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Oct 28, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

Hi everyone. I am late to the party but finally made it. I am trying to spread awareness of this mess in Sweden. We are ok atm with the puberty blockers ”blocked” for now. We are waiting and trying to figure out to stop self-id coming up this spring. Please if anyone want to follow me on twitter: its albert rosenflower. The journalists in Sweden think I am a troll cause I have two followers. I might not be fun all day-fun but someone on the other side did think I was ”Linehans sock account” so I guess I am not terrible at this tweeting thingy. I was of course very flattered. Oh, and I am also not a dude, cause if you can identify as a white dude, why the hell not! I cannot thank Graham, Helen and Arty enough these last months. I have felt so so alone, but now I have found some terfy terfs and things are looking up. Anyho just wanted to thank everyone in this fight, you inspire me everyday. Cheers!

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Welcome, Citizen! Thanks for the comment and the very best of luck!

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Oct 28, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

Thank you and thanx for making us all laugh at all this! Still hoping for that pepsi challenge.

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Pepsi challenge! Do you mean the Bulter text I wrote?

Oh yes, what a good idea!!

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Oct 28, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

Yes, that’s the one! I have a friend who still instist Butler is fantastic writing, I might send him your version and tell him I found it sublime

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Oh, please do! I would love to hear a response!

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Oct 28, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

I've found identifying as a dude on Twitter (though only superficially) works wonders in improving the way men debate with me. It lasts about 4 transactions then they realise I'm not a dude and get all aggressive and abusive. It amuses me.

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That is interesting! I like your tactics!

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Oct 29, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

I told someone: “I might not even be a man” and got a very snarky answer back: I was obviously a man and just full of it!

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Oct 28, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

I just threw up in my mouth. Eugh.

(Good one though).

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I had to create it! And then sleep last night!

I know it's horrible, but we do think it apt.

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Oct 28, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

So very apt. It's the bona fide tweets that make it so visceral. I hope your dreams weren't poisoned after creating it!

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Thanks! I have had worse...

I suggested that we choose someone a bit more respectable next time - Like Rolf Harris perhaps, or Ted Bundy...

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Oct 28, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

I've no wise-cracks for you today, Moley, just appreciation for putting these in the same place so that those who didn't see the originals have an inkling of the sheer, abject inhumanity of some TRAs. Thank you ❤️❤️

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No problem, thanks for commenting.

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Oct 28, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

Brilliant. This one is going to get a hell of a lot of use.

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All real Tweets. 100%.

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Oct 28, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

I know! I recognise all of them, which is probably a little bit sad.

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No, just on the ball!

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Oct 28, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

Yep, astonishing, I've seen the originals and had to scrape my chin off the floor. Thanks for assembling them together in a fitting context Mole. Grim, made me angry chuckle.

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Yes, it is grim for sure... But apt.

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Oct 28, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

Phenomenal and ghastly. Great work Mole at the Counter!

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It's what I am best at.. No.. wait! Hang on...

Ha! Thanks! Graham's great idea of course. I just moved a few pixels around a page... Sort of...!

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Oct 29, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

Brilliant and chilling dearest Moley

Magnificent indeed

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Thank you, Mary. Appreciated, as always.

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Oct 29, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

Love you Moley! Chilling in the extreme.

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It is an apt comparison, sadly! The Tweets themselves are chilling, in my view... Graham;s idea, I just slapped a few pixels together... You know how it is!

And thank you!

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Oct 29, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

So my school district in the US is in the news because of this book:

https://www.slj.com/?reviewDetail=gender-queer-a-memoir

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Oct 29, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

This looks truly dreadful don’t get me started in the grammar

We have let down this generation

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What on earth? This is beyond a joke now. It is like something I wrote as a parody - and a not very amusing one at that.

This:

"As e grew up, e learned about the spectrum of gender designations and settled on nonbinary as the best descriptor. E came out to eir family as nonbinary and asexual and found that eir family supported em however e identified. "

- is utterly excruciating and embarrassing for young people to write, never mind adults who should know better. What pathetic, unintelligible drivel.

What is it, part-Elvish? Yorkshire?

Pathetic!

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Oct 29, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

I know right?! How does anyone remember to use those pronouns. All these terms like gender fluid, cisgender and genderqueer, asexual, and non-binary were virtually unheard of five years ago, and still don't exist outside some rarefied circles. I am 41, so not exactly ancient, and I do not ever remember seeing books with graphic sexual illustrations in them in my school library. There was a sixth form section of the library that only older students could visit; a recognition that greater maturity was needed to read some texts, for example W. Somerset Maugham’s Liza of Lambeth.

But this book, what is the point? A book in a school library carries a sort of imprimatur, if you will, of being good literature, and I do not understand how, according to Jenni Frencham of the school library journal, “matter-of-fact descriptions of …the use of sex toys” constitutes good literature.

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Well, It is fashionable, rather than 'any good'. That is how Lavery and Faye get their execrable drivel published. It is a trendy, 'now' market...

And publishers go where they think the money is.

Personally, I wouldn't read this shit if I were at gun point.

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Do you ever think about how much someone would have to pay you to read this garbage? Lemme see, I'll read Judith Butler if ... I'm given $10,000? $20,000? I suppose I would have to be tested afterward to see if I actually read the book if it's possible to test someone on gobbledygook. And then there's the hell one can envision for bad writers: Sitting in an uncomfortable chair having their own works read aloud to them for ETERNITY.

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Well, I would read it for a small amount... But to read it and try and decipher it - and then be 'tested', then that would require payment, for sure!

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Oct 30, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

I’d worry about the long-term damage, how do you stop your brain trickling out of your ears? Surely know about money is worth that 😂

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Oct 30, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

I thought the Emperors New Clothes was fiction when I was a child. But now I’m absolutely convinced it was based on real events. All the reviewers say it’s fantastic and all the rest of us are looking at the proverbial emperor’s bares arse and are saying it’s gobshite.

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Oct 29, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

We really have. I am so disappointed that book was until yesterday in my kid's school library. But I am hopeful they are going to do a better job in the future. Although I have a hard time believing that whoever ordered that book didn't know what was in there.

Here is the statement the school put out:

X school district is aware of a report on social media about a book in one of our libraries that contained inappropriate images. One copy of the book in question was once available at a single high school library. There was no indication from the book’s description that it contained graphic illustrations; however, once the librarian and campus administrators became aware of the images, they immediately removed the book. Illustrations of this sort should never be available in the school environment. Ensuring our curricular materials are appropriate for students is a priority for Keller ISD. We are changing the process we use to review and approve books and related materials to prevent future incidents.

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Oct 28, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

Oh and also: awareness in Sweden is generally terrible. People now about the blockers but are in complete denial about the rest

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Oct 28, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

God! When you put it like that, it really brings it home how shocking it is that they said it.

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Yep. All genuine comments. I have the screen shots/originals.

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Oct 28, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

Top work, as always, by mole!

https://ibb.co/XzxScnH

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Thanks! (Nice GIF.. I think!)

Graham's idea, of course!

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False alarm: Paisley's Twitter is still up.

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Oct 28, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

Fabulous, well done Mole. I think put in this format it's much more effective (shocking) and may push through the thick skin of some! It will certainly give the uninformed a quick reminder of how close some of these TRAs are getting to this vile human being.

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Well, quite! All of these Tweets are from Blue tick accounts too. They don't even bother to disguise their misogyny.

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Moley, you magnificent bastard!

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I've seen that comment before, haven't I?

Can't...think..... where............ though..............................

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Except you are a magnificent bastard. ;-)

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You are too kind...!

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Found an old tweet you sent me once.

https://twitter.com/moleatthedoor/status/1288290727932428290

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I must have been hacked. There are no spelling errors...

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