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.Mostly nonsense, periodically poignant, always caffinated.

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

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Hey, Harry Potter shitheads with your Hogwarts house in your bio! JKR financially supported this case with the money you handed over for her crappy books and associated merch. That makes *you* involved financially with the legal persecution of the UK's trans women in particular, and other trans and non-binary people more widely, because this case has implications for all of us - and potentially for intersex people too, since their bodies don't fit into artificial binaries dressed up as 'biology'.

You were told. You were warned. You can't say you didn't know.

Fuck you.

[fernthefanciful]

The judge states that for the law, there is only *man* and *woman* so intersex people will absolutely be hurt by this.

So once again

Fuck you.

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

The Crab Museum has made a very good post about the falsity of binaries on Instagram:

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This whole ruling is a fucking binfire for so many people.

[ayeforscotland]

Oh, and by the way, that Supreme Court ruling is where that Harry Potter money goes.

[ayeforscotland]

Context.

[what-are-fish]

This isn't even a slight exaggeration. JKR has openly given at least £70,000 to For Women Scotland to campaign against trans rights and fund this exact supreme court ruling. x x

Her anti-trans Crisis Centre in Edinburgh has the director of For Women Scotland on the Board of Directors. x

We can presume she's given more (financial) support off the record or in other ways.

Rowling consistently makes passive income on all Harry Potter products. Multiple sources have cited that Rowling earns anywhere between $50 million to a $100 million each year from royalties. Forbes estimated she earned $95 million in 2017 alone. x x x

It is a well-known fact that she earns net profit percentages on all her IP. Every time you buy any HP merch, from anywhere, she gets a cut. Every time you watch one of her films, even streaming or just on the tv, she gets a cut. Every time you visit Universal Studios or Harry Potter World, she gets a cut.

And she uses that money to do this. To strip trans rights at every opportunity.

This is where that Harry Potter money goes.

[thedoubteriswise]

nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

[girlnumbersix]

resilience is not sustainable we are not supposed to endure life we are supposed to live it

[ohcorny]

it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

[firstfullmoon]

Maria Gray, from “Bad Nostalgia”

[serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty]

[cannibalchicken]

[teaboot]

I don’t mean to be old but computer used to just have games. U didnt have to pay for em either but if u wanted u could get a little CD that put the game onto the computer and you could play it forever and ever even if the company that made it went to hell and shit. You didn’t even need the internet or wifi or anything. And it was pretty neat

[teaboot]

It would be a finished game, too. If you played long enough and did really good you could go to all the places and get all the stuff. You never had to pay more money later it was just there. onn compter

[darillium-night]

Update from the man himself

The Porn Guy aka The Nice Guy aka The Canadian side of Pornhub aka SFW Pornhub’s REAL NAME is Ryan Creamer. No joke, that is legit his real name.

Also this.

Which led him to this.

Bless this man.

[the-nightman783]

[lynati]

I can appreciate him and the service he’s providing independently of the shitshow that is the platform he’s hosted on.

[fly-chicken]

He remains just as funny and weird on other platforms dw

[fly-chicken]

By the way, the topic he was presenting was

‘Can I get an Honorary Degree if I Just Ask Really Nicely’

[bakelitebutthole]

some of my favorite occupations on what’s my line

[minicy]

These are the jobs people on House Hunters have then come out with $1 million budgets

[memewhore]

[fiery-rat]

an important addition

[lovely-v]

It’s crazy and fucked up that being yourself is actually the solution.

[lovely-v]

It’s like. When I was told to “just be yourself” as a kid I thought it was a passive thing. Like oh easy I just have to sit here and be myself. but the reason so many people think that “being yourself” is bullshit advice is because you actually have to make active choices to do this and it WILL make your life way more fun. You have to wear t-shirts of bands that were popular ten years ago because you like them. You have to do your hair in a way that you find cute or comfortable even if it’s “so nineties”. If your friend says a food you enjoy is gross to them, you can’t be afraid to admit you casually disagree. You have to do hobbies that you’re interested in even if you’re bad at them and you cant feel like you have to get good at something before you tell people it’s an activity you do. You have to read manga and comic books in public and get piercings your relatives think are unattractive. You don’t have to tell people you dislike that you dislike them, but you don’t have to give them your time and attention either. You have to rewatch that kids show you’re nostalgic for even if you’re in your 30s. You have to change your name if you hate it, even if only a few close friends can know. You have to get fun girly drinks at the bar. You have to order hot chocolate when you don’t like coffee and black coffee when you don’t like sweet things. I am still bad at practicing this but it is the only way to make it all tolerable.

[lierdumoa]

First you have to realize that "yourself" is a construct built by the decisions you make. Then it becomes clear that being yourself is a deliberate and intentional practice, not a passive state of existence.

[huntress1013]

This is so utterly hairraisingly ridiculous that you wish she made that story up, but it is unfortunately true.

[beaft]

singing house of the rising sun at the pub last night and when the song ended the musicians just kept playing while people ad-libbed more verses about various pubs they knew

[beaft]

(with ominous hurdy-gurdy accompaniment): "there is a pub in walthamstow, it's called the fox and mole, but we don't go there (long pause) any more. Because the manager is an arsehole."

[kestrel-of-herran]

it's so sad that the innies think the outies have all this life and freedom that has been denied to them and meanwhile mark is a depressed alcoholic who lives only in dim lighting, helena cuts eggs in pieces so small the fork shouldn't be able to lift them to her mouth, dylan and gretchen's marriage is desintegrating, all irving has is black coffee and black paint and the black hole of vengeance that wants to swallow him whole... it's just so fucking sad they have the physical means to reach for and grasp all the happiness denied to the innies and they still can't. they're too damaged to. they've drawn a chalk circle of hell around themselves and they never step out of it. the innies' lust for life is the only thing that will help them break the cycle. we can't, we can't, i'm ready, we can't, i'm ready, i'm ready, i'm ready.

[cuddlycryptid]

this completes the capitalism critique tbh. growing up you have no autonomy, and you yearn for the freedom capitalism promises you- with your own money, you can make your own life! and then you’re an adult, and you are a slave to the system until you die- too chained to responsibility, or too tired after working, or too damaged from normalized violence, to truly enjoy adult life. freedom is an illusion, a promise that will never be delivered

the characters are damaged by the system- it took marks wife, it wore down dylan, it isolated and traumatized irv, it constricted helena. until they could be shaped to be what the system wanted them to be

the innies are an expression of the human urge to love and create and explore and live that is denied to us over and over- until the system breaks us or we realize we’re never truly getting that opportunity. that they were always lying to us

[itreallyatemyhand]

I'm so tumblr that I keep seeing tumblr posts about how people don't even CARE about the rumors that tumblr is shutting down and I don't even know what they're talking about and I'm not gonna google it. I'm minimum 3 degrees removed from those rumors. If someday I can't open tumblr then that's that. None of my business.