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Val Dobson

@valdobson

Feminist great-grandmother with a working brain & an internet connection. Spoonie & compulsive factchecker.
@valdobson8 on Threads & valdobson on Bluesky

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Caro Betts (@bettscaro) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fun facts: *I wasn’t born in the UK *I have a foreign birth certificate *I didn’t have a British passport till I was 16 No one has EVER questioned my “Englishness” EVER Not once If you believe this isn’t because “blonde hair & blue-eyed” you’re a fucking idiot

Caitlin Roper (@caitlin_roper) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A group of women, including survivors, objected to games glorifying rape, incest, extreme sexualised torture and violence against women. Collective Shout called on gaming platforms to take them down, and when they didn't, we wrote an open letter to payment processors, who then

David Chavous (@dacdac4dac) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thread: Intersex. You have heard trans activists refer to intersex as proof that biological sex is "complex." You have likely heard that intersex people make up 1.7% of the population. That statistic is a lie created by Anne Fausto-Sterling and repeated by hospitals for $.

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Intersex. You have heard trans activists refer to intersex as proof that biological sex is "complex." You have likely heard that intersex people make up 1.7% of the population.

That statistic is a lie created by Anne Fausto-Sterling and repeated by hospitals for $.
Val Dobson (@valdobson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Rabbi Who "Proved" God Wrote the Bible Says He Found Moses's Autograph ... Maybe - JASON COLAVITO jasoncolavito.com/1/post/2025/07…

Dr. Jane Cassandra Jones (@janeclarejones) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This 'all rape by white British men is unavoidable' shit makes we want to set fire to things. In the twenty years I have been working on sexual violence I have found little as triggering as this mass outbreak of faux concern about rape by men who manifestly do not give a fuck

This 'all rape by white British men is unavoidable' shit makes we want to set fire to things.

In the twenty years I have been working on sexual violence I have found little as triggering as this mass outbreak of faux concern about rape by men who manifestly do not give a fuck
HoaxEye (@hoaxeye) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I don't like this new echo chamber effect amplified by some AI. Many people post chats or "discussions" with AIs, sometimes using audio interface. There are plenty of fake AI discussions, too. Is this because people think their claims are more trustworthy when some AI seems to

Dr. Jane Cassandra Jones (@janeclarejones) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I did a little thread at the time about some of the responses to that because they were pretty revealing, and fucking gross. x.com/janeclarejones…

J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Genuinely surprised anyone's shocked by this. Just because huge swathes of the left have revealed themselves to be dripping in misogyny doesn't mean a massive chunk of the right doesn't remain exactly as indifferent to women's rights and issues as it's always been.

Genuinely surprised anyone's shocked by this. Just because huge swathes of the left have revealed themselves to be dripping in misogyny doesn't mean a massive chunk of the right doesn't remain exactly as indifferent to women's rights and issues as it's always been.
J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A Bindoff Alex Smith ♀️Jennifer Gingrich ✡️ For Women Scotland Never underestimate the self-congratulatory naiveté of comfortably off, privately educated people who've never moved through the world without the means to summon a lawyer, a taxi or a private therapist.

Val Dobson (@valdobson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Who was Charles Millot? "I awoke," exclaimed M. Millot, dramatically throwing his arms in the air, "pulled out my revolver, and shot at them." orkneyarchive.blogspot.com/2025/07/charle…

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Gametic Politics "...a workshop for early-career researchers in the social sciences and humanities who are developing the next generation of scholarship about eggs and sperm." whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/08/05/gam…

Val Dobson (@valdobson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Some things I learned from Trans Threads today: Neurologists can take slices from a transwoman's brain and identify it as female, and transwomen always carry spare tampons/pads to give to women in need because women help women and TWs are aways lovely and nice like that.