Sorry, dear readers, I think that ( apart from the film and the music) the only positive thing in this update is the brave protest by the Derbyshire women - so here’s to them 🥳
Onwards with the Dusty, Nicola and Moodie Film Series. Please keep the suggestions for films coming in but please check the list first which I am updating as we go along. Please send suggestions in the comments here at this link:
Back to the Future is a 1985 American film directed by Robert Zemeckis. Set in 1985, it follows Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), a teenager accidentally sent back to 1955 in a time-travelling DeLorean automobile built by his eccentric scientist friend Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown (Christopher Lloyd), where he inadvertently prevents his future parents from falling in love – threatening his own existence – and is forced to reconcile them and somehow get back to the future. In this scene he is trying to get back to 1985.
I have been trying to get back to 1985 for some time now😂
Thanks to three wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
Ireland - Shame On The Irish Media
Apart from Gript News, of course!
Credit: Colin Park via Geograph CC BY-SA 2.0 https://bit.ly/3weeWiJ
Laura Perrins in Gript News ( The week the Irish media disgraced itself 18 September) reports:
I don’t want to hear any more lectures on fake news, misinformation or lectures on not stirring up division from the likes of the Irish Times or indeed anyone in the mainstream Irish media following their disgraceful reaction to the most serious attack on the political process in the United States since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr and RFK in 1968.
Not only was Charlie Kirk assassinated in life but then others including mainstream people in the Irish media defamed him in death. You would think condemning the cold blooded killing of a public figure in public in front of young people and his wife was the lowest bar possible. Joe Brolly at the Sunday Independent failed to do this. In fact he seemed to take issue with our Taoiseach and Simon Harris TD condemning his killing, (at least that pair understand the basics.)
The Irish times then engaged in some defamation of Mr Kirk very soon after his death, by issuing a list of what he said ‘in his own words.’ Doing this might seem to cover your ass, but anyone with half a brain cell as well a sense of decency must understand that these lines must be read in context. Also, there is such a thing as not dancing on someone’s grave (although Mr Kirk is awaiting his funeral) or simply sitting something out. They couldn’t manage that either.
Brendan O’Connor at the Sunday Independent also alleged that to the ‘US right school shootings mean nothing’ which is an absolutely appalling and untrue thing to say. The right do care about the murder of school children which he would know if he actually read or watched anything from the US right. Mr O’Connor then took exception to how friends of Charlie Kirk expressed their feelings in the immediate hours after the shooting. He also referred to the killing as a ‘clickable moment.’
After a week of saying Charlie Kirk was a racist and a far right extremist they then tried to tell us that his killer was not motivated by any particular political ideology. This is also fake news.
It seems the Irish Times editor does not understand the internet exists. In this piece they lie to your face when they say “Charlie Kirk shooting was not driven by motive or ideology – just a desire for virality.” This leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to accuracy.
The press conference laying the charges as reported by the Times of London said the following. The killer texted the following:
“I had enough of his hatred,” Robinson texted his partner, allegedly referring to Kirk, who had been speaking about mass shootings carried out by transgender attackers when he was shot in the neck. “Some hate can’t be negotiated out.”
One engraving on the bullet read, “Hey fascist! Catch! ↑ → ↓↓↓,”
It is probably the case that Robinson was radicalised online but it is inaccurate to pretend that this was not driven by left wing extremists who have been accusing conservative commentators of hate and worse, for years, as the piece yesterday by Liz Carolan attempted to do. It certainly was an act of “performative violence” but it is simply not accurate to say this act had “no real ideology.”
Robinson’s mother said her son had become more political and had “started to lean more to the left – becoming more pro-gay and trans-rights oriented,” according to court documents. This is from his own mother who I think is better placed to say what Robinson’s motives were over and above Liz Carolan musings.
That resulted in discussions with family members, especially between Robinson and his father, who had differing political views. Robinson had accused Kirk of spreading hate, Gray said. The messages obtained by investigators between Robinson and his roomate include Robinson noting that “since trump got into office [my dad] has been pretty diehard maga.”
Seems pretty clear what the ideology was.
Carolan actually has the gall to end her piece as follows: “Democratic senator Chris Murphy warned of the danger, writing on X: “The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.”
There is nothing more anti-democratic than assassinating your political opponent which Charlie Kirk was to the Democrats. He was killed because he dissented from the leftist world view. Tyler Robinson pulled the trigger but a lot of people handed him that gun.
For the Irish media, none of that matters. This was the week when they utterly disgraced themselves. This was the week when all pretence that these people exist to give us the news in a fair and balanced manner went out the window.
Ireland - Free Speech
Here’s a new definition of ‘mal-information’ - information which is true but which may harm someone.
Credit: Houses of the Oireachtas
Ben Scallan in Gript News ( Irish DSA chief never heard of “mal-information” before 19 September) reports:
The Irish official in charge of enforcing the Digital Services Act has admitted he was unfamiliar with the term “mal-information” when asked about it by a Senator, appearing visibly confused.
“Mal-information” is a widely-used term in European Union policy circles and other state-backed bodies dealing with online regulation. It refers to information that is factually true but shared in a way considered allegedly “harmful”.
The exchange took place on Wednesday at a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on European Union Affairs, where Digital Services Commissioner John Evans was questioned by Independent Senator Ronan Mullen.
Evans is the State official tasked with implementing and enforcing the Digital Services Act (DSA) in Ireland – the sweeping EU law that imposes strict obligations on tech giants like Meta, Google, and TikTok, and designates Coimisiún na Meán as Ireland’s regulator. A core component of the DSA is combating “misinformation” and related topics.
Asked if his organisation had any role in policing “mal-information,” Evans replied: “I have not heard that term before.”
He added: “But if I understand the way the Senator describes it, it sounds like a particular type of misinformation and disinformation.”
Mullen pressed him on whether the commission considered accurate but potentially inflammatory information part of its brief, noting that Communications Minister Patrick O’Donovan had defended tackling “misinformation, disinformation and mal-information” as part of the Government’s National Counter Disinformation Strategy.
“Let us say one had information that was true but likely to cause annoyance, unrest or hostility,” Mullen said.
“It could be about crime statistics and particular cohorts…It would not be misinformation or disinformation.”
Evans replied that categorising information was difficult, and argued such material could still be treated as a risk under the DSA.
“I have seen a lot of attempts to categorise in a scientific way different ways to present truthful or untruthful information and it is very difficult,” he said.
“They overlap, they do not overlap, the context changes and suddenly there is a new category of information.”
He added: “I would push back a little back and say I think that malinformation is still a kind of mis- or disinformation and, as such, it could get caught as a systemic risk issue under the Digital Services Act.
“The more sophisticated and distant you go from illegal content, the harder it is to make those calls and trying to always maintain that balance of freedom of expression.”
Responding on social media after the fact, Senator Mullen said: “Even if information on social media is accurate and true, it appears it may still fall foul of the regulator. In the context of elections this is a worrying consideration, and public vigilance is required.”
Evans was appointed as Digital Services Commissioner in July 2023. With over 20 years’ experience in competition and consumer regulation, he is responsible for co-ordinating Ireland’s enforcement of the DSA, building links with European regulators, and overseeing procedures such as awarding “trusted flagger” status to organisations.
Dusty - no doubt we will hear more about ‘trusted flaggers’!!!
The Government’s National Counter Disinformation Strategy, published in April, has proven highly controversial.
Of the 470 submissions received during the Government’s own public consultation, 83% opposed the plan outright, with the vast majority warning it would amount to censorship. Only 11% of respondents backed it, with many of them being government departments, NGOs, or other state-funded organisations.
Dusty - so f*** you, the 83%!!!!
Minister O’Donovan has defended the policy, saying citizens need access to information from “trusted sources” rather than “gossip” spread online.
The Department of Communications has adopted the EU DisinfoLab’s definition of mal-information as “information that is based on reality but is used to harm or threaten a person, an organisation, or a country” – i.e. information that is true.
UK - Hate Speech
We have been reporting recently on Glinner’s arrest and his separate prosecution and on Helen Joyce discovering that a crime has been noted against her name despite her being unaware of this! And see my recent piece about the attack on free speech in the UK:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/gird-your-armour-onand-keep-speaking
Sarah Phillimore on her substack looks at this fundamental issue:
The Goon Squad
Since Harry Miller's Court of Appeal victory in 2021 against NCHIs, I thought the police would return to proper policing. They have not. What are the consequences of this and how do we stop it?
Sep 21, 2025
I am attending a panel on policing at the Battle of Ideas on October 19th 2025 so I thought I would start now to marshal my thoughts and reactions to the current state of our policing. My focus is on the police’s inability to handle on line discussions around sex v gender and the continued weaponization of perception based recording. The problem is of course wider; police reactions - or failure to react - to other situations that reflect political ideologies are fuelling concerns that we have a de facto ‘two tier’ policing system, which is propped up by a reasonable perception that the police offer unlawful adherence to one ideology over another.
I was embarrassingly wrong
It really did feel like being part of something exciting and vital in 2019 when Knowles J ruled that Humberside Police had acted unlawfully to visit Harry Miller’s place of work to ‘check his thinking’ over his shockingly controversial view that its not possible to change sex. The Court of Appeal in 2021 went on to declare that the whole scheme of Non Crime Hate Incidents as applied to Miller was also unlawful, followed by a Parliamentary Code of Practice in June 2023 to remind the police to use common sense, be aware of likely malicious complaints and to respect article 10 ECHR (right to free speech).
I thought we had achieved complete victory over this malign ideology of ‘gender identity’ that appeared to have captured the police as a whole.
Not for the first time in my life I was utterly and embarrassingly wrong. The impact of the Court of Appeal judgment and the persistent criticisms and negative consequences of ‘perception based’ recording appear to have been ignored and as of 2025 the police are still continuing to record unchallenged, reports from the malicious and mentally unwell, so long as they fall within one of the five ‘monitored strands’ for hate crime - disability, race, religion, sexual orientation and transgender identity.
Dusty - note that ‘sex’ is not included!
Depressingly, it’s now even worse than it was for Harry in 2019 as by 2025 we see the police willing to record as crimes, allegations that are not investigated and not communicated to the alleged perpetrator.
Sarah concludes:
As Ezra Klein commented in his podcast on the 16th September - we are going to have to live here with each other. But we can’t allow the mad and lost a veto on what we can say, or hand over to them control of the police. It is clear that the internet both provides a stage and reward for unpleasant and insulting people. Some internet speech will need to face criminal consequences. But the law as it stands and is applied at the moment is not fit for purpose and will do far greater harm to the cohesion of society than any number of frothing trolls.
As Darryl Davis, Megan Phelps Roper and Charlie Kirk would attest - if Kirk were alive to do so - the only way out of bad thoughts and bad speech is more speech, to allow the bad thoughts to at least be challenged, rather than pushing people underground into yet deeper and darker echo chambers. I would rather have these people where I can read and hear what they say. If what I read and hear offends and upsets me, then I should not be able to call in the criminal justice system to forbid it, unless a high bar of imminent and realistic threat of harm has been met.
The full piece is here:
England - Derbyshire Protest
There has just been a ‘Trans Pride’ march in Derby and 4 brave Terf women were there to counter protest. Good banners and, as the march goes by chanting ‘trans rights are human rights’ you can hear in the background a woman’s voice: ‘transwomen are men’ 😊
https://x.com/ToothyMaestra/status/1969522304108425681
Trans Violence
In the wake of the murder of Charlie Kirk there has been a lot of discussion about violence from trans activists - see, for example, my piece here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/armed-queers
Kat Highsmith continues this discussion on her substack:
Prepare for a Tsunami of "Trans" Violence
It Will Get Worse
Sep 22, 2025
It’s not just you.
Things are getting crazier out there.
Something has begun to be unleashed on society. It is a cohort of people who claim to be “trans,” raised on pornography, video games, anime, Discord, Reddit, Steam, and Twitch while affirmed by hormones, myriad psychotropic medications, nefarious doctors, and a complicit media.
They and their supporters have been whipped up into a frenzy of righteous victimhood and subsequently set up for failure as they have been assured that anyone who refuses to go along with ever-escalating demands is worthy of retribution.
We will see increasing levels of threats and violence from them in the foreseeable future because these people are already unstable, and they have been told that they are the vulnerable victims of a genocide, which necessitates an appropriate response.
The inexorable problems will continue until they are told no.
Here is one of the most recent examples.
In June 2022, a 26-year-old man named Nicholas John Roske traveled from his home in California to Maryland to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh due to the leaked decision for Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
Nicholas is pictured above at a gun store. He resembles, and not just slightly, another man who purchased weapons and then shot up a church—the recently forgotten Robert “Robin” Westman.
Robert killed himself after killing children, so he has fallen out of the news cycle. But don’t forget, woman = long hair.
Nicholas, however, did not succeed in committing suicide after showing up at Justice Kavanaugh’s home at 1:05 AM with a Glock-17 pistol with ammunition, zip ties, a tactical knife, pepper spray, a hammer, a screwdriver, a nail punch, a crowbar, duct tape, and a pistol light.
The affidavit for the charges of attempted murder stated that his plans were to murder Kavanaugh and then kill himself, but he saw two deputy marshals outside the home, texted his sister who convinced him to call 911, and then Montgomery County police showed up and arrested him.
While on the phone with 911, he admitted that he needs psychiatric help and that he has already been hospitalized multiple times.
The full piece is here:
On this subject, Jonathon Kay in Quillette writes, amongst others, about a certain Florence Ashley:
Showing Us Their True Colours
The gleeful response to Charlie Kirk’s murder from high-profile trans activists channels the same morbid, dehumanizing rhetoric they regularly spew at ‘TERFs.’
19 Sep 2025
Last week, a Canadian academic named Florence Ashley became infamous for declaring that Charlie Kirk was a “Nazi,” and for suggesting that Kirk’s murder was a welcome act of “magic.” If the name is familiar, it might be because the same scholar—a biological male who self-describes as a “transfeminine activist, academic, and slut”—was widely ridiculed after instructing pet owners to stop “gendering” their dogs and cats, lest they “normalise bioessentialist conceptions of gender.” Ashley has also exhorted social-media followers to “be gay and do crimes,” and has written about how “glamorous and provocative” it feels to have one’s genitals “bulging through a tight dress.”
The full piece is here:
A lot of this is linked to the tedious but dangerous myth of ‘trans genocide’ which is dissected here in her usual emphatic fashion by Karen Davis. She is doing a part 2 tomorrow if you want to check that out. I love the way that, when whatever she is reading uses misleading language such as ‘trans person’ she simply inserts ‘opposite sex impersonators.’ 😂 This ‘genocide’ myth is also part and parcel of the ‘words are violence’ brigade!!
The Role Of Pornography
Feminist Legal Clinic reports via Jo Bartosch:
“Protect the Dolls”: The Porn to Trans Pipeline – Fairer Disputations | Jo Bartosch (21 September)
Pornography is not only, as Andrea Dworkin observed, where the Left went to die. It’s also where the trans-identified generation was born—and where their ghoulish cheerleaders reside. From girls binding and cutting their way out of womanhood to boys who find arousal and solace in cross-dressing, the architects of pornography’s mega-platforms program both its viewers’ desires and their very identities.
The idea that pornography is a tool to help people uncover their true sexuality is an inversion. Armies of developers like Rice [ porn programmer Dillon Rice]are paid to sustain users’ attention, to keep them online, and thus to pull them away from who they are, locking them into niche fetishes that can never be realized with a real person.
Our society has utterly failed to protect the first generation to have come of age under the pornocracy. Though it may be uncomfortable, we must listen to their stories—and then take steps to make sure today’s children and adolescents aren’t lured down the same path.
Efforts to engineer tastes have been phenomenally successful; the market for trans porn is booming. Pornhub’s 2024 Year in Review reports that interest in the “Transgender” category is rising worldwide: “Trans” was the sixth most-searched category among men and the ninth among women. Many users of this content are now attesting that it changed them—and not for the better.
Ascribing trans identities to children is in itself a sexual fetish. So-called “egg chasers,” often older, predatory men, give advice to “crack the shells” of youngsters they consider latently trans, encouraging them to come out as the opposite sex. Details from the trial of queer activist Stephen Ireland revealed that the convicted child rapist—sentenced to thirty years—shared grotesque fantasies with his boyfriend about dosing boys with estrogen and using suction cups on their chests to mimic breast growth.
Investigative journalist Genevieve Gluck, co-founder of Reduxx, has documented pornographic subcultures in which men share these dark desires. She has uncovered forums devoted to the castration of children—some advocating chemical means, others orchidectomy—and traced links between figures in these circles and policy-work that has influenced global clinical guidelines for trans-identifying patients. In Gluck’s view, transgenderism and pornography are aspects of the sex industry—the former sells sex as an act; the latter sells sex as a product.
Today’s newest “dolls” have been failed by older generations too timid to take a moral stance on pornography. They have been preyed on by pornographers and exploited by a minority of men pursuing their twisted fantasies about “trans” children. If there is a duty of care, it is first to the children being targeted and then—reluctantly—to the men already captured by this machinery, to stop them doing further harm to themselves and others. That means saying no to policies that turn womanhood into a fetish and rejecting the idea that men who perform fragility are in any way vulnerable.
Protect the dolls, yes—but from themselves. And protect our kids, full stop.
Source: “Protect the Dolls”: The Porn to Trans Pipeline – Fairer Disputations
Dusty - ‘Protect the Dolls’, somewhat bizarrely but perhaps appropriately, refers to larping men and came back into prominence following the Supreme Court ruling in April.
Terf Island Discs
Thanks to an excellent suggestion from Tenaciously Terfin, we have paused Endpieces for the time being and we are giving Tenaciously and Liz a well earned rest from their hard work. So , since 07 July, we have been running Terf Island Discs.
Several readers have chosen up to 4 songs or pieces of music each and we are going through those one at a time in each update. This is going so well that I am going to continue it a bit further and you can now choose up to 6 songs or pieces of music each. They need to be reasonably short. We can’t expect to have readers listening to the whole of Tchaikovsky's piano concerto in B flat minor, albeit it is magnificent.
They don’t have to be from Terf Island BTW - anywhere in the world 😊
Please send links as well if you can.
So for those who have already chosen 4, please choose 2 more and, if you have not yet taken part, please choose 6!! If you repeat a song or piece of music that has already been chosen, I’ll let you know and you can choose another one. Please let me know your choices in the comments at this link:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/beware-of-the-flowers-terf-island
Next up!
Chosen by: Petal
‘Freewill’ by Rush
#BeMorePorcupine
#KeepBuggeringOn
#AdultHumanFemale
#LetWomenSpeak
#LGB✂️TQ
#KeepOnTerfing
#LeaveKidsAlone
#BeMoreQuestioning
#NeverSurrender
#NeverForget
#TruthWillTriumph
#WeWillWin
Dear readers
A heads up that Mr Menno is doing a premiere at 21.00 GMT this evening namely an interview with the author of Terf Island Fiona McAnena. See some of you in the chat I hope 😊
Dusty
Thanks Dusty, although thanks is not really the right word. What a glimpse into our dark and dystopian world. And how has all this insanity taken hold so quickly? I’m not at all surprised that the word malinformation is widely used in the EU. The suppression of truth in case it gives the plebs ideas above their station and wakes them up to what’s happening across the west, is exactly the sort of thing the EU would consider to be the morally right thing to do. Can’t have the drones becoming restless. In fact you Dusty, and countless other citizen journalists need to watch out. You’re all guilty of spreading malinformation and we’re guilty of reading it.
Don’t be a sheep. #BeMoreDissident.