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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 1d

VisionQuest spoilers on main 🫩

Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 1d

Dianne Keaton 😭 I watch The Family Stone every Christmas and she's the heart of it

Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 1d

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR THIS!!! I'M ABSOLUTELY LOVING THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 1d

I love him so!

Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 1d

Lips is one of the newest oldest Muppets. Just the sight of him fills me with so much joy and sadness. He's kinda deep, and he doesn't speak much, and he's beautiful in that Muppet design way. #themuppets70 Peter Linz performs him in the most incredible way

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 1d

"Laura described the blocker ban as ‘forced detransition’ and ‘inhumane’. The impact of the ban on her child has been severe."

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

MP fails to support suicidal constituent

A mother pleaded with her MP to help her suicidal15-year-old daughter who said she ‘wanted to take her own life’

northwestbylines.co.uk

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 1d

Star Trek Next Gen update: Troi and Beverly are fighting in this episode and I don't like it 😭

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2d

Fascinated by the fact that her sense of sex and gender took direct inspiration from contemporary scholarship on Hijra and Native American practices of her time.

Global trans solidarity really has been a thing for ages.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2d

I always knew my inability to whistle had to mean something....

ing school, generally all by myself. I spent a large part of my time in the house singing, but have never been able to learn to whistle. Inability to whistle is a general char- acteristic of passive inverts. I learned to sew and
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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 1d

#queerhistory

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2d

Alright I need a short story break before I dive back into another gargantuan anthology, so let's read one of the oldest transfemme books I'm aware of!

Autobiography of an Androgyne is one of the earliest "trans memoirs," published a solid 15 years before the commonly cited 'first' trans memoir.

Autobiography of an Androgyne by Jennie June

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 3d

All this!

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 3d

Among the reasons I absolutely loathe genAI is the fact it devalues and undermines skills like learning how to research, fact check, and communicate. It’s like answering a question with a print out of search engine results, taking it as truth because the computer said so.

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 3d

My only thoughts are that I am unsurprised and fully expect things to continue getting worse until there is some fundamental break--the Trump regime isn't popular. GOP politics and beliefs aren't popular, but the U.S. system gives them a baked-in advantage. Something has to give eventually

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 3d

That bit in Cancelled (Taylor) where it sounds life the opening of Cats is everything to me

Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 3d

Booked my next talk on LGBT+ History! Details to follow

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 3d

!!! I need this outfit

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 3d

Cute!!!

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 3d

Wooaahhhh!!!

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chrissmigliano.bsky.social @chrissmigliano.bsky.social · 7d

#TheMuppets70

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 3d

The spookiest Muppet of them all! It's Uncle Deadly! #themuppets70 Folks who know the Muppet fanfiction community will know he came back in a big way online before he returned to the Movies. He's been wonderfully recast as Matt Vogel and is an all time favourite for so many of us. Long live Deadly

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Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · 4d

Happy International Lesbian Day! ☀️☀️☀️

Lesbian marching with a sign that says a day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 5d

Uugch, I feel you

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