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[eisenkrahe]

Last year JK Rowling personally funded a group called Sex Matters to amend UK law so that trans women *overnight* went from legally women to legally men. This has resulted in mass exclusion of the trans community from numerous organizations, along with ongoing violent assaults on both trans and cis women alike.

With the new Harry Potter series she will be making a reported $20 million per-season renewal + other performance dependent royalties. She has been open across multiple interviews regarding her intentions to use said funds to push forth even more trans targeted legislation in the years to come.

This isn’t a “she gets paid no matter what” situation. The more eyeballs on this show the more money she has to actively harm vulnerable communities. By engaging with it you are directly supporting this and otherwise making a conscious choice to consume HP over doing the literal very least possible to not destroy the lives of trans people across the world.

If my stating the objective facts above upsets you then feel free to unfriend and move along. Your nostalgia-goggles feelings for a tired, problematic franchise mean nothing to me compared to the welfare of my trans friends and loved ones."

If you care more about badly written children's books and imaginary wizards more than you do about real people in the real world do it far the fuck away from me.

Don't try to be in my life.

In fact, you are cordially invited to eat shit and die.

[waknatious]

DO

NOT

WATCH

THIS.

[lone-pylon]

hey, you, you're finally awake

[yekkes]

Hello, I didn't meet my goal for June & still very badly need to replace groceries which have been eaten/contaminated by mice. Here is a snippet of me documenting this to the property manager of my apartment.

I also need to get bloodwork done & see one of my doctors. With that & meds, I anticipate needing about $600 in financial assistance for this month. I am extremely appreciative for all of the help I've received, thank you sm! ❤️

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[yekkes]

$34/600, it's more than 1/3rd of the way through the month, & I haven't even met my goal that I didn't make in June. This hasn't moved in 4 days & overall has barely moved at all.

Y'all, PLEASE help me! Even $56 to reach what I didn't make in June would help me substantially for groceries. I had to throw out a ton of food bc of contamination from mice & have depleted most of my non-contaminated food. I really cannot emphasize enough that despite the notes this has made very little traction at all, PLEASE keep boosting!

[yekkes]

$94/600, thank you! Despite the notes, I have an extremely long way to go, PLEASE keep boosting!

[yekkes]

$224/600, thank you! There's only 12 days left of the month & I have an EXTREMELY long way to go! really need to get bloodwork soon & to see my doctor, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE keep boosting!

[yekkes]

Despite the notes, there's less than 2 weeks left of the month & I have an extremely long way to go! I would really like to be able to see my doctor, get my blood tested, & pick up all of my meds before I run out at the beginning of August. $376 left to go to meet my goal, please help me reach it & PLEASE, PLEASE keep boosting!

[valtsv]

how it feels to recognise the horror in the mundane

[valtsv]

how it feels to understand that mundanity can be one of the most insidious forms horror can take

[thehmn]

A lot of people around me are having kids and every day it becomes more apparent that hitting your children to punish them is insane because literally everything can be a horrible punishment in their eyes if you frame it as such.

Like, one family makes their toddler sit on the stairs for three minutes when he hits his brother or whatever. The stairs are well lit and he can see his family the whole time, he’s just not allowed to get up and leave the stairs or the timer starts over. He fucking hates it just because it’s framed as a punishment.

Another family use a baseball cap. It’s just a plain blue cap with nothing on it. When their toddler needs discipline he gets a timeout on a chair and has to put the cap on. When they’re out and about he just has to wear the cap but it gets the same reaction. Nobody around them can tell he’s being punished because it’s in no way an embarrassing cap, but HE knows and just the threat of having to wear it is enough.

And there isn’t the same contempt afterwards I’ve seen with kids whose parents hit them. One time the kid swung a stick at my dog, his mother immediately made him sit on the stairs, he screamed but stayed put, then he came over to my dog and gently said “Sorry Ellie” and went back to playing like nothing happened, but this time without swinging sticks at the nearby animals.

[objectlessondujour]

The psych nerds found out ages ago that punishments that make the child think for a few minutes (about one minute or year of age until they're tweens) is much more helpful to develope social intelligence and understanding than punishments which prevents thinking, like the ones that involve pain. In fact, corporal punishment encouraged lying, extreme reactions, violent outbursts, go figure, they don't trust you.

[bogleech]

This is all really fucking serious and important and I'm mainly reblogging for that, because this correct mentality needs to be spread around more, but I'm also reblogging because I absolutely lost it at the child who dreads having to wear the normal blue hat of shame.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

“what’s your dream job” im so glad you asked. picture this. i am the lone employee of a strange and mysterious tchotchke/bookshop in the middle of nowhere, full of fun and interesting things that i am allowed to take for the low low price of free of charge. i get one, exceedingly interesting, customer per hour. i work no more than twenty hours a week and am salaried 3 million dollars

[feluka]

cats being capable of understanding accidents and even giving you a little head bonk to let you know you're still cool makes it infinitely funnier that they don't understand when you're trying to help them

cats when you step on their tail: i'll admit that was rather ouchie, but given the lifetime of goodwill and trust between us, one must conclude this booboo is but a fluke.

cats when you try to get their claws unstuck from the couch covering: this nefarious bitch has never had a single honorable intention in their dishonest and shameful life, this must be one of their sinister plots or perhaps even an attempt on my life,

[psychotic-gerard]

i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising" one of the tags responding said "this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.

[orchidvioletindigo]

There's a disconnect happening here because the primary function of social media for most casual users is to form a circle of friends around the usual things that friendships are built on: shared interests and lifestyles and ideas of what is important and what is unacceptable. When people are mainly doing leftism on social media, this encourages thinking of leftism as centered around establishing high-minded social clubs.

For anyone who still isn't getting it from someone who helps people IRL: There's a difference between whom you're helping to feed at the mealshare and whom you're choosing to hang out with for fun after the mealshare. You don't have to invite a hungry person with opinions you don't like to play board games with you, but you do have to help keep them from starving if you're serious about leftist organizing.

[trials-era-sam]

[autistic-af]

Look, if you're having a bad day, here's a 6,000 year old pig-shaped pottery pot.

[foggystarfishmaker]

My day's been fine can I still have the pig pot?

[autistic-af]

Have a row of them

[sinnonym]

//wip

Naga Lqg…. Iridescent pale grey blue snek that is very large and hangs in treetops… I love him

More sketches, this is a good and normal size difference I think! 🥰

In my head there’s more lore, like a Came Back Wrong au where SY!Sqq wasn’t able to save Lqg and then his soul is jettisoned by the proximity to the system and he is reformed as a demon somewhere in the borderlands +how Binghe fits in- but I mustn’t think too hard or it will consume my brain

[sinnonym]

Mmmmmm more Naga Lqg

Sqq was just trying to sketch the interesting snake demon he came across and didn’t notice Lqg coming down to investigate. Unfortunately he’s green and interesting

[yekkes]

I did not meet my goal last month by $130 & am suffering badly for it. Despite the notes my last post accrued, the progress was extremely slow & it wasn't until around the last few days that things became less dire for me.

This month, I already had to move an appointment preemptively that is $180. I anticipate needing about $775 in financial assistance this month to bridge the gap between my last goal that was not met with now, my appointment, groceries, and meds. I would have made this post earlier but I'd been scrambling to figure out what to do while knowing it's not likely I achieve my goal this month either. Regardless, I've been seriously struggling lately & while I am very appreciative for all of the help I have received, I very badly need it now. Thank you ❤️

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[yekkes]

$309/775, thank you! It's halfway through the month & I still have a very long way to go, please keep boosting!

[yekkes]

Despite the notes I still have an extremely long way to go, PLEASE keep boosting!

[saja-star]

a phrase that kinda bothers me when talking about women's historical roles in europe is "cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children." you hear it so often, those exact words in the same order even. and once you learn a little more you realize that the massive gaping hole in that list is fiberwork. im not an expert and have no hard numbers, but i wouldnt be surprised if fiberwork took up nearly as much time as the other three tasks combined, so it's not a trivial omission.

it's not a hot take to say that the mass amnesia about fiberwork is linked to the belittlement of women's work in geneal, but i do think there's a special kind of illusion that is cast by "cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children." you hear that and think "well i cook and clean and take care of children (or i know someone who does) and i have a sense of how much work that is" and you know of course that cooking and cleaning were more laborious before modern technology, but still, you have a ballpark estimate you think, when in fact you are drastically underestimating the work load.

i also think that this just micharacterizes the role of women's work in livelihoods? cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children are all sisyphean tasks that have to be repeated the next day. these are important, but not the whole picture. when we include all kinds of fiberwork—and other things, such as making candles or soap—women's work looks much more like manufacturing, a sphere we now associate more with men's work. i feel like women's connection to making and craftsmanship is often elided.

[headspace-hotel]

read Textiles: The Whole Story by Beverly Gordon

It is grotesque that, because we live surrounded by CHEAP fabric, and thus have no idea how fundamental and priceless the act of spinning and weaving was...how indispensable this key technology was to humankind since the dawn of time

[urdtarah]

Doechii wins Best Rap Album at the 2025 Grammy Awards

[thoughtportal]

cleaning along desire paths

[lady-griffin]

Fantastic advice!! And something I’ve realized I’ve been doing for myself these last 6-7 years, even though I never had a name for it.

Seriously, this is such a great way to go about organizing your home.

I really can’t express how much easier your life can be when you accept that there’s no objectively right way to do this kind of stuff, especially when you let go of the idea that it’s a moral failure when you can’t do something the “correct way” nor is it evidence of you being lazy.

Working with (leaning into) your natural limits and instincts can do wonders for you in your day-to-day life.

[xantissa]

Also if you hate vacuuming have a think about why. For me it turned out I just really hated the huge and clunky vacuum cleaned I had. I bought a cheap vertical one that is rechargeable but also very light and super easy to use. I vacuum every couple days now and it doesn't take me more than 20 min. I know this vacuum will die in two years, because the battery just will start dying. But it's going to be 2 years of no stress easy vacuuming!

[paradoxial-cunt]

[ghostrepeater]

[lilja4ever]

the david zwirner gallery and the felix gonzalez torres foundation in the smithsonian removed the descriptive plaque for portrait of ross in la by felix gonzalez-torres. the old plaque explained portrait for ross' origins as the artist's partner's aids related death, and replaced it with a plaque with absolutely no information about the piece itself, who ross was, or who gonzalez-torres was either. portrait of ross was also reeranged to lay on the floor long ways instead of in a pile as it typically is situated, and the plaque outside the exhibition FOR GONZALEZ-TORRES omits his sexuality, as well as his aids related death. i'm in utter disbelief

The Smithsonian's queer erasure of an AIDS artwork should alarm us all

By omitting the tragic story behind Felix González-Torres "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery i

[fleshengine]

oh they just like... Changed it. That's not the same art piece anymore.

[eldstunga]

The trees grow close there, and dark. Darker still when night falls.