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you ever meet someone and it's just like oh wow this person needs a visit from the divorce fairy
It's not just to have a "do over" that doesn't involve the original cast, it's to cut them out of the royalties. Literally the entire point is to make sure all the money made by Harry Potter goes to transphobes or people willing to work with transphobes.
If you watch it, you are supporting bigotry, hate, and oppression. That's just objective reality. All for a story that you probably have already seen in movie and book form.
#the last point is especially true since the old cast receives royalties for anything with their likeness on it#meaning the original trio still gets money for every mug with their 14 year old faces on it#if they stop making those and replace them with the new cast which they will the old cast gets cut off completely#which is again exactly what rowling wants because she cannot stand those 'ungrateful brats' as she would likely put it#and as she has last say in anything that gets made in harry potter paraphernalia this might also explain the decrease in faces on products
via @discipleofkleio
I hate Rowling so much.
howley and aziraphil are here to save the world
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A woman bought a sculpture at Goodwill for $34.99. It actually was a missing ancient Roman bust.
An ancient Roman bust from around the first century that had been missing for decades has finally made its way into the San Antonio Museum of Art, and all it took was for one artist to buy it from a Texas Goodwill for under $40.
In 2018, art collector Laura Young was shopping at a Goodwill store in Austin, Texas when she stumbled upon a sculpture on the floor beneath a table, according to the San Antonio Museum of Art. Someone that looks for undervalued or rare art pieces, Young told The Art Newspaper she bought the piece for $34.99, and a picture of it after she bought it shows it buckled up in her car with a price tag on its cheek.
After buying the bust, Young noticed it looked very old and worn, so she wanted to find out when and where it came from. Read more.
why would this article leave out the best part she named the bust after dennis reynolds from iasip
Imagine being buried alive and then seeing this little guy with a backpack suddenly arrive
It gets better. The little backpack has a two-way radio.
So you’re trapped under rubble, and then a rat shows up. Flicks a switch on its little tumtum. And starts talking to you.
Article here | Organization here
#I love the hashtag women in STEM bc at first I thought they meant the rat 🙈 (via @sprotteswelt)
until you said that it never occurred to me that the woman in STEM was the scientist and not the rat. i was just like “hell yeah, this rat is a powerful woman pioneering lifesaving technologies as a rescue ranger”
why are we sleeping on this
YES I’ve been chased and hissed at by a Canada goose but it doesn’t make me hate them guess I’m just built different
Full Video: Riekko mukana hiihtoreissulla, Tolkuton Willow ptarmigan included in ski trip
For the love of god, PLEASE UNMUTE!!!
keeping rats is so funny even when theyre not doing anything at the moment but looking at you because they have the mind of a guy and the facial expressions of a bug.
^his buglike gaze
I need you guys to listen so bad, but I’m at least glad people on Twitter are starting to talk about this. The government of Canada is expanding Medically Assisted Death to cull the poor and disabled, and now suicidal and mentally ill (these are usually interchangeable of course here). It is EUGENICS and every single disabled rights organization is against it.
Disability payments are $1,200 a month. The average one bedroom apartment rent in the Greater Toronto Area (greatest pop. area by far here) is $2,000 a month. People with mental illnesses are on months long waitlists to get even a single publicly funded session. Weeks to get privately funded care which costs at least $200 a session. There is no housing here for disabled people. We are in one of the worst housing crises in the world right now.
Doctors are now offering MAiD unprompted to young suicidal people. This woman is 21, a health practitioner literally suggested she kill herself.
This is one of the worst Disability Rights Violations we’ve ever seen in Canada. The government is killing us because it is cheaper than funding healthcare, cheaper than giving people housing and food and basic human rights.
Stop being so dramatic. If you don’t want MAID, don’t submit a request for it. It’s that simple. The government is not just killing people randomly.
That’s a lot of words for “I don’t understand how coercion works.”
Asshole. :)
For all the people going “sources?!” or who are trying to claim that this is fearmongering:
This article(1) here, among others listed below, will help us set the stage upon which this atrocity, re: MAiD is taking place:
between 2018 and Sept 2022, the provincial disability pension in Ontario, the most-populated province in Canada, was a) frozen, and b) $1169/mo. for a single adult
never fucking mind that inflation went fucking bananas during the pandemic, and that the offered pandemic income supports discriminated against disabled people(2), as the only ones eligible to receive pandemic funding were those who worked and made over a certain amount of money, so help was largely unavailable
The actual help the federal govt offered was a paltry and insulting one-time payment of up to $600, but only if you had valid paperwork in before Sept of 2020, and weren’t receiving other benefits(3) (4)
in Sept 2022, Ford’s Conservative govt raised that amount by a whole 5%, which is absolutely less than what the cost of living went up by, to $1228/mo
In southern Ontario–where the majority of access to medical care, especially specialized care is–even outside of the GTA, the standard amount required to pay rent for a one-bedroom apartment is over that $1228/mo (a) (b) ©
if you live with someone else, as a co-renter, you will be screened to determine if your relationship with that person is what they deem to be “spousal”; if it is found to be such, their finances will be investigated. If they make too much money, you will not receive benefits, bc you’re officially that person’s problem, not the govt’s
if you rent a room in a house, you will receive less than the $1228/mo., bc you are considered a “lodger”, not a “renter”, and they will dock your shelter allowance accordingly
Currently, any disabled person on ODSP who works is allowed to earn $200/mo before clawbacks begin, which happen at a rate of fifty cents per dollar for every dollar over that $200 cap
ex: if someone earned $250, then their income for the month would be cut by $25; meaning that, functionally, their additional income for the month is $225
Ford plans to “help” this terrible situation, by raising the earnings cap, while also increasing the clawback rate: now, you can make up to $1000/mo, but the clawback is now seventy-five cents on every dollar made over that.
there are currently about 378, 145 people on ODSP, the provincial disability support, in the province
of those, an estimated 25, 000 are working
those who are not working will not receive a further increase in benefits
this means, functionally, that 6.6% of those on ODSP in Ontario will see some sort of positive change to their situation
over 200 advocacy groups are shrieking at Ford to pretend to have some humanity and double the ODSP rates; Ford says “no”
meanwhile, he maintains that “the best way out of poverty is something called a job”
Add to this that Ford cancelled the Basic Income Pilot Project when he was first elected, pre-pandemic, despite the fact that the data being collected indicated it was doing EXACTLY what it was supposed to (5). And that, when first elected in 2018, his plan was to tighten restrictions on ODSP, making it harder to qualify for, while simultaneously increasing the clawback rate on those who work while on welfare, and slashing the planned increase to welfare rates(6)–a govt assistance program that has some really horrifying requirements, by the way(7).
So now that the absolute horror of trying to survive as a disabled person despite our provincial leader believing that people on social assistance programs “have their hands in the public trough”(8) has been established as one of the stages upon which this MAiD controversy is playing out, here, have even MORE sources about the eugenics of all this specifically:
There is a man who is choosing MAiD specifically because of poverty. (9) There was a woman who chose MAiD after two years of relentless self-advocacy, and advocacy on her behalf by friends, family, and medical staff, that amounted to nothing–she was unable to find housing she could live in that did not worsen her disabilities (10). Another woman who simply cannot live, because the special diet and treatments she needs are expensive, and not covered by her disability benefits–and aren’t ones she can afford to pay for, on her disability pension, so she’s choosing MAiD out of “brutal practicality” (11).
This article (12) discusses the issues in depth with why making MAiD available to people with mental illness–whose only qualifying illness is mental illness–is deeply problematic, which includes the fact that wait lists for mental health help–if it is available at all, and if it is covered for you through insurance/benefits of some kind–can take anywhere from four months to nearly a year and a half, and as soon as you’re referred to another service, you’re put on another wait list. It also acknowledges that Canada’s guidelines are the least stringent of countries that offer medical assistance in dying, and that laxity is most pronounced when it comes to applicants that are applying for mental health reasons. This article (13) points out that, while the current applications are reasonably low, they are rising quickly, and 81% of written applications for MAiD are being approved. Of those who were not approved, 2% withdrew their application, 13% died before being approved, and 4% were rejected. Four percent actual rejection rate. I don’t know about you, but that terrifies me.
Especially when this article (14) backs up all of the above, and offers further examples of people offered–or even given–MAiD–in inappropriate circumstances, such as against family member’s wishes when the family member was checked into a mental health ward (15), or when a veteran was advised to consider MAiD when he was seeking treatment. What’s worse is that there’s no way for a family to review the decision-making process, or a method by which to hold the doctors and institutions responsible for suspected wrongful euthanasia deaths. This happened despite the supposed safeguards in place, as well as a palliative care physician stating outright that poverty, not pain or suffering, is driving disabled people to seek help ending their lives, and getting that help, because Canada has the most permissive guidelines in the world and provincial governments that are happy to mandate that disabled people who can’t work live in legislated poverty. It also mentions that seniors have reported being given a choice between nursing homes and MAiD, which is ageist in addition to ableist, and a whole new level of horrifying in an already-appalling state of affairs.
And, in case anyone wants to argue that still isn’t eugenics, somehow, this Vancouver palliative physician, Dr. Margaret Cottle sums it up pretty nicely(16): “In British Columbia it takes less paperwork and less assessment to get MAiD than it does to receive government-supported home oxygen.” That article also states that the Canada Health Act enshrines assistance in dying as a right–but palliative care, the kind of medical care you get at the end of your life, is not equally enshrined. When your choices are “suffer because the govt and society has decided against supporting you in accessing the basics of what you need to live comfortably” or “quick, easy, assured death”, the latter is not a freely-made choice. The bodily autonomy to be able to die with dignity is important, yes, but this? This system, as it exists right now? Is so fucking broken that the only reason there isn’t rioting in the streets about it is because disabled people are the minority group it’s still socially acceptable to discriminate against. And because disabled folk, due to, y’know, being disabled, have a hard time mobilizing to riot on our own behalf.
Oh, and let’s not forget: the COVID-19 pandemic is a mass-disabling event(17). Post-viral illnesses and long COVID are real, and because of the issues in getting diagnosed, the rates could be anywhere from 10%-30% of people who’ve contracted COVID. Which seems relevant, here.
1) https://globalnews.ca/news/9276379/province-quintuple-exempt-earnings-ontario-disability-support-recipients/
2) https://www.thestar.com/business/2021/11/26/cerb-and-crb-discriminated-against-canadians-with-disabilities-new-charter-challenge-claims.html
3) https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/05/30/people-with-disabilities-forgotten-amid-covid-19-pandemic-advocates-say-in-plea-for-federal-support.html
4) https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2020/06/05/prime-minister-announces-supports-canadians-disabilities-address
5) https://nowtoronto.com/news/doug-ford-basic-income-poverty-welfare/
6) https://nowtoronto.com/news/doug-ford-basic-income-poverty-welfare/
7) https://www.ontario.ca/page/rights-and-responsibilities-ontario-works-clients-and-beneficiaries
8) https://pressprogress.ca/10-cruel-and-unusual-ways-doug-ford-has-made-life-worse-for-the-people-of-ontario-since-last-years-election/
9) https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/assisted-suicide-for-poverty/
10) https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-chemical-sensitivities-chose-medically-assisted-death-after-failed-bid-to-get-better-housing-1.5860579
11) https://www.chatelaine.com/health/maid-assisted-death-poverty/
12) https://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/the-death-debate-why-some-welcome-canada-s-move-to-assisted-dying-for-mental-illness-and-others-fear-it-1.6109646
13) https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/health/2022/8/13/1_6025922.amp.html
14) https://globalnews.ca/news/9176485/poverty-canadians-disabilities-medically-assisted-death/ (if you only choose to follow up on one of these links, to only read one? Read this one.)
15) https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867
16) https://www.catholicregister.org/item/34948-surprise-support-for-anti-maid-campaign
17) https://finance.yahoo.com/news/long-covid-patients-doctors-america-172004184.html
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alright here's today's controversial post. a good amount of you on here will be like "english was my favorite subject 😍😍😍" and then reblog posts like "here is why sex scenes CAN'T have symbolism" and "stop consuming media with toxic characters" like okay so what were you doing in your english classes then. cause it apparently wasn't learning or analyzing. i'm pretty sure it was doodling pictures of eyes.
Crow babies are important
Somehow it never occurred to me that crows start out as babies.
It’s important for people to know that these pictures are not of a baby crow. Crows are altricial birds, which means they hatch naked, blind, and very helpless, unlike baby chickens or ducks. Nestling baby crows thus are “ugly” baby birds, not cute and fluffy like this one.
Here’s an actual nestling baby crow:
TERFs have begun using “hygienic” to mean cis because they’re fucking weirdos who think trans people don’t take baths
I’ve been collecting these screenshots for months to prove my point, this is an actual thing they’re doing and I feel that by now I have enough proof to be making this post. If you see someone calling themselves hygienic in their blog description, that’s what they mean. They mean they’re openly transphobic. And a fucking weirdo who assumes trans people don’t bathe for some reason.
No I’m not censoring the urls, all of these people can go fuck themselves! Block, don’t harass 💙🖤
Wow your not even wrong there
They’re litterally not even trying to hide it anymore. i dont usually reblog posts like this but this is important to warn people about. this is why transmisogynists like this should never be given a platform nor should you ever argue with them or talk to them. because that is exactly what they want.
yeah they don’t mean trans people done take baths. they mean trans people are inherently dirty, as in, our genes are dirty. this is eugenicist and Nazi rhetoric y'all
Spoiler alert for historical events a couple hundred years old but since irl Blackbeard was decapitated and Stede was hung, BUT in the first season Blackbeard told Izzy about a plan to fake his death by swapping clothes WHAT IF WHAT IF eventually Ed and Stede decide to retire and just sail the seas as lovers and fake their deaths (again in the case of Stede) by dressing up their enemies so really it was Some Asshole who got decapitated and Other Jerkass who got hung. Like rip to actual history but TV shows are just built different
I saw this joke but thought the punchline would be different, so please enjoy.
This is the bit that got me in the new Verge interview with David Jenkins (x)