[fairuzfan]

Here's a website where Palestine GoFundMes are vetted and shared that you can send out to people. The url is gazafunds.com

Easy to use and simple. Just share the site whenever someone asks for GFMs for Palestine.

[lakevida]

the menstrual cup and menstrual scepter

[lakevida]

your majesty what is upppp

[pilesofpokes]

いい天気だね from pokemakoGO on twitter

[choatic-bumblebee-agenda]

the generational gap between me and the people my age who were allowed to watch spongebob

[calebwittebane]

you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for an amazing reason

[contemptible-scoundrel]

[shock-micro]

don't cry because it's over. attack. attack everything around you. do spin attacks

[contemptible-scoundrel]

[gentlemosses]

there is a rabbit i see a lot in the same spot while on my evening walks and i always say hello. say hi to your neighbors

8x10in acrylic on canvas

prints

[toyastales]

Music box, clock and snuff box, 1820. China. Sotheby's.

[tzimtzum]

FWIW the singular focus on JKR has obscured the major finding of the report, which is how much of the money behind anti-trans organisations is coming from american christian organisations. fundamentalist christianity doesn't have anything LIKE the political capital here that it has in the US, but christian organisations are extremely overrepresented in the report, especially financially.

many of these are the UK branches of US organisations: watchdogs have been warning for years that after winning the abortion fight in the US, US christian organisations are finding themselves with a lot of spare cash to funnel into astroturfing in europe.

JKR's personal pockets are basically the only reason the 'gender critical' side has any financial representation, and they're still dwarfed by fundamentalist christian money. that these organisations call themselves 'feminist' while operating in a space mostly fuelled by anti-choice money is ridiculous but we knew that already. it's especially chilling that she threw her weight against the report when it doesn't even primarily point the finger at her 'gender critical' sect, and as a result is silencing warnings about fundamentalist christian interference in the UK, which surely any feminist would be concerned about...

[hagiomoto]

Amnesty International backing down (hiding its report) when threatened with JKR's lawsuits just shows how weak the liberal human rights framework really is. It never seems to flinch when governments criticize it, but the moment an influential Westerner pushes back, it suddenly loses its nerve.

[ostensible-adult]

It likely also has to do with the difference between UK and US libel law.

In the US, true statements are never libelous (or slanderous). Further, since Rowling is a public figure, she would have to prove that Amnesty International acted with reckless disregard for the truth (with "actual malice").

In the UK, as far as I can tell, true statements can be libelous.

I suspect Amnesty International did the calculus of "How many people have already seen this? Will they keep circulating the tapes? How much will it cost us to defend this? Can we successfully defend it under UK law?" and decided that Streisand-effect-ing the report would be a better use of their time and money.

[hagiomoto]

Somehow, I don't buy that

[tobermoriansass]

i don't disagree that rights-based campaigning is liberal and tends towards stasis, but libel law and its misuses in the uk are a genuine and well documented issue that has been used to financially destroy or harrass people ranging from investigative journalists to victims of sexual assault/harrassment - and particularly on the investigative front, the uk is well known for libel tourism where billionaires use its extremely loose definitions re. libel/slander & the burden of proof lying with the defendant to prove that they were reporting the truth, to shut down investigations into corruption and human rights abuses across the world. in that regard jkr is using a tool provided to her by the law, thru the services provided for the rich to protect their interests, and must be seen in that light. in amnesty's case, the question they face is whether or not their funding reserves will withstand being taken to court by a billionaire who has publicly encouraged all the named orgs to bring defamation suits in english courts. if carole cadwallader ended up on the hook for 1 million pounds in damages, despite a court ruling in her favour re. public interest, how much more so a case bankrolled by this much money?

[ripplesonreflections]

[tzimtzum]

maybe 2? years ago my friend from the standing up convention was like "do you think you have PoTS?" and I was instantly, based on a small amount of random hearsay about it, like no I would know about it and also I don't think it's real or explains my symptoms. oops sorryyyyy

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

my fiancé is very ill and while we fight doctors and surgery centers for procedures that can help, caretaking is my full-time job. if you’d like to support us we have a throne wishlist and my partner has a ko-fi.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

reblogging because pip’s been having constant nausea recently and there’s only so much Zofran you can safely take so we want to try the FDA approved anti-nausea bracelet 😭

[longhorned]

Nancy, March 3,1952

[elbiotipo]

"warm, shallow seas" is one of the most beautiful phrases in paleontology and it's everywhere... these mollusks lived in warm, shallow seas... scientists think that photosynthetic life evolved in warm, shallow seas... in that era the Earth was covered by warm, shallow seas...

I wish I was resting by an antediluvian warm, shallow sea

[neurodivergentaf]

im dying i completely forgot this conversation i had with a friend three years ago 😭