Cecilia

@gaiacecilia

Professional history geek and all round textiles nerd who probably should be working on her PhD right now. (She/her)

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Cecilia@gaiacecilia· May 28

*Grins gleefully* Commission my fellow historic costumes nerd to make me one of the Queen Charlotte era Regency court gowns, which is easily the most ridiculous and useless historical outfit I want.

Weird gown with a regency high waist and massive panniers. The main skirt is light blue with the over dress is pink. The trim is attempting neoclassical opulence and the whole outfit is probably one of the dumbest outfits in the history of fashion. There are few looks more ridiculous than this thing.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· May 14

Happy birthday, have the truly terrible sheep I attempted to draw on my computer for you.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Apr 7

That's giving vibes of this from my old local hospital.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Mar 4

Have a void kitten on her new favourite radiator.

Silhouette appearing black cat asleep on a white radiator, against a grey wall with net curtains at the top.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Feb 19

The greyhound in question - best photo I could find on short notice. Its not one of his top tier 'I'm a sad victorian waif' faces but it gives you an idea.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Feb 19

Seen in Durham earlier thus week. Posted entirely without comment.

A digital ad board with the caption "Bad recruitment costs you. Find better candidates." And some smaller writing that advertise a recruitment company but is hard to read. This is accompanied by a massive picture of Kier Starmer and Peter Mandelson.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Feb 16

have my dad's cats being cute

Picture of two cats, one black and one grey tabby, curled round each other looking very relaxed on a rocking chair with white and floral cushions.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Nov 1

Spotted in an English bookstore for the first. @tkingfisher.com

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Jul 4

@stnicholasleics.bsky.social @skippe.bsky.social The medieval nutters have made it to St Nicks for the medieval music evening.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Mar 27

Screenshot of a reported conversation:
Stephen (blanked out name)
after almost 5 years, I just received full and final confirmation, and can now have this conversation...
stranger: hi, what's your name?
me: Stephen
stranger: oh, is that stephen with a 'ph'?
me: actually its stephen with a PhD

totally worth is.

(screenshot cuts to a note)
My Brother got his PhD and this is what he is proud of

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Mar 27

Also this one is funny to people not in the US, not so sure about in the US somehow.

A screenshot captioned 'Well if this isn't true...' Screenshot shows the Steam language options, with the two English ones circled: By the British/union flag its labelled 'English (traditional)' and then by the US flag is 'English (simplified)'

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Mar 27

Anyway, most of the actually funny jokes I've seen recently are via meme. E.g.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Mar 13

Had to preserve this before clicking like because, well, perfect number

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Mar 12

Graphic with a drawing of death writing and the line "A man is not dead while his name is still spoken." GNU Terry Pratchett (who is the author this is a quote from) then the image credit: JOSHKIRBYART.COM Image copywrite Josh Kirby Estate.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Feb 25

Nothing like seeing something and immediately knowing the @oldenoughtosay.bsky.social would 100% have some brilliant comments to make.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Feb 13

Two cats on a rocking chair, looking through the window to the garden outside. One cat is a loafing black kitty behind a grey tabby kitten sitting up, both are looking at the same thing out in the garden.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Feb 13

Half grown grey tabby kitten rolling about the floor with his definitely a trap belly on show

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Feb 13

Um, went on a walk for my messed up mental health and found this which made me laugh so there's at least something good. Will also find you pet pics cos I've got to meet dad's expanding menagerie.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Jan 27

@oldenoughtosay.bsky.social Facebook struck again. Kinda weird, but apparently the algorithm knows me...

Screenshot of a FB corporate post with its own stolen screenshot of a post by @Oldenoughtosay on twitter. The post says we've been teaching the 2 yr old about cutlery and setting the table for supper and, well,
With a picture of a dogs food and water bowls with a spoon and fork laid out in a way vaguely resembling how a table is usually set.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Jan 4

Peit tax/exemplar of what I mean.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Dec 13

Rereading @tkingfisher.com's Paladin's Grace and this is exactly why I vibe with Stephen so much.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Nov 5

Have a cat I wish I could sleep like. I'm in the wrong country but fiancé is a latina gay girl whose family is in VA so following this on tenterhooks on behalf of the adopted family.

Grey tabby kitty asleep on a sofa with white and floral patterned fabric.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Aug 10

Not sure, although Wallace hunting tartan somehow seems appropriate. Did also think of the Scott tartan (as in Sir Walter Scot, great scottish author, who famously had a way with words), but that one is a boring black and white plaid, Wallace hunting (bellow) is a bit more interesting.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Jun 25

LMAO

Screenshot of skeet by @elleisanisland.bsky.social which reads: just called ai "the mediocrity machine" in a meeting and a tech bro is twitching so hard he can't even plug this into the mediocrity machine so it can tell him how to respond.
Date: Jun 11, 2024 at 12:04pm

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Jun 18

Saw this and thought of @kbspangler.com mostly because I assume the 'often reported issue' is that people see it and laugh at the owner for buying it and that it's solved by it being too shiny to see.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Mar 31

Up at stupid o'clock for one of only 2 services a year I relatively regularly attend, the Easter Dawn service. Edinburgh's ecumenical service definitely wins on the view.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Mar 2

That delight when you pick up a book in Baldur's Gate 3, read it and are pretty sure its an easter egg tribute to @greenleejw.bsky.social. I 100% love it and this is why I try and read every book lying around, there are so many little hidden jokes and references in there.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Feb 12

Yoinked off the bad site but this 100% made me think of @tkingfisher.bsky.social and I had to share. Because Slime Mould. Obvs. (link to paper here, particularly as I couldn't put all of the text in the screenshot in the alt text: lab.plopes.org/published/20...)

Screenshot of tweet by @ElytraMithra
Oh my godddddd
researchers built a smart watch heart beat monitor that uses a slime mold for its operation. the slime mold has to be fed and cared for, so the users in the trial... developed an emotional attachment to it. [two crying emojis]

This is followed by a screenshot of a chunk of the academic paper being referred to with key points highlighted, however this is too long to be able to put in alt text. The posting tweet however fairly accurately summarises the chunk of text.

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Feb 6

Nothing like seeing something that fondly reminds you of one of your favourite teacher's (@drdavidrundle.bsky.social) classes while also making you laugh in nerd:

Four panel meme using the Gates of Moria scene from Lord of the Rings. Top panel is a picture of the gates of Moria, but the elvish writing has been replaced by a graffiti style 'Romanes eunt domus', which is also the caption on this panel. Second panel is Frodo asking "People called Romanes they go the house???" Third is Gandalf saying "It says, "Romans, go home."" Last panel has Frodo looking at Gandalf with the caption "No, it doesn't. What's the Elvish for 'Roman'?"

Cecilia@gaiacecilia· Jan 23

Made the mistake of going on qwertee and finding a t-shirt my medievalist heart needs to own.