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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Tbh I'm getting the impression American education isn't very good amd that's why people are turning out so poorly able to think

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It's so disturbing how things that used to be considered common sense across the political spectrum (vaccines) are now considered controversial by half the country.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 11/03/2025

For the first time in 10 years, a child has died from measles in the United States. Vaccines prevent measles. Americans need to hear our top health officials say clearly: every child in America should get vaccinated against this terrible disease.

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Spooky rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 11/03/2025

Our state legislature’s in session so I’ve spent the time between my other morning tasks writing and submitting testimony for healthcare, housing, traffic safety and public transit bills in both chambers. I need a bill tracker 😬

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Uhh...I never said there's no propaganda in the UK. There's a lot. But because the news can't outright lie, as I said in my original thread, which you clearly didn't read properly, UK news bias is more through suggestion and insinuation. Not outright stating an incorrect fact. You seem angry! 😂

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Not sure why Elizabeth is so angry when people ask straightforward questions about the law and news lying. Intelligent people ask questions and learn. Stupid people refuse to ask questions or learn and yell at people who want to.

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Gripes? It's literally me asking questions, ya know, to get people's insight 🤣 Sorry you hate conversation? 😂

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Also assuming US news can legally lie, how come making that illegal hasn't been more of a priority? I imagine folks will say 1st amendment but 1st amendment covers opinion, no? Rather than presenting things as fact? Or in America do news organisations have the same rights as individual citizens?

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Bearing this in mind, how can Fox News just state things like "Democrats bring immigrants here to make them voters." Like how is it legal to lie in the news? In the UK, you can't do that. That's why news bias is more sneaky, more to do with suggestion or implied meaning. Can US news legally lie?

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Genuine question for Americans In the UK we have laws around libel & also so that the news can't just blatantly say something incorrect.For example the BBC recently had to amend a headline where they accused trans women of being rapists because it was factually wrong Is this not a law in USA? 1/2⬇️

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Gourdo! 🎃 @posting.fan · 10/03/2025

it's 2025, if you're *still* into Harry Potter as a grown adult you're just a cunt. Not even because the author is a fascist piece of shit, which she is, but because they're fucking shit

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

So when queer film fans defend someone who has 0 interest in our actual ability to survive and indeed is helping the forces that want us dead....... That is disturbing to me. It's disturbing that you're duped so easily That you don't understand most bigotry is just APATHY (Fiennes) not hate (JKR)

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

If Ralph Fiennes was genuinely affected by the content of Conclave, he would be defending the rights of intersex, trans folk, POC etc But he isn't He is only concerned with these groups as a CURIOSITY That is what west end theatre culture IS & what folks like me have been trying to change 4 YEARS

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

And this is something gen z find impossible to grasp. They see an interview where Fiennes makes some generic statement about tolerance and they think he's defending intersex people. NO. That's just the type of generic crap actors of his age always say to audiences about their acting craft.

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is something you would understand if you'd spent extended time talking to British actors of a certain generation. They have a big talk about empathy but it is performative (literally). It does not translate to action in the real world. Fiennes' generation of actors are deeply apolitical.

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is something millennial & gen z fans seem to find impossible to understand To us, our EMPATHY and our understanding of ART, translates directly to action, to activism, politics, community building etc For Fiennes, it is not so direct. It's INTERESTING for him but he DOESN'T CARE.

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

1 of the big claims folks are making is that because Conclave is trying to be a progressive film for minorities, they say Fiennes himself is progressive on minorities Fiennes is of a generation of actors who consider minorities THEORETICALLY interesting but don't practice activism to help them

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

BAFFLED by how so many queer film fans stan Ralph Fiennes, who openly supported JK Rowling's definition of a woman (that trans women are men) & when I call them out either lie (example pictured below, didn't happen) or make the baffling claim that a character in a film shares the actor's morals

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

But also a lot of people are too stupid to educate and you shouldn't have to do it individually for every person.

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Then if the conversation does actually come up you have more weight to shut them down, if they say something bad, you have more ability to be mad or stern and because they've not seen you like that before it's taken more seriously.

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I actually hate talking to cis people about trans issues. They're so grotesquely poorly educated that if your 1st conversation with them's about trans issues they'll immediately dismiss you as a snowflake I prefer talking to them about other things-which builds their respect before bringing that up

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Films don't have to be leftist necessarily in my opinion to be good or interesting but I don't think this film had a real point of view, nor did it ask interesting enough questions about gender, misogyny or patriarchy The questions it did ask started strong, but were abandoned as the film continued

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

How would that affect his faith?or if Cardinal Racist had in fact won, would Lawrence have stayed in the Church? All questions much more interesting than what we actually got. A vague feel good message on a technicality that doesn't seem to be for any specific demographic.

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The portrayal of fighting liberal vs conservative factions in the Church was interesting but not explored enough. It would have been better honestly to see Lawrence tested by being a good man in an evil institution. Perhaps the liberal candidate IS homophobic amd DOES win & will he accept that?

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Well given the Church's many crimes, the film places a strange level of importance on this ancient institution, when a more interesting question would be why we have allowed it to exist for so long and how people justify being part of it. Or a deeper exploration of Church misogyny.

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Most of the interesting themes were earlier in the film. Towards the end the intent of the filmmakers became very on the nose and very hollow for me. And a film about the Catholic Church, an institution of unspeakable evil which actively covered up child rape & rips off its own worshippers...⬇️

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

My partner has long had 0 desire to see this film as it appeared to be another film with almost entirely men. After 100 years of men. And men being serious. And men thinking about morals. And men arguing. And yeah...it kinda was. It wasn't a bad film. But it wasn't progressive or all that deep.

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It is a film where men, mostly white men nod along to concepts they find exotic or interesting (like intersex people or racism) But once they leave the theatre or cinema, there is no permanent effect to these concepts. There is no meaning behind this art beyond amusement for the privelliged

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The gender elements of the film are vague, they feel tokenistic, they lack authenticity as to my knowledge nobody intersex is involved in this film (I have tried to find out if the actor is intersex, there is nothing on that, which is concerning). This film is for libs & posh people.

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The film has nothing meaningful to say about gender, intersex people or misogyny. It points out women are not treated well by the Catholic Church but that's all. An observation. It has vague ideas about liberal vs conservative but...it is truly a lib film with nothing to say. ⬇️

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Conclave features two actors involved in transphobia. Ralph Fiennes has directly agreed with JK Rowling's definition of a woman (that trans women are men) & John Lithgow has recently agreed to work with JK Rowling the Harry Potter reboot, so he's happy to help her fundraise transphobia via HP ⬇️

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Conclave has been touted as a progressive film. In fact, the actor playing the intersex character had played down the relevance of the character being intersex by claiming it could be about anyone. If a film could be about anyone, it is not specific or meaningful enough a message ⬇️

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It also has some really interesting themes around faith, doubt, the idea that someone powerful might be sincere in wanting to good in the Church and generally has some nice gravitas & intrigue. Now on to the bad ⬇️

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD. So in fairness let's start with things I liked. Conclave has a phenomenal set design, costume design, cinematography, exceptional acting, including from Ralph Fiennes. Transphobe he may be but good actor also (Google JK Rowling Ralph Fiennes)

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

So I have some thoughts on Conclave, having finally seen it TLDR This is NOT the progressive film that Ralph Fiennes stans are obsessively claiming In fact, it's the same performative approach to minorities that has Tories nodding heads in the West End but voting against those same people irl ⬇️

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Awww, yeah, normally I can but I've received less and less of that in the last 2 years or so. Internet communities have become a lot more intense and a lot less chill.

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It's one of those things you only start to understand if you've been online for a long time but there's something very sinister and unnerving about how people respond to you online when they don't like you. The desire to bully to death is real.

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I don't know how to explain this but often online you'll see someone respond to your post and you can just feel that the intention and energy behind the post is they wanna hurt or kill you but they can only use words and all that malicious energy is in the wording of the post. And it's kinda fucked

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

But if you're hoping to get healthcare on the NHS forget it lol

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I think it depends on people's situation. If someone could get private healthcare here as an adult, UK could be better. You can change your legal gender (with difficulty) for now. Possibly a bit less hate crime than USA? (Plus no guns here)

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

So regardless of to what extent people are helping or hurting JK Rowling with their Harry Potter spending, the fact that you're willing to place even a single cent of your money into transphobic extremism when you obviously wouldn't put a single cent into Al Qaeda... THAT'S the issue. Disturbing.

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

People often like to compare this to slave labour in making mobile phones. But it's not like that at all as Harry Potter is not an essential utility that you would severely struggle to function in society without. Harry Potter is optional. It's unnecessary. It's entertainment. You don't need it.

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

And because of that, they find some of their money funding transphobia (lobbying against our legal rights, our ability to access shelters and donating to organisations whose ultimate goal is the complete destruction of trans people)...they find that acceptable because it's "a small part of the cash"

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Like no matter how small or inconsequential the impact of your money, there are some things that it is not acceptable to donate a SINGLE. CENT. TO. And that people would be disturbed to learn a single cent had gone to. The problem is that people do not take transphobia seriously, nor care about us.

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Regarding Harry Potter, unfortunately the "I can't do anything about JK Rowling because she's a billionaire so it's ok to buy Harry Potter products" argument has won in the mainstream But I'm confused. If 0.00001% of your money went to Al Qaeda or the KKK, no way you would keep buying that thing?

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Aidan Bose-Rosling (She/They) @aidanthejester.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I'll see how that goes. Supervisors previously haven't been very helpful but I'll try again. Thanks so much for your advice!

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