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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · Jan 16
google translate's version of the examples is 50% gertrude stein 50% sylvia plath:

youngster, youngster, youngster, youngster, youngster
chick, kitten, chicken

plot, plot
little streamer, oddball, favorite, offspring

upstart, fugitive
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andycraig.bsky.social
The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
January 19, 2026 at 8:47 AM
alicebennett.bsky.social
more people who haven’t been given the nobel prize should have an apocalyptic-level tantrum about it imho
January 19, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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lattermild.bsky.social
Blir 2026 nisseluas år?
molly.wiki Molly White @molly.wiki · 1d
the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now
January 19, 2026 at 5:32 AM
alicebennett.bsky.social
if you go by the university museum and the lights are on, you can see the huge skeletons in the whale hall from the outside and it looks pretty spooky
a white building with the lights on inside, revealing a large whale skeleton
January 17, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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reniadeb.com
this could solve literally every problem in the uk
UK Government and Parliament Petitions Petition Replace King Charles with a King Charles Spaniel, ain't no rules says a dog can't be the ruler of the United Kingdom
January 17, 2026 at 10:54 AM
alicebennett.bsky.social
another day as a professor at the bari weiss university. everyone keeps asking me if they can intensely debate. buddy, they won't even let me intensely debate
ositanwanevu.com Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 3d
Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Most people didn’t think much of it when the university dean, Ben Crocker, called a student named Dan into his office on Monday, Sept. 9, the first day of classes. But at 7:44 in the evening, they received an email from three administrators saying that Dan had been removed from campus, “transported to his home out of state,” and barred from further access to the university. The nature of the allegations concerned, at their core, a pair of charged statements Dan allegedly made that would be familiar to any Title IX officer. The first was a general statement implying that UATX girls carried themselves physically in a way that invited sexual assault. The second was a suggestion to a specific female student that she had carried herself in a way that invited sexual assault. Dan had already been the subject of some negative attention on campus because of provocative statements he’d made in a UATX-based Discord “introductions” chat. These included a challenge — “If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you” — which was a reference to the 1981 movie “Stripes” and likely misunderstood by fellow students. In another exchange, a discussion of transgender issues, Dan expressed reservations about hormone treatment and said that he couldn’t wait “to play devil’s advocate for legalizing pedophilia.” Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m., Crocker visited the dorms, where he hosted a meeting on the roof to discuss the issue with students. Crocker’s message was that Dan’s conduct had been evaluated to be a “credible threat” — a phrase that would be repeated by the administration many times over the following days. Crocker then faced what one student attendee recalled as a “firing squad” of questions. Some students said that Dan had seemed off, but others saw his hasty removal as an example of the very cancel culture to which UATX was supposed to be the antithesis. Several students noted a lack of diversity. Consistent with its emphasis on “merit-based admissions,” UATX doesn’t publish demographic data. The students with whom I spoke said their classmates — and the college’s leadership — were overwhelmingly white, disproportionately came from wealthy families and had an overrepresentation of apparent neurodivergence. They found ideological diversity to be particularly lacking. “I didn’t realize exactly how conservative it would be,” one current student told me. “You know, when I hear free speech and open debate and all that jazz, I assumed that there was going to be a more equal amount of political views, and there wasn’t.” Classes weren’t as innovative as most students expected. “Year one was exceptionally boring,” the student said. “They did great books, they just didn’t do it in a great way,” said another student, who lamented the amount of memorization required. “I thought we were going to be intensely debating,” he said. Several students shared course syllabi with me. Most are easy enough to imagine being offered on any campus — with the notable exception of math and science. “The math classes go over algebra you learned in ninth grade,” a student told me. “There was just nothing there.” He described the offering as “schizophrenic” and described a class he’d taken at University of Texas at Austin as “exponentially more important.” Indeed, the syllabus I reviewed for a class called “Intellectual Foundations of Science II” covered a range of topics unusual for a science class including “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.” A student who’d taken the course shared a slide with me on “ensoulment” — the principally religious question of when a soul enters the human body — and said that the class had been told that IVF but not abortion could be consistent with the Catholic belief about ensoulment. The poor quality of the science offerings had bothered Heying and Pinker. “Others thought I was the token liberal,” Heying told me, “but I came to understand myself as the token scientist.” In an email, Pinker wrote, “They should have hired a widely esteemed scientist and proven program builder to set up their science division.” Another surprising similarity with other colleges stemmed directly from Dan’s expulsion: The students feared cancellation. “At any moment a frivolous Title IX complaint could be filed against you,” a former student told me. “I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX.” During the many conversations I had reporting this story, two questions came up more than any other. The first: Where was Bari Weiss? Many of the people I interviewed told me about internal conversations and shared internal emails. Weiss, who remains on the board of trustees, was almost never present in the conversations as they were related to me, and while I saw many emails on which Kanelos and Ferguson were copied, I never saw any including Weiss. speaks onstage during an event in New York City, on Nov. 19, 2024. | Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press One person I spoke to, who was present during the early planning stages, told me that Weiss was “very elusive” and almost never present in person. This was ironic since UATX was closely associated with Weiss — a bust of whom now resides in the school library. Weiss, meanwhile, has only risen further during the Trump 2.0 era and is now editor-in-chief of CBS News, where she has been criticized as genuflecting to the Trump administration. A spokesperson for CBS News did not respond to a request for comment from Weiss. One former member of the development team told me that they would routinely ask prospective donors how they got to know UATX. “Eighty percent of the time, the answer was Bari Weiss,” they said. “It was very often referred to as Bari Weiss’ University, or Bari Weiss’ University Project, or Bari Weiss’ University of Austin.” For several people, this was a source of resentment. “I don’t care whether she wants to pretend this is all gone now — she is the reason that this place exists. She was huge, she was held in such high regard, she had such an enormous impact,” the former staffer said. “I want her to be held to account,” she added. “I’m pissed.”
January 17, 2026 at 8:56 AM
alicebennett.bsky.social
it’s 2026 and it’s time for us to turn gently away from everything being about mushrooms
January 15, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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pressfuturist.bsky.social
Two weeks into the National Year of Dreading, and apparently I misread the title.
January 15, 2026 at 8:26 AM
alicebennett.bsky.social
if nothing else, all this is going to make a very gripping future instalment of borgen
January 14, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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emilyoram.bsky.social
I know I’ve already mentioned Blobby today but honestly I love this and can’t let it pass without showing you all. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
A sticker done in the style of a tarot card with a depiction of Mr Blobby, the pink and yellow “comedy” character from the 90s, standing on a dodgy precipice. The card is, of course, The Fool.
June 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
alicebennett.bsky.social
nativity play as produced by leigh bowery
January 13, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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jcsalterego.bsky.social
babybel implies the existence of scarybel, sportybel, gingerbel and poshbel
January 13, 2026 at 4:50 AM
alicebennett.bsky.social
i ask this question in the full understanding that i will not appreciate the answer, but has anyone seen any of the poetry mentioned in naomi wolf’s very long username
hannahgais.bsky.social hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 9d
That actually kind of sounds like your fantasy, Naomi.
Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. @naomirwolf Okay, I’ll just say it. I’ve seen enough videos of the faces of liberal white women in conflict with @ICE, to know what is up. Liberal men at this point (sorry) are disproportionately estrogenized, physically passive, submissive due to woke gender hectoring, or porn-addicted. White liberal women are disproportionately sexually frustrated. Policing others as in the pandemic was an outlet for them, but it was not nearly enough. The smiles you see on their faces now say it all: white women long for all out combat with ICE - who tend to be strong, physically confident, masculine men - because the conflict is a form of physical release for them. They long for actual kinetic battle and it will get even uglier. 5:54 PM · Jan 9, 2026 · 474.2K Views
January 10, 2026 at 8:12 PM
alicebennett.bsky.social
the shock of the fugitive pig grabber
an incredibly smug looking pig wrapped in a pink blanket and restrained by a harried looking woman
January 10, 2026 at 11:51 AM
alicebennett.bsky.social
this reminds me that one of the weirdest things i’ve ever seen inside a church was hundreds of ladybirds trying to survive the winter by all nestling together in the church tower
lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 10d
Two lesser known books today, both
illustrated by Ronald Lampitt (1972)
The front covers of the two books which are guides to better understanding the design and features of British churches
January 10, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
Water is The One True Liquid, but there are three other liquid types: Tea, Soup, and Juice.

Tea is water that's changed by the introduction of a thing which is then removed

Soup is water that has a thing in it

Juice is water that comes from a thing

(Thanks to @marble.bsky.social for the diagram)
A pastiche of the famous Christian trinity diagram. A triangle. At the centre is water. On each of the corners is tea, soup, and juice.
January 6, 2026 at 9:24 PM
alicebennett.bsky.social
No cheating, repost with the most recent photo of your pet

sophie commits a small festive crime
a cat stands on the back of a chair so she can tap one of the tempting tree decorations
January 2, 2026 at 8:26 PM
alicebennett.bsky.social
in 2026, maybe we’ll return to a time before jstor had baseball caps and the chicago manual of style wanted to sell you a skateboard because you’re a cool professor
a yellow skateboard with the chicago manual of style printed on it
January 2, 2026 at 12:33 PM
alicebennett.bsky.social
happy new year to the twenty twenty sickos ❤️
kartoonistkelly.bsky.social Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 19d
Outlook for the new year ...
December 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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standplaatskrk.pl
Sarah Lazarus (@sarahclazarus) on twitter: "no new years resolutions. it is the circumstances turn to improve"
December 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do
December 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
alicebennett.bsky.social
hold on i have to update this because i just saw aurora in the snow today in bergen
alicebennett.bsky.social wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 21d
I once saw beth ditto in the tottenham court road branch of h&m
bolt451.bsky.social Frey has a free writing Patreon @bolt451.bsky.social · Jun 13
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
alicebennett.bsky.social
having hip pain for a bit has made me realise there is in fact no greater pleasure in life than sitting with your legs crossed over and all fucked up and to deny a person this is torture
December 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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rianjohnson.bsky.social
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 21d
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
alicebennett.bsky.social
I once saw beth ditto in the tottenham court road branch of h&m
bolt451.bsky.social Frey has a free writing Patreon @bolt451.bsky.social · Jun 13
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM