Alice Thomsen
@alicethomsen.bsky.social
🌀I just want to lie in bed all day listening to true crime podcasts but now I guess we have to do a revolution. aro/ace she/her🌀
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Alice Thomsen
@alicethomsen.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Listen, I don’t know what’s going to happen, and I don’t know what I’m going to do when it does, but this is my dog, so at least I’ve got one thing going for me
My arts and crafts projects for the @nj50501.bsky.social No Kings event
October 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
My arts and crafts projects for the @nj50501.bsky.social No Kings event
An artist friend of mine has been struggling to get back on her feet after leaving an abusive relationship (among other upheavals) and needs help.
Donate to Prevent Iris's Eviction and Aid Recovery, organized by Heather Johnson
Hello, my name is Iris,
At the end of 2023, I was laid off… Heather Johnson needs your support for Donate to Prevent Iris's Eviction and Aid Recovery
www.gofundme.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
An artist friend of mine has been struggling to get back on her feet after leaving an abusive relationship (among other upheavals) and needs help.
Today’s project is sticky note outlines and wow does “Whoaaaaaa, we’re 20% of the way there!” not hit the same as halfway.
October 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Today’s project is sticky note outlines and wow does “Whoaaaaaa, we’re 20% of the way there!” not hit the same as halfway.
Is there a special dog (or cat [or person]) in your life who needs to know what a special good boy (or girl [or person]) they are? If the answer is no, you should go adopt a pet (or person). If the answer is yes, you should check out this shop. #noprime #wasthattrending #didimissit #fuckbezos
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October 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Is there a special dog (or cat [or person]) in your life who needs to know what a special good boy (or girl [or person]) they are? If the answer is no, you should go adopt a pet (or person). If the answer is yes, you should check out this shop. #noprime #wasthattrending #didimissit #fuckbezos
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You can get your books for #BannedBooksWeek from an independent bookseller—without leaving your house!
October 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
You can get your books for #BannedBooksWeek from an independent bookseller—without leaving your house!
Reposted by Alice Thomsen
Since 2021, nearly 23,000 books have been banned—proof that fear still wields a red pen. They’re trying to erase stories of race, identity, and love because they can’t erase the people who live them.
Read defiantly.
Share loudly.
Rebel with a book.
#BannedBooksWeek
Read defiantly.
Share loudly.
Rebel with a book.
#BannedBooksWeek
October 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Since 2021, nearly 23,000 books have been banned—proof that fear still wields a red pen. They’re trying to erase stories of race, identity, and love because they can’t erase the people who live them.
Read defiantly.
Share loudly.
Rebel with a book.
#BannedBooksWeek
Read defiantly.
Share loudly.
Rebel with a book.
#BannedBooksWeek
My newest writerly self-sabotage is printing pages single-spaced to save paper and thinking it’ll still be easy to make line edits. #regrats
October 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
My newest writerly self-sabotage is printing pages single-spaced to save paper and thinking it’ll still be easy to make line edits. #regrats
The world: *is on fire*
Me: … okay, but what if I dye my hair about it?
Me: … okay, but what if I dye my hair about it?
October 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The world: *is on fire*
Me: … okay, but what if I dye my hair about it?
Me: … okay, but what if I dye my hair about it?
As a child on car trips, I worked through stacks of Mad Libs books. It occurs to me only now that really, if not for that early indoctrination, I probably wouldn't be an angry leftist. This is why we have to control children's literature. How about some Trad Libs? #thisissarcasm #plsnotradlibs
October 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
As a child on car trips, I worked through stacks of Mad Libs books. It occurs to me only now that really, if not for that early indoctrination, I probably wouldn't be an angry leftist. This is why we have to control children's literature. How about some Trad Libs? #thisissarcasm #plsnotradlibs
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I feel like we've gotten numb to these threats but it really is something to stack them all next to each other www.theverge.com/policy/79051...
October 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I feel like we've gotten numb to these threats but it really is something to stack them all next to each other www.theverge.com/policy/79051...
Spent approx. three and a half hours babysitting our poor bottom-of-the-line consumer-grade printer as it chugged out five manuscripts’ worth of pages. That, a cat carrier, and some background Unibroue forms a pretty decent self-portrait, I feel.
September 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Spent approx. three and a half hours babysitting our poor bottom-of-the-line consumer-grade printer as it chugged out five manuscripts’ worth of pages. That, a cat carrier, and some background Unibroue forms a pretty decent self-portrait, I feel.
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I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition.
www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...
www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...
September 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition.
www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...
www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...
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Breaking via Gothamist:
"Nearly a dozen New York elected officials" — including NYC comptroller Brad Lander — "were arrested by Department of Homeland Security officers on Thursday afternoon in a protest at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in Lower Manhattan."
gothamist.com/news/lawmake...
"Nearly a dozen New York elected officials" — including NYC comptroller Brad Lander — "were arrested by Department of Homeland Security officers on Thursday afternoon in a protest at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in Lower Manhattan."
gothamist.com/news/lawmake...
Lawmakers arrested demanding entry to immigrant detention at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan
City Comptroller Brad Lander was among those arrested.
gothamist.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Breaking via Gothamist:
"Nearly a dozen New York elected officials" — including NYC comptroller Brad Lander — "were arrested by Department of Homeland Security officers on Thursday afternoon in a protest at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in Lower Manhattan."
gothamist.com/news/lawmake...
"Nearly a dozen New York elected officials" — including NYC comptroller Brad Lander — "were arrested by Department of Homeland Security officers on Thursday afternoon in a protest at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in Lower Manhattan."
gothamist.com/news/lawmake...
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I wanna signal boost this - I am looking to recruit a prospective PhD student to join my Stress and Health Equity lab at the University of Delaware in HDFS. My research concerns biopsychosocial mechanisms of health across the life course with an emphasis on stress and coping.
September 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I wanna signal boost this - I am looking to recruit a prospective PhD student to join my Stress and Health Equity lab at the University of Delaware in HDFS. My research concerns biopsychosocial mechanisms of health across the life course with an emphasis on stress and coping.
The most common lie I tell: “I don’t know what the fuck you think you’re doing.”
I almost always know what the fuck you think you’re doing; I’m just disappointed in you for doing it.
I almost always know what the fuck you think you’re doing; I’m just disappointed in you for doing it.
September 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The most common lie I tell: “I don’t know what the fuck you think you’re doing.”
I almost always know what the fuck you think you’re doing; I’m just disappointed in you for doing it.
I almost always know what the fuck you think you’re doing; I’m just disappointed in you for doing it.
Tables turning so fast these days I’m starting to think we’re sitting at a lazy susan …
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."
September 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Tables turning so fast these days I’m starting to think we’re sitting at a lazy susan …
Meanwhile I’m just writing escapist fantasies about being able to afford half of rent on a one-bedroom apartment while in grad school working only part time. #verisimiliwho?
September 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Meanwhile I’m just writing escapist fantasies about being able to afford half of rent on a one-bedroom apartment while in grad school working only part time. #verisimiliwho?
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I keep saying this. The Right fundamentally are *not* hypocrites. They believe in double standards. For them, double standards are correct, inevitable, and desirable, because the idea that certain groups are better than others and should therefore have more rights is the basis of right-wing ideology
No, the fake “free speech” crowd isn’t going to defend the professor fired for teaching exactly what her course was about. We can stop noting those “failures” now. Let’s move on from calling them hypocrites. They’re not hypocrites! They’re fascists, authoritarians, or apologist.
September 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I keep saying this. The Right fundamentally are *not* hypocrites. They believe in double standards. For them, double standards are correct, inevitable, and desirable, because the idea that certain groups are better than others and should therefore have more rights is the basis of right-wing ideology
The problem with words like "petty" and "childish" is that they minimize the very real, existential threat. That said … petty and childish. Dangerous and scary and embarrassing.
No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.
September 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The problem with words like "petty" and "childish" is that they minimize the very real, existential threat. That said … petty and childish. Dangerous and scary and embarrassing.
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RFK Jr. needs to resign. Now.
September 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
RFK Jr. needs to resign. Now.
Just finished a first draft. 116,162 words, and only 41 of them are “fuck” (55 if we’re including derivations) Thanks to #scrivener for giving me the data that matters
September 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Just finished a first draft. 116,162 words, and only 41 of them are “fuck” (55 if we’re including derivations) Thanks to #scrivener for giving me the data that matters
The Body Worlds exhibit at the Franklin Institute in Philly concludes with an interactive wall for visitors to complete the prompt, “Before I die, I want to …”
SEE HIM GO FIRST.
SEE HIM GO FIRST.
August 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The Body Worlds exhibit at the Franklin Institute in Philly concludes with an interactive wall for visitors to complete the prompt, “Before I die, I want to …”
SEE HIM GO FIRST.
SEE HIM GO FIRST.
Happy back to school season to those who observe!
August 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Happy back to school season to those who observe!
As a Millennial who is both trans-positive and a vampire novelist, I feel personally victimized by coming of age in the exact target audiences of both Harry Potter (which I loved) and Twilight (which I hated). This is obviously what people mean when they talk about generational trauma, right?
August 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
As a Millennial who is both trans-positive and a vampire novelist, I feel personally victimized by coming of age in the exact target audiences of both Harry Potter (which I loved) and Twilight (which I hated). This is obviously what people mean when they talk about generational trauma, right?