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Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.

r2x2

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

cbarc

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

incidentalcomics

A poetry comic for a rainy Saturday from my book THE SHAPE OF IDEAS 🌨

thundergrace

WOW I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS MY FAVORITE TELEVISION SERIES OF ALL TIME (it's not out yet)

📝

Oh, I am in.

WANT. :)

someone from 1997 wished me good luck. it’s like someone from so many years back knows your struggles and i just, i think i’m gonna cry

that-space-boy

reblogging for luck from friend in 1997

cowboy

A girl can be a handsome fella. This is obvious

mindsmist

always think of this meme when this scene comes up

pusong-mangga

radicalurbanista

you can’t support autistic people and support the police. No amount of paint jobs or sensitivity training can stop police from killing with impunity

anarchopuppy

And fuck the jigsaw puzzle imagery advanced by the eugenicists at Autism Speaks. We’re not a “puzzle” to be “solved“

Half of all people killed by cops have a disability, because cops aren’t trained to recognize or deal with people with disabilities and very few places have people who are trained for those situations easily accessible during emergencies. So the cops come in and do what they’re paid to do - murder anyone who’s inconvenient to the state

thatdiabolicalfeminist

All of this except:

More training absolutely will not and cannot reduce the number of disabled people cops kill.

Cops kill members of vulnerable populations because they can get away with it and are even incentivized to do so, not because they need more funding to learn to recognize and interact nicely with members of a vulnerable population.

A lot of these murders happen after a police officer was explicitly informed about the victims’ disability (see the case above!) and “wellness checks” on disabled people with their disability as the explicit reason for the call are frequently violent. In some wellness checks, police start firing without saying a single word to the victim.

Having disability experts available doesn’t help—see the case above where the police killed the social worker lying on the ground with his hands up!!

The issue is the incentives, not ignorance or insufficient funding. “More training” just means more funding, and we should be pushing for interventions that reduce police funding and their incentives to do harm instead.

theconcealedweapon

Philando Castile: murdered for misinterpreting unclear orders

Sonya Massey: murdered for saying something that was interpreted as a threat

I don’t know if they’re autistic. They may not be. But they were both killed for something that could easily be an autistic trait, and they’re both evidence that police are a mortal danger to autistic people.

If you support the police, you can take your “autism awareness” and shove it up your ass.

anonymous-robot

keepthedelta

possibly the best ever piece of american sports journalism

cosmicretreat

birdturgular

anarchocuntboogaloo

HE 👏 WENT 👏 LOOKING 👏 FOR 👏 TROUBLE 👏

2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241

The euros fail to consider the form: it’s not Johnny’s hubris that is the subject of the song. It’s the devil’s, who thinks his power is worth more than simple love for a craft

aethersea

neither americans nor the modern era have any sort of monopoly on one-upping the devil. one of the oldest european folk tales is The Smith and the Devil, in which a smith makes a deal with the devil for his soul and when the devil comes to collect, the smith tricks him into leaving him alone forever. tricking that bastard is an old and storied tradition.

aethersea

"average person who makes a deal with the devil is dragged to hell after 10 years" factoid actually just statistical error. average person who makes a deal with the devil uses their new hellish gifts to outwit the old bastard so they can keep both gifts and soul for the rest of their long and prosperous lives. faust, who bargained for knowledge of all things and then wasted his 10 years chasing a girl who wasn't all that into him, is an idiot and should not have become the cornerstone of modern understanding of the trope.