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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her)

@neillyleftistcook.bsky.social

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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 · 20d

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 · 10h

Sarah and I will be joining in about an hour.

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 13h

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 · 13h

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 · 15h

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 · 16h

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

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

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Dafuq?

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

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

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

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Some people are like "I knew it!" about my taking hormones, switching to she/her, and identifying as a woman, and their "I knew it!" is based on whatever recent videos they've seen, in which I lose a long beard or whatever. But if you go back through the years the beard comes and goes...

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

This is me in 2017, and I'm posting it as proof that I didn't "just discover" lipstick or long hair or whatever. A weird part of my being slightly public facing is that a surprising number of people have speculated a made-up timeline for my transition. I find it weird and invalidating of NBs.

Neilly with long hair, makeup, a big purple scarf, delivering something emphatic over a microphone in a cosy indoor venue,

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

Journalists asking Catherine Connolly: If you were hiding a friend from a murderer and the murderer showed up to your house, is it moral to lie to the murderer about your friend's whereabouts?

Journalists asking Heather Humphreys:
How many puppies is the best puppy?

Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 3d

This is a stupid fucking question to expect her to answer perfectly on the hoof. What the fuck even is this?

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

This is exactly why George Lucas got rid of Darth Maul's cheerful umbrella.

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

A former Fine Gael TD admitting the system is set up so that there's "nothing to lose" from outright defamation?

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

US federal employees are being deprived of income in order that a world-famous pedophile can continue to cover up the fact that he raped multiple children over decades. The press and the media are choosing the degree to which they obfuscate this.

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

You figured out a third one!

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