CJ the Awkward

@awkwardleftycj.bsky.social

Ballet teacher, Jesus-follower, general nerd. Love my enby spouse @taliesin82.bsky.social Highly pretentious, but only toward people who suck. Follow me for brief rants about bad writing as I consume way more romance novels than anyone ever should. she/her

Around 5:30 Talper brings up that Miller shared a Dropbox folder with his livestream of evidence of his supposed innocence, one of which was a photo of his young child naked. When asked if sharing this photo was recklessly irresponsible, Miller said no. I’m sorry WHAT ARE YOU DOING

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h ago

🤯 Rep. Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper was one of the most self-destructive things I've ever witnessed on cable news. Here's the whole thing:

If there are any reporters willing to try to correct the record rather than just breathlessly reporting on the disinformation being spread by the propaganda machine - I would be happy to share and I know many others with PTSD from our time on the front lines of COVID who would share as well.

CJ the Awkward@awkwardleftycj.bsky.social · 2d ago

How many news outlets are going to interview ER and ICU doctors after this? Because not allowing them to set the record straight is disinformation.

if they are going to accuse you of doing all of these great things you might as well do them and reap the benefits

#Writingtip: unless it’s an important plot point, please don’t mention what a character’s cologne smells like more than once, MAYBE twice if your book is over 75K words. Especially if they smell like freaking sandalwood. How many of y’all can even identify sandalwood specifically in a blind test?

Don't fall for this. Rowling wants trans people to self censor and to stop sharing the report. If this report really was as defamatory as she claims, she wouldn't be cheering on its spread. What she really wants is a costly settlement from AI UK, humiliating apology, and permanent silence.

​A screenshot of a thread on X (formerly Twitter). The main post is a quote tweet by J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling), which reads:
​"Shout out to all trans activists sharing the blacklist of women's and gay rights organisations published by @AmnestyUK! You're demonstrating very effectively that in spite of their hasty backtrack it can be easily accessed forevermore, increasing legal liability. Thank you! ❤️"
​Rowling is quote-tweeting a user named Lesbian Lenin 🇵🇸 🔻 🇵🇸 (@xstaffsuck), whose post reads:
​"The report btw, documenting how TERF orgs work hand in hand w/ anti-abortionists, christian nationalists, & anti-LGBT+ (yes, you too, c*s queers!) orgs to push trans genocide
​To be anti-trans is to be anti-abortion, is to be a christian nazi, is to be anti-queer
​Report is below"
​The user @xstaffsuck is, in turn, quoting an earlier tweet from J.K. Rowling, which reads:
​"Should any of the women's organisations targeted by @AmnestyUK's recent 'anti-rights' blacklist wish to take legal action, applications can be made to the JK Rowling Women's Fund. jkrwf.org"
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w ago

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

Today I learned that a good friend and activist in the children’s rights movement passed away. Ryan you were such a shining light in the world and a giant hole is left without you. I will miss you deeply

It's common for survivors of intimate partner sexual assault to not report it, because the existing relationship is used to manufacture reasonable doubt. But "reasonable doubt" is the evidentiary standard for a criminal trial. The standard for "not being a senator" is allowed to be lower.

Testimony is evidence. Testimony corroborated by contemporaneous documentation is evidence. Testimony corroborated by contemporaneous witnesses to prior testimony is evidence. That evidence in this case means DNA evidence would still be evidence, but it would not be probative evidence.