I remember I was struggling with some health issues, and I asked Jon to meet me at the airport at night to help me with my heavy snowboard. And he helped without asking anything in return. Since then, he has been my best friend.

Please read Jon's story. Good intentions don't justify mob justice. I fell for it, and the damage it can cause to a person is immense

FYI I've posted Jon's account (pretty.direct/impact) of the impact of his cancellation in Scala's discord and was banned for 6 days. Scala Center continues to act like their editorial power over the community is some reasonable moderation process

And the man who orchestrated all of that, Travis Brown, will never suffer any consequences Travis Brown and his followers ruined some people's life Travis Brown and his followers ruined the Scala community reputation Internet mob justice isn't justice

I found him (:

Dancing time!

Before I was cancelled, I knew that something was going on but nobody would tell me what until it became public and destroyed my life. This is my experience with the Scala Center, my former friends, Seth Tisue and Adriaan Moors; and "justice" in the absence of due process. ↓↓↓

I believe that Jon Pretty and Flavio Brasil have a reasonable recourse to EU regulations in the Scala case. It is very likely that @epfl @epfl_en, as a founding organization regulated by Swiss laws, and its board, where I’ve been a founding director, has certain purview that

It’s been a year since I left Ukraine. I miss home so much, and I know there’s no way back, but I don’t have a new home either. I’m somewhere in between. …like a soul that has left its body and still wanders between worlds.

This has been the coldest summer I've ever experienced, but I’ve discovered a new hobby. Roman is happy, and that's what matters.

I was carefully examining the evidence, and it seems to me that someone hired Y to use her story as a way to exclude Jon from the Scala community. As we know, the head of the Scala center has the power to eliminate competitors by any means necessary.

I was accused of a "systematic pattern of behavior" in the Scala community, citing misleading statements from two women. One of the women wasn't even in the Scala community, and my relationships with them could hardly have been more dissimilar. Evidence: pretty.direct/pattern

I was accused of "heavy gaslighting" by one of the women who canceled me. However, documented reality shows that I gave her my time, kindness, support, advice, reassurance, empathy and tolerance. And I made her laugh. Evidence: pretty.direct/gaslight

There's countess people Jon Pretty helped both personally and professionally only to have his life ruined by a Tuberculosis-infected lie.

Nothing lasts longer than a second before the finish.

All summer, I missed my home. I thought that traveling to Croatia would help ease my feelings, but it only made me yearn for home even more. It’s strange to feel like I don’t belong in either place. When the war ends, I will be the happiest person in the world.

Taking a break from Scala development Despite contributing to the Scala ecosystem for over a decade now, speaking at several conferences, two Scala Days, building Quill and more recently Kyo, I still face exclusion because the Scala Center's director decided to label me

On Hacker News the word "rape" was mentioned 205 times in response to the publications that got me canceled. My accuser said she didn't remember how much she drank before we had sex. But even if it were true, she could have worked out how little it was. pretty.direct/alcohol

Here's the plan...

I decided to cancel my trip to the Scala.IO conference because I don’t feel comfortable when conference speakers send me private messages asking me to delete my tweets and monitor my social media activity. It feels very trivial when someone who has never lived like I have,