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RayonSunrise · 27/07/2025 09:28

worstofbothworlds · 27/07/2025 09:22

I'm on there (I'm an academic and most have left Twitter/X). I have a little GC circle so I think we are growing.
One day I was accused of lying on X because we have a really well integrated Syrian refugee community locally and of being alt right on Bluesky so I guess I have the balance right?

Ha, you sound like my kind of person! Pissing off both sets of extremists is just my cup of chai.

JoanOgden · 27/07/2025 09:27

Disappointed to hear this, though I stopped reading Ian Dunt a while ago because he just loves to posture around emitting sweary rants. Reading his work is like being stuck with a ranty male friend in the pub while the other drinkers start looking at you sympathetically and mouthing "are you OK".

Theswiveleyeballsinthesky · 27/07/2025 09:22

Started his career as a journalist at Pink News - possibly when it was less bat shit

worstofbothworlds · 27/07/2025 09:22

I'm on there (I'm an academic and most have left Twitter/X). I have a little GC circle so I think we are growing.
One day I was accused of lying on X because we have a really well integrated Syrian refugee community locally and of being alt right on Bluesky so I guess I have the balance right?

ThatCyanCat · 27/07/2025 09:20

Yes, I used to like him, I still like his old stuff, but that's what he is now. Hugely disappointing. After all that, he's not actually progressive. It's all about men and women need to put up with it. How original.

X is a bin fire but it's where certain individuals I want to follow are most active so I use it for them and just ignore the rest of it. Bluesky is actually just as much of a bin fire but doesn't realise it.

Merrymouse · 27/07/2025 09:15

He seems very upset that a walking group couldn't be organised in a way that would exclude everyone except what I assume he would call 'cis men', but doesn't seem to understand that under his preferred interpretation of the EA, that isn't possible either.

HPFA · 27/07/2025 08:46

Ian also did an event with Julie Bindel, I think his radicalisation is quite recent.

Bluesky is not fully TRA - you do see GC posts on there., admittedly mostly of the "toilets not sports" genre. I'm hoping that continues because many of us dont want to be on the cesspool that is now Twitter.

Crouton19 · 27/07/2025 08:31

He says he doesn't read them but somehow knows they are full of hate. He is reading but not comprehending. He stood up for Helen Lewis when, I think, there was some sort of outcry when her voice was used in a computer game. She is absolutely the lightest touch sex realist (which I don't have an issue with) but was still considered too terfy. But Ian was having none of it. Where has that Ian gone? I have all his books and he certainly seems a very diligent and thoughtful writer, but the trans issue makes people see things that are not there.

LittleBearPad · 26/07/2025 18:17

To busy being convinced of his own rightness to bother about women.

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NotNowFGS · 26/07/2025 18:03

You might have something there. What a toxic bunch they are.

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Merrymouse · 26/07/2025 17:57

NotNowFGS · 26/07/2025 17:51

He says he doesn't read the comments when he posts on this topic so I expect he will not notice. Folk on his thread were vicious. I thought twitter was bad but that place is something else.

He says he doesn't read the comments

Which explains why he goes round and round in circles.

He can't seem to comprehend the idea that women need and have rights.

LittleBearPad · 26/07/2025 17:54

NotNowFGS · 26/07/2025 17:51

He says he doesn't read the comments when he posts on this topic so I expect he will not notice. Folk on his thread were vicious. I thought twitter was bad but that place is something else.

It’s because people think they are better people for being on Bluesky rather than the ‘evil’ X.

LittleBearPad · 26/07/2025 17:53

NotNowFGS · 26/07/2025 17:51

He says he doesn't read the comments when he posts on this topic so I expect he will not notice. Folk on his thread were vicious. I thought twitter was bad but that place is something else.

Ah but he liked some of the comments under his sub stack article - so he does read them. Only the fawning comments obvs.

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NotNowFGS · 26/07/2025 17:51

He says he doesn't read the comments when he posts on this topic so I expect he will not notice. Folk on his thread were vicious. I thought twitter was bad but that place is something else.

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Theswiveleyeballsinthesky · 26/07/2025 17:50

NotNowFGS · 26/07/2025 17:40

Spent the day on Ian Dunt's Bluesky. Well that was an education, bloody hell!

Fortunately he's got a lot of push back on his substack that absurd article

but yes it is most definitely blue(hair)sky