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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 4h

Haha, I have no idea what that is.

Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 5h

All support is gratefully received, let me see if I can remember which crypto wallet I was using... *fumbles in purse like pensioner looking for change*

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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 9d

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 · 13d

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 · 6h

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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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 6h

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 · 7h

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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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 1d

Great minds...

Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 1d

Big thanks to our new Patreons but we're still a way off being able to get the Opium Tea and Terfipedia sites back online, so further support is both needed and appreciated to give stuff like this a home.

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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 1d

Big thanks to our new Patreons but we're still a way off being able to get the Opium Tea and Terfipedia sites back online, so further support is both needed and appreciated to give stuff like this a home.

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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 1d

Latest in the Sandy Peggie case.

Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 2d

RISQUE GALORE

Dozens of sex toys have been found washed up on a Scottish beach.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 27d

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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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 3d

Jive's evil twin.

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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 3d

They're more illegal than the genocide itself.

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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 6d

Grotesque caricature of Irish cisgender man released from police custody.

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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 4d

All future American history lessons will just be incredulous kids asking "Wait, they elected him AGAIN?"

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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 4d

Careful though, it can also lead to a rise in sexual assaults from horny skunks.

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 20d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 5d

If they come back the next day and bring five friends each, I'll be able to post the '30 Helens Agree' meme.

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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 5d

Or Rob, Robbie, Robbo etc.

No wait, Bob! Right, that's what she's called now.

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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 5d

Robert Galbraith is statistically more likely to commit a mass shooting than a trans person.

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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 5d

THE NERVE! You've gone too far this time, TRAs! (At least we know now she can be easily trolled by addressing her as Robert.)

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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 5d

"If they dig up your skeleton in 100 years...", you'll still have to wait another 124 years for a fucking appointment.

Adam Turner 🏳️‍🌈 @awjt.bsky.social · 5d

In Glasgow, there is a 224-year waiting list for gender clinic appointments.

224 YEARS.

This is institutionalised discrimination. It's unacceptable, it's ruining people's lives and it needs to change.

We have the solution. Time for politicians to act.

Gender Clinic Files: Some people in Scotland will never get a gender clinic appointment on a 224-year waitlist.

This system is failing to support people to transition not because it is broken, but by design. The frustrating thing is that this would not be a difficult problem to solve under a different political paradigm.

Trans+ people do not need to be assessed by gender clinics or diagnosed by psychiatrists to tell us what we already know: we are trans. The healthcare we need, especially when it comes to hormones, is already available to cis people through making an appointment with their GP.

Gender clinics are unnecessary and exist to segregate healthcare for Trans+ people. Abolishing this system and providing Trans+ healthcare in primary care, at the GP through an informed consent model, would solve many of the issues this data reveals. GPs already prescribe hormones to cis adults. Trans+ adults simply need the same access to this healthcare.

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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 5d

Normally mocking appearances would be beneath me, but I find it justified when in service of an actual joke about someone who does it relentlessly.

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Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 6d

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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Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 6d

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