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Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

You shouldn't want to be someone's personal savior. You shouldn't want that power over someone that you could just as easily use against them.

None of you want to remember November 5th, 2024, I know, but here we go anyways.

There were two results from North Carolina (highlighted above) that were deeply important that night: President Donald Trump’s narrow win, and Democratic Governor Josh Stein’s 11 point landslide.

Now, there’s a lot of things we can take away from this discrepancy—for one, perhaps announcing yourself to be a black Nazi on a race fetish porn site was a bad idea, Robinson? And there’s certainly something to be said about Trump/Stein crossover voters. But there’s another discrepancy, too, but it’s hard to spot unless you’re crazy good a mental math. Let’s add those vote totals up:

Trump/Harris:

Stein/Robinson:

There is a 300 thousand vote difference between the Presidential and Gubernatorial races.

And yes, the amount of votes as you go down a ballot drops off (dropping most sharply once you get to the second page). But still, this is between the *first* and *second* race on the ballot, not the back part where it tells you to pick two people for county water conservationist but there are only two candidates and so I just put in the names of random celebrities.

It’s not impossible that some Trump supporters skipped the governor’s race, sure, but we can make one pretty reasonable assumption. There are many people who voted for Trump, and did not vote for a single other candidate on the ballot. I’ve been calling it the “Trump and Dump” phenomenon.

Meaning? For many Trump supporters, he’s not just a Republican. He’s their only political figure. He’s risen to the rank of savior. This is cult behavior.

This is not just partisanship. It’s full scale radicalization. There’s not just a ring of separation between Trumpies and non-Trumpies, there’s a ring of separation between Trumpies and Republicans.

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One other thing, btw.

The population of North Carolina? 10 million people.

The amount of people who voted? Half that.

Your phone screams at you and displays an urgent message. There is a button to dismiss it.

What this means:

"Here is a message the UK government has decided it is of vital importance the majority of the public are aware of immediately. You can only read it on the screen of a device which is actively making as distressing a noise as we can force out of it. The only way to stop the screaming to make it easier to parse what is on the screen is to dismiss the message."

A+ design.

bestie boo, let me fill you in on something: if you're going to take any part of 'good grammar' and randomly assign it to She's A Witch! AI, you might as well give up. It's over. You're cooked. Anyone who has spent the last decade or more learning to type properly, anyone who has spent any time writing articles/papers/essays that require you to use 'good grammar' is going to fall into that 'oh no it might be AI' trap.

Oh, she’s never eating for us again.

Also I don’t think I told Tumblr, but Holly Mop stole my niece’s beanbag chair. We have tried her with lots of different dog beds over the years and she’s been ambivalent about most of them. But my niece’s $50 beanbag chair that lives up at the cabin?

That’s hers now.

My FIL keeps referring to it as Princess Holly’s Throne.

And she cried so much when they tried to leave without it, my MIL brought it home with her for us to keep. The dog stole the wean’s chair and won.