u/UnicornMarch

i don't think it ever came up here. but at my local trans march this year, a local gay jewish politician who attends every year as an ally got surrounded and harassed. he left instead of going to a little shabbat celebration that had been organized there (not by the trans march organizers; by the queer synagogue and other jewish groups) because he didn't want to bring the harassers over to them. then the people harassing him saw him leaving and caught up with him again, and basically followed him for a block screaming at him some more. it was. messed up.

the excuse was that "he's a zionist who's terrible on gaza." the guy taking the video demonizes him for visiting Israel after Oct 7 to meet with Israelis and Palestinians. *sigh* he has the same positions as everyone he's running against; but they're not jewish, so they're assumed to mean things the "right" way. i'm so tired.

it took me three months, but i finally finished making a video about it. i just wanted to go off about how mad I was that if my trans kid and i had made it to trans march, we would've hit it at about the time this was going down; his first experience with trans march would've been seeing someone chased out of it by folks screaming "you don't belong here! we fucking hate you!" this is beyond unacceptable.

but the more i watched the video of what happened while editing, the more ominous things i noticed about the people harassing him, and the longer the video got.

i finally posted it, and i'm trying to be brave enough to tell people about it! i hope that's okay; i didn't see anything against it in the rules. thank you <3

also i'm debating whether I should tag it NSFW? it is NOT sexual, but there are some images of graphic violence at the end; but there's also a pretty long and emphatic warning about them first.

I somehow feel like there's something kind of corny about making it in Minecraft. But I can't help it - it's the only place the book I'm reading from exists!

I'm super curious about whether anyone else has heard of her. And I would love suggestions of more people to make videos about! I started this channel years ago, to do queer history... and then had to neglect it for a long time due to autistic burnout. Now I'm reviving it, and I want to add a strong Jewish emphasis. There's SO MUCH Jewish queer history!

(it would be really funny if I only talked about Jewish queer people for the next 50 videos, and just never addressed the fact that for some reason every video happened to be about someone Jewish)

So, I just got one of those Discord PMs that's an obvious scam. The TL;DR: they showed me a bunch of my Google Photos and saved passwords, then claimed they could use my computer's serial number to use my graphics card for crypto mining and that I would have to replace the hard drive AAAND the memory to remove their "virus."

I was like first of all, bold of you to assume I can't replace my own computer hardware; second of all, what's my serial number? They stalled, threatened me a few times, then disappeared. So, that's fun for them.

My question is: how'd they show me my own pics and passwords?

Here's a copy of their initial threats - for fun, and also so that anyone else googling this stuff can find this and see that it's an empty threat.

"I hacked you, I have all your information and photos If you don't want to get hurt, we can make a deal.

"My only goal is to make a deal and get out of here. If you don't agree with me, I'll send your photos to all your friends and servers, delete all your friends and servers, put your Discord account up for sale along with your other information, then send your computer's serial number to our hacker group and have your graphics card used for cryptocurrency mining, meaning you won't be able to use your computer for 1-2 weeks. But I don't want to do that, so let's make a small deal and both go our separate ways.

"Don't bother trying, the updated passwords will reach me again. Even if you reset the computer, the virus can't leave because it's infected the motherboard and hard drive. The virus can't be removed without replacing the motherboard and hard drive. So, everything is in my hands."

https://preview.redd.it/9cld3qbylnch1.png?width=918&format=png&auto=webp&s=3c3777917a3218c954b783be1696618fcdf5bf42

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