@tenpole_chewda Most decent people cut off contact with paedophiles and sex offenders once they are arrested and convicted.
Langham was convicted in 2007. That tweet was from 2014.
That, plus the new Harry Potter is creatively bankrupt and a colossal waste of money, talent and resources.
Resources that could have been spent on fostering new talent and new ideas, rather than rehashing the same old ones.
This horrific case is similar to Gisele Pelicot and needs to be much bigger news.
A man was drugging and raping his wife for over two decades.
He invited at least 12 other men to participate.
This is why the “sleep rape” forums MUST be shut down.
Listen if my closest friend, who is an absolute Harry Potter fanatic since she was 12, can stop supporting the franchise because she stands up for the rights of trans people, so can you.
watching this actively funds the removal of trans people's rights. supporting JK Rowling and putting money in her pocket actively harms trans people. please just let the wizard world go.
"J.K. Rowling will receive between 50 and 100 million dollars annually in royalties for this new adaptation, adding to her billion-dollar net worth."
STOP WATCHING THE NEW HARRY POTTER SERIES.
YOU ARE SUPPORTING ONE THE MOST HARMFUL TRANSPHOBES ON EARTH.
TERFs / “Gender Criticals” are a dangerous cult which directly influence policies that harm trans people.
They abuse trans people online and in person. They have media coverage, while we get suppressed. They kill us and get celebrated for it.
Not watching a show isn’t enough.
yup. and it’s not like JKR is someone who just has anti-trans *views*. she quite literally is the biggest individual funder of anti-trans causes in the UK. money in her pocket is money that will cause the pain and suffering of trans people.
your nostalgia isn’t worth it.
Correct. The only way we get even remotely progressive politics is from left pressure on Burnham. If I were a left Labour voter in Holborn and St Pancras, I'd lend my vote to Polanski, given this.
Hi @roisinmurphy,
Can you publish your list of names of the 1000s of kids who say they have been "hurt"?
(Not kids you *say* have been hurt, 1000s who claim to have been hurt themselves.)
And if you can't , what is Jon supposed to do if 1000s are not claiming to be hurt?
Actually, what you should take from that little machine is not “79% AI”.
It is: this person knows how to construct an argument.
I went to primary school. Then secondary school. I did GCSEs and A-levels. I went to university and got a degree. I kept reading. I kept writing. I kept learning. Then I spent the best part of thirty years farting around on the internet, learning how arguments mutate once you throw them into an online ecosystem full of cranks, obsessives, academics, journalists, trolls and people whose principal contribution to discourse is a Pepe avatar.
Eventually I coughed up a few quid a month for X because I wanted enough characters to actually finish a thought and I cannot be arsed starting a Substack.
So yes, my posts tend to have a proposition, evidence, context, counterargument, conclusion and the occasional joke about Italian restaurants.
Apparently this now makes me a robot.
The slightly awkward problem with AI detectors is that they are not examining my educational history, reading habits, writing experience or the fact that I have been doing this sort of thing since before half the people replying to me had broadband.
They are looking for statistical patterns in prose.
And sometimes competent human prose has those patterns too.
Perhaps the machines should add another category:
79% chance this strutting porcine prick was simply taught how to write.
Hi @piersmorgan remember when you asked me on your show two years ago what Israel's goal in Gaza could be, if not fighting Hamas, and I said they wanted to depopulate the strip of Palestinians?
Well.... ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Funny, I remember in 2021 when Graham tried to sue me vicariously on Helen's behalf, the letter positioned him not as a man who was prepared to tell people like me to fuck off to their faces, but as a victim on medication for stress and anxiety due to other people's tweets.
Hahaha. Oh, this is magnificent.
Sarah has now progressed from “Ronson chose the wrong subjects for his book” to admitting she has not actually read the fucking book.
“I listened to a podcast rather than give Ronson money” is an absolutely spectacular sentence to place immediately before a confident judgement that Ronson has “shoehorned in unrelated anecdotes.” Sarah, you have declined to inspect the shoe. You heard somebody discussing footwear on a podcast.
And she has misunderstood Linehan in exactly the way Ronson’s argument invites us to examine. The claim is hardly that Graham currently possesses no purpose. Quite the reverse. The interesting thing is what happens when an older constellation of purposes, successful writer, husband, friend, colleague, gives way to an overwhelmingly dominant new one. Graham has purpose coming out of his ears. There is just rather a lot of the same purpose.
Likewise, the subjects being “odd and unconnected” is practically the point of this kind of nonfiction. Ronson finds radically different people exhibiting variations of a phenomenon and asks what connects them.
Them: Adventures with Extremists did not require Omar Bakri and the Ku Klux Klan to attend the same Rotary Club.
So we have reached the glorious position where Sarah is explaining why the architecture of The Castle fails while standing outside it because she refused to buy a ticket.
She has reviewed the podcast trailer.