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JK Rowling, in the Scottish Times: "it is dangerous to assert that any category of people deserves a blanket presumption of innocence." Grim and genuinely frightening. This is the kind of extreme rhetoric you would only normally expect to hear from fascists. #JKRvsLGBTQ
I'm not saying that JK Rowling sounds like she's encouraging her notoriously abusive cult of violently misogynistic supporters to attack women in bathrooms, I'm just not not saying that either. This is important to clarify for legal reasons.
Gender Criticals are simply a group of people who believe in the sacred importance of biology and definitely don't think of women as a collection of misogyny-coded stereotypes.
They just... they just out and out said it
The Daily Mail runs a story about H from Steps supposedly "hitting out at JK Rowling" ...except in the actual article it's clear H never mentions Rowling, he only makes comments against powerful bigots. So the Daily Mail is claiming JK Rowling is a powerful bigot then? Goodness
Imagine being one of JK Rowling's Nazi supporters, having daddy Elon buy you a website so you can scream anything you like at people without getting banned, & you're still too fucking scared to say slurs properly. What's the matter boys, those ubermench knees knocking together?
Eugh. I think I threw up in my mouth a little. You really can see why MRAs, misogynists, and right-wingers love JK Rowling so much and also why actual feminists don't.
Elon Musk in the Grok control room:
grok the nazi
A whole two months after JK Rowling claimed to have no idea who Pedro Pascal is she is still tweeting about him lmao. She is not mad. Please do not put in the newspaper that she got mad.
Pretending you've never heard of Pedro Pascal is such a deeply funny way of revealing you are extremely mad at getting called out by Pedro Pascal. I am not by any stretch a film or TV person, and I know oodles about Pedro Pascal simply because I use the internet.
Yes. I would say the core feature not just of Rowling but of the Gender Critical movement in general is a love of bullying. It's even more integral to them than the transphobia, honestly. I think plenty of TERFs didn't care a jot about trans people, they simply longed to abuse.
Setting aside your very selective commitment to women's rights, have you always been such a relentless bully?
JK Rowling naming these wizard schools:
Remember when jk Rowling made a “wizarding school” map, and it showed how narrow her worldview is
Every British "journalist" objecting to a wealth tax:
If any lawyers want to sue X and do some really fun discovery on why Grok is suddenly publishing violent rape fantasies about members of the public, I'm more than game
I’d underline: we are still in the period where they can’t yet call for a drastic change, because that doesn’t just look like Labour have fucked it. It looks at lot like *they* have fucked it at least as badly, with potentially disastrous consequences.
So JK Rowling saw this reply to her post, read it, and rather than just ignoring it, actively Hid it. Interesting choice there... (Rowling has previously used the Hide Reply feature to hide evidence contradicting her claims - but for the life of me I can't find the screenshot.)
I know it's a cliche to mention 1984, but that opening few pages where Winston is watching refugee boats being gunned down by the coastguard was meant to indicate that this was an unthinkable nightmare world. 300m in cold water in your clothes is a death sentence for most people.
cannot be stressed enough how much this is a step towards legalised murder by the state theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…
We spoke to a senior journalist at the BBC World Service to find out how staff feel about coverage of Gaza/Israel They say the BBC works on an "Israel-first" basis with bosses "constantly buckling to political pressure" Great piece from @BrawnJourno thenational.scot/news/25295267.…
You start off with “LGB without the T” and end up being homophobic towards penguins.
gender critical penguins are going to accuse this couple of stealing a baby from its ornithological mother and traumatising it
In Germany, a Jewish activist is arrested and charged with public incitement for supposedly "glorifying the Holocaust". What did he actually do? He carried a sign reading "Jews against genocide". His father's entire family was murdered at Auschwitz.
Zur Ergänzung: Er bekam von der Polizei eine Anzeige wegen Volksverhetzung, da er in seiner Rede "den Holocaust verherrlicht" habe. Make it make sense.
Parliament and Hansard have removed “We are all Palestine Action” from my speech on Wednesday 2 July 2025 — despite me saying it. This is a blatant attempt to censor me and rewrite the record. This is not how a democracy behaves. We will not be silenced.