Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased. ❤️

remember that 2001 disney channel original movie “luck of the irish” where the kid found out he was a leprechaun and took down the huge potato chip company to get his family’s gold charm heirloom to prevent that evil leprechaun from controlling his family which had the iconic opening scene where he was in his class taking a quiz and didnt feel like doing it so he randomly selected a bunch of answers and turned it in and the teacher was like yo i saw you you kno this class has a no guessing policy these answers are…. correct…….. i apologize… anyways so like today i was in class and i guessed on my entire math multiple choice quiz without even reading the questions and when i got it back i had a hundred AND my mom’s irish so like what i wanna say is i think im a leprechaun destined to destroy capitalism

disney channel heritage post

It's not just to have a "do over" that doesn't involve the original cast, it's to cut them out of the royalties. Literally the entire point is to make sure all the money made by Harry Potter goes to transphobes or people willing to work with transphobes.

If you watch it, you are supporting bigotry, hate, and oppression. That's just objective reality. All for a story that you probably have already seen in movie and book form.

#the last point is especially true since the old cast receives royalties for anything with their likeness on it#meaning the original trio still gets money for every mug with their 14 year old faces on it#if they stop making those and replace them with the new cast which they will the old cast gets cut off completely#which is again exactly what rowling wants because she cannot stand those 'ungrateful brats' as she would likely put it#and as she has last say in anything that gets made in harry potter paraphernalia this might also explain the decrease in faces on products

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I hate Rowling so much.

There's people in the notes saying they're going to watch it anyway, and you know, I understand how you can start feeling so burned out and numb from the world that it may feel too hard to avoid things that will give you a little immediate relief in some way in order to avoid the long-term impact of funding these things.

But. If you can't bring yourself to avoid watching it, you better at least fucking pirate it.

FYI, Rowling posted this today. She is actively queerphobic, do not support this project in anyway.

I know that this was a foundational thing for so many people. I was one of them. Without Harry Potter, I probably wouldn't be the person I am today.

If you're thinking about watching this anyway because you feel all that nostalgia: It's time to grow up. It's time to move on.

Don't even hate watch it. Make it fail.

It is the easiest thing ever to simply not do anything.

*very suspicious squinting*

Skepticism activated

So it's not a dire wolf (which are not very related to gray wolves at all), it's a gray wolf with 14 modified genes.

Like yes, the technology is cool and the advances impressive, but these claims of de-extinction are so fucking overhyped and in this case an outright lie that it makes me want to bite something

From their own comments on reddit, they consider phenotype alterations to be the same as recreating a species. So their gray wolf with 14 modified genes out of tens of thousands "is" a direwolf because it looks a little different from a typical gray wolf.

"Recent" being 1.3 to 1.6 million years ago, with many specialized adaptations on the part of polar bears...

But also, how do they *know* they act like dire wolves????

So yeah, they've lost all my respect at this time.

It's hilarious to me how Colossal Biosciences wants to be movie-version John Hammond but are 100% book-version John Hammond. In the Jurassic Park novel, it's very clear: John Hammond is a con artist who gives people an illusion, not the truth. He knew from the beginning that what he was making weren't dinosaurs, but he didn't care because he had a story to sell. He wasn't just "filling in gaps" with the frog dna, his scientists were basically making things up from whole cloth and he had no pretence about it- but he also knew what the public wanted to believe.

Case in point: https://time.com/7274542/colossal-dire-wolf/

These are not dire wolves. These are GMO gray wolves. Dire wolves aren't even in the same genus as gray wolves, and we know this from genetics.

What Colossal is doing is scamming the public. They want you to believe that they can pull off miracles. They can't. It's the flea circus where everything is mechanised, but because you want to believe, you "see" the fleas. They might be good at genetic modification and they might be good at hyping themselves up, but they haven't de-extincted the dire wolf. They didn't activate mammoth genes in a mouse. They are lying to you and they're going to keep doing it. Don't believe the hype.

Sometimes I think the best position to be in publishing-wise is "involved enough that your name is in the credits, but not involved enough that anybody ever bothered to ask you to sign an NDA". Like, yeah, I've Seen Some Shit, and I'm 100% free to talk about it.

Something about having an universal translator, and learning to understand without it

My favourite harmless prank I've heard of was done by this girl whose dad was a geologist, and they'd go on day hikes with his geologist friends/co-workers and when she got bored on them she'd habitually pick up a random rock and go ask him what it is, and one of them would explain what kind of a rock that is, how it probably got here, and usually some notions of the more unusual features the rock had, if any.

And she had a friend who had once gone on a tourist trip to Iceland and brought back a volcanic rock. So she borrowed the rock and took it with her on the hike, and after two randomly picked up "hey dad what rock is this", she presented the volcanic rock, in the same fashion as all the others.

3 minutes later there are five middle-aged and older men circled around this mysterious rock, all agreeing on what it is, but not why it is. They keep asking her questions, where did she find it? Were there any other rocks around there that looked like it? Was it like this on the ground? People walking past the group try to stretch their necks to see over the geologists' shoulders to see what's the source of such amazement.

And in the end she couldn't take it anymore, burst into laughter and confessed. The geologists agree that it was pretty clever.

Geologist enrichment

Brazil just had the biggest false flag "communist" terror attack since the military dictatorship lmao

Someone planted two bombs in a subway station here in São Paulo yesterday, alongside the obviously fake communist flyers.

Highlights:

banksy is so funny how do you gentrify vandalism

I thought this was satire, but it’s real.

The correct and only acceptable response to millions of US citizens protesting is "We hear you and we're going to do something about it." That's the ONLY acceptable answer by a government official to US citizens.

He literally said "You can protest, we don't care, we aren't listening." Get. Them. Out.

If you are a Christian that wants to host a Passover seder this year:

1) Don’t. It’s appropriative and gross.

2) Still don’t.

3) Jesus never participated in the type of seder that Jews have today. He lived (if he existed as described in your Christian holy books) during the Second Temple Era of Judaism, when worship was Temple-focused and ritual sacrifice was a key facet of the holiday. The modern seder takes most of its traditions from rabbinic Judaism, which was not the Judaism of Jesus.

4) Don’t do it. Don’t. No, there is no good reason for you to do it.

5) Given the Christian antisemitic violence traditionally inflicted on the Jews during this time of year (the lead up to Easter), it is EXTRA awful for Christians to try and appropriate our traditions related to Passover.

6) Don’t. Pesach is our holiday, and our religion is a semi-closed practice. Don’t appropriate our stuff. Don’t make our stuff about Jesus.

7) There are no exceptions to the rule that Christians should not host Passover seders.

Hope this helps.

Looks like it’s time to pull this out again.

@myfairkatiecat, I’m going to treat this as a learning opportunity, as best I can — and you’re young, so I’ll be nicer about it than I would be otherwise — because your tags are full of widespread misconceptions and inaccuracies related to Christianity, Judaism, and the history between our two peoples that should be reckoned with.

This would be them. It’s, uh…they’re sure something. Let’s spare folks dashes and dig into the problems here below the cut.

Pauline with Freckles 🌹

Based on speculations going around the leaked alt cover for the new Donkey Kong game, where you can see what looks like a small freckled Pauline. Whether if it is her or not, the thought of Pauline having freckles consumed me. lol

It's so weird to me when people are like 'but that will cost the government money!' So what? They're the government, they're supposed to be spending money. What, you want them to take your tax dollars and then do nothing with it? Lock it all up in a big government vault and just look at it? Why are you so scared of giving a third grader lunch or a homeless person a house.

only 5 seconds

i wasn't ready for that..lol

Immediately recognized that look

I'm amused at the ones which finally took him out

The most common name on the flyers was The Carnival at the Edge of the World. The most common name among the troupe was The Cobweb.  

But to Argo it is always and simply Here.

Seven years ago, a young half-mer snuck out of the waves and ran away with the circus. It was less than a fortnight before he discovered the circus had – in fact – run away with him. Now Argo is one of Ringmaster Verdandii’s prized exhibitions, trapped in a lonely oasis in the largest desert in the world. Within the colourful tents Argo and his fellow menagerie of creature and human freaks alike quarrel, bargain, ally, and betray in hopes of unlocking their ringmaster’s mercurial and closely guarded combination for freedom.

But then the firebird arrived.

This is the 914 word long story btw

One legend I heard was that McDuffie, in this brilliantly executed parody of the idea, originally wanted the middle bottom panel to have him asking 'hey, can I say the n-word now?' and DC editorial said no at the last minute. And that's why there's that awkward pause between Black Bomber's first question and Vixen's 'No. You absolutely can't.'