Mat
@mathawthorn.bsky.social
Artist-Trans Nonbinary-They/them
Artist at Hawthorn Crafts
50something GenXer over 18s only occasional NSFW posts
Artist at Hawthorn Crafts
50something GenXer over 18s only occasional NSFW posts
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Mat
@mathawthorn.bsky.social
· Nov 27
www.etsy.com
Hi, I’m Mat, a non binary and transgender artist living in the UK.
I mostly paint/draw fantasy and pagan flavoured art. I’m married to my amazing Ali and we have a business together selling my stuff online:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Hawt...
I mostly paint/draw fantasy and pagan flavoured art. I’m married to my amazing Ali and we have a business together selling my stuff online:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Hawt...
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When oh when are the British people
going to receive an apology
from Nigel Farage and the other UKIP liars!
going to receive an apology
from Nigel Farage and the other UKIP liars!
December 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
When oh when are the British people
going to receive an apology
from Nigel Farage and the other UKIP liars!
going to receive an apology
from Nigel Farage and the other UKIP liars!
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The legal challenge to the NHS’s clinical trial of puberty blockers is funded by a pressure group backed by Russian oligarchs and linked to the far right. goodlaw.social/1jop
From Russia to the far right: the shadowy forces challenging the NHS puberty blockers trial | Good Law Project
CitizenGO is backed by Russian oligarchs and linked to the far right. Good Law Project’s undercover investigation shows that it’s ramping up its work in the UK.
goodlaw.social
December 17, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The legal challenge to the NHS’s clinical trial of puberty blockers is funded by a pressure group backed by Russian oligarchs and linked to the far right. goodlaw.social/1jop
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A SMALL VICTORY IN OHIO
Trans politician Amy Heutmaker ran for office in a conservative community in a conservative state, and won.
All she did was get people to listen to her.
www.reddit.com/r/MI_transge...
Trans politician Amy Heutmaker ran for office in a conservative community in a conservative state, and won.
All she did was get people to listen to her.
www.reddit.com/r/MI_transge...
December 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A SMALL VICTORY IN OHIO
Trans politician Amy Heutmaker ran for office in a conservative community in a conservative state, and won.
All she did was get people to listen to her.
www.reddit.com/r/MI_transge...
Trans politician Amy Heutmaker ran for office in a conservative community in a conservative state, and won.
All she did was get people to listen to her.
www.reddit.com/r/MI_transge...
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Iran and the human rights battle: why has the world reacted again?
UN meeting highlights record numbers of executions and human rights violations in Iran while Europe remains largely silent
By Dr Ela Zabihi
UN meeting highlights record numbers of executions and human rights violations in Iran while Europe remains largely silent
By Dr Ela Zabihi
Iran and the human rights battle: why has the world reacted again?
UN meeting highlights record numbers of executions and human rights violations in Iran while Europe remains largely silent
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Iran and the human rights battle: why has the world reacted again?
UN meeting highlights record numbers of executions and human rights violations in Iran while Europe remains largely silent
By Dr Ela Zabihi
UN meeting highlights record numbers of executions and human rights violations in Iran while Europe remains largely silent
By Dr Ela Zabihi
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“media literacy shouldn’t just be a side topic but treated as civic infrastructure”.
The teaching of it a type of “psychological inoculation”.
In Finland journalists impart this wisdom.
Can’t see this working in the UK when so much of our media relies on its ability to misinform ignorant people.
The teaching of it a type of “psychological inoculation”.
In Finland journalists impart this wisdom.
Can’t see this working in the UK when so much of our media relies on its ability to misinform ignorant people.
Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it
Teaching when to trust
As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge
newhumanist.org.uk
December 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
“media literacy shouldn’t just be a side topic but treated as civic infrastructure”.
The teaching of it a type of “psychological inoculation”.
In Finland journalists impart this wisdom.
Can’t see this working in the UK when so much of our media relies on its ability to misinform ignorant people.
The teaching of it a type of “psychological inoculation”.
In Finland journalists impart this wisdom.
Can’t see this working in the UK when so much of our media relies on its ability to misinform ignorant people.
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I was thinking of one journalist in particular when I gave this quote, but there are actually a few in Los Angeles who've gotten very good at this unfortunate skill.
Hats off to all of them. Support your local journalists.
Hats off to all of them. Support your local journalists.
December 17, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I was thinking of one journalist in particular when I gave this quote, but there are actually a few in Los Angeles who've gotten very good at this unfortunate skill.
Hats off to all of them. Support your local journalists.
Hats off to all of them. Support your local journalists.
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The joke here is we're endlessly told that children are being forced into gender transition against their best interests. When a child is so determined that they find a way to access DIY, it becomes a lot harder to suggest they're being "forced".
Hannah Barnes wearing a hot dog suit "we're all trying to find the person that did this."
December 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The joke here is we're endlessly told that children are being forced into gender transition against their best interests. When a child is so determined that they find a way to access DIY, it becomes a lot harder to suggest they're being "forced".
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MIT professor, Nuno Loureiro was shot and killed in his Brookline home. He was the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and a professor of nuclear science and engineering and physics.
boston.com/news/crime/2...
boston.com/news/crime/2...
MIT professor shot and killed in his Brookline home
An MIT professor was shot and killed in his Brookline home on Monday night.
boston.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
MIT professor, Nuno Loureiro was shot and killed in his Brookline home. He was the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and a professor of nuclear science and engineering and physics.
boston.com/news/crime/2...
boston.com/news/crime/2...
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Welp. That's me not buying the new Divinity game then.
NEW: I spoke to Larian boss Swen Vincke about their ambitions for their new RPG Divinity, cutting down development time, pressures from Baldur's Gate 3, why BG3 wouldn't have happened without Tencent, how Larian uses generative AI, and much more www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’
‘I think this one is going to be way better’ than ‘Baldur’s Gate 3,’ Larian CEO Vincke says
www.bloomberg.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Welp. That's me not buying the new Divinity game then.
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Timeline cleanse.
Koala rescued from Brisbane city bus after death-defying dash across busy Camp Hill street
An adventurous koala named Peri ended up on a Brisbane city bus after crossing a busy suburban road.
Now resting at the closest bushland to where it was found in Camp Hill.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
An adventurous koala named Peri ended up on a Brisbane city bus after crossing a busy suburban road.
Now resting at the closest bushland to where it was found in Camp Hill.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Koala catches a ride on Brisbane bus after dash across busy suburban street
A rescue groups says the quick-thinking of a Brisbane bus driver could have saved the koala — named Peri — from being hit by traffic on a busy road.
www.abc.net.au
December 16, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Timeline cleanse.
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📢 One of our NION Women collective responds to the exclusion of trans women from Labour's Women’s Conference.
Read our latest blog: notinourname.org.uk/trans-women-excluded-labour-womens-conference/
Read our latest blog: notinourname.org.uk/trans-women-excluded-labour-womens-conference/
December 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
📢 One of our NION Women collective responds to the exclusion of trans women from Labour's Women’s Conference.
Read our latest blog: notinourname.org.uk/trans-women-excluded-labour-womens-conference/
Read our latest blog: notinourname.org.uk/trans-women-excluded-labour-womens-conference/
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I think Trump really underestimated how many of his followers’ favorite movie is The Princess Bride.
December 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I think Trump really underestimated how many of his followers’ favorite movie is The Princess Bride.
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It’s hard to keep up, but this story by @transvestigations.bsky.social in @erininthemorning.com deserves our attention.
It highlights the depravity the anti-trans hate movement is built on.
It highlights the depravity the anti-trans hate movement is built on.
“Alberta Lawmakers Pass Law to Restrict Trans Youths’ “Right to Life”—For Now”, by @transvestigations.bsky.social
(Also I believe that this is the first time I’ve been referred to by a journalist as a journalist!)
substack.com/home/post/p-...
(Also I believe that this is the first time I’ve been referred to by a journalist as a journalist!)
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Alberta Lawmakers Pass Law to Restrict Trans Youths’ “Right to Life”—For Now
Using an emergency measure that won’t expire until 2030, the Alberta legislature gutted avenues of legal opposition to its anti-trans laws.
substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
It’s hard to keep up, but this story by @transvestigations.bsky.social in @erininthemorning.com deserves our attention.
It highlights the depravity the anti-trans hate movement is built on.
It highlights the depravity the anti-trans hate movement is built on.
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The comorbidity of neo-Nazism and transphobia isn't just a kind of "one bad belief leads to all bad beliefs". At its core, it's the same belief: belief in a rigid societal order where your station at birth determines your future, your role, and how you must labor.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
Today, I examine how the boundaries of the Nation are co-constituted by race, disability, and sexuality, but also---notably---gender and control over reproduction.
And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...
And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...
December 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The comorbidity of neo-Nazism and transphobia isn't just a kind of "one bad belief leads to all bad beliefs". At its core, it's the same belief: belief in a rigid societal order where your station at birth determines your future, your role, and how you must labor.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
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If you’d like to read the actual 33-page defamation lawsuit Donald Trump has filed “for damages not less than $5,000,000,000”, then here it is:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Complaint – #1 in TRUMP v. BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (S.D. Fla., 1:25-cv-25894) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against BBC STUDIOS DISTRIBUTION LIMITED, BBC STUDIOS PRODUCTIONS LIMITED, BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION. Filing fees $ 405.00 receipt number AFLSDC-19044737, filed by DONALD J. TRUMP. (A...
storage.courtlistener.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
If you’d like to read the actual 33-page defamation lawsuit Donald Trump has filed “for damages not less than $5,000,000,000”, then here it is:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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"..the hundreds of corporate lobbyists who are Labour MPs."
It's the first time I've seen the truth about this government stated so plainly.
It's over now for blue Labour.
And we are now on course for a 2029 contest between the Greens and a Limited Company led by an outed Russian asset. Bring it on.
It's the first time I've seen the truth about this government stated so plainly.
It's over now for blue Labour.
And we are now on course for a 2029 contest between the Greens and a Limited Company led by an outed Russian asset. Bring it on.
People have had enough of Labour.
They can change leader but the problem is the hundreds of corporate lobbyists who are Labour MPs.
More and more people joining the Green Party every day!
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
They can change leader but the problem is the hundreds of corporate lobbyists who are Labour MPs.
More and more people joining the Green Party every day!
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
UK politics: Polanski claims Green support surging in London as five Labour councillors defect in Brent – as it happened
Party leader says Labour ‘has abandoned any sense of progressive politics’
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
"..the hundreds of corporate lobbyists who are Labour MPs."
It's the first time I've seen the truth about this government stated so plainly.
It's over now for blue Labour.
And we are now on course for a 2029 contest between the Greens and a Limited Company led by an outed Russian asset. Bring it on.
It's the first time I've seen the truth about this government stated so plainly.
It's over now for blue Labour.
And we are now on course for a 2029 contest between the Greens and a Limited Company led by an outed Russian asset. Bring it on.
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Seeing TERFs claiming that you never see TRAs infiltrating and confronting Nazis but instead they harass TERFs.
Which is wild because I know several trans women within a 5 mile area who've been physically injured standing in the way of Nazis (in the last year alone, thanks to the uptick in fascism)
Which is wild because I know several trans women within a 5 mile area who've been physically injured standing in the way of Nazis (in the last year alone, thanks to the uptick in fascism)
December 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Seeing TERFs claiming that you never see TRAs infiltrating and confronting Nazis but instead they harass TERFs.
Which is wild because I know several trans women within a 5 mile area who've been physically injured standing in the way of Nazis (in the last year alone, thanks to the uptick in fascism)
Which is wild because I know several trans women within a 5 mile area who've been physically injured standing in the way of Nazis (in the last year alone, thanks to the uptick in fascism)
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Trans people were injured standing in the way of fascists in South London not long ago.
transsafety.network/posts/far-ri...
transsafety.network/posts/far-ri...
Exclusive: The Truth About the Far Right Attack on Honor Oak
Our reporter outlines how the far right violently attacked members of the Lewisham community who had gathered to protect children attending a Drag Queen Story Hour event in Honor Oak Pub.
transsafety.network
December 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Trans people were injured standing in the way of fascists in South London not long ago.
transsafety.network/posts/far-ri...
transsafety.network/posts/far-ri...
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Leave Fortnitr. Punish them for the choice of working with JKRowling. Make them change thier minds. Make them realize it will harm them to not cancel the deal asap.
Uninstall
Even if you "don't use the skin" or "will kill anyone using the skin on sight", playing the game is allowing kickback to JK Rowling in one way or another
Make this licensing deal wholly not worth it
I know it sucks to give up a game you like to play but if enough ppl do it,
Even if you "don't use the skin" or "will kill anyone using the skin on sight", playing the game is allowing kickback to JK Rowling in one way or another
Make this licensing deal wholly not worth it
I know it sucks to give up a game you like to play but if enough ppl do it,
🪄✨ BREAKING: #FortniteWinterfest 2025 Harry Potter crossover CONFIRMED!
Stay tune for more updates at tinyurl.com/56y9bxe4
Patch 39.11 December 18
#Fortnite #HarryPotter #FortniteSkin #WinterfestEvent
#FortniteCrossover #GamingTrends #HarryPotterFortnite #Baskingamer
Stay tune for more updates at tinyurl.com/56y9bxe4
Patch 39.11 December 18
#Fortnite #HarryPotter #FortniteSkin #WinterfestEvent
#FortniteCrossover #GamingTrends #HarryPotterFortnite #Baskingamer
December 16, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Leave Fortnitr. Punish them for the choice of working with JKRowling. Make them change thier minds. Make them realize it will harm them to not cancel the deal asap.
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I find this deeply alarming -- Grok is giving stalkers extremely detailed information about how to locate targets, install spyware on their devices, leverage revenge porn against them, and way more ultra-creepy advice
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Grok Provides Extremely Detailed and Creepy Instructions for Stalking
Grok provided us with detailed stalking manuals and gave us Google Maps links to hotels where it said we could "surprise" a real celebrity.
futurism.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I find this deeply alarming -- Grok is giving stalkers extremely detailed information about how to locate targets, install spyware on their devices, leverage revenge porn against them, and way more ultra-creepy advice
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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People who don't understand trans people will ask how is this transphobic?
It's mocking the existence of trans people. Trans men don't identify as men for fun. They are men. These kind of lazy jokes suggest that being trans is a choice, a trend. You wouldn't say "i indentify as gay". You just are!
It's mocking the existence of trans people. Trans men don't identify as men for fun. They are men. These kind of lazy jokes suggest that being trans is a choice, a trend. You wouldn't say "i indentify as gay". You just are!
Transphobic Christmas card in my local Sainsbury's (Berryden).
Please do better Sainsbury's.
Please do better Sainsbury's.
December 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
People who don't understand trans people will ask how is this transphobic?
It's mocking the existence of trans people. Trans men don't identify as men for fun. They are men. These kind of lazy jokes suggest that being trans is a choice, a trend. You wouldn't say "i indentify as gay". You just are!
It's mocking the existence of trans people. Trans men don't identify as men for fun. They are men. These kind of lazy jokes suggest that being trans is a choice, a trend. You wouldn't say "i indentify as gay". You just are!
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Once again, there is NO WAY TO MEET THIS REQUIREMENT.
Doing just half of these requires distributing highly encrypted hash signatures that would need to be decrypted and ensconced in a secure enclave silicon at regular intervals, which would only match Known CSAM. There is no tech that confidently
Doing just half of these requires distributing highly encrypted hash signatures that would need to be decrypted and ensconced in a secure enclave silicon at regular intervals, which would only match Known CSAM. There is no tech that confidently
There is a Lords amendment that requires all phones to have unremovable spyware pre-installed, supposedly to combat CSAM. It is unsurprising that one of its sponsors is the weirdo Hilary Cass.
December 16, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Once again, there is NO WAY TO MEET THIS REQUIREMENT.
Doing just half of these requires distributing highly encrypted hash signatures that would need to be decrypted and ensconced in a secure enclave silicon at regular intervals, which would only match Known CSAM. There is no tech that confidently
Doing just half of these requires distributing highly encrypted hash signatures that would need to be decrypted and ensconced in a secure enclave silicon at regular intervals, which would only match Known CSAM. There is no tech that confidently