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Abigail Thorn

@theabigailthorn.bsky.social

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Actress & Writer. Sharako Lohar in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON; Eurus in STAR WARS; Jess in DJANGO; Nocturne in BALDUR’S GATE 3; Hotspur in THE PRINCE; Belle in DRACULA’S EX-GIRLFRIEND. Philosophy Tube & @KillJamesBond ✨👑

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · Aug 29

The new episode of Philosophy Tube is about the founding of the USA, settler colonialism, and how Thomas Jefferson made excuses for it.

(You may notice some parallels to current events)

youtu.be/dBjQBa23cOw?...

Jefferson & the Indians: The Complex Truth

YouTube video by Philosophy Tube

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 1d

gonna be rereading this today

Miss Major speaks: conversations with a black trans revolutionary

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 1d

my barometer for this stuff is off though cause I have freakish superhuman reading ability. I realised in uni when I’d turn up to seminars like “What yeah I read all of them and the bonus texts, did you not?”

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 1d

… yeah okay there is also the misogyny

Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 1d

yeah in the last 2 years on PT I’ve gotten a lot more incidents of the form “Why did you say X?!” where X is something I never said, and in some cases I explicitly said ~X

Also a lot more people seemingly unable to understand implication or consider why I might have made certain creative choices

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Dave Wiskus @dwisk.us · 1d

TIL Nebula is bigger than The Free Press. If anyone wants to put me in charge of facts at a global media corporation hmu

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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 2d

have you also said nUn and sOs?

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 3d

last time they asked me onto a news program I said I’d do it if the entire panel was trans. They haven’t asked since then lol

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 3d

ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 3d

not so, more people know me from HOTD just cause non-online normies are the majority

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 3d

Katie, I am in the spinoff as a pansexual cannibal pirate queen

Abi as Sharako Lohar covered in mud and blood

Abi saying “I want you to fuck my wives” to Tyland Lannister

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 3d

some of the private equity firms who own big stakes in acting agencies are also heavily invested in fossil fuels, so it’s like

little domino: price of solar energy falls below $X per watt

big domino: your fave celeb needs a new agent

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 3d

I wish any British politician would say anything even half as good as this

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 4d

oh okay fuck me I guess lol

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 7d

Tickets are onsale for “Blink,” the show I’ll be in next year!

You can use code EARLYBIRD for £15 tickets before 31st October

kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/bli...

BLINK — By Phil Porter

A bittersweet rom-com for the digital age, starring Abigail Thorn

kingsheadtheatre.com

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Kill James Bond! @killjamesbond.bsky.social · 4d

BA DA BA DAAAAA

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 4d

‘Kill James Bond’ took to the red carpet last night at the ITV bCreator Awards, repped by me and my cohost Devon. The podcast we do with November Kelly has 8.5 million downloads and still going strong babyyy

Trans rights, free Palestine, and as always, Kill James Bond! 🔫✊

Devon and Abi on the red carpet serving Bond villain realness

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking more about this, the relationship of gender clinics to trans people has always been extractive. They make money and careers off the suffering they inflict on us.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Kill James Bond! @killjamesbond.bsky.social · 5d

here’s the notes app speech we would have given ✊

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Kill James Bond! @killjamesbond.bsky.social · 5d

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 5d

our podcast may have eaten shit at the awards ceremony but we had fun and 8.5 million fans can’t be wrong baybeee

Kill James Bond! @killjamesbond.bsky.social · 5d

👎

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 6d

Philosophy Tube pays for itself - just about. It doesn’t make much from ads (especially cause I turn midroll ads off), so we do depend on crowdfunding to keep it going. I hate asking people to sign up but please do it if you can, it’s like $5 a month, the price of a coffee ☕️

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 6d

Please sign up to the Philosophy Tube Patreon if you can. The show depends on crowdfunding; it goes towards paying the crew who work so hard on making it awesome 🙌

www.patreon.com/c/Philosophy...

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 6d

No but it does mean certain rules kick in about recommending products and disclosing sponsorships

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 6d

you can also turn off midrolls entirely, though not on livestreams which is annoying

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