The thing about JKR and telling folks not to buy Harry Potter shit is it isn't because we think it can take away her fortune and platform. She's so rich she would still be rich if she never sold another book It is because it is literally the smallest possible hurdle to clear to value trans lives

i see the rumor mill is suggesting the ailing and unpopular nazi pedophile president is going to make a statement soon on how prior elections were invalid so i feel that now is a good time to bump this one

over the course of my life i've heard many many people say "it's too bad hitler didn't find success as an artist, maybe this could have all been avoided" and rowling really gives the lie to that

Holy fuck

When I worked in animal welfare I once sat across a conference room table from a person wearing a "judge me by the content of my character" tee shirt with a big smiley pit bull face on it 🙃

I have so many thoughts & feelings about this

lookin forward to the 2040s when i can read about what happened this decade

Too many people want to vote in the 'perfect person' and then just be able to chill

Not a great week for evil Grahams

Yeah I remain puzzled by people who insist that not furiously repudiating Cheney's endorsement is what doomed the Harris campaign

There's outlaw Wordle, even! jon-e.net/wordle.html

Starfleet regulations says you've gotta have one little pervert on board at all times

This is a fun thread

they should send auto manufacturers to jail for this

I am a Seattle dog enjoyer, I admit it

unfortunately these are all Girls Who Tell Me What to Do. what's next, my MOM for senate? the lady who invented bedtime??

Reminds me how much I'd like to see Behind the Bastards do a series on Georgia Tann

viz.

I should start accompanying every text message I send my friends with a nice photo of me looking like I'm in the middle of earnestly explaining something.

I have now received three of these. Genuinely good luck to them. I'm not donating, but I wish them well.

One of my least favorite parts of this has been "well the LIBERALS couldn't get enough Platner" vs "those LEFTISTS and their morbid love of Platner" with just zero introspection or willingness to entertain the idea anyone on their "side" might have been even fleetingly enamored of this asshole

Playing this with the niece & nephew and so far? I'm struggling with the controls of course but it's insanely good store.steampowered.com/app/4704690/...

There's way too many people, including a lot of anti-Platner types, who are revealing themselves to just be campists by attempting to pass the buck to a faction they don't like and it makes you look like enormous fucking clowns

e.g. newsie.social/@TheNeedling...

Truly we are living through a golden age of funny jokes about how Mitch McConnell is dead or very nearly dead

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

Lol I'm already getting fundraising texts from Maine Senatorial candidates

Good news for my enemies: I broke a nail

A thing he could indeed say!

My bad, I guess, for retaining the capacity to experience renewed disgust

"why women let themselves be in abusive relationships" 🔪🔪🔪

Oh fuck, okay, this one got me right in the solar plexus. Dammit

Trying to pick apart a woman's text messages to prove she's lying about being raped is gutter behavior. Consent can be revoked at any time and reading insinuations into text messages that the sender denies were there is ACTUAL journalistic malpractice. I would not trust a man who does this!

And someone is watching you NOW and thinking "fuck, do I want to go through that if my rapist seeks power?" Shut the fuck up and stop blaming victims if you want women to come forward sooner.

Every time, there's a swell of, "Why didn't she come forward for us to scream at her earlier in the process?" She's watched people like you scream at people like her her entire fucking life.

Except me, of course. But the rest of you? So susceptible.

Make yourself a little sauce out of peanut butter, hot sauce, and soy sauce.

It makes me want to scream that these women are having to go public in graphic detail about their sexual assaults because the pundit brains were willing to overlook the fact that this man is the embodiment of a walking red flag

I would probably feel at least a little differently if Platner and his campaign had done a better job of hiding All Of This and it was just now coming out

"lol" 🔪🔪🔪

'She should have come forward sooner' is always the first response like no she was waiting to see if maybe society would do better and she wouldn't have to join the ranks of women who ruined their lives in the hope that their assailants wouldn't gain even more power.

Yes

Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain.

I think that's entirely fair!

Jenny Racicot, matter-of-factly, on CNN: "I've thrown up three times today." If Platner had dropped out, or been pushed out, when the last round of DV allegations dropped, she wouldn't be in this position today. That she is, is on him and his supporters.

I am upset about everything but also working on my PowerPoint slides fro Friday's PowerPoint party, so there is one (1) cool thing happening tonight. In addition to the soccer match, which sounds like maybe it's going excitingly?

Absolutely embarrassing for Maine Democrats to be releasing this statement now and not over the Nazi tattoo. Those women all had to re-traumatize themselves and be cast as liars and villains by the worst misogynists of our nation bc you all decided Nazi tats were fine, actually. Disgraceful.

challenging to phrase this exactly right because it'd be in bad taste to use this as a gotcha against all his supporters, but the journalists who very explicitly framed Platner as a rejection of stuff like "HR Lady Politics" or (ugh) "smoothgroins" should take a long, hard, look in the mirror today

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I'm getting this as a cross stitch. It's that timeless