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Screenshot of the Romance Con website advertising the upcoming event in September 5-6 of 2025, showing its run by Mischief Management. “ARQUETTE Remanceton = W Wisconsin Ave + W Michigan St - Google W St Paul Ave Map Data 500 m L Terms Romanceton September 5-6, 2025 The Baird Center Milwaukee, Wisconsin + Join the Facebook Group Join our Book Club M MISCHIEF MANAGEMENT © 2025 Mischief Management. All rights reserved. romance-con.com”

Screenshot of the Romance Con FAQs, specifically answering whether Mischief Management is associated with JK Rowling. “omance Con Home Is Mischief Manag Find some solutions here... Is Mischief Management associated with JK Rowling? Mischief Management is not licensed, endorsed, sanctioned, or in any other way supported directly or indirectly by Warner Bros. Entertainment, the Harry Potter book publishers, or J.K. Rowling and her representatives..”

Screenshot of the Wikipedia page for Melissa Anelli. “WIKIPEDIA Melissa Anelli Article Talk Melissa Anelli (born December 27, 1979) is an American author and webmistress. She is the author of Harry, A History, which chronicles the Harry Potter phenomenon. Anelli is also the full-time webmistress of The Leaky Cauldron, a commercial fansite devoted to the Harry Potter franchise for fans.”

Screenshot of The Leaky Cauldron.org. “L'eaky- Cauldron..rg TSPROFI New Arrivals VISIT SITE • = Harry Potter News | Essays | Crafts | and more! Harry Potter News NOX is Returning to Warner Bros. Studio Tour London Haty Potter NO Jul 09, 2025 Posted by: Amanda Kirk Studio Tour by Ashlynn Webb The Warner Bros. Studio Tour Returns! The Leaky Cauldron is not associated with J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros., or any of the individuals or companies associated with producing and publishing Harry Potter books ar films.”

FYI,

#RomanceCon is run by Mischief Management whose founder and CEO is Melissa Anelli. She’s the author of Harry, a History, was a cohost on the Pottercast, and is still the webmaster of The Leaky Cauldron, which posted about the Wizarding World attraction on July 9th of this year.

#Romancelandia

Litigation as intimidation and continuation of abuse. Sexual predation is always wrong -- there's no carve-out for tolerating violent men simply because we value their art.

(Or if we agree with their political ideology/voting record, as I discussed last week re Al Franken abusing *8* accusers.)

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He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them.

Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.

#evergreen

Sorry not sorry

The Great Grey Goose, Hjonk. 🦢
My favorite Dark Souls Boss.

#darksouls

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

It’s weird to me that scholars keep writing that John Singer Sargent was a very private man who left no evidence of his sexuality when his sketches are like the definition of being horny on main, 19th century style.

They’re grouped into sub trilogies thankfully

I gave my kid assassin’s apprentice three years ago and I didn’t know the author had turned it into a 16 book series. It’s now his favorite. I also read all of them and such a beautiful but emotionally devastating series

If six months ago you'd told me that in autumn 2025 I'd have to go to Canada to get my annual COVID vaccine but I wouldn't do it because coming back through immigrations was too risky for someone who had criticized the government, I would have looked at you like you were having a stroke.

One of the Most Effective Programs to Reduce Child Hunger Is Caught in DOGE Limbo Jeremy Everett, who piloted the initiative at Baylor University, is working hard to make sure kids get fed this summer. The clock is ticking.

“Children will go hungry. And they don’t have to."

Meals-to-You sends boxes with five days’ worth of meals directly to low-income households during the summer, when kids didn’t have access to free lunch. Then DOGE swept in, and everything came to a halt.

We already have this. It’s called the Immunization Safety Office (ISO).

www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

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Cloture has met the 60 votes to pass in the senate with the help of at least 9 Democrats: Schumer, Fetterman, Hassan, Cortez Masto, Durbin, Gillibrand, Shaheen, Schatz, and Peters.

They sold out our country to Trump and Elon. They're traitors to democracy.

We know what to do next time we're at the booth, Illinois.

Fucking embarrassment.

Tesla just plummeted nearly 12% in a day! Looks like people are finally waking up to Elon’s false promises and how he cares more about politics than making good products. I still say $25 is a realistic valuation, so we have a long way to go from the 129 P/E this morning.

two door entrance to house, one door opening onto stairs leading down, the other to stairs leading up.

The Crawler's home when not vibing in the tower tunnel.

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

I'm extra salty today, because my chronically ill, disabled, immunocompromised, elderly father, looked at me with haunted eyes and said, "And what happens if my Social Security just stops coming?"

And I wanted to burn the whole fucking world down. That he's living in fear is SO FUCKING WRONG.

We've been, correctly, beating them up for not doing anything. Today they did something and they deserve credit. Nice job, Dems. More, please.

Did you turn 30? That’s the magical age lots of doctors like to say everything turns south for many afab/women. Turn 30, gain an auto immune disease that cascades into widespread inflammation that gets misdiagnosed.

I just have to DNF so many books these days. I can’t even tell what the plot is or the setting, these books are so meandering or vague. I feel like I can’t trust anyone’s recs anymore.

In a leaked recording, State Senator Elena Parent (D-42) said she’d vote for Republican transgender healthcare bans because trans rights are too “unpopular."

"You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"

Remember when we were like “Biden ban Trump from office” and “Biden fire dejoy” and “Biden expand the courts” etc and a bunch of liberals were like “HE CANT BC RULES” yeah just thinkin about that while planes crash every day bc a guy who isn’t even president just kinda felt like “disrupting” the FAA

"the request for medical evacuation was denied twice...with a message from State Med stating that 'there is no USAID funding for medevacs." blood-boiling stuff.

I feel like the arm scene definitely knocked it up into not YA ...