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[Xiangzhou @YeXiangzhou]

“我从来没有告诉过你，爸爸，但是有天夜里我喝到断片，在帕斯奎诺雕像旁狂吐。我靠在这面墙上的时刻，简直是我人生中最神志不清的一刻，我知道，醉成我这个德性，奥利弗抱着我，这就是我的人生了，从前与他人之间的一切甚至连人生的草���或者草稿的影子都不算。”

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[Xiangzhou @YeXiangzhou]

👍🏼Que cada una decida lo que hace con su cuerpo.

[EL PAÍS @el_pais]

Francia se ha convertido en el primer país del mundo en consagrar el derecho al aborto en su Constitución. El hemiciclo, de izquierda a derecha, ha estallado en un aplauso en pie de más de dos minutos https://t.co/D4KCr30AZi

[Timothée Chalamet @RealChalamet]

WONKA!

[Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue]

Yuan talks his dream in English, 2009:

[Li Jingjing 李菁菁 @Jingjing_Li]

This is how Chinese ppl bid farewell to agronomist Yuan Longping:
Chasing the hearse on the road, shouting "Farewell, Grandpa Yuan."
Crowds of ppl went to send flowers.
Our generation didn't experience the Great Famine, thanks to him, we'll never have the chance to experience it

[Serena Xue Dong @theserenadong]

“China help them to develop hybrid rice in African countries, will have a bright future tomorrow. Make impossible possible.”
R.I.P #YuanLongping

[Li Jingjing 李菁菁 @Jingjing_Li]

He is the father of hybrid rice which helped ppl no longer suffer from famine.
It's growing in China, Africa, Vietnam, Indonesia, The Philippines, the US.
His dream was to benefit all mankind.
Today, he passed away.
We'll forever remember ur contribution, RIP, Mr Yuan Longping.

[Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 @zlj517]

My condolences to the family of #China's famous scientist #YuanLongping, who passed away today at the age of 91. He is Father of #HybridRice in China. He helped pull countless people out of hunger. RIP!

[Hua Chunying 华春莹 @SpokespersonCHN]

A super star&hero passed away today. Deepest condolences to #YuanLongping! Globally renowned agronomist&Father of hybrid rice!

[UN Women @UN_Women]

RESPECT WOMEN.

That's It. That's the Tweet.

#IWD2021

[UN Women @UN_Women]

Some inspiration for #InternationalWomensDay from women leaders from all around the world to fight for your rights and never give up on equality! #IWD2021

[Xiangzhou @YeXiangzhou]

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[Timothée Chalamet Updates @tchalametupdate]

Timothée Chalamet and Winona Ryder in the 2021 Cadillac Super Bowl Commercial | Edgar Scissorhands

[Timothée Chalamet Updates @tchalametupdate]

Timothée Chalamet as Edgar Scissorhands!
(📸 Julian Ungano)

[Manu Ginobili @manuginobili]

❤️❤️❤️🌅

[Little Women @LittleWomen]

The proper way to celebrate @RealChalamet’s birthday today.

[MTV @MTV]

Happy Birthday to (dare I say, my soulmate?) @RealChalamet!! ❤️

[Xiangzhou @YeXiangzhou]

@RealChalamet
Happy birthday Timmy!!!
May you always be happy like this.
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甜（tián）茶（chá）生日快乐！！！
祝你永远像这样快乐。
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[Xiangzhou @YeXiangzhou]

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[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

Timothée Chalamet hosts with music from Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band TONIGHT!