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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈

@mattbaume.bsky.social

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Writer, YouTuber, small mammal. I tell fun stories about pop culture history. He/him. > Videos: youtube.com/mattbaume > Bonus videos: patreon.com/mattbaume > Book: gaysitcoms.com > Podcast: sewersofparis.com > Hedgehog: 🦔

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 2h

This is so computer-generated it has the word "PROMPT" written in multiple places throughout the scene

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 19h

Sorry WHAT was that name again

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Around a quarter of the Link's advertisements were placed by men seeking other men - for instance, a "tall, manly Hercules" - said Harry Cocks, who documents the case in his forthcoming book, Imagining Sex Before the 60s: Britain, 1900-1960. "Some adverts even appeared in the national press, such as the Daily Express, although they were not quite so blatant. People would ask for 'chums' of their own sex and offer to take people on holiday," added Dr Cocks, a history lecturer at Birkbeck College, south London.

One man responding to an advert in the Link wrote that he was "very fond of artistic surroundings, beautiful colours in furniture and curtains, and softly shaded lamps and all those beautiful things which appeal to the refined tastes of an artistic mind". He added: "All my love is for my own sex", and wrote that he longed to give his love "in the most intimate way".

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Lisa Pelayre➡️🐴👧 @priello.bsky.social · 1d

Just finished 'Hi Honey, I'm Homo!' by the amazing @mattbaume.bsky.social. As a huge fan of his YouTube channel, this felt like the perfect extension of his work and, honestly, was the exact book I needed to read right now.

Book cover with an illustrated old fashioned television set against a purple background. Text reads:
Hi honey, I'm homo!
Sitcoms, specials, and the queering of American Culture
Matt Baume

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

The Bruce Harrell think tank:

a brain in a jar labelled "do not use this brain! ABNORMAL"

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a longer clip with more context, which incredibly makes the whole thing even MORE deranged. I've been in the room with this guy once or twice and this really is how he talks

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

This was the first thing I thought of! He even did the McRib joke with "what did you have for breakfast"

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

This seems fake but it's completely real: Audio of Seattle's current Mayor dreaming of a giant computer-simulated Martin Luther King, something the King family has explicitly asked people not to do.
Big thanks to Erica Barnett for being the only reporter in town covering these events so closely!

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

So how did the voice of Disney's Prince Charming wind up in a not-very-secret affair with the bisexual husband of The Bride of Frankenstein? I've stumbled across some very fun old-Hollywood gossip for this week's Patreon bonus video! Watch now at patreon.com/mattbaume

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

It should be, but that's not how the city sees it! Here's the response I got when I asked for help keeping keeping cars off paved planting strips, either with barriers or by removing the paving.

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for posting this. Would you mind if I snipped out the AI excerpt and posted a captioned video version (with credit to you & Publicola of course)?

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wait — here we go. I don’t know why I thought the Port was doing this work! env.blob.core.windows.net/elliott-bay-...

env.blob.core.windows.net

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like red maple, not a native species. Shallow roots are bad for pavement and not especially drought tolerant. I don’t see anything on the project page about the replacements but the Port is usually pretty good about converting old plantings to more locally appropriate species.

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 2d

For today's livesteam: Horror gays of the 1800s and silent era! We're looking at early queer horror, from chaotic vampire twinks to the first Frankenstein on film. Going live now. twitch.tv/mattbaume

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 2d

The only public works project Bruce Harrell has successfully executed is digging an endless series of basements into which the bar for expectations can be continually lowered

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 2d

Seattle's dreadful mayor just suggested we make a computer-generated Dr. Martin Luther King, and of any question he could ask it, THIS was the first thing that came to mind:

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

"And you could say, Well, Dr. Martin Luther King, I've always wanted to meet you. What was your day like today? What did you have for breakfast? And he comes back and he talks to you. How cool would that be if we have a series of historical figures that we all could agree on, that we respect?"

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 3d

For today's livestream, we're watching highlights from 1998's GODS AND MONSTERS -- a fictional imagining of the life of FRANKENSTEIN director James Whale. Going live now! twitch.tv/mattbaume

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 3d

Haha ohhh that suite was quite adorned yes

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 3d

I find this one of the most relaxing pieces of film ever made

Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 5d

Jaques Tati - Mon Oncle (The house)

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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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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 4d

I'm on another obscure-media hunt! Do you know where I can get a nice copy of The Road Back from 1937 (or the 1939 reissue, or the 4K reconstruction from 2016)? There's a very blurry version on YouTube but SURELY someone has a cleaner version they can slip me!

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 4d

There is a FASCINATING new video from @thesamantharei.bsky.social about how media like Hunger Games and Handmaid's Tale use clothing to illustrate creeping fascism. (And, spoiler, it's not just fictional fascists who use clothing to control people.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwJV...

Clothing as Control in The Handmaid's Tale and The Hunger Games - Dressed to be Oppressed

YouTube video by Cinemattire by Samantha Rei

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 5d

This week's Sewers of Paris gets a little spooky. Listen & subscribe IF YOU DARE at SewersOfParis.com

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 5d

It's honestly impressive how Harrell and his people keep finding ways to alienate queer people

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 6d

Oh I haven't, gotta track that down!

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DozingUnicorn 🔜 LVFC @dozingunicorn.bsky.social · 6d

If you're not already following @mattbaume.bsky.social's work, you should

youtu.be/m9OswGSHgwM?...

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