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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her)

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Temporarily Embarrassed Communist. Neilly from the YouTube channel The Leftist Cooks Watch us here: https://youtube.com/@theleftistcooks Follow Sarah: @saribo.bsky.social Sometimes I write, video edit or compose music for other channels #speirgorm

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 22d

youtu.be/-n6VvpcdiC4?...

I just realised I had not pinned our new video - an essay about the very concept of Irishness and historical identity.

Are Americans Irish?

YouTube video by The Leftist Cooks

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 44m

I love how this smear campaign is consistently hobbled by people not realising how absolutely hated they are.

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 44m

More free advertising for Catherine Connolly.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 3h

Brian Leddin: Why I resigned from the Green Party over its decision to back Catherine Connolly

Party’s decision to support Connolly’s presidential campaign only deepened my concerns about its current direction

www.irishtimes.com

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 16h

Did you know that the character that would become Super Mario was originally supposed to be from Belgium?

His name was Walloonuigi.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 20h

Seriously, Polanski is a legend.

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 20h

I am in favour of boob hypnosis. I can't vote in the UK election but Zack Polanski will still get my vote, and he's going to get it via boob hypnosis.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 20h

Goddamn it

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 1d

Ireland has a population of 5m and we've a waiting list approaching 15 years. Why? Because their mandatory, archaic and traumatic psychiatric and psychological assessments are a deliberate bottleneck to ensure as few people as possible can access healthcare a nurse can do!

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1d

Sarah and I will be joining in about an hour.

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1d

Hey everyone! Did you know that a load of YouTube personalities are getting together for a 12 hour stream over on Twitch to raise funds for Lola Sebastian? Playing Jackbox games and having the craic. And it's such a good bunch of creators. The details are all in Lola's thread.

Lola Sebastian @lola.nebula.tv · 1d

Your favorite YouTubers and i will be live streaming a Jackbox party TODAY from Noon to Midnight PST on twitch !!!

www.twitch.tv/lolasebastian

tilt.fyi/47cU7asAYd

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Lola Sebastian @lola.nebula.tv · 1d

Your favorite YouTubers and i will be live streaming a Jackbox party TODAY from Noon to Midnight PST on twitch !!!

www.twitch.tv/lolasebastian

tilt.fyi/47cU7asAYd

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1d

But you hate all women? Why would anyone value even a whiff of your half-farted opinion?

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1d

They're The Biological Women because they each possess a different animal part.

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 2d

Catherine Connolly is a striking example of a near-universal truth in Irish politics: the left wing candidate is almost always far more likeable, on a personal level, than the centre and right alternatives.
The electoral history of this state is even more baffling when you notice this.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 2d

It is an entirely innocent work. All else is the work of our corrupted projections.

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry to Sibéal Pounder for this silly joke. My baby happened to pull this book off the shelf in the library and I'm sure it's a wholesome riot for the intended audience.

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 2d

This would be a pretty accurate name for the horny queers that follow me on Bluesky.

A book cover in rich pink, featuring a cartoonishly rendered young woman and a group of unicorns. The title is "Neon and the Goonicorns"
The text is spilling over a little with green goo.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 2d

Dafuq?

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 2d

It's a good commemoration of him and his strange ways.

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 3d

Catherine Connolly in this campaign

Johnny Carson on the Simpsons, spinning a car over his head as part of a running gag where he is a man of infinite talents

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 3d

So she wasn't afraid before she just thought trans people were yucky?

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 3d

I spent a long time intimately aware of the challenges of existing as a non-binary person. NBs will always be my people. They're not 2-dimensional and you're not Poirot.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 3d

Speculation on anyone's trans journey - as common as this practice is - is often unwise, and maybe even a little offensive. Whether you're fascinated with someone because you love them or you hate them, theorising based on "clues" about such a vulnerable personal thing is icky.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not a fictional character and these aren't Easter Eggs. The way that non-binary folk choose to present is not, ipso facto, indicative of a journey towards some other trans identity. It can ebb and flow as much as feels right to them, or based on whatever compromises they have to make.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 3d

The decisions I made this year, to start hormones, and switch pronouns, and identify as a woman, were all taken separately and quite knowingly, based on a million billion things. Not least of which: my decade of living as a non-binary person, and my immersion in the trans community.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 3d

The first thing we posted on the channel is this music video for RTE Vaporwave, which centres on and celebrates that femme non-binary presentation. I literally "transition" over the course of the video. In 2021.

youtu.be/ggCw6r1WVuI?...

RTE v a p o r w a v e

YouTube video by The Leftist Cooks

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