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Dr Matt Lodder

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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 · 20d

A selection of awesome shirts featuring leather and kink images from the archive!

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 19h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 1h

Nate!

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15h

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 15h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Rob (Argh!) @mrpostsgood.bsky.social · 21h

Imagine living like this

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 1d

LOL

so #nintendo is stealthily shoving the trans political agenda and nobody has noticed it?

video without context with trans flag colors everywhere from nintendo america

you people better sart noticing patterns
just like netflix

carbon monoxide leak

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 21h

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 1d

True at some institutions, definitely - not mine though! My students are adorable queer weirdos, mainly, in the best possible way. Basically none of the stereotypical traits!

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 1d

kinda crazy how every single “just give people enough money to afford some basic stuff” experiments yield the exact same positive results that everyone benefits from every time, huh

Anyway, back to toiling

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 1d

I would like to skip to the post-having-a-book-out stage where I don't have minor brain meltdowns when I spot something I could have worded a bit better, please and thankyou

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 1d

It's law students in this case and I don't think it's money or exercise, really. Just sheer weight of numbers!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

Oscar Issac looking at some kind of electronic tablet.

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 1d

Or... oooh... there's a Mafex Legends-scale version due next year... 🤔

Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 1d

(super-nerd post but...) there's *finally* a Legends-scale standalone comics Iceman figure coming?! I can finally reunite the Amazing Friends on my office bookshelf without having to buy that stupid boxed set?!

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Creature from the Jack Lagoon @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social · 1d

"The public are open to it"

Are they, aye?

Screenshot from the UK government petitions website: Petition
Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

More details
Sign this petition
2,833,565 signatures

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 2d

Not reassuring that in the replies to a post about how people might use always recording glasses is this comment saying that a core use case is (presumably non-consensually) recording conversations to use as evidence in later arguments, a Richard Nixon tier anti social practice

My wife has been recording her conversations for a while now. She's used to not being believed when someone lies about her. The prospect of not having to remember to hit record is a big selling point on those glasses

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 1d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 2d

The Sun corrects Katie Lam's numerous errors and lies about foreign nationals claiming benefits.

archive.ph/vQ7Tn

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

looking up the types of residence cards you can get in France for a piece and HONKING at this part of the drop-down list, from the official government website (!!) www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

An accountant sent me tax returns…as a video. Fourteen minutes.

It was at that moment that I decided to go full prepper off-grid. I cannot live like this.

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 1d

These were law students so it's definitely not confined to CS, or even one gender!

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Sukh Singh @sukhsingh.bsky.social · 2d

She knows her days are numbered as the Tory leader; she wants to grift on the US hate circuit which is highly lucrative right now…!! Another useful idiot to add to their list of idiots!

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