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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 14h

The devil’s in the house of the rising sun.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 15h

Jon Ossoff just pulled out a fiddle, turned to Collins, and said, "I told you once, you son of a bitch, I'm the best there's ever been."

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Any day is a good day after you beat Michigan.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Enthusiasm still high, but I appreciate the warning. 😊 Love the photo!

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I want to! I love her work. And to see it in the setting…sigh.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When your bestie & fellow architectural historian goes on holiday to France, she tours Villa E-1027 and sends you these photos (also one of Gray’s E-1027 table that I requested bc I’m obsessed with it, as I also like a snack in bed/sofa but hate crumbs):

A sculptural bust of architect Eileen Gray, with a heart drawn around it and the word Eileen in red ink

Le Corbusier mural at E-10127 with the phrase “Get Back in your Box Corb!” scrawled over the photo in red letters

E-1027 adjustable table designed by Eileen Gray. It is framed in shiny tubular steel with a glass top, can be easily moved, and its height is adjustable. It is positioned next to a low bed with blue cushions

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The default was yellow, if i remember correctly, on iPhones, which to me means I’m not making a statement with my choice of colour. I heartily endorse anyone using any of the colours that they feel expresses their identity, but to me it feels like putting “I’M WHITE” in an emoji is…a choice.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I use the yellow one for the very same reasons. 👍

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s not often that someone invokes Daniel Burnham and I am HERE FOR IT.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Americans living in the UK for nearly 10 years, and my husband learned that lesson in an excruciating and public way while in a high-level meeting working for a giant bank…I think he said something like “they were dogging our team for weeks” and everyone just stared at him. 😳😂

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Of course, now the dog just laid a giant poo on the rug behind me while I’m working. Thanks for keeping me humble, Sally.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Having one of those moments where I’m rereading my writing from a few months ago and not only do I not hate it, I actually think it’s pretty good. More of these days, please.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“No audio guides, either, thank goodness.” What?! I agree with you, that’s a bizarre take.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I realise I’m preaching to the rest of the academic choir here but THIS.

A quote from the LA Times, from Rebecca Winthrop, senior fellow and director of the Center for University Education at the Brookings Institution: “When young people systematically use AI to complete schoolwork or other thinking tasks, they are not offloading skills they already possess. They are shortcutting the process of developing those skills in the first place.”

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

How about instead of AI we put all of that tech know-how and trillions of dollars into making sports bras with cups that are affixed in their proper place?

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In England: our entire family can’t get an NHS dentist at all; we have a 9+ month wait for private and none take our insurance. In Scotland: daughter leaves for uni this Thursday, she scheduled an NHS dentist appointment for exam and cleaning 10 mins. from campus for next Tuesday afternoon. 😳

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Rest in peace, Mr. Berry. How quietly I begin again from this moment looking at the clock, I start over so much time has passed, and is equaled by whatever split-second is present from this moment this moment is the first “Be Still in Haste” by Wendell Berry. Published in Poetry (Sept. 1962).

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In PA overseas voters have to re-register every year. It’s REALLY annoying. But I will keep doing it if for no other reason than to get Fetterman out when the time comes.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The son and his first wife rewrote the 6th edition in the 1920s, which apparently was a major improvement. Unsurprisingly, her name was not included on the title page: Alice Fletcher, née Bretherton, formerly Mrs. Bamford Slack.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I always send mine tracked from the UK, and even then and with follow-up I don’t get confirmation for WEEKS afterwards. It’s so aggravating.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Re: Lake Ontario, the President seriously underestimates us because most people still call it National Airport purely out of SPITE, and Reagan’s fascism quotient was significantly less than what we’ve got going on here.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Catherine O’Hara, Dolly Parton, Tim Curry. Hear me out…what if this is The Rapture, just in slow motion?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NOOOOOOO NOT DOLLY YOU CAN’T TAKE DOLLY

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

!!!! I ADORED Pee-Wee’s Playhouse when I was a kid!! It was the best part of Saturday mornings. Thank you for this!!

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

3 things that would make me happy (in no particular order): 1) Generative AI disappears back into the ether. 2) Global taxes on the ultra-rich. 3) A channel that only shows Christmas episodes of television shows.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So just for fun today I chose the “larger” icon style on my iPhone and I’m sorry to report that it has changed my life for the better.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Truly! Especially all of those who look at me dubiously when I answer that I prefer living here, as if they can’t believe someone would choose to leave the land of milk & honey and Walmart. (I do miss Target though sometimes, ngl.)

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It’s about 96% where I am so I’m just rounding up. 😁

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Bonnie Tyler would have loved today. RIP.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The “lyrics” feature on Spotify truly does the Lord’s work, because now I know that in the song “Popsicles and Icicles”, her boyfriend loves “Levi’s”, as opposed to “meat pies”. Also I might need better headphones. open.spotify.com/track/2s45jz...

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Popsicles And Icicles

The Murmaids · The Murmaids · Song · 2001

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

““The girl was in a towering passion and made me uncommonly ill.” Same, girl. Same.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Is this germane to my research n women’s clubs and women’s spaces? No. Did that stop me from transcribing all of it by hand? Also no.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“I am not fond of her and she has never been anything but cold and gloomy with me, it is therefore no wonder that we do not get on. Of course I shall get all of the blame as it is so easy for her to pose as a martyr especially with a sister to back her up.” 💁🏻‍♀️

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“Considering from a child she has always had a sickly morbid disposition it seems rather hard that my short 3 years of married life should be given as the cause.”

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Deep in the archives yesterday and today…questioning how Gertrude Lubbock would feel knowing that 140 years later a researcher would discover that she was a total b*tch to her father’s new (young) wife, Alice Lady Avebury? Did not need to deep dive on that but I was COMPELLED. More tea, pls, Alice!

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Monetise those skills, future historians!

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

As an alumna of two Big 10 universities, may I humbly suggest that the World Cup embrace the tradition of the traveling trophy, e.g. Paul Bunyan’s Axe? Because then we could keep the Bayeux Tapestry for at least the next four years!

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So are they calling it “the head of God” yet?

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

On the train to London this morning and guy who doesn’t understand reserved seating (ok, fine) says loudly “We’re American, we can do whatever we want.” Now I’m desperately trying to keep my mouth shut so nobody hears my accent. 🤐

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

“For me, but not for thee.” Pretty sure that’s their motto.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Maine needs someone to defeat Susan Collins. The inimitable @hcrichardson.bsky.social lives in Maine, sans fascist tattoos or assault accusations, and knows pretty much everything there is to know about American democracy.

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SNL's Colin Jost: Just Saying

Alt: SNL's Colin Jost: Just Saying, with palms in the air

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