Agatha Cakalogika
@acakalogika.bsky.social
Old bird. Kindness matters. Yes, I care and work to try and make the world a better place irl but this is where I come to talk nonsense about things that make me happy. But also: Free Gaza. Trans Rights are Human Rights
Been watching YouTube videos this morning to get ideas for ornaments I can knit or crochet as I’m mainly starting afresh after divorce and I found this - it starts with cute calming music and pics of things to make, and then this happens. I think I only have 7 days to live now
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Been watching YouTube videos this morning to get ideas for ornaments I can knit or crochet as I’m mainly starting afresh after divorce and I found this - it starts with cute calming music and pics of things to make, and then this happens. I think I only have 7 days to live now
Ooh I recognize that blanket pattern on Lydia’s lap….
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Ooh I recognize that blanket pattern on Lydia’s lap….
Not that it matters at all, but the MS Now logo is really poor. And tbh the MS Now name is pretty meh…. Oh it’s worse, it stands for “My Source (for) News, Opinion (and the) World”
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Not that it matters at all, but the MS Now logo is really poor. And tbh the MS Now name is pretty meh…. Oh it’s worse, it stands for “My Source (for) News, Opinion (and the) World”
I want this so bad. I’m so glad my brain is telling me it’s AI and not real and I don’t have any money for me to test out if I’d get anything in the mail if I tried buying it.
November 15, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I want this so bad. I’m so glad my brain is telling me it’s AI and not real and I don’t have any money for me to test out if I’d get anything in the mail if I tried buying it.
One last thing, and I think this is my point, Atwood resisted her novels been called feminist originally because she thought it oversimplified the themes and that “feminist” didn’t capture the full complexity of women. Bonus: here’s the covers of THT when I read it & now… it tells a story
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
One last thing, and I think this is my point, Atwood resisted her novels been called feminist originally because she thought it oversimplified the themes and that “feminist” didn’t capture the full complexity of women. Bonus: here’s the covers of THT when I read it & now… it tells a story
I think the Wicked: For Good press tour’s gone a bit overboard
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I think the Wicked: For Good press tour’s gone a bit overboard
Found it, I wasn’t going mad 🤪 he used the C&O desk while the Resolute Desk was having “light refurbishment” (trans. being copied before original was shipped to Mar-a-lago….. possibly)
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Found it, I wasn’t going mad 🤪 he used the C&O desk while the Resolute Desk was having “light refurbishment” (trans. being copied before original was shipped to Mar-a-lago….. possibly)
Because of her career on Puerto Rican radio, she was made an Honorary Captain in the Puerto Rican Air National Guard
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Because of her career on Puerto Rican radio, she was made an Honorary Captain in the Puerto Rican Air National Guard
Why? I know there’s the “I want a hippopotamus for Christmas” but has AI understood the lyrics to be “I want a hippopotamus from Christ, Miss”?
October 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Why? I know there’s the “I want a hippopotamus for Christmas” but has AI understood the lyrics to be “I want a hippopotamus from Christ, Miss”?
No idea where I’m going with this, I’m rambling. Anyway, the university had 4 computers and I was determined not to be left behind, so I checked out library books and taught myself BASIC on the computers that had no hard memory, so you had to start them up with 2 floppy discs (the real floppy ones)
October 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
No idea where I’m going with this, I’m rambling. Anyway, the university had 4 computers and I was determined not to be left behind, so I checked out library books and taught myself BASIC on the computers that had no hard memory, so you had to start them up with 2 floppy discs (the real floppy ones)
(Saying this gently, so as not to upset 1989 fans) Those aren’t seagulls, they’re swifts. Seagulls have their tails squared off, the v pointed tails of these birds mean they’re swifts. The shape of the wings curving like that in flight also means we can confirm they are swifts not swallows.
October 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
(Saying this gently, so as not to upset 1989 fans) Those aren’t seagulls, they’re swifts. Seagulls have their tails squared off, the v pointed tails of these birds mean they’re swifts. The shape of the wings curving like that in flight also means we can confirm they are swifts not swallows.
I am so here for it. I’ve been waiting for this moment since 1986 (that’s not any particular reference, just my life 😂). Pre-Raphaelite my world you New Romantics!
October 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I am so here for it. I’ve been waiting for this moment since 1986 (that’s not any particular reference, just my life 😂). Pre-Raphaelite my world you New Romantics!
You know that Doctor Who episode with Matt Smith where all the different times in history and present all happened at the same time… someone at our complex just took a photo of something a few of us have seen flying around…
October 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
You know that Doctor Who episode with Matt Smith where all the different times in history and present all happened at the same time… someone at our complex just took a photo of something a few of us have seen flying around…
The chips/fries reminds me of when Taylor saw Griff after the Brits, she gave her a big bunch of flowers and they ate chips together
October 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The chips/fries reminds me of when Taylor saw Griff after the Brits, she gave her a big bunch of flowers and they ate chips together
Bearing in mind I think the whole bread thing is not about the bread, there’s one person I think of when I hear the name Tina - Tina Knowles-Lawson, the major funded along with BeyGOOD of a charity Bread of Life in Houston providing anti-hunger initiatives and disaster relief
October 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Bearing in mind I think the whole bread thing is not about the bread, there’s one person I think of when I hear the name Tina - Tina Knowles-Lawson, the major funded along with BeyGOOD of a charity Bread of Life in Houston providing anti-hunger initiatives and disaster relief
I was thinking about this because it’s the James Bond set in Vegas and there are showgirls a-plenty (iykyk). It’s my dirty secret because I know how “of its time” it is (sexist) but I watched it so many times with my family - “I don’t dress for the hired help” reminds me of something…
October 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I was thinking about this because it’s the James Bond set in Vegas and there are showgirls a-plenty (iykyk). It’s my dirty secret because I know how “of its time” it is (sexist) but I watched it so many times with my family - “I don’t dress for the hired help” reminds me of something…
I know I’ve heard Shirley Bassey talking about the recording of Diamonds are Forever but I can’t find it at the moment, but here’s the same story from the writer…. This was 1971. And people are upset about Wood 😂
October 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I know I’ve heard Shirley Bassey talking about the recording of Diamonds are Forever but I can’t find it at the moment, but here’s the same story from the writer…. This was 1971. And people are upset about Wood 😂
I shall end this diatribe here, and will resist to compare seeing the bird 3 times with 3 Mexican bluebirds once briefly spotted and disappearing as quickly as the red dove……
October 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I shall end this diatribe here, and will resist to compare seeing the bird 3 times with 3 Mexican bluebirds once briefly spotted and disappearing as quickly as the red dove……
And I’m intrigued by the orange feather floating down outside the window from the Berlin QR video.
I’d like to think the bird flying out the window wasn’t necessarily a portent of death or unaliving oneself, but perhaps is carrying away Taylor’s soul after a transfiguration… or Taylor is the bird?
I’d like to think the bird flying out the window wasn’t necessarily a portent of death or unaliving oneself, but perhaps is carrying away Taylor’s soul after a transfiguration… or Taylor is the bird?
October 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
And I’m intrigued by the orange feather floating down outside the window from the Berlin QR video.
I’d like to think the bird flying out the window wasn’t necessarily a portent of death or unaliving oneself, but perhaps is carrying away Taylor’s soul after a transfiguration… or Taylor is the bird?
I’d like to think the bird flying out the window wasn’t necessarily a portent of death or unaliving oneself, but perhaps is carrying away Taylor’s soul after a transfiguration… or Taylor is the bird?
My interpretation of the end of the video is for all the apparent joy Taylor’s had along the way, just like Oedipus couldn’t escape his fate, neither can Ophelia/Taylor. I think there’s also a case that Taylor might represent the red dove herself in the Vegas showgirl section…
October 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
My interpretation of the end of the video is for all the apparent joy Taylor’s had along the way, just like Oedipus couldn’t escape his fate, neither can Ophelia/Taylor. I think there’s also a case that Taylor might represent the red dove herself in the Vegas showgirl section…
We know it’s a red dove from a letter Rossetti wrote in 1873. And also he had a great interest in medieval Italian art and its symbolism.
Red doves don’t exist in reality but they are recorded in medieval bestiary tradition, and can be found in the Aberdeen Beastiary and one held in Cambridge..
Red doves don’t exist in reality but they are recorded in medieval bestiary tradition, and can be found in the Aberdeen Beastiary and one held in Cambridge..
October 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
We know it’s a red dove from a letter Rossetti wrote in 1873. And also he had a great interest in medieval Italian art and its symbolism.
Red doves don’t exist in reality but they are recorded in medieval bestiary tradition, and can be found in the Aberdeen Beastiary and one held in Cambridge..
Red doves don’t exist in reality but they are recorded in medieval bestiary tradition, and can be found in the Aberdeen Beastiary and one held in Cambridge..
(possibly suicide as Rossetti allegedly found a note, but his friend and mentor Ford Maddox Brown told him to destroy it)
Sorry about that detour - Red Doves!
Rossetti painted a red dove, the messenger of death, bringing white poppies for sleep/death (also an indication to how Elizabeth died)
Sorry about that detour - Red Doves!
Rossetti painted a red dove, the messenger of death, bringing white poppies for sleep/death (also an indication to how Elizabeth died)
October 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
(possibly suicide as Rossetti allegedly found a note, but his friend and mentor Ford Maddox Brown told him to destroy it)
Sorry about that detour - Red Doves!
Rossetti painted a red dove, the messenger of death, bringing white poppies for sleep/death (also an indication to how Elizabeth died)
Sorry about that detour - Red Doves!
Rossetti painted a red dove, the messenger of death, bringing white poppies for sleep/death (also an indication to how Elizabeth died)
..so Rossetti painted Beatrice Portinari from Dante Alighieri’s 1294 poem “La Vita Nuova” but his model was his love and former wife, Elizabeth Siddal who had illnesses throughout her life, including an eating disorder. She was also the model for Millais’s Ophelia:
October 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
..so Rossetti painted Beatrice Portinari from Dante Alighieri’s 1294 poem “La Vita Nuova” but his model was his love and former wife, Elizabeth Siddal who had illnesses throughout her life, including an eating disorder. She was also the model for Millais’s Ophelia: