extremely cool that the removal of wolf protections in europe are being driven by an eu official having one of her horses killed by a wolf. literal cartoon villain shit
Environmental groups condemn EU Parliamentâs approval to downgrade wolf protection as an attack on nature Today, the European Parliament app
For anyone who thought this is too stupid to be real, I'll remind you the year is 2025. The EU official in question is Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. She is the latest in a long line of idiot Germans to think the CDU disguises her evil.
I don't expect that there is anyone in this world whose life is worse than mine. During these two FUCKING years, I went through endless nightmares. First, the love of my life died, and here I was destroyed and broken. I did not know that there was something worse waiting for me, which is...
My brother died in my arms and all my family members were injured. I saw the missiles falling on the house, but where was I at the time? I will tell you now
I was going to pick oranges that were not ripe. I wanted to satisfy my brothersâ hunger with anything, but I did not expect that my brother would die before eating what I picked for himđ
I apologize to anyone who has decided to ignore this, but please, if you can, help by reblogging the posts of those in need. This is their last and only hope.
My family is still searching for shelter for the sixth day. They are in difficult conditions in southern Gaza after being displaced. Please donate to us here with what you can.
hi, so Charlie Kirk is a person. A human being just got murdered. A non-violent human being whose opinions differ from yours. He did not backhand your grandma or murder your children, he spoke aloud and shared his thoughts, just like you do. You do it all the time. Shouldn't you have the right to be physically safe when you speak your mind? He said what he believed and for that, you think he's objectively Hitler. He didn't put a knife to your throat and force you to hear him, or lock you in a closet with a bomb and force you to change your mind. He just said what he thought. You do that too. And he died because someone shot him for it. He has children. He has family and friends. Are you celebrating this? Really?
He thought children should be forced to carry their rapists' babies to term.
He thought empathy was a problem.
I would never shoot him or try to kill him. I don't think he's worth the effort. I do think he reaped exactly what he sowed, and for that, I have no sympathy.
His wife married him so she chose this. I don't feel bad for her. It sucks his kids won't have a dad... But that's true of all the kids whose parents were killed by gun violence. There are plenty of parents who lost their babies because of the ideology Kirk promoted.
I'm not celebrating. But I'm also not mourning. You lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
My latest weaving exercise: a shadow weave pattern. Both warp and weft alternate between light and dark. By having, e.g. the light weft cover the dark warp (and then duck behind the light warp), or vice versa, we produce lines of light and dark.
This is probably the trickiest warp I've threaded so far, and accidentally transposed a pair of shafts on one side, which is why the bottom piece has a line near its top edge. I fixed that and decided to weave a variant pattern for the rest of the warp (the top piece).
The lift plan resembles a 4/4 twill interspersed with another 4/4 twill, offset by 4. Almost all of the complexity lies in the threading. The top piece is the same, but has sections where the twill doesn't advance, or advances two steps instead of one.
Source: @/eye.on.palestine, @/filasteeni on Instagram
Hani (@dawoudi) has not eating anything for 7 days. For 7 days he has consumed 0 kcal/day. He and his wife are not eating just so their children can eat. He told me that he enjoys seeing his kids eating more. He told me he has lost a lot of weight. I am really worried.
I have been messaging with Hani since last October. I sincerely think that he is one the kindest and most selfless person I have ever had the honour of knowing. Despite his own struggles, Hani founded and has been continuously running @/gazavetters. The @/gazavetters vetted list has been growing rapidly the past few months, a testimony to the hard work of Hani and the gazavetters team, yet Hani's own fundraiser often go for days without donations.
Surviving a genocide is difficult and stressful, to say the very least. What you can see online is just the tip of the iceberg. Everything Hani told me in private just made me admire him more. From him telling me about Darine, his children, @/gazavetters and helping other Palestinians in Gaza, it is evident how much love he has in his heart, love for not only his family but also for strangers he does not even know.
I know he is not going to stop worrying about the people around him, especially his children. I just hope he is also taking care of himself, I just hope that he also gets to eat. But to be able to get food, he needs our support. Please help him buy food in the market so he can eat.
New update 27th of July 2025
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What hurts me the most isnât my own hunger, but my helplessness as I watch my family go hungry. it tears me apart inside. The pain of watching your family starve isnât just hard, itâs a slow death of dignity.
No free people can accept the chains of hunger and humiliation, nor shall history forgive indifference. We trust that you will not turn your backs on them in this darkness⊠you will not leave them alone.
My friend Mosab's daughter, Lama, has been injured in a bombing in Gaza and is in need of donations to help save her life.
His family doesn't have money for food or medicine and there is no cooling system to shield them from the scotching heat.
Please help this family meet their basic needs so they can escape this genocide. They have survived through hell the past nearly 2 years. Please don't let them die now just because of hunger.
My name is Musab Hamouda, and my wife is Aya Abu Al-Qambaz. W⊠Mosab Hammouda needs your support for "Help Us Start a New Life After Our Hom
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I know we are all used to hear bad news from the USA or UK when it comes to trans rights but this time Germany wants to play in the same league.
Our idiots at home ministry came up with the fucking idea to start a register for all transgender and nonbinary people which would mean every person working at some public position could always at any given time see your assigned gender at birth, your deadname, your address and who knows what else.
We had been there in the past. Hitler Germany called it the "Travestite Law" back then. Our politicians didn't learn.
We all know this is unacceptable.
Please, if you are German, sign it. If you are not, spread it wide and far.
This had been stopped once a few years ago. It needs to be stopped again.
Hallo, ich bin Penelope Alva Frank, Transfrau, queerfeministische Aktivistin und GrĂŒnderin der queerfeministischen Bewegung Queermany.
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Transphobia is so antithetical to genuine feminism it blows my mind there's such a wide overlap like you either believe in autonomy and self determination or you don't
As a brown trans boy it sucked so badly to watch those âgender envyâ slides on tik tok and see only white boys with fluffy hair. It was a little thing but it made me feel invisible even in my own community. So these are men that look like me and give me gender envy. If youâre POC disabled/ donât see your self in common trans discussions ïżŒfeel free to add on.
Anyway, daily reminder from a culturally isolated Romani person.
Gypsy does not mean wanderer.
It literally means âpeople from egyptâ or similar, as europeans believed Romani people were from Egypt. It has become known similar to nomad due to how our ancestors have been forced to be nomadic due to racism and ostracization, but it is a SLUR.
Romani people are STILL being forcibly sterilized.
Romani people are STILL being forced into ghettos.
Romani people are still facing violence and danger in countless European countries- and recently, Iâve seen the beginnings of the extremes in the United States.
Have a little fucking respect and DONâT USE A SLUR THATâS BEEN USED FOR CENTURIES AGAINST US.
And for the love of whateverâs up there, ESPECIALLY do not use it to describe your witchcraft. It is playing on the âmagic gypsyâ trope, and is EXTREMELY insulting.
Reminder this also applies to Irish Travellers and the Sinti people, who are also often called by this name.
Also-also please note that some Roma do use the word and choose to reclaim it. This does not mean all or even most Roma do. As with any other ethnic minority group, err on the side of using the word the group calls themselves in their own language, and donât whip out Wikipedia or that one reality show to explain why youâre actually right. To borrow and slightly adapt a word, donât gadjesplain.
John Lithgow, Paapa Essideu, and Nick Frost have joined a âfaithful adaptationâ of J.K. Rowlingâs novels that the controversial author will
To sum up: they still think that trans peoples human rights are an online conversation, and expect the series to run for 10 consecutive years.
So let's get ahead of this right now.
I propose a media-wide blackout of everything Harry Potter related when the first season is released. No tweeting about it, not even to trash it. No posting online about it at all - No Instagram stories or posts, no TikToks, no snaps, no memes on FB, not a word on here, nothing. They will not commit themselves to 10 consecutive years of something if the first season flops. They might attempt a second season, but we can shoot that down, too.
I cannot still be dealing with the hate this woman has for us in 10 years. I cannot still be having this conversation when I'm in my mid-30s. I need her to be dead & forgotten by then, or used as a cautionary tale after her death. We can revive the fandom after she has died, depending what her will stipulates will be done with her bloodmoney. Okay? Is that a good enough compromise for you? You just have to wait for her to die, and not leave her estate & bank account to anti-trans stuff, and then you can get back to loving Potter. Deal?
But in the meantime, we need Warner Bros. to see that they cannot make money from this show. We need them to lose money. We need them to lose enough money that even JKR funding the entire project won't be enough for them to take the risk. Right now, they're saying that JKR's reputation & blatant transphobia have not impacted their ability to find more than enough people to audition for the series. We need them to rethink that. We need them to see that this is not the next Marvel-length franchise to get rich on.
Since I know some of you haven't participated in a media blackout protest before, here's how it'll work:
Don't hype the series / fandom / author / cast up in the lead-up to the series being released. Don't trash it, either. Ignore it. Forget about it. || This means that they won't get good word-of-mouth rates online, which means they will need to really push advertising to get enough people interested.
Don't watch the adverts online. Don't like or comment on the videos, not even with hate or pro-trans stuff. || Engaging with online ads or videos in any way gives them positive data, because it feeds the algorithm & let's them make money from the adverts. We don't want that.
When the series is released, don't watch it. Don't talk about it. Don't tweet about it. Don't post about it. Don't tiktok about it. Don't complain about it. Don't trash it. Pretend it doesn't exist. Ignore it. Forget about it. || They need their launch to earn them money, and even if you're posting about how bad it is, or posting anti-JKR content using the show's hashtags, even if you're watching it in order to know exactly what to complain about & critique, you are still giving them money. They still earn royalties from you watching it, regardless of your intentions. They still get word-of-mouth and clout from you posting about it, even if what you're saying is negative. You know the expression "There's no such thing as bad press"? This is what that refers to. It doesn't matter if you're sharing love or hate for the franchise, because you're still promoting it by saying its name. Also, an overwhelming amount of negative press online can and does lead to other people deciding to watch it to see why everyone is complaining, and arguing about it online, all of which feeds the creators more royalties. We don't want them to earn money from this.
Spread news about other shows & films & franchises & books. Get a fandom which has been dead for 10+ years trending again. Get anime shows & Futurama & ATLA & Adventure Time & Owl House & Over the garden Wall & some really obscure franchises trending across all social media platforms. Get something from the 80s trending in the Top 3 on Twitter. Engage with fandoms you're not even part of. Get BL shows trending in Netflix's Top 5. || This will completely skew analytics online, and it will flood people's dashboards with cmenough content that they won't see promotional content for the series we are blacking out. It will also show spikee data for which genres & shows are more popular & getting more attention & more royalties.
Share media with transgender actors / directors / crew. Share media with LGBTQIA+ storylines. Share pro-trans & pro-LGBTQIA+ content. Share & donate to fundraisers which help Trans & LGBTQIA+ people. Share Trans & LGBTQIA+ history. Show & Share Trans & LGBTQIA+ positivity & love & pride. Do all of this without acknowledging the series or creator we are blacking out. || This will show overwhelmingly positive & inclusive analytics, which will prioritise showing more of the same content. This is what we want the data to show.
Do not give in to temptation to look the show up. Do not look up the cast. Do not look up the directors or producers or executives. Do not look up the soundtrack. Do not put anything remotely related to the series into a search bar of any kind. || Search algorithms still store data, and if enough people look the same stuff up, it will show positive online engagement. We do not want this.
Do not give the actors hate. Do not tag them in hateful content online. Do not abuse them & do not bully them. || This is just unnecessary.
Give the blackout a cool-down period. Continue to ignore it for at least 10 days after the launch. || This forces the show's analytics to fall into negatives. If you suddenly start engaging with something immediately after blacking out the launch, the analytics show a delayed uptake - but it still shows them that people will engage with it, and that they will make money from it. We do not want this.
After the cool down period, mock it. Remember the mocmery that the Velma show got? And you've seen the mockery of the Rachel Zeigler version of Snow White is getting? And how that is impacting the ratings for Songbirds & Snakes because people don't want to watch her, at all, in anything? That is what we need to create on purpose. || If a show gets hate, the creators can use it to feed controversial interest in the show - 'Come watch this to see why people are hating!'. It's as beneficial as positive reviews. They can recover from it. But mockery? Mockery & dismissal is far more difficult to recover from, as it does more damage to their names and reputation. People do not want to be associated with a project which was mocked after it lost them a lot of money. Audiences are also much less likely to engage with a series which has been publicly mocked, compared to hated.
Only mock it for the same amount of time as the cool-down period. || This prevents the series from getting a large spike in analytics.
After this, ignore it. Move on. Talk & post about other stuff. Watch other stuff. || This will result in the show's analytics returning to negatives, and remaining there.
This is a strategy which is proven to work. It has worked for multiple franchises. It is behavioural analytics. It will work for this, but only if we commit to it & get enough people taking part.
All we have to do is:
Do not watch the HBO HP series
Do not post about it online
Ignore it
Do not play, stream or buy any games related to HP
Do not rematch the movies on a streaming service - JKR will still earn royalties from that
Do not post about JKR during the media blackout
Share pro-trans & pro-LGBTQIA+ content & history instead
Support trans creators & actors
Mock the series after the cool down time & then move on
Stick to this method. It WILL work.
And to dispute any attempted justifications for engaging with it:
"But she won't be involved!" || She is listed as an executive producer for the show
"But it's not the actors' fault!" || Actually, it is. The adult actors should know better than to involve themselves with this franchise, and the child actors' parents should know better than to exploit their children's desire to be famous &/ or their love of the series, because the adults should be socially aware enough to know that this franchise will harm their children in the long run.
"But what about my childhood nostalgia!" || What about trans people's human rights & dignity? What about trans children who don't think they'll make it to 18? What about the fact our Prime Minister is selling out transgender rights of his people for Trump? Wht about all of the trans people in the UK who are now facing the possibility of losing more of our rights? What about all of the little trans girls & boys & envies who saw those TERFs celebrating stealing their legal right to identify as their gender, with champagne on national TV? What about trans children who won't be able to go on 100% reversible hormone blockers because JKR funded the vitriol which made them illegal? What about all of the trans women & girls who just lost their legal rights this week? What about our right to legally exist? What about privacy rights and medical & legal autonomy for women & afab people in the UK? What about all the trans people who just watched 21 years of work & progress go down the drain in one afternoon? Are we not worth as much as one of the many memories of your childhood?
Nobody is saying you're not allowed to watch the DVDs or pirate it or read the books or listen to CDs or records of it. Just do not use streaming services for any of it, do not use YouTube, do not talk about it on Twitch & don't post about it online.
We need this franchise to die. We need the producers to see they can't make enough money from this to justify continuing it after the first season. We cannot still be having this argument in the mid 2030s.
We need to get ahead of this right now and stamp the fire out before it kills more trans people.
You understand that buying a Tesla = supporting the Elongated Muskrat & Trump. You understand that buying McDonald's or Starbucks funds Isreal & harms Palestinians. You understand that watching Sandman supports Neil Gaimen.
So why is it so hard for you to apply that exact same logic to JKR, when you can see the harm she is causing in real time to real people?
This link takes you to the UK Parliament petitions website, directly to the search results for "trans".
Check the list and see if you have signed all the petitions there. Sign the ones you haven't. Share them with people who are likely to be supportive.
I'd like to highlight Review law around consent and disclosing sex or trans identity - I haven't seen much about this online (except this post by @mxjackparker - I hope it's ok to tag you btw) but recent legal guidance means that trans and intersex people can be found guilty of rape for not disclosing to a sexual partner our sex assigned at birth or the fact that our gender identity doesn't match that. Which I find frankly terrifying and I think this deserves a lot more outrage thsn it has received so far. It has only 123 signatures right now.
Usual reminders: you can sign these petitions if you are
A British citizen, wherever you live (yes even if you live abroad)
A UK resident (yes even if you're not a British citizen).
If you try to sign a petition that you already signed before, don't worry, the website will tell you!
BIG TRANS RIGHTS UK TO DO LIST POST. PLEASE READ, DISSEMINATE, AND DO THE SHIT IN IT.
Trans Actual: We heard last week that the anti-trans lot write to Keir Starmer very regularly, some write at least once a week. And thatâs all heâs hearing. He needs to hear from us. Write to him today, then put a note in your diary to write to him again next week, and the next...
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The best advice right now, from @janefae.bsky.social; If you're trans or non-binary, If you're a cis ally, If you oppose stripping an entire demographic of their human rights, Write; Use theyworkforyou.comcontact.no10.gov.uk Be polite, but WRITE. NOW.
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A bit rambly, but I think I got my point across. Cis folks! Write to your MP! It's real easy to do www.writetothem.com And important! Try to also ask specific things so you actually get a specific answer instead of a boilerplate one!
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Dear Fleur Anderson,
I am writing to you today to once again express concern at how trans rights are being eroded by the Labour government. I have previously written to you before about this (see case ref FA, FA &c.).
Today's letter is about the recent Supreme Court ruling which included in it a judgement about the definition of "women" under the Equality Act 2010.
This ruling is appalling. I am a cisgender man. I have trans friends and family, as I also have cis friends and family. The rhetoric whipped up around trans people is not a belief held by the vast majority of the UK population, and there is good evidence that it is pushed from extreme sectors of the American Evalgelical Christian right, who wish to use it as the thin end of the wedge to erode women's rights to contraceptive medications and abortions, as well as the rights of gay people to get married (see this piece in the Guardian, for example https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/09/us-religious-right-lgbtq-global-culture-fronts). Crucially, even were this not the thin end of a wedge, it would still be a cruel, harmful and unjustifiable attack on a minority group who are just trying to live their lives.
With regard to the ruling that trans women cannot use women's toilets, this ruling is both unenforcable, and will only result in more women, trans and cis, being attacked for not looking "sufficiently feminine". This will not protect anyone.
I have a dear friend who is a cisgender woman who is over six feet tall. She has, since the "trans issue" has been pushed further into the national conversation, faced increasing holsility and fear when using toilets in public. My wife, who is also a cis woman and has previously had short hair and dressed in a gender non-conforming way, also been met with harassment when using toilets.
I am not saying this to suggest that cis women's experiences are more important than trans women's - I also have many trans friends who have reported experiences of public transphobia - I am instead saying this to emphasis that, in spite of the anti-trans activists' insistance that they wish to "protect women", the results of their actions lead to exactly the opposite outcome.
All this ruling will do is empower people to harass women - both cis and trans - who are just going about their day.
The ruling is also unenforcable. Will there be an attendent checking the genitals of people using these bathrooms? If so, by what basis will they check? Will they check everyone, or only women deemed "insufficiently feminine"? If that is the case, please explain how this is anything other than a regressive, patriarchal step that will set back women's rights.
It has also been widely-reported the the Supreme Court did not consult with any transgender people in its ruling, but five dedicated anti-trans organisations were permitted to submit lengthy arguments. I find that staggering.
In summary, please directly address the following points in your reply:
1) Do you support this ruling?
2) Do you agree with Kier Starmer, whose spokesperson recently confirmed that he no longer agrees that trans women are women, and that trans women should use men's bathrooms?
3) If you do support the ruling, or agree with the Prime Minister that trans women should use men's bathrooms, please clearly state how this will be enforced, including the criteria that would deem a person insufficiently feminine, and therefore require intervention, as well as the scope of the intervention
4) If this ruling is upheld, and trans women cannot use female toilets, and feel unsafe in male toilets, where do you expect them to go when in public, given the relative infrequency of mixed-gender toilets?
5) If you do NOT support the ruling, what do you intend to do to push back against this, given your letter to me on December 15th 2023, case ref FA, where you said "I am a strong supporter of trans and LGBTQIA+ rights and I am disappointed that we still have such a long way to go. The safety, dignity, personal freedom and equal opportunity of all people is very important to me."?
I look forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely,
Guy Kelly
P.S. If you are a staffer reading, categorising, and responding to these on behalf of my MP, please think very carefully about the role you are playing, how can you can take an opportunity to stand up for and help protect a marginalised group, and do your part to be on the right side of history.
@nancymk.bsky.socialâŹ
Want to contact your MP about the Supreme Court ruling?
@transsolidarity.bsky.social has created an MP letter template to help get you started:
if you're not either in the uk or from the uk, please feel free to just reblog. if you're bri'ish or resident here: get writing.
"But I've already written."
Girl (non-gender specific), the TERFs are writing every day. they have an uncontested field. Outweigh their bullshit. There's more of us than there are of them. Make it LOOK like that.
I would like to offer my condolences to all Christians on the passing of Pope Francis. Pope Francis died two days ago, and there was a huge media hype about his death. Pope Francis was a supporter of the Palestinian cause, supported Gaza, and called for a ceasefire in Gaza. He was deeply concerned about the people dying daily, as well as about children. He is Christian, and we are Muslims, but he made no distinction because he was a humanitarian. Many of us died, but there was never as much media hype as when Pope Francis died. There were days when 500 or 600 people died here every day, and today at least 50 people are dying every day. No one spoke about them. They were wronged and died unjustly. The elderly, children, women, and young people died unjustly under the Zionist machine of destruction and genocide. Enough of your silence. Let one of you speak. Stop the war on us. Bring us food and water. There is no healthy water to drink. We drink salty water, and there is not enough food. We go to bed hungry and wake up hungry. The prices of available food are very high. We want to live a normal life, just like all of you. Don't ignore us. Here's a donation link for me and my family to provide us with food and water until the crossing opens and we can leave Gaza safely. Your donation means a lot to me and helps me a lot, so I'm asking you to donate.
