Matt Taylor

Satire is meant to ridicule power.
If you're laughing at people who are hurting, that's not satire.
That's bullying.

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

This is BRILLIANT.

[Matt Taylor @matttaylor2510]

@osgatesdino @jackroseism If he just means the Cardiff one then he was also counting Myfanwy the Pterodactyl

[Un Étrange En Terre Étrange @LoinDuTribu]

Oh, good Lord. Are we doing this again?

Look, J.K.. Your mentions tab is not civilisation.

You have stared into that radioactive little snow globe for so long that you now mistake it for the planet. Perhaps it is the mould talking. Have you considered moving to a better castle?

Humanity has more than two settings. We are not divided into loyal disciples kissing your ring and howling gender goblins trying to abolish womanhood before lunch.

Admittedly, your most famous exercise in world-building involved sorting every child into one of four personality boxes, so perhaps complexity has always been an unwelcome editorial development.

Most people are working, shopping, caring, commuting, losing their keys and wondering why butter now requires a finance agreement. Meanwhile, Saint Joanne of the Infinite Reply Thread is on the battlements announcing social collapse because an account called TransWitch93 called her a cow.

Threats are vile. Abuse is vile. Report them. Prosecute them where appropriate.

Then stop using them as census data.

Becauee we can all see this is where your intellectual laundry "accident" begins.

Into one drum go abusive posts, healthcare arguments, prison policy, sports rules, individual crimes, semantic disputes and every teenager with a flag in their bio.

You set the machine to MORAL PANIC and pull out one enormous red sock labelled GENDER IDEOLOGY.

That is the analysis of a coward.

A deliberate coward.

Your thinking produces a Manichaean cartoon so hackneyed that an editor would send it back with PLEASE ADD NUANCE written across every page because:

- Every criminal becomes a mascot. - Every lunatic becomes a spokesperson.
- Every institution that disagrees with you is “captured.”
- Every institution that agrees has “recovered its sanity.”
- Every critic is a bully.
- Every admirer is the silent majority.

So, then trans people become Schrödinger’s witches.

Guilty if they float. Guilty if they sink. Suspiciously evasive if they ask why you threw them into the river.

How dare they?!

And spare us the underground-resistance routine.

You possess one of the loudest megaphones on Earth. Newspapers print your moods. Politicians court your approval. Lawyers stand ready. You have enough money and influence to turn a bad afternoon online into a professionally typeset historical crisis.

You are the most comprehensively broadcast “silenced” woman alive.

You could pay to have people killed and never set foot in court.

Your problem is not lack of speech. Your problem is that speech has failed to purchase obedience.

You may call trans women men.

Everyone else may call your fixation cruel, incoherent and grotesquely disproportionate.

They may also call you a bellend.

That is also free speech and freedom does not expire when the applause stops.

Also, Orwell is not a clapped out pullstring doll that you can drag from his grave whenever somebody disagrees with you.

Woman means adult human female. Pull again.

Sex is real. Pull again.

History will vindicate me. Pull again, and a laminated picture of George Orwell falls out of the casing.

You might think you have proved that your argument is two plus two.

What you have actually done is scrawled FOUR in capital letters ten thousand times and declared everybody still examining the equation an enemy of truth. Then you threaten them with legal action.

So, your timeline is not a census.

A viral post is not a town square.

Mumsnet is not the collective soul of womanhood. (Thank Christ)

Outside your screen, trans people are working, eating, laughing, missing buses, filling in forms and buying shampoo.

They are not a philosophical invasion force.

Trans women might be women. Trans women might be men.

Most people don't really give a shit because most people don't care what you think.

Most people aren't gazillionaires and each of them will always have more in common with your average trans person than they ever will with you.

[Matt Taylor @matttaylor2510]

@DexterDGordon @LGBwiththeT I didn't say she was racist, just that the athletes she's accused of being men are all not white. Interesting you came to that conclusion.

[Matt Taylor @matttaylor2510]

@DexterDGordon @LGBwiththeT This is a person who thinks multiple non white athletes are men despite being them born women. So yes, if people were to photograph every person they suspect as being trans women or men, this would result in women being photographed in the toilet.

[Matt Taylor @matttaylor2510]

@DexterDGordon @LGBwiththeT When she says "men" she means "anyone you suspect is a trans woman".

[Matt Taylor @matttaylor2510]

@alex36903199999 @rrriot_kitty

[Matt Taylor @matttaylor2510]

@abitdickensian It's the side effect of the logo having to match the era the sound track was released in rather than when it was actually set. So series 8 released in the Moffat Era. Series 9 didn't release until the Chibnall Era. Series 10 took until the RTD 2 era.

[Matt Taylor @matttaylor2510]

@SpawnPoiint I guarantee they are counting any instances of download as a "digital purchaser over physical"
Paid for a DLC - "digital gamer"
Free upgrade from PS4 to PS5 - "digital gamer"
PS1 digital rerelease - "digital gamer"

[Matt Taylor @matttaylor2510]

@Pirat_Nation

[Matt Taylor @matttaylor2510]

@PlayStation

[OmegaPro 🍉 @OmegaProYT]

Announcing that you’re no longer producing physical games at the same time as announcing that you’re shutting down a digital storefront is quite the choice

[Gerry Samuels @GerrySamuels12]

Lots of Boomers seem to be remembering the summer of 1976 with rose tinted spectacles, & think that they ‘just got in with it’

Let’s have a look at what the newspapers of the day had to say in 1976….

🧵

[Bentropy @Bentropy_]

@jk_rowling On your history of standing with minorities, you used your wealthy position to threaten to sue a Jewish woman who called you out for engaging in holocaust denial.

The time you pretended trans people were respected, not killed, in the Nazi regime?

[Dr. P 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @buckysthoughts]

@miffythegamer @gaymerjaymee111 JKR is a fking coward

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

JK Rowling has built a public identity around protecting women. She talks about women constantly. Women’s spaces. Women’s rights. Women’s safety. Women’s sport. Women’s everything.
So where is she on Reform UK’s behind the scenes campaign against abortion rights?
Silence.
Where is she on Reform’s position on removing the United Kingdom from the European Convention on Human Rights, the legal framework that protects women from domestic violence, forced marriage, honour crimes and state discrimination?
Silence.
Where is she on the broader rollback of women’s rights being driven by the exact political forces she has chosen to align herself with?
Complete silence.
This is a woman with over thirteen million followers, a billion dollar franchise, a personal legal fund and the ear of Supreme Court justices. She is not short of a platform. She is not afraid of controversy. She has demonstrated repeatedly that she will say difficult things loudly when she wants to.
She just does not want to say these things.
The pattern is not subtle. Every campaign she has funded, every legal case she has backed, every public statement she has made has had one subject. Not women broadly. Specifically and only transgender people. When the conversation moves to abortion she is absent. When it moves to the ECHR she is absent. When it moves to Reform UK’s social conservatism, which would take the rights of women backwards by decades, she is absent.
The European Convention on Human Rights is not an abstract legal document. It is the framework that has delivered concrete protections for women in this country. It underpins the right not to be subjected to domestic violence without state protection. It underpins reproductive rights cases. It underpins protections against forced marriage and trafficking. It underpins the right to private life, to bodily autonomy, to equal treatment under law.
Reform UK wants to remove the United Kingdom from it.
It also protects transgender people. That appears to be the problem.
Because the only coherent explanation for Rowling’s silence on every other women’s rights issue while spending her fortune on this one is that her campaign was never really about women. It was always about transgender people. Women were the framing. Trans exclusion was the goal.
A person who genuinely cared about women’s rights in 2025 would be screaming about Reform. They would be funding legal challenges to abortion restrictions. They would be speaking loudly about the ECHR. They would understand that you cannot claim to defend women’s rights while staying silent as the political movement you have empowered works to dismantle the legal architecture that protects women from the state and from violence.
Unless the rights you actually care about are not women’s rights in general.
Unless they are specifically the right to exclude transgender people from public life.
In which case the silence makes perfect sense.
Follow the silence. It tells you everything the statements do not.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

She wonders why she lost friends. I’ve spoken to 3 of her old friends in person. And they had the worst possible for us to say about her.

So she may be your hero but it seems to me that she’s not a very nice person.

[Femi @Femi_sorry]

Man who set up GB News and left Nigel Farage in charge, complains about the seriousness of our politics.

[Marcel @Marcel4EU]

That's it. That's the best picture from Saturday's No Kings protests in the USA.

The literal Statue of Liberty being detained by police. It doesn't get much more poetic than this.

[Matt Taylor @matttaylor2510]

"Captain, my Captain"

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

@LozzaFox You.

[Matt Taylor @matttaylor2510]

@supertanskiii @BrexitBuster The guy really said "I never went to Epstein's island" while looking like that