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ayeforscotland

Oh, and by the way, that Supreme Court ruling is where that Harry Potter money goes.

ayeforscotland

what-are-fish

This isn't even a slight exaggeration. JKR has openly given at least £70,000 to For Women Scotland to campaign against trans rights and fund this exact supreme court ruling. x x

Her anti-trans Crisis Centre in Edinburgh has the director of For Women Scotland on the Board of Directors. x

We can presume she's given more (financial) support off the record or in other ways.

Rowling consistently makes passive income on all Harry Potter products. Multiple sources have cited that Rowling earns anywhere between $50 million to a $100 million each year from royalties. Forbes estimated she earned $95 million in 2017 alone. x x x

It is a well-known fact that she earns net profit percentages on all her IP. Every time you buy any HP merch, from anywhere, she gets a cut. Every time you watch one of her films, even streaming or just on the tv, she gets a cut. Every time you visit Universal Studios or Harry Potter World, she gets a cut.

And she uses that money to do this. To strip trans rights at every opportunity.

This is where that Harry Potter money goes.

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nuckgirl16

ralfmaximus

MSNBC covered this story yesterday. Unfuckingbelievable

drcococalico

Don't buy your advisors on Amazon

Rachel Maddow Explains the ‘Ridiculous’ True Story That Inspired Trump’s Tariffs Plan | Video

"You think it would take like a grand plan and some big brains to figure out how to destroy the economy of the richest nation on earth, but

Yahoo News

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spiderbae2319

We don’t talk about Leia killing Jabba enough. Her grandmother and father were born into slavery. Her blood was that of the desert sand and the shackles of bondage. Leia was never more a Skywalker than the day she strangled her slave master with the very chains he used to bind her. The daughter of Anakin Skywalker was the one who killed Tatooine’s most notorious slaver, and I find that really beautiful.

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sunny-arts-blog

Another comm for @meesherbeans!

meesherbeans

This is one of my favorites! Oh, who am I kidding, all of them are. But still. Look at it! The shadows! The glint of impending dawn twinkling through the leaves. The way they’re both unconsciously grabbing the other with one hand as if they’re afraid to let go!!

(This is a comm I asked Sunny to make of a scene in my headcanon and WIP fanfic of how the Mountain Moment went for my MC and Baxter. Really short version is: they ended up ~~making out~~ watching a movie and falling asleep together after being all vulnerable and sweet. 🥰)

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bisexualbaker

Tips for baking with arthritis and other hand-related chronic pain

With some changes to techniques, a careful selection of kitchen tools, and tips from fellow bakers, the joy of baking can live on.

King Arthur Baking

I luckily haven't had to deal with much chronic pain or hand pain yet, especially with regards to baking (crochet is another story). That said, these look like some pretty solid tips! There's also some in the comments section.

bisexualbaker

As this link nears five hundred notes, I'm just... very quietly touched at how many people are sharing it. Whether they need it themselves (or think they will someday), or know someone else who might need it, the fact that all of them are sharing the sentiment of "I want the people who love doing this thing to be able to keep doing the thing that they love" is... yeah. It makes me happy.

tuttleturtle

Kibg Arthur has other baking and accessibility articles too, it's worth checking out if you might need them!

bisexualbaker

Can confirm! I'm reasonably sure I've seen a link to an article about Baking with Brain Fog by them floating around on Tumblr. I also highly recommend checking out the comments on the King Arthur articles; I know there are a bunch of people sharing their own tips in the comments of this one, and I would be shocked if the same weren't true of their other accessibility articles.

Also, a lot of users shared their own tips when this was first going around! Check out my "more tips" tag to find them; I compiled as many as I could there.

catgirlconspiracy

Tips for baking with brain fog

Brain fog in the kitchen can mean anything from forgetting an ingredient to accidentally skipping a recipe step, plus much more. Here's how

King Arthur Baking

bisexualbaker

That's the one, thank you!

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bamb-procrastinates

Commission for @meesherbeans 🌧️✌🏻

meesherbeans

It was a pleasure working with bamb and y'all should hit her up!!! I can’t get over how much I love the lighting and the dreamy mood of this piece. It’s such an important moment in my headcanon and this is lovely. (❤️ ω ❤️)

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daily-spooky

#i support women's wrongs

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redridingheart

I've avoided publicly addressing this but I've been having my work traced and redistributed for months. Even after trying to resolve this in private, I was told that the user would stop only to find more instances of the same behavior persisting. I feel like the only thing I can do at this point is to ask others to not support this individual in the future.

Please avoid commissioning/buying designs from/working on projects with the user melkquette/melkquett3/melkqtt.

Below are examples of my work overlaid the art that they uploaded. Please note that these aren't all of the examples but a select few where it's clearer to see.

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npdkondraki

i like it when trans women exist. i think there should be more trans women

npdkondraki

trans women i love you. never forget this

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amar-bayt-fawaz

ms-hells-bells

that is exactly my point of view. if all people were given universal basic income, we could have tens of thousands of boring, tedious, dangerous, and long term harmful jobs done by robots, while humans are free to explore their passions without fear of poverty and homelessness.

in a good society, automation means a boom in the arts. language, painting, music, dance, writing, philosophy, architecture, etc. these are the sectors that advance tremendously during periods of human health and flourishing

bellfry

Back in the 1960s, we were told that automation and rising productivity would mean shorter work weeks with higher pay. Instead we have multibillionaires, growing poverty, and crumbling infrastructure. The money is all there, it’s just being hoarded.

#exactly

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kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

yourunderwaterskies

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses.

Free Courses from Stanford.

Free Courses from MIT.

Free courses from Yale.

Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx

Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses."

Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

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lumpatronics

SERVICE DOG PSA

So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)

I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up

If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help

Don’t get scared, don’t get annoyed, follow the dog! If it had been an emergency situation, I could have vomited and choked, I could have hit my head, I could have had so many things happen to me. We’re going to update his training so if the first person doesn’t cooperate, he moves on, but seriously guys. If what’s-his-face could understand that lassie wanted him to go to the well, you can figure out that a dog in a vest proclaiming it a service dog wants you to follow him