MathiasTCK.bsky.social
@mathiastck.bsky.social
Android app dev, gamer, dad
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I kept waiting for the allegation of a false statement of fact. Didn't happen. The complaint seems to hinge on the notion that "being bought" by billionaires must mean a clear, specific payoff. That the book is saying there were cash payments made in exchange for lies and propaganda.
December 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I kept waiting for the allegation of a false statement of fact. Didn't happen. The complaint seems to hinge on the notion that "being bought" by billionaires must mean a clear, specific payoff. That the book is saying there were cash payments made in exchange for lies and propaganda.
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These are not words that belong in a defamation complaint. This is like saying "I have been defamed by this mans's opinions!" which is not a thing.
December 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
These are not words that belong in a defamation complaint. This is like saying "I have been defamed by this mans's opinions!" which is not a thing.
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I was going to say that if he's going to sue anyone for defamation, he should sue himself for what he wrote about himself in The Exile.
December 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I was going to say that if he's going to sue anyone for defamation, he should sue himself for what he wrote about himself in The Exile.
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I lived in Moscow in the 90's. It took me a while to realize that the Taibbi byline in the USA was *that* Taibbi. He tries to excuse his eXile days as satire, and maybe that excuse works in the USA all these years later. If you were there, though, it was staggeringly misogynist sex-predator stuff.
December 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I lived in Moscow in the 90's. It took me a while to realize that the Taibbi byline in the USA was *that* Taibbi. He tries to excuse his eXile days as satire, and maybe that excuse works in the USA all these years later. If you were there, though, it was staggeringly misogynist sex-predator stuff.
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Some ~personal news~
Yes, I'm being sued by Matt Taibbi
Does that make me the realest free speech warrior?
open.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Some ~personal news~
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I lived in Moscow in the 90's. It took me a while to realize that the Taibbi byline in the USA was *that* Taibbi. He tries to excuse his eXile days as satire, and maybe that excuse works in the USA all these years later. If you were there, though, it was staggeringly misogynist sex-predator stuff.
December 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I tried to read it from the point of view of a judge who doesn't want to kick on 12b6 and is looking for something, ANYTHING, that is good enough to warrant giving to a jury. I got nothing.
December 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I tried to read it from the point of view of a judge who doesn't want to kick on 12b6 and is looking for something, ANYTHING, that is good enough to warrant giving to a jury. I got nothing.
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I just read it again. I'm not seeing anything that is even close to statement-of-fact territory. There's a few things that allude to defamatory material in the book, but they didn't bother to include what exactly the material actually is.
December 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I just read it again. I'm not seeing anything that is even close to statement-of-fact territory. There's a few things that allude to defamatory material in the book, but they didn't bother to include what exactly the material actually is.
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When the only lawyer you can find to file your vexatious lawsuit was also a bottom of the barrel Trump lawyer...
December 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
When the only lawyer you can find to file your vexatious lawsuit was also a bottom of the barrel Trump lawyer...
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Lawyer is the same guy who represented Trump against Woodward.
December 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Lawyer is the same guy who represented Trump against Woodward.
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Agreed. Would be surprised if this survives a 12b6. So, the people who have been saying "can't wait for discovery" can be disappointed. Doubt this case can even make it to discovery. I don't know Judge Daniels at all, but he seems like a normal judge who should see through this.
December 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Agreed. Would be surprised if this survives a 12b6. So, the people who have been saying "can't wait for discovery" can be disappointed. Doubt this case can even make it to discovery. I don't know Judge Daniels at all, but he seems like a normal judge who should see through this.
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Tim I’m starting to think these free speech warriors aren’t quite on the level
December 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Tim I’m starting to think these free speech warriors aren’t quite on the level
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Guys who claim to be "free speech absolutists" suing for defamation. Keeps happening.
Read the complaint. It's ridiculously weak. Doesn't even attempt to show actual malice. Repeatedly cites opinion statements as if they're factual.
Censorial bullshit from Taibbi.
Read the complaint. It's ridiculously weak. Doesn't even attempt to show actual malice. Repeatedly cites opinion statements as if they're factual.
Censorial bullshit from Taibbi.
December 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Guys who claim to be "free speech absolutists" suing for defamation. Keeps happening.
Read the complaint. It's ridiculously weak. Doesn't even attempt to show actual malice. Repeatedly cites opinion statements as if they're factual.
Censorial bullshit from Taibbi.
Read the complaint. It's ridiculously weak. Doesn't even attempt to show actual malice. Repeatedly cites opinion statements as if they're factual.
Censorial bullshit from Taibbi.
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If someone sues me for saying something on the internet that hurts their feefees, even though it's true, my insurance company will pay @hipcrimevocab.net and @goobermunch.bsky.social to make them regret this fact! It's especially important for me, because my state has a terrible anti-SLAPP law.
December 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
If someone sues me for saying something on the internet that hurts their feefees, even though it's true, my insurance company will pay @hipcrimevocab.net and @goobermunch.bsky.social to make them regret this fact! It's especially important for me, because my state has a terrible anti-SLAPP law.
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her fiancé about $290k to get what was an *obvious*, blatant SLAPP suit dismissed. Thankfully, since Texas (I know, right?!) has that best-in-class anti-SLAPP law, the sex pest owes them all that money they had to pay, but trying to collect is never guaranteed.
December 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
her fiancé about $290k to get what was an *obvious*, blatant SLAPP suit dismissed. Thankfully, since Texas (I know, right?!) has that best-in-class anti-SLAPP law, the sex pest owes them all that money they had to pay, but trying to collect is never guaranteed.
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--and the statement "JK Rowling is a fucking bigot" *is* fully protected in US defamation law as a statement of opinion and not fact. It's still expensive to get a meritless defamation suit thrown out unless your state has a good anti-SLAPP law (and not many do!)
December 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
--and the statement "JK Rowling is a fucking bigot" *is* fully protected in US defamation law as a statement of opinion and not fact. It's still expensive to get a meritless defamation suit thrown out unless your state has a good anti-SLAPP law (and not many do!)
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She used to just do it when someone accurately identified her as a fucking bigot, but she's started funding the threatening letters sent on behalf of her fucking bigot friends, as well. Which is why I am so happy that the US does not domesticate UK defamation judgements under the SPEECH Act--
December 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
She used to just do it when someone accurately identified her as a fucking bigot, but she's started funding the threatening letters sent on behalf of her fucking bigot friends, as well. Which is why I am so happy that the US does not domesticate UK defamation judgements under the SPEECH Act--
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So you see a semi-regular parade of, like, a UK trans person with a net worth of £21 and some pocket lint posting an apology and retraction statement that was clearly written by JKR's solicitors as part of a settlement over having accurately called the fucking bigot a fucking bigot.
December 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
So you see a semi-regular parade of, like, a UK trans person with a net worth of £21 and some pocket lint posting an apology and retraction statement that was clearly written by JKR's solicitors as part of a settlement over having accurately called the fucking bigot a fucking bigot.
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This is because for every dollar you spend on Harry Potter media or merchandise, a large portion of it goes to Head Bigot JK Rowling, who specifically uses that money to finance her fellow raging bigots threatening ruinous lawsuits against UK people who point out their raging bigotry.
December 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This is because for every dollar you spend on Harry Potter media or merchandise, a large portion of it goes to Head Bigot JK Rowling, who specifically uses that money to finance her fellow raging bigots threatening ruinous lawsuits against UK people who point out their raging bigotry.
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The UK has since made some changes to their laws to downgrade them from "completely batshit draconian fuckery" to "mildly batshit draconian fuckery", but it remains batshit draconian fuckery that has a significant chilling effect, particularly on calling a raging bigot a raging bigot.
December 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The UK has since made some changes to their laws to downgrade them from "completely batshit draconian fuckery" to "mildly batshit draconian fuckery", but it remains batshit draconian fuckery that has a significant chilling effect, particularly on calling a raging bigot a raging bigot.
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The law in question is the SPEECH Act of 2010 (www.congress.gov/bill/111th-c...) and while it prevents all libel tourism from countries with less protective law than the US, it was specifically enacted in reaction to the UK's batshit draconian defamation laws.
www.congress.gov
December 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The law in question is the SPEECH Act of 2010 (www.congress.gov/bill/111th-c...) and while it prevents all libel tourism from countries with less protective law than the US, it was specifically enacted in reaction to the UK's batshit draconian defamation laws.
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Reminder: I am from the US, which specifically passed a law to protect against UK defamation judgements, which this crowd of raging bigots abuse horribly thanks to funding from the money Head Bigot JK Rowling earns from Harry Potter franchise revenue to file bullshit lawsuits as financial terrorism
December 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Reminder: I am from the US, which specifically passed a law to protect against UK defamation judgements, which this crowd of raging bigots abuse horribly thanks to funding from the money Head Bigot JK Rowling earns from Harry Potter franchise revenue to file bullshit lawsuits as financial terrorism
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Oh hey look, it's Sarah Ditum, a raging fucking transphobic bigot who has been a major player in the UK "gender critical" multi-year public campaign to manufacture consent for stripping trans people of their legal rights because she's a raging transphobic bigot!
Yeah, no thanks.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
December 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Oh hey look, it's Sarah Ditum, a raging fucking transphobic bigot who has been a major player in the UK "gender critical" multi-year public campaign to manufacture consent for stripping trans people of their legal rights because she's a raging transphobic bigot!
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On Trump’s plaques — ROGAN: “So crazy. You shouldn’t be allowed to do this.”
GILLIS: “Like an African dictatorship.”
Rogan worries @GavinNewsom might do it too, apparently still not getting Newsom’s mockery— or how uniquely deranged the president Joe helped elect is.
GILLIS: “Like an African dictatorship.”
Rogan worries @GavinNewsom might do it too, apparently still not getting Newsom’s mockery— or how uniquely deranged the president Joe helped elect is.
December 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
On Trump’s plaques — ROGAN: “So crazy. You shouldn’t be allowed to do this.”
GILLIS: “Like an African dictatorship.”
Rogan worries @GavinNewsom might do it too, apparently still not getting Newsom’s mockery— or how uniquely deranged the president Joe helped elect is.
GILLIS: “Like an African dictatorship.”
Rogan worries @GavinNewsom might do it too, apparently still not getting Newsom’s mockery— or how uniquely deranged the president Joe helped elect is.
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Rogan continues his unbroken streak of marveling at how messed up Trump is without taking any responsibility for helping to get him elected.
December 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Rogan continues his unbroken streak of marveling at how messed up Trump is without taking any responsibility for helping to get him elected.