Bodie A. Ashton
@manwithoutatan.bsky.social
historian | pet shop boys fanatic | australian in germany | very bisexual | constantly podcasting | "oh, dr. bodie!" per jordan gray | they/them | latest book: “the pet shop boys and the political”
This is a strange thing to say but: I’m slowly getting my ability to watch things back. For a very long time now I’ve not been capable of it, not even things I know and love. It just seemed too much effort, too difficult, too hard to hold my attention.
I choose to see this positively.
I choose to see this positively.
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is a strange thing to say but: I’m slowly getting my ability to watch things back. For a very long time now I’ve not been capable of it, not even things I know and love. It just seemed too much effort, too difficult, too hard to hold my attention.
I choose to see this positively.
I choose to see this positively.
I’m not an American, so no Thanksgiving, but Christmas this year is going to be a challenge and I’m insistent on making it feel special. So the cats and I will be having roast goose one night and, once that runs out, I have plans for a kangaroo, red wine, and thyme pie.
it fascinates me how most everyone in the U.S. does turkey for Thanksgiving, but we are all over the map as to what we eat for Christmas (as is proper for a hugely diverse nation).
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I also use the bacon method. Although turkey is Christmas dinner where I come from.
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I’m not an American, so no Thanksgiving, but Christmas this year is going to be a challenge and I’m insistent on making it feel special. So the cats and I will be having roast goose one night and, once that runs out, I have plans for a kangaroo, red wine, and thyme pie.
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Live from San Francisco, it was MORAL PANIC BINGO NIGHT! For our 108th episode spectacular @moiradonegan.bsky.social and I were joined by Sarah Marshall and @mattxiv.bsky.social to talk reading, drag, Satan, nasties, windshields, masks, cops and much more! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Episode 108 -- Live from San Francisco, It's Moral Panic Bingo Night!
Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 11/25/2025 · 1h 41m
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November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Live from San Francisco, it was MORAL PANIC BINGO NIGHT! For our 108th episode spectacular @moiradonegan.bsky.social and I were joined by Sarah Marshall and @mattxiv.bsky.social to talk reading, drag, Satan, nasties, windshields, masks, cops and much more! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
We had our first snow last night and it’s still a novelty, and I had to remind myself I can’t call my parents to tell them about it. Then I nearly put the electric blanket on for Mia, only to remember that she isn’t here any more. If 2025 were a person I would hate them with every ounce of my being.
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We had our first snow last night and it’s still a novelty, and I had to remind myself I can’t call my parents to tell them about it. Then I nearly put the electric blanket on for Mia, only to remember that she isn’t here any more. If 2025 were a person I would hate them with every ounce of my being.
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Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
I cleaned out my fridge and I’m getting the robot vacuum cleaner to do his thing. This feels like an incredible achievement and maybe I can justify going to bed.
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I cleaned out my fridge and I’m getting the robot vacuum cleaner to do his thing. This feels like an incredible achievement and maybe I can justify going to bed.
Passion
Love
Sex
Money
Violence
Religion
Injustice
Death
Love
Sex
Money
Violence
Religion
Injustice
Death
November 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Passion
Love
Sex
Money
Violence
Religion
Injustice
Death
Love
Sex
Money
Violence
Religion
Injustice
Death
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When I look back upon my life
It's always with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame...
It's always with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame...
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
When I look back upon my life
It's always with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame...
It's always with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame...
Marvellous couple of days in beautiful Bamberg for BritCult! Congratulation to @susannegruss.bsky.social and all the organising team for a really great conference, and for reminding me that it was high time I (re)visited Oberfranken!
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Marvellous couple of days in beautiful Bamberg for BritCult! Congratulation to @susannegruss.bsky.social and all the organising team for a really great conference, and for reminding me that it was high time I (re)visited Oberfranken!
Preparing for my BritCult paper tomorrow by watching the cricket.
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Preparing for my BritCult paper tomorrow by watching the cricket.
I’m so happy that @notalawyer.bsky.social is losing his mind over how fucking terrible “Sapiens” is.
November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I’m so happy that @notalawyer.bsky.social is losing his mind over how fucking terrible “Sapiens” is.
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance; tomorrow and Saturday I'm at what promises to be a great queer conference in Bamberg, but today I think I'll be trying to wrangle sense into an article draft that looks at a trans sex worker, other sex workers of ambiguous gender identity, and a crime that wasn't.
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance; tomorrow and Saturday I'm at what promises to be a great queer conference in Bamberg, but today I think I'll be trying to wrangle sense into an article draft that looks at a trans sex worker, other sex workers of ambiguous gender identity, and a crime that wasn't.
Happy birthday, dad. 💜
November 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Happy birthday, dad. 💜
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If Link's dialogue isn't just "Hyup!", "Hyaaattt!", and "Heeuuunngh!", I'm smashing all the pots in the producer's house.
First look at the live-action ‘LEGEND OF ZELDA’ movie
In theaters on May 7, 2027
In theaters on May 7, 2027
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
If Link's dialogue isn't just "Hyup!", "Hyaaattt!", and "Heeuuunngh!", I'm smashing all the pots in the producer's house.
I wonder if the LMU presidium is capable of shame. Evidently not if this is any reflection.
The LMU announces the cancellation of a seminar on the topic "the targeting of Palestinian academia". The cancellation announcement is titled "LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse". Couldn't make this up.
www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...
www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...
LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse
Statement on the Planned Event “The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia” at LMU Munich
www.lmu.de
November 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I wonder if the LMU presidium is capable of shame. Evidently not if this is any reflection.
No photos, but it was my pleasure yesterday to introduce my friend and compatriot @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social and his research at the Global History colloquium of the FU Berlin. I keep saying “it’s nice to see Matt again” but I’m pretty sure at this point he thinks he’ll never get rid of me.
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
No photos, but it was my pleasure yesterday to introduce my friend and compatriot @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social and his research at the Global History colloquium of the FU Berlin. I keep saying “it’s nice to see Matt again” but I’m pretty sure at this point he thinks he’ll never get rid of me.
Gosh I love my historian pals. 💜
Historian pals: looking for some reading recommendations on post-1945 sex work in England and, particularly, London — both in terms of its actual conduct as well as campaigns against it, including by police. Particularly late 1950s-early 1960s!
November 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Gosh I love my historian pals. 💜
Historian pals: looking for some reading recommendations on post-1945 sex work in England and, particularly, London — both in terms of its actual conduct as well as campaigns against it, including by police. Particularly late 1950s-early 1960s!
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Historian pals: looking for some reading recommendations on post-1945 sex work in England and, particularly, London — both in terms of its actual conduct as well as campaigns against it, including by police. Particularly late 1950s-early 1960s!
There is literally no justification for the existence of the Labour Party at this point.
November 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
There is literally no justification for the existence of the Labour Party at this point.
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For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
I cough-laughed hard enough to scare the cat and get scratches, but it was worth it.
Get this and other unsustainably specific references at the newly-relaunched opiumtea.com.
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I cough-laughed hard enough to scare the cat and get scratches, but it was worth it.
We do not need yet more post facto diagnoses of Adolf Hitler. Such things have been happening since the 1940s and historians — real ones, not the ones who write Father’s Day pulp — put no stock in them, because as explanatory devices they tell us, in the technical jargon of my discipline, fuck all.
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
We do not need yet more post facto diagnoses of Adolf Hitler. Such things have been happening since the 1940s and historians — real ones, not the ones who write Father’s Day pulp — put no stock in them, because as explanatory devices they tell us, in the technical jargon of my discipline, fuck all.
All this is bad enough but I'm honestly seething at the cover designs of all of them, which make Auschwitz seem like a Very Dreamy Place, a romanticised fantasy land.
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
All this is bad enough but I'm honestly seething at the cover designs of all of them, which make Auschwitz seem like a Very Dreamy Place, a romanticised fantasy land.
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
Ah yes, 11 November: the day where Everything Happens in Australian history.
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Ah yes, 11 November: the day where Everything Happens in Australian history.