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I think she's just at this point of her radicalisation tbh

I doubt most people who follow me will disagree with this but let's just make it clear:

If child predators obeyed laws they wouldn't be child predators

These verification laws and laws being proposed to read people's messages will do shit to keep children safe

Actor and filmmaker Robert Redford — shirtless, dressed in a pair of dark blue jeans, wearing a silver necklace — captured facing the camera, looking upward, a volleyball in his hands, beach volleyball net in the foreground, in a full-length colour shot taken on the beach in Malibu during location filming for The Way We Were (1973)

Robert Redford on location in Malibu, California during production of The Way We Were (1973)

The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”

Favourite flicks of the 1970s

‘70: The Conformist
‘71: The Last Picture Show
‘72: The Godfather
‘73: The Wicker Man
‘74: Chinatown
‘75: Barry Lyndon
‘76: Taxi Driver
‘77: Saturday Night Fever
‘78: Days of Heaven
‘79: Apocalypse Now

I'm sure that Mangold movie is good and all but no depiction of Electric Dylan will ever top Cate Blanchett pulling out a Tommy Gun and shooting up the Newport Folk Festival

Headline: Mason Gooding Describes ‘Scream 7’ As “Domestic, Homely, & Unconventional”

Why is he describing it like a girl he doesn’t want to date but wants to be nice to while saying no

John Boyne has contributed nothing of merit to the literary universe, has done actual, studied damage to the public perception of the Holocaust with his ahistorical Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and is a lazy writer (he’s the Breath of the Wild recipe guy). He’s also a whiny TERF piece of shit.

thinking of that famous clip of all the transphobe mps huffing when somebody talks about severe mental health crises trans people suffer.

Really struggling to imagine this story if the opposite had occurred. "Uproar as trans author targeted by fellow award nominees", without it once being mentioned that said trans author had specifically accused many of those nominees of being "ready to pin someone down as their husband rapes them".

John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’ Gender-critical novelist urges writers to re-enter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella

Feel like this little sob story *could* have mentioned that Boyne's Polari nomination came five days after he wrote a piece referring to trans-inclusive women as the evil wives in the Handmaid's Tale, "ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her".

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

how dare he piously scold over 'online bullying' when his mates and cronies have been deluging the brave authors (exercising their freedom of association) with violent bile. as ever, transphobes operate on 'one rule for thee another for me'

His statement unironically states that cis women (he intentionally puts it in quotes lol) are more equal than trans women lol they 100% run on a "Rules For Thee Not For Me" mentality it's embedded into their corrosive and bullshit ideology

This is obviously case by case-I don't think you should be cruel to those with suicidal ideation as a rule-but I've seen them used as a manipulation tactic so much we need to stop our knee jerk being uncritical support

Absolute hot take: while we should always take threats of suicide seriously and make sure the person is safe when they are made we need to stop automatically reacting in sympathy when they are ushered PARTICULARLY when they're weaponised to justify abhorrent behaviour

Hi John (and people deciding to live in the ass of the saddest human being on planet Earth): you're a cunt and you wrote a video game recipe into a historical novel have a lovely evening x

Folks we’re being screenshotted on Twitter and called woke unreasonable zealots for calling John Boyne a cunt. Well done everyone 🫡

Watching The Last Picture Show was a real eye opener. Grown adults berating children for being bad at tackling, because the success or otherwise of a high school sports team is the only noteworthy thing going on in their one horse town

Honestly crossing over into feeling extremely alienated from living in a society that apparently thinks high school sports are the most important part of the culture

Beefing this thread in light of Boyne once again stepping on a rake

I cannot corroborate any of this as it all happened on Twitter and most of this shit is gone with people deleting accounts (such as Boyne) so take my word for it I saw the fucking thing with my own eyes

Read the first line and stopped

CryBully Boyne on his usual bollocks

Same with baiting sympathy by implying suicidal intent get tucked Boyne you're still a piece of shit

Fuck you for weaponising some of the most painful events human beings can go through to legitimise your hatred

You are scum absolute scum and pretending to show good grace by asking to be excluded from the shortlist if the writers boycotting came back doesn't change that

Okay I lied I read it

Weaponising your sexual abuse to sympathy bait you getting consequences for being a transphobe has the same sting of Rowling using her DV history in her manifesto and I say the same to both: fuck you

John Boyne: Man I really thought suicide baiting would make people side with me

James Somerton on other side of bar: You too, huh?

-Paternalistic "You kids better start behaving again, you better mind your sportsmanship!"
-"I had a hard life too!"
-"Look how successful I am! Btw. buy my latest book!"
-"The friends who have abandoned me will eventually be very sorry!"

Sounds like some GC group had their hands into this letter, it has the usual style of such declarations:
-Play the victim throughout. Do not admit any fault of your own.
Criticism = bullying/harrassment
- Non-association= discrimination
-"Everybody deserves equal rights but something trans women"...

"Wehhhhh, I wrote a novel that demeans trans people and now trans people are mad at me, wehhhhh"

Also him suggesting that 'online bullying needs to stop' when he's literally participated in it himself is fucking rich.

Glad he's making it about his feelings, which are everyone's priority & responsibility