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Emmeline May
@emmelinemay.bsky.social
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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · Nov 13
1) not being a penguinologist

2) receiving a threatening email purporting to be from Teresa May (no relation)

3) comparing sexual consent to a cup of tea
cupcakesarenice.bsky.social Sarah Cupcakes @cupcakesarenice.bsky.social · Nov 12
I have a game. What were you "known" for on Twitter?

I'll go first. I'm the woman who caused Dave Ramsey to mass-block Royals Twitter.
emmelinemay.bsky.social
Reminds me of "the pencil test", used in apartheid South Africa

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil_...
The pencil test is a method of assessing whether a person has Afro-textured hair. In the pencil test, a pencil is pushed through the person's hair. How easily it comes out determines whether the person has "passed" or "failed" the test. This test was used to determine racial identity in South Africa during the apartheid era, distinguishing whites from coloureds and blacks. The test was partially responsible for splitting existing communities and families along perceived racial lines. Its formal authority ended with the end of apartheid in 1994
February 12, 2026 at 1:33 PM
emmelinemay.bsky.social
Struggling to put into words how it feels to know that Starmer was prepared to throw an entire election over Corbyn, but fully embrace multiple nonces and their BFFs
February 12, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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katemckean.bsky.social
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
emmelinemay.bsky.social
I'm sure someone smarter than me is connecting the dots of Epstein & the post 2014 UK anti-trans movement; is it too optimistic to hope that it will shift hearts & minds when they realise that their movement about "protecting children" was spearheaded by one of the worst child predators of our time?
February 11, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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veryimportant.lawyer
Mar-a-Lago Face is becoming indistinguishable from Black Hole Sun Video Face
February 11, 2026 at 1:44 AM
emmelinemay.bsky.social
Trying to watch D&D with a greyhound
My laptop, with my greyhound's head lying across the keyboard partially obscuring the screen, on which is pictured Brennan Lee Mulligan from Dimension 20, gesticulating mid DMing
February 9, 2026 at 6:35 PM
emmelinemay.bsky.social
If anyone can tell me where @aabria.bsky.social 's shirt from the most recent ep of critical role came from i will...idk, do some sort of luck ritual for you
February 7, 2026 at 8:09 PM
emmelinemay.bsky.social
This is Neil
Black and white greyhound with a skull and crossbones sweater and a red bandana. Natural markings on his eye makes it look like he is wearing eyeliner
February 7, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.
February 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
emmelinemay.bsky.social
The latest @novaramedia.com podcast really lays bare the relationship between money, power and sex and the deep corruption in the system that enables billionaires to do... whatever the fuck they want
February 3, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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thegodpodcast.com
If the Epstein files are this vile and incriminating already, just imagine all the stuff they’re still hiding.
February 1, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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athenakugblenu.bsky.social
I guess "white wealthy British and American grooming gangs" doesn't have the same ring to it
January 31, 2026 at 2:04 PM
emmelinemay.bsky.social
An irregular announcement to inform you that if you love your SciFi character driven, quirky, original, rich in lore and timey wimey & multiversey, you've got to try Midnight Burger.

Imagine if Douglas Adams smooshed together both Hitchhikers Guide and Dirk Gently and then wrote Sliders.
February 1, 2026 at 9:08 AM
emmelinemay.bsky.social
Please please please can this be the model for politics for the future instead of...the other options
mayor.nyc.gov Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14d
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 30, 2026 at 7:59 PM
emmelinemay.bsky.social
overheard house clearance men working on the flat next door in our building which opened as a pub in the 1890s

"what I don't get, these buildings are all what, 70s, 80s, what was here before? just...hills?"
January 30, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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billybragg.bsky.social
I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:42 PM
emmelinemay.bsky.social
Do Minnesotans and other US protests groups know GYAG by Bob Vylan? Feels like a pretty perfect vibe.

"Cold town, blocks burning up
Stressed out coz man don't earn enough
Police turned thieves & burglarals
Tryna steal our lives and murder us"

youtu.be/0KlKGEp0_x4?...
GYAG (Get Yourself A Gun)
YouTube video by Bob Vylan - Topic
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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themerl.bsky.social
We're hiring!

Join our team on a project to share stories from our rural film archives with different audiences.

Find out more and apply today:

jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Engagement Officer (BFI Project) :London Road Reading, UK
Part Time / Fixed Term till 30th October 2026
jobs.reading.ac.uk
January 28, 2026 at 1:38 PM
emmelinemay.bsky.social
Really good piece, and made me think about how such a resistance would work here in the UK, should it become necessary.
lollardfish.bsky.social David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17d
“The people of Minnesota have forced the Trump administration into a strategic retreat—one inflicted not as rioters or insurgents, but as neighbors.” This sentence from @adamserwer.bsky.social made me unexpectedly get choked up. It’s weird what does that these days. But still …
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:06 PM
emmelinemay.bsky.social
You can mock me all you like for using my "dry robe" as a coat but you know what i am when i have to take the dog out at 6am in a named storm?

DRY.
January 27, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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taylordahlin.com
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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ashleighloeb.bsky.social
Us Jews were subjected to a genocide because we were considered different & therefore demonised. It wasn’t something innate about Judaism or Jewish culture, it was something innate about the wider culture & about fascism. About “the other” & looking for a scapegoats in times of economic crisis.
joelhs.bsky.social Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17d
The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.
Tweet from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges."
January 27, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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thejoytuckclub.bsky.social
This is insane, but expected thanks to all that “clarity.”
One caller told the charity she was followed into the women's toilet, pushed into a cubicle and touched by two men. According to Chana, the men had justified it by saying the court "gave them a right to check if you're a man or woman"
January 27, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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tom.medsky.social
Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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tomcoates.bsky.social
This is … this is so awful and sad. Lots of trigger warnings and stuff, but if you can read it, please do.
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 17d
"The volunteers at her unit were devastated. One cried while explaining it to us, because she had seen our daughter flourish. She had seen that there was no conflict, no disruption — only joy."
🌈 She Just Wanted to Wear the Uniform — How a Six-Year-Old Trans Girl Was Left Behind
An impact story of a 6 year old trans girl.
medium.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:21 PM