Becky Aizen

20 Dec 2025

Nominative determinism at its finest.

You know you’ve been in the UK too long when your autocorrect changes ‘London’ to ‘Londis’.

Also, g’day! 👋

9 June

Lost phone, who dis?

youtu.beTechnohead - I Wanna Be A Hippy (Flamman & Abraxas Radio Mix)YouTube video by Lower East Side Records

22 May

Today’s earworm. Oy vey. youtu.be/nmYi5u9BhtI?...

On the bus with a nursery class of 3-4 year olds who are engaged in an earnest discussion of how many hills their houses have.

Ah - I get it now. How many hills on the route from home to nursery. I just figured they were stoned.

If you thought today’s mutton/lamb combo of bare legs & a micro mini is diabolical in itself, you won’t want to know that I seem to have paired it with elastic-free undies, so now I’ve contorted myself into the weirdest splayed-leg walk lest every passer-by becomes my own personal gynaecologist.

I wish I was as sensible as @phoebebovy.bsky.social.

Nicholas Kristof rapes meerkats, pass it on.

youtu.beI Sucked a Lot of Cock to Get Where I AmYouTube video by Regurgitator - Topic

I had this song in my head then I was like, wait: that can’t be a real song, so I googled it and, of course, it’s a bloody Aussie banger!’ youtu.be/XElRK0vzfk8?...

This stuff triggers my in-built snob-detector alarm. Friends in Oz started a “literary fiction-only book group” that expressly forbade “genre fiction”. I put forward an impassioned argument for mysteries & thrillers, even Midnighting in the Garden of Good & Evilling them, but the snobs won.

Becky Aizen@beckyaizen.bsky.social

Everyone thinks I’m so highbrow but I’ve only read six. Give me a psychological thriller any day!

Just realising the gravity of their win. Over thirty years later, the book group is still thriving in Australia, while I clearly am not … 😒

I’m not even thriving here FFS.

theguardian.comThe 100 best novels of all timeThe top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?

Everyone thinks I’m so highbrow but I’ve only read six. Give me a psychological thriller any day!

John Self@john-self.bsky.social

Here it is, the full list of the 99 best novels of all time and Wuthering Heights. My own top ten (you can click through to read it) contains one book from this century. The others are all from the 1920s to the 1980s - evidently my literary comfort zone.

youtube.comThe Weather Girls - It's Raining Men (Official Video)YouTube video by TheWeatherGirlsVEVO

Never heard this song the same way after learning that someone was convinced for years the lyrics were “Israeli men: hallelujah!” youtube.com/watch?v=l5aZ...

See also: Scuse me while I kiss this guy, knocking on Kevin’s door, I can see Deidre now Lorraine has gone …

Londoners:

Quiztina Aguilera is my go-to pub quiz team name: it will never be bested!

Phil Craig@philmcraig.bsky.social

Yeah OK ‘Quiztina Aguillera’, and good on you ‘Let’s Get Quizical’ ha ha very amusing but we’ve heard it all before and how we didn’t win best team name last night is beyond me bloody stitch up and no I’m not bitter about that hidden word round oh no not at all!

QuizTeama!

Women who support the rape of other women for any reason are not feminists. They’re sexual sadists and psychopaths. ✍️: @nicolelampert.bsky.social

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See photo below, from one of endless management consultant-led 'awaydays', packed with W1A speak.

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OK I left a decade ago but the ABC has been freaking out in a digital age day dream for years & yes I did once say that in a management meeting! It became a place of endless strategy reformulations but little feel for its own culture & traditions.

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Phil Craig

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As a former insider it's oddly reassuring to see ABC management continue it's fine tradition of alienating the people who actually want to watch it in return for chasing people who never will.

youtu.beThe Revival of Yiddish I Glenn Loury and John McWhorterYouTube video by The Glenn Show Clips

Who’s your Desert Island Thinker? Mine is John McWhorter. youtu.be/mVi_HP5c13A?...

A gift for your weekend:

youtu.beSir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back (Official Music Video)YouTube video by SirMixALotVEVO

youtu.be/X53ZSxkQ3Ho?...

The Independent@the-independent.com

Paul McCartney says one song has the power to unite Democrats and Republicans in Trump’s America

trib.alPaul McCartney says one song has the power to unite Trump’s AmericaThe Beatles legend says the song stops political rivals from being ‘at each other’s throats’

I just made myself literally LOL.

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Mario Rustan

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1st, congrats for the great reach. I think in early 2020s Sstack was heterodox coded, but not anymore. Notes is a game changer, so Elon hates it. Your follow up is a good point, but I guess people can appreciate the connection everywhere now. 'The more the merrier' kinds of work here.

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Stephen Bush

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I think this is it: for good and for ill a Substack like doesn't seem to be very hard-earned.

14 May

That’s cool, but I stand with Ess Dreck, Farshtunkeneh Mamzer, and look forward to the day these fardreyter stickers won’t pop up all over my street like the genital rash they are.

I have to tap the sign again. At least I’m using my Yiddish?

I get much more engagement on Substack but it registers less because I feel closer to my mutuals here, some of whom I’ve known for years now from Twitter. Substack is much more my wheelhouse ideologically, cos it’s an echo chamber of my design!, so why does it feel so impersonal/ less social?

Is it because it’s primarily a platform to self-publish (self-promote?) where there’s no agenda here?

14 May

That’s cool, but I stand with Ess Dreck, Farshtunkeneh Mamzer, and look forward to the day these fardreyter stickers won’t pop up all over my street like the genital rash they are.

14 May

And no, I’m not a genocidal baby-killer, but this is May 2026, and anyone who reads the Free Palestine Industrial Complex but anything other than a well-oiled antisemitic propaganda machine is either being wilfully obtuse or is a beyond-help bloody moron.

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This

11 May

I think of my grandmother at my age, and my Mum at my age, and I whisper a silent apology to both.

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11 May

Happy New Week everybody! youtube.com/watch?v=erM-...

youtu.beSir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back (Official Music Video)YouTube video by SirMixALotVEVO

10 May

Share a song from the year you turned 18* *that also has your name as the fourth word in its lyrics** **bet you can’t! youtu.be/X53ZSxkQ3Ho?...

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Share a song from the year you turned 18 The Fall - Hit The North www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5za...

youtube.comThe Fall - Hit The NorthYouTube video by Beggars Banquet Records

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mel in ballhalla 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️

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9 May

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

Rev. Benjamin Cremer@brcremer.bsky.social

Evangelical Christian leaders literally gathering around a gold statue of the president and celebrating it, all while raging against any accusation of idolatry. This is what idol worship looks like.