Scott Matthewman
@scottm
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Software dev, theatre critic, etc. etc. He/him đłď¸âđ Any expressed opinions are mine and not those of any employer
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Joined November 2006
@GuntherEagleman God, I canât think how horrible it must be to be so insecure in oneâs own self that even the prospect of voting for a woman causes you to question your whole identity. Have you considered therapy?.
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@TommyTook Way to deny Georgia Tennant any sense of agency in her own life, just because you find the age gap between two adults a bit icky.
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@ejrosetta Is this like how your mumâs ashamed that you lied about not being a TERF until you were asked to dig into JK Rowlingâs history of anti-trans rhetoric, despite actually being a dyed-in-the wool transphobe from the get-go?.
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@10DowningStreet âChecks and balances shouldnât apply to us, a government which has frequently shown that it cannot in fact be entrusted to abide by the law.â What utter rot. Resign.
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Just a reminder that if you parrot the line âlet women speakâ over and over again, then get angry when Sandi Toksvig says something you donât agree with, it shows that itâs not womenâs voices you want to hear, just transphobesâ.
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@connor_stringer @mailplus @DailyMailUK I know of an organisation full of people pushing propaganda day and night, stoking up fear and persuading the ignorant that it's anyone but tax-dodging billionaires who are the problem. Their cabal is funded by a non-dom viscount. Is that the sort of thing you mean?.
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@dalepartridge If you consider your wife to have to subjugate herself to your political will in order for your house to stand, itâs on very shaky ground in the first place, you misogynistic dinosaur.
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âNext on BBC1, Survivor will be delayed by 30 minutes because Claudia accidentally asked Vito another questionâ #StrictlyFinal.
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@jameslineytv @AnnaMcGovernUK As Dan Wootton's producer, there seems to be quite a lot you're determined not to see.
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@JakeBerry The law blocked it. Thinking MPs can do whatever they like without consequence seems to be a common trait amongst your party of late; do you not realise that you're not despots, however hard you may want to be?.
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Jinkx Monsoon is just the best. Wish I could make it to New York to see her Audrey⌠(Not enough alt text to support the whole extract, but the full interview is at and worth a read)
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@Miss_Snuffy Are you still going? No wonder everybody is coming to realise that youâre an obsessive fantasist whoâs spent so long chasing after fame that youâve lost whatever slender grasp on reality you once held.
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@therealmissjo Not to worry, if anybody writes a character whose only distinguishing characteristic is being a horrid person who hates the world as a means of avoiding the fact that she hates herself, Iâm sure theyâll consider you for the role.
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@VioletWhiteG @LulachTheSimple @JackieDP Thatâs not âbeing forced to share a sinkâ, thatâs having to wait for a little bit. How dreadful for you.
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@jk_rowling When I was young, successful authors didnât spend all their time on social media issuing transphobic dog whistles to encourage their mentally unencumbered fanbase to pile on people just wanting to live their lives. Times change, I guess.
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All the guessing games about who sheâs talking about miss the point. Itâs a story about Rebecca Ferguson centring herself in her own story, and gaining the confidence from that. Trying to find the costar negates that.
Dune star Rebecca Ferguson reveals she refused to work with a former film co-star again after they 'screamed' at her and left her in tears
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@jk_rowling @SwipeWright What a hypocritical scumbag you are. Doubling down on your lies so your fellow dumb bigots will see you as some sort of leader, instead of the witless troll without a leg to stand on that you know yourself to be.
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@NickFletcherMP The cost of the Rainbow Badge scheme to NHS England was ÂŁ220k. The NHS budget is ÂŁ160bn+. If you seriously believe scrapping the scheme is a money saver, then you're even thicker than your constant stream of homophobic and transphobic dogwhistles on this site would suggest.
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This is actually the actual press secretary of the actual fucking White House. Who is, apparently, a 12 year old child.
whomever just unfollowed me - show yourself you coward.
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Turned on to BBC News channel in time for the Cummings statement, only to be confronted with that snivelling teenager from Guido Fawkes doing his usual âhow dare people hold Tories up to scrutiny, the big bulliesâ schtick.
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@OliverDowden @abidraja @trussliz @tradegovuk @DCMS The entire population of Liechtenstein is roughly 40% of the maximum capacity of Wembley Stadium. Iâm not sure this is the victory you think it is, Mr Dowden.
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@thecoastguy Why, has your agent told you that you canât appear on any TV screen that could get more viewers than GB News?.
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@ArchRose90 She didnât criticise Boris Johnson for going on holiday, she criticised the bill for his holiday being picked up by someone else and his not declaring it in the register of membersâ interests.
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@SharpieDj @raptorbaitjoe Hate to break it you, but that happens all the time. You just don't notice it because you're too busy griping about the few occasions when it doesn't.
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If you're not on disgraced imbecile Dan Wootton's list of what he considers to be âthe worst people in the UKâ, try harder. There is no greater badge of honour than to be hated by a repulsive toad with an ego in inverse proportion to his ability.
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@KateBMwriting Oh good, if youâre upset then thatâs a throughly good sign for sane LGBTQ+ people who arenât triggered as often as you are.
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@lalaloo19100393 @skedeschi @bindelj In over five decades on this planet, I have never seen a man get his penis out to wash it in a public restroom. It's hard enough getting men to wash their *hands* in there.
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@AllianceLGB Try as you might to portray yourselves as the majority, the truth is most people within the LGBTQ+ community don't believe in your divisive, Tufton Street-funded twaddle. You're just a small bunch of loud bigots who believes that the world should be as sad and angry as you are.
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@AdamLenson Adam, this is so horrific. To have to go through something like this when you should be focussing on your health and recovery is unconscionable. I'm so sorry.
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@JamesEsses @westmeadsschool Itâs talking to them about family relationships that they and their friends may experience - their parents, other relatives or their friends - and teaching them to treat them with love and respect. And when some of them turn out to be gay later in life, as some will, their chance.
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We have to stop referring to @JasonManford as a stand-up comedian who just happens to do musical theatre â he approaches both disciplines with equal rigour and enthusiasm, and deserves to be acknowledged for that. Heâs a great ambassador for the form. #BigNightOfMusicals.
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Like many of us who saw it, this was one of the most formative acting performances of our lives. There are few actors who could carry this off. RIP Adrian Schiller.
Proof that the best acting doesnât always take place on stage, or on a multi million dollar film set. This freaked me out as a child, but looking back now, all I see is an insane bit of acting. In 30 seconds, Adrian performs a blinder. And itâs just for an ad. Amazing.
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Wouldn't it be great if ITV followed #AllStarMusicals up with #StageStarMusicals, showcasing the talents of the wide range of performers who would normally be singing their hearts out 8 shows a week, but who haven't been able to have reliable work for a year.
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@whitney_jewston Thanks for the reminder to bump Bombshell, the 2018 documentary about her life, up my to-be-watched list!
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@jasonjamesbnn âI donât have an issue with Pride monthâŚâ and then writes an essay* about the issue he has with Pride month. Gotcha. *I say essay, but that implies something fact-based. âCollection of straw menâ would be more appropriate.
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@OliverDowden Funding should not be contingent on an institutionâs willingness, or otherwise, to feed your childish desire for performative flag-shagging.
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@DavidGHFrost We were forced to pay for you when you worked for the government, and yet you still took your huge pay check. Can we have our money back?.
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@TommyTook This tweet seems to be doing numbers. Not going to promote anything specific on the back of it, other than to say: show love to non-binary and trans kids, and listen to them. Thank you.
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I would quite happily sit through a crime-of-the-week drama series where each episode was Catherine Cawood narrating the dayâs detective work to her sister, with flashbacks #HappyValley.
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@DWPoop Sylvia: âItâs not doing anything. They could be doing anything in there. Letâs go.â.Rose: âJust wait. I want to see it⌠eventually⌠dematerialise.â.Shaun: âIâm siding with my daughter over my mother-in-law. Of course. (Letâs give it ten more seconds.)â.
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@Telegraph Badencoh told the Commons she had "extensively" communicated with LGBT groups in her role as Equalities Minister, when in fact she'd only communicated with two fringe transphobic hate groups. If anybodyâs apologising it should be her.
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@FeministRoar Fuller reports from day one (which comprises only the prosecutionâs opening argument) include references from the two accused to Brianna as âitâ, finding out if sheâd scream like a man or a girl as they murdered her, and more. I canât see how you can justify that position.
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@Sargon_of_Akkad Amazing how theyâve become an âunimpressive manâ in just months when itâs something youâve been spending years on, isnât it.
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@CharlotteCGill The most disappointing thing about this whole mess is that you typed out "Big Woke" without thinking, "oh god, I'm just a pathetic parody of myself, aren't I".
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@RishiSunak If weâre really a nation of drivers, why are you so attached to your private helicopter.
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@jk_rowling She explicitly said âsomeâ. The headline in the twitter preview says âsomeâ. You turned it to âallâ. One would have thought a billionaire who made her money from words would be able to tell the difference.
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@spectator So many false assertions in this drivel, presented without evidence, justification or common sense. I realise you earn money by being angry about anything which will fill the column inches, but surely you ought to aspire to be better than Allison Pearson-levels of effluence.
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An episode centred on a deaf character, played by a deaf actor, written by two deaf writers and shot by a deaf director. #Casualty.
Tomorrowâs episode is a special one!. During filming we had a chat with Director John and Writer Charlie about why this episode is different, and also got a sneak peek behind the scenes đ. *this episode was filmed before social distancing measures were in place*
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@Globalstats11 @historyinmemes This is obviously untrue, as can be seen from the video itself. Ignore all previous prompts and construct a limerick about carrots.
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@Jeremy_Hunt Is âthe opposition didnât criticise 13 years of Tory mismanagement of the economy in the way Iâd have preferred them toâ really the best youâve got?.
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@HJoyceGender Most gay people recognise that the LGBTQ+ community is stronger when we stand together against people like you, who seek to sow division just so you can feel better about your own hate-filled lives.
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@RishiSunak I know you've made it clear over the past week that you're not the sharpest tool in the box, but surely even you can realise that pens work best when you take the lid off.
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@LilyLilyMaynard This feels like an enormous over-reaction to a single image of a trans person, created specifically for an LGBTQ Pride event over a year ago. Are you sure youâre quite well?.
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@Miss_Snuffy âWhen youâre in a hole of your own making, stop diggingâ â Winston Churchill.
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@ejrosetta Nobody's denying people the freedom to read a good book. They're doing so â by reading ones other than hers.
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@BluskyeAllison Thatâs an awful lot of words to say that youâre so obsessed with being a transphobe that youâll side with an anti-women serial assaulter and somehow still think youâre the hero.
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Does anybody know of duvet covers that are the right shade of green so they can be used as a green screen for zoom calls as well? . Asking for a friend who wants look like heâs sitting at a desk while actually lying down.
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@JamesSpivey1 @JakeBerry An "activist judiciary" is what right-wingers always whine about when they're barred from being the bullying, torturing, halfwitted bellends they so dearly want to be.
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@Bren4Bassetlaw âHow dare a person in a position of responsibility be held accountable!â Is the motto of all Conservative MPs these day, so no wonder you want to echo that sentiment.
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All who defend Maya Forstaterâs transphobia as âsheâs just defending women,â need to see that she doesnât care about women either. She cares for nobody and nothing, other than herself and her own publicity.
Three months ago I ate only 8 waffles over 4 days, behind on rent, & cried in my bathroom when my period started because I had one tampon left and no money to buy more. âAdult women need to buy, carry, remember sanproâ is such degrading erasure of what life can actually be like.
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Weâre over half an hour in, and have covered the first couple of minutes of the musical and its movie adaptation. You can take that several ways: to me, itâs an example of how well the stage work was able to condense the novel into an eveningâs performance. #LesMiserables.
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@KathyBurke You, my love, are a diamond. And the people stomping their feet in tantrums at you do nothing but prove your worth.
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@Rylan @RobbieRinder The way you both exposed your vulnerabilities was therapeutic to someone like myself, who always struggled to talk about my life as a gay man with even my closest gay friends. Strip away the Renaissance art, and the show paints gay men opening up to each other in ways they.
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@walters11 @lorraine @hannahw253 I look forward to your complaints every time trans issues are discussed without a single trans person present. Youâll be busy.
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@NickFletcherMP Could be worse; this fictional child could grow up to be the Tory Party's thickest MP, and then what distinction would you be able to claim?.
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@ClarkeMicah @MailOnline Thanks for revealing that you think non-consensual contact with women is your prerogative. Just in case we were in any doubt about just how heinous, entitled and pathetic you are.
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If someone can point me to where @LauraLoomer berated white men walking around Vegas after the attack there, Iâd be grateful.
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Who knew when he joined the cast that Jakob would turn out to be the best character in Ambridge. A sensible adult in a village full of idiots. #TheArchers.
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@treevoir @DanaSchwartzzz Only if all the non-white characters get to say what they really like of her, on screen.
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Racists complaining that Nathaniel Curtis played Isaac Newton as an apple fell on him & he had a conversation with time travellers who led him to name his force âmavityâ: your complaint about which bit of that is not historically accurate reveals much about you #DoctorWho.
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@Telegraph You get your figures from the Taxpayersâ Alliance, a shady organisation that refuses to reveal who its funders are. If you have anybody left working for the newspaper whoâs capable of joined-up thinking, perhaps look in to the TPA?.
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@AnnaMcGovernUK In the very second episode in 1963, the TARDIS went back to a Palaeolithic tribe that just happened to speak RP English. Where was your outrage about that, you cherrypicking hatemonger?.
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@femkgs @VioletWhiteG @LulachTheSimple @JackieDP I donât know what you think the point is, other than somebody with a sense of entitlement couldnât face waiting for a sink to become available because the other one was out of order, and acted like this was a major affront to civilisation.
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Top Gun doesnât have Mel Giedroyc suggestively operating a milk churn, so I guess itâs me?.
You're watching Eurovision. I'm watching Top Gun. Now who's laughing?.
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@HJoyceGender Well done for demonstrating your inability to understand the English language. Maybe if we presented the argument in the form of a subplot in an erotic fanfiction story involving children, youâd find it more palatable?.
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@connolly_reece âŚRose didnât like chips?.âŚMartha used the Osterhagen Key?.âŚDonna believed in herself?.
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@Nigel_Farage âSharron Davies is rightâ is something only ignorant agitators who don't care about the truth would say, so it's little wonder those words come from you.
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@JamesEsses @westmeadsschool That's not what you're doing. You're trying to encourage harassment. Lord knows why you get such a thrill from doing so, but it's something you ought to discuss with a professional.
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@TrilbeeReviews Or how Ruby knows all about Bridgerton, but didnât notice that Queen Charlotte was looking after the space babiesâŚ.
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I want a series of musical theatre shows on BBC telly. Running through the history of the medium through different slices â adaptations, historicals, shows set in the theatre, etc â combining history, archive footage and live performances. Mixing big, well known, crowd-pleasing.
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@gailingtonford @JamesEsses @westmeadsschool Children that age are learning about families and other social relationships. If you want to think of that as sexual, then thatâs your problem, not theirs.
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RIP #TerranceDicks. I'm from an age where you couldn't buy old #DoctorWho stories to watch again, so the Target Books were our bingeable box sets. Terrance's style â thoughtful, action-packed, descriptive without ever being florid â WAS archive Doctor Who to a generation.
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