Thread. In the run up to WorldCon in Chicago last week, one of our cyberstalkers resumed sending detailed, explicit death threats against me to organizers of the convention.
This was not the first time. They have left me many dozens of voicemail death threats. 1/
They have sent similar death threat emails to attendees and organizers of other conventions I've attended in the past year. They've gone so far as to calling in a bomb threat to local police during one of them which required a sweep of the hotel with bomb-sniffing dogs. 2/
And, just to put icing on the cake, they have physically stalked me across multiple states, from D.C., to Michigan, to Illinois, where they take spyshots of me from as far away as their camera phones can reach. 3/
You may notice the most recent of those pictures was posted on the 1,100 page long Kiwi Farms thread dedicated to harassing and terrorizing my family. The #DropKiwifarms campaign has effectively destroyed that hive of scum and villiany, but it was only a secondary source. 4/
The main source of the endless campaign against my family and friends has, every day for the last for years, been an even more focused group of sociopaths and terrorists from the infamous Opie and Anthony fandom community. They have their own web forum, created specifically... 5/
...to continue their obsessive criminal harassment, after their 30,000 subscriber subreddit and thousands of their accounts were purged by Reddit administrators and they were driven off the site. These forums shopped around d for hosts, changing several times until they... 6/
...found hosting in a country that wouldn't boot them for doxxing me and hundreds of other innocent people, most of whom had nothing to do with their imagined feud with me. This site is new.onaforums.net.
I've long avoided publicly linking or even speaking the name. 7/
As you can see in the "literary criticism" section, there are more than ten thousand threads and nearly a quarter million posts dedicated exclusively to their total, clinical obsession with my every tweet, thought, public appearance, and indeed every last detail of our lives. 8/
They use the site to coordinate new attacks, execute, and then brag about the crimes and suffering they've inflicted.
Their state goal in all of this, much like their ideological cousins on now dead Kiwifarms, is to destroy my career, marriage, and drive me to suicide. 9/
And as with @keffals, they've taken active, repeated steps to end our lives. As many of you may remember, my wife and I have been SWATTed by them 4x. My most recent incident ended with me handcuffed naked on our porch with six guns in my face. wisn.com/article/milwau… 10/
Oh and if you're wondering, yes, their website is protected by @Cloudflare, just as Kiwifarms was until last week.
Now, obviously, death threats, bomb threats, stalking, and SWATTing are all serious, felony level crimes. But that hasn't stopped Cloudflare, or their hosting. 11/
I'm coming forward now with all of this because as we've seen over the last month, sunlight is the best disinfectant. For a long time I didn't want to drive traffic to their hellsite or give them the satisfaction of the infamy they seek. But that time is over. 12/
#CloudflareProtectsTerrorists continues to be relevant. I'm closing out this thread with a sort of megathread of other threads I've had to write this year to counter and inform about our experiences being targeted for cyberstalking by OnA. 13/
What the last week and a half has taught everyone with eyes to see and ears to hear is a press beholden to profit can never be free or objective.
Biden is bad for the business of the news. His administration has been hugely focused, successful, and free of scandal or leaks. 1/
With only the mundane, boring work of actually governing the country to report on, the business of the News has suffered under Biden. Thier stocks are flat, their readership/viewership is down.
They're starving under the weight of Biden's quiet competence. So, he has to go. 2/
Which is why, either deliberately or just going along with the crowd, they've turned on the hand that literally isn't feeding them. The Maggie Habermans of the world, unable to commit anything but "Access" journalism long for salvation in a return to Trump's death and chaos. 3/
Please don't misunderstand me. Citizens United and the flood of unaccountable dark money it injected into our politics was one of the most damaging, distorting decisions inflicted on our democracy by a bought and paid for SCOTUS majority we're only now beginning to recognize. 2/
And yet, it remains true cash isn't king in American elections. Money can sway close elections, those within the margin of polling error.
But we've seen over and over big money media spending only goes so far before falling off.
There was no other possible outcome. I sincerely doubt Trump would've made it through his own defense questions, much less cross examination. He's just too stupid, arrogant, and combative. 2/
We saw just how awful of a witness he was at the 2nd E Jean Carroll civil trial, where he probably rang himself up another $50 million in punitive damages on the witness stand.
I'm sure his lawyers used that to get through to him how bad an idea it was. 3/
Biden is not the President of Israel or CiC of the IDF. He doesn't control Israeli foreign policy nor its military.
The man who does, Bibi Netanyahu, is a far-right fascist actively hurting Biden and trying to elect Donald Trump. 1/
Israel is a major developer, manufacturer, and exporter of weapons in its own right. They are fully capable of standing on their own in a limited engagement like the Gaza invasion, and Bibi has said he would do exactly that if need be. 2/
Biden could cut ALL military aid to Israel, including defensive aid for things like the Iron Dome AMS that clears the sky of Hamas and Hezbollah rockets aimed at Israeli civilians and Bibi would still have all the resources he needs to do whatever he wants in Gaza. 3/
EVs are only /marginally/ better for the environment than gas or diesel. But mining their lithium, shipping ore for refinement, shipping again to make batteries, shipping AGAIN to the EV factory... 1/
...refining the steel and AL for their bodies, all creates a CO² deficit the EV has to "work off" before it's truly carbon neutral. This deficit means the average EV has to be in the fleet for nearly ten years before working off its carbon debt. Only then is it a net positive. 2/
And that fails to take into account all of the vast infrastructure that has to be built and maintained to support driving. Hundreds of thousands of miles of concrete roads and highways. Tens of thousands of steel bridges. All of which is a further carbon debt. 3/
Multiple things are true at once:
-Hamas is a terrorist org
-Netanyahu is guilty of war crimes
-Neither are interested in peace or helping their people
-Student protests have been infiltrated by outside agitators
-Police responses have needlessly escalated a tense situation. 1/
-Many protestors have turned explicitly pro-Hamas and echo their anti-semitic rhetoric.
-Israel and the IDF are worsening the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
-The only people benefiting politically are Hamas, Netanyahu, and Putin, at the expense of democracy and Biden. 2/
Every bullet point in this list is true. But it's also complicated. There are no heroes in any of this, only victims on both sides, and plenty of blame to go around.
The situation isn't the binary black/white, good/bad the American psyche is culturally programed for. 3/