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Dr Matt Lodder

@mattlodder.com
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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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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It's funny that you can immediately have a customer base just by pandering to contrarians. You can sell asbestos candy if you say the government has been lying to you about asbestos
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5th Iranian White Van Regiment 🇵🇸 @mickeymarxclub.bsky.social · 2h
Nah all they need to do is wait until the media loses interest then there will be nothing more to say. Then, in a few weeks time there will be something in the courts pages of the local rag about 5 men convicted of fuel theft
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Spooky Moose Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 2h
Oh 100%, they've absolutely fucked this and it's going to be a car crash
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Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 2h
Sharing this to pretend I don't guzzle literally anything in this format because I'm way too cool and sophisticated.
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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Years ago, I was walking home late one night, and a drunk guy was harassing me - trying to get me to go home with him, pushy sex comments, etc. After a few mins, his mate turned to him and said, firmly but not aggressively, "MATE. leave her alone, yeah?" And he did. I think about him all the time.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h
Just a whole load of horrifying crimes here where we can’t now say “if only the world knew, if only everyone could see”. The world knows very well and anyone who wants to see, can see just fine.
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Punished 'Woke' Bane @baneforyou.bsky.social · 2h
whatever it was they were caught in the literal commission of the offence, so what more do police need to charge them with a crime. this is a terror related offence so they have an insane amount of time to detain without charge, so it's not that either!
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Punished 'Woke' Bane @baneforyou.bsky.social · 2h
okay, but what was the plot
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h
AI is for people who consider the Muzak version of Blurred Lines they hear in the waiting room at the dentist a bop. This guy could not have illustrated AI stans any better. Incurious idiots who can't handle normal life and have no taste or soul.
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fencepostmalone.bsky.social @fencepostmalone.bsky.social · 3h
I am not joking when I say this. If you take the ingredients for your favourite recipe and just put them in a giant bowl and use a big spoon to shove it in your mouth, it is just as good as following a recipe.
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 3h
Yeah, why would I want to listen to music which indexes very specific moments of my life and of the lives of others, when I could... listen to a machine make stuff that sort of sounds a bit like that, but worse? It's over!
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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 3h
Going to be honest with you all: I doubt people are going to pay good money to get a seat in a massive stadium just to see someone put a prompt into a chat bot.
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 4h
Oh, absolutely! I guess the test will be whether any answers are actually forthcoming!
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 4h
The "Patsies set up by actual terrorists to smoke out the security services" theory seems to be copium, no? (The idea being that Trump & Rubio had real intelligence on a real plot, and these geezers were bait (or, I suppose, accidentally caught up in it.) "Trump lied" seems like the most likely.
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 5h
Isn't that explainable by the fact that our overlords are smug, paranoid Yankophiles / Islamophobes whose incentive structures reward rapidity over accuracy? Feels like Trump gambled on a headline and lost. Genuinely terrifying but darkly comic.
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 5h
They're clearly fuel thieves who were mucking about near a military base unwittingly, right?
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It's... so weird.
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Jason Salmon @jsalmoncomedy.bsky.social · 15h
If he doesn’t understand the difference between the Atlanta Hawks & the Iowa Hawkeyes women’s team This would definitely help explain why people like him think there’s so many men playing in women’s sports 
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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 6h
damn rocket sharks
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Alan Woke 2 @mrpostsgood.bsky.social · 6h
I see this comparison bandied around by AI dipshits a lot and it never sounds any less stupid
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 6h
🚨 Breaking news: we fucking WON!!!!!!!!!! 🚨 www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...
Legal 500 workers win full pay claim after strike action

Wednesday 30 September 2026  
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Dozens of publishing staff at Legalease, the publishers of legal industry-bible The Legal 500, have won a dramatic victory in their industrial dispute over pay.

Staff who had been on strike for two and a half weeks accepted an offer that fully met their original pay claim of a £2000 pay increase for every worker. This was despite the company originally claiming it would not pay such an increase.
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 5h
These guys are definitely just fuel thieves who didn't realise they were near a military base, right?
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Punished 'Woke' Bane @baneforyou.bsky.social · 6h
just checking on the most normal terror investigation
Trump 'disappointed' UK police released 'bomb plot' suspects on bail - as it emerges one of five arrested called police on himself
It has now emerged that one of the suspects had called the police around an hour before the farmer had reported their activity on Sunday.
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 14h
MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This entire group has like three--four, at most--muscles between them
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 27/09/2026
Josh needs a better tailor. He looks so uncomfortable, partly because his suit is so ill-fitting. If your job involves waving your arms around, you need a suit that allows that to happen without the collar riding up.
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 27/09/2026
I'm in China at the moment and I've barely seen a petrol car. Good job, America. 🙄
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There’s an insane nihilism here right at the heart of modern conservative movement that is fundamentally removed from any sense of economic rationality
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been writing and speaking on this topic for years, and I’m glad that news media are finally drawing attention to it. www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...
It may be tempting to see value in projects such as the Schmidt Foundation — that’s Eric Schmidt of Google — funding a fellowship in AI at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or the Musk Foundation’s support of the Scroll Prize to use AI in reconstructing ancient texts in the burnt scrolls of Herculaneum. But these projects are simply two among countless others that have been seeding AI into museums and historical research for well over a decade. Even more egregious is the case of AI companies buying  and destroying rare books en masse in the process of scanning them for data. In the context of the dire austerity we are witnessing, the juggernaut of tech money seems impossible to resist.
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 26/09/2026
Thanks!
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 26/09/2026
Taps Aff on the Great Wall of China.
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 26/09/2026
Good point
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 26/09/2026
With all the other potential charges available to them, up to and including attempted murder, why have the CPS chosen only to charge criminal damage?
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 26/09/2026
"Deputy Chief Magistrate Tan Ikram said the case could have been heard in the magistrates' court but Mr Thomas elected to be tried at crown court."
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JB @lamarbriarcreek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every single word of this
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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this is a dril tweet
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It's not lost on me that I have received a huge amount of hate from so-called "leftist" accounts since changing my pfp to include a hijab-inspired secular accessorization.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The pipeline from maverick-darling-of-the-left to right-wing-mouthpiece because the likes-casino stopped giving him triple sevens is authentically tedious by this point.
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SPOOKYTime, M.D.🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @saigontimemd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Corpyburd @corpyburd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great disguise🥸 Reasons for wearing a moustache - The Reading Times 1859
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Upon graduating medical school in 1881, Arthur Conan Doyle did a doodle of himself waving his diploma over his head. The caption reads: "Licensed to Kill." My new book SLEUTH-HOUND is about Conan Doyle's professor, Joseph Bell - the real-life Sherlock Holmes. Out Oct 20! linktr.ee/drlindseyfit...
A simple doodle showing a man, Conan Doyle, waving his diploma over his head. Underneath the doodle it says: Licensed to kill
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Men crying about not being about to project their desires onto an object because that constitutes having their "language policed" is a special category of farce we call "Nate."
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sure, on the one hand Muse doesn't really do anything, but on the other hand it opens up a massive attack surface on literally all your shit
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Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For two weeks, I wake up each morning and go to the picket. We’ve extended the strike for a third week. We will not stop until we win
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I see operation "just give these people what they want and they'll go away" is continuing as expected.
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Goose chasing meme: who slashed the dinghy? WHO SLASHED THE DINGHY?
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tom Swarbrick: "You mentioned the numbers there, they are down.. I don't get the impression that the anger & concern that there is about these numbers arriving is falling as the number of people arriving falls" How interesting! So I wonder what (who) is driving that anger & concern Tom, & why?
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 24/09/2026
There would be a deep irony if several decades of attempted but failed OAPA reform, every version of which proposed removing s17, had left this section in place for precisely this moment. 🙏
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 24/09/2026
Statute Law Provisions Act be damned.
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 24/09/2026
Please put "Tommo" in penal servitude for life, as the law demands.
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