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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale)

@belovedsnail.bsky.social

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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.

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · Apr 13

Shylights, Studio Drift. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · Apr 11

Handwritten recipes for dyes used in William Morris’s fabric designs, from the Merton Abbey Dye Book (1882-91)

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 28m

It seems to run in families.

Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 29m

Selfie with forgiving lighting:

A white blonde woman in late middle age with a haircut and carefully chosen light.

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 2h

I am now old enough it's a little bit weird I don't have any grey yet.

I have a new hairdresser and she asked me if I had considered going grey since it must be a lot of work to keep it up. I'm afraid I spoiled her budgeting plans from me by telling her no work was necessary.

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 22h

You have no idea how much I wish Europe would switch to doing things via WhatsApp or any messenger really rather than phone calls. It is so freaking annoying to have to speak to people on the phone about something better handled by text.

Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 23h

I’m really enjoying it so far.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

A dnd Paladin takes his car to a mechanic. "Whenever I'm driving, I get these strange urges to run over pedestrians."

The mechanic has a look under the car. "Your alignment is off

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Takuo Matsuzawa @matsuzawa.bsky.social · 1d

The maki-e demonstrator fountain pen I prototyped a year ago and posted on Facebook was immediately purchased. I’m still making them to order today.
#fountainpen #matsuzawa

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 2d

And some Amsterdam street art.

A punk with “Johnny Rotten” is painted on the side of an Amsterdam house.

A stencil of an anguished man in black and white, next to a sticker of a serene Black woman in the center of a flower.

A scary wooden sculpture of a woman thing reaching for the sky.

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 2d

Lovely day in Amsterdam.

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 2d

The Brâncuși exhibit in A’dam is awesome. Highly recommend.

And since I visited with a Romanian friend, I now know how to pronounce his name correctly.

A version of The Kiss by Brâncuși from the 1920s. A couple in sandstone is clasped together in a kiss.

Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 2d

Selfie in the gift shop.

A blonde woman in a maroon shirt and khakis in a mirror selfie.

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 2d

And again, I have no idea how many secretly think Trump is doing the right thing. I remember my friend in Hong Kong (a pretty well known journalist) who took the position that Trump was a turd, but that immigration of Muslims was bad so she had voted for him anyhow.

Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 2d

And I'm struck again how much anti-vax seems to be a Maga gateway drug. This last woman who went Maga did so because of the left hating on RHK. She began posting how the COVID crackdown was worse than ICE-- which is...

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 2d

I have an online circle from my university days, and once in a while someone I felt like I knew peels off as maga. It always disturbs and it is usually older women.

I don't like reflexive agism-- particularly re women. But I do wonder what triggers there are with age to cause this change.

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 2d

—has information you need in your quest

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 2d

No love at all to the younger lumpencat who at 3am trampolined across the bed, waking both me and the dogs, who immediately began to fight each other.

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Wagane @wagane.bsky.social · 3d

#fungifriends
Some Orange Peel Fungus, Aleuria aurantia,
Chilworth, near Guildford.

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Coral King @rocketcoral.bsky.social · 2d

Burnet moths 🦋💛
#moth

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crack the code, solve the crime @deputydale.bsky.social · 2d

#nokingsdc

Protestors in the foreground with the Capitol in the distance, framed by a beautiful, blue fall sky scudded with light clouds. In DC.

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 3d

I have a friend there too.

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 3d

Currently reading Nicotine, by Nell Zink. 💙📚

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 3d

Regarding Mamdani-- I like what he says a lot, and hope he wins. The excitement seems well deserved. He has a bit less experience than I would like, but compared to the options? Gold.

Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 3d

As to the other part of what you wrote, it depends very much on your definition of 'the Left'. I am pretty left, but there's a US brand of Lefty Bro I don't like very much. Just like I have no use for the dutch Anti-Vax left.

And I think we all got Fetterman very very wrong indeed.

Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 3d

No. I'm talking about the Reddit posts where Platner is racist and says sexual assault is not actually a thing. I don't those are deal breakers since they are fairly old. OTOH I do think they mean we need to wait and see a bit with him before we ordain him as the great hope of the working class.