So, I’ve been getting dogpiled by terf accounts for the past 24 hours. Very interesting stuff.
1. Lots of name/buncha numbers accounts, like “pam43536.”
2. Never a real photo, usually someone from Sex in the City for their avatar
3. Follows hardcore right wing links…
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4. Lots of repeating talking points in waves, almost word-for-word.
5. Lots of VERY angry and aggressive guys, claiming to want to ‘protect women’ without a single post about it other than transphobia on their feed
6. LOTS of misogynistic language when challenged
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7. Nearly all are anon randos, most accounts are recent.
8. Weirdly centered in Scotland…most accounts that give a county in their bio are from there, what’s that about?
9. An absolute OBSESSION with posting transphobia to the exclusion of almost any other topic.
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They keep trying to deny it, but it is impossible to ignore the connections to extreme right wing accounts and tactics. Strange bedfellows, I guess.
It reminds me of another group that desperately wanted to inflate their numbers…
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I used to get dive bomber by the ‘Million Moms,’ for pointing out how fake their claims were. They would send zillions of weirdos, exactly like this, angry and mostly male, claiming to be thus group of a million mothers.
Only it’s a complete fraud.
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The whole movement was created by a hardcore right wing GUY, and total membership was in the mid four digits.
They posted exactly like this stuff.
What a strange coincidence.
Anyway, it hasn’t worked, that’s worth remembering, the “Million Moms’ have had zero success.
Good.
And p.s. thank you for the kind words, but I’m fine, these people are completely unimportant.
Today we are playing games!
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I have a super-short #TableTopGails thread today, just five items!
HEY! It's SHORT!
But MAN, were these games fun!
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Okay, so this lovely company that makes a lot of family games and puzzles, @ThinkFun, saw that we love Escape Room and mystery games, and sent this big lovely box...and I really want to talk about two of them that we freaking LOVED.
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The games I want to talk about in particular are the COLD CASE games, but first, check out these ESCAPE THE ROOM games...we have played a few from other companies, but they were not this elaborate...these look incredible. Anyone played them?
Okay, so the very lovely people at @LuckyDogHotSaus, knowing my family loves good hot sauces, sent a gift box of four of their favorites. Seriously, without hyperbole, they are the tastiest bottled hot sauces we have had, I think.
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They sent:
Heat’s a Peach—an x-hot peach sauce
Year of the Dog-a Thai pineapple sauce
Dia Del Perro- an applewood/serrano mild with label by @DarickR!
And HELL HOUND—an XX-Hot.
The sauces have been praised repeatedly for flavor on the Hot Ones show...
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We cooked eggs to try them on and this was our unanimous ranking.
I worked with three massive video game franchises in the past couple years where women working on them each individually told me their bosses were shocked and unprepared for the number of women and girls buying their games. Some expressed disbelief rather than delight.
When Disney Infinity and Lego Dimensions launched, it was believed at the corporate level boys would be turned off if the starter sets included female characters. Lego fought to include one, Disney zero.
(The sole female starter character was Wyldstyle).
This continued during the run of both games (and I stress, I loved these games, two of my all-time favorites), despite the actual developers fighting to include more female characters, which led to weird decisions like Lone Ranger getting more in-game content than Frozen.
Now, I am a sloooooow critter and have not made it this far in the podcast eps so I don’t know most of these, but MAN, the imagination and craftsmanship is impressive. They’re gorgeous.
Okay, here is the thing...there is a backlog of games that have been sent to my #MagicPorch, and I don't want to get behind so I am going to do some shorter ones once in a while to catch up for #TableTopGails!