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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 1d

See also Miss Piggy and Linda Cardellini

Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 1d

Fozzie interviewing Seth Rogan while interrupted by the evil baby Muppets is hilarious. It's almost a pity all these great bits were combined into the disliked Muppets Now instead of being YouTube shorts cos I think they would have been received better

Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thinking about rewatching some of the Scream movies

Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 1d

Fozzie interviewing Seth Rogan while interrupted by the evil baby Muppets is hilarious. It's almost a pity all these great bits were combined into the disliked Muppets Now instead of being YouTube shorts cos I think they would have been received better

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

Trans people have been warning about these people for *years*

Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 2d

This is a huge story but massively under the radar in the UK.

A US Christian legal org called the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is working to roll back abortion rights here using the same playbook it used in the US: briefing politicians, watching, waiting.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2d

Alex Jones keeps losing www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Alex Jones keeps losing

Conspiracy theorist and Trump superfan Alex Jones suffered another setback on Tuesday after the conservative-majority Supreme Court denied his appeal of ...

www.dailykos.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Join us in being cheerful!

Let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 2d

"You need to be unapologetic, someone who gets the modern media environment and social media, and is a competent speaker - all of which Polanski is."

Why Zack Polanski is one of the only UK politicians with a reason to be cheerful right now

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...

Zack Polanski: Can the Green Party leader ‘rebalance the scales’ of UK politics? | The News Agents

In little more than a month of leadership, Zack Polanski has grown the party’s membership and become a powerful figure on the left-wing of UK politics. Can he, and the Green Party, take this further…

www.thenewsagents.co.uk

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 3d

Ok Star Trek Next Generation, now we've got Data playing Scrouge in a recreation of The Muppets Christmas Carol

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 3d

AND IT'S OBRIAN SAYING THE CARDASIAN WAR IS OVER, HOW LITTLE HE KNOWS

Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 3d

Today in Star Trek Next Generation first watch, it's the first Cardasian episode!!! Hello my familiar frenemies. It's an ironic episode given their future 😭

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 3d

Today in Star Trek Next Generation first watch, it's the first Cardasian episode!!! Hello my familiar frenemies. It's an ironic episode given their future 😭

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 5d

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 5d

VisionQuest spoilers on main 🫩

Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 5d

Dianne Keaton 😭 I watch The Family Stone every Christmas and she's the heart of it

Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 5d

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR THIS!!! I'M ABSOLUTELY LOVING THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 5d

I love him so!

Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 5d

Lips is one of the newest oldest Muppets. Just the sight of him fills me with so much joy and sadness. He's kinda deep, and he doesn't speak much, and he's beautiful in that Muppet design way. #themuppets70 Peter Linz performs him in the most incredible way

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 5d

"Laura described the blocker ban as ‘forced detransition’ and ‘inhumane’. The impact of the ban on her child has been severe."

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

MP fails to support suicidal constituent

A mother pleaded with her MP to help her suicidal15-year-old daughter who said she ‘wanted to take her own life’

northwestbylines.co.uk

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 5d

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 5d

Star Trek Next Gen update: Troi and Beverly are fighting in this episode and I don't like it 😭

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 6d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 5d

Fascinated by the fact that her sense of sex and gender took direct inspiration from contemporary scholarship on Hijra and Native American practices of her time.

Global trans solidarity really has been a thing for ages.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 6d

I always knew my inability to whistle had to mean something....

ing school, generally all by myself. I spent a large part of my time in the house singing, but have never been able to learn to whistle. Inability to whistle is a general char- acteristic of passive inverts. I learned to sew and
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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 5d

#queerhistory

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 6d

Alright I need a short story break before I dive back into another gargantuan anthology, so let's read one of the oldest transfemme books I'm aware of!

Autobiography of an Androgyne is one of the earliest "trans memoirs," published a solid 15 years before the commonly cited 'first' trans memoir.

Autobiography of an Androgyne by Jennie June

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Matt Drapper @mattdrapps.bsky.social · 7d

All this!

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 7d

Among the reasons I absolutely loathe genAI is the fact it devalues and undermines skills like learning how to research, fact check, and communicate. It’s like answering a question with a print out of search engine results, taking it as truth because the computer said so.

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 7d

My only thoughts are that I am unsurprised and fully expect things to continue getting worse until there is some fundamental break--the Trump regime isn't popular. GOP politics and beliefs aren't popular, but the U.S. system gives them a baked-in advantage. Something has to give eventually

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