In his ruling, Hittner mentioned Dolly Parton, whose death was announced Tuesday, and criticized the law’s definition of banning performances that “[appeal] to the prurient interest,” citing people who would chastise Parton “as a voluptuous sex symbol because of her big hair, flamboyant clothes and breast exposure.”

“There are ‘erotic’ elements in countless popular performances that could be subject to both civil and criminal penalties under S.B. 12,” he wrote.

One of the plaintiffs in the case, a drag queen who performs under the name Brigitte Bandit, impersonates Parton in her performances. Bandit celebrated the ruling on social media Tuesday, posting a screenshot of the decision and captioning it, “Drag is free speech, bitch.” She announced she would also perform as Parton, who gave her a rhinestone guitar as a gift in 2023, at an Austin bar Saturday in her honor.

Even from the grave, Dolly is making the world a better place.

Yes. :/

There were other similar things he did but those are harder to talk about. This memory is just so absurd that it feels less personal.

When I was 15 or so I get home from school and get a AIM message from an account I don't know claiming to be a girl at my school who has a crush on me, but too shy to reveal who she is. Which was weird all by itself because I didn't use AIM often.

At first I'm delighted, but she quickly becomes sexual. Talking about masturbating to me in very explicit detail. I get freaked out and stop responding. Which prompts an angry phone call from my Dad saying the account is messaging him now and bothering him at work. How she got my account info wss confusing, but i didn't even know my dad had an account.

So I respond a few more times, and very quickly "she" starts sending me porn, which then turns to sending CSAM saying I need to masturbate to it too. I'm freaking tf out and block the account. Which prompts another angry phone call. I tell my dad I don't know this person and tell him to just block the account to stop him getting bothered. He calls me a pussy and hangs up.

When he gets home, I tell him that the account was sending me freaky stuff. He stomps over to the computer, opens an terminal and typed a long string of characters that returns our IP address. "If it happens again, do this and we can catch this freak". He then abruptly closes the window before I can even read what he typed, much less remember it. He slams his bedroom door and that's the last I see of him for the night.

Took me a long time to fully understand and accept what happened that night, but I never looked at my dad the same again. There were a few more odd situations where he put CSAM in front of me or sent it to my step-dad getting him fired. But he died before I gathered the courage to confront him.

If anything of consequence happens on Twitter, you'll hear about it elsewhere.

Don't try to chat up women at night. There is no scenario of a strange man being interested in me while it's dark that I'll be receptive to. It's impossible for your line to be so good I'll stop seeing you as dangerous.

Be bored. Miss my wife. I got mobility problems so swimming, foraging or building is just impossible. I'll eat fruit, get a wicked sunburn and argue with trees till I die.

I agree, but I think there is exactly one exception. They Will Not Grow Old by Peter Jackson.

About the decision to colourise footage for the film, Jackson said: "[The men] saw a war in colour, they certainly didn't see it in black and white. I wanted to reach through the fog of time and pull these men into the modern world, so they can regain their humanity once more – rather than be seen only as Charlie Chaplin–type figures in the vintage archive film."

Your body, our choice.

When you're one of the numerous groups being demonized and persecuted by fascism then advocating for your own rights isn't an choice, it's a necessity for safety. Indifference is a privilege.

think of as people

Super weird that you're on anarchist instance.

It honestly is onion style satire.

The collector was listed for $18 on Liquid Death’s website and quickly sold out. Despite the campaign telling customers to send the contents to “the data center of your choice,” the company includes a disclaimer making it clear people shouldn’t actually mail their pee.

It is also an easy way to make $18.

and no conservative

Well it's more than that, a core tenant of anarchism is opposition to heirachry. Seeing others as subhuman could not be further from that ideal.

Campaigning for DSA candidates, he has been quite active in the recent senate and house DSA wins.. There really isn't more to it than that. Maga and centrist dems have found it's easier to attack out of context clips than to attack DSA policy positions.

I personally find the man incredibly grating, boisterous and unwatchable. But there is no denying he is the largest leftist platform with true influence on races.

Really poor time to roll out body shaming.

The risk the band took when naming themselves behind a concept. Irrespective of their personal harm, reaching across mediums to claim the name from a movie is the same as reaching to a video game. The concept of hunting demons is exponentially older than this bands formation in 2000. Hell, the Abrahamic demons they sing about aren't even in the same mythology as Korean shamanic demons. The band should not get to lay claim all these different interpretations from their name alone. This is even more egregious than Buc-ee's sueing any store with a cartoon animal logo, since at least they are both stores selling physical goods. Demon Hunter the band can't even muster that much of a claim.

Well see how this plays out. While I'm definitely not rooting for Netflix, I am decidedly rooting against cross genre, cultural and medium trade mark overreach.

Haven't seen and didn't know she was involved.

Not particularly a selling point either.

I see what you mean and I understand how it's more serious than it sounds as first. However, a band shouldn't be able to lay claim to every version of demon hunter in media. Will they go after Wow for the class named such? How about the various animes with some variation in their title? Sure they can protect brand in a musical space, but that extends over to movies? When the movie title quietly literally describes exactly the protagonists?

You're right. They might be able to win this case, but shouldn't.

Birdo, because in the n64 version I read somewhere yoshi was the fastest. So I picked him for the longest time, , no clue if that was accurate information then or now, however ever since my transition sliding over to the family similar Birdo has felt like representation. Trouble, complicated, flawed representation but still.

True, which sucks. All your suffergates and labor union heroes were anarchist. It's decades upon decades of propaganda demonizing legalized equality as essentially rioting. We only have a 5 day work week because of anarchism.

Well, I don't want to argue so it seems like we're gonna have to agree to disagree. But I do feel like you are misunderstanding how trademark works.

Trademark only protects against customer confusion, not other projects becoming popular. Reasonable people looking for the band who instead find links to the movie are not likely to think the movie and the band are the same project or brand.

Look at the examples from the patent office .

When a consumer knows what goods or services you offer, what other goods or services might they reasonably expect you to offer?× For example, if you sell hot dog buns, a consumer may expect you to sell hamburger buns and loaves of bread.

It's irrelevant that the movie is now showing higher on search results. The relevance of trademark will apply to other touring bands selling music under the name Demon Hunter, or names like "D. Hunter" / "Demons Hunted" or if the movie characters were styled after the IRL band, they might have a case. But an all male metal using Christian imagery and prayer band is quite different than a fictional all female pop band that does dance fighting. The content of the 90+ minute film is sustainably different than the content of 3-4 minute religious metal song.

However I've said my piece and I don't wish to belabour the point further. Time will tell who wins, but according to actual mechanics of trademark law the court will only rule for the band if they can show reasonable people confuse the musicians for a movie, which I think would be an unrealistic accomplishment.