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Paul Anthony Shortt

@pashortt.bsky.social
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Author, gamer, host of the Wordmaker's Workshop YouTube channel. Anti-fascist, pro-queer, pro-choice, left-wing. No room for bigots. www.youtube.com/@wordmakersworkshop www.patreon.com/wordmaker

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
‘I wanted to impress my boss, Piers Morgan’
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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 26/07/2026
Elliot Page is in the biggest blockbuster of the summer, Hunter Schafer is in the new Blade Runner. Keep up the pace. Inundate the normies with trans representation until the regressives pop like a balloon Alex Jones style. Trans people make up 1% of humanity. Get us in 1% of pop culture.
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is the energy we need.
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I've been quiet on YouTube lately. It's been tough adapting to my increasing physical limitations, and we've been hit with a series of family & loved one deaths, on top of July's existing painful anniversaries. But I've been plotting away. I have a new video coming soon:
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
By the time I'd turned 15, I'd watched Kirk's crew step down, the season finalé of TNG (still the best end to any Star Trek series), and the destruction of the Enterprise D. I'd witnessed long-standing stories end in real time, for the first time. But I'd also seen new beginnings.
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Shout-out to this icon of the Eighties. RIP youtu.be/bWcASV2sey0?...
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Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by bonnietylerVEVO
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Why I'm Worried About Masters of the Universe (and it's not the reason you think!) youtu.be/Z5CRM-dp1cE?...
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Why I'm Worried About Masters of the Universe
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Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
When Colbert left CBS, so too did all of his viewers. The first episode of Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed drew just 995,000 viewers. Colbert’s series finale attracted more than 6.7 million viewers, meaning CBS saw an 85 percent downturn in viewership. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/col...
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Colbert Replacement’s Late-Night Ratings Disaster Revealed
CBS filled Colbert’s timeslot with a show that attracted just 15 percent of his send-off viewership.
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Kinda glad I drifted away from The Boys. Aside from the over-indulgence in sexual assault tropes, it looks like just about every fan group has shared the ending in full.
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Fuck Graham Linehan, but I think I may be watching Father Ted this Saturday. #Eurovision
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
No surprises that Richard Dawkins is ready to proclaim AI chatbots to be "conscious" because they praise him and let him feminise them.
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
"Always"
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.
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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
These coaches belong in prison, not just sued. PRISON.
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Getting caught up on the CNN Rape Academy story. I think aside from the absolute disgust, the worst part about how I feel is how I'm not actually surprised that this exists.
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This is awesome. In about 50 minutes, the Artemis II crew will break the record for longest distance travelled from Earth. They are literally about to go where no-one has gone before. www.youtube.com/live/z-j1uxB...
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NASA’s Artemis II Crew Flies Around the Moon (Official Broadcast)
YouTube video by NASA
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Deanna (I Am Alchevibe Designs) @alchevibedesigns.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This was already known and people voted for him anyway.
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Yes to all of this. Pete Docter is, at best, a coward. youtu.be/jM0wVlxS9YQ?...
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The hypocritical homophobic comments of Pixar's creative chief
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Kid from Hook during the last battle: Lost Boys, we got em on the run!
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Never thought I’d see the President of the United States threatening to commit blatant war crimes on social media, but here we are.
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Just in case it needs saying: Fuck JK Rowling with a live cattle prod. Her books are classist, antisemetic, racist, pro-slavery trash. She is a garbage person who uses her wealth to support genocide against trans people, and I wish her tv show the fate of every cancelled streaming series.
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Tomas Lenander @mrodomino.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Reminder that Chuck Norris was a Right-Wing Evangelical Christian, racist, homophobe, and Islamaphobe. He violated the UCMJ, having an extramarital affair while in the Air Force, supported Netanyahu, backed the "birther" conspiracy against Obama, Donald Trump, and campaigned against queer rights.
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Louise McLaughlin author she / her @louisemclaughlin.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
And this my friends is why Scotland is brilliant. Rebecca a 12yr old invented a solar powered blanket for the homeless. Now being made by veterans and a disabled workforce. Invention, future, STEM, compassion, savy business and sustainable employment. Bravo 👏 news.stv.tv/west-central...
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Glasgow schoolgirl's solar-powered blanket to be manufactured by veterans
An award-winning blanket created by Rebecca Young aged just 12 has now moved into production
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
It's Pi Day! 3/14/26 Pi proves that day/month/year is the correct date format, because "3" is the integer part, while "14" is the fractional part. The 3rd and the 14th can each be considered as distinct values. In this essay, I will...
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I'm no fan of the US prison system, but it is deeply satisfying to see how miserable and alone Harvey Weistein is, waiting to die in his cell.
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I've finally discovered my own Mandela Effect. I am convinced that for years the correct term was "overarcing," but it seems I've been wrong all this time and it's actually "overarching," which sounds hideously wrong to me.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
unmute this now, this is the best thing you will hear all day, carry it in your heart
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Trying out slight change to my thumbnails. This is my latest video; "Superman is a Good Man." www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSGA...
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Superman - Refugee, Insecurity, and being a Good Man
YouTube video by Wordmaker's Workshop
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 14/01/2026
If her name rings a bell with you, it might be because she was a poster child for Ireland’s right-wing media and transphobic orgs a few months ago
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Matija aka Pinky @pinkywastaken.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
game devs need to start dating more girls so they make them realize AI is dog shit water that should never be used ever
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
a screenshot from the film Inglourious Basterds in which the main leads catch Landa, a notorious nazi, in the forest, and threaten him with a knife, his face shocked in a pikachu way
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Scott Adams has died. Anyway, who wants pie?
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Depressing news reported at @lgbtqnation.com: Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ... #kidlit #queerkidlit #lgbtq #booksky
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Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president - LGBTQ Nation
"In the face of so many book bans and so much concern about decreasing school library sales of queer content" publishers are "passing" on LGBTQ+ books.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march
Sign held up with handwritten text: "If they are going to shoot us and then call us fucking bitches, then we need to be bigger fucking bitches"
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This is your regular reminder that authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large.
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Vulture @vulture.com · 12/01/2026
Wanda Sykes presented an award at the Golden Globes to Ricky Gervais, who didn’t show up. ‘He would like to thank God,’ she said, ‘and the trans community,”
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Wanda Sykes Uses Ricky Gervais’s Absence to Thank the Trans Community
Wanda Sykes presented an award at the Golden Globes to Ricky Gervais, who didn’t show up. ‘He would like to thank God,’ she said, ‘and the trans community,”
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
@bufferingcast.bsky.social re: Riley's "Balls" poster, I always assumed, based on the "There are only two that count" line on it, that it was meant to be referring to checking for testicular cancer.
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Her name was Renee Nicole Good www.youtube.com/shorts/mjLYz...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Bravest motherfuckers you've ever seen. They just saw a neighbor get murdered and still out there. Maybe let's see some local officials with the power to arrest show as much backbone as these voters PAYING YOUR FUCKING SALARY
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 07/01/2026
If the United States Constitution doesn’t protect you from a federal agent shooting you in the face for the “crime” of turning your car around, it doesn’t exist. ICE has become a paramilitary force with zero oversight and a Secretary in Kristi Noem who encourages the chaos. ENOUGH.
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Anyone joining ICE should be considered at the very least an attempted murderer. They're salivating over the chance to kill people.
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Murder. Murder. Murder. But they know it's easier for them to get away with it if a shooting victim doesn't survive to tell their side.
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This should be on placards at every ICE protest.
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Paul Anthony Shortt @pashortt.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I've seen footage of the ICE agent murdering a woman in Minneapolis. If you decide to watch any of the clips, be warned it's very disturbing. Things are going to get worse, and I hope my friends in the US can stay safe while still making their voices heard.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026
Walz: "I have a very simple message: We don't need further help from the federal government. To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, you've done enough."
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/01/2026
Anyone taking odds on the likelihood of NY Times covering this protest down the street from their HQ?
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