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Emmeline May

@emmelinemay.bsky.social

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Living my middle aged queer mullet era Dog dad They/Them Thrice viral but not internet famous

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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

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.

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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 1d

Bookmaking! Thanks! Love your writing.

Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 1d

I learned at school that "double negatives" are generally considered poor grammar, and tend to be used either by bad writers or those who want to obfuscate meaning.

"Anti-antifa"? Just plain fascism.

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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 1d

Bezos be like "it could be good if the bubble bursts actually because I'm rich enough to lose the equivalent of an entire country's GDP and still be the one of the richest people alive and, bonus, i lose most of the competition"

Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 3d

I burst out laughing at the pelvic thrusts

Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 3d

Objects i wish had never been invented: the retractable dog leash

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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 11d

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 5d

PERFECTION

Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 5d

"transgender operations for everybody"

a woman in a red jacket is holding a microphone and screaming .

Alt: Opera Winfrey in a red jacket is holding a microphone and screaming .

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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, i wasn't thinking about it being a romance so much as in how different messages can be communicated from minutes to minutes (lol)

Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 5d

I absolutely love that idea.

I wonder if it would work in a This Is How You Lose The Time War sort of way, with tensions playing out with different minute takers/chairs

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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 5d

What does Tory Chocolate taste like?

I reckon it's probably tasteless, bitter and full of nuts

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 5d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 5d

Oh that sounds like a really interesting way to tell a story. I'd be interested too!

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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 9d

We must condemn *both* the genocide being perpetrated against Palestinians and violence perpetrated against Jewish people

Because fundamentally it's the same thing: innocent people being harmed or killed as a form of collective punishment for something they didn't do and have no control over

Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 9d

It is possible to feel of these things at the same time:
Devastated by the attack in Manchester & horrified by the extent of anti-Semitism in the UK

Horrified by war crimes being perpetrated by Israel on the Palestinian people smaller countries by their more powerful neighbours

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 10d

This woman is on fire in the EU parliament.

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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 11d

Pink News has form for this, unfortunately.

Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 14d

Ok there's only about 7 of them left, three of them are extremely angry women who are yelling mostly incoherently, covering topics such as how there are 70 thousand men inside who all want to molest our children & our Nans would be ashamed of us.

It's definitely coming to a natural end.

A couple of anti immigration protesters with their faces obscured by emoji. Behind a tomato is a young man with a union jack cape. Behind a doughnut is a young woman wearing a union jack tutu, a tote bag with "make England great again" on it and a t-shirt with "we ❤️ you Tommy" on it

Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 14d

One of the Napier residents is wearing a union jack t-shirt and a keffiyeh

Hashtag legend

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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 14d

The residents of Napier are chanting "thank you" to the counter protesters 🥺😭

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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 14d

Holding hands across the barrier

#NooneIsIllegal

A woman with long white hair holding a cardboard sign reading "you deserve safe home" clasping a hand on the other side of the high fence separating asylum seekers from the anti-racist protesters

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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 14d

I don't think so - haven't got too close to the front of the protest. The anti immigration side are recording everything, and live streaming from the look of it

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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 14d

The anti immigration protesters are currently holding up another professionally printed banner reading "save our children" while blasting Kaiser Chiefs' "I Predict A Riot" on a shitty speaker

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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 14d

More signs

Handwritten cardboard sign "refugees welcome"

St George flag with stickers on it reading "say it loud say it clear everyone is welcome here"

Handwritten cardboard sign "you will never hate immigrants more than you hate yourself".

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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 14d

Looks like some of the Napier residents have got hold of some drums and honestly they're a lot better at this than us, their chants are way more rhythmic & tuneful. It's a party.

Meanwhile the flaggers have pretended to leave to try get us to move away from the gate.

We're not moving.

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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 15d

One of the anti immigration protesters is shouting "you're probably not even British" at us.

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