Sean Thomas

If you can't make your point without being deliberately insulting or condescending, I'm not engaging with you. Ad hominem = automatic mute. kthxbye

I'm going to laugh and also be sad when this sort of person complains about the new Snape's anger issues, assuming he was made more angry because "he's black now." I've got my "tell me you haven't read the books without telling me" stamp ready.

You're leaning awfully hard on those two little references, when the much greater issue is that a 53-year-old man was cast to play a 31-year-old character and proceeded to act like a 53-year-old man. You need to get over this race essentialism thing. It's a minor detail.

@TuckerDawn75386 @MasterC2222 @Anntheumbrella @jk_rowling @grok Can they be "white as mare" or turn "the color of sour milk"? I think they should change his name to Token-Snape or or Snape-Token

If you're the mother who was reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone aloud to your child on the LNER train from London to Edinburgh yesterday, one of my grown up children was listening and says you did the voices brilliantly❤️🥹

@MasterC2222 @Anntheumbrella @jk_rowling @grok Did you have this big of a problem with a 53-year-old playing a 31-year-old character? A 22-year age gap is a much more profound character difference than skin color.

@Anntheumbrella @jk_rowling @grok how is Snape described in the Harry Potter books?

@JimCallaghan42 @MasterC2222 @jk_rowling Their haste to judgement lays bare their race essentialism.

@MasterC2222 @jk_rowling So we’re supposed to judge on “who’s more faithful to the book” From Alan Rickmans 8 films and we can compare it to Paapa Essiedua 20 frames from one trailer…? That doesn’t seem fair

Anyone voting forfeits their right to have their opinion taken seriously. This cannot be judged until the end of the new series. If Essiedu's Snape bursts into the hospital wing at the end of season 3, livid at Sirius Black's escape and screaming "THIS -- HAS -- SOMETHING -- TO -- DO -- WITH -- POTTER!" to the shock of the Minister of Magic, he'll be more Snape than Rickman ever got to be.

@jk_rowling Since you wanna keep talking about you’re books let’s acknowledge the new show and the choices made there yeah How bout we take a vote: Which Snape was a more faithful adaptation according to the source material?

@BluEnterpris @jk_rowling Two things: (1) Adam Driver is a human being with the right not to accept a 10-year commitment and risk of being typecast afterward. (2) You don't know he wasn't offered the part. Hope this helps.

@jk_rowling Why did you not do this instead , just why ?!!

@JLTPoetry @jk_rowling Such as...?

@jk_rowling Hopefully she verbally edited all the grammatical and editorial errors you so carelessly left throughout the book. Not being able to afford an editor for the first book is one thing. Not fixing it later when you have money is just lazy.

@michaeljknowles Not seeing the "ambivalent,ambivalent" option. We need to normalize "I'm not any kind of expert in geopolitics, nor am I any kind of expert in evaluating the expertise of those claiming to be, and so any opinion of mine would be little more than tribal chest-pounding."

It's been one month since the strikes on Iran began. We're entering the fifth week. How did you feel about the war in the beginning, and how do you feel today?

Sorry, new Time Bandits TV show. You had your moments, but I'm just not comfortable with portraying capital-G God as a bumbling incompetent fool who regrets making people. Even the original movie had more respect than that.

@KonstantinKisin You've got it all wrong. They don't actually care about foreign policy. They just want an excuse to call people names and feel superior.

Far too many people appear to think that calling people names changes their opinion about foreign policy. Not sure it's true.

@MuseZack Rings of Power fans. Whoever they are.

I have not met a single person who watches the Lord of the Rings trilogy and says "I wish this could be more morally gray and deconstructionist like Game of Thrones." And that includes Game of Thrones fans.

@billybinion It's so very "government" that an agency that fails 80% of unannounced tests is still operating with any kind of legitimacy.

I waited nearly 3.5 hours in a TSA line—and *still* almost missed my flight. The ability to get home shouldn’t depend on whether Congress does its job. Why are we still tolerating this? Nothing has made a better case for abolishing the TSA than this shutdown. I wrote about it:

@LoganLancing How bad is this for Iran that pro-Iran people have to invent the shooting-down of one F-16 -- ONE FIGHTER! -- to have something to celebrate? Even if they did get ONE... it's just ONE. How many have they lost?

99% of the pics and videos coming out of and pushed by Iran and its Western grifters on X are fake. Agit-slopaganda.

The harsh truth is that building society on the "we must save literally everyone" model is a slow-walk to catastrophe. We have to pragmatically accept that some will just fail to flourish, and no amount of funding will change that. Perhaps the "bottom" of the spiral should be some kind strictly regimented boot camp.

@seanthomas85 @marcportermagee If free schools are able to kick out students, then what happens to universal public education once a student has been removed from every school nearby? Will there be a public school of last resort? If so, I hope it is funded well.

Public schools: “But how will we enforce this cell phone ban?!” Private schools: “We saw you using your phone in hallway. We will give you your phone back next month.”

@wesyang >All attempts to treat the world's most popular and beloved author as a moral pariah will fail to harm her and will harm the cause supported by those attempting to harm her. Shhhhhhh!!! Don't tell them! They might stop!

1.) There is no human right for men to enter women's changing rooms, domestic violence shelters, or prisons. 2.) All attempts to treat the world's most popular and beloved author as a moral pariah will fail to harm her and will harm the cause supported by those attempting to harm her.

@sentientist @jessesingal Right? We can toss #6 right out the window so we can eliminate the resource drain of undesirables.

@jessesingal Turns out when we are thinking of how to use scarce resources to save lives and reduce suffering the ten commandments aren't very useful.

Michael Shellenberger accuses effective altruists of "reject[ing]" the ten commandments and disagreeing that "life is sacred." Genuinely unsure where to even begin with this, on multiple levels.

@Johndwilliam @DarrigoMelanie And something tells me that if the government taxes you on your $20,000,000 unrealized gain this year, they won't give you a refund if you have a $20,000,000 unrealized loss the next...

@DarrigoMelanie All the “wealth” is unrealized gains. How about we tax you on the value of your house? It’s the same thing.

This would raise $6.2 trillion over 10 years, and if used properly, could drastically improve American lives. The only reason we don’t have an ultra-millionaire tax now is because billionaires and ultra-millionaires pour millions into elections each year to prevent it.

No. NO NO NO. Wealth taxes are a terrible idea. It hands the government the power to determine net worth and forces asset liquidation to pay it, which will have depressive ripple-effects across the economy.

@ThrillaRilla369 One of my colleagues was my own Chemistry teacher and I still feel weird calling him "Eric."

When you were younger, did you call grown-ups "Mr. & Mrs". and never by their first names?

@prcWrites @venturetwins Does everyone who got addicted to Facebook get $6 million, now? No? Then this judgement isn't reasonable.

@prcWrites @venturetwins > pretending this is purely individual choice misses the point. That's a rather binary take on her argument. We can look as a society at the aggregate effect and implement regulations without empowering individuals to sue corporations and win multi-million dollar judgements.

I don't want to be an asshole here, but I'm worried we're losing the concept of personal responsibility