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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault

@malgault.bsky.social
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Anthropologist primarily interested in rural memories, commemorations, and peacebuilding. Developing interests in contemporary paganism, atheism, and critical heritage studies. Amatuer Photographer. Dyslexic. linktr.ee/malgault

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Grace @gracekind.net · 04/10/2026
Martin Luther speech bubble meme
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.
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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Shouldn’t be news to anyone that these companies are operating in bad faith.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is probably partially because Meta is not using people and when they are using people, the people are overworked, basically suffering from institutional neglect, and probably not equipped to understand all the nuances of cover antisemites use. Although the cover is slipping nowadays.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Meta refuse to take action on genuine antisemitism. I have reported so many comments on posts about video games that use antisemitic slurs (followed by "slop") and dog whistle (or just yell) conspiracies that anything "woke" is part of a plot by Jewish people to destroy white people.
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I did a double take. A university just put the words "humanities research" out there where anyone can see them? Are we sure that's allowed?
Colorful vertical banner attached to a post. Sideways-oriented in the upper right is the text "fluent in social change." Below, oriented as standard left-to-right text, reads "Expanding what is possible through humanities research"
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"When given access to a well structured large historical dataset" Oh, so in other words when someone else has already done the research for it?
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Having played seven Yakuza games now, I can only assume that either Kamurocho is littered with shirt buttons and scraps or the tear away shirt business is thriving. Seriously, with how many shirts Kiryu goes through, it's no wonder he starts every game so poor.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A real Monkey's Paw moment for Matt Walsh, exact movie he describes but the most bisexual movie.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Further to "Poor Doggett", every time he does suggest a spooky answer, he's told it is ridiculous. Really stuck in a no win situation.
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John “Danielle” Phipps @magitekdad.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I reiterate: the fight should not be to save physical media. I get it, but that was always going away. The fight should be to overhaul digital ownership laws. It should be illegal that we cannot play anything we bought digitally on PS3/4/Vita on the PS5, 6, etc. It should be *illegal*.
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Carli Boo-locci 👻 @carlivelocci.com · 08/07/2026
People have overwhelmingly shown that they favor convenience and digital. That's why companies lean into it. The issue is that you don't *own* your digital copies. That's what needs to change.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Honestly, there are very few episodes of X-Files Season 8 and 9 that I don't think "poor Doggett". Like, Reyes, she's all in on spooky and weird, admittedly she's more in team occult than team aliens, but poor Doggett is firmly in team no spooky explanations and really suffers for it.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It is an interesting choice they have made to try and "understand" what is going on today without exploring either historical or contemporary political contexts.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The World of Irish Anthropology volume from the RAI is out now! Including contributions from myself and my good friend Chiara Magliacane, edited by Hana Cervinkova and Mark Maguire at @maynoothuniversity.ie seankingston.co.uk/publishing.h...
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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
31 years for Natalie’s murderer. Finally a sentence that reflects the horror of the violence meated out to women and girls here. May she rest st in peace, may he rot.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Crazy that the people claiming an Irish language street sign near an Orange Hall is intimidation also claim that there's nothing threatening or intimidating about thew mural in Newtownabbey or the banner outside a play park in Moygashel...
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Wait until they find out about the preferences and interests of Ancient Greek sculptors.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
My "Men are hot, but I'm not attracted to them" shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by the shirt.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
What an embarrassing life for the richest man in the world to led.
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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Trans people: I want to be able to have a wee. Transphobes: I want trans people to not be able to have a wee. Burnham: Let's stop trans people from having a wee NICELY & never talk about trans people not being able to have a wee again - I'm looking at you, trans people - so we can all get along. 🤗
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
X-Files Season 8 Episode 17 opens with a guy getting fired and his boss says "if it were up to me, you'd get promoted" and I think, in that circumstance, you should get one free swing. I know unions are weak in America, but I feel like that should be an easy sell.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Two rejection emails in one day is a rough one. On the brighter (not really) side, I did learn something about how the Disability Confident Employer scheme works.
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Kemi Badenoch: If you hate multiple different groups of people they all cancel out and make it OK
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This recent trend, since Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D, of a kind of intergeneration horror where established characters past actions haunt and influence the present is a bit of a goldmine for anyone doing hauntological media analysis. Or at least more of a goldmine than the already existing goldmine.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Last night I watched Final Destination: Bloodlines. It is certainly a Final Destination movie, so enjoyable and silly in equal measure. I think it is always interesting how Death, as a character, is personified because it's mostly a petty trickster who loves Rube-Golberg Machines and revenge.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
For the record, it is now "Looney underemployed PhD Graduate, best ignored".
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Firstly, Grace Lavery's work is always worth reading. Secondly, very rude of Prof Sullivan to quote my long deleted dating app profile bio... 😅
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I hope that everywhere they go, someone is booing them from a distance.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I saw a car from Ukraine today. It travelled through a warzone, across Europe, over the Channel and Irish Sea, carrying it's occupants to safety, only to end up parking across a "Keep Clear" zone in Enniskillen.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
For a long time, "commemoration". Given my academic background, a bit awkward. I'm like Nanny Ogg with banana. Although, I'm dyslexic... so like every word is my spelling nemesis at some point.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Sometimes the things we claim to fear tell us more about ourselves than the thing itself...
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We had a fabulous taco and burrito place in my little town in Northern Ireland for a long time until the owner returned to Mexico. We also had an Italian pizzeria for a bit. No idea why both these people decided to expand our horizons and then abandon us...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/04/2026
This is the type of evil that enables all of this. There's an entire right wing media ecosystem that would rather watch the world burn than be a decent human being.
A screenshot of a post on X by The Megyn Kelly Show. The text of the post reads:
".@megynkelly: 'Trump could drop a nuke and I'd still vote Republican over Democrat. What [Democrats] want to do is nuke our own country.'"
Below the text is a paused video from the podcast. It shows Megyn Kelly on the right, wearing a black leather jacket, gesturing as she speaks to a woman on the left who is wearing a light blue blazer. They are seated across from each other at a desk with microphones in a studio. The SiriusXM logo is in the bottom right corner of the video frame.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I have worked with people from a particular tradition who argue Cromwell's actions were standard military practice at the time, so we shouldn't be making a big fuss about him. Of course, historical contextualisation of other violences is revisionism and justification of inherent moral wrongs...
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Two of my cat's enemies (other local cats) died yesterday in either mysterious or tragic ways. Neither could have been caused by Marmalade... at least not through natural means. So, I am a little freaked out and am stocking up on treats.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Did Covid-19 happen in the Resident Evil universe? And if so, were the conspiracy theorists claiming it was a naturally occuring virus (given that in RE, literally every viral outbreak from like 1998 onwards was either a lab leak or an evil corporate plot)?
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Surprised he's not named a daughter Ari-Anne yet.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 16/03/2026
collective punishment is a war crime
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
An ex-PM intentionally traffics in rank antisemitism without public condemnation by the UK political establishment, while these politicians also brand pro-Palestinian comments as antisemitic and classified Palestine Action as a proscribed group, leading to the arrest of hundreds of people
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Charlotte Gill has established a link between Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell. Next week, she's going to wow the world by PROVING once, and for all that Stan Laurel worked with Mr Oliver Hardy.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The "journalist" who made a list of academic studies she didn't like, and didn't understand, to "expose" tax payer waste also believe Soros conspiracies... shocking.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Not that it is a product I care about, but I've never seen such a rapid decline in effort and quality before. I just can't see how such low effort slop is attracting customers.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Dr Squatch must be a failing company, how do you go from hiring Sydney Sweeney for high production value ads to computer generated voice over ads that look like they're made by the laziest influencer in a couple of years? Honestly, I'd be too embarrassed and just not advertise in that situation.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Is it interesting that in March 2001, they released a polit episode about a radio controlled plane hitting the World Trade Center? A bit, but like WTC had already been attacked before and was a dramatic landmark. Like in 2000, as a writer, you're either choosing WTC or the Empire State Building.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Reached X-Files Season 8 Episode 15, that means it is time to move over to The Lone Gunmen, a show about conspiracies which has become the centre of some conspiracy theories. Apparently, "cancelled for getting too close to the truth, just like Dark Angel" or so YouTube comments tell me.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I would be almost certain, as some raised Protestant in Northern Ireland's weird religious world, that the French Federation of Protestants also had absolutely no idea what Bush was going on about. I only know from reading the Americans, and my great grandmother was a Paisleyite.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
A reminder that there is no such thing as a non-lethal weapon.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"There are no societies that do not view nuclear family relationships as centrally important" is a sentence that caused my eye to twitch so much. It is just empirically wrong. Though, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.
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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault @malgault.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I can't explain the movie Hundreds of Beavers, but I can highly recommend the movie Hundreds of Beavers. It is just a joy from start to finish.
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