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but i have never in my life seen a post saying to support masculine trans girls and trans women or trans girls and trans women who like traditionally masculine things and its really important to understand that showing support for trans women in any form is just as important as showing support for trans men so please, please reblog this.

Basic feminism doesn't account for the men who have uteruses. A large part of women's oppression is about their uteri and how it supposedly makes them inferior to men.

No that doesn't mean women who don't have uteruses aren't oppressed by misogyny (having a uterus as a women is a damned if you do damned if you don't situation) but reproductive rights have always been a large part of feminism.

That's why we don't need basic feminism, we need intersectional feminism that takes into account men who have uteruses and women who don't and acknowledges the material conditions of both groups.

It's been said before and I'll say it again

it's a really good video! and it's hardly the only one of its kind. as soon as i watched it, i got about 10 more recommended to me, all from knitters who could tell scishow's knitting video was 1) wrong as hell 2) likely based on genai "research" 3) implicitly misogynistic in its usage of genai and by extension its dismissal of knitting as a science worthy of intentional, human research, and 4) overtly misogynistic in how the script of the episode itself discussed knitting.

(side note: the original scishow video has been taken down, but here's a reaction video from a scientist/knitter that contains the scishow video in its odious entirety! it's way worse than i thought it would be!)

and yeah the video was taken down, and yeah hank issued a half-hearted apology and then followed it up with a video about how he has since learned that knitting is great actually. but then he went on to apparently spend the bulk of that video praising weaving, which is both a different fucking thing, and traditionally a male profession.

you could say that the reason that the backlash to the knitting video didn't make much of a splash outside of the fiber arts community is just because of scishow's reputation for accurate science compounded with the good will that hank green has personally built. and i think that's true, but i also think that the ways in which fiber arts and knitting in particular are dismissed as "grandma hobbies" is a huge part of that. i think that the very misogyny that devalues knitting and other fiber arts, that played such a predominant role in scishow's video on it, is what helped to keep this under wraps as long as it did.

i fully believe that if the chatgpt'd video in september 2025 had been about the history of world war ii or automobiles or other interests that are not gendered as silly little lady diversions, this spotlight/intervention on his genai use would've happened in september 2025. but instead hank green, who has a massive, science-minded following, has spent the intervening time making wishy-washy videos about how complex the issue of genai usage is. and if youtube's algorithm has caught onto the fact that you have concerns about genai and have watched scishow or hank green content in the past, you have probably seen one such wishy-washy video! like this one here, where he uses weasel words to explain why actually corn production has a way worse impact on our finite potable water supply than data centers!

i'm not saying that the facts shared in the video aren't true. what i am saying is that there is maybe some personal motivation behind the making of it. if this and videos like it are perhaps fueled by a desire to justify one's own behaviors, it is playing out in front of an audience of millions and millions of people. so you really cannot compare it to an individual struggling with ai addiction. this is someone with a platform built specifically on science, learning, accuracy, and skepticism, and they are using that platform to downplay the impact of genai.

the cocoon of reassurance and forgiveness that i have seen spring up around hank green.... gives me some pause. particularly given that he has not said he is going to quit using genai. i've seen a lot of posts on how the Lesson here is that genai addiction can happen to anyone no matter how smart you may think you are. i've seen a lot of individuals saying how it reminds them of their own struggle with genai addiction. i don't think that's an accurate comparison. i feel like we are more in the territory of, like, a youtuber who built their entire brand on combating gambling addiction getting a sponsorship with a gacha game and going on to say how this one is way less addictive than other gacha games, guys, trust me!

A double tap is the practice of following a strike with a deliberately timed second strike in the same place several minutes later, usually in an attempt to maximize the casualties of an attack. The term is usually associated with instances where emergency responders and medical personnel rushing to the site hit by the first strike are hit by the second strike.

do not get IR blocking fabric or thick wool to cover your nose and mouth

do not get IR blocking sunglasses since facial recognition has moved up to targeting and identifying the upper face

do not avoid having your phone or any bluetooth devices around these cameras as they can detect and track those signals

do not buy cheap green lasers 1 milliwatt or above from etsy or walmart or amazon (i will not try and find a link if you ask)

do not use them to fry those fuckers from a distance damage the delicate inner sensors by pointing the beam in the lenses

AND unless you want to cost Flock more money in repairs, do not buy a small circle saw or a reciprocating saw and cut down the pole

OR do not climb said poles, spray paint on the solar panels, cover the lens with paint or a sticker, then use bolt cutters to sever the wires

when doing all these things, DO NOT avoid using latex gloves as fingerprints can leak through

DO NOT USE DEFLOCK TO FIND FLOCK SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS NEAR YOU

remember, flock is for YOUR safety :) even though crime rates have not gone down since they were implemented, they're being abused to track down exes and s/os, and many face pools or houses or schools or gymnasiums! Where there are no liscence plates to be found!

DO NOT DO THESE THINGS and enjoy a life under surveillance!

enjoy living in the country where 87,000 of these cameras were used to track down a woman who got an abortion!

enjoy living in the country where there's no consequences for a flock exec to watch a inside of a gymnastics place without their knowledge!

Remember, this is their American Dream.

Please stop buying Harry Potter, a free zine. Printed January 2026. Feel free to copy and distribute in book stores, libraries, neighborhood little libraries, and at conventions and conferences. No credit required. See this guide for how to cut and fold this single-page, one-sided zine.

Transcript of the zine:

Page 1: Please stop buying Harry Potter. Harry Potter is a worldwide phenomenon. Unfortunately, J.K. Rowling is using the popularity of the series to attack transgender people’s human rights.

Page 2: Recently, there has been a moral panic about trans people. A lot of it is recycled from anti-gay rights campaigns in the past.

Image descriptions: The first image features a man holding a protest sign that reads, "NO Men in Women's Bathrooms." The second image shows a Daily Mail article headline that reads, "Children 'Put At Risk' By Gender Ideology In Schools." The third image shows a newspaper article about Anita Bryant that reads, "Popular singer became known for opposition to gay rights." The picture of Anita Bryant shows a protest sign that reads, "Sign petition here to repeal Metro's 'gay' blunder! Save our children from homosexuals!"

Page 3: To be clear: Trans people have existed throughout human history and across cultures. Suggested reading for trans history: Transgender History (Stryker), Trans History (Combs & Eakett), Before Gender (Erlick).

Page 4–5: J.K. Rowling is not just "being mean" on Twitter.

Yes, she bullies trans people and cis women she thinks are trans. She also funds hate groups and spreads dangerous misinformation to her millions of followers. In 2024, she donated 70,000 British pounds to an anti-trans organization’s effort to petition the U.K. Supreme Court to take away trans rights. They won.

Image descriptions: Five newspaper headlines. Headline one reads, "JK Rowling accused of 'Holocaust Denial' over posts about transgender persecution in Nazi Germany." Headline two reads, "JK Rowling and Elon Musk named in Imane Khelif's lawsuit over Olympics gender row. Rowling referred to the boxer as a ‘male’ and accused her of ‘enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head.’" Headline three reads, "JK Rowling donates £70k for legal challenge on defining a woman." Headline four reads, "How JK Rowling funded a legal battle that curtailed trans rights in the UK." Headline five reads, "Harry Potter and the Supreme Court Ruling - are the new cast tainted by association?"

A screenshot of a Twitter post by JK Rowling dated April 16, 2025 shows Rowling sitting on her yacht while smoking a cigar. She wrote, "I love it when a plan comes together. #Supreme Court #Women's Rights."

Page 6: J.K. Rowling has said that any support for Harry Potter tells her that she is right and that people support her anti-trans actions. She is using her immense wealth, fame, and social power to violate human rights. Any attention or money that the Harry Potter franchise gets goes directly to harming trans people.

Page 7: "But what if my child asks for Harry Potter?" We often underestimate children's intelligence. Tell them what I’m telling you: Harry Potter’s creator is using her fame and money to attack a vulnerable group of people. As long as she is doing this, we cannot support her by giving her money and attention.

Page 8: No one is perfect. But consider giving these authors and their works a try instead:

Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

Animorphs by K.A. Applegate

So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane

Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Other's tags, but I'd like to highlight the fact you can no longer just *find* an article that's giving the actual testimony anymore.