Alice Bell
@abeewords.bsky.social
📖 GRAVE EXPECTATIONS & DISPLEASURE ISLAND out now! THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH out Jan 2026
◦ good books ◦ murder ◦ swearing ◦
Recovering games journalist
#BWithTheT
Rep Stevie Finegan at Zeno
@totalplaytime.com
https://alicebellauthor.com/
◦ good books ◦ murder ◦ swearing ◦
Recovering games journalist
#BWithTheT
Rep Stevie Finegan at Zeno
@totalplaytime.com
https://alicebellauthor.com/
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Alice Bell
@abeewords.bsky.social
· Jun 17
💙📚 COMING JAN 2026: THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH! The owner of a pro-wrestling gym died, and his ghost is convinced he was moidered. Can Weirdo medium Claire and her dead best friend solve it? What is kayfabe? Do personal issues really draw money? Pre-order to find out: www.waterstones.com/book/the-gra...
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"What was your favourite game of 2025?"
Keir Starmer - *sincere answer about spending his limited time with his kids playing Mario Kart, delivered as if he just googled it*
Ed Davey - "I still love a bit of Wii Sports"
Kemi Badenoch - "My best friend was killed by a Sega Mega Drive"
Keir Starmer - *sincere answer about spending his limited time with his kids playing Mario Kart, delivered as if he just googled it*
Ed Davey - "I still love a bit of Wii Sports"
Kemi Badenoch - "My best friend was killed by a Sega Mega Drive"
December 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"What was your favourite game of 2025?"
Keir Starmer - *sincere answer about spending his limited time with his kids playing Mario Kart, delivered as if he just googled it*
Ed Davey - "I still love a bit of Wii Sports"
Kemi Badenoch - "My best friend was killed by a Sega Mega Drive"
Keir Starmer - *sincere answer about spending his limited time with his kids playing Mario Kart, delivered as if he just googled it*
Ed Davey - "I still love a bit of Wii Sports"
Kemi Badenoch - "My best friend was killed by a Sega Mega Drive"
New year, new blanket, same sock
January 1, 2026 at 8:31 AM
New year, new blanket, same sock
The process is complete (we lost a finger in the process). I did some wet blending for the first time, really happy with how it turned out :)
December 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The process is complete (we lost a finger in the process). I did some wet blending for the first time, really happy with how it turned out :)
New Years Eve plans? Yeah I got em
December 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
New Years Eve plans? Yeah I got em
“Get a signed Brendan O’Neill book!” is a powerful threat
I wonder what part of lower bills, tax billionaires they're panicking about most?
Cry harder.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Cry harder.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“Get a signed Brendan O’Neill book!” is a powerful threat
It’s so lovely that so many of you are throwing parties tonight to celebrate my new book launching tomorrow! atlantic-books.co.uk/book/the-gra...
December 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
It’s so lovely that so many of you are throwing parties tonight to celebrate my new book launching tomorrow! atlantic-books.co.uk/book/the-gra...
Tommy Wiseau told me I have a beautiful nose
Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?
December 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Tommy Wiseau told me I have a beautiful nose
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Doesn't seem like that much of a mystery. Most of the voting intention flight has been to Lib Dems and Greens. This means most people who might vote Labour have an interest in at least the appearance of liberal values, which tis not anti-immigration, anti-protest, anti-trans, anti-education policy.
Glad the FT is asking the question. Even if I’m not convinced they found a compelling answer.
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
Allies concede the prime minister and chancellor have made mistakes yet the level of disdain towards them is still striking
www.ft.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Doesn't seem like that much of a mystery. Most of the voting intention flight has been to Lib Dems and Greens. This means most people who might vote Labour have an interest in at least the appearance of liberal values, which tis not anti-immigration, anti-protest, anti-trans, anti-education policy.
Just cos something doesn’t solve all your problems doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing. Like renewable energy. If it doesn’t solve climate change, all we’ll have done is produced cheaper energy and reduced the outsized influence of fossil fuel companies… for nothing!
Ooh, he's actually on here…
Joe, you make out in this oddly substance-free interview that @zackpolanski.bsky.social thinks that a wealth tax will pay for "everything"; obviously this is untrue.
As pressure from the Greens mounts, what will Labour's eventual wealth tax look like?
Joe, you make out in this oddly substance-free interview that @zackpolanski.bsky.social thinks that a wealth tax will pay for "everything"; obviously this is untrue.
As pressure from the Greens mounts, what will Labour's eventual wealth tax look like?
December 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Just cos something doesn’t solve all your problems doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing. Like renewable energy. If it doesn’t solve climate change, all we’ll have done is produced cheaper energy and reduced the outsized influence of fossil fuel companies… for nothing!
[coughing weakly in on the forest floor, as I lose consciousness from having slipped and smashed my skull on a rock]
change TACK
change TACK
[scrawling in ketchup on the tablecloth due to poorly chewed chunk of meat lodged in my windpipe] INTENTS AND PURPOSES
[on my deathbed] that’s actually not what “begs the question” means
December 31, 2025 at 10:29 AM
[coughing weakly in on the forest floor, as I lose consciousness from having slipped and smashed my skull on a rock]
change TACK
change TACK
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Many people have probably posted this, but
December 31, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Many people have probably posted this, but
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If you’d like to make a donation in memory of Nick, details can be found here ❤️
Not the easiest of days but everyone got through it. It was a lovely, fitting tribute to a genuinely terrific human being.
Miss you mate.
Miss you mate.
December 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
If you’d like to make a donation in memory of Nick, details can be found here ❤️
I once told a family member that multiple studies in different countries have shown that just directly giving poor people money a) lifts them out of poverty effectively and b) costs less than welfare systems that keep people treading water and he was like 'nah that doesn't feel true'
December 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I once told a family member that multiple studies in different countries have shown that just directly giving poor people money a) lifts them out of poverty effectively and b) costs less than welfare systems that keep people treading water and he was like 'nah that doesn't feel true'
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We have so much good evidence for cash transfers but so many just refuse to accept that those in poverty can make good decisions.
Spoiler: They used the money just as wisely as anyone else would, and it's so frustrating that this still isn't a common sense assumption to make.
December 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
We have so much good evidence for cash transfers but so many just refuse to accept that those in poverty can make good decisions.
If your New Years Honours list results are disappointing, don’t worry. I got a C and two Us and here I am eating Haribo Tangfastics.
December 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
If your New Years Honours list results are disappointing, don’t worry. I got a C and two Us and here I am eating Haribo Tangfastics.
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My 2026 resolution is to see if I can get An Post to start using that post van with the rainbow on it to deliver to the Burkes again.
December 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
My 2026 resolution is to see if I can get An Post to start using that post van with the rainbow on it to deliver to the Burkes again.
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If we knew the price we'd have to pay for telling men to open up about their emotions, would we still have done it?
I am begging everyone on here to read this new post by Bryan Johnson — the super rich tech guy who is now doing the “never die” protocol.
I need to talk about it with you all.
I need to talk about it with you all.
December 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
If we knew the price we'd have to pay for telling men to open up about their emotions, would we still have done it?
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It's good to amplify this message whenever possible. The voices that drown out real issues with scapegoating and hatred really are a minority (as we see whenever it is put fairly to the test in e.g. WI or National Trust votes...neither notable hotbeds of leftist social liberalism).
We are now at 75k signatures, with many messages of support on Instagram, Facebook and here.
This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls.
Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜
notinourname.org.uk
This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls.
Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜
notinourname.org.uk
Home - Not in our name
Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community
notinourname.org.uk
December 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
It's good to amplify this message whenever possible. The voices that drown out real issues with scapegoating and hatred really are a minority (as we see whenever it is put fairly to the test in e.g. WI or National Trust votes...neither notable hotbeds of leftist social liberalism).
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People 300 years ago thought we'd never live in a world without kings.
well we're never going to live in a world without billionaires so it's probably a good idea to think about actual possible ways to mitigate the damage they can cause
You cannot have witnessed the events of the past two years and still believe "billionaires existing" is compatible with democracy.
December 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM
People 300 years ago thought we'd never live in a world without kings.
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Our pop stars continue to be both more accountable and more responsive to feedback than the editorial board of the New York Times
Chappell Roan shares follow-up story after deleting Brigitte Bardot tribute post:
“Holy shit i did not know all that insane shit Ms. Bardot stood for obvs I do not condone this. very disappointing to learn.”
“Holy shit i did not know all that insane shit Ms. Bardot stood for obvs I do not condone this. very disappointing to learn.”
December 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Our pop stars continue to be both more accountable and more responsive to feedback than the editorial board of the New York Times
And so, my old nemesis, we meet again, doomed to repeat this battle to eternity
December 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
And so, my old nemesis, we meet again, doomed to repeat this battle to eternity
Last night I finished a novel about time travel that told a moving story about what makes life actually worth living in the context of a recognisable but alienating future and FOR SOME REASON I FEEL THE NEED TO TELL YOU THAT OLD SKIES IS ON SALE RN
Old Skies is 20% off during the Steam Winter Sale!
Journey through seven time periods of New York history in our critically acclaimed time-travel adventure game, which the AV Club called "One of the best time travel games we ever played."
store.steampowered.com/app/1346360/...
Journey through seven time periods of New York history in our critically acclaimed time-travel adventure game, which the AV Club called "One of the best time travel games we ever played."
store.steampowered.com/app/1346360/...
December 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Last night I finished a novel about time travel that told a moving story about what makes life actually worth living in the context of a recognisable but alienating future and FOR SOME REASON I FEEL THE NEED TO TELL YOU THAT OLD SKIES IS ON SALE RN
Medical science is crackers. I started new meds today and one of the side effects is a serious complication, especially if you have Crohn’s disease - the very thing I am taking the medicine to treat.
December 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Medical science is crackers. I started new meds today and one of the side effects is a serious complication, especially if you have Crohn’s disease - the very thing I am taking the medicine to treat.