Bethany Claus Widick
@bethn8r.bsky.social
Architectural historian (women’s spaces in the long 19th century), PhD candidate (Courtauld), knitter, politically progressive and culturally effusive. Was a lawyer back in the day. US—>UK, based in Bath (& sometimes London). I love a good fountain pen.
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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
Sausage!
Old Sausage
Three Men and a Little Sausage
Old Sausage
Three Men and a Little Sausage
The Longest Sausage
January 30, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Sausage!
Old Sausage
Three Men and a Little Sausage
Old Sausage
Three Men and a Little Sausage
Still marking essays, mostly because I haven’t yet created macros for “Use hanging indents for the subsequent lines of each entry in your bibliography“, and “In the most recent edition of CMOS (18th), place of publication is no longer required for book citations.”
January 29, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Still marking essays, mostly because I haven’t yet created macros for “Use hanging indents for the subsequent lines of each entry in your bibliography“, and “In the most recent edition of CMOS (18th), place of publication is no longer required for book citations.”
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Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands….
Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
January 25, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands….
Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
Mary knows. We’re going to make it after all.
January 26, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Mary knows. We’re going to make it after all.
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Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."
January 25, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."
Set a timer for each essay you mark, they said.
You shouldn’t spend more than an hour on one, they said.
Me, after grading one essay in two and a half hours:
You shouldn’t spend more than an hour on one, they said.
Me, after grading one essay in two and a half hours:
a man is pulling a green bag on a trolley
Alt: a man is pulling a green bag, falls down while walking and doesn’t get up.
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January 25, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Set a timer for each essay you mark, they said.
You shouldn’t spend more than an hour on one, they said.
Me, after grading one essay in two and a half hours:
You shouldn’t spend more than an hour on one, they said.
Me, after grading one essay in two and a half hours:
My husband is from there, we met in law school there, we were married there — can confirm.
So proud of the (aptly named) North Star state.
So proud of the (aptly named) North Star state.
January 24, 2026 at 2:13 AM
My husband is from there, we met in law school there, we were married there — can confirm.
So proud of the (aptly named) North Star state.
So proud of the (aptly named) North Star state.
“The right gave us privatisation of the water industry…What it’s done is entrust our most important public goods to a bunch of hedge funds and private-equity sharks in other countries, who have siphoned off whatever returns they can get while putting barely anything back.”
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What happens when the taps run dry? England is about to find out | Aditya Chakrabortty
It’s not just Tunbridge Wells – a country famous around the world for its rain is in danger of self-imposed drought, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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January 22, 2026 at 12:38 PM
“The right gave us privatisation of the water industry…What it’s done is entrust our most important public goods to a bunch of hedge funds and private-equity sharks in other countries, who have siphoned off whatever returns they can get while putting barely anything back.”
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Re: Greenland (and Venezuela and whatever fresh horrors await us in 2026) — this is what happens when you acquiesce to a bully. He does not stop, until he is stopped. See Putin, V.; Hitler, A.; Bonaparte, N.
January 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Re: Greenland (and Venezuela and whatever fresh horrors await us in 2026) — this is what happens when you acquiesce to a bully. He does not stop, until he is stopped. See Putin, V.; Hitler, A.; Bonaparte, N.
Sally is Christmas-ed out, Grinch feet and all.
December 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Sally is Christmas-ed out, Grinch feet and all.
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The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.
December 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.
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There's no rule of journalism that says you have to show a president telling lie after lie – uncorrected – many times a day. That's a decision that corporate media are making for purposes other than delivering the truth to the public.
December 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
There's no rule of journalism that says you have to show a president telling lie after lie – uncorrected – many times a day. That's a decision that corporate media are making for purposes other than delivering the truth to the public.
Seeing a student take out her phone to snap a pic of my last slide made my day! Until next time, The Modern Interior — what a phenomenal first official Associate Lecturer gig at the Courtauld!
December 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Seeing a student take out her phone to snap a pic of my last slide made my day! Until next time, The Modern Interior — what a phenomenal first official Associate Lecturer gig at the Courtauld!
Sometimes I worry that I don’t belong in academia, and then I receive an email entitled,”i have a citation questionnnnnn” from a former student — the warm fuzzy feeling I get from a deep-dive into CMoS 18 minutiae and helping her out makes me think, whom else would have me?
December 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Sometimes I worry that I don’t belong in academia, and then I receive an email entitled,”i have a citation questionnnnnn” from a former student — the warm fuzzy feeling I get from a deep-dive into CMoS 18 minutiae and helping her out makes me think, whom else would have me?
I feel fortunate to have not seen Merrily We Roll Along until tonight, because the 2024 Broadway cast plus the fact that I’m 3-ish weeks away from turning 50 made it hit so very hard, which is exactly how I like my musical theatre.
December 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I feel fortunate to have not seen Merrily We Roll Along until tonight, because the 2024 Broadway cast plus the fact that I’m 3-ish weeks away from turning 50 made it hit so very hard, which is exactly how I like my musical theatre.
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I want to be able to mark emails neither read nor unread, but another, secret third thing.
November 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I want to be able to mark emails neither read nor unread, but another, secret third thing.
Sitting next to two teenage girls on the train to London this morning, one is reading The Penelopiad and the other Never Let Me Go. My heart is full.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Sitting next to two teenage girls on the train to London this morning, one is reading The Penelopiad and the other Never Let Me Go. My heart is full.
Who has two thumbs and is giving a lecture on the Edith Farnsworth House and Mies van der Rohe today?
THIS GIRL.
THIS GIRL.
a woman in a black dress is sitting in a red chair with her arms outstretched and pointing at herself
Alt: a woman in a black dress, Christina Aguilera, is sitting in a red chair with her arms outstretched and pointing at herself
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November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Who has two thumbs and is giving a lecture on the Edith Farnsworth House and Mies van der Rohe today?
THIS GIRL.
THIS GIRL.
But you know that when the truth is told
That you can get what you want or you can just get old
You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through, ooh
When will you realize Vienna waits for you?
That you can get what you want or you can just get old
You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through, ooh
When will you realize Vienna waits for you?
Vienna
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October 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
But you know that when the truth is told
That you can get what you want or you can just get old
You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through, ooh
When will you realize Vienna waits for you?
That you can get what you want or you can just get old
You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through, ooh
When will you realize Vienna waits for you?
So excited for tomorrow’s field trip to the V&A Storehouse East! Can’t wait to talk about curation, FLW, and social housing with my students.
As a girl who grew up in PGH going to Kaufmann’s (the REAL one downtown, not just at the mall), who now studies & teaches arch. history, this is a MOMENT.
As a girl who grew up in PGH going to Kaufmann’s (the REAL one downtown, not just at the mall), who now studies & teaches arch. history, this is a MOMENT.
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
So excited for tomorrow’s field trip to the V&A Storehouse East! Can’t wait to talk about curation, FLW, and social housing with my students.
As a girl who grew up in PGH going to Kaufmann’s (the REAL one downtown, not just at the mall), who now studies & teaches arch. history, this is a MOMENT.
As a girl who grew up in PGH going to Kaufmann’s (the REAL one downtown, not just at the mall), who now studies & teaches arch. history, this is a MOMENT.
Couldn’t possibly say it any better myself.
Trump's style will forever be "what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn," as @kenwhite.bsky.social described it, a cluttered mess of generic tacky designs covered in gold leaf, simultaneously piggish and cheap.
we are witnessing a genuine decline in the taste of american elites
October 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Couldn’t possibly say it any better myself.
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You don’t have to be an historic preservationist or architectural historian to be livid about this, but it certainly helps.
If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
October 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
You don’t have to be an historic preservationist or architectural historian to be livid about this, but it certainly helps.