Dr Matt Lodder
@mattlodder.com
Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex. Trustee, Bishopsgate Institute. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
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Dr Matt Lodder
@mattlodder.com
· Oct 23
My two lectures on Operation Spanner and its aftermath for the UK APP conference in September are now on our Patreon: patreon.com/beneaththeskin
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the gas station check out clerk just bodied me. she asked if i wanted the golden tobacco vapes because they have a deal on six packs and i said “no, those taste like urine.” and she said, ״well, i don’t know what urine tastes like.”
December 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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ARF, ARF, Motherfucker
![ARF, ARF, Motherfucker
Furries are fucking terrifying.
Well, not to me. To me they're cool and huggable.
Queer and relatable. Fun and nerdy.
But to the Straights? Terrifying.
But what's so terrifying about playing about with your presentation, adopting a visage both alien and familiar, and asserting an identity of your own crea-tion? Oh. Oh, yeah.
If you yourself are a cog in the machine, who has no identity but what you've had thrust upon you, us queers jamming up the gears must be a nightmare.
But fuck this machine. Fuck your preconceived notions about what we can be, what we must be. It never did me any good and it never did you either.
So I choose a life of freedom.
Arf, arf, etc., etc..
[line of paw prints]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreifiqp4om5fao2b2iemhrxi2zili3eotxhtf3jdtcjvtqngaw3ct3a@jpeg)
May 31, 2024 at 9:58 PM
ARF, ARF, Motherfucker
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NYT when a trans man wants to take testosterone: 😡😡😡😡😡
NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Earlier this year, we published an article on how women are increasingly seeking out testosterone to help with energy or their sex lives. We followed up with one woman who went on testosterone to help with her menopausal symptoms. The effects had unexpected consequences for her marriage.
What It’s Like When Your Wife Goes on Testosterone
She went on testosterone to help with her menopausal symptoms. The effects had unexpected consequences for their marriage.
nyti.ms
December 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
NYT when a trans man wants to take testosterone: 😡😡😡😡😡
NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
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"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
December 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
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make a Bond movie academic
License to Kill: How The Constitution Was Never Intended To Protect The Lives Or Dignity of Non-White-People, By Ilan Wurman
License to Kill: How The Constitution Was Never Intended To Protect The Lives Or Dignity of Non-White-People, By Ilan Wurman
make a Bond movie academic
The Spy Who Loved Me: Birthright Citizenship and the Law of Alien Enemies
The Spy Who Loved Me: Birthright Citizenship and the Law of Alien Enemies
make a Bond movie academic
Spectre: {Insert bacronym here}
Spectre: {Insert bacronym here}
December 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
make a Bond movie academic
License to Kill: How The Constitution Was Never Intended To Protect The Lives Or Dignity of Non-White-People, By Ilan Wurman
License to Kill: How The Constitution Was Never Intended To Protect The Lives Or Dignity of Non-White-People, By Ilan Wurman
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They’re not rural, they’re monied. The people who have pink tarmac in their villages and get their hedges cut by Norfolk CC. While an urban area in Norwich, Yarmouth of Lynn which would benefit from a youth club and bit of love gets nothing. They won’t vote Labour or Green anyway. Fuck ‘em.
Labour ‘alienating rural people’ with plan to ban trail hunting, says Countryside Alliance
Labour ‘alienating rural people’ with plan to ban trail hunting, says Countryside Alliance
Poll released by group as people gather for traditional Boxing Day hunts finds 76% of voters believe Labour prioritises urban issues over rural ones
Keir Starmer’s government has been told it has “alienated rural people” as traditional Boxing Day hunts gathered across the UK ahead of plans to ban trail hunting.
The warning came from the Countryside Alliance pressure group, which released a poll suggesting 65% of voters think the Labour administration unfairly neglects country communities. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
They’re not rural, they’re monied. The people who have pink tarmac in their villages and get their hedges cut by Norfolk CC. While an urban area in Norwich, Yarmouth of Lynn which would benefit from a youth club and bit of love gets nothing. They won’t vote Labour or Green anyway. Fuck ‘em.
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The fact they treat prompt writing as a coveted skill is such a tragic self-own and they don’t even get it. Society is being pressed through cheesecloth by illiterati.
December 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The fact they treat prompt writing as a coveted skill is such a tragic self-own and they don’t even get it. Society is being pressed through cheesecloth by illiterati.
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Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
December 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
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Under My Glorious and Mostly Benevolent Reign, the mountain rescue people would be allowed to drag them higher up and leave them there.
December 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Under My Glorious and Mostly Benevolent Reign, the mountain rescue people would be allowed to drag them higher up and leave them there.
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STILL no trans people or drag queens implicated in the Epstein Files.
Plenty of TERFs though.
It’s almost as though every “gender-critical” transphobe is trying to protect cis men who abuse women and girls by helping them distract from the real threat.
Plenty of TERFs though.
It’s almost as though every “gender-critical” transphobe is trying to protect cis men who abuse women and girls by helping them distract from the real threat.
December 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
STILL no trans people or drag queens implicated in the Epstein Files.
Plenty of TERFs though.
It’s almost as though every “gender-critical” transphobe is trying to protect cis men who abuse women and girls by helping them distract from the real threat.
Plenty of TERFs though.
It’s almost as though every “gender-critical” transphobe is trying to protect cis men who abuse women and girls by helping them distract from the real threat.
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this is deeply ghoulish, but it would also have been possible pre-AI - you could equally lie to elderly relatives using photoshop. the issue isn't just gen AI as a technology but the marketing and cultural trends around bypassing death, AI's universal applicability, deprioritising truth etc
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
this is deeply ghoulish, but it would also have been possible pre-AI - you could equally lie to elderly relatives using photoshop. the issue isn't just gen AI as a technology but the marketing and cultural trends around bypassing death, AI's universal applicability, deprioritising truth etc
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My only and best higher ed idea is that Britain needs to find a way to offer university courses to retirees
'Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions.' 1/2
‘Keeps your mind alert’: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure
Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbers
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
My only and best higher ed idea is that Britain needs to find a way to offer university courses to retirees
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Today’s episode of #DeadFunnyHistory is all about the genius scientist Marie Curie — it’s got silly voices, fun narration, jokes, facts, and a quiz at the end. Play it for your kids! Available worldwide on all podcast apps
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
You're Dead to Me - Dead Funny History - Marie Curie - BBC Sounds
Discover Marie Curie’s radioactive legacy
www.bbc.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Today’s episode of #DeadFunnyHistory is all about the genius scientist Marie Curie — it’s got silly voices, fun narration, jokes, facts, and a quiz at the end. Play it for your kids! Available worldwide on all podcast apps
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Because it’s UK journalism you have to dig down real deep to find the original article, but it’s an extended essay in BMJ’s Journal of Medical Ethics about a number of nuanced and complex topics, agree or disagree with it, not virtue signalling or abandoning morality jme.bmj.com/content/earl...
December 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Because it’s UK journalism you have to dig down real deep to find the original article, but it’s an extended essay in BMJ’s Journal of Medical Ethics about a number of nuanced and complex topics, agree or disagree with it, not virtue signalling or abandoning morality jme.bmj.com/content/earl...
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Mumsnet, Christmas Day:
December 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Mumsnet, Christmas Day:
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the thing with glinner is that every single person who shares his beliefs is exactly the same level of dangerous creep as he is, the only difference is that he's that one extra step of broken-brained enough to not be subtle about it
legendary comedy writer graham linehan
( how does he not understand how absurdly creepy this is??? )
she's mentioned him ONCE in 5 years. she's not his friend.
( how does he not understand how absurdly creepy this is??? )
she's mentioned him ONCE in 5 years. she's not his friend.
![Graham Linehan @Glinner • 36m
Together at last! Can't believe she agreed to this photo but the card has been photoshopped.
[ an ai generated image of graham and jk rowling. they are both wearing hideous dresses and wigs. rowling is holding a card that reads: merry xmas! terfs smell of poo!' ]
Graham Linehan @Glinner • 22m
The card originally said "thank you fellow artist who lost everything for standing up for women". Don't know what i would have done without her support.
Happy Christmas @jk_rowling!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bcgtpezwhu5ynanpiezkmfim/bafkreihffh2gg6wo7iuy4bfhaw2w5tusbdeihqkgy7ptpauubvehhjjro4@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
the thing with glinner is that every single person who shares his beliefs is exactly the same level of dangerous creep as he is, the only difference is that he's that one extra step of broken-brained enough to not be subtle about it
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No, it's not me, it's my colleagues who are wrong.
“..Some graduate students organised a rival trans solidarity event, with a guest speaker critical of Stock, and 40 of her colleagues chose that event over her talk. She went off sick, unable to function.”🤣
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021...
Kathleen Stock: ‘On social media, the important thing is to show your tribe that you have the right morals’
The philosophy professor resigned from Sussex University after a year of protests over her views on gender and transgender rights
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
No, it's not me, it's my colleagues who are wrong.
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jesus.
you see the tags?
ardal is ardal o'hanlon.
bill bailiey is bill bailey and jimmy mulville is jimmy mulville obvs.
divine comedy wrote the music for 'father ted'( and the musical ).
he's tagged these ppl to go on a rant about trans ppl and now he's saying this:
you see the tags?
ardal is ardal o'hanlon.
bill bailiey is bill bailey and jimmy mulville is jimmy mulville obvs.
divine comedy wrote the music for 'father ted'( and the musical ).
he's tagged these ppl to go on a rant about trans ppl and now he's saying this:
He mentioned that this week. He is very bigheaded. He also has an ego problem.
December 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
jesus.
you see the tags?
ardal is ardal o'hanlon.
bill bailiey is bill bailey and jimmy mulville is jimmy mulville obvs.
divine comedy wrote the music for 'father ted'( and the musical ).
he's tagged these ppl to go on a rant about trans ppl and now he's saying this:
you see the tags?
ardal is ardal o'hanlon.
bill bailiey is bill bailey and jimmy mulville is jimmy mulville obvs.
divine comedy wrote the music for 'father ted'( and the musical ).
he's tagged these ppl to go on a rant about trans ppl and now he's saying this:
Die Hard 2 is a Christmas movie.
December 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Die Hard 2 is a Christmas movie.
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Emotionally Distant Family Spends Holidays Watching Touching Family Dramas Together https://theonion.com/emotionally-distant-family-spends-holidays-watching-tou-1819566264/
December 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Emotionally Distant Family Spends Holidays Watching Touching Family Dramas Together https://theonion.com/emotionally-distant-family-spends-holidays-watching-tou-1819566264/
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So the anger reflects the schism between the traditional and populist right, but also the incoherence of the populist right's attempt to harness 'anti-Establishment' grievance together with nostalgic grievance about the loss of the established order. 3/3
December 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
So the anger reflects the schism between the traditional and populist right, but also the incoherence of the populist right's attempt to harness 'anti-Establishment' grievance together with nostalgic grievance about the loss of the established order. 3/3
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just feeling more and more like it’s journalistic malpractice not to lead with the fact that the instructor in question is trans
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
just feeling more and more like it’s journalistic malpractice not to lead with the fact that the instructor in question is trans