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Margot Waldman

@bbeatrix.bsky.social
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English PhD at Rutgers, studying transness on the early modern English stage. Plus I work on comics, pulp, superheroes, whatever. Sometimes a freelance writing person. She/her. Trans rights are human rights. She/her. Trans rights are human rights.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 3h
The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"David Cameron's former advisor is running for CA Gov and released an ad themed like softcore porn about lesbians" do you ever think we live in hell?
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 02/10/2026
Magician goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Doctor says, “Treatment is simple. The Great Work is available to you. Go study it. That should pick you up.” The magician bursts into tears. Says, “But doctor… as above so below.”
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
a few years ago, references to Simon of Trent or Leo Frank trutherism were a sign that someone was an intensely Christian and/or Neo-Nazi right-wing antisemite but now formerly-normal lefty politics influencers who stayed on Twitter casually reply to Mamdani with 15th century blood libel posts
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Sarah ⚧ ✡︎ @sarahkorse.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
When someone is getting into comics and they inevitably ask the question "Who is Alan Moore?" people talk about Watchmen. Maybe they talk about The Killing Joke. Maybe even Marvelman. But the answer is to give them a copy of The Saga of the Swamp Thing #21. That's who the fuck Alan Moore is.
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is antisemitism. This isn’t leftism. This isn’t anti-Zionism. This isn’t progressive activism. This is just blatant antisemitism.
Guy Christensen being antisemitic
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Tom Shapira @tomshaps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bruce Wayne should use his vast fortune to buy every copy of The Killing Joke with the new colouring and destroy them.
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Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#DamnLettersToTheEditor
"Dear Editor,
I think the Legion of Super-Heros should be in the movies. If they do, here's who I think should play some of the roles: Cosmic Boy--Fabian; Saturn Girl--Diane McBain; Sun Boy--Tucker Smith; Bouncing Boy--Tommy Kirk; Mon-El--Rick Nelson; Supergirl--Tuesday Weld; Pete Ross--Troy Donahue."
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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the best letters of all time
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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here to tell you that the chemistry and tension in this scene still hits for 2026 teenagers, as evidenced by the very vocal reactions of my students today
Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart in the bookstore scene in 1946’s The Big Sleep
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
music.youtube.com
Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Magnus, Chat GPT Fighter
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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
if there are people who think bride of chucky and seed of chucky aren't good i don't want to know them
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
there’s a viral tweet citing Kol Nidrei and the existence of Marranos during the Spanish Inquisition as proof that Jews are inherently untrustworthy and perfidious so apparently we’re bringing back medieval antisemitism
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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Colonial Bajor and the Cardassian Settler Imaginary”
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Right then, our turn What's your fake Star Trek academic paper
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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I wonder if they even have a name other than ‘Bajoran’ for something so old and so culturally ubiquitous! It’s essentially a global ethnoreligion, yeah?
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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No Logic: Clash on the Fire Plains in Anti-Surakian Thought, 335 - 750 “Mothers are Workers”: Theories of the Cardassian Woman during the Occupation of Bajor
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Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.online · 22/09/2026
An Animal Man movie is the only logical next step to come after the success of COYOTE VS. ACME, a James Gunn-penned carton + live action movie about a cartoon coyote tormented by the suffering of the real world (aka the plot of ANIMAL MAN #5 (Grant Morrison, Chas Truog, Doug Hazlewood))
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is 100% pure uncut reactionary fear of the newcomer disguised in a purportedly-leftist wrapper, and we must wholly reject it out of hand. America welcomes the newcomer, no matter where they are from or where they choose to live.
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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.
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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Remembering Joe Kubert on his 100th birthday The first drawing I ever hung up in my room was a copy I made of Joe‘s cover for "Justice Inc." Looking at that cover now, it's easy to see why I was enthralled by it. It had a sense of danger that wasn't present in the other comics I was reading.
The cover of Justice Inc #1
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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I would like to know why me turning into a six-foot-tall Velma from Scooby Doo is seen as more deviant than literally fucking a goat.
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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Me when I approvingly quote PONTIUS PILATE in John 18:38
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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
28 Years Later (2025, dir. Danny Boyle)
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Popverse @popversesays.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Alan Moore & Bill Sienkiewicz, during the promotional efforts for Big Numbers.
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/09/2026
One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.
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🐺Cold🪦Sam🪾 @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
in 1627 someone published a text called 'Woe to Drunkards' with an honest to goodness Chad knight vs. Virgin fop meme
"In a woodcut on the title-page of 'Woe to Drunkards,' a sermon preached by Samuel Ward, of Ipswich, 1627, the vices of that age are typically contrasted with the virtues of a former one. In the upper compartment we are shown what men were of old by the open Bible, the foot in the stirrup, and the hand grasping the lance; while in the lower, the degeneracy of their descendants is typified by the leg and foot, decorated with a broad silk garter and a large rosette; by cards and dice, and a hand holding at the same time a lighted pipe and a drinking cup with a cockatrice in it. Twenty years afterwards, these types would have been more strictly applicable, with the inscriptions merely transposed."

Excerpt from: Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards, William Andrew Chatto, 2014
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45584
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
god i forgot how funny these messages are
texts between holmes and balwani 

holmes: you are breeze in desert for me. my water. and ocean. meant only to be together tiger

sunny: okelizabeth holmes

my new life as of this night and forever more

-total confidense in myself best business person of the year
-focus
-details excellent
-dont give what anyone thinks
-engage employees in meetings by stories and making it about them (ie prepare well)

elizabeth holmes no response?

sunny: awesome. u r listening and paying attention. n
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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
On the one hand Barack Obama got healthcare for some 30 million people, & there are millions who are alive today because of it. On the other hand Luigi got healthcare for 0 people & there are -1 people alive today because of his actions.
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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 11/09/2026
This video literally claims that Donald Trump *delivered his own grandson* and works 20 hours a day every day. This isn't Nazi shit. This is juche shit.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Wow -- RNC video: "On June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker,' so God gave us Trump." It only gets more unhinged and culty from there.
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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Near the end of his life, I know Howard was increasingly transitioning away from his Conan/fantasy work towards his Texas tall tales - do his letters indicate if there is a reason why? Simply market share?
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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Very good answers! I think I have to pick the same, WoK is just one of the best science fiction movies ever made. So so moving.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hamlet, by the great Eric Fraser, 1951.
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Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today, September 8, 2026 marks the 60th anniversary of Star Trek’s premiere on American network television. From the beginning, there was something special about this show. >> [more]
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here is a guest on Tucker Carlson’s podcast saying that algebra is a conspiracy by the Jews to turn people into “good little goy slaves.” I wish I was joking.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026
to place the sexual and reproductive exploitation of black women at the center of your understanding of american slavery is to see that the system was forced birth and this, in turn, should lead to a more expansive vision of what the 13th amendment actually guarantees.
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondar," i holler as i overturn my duce's occupation of abyssinia and turn italian east africa into italian east shit
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Who can forget Steve Gerber's quote on seeing SECRET WARS and CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: "Our age of bronze is collapsing."
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Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I love Cyclops because the world looks at him and sees a tall white man who knows how to fight good but I know he has significantly more in common both politically and identity-wise with the nonbinary blue-haired barista trying to unionize their Starbucks store than he does with cishet white dudes
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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Italian Giallo director: I have a new idea for a movie! Me: Does it have an awesome name? Director: Lick the Blood from Satan's Grave! Me: Is it about a guy in gloves killing people? Director: Si
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
LITTLE MAC ON THIS GUY SUCKED LET'S GO
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finrodsauronverynsfwprivatefolderdonotlook @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
As the fella said:
static.klipy.com
Man Reacts: That's Why She's The GOAT
ALT: Man Reacts: That's Why She's The GOAT
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