Dr Matt Lodder
@mattlodder.com
Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex. Trustee, Bishopsgate Institute. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
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Dr Matt Lodder
@mattlodder.com
· Oct 23
My two lectures on Operation Spanner and its aftermath for the UK APP conference in September are now on our Patreon: patreon.com/beneaththeskin
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The latest evidence that America is becoming a land of idiots:
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The latest evidence that America is becoming a land of idiots:
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November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Because he's a Nazi
On today's Tucker Carlson show, he makes clear that he believes that the US fought on the wrong side in World War II. In particular he says that the UK was mistaken to declare war on Germany just because it invaded Poland. And he has lots of sympathy for Herr Hitler throughout.
Tucker Puts Piers Morgan’s Views on Free Speech to the Ultimate Test
YouTube video by Tucker Carlson
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Because he's a Nazi
Clerks
6. What film do you think you could quote 50% of the dialogue while watching?
November 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Clerks
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Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
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Just saw My Neighbour Totoro stage show in London, and it’s absolutely astonishing — magical, spectacular, funny, devastatingly emotional, and wonderfully innovative. If you love the film, or just love live theatre, it’s a must watch
November 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Just saw My Neighbour Totoro stage show in London, and it’s absolutely astonishing — magical, spectacular, funny, devastatingly emotional, and wonderfully innovative. If you love the film, or just love live theatre, it’s a must watch
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Like we’re all clear this is as dangerous as it is farcical right
The lengths the British government will go to please the Israeli government.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Sally Rooney books may be pulled from UK, court told
Normal People author Sally Rooney's books may have to be withdrawn from sale and none of her new works published in the UK due to "uncertainty" caused by the ban on Palestine Action, the British High ...
www.rte.ie
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Like we’re all clear this is as dangerous as it is farcical right
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nose down ass up
that's the way we cyberstuck
that's the way we cyberstuck
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
nose down ass up
that's the way we cyberstuck
that's the way we cyberstuck
This is incredible.
November 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This is incredible.
Oh my god. Exhausting.
So let’s just be clear then:
You accept that biological features do not necessarily indicate that person’s sex. Correct?
You opened this door. I am keeping it open.
You accept that biological features do not necessarily indicate that person’s sex. Correct?
You opened this door. I am keeping it open.
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Oh my god. Exhausting.
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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My definition of woman includes some people wth 46XY karyotypes. Yours excludes them. Your definition is counter to law, culture, philosophy, identity, practice, anthropology and everyday facts. My definition is counter to... a bald assertion that a karyotype is necessarily determinative of sex.
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
My definition of woman includes some people wth 46XY karyotypes. Yours excludes them. Your definition is counter to law, culture, philosophy, identity, practice, anthropology and everyday facts. My definition is counter to... a bald assertion that a karyotype is necessarily determinative of sex.
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Anne Fausto Sterling's book Sexing the Body is good on this issue. It starts with the case of Marina Patino, Spain's top woman hurdler, who stopped being female for the 1988 olympics, because the rules changed. The book is available here:
files.libcom.org/files/Fausto...
files.libcom.org/files/Fausto...
files.libcom.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Anne Fausto Sterling's book Sexing the Body is good on this issue. It starts with the case of Marina Patino, Spain's top woman hurdler, who stopped being female for the 1988 olympics, because the rules changed. The book is available here:
files.libcom.org/files/Fausto...
files.libcom.org/files/Fausto...
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The Pope is to the left of pretty much all current heads of state but he's still the fucking Pope
To anyone disappointed that the new cool pope is against polyamory, you kind of set yourself up for that one
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The Pope is to the left of pretty much all current heads of state but he's still the fucking Pope
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Hard to see how anyone to the left of Richard Littlejohn can see this stuff without being instantly Jokerfied.
November 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Hard to see how anyone to the left of Richard Littlejohn can see this stuff without being instantly Jokerfied.
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it genuinely upsets me how much effort and resources are going into gen-ai that could and should be doing quite literally almost anything else
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
it genuinely upsets me how much effort and resources are going into gen-ai that could and should be doing quite literally almost anything else
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Human beings have two legs. Therefore, if you don't have two legs, you're not human.
That is the logical equivalent of what you're arguing, you buffoon.
That is the logical equivalent of what you're arguing, you buffoon.
November 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Human beings have two legs. Therefore, if you don't have two legs, you're not human.
That is the logical equivalent of what you're arguing, you buffoon.
That is the logical equivalent of what you're arguing, you buffoon.
ISTM that if a woman has a particular condition, it cannot be something "only males can have", can it?
What a pickle. How might we resolve this little logical impasse?
What a pickle. How might we resolve this little logical impasse?
How is a person, with a condition only males can have, possessing testes, be anything other than male???
You are talking nonsense.
You are talking nonsense.
November 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
ISTM that if a woman has a particular condition, it cannot be something "only males can have", can it?
What a pickle. How might we resolve this little logical impasse?
What a pickle. How might we resolve this little logical impasse?
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This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
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Carter Semenya is female from birth, and yet...
In some sports, being tall is an overwhelming advantage, but we don't ban tall women. In all sports, being rich is an overwhelming advantage, ditto.
You don't care about "biological advantages". You're just transphobic.
In some sports, being tall is an overwhelming advantage, but we don't ban tall women. In all sports, being rich is an overwhelming advantage, ditto.
You don't care about "biological advantages". You're just transphobic.
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Carter Semenya is female from birth, and yet...
In some sports, being tall is an overwhelming advantage, but we don't ban tall women. In all sports, being rich is an overwhelming advantage, ditto.
You don't care about "biological advantages". You're just transphobic.
In some sports, being tall is an overwhelming advantage, but we don't ban tall women. In all sports, being rich is an overwhelming advantage, ditto.
You don't care about "biological advantages". You're just transphobic.
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£2 million is really a very expensive house
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
£2 million is really a very expensive house
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This is not *the far right* news. This is Sky, utterly mainstream, entirely and completely operating under the frame that "welfare spending is too high and needs to be cut". This is total received wisdom in the UK, even though it's not even close to true.
Ridge: "This is what I don't understand. I think you do believe we do spend too much money on welfare... I'm trying to work out why we've ended up with [this] budget"
Pressure e.g. this govt didn't want to scrap the two child benefit cap but they've been forced to
Pressure e.g. this govt didn't want to scrap the two child benefit cap but they've been forced to
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
This is not *the far right* news. This is Sky, utterly mainstream, entirely and completely operating under the frame that "welfare spending is too high and needs to be cut". This is total received wisdom in the UK, even though it's not even close to true.
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It's a pretty consistent theme that the United States is constitutionally incapable of forgiving any foreign nation for humiliating them militarily and so in proceeding decades, bullies them and their people just for kicks (NK, Cuba, Vietnam, Iran, etc.). An adolescent country with a big stick.
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
It's a pretty consistent theme that the United States is constitutionally incapable of forgiving any foreign nation for humiliating them militarily and so in proceeding decades, bullies them and their people just for kicks (NK, Cuba, Vietnam, Iran, etc.). An adolescent country with a big stick.
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Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
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One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...