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I think it’s fine to bully people for reading Harry Potter in 2025 actually If you want to read your old Harry Potter books, you should do it in secret and shamefully - you know, in the way that J.K. Rowling wants to force trans people to live.

gotta say it would be pretty funny if the rest of the world pulled back from an apparent global rightward lurch because donald trump is such a sneering, incompetent jackass

final day! grab one for your mom!

"Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?" W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Propaganda of History" 🗃️

JKR funded the campaign group behind all this btw. This is why we beg you to stop engaging with Harry Potter media.

MAGNETO WAS RIGHT

This is like saying setting up Dachau was a distraction from Hitler's plans to reoccupy the Rhineland. IT'S ALL IMPORTANT, YOU BOZO.

It’s worth noting that JK Rowling is not only funding meritless legal challenges against trans people until they can appeal up to the court that will back them, she openly gloats about how this is where her money is going. This is what the Harry Potter TV show is bankrolling.

BIRD PROTOCOL activated. Take a bird, leave a bird. Bird. 🪶

lmao Theo's been killin it lately

Still my top advice for any people joining Bluesky. 💙

Exactly this. If you want to piss and moan about how it’s hopeless and useless, feel free, but don’t expect a ton of support from the people who are putting their back into stopping it.

Birds at Sunset Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 1987

Captured on the morning of my departure day as I walked the gardens for my last sighting of the Purple-throated Hummingbird. With their wings beating at 80 times per second, what performers! #Birds #Ornithology #Wildlife #Birdphotography #Photography #Stunday #PhotographersofBluesky

about 90% of culture war grievances is literally just people with nothing happening in their lives getting mad that other people are not as unhappy as they are

My first encounter with a Louisiana Waterthrush. The bird has pipes. They lyrics had something to do with spring. #Birds #photography #LouisianaWaterthrush #BlackwaterRiver

in a way, everything about Donald Trump can be summed up in the simple fact that he can't just say he "enjoys golfing" every single element of human existence is a zero-sum game to him he doesn't golf like a normal person with hobbies. he golfs because it's a vector of white male businessman power

We need to hold the line against MAPLE MAGA. On Vancouver Island this means supporting the strong New Democrat team. I am supporting those who will stop the hate machine of the Conservatives on the island. Here is my latest piece. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Elon Musk really is huffing some Khmer-Rouge-flavored shit right now.

Mist on an early morning at the Noordermolen windmill in Groningen, The Netherlands. #blueskyartshow #peaceful #photographersofbluesky #mist #misty #windmill #netherlands #groningen #holland

Kingfisher

'Why are high fertility people always so weird?' A weekend with the pronatalists

Porto's Douro River through different lenses and angles. #Portugal 🇵🇹

Sci www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sci (click for full comic)

I’m still blinkered that “an exclusive secret society, co-founded by Peter Thiel” is a fact that’s just out there in the world and no national news outlet has put together a Manhattan Project to get to the bottom of it.

lord willing we will one day prosecute miller for crimes against humanity

My running theory is that theres a series of competing plans and interests all of which largely hinge on the sustained attention of singular man with mercurial tendencies and the memory of a dementia addled goldfish. When those plans do get implemented they disintegrate upon contact with reality.

I do think that we are 100% dealing with people who DO have sinister evil overarching plans and are ALSO incredibly stupid and incompetent.

Vancouver residents! Join me in complaining about Mayor Ken Sim's conflict of interest in pushing official bitcoin use in the City of Vancouver He clearly has bitcoin investments, and his plans would increase their value. This is unethical and possibly even illegal Links below

I gave the rottweiler who killed all of my friends' babies a big, juicy steak and I'm here to tell you that you're all being a little melodramatic about Murderer the Rottweiler.

I'm teaching Toni Morrison's "Racism and Fascism" piece next week. I plan to focus on her argument that people who engage in fascist behavior often do it because it's fun and thrilling.

"I DO NOT ABSOLVE YOU. WRITE YOUR OWN EMAILS." has been playing on loop in my head all day