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Did Harry Potter create a generation of readers, or did it simply create a generation of Harry Potter fans? Did JKKK Rowling save literacy? That's been the narrative for decades... but the facts tell a totally different story.

youtu.be/LmfFpg15ECI
August 8, 2026 at 12:22 PM
July 29, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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It is morally okay to publicly shame Harry Potter fans.
this is where your money goes when you buy harry potter stuff. rowling isn’t shy about it.

amnesty wrote an even-handed report that laid out what anti-rights groups do; rowling uses her billions & clout to suppress it.

when you give rowling money; she spends it on stealing people’s human rights.
July 14, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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This is a really interesting take and worth consideration
OPINION: I Think I Know How To Solve the Video Game Industry’s Problems

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July 10, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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The two truths:
1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it.
2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.
If you let them ban porn, they will call you pornographic when they ban you.
April 6, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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This is propaganda.
April 10, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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March 30, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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this is just amber heard shit again i'm so tired of misogyny dawg
Reminder - 23% of the posts were from bots.

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March 30, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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March 29, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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"How does one hate a country, or love one?"

Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.
March 22, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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We speak his name today and forever.
Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️
March 12, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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Oh, it is really starting to look like a deliberate and calculated choice was made by the BBC here...
February 25, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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evergreen
February 24, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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Reminder that "degenerate" was a term coined by Nazis to describe art they didn't like and labeled problematic.

Unless you have proof of real world harm, leave people alone and let them draw fucknasty shit. You have block and mute features. Stop making your disgust everyone else's problem.
once more.
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