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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 14m

Are any of my followers lawyers (or know of lawyers!) who can discuss IP law around fan fiction and publishing? I have some questions about this practice for a piece I’d like to pitch

Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 1h

honestly why do we even bother

Substack post from Lincoln Michel:

"Alchemised debuts at #1 with massive sales, making it the THIRD Harry Potter Draco-Hermione friends-to-enemies fan fic to be turned into a bestselling novel in 2025. It's easy to say that publishers are just feeding readers slop, but harder to admit that they... enjoy it. They’re going to keep publishing it if people gobble it up by the ton."

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago October 2025: "Are the helicopters over my house this evening because of the Cubs playoff game or is it the federal government doing extrajudicial kidnappings?"

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Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 12h

I love the fancy upgraded Simpsons kitchen in Time and Punishment. The curtains are still corn print, but now it's shades of blue on cream, like a toile.

Still from the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror segment Time and Punishment. Homer and Bart stand in the Simpsons' kitchen but it's fancier than usual, including the curtains I describe

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Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 13h

it is so bleakly funny that Stephen Fry finally said "maybe that's a bit much with the transphobia, Joanne" so she had to go get Hugh Laurie for the new series

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Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 13h

what I just told Tom is "Punk Trash is your social milieu, but Hater is what's in your blood." In this way you two are similar!

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Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 14h

I'm for sure a Lunatic. Mental illness plus I love the moon. Tom is a Hater to his damn core just imho

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 14h

I'm glad these slimy comedians are getting ripped to shreds, but can we hold ALL of the actors who have said "yes" to new harry potter trash to the same standards please

Vulture @vulture.com · 16h

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

www.vulture.com

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16h

My god it is happening again

berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 17h

this is the funniest thing i've seen someone act like they're mad about in a very long time

someone posted, "or when asked why you're engaging in bi-erasing you said that the B in LGBTQA stands for Bolg?" a screenshot from the time shows that gretchen felker-martin posted this joke

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Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · Mar 30

LGBTQ

Lisan al GaiB: The QuisatzHaderach in rainbow colors

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · 15h

I have finally gotten to laugh at the few small 70mm beers in a theater

Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 7d

"a few small beers. heh. that IS good" me and Tom when we can finally go to the movies again

Homer and Bart at the end of Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie. They're both old now.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 23h

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

of the moral conundrums you will be presented with, as an adult, "stop buying these specific children's toys" is like. the easiest possible

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

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.

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

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Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I said yes you did yes

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Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 1d

Now is not the time to point fingers about who gives him table scraps of dairy because he begs for it like such a polite gentleman. Let’s not politicize this okay

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Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 1d

Loomis at his checkup yesterday. (Clean bill of health except little buster needs to lose some weight)

Loomis the black cat, his green eyes enormous, on a purple towel in a veterinary exam room. He looks like you just told him what an oven is and that he left his on

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

If I was told I couldn’t do a job Meghan McCain did I think I’d become a monk

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 1d

short thread, good shit

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 13d

Lately I've been thinking of this as "platform logic" bc it's pretty much always got a platform

You aren't connected to a person or people. You're connected to the platform, which can facilitate specific types of interactions with people.

You don't have a dr, you have a care platform

J🎃ckie (possibly) @doesnotcare.lol · 13d

And! You have zero continuity of care. You see a different doc every time you go - there’s no ONE person looking at your chart to notice trends/patterns.

You get worse care - things get missed - you get *worse.*

Insurance company makes even *more* money.

It’s gross af.

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Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 1d

I just got our tickets for Milwaukee. We decided to go twice, fuck it, who cares

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Alex Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely gorgeous morning in Chicago.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

I've heard every "we have to hit them where it hurts" argument in the book, and none of them are beating the allegations that people just want to make fun of fat bodies.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

You are telling every fat person in your life that they disgust you, that their bodies are comical or degenerate or useless. You are telling every fat person in your life you don't respect them.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

Eight thousand iterations of this discourse later, there is no political utility in calling fascists fat. All you're doing is propping up the brutal hierarchy which lets people like them work up from deniable social torture to state violence.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 2d

feel like we can do better than “man these guys are real fatsos” when talking about agents of state violence idk

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie.

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