Polycule falls apart

[RoyalCorgi]

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

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

Gosh I came back from holiday just in time!

🍿

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?

Well, well, well.

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

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

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

About fucking time

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

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!

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.

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

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...

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 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?

Popcorn time indeed.

There's now an audio drama of the polycule

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

That’s hilarious and utterly gross in equal measure.

And such MANLY voices 🤭

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

I think Harrop moved to America?

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?

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

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

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.

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....

Thank you. That actually clears up my confusion quite a bit. I had no idea who Peter Stears was or why FT was so upset with him