Blocked and Reported Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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As she inches further and further from home life and closer to #VanLife, Katie Herzog studies those who came before her so that she may avoid their mista…

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(CORRECTIONS: In the original version of this episode, Jesse said Keffals recently moved on from Ireland to Iceland. He has genuinely no idea why he thought this was the case and both mentions of this have been deleted from the live version of the episode. Jesse also misstated the amount of money Joshua Moon claimed David “Near” Ginder offered him to take down his Kiwi Farms page. It was $120,000, not $10,000. This too has been corrected in the live version. For transparency’s sake, the old, incorrect version of this episode’s audio file, labeled as such, can be heard here.)

Links:

“Jesse’s answer on Cloudflare was bad.”

https://www.reddit.com/comments/xbapdc/_/io0fckk

“Keffals on why she will not apologize for the false Destiny stealthing accusations”

https://streamable.com/oy8joh

Statement from London’s Police Chief on what happened

https://www.londonpolice.ca/en/news/statement-from-police-chief-williams-august-2022.aspx 

Clara-fication on how guns were used during the raid

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgyagd/keffals-kiwi-farms

🗄️ Keffals’ original GoFundMe

https://archive.ph/WA0XR

UrbanDictionary defines “troon”

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Troon

Information on Chloe Sagal, one of the suicide victims

https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/chloe-sagal-death-1202858068/

Joshua Moon claims there isn’t real evidence David “Near” Ginder died, and that Ginder attempted to exploit him (might have to try a domain other than “.st” as Kiwi Farms jumps around trying to stay on the clearnet)

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/my-response-regarding-byuu-near.93719/

Moon links to this archive containing a great deal more information and controversy

https://archive.ph/MfUhq

Margaret Pless isn’t buying the conspiracy theory, pointing out that KF has incentive to muddy the waters here 

Her article on Kiwi Farms and its history

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/kiwi-farms-the-webs-biggest-community-of-stalkers.html

Jesse Singal EXPOSED

Plagiarism Today explains the info required to file a DMCA request

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2009/04/15/personal-info-and-dmca-notices 

A minidoc on Foodistzen

When Jesse was hanging out on one of Teddy’s servers, someone posted this bit of Foodist brilliance

Background

https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/why-internet-trolls-turning-jacksepticeye-dad-s-death-memes-understanding-bizarre-trend

Teddy’s email to Keffals

Keffals’ UberEats is hacked

 BobPosting’s bathtub estrogen

The graphic threat made against Keffals

Fellow KF user responds negatively not because it’s a disgusting post, but because it will help Keffals

After @LexerLux succeeds in his scouting expedition, Jesse enters the belly of the beast, under the deepest of cover

The Dumb and Dumber ThanksKilling “ass, gas, or grass?” scene

 Urban Dictionary explains the term

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ass%20gas%20or%20grass

Keffals says she knows who is responsible for stalking her in Belfast on a Sept. 11th stream

🔊 Keffals: “I know who this guy is”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g76Ho-5eMUYSJlnLWUu__KSX3V0d5oAD/view 

Evidence Keffals was on to Teddy’s online hangouts by September 2nd

Jesse corresponds, on Discord, with someone who said he called the cops on Teddy and is himself a loyalist…

…some background on the flag thing (consider this unconfir

Today, Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal present the first ever BARPod two-parter in known human history. This duology will chronicle, in exhaustive detail, a calamitous struggle between Kiwi Farms, a gossip board and/or harassment amplifier and/or literal digital version of Hitler’s mountain rereat and/or actual terrorist organization (depending on you ask), and Keffals, a Twitch streamer and trans activist. The story somehow also involves, in no particular order, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Cloudflare, the entire mainstream media, Northern Ireland, Destiny, The Ulster Volunteer Force, The Ulster KiwiFarms Force, “ChudLogic” (?), questionable grooming allegations, unquestionable helping-minors-get-hormones allegations, GoFundMe, mean chat logs, even meaner chat logs, doxxing, harassing, stalking, Ethan Ralph, stealthing, screaming, swatting, and Reply All’s Alex Goldman. (Plus some more stuff in Part 2.)

(CORRECTION VIA COMMENTER: “Small correction on the go fund me targets. The original goal was way lower (30k I think). Everytime the goal was reached, a new goal was set in 10k increments. This article shows the goal at 70k just after they passed 60k in donations. I'm sure the wayback machine will have the original page. https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/twitch-streamer-keffals-left-traumatized-getting-swatted”) (Wayback does confirm this: https://archive.ph/WA0XR)

(POSSIBLY OVER-CAUTIOUS CLARIFICATION FROM JESSE, 9/12/22: We’ll mention this in the next ep but I do want to be crystal clear that there were firearms present at Keffals’ arrest. The London, Ontario Police Chief’s statement noted, “In this case, firearms were displayed until it was determined a threat no longer existed. I acknowledge that for the average citizen, having heavily armed police officers attend your residence would be traumatic. I understand this was a traumatic and shocking experience for Ms. Sorrenti.” And here’s what Keffals told Vice: “They told me to put my hands up, and when I get to the door, there are three police officers,” Sorrenti said. “Two of them were standing up and one of them in the middle was crouched down behind a riot shield with an assault rifle perched on top of the shield.”)

Notes:

Keffals claims to be woken up to an assault rifle in her face, leading to the campaign against KiwiFarms

Keffals claims Julie TerryBerry, David “Near” Ginder, and Chloe Sagal committed suicide as a result of harassment from KiwiFarms (a bit more about this in Part 2)

Keffals with all the food trolls ordered to her house

MTG on Newsmax, talking about her swatting

.MP3 backup

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bwZrWUZKh8nHvOzdkO6gB0ANyGxeDR91/view 

Cloudflare’s essay on why they don’t pull support from unpopular websites

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-abuse-policies-and-approach/ 

Cloudflare pulls support from an unpopular website

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/03/cloudflare-drops-kiwifarms/ 

Cloudflare tries to justify pulling the plug on KF

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/cloudflare-explains-why-kiwi-farms-was-its-most-dangerous-customer-ever/ 

Keffals announces Kiwi Farms was taken down from the Internet Archive

What happens when you try to access any KiwiFarms page on the Internet Archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/kiwifarms.net 

A threat made against Keffals by a KF user

Kiwi Farms administrator Joshua “Null” Moon explains the situation

https://archive.ph/k6Cq7

The timeline of the post, according to one Farmer

“This person is not an active member of our community”.

Another user threatens Keffals

KF users’ response to this threat [TOR REQUIRED]

http://uquusqsaaad66cvub4473csdu4uu7ahxou3zqc35fpw5d4ificedzyqd.onion/threads/dropkiwifarms.128421/page-162

A written threat to Keffals

The paper in question

See for yourself how much KF hates Ethan Ralph [TOR REQUIRED]

http://uquusqsaaad66cvub4473csdu4uu7ahxou3zqc35fpw5d4if

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This week: Jesse gets sent directly to Jewish Hell for misrepresenting Judaism, Men’s Health becomes the next to fall to ideological capture and publishes the worst advice column of all time, and Win Butler of Arcade Fire fame becomes the next to be canceled due to allegations of sexual misconduct. But as usual, there may be more to the story…

Links:

Nathan Robinson review WITH MAJOR SPOILER

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/08/j-k-rowlings-new-novel-shows-why-having-an-editor-is-important

NPR on Rowling’s new book

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120299781/jk-rowling-new-book-the-ink-black-heart

Trace’s article on Biden’s student loan cancellation program

Judaism lore: on graven images

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/ask-the-expert-graven-images/

Men’s Health publishes the worst advice column ever (a record soon to be shattered)

https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a41018711/sexplain-it-vagina-fetish-sex-bisexual/

Pitchfork breaks news of allegations against Win Butler of Arcade Fire fame

https://pitchfork.com/news/arcade-fires-win-butler-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-multiple-women-frontman-responds/

Image: DUBLIN, IRELAND - AUGUST 30: Richard Reed Parry, Win Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Régine Chassagne and Sarah Neufeld of Arcade Fire perform at The 3Arena Dublin on August 30, 2022 in Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Debbie Hickey/Getty Images)

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Alex Aster’s YA novel Lightlark was rejected by 16 publishers – until she posted it on TikTok. Then she got hundreds of thousands of likes, a six-figure publishing contract, a plethora of glowing reviews, and praise from the legacy media… until the book actually came out. To make things worse, she may not have been downtrodden enough. Now, vastly superi…

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Culture war drama hits a new low when a podcasting convention issues an apology for letting Ben Shapiro show up and… actually, that’s about it. Then, Jesse Singal regales us with the story of the American Historical Association’s president, James H. Sweet, and how his attack on presentism got him canceled. Thankfully, Katie Herzog intervenes to soothe us with some nice drawings of dinosaurs and – no, nevermind, turns out there’s drama here, too: paleoartist and behavioral geneticist Emily Willoughby has been exposed for sending black elementary schoolers to jail. Somehow.

Intro

Ben Shapiro causes a firestorm by standing, also breathing

Coverage in Reason

https://reason.com/2022/08/25/ben-shapiro-podcast-movement-harm-done-twitter/

Presentism

Sweet’s credentials (Jesse forgot to mention he’s the president of the AHA)

https://history.wisc.edu/people/sweet-james/

His article in question

https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/september-2022/is-history-history-identity-politics-and-teleologies-of-the-present

The AHA’s tweet of the article, which likely kicked things off

Twitter doing what it does best

The Tattooed Prof’s response to Sweet’s piece

https://thetattooedprof.com/2022/08/19/on-presentism-and-history-or-were-doing-this-again-are-we/

The World Socialist Web Site jumps in

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/08/24/ogzj-a24.html

Phil Magness also comes to the defense of Sweet’s essay

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2022/08/22/the_suicide_of_the_american_historical_association_577652.html

Nazi Dinosaurs

Some paleo art, to cleanse the palate

http://www.charlesrknight.com/Gallery/Knight/Prehistoric/AMNH/Leaping_Laelops.jpg

http://21essays.blogspot.com/2012/03/kongs-debt-to-charles-r-knight.html

Surprise! Not even paleo art is free of drama

https://www.vice.com/en/article/vvb8kj/why-paleontologists-get-riled-up-over-this-heretical-pterosaur-concept-art

Paleo artist Emily Willoughby has some works on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Word-Human-Reason-Perspective/dp/1629016381

https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Painting-Dinosaurs-Using-Science/dp/1785009559/

She also has some on FurAffinity (SFW, astoundingly)

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/3856285/

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/5274416/

Prehistorica_CM’s attack on Willoughby

Zoologist Derren Nash’s subsequent disavowal of Willoughby

DinoDJ accuses Willougby of promoting eugenics and racism

History illustrator Midiaou Diallo ties Willougby to the foundations of white supremacy

Willoughby’s drawing for Everyone Draw Mohammed Day

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/957957987673186344/1011361260463460432/unknown.png

Midiaou’s response to the piece

Someone digging up an old FurAffinity post of hers

Willoughby’s response to the drama

Eric Turkheimer, prominent progressive behavioral geneticist, comes to Willoughby’s defense

Jerry Coyne, blogging at “Why Evolution Is True”, covers the drama

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/08/17/the-ignorant-and-misguided-demonization-of-a-behavior-geneticist/

Paleoartist Mark Witton has a very important question about Willoughby’s work

PEN America Charlie Hebdo insanity
https://pen.org/pen-receives-letter-from-members-about-charlie-hebdo-award/

University of Washington trans study comes to bizarre conclusion, unsupported by its own data

https://mynorthwest.com/3602854/rantz-despite-concerning-trans-study-uw-kept-quiet-because-of-positive-coverage/

Jesse’s original article critiquing the study

Image: Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur - stock illustration via Getty

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