Professor Fig dies all endingsDec 6, 2022
So here's how my week has gone so far (thread)
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At 2:45pm on Friday, a friend tips me off that prominent Australian anti-trans activist #SallGrover is about to be interviewed on #ABCBrisbane Radio's #DriveWithSteveAustin

Sall is best known for creating Giggle, a dating app/social networking platform(???) which claims to be for cis women only and to exclude trans women through essentially AI-powered phrenology

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I immediately write a note of objection to the ABC, pointing out that this violates a number of provisions of their binding and enforceable editorial standards. I post about it on Twitter while I'm doing this
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At 4:04pm, Sall posts angrily that ABC management has just decided to spike the interview for undisclosed reasons. I publicly repost this to let my own people know that the interview has been cancelled, but otherwise I do nothing
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Slightly earlier, at about 3:30pm, my friend Avery discovers that #SteveAustin, not Stone Cold, who was due to host the show, has Likes of transfem porn stretching back years. He doesn't appear to be aware that Twitter Likes are public. This becomes the A plot of the weekend.
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Steve starts frantically deleting his Likes while he's still on air. Shortly after coming off air, he stops deleting likes, and, having seemingly decided to post through it, posts a message essentially claiming he was hacked ("interference with my account").

He hasn't deleted enough of his Likes, literally his first visible surviving Like is transfem porn, so this gets him a further round of mockery.

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I and a couple of other Brisbane-based activists like #AmySargeant are harping on it at this point not because Steve is consuming transfem porn, which is great — or would be great if he were paying for it instead of getting it from content-stealing aggregators like "Shemale Kingdom" — but because he's doing the typical dickhead move of watching our porn while colluding with people like Sall to eliminate us
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On Saturday, the story reaches the local News Corp daily, #TheCourierMail, which obviously covers it as mainly a "hahaha normal guy watching tranny freak porn!" story and reports that the ABC has opened an investigation. This has clearly spiralled out of control at this point and I'm starting to feel a bit of regret.

Amy is Sall's bete noire, so Sall initially blames her. However, at some point, Sall realises it was mostly me.

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Sall unblocks me (I don't even remember why she had me blocked) and charges into my mentions with what I interpret as belligerence, insistently inviting me to debate her. I dismiss her with the level of respect her politics deserve, which is to say none. She reblocks me in what appears to be a towering rage.
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@epistemophagy Sall has much Salt

Salltweets = Salty Tweets

Dec 6, 2022 at 8:14amWeb