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  1. @mhpotter Genocide is defined as any of certain acts that are committed with the _intent_ to destroy, in whole or just parts, a specific group. You don't even have to succeed in your attempts to destroy, you just have to have had the intention to destroy. If you can't see that J. K. Rowling is doing exactly that, then you have a pretty limited imagination.

    It doesn't require gas chambers or machetes or missiles to commit genocide.

    Whether it actually is genocide is up for debate, but denying it up front with the words "ridiculous" and "any stretch of the imagination" makes you look like an absolute asshole.

    Defending J. K. Rowling _and_ Effective Altruism, I wonder why I don't simply block you. #FediBlock

    Maybe you're just a lost young person who listened to the wrong people. But now that I explained both to you, you know better, so don't continue arguing or I'll block you.

    Edit: Fixed typo in altruism.

    #HarryPotter #TESCREAL #EffectiveAltruism

  2. Imelda Staunton: ‘Umbridge’s giggle needed to be short and sharp. So I just did a boom, boom’
    By As told to Rich Pelley

    The actor answers your questions on working with her dog, becoming a dame, Harry Potter, and making televisual history in The Singing Detective

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #ImeldaStaunton #BillNighy #HarryPotter #Stage #Television #Culture #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #Televisionradio #Filmadaptations #Books #TheGuardian #AstoldtoRichPelley

  3. My ultra conservative evangelical mom who sees satanism in everything

    🤝 hating Harry Potter

    Me, ultra left trans person

    #trans #harryPotter #jkrowling

  4. It seems like every man and his dog has signed up to take part in the new "Harry Potter" adaptation, but some people have turned it down because of J.K. Rowling's transphobia. Ally Pankiw, a TV director who has worked on "Black Mirror" and "The Great," and "Loki" director Kate Herron wrote on Instagram yesterday about saying no to the show, with Pankiw writing in her caption: "It simply is this easy to say no to funding transphobia." Here's more from @AVClub.

    flip.it/SZWqyV

    #JKRowling #HarryPotter #Television

  5. From April 2025, updated: A look at “Harry Potter” alternatives, including ones Warner Bros. owns, and why boycotting "Potter" is hard (at least by the general public).

    diversetechgeek.com/alternativ

    #HarryPotter #LGBTQ #WarnerBros #ThrowbackThursday

  6. Eliezer Yudkowsky is the guy who coined the term Effective Altruism, the toxic ideology that billionaires and capitalism-brained aspiring millionaires use to excuse their greed.

    They tell themselves, for example, that it's good to work at awful companies such as Facebook/Meta to make ungodly amounts of money because, "look at all the good things I could do with all that money," while ignoring all the awful consequences of them working for these companies.

    Eliezer Yudkowsky is in large parts responsible for introducing and turning billionaires to this toxic ideology. He's also responsbile for another toxic ideology called Rationalism where they suppress all their feelings, and its communities such as LessWrong or Slate Star Codex.

    He apparently also wrote a fan-fiction book for Harry Potter, called "Harry Potter and the Method of Rationality". Its premise is that Harry Potter was raised by scientists and University of Oxford professors (🙄), and at the age of 10 having already received a rigorous scientific education, before being sent to Hogwarts, where he then examines the magic through the lens of science.

    "Productivity YouTuber" Ali Abdaal who has millions of uneducated gullible followers, is now promoting that book with a video literally titled, "I am begging you to read [this book]."

    Promoting Harry Potter in 2026 is definitely a choice. J. K. Rowling is doing her best to ensure the death of all transgender people. What Rowling is doing literally falls under the definition of genocide.

    Promoting the works of Effective Altruists in 2026 is definitely a choice.

    Ali Abdaal represents everything that is wrong with Gen Z aspiring to become millionaires by way of becoming YouTubers. Please stop watching him.

    I discovered his channel in 2018 or so, when he showed his viewers the flashcard app Anki. And I learned how to study effectively thanks to him, something school or my parents never taught me. But I quickly got turned off by his channel around 2019 or so when he started pivoting to iPad reviews like every other tech channel. And especially when his popularity exploded in 2020 with everyone stuck at home due to the pandemic.

    Please stop watching him if you do.

    #EffectiveAltruism #TESCREAL #HarryPotter