Mike Perham
Brandy ZadroznyI’ve sent so many replies like this. Never once heard back.
Anne Ursu@zadrozny God's work
NanaKim@zadrozny I can't imagine why you've never heard back. 🙄
Nick "Neiloch" 
@zadrozny "lol prove it" but nicer.
Philip N Cohen@zadrozny it's not misinformation because I heard it from notmisinformation dot com
max@zadrozny seeing as they sent this after midnight theyll probably respond sometime in the middle of the night after a few drinks.
Fyzzlefry
timzl 🍔@zadrozny I think it's weird these people walked into cat school and didn't realize it.
postitman@zadrozny the stuff these Very Serious Adults rally behind is truly baffling.
AsylumDEG 
@zadrozny but tHeY dId ThEir OwN rEsEarCh! 🤔
Covidiocracy@AsylumDEG @zadrozny My sister's hairdresser's friend's co-worker has a nephew who's a police officer who saw a Facebook post from Nicki Minaj's sister's dog-sitter whose daughter *goes* to that school, so I *know* it's true!
Jonne@zadrozny I hate that you actually have to waste your time doing this.
Zhi Zhu 🕸️GOP does not want to admit that the kitty litter in classrooms is for active shooter situations when kids might be trapped in those rooms for hours.
"Pomona High in Arvada is equipped with the necessities in modern-day America: a touch-screen projector, a computer — and a bucket filled with kitty litter, just in case an active-shooting drill lasts longer than a student’s bladder can handle."
~https://www.denverpost.com/2018/03/03/school-shooting-preparations/
Cameras, door locks, a bucket of kitty litter for when active-shooter drills go on too long now standard Colorado classroom security equipment
Dale Munholland’s room at Pomona High School in Arvada is equipped with the necessities of a modern-day American classroom: a touch-screen projector, computer and a bucket filled with kitty l…
CarolannieYeah, but teachers have to pay for this out of their own pockets, and kitty litter is cheaper.
It's so sad that such a thing is even necessary. Gun violence in America is obscene.
Abbadon@ZhiZhu @carolannie @zadrozny this will promote the alt-rights indignation about furries and their “litter boxes”.
It’s like these stories are part of a bigger view.
It’s like these stories are part of a bigger view.
Some Guy 🇺🇲🇺🇦@carolannie @ZhiZhu @zadrozny Or, and just hear me out here, we could do something about the rot in our society that makes something like active shooter drills necessary in the first place.
“Those who can make you
believe absurdities,
can make you
commit atrocities.”
~Voltaire
The GOP is working very hard to get people to believe absurdities.
What comes next?
Hugh Young-Bish
BlackDutchSnark@ZhiZhu @zadrozny
I can say with all honesty that we have had a student pee out a window during a lockdown before…not in my class thank goodness…and I have contemplated taking a bullet for my students. Many times…and I decided I would…just like I would refuse a ventilator and ask for it to be given to a younger, more fit person while hospitalized for Covid if necessary.
I can say with all honesty that we have had a student pee out a window during a lockdown before…not in my class thank goodness…and I have contemplated taking a bullet for my students. Many times…and I decided I would…just like I would refuse a ventilator and ask for it to be given to a younger, more fit person while hospitalized for Covid if necessary.
Lilith Attack@ZhiZhu @zadrozny and yet it’s the hateful bigoted right wing gun loving fucktards who attempt to promote the lie that kitty litter boxes are being provided to furries in schools. #bigots #furries #rightwingpropaganda
Renée Joy
JusticeMoorI am not surprised that somewhere
In the USA you will kids that want to use a litter box.
I am not surprised that somewhere in the USA there are kids that pick their nose and eat the contents.
I am disappointed that there are adults who attribute children's odd behavior to the Democrat party.
When I attended Michigan Democrat conventions we never discussed allowing children to use litter boxes.
Hue StL@JusticeMoor You don't have to go along with their fiction. They're making up that story because they're equating it to trans people. They're saying trans people don't really exist, that it's just "odd behavior". Because the people spreading that hoax want to eliminate queer people from public.
I never met a transsexual person. I am not even sure how to define a transsexual.
I have met homosexual and lesbians. Several of my neighbors at my summer cottage are homosexual and lesbians.
EVHaste@JusticeMoor
Howdy, random stranger in the comments! Then allow me to be the first trans person you’ve met! 👋
A transgender person is someone whose gender identity is different than the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s actually a pretty rad thing to be.
Here’s a piece by the National Center for Transgender Equality with more details than I can fit in a post:
https://transequality.org/issues/resources/frequently-asked-questions-about-transgender-people
Howdy, random stranger in the comments! Then allow me to be the first trans person you’ve met! 👋
A transgender person is someone whose gender identity is different than the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s actually a pretty rad thing to be.
Here’s a piece by the National Center for Transgender Equality with more details than I can fit in a post:
https://transequality.org/issues/resources/frequently-asked-questions-about-transgender-people
I don't want to get too personal but do you have an adam's apple? If your picture shows you as a woman but you are trans, does that mean you were born male?
I agree there should not be laws persecuting trans people.
I like my neighbor. He believes the earth is flat and is Qanon. I disagree with his views but am not going to fight with him. You can be a productive member of society and believe the earth is flat. He should not be a cartographer.
@JusticeMoor I was assigned male at birth, yes. I’ve actually had a fair bit of transition surgeries and one of them removed my Adams Apple. Did you know some cisgender women also have them? Bodies are so varied and I think that’s beautiful.
In truth you’ve probably met some transgender people before and didn’t know! Lots of us like to keep that private; it’s just one facet of our humanity, after all.
I concur that I am glad your neighbor doesn’t make maps. 🤣
Stay curious, friend!
In truth you’ve probably met some transgender people before and didn’t know! Lots of us like to keep that private; it’s just one facet of our humanity, after all.
I concur that I am glad your neighbor doesn’t make maps. 🤣
Stay curious, friend!
I met a teen boy who obsessed over putting nail polish on his fingernails and meticulously trimming his nails. I wondered if he was on the way of being trans. He asked me why I don't take better care of my nails. I told him I wanted to be a tough guy, bite my fingernails and spit them out.
@JusticeMoor If your Qanon neighbor acts to put queer people in camps, are you going to fight with them then? This isn't a "person A believes horoscopes are real, and person B thinks they are silly" type disagreement.
if a well placed, "that's not cool, man" ruffles your neighbors feathers, but gets them to back down and reconsider their dangerous nuttiness, it's worth ruffling those feathers.
My Qanon neighbor invited people over for a hot dog roast. I texted that he was right. There is a pack of left wing cannibal pedophiles in his back yard eating children's fingers (ok I didn't say fingers).
He told me that he tells his daughter not to tell the teachers the earth is flat. They will think she is crazy.
He is totally crazy. Beyond reasoning with him. He is constantly eating wild mushrooms. His family won't talk to him because of the way he thinks.
Katy@JusticeMoor @HueSatLight statistically, you have. They just didn't tell you 🤷♀️
gft77@zadrozny It's been debunked.
Jay Kelly@zadrozny While the embarrassment, shame, and lack of evidence will ensure you do not get a follow up email it will not stop these fools from spreading it to friends or using it to inform their next crazy belief.
Dan 
@zadrozny
I had the pleasure of having my brother inform me over Thanksgiving dinner that the high school in our county had turned the janitor's closet into a litter box. I was so stunned to hear this from a living breathing adult human I was simply left speechless.
I had the pleasure of having my brother inform me over Thanksgiving dinner that the high school in our county had turned the janitor's closet into a litter box. I was so stunned to hear this from a living breathing adult human I was simply left speechless.
SSFC KDT (MOVED)@zadrozny "dO yOuR oWn rEsEaRcH!!11!"
Daniel Freysinger@zadrozny It is hard to understand what motivates this craziness. It is like a bad game of telephone.
RunningResister@zadrozny surprised you could stop snickering to write this. 😂
Hammancheez@zadrozny are you implying they’re all completely full of actual shit and are lying for headlines but are a nice polite person because I’m getting that vibe
Buxton The Red (Matt)@zadrozny The restraint you demonstrate not only in the text of your reply, but in blocking out identifying details of the nitwit who emailed you in the first place are highly admirable.
But I do hope you have that text saved in some sort of template-reply thing so you're not actually retyping it from cold every time!
@BuxtonTheRed I really love to procrastinate so it’s no problem at all
Jessica Craven@zadrozny haha love the part about being a parent to a middle-school kid. I am also a parent to one—an LAUSD middle-schooler, in fact—and the idea that they would go to the bathroom at ALL at school, let alone in an atypical manner, is just…😂😂😂
Daniel Feldman@zadrozny I’m just a nobody, but the couple of times I have posted about this on Twitter, someone always chimes in to “correct” me
Ashton@zadrozny I think the most disappointing thing about this moral panic is how dumb it is.
Like, can’t they come up with a more plausible lie? Is this really the best they’ve got?
goofnor@zadrozny When there’s a lack of evidence for a claim some people will resort to capitalizing certain words in their statements, thus providing a solid alternative to actual evidence.
Tucker Teague@zadrozny "Well, I don't have direct evidence, but I know I heard meowing coming from the school."
Leo Ji@zadrozny I appreciate your doing this! Personally, I like the outcomes of your response: ideally they either realize that they're spreading a baseless rumor (one can hope), or we get a really fascinating news story.
@zadrozny I think it would also help if I could spell, but 🤷🏻♂️
Matt Matbox@zadrozny Thanks for sharing! I read up on the BS (it has it's own Wikipedia page!) and feel like I wasted now at least a fraction of the time you wasted on that reply..
After all the times - what still motivates you to write these extensive replies?
@matt I guess partly because it tickles me, partly because I want them to know journalists are real people and not evil enemies, and partly because I want them to figure out that they’re wrong.
@zadrozny Thanks for fighting that fight one by one then! Hope one day you're successful in getting someone to see the need for critical thinking - pretty tough especially when it involves acknowledging and relinquishing long-held beliefs and biases..
Ostrich@zadrozny It might be useful to catalogue exactly how many times you've asked and gotten no response!
In a more innocent time, I was told of a mysterious sickness, even deaths, traced to telephone or power lines being strung too tight from poles to houses ("by stingy linesmen"), causing supersonic humming when the wind blew. I was assured my informant knew first-hand the engineer who'd made the discovery, but proof was never forthcoming, sometimes hostility instead. Urban legends.
hallvors@zadrozny Thank you for your patient and invisible service :)
Andy Fletcher@zadrozny It must be true - I read it on the Internet :)
Martha Howell@zadrozny Every time I see a claim on FB or such I always say "Pics or it isn't true." Then they tell me the kids can't take pics in school. Yeah, that stops the kids cold--wouldn't want to break that rule!
onecaliberal@zadrozny Wow. Insanity.
@zadrozny Much more polite than what I’d reply, “pics or it didn’t happen.”