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You have it exactly backwards. People are celebrating the fact that these people are actually just doing their jobs and following the facts instead of letting politics get in the way and not investigating/charging/etc because it's Donald Trump.

Recycling is just a way for corporations to push the responsibility of being sustainable down to the consumer. It's their way of absolving themselves of any responsibility whatsoever for trashing the planet.

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After 1,189 Corona Buckets, we bring this to an end. Thank you all for indulging me and sitting through these last 3 years figuring things out. HUGE thanks to mojoald for godfathering this and making it a fun part of my daily routine (I'm a creature of habit, so I'm sorry if I forget and accidentally post tomorrow). Thanks also to watcherxp and Ride-My-Rocket for helping with the backend development help! I've learned a lot from you all and really appreciate everything.

Pandemic is over, y'all! Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.

You should say “hey I noticed your headlight is out” and leave it at that. Maybe it’ll go down a path where you can offer to help fix it? But definitely don’t take that on as your responsibility immediately because that is weird.

Just finished episode 10 of Andor. Two more to go

It’s everything I dreamed a Star Wars show / movie to be. No force / light sabers. Smart writing. Great actors. Measured and meaningful action.

It’s just a smart, fantastically made show. It looks damned expensive and geared toward a mentally mature audience. I’m surprised it ever got made.

Before this, I gave up on Star Wars

I swore I would never come back here, but after hearing this happened again almost one year later I had to come back for this one post. I won’t be staying.

First, to all the truly amazing people here and people supporting the trans community know that I see you and miss you, but you know where to find me. And as a friend recently pointed out, I do know there are a lot of good people still here.

Second, to all the people questioning EQB’s logic here let me explain something. Supporting anything related to Harry Potter results in royalties being supplied to JKR. JKR is actively engaged with and helping contribute to hate campaigns against trans people world wide, and especially in the UK.

Every day anyone who is trans is fearing for their existence. Extremists are actively directing their hate campaigns against us. Lobbying and proposing laws to actively eliminate us. Example: Oklahoma and South Carolina both have proposed laws to make illegal and form of transitioning under the age of 26 and 21 respectively and to forcibly detransition anyone in that age range. SC even has a proposed constitutional amendment to redefine gender as sex assigned at birth to strip any transgender individual of state legal rights. In 2022 alone 155 anti-trans bills were proposed in the United States, a 4 fold increase from 3 years prior.

Beyond this, hate crime against trans individuals is also on the rise. Race based hate crime against trans individuals is even higher and 80% of all trans related violence. I know in my case I live in fear every day I walk outside my house that today might be the day someone decides to go off and hurt me, maybe even try to kill me. I haven’t used a public bathroom in 10 months because of that fear. I fear every day that far right politicians are going to pass laws denying me the medications I need, try to detransition me. I’ll die before I let that happen. I fear every single day about a large segment of the world that does not want me to exist and wants to deny me my rights to live. I fear.

So, when EQB came in talking aggressively about HP and JKR please understand we are actively under assault and being hurt constantly. It’s a very sensitive subject especially for a large number of us and brings heightened emotions. To those saying she has a large amount of money and you can separate HP from her…you can’t. And every cent less that goes to her further limits and diminishes her and means less she can freely dump into hate communities and campaigns. Last year she brought in 60% less revenue than previous years because more people are denying her money through royalties. It also all helps make a statement of unity and support for those of us under extreme duress.

I am not going to be mad at people who buy the game and simply did not know about JKR(but please do spread the word and educate them) I am not going to tell you not to play the game is you are in the know. That’s a choice you can make for yourself as an adult and individual.

But I can tell you if you choose to buy the game knowing what awful shit the creator of the property is doing and what awful stuff one of the creators of the games is doing, then I can also choose to not engage with you. 🤷‍♀️

Good people here at the Shack still, keep fighting the good fight. I wish you the best of luck and know I still remember all the fond memories we made together.

Anyway, said my peace. I hope another year from now this doesn’t happen yet again. I’m out :)

AuroraBeam
Formally SolrFlare

Matt Gaetz is a Piece of Shit.

The misrepresentation of what the first amendment actually protects and from whom by Elon and Republicans in general is so fucking frustrating. ARGH.

And the irony of the whole thing; where Republican government officials are threatening to punish companies for their actions (an act that would be the ACTUAL 1A violation) is just…whew.

That means millions of dollars lost for the Catholic church who contributed more than $3m trying to eradicate abortion rights in Kansas, according to campaign finance records.

We need to start taxing churches.