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/
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/
Welcome to SCOTUS with an enforceable Code of Ethics;
Amy Coney Barrett: I was nominated by a man who's on criminal trial for stealing the 2016 election via fraud and is the defendant in this immunity case. It's not clear my appointment was even legitimate. I must recuse. 1/
Gorsuch: Ditto
Kavanagh: Samesies and also that same guy's FBI threw over 1,200 tips about my sexual misconduct into the circular file during my nomination process, and ignored the fact someone paid off $200k of my credit card debt, my mortgage, and country club membership. 2/
Thomas: Haha, I can beat that. My wife is actually part of the attempted criminal coup this immunity case is about. She should be in prison already for seditious conspiracy. Guess I should probably recuse, too. You five figure it out.
It's not some obscure historical event confined to the sands of time, fallen from living memory. It JUST FUCKING HAPPENED. We all just lived through it.
How did you forget already? The man has said he will be a dictator on Day 1 and argues the right to murder his rivals. 2/
You're not getting a better Democrat, whatever the fuck that means to you. You're dooming the entire world to America falling into a hereditary dictatorship and all the horror that would come with the world's largest economy and military under the control of Don Jr. 3/
What the hell happened in New Hampshire last night? A thread.
The New Hampshire primary yesterday is a tale of two very different 54s.
Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump received 54% of their state party primary votes. But how they got there couldn't be more different. 1/
Indeed, both results were historic in very different ways, revealing a great deal about the state of the race.
Let's start with Biden. This election cycle, the DNC ditched Iowa as the 1st in the Nation state it had traditionally been. Instead, the party wanted SC to go 1st. 2/
But, for reasons all their own, the NH Democratic party decided to flout the national party's wished and scheduled their primary before SC's. As a result, the DNC cut them out and basically said their primary was illegitimate. Candidates were told not to campaign there. 3/
Spoke with a younger friend today who thought Danny DeVito got his big break with "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and it made me realize just how much fucking work we have to do to get Gen Z caught up on Israel/Palestine and, well, literally every other goddamned thing.
This is not a stupid friend, btw. He's a studied poet. It just opened my eyes to how much of what we perceive as "common knowledge" is a moving window.
That window leaves the people who come after us blind to the past just as much as it leaves us behind in the present.
It's maybe one of those things we all need to internalize about getting older that "They didn't live through it, idiot," is a perfectly acceptable reason for younger folk to not know something.
We've therefore had to learn more about SWATTing as a tactic, how it's executed, and the types of people behind it than we ever cared to know.
But for concerned citizens, journalists, and politicos put there with questions about SWATTing, here's a primer, an FAQ. 2/
Can't 911 just trace the call?: This isn't an 80's detective movie. Nearly all SWATTers use apps like 2nd Line to create temporary phone numbers pulled from a list the app owns or leases from larger telecoms companies like Sinch, Bandwidth, Iristel, and others. 3/