Good thread. Yeah, Maria Hadden's answer to that question was completely innocuous. Right-wing media is trying to spin it, and it's putting her in danger.

yes, a lot of the books the nazis burned were the only copies. it's knowledge lost forever. there are way too many physical and digital copies of harry potter and you couldn't destroy them all even if all of humanity collectively came together to do it

If JK Rowling could send every trans woman and gender non-conforming non-white woman to Dachau, she would

Defacing Harry Potter books is not the same as Nazis burning books precisely because the books the Nazis were burning fucking contained early transgender scientific research

In case you needed any clarification where Poilievre stands on trans rights.

Hope to hear the Ottawa pundit corps comment on this in light of the “new tone” they all assured us was being set in that Rogan interview

I was just helping my kid with their high school Gov homework, and was astonished to learn the United States has a Congress.

I told you from the start St Peter was trans, and good for him he used to be Simone until Jesus told him to be himself

WILSON FISK: people of new york. for far too long, Super Mario Sunshine has been unfairly maligned by the gaming press, and by gamers. that is WHY i am making august 26, the day of its US launch, a city holiday. Super Mario Sunshine DAY CROWD: [cheers] MATT MURDOCK: [rage ripples across his face]

I looked up several of these and they all return ‘these come from chatjtp’ results

These are all possibly fake but! In the interests of fairness I thought I’d ask and see if anyone can find any of these actually existing anywhere. All the following posts will be different passages copied directly from the book:

He’s already admitted to using “AI” programs in his writing (he left the chatgpt referral links in his list of sources, ha) & has described some of the quotes as ‘imperfect’ & says they’ll be fixed in later versions. There’s a bunch of quotes that I can’t find anywhere except in the text of his book

Hello bluesky! I need to crowdsource some help with something video related. A racist political candidate in the UK called Matt Goodwin recently wrote a book with the, er, ‘help’ of chatgpt. As a result there’s a bunch of nonsense and fake quotes in there

I’m not a socialist because I’m mad at people for having nice things. I’m mad that they built an economy that prevents the people who created their wealth from having nice things too

Movies are also a huge problem. The grungy dirt and booger filters slapped on everything from superhero films to "live-action" Disney animation adaptations make it clear that color is for BABIES. Real adults only watch movies that look/feel like depression. Color just isn't believable as "real life"

Companies make everything the same basic colors- red/blue/black/grey. Cars, kitchenware- they stick to those four basics because they're cost-effective and sell faster. Unique color items often suffer a color tax. They cost more despite being the same product, so poor people have fewer color options

The idea that bright, wild color is something you outgrow is a damaging lie society tells us. This unspoken rule, that enjoying intense, clashing colors makes you childish, is pure bullshit. The depression palette trend has only gotten worse because it saves corpos money. We gotta end it.

there is not actually a respectful version of this conversation because it turns into eugenics fucking immediately none of this is anything at all. it's all a smokescreen and you're all being useful dupes. stop playing along with this framing!!!

I keep saying this because it is A FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH that should be at the core of your mode of analysis

theres no aliens cus we've only checked like 5000 planets so far, theres no super high tech aliens already colonizing the galaxy cus the conditions for life (namely metal-rich stars) haven't existed for long enough to allow anyone to do that.

Flea making a jazz album is really summoning all the worms up out of the earth. "This isn't real jazz!" "He's not a virtuoso trumpet player!" "Why is this getting so much more press than [obscure nobody]'s record?" This is why nobody wants to be friends with jazz critics.

The Right's reaction to Druski's sketch doing Erika Kirk is hilarious, apparently cancel culture should be back, comedy is no longer fully legal, and many are saying this means they're allowed to do blackface now

India’s parliament passed a bill this week that changes how transgender people are legally recognized and removes their right to self-identification. If the bill becomes law, it will be a major reversal of the rights of transgender people in India.

"We noticed you're using an ad blocker." "Subscribe to continue reading." "An error occured. Enable ads to view site." I promise y'all that whatever I was trying to read is not worth that much trouble. I'll either get it elsewhere or just forget about trying to read it entirely.🤷🏾‍♂️

Perhaps the reason people are unable to reckon with the fact that a man is an obvious nazi is because they aren't forced to engage with these kinds of things and the reality of what they mean in so-called real life.

But I've had or read a million discussions that were unencumbered by the many masks that most people adopt in order to do the simple task of existing outside. Both online and reality have elements of reality & falseness. I've found lack of anonymity & face-to-face engagement are sometimes barriers.

I don't believe in the 'online isn't real life' take. I was raised online. People who don't engage online, when they speak to me, across educational background, try to discuss real issues with me, offline... they often can't. They derail. Start asking if I'm a professor. No. I'm a wage slave.

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And frankly, I will always prefer a story to do some actual world building with character names in a way that’s thoughtful and mirrors real life, than some “Remus Lupin” “Kingsley Shacklebolt” fucking exhausting nonsense. In reality, all names have histories attached to them.

They use swords and name themselves after Ancient Greek demigods, and places like “Idaho” may as well be the lost city of Atlantis as far as they’re concerned. They are a completely stagnant culture, with a deeply flawed understanding of their imperialist American neoliberal roots.

“Duncan Idaho is a bad name, it doesn’t make sense, it’s the future” And in the present they’re adapting Harry Potter again! That’s the point. You’ve located the point. This is a future obsessed with the past, unwilling to progress or change, trapped in a cycle of nostalgia and perverse incentives

What in the fuck is happening

i cannot believe i have to bds three of the best things in the world now

as an outsider, i see myself in harry potter (rich, famous, most important person in the world by birthright, friends with most powerful person of all time, head of the police force, best friend is the prime minister)

The day the fact that someone being cisgender becomes the popular explanation in the papers of record for their commission of a crime, we can revisit this discussion.

I’m suspicious of this growing tendency to adopt the “why don’t we want to talk about” article structure made so popular by literal fascists.

There are Der Stürmer style “news” sites now that only serve stories about crimes committed by trans people. JKR recently posted one. They’re used as crime blotters for the right-wing.

There was a guy in 2004 who did a troll post where he bought the most expensive Mac and said "I like the case but I hate Macs so I disassembled it and put a PC inside" and some of the emails he got were just like Saw films level of violent fantasy. This site is that but in support of means testing

I once made a post about how we should bully Pete Buttigieg out of politics. I got *inundated* with rage DMs for a few days after, like full-on "what is your address, I'm going to kill you" tier stuff. in retrospect the tone of those DMs and the politics behind them was trial-run bluesky dot social

Like even trying to consider watching (which, again, I have no interest in doing) and this would be on a loop in my head.

the thing about "i'll just pirate it" for this HP show is that it is *ruined* i literally cannot enjoy it, she has put her disgusting transphobic veneer over all of it and so it literally cannot be enjoyed, even if I wanted to try (I don't) I would see her smarmy cigar smoking face in my mind's eye

For *most* of the time it was doing sex testing, the IOC did Barr body testing, and I think they're kind of coasting on that to say "no, SRY testing is different!!!" But actually they switched to SRY testing in 1992

Quick reminder: the test that the IOC reintroduced yesterday is the exact same test they were forced to abolish in June 1999

Gonna drop the gimmick for a second and explain, as a therapist. What you're describing is a phenomenon called Revenge Bedtime Procrastination. It's a subconscious habit that develops in which a person seeks dopamine-releasing behavior at night to exact "revenge" on the day which deprived them

I’d hope it’s clear why it might be very awkward to talk openly about officials in the opposition Labour party working clandestinely with the Times, the Sun and the BBC to ensure that the Conservative Party won the next election, a thing these officials have themselves talked openly about.

BRAZIL WOULD NEVER

More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.