Update from the house of Plague (Day 127 Year 2)
In lovely news today, I came home from work to discover that Miss M (22) had been so bored that she had cleaned the kitchen! I wish her plenty more boredom. ;)
In weather news:
England heatwave: Giant hail in Leicestershire damages cars
In football/racism news:
The Tories are learning that culture wars make you enemies as well as friends
The backlash against the government’s stance on England players taking the knee shows there is a cost to its “anti-woke” strategy.
It's even being written about in America:
Racist trolls attacked England’s soccer team. Fans fought back.
Facebook’s and Twitter’s sluggish reactions show how they still rely on users to combat hate speech.
And this tweet stood out. Can we hope that change might actually be happening?
It honestly makes me cry to see so many non-POC, who haven't experienced something like this directly stand up for Bukayo and point out one of many microagressions that we face in our day to day life. And publicly call it for what it is, racism. I never thought I would see it pic.twitter.com/WQIGZX8rlI
- grace (@Grae35) July 16, 2021
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If you have any un-vaccinated people around you, this article might help. It has actual advice towards the end:
“One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.”https://t.co/Mm7SVMqtig
- Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) July 21, 2021
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She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has been trending again...
Serious thread:
Apologies for posting a JKR tweet, but because this is so much in the lit discourse:
1. There is no excuse for threatening to bomb someone. None.
2. It is a separate and also true statement that conflating "trans activists" with violence is disingenuous and dangerous. pic.twitter.com/Q5HZnsmdWU
- Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnson) July 19, 2021
Very silly thread if you need a laugh:
JK Rowling: hello children
Poe: oh hey
Poe: oh hey look who it is
Poe: guess we’re doing this again
Poe: this old song and dance
Rowling: I've been ssssilenced
Poe: yeah here we go
- The Midnight Society (@midnight_pals) July 20, 2021
And where all the transphobia of the past few years is coming from (follow link to article)...
The transphobia JK Rowling espouses today was meticulously orchestrated by U.S. evangelical Christians.
Here's the @splcenter's coverage of a conservative conference attended by Trump in 2017 in which they introduced their master plan:https://t.co/XuQS1Kzl5a
- Wizarding News™ (@HPANA) July 20, 2021
And finally a lovely thread refuting all of JKR's 'arguments':
THREAD: From Facebook:
Cut & pasted - with permission - from a trans friend who didn't want her name attached because, understandably, she's sick of arguing about this. Basically, she was approached by a cis friend asking Why Are People Unhappy With JK Rowling.
- Sooz Kempner (@SoozUK) June 11, 2020
Daily Dimash: Blizzard Again
Almost impossible to choose a song tonight, but in the end the ridiculousness of posting a song about snow in the middle of a heatwave won out. :)
He first sang it at the Slavic Bazaar back in 2015:
And again at Bastau in 2017:
The fans (of course) have made a lovely music video with lots of OTT pretty pictures, but also with subtitles.
ETA: And in Kazakh:
Dimash---Blizzard Again (Aıaz Qarıp )--Kazakh version- ( Димаш Құдайберген) ENG/ESP SUBS
Dimash Masterpost
Post has been cloned from dreamwidth. Comments welcome everywhere.
In weather news:
England heatwave: Giant hail in Leicestershire damages cars
In football/racism news:
The Tories are learning that culture wars make you enemies as well as friends
The backlash against the government’s stance on England players taking the knee shows there is a cost to its “anti-woke” strategy.
It's even being written about in America:
Racist trolls attacked England’s soccer team. Fans fought back.
Facebook’s and Twitter’s sluggish reactions show how they still rely on users to combat hate speech.
And this tweet stood out. Can we hope that change might actually be happening?
It honestly makes me cry to see so many non-POC, who haven't experienced something like this directly stand up for Bukayo and point out one of many microagressions that we face in our day to day life. And publicly call it for what it is, racism. I never thought I would see it pic.twitter.com/WQIGZX8rlI
- grace (@Grae35) July 16, 2021
~
If you have any un-vaccinated people around you, this article might help. It has actual advice towards the end:
“One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.”https://t.co/Mm7SVMqtig
- Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) July 21, 2021
~
She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has been trending again...
Serious thread:
Apologies for posting a JKR tweet, but because this is so much in the lit discourse:
1. There is no excuse for threatening to bomb someone. None.
2. It is a separate and also true statement that conflating "trans activists" with violence is disingenuous and dangerous. pic.twitter.com/Q5HZnsmdWU
- Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnson) July 19, 2021
Very silly thread if you need a laugh:
JK Rowling: hello children
Poe: oh hey
Poe: oh hey look who it is
Poe: guess we’re doing this again
Poe: this old song and dance
Rowling: I've been ssssilenced
Poe: yeah here we go
- The Midnight Society (@midnight_pals) July 20, 2021
And where all the transphobia of the past few years is coming from (follow link to article)...
The transphobia JK Rowling espouses today was meticulously orchestrated by U.S. evangelical Christians.
Here's the @splcenter's coverage of a conservative conference attended by Trump in 2017 in which they introduced their master plan:https://t.co/XuQS1Kzl5a
- Wizarding News™ (@HPANA) July 20, 2021
And finally a lovely thread refuting all of JKR's 'arguments':
THREAD: From Facebook:
Cut & pasted - with permission - from a trans friend who didn't want her name attached because, understandably, she's sick of arguing about this. Basically, she was approached by a cis friend asking Why Are People Unhappy With JK Rowling.
- Sooz Kempner (@SoozUK) June 11, 2020
Daily Dimash: Blizzard Again
Almost impossible to choose a song tonight, but in the end the ridiculousness of posting a song about snow in the middle of a heatwave won out. :)
He first sang it at the Slavic Bazaar back in 2015:
Click to viewAnd again at Bastau in 2017:
The fans (of course) have made a lovely music video with lots of OTT pretty pictures, but also with subtitles.
ETA: And in Kazakh:
Dimash---Blizzard Again (Aıaz Qarıp )--Kazakh version- ( Димаш Құдайберген) ENG/ESP SUBS
Dimash Masterpost
Post has been cloned from dreamwidth. Comments welcome everywhere.