Hayden tweeted about me yesterday but then quickly deleted what he had posted, too fast for me to grab a screenshot, just like he had immediately deleted all his tweets in the conversation he had been having with me on the morning of January 9, 2022, which has always seemed suspicious to me. It was 2:30am when the suspension occurred and this guy was instantly trying to scrub away any record which could be connected to him.
Deleting a tweet doesn’t delete the conversation, even one with a now suspended account.
And you’d think it would be yimby bragging rights to have interacted with such a reviled racist and homophobe as me right before my infamous and oft-reported account got suspended.
But instead, right after my accounts were locked, Hayden had deleted all his tweets with me.
Within five minutes.
He was right on top of it.
At 2:30 in the morning.
Hmmmm.
So when I saw him mentioning me in that now deleted tweet of his from yesterday, something about how he had wished I was “still here” to witness something he had wanted me to be aware of, my curiosity propelled me to email him.
Hayden had suggested that early morning back in January that he and I, as residents of Long Island City, get together over a cup of coffee to discuss our differences (always a good idea) so my email to him was to follow up on that suggestion.
👋
He has yet to reply.
While I wait, here are screenshots from that final conversation, thanks to increased functionality which keeps sprouting up on my suspended account:
Hayden had cried in one of his quickly deleted tweets that he was merely a “part time CEO” of the nonprofit he had founded and was thus deeply struggling to pay his monthly rent of “thousands of dollars,” poor beleaguered angelHayden had told me I was “quite disgusting”
He had tweeted about me yesterday and now he’s ignoring my email.
Weird flex to delete your entire timeline, Hayden Clarkin, (something I said?😬) but do go off.
Hey, I’m back! Needed to clear my head, so thanks for sticking with me. Let’s get back talking about how to build cities for people. ☺️ pic.twitter.com/Jfc8MgtuDy
Unlike the OP I lived in SF. 7k rent split between 4 people. Now I live in a studio in NYC with a COVID deal just under 2k. Next May, I will need a roomie because my rent will go up 1k per my landlord. Before SF I lived in CT in apt for 900 bucks off campus.
“Next May, I will need a roomie!!! In my luxury tower studio!!!🥺😭”
Lmao you’re a lunatic. Fuel grannie is gonna be pissed you took her role, however. Anyway, keep screaming into the void, I’ll advocate for you still. Be blessed 🙏🏼😂
Like, if you’re trying to have, like, a public kiki with MarketUrbanism, you’re going to be, like, perceived by the New York City renter class, some 70% of NYC residents, as, like, the enemy.
Zeke. My thread was about how a universal voucher program won’t work and have unintended consequence and literally ends by calling for new publicly owned housing. What do you imagine me to be saying? Good god, please stop assuming the worst of me! We don’t know each other!
You have deflected from Evie’s & others’ genuine concerns for enabling Blackstone to talk about other matters. It reeks of YIMBYism so that is why you get called out for it. You have a pattern of deflecting when it comes to these housing matters.
Unless you’re pretending not to know exactly what you are doing by supporting harmful yimby platforms, groups and voices, a plausible, popular yet nonetheless dystopian theory about you.
i agree it's an OpenNY talking point but hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Because maybe that’s, oh I dunno, a bad look for someone who is allegedly fighting for tenant rights.
Because maybe, just maybe, all that sucking up makes you look like you’re not really fighting for tenant rights at all and that you are instead, like, fighting to protect the developer interests.
It is offensive for you to scoff at your own accountability: you had resented that people were onto your literal gaslighting so you then go and cry to your followers for them to soothe you and to encourage your toddle-esque whining for things to go exactly the way you want them to.
Do you not understand what you look like? Especially to the renters who need for you to be a strong, reliable leader: they see you instead as a whiney, over-privileged little white girl from Rochester who is regularly promoted by The Real Deal and evidently cares more about herself than the vulnerable people for whom she alleges to speak.
(“I can’t believe what you say because I Cea what you do” ~ James Baldwin, sorta)
Like, why did you never connect with any of the renters in Lower Manhattan who are worried about displacement? Why don’t you speak to them and learn about all the varied types of NYC housing in which they reside? Why are you so disconnected from real people in real situations and potential real crises? Are you here to learn, Cea, or to pretend that you have all the answers and that no one should ever demand accountability from you?
i am longing to see a tweet from any single member of the NY press corps i love you all please send help 😢
this weekend for labor day i left new york politics twitter (work) and joined housing discourse twitter (leisure) and like i desperately want back into NY politics twitter please god let me back
Because it’s evident by your tweeting, your own whining, where your priorities lie: with you and with your high comfort threshold and not with the alleged advocacy you do.
When you cry about having endured a hard time (“😤🍼😩”) after literally gaslighting a NYCHA tenants association president and being called out for it, you reconfirm that you are no ally but are rather a self-important, self-pitying, self-fawning fop.
You cry for yourself. Publicly. So you can then temper-tantrum for the narratives you want to have. You. You are about you and you alone.
You are not about broadening your own knowledge or being introspective or taking accountability. Or even just explaining yourself in a cogent, clear and understandable manner: you appear deliberately incapable of that.
I don’t believe Good Cause is any good because so many crappy peoplesupportit and cannot properly defend it, let alone properly define it. And such a bill will likely eliminate even more stabilized homes in this city, a yimby agenda you should not be supporting.
I’ve said all along that I suspect you do this all on purpose: it’s all an act and you play dumb to try to win people over (it doesn’t work: we see you) so that you can then push a destructive agenda. You then whine for people to leave you alone when you are called out for obvious agenda-pushing.
Like a typical Aaron Carr– and Ben Thypin-worshipping yimby, you shut down discourse instead of encouraging it and engaging with others: this is why no one trusts you.
You whine and beg for validation when you are justifiably criticized, chthonic to behold: why can’t you take any criticism? You are in the wrong city if you can’t take what you deserve.
If it’s too hot in the NYC kitchen for you, Scruncherella, then get out: downzone yourself and your topknot.
It’s so obvious that the renters in the US are the forgotten/taken adavantage of and under appreciated voting block…but not anymore… thanks to people like @aaronAcarr@ceaweaverhttps://t.co/N3ONEdn7To
The trend of landlords calling me fat on this website is like … really unacceptable for a number of reasons and it doesn’t help the pro landlord cause either. Fuck off
I served for 2 terms on the nycdsa steering co. it was an incredibly formative experience; I love the org and what it’s taught me. Being in leadership is emotionally taxing and often thankless and cruel. 1/2
No: “being in leadership” is energizing for those leaders who are telling the truth, Cea. Look at Volodymyr Zelenskyy: he may be tired as balls but he’s full of energy and doesn’t complain like, oh I dunno, some spoiled, overly privileged, trophy generation brat who cannot tolerate any deserved criticism or suspicion (cough and hello)
You are weighed down by the heaviness of your shame and your own choice to trick and connive. That’s why you’re so “emotionally taxed😤🍼😫,” Cea: because being a totally full of shit liar is exhausting, especially during that critical moment when you get publicly exposed for all your bullshit
So maybe stop doing it👋
That’s kind of my point. Sometimes I think homeowners are a bigger structural barrier to “social housing” (whatever the f that means) than REBNY.
It’s fucked up how convenient our dystopia is. Like…I like that my phone knows when I’m in the subway station and suggests that I open the Apple wallet to use the OMNI thing.
“Like, is this a, like, ad for both, like, Apple and Omny wrapped in, like, a pretend complaint so to, like, normalize the, like, hahaha, ~*alleged*~, like, dystopia which, like, doesn’t exist for people who earn, like, $5k a month, ha?!?!?!? Ooops!!!!!😤🍼😫”
Cannot stand the stream of abuse from misinformed and power hungry landlords on this website honestly
If you’re going the right thing u have nothing to be afraid of so why u in the replys like nonstop
“Haaaaaallllllppppppp!!!! I’m a top NYC ‘housing advocate’ therefore no one should ever talk to me!!!!!! Like, ever!!!!! Especially on social media!!!! Seriously, like, leave me alone, I’m the ~*victim*~ here, okayyyyyyyyy?!?!?!? And for the record, I do ~*not*~ ~*have*~ cankles!!!!!! Gawd!!!!!😤🍼😫”
1) that’s not what it says, read it 2) personally I think urstadt repeal is a neoliberal dead-end that leaves millions out but if you wanna build a statewide coalition around it, go on ahead. HJ4A members set our strategy – not random ppl who bully me on Twitter.
Calling on violence against anybody is over the line. And I'd agree personal name calling attacks, categorical bigotry adds nothing and should be discouraged. That said, your supporters do that as well. It'd be inspiring to see you lead by example & call that out.
“Haaaaalllllppppppp!!!! Me n muh friends are on a power trip and you guys can, like, see it!!!!! UGH!!!!!! Omg I hate it here… leave us alone: we’re the ~*leaders*~, okayyyy?!?!?!? We tell ~*you*~ what to do so stawp being meanz to us, we’re the ~*~*leaders*~*~, we run shit, not you plebes!!! Be thankful, you mean stupid assholes, have some ~*gratitude*~, you landlord clowns!!!! You’re welcome!!!!!! Haaallppppp!!!!😤🍼😫”
Some of us have multi thousand word blog posts written abt us for this exact offense
This blog post, about what a suspicious, untrustworthy and purposefully obtuse figure you are in the NYC housing landscape, is only 1600 words long, SleeYa.
and dsa ignored comrades of dsa members getting brutalized in front of the met. but more generally dsa will pay attention to something for a few weeks and then move on while the orgs that they should be listening to, both ngo and non-ngo, are doing the work. ie grifting.
I mean, yeah, ok, I’m sure this account, @someonehastosa5 is “joking!!!!!😤🍼😫” the way yimbys habitually and nonironically do, like, oh I dunno, let’s say, like, Sam 1995 Douche, for example.
“These two pics are of, like, the exact same people!!!! Like, let’s evict them and then, like, watch them die on the street, bro, they so deserve it!!!!😤🍼😫”
Coz these yimby chaos-maker accounts just make stuff up, amirite, Twitter? They don’t, like, ~*mean*~ anything by their lies and violence, do they, right, Twitter?
Oh and wait till we find out where you live.
Big beautiful modern apartments coming all around you soon m'fer.
Your neighborhood's character is going to be very colorful soon.
“Time to get your ass in shape!!! Start getting used to getting your fat ass on a bike!!!!!!!!😤🍼😫”
This account wants to see other people suffer.
“I live to hurt other people!!!!!!!!!!!😤🍼😫”
The account wants to see people killed.
“Lynch or starve, who cares, let’s gooo!!!!!!!!😤🍼😫”“Vomiting on boomer segregationists makes them want to move: NIMBY them out of here, not in ~*our*~ ~*back*~ ~*yard*~!!!!!!!!!!😤🍼😫” (Wait, doesn’t “Get the f*ck out of our cities” = “NIMBY?” Hmmmsies🤔)
That's why anyone who comes in the path of more supply should be dragged out of our cities.
When is the city going to wake up and get rid of the homelessness profiteering leeches @sfbos?
Declarations to “lynch” and to repeatedly “starve” other people and rooting for folks to be become bankrupt and thus homeless do not belong on Twitter.
These tweets are not jokes: they’re not funny; they’re not “spicy;” they’re not “based;” they’re not “bangers.”
These are gratuitous and dangerous posts, catering to the mostly male, mostly young (and generally enraged) yimby population, the way pizzagate fake news was used to rile the least intelligent Trump supporters.
These violent false narratives shouldn’t be condoned or encouraged.
So what shall you do about those tweets, Twitter? While you keep me silent?
— JQ LLC: The Impunity City (@ImpunityCity) April 23, 2022
I don’t think they’re dead as their account is still visible (might be currently temporarily locked, however) but at least they’re finally on Twitter’s radar which is long overdue.
Almost suspicious how much this account gets away with.
And by “mean,” I mean cruel mean, a deep and full malicious mean, not just mean mean.
Last night, sniffy Mark Mollineaux, a Stanford University radio DJ and podcaster, perchance even a student at the institution, mocked a man who struggles to care for his sick mother after the loss of his father, and her husband, because Mollineaux hates homeownership (“it’s bad!!!!😤🍼😩”).
Are you doing it because you expect to be repaid in the form of valuable real estate?
— Hervey “Mark Mollineaux” Okkles 🦀🚰 (@bufordsharkley) March 10, 2022
Imagine being this angry and jealous of a person who lost one parent and must now be caretaker for the surviving parent: what is the matter with your very soul, Mark Emptyneaux?
Interesting, it was asserted above that family members do this because they wish to inherit properties, glad to see that’s not the case for you
— Hervey “Mark Mollineaux” Okkles 🦀🚰 (@bufordsharkley) March 10, 2022
“Interesting that your dad died and your mom remains in desperate need: interesting ~*and*~ amusing, for me that is!!!!😤🍼😩”
I didn't realize you produced that land
— Hervey “Mark Mollineaux” Okkles 🦀🚰 (@bufordsharkley) March 10, 2022
(When you are fighting to keep your mother alive and in your family home after your father died and Mark Mollineaux wellackshuallys you for shits and giggles)
These people who do nothing but post elaborate sob stories about paying their taxes are life to me
— Hervey “Mark Mollineaux” Okkles 🦀🚰 (@bufordsharkley) March 10, 2022
“Yes… ha ha ha… YES!!! Other people’s pain is ~*funny*~ to me, I ~*love*~ it when people hurt, it ~*feeds*~ me!!!!!!😤🍼😩”
Mollineaux had tweeted last eve about me being a “leading Lead Paint Cacucus [sic] theorist,” which is what drew my attention to his timeline; he is too ignorant to comprehend how racist the references to 1970s lead paint poisoning remain to this day.
— Hervey “Mark Mollineaux” Okkles 🦀🚰 (@bufordsharkley) March 9, 2022
But it was my witnessing him, once again, attempt to humiliate low- and middle-income American families who navigate the complicated world of managing mortgages and thoughtful planning for intergenerational housing security which inspired this blog post. Because Mollineaux is so typical of spiteful, malevolent and odious yimby: lying and bullying for kicks.
Dusty, tired yimby propaganda falsely stipulates that it’s “wealth😤🍼😩” which these not-rich families are “hoarding😤🍼😩” when in fact they are merely investing in housing security. These hardworking families have spent decades of careful strategizing, budgeting, sacrificing and law-abidance to give comfort to their now adult offspring only to then be home-shamed by some snarky, lobster-bib-wearing brat obsessed with “You’ve Got Mail” and who writes poems about pickling “vagrants.”
The account @TKintheSFC was heartlessly reamed by sad, mean, angry, overly-privileged lobster-inhaler Mark Mollineaux: if you have any extra cash to spare during this time, please consider donating to @TKintheSFC‘s family and their situation, they are far from their goal and could really use the help. Your act of kindness will also serve as a gentle “screw thou” to Smallineaux and yimby in general: this is a family who deserves support and love, not mocking and snark.
I *wish* the reality of my lobster consumption matched Fuel Grannie’s allegations; I don’t think I’ve had any in over five years
— Hervey “Mark Mollineaux” Okkles 🦀🚰 (@bufordsharkley) March 30, 2022
The photo of you posing like the arrogant asshat that you are, in that very lobster bib, is from the home page of your own website, Mark, so maybe, oh I dunno, change the lead pic of your site if you don’t want people referencing it
In their memory, I too shall now block you for no reason
I did not know who this noodlehead was until I discovered he had blocked meok, fräulein👌Serge blocked me because of his Long Island City property values and also because his Pulitzer-prize-winning, investigative-New-York-Times-reporting rear end refused to acknowledge what a ghoul Amazon.com isBrian is Amazon.com’s Global Public Policy head: he blocked me in February 2019 when HQ2LIC ran itself out of QueensRoseanne was high on Ambien when she blocked me over TrumpI am not sure what I did to lose the eyeballs of three initials Jeff Bezos’s replacement blocked me because I got the 411 on ScamazonAckshually, New York State Grand Old Party, I am *flattered*James blocked me because he was dead wrong about New York City being “dead😤🍼😫” https://link.medium.com/aldrAklsRnbPink Steve, a friend of Jeffrey Epstein, blocked me for standing up to scammy yimbyAnother block due to me standing up to scammy yimbyYet another scammy yimbyErnieBert is not having it
slowyimby🥺😭“I hate nimbys!!!!!!!!😤🍼😫”who?(I swear, Paula Jean🙊)
I can still see my account and all its content, including these blocked users, in read-only mode despite this suspension; I can even downvote tweets, oddly enough, so I’ve been enthusiastically clicking on that sad orange arrow.
*click*
As well, Twitter regularly asks me to confirm my phone number.
And it has not gone unnoticed, either, that at just around that same time Sam Douche also changed his handle from @samdman95 to @sam_d_1995, still nonetheless thankfully keeping us all abreast of his birth year.
Why would these yimbys change their names or self-suspend their own social media accounts? Are they trying to make it more difficult to have their tweets searched?
Because the yimby narrative, while wildly dishonest, remains nonetheless deliberate. Every move is intentional, even if it’s an incredibly foolish move.
*cough*
Spencer has explained his behavior. Spencer is the real victim here. Not the old ladies he was daring to say it to him outside.
Because these yimbys don’t change names or delete accounts unless they perceive some profitable justification for such actions. There is a reason for everything yimbys do and don’t do.
Official milk carton pic🥺😭
For instance, Spencer never said his last name during his numerous public testimonies: perchance he was afeared that his full appellation was akin to that of a minor Disney cartoon character’s, maybe like Prince Charming’s annoying upstairs neighbor, the easily sparked Spencer of Heckwolf.
“PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA!!!!!!!😤🍼😫”
The real life version of Spencer, also easily sparked, can still be found doing sit ups and complaining about the elderly on Tiktok: for the meantime and for whatever reasons, the HellPuppy hath downzoned himself off of the bird app.
You are “too cowardly” to publicly utter your Disney villain last name, HellPuppy: we see you👋
Open ny’s entire whole purpose is spreading misleading information to promote developer propaganda. Don’t be a sour puss when communities start to call you out for what you are. You threaten seniors at community hearings with your wannabe jujitsu. What happened to your old acct? https://t.co/vKUJHA9Wee
— Little Italy Neighbors (@LittleItaly_NYC) May 14, 2022
What happened to your old account, Spencester?(wait, which one are you again?)
— Spencer Heckwolf (@spencerheckwolf) May 28, 2022
Really should be the Ben Thypin stop lying challenge
Again, you are speaking in counterfactuals. Promoting upzoning of an underutilized area has not contributed to homelessness. If you think folks like me who argue for density increase, but not the overthrow of planning, aren't pure enough, you're a fanatic. Good luck with that.
We're excited to announce two new hires at Open New York: Asia Thomas, (@Asia_The_Truth) as our new Director of Organizing, and Logan Phares, (@loganphares) as our new Political Director––both will help us advocate even more fiercely for a more open, more affordable New York!
It’s 2022. Your group Open New York is a nonprofit which, at this point, has executed numerous years of fundraising. Open New York has now hired three different roles, all at director-level salary. In short, Open New York is making money and it is spending money.
And, like, like it or not, Open New York as an “incorporated nonprofit😤🍼😫” is still legally obligated to publicly display both how you guys make that money, by revealing your donor names and the amount they have donated, and by publicly disclosing what all your employees earn, aka, how much out of your donations are paid to them.
Again: you’re legally obligated to publicly provide this information, Ben, especially when you receive those tasty tax breaks as a nonprofit.
Guess you kinda need a lobbyist, what with your reputation and all, Benzurlito.
And this leaked spreadsheet divulges your and Open New York’s true intentions to gain power and attract money, all while pretending to care about the homeless and low income populations whom you continue to exploit and disappoint. In this document there is no mention about tenants’ rights, lowering livability costs or the protection of vulnerable people: it is all about money, money, money and building political muscle.
You don’t care about people: you only care about yourselves, you think you’re better than other people and should thus rule them. This is why despite loathing community boards, Open New York is actively pushing its membership onto community board seats to thereby disable those boards. You incorrectly believe that it is your place to lead others.
Shout out to the no-longer-existing account of “Bob O’Shaughnessy” who had dm-ed me the Google docs link for these board potentials, because, unlike the legally required posting of Open New York salaries, this spreadsheet had been *public*😳(🤣): huge ups, also, to a Slack chat sighting (“😤🍼😫”)!
Currently trying to tweet a link to our explainer of the state's density cap and its impact on affordability but it looks like someone has flagged it as ~dangerous content~ pic.twitter.com/JElntfhN2T
The most entitled, misinformed destructive, least empath, fanatic movement in NYC and beyond is pro developer OpenNY they claim to want to create housing for all while making uber rich richer and affordable housing scarcer, they intimidate/harass/cause average citizens pain daily
YIMBY orgs largely subsist on tech philanthropy (like Web 2.0 money…Facebook early investors, not Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)…it is not “mainline” foundation money
I am convinced that if our candidates in NY had campaign videos like this Jamaican MP’s we would have as high of voter turnout as they do. pic.twitter.com/kt3AtSgmLK
But from what? How? I cannot find any details on cause of death.
And what an unbelievable convenient demise for certain parties.
Was Momin’s passing due to a rare and extreme late case of severe covid? Did she die by suicide, as a few had quickly supposed? Or could it have been via an intentional act committed by someone else, as a few others have speculated?
What would have caused the death of a perfectly healthy, physically fit, brilliant and beautiful young woman, especially as this court case, which had meant so much to her and her reputation, continued its journey towards trial?
Momin’s LinkedIn profile has already been disabled. By whom? LinkedIn?
It had been Ben Carlos Thypin who had reduced Momin’s salary from $85K to $65K, a 25% cut in pay. And he did this behind her back, as if to make her pay for having made such a complaint in the first place.
Thypin had also giggled to Momin that Trivedi was obsessed with her and then instructed Momin to keep her distance: this detail is in her legal complaint.
To emphasize: Thypin had instructed Momin to keep her distance instead telling Trivedi to back off. He held Momin responsible for Trivedi’s harassment and inappropriate behavior, not Trivedi himself.
After cutting Momin’s salary, Thypin then fired her, again behind her back: Momin learned of the dismissal after accessing Scipre Analytics’s human resources tracking app where she saw she had been terminated, another detail in the legal complaint.
I had posted screenshots of Momin’s complaint on my Twitter account: I remember very well what that complaint had stated.
Momin died of unknown causes on Friday, November 19, 2021. By the following Monday, November 22, 2021, Thanksgiving week, a body almost still warm, the legal team for Thypin and Trivedi were already petitioning the court to dismiss the case.
Sometimes there is no justice for some people during their lifetime but that doesn’t mean they will ever be forgotten.
I won’t forget what Scherezade Momin had to endure. Not just the harassment committed by Sandip Trivedi but also the treachery committed by Ben Carlos Thypin, who had been her business partner for over five years. Momin deserved better yet the very existence of this case demonstrates who she was, as a fighter, as person betrayed and as a woman standing up for the justice she rightly deserved.
This case’s existence also shows, in glaring public brightness, the enduring mediocrity of Ben Carlos Thypin, an extremely wealthy real estate developer and strange, greedy enabler who enjoys hurting people.
But when does the hurt go too far?
Rest in peace and rest in power, Scherezade Momin: you will be remembered.
Hi Paul, I love that you have finally come out as a YIMBY. As a real YIMBY, do you not have a problem with the sleazy Ben and the allegations that he fires employees who report sexual harassment? https://t.co/AmdIbUP5bY
“As a real yimby, do you not have a problem with sleazy Ben and the allegations that he fires employees [business partners] who report sexual harassment?”
The best advice I’ve ever given to my ex bf: “People who are going to stoop to the level of personal insults have absolutely absolved themselves of any credibility”. If you want to criticize people then do it with some integrity goddamit
I am writing, yet again, to appeal the suspension of both my accounts, @fuelgrannie and @QueensStomp, and I am sending this same exact, and very long, letter to you on behalf of both of these two accounts.
You were not only wrong in your decision to suspend my two accounts but also wrong in allowing your flawed reporting system to be used by other accounts to purposefully push me off of your platform for no good reason.
I am a real person: I’m not just some anonymous, food-stain-covered fanatic living in my parents’ basement and causing havoc out of boredom or loneliness. I am, rather, a food-stain-covered old, loud and real human, a real person, Connie Murray, who attends local meetings, speaks publicly often and is known for my relentless documentation and drilled down research.
I am arguing not just for my name and content to be reinstated but I am also stumping for my very reputation to be restored. My suspension has spawned all sorts of unsubstantiated theories on my behavior, words and personal history which I have never displayed or which has never existed, neither on your site nor anywhere else. Because your platform is so prominent, people are using it to besmirch my in-real-life reputation which demands that you must play more of a role in the management of how you are allowing this to happen to me: this appeal letter will detail, in painstaking depth, how there is no good reason for either suspension or the banishment of my entire presence from your site. The reasons (save for one valid instance and for which I take complete responsibility) which you yourself had supplied to me are not violations of your Terms of Service (TOS) and I will go through each occasion to thusly demonstrate why.
Put on your seatbelt: this is a very long letter with a lot of evidence.
And you already know this, Twitter, because the footprint of my activity is at your fingertips: you know how much I get reported and you also know how few of those reports are viable and cannot be used against me.
It is important to note upfront that there were no TOS violations against my QueensStomp account when you had determined to suspend it along with my fuelgrannie account: zero.
You had never sent me anything about the QueensStomp account until the morning of January 9, 2022, when I, all of a sudden, was not able to fully utilize my fuelgrannie account: you, Twitter, as an entity, had not yet indicated to me any block or suspension so I had wondered if the site was down.
I even Googled “Twitter down,” which remains in my internet search history, and after seeing no news of “Twitter down,” I went back into your app where there was still no indication whatsoever of any lock or suspension on the fuelgrannie account, which still nevertheless lacked full functionality, so I switched to my QueensStomp account just to see if I could access your site and you immediately suspended that account, simply because I had switched to it. Again, this is an account which had not received one violation from you. Ever.
It wasn’t until I accessed the QueensStomp account that I was informed of any suspension of either account. I then switched back to fuelgrannie and finally received a prompt telling me that account, my main account, had also been suspended.
You suspended QueensStomp for no good reason. You had never sent me anything about my conduct on that account and you must take that hard fact into account: there are 1385 tweets on QueensStomp which, as you know, I can still see; this suspension may grey my account to any and every other eye, but I can still see those tweets.
Please show me which QueensStomp tweets warrant any lock or suspension. Please show me how I was tag-teaming with my two accounts to be abusive to other users. You need to show me your own assessment of my own content and not solely rely on the whiny, dishonest efforts of yimby accounts who had reported my “alt” because they had strived to get all forms of me off of your platform.
In summary, the brief violation history of my smaller, less-used “alt” QueensStomp Twitter account involves zero violated TOS but was still nonetheless suspended along with my main fuelgrannie account for my having trying to access it.
That’s neither a good nor fair reason. That account did nothing to earn a suspension other than having been often reported by yimbys (the cited account, @les3025, which was created back in 2016, has only 7 followers at the writing of this appeal: that tiny group includes the prominent regional yimby voices of New York City real estate developer Ben Carlos Thypin and Philadelphia-based propagandist and chaos tweeter Taylor Austin Kessinger. Huh.)
Regarding my fuelgrannie account, for the sake of complete transparency and to lay out the history of my offenses, let’s go through all the violations for that username, one by one, starting with the very first one in June 2019.
I’ll be piecing together these violations using your own correspondence to me via email and also via my own memory and recollection as your email correspondence doesn’t fully document tweets involved or any resulting actions. You have a full record of these offenses, though: you have even more information on these offenses on your end.
That very first violation, which you sent me in June 2019, involved you locking my account for 12 hours for my having chided a white supremacist for wanting to form a white nation: that account reported me and I reported them yet I was the one who suffered the lock; this is the email you sent me at 5:40am on June 10, 2019.
Hello fuelgrannie: We’ve received your appeal request. Our support team will take a look at the information you provided for your appeal. We will respond via email as soon as possible. Please note that while we review your appeal, you’ll be unable to access your Twitter account. If you would prefer, you may instead choose to cancel your appeal request [by clicking this link] and resolve the violations by proceeding to Twitter and following the on-screen instructions to restore your account to full functionality. Thanks, Twitter
To the best of my memory, as it is not documented via any email correspondence, I had clicked the link to restore my account, but you have the full record of how that all went down.
In summary, my first offense was calling out a white supremacist account for wanting to form an all-white nation.
My next “offense,” in early October 2019, was my account being suspended in a targeted attack by NYC yimby group Open New York. Two days after receiving notification of my suspension, I sent you an appeal letter and you followed up with this email two days later:
Hello, We’re writing to let you know that we’ve unsuspended your account. We’re sorry for the inconvenience and hope to see you back on Twitter soon. A little background: we have systems that find and remove multiple automated spam accounts in bulk, and yours was flagged as spam by mistake. Please note that it may take an hour or so for your follower and following numbers to return to normal. If you need to get in touch with us again, please file a report through your Twitter app or our forms page, as this account isn’t monitored for replies. Thanks, Twitter
That “offense” resulted in my fuelgrannie account being the only account of mine suspended: I was active on QueensStomp and my fuelgrannie account was reinstated after four days.
So you are aware, I have read that other accounts, which had also been deliberately targeted as mine had been, also received the exact same email from you and none of us believe the “flagged as spam by mistake” excuse. We know that we were the subjects of attempts to suspend our accounts and your way of handling it has been to brush these attacks off as “glitches” instead of giving consequences to the accounts, likely 70 to 80 accounts, which had ganged up on us.
While bearing zero responsibility on how some of your users operate, you allow groups of accounts, including multi-managed accounts of same-user main and its alts, to thereby target and bully other accounts with no repercussions.
That breaks your own Terms of Service.
Instead of rightfully giving consequences to the 70 to 80 accounts committing the TOS-breaking dogpiling so to suspend other accounts, you instead hold the innocent target as guilty until proven innocent. You give no suspension or lock or notation or anything to the accounts acting in consort, only to their intended target.
Why do you do that?
You need to change how you handle these situations: this practice of making the victims of such ganging-ups to be the sole parties bearing the entire responsibility of these attacks literally breaks your own TOS: you yourself are breaking them and you’re allowing other accounts to break them, too. You need to brush up on all types of internet bullying: just because an account has a lot of reports against it doesn’t mean there are any worthy violations. Such reports may not truly reflect any abuse but rather may be an effort to silence the targeted account’s voice.
*cough*
So, I’m not going to count the suspension in October 2019 as any violation against me (and neither should you).
And even after my account had been reinstated, there was this constant notification that something was wrong with my account which lasted well over a year, which I had repeatedly reported to you for months, via an internal case appeal. Despite following the prompt to amend what may be wrong or inappropriate on my feed, I kept receiving the same vague message to limit “profanity in any form, including censored profanity; profanity in the Twitter bio; profanity in promoted content; excessive use of profanity in organic content,” which was odd because I don’t use profanity. It’s also odd because many of your users do use profanity regularly and their accounts are not suspended. You have literal porn on your site, literal videos of literal penises entering literal vaginas and literal anuses, but you’re telling me to watch the profanity which I have never used.
It got to the point in 2019 and 2020 where I just stopped responding to the prompt because I knew it was futile, no communication was coming from you, you didn’t want to help me resolve the issue and you, to this day, never supplied me with a reason for why I had that notification constantly on my account. I even made my account private and didn’t tweet anything for three months, from mid-November 2019 to mid-February 2020 because I remained so concerned with having my account taken away from me again.
So that’s the nutshell for my 2019 suspension and how wonky my account remained even after it was reinstated.
Getting back to the biography of my violations, the second one I received from you came just this past October 26, 2021, less than four months ago from the writing of this appeal and some 12 years into my usage of your platform: just two offenses earned in over a decade of tweeting.
My 10/26/2021 TOS violation was in response to this tweet (“Looking at your twitter, you have a weird obsession with this and a hatred towards Amazon”) in a thread originated by then Buffalo Mayoral hopeful India Walton and on the day it had been reported Walton had referred to a fellow meeting attendee as a “tender dick white man.”
My tweeted response, with intended quotation marks included: “looking at your twitter, you have a weird obsession with tender dick white men and a ~*hatred*~ towards amazon, wtf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😤🍼😩” which you had then oddly deemed as hateful content.
Hateful against whom? Against white men? Against overly sensitive white men? Against Amazon?
Is this a running theme?
Please tell me what is hateful about: “looking at your twitter, you have a weird obsession with tender dick white men and a ~*hatred*~ towards amazon, wtf.”
Please tell me. Because I don’t see it. Because it’s not there.
But you still used this against me.
And you’ll have to remind me how this all played out, as you had emailed me a link that afternoon to cancel my appeal: did I do that? I can’t remember: maybe you had also asked me to delete the tweet, but I do not recall and you never supplied me with a reference number for this incident.
In summary, my second offense resembles my first offense from all the way back in June 2019: it’s me criticizing white people. Was either tweet hate speech? Nope.
My third offense came the very next day, October 27, 2021, and for that instance I did deserve a violation.
After having received a dm about it, the record of which remains in my inbox and which you can access and verify on your end, I had hastily and carelessly tweeted out a screenshot of the purchase record of a multimillion dollar home belonging to a board member of NYC yimby group Open New York: I did not block out the address in that screenshot and thus doxed the homeowner.
What I did was thoughtless and potentially harmful to that party and I take full responsibility for my haste and carelessness. I’ve reported other instances of doxing in the past and remain in complete agreement of me suffering consequences for my actions with this one tweet. I mean no harm to that person and had been instead intending to make the cogent point about the hypocrisy attached to the fact that the million-dollar homeowners are not the ones opposing yimby but are, in fact, the yimbys themselves.
Had I taken the time to blur out the purchaser’s new address, there would have been no TOS violation. But I didn’t. I had acted too quickly and what I did was wrong, so a 12-hour lock was appropriate for such irresponsible behavior which did violate Twitter TOS.
So my third offense was doxing, a huge no-no. I agree with that violation and it was the sole of its sort of offense which I have ever committed on your site in almost 13 years of use.
My fourth violation, which came mere days later on Halloween 2021, was due to me calling an aggressive Trump supporter (with “Enemy of Leftism” proudly displayed in his bio) a “magat” four different times in the same conversation. You listed all four of my tweets together for this violation, as follows:
Tweet 3: “@bervamrojavi @FachtnaFathach @damienISgoodmon @48hills you’re a magat: i know this because of your words and behavior if you’re hearing frequently that you are a magat from many other accounts, it isn’t because those people and i aren’t having ‘original thoughts:’ it’s because you’re a magat”
Tweet 4: “@bervamrojavi @FachtnaFathach @damienISgoodmon @48hills ok magat”
Yet it was @bervamrojavi who wouldn’t leave me alone: if anything, they were the alleged harasser here by pestering me yet I can’t even refer to what they were doing as either “abuse” or “harassment,” but rather as sea-lioning. They would not leave me alone but because I responded to them, I incurred the violation and lock.
Why?
“Ok magat” is now hate speech?! How is the word “magat” “abusive” or “harassing?”
It’s not.
And again, I wasn’t the one being harassed, I was merely responding to this account’s barrage. Should I have reported them? I saw no reason so I didn’t. They were being insulting and persistent but nothing which warranted reporting. You and I both know that I don’t report often. I report people for telling me to die or to kill myself or that I should be hit by a car or not wake up. But those are the only occasions I make reports.
Meanwhile I call someone a “magat” or a “white supremacist” or a “tender dick white man” and I get locked for abusiveness? When did racism against white people, especially white men become a thing?
It’s not.
Racism against white people doesn’t exist.
This article about yimbys showcases a photo of a bespectacled white guy with a red beard: unironically, many yimbys are bespectacled white guys with red beards. Being mad at me for noticing this screaming consistency doesn’t change the screamingly loud reality of this screaming consistency.
Observation isn’t “hate:” it’s observation.
Noticing that all these guys are similar isn’t “hate:” it’s observation.
Tweeting about how all these guys are similar isn’t “hate:” it’s observation. It’s analysis. It’s criticism.
Criticism isn’t “hate:” it’s criticism.
Yimbys are not trying to silence me because I am homophobic or abusive or racist: they are trying to silence me because I am effective at observing, analyzing, reporting and criticizing them.
They see that as “hatred” and “abuse” and they report my criticism of them as hateful content.
So, you, Twitter, need to better work on what is determined as “abuse” because none of what I wrote is.
My fifth and final offense, which resulted in the suspension of both my accounts, was my satirical tweet calling for my own death to an account which has now curiously and conveniently changed their user name from @Ya3il8200 to @ya3il82 but the conversation, where this account accuses me of being a weirdo nimby boomer who was “fingerblasted” in a parking lot after a 1957 prom, still exists.
I sarcastically called out their ageism. I got permanently suspended while they changed their username.
So, to sum up, those are all my offenses, all five of them, which led to the suspension of both my accounts.
These violations constitute the reasons why you had decided to kick me off of Twitter. Not for homophobia, not for violence, not for obscenity, not for racism against people of color: nope, not for any of those things.
I got kicked off for “magat” and “tender dick white man.”
And how come you didn’t give me that “are you sure you want to tweet that?” warning I have been recently reading about but, as you well know, never ever received myself because you have never ever used it on me. Why not?
I am evidently such an oft-reported account, yet I have never received that “want to review?” prompt from you: why is that?
Especially in that one tweet which resulted in the suspension of both my accounts: why didn’t you send me a warning? If I was using the word “kill” in a way that would have been seen as controversial, then why didn’t you offer me the opportunity to review my words?
There’s a theory that yimby-aligned employees at Twitter are part of the conspiracy to silence me: the fact that I never received that warning substantiates that theory. The fact that both my accounts were summarily shut down over the sarcasm of one account which used the same self-effacing sarcasm used by Margaret Atwood also raises suspicion.
Per your own correspondence: “Here’s a summary of what isn’t allowed on Twitter, according to our safety policies: Threatening violence against someone or a group of people; celebrating or praising violence; harassing someone or encouraging people to harass someone; wishing harm on someone; promoting violence, threatening, or harassing people because of their identity (like race or gender); promoting or encouraging suicide or self-harm; images or videos that show sexual violence and assault; child sexual exploitation or threatening or promoting terrorism or violent extremism.”
So tell me: when did I ever do any of this?
On January 9, 2022, you had emailed me that because of covid, your review process may be slowed down yet a mere three days later you let me know both of my accounts were suspended, which was less time than the four days by which you had made your assessment in 2019. I don’t believe you fairly reviewed my account this time around and you need to.
Almost a month later, I remain suspended while there is not just one parody fuelgrannie account, there are presently three: gruelfannie, foolgrannie and fueigrannie.
You’ve allowed for these parodies of my account to happen: those accounts are protected by your standards of parody engagement while, I, the person being parodied, had been directed by you via email to prove my identity to you. I was asked to provide a copy of my government-issued ID and to thereby entrust you every step of the way to manage that personal information and all the risk which comes with such a correspondence while the accounts spoofing me are protected by your parody account exceptions and don’t have to do anything other than exist. You don’t ask them to send you their government-issued ID, you required that from me alone, not them. You allow them to exist on your platform but not me.
Why?
You don’t protect a user like me, who is under constant attack of being reported with the express intent of getting me suspended. The same group which did it three years ago are now doing it again.
This is literally what they did to me: they reported me on masse, they laughed about it publicly and you let them.
Where is my recourse or even my protection on your site? Where is the nuance in your assessment process where you are able to understand that a party is being bullied instead of just believing the bullies simply because there are more of them?
You allow these yimbys to use your site to silence others so to commandeer the narrative around real estate, land issues and housing. These yimbys are deliberate and strategic in their behavior. All I have on my side is the block button which hasn’t helped me much as these yimby users all have multiple accounts and report me constantly.
Aaron Carr who founded his own nonprofit “start-up tenant watchdog agency” Housing Rights Initiative used your platform for six hours one night in January 2021 to slander me with a bunch of lies: you let this happen. This guy, with his broad following, made all these unsubstantiated claims about me being a “con,” a liar, a habitual tweet deleter and a racist. I kept asking him during those six hours to show evidence of what I had done, which he literally scoffed at. You allow this person to constantly spread misinformation and flat out lies on your platform, including that hours-long obvious attempt to smear me and my reputation by deliberately and dishonestly accusing me of things I have never done. He used the amplification of your platform to harass me and lie about me.
What are Aaron Carr’s consequences?
Why aren’t there any?
What do you do to help accounts like mine? I am reported almost every time I tweet. Is it your policy to take a mass of reports blindly and then just suspend the account they’re targeting? Because if that’s what you’re doing, then you are allowing your platform to be manipulated by people whose main intent is to take over the narrative and silence other people: “just keep reporting, eventually the dam will break.”
Just keep reporting, eventually the dam will break.
Huh.
You let this happen, Twitter: this is a call to dogpile for the sole purpose of eliminating another account. A clear violation of your own TOS. And you do nothing to stop or even manage it.
You have permitted other users to publicly call for the harassment of me with zero consequences.
Why?
You allow an account like mine to get bullied into silence on your site: your own flawed and inadequate reporting and assessing mechanisms allow for it.
Twitter counts in the cultural sphere: it is an important, perhaps the most relevant, platform for information, news, analysis and visibility and I remain a voice and person which yimby is dying to silence. You need to better comprehend the role I have played in the political and real estate landscape here in my beloved hometown of New York City in dealing with my suspension: you are complicit with a false narrative being allowed to fester, not just about real estate development and political corruption but also false narratives about me.
All the work and research I have executed and posted during the past 13 years is now hidden from public eye. My investigation of the trolls who had been paid to harass Assemblymember Emily Gallagher as she ran for office in 2020, a story for which I was interviewed and was covered by East and Creek and which I had blogged about on Medium, is now invisible.
My months-long exploration of Amazon’s short tenure in Long Island City with its aborted HQ2 initiative is now only visible to me.
My witnessing of the Department of City Planning’s Senior Counsel John Mangin admitting that the city of New York cannot guarantee that even one unit of affordable housing will be created by the SoHo NoHo rezoning isn’t available for public view.
My horror in watching DCP Senior Planner Sylvia Li laughingly mention displacement packages for rent-stabilized senior citizens who will lose their decades-long affordable housing during a likely illegal ULURP Zoom meeting is now, conveniently, no longer part of the public Twitter discourse of the contentious and gratuitous Lower Manhattan rezoning.
My reporting, as tweets, is also no longer accessible via my blog posts or any mentions of my blog post.
And to add context to my defense, let’s go through some of the lies which have been told about me and the initiatives which I support and about which I could never follow up with you because these accounts blocked me and also because you have no mechanism or means for reporting lies.
Not from “an alt,” AngrySadPants, but from an incognito tab: why pretend you don’t know about that capacity, Cousin Murray?
Also, weird flex that “QT,” or “quote tweeting,” is exactly what she had done to me: a huge, long lie about me, via a series of QTs. I am left to assume that she believes it’s okay when she does it, yet I am somehow in the wrong for daring to utter her sacred name; after all, the very first time I had ever dared to engage with her surly grew-up-on-4chan presence on your platform, she instructed me to “shut the fuck up.” Gee, Twitter, I thought you guys hated profanity. Instead of directly engaging with me, she then grumbled to her followers about her having “had it up to here with peace of shit ‘muh sunlight’ nimbys istg,” again using profanity in reference to me. Using that screenshot from my blog, she proceeded to call for me to “GO SET UP CAMP IN A FIELD” perhaps because she feels it is her place to tell people where to live, ironically mirroring what she had accused me of doing.
Many lies about me involve an imaginary and completely unsubstantiated hatred I apparently harbor towards gay men, created and circulated because I suspect these men, whether gay, straight or whatevs, cannot handle any criticism or scrutiny so they declare it must be my vague, undefined, general and broad “hatred of gays” which propels me and not my hatred for the lies told by toxic male yimby.
This guy claimed I called him “gay” and “spammed eggplant emoji” which you and I both know is a lie. I only had two conversations with that guy before he blocked me: this one and this one. No “gay.” No eggplant emoji. Just another yimby having a meltdown over having interacted with me and then lying about that interaction, confirming, as ever and always, why I use the baby bottle emoji to describe this fragile, dishonest mayonnaise crew.
How come you don’t better manage the lies which are promoted on your platform? Why do you believe these guys over me? Here I am, sending you yet another long document so to construct, piece by piece and bit by bit, how these guys lie but you don’t even have a reporting mechanism for lies, only for abusive behavior. Does that mean you tolerate lying or you just don’t know how to implement oversight over the false things which are shared on your site?
Why can’t you, as a content-sharing platform, do a better job in protecting the truth?
Part of my client-facing work involves the use of social media. My clients are aware of this suspension because I have had to let them know as their breadth becomes limited by my suspension, too: this isn’t happening in a vacuum, I have a life, I am a real person, I work. If I create an account to use for one these clients, you will shut it down or if I log into a client’s account from my IP address, you will suspend that client’s account: that is place you have placed both me and these businesses. Over the word “magat.” Over the phrase “tender dick white man.” Over the same self-effacing irony employed by the writer of The Handmaid’s Tale.
You need to change this.
Show me where I have been racist. Show me where I have been homophobic. Drawing attention to a group of aggressive white men is criticism, not racism, homophobia, violence, hatefulness or abusiveness. These guys can dish it out but then collapse in a fit of tears when they get an ounce back of what they continually vomit up.
And you allow it to happen.
These guys are mad at me for successfully standing up to them, for holding up a mirror to their overdramatic, chaos-creating, dishonest content and for breaking down every one of their lies: that’s why they report me, over and over again, with some accounts reporting me for every tweet I post: “I think her suspension resulted in every reporter getting a notification.”
I have been sent screenshots to my dms of discussions held via off-Twitter platforms where yimbys discuss “going after” other accounts. You know this: because those screenshots are in the direct message inbox of my Twitter account. Go look at them: you can see them better than I can at this point. The proof of this behavior has been documented through your very own platform.
And you allowed this to happen to me with no recourse, no nuance and this lazy assumption that the people who cannot stop reporting me for things (which you yourself never end up determining as violations) must be right because there are so many of them and just one of me.
So where does your responsibility lie in better managing your own understanding of a targeted attack? Surely you fathom that it’s possible that the person who is being reported is, in fact, not guilty of what their dogpiling is accusing them of and that in truth it’s the dogpiling pack who is breaking your own terms of service, which is what I brought up in my appeal.
I couldn’t report those tweets: they’re insults and lies but they don’t break your terms of service; as well, many were tweeted by accounts who had blocked me. You create no method for reporting tweets where the user is blocked. And my defenses against such accusations are no longer visible: so you, as the very medium for the content, are adding to this false narrative about me.
I don’t mind those insults (bring it on, Red!) but I do mind being deprived my own voice to stand up to them. If you are going to let those voices fester and grow in their dishonest claims, then you ought to allow accounts like mine to be able to speak out against them. You ought to allow for true fairness, not a bullying campaign to silence people who dare to call out that very bullying, that very hijacking of the narrative and all the lies which come with that.
Criticism isn’t hateful content: it’s criticism.
Criticism is also not abuse or violence: it’s criticism.
You allow for this type of engagement to occur while you suspend me for calling it out.
Infamous Sam Deutsch, a former intern for US senator Brian Schatz and current student at Harvard Business School, literally slanders people and uses their faces but I’m the one who loses both my accounts. Ben Carlos Thypin, who founded Open New York, jokes about bombing the homes of elderly New Yorkers over and over and over again but I’m the one who gets suspended.
“The social culture of online YIMBYism is antagonistic to the movement’s goals, in a way that’s become a common feature of politics in the internet era. A 2017 piece in The Guardian reflected this dynamic, emphasizing YIMBYs’ bouts of anger and refusal to compromise. I have personally found that, too often, the loudest YIMBY voices online are flippant, disrespectful, and far too quick to accuse their NIMBY opponents of bad faith, or of being shills for the wealthy. Several people I know who identify with the YIMBY label privately concede it’s a problem…. this tendency to revert to mockery is unhelpful.”
“Privately concede,” not publicly stated because daring to go against the cemented false yimby narrative would result in a dogpile reprimand by one’s peers: yimbys refuse to take responsibility for their optics so any criticism, especially from an internal source, is consistently met with cries of “No!!! Absolutely not!!!! That’s not us, stop it!!!” But also, curiously enough, a “defense… by just being rude and combative in return” which again begs me to ask, if yimbys are allowed to be rude, then I should be, too.
Yimby are “all the same” to me, too: it’s okay for yimby to say that but not for me? Why? Where’s the logic in that? Or is hypocrisy the point? You need to manage this better, Twitter. They’re your users and you own this content.
And where the heck are all those screenshots of my alleged hateful content?
Penelope Katsaris, whose multiple accounts I have blogged about in twoseparate blog posts, tweeted she had “screenshots” but yet didn’t post any screenshots.
Don’t you understand, Twitter, that you are allowing for these false claims to be used against me? This is your platform. Where is the alleged evidence these people claim to have and why are you permitting them to use your site to make vague, unsubstantiated claims about me especially when I can’t defend myself?
Why are you allowing this to happen?
Curious, too, that immediately before my account was suspended, I had been engaging with Hayden Clarkin, who had been whining about how difficult his life was as he was being forced to move out of his LIC luxury rental now that his covid rent reduction deal was expiring and he could no longer comfortably afford to reside in an empty glass tower. When I pointed out he had an online 25-page portfolio and, via his own posted resume, that he was CEO and Founder of his own organization TransitCon, he had sobbed to me that he was only a “part-time CEO” while claiming extreme poverty.
The conversation ended well, however, with him inviting me to chat over a cup of coffee, yet as soon as my account was suspended, he readily and quickly deleted all of his tweets with me, as you can see here, which struck me as very odd, as if he didn’t want any footprint or record of that particular conversation and activity with me at that particular time.
I found it especially strange, while conveniently coincidental, that he would delete tweets so quickly and so early in the morning. Don’t you? Were people connected to him, like all those anonymous yimby accounts with the anime profile pics, connected to reporting me that morning? You would have a record of that.
This yimby falsely asserts “I’m just assuming all nimby accounts are her alts.” Yet you and I both know that’s not even close to the truth and yet remains so dismissive of the criticism these accounts rightly deserve: it is absolutely not just me who calls them out.
My username is often distorted in tweets because, as one does with Candyman, my correct moniker must never be uttered.
My voice and work have been able to confirm to other communities and cities, even in other countries, that their hardship in dealing with abusive dishonest yimby isn’t because of their own “craziness,” but because yimbys are bad faith liars whose behavior goes complete unchecked on your platform, while you, in turn, allow those bad faith yimbys to silence me.
Do you understand how bullied I and others have been on your platform? And can you appreciate how little I whine about it and that I stand up for myself? I have handled all of this by myself, too: I have never “sent minions” to attack other accounts either on a public tweet or a private dm, ever. And you know this is true because my account’s public and direct message history. You know I fight alone and that I make zero accusations without receipts.
I don’t whine and threaten-tweet, “I have a screenshot!!!!!!😤🍼😩” which I then never post: I simply post the screenshot. Or the linked tweet. Or the QT.
I bring actual receipts instead of claiming to have things I never share yet use as solid irrefutable evidence.
I, Connie Murray aka fuelgrannie, always come with a receipt.
And you know this.
I have been using your platform since 2009: I bring evidence.
I have been dm-ed evidence.
I am trusted by so many people because of the amount of information I receive and because of how consistent and honest I am.
If you don’t know that about me as you suspend both of my accounts and ban me from your site, then you need to research better.
I belong back on your platform, not just because I was unfairly booted off by both you and yimby, but because my voice deserves to stay heard. All my content deserves to remain intact and public. As I had argued back in my 2019 Twitter suspension appeal, you may own my content but I created it so I have ownership to it as well and there is zero reason it should not be public. My content is valuable research: it outed political trolls, it documented the lies of city officials and it consistently acted as a reporter and witness at New York City events and area meetings.
I want you, Twitter, to take responsibility for how you are complicit with my reputation being slandered on your platform. If I am so guilty of all these things of which I have been accused, then where is the evidence?
How hypocritical, lazy and cowardly of yimby to not allow all sides to be heard. And how wrong of you to be complicit and let them.
If you have a yimby bias in your assessment process, you need to amend that. Again, I did not get suspended for the imaginary bigotry, homophobia, hatefulness, violence-inducing and racism that nobody, including you, can ever seem to substantiate: I got suspended for “tender dick white man,” “magat,” and “let’s kill all the old people especially the weirdos.”
Aka, I shouldn’t have been suspended and I never did any of the things of which I have been accused because there’d be some evidence of it.
There’d be some trace of me doing such behavior.
Wouldn’t there?
Where is it?
By removing me from the public discourse, you allow more propaganda to go unchecked, you permit the very people who had striven to silence me to continue to lie about me with no management or oversight by you.
Have you even followed up on the other accounts reaching out to you to reconsider your thoughtless decision? Why is communicating with you like a black hole?
It’s fair to contest a bad decision. It has been fair game for me all along to call these guys, especially how for they behave and I did that all by myself with no calls to anyone else to gang up with me on any account.
I just took to the business of talking, of tweeting, of arguing against, of bringing research and information and of standing up for myself.
I am their worst enemy because I stand up for myself as well as I do. That’s why they wanted me off your platform, not because of the imaginary bigotry. They want me off your platform because I do such a good job in showing how wrong they are, how cultish they are, how abusive and off putting they can be and of course how very similar they all are, not just in how they look (the architype bespectacled white guy with a red beard)
It’s fair to expect better from you in your assessment process: you’re kicking off a prominent voice in the New York City real estate development discussion for tweeting “tender dick white man,” “magat” and that castrating and dreaded baby bottle emoji.
This appeal letter is so long because you didn’t do your job at all so I was left to do it for you. Because there is such a long history of people trying to get me kicked off your platform *cough*.
The crafting of this appeal has been a grueling process: I am fighting as I had in 2019, not just for my name and my content, but for my very reputation.
This isn’t a mea culpa: this is a you-a culpa. I didn’t do anything wrong: you allowed your platform to be used against me and my reputation, which is wrong.
I’ll be posting a version of this letter on my blogs and other social media platforms so this appeal can be public and not just sent down that silent black hole I always encounter when dealing with you; more eyes should be on this issue. If need be, especially since I can still see my account, I’ll post the history of my account via screenshots to continue to raise awareness about your lack of judgment here. Let’s show the whole world my account again. Let’s help people find all those screenshots, especially Aaron Carr. Let’s document all those claims about my alleged racism and homophobia and violence and hateful content. Let’s allow that baby bottle emoji to flap proudly and loudly in the wind.
You owe me as a publicly active person a much better assessment and much more fair call on what you have allowed to happen to me. Per your very own Terms of Service, you need to unsuspend both my accounts and restore all respective content. I did nothing to warrant any suspension of either account.
weird flex how much these have been downloaded in less than an hour, huh44 minutes *cough*
honored to be mentioned in fuelgrannie’s most recent rant. not sure how she can say it was an unfair report when she owns the dox i reported her for, but not going to try to understand pic.twitter.com/Irt827TTE2
Don’t forget to include the link, Ben Carlos Thypin: it’s not just about the screenshots “😤🍼😫”
Twitter is considering a poison pill to thwart @elonmusk's offer. They would rather self-immolate than give up their censorship programs. This shows you how deeply committed they are to Orwellian control of the narratives and global discourse. Scary.
Twitter is “deeply committed… to Orwellian control of the narratives and global discourse”
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Shadow banning is real. When Twitter was hacked images of their internal tools were released and it shows individual accounts can be blacklisted. pic.twitter.com/sws0repRh3
You never met with anyone in your district. I mean, as you know better than I, people did reach out to you to talk, to network, to try and get more information from you about your platform and your responses to them were tepid at best and dismissive and condescending at worst.
We all can appreciate the yimby slack chat (that tiny, self-congratulatory, downzoned bubble of testosterone-deluded non-reality) may have dirt-soil-sprouted a microscopic hard-on for you but in what was your district, the district which is right next to mine, voters remained fantastically unimpressed by your arrogance, your stiltedness, your coldness and your lack of public service experience.
And your need to take a thwack at me as you exit your joke of a campaign (but way to pocket a hundo thou, dude: spice-o-riffic take and totalmundo “based, king😤🍼😩”) merely confirms that you are just as mediocre and unexceptional as the homogeneous group of bros which spawned you, Open New York.
So, your early escape out of a campaign where you did almost nothing is no surprise to me.
And you could have still run, Huge: during a redistricting cycle, you don’t have to even live in the district to run for its assembly seat.
You had the savior brand of TurboVax under your belt.
You could have won, regardless of the redistricting: you could have won.
If you had tried, even a little bit.
But you didn’t.
Where you put your effort, instead, was making a joke about me: that’s where you “try,” Huge. And that effort, your small parting shart to me, of all constituents and voters, of all real, loud and vocal Queens residents, shows who you are and reveals your ever-present sense of self-entitlement and your inherent laziness.
So what are you going to do with the $100K you raised? You should return that money to your donors: it’s like you tricked them by taking funds from them in the first place, given how quickly you just gave up on your race.
And it’s not like you need that $100K in donor money, TechBoi: do the right thing and give it back.