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AutomaticData @automaticdata.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, he was able to get to the desk to play, but when the teams were introduced his team was the only one coming through the crowd rather than through the stage, his group was the only one accepting their award not on the stage, and when his team won they accepted their award in front of the stage.

AutomaticData @automaticdata.bsky.social · 3d

The Twitchcon Minecraft Championship event also didn't have wheelchair access to the stage, despite one of the participants needing a wheelchair and being part of a group that was scheduled to win an award part way through. That streamer has participated in Twitchcon MCCs before with similar issues.

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Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · Sep 10

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Sep 3

reminder that something like 232,000 (per a peer reviewed study) of the US Covid deaths were Delta-wave vaccine refusers. These dupes were sacrificial pawns the conservative movement weaponized in order to sustain the pandemic and try to damage the Biden economy in 2021:

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AutomaticData @automaticdata.bsky.social · Aug 20

Technically they tried that with Fantastic Beasts and The Cursed Child, but neither did that well.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · Jul 30

I am increasingly sick and tired of businesses trying to force me to install their proprietary apps! My phone is full! Let me print my boarding pass at the airport! Let me get a posted paper schedule for the con! YOU ARE NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN 5,000 PICTURES OF MY CATS!

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · Jul 18

Alt text included!

On July 2nd, Paramount agreed to settle a baseless lawsuit brought against 60 Minutes and CBS News by President Trump for $16 million. On July 15, during a regular show of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Colbert went on-air and called the settlement a “big fat bribe” in exchange for a favorable decision on the proposed merger between Paramount and Skydance, a charge currently under investigation in California.

Less than 48 hours later, on July 17, Paramount cancelled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, a show currently performing first in its timeslot, giving vague references to the program’s “financial performance” as the only explanation. For ten years, the show has been one of the most successful, beloved and profitable programs on CBS, entertaining an audience of millions on late night television, on streaming services and across social media.

Given Paramount’s recent capitulation to President Trump in the CBS News lawsuit, the Writers Guild of America has significant concerns that The Late Show’s cancelation is a bribe, sacrificing free speech to curry favor with the Trump Administration as the company looks for merger approval.

Cancelations are part of the business, but a corporation terminating a show in bad faith due to explicit or implicit political pressure is dangerous and unacceptable in a democratic society. Paramount’s decision comes against a backdrop of relentless attacks on a free press by President Trump, through lawsuits against CBS and ABC, threatened litigation of media organizations with critical coverage, and the unconscionable defunding of PBS and NPR.

The Writers Guild of America calls on New York State Attorney General Letitia James, no stranger to prosecuting Trump for illegal business practices, to join California and launch an investigation into potential wrongdoing at Paramount. We call on our elected leaders to hold those responsible to account, to demand answers about why this beloved program was canceled and to assure the public that Colbert and his writers were not censored due to their views or the whims of the President.

We call on our elected leaders to hold those responsible to account, to demand answers about why this beloved program was canceled and to assure the public that Colbert and his writers were not censored due to their views or the whims of the President.

In the meantime, the Writers Guild of America will support our members at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and across the late-night industry as they speak truth to power and we will explore all potential legal and political avenues to fight for our members in the aftermath of this decision.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · Jul 10

This panel has been removed from the schedule. So yelling and snark still work, I guess.

Pooja @forgottensaves.bsky.social · Jul 10

WorldCon panels dropped and I guess they've decided to jump on the right wing's train of strawmen about the gay agenda? Please, if anyone in their life has encountered a bookstore giving them half a dozen sapphic recs with 'strong women leads' let me know so I can shop there

Panel Description from WorldCon 2025
Strong Woman Lead =/= LGBTQIA=
Tagged Culture/DEI
Room 420-422 9-10am
Have you ever walked into a bookshop and asked for books with strong women leads? Perhaps you've requested that love not be a major plot point? Has the staff excitedly passed you half a dozen books that, though good, have a bit of a repeating theme? Here we ask the question: Why do authors/bookshops assume the only way to have a strong woman lead is to make them gay with a woman love interest and prevent men characters from rising over the background? Isn't it possibly to have a book with strong women and men characters in it and not have them fall in love?

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Pooja @forgottensaves.bsky.social · Jul 10

WorldCon panels dropped and I guess they've decided to jump on the right wing's train of strawmen about the gay agenda? Please, if anyone in their life has encountered a bookstore giving them half a dozen sapphic recs with 'strong women leads' let me know so I can shop there

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thatgalcarolyn @thatgalcarolyn.bsky.social · Jul 3

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Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · Jul 3

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

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🌙 CamronJK 🐰 • Enby Bnuuy Vtuber • 🏳️‍⚧️ @camronjk.com · Jun 27

TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN!

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TRANS MEN ARE MEN!

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ENBY ARE ENBY!

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PASS IT ON!

Big Sis Penni 🐾🦷 @itspenni.kawaii.social · Jun 27

TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN. PASS IT ON YO 🏳️‍⚧️

Sweet @sweetscheme.bsky.social · Jun 27

trans women are women. pass it on 🏳️‍⚧️

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AutomaticData @automaticdata.bsky.social · Jun 18

Trans kids: you are loved, you matter, you are valid.

Our government us just full of losers.

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Rogue Citizen One @roguecitizenone.bsky.social · Jun 18

Republicans say they’re targeting just criminals and gang members.

Bullsh*t.

They’re targeting anyone who “looks illegal," and it will only get worse. They need to make their 3,000 a day quota no matter what.

#MAGAKidnappers

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jun 13

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Sound familiar?

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · May 28

Do not give this woman a dime of your money.
1. Do not watch the new show.
2. Do not stream any of the movies (yes, that includes Fantastic Beasts)
3. Do not buy any of her books. She has a pen name Robert Galbraith.
www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

J.K. Rowling uses 'Harry Potter' wealth to fund anti-transgender organization

This is where "Harry Potter" profits are going.

www.advocate.com

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WereCorey 🌈🐺🎃🌕 @coreypoetry.bsky.social · Apr 14

*taps mic*

Hey Millenials! You know what we're not gonna do? We're not gonna fucking watch that new HBO Harry Potter show because R*owling is a reprehensible human/transphobe/acephobe and we're not giving her money.

Okay? OKAY?!

Yes, I mean *you*.

Also read a different book. Hell, *write* one.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · Apr 10

Victim complex

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David D. Levine @daviddlevine.com · Apr 7

Why TF do I have to give explicit consent for cookies every five minutes but stealing my writing to feed the slop chatbots is opt-out?

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AutomaticData @automaticdata.bsky.social · Mar 28

(I will be shocked if this hasn't been made already ...)
#Hermitcraft #HC10 #HermitcraftSpoilers #ZombieCleo #Grian

The "Whatcha got there?" "A smoothie" meme, except it's Cleo asking Grian who is standing in front of a giant wall of TNT, and his answer is "a melon."

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Rick or Treat | The D-Pad @ricdesi.dpad.fm · Feb 28

And to be so very clear, JKR has openly stated that the money she makes from Harry Potter (in all its forms, right now) goes directly to conservative and specifically anti-trans causes.

Do not financially engage with Harry Potter. Don't even engage with it for free. It's a Faustian IP, do not.

Sara 🍂 @autumnsaga.gay · Feb 27

I wish I knew how to get cis "allies" to actually care about trans lives more than just empty words and affirmations

Reposting an image about how you support trans kids means fuck all when you pay hundreds of dollars to go see a licensed Harry Potter concert the very next day

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · Mar 3

Women being filed in YA when they're not is a major problem in speculative fiction, a genre with candy-colored covers and concepts that appeal to kids. It just gets parents mad at us when they give their children our books and assume a safety we never promised.

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AutomaticData @automaticdata.bsky.social · Mar 2

Some ore snatcher suspects ... #Hermitcraft #Hermitcraft10 #Cubfan135 #ZombieCleo #Goodtimeswithscar #JoeHills (old-ish art previously posted to Tumblr and Reddit)

A drawing of Cub in his Hermitcraft season 10 fireworks skin, holding a nameplate in front of a height chart

A drawing of Cleo, holding a nameplate in front of a height chart

A drawing of Scar in his Hermitcraft season 10 Poe Poe skin, holding a nameplate in front of a height chart. He looks grumpy about it.

A drawing of Joe Hills in his Hermitcraft season 10 puppet skin, holding a nameplate in front of a height chart.

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Wizarding News™ @wizarding.news · Feb 27

"Right now, trans people—and trans young people, especially—are facing an attack on their rights and well-being. And [Harry Potter author] JK Rowling is one of the loudest voices leading the charge against them."

bookriot.com/open-letter-...

An Open Letter to John Lithgow: Please Walk Away From Harry Potter

As someone who grew up Harry Potter and adored it, it's heartbreaking to admit, but the franchise has become synonymous with transphobia.

bookriot.com

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