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There is something to unpack in Rowling's coldtakes about International Asexuality Day. Specifically in how she was responding to a message that was just a cartoon of some people holding flags that gave a very basic definition of asexuality, but she made her tweet about "Fake Oppression." How she cannot stomach the idea of people outside of her narrow little definitions of the world simply existing. How she must hammer them into "categories" of people that she decides are real ("the gay category" vs. (presumably) 'the straight category'). But beyond that - to slot them into a worldview that views, (to borrow a phrase), "life is permanent warfare." Because the image she was responding to didn't so much as mention the real struggles, bigotry, and oppression ace people face. It was literally just, "ace people exist :)". But people cannot simple exist. People must either be of the populace or of the enemy. People are either oppressors or the oppressed. The populace is oppressed by the enemy. And - crucially - she believes everyone else is playing the same game she is. So ace folks can't simply exist - by identifying our own existence, we must be either identifying ourselves as part of the oppressed populace or the oppressive enemy. Since we are not identifying ourselves as separate from Rowling's conception of the populace, we must be the enemy. Since we are not identifying ourselves as oppressors, we must be identifying ourselves as oppressed. Which means, we are "Fak[ing] Oppression" by simply existing. (Because Rowling is a fascist, if I haven't made that point clearly enough.)

...And I would have a lot more energy to unpack all of this if my goverment wasn't. You know. Currently grabbing people off the street to send them to torture camps without even pretending at a charade of due process. (We are less than three months in.)

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my mum was googling for an article about why everyone in the lord of the rings film is white (like to be clear she was annoyed by this) and the google ai was apparently like “everybody in the lord of the rings is not white. gandalf is grey.”

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i am increasingly convinced that the wedding industry is having a statistically significant impact on young women leaving the mormon church. has anyone looked into this?

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The thing that gets me about the impending Harry Potter show is like. I'm able to, for entirely hypothetical purposes, put aside my disdain and disgust for the author's full-tilt bigotry and put myself in the shoes of someone who's still a Fan, like I would be if the author hadn't doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on being a full-tilt bigot, and even then, imagining the alternate universe where JKR remained a staunch ally and well-meaning if clueless liberal philanthropic darling, I still can't quite wrap my head around why I'd want this show to be made

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it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

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Die Anfrage der Union an NGOs mit der Begründung, man wolle wissen, wie Steuergelder verwendet werden, ist einfach noch mal hinterlistiger und besorgniserregender, wenn man weiß, wie wahnsinnig es ist, mit öffentlichen Geldern in Deutschland zu arbeiten. Ich habe das in verschiedenen Positionen in unterschiedlichen Institutionen gemacht, auch in NGOs, und wurde vor allem für meine fachlichen Kompetenzen eingestellt, aber verbrachte stattdessen den lieben langen Tag damit, Formulare auszufüllen, um zu begründen, warum ich ausgerechnet diesen Kugelschreiber und nicht einen anderen gekauft habe.

"Wir wollen nur wissen, wie Steuergelder verwendet werden!" Meine Fresse, Friedrich. Dann guck in deren Jahresabschlussbericht. Irgendwo zwischen den 1000 Seiten, die sie jedes Jahr überarbeitet und unterfinanziert schreiben müssen, findest du jeden einzelnen Kassenbon und jede einzelne Überweisungsbestätigung, die sie je getätigt haben, inklusive Tätigkeitsbeschreibungen, Teilnahmelisten und Fotobeweise.

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LOOKING FOR CLIENTS IN COLOGNE!

I usually don’t mix personal life with tumblr but I am kinda at the end of my rope here.

I recently moved to Cologne (Köln) and I have real trouble finding clients for my day work, tattooing. It would help me IMMENSELY if you at least spread the word that there’s a new tattoo artist in town that offers good prices to jumpstart their business in Germany.

Below are some wanna-do designs that I have but I also draw bespoke designs for my clients. I offer a safe space for LGBTQ+ people and I was told that not only am I a decent human being but also a surprisingly painless tattooer.

VISIT ME AT BAT.MEADOW ON INSTAGRAM OR FACEBOOK or write an email to batmeadow@gmail.com! Or, you know, just DM me here, that’s fine, too.

(Also my commissions here are open, too! Visit my pinned post for directory)

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Top tier journalism

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It has been way over a decade since this happened, so some details are a little blurry, but I still have to tell this story here too:

So, my dad's colleague was on a trip with their friends, who were a couple. Now, the wife of this couple was a huge U2 fan, and the highlight of this trip was going to a U2 concert. Later that night, after the concert, they went to a restaurant, and who do they see there at another table? Bono. The wife wants so badly to go and ask for an autograph, but in a typical Finnish fashion, she doesn't want to be a bother because surely Bono just wants to enjoy his night and not be surrounded by fans all the time, so she doesn't go.

Then, she notices that someone from Bono's table gets up and goes to the men's restroom, so she also gets up and goes to wait outside the men's room, until the guy comes out. She then stops him and goes excuse me, I saw that you were at the same table as Bono, would it be in any way possible that you could ask for an autograph from him for me? (because apparently it is much less mortifying to bother someone else you don't know than to bother the guy directly, I guess).

The man apparently kinda stands there for a moment, just looking at her, before he asks, sounding just a tad bit confused, if he heard her right. You want me to go and ask Bono for an autograph for you?

Yes, she says. She's being very polite about it. If you would be so kind. That would be great.

The man says yes, sure, I'll see what I can do about it.

They then part ways and go back to their own tables and continue the night, and some time later, they notice that Bono and the rest of the people who had been at that table have left.

Oh well, the wife thinks. No can do, maybe he just forgot or something or just didn't want to do it. It's okay.

They finish up their meal and ask for the bill. The waiter tells them that their meal has already been paid for, and then tells that they were left with two notes.

The waiter gives them the notes. They are both autographs. One of them says Bono.

And the other says Bruce Springsteen.

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I should be able to both read for 8hrs a night and sleep for 8hrs a night. That I cannot is very rude and, frankly, poor design.

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Tradition muss sein 😆

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We're watching Ein Herz und eine Seele as per Tradition (tm)

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Lightlark 3 review release day!

6pm GMT! A live premiere and then it's up for general viewing. 3 hours long. It loses power ever time I say it, but this one is noticeably Worse.

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Wann beginnt das neue Jahr?

Kalender: 01.01.

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