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Mat Ricardo

@matricardo.bsky.social
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Performer. Writer. Maker. He/Him. Nice. Autistic. All the other places online where you can find me are at linktr.ee/matricardo

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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Brian. More photography and writing at patron.com/matricardo - love you to join me there #photography #portrait #face #portraitphotography
a close up portrait photo of a Brian, a street performer. He has light blue eyes, a straggly beard and slightly weatherbeaten face. He looks straight down the lens.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Brian. More photography and writing at patron.com/matricardo - love you to join me there #photography #portrait #face #portraitphotography
a close up portrait photo of a Brian, a street performer. He has light blue eyes, a straggly beard and slightly weatherbeaten face. He looks straight down the lens.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 3h
It's funny - every magician watching that stupid upside down fascist car video is immediately thinking the same thing - pitch black background and careful lighting to hide the trick. It's as fake as musks intellect.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 3h
New white house press secretary announced
Vanessa bayer in character as weather person dawn Lazarus and seriously if you don't know this character YouTube it I love it
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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 22h
This may be the favourite slide I have designed for our first year core module this year.
Screenshot of a Powerpoint slide. On the left hand side is the heading 'your voice is more important han the computer's voice, and a list of bullet points explaining that AI generated prose isn't very good. On the right is a photo of a person in a Hello Kitty costume, wearing a pink princess dress, holding a sledgehammer and about to smash a laptop that is sitting at her feet.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 15h
YES. JESUS CHRIST YES. ITS ONLY BEEN AROUND 3 YEARS. WE DON'T NEED IT. www.techspot.com/news/114234-...
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Would you really give up ChatGPT to shut down data centers? Tech CEO highlights the hypocrisy of some AI critics
"All the people that are saying they're anti-data center, that they're anti-AI in general, they're using it," said Verb boss Cyrus Beschloss at CNBC's Trading the Midterms...
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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 11h
All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.
Libby menu interface showing Content Controls: AI Contributions with the Hunan authors only and Human narrators only options selected.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 17h
Pisa, Italy. More photography and writing, for free, at patreon.com/matricardo #photography #travel #streetphotography
black and white photo of a tourist standing in a piazza, holding her hands as if supporting something. Just out of shot: the leaning tower of pisa.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A quick reminder that all of my work is on Patreon. I hate the way platforms use algorythms to screw with the connection between independent maker & audience, so subscribing to patreon.com/matricardo is by far the best way to support me Free or paid - same content! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypfm...
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A quick reminder that all of my work is on Patreon. I hate the way platforms use algorythms to screw with the connection between independent maker & audience, so subscribing to patreon.com/matricardo is by far the best way to support me Free or paid - same content! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypfm...
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
THANK YOU
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
LONDON! I will be performing and signing books at the Leicester Square Theatre, as part of West End Magic, this Saturday afternoon! COME! To celebrate, I made this promotional video with some VERY SUBTLE special effects. #london #westend #magic #magician #familyshow
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Dear fellow #cabaret performers, When do we get a clubhouse like the vaudeville folks used to have? INSTAGRAM DOESNT COUNT.
black and white photo from the 1920's of the national vaudeville artists clubhouse in new york city. A huge building, with a big flag hanging outside. it had a bar and restaurant, and a theatre.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Oh, very good, Harry. Very good. #retro #vintage #vaudeville
a black and white promo photo for vaudeville comedian Harry Howard, circa 1925. He looks dapper and cool, if a little nerdy, in a three piece suit and round glasses. The slogan says "HARRY HOWARD - BORN TO BE LAUGHED AT"
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
You're not telling me anything I didn't already know...
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If you haven't read this months chapter of my TEN GIGS project, it's all about the world of #cabaret and #burlesque I'm pretty happy with this one, so I really hope you like it. As always, if you do, give it a share and a sub - all my work is free, so that's all I ask :) patreon.com/matricardo
a photo of a gang of cabaret and burlesque performers, looking cool and glam, grinning at the camera. Oh, and me, too.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If you haven't read this months chapter of my TEN GIGS project, it's all about the world of #cabaret and #burlesque I'm pretty happy with this one, so I really hope you like it. As always, if you do, give it a share and a sub - all my work is free, so that's all I ask :) patreon.com/matricardo
a photo of a gang of cabaret and burlesque performers, looking cool and glam, grinning at the camera. Oh, and me, too.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is the correct answer
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Things I say to myself every day in the mirror
A clipping from a 1928 yearbook of vaudeville artists. A photo of a glamorous performer - miss Hope Vernon - with the caption underneath it saying "I am a success. I am in perfect health. I am happy. I am booked solid."
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The cabaret and burlesque circuit is one of the most nourishing and fun worlds I've ever worked in. It's important to me, so I wrote about it. If you like it, do all the sharing and subscribing mullarkey. www.patreon.com/matricardo/p...
me sillhouetted on stage, lunging and holding three cigar boxes dramatically. spotlights in front and overhead.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The cabaret and burlesque circuit is one of the most nourishing and fun worlds I've ever worked in. It's important to me, so I wrote about it. If you like it, do all the sharing and subscribing mullarkey. www.patreon.com/matricardo/p...
me sillhouetted on stage, lunging and holding three cigar boxes dramatically. spotlights in front and overhead.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
RIP Tilly Norwood, another senseless casualty of war.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Brick Lane early on a Sunday morning more photography and writing at patreon.com/matricardo #photography #london #streetphotography #bricklane
photograph of a wall full of grafitti and a cobbled street in warm early morning sunlightblack and white photo of a woman walking past a huge brick wall covered in large letterform grafitti, she is caught in a shaft of sunlightblack and white photo of an intersection of streets in brick lane, a grafitti covered shop is closed on a corner in the background, and a solitary man walks across the street
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Brick Lane early on a Sunday morning more photography and writing at patreon.com/matricardo #photography #london #streetphotography #bricklane
photograph of a wall full of grafitti and a cobbled street in warm early morning sunlightblack and white photo of a woman walking past a huge brick wall covered in large letterform grafitti, she is caught in a shaft of sunlightblack and white photo of an intersection of streets in brick lane, a grafitti covered shop is closed on a corner in the background, and a solitary man walks across the street
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Love this pic of me doing my stupid thing from somewhere and sometime. That battered flight case is my constant companion, seat and security blanket all over the world haha
black and white photo of me on stager in front of a large audience. shot from the side, me and the audience are out of focus but my flight case, laying on the stage, is in focus
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ooh
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ha! It's a learning day for both of us
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Saw this today. That's entertainment! (but I do have questions about the lion on the wheel of death...)
A 1933 poster for entertainments at Southend's Kursaal - arguably the first theme park. Diversions include - neptunes daughters, bostocks wonder zoo, al capone's killer car, and, yes, a lion on a wall of death
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This week I wrote about how much I love the cabaret and burlesque circuit, and all of the amazing people I get to work/hang out with. you can support my work by sharing it and subscribing to my patreon - free or paid - thanks! www.patreon.com/matricardo/p...
a bunch of cool, glam cabaret and burlesque performers grinning at the camera. Oh, and me. And there's also a live dove. Long story.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
thanks! It doesn't have a brand name i'm afraid..just a bag someone made haha
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A hot Summer's day in Ottawa. More of my photography and writing at patreon.com/matricardo #streetphotography #photography #ottawa
black and white photo of a man walking past the camera. looking hot and sweaty, on a bright sunlit street in Ottwaw. A movie marquee in the background advertises Malcom X
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I mean, I get the idea of something attention-grabbing as a distraction from midterms/Iran/everything else - but grabbing our attention by reminding us what psychopathic monsters they are...seems like a bit of an own goal?
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you haven't yet, I'd love you to give my love letter to cabaret a read. It's part of my TEN GIGS project, and available for free on my patreon. If you do like it, please do support my work by sharing it and signing up (you can do it for free!) www.patreon.com/matricardo/p...
Me on stage at the phoenix arts club. I'm toasting the audience with a martini, as smoke envelops me, and an audience clap.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In my stupidity, I thought there wasn't anything America could do anymore that would truly shock me. I thought the zone had been fully flooded with their filth. That the bar was now so low that all I would feel was a constant tinnitus of fear. But no. They're going to livestream an execution.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I really enjoyed writing this chapter of TEN GIGS, which is my love letter to the cabaret and burlesque circuit. Feels nice to be writing about a world that I still work in As always, a share & sub to my patreon is the best way to support small indy makers like me www.patreon.com/matricardo/p...
a selfie of me in a dressing room mirror. Lightbulbs frame me, I'm in a black suit, white shirt and polka dot tie, holding my camera at my chest. I am clearly trying to look cool, the result of this is up to your interpretation.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ok, so "Kill Jackie" is really fun, and Catherine zeta Jones is fantastic and spectacularly Welsh in it.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Aww thanks so much
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The latest chapter of my year-long project TEN GIGS is my love letter to the cabaret and burlesque world, and all the amazing artists who work in it. Hope you like it, if you do, a share and a sub would mean a lot. www.patreon.com/matricardo/p...
a phot of me performing on stage at the bethnal green workingmens club. I'm in a black suit, holding a knife in the air, surrounded by a heart made out of red lightbulbs
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just posted chapter 9 of my selective memoir TEN GIGS. This one's my love letter to cabaret, and all the amazing people in it. Hope you like it, if you do, give it a share and a sub. #cabaret #burlesque #london #soho www.patreon.com/matricardo/p...
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TEN GIGS. Chapter 9. That glitter gets everywhere. | Mat Ricardo
In my continuing journey of finding interesting people and places to photograph, I had discovered the burlesque revival. These were, indeed,
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cardiff you were very fun! Next sunday show is at the always fantastic @gleeclubbham.bsky.social let's gooooo
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Like everything, it's about dose size...
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have a rare Saturday off, so we had a lovely lunch, bimbled around, did some light shopping, and told a Restore party spokesboy to go fuck himself sideways, while my wife wished him, and I quote, ASS CANCER. So all in all, a very pleasant afternoon.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Whoaa
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Facebook is only allowing me only two posts per month with links, on my professional page, unless I pay them? This is exactly why my patreon has a free option, so that the link between me and people who like my work, isn't being fucked with by assclowns. Every day a fresh dull heck
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Alucore: Nice Job Team
ALT: Alucore: Nice Job Team
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My favourite Italian train station and a sunny late Summer morning made shapes. More at www.patreon.com/matricardo/p...
black and white photo of a train standing in a station. the harsh light makes the train and the awning almost black, with a strip of bright white sunlight between them in slim triangles
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From Politico. That motion is absolute fucking poison and by failing to stand up to it, the Greens have allowed that poison to seep into the party.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A few quick words about how my background in busking as the model for how I use Patreon. Oh, and please do sign up, please and thank you! www.patreon.com/matricardo/p...
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Oh, hello. | Mat Ricardo
A few quick words about how I'm approaching my patreon, and how, fingers crossed, we can use it to avoid all the social media algorithms tha
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
algorithm. ALGORITHM. sighs.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Street photography from Northern Italy More, for free, at www.patreon.com/matricardo/p... I hate having to cross my fingers and hope that a social media alogorythm favours me, so it means a lot when people subscribe to my patreon so we can cut out the oligarch middledouche! Thanks! #italy #travel
two italian men, one older, shifty, the other younger, shirtless and smilinga young woman in a blue dress waits for a train in italy. a stripe of golden afternoon sunlight cuts across her face.
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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Omg I love this
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