Be Excellent To Each Other

And that's the problem -- selection bias.

So click the link, then.

You should stick to a medium that only allows you 140 characters, perhaps.

Even when said Republican interests are mainly "lying to the voters who are too stupid to see it?"

I think that's horseshit.

https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23tcot

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Tweetbot doesn't work with TweetMarker for me at the moment, so it's completely useless. It seems okay in general, but it needs work. So I'm using Twiterrific at the moment, but dislike a lot about it.

Right. After this long winded tweet, I am putting this to bed once and for all. I am now receiving death threats. Some people want to kill me because I stuck up for a friend. Death threats. I mean, really? Are you serious? Some nameless, faceless cowards actually want me to die. What a wonderful world we live in. And all because of this: I don’t think Steven Moffat a misogynist. I don’t think he is a homophobe. What he is, is a thoroughly decent man, who, in my opinion, writes high quality drama that is hugely popular and continues to win awards. In my opinion. What I witnessed the other week was cyber-bullying at its most rampant.

Now, I consider myself a feminist. I am the first to champion women and I happen to work in an incredibly male-dominated profession where good, challenging, stand-out women’s roles are still dwarfed by the huge amount of amazing men’s roles. And where women still have to fight to be taken seriously and keep their clothes on. I am also a mother, first and foremost and I juggle those two careers precariously. Women are made to feel guilty for having children, not having children, working for a living, getting married, staying single, usually by other women, I hasten to add. I have been a professional actor for nearly twenty years and in that time I have been on the receiving end of misogynist behaviour more times than you can possibly imagine. I was sticking up for a friend, who, I felt had been bullied.

Now, if you don’t like Doctor Who or Sherlock or indeed, any of Steven Moffat’s writing then don’t watch it. If it upsets you to the point of sending him death threats, then don’t watch it. Be constructive, please, of course, I am all for that but when that criticism turns ugly (and I stress, the stuff I read had become incredibly offensive) then constructive criticism goes out the window and it becomes very personal and frightening. Last time I checked, death-threats were not in the least bit constructive. I have recently just tried to stick up for a young actress who was being harangued on Twitter. It amounts to the same thing. Faceless bullying again. And it is in no way constructive.

I sincerely apologise if I came across too strong with some of you. Twitter tends to have that effect on people. The internet can be a fantastic place or Hell on earth. My reaction, in hindsight, may have been a knee-jerk reaction. Maybe that’s because I was horrendously bullied as a child and so any sort of injustice and cowardly attack is heightened to me. Or maybe, I was defending a friend who has contributed to British drama more than any one of the people who were cussing him last week. You see, you all have a remote control. You can always switch off. Just an idea…

Fuck me

Who is the writer, anyway? It's an interesting story, at least. I'm not saying it is made up, but some bits seem to be at the farther end of the bell curve.

To send parcels he must have known the address and known it was a friend of his dads.. well it is possible.

My Twitter account was deactivated but before doing so I posted links to my Google+ account, blog and invited people to contact me on Facebook

how do you pull IPs from facebook, and google+? The blog should be easily enough done, so I'm happy with that. It seems too fantastical.

The only thing I can think off there is if they could match the IP to a post from the parents.

That's quite horrific and goes much further than trolling on Twitter. The kid clearly had issues.

Well, it's not trolling at all. It's stalking, abuse, and death threats. Horrible.

Trolling as a word has no meaning whatsover anymore. Even on this forum, we have degenerated into the Daily Mail definition of 'Things on the internet that I personally don't agree with'. However I've yet to see anyone here blame it as a cause of cancer. OH WAIT THAT HAS HAPPENNED.

Which makes the tale too complicated and I begin to distrust it.

Even on this forum, we have degenerated into the Daily Mail definition of 'Things on the internet that I personally don't agree with'.

Is that really true?

I'm not sure about which word is the most accurate but I've seen a few people behaving like utter cunts to each other on here lately, for no reason that is readily apparent to everyone else. It's all getting a bit tedious frankly.

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Can we all just give it a rest for a bit, or at least rename the forum.

Which makes the tale too complicated and I begin to distrust it.

Further: I find it unlikely that the Garda would ignore an incident of religious hatred targetted to a specific address in Ireland. I also find it hard to believe that they would further ignore threats against a person in Ireland when other threats concerning this person's religion have been made.

I'm not sure about which word is the most accurate but I've seen a few people behaving like utter cunts to each other on here lately, for no reason that is readily apparent to everyone else. It's all getting a bit tedious frankly.