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Birdie

@midnightbirdie.bsky.social

They/Them Anime video essayist, panelist, & cosplayer Next Con: TBD I believe in the future of Solarpunk https://linktr.ee/midnightbirdie Happy birthday, Oban Star Racers!

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Lady Emily ☄️@ladyemily.nebula.tv · 3w ago

CrunchyRoll buying RightStuf, folding it into the CrunchyRoll store thus letting a lot of the RightStuf exclusive releases fall out of print, and then making access to the store a higher membership exclusive perk is brazenly indefensibly awful

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w ago

And there it is. JK Rowling personally and publicly offering to bankroll litigation against Amnesty International using her massive wealth.

A screenshot of a social media thread on X (formerly Twitter) featuring two posts by J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling). ​The first post reads: 'Should any of the women's organisations targeted by @AmnestyUK's recent 'anti-rights' blacklist wish to take legal action, applications can be made to the JK Rowling Women's Fund. jkrwf.org'. ​This first post includes a quote post from the account Trans Widows’ Voices. (@transwidows) that says: 'Whilst I understand the detriment to Beira's Place is real, and focussing on @jk_rowling get clicks it's a shame that mainstream press coverage of the Amnesty debacle is not also focussing on us smaller groups listed who do ...' ​The second post, a reply in the thread by J.K. Rowling, reads: 'Gay men's organisations named on the list are welcome to contact me through my website. While the JK Rowling's Fund was set up to support women, JK Rowling herself is more than happy to donate to your legal fighting fund.'"
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4w ago

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 3w ago

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'

Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Birdie@midnightbirdie.bsky.social · 4w ago

The script for this Oban Star Racers video has been so much fun to work on- but every time I think I've finalized my research, I find four more things to add and look into. I love this show and wanna do her justice!

Birdie@midnightbirdie.bsky.social · last mo.

I have only in the last few years begun competitive cosplaying. It has been a huge journey- and at this last Soonercon, I won Best Novice as Priestess from Goblin Slayer. I've been officially bumped to intermediate. Here's to many more cosplays soon! Photo by Charlie Alan Ratliff

A group of cosplayers poses on stage. They are the winners of Soonercon's 2026 cosplay contest
Red Bard (Kennedy)@redbardiscool.bsky.social · last mo.

Simoun is fantastic TWIA is fantastic and this video essay on Simoun by the SUPER underrated @midnightbirdie.bsky.social is fantastic Anyways, watch Simoun, read TWIA, watch Birdie, etc www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NX4...

The Fruitiest Anime You've Never Heard Of: A Simoun Retrospective

YouTube video by MidnightBirdie

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Anime News Network@animenewsnetwork.com · last mo.

Sylvia and Chris revisit Simoun on its twentieth birthday to honor the power of girls kissing.

Princess Alice 🧸@princessalice.moe · 3mo ago

It's wild how many people fail to understand that "engaging in X type of fiction is only OK if you've experienced Y kind of trauma" is implicitly a demand that people disclose their trauma to you, a stranger, or else face harassment.