for instance here's one of the IDs I've been sitting on: blacksky.community/profile/did:...

oh, I should be clear why I am not going scorched earth: I just want to be left alone. if they don't have positions of public trust, and don't come around to surreptitiously stalk me, tee hee hee etc., then I'm content to leave them alone.

but knowing who to avoid is really important for my safety! and they are definitely not actually bluffing when they claim to have access to me IRL, unfortunately. have had loads of people tell me they were bluffing. from a sample size of several, there are in fact former colleagues of mine.

the pattern basically appears to boil down to career setback and/or personal trauma resulting in the person collectively blaming trans people for their situation, and then taking it out on the one prominent trans (ex-)colleague they knew and scapegoating that person as Categorically Evil etc.

also would be remiss if I didn't mention aggravating factor of racism. in order to indulge one's transphobia on KF, someone would also have to scroll past a *lot* of racism and condone it. but some of these men are already pretty racist, and well, I'm brown, so that makes them go extra-aggro on me.

It feels like tech is a mix of the most abhorrent people and the nicest people you will ever meet, and there's nobody inbetween

imo the only 2 valid reasons to ever visit that site are you are being attacked by it and you need to know wtf they are planning or if you are professionally/academically/really know what you are doing and fighting the far right. Anyone casually browsing that site fits into abhorrent.

Oh was also on the case too?? Damn, if you're being investigated by her, just give up. She's great at her job. :D Sorry about the fact you even need to investigate this. :(

Yeah, Liz is a client.

The Gamergate / Trump era has been an unfortunate exercise in learning that far more people than I thought (and many that I just never would have expected to be) are just impressively (depressingly?) awful. [edit: typo fixed]

dammit i thought kiwi farmers were just farming kiwis until today