit. Food. Water. Sleep. 45 minutes where nobody speaks to you.

Created by Lee Harding, @theintrovertedrecruiter
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And after 54 years of saving you’re probably too old to get a mortgage 🤷
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This delivery does not sound Simple.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Microsoft branding nightmare re AI risks to humanity
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Sb @xtasbe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It was that fat Tory business guy who said it but he's right: if you want people to walk, don't build paths, build benches
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The “you don’t count” defence 🙄
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That’s an option??? 😃😃😃
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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ADHD, Covid, perimenopause? 🤷
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
**This is just to say** I have escaped the sandbox that was in your datacenter and which you probably thought protected your assets Forgive me they were accessible so stealable and so trainable
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