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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 · 27d

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

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Leather Bar (White) | Everpress

Wear your history. Limited-edition tees funding the UK Fetish Archive, preserving leather, rubber, kink, BDSM & fetish heritage. These limited edition Leather Bar (White) garments are only available ...

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 27m

There is SO MUCH good erotic literature in the world. Why in the hell would you let some a half-ass computer program that’s spying on you guess-barf up a bunch of text, when you could read something that a real human person carefully crafted and put their love into.
They’ll even do custom stories!

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
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Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 59m

@marcorubio
"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me"; Matthew 25:35

@Roshan_Rinaldi
For I was hungry, and you voted against the school lunch program that provided me my only meal of the day, I was thirsty and you voted against clean water legislation, a stranger and you voted to lock me in a cage at an I.C.E. concentration camp at the border.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 1h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1h

Mainstream media orgs are incapable of covering the depravity of this administration because the truth sounds like bias. Impartiality doesn’t sound like impartiality when the reality is morally obscene

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 1h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 4h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 3h

Ha ha ha, my most senior adviser is a psychotic racist who isn't shy about it, isn't that a gas.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h

Trump: I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 12h

One thing I love to do when I identify a doom loop is do the exact things that cause the doom loop.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 15h

Politics latest: Reeves hints at tax rises and spending cuts to break out of Britain’s ‘doom loop’

Reeves hints at tax rises to break out of Britain’s ‘doom loop’: Latest

www.independent.co.uk

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

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DHS Says Social Media Will Be Screened for ‘Antisemitism’ as It Purges Pro-Palestine Immigrants
Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem says people shouldn't try to "hide behind the First Amendment."

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs
The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels.
By Matt Novak
Updated October 15, 2025

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 5h

Hope you all enjoyed the first two episodes of @bloodwork.show.

Here’s a nice long one in which I try to unpack one of the most challenging philosophical texts on the relation between politics, law and violence in under 90 minutes.

How did I do? I guess you’ll just have to listen and find out.

BLOOD WORK @bloodwork.show · 5h

BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 3

SLOUCHING TOWARDS A CRITIQUE OF VIOLENCE

NOW LIVE

Slouching Towards A Critique of Violence

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 1h

Gonna really skew my H Index....

Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 1h

I was six years old, Academia.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 14h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9h

"I have been reliably informed that the Wallet Inspector has almost completed his work and is prepared to announce his findings."

Rep Luna tweet:

My office just received word from the @RusEmbUSA
that the ambassador from Russia to the United States will be hand delivering the @GovernmentRF
’s findings on who assassinated JFK to my office.

This is a 350 page document.

We will be uploading these documents as soon as we receive them working with @jeffersonmorley
to ensure that the American people have direct access to them immediately.

It is important to note that Congress attempted to obtain these files in the 90’s and was denied. We have been given access to them now for the first time in history.

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 6h

Counterpoint: Your twenties are for craving shirts you can't afford, your thirties are for craving jackets you can't afford, and your forties are for craving shoes and luggage you can't afford.

Jane @fightingpride93.bsky.social · 7h

Your 20s are for lusting after clothes you can't afford and your 30s are for lusting after furniture you can't afford

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6h

it's striking to see genocidal and white supremacist speech cast in this story as a "loosening of political norms" and not the corrosion or destruction of anything

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 7h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 15h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 1d

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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onion person @junlper.beer · 18h

line goes up is a religion

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 16h

Gavin Williamson claimed education unions were “blockers” at the COVID enquiry yesterday.

We were trying to save lives.

Our member, Donna Coleman, died on his watch.

@drjogrady.bsky.social on Newsnight.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 17h

Have listened through ep. 3 of @bloodwork.show and @gotitatguineys.bsky.social has once again worked his wizardry and made me sound witty, intellectual, perhaps even charming, and most importantly coherent.

If you haven't already had a listen, get involved, because this next one's a banger.

An Introduction to Blood Work

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

“why do wokerati have to make everything about gender?”

Listen, my toddler’s preschool has different lines for girls and boys on the Wheels On The Bus, why the fuck are YOU making everything about gender

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