A24 is issuing takedowns for all sorts of backrooms content on social media, as well as merch elsewhere right now, that have nothing to do with the movie. I feel like a lot of people were afraid this would happen. They just... own the backrooms concept now I guess. Frustrating

Hot take: if you don’t want to see the Andy Serkis Lord of the Rings movie because of Serkis’ rancid vibes; the animated LOTR: War of the Rohhirrim movie that nobody saw was actually good and textually about how women’s contributions to history are often erased to venerate men.

The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.

Look on the bright side, England, it's only 3.5 prime ministers until the next world cup!

I think every time they do one of those focus groups where they ask conservatives how they feel about current events, they should have to tell them the right answers at the end

The Code of Practice will come into force on the 5th August. Here's what that means: goodlaw.social/3b7a2a

i don't think there's ever been a form of anti-queer politics that doesn't include "also the boundary-crossers and misfits need to be maintained in a state of marginalization, subjugation, and crushing poverty, so i can fuck them patriarchal-style whenever i want without them talking back"

Important stuff

Trans segregation starts on the 5th of August. We will not comply.

"My journey into anarchism did not start with textbooks or academic theories. It started with the heavy, suffocating weight of patriarchy" Worth reading this interview with Amora, an anarchist feminist fighter with a small local defence force in Myanmar. 1/

The Kongregate page for Don't Shit Your Pants has maybe the funniest game news update of all time

YOU PASS LAWS TO FORCE KIDS OFF THE INTERNET AND THEN CREATE TASK FORCES TO PUNISH THEM FOR GOING OUTSIDE, WHERE THE FUCK ARE CHILDREN ALLOWED TO EXIST???

One thing I’ve noticed is that people who primarily tell others what to do are impressed by AI. The people who actually do the things are not impressed by AI. Gee, wonder why that might be.

BELATED #portfolioday I'm Annabelle, non-binary artist from Croatia now residing in Germany. I do dark and bronze age fantasy shit so hit me up if you wanna pay me to draw it.

So many cool trans artists making cool shit in this thread! Check it out! And wishlist my team and I's game, Bitter Silver if you wanna play a cool indie, queer, visual novel that's a love letter to Cowboy Bebop!

Sowwy we called out the fascist transphobes 👉👈 they have too much scawy fascist money for Amnesty International sowwy trannies you’re rights just too expensive

6k words deep on the runescape script, god help you all, for I may not

I'm seeing people doing the "they ban/label us for posting in a bikini, but the ads are THIS?" thing on bluesky too now, and I want to reiterate something I said on tumblr: There is no equivalence in what content standards (if any) apply to ads vs what users post.

hot take: we fucked up when we let computers get so important to society that developers had to stop putting easter eggs into software because they were seen as unprofessional and untrustworthy

Due to the success of our comic strip about the manufactured 'panic' of Lia Thomas. We commissioned another comic to celebrate the non-trans-related advancements of people's rights from gender-critical organisations. We hope you will enjoy it.

Part of it, I reckon, is also that battle shonen is rooted in martial arts dramas, in fighting as expression (whether it's emotion or philosophy), so every pitched battle between foes tends to be a literal dramatization of a clash of ideologies.

Really crazy to learn that JK Rowling once worked at Amnesty International as a bilingual researcher but she was fired because she was too busy writing books during work hours instead of documenting war crimes in French speaking Africa.

The advantage of doing this assassin's creed project is that I can finally have a go at Ubisoft for what they did to Kaniehtí:io's name which has pissed me off for 12 years now

Posting this on behalf of a fellow researcher: Hello please reply to [email protected] with the most grim and egregious stuff Rowling has done targeting people.

it wasn't about fairness, yes you're fucking stupid if you believed it was about fairness, yes you own this shit now, yes you fix it.

You stupid motherfuckers

The centrist waltz in full swing again. Propose something abhorrent; face a backlash; retreat to 90% of something abhorrent; get lauded for your clever moderate compromise while the right wing continue to call you race traitor communists; gain nothing while hurting millions; repeat.

Looking back at the iconic 40k opening speech and yeah no when they wrote this in the 80's it was supposed to be this extremely over-dramatic rejection of the values of the present for a maximally edgy future but yeah no this is kind of what living today feels like Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Charities and NGOs, especially charities and NGOs controlled by cis liberals, were never gonna save us.

The gic system is such a fucking nightmare lol. I have only just gotten a letter back saying I can go back on HRT after lapsing my prescription while I was struggling to stay on top of things. I've been on estrogen since I was in my late teens. I'm 42.

The big literary discourse on twitter right now is whether The Hobbit—a children’s book that won children’s lit awards and was literally written for the author’s children—is appropriate reading for children or in fact such a difficult book most adults can’t “get their head around” it.

My friend the Michigan Strangler has died. A lot of people only know the Michigan Strangler from all that strangling he did and I understand that, but that is not the full picture of the friend he was to me when he wasn't strangling people. We used to go to Arby's. Rest in peace, "Chokey Boy."

Sex Matters says gender-critical voices are being silenced. Yet when Amnesty International UK published research critical of them, they didn't publish a rebuttal; they threatened legal action. Freedom of expression isn't a one-way street. We have responded to Sex Matters' email:

JK Rowling has used her wealth to stoke the fires of a worldwide pogrom against trans people to where she's silenced a Holocaust scholar after JK engaged in Holocaust denial & now done the same to Amnesty International for their warning about trans eradication, but keep buying your Harry Potter crap

Loopholes are when the law explicitly protects the human rights of people we'd prefer to deny rights to /s

R.I.P. Sam Neill. As reflected in the images below, he had amazingly expressive eyes, perfect for conveying passion and madness. Those eyes are what I'll remember about him the most, I think. Sleeping Dogs (1977) Possession (1981) Dead Calm (1989) In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

LGB alliance has 15 items on their news page. New commitee chair. Our conference happened. The conversion practices bill isn't anti-trans enough. Our conference is happening. The puberty blockers trial shouldn't happen.

Truly a phenomenal screen presence who could pretty much get me to watch anything. What an incredible career and film legacy

God dammit.

Millennials entering our era of childhood heros popping it really frequently now eh

okay so lindsey graham says he's about to go check on mitch mcconnell, he fucking dies, and then suddenly mitch is concious and lucid again are we 100% sure this bastard isn't actually a lich for real

I need to share with people how mad it is that the second Angus McSix album already came out and nobody noticed. But that's like too many layers of power metal lore to get people up to speed on.

So, reading the Amnesty report, couple of remarks: 1) Setting anti-trans groups within a broader reactionary "anti-rights" or "anti-gender" phenomenon would be a broadly uncontroversial analytical framework outside the UK, b/c it's pretty obvious to anyone not trying to redwash it.

They don't It does PIP is not an out of work benefit. FFS, these people are about to ruin people's lives with absolutely no idea what they are talking about while they do it. Not to mention the complete lack of understanding about how needs change, which makes arguments like "mild ADHD" redundant

"You need to remember that the allegiance of politicians is to other politicians first, not to their political constituency."

Just got a DM on youtube Don't think I like that...

guys it is NOT FUNNY that Lindsey Graham caught the diarrhea parasite and shit himself so hard that he propelled himself around the room ricocheting off the walls making pinball machine noises and then after he finally splashed back down a completely unrelated 200 pound anvil fell on his head

you gotta work on it, every day. consistency is key, so make sure you get up every day and get your breakfast so you're ready to be as annoying as you can

RIP Lindsay Graham. He got that one explosive diarrhea parasite and pooped so hard he flew into the sky like Team Rocket. He broke escape velocity but bounced off a Starlink satellite like a ping pong ball and now he's headed for the Atlantic Ocean. It's what he would have wanted