Eye-wateringly stupid defence from Rowling’s team here - ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’ - Really? So that £70,000 towards the bathroom ban was by accident? The JKR Women’s Fund was made by an impersonator? At least have the spine to admit you want us dead

J.K. Rowling’s rep responds to Lilly Wachowski’s accusation of ‘funding trans genocide’ (exclusive)

J.K. Rowling’s representative responded to Lilly Wachowski accusing the author of ‘funding trans genocide’: ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’

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Picture of Robert De Niro with a thumbnail of his daughter. Captioned: "I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter. I don't know what the big deal is. I love all my children." All of us can be wholesome and loving. #TransRights #LGBTQIA #TransLivesMatter

I feel like this crucial fact and Giuliani's name should be at the very TOP of this article, perhaps in the headline www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...

10/10 for me but I think that's because I grew up with a globe instead of flat maps

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · last wk.

Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

Well, fuck.

Horror icon Bruce Campbell reveals he only has 5 years to live 'give or take'

'I want to live with it, not die from it'.

metro.co.uk

So I am not supposed to touch my phone for any reason, even to navigate.... But this would be safe and ok??

New York, here’s how you can save a life: 1. Go to nyc.gov/naloxone to get free overdose-reversal medication, also known as Narcan®. 2. If you or someone you love is struggling with substance use, call 988 for confidential recovery resources.

Literally just finished this book, came to post it and then saw that @alixeharrow.bsky.social won a very well deserved Best Novel Hugo this weekend for it! Looooved this, I'm a sucker for any sort of time loop and this was a great read #booksky #mondayreads

This probably just jinxed pop tarts

Christina Stephens (🐯🏈💜💛)@christinastephens.bsky.social · 3w ago

The year is 2027. The only foods that are safe to eat are Pop Tarts, Velveeta cheese and ramen noodles. The only phone calls you get are spam calls offering you loans for random amounts. All of the bodies of water are named after cartoon characters. Gas is $11 a gallon.

Is Glenn Close fucking with us? What the hell is that post about? Hasn't this week been enough?!

I first saw him in Rocky Horror but the first thing I always think of is Legends

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3w ago

It’s been interesting to see whose mind immediately went to Rocky Horror and whose mind immediately went to Muppets and whose mind immediately went to Clue and whose mind immediately went to SPAAAACE and on and on and on because no matter what age you are he’s iconic and very special to you

If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.

Craig Calcaterra@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 3w ago

RIP to a motherfucking icon.

This thread will sneak up on you! And yes, it is about Dolly.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 3w ago

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

Are we believing tmz bc I would rather not

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3w ago

Absolutely the fuck not. I will not not believe the grim reaper is messing around like this.

Tragedy At The Laundromat #booksky #morelikenobooksky

I think the universal grieving comes in no small part from the fact she represented the best of what America could be, and that she never stopped chasing that ideal, artistically and socially

Has there ever been a better celebrity than Dolly? Can we sanctify her immediately please?

Mayor Mamdani Is Serving His Constituents, Not Himself.......

Just finished this, about to read the sequel #booksky #mondayreads

Great reporting (on this unsurprisingly gross Amazon practice)

404 Media@404media.co · 4w ago

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

"Because I am the good horse. I am a good horse and I deserve cake"

RM@dorsalstream.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Yeah but ours are ancient and haunted

Kris 🎃 Lorischild@direkris.itch.io · last mo.

It's so cute when people on the east coast talk about mountains

The idea that accessibility is a limited and non-renewable resource consistently keeps people from imagining a better world where we've designed things so everyone can actually get what they need and be comfortable. It also keeps people from demanding changes for the better from those with power.

Ugh this is the closest McDonald's has been to getting me in years #mymelody x #mothra is calling...

this is fucked, but also: these dumbasses will end up accidentally shocking themselves with their dumb gloves, guaranteed

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last mo.

"Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals." Susan Collins & Congressional Republicans voted to fund all of this.

OOOH FRENCH COCAINE WINE IRL

Charles Louis Richter@richterscale.bsky.social · last mo.

that time my wife photographed the smithsonian's french cocaine wine

I don't ever want to be taken anywhere in an ambulnz

I don't know if French cocaine wine created influencer culture but it sure comes off that way

J.Kenny@jkenny.studio · last mo.

I was ghostwriting a book on influencers and went down this rabbit hole during the research. It's madness, so much I had to leave out about it to actually get on with what the book was about.

AGREED

Be Jay, Do Crimes.@templinjay.bsky.social · last mo.

The current Pope Leo strikes me as more of a hash brownies guy.

It was actually French Coca Wine first! Pemberton sold it as caffeinated French cocaine wine first, then created Coca Cola after temperance passed

Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · last mo.

[smiling beatifically] coca-cola exists bc ppl in georgia wanted to get on the cocaine wine bandwagon, but wine was illegal in the state at the time (cocaine very much was not). that's why there's brown food coloring in it, to make it sort of look like red wine