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This is big…

Index ID: TIB — Publication date: October 23rd, 2024

Note: J.K. Rowling published this on Twitter. Original post: https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1849240600052105403

This is big. The UK Charity Commission has directed that Mermaids – the single most influential activist group regarding child transition in the UK – must “have regard to the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the Cass Review.”
[https://www.gov.uk/government/news/poor-governance-at-mermaids-amounted-to-mismanagement-inquiry-reveals]

Cass found “the rationale for early puberty suppression remains unclear, with weak evidence regarding the impact on gender dysphoria, mental or psychosocial health. The effect on cognitive and psychosexual development remains unknown.” Mermaids disagreed:

Mermaids also sent out breast binders without parental consent. A 2015 study found that 97% of female users “reported at least one of 28 negative outcomes attributed to binding.” Mermaids has now been told to follow Cass Review findings re: binders.
[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13691058.2016.1191675?journalCode=tchs20&]

The commission found that Mermaids failed to carry out sufficient due diligence checks when recruiting trustees. One of the trustees was Jacob Breslaw, who resigned it was revealed he’d participated in a conference for a paedophile support group.
[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/06/celebrity-supporters-controversial-trans-charity-mermaids-gave/]

Then there was Darren Mew, Mermaids’ digital engagement officer, who dressed up as a schoolgirl and posted pictures of his genitals on social media.
[https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/trans-charity-worker-posed-as-schoolgirl-in-explicit-pictures-fd6s37f96]

It’s too soon to tell whether sanity is returning re: protection of vulnerable minors in the UK, but the reining in of Mermaids, which I believe to be one of the most dangerous organisations ever to receive celebrity, corporate and government backing, is a bloody good start.


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Nont Horoscope

Index ID: NONTHOR — Publication date: October 23rd, 2024

Note: J.K. Rowling published this on Twitter. Original post: https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1849206653335294443

Aries: your forthright nature, blunt speech and hot temper mean people are scared to tell you you smell funny. But you do. Thursday is a good time to buy a towel rail or a gecko. Lucky cheese: Brie.

Taurus: people call you lazy, but if you really want something you’re more than capable of whining listlessly from your bed until someone fetches it for you. Taureans in relationships should count themselves lucky. Your ruler, Venus, is a bitch.

Gemini: intellectually curious and easily bored, you’ll have to engage in slow, tedious and repetitive work this week, but stick with it, because when you’re busy you’ve got less time to be an arsehole. Lucky dog: dachshund.

Cancer: always sensitive and emotional, you’ll feel especially weepy on Sunday, when Uranus moves into your opposing sign. Try and stop clinging to people like a bloated tick. Tuesday is a good day to find your backbone.

Leo: this week’s Jupiter transit means your unshakeable conviction that you’re the most gorgeous and charismatic person in existence will reach new and nauseating heights. You are likeliest to suffer death by erotic auto-asphyxiation on Monday.

Virgo: this weekend sees Saturn square to your ruler, Mercury, causing your irritable bowel syndrome to flare up. Correct someone’s grammar to restore your usual state of twitchy self-satisfaction. Lucky fraction: ⅔.

Libra: indecisive and superficial, you’re currently toying with the idea of a new venture, but will ultimately decide to pass. Wise. You’d have been crap. A chance encounter will leave you with elbow burns and a well-deserved sense of self-loathing.

Scorpio: Machiavellian, vengeful and twisted, you’re at constant risk of tipping over into full-blown psychopathy. Get someone to handcuff you to a radiator through Saturday night’s Pluto-Venus sextile unless you want to make your first kill.

Sagittarius: your hedonistic tendencies, total lack of tact and this week’s retrograde Mars make it likely you will be beaten into unconsciousness in a bar on Friday. Lucky fish: pilchard.

Capricorn: venal and calculating, you’ll enjoy embezzling cash/sabotaging an office colleague this week. Warning: Shirley in accounts knows what you’re up to. Capitalise on the upcoming moon-Saturn conjunction to falsify your expense report.

Aquarius: you see yourself as a quirky individualist, but in fact you’re an unpopular oddball whose acquaintances turn off the lights and lie on the floor if they suspect you’re outside. Sunday’s auspiciously placed Jupiter offers a fleeting chance to make a friend, but you won’t.

Pisces: unfocused, unrealistic, unreliable: these are your better qualities. With ruler Neptune moving into Virgo, Wednesday will see you either dropping your stash in front of your parole officer or waking up to find yourself participating in a porn shoot. Lucky condiment: Piccalilli.


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Nont

Index ID: NONT — Publication date: October 23rd, 2024

Note: J.K. Rowling published this on Twitter. Original post: https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1848639699474387438

It’s clear to me you haven’t done the work, Adam. Let me explain the correct jargon. Unless you use this language when describing me, any other Nont or yourself, you want me to die horribly in a gas explosion and it will be your fault if I do. To start with the basics: those whose innate astrological identity matches the star sign assigned to them at birth are what we call ‘astro-synchronised’ – ‘ass’ for short. An ass-man assigned Aries at birth would identify as Aries throughout his life. He’d most likely dress head-to-toe in red, enjoy sports and might look a bit like a sheep. An ass-woman assigned Libra at birth would identify as Libra. She’d be a lover of beauty, a graceful dancer and probably really like weighing things. The term ‘ass’ derives from the Latin for star, ‘astra’. Some groups consider the prefix ‘ass’ offensive, but of course that isn’t so. Words derived from Latin are always proper science, which proves that ‘ass’ isn’t a slur. Just because some people are offended by a term doesn’t mean it’s actually offensive! What’s important to understand is that when the astro-synchronised community use the prefix ‘ass’, they help normalise Nont identities and experiences, which makes for a more inclusive and welcoming workplace – and world. However, should you not identify as ass, there are many other exciting possibilities to choose from, including astro-fluid, non-astro and, of course, the “thirteeners”, who consider themselves to be part of a mysterious thirteenth sign. This is an exciting new field of research. So far, the only characteristic of Sign Thirteen we’ve identified is pathological narcissism. Stand by for more Nont information the next time I’m trying to get enough caffeine into myself to start work.


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Roz Adams has been awarded…

Index ID: RABA — Publication date: October 15th, 2024

Note: J.K. Rowling published this on Twitter. Original post: https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1846209452770304284

Roz Adams has been awarded £35k for the harassment she suffered at Edinburgh Rape Crisis. She was subject to a ‘Kafkaesque’ ordeal for believing the centre should be allowed to discuss the natal sex of support workers with rape survivors.
[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/14/edinburgh-rape-crisis-centre-trans-row-mridul-wadhwa/]

As Roz says: ‘I don’t know how any organisation can claim to have women only spaces or services while not defining what a woman is or what female means.’ In 2023, Sandy Brindley, CEO of RCS, said ‘work was underway’ on a definition of women.
[https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/rape-crisis-service-still-has-no-definition-of-woman-ctrjxgc0m#:~:text=In%20an%20interview%20last%20month,identities%20can%20lead%20to%20discrimination]

One year on and Brindley still hasn’t produced her definition. You might think the CEO of a service that claims to offer woman-only support would be able to say what a woman is, but Brindley is one of those whose ideology forbids any definition of women that excludes men.

Under Brindley’s stewardship, a trans-identified man was appointed to run the Edinburgh centre. Mridul Wadhwa believed rape victims who wanted single sex spaces needed ‘re-educating’ and gender critical staff should be dealt with by being fired.
[https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19509343.outcry-plan-educate-bigoted-rape-survivors-trans-rights/]

Brindley and Wadhwa appear to have agreed that it is ‘progressive’ to pretend gender identity should supersede sex as the measure of what a woman is. This is in spite of the fact that 98% of sexual offenders are male (irrespective of how they identify) and 88% female.

They’re not alone, of course. Healthcare, academic and sporting bodies are currently riddled with managers who’re removing rights from adult human females in favour of men they consider ‘women’ due to paperwork or simple self-declaration.
[https://news.sky.com/story/nurses-suing-their-employer-for-allowing-trans-women-to-use-their-changing-rooms-13160104]

We’ve already seen ample evidence of what happens when this ideology is imposed on institutions: sportswomen placed in serious physical danger, female prisoners incarcerated with rapists, girls’ honours taken by boys, predatory men taking full advantage of new conditions.

One direct consequence of Brindley’s ideological stance is that rape survivors have self-excluded from the Edinburgh centre, because of the toxic culture flourishing there. In 2022, a group of survivors tried to raise their concerns with Brindley at a meeting.

Their concerns were dismissed. Some survivors said they felt re-traumatised by the response they met from Brindley, and from her trans activist partner Sharon Cowan, who attended the meeting in spite of having no professional role at RCS at all.
[https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/equalities-human-rights-and-civil-justice-committee/correspondence/2022/gender-recognition-reform-heal-survivors-group-letter.pdf]

Most shockingly of all, this year we learned that Cameron Downing, a now-jailed male sexual predator who’d previously tweeted that he wanted to ‘beat the fuck’ out of feminists, was allowed to access ‘support’ at the Edinburgh centre because he identifies as ‘non-binary.’

During sentencing, the judge highlighted Downing’s ‘hostility towards women, lack of concern for others, sexual preoccupation and deviant sexual preference’. When, if ever, are those committed to gender ideology going to admit they got it wrong?
[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/17/predator-cameron-downing-trans-inclusive-rape-crisis-centre/]

How much more physical, emotional and mental harm will have to be done to women and girls, especially the most vulnerable, before gender ideologues like Sandy Brindley admit all they’ve achieved is furthering men’s rights at the expense of those they can’t define?


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I say the following again…

Index ID: ISFA — Publication date: October 11th, 2024

Note: J.K. Rowling published this on Twitter. Original post: https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1844653922100584947

I say the following again because, while I understand people’s strong views on the matter, some of the language policing is getting a bit wearing.

As I’ve said multiple times, I do not believe that a person can be born in the wrong body and I don’t believe in gendered brains or souls. I believe the ideology that preaches such ideas is dangerous.

However, there are people in this world who want to present as the opposite sex for many diverse reasons – some of which I’m truly sympathetic to, others far less so – all of whom call themselves ‘trans.’ I use the word ‘trans’ in the full awareness that this umbrella term covers multiple groups who have nothing else in common with each other, such as straight men who enjoy cross-dressing for erotic purposes and young lesbians who, tragically, feel they’ll be happier without their breasts.

When I talk about sex-based rights, I use the word ‘trans’ to denote ‘people who wish to be seen or treated as the opposite sex’, no more or less. Telling me ad nauseam that ‘there is no such thing as a trans person’ isn’t overly helpful, because you’re trying to pull me into a different argument, on which I’ve already made my position clear.


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Response to the head of Rape Crisis Scotland’s attempts…

Index ID: RHRCSA — Publication date: September 15th, 2024

Note: J.K. Rowling published this on Twitter. Original post: https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1835374422191964350

I’ve been aware of one of the incidents described in this thread for a long time, because I know people involved. I’m posting this in response to the head of Rape Crisis Scotland’s attempts to use rape survivors as human shields for her own career.
[https://x.com/SD5419203477703/status/1834693365796859953]

The incident involves a group of female sexual assault survivors, who a few years ago requested a meeting with Sandy Brindley, head of Rape Crisis Scotland. They wanted to express their concerns about gender self-ID legislation. Specifically, the survivors wanted Rape Crisis Scotland to support a woman’s right to request a female medical practitioner. They went to the meeting well aware that they’d be reliving and possibly discussing their own highly traumatic experiences. When they arrived at the meeting, the survivors found another woman present, in addition to Sandy Brindley. This woman wasn’t introduced, so the survivors assumed she must be another woman who’d experienced rape or sexual assault. They were mistaken. The woman in question was @sharoncowan22, Sandy Brindley’s romantic partner, who had no role at Rape Crisis Scotland but is an academic with a particular interest in gender identity and trans issues.

Sandy Brindley, the head of a rape crisis charity, had invited her girlfriend to sit in on a meeting with victims, none of whom had given consent to identifying themselves as rape survivors in front of a total stranger. As if that wasn’t enough, @sharoncowan spoke up during the meeting to berate and criticise women who want same-sex medical care. The survivors’ concerns were dismissed and they were sent on their way. What happened at that meeting has been an open secret ever since among people particularly engaged in the gender self-ID debate. A large number of people were aware that Sandy Brindley had been guilty of a staggering breach of trust and lack of professionalism. Brindley, who claims to be unaware of calls for her to be fired, is responsible for the catastrophe at Edinburgh Rape Crisis. She has betrayed rape survivors’ trust in the most brazen ways imaginable. Scottish rape survivors deserve far, far better. Brindley has to go.

And I’ve mistakenly typed @sharoncowan in tweet 7 rather than @sharoncowan22. Apologies.


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Comments on Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre report

Index ID: ERCCR — Publication date: September 12th, 2024

Note: J.K. Rowling published this on Twitter. Original post: https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1834364048063803735

Today has seen the publication of a damning report into the culture of the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre under CEO Mridul Wadhwa, a man who identifies as a woman.
[https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/mridul-wadhwa-edinburgh-rape-crisis-centre-sw5fpfzql]

According to the report’s author, legal specialist Vicky Ling, the regime of the rape crisis centre under the trans-identified CEO “caused damage” to survivors. Some “did not feel safe” using it. It was because I knew sexual assault victims were self-excluding from the only rape support centre in my home city, that I founded and fund @beirasplace, a woman-only service for female survivors of sexual assault in Edinburgh and Lothian.

Responding to Ling’s report, Rape Crisis Scotland said today: ‘It is important that survivors can make informed choices about the services they access at Rape Crisis Centres, and we recognise that for some survivors this includes the choice of a single sex service.’ Yet Edinburgh Rape Crisis has never referred a woman in search of a single sex service to @beirasplace and was found to have constructively dismissed support worker Roz Adams for believing that service users have the right to know the sex of staff.
[https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/20/edinburgh-crisis-worker-wins-tribunal-over-gender-critical-views]

A staff SLACK conversation about @beirasplace came to light during Roz’s tribunal. The opening of the new single-sex centre was described by one employee as ‘really terrible news’ and ‘a festive stinker.’
[Image on original tweet: https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1834364837763182678]

Umbrella organisation Rape Crisis Scotland claims to have been in ignorance of the Edinburgh centre’s failings. As @ForWomenScot says below, this is nonsense. They were warned, yet supported Wadhwa and his ideology throughout his tenure.
[Image on original tweet: https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1834365577831612875]

Chief Executive Sandy Brindley appears to have been fine with Wadhwa’s publicly expressed views that female survivors are ‘bigots’ if they don’t want to share spaces with trans-identified men and that the best way to deal with gender critical staff is to fire them.
[Image on original tweet: https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1834365833939693653]

Wadhwa remained in post even after the Edinburgh centre allowed a man now convicted of serious sexual assault, who the judge said harbours ‘hostility towards women’, to access a space supposedly reserved for traumatised female survivors.
[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/17/predator-cameron-downing-trans-inclusive-rape-crisis-centre/]

Some might have expected the Chief Exec and her ‘amazing sister’ to resign today, but no. The government continues to fund a service dominated by ideologues, vulnerable women have been denied help, and Brindley and Wadhwa continue to draw their salaries.


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An utterly damning judgement

Index ID: AUDJ — Publication date: May 20th, 2024

Note: J.K. Rowling published this on Twitter. Original post: https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1792528604384887255

There has been an utterly damning judgement in the case of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre versus their ex-employee Roz Adams, who was subject to what the judgement calls a ‘heresy hunt’ for her gender critical beliefs. ERCC’s investigation of Roz is described as Kafkaesque.

This statement by Roz gives an insight into who she is as a person. Roz’s top priority has always been the survivors of rape and sexual assault ERRC was supposed to serve. Aside from being a highly qualified support worker, Roz is a person of bravery, integrity and compassion.

Why was Roz subject to disciplinary action and discrimination in the workplace? Because she wanted to ensure that rape and sexual assault victims knew whether the person supporting them would be a man or a woman, in order to give informed consent before commencing counselling.

The judgement, which can be read here, includes a heartrending letter from a survivor who was re-traumatised by the CEO’s public statement that it is ‘bigotry’ for women not to accept trans-identified men as women, even when being counselled for rape.

The judgment gives a further example of a 60-year-old rape survivor who was turned away from the service because she wanted reassurance that there would be no males included in group therapy.

Tellingly, ERCC chooses not to refer women who want an all-female service to Beira’s Place, the all-female service for survivors of rape and sexual assault in the Lothians I founded and fund.

Women like me are constantly asked, ‘why do you care about this stuff so much?’ I care for many reasons, and one of them is that organisations like ERCC are demonstrably prioritising gender ideology over the service they’re meant to be providing to extremely vulnerable women.

While I’m happy for Roz, I find it disheartening that we’re relying on the bravery of individuals (mostly women) standing up to unlawful harassment and discrimination to expose the harms gender identity ideology is doing to the rights and protections of women and girls.

It’s time for employers to protect those holding gender critical beliefs in the same way that gender ideologues have been protected. Hopefully today’s judgement will bring about much-needed change, both for survivors of sexual violence and for employees across Scotland.

But it would be nice, for once, to see the Scottish government speaking up for the women who’ve been subject to unlawful discrimination for defending their sex-based rights, and to hear the government condemn, rather than side with, those conducting the witch hunts.


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This comment by Billy Bragg perfectly sums up…

Index ID: CBBB — Publication date: April 28th, 2024

Note: J.K. Rowling published this on Twitter. Original post: https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1784586797525184794

This comment by Billy Bragg [@billybragg] perfectly sums up what left wing women have taken from left wing men over the last few years. The problem isn’t whether Julie Bindel and I are correct on the issues, but that certain right-wingers agree with us.

If you’ve spent any time at all on the left of politics, you’re familiar with the progressive male class warrior, usually middle-class himself, whose interest in women’s issues begins and ends with sex work, stripping and abortions. He might claim to be a feminist ally and mutter vaguely about ‘equality’ if the need arises, but when a genuine assault on women’s rights erupted under his nose, he cut left wing women adrift without a second thought. He expected us to be so blindly tribal that we’d surrender single sex spaces, jettison the very language we use to describe ourselves, give up fair sport, agree rapists should be locked up in women’s prisons and that lesbians are bigots for not wanting to sleep with the penis-ed, because (horrors!) some people on the right thought these things were wrong, too.

Over the last few years, a huge number of PMCWs have become men’s rights activists in all but name, and it’s been profoundly depressing, if not entirely unexpected, to see how enjoyable they’ve found it. Even while attacking women for finding themselves on the same side as right-wingers, the PMCWs stampeded to join the team that was threatening women with rape and violence, harassing women’s conferences, attempting to block access to gender critical events and physically assaulting female demonstrators. PMCWs are everywhere online, lecturing women reliant on state-run services for not welcoming the male-bodied into communal changing rooms and rape crisis shelters, presuming to police women’s language and tone, turning a blind eye to all statistics on male sexual violence that might contradict the ‘you’re all scaremongering bigots’ narrative and demonstrating that their deepest empathy will always be reserved for those who were born with a penis.

The truth is that the left has fucked up monumentally on gender identity ideology and until it owns the mistake, it will continue to hand the right valid talking points. As more and more PMCWs realise this, they’ll take shameless refuge in accusations that we, the women criticising the injustice and insanity of gender identity ideology, were enabling the far-right. The fact is that they’ve done exactly that, by refusing to accept that there was anything wrong with a movement that was causing serious harm to troubled young people, trampling all over women’s rights and seeking to remove single-sex services for the most vulnerable.

The sense of betrayal women on the left feel towards men like Bragg will take a long time to disappear, if it ever does. I think we all take some grim satisfaction, though, in the fact that evidence of the PMCWs’ misogyny and complicity is a matter of public record, because the panicky back-pedalling and whitewashing that’s just begun is quite something to behold.


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I’m astounded by this comment…

Index ID: IABTC — Publication date: April 15th, 2024

Note: J.K. Rowling published this on Twitter. Original post: https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1779920317730709990

.@KirstieMAllsopp I’m astounded by this comment. One of the gender ideologues’ favourite slogans is ‘no debate’. Opponents have been attacked, vilified, subject to discipline at work, had their lives overturned and lost their careers, all for the crime of wanting a debate.

Sonia Appleby, an experienced psychotherapist working at the now discredited Tavistock clinic, was monstered for raising concerns. A tribunal found that her professional reputation had been damaged and ‘prevented her from proper work on safeguarding’. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58453250]

Sue Evans, a nurse who also worked at the Tavistock and was extremely worried that children were being harmed, tried to raise the alarm. She took concerns to management but was ‘alienated’ and subsequently left for the sake of her own mental health. [https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/protect-children/]

Dr David Bell, a distinguished psychiatrist who shared Evan’s and Appleby’s concerns, submitted a report detailing whistle-blowers’ claims, and the trust’s response was to attempt to open an investigation into him. [https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/02/tavistock-trust-whistleblower-david-bell-transgender-children-gids]

James Esses, who was doing a Masters Degree in psychotherapy, was expelled from his course for speaking out about the impact of gender ideology on child safeguarding.[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12851073/Student-sued-professional-body-psychotherapists-thrown-course-expressing-gender-critical-views-reaches-settlement-discrimination-case.html]

In Canada, Kenneth Zucker, former head of the Child Youth and Family Gender Identity Clinic, was fired for questioning whether automatic affirmation of children in their trans identities was the best treatment model. [https://juliebindel.substack.com/p/a-fascinating-conversation-with-kenneth]

In the US, trans man Scott Newgent (@NotScottNewgent) has made it his life’s mission to raise the alarm about the dangers of transitioning children. He’s lost his career for speaking out.

Jo Phoenix, professor of criminology at the Open University, was harassed and bullied because of her opposition to gender identity ideology, severely impacting her career and health. [https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/harassed-silenced-for-my-gender-critical-views/]

Allison Bailey, the lesbian KC who dared challenge gender identity ideology’s impact on lesbians, was targeted by Stonewall, subject to horrendous abuse and effectively lost her career. [https://allisonbailey.co.uk/]

Philosophy professor Kathleen Stock was hounded out of her position at the University of Sussex, shunned by colleagues and targeted by students, all for the crime of being critical of gender identity ideology. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/28/kathleen-stock-interview-oxford-university-gender-debate/]

Detransitioners are subject to horrendous abuse from their ‘community’ online, because they speak out about the negative impact hormones and surgery have had on their lives. We’ve all watched them being jeered at, even told to kill themselves, after sharing their stories.

These individuals are the tip of the iceberg. I know, because I’ve received innumerable letters and emails from other people in medical and related professions who’ve been bullied and harassed for wanting a debate on gender identity ideology and the affirmation model.

People like you who now claim there’s never been any attempt to stifle debate are part of the reason this mess happened in the first place. If you want to remain in a state of blithe unconcern, fine, but don’t tell those in the trenches they’re making a fuss about nothing.


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