Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 9hJoan told me to, so I figured I'd try it and see if I liked it and I did. 010
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Today in stop fucking connecting everything to the internet 114636
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Meanwhile I rejoice when my wife buys the fatty lardons for a change and I can finally render the fat for my various nefarious purposes; at my age I'd sooner enjoy what's left of my life 000
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I do, although admittedly not there 010
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I would have been a professional computer toucher. (And I am, while stocks last!) 000
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Mr Putin for one will surely be rubbing his hands in delight at this scandalous and unfounded assault on Britain's glorious free and fair press! 140
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13/10/2026In the transphobic narrative gender-conservatives traffick in, the transfeminine spectre is a rapacious other while the transmasculine is a corrupted innocence. The dehumanization of both is distinct but linked; transmasculine people are regendered as a patriarchal resource to be protected. 545986
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 12/10/2026Everyone is out on bail and no one can say what the plot was and not a single journalist that i have seen has even arched an eyebrow. British journalism is hilarious 26639170
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDnoted bones haver @noted.bones.haver.zone · 11/10/2026like zoinks, man. this shaggyfication hypnosis tape is like no joke 1225
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026We are very aware that we are a price you* are willing to pay, don't worry 021
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 09/10/2026Times Square at Dusk Samuel H. Gottscho, 1932 221038
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDirenabuzarewicz.bsky.social @irenabuzarewicz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026 525344
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDHunter Felt @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA 202218514
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026an internal investigation by cats into whether they have been fed, concludes that they have not. 1446173
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDMarghoul @marghoul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Can we send this around again please? 🖤🖤 01113
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Childlessness isn't just contagious, it's hereditary. If *you* don't have any kids, neither will they! 010
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026G Monbiot falling into line when it's Left-Punching Time? You could knock me down with a whole-hearted endorsement of Nato! 1381
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026a little louder for the cheap seats in the back 3256291950
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDtoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 193115213132
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's Bad Swedish Prize Season! Which we for one will celebrate by uh shopping for bat-themed earrings or something, fuck the Bad Swedish Prizes. (And the Bad Norwegian Prize in Memory of H Kissinger, and the Bad Fake Retcon Swedish Prize For Money.) 010
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDNightmare Lamp @nightmare-fueler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026throw pillows are not meant to be thrown, despite the name. perhaps our limited understanding of the laws of nature is to blame. 1476
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I believe he is simply making it clear who holds the microphones around here, just in case anyone thought TehGraun might be saner than the rest. 060
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy 168124662656
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDJohn Saward @rbuas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Really been an especially great last couple weeks on @flaminghydra.com, The Best Website. 0315
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They are both very much branches of the same Germanic tree, and the gender systems are similar, but I wouldn't say I got all that much return on the earlier investment when I traded Swedish in for Dutch, all things considered 010
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We for one *did* put our mind to it and learned not only Dutch (the primary language of our current Dutch household) but also, in an earlier era, Swedish. 010
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort. 10270941629
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My theory (which is mine): She wrote about angst and problematic/failed relationships and then she got happily married and the well ran dry. 111
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDSleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him 2960911439
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from? 963631664
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDEllieween Dawn 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🥺😏💜 @awkward.gay · 29/09/2026The pay me in shoiks 214448958
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026With my signature grace I muttered "It was kind of supposed to be obvious for a while" and they countered "Well, there could be any number of reasons to wear a nice yellow summer dress..." 020
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I came out to my (irl) D&D group and the most exciting thing that happened is the DM's wife recruited me to her Radical Feminist Splinter Group that insists that pockets are a fundamental human right. I didn't need a lot of urging, tbh. 150
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The other thing I learned from The Amazing Digital Circus is that many people won't get it, and there's usually no point trying to bridge the gap 060
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDmagnolia siddell ✨ @magnoliapearl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Saw someone say on Twitter, of Jane Schoenbrun, “At some point you have to make a movie that isn’t about yourself.” No you don’t. That isn’t true 23924164
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDJosephine Riesman @josie.zone · 23/09/2026HEY GUESS WHAT I'M DOING /r/Beck's FIRST-EVER REDDIT AMA CATCH ME THERE THIS SATURDAY, SEP. 26reddit.comFrom the Beck community on Reddit: Event Announcement: AMA with Josephine Riesman, author of “The Last Temptation of Beck,” on September 26.Explore this post and more from the Beck community 14111
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026RIP Peter Max, 60s icon 327254
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Yes. (Source: I have seen the movie twice) 010
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I didn't blame Putin? That's a bizarre reading which I don't think my text remotely supports 110
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Putin's US-designed oligarchal post-democracy turns out to have been a trial run for the West in general, which is nice 110
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDRachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026CFP: Far-Right Archives in the Digital Age, a collaboration between @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and me (via my @britishacademy.bsky.social grant): 27 November, London: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Travel funds are available (probably only within UK)!! Please share. 🗃️northampton.ac.ukCFP: Far-Right Archives in the Digital Age | UONWiener Holocaust Library, London. Friday 27 November 2026, 10.30am-4pm Improved digital access to far-right material at archives, libraries, and beyond... 02120
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I am pretty sure the rest of my family can only hear the plink plink meanders but obviously I am team "once you listen deeper it can be intermittently transcendent"; I just don't know how to get people to bridge the gap 010
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDalyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026 461686337
Reposted by Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhDparanormal mattivity @windows98support.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A whole generation of people are having their brains rotted by social media, and it ain’t fuckin’ Gen Z 15011
Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is cruel and stupid, but it is what you get when the rules are made by people for whom cruel and stupid is their happy place 030