Alice
@wordsbyalice.bsky.social
Midwesterner. Immigrant. Writer. Artist.
Allergic to cheese.
🏳️🌈 she/they
Allergic to cheese.
🏳️🌈 she/they
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Alice
@wordsbyalice.bsky.social
· Feb 11
I love the book I wrote. At the same time, if I ever look at it again I will throw it out the window.
QUIT MY JOB! MOVING TO SINGAPORE FOR SIX MONTHS!
Big life updates coming but for now O and I are extremely obsessed with the Business Proposal K-drama!
November 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
QUIT MY JOB! MOVING TO SINGAPORE FOR SIX MONTHS!
Shit that is absolutely not okay!
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Shit that is absolutely not okay!
Big life updates coming but for now O and I are extremely obsessed with the Business Proposal K-drama!
October 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Big life updates coming but for now O and I are extremely obsessed with the Business Proposal K-drama!
Not to be dramatic, but I've spent the past few months grappling with how I went to school next to a nuclear waste dump. The radiation exposure likely caused my parent's brain tumor and my immune disorder. I can't help but be angry at how society failed us and exposed generations of people to this.
September 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Not to be dramatic, but I've spent the past few months grappling with how I went to school next to a nuclear waste dump. The radiation exposure likely caused my parent's brain tumor and my immune disorder. I can't help but be angry at how society failed us and exposed generations of people to this.
Immune system failed me again 😭
September 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Immune system failed me again 😭
Me to my cat when she can’t even kill a fly
September 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Me to my cat when she can’t even kill a fly
Marriage as told through Spotify DMs:
![A screenshot of Spotify DMs reading:
Alice: i love you!
Husband: [a link to Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley]
Alice: i take it back](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i53uu6s7r2tmldn3e4ngwe2v/bafkreiblfqhlnkqdosjydlqf2l3adeguakbwgaaxqzmw5hpvzfhucgkdia@jpeg)
September 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Marriage as told through Spotify DMs:
It's that time of year!
September 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It's that time of year!
At least she is beautiful?
August 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
At least she is beautiful?
Reposted by Alice
Haven’t posted one of these in awhile but currently reading (via audiobook since I’ve had a nonstop migraine these past few days!) Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen.
August 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Haven’t posted one of these in awhile but currently reading (via audiobook since I’ve had a nonstop migraine these past few days!) Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen.
I am allergic to the idea of having a “natural” hair color.
August 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I am allergic to the idea of having a “natural” hair color.
My entire teens and 20s was people telling me what I should do to be “successful” which has only led to me being 30 and hating my career. So I’m firmly discounting advice from people now. Vibes only!
August 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
My entire teens and 20s was people telling me what I should do to be “successful” which has only led to me being 30 and hating my career. So I’m firmly discounting advice from people now. Vibes only!
What if I packed up and spent five weeks in the Himalayas to focus on ceramics?
August 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
What if I packed up and spent five weeks in the Himalayas to focus on ceramics?
O and I are watching the Brooks Falls at Katmai National Park livestream and we’re yelling at the bears catching fish like this is a sporting event.
August 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
O and I are watching the Brooks Falls at Katmai National Park livestream and we’re yelling at the bears catching fish like this is a sporting event.
Okay, gotta be real: my Ember mug, which keeps my coffee/tea at my desired temperature?? Most unnecessary thing I own that's I use every single day.
This skeet brought to you by me forgetting my tea for thirty minutes.
This skeet brought to you by me forgetting my tea for thirty minutes.
August 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Okay, gotta be real: my Ember mug, which keeps my coffee/tea at my desired temperature?? Most unnecessary thing I own that's I use every single day.
This skeet brought to you by me forgetting my tea for thirty minutes.
This skeet brought to you by me forgetting my tea for thirty minutes.
Reposted by Alice
Sunt așezat. Angajații teatrului sunt speriați și vor să plec pentru că „încă nu e decembrie”, dar eu sunt prea așezat.
Sebastian Stan will star in a new adaptation of 'Frankenstein'
• Being written and directed by Radu Jude
• Combines the idea of CIA prisons in Romania with the myth of Frankenstein
• Being written and directed by Radu Jude
• Combines the idea of CIA prisons in Romania with the myth of Frankenstein
August 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Sunt așezat. Angajații teatrului sunt speriați și vor să plec pentru că „încă nu e decembrie”, dar eu sunt prea așezat.
The only thing I’m going to really miss about Sweden is my proximity to a Costco
August 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The only thing I’m going to really miss about Sweden is my proximity to a Costco
Reposted by Alice
Reposted by Alice
Ada Loveland, Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton are the patron saints of programming for good reason.
Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering"; she got told off for it by (male) hardware engineers as they felt it was "inflating her work's importance".
Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering"; she got told off for it by (male) hardware engineers as they felt it was "inflating her work's importance".
Never forgive men for treating programming as a meaningless thing your secretary did while women were inventing and developing the field, then, once they realized it was going to be important, shoving women out of it and claiming only Male Logic Brains could perform it.
Gaslight of the century that we made programming totally inaccessible to huge portions of the population and now we're told that the reason is programming can only emerge from the innate genius of the brilliant few
July 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Ada Loveland, Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton are the patron saints of programming for good reason.
Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering"; she got told off for it by (male) hardware engineers as they felt it was "inflating her work's importance".
Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering"; she got told off for it by (male) hardware engineers as they felt it was "inflating her work's importance".
Conceptually, I know what a kilometer is. In practice? Absolutely no idea.
July 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Conceptually, I know what a kilometer is. In practice? Absolutely no idea.
Reposted by Alice
i suppose i love this life
in spite of my clenched fist.
— andrea gibson
in spite of my clenched fist.
— andrea gibson
June 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
i suppose i love this life
in spite of my clenched fist.
— andrea gibson
in spite of my clenched fist.
— andrea gibson
absolutely delighted by this news 😍
FLARE is excited to announce our Best of the Net nominees! You can view the pieces on our website under the "Nominations" tab. Congrats, everyone! (1/2)
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July 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
absolutely delighted by this news 😍