Squiffy-Marie von Bladet, PhD
@vonbladet.bsky.social
Dull old man; now Dutch
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he's so real for this
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
he's so real for this
It's official: Kieth has lost the Balds.
Holy fucking dogshit. LMAO where's my inhaler? Bring the morphine—ALL OF IT.
November 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It's official: Kieth has lost the Balds.
It's Panto Season already? (Do they even have panto in US&A? I think they don't, but they should. American wrasslin' is close but not quite close enough)
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
It's Panto Season already? (Do they even have panto in US&A? I think they don't, but they should. American wrasslin' is close but not quite close enough)
Happy birthtimes, R Barthes!
12 November. Roland Barthes was born on this day in 1915. Here he is with his mother in Cherbourg (the city of his birth) in January 1916.
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Happy birthtimes, R Barthes!
The Household Children learned to read in the Dutch school system which uses a method which would be classified as "phonics" if there was any need for a name for it, which there isn't because it is the obvious correct pedagogical stratedy so it is just called "learning to read".
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The Household Children learned to read in the Dutch school system which uses a method which would be classified as "phonics" if there was any need for a name for it, which there isn't because it is the obvious correct pedagogical stratedy so it is just called "learning to read".
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The first thing anti-trans groups like Bayswater Group and Transgender Trend say to parents of trans teens is take their phones, get them off the internet
So, given that a lot of trans people are offended that Brianna's transfemicide is being turned into a crusade against phone use, when Brianna had a supportive online community and was murdered offline by her classmates:
Do you think "Touch grass" is an appropriate response to that context?
Do you think "Touch grass" is an appropriate response to that context?
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The first thing anti-trans groups like Bayswater Group and Transgender Trend say to parents of trans teens is take their phones, get them off the internet
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a lot of queer folk can't quite put their fingers on why they're so angry and upset about this shit and yeah no this is it.
We all know and we even know that they know too. Eg the MP can't even give a single line explaining how this phone shit would have helped Brianna.
They're just playing dumb.
We all know and we even know that they know too. Eg the MP can't even give a single line explaining how this phone shit would have helped Brianna.
They're just playing dumb.
I hate this "phones" conversation regarding queer people and queer kids because the bottom line is, cishet society KNOWS. Right-wingers KNOW that the internet is how queer people connect to each other---hell, that marginalized people period use it to organize and educate.
That's why they hate it.
That's why they hate it.
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
a lot of queer folk can't quite put their fingers on why they're so angry and upset about this shit and yeah no this is it.
We all know and we even know that they know too. Eg the MP can't even give a single line explaining how this phone shit would have helped Brianna.
They're just playing dumb.
We all know and we even know that they know too. Eg the MP can't even give a single line explaining how this phone shit would have helped Brianna.
They're just playing dumb.
E Maitlis was for a while touted as "one of the good ones". She wasn't, of course, but we hadn't realised quite *how* monstrous she was
That Maitlis appears to be so proud of being instrumental in stripping an entire generation of trans youth of gender-affirming medical care - which has led to several suicides already - is quite frankly obscene.
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
E Maitlis was for a while touted as "one of the good ones". She wasn't, of course, but we hadn't realised quite *how* monstrous she was
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The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
To quote J Riesman*, "This is such a clumsy work it's gonna bust kayfabe for the lot of 'em"
*Who admittedly didn't say this, afaik, but who's going to check?
*Who admittedly didn't say this, afaik, but who's going to check?
This isn’t just about the eight Senate Democrats who surrendered. 👇
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
To quote J Riesman*, "This is such a clumsy work it's gonna bust kayfabe for the lot of 'em"
*Who admittedly didn't say this, afaik, but who's going to check?
*Who admittedly didn't say this, afaik, but who's going to check?
The White Stripes getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is very much another milestone on my ongoing journey to senescence
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-kZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-kZ...
Olivia Rodrigo - We’re going to be friends Live at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
YouTube video by Hearts4livie
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The White Stripes getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is very much another milestone on my ongoing journey to senescence
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-kZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-kZ...
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journalists always write headlines saying that "experts claim" stuff like this, and then you read the article and it's just avi fucking loeb again
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
journalists always write headlines saying that "experts claim" stuff like this, and then you read the article and it's just avi fucking loeb again
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JUST RAISE TAXES. MAKE AN ARGUMENT FOR SOLIDARITY AND SHARED SACRIFICE FOR ONCE
I’m with Vince.
And 2p on income tax plus 2p off NICS to raise £6bn feels like being hung for half a lamb.
www.ft.com/content/9e56...
And 2p on income tax plus 2p off NICS to raise £6bn feels like being hung for half a lamb.
www.ft.com/content/9e56...
November 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
JUST RAISE TAXES. MAKE AN ARGUMENT FOR SOLIDARITY AND SHARED SACRIFICE FOR ONCE
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
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this is really annoying man my tablet was purchased new in 2019. I spent 2000 dollars on It and it works perfectly fine. Why should anyone buy an expensive tech product that's going to brick in 6 years
November 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
this is really annoying man my tablet was purchased new in 2019. I spent 2000 dollars on It and it works perfectly fine. Why should anyone buy an expensive tech product that's going to brick in 6 years
"I say I say I say, when is a wife not a wife?"
"I don't know, when *is* a wife not a wife?"
"When she's aloof!"
*a single gunshot rings out*
"I don't know, when *is* a wife not a wife?"
"When she's aloof!"
*a single gunshot rings out*
transgender for everybody. aloof wife for everybody. hell for dick cheney. it's a win-win-win!!
November 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"I say I say I say, when is a wife not a wife?"
"I don't know, when *is* a wife not a wife?"
"When she's aloof!"
*a single gunshot rings out*
"I don't know, when *is* a wife not a wife?"
"When she's aloof!"
*a single gunshot rings out*
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Had to share this from twitter just because
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Had to share this from twitter just because
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me eating a Kit
OK. Let's fucking go. Kat next.
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
me eating a Kit
"An ethos, you say? Well that's another matter entirely, case dismissed!"
I suppose it was only a matter of time, once judges decided that transphobia was protected under the Equality Act, before they decided that full blown fascism was (www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...).
November 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
"An ethos, you say? Well that's another matter entirely, case dismissed!"
It is my deeply held view that the mayorship of my city is not a democraticallly elected position, nor one that comes with much power. (I do vote in local elections, though, and to my lasting credit, never for A Cuomo.)
Starting tomorrow, every major news organization will be publishing thinkpieces saying that Zohran Mamdani's victory isn't signficant, and even more crucially, that it couldn't happen in a city like yours.
They're wrong. It is important. And every city could have this.
They're wrong. It is important. And every city could have this.
November 5, 2025 at 8:57 AM
It is my deeply held view that the mayorship of my city is not a democraticallly elected position, nor one that comes with much power. (I do vote in local elections, though, and to my lasting credit, never for A Cuomo.)
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We’re further away from The Rolling Stones recording “Sympathy for the Devil” than they were from the murders of the Romanovs when they recorded it
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
We’re further away from The Rolling Stones recording “Sympathy for the Devil” than they were from the murders of the Romanovs when they recorded it
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I think Sudan might shoot up the news agenda somewhat if two US Presidents and two British PMs e.g. announced we were sending the RSF more machine guns and missiles to kill more civilians, then told the press everyone protesting against it was a traitor extremist and sent the cops to arrest them.
November 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I think Sudan might shoot up the news agenda somewhat if two US Presidents and two British PMs e.g. announced we were sending the RSF more machine guns and missiles to kill more civilians, then told the press everyone protesting against it was a traitor extremist and sent the cops to arrest them.