JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

I have a hard enough time remembering HBOMAX

Notice of Zoning Violation on official City of Portland letterhead

I dunno if I'm the last one to hear about this? But the reason the president is sending the *National Guard* to Portland is because the city mailed the government's landlord...a zoning violation notice?

They are sending in the troops to avoid "a monthly code enforcement fee"??

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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Just confirmed I'm one of the author victims of the blood sucking company Anthropic that stole my book to train it's LLM. I filed a claim and it felt really good. If you're an author who may have been victimized, you can find out here:

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/?_gl=...

Stricter rules on artificial dyes. Can't use the "good" ones that result in the brighter colour

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.

Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.

Collective boycott.

Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

Reasonably optimistic expectations

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

I was just wondering what happened with them the other day. Glad to hear it finally ended in an arrest and hopefully the fact that it took so long means they have the evidence to throw the book at them.

the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production

Heads up Pennsylvanians💙

If you can't hunt with a bow and arrow you're not actually trying.

What happened 2A people? Where are you now that its really happening.

So my fingers are itching to dial? What did I see, what did I see?? 😳🤣😂

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:

Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

A portrait of Lenin holding a teacup while looking at a computer monitor. The word "yes" has been added.

Why I’m Pulling My Music From Spotify I’m in the process of removing my music from Spotify. “So what, big deal?” In economic terms, it doesn’t cost me extra to get on Spotify. There’s certainly no monetary benefit to being on Spotify. …

Buh bye, Spotify. My reasoning is too nuanced for a skeet so have a blog post.

johnmdavismusic.com/2025/08/19/w...

Just saw an ABC news headline: "Why is summer tourism down in the U.S.?" Seriously? Masked men authorized by the government to grab anyone who doesn't look Aryan and send them to random countries doesn't strike you as 'bad for tourism'?

Comradery Collect money from your subscribers on a cooperatively owned platform

This is probably a good time to plug alternatives. Here's one with a focus on user feedback. comradery.co

So I know Bandcamp is planning on moving to Stripe but what if we like, pressured them not to

the evidence is continuing to mount that a lot of people really need more hobbies that don't have anything to do with the internet

I’m participating in the YouTube boycott today bc I think requiring us to give our personal documents to companies to access videos is a dangerous standard we should be vocal against. Blackout on all platforms.

If Trump came for their guns they’d lay them down for him.

texas has a tip line to report sightings of the missing TX Dems. 866-786-5972. Please do NOT use this line to report UFO sightings. Please pass this important request on!

The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Hey, here’s an idea. What if we made the Epstein list the most Googled thing of the week just to fuck up their narrative a bit?

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“D.C. Belongs to Us!”
Damn right it does.