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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 18h

Should you have any doubts about who was behind that account, there's nearly 3,000 tweets archived here.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 19h

This is Graham Linehan, using his ban-evading Twitter account @beezleboozers, using a reaction gif of Joey from Friends to mock trans suicide rates on 1st January 2021.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 19h

Melbourne DJ Bridget Flack went missing for 11 days in December 2000. After relentless searching, the community eventually found her to have died by suicide - one of five Melbourne trans women to have died by suicide during the pandemic.

www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11...

Detective says details of police handling of case of missing transgender woman 'hard to listen to'

Melbourne woman Bridget had been missing for 11 days before her body was found by community members. Family describe police handling of the case as "hell".

www.abc.net.au

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 19h

Thread:

First, he mocks the suicide of a 17 year-old trans girl.

Then he deletes it, claiming reasons of morality.

Then he forgets about having done either and mocks the suicide again with exactly the same joke.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 21h

I have no idea which of his Substack contributors I'm supposed to have tried to get fired, but given the way his brain just mashes up misremembered lies about his enemies, he's just as likely to be thinking of the time he contacted *my* employer as anything else.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 21h

Do you need any more evidence that Graham Linehan just says whatever is convenient to him in the moment, with no regard for the truth, than this latest claim that I've been stalking him for "around eight years now"?

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 3d

Glinner's Lies: Talk TV.

In August 2023, Graham was interviewed by Rosanna Lockwood on Talk TV, where he experienced the novelty of someone him mildly questioning his behaviour.

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Rosanna Lockwood: "You've compared people in the trans community, to quote, 'nonces'. You often liken people within the trans community to paedophiles."

Graham Linehan: "No, what I said was there are central figures within the trans community. Aimee Challenor is one example..." [proceeds to discuss Aimee Challenor's family].

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Graham immediately tries to claim that it was simply a thing he said once, about a specific person. He was, of course, lying.

[screenshots of Graham calling people nonces and pedophiles]

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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 12d

God damn it, terfipedia.com is now offline as well as opiumtea.com because I can't afford the web hosting fees.

Please consider a subscription or one-off donation at patreon.com/terfipedia (this covers both sites) so I can get them back online.

Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 16d

Despite billionaires accusing me of grifting, the Opium Tea / Terfipedia joint Patreon makes $8 a month and as a result opiumtea.com is currently offline with terfipedia.com likely to follow.

Patreon allows one-off donations now so please consider supporting or subscribing at patreon.com/terfipedia

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 3d

Glinner's Lies: In Plain Sight.

The audacity of Graham Linehan’s lying is a thing to behold, as this isn’t the only time he’s lied about something while including evidence that completely contradicts the claim he is making.

In this case, Aidan Comerford quoted Dennis Noel Kavanagh completely accurately - barely even paraphrasing. Aidan included the screenshot, and Graham included the screenshot of this while yet again trying to discredit Aidan with a combination of lies and ridiculously inappropriate and unfounded speculation about Aidan’s family (which I have redacted here).

It’s hard to know how to even respond to someone who lies in such a blatant, visible way, knowing that fellow terfs will never call him out on it. So you don’t respond to him - but you don’t give him a platform either.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 3d

Glinner's Lies: His Secret Stalker.

In September 2021, I began reporting on Graham Linehan’s abusive behaviour. By an amazing coincidence, this triggered Graham suddenly remembering that I’d actually been stalking him for “decades”, a premise he’s stuck to impressively since then.

As with many things Graham says, there is no truth whatsoever to this, yet he’s repeated the lie enough times that he sometimes disturbingly seems to actually believe it.

I fully welcome any and all investigation and publication of even anecdotal evidence that mine and Graham’s paths ever crossed prior to my writing about him in 2021.

He’s never given an example of this stalking campaign, which somehow escaped his mind to mention for the first fifteen years. But if it’s true, it’s newsworthy, surely? And if it’s not true, it’s newsworthy that a celebrity would attempt to discredit his critics with completely made-up allegations.

Obviously you can’t prove a negative, so there’s not even much more I can say about the stalking accusations. It’s just completely made-up, and you would have to ask Graham for examples or evidence, which he will never provide.

Also, the accusation that “he even got my idiot brother-in-law to share a smear about me when I was desperately trying to keep my marriage together” relates to James Serafinowicz retweeting me in October 2021.

Graham Linehan got divorced in 2020.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 3d

Graham Linehan: The Basic Facts.

Graham Linehan lost his marriage, friends and career due to developing an all-consuming addiction to Twitter in 2018 that made it impossible for anyone to be around him personally and professionally. As his ex-brother-in-law put it in 2020:

"Calling people beards and telling others to fuck off 18 hours a day is definitely worth losing your family for."

"Tried for two years [to intervene]. Have given up as have a lot of people."

Since then, his entire life has revolved around a single goal: To avoid taking responsibility for this by constructing a narrative whereby the Western world has been captured by a sinister cabal of transgender domestic terrorists, so he was actually making a very important and noble feminist sacrifice by refusing to ever stop yelling into his phone while calling people pedophiles on Twitter.

This involves lying, a lot. Bare-faced, lying through his teeth defamations and fabrications to suit his victim narrative, while simultaneously presenting himself as a warrior for free speech, truth and integrity in journalism.

Opinions can be debated and there are more than enough to go round when it comes to gender. So this account will focus on a single premise: Graham Linehan is a liar and a fraud, not to be trusted, and should certainly no longer be enabled and platformed by the media.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · Sep 12

In June 2020, Graham Linehan was banned from Twitter for “repeated violations of our rules against hateful conduct and platform manipulation”. From November 2020, he began using a series of sock accounts, something he happily admitted to on his Substack.

Throughout 2021, he became increasingly abusive under the mask of anonymity, including to Laurie Penny. Then in September 2021, he used his Substack to threaten Laurie with legal action if tweets referring to him as a “vile bigot” were not deleted with an apology.

I objected to this attempt to silence his critics, so I started a Twitter account called @glinnerslibel consisting solely of screenshots of his abusive and defamatory tweets, to discourage further abuse and undermine any future threats of litigation.

Graham then relentlessly threatened Twitter with legal action and the police until they banned the account as well as my personal one. He also tried to discredit me with the repeated claim that I’d been “stalking him since 2006”. A total fabrication - we’d never interacted prior to 2021.

It’s now 2025, and Graham continues to be as abusive, dangerous and dishonest as ever, while inexplicably being platformed and paraded in the media as a free speech martyr.

The sheer volume of his lies and abuse inevitably dominates attempts to report on the gender critical movement more generally, so all Glinner-related receipts will be dumped here for those interested in the reality behind the dishonest public narrative.

Outside of general smears, Graham has never denied any specific accusation I’ve made, and never will, because he knows I can prove them all.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 8d

The ban was lifted, and yes he's due back at the end of October. Repeating the same line related to his arrest is obvious "You can't stop me saying it from America!" trolling, though absolutely undermines his previous claim to have been making an innocent "joke about height differences".

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 9d

Some of the replies, in case there was any doubt that violence is being incited.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 9d

Graham Linehan is now inciting violence against a specific person.

He's clearly trolling by using the same "joke" as the one he was arrested for but posting it from the US.

Which might not be a crime under UK law, but is very much legally relevant to the investigation already happening in the UK.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 10d

Well, he's certainly not shy about his Islamophobia and racism now.

There are two billion Muslims in the world. They're talking about one in four people on the planet.

Anyone prepared to report the truth about this guy yet, or just more identical softball interviews about being cancelled?

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 11d

This is satirical but they are also word-for-word exact quotes.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 11d

No, in your case it's always been 100% about what you were saying. There's just a giant difference between what you say when drunk on Twitter, and what you later claim you were saying on your weekly podcast appearance about being cancelled.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 12d

I liked Father Ted in the 90s and hated The IT Crowd in the 2000s and can't think of a single reason I would since have even thought about Graham Linehan prior to him abusing people from sock accounts after his Twitter ban.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 12d

Given that we never had a single encounter or interaction in our lives before I started documenting his transphobic abuse in 2021, I have no idea whether or not he believes this, or which would be worse.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 13d

Update: In between cheering on ICE, he's now retweeting this guy on main.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 13d

Glinner used to only be comfortable being this Islamophobic when posting from ban evading sock accounts...

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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 13d

As Graham would say: This this thisity this.

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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 13d

And without AI, I certainty wouldn't have been able to extrapolate and articulate the required legal jargon to confirm the dishonesty of Graham Linehan's most recent crowd-funding con job.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 13d

Outrageous how many people are getting in trouble simply for innocently writing words on social media.

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