Please or to access all these features

Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Polycule falls apart

949 replies

RoyalCorgi · 31/07/2026 08:54

I expect people remember that Heather Herbert (charged in relation to social media comments he made after Ann Widdecombe's death) is in a polycule with Sophie Molly (aka Sparkles, aka Euan Weddell) and someone called Poppybear.

Molly, I believe, is a witness for Jolyon Maugham in Sarah Phillimore's libel case against Maugham.

Poppybear has been posting some very indiscreet posts on BlueSky about both Molly and Herbert, and it looks, tragically, as if the polycule has fallen apart.

According to Poppybear, Herbert's comments about Widdecombe "painted a bullseye on all of us", and led to the police coming in and "invading" all their devices (whatever that means).

Also according to Poppybear, living with Sophie Molly is "like being permanently slapped around the face by pathological laziness unless it's something that grooms her ego."

Oh dear.

https://x.com/DogLoverOfPI/status/2082944747862188490

In a separate development, apparently Herbert has had his toxic kidney removed by the NHS so the money donated to the fundraiser is going to be used for something else:

https://x.com/WillyWoofter/status/2082494111555190875

poppybear - Search

The latest posts on poppybear. Read what people are saying and join the conversation.

https://x.com/search?q=poppybear&src=typed_query

OP posts:
Thread gallery
107
AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 04/08/2026 14:59

I think the Canadians have done it and he is just going along with the crowd, actually, having looked the term up. But I cannot see the slightest need for it to be there as a separate thing not just part of the ragtag and bobtail that comes after the B in LGB....

murasaki · 04/08/2026 14:55

You'd think, but I suggest he's put it first in the alphabet soup list to endear him to Canada. They are welcome to him.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 04/08/2026 14:51

I thought it was simply one more way to erase lesbians as much as possible. Doesn't two-spirit come under the "+"?

murasaki · 04/08/2026 14:49

Two spirit is the first bit. Not surprising he's colonised that concept given a move to Canada.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 04/08/2026 14:45

in his own words: "My name is Dr Adrian A. Harrop (he/him), and I am a Family Physician who has recently relocated to Calgary from Liverpool in the United Kingdom."

https://www.familydoctoryyc.ca/about

Wtaf does 2SLGBTQIA+ stand for?

Memoryhole · 04/08/2026 14:41

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 04/08/2026 13:27

Fat Tony and the Flying Lawyer are both Hayden. He has a law degree but is not a solicitor or barrister, so is using a legal loophole to describe himself as a lawyer, because IIRC that isn't a protected term, and the other two are. He used to be chummy with Dr Adrian Harrop, who has faded from view now, I think.

I think Harrop moved to America?

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 04/08/2026 14:41

Someone has noticed it has been noticed, and limited who sees their posts. Bah.

SidewaysOtter · 04/08/2026 14:20

That’s hilarious and utterly gross in equal measure.

And such MANLY voices 🤭

spannasaurus · 04/08/2026 14:00

There's now an audio drama of the polycule

https://x.com/ZoeNope/status/2084266107720929436?s=20

X

https://x.com/ZoeNope/status/2084266107720929436?s=20

SabrinaThwaite · 04/08/2026 13:56

Popcorn time indeed.

Polycule falls apart
AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 04/08/2026 13:32

I need a family tree type graphic, or perhaps a flow chart or something, to keep track of them! All help gratefully received.

I expect they do it on purpose, anyway, so people think there are more of them than there actually are.

Who was the one who insisted on being a baby and sucking a dummy, for instance? One of the usual suspects, or an outlier?

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 04/08/2026 13:27

Fat Tony and the Flying Lawyer are both Hayden. He has a law degree but is not a solicitor or barrister, so is using a legal loophole to describe himself as a lawyer, because IIRC that isn't a protected term, and the other two are. He used to be chummy with Dr Adrian Harrop, who has faded from view now, I think.

INeedAPensieve · 04/08/2026 13:27

Are all of these people connected to one another? As in, is this Stephanie Hayden and Lyndsay Watson etc friends with the Aberdeen polycule? I wonder what information has been discovered on all of their devices.

What a time to be alive...

WrongKindOfFeminist · 04/08/2026 13:23

SabrinaThwaite · 04/08/2026 13:08

I am looking out my shocked face. Back in a bit.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 04/08/2026 13:21

I still amn't. They all seem to have have too many aliases or is it alia? for me to keep track of.

Hayden I think I am clear about, though I'm not sure how many of the other names he is.

SidewaysOtter · 04/08/2026 13:17

SabrinaThwaite · 04/08/2026 13:09

Wasn’t that MN user signed up under the name ‘Stephanie Hayden’?

Ah yes, I'd misread the original post with the hat gif. Stephanie Hayden. I vaguely remember it being talked about at the time but I wasn't au fait with who all the people were back then!

KittyWilkinson · 04/08/2026 13:17

SabrinaThwaite · 04/08/2026 13:09

Wasn’t that MN user signed up under the name ‘Stephanie Hayden’?

Yes. I remember it all in real time. Most entertaining.

ILikeDungs · 04/08/2026 13:12

Hayden is now under investigation by an Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation team within the Metropolitan Police Service.

About fucking time

SabrinaThwaite · 04/08/2026 13:09

This reply has been deleted

This message has been withdrawn at the poster's request

Wasn’t that MN user signed up under the name ‘Stephanie Hayden’?

SabrinaThwaite · 04/08/2026 13:08

Well, well, well.

nitter.net/ptrjms/status/2084589243897094490?s=46

SidewaysOtter · 04/08/2026 13:01

This reply has been withdrawn

This message has been withdrawn at the poster's request

SidewaysOtter · 04/08/2026 12:54

We've talked about Terf Island The Musical for years, who knew there was a whole soap opera going on for real at the same time?

TheGospelAccordingToMe · 04/08/2026 12:40

Gosh I came back from holiday just in time!

🍿

RhannionKPSS · 04/08/2026 12:26

Hope the house isn’t in Aberdeen or Cambridge? Check out your neighbours 😃

BlakeCarrington · 04/08/2026 12:23

It’s gripping!

I’d take it as an auspicious sign @Shedmistress, fingers crossed on both the housing viewing and multi-policular meltdown