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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD

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Dull old woman; now Dutch

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Gaz @nyazsche.bsky.social · 6h
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Joan told me to, so I figured I'd try it and see if I liked it and I did.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Today in stop fucking connecting everything to the internet
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Meanwhile 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
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I do, although admittedly not there
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I would have been a professional computer toucher. (And I am, while stocks last!)
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Mr 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!
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13/10/2026
In 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.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 12/10/2026
Everyone 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
Beth rigby: BREAKING: PM tells MP that RAF plot was "almost certainly" directed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard and says UK will bring further sanctions to restrict the capacity or Iran and the IRGC to do us harm
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noted bones haver @noted.bones.haver.zone · 11/10/2026
like zoinks, man. this shaggyfication hypnosis tape is like no joke
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We are very aware that we are a price you* are willing to pay, don't worry
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 09/10/2026
Times Square at Dusk Samuel H. Gottscho, 1932
 Times Square, New York City (looking down Broadway/Seventh Avenue towards the Times Building).
 The glowing signs advertise the films Hell Divers and Arrowsmith 
Wet, rainy pavement reflecting the neon lights during the early evening
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irenabuzarewicz.bsky.social @irenabuzarewicz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Hunter Felt @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
an internal investigation by cats into whether they have been fed, concludes that they have not.
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Marghoul @marghoul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Can we send this around again please? 🖤🖤
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Childlessness isn't just contagious, it's hereditary. If *you* don't have any kids, neither will they!
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
G Monbiot falling into line when it's Left-Punching Time? You could knock me down with a whole-hearted endorsement of Nato!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found 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
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It'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.)
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Nightmare Lamp @nightmare-fueler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
throw pillows are not meant to be thrown, despite the name. perhaps our limited understanding of the laws of nature is to blame.
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I 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.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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John Saward @rbuas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Really been an especially great last couple weeks on @flaminghydra.com, The Best Website.
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They 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
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We 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.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.
A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My theory (which is mine): She wrote about angst and problematic/failed relationships and then she got happily married and the well ran dry.
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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him
cat on a statue
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To 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?
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Ellieween Dawn 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🥺😏💜 @awkward.gay · 29/09/2026
The pay me in shoiks
The famous "they pay me in woims" Nancy comic but edited.
First panel is Nancy talking to teams femme Sluggo with shoulder length hair with a bow in,  and wearing a she/her badge: "I hear you're working at the Ikea". The bait shop has been edited to have 2 IKEA logos on it.
Second panel: Nancy asking "Do they pay you well?"
Third panel: Sluggo saying "They pay me in Shoiks" and holding up 2 different sized blåhaj shark plushies
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With 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..."
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I 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.
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The 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
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magnolia siddell ✨ @magnoliapearl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Saw 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
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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 23/09/2026
HEY GUESS WHAT I'M DOING /r/Beck's FIRST-EVER REDDIT AMA CATCH ME THERE THIS SATURDAY, SEP. 26
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From 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
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
True story!
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026
RIP Peter Max, 60s icon
colorful Peter Max poster for National Library Week captined
be all you can be. read.
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yes. (Source: I have seen the movie twice)
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I didn't blame Putin? That's a bizarre reading which I don't think my text remotely supports
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Putin's US-designed oligarchal post-democracy turns out to have been a trial run for the West in general, which is nice
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CFP: 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. 🗃️
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CFP: Far-Right Archives in the Digital Age | UON
Wiener Holocaust Library, London. Friday 27 November 2026, 10.30am-4pm Improved digital access to far-right material at archives, libraries, and beyond...
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I 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
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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A clip from a magazine cover: TRANSSEXUALS — HOW ARE THEY COPING AT WORK?
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paranormal mattivity @windows98support.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A whole generation of people are having their brains rotted by social media, and it ain’t fuckin’ Gen Z
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This 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
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thank you!
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Brecht von Bladet (she/her), PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thanks!
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