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[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

@self

Have to wonder what happened to her brain since the days when she had stuff published at the Guardian.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

given some of the other things I've seen from the guardian, not sure that would've necessarily been a contraindicator

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

@froztbyte

I mean they didn't seem very fashy at first. The later ones (2018, when she was fashy on the down-low ) started to get TERFy but earlier (2010-2014) it was all "the police aren't your friend” and stuff about government trying to restrict the right to protest, etc.

(I looked over her Guardian contributions after reading about the bankruptcy etc in this thread.)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I guess that is the same duration/timeline as the guardian downslope arc

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 3 points 5 months ago

@froztbyte

The guardian is kind of irrelevant to what I was getting at.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago

she had a piece in The Quietus in 2018, but by 2020 they had kicked a writer out for being pals with DC Miller, her co-plaintiff in this case

(just for confusion one of the Quietus guys is a different Luke Turner)