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If you have recently received a random message or contact from an unknown person containing text similar to the title, it may be a troll. His name seems to be Paul Melville Austin, but he uses a variety of pseudonyms, including Paul Benjamn Austin (also just plain Paul Austin) and Paul Sebastian Williams, to harass users and gain attention for himself. He seems to have accounts on both LiveJournal and Dreamwidth under the names of australianchild, bullenemu, colemancharlott and tyne_wear (ETA Also marmaladeatkins, carlottecoleman, marmaladeatkins, thetestcard, australiaoz, marmalade44, uline, marmaladeat, charcoleman, ozaustralia, marmalade00, australian00s, australiachild and tyne_and_wear) but may have others. He is also known to use some non-journal nicknames and have multiple email addresses.

He has several behaviors, and a general pattern by which you can identify him;
*He contacts users, via email, IM's or private messages.
*He usually presents himself as either a young woman (generally using a stolen icon) or as an older, disabled man.
- His frequently changes his name with each contact.
*He will generally start out saying something like "can I talk to you?".
*He then launches into a story of abuse.
- Sometimes the abuse will be sexual and sometimes it is disability related, with either a sexual or humiliation component. The specific details vary from contact to contact.
*He will often express gender identity confusion and/or dating problems.
*He is interested in alternate history and fandom and will sometimes try to use this to get close to his new target.
*He often sets off the "squick-o-meter" when conversing with people. You may get a feeling that there is something Not Quite Right.
*On some occasions he has continued communication, even after being asked to stop

For example in August 2008 he posed as a High School Student called Marta (http://community.feministing.com/2008/08/reaching-out-and-welcoming.html) who was a survivor of sexual abuse.

This behaviour has continued over many years. He may or may not be dangerous. Please use appropriate amounts of caution if you choose to interact with him. If you feel he is breaking or has broken the Dreamwidth or LiveJournal Terms of Service while interacting with you, please contact them immediately. They can be reached via abuse@dreamwidth.org or abuse@livejournal.com, as appropriate.

I am trying to collect more information about the people he contacts and his interactions with them. If you believe you may have had contact with one of his personas, please leave me a message on this post.

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The more people who know about this man and his MO, the fewer people he can harass and trick. So also, please consider linking or re-posting this note in your own journal.

Thanks!

Can anyone point me to a recording of a bugle playing The Last Post I can burn to CD, for my friend to play at her grandmothers funeral?

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OH LJ.

(I think it's particularly touching the way they are now implying that synecdochic was "misleading" people, and they are not back-pedalling at all, no siree, not us.)

As always I have DW codes to give away.

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It was Mum's Seventieth last week, and on Saturday we had a party for her. Because she's a nightmare to buy for, and we don't have a lot of money to buy stuff anyway, I offered to make her cake.

For some I-want-to-give-myself-a-nervous-breakdown reason, I thought, 'Hey one of Mum's passions is Bell Ringing, I'll make her a Bell Shaped cake. It will be easy!'

It wasn't.

It turned out really well though, and people were impressed with it, but I think Doug was ready to throttle me, as Saturday morning I was nearly in tears because it hadn't gone as I wanted it too, and I'd convinced myself it looked awful. Fortunately by the time I got to the party, I'd got some perspective, and realised it actually looked good, and wasn't too upset over one of the letter getting broken and changing LXX to LXY.

From Mum's Birthday

From Mum's Birthday

It was wonderful seeing everybody again. I don't get to see my cousins nearly enough - especially now we've all got babies and jobs and grown-up things like that. I did however extract a lot of promises from people to come and visit us. AND I WILL HOLD YOU ALL TO THEM! ;-)

Anyway more photos here -

Mum's Birthday

as I have run and pick Hannah and Rebecca up from pre-school.

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Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die". Just introduce us to some new things to read.

damned_colonial Originator of the Meme on DW. Awesome geeky feminist. Done a huge amount to champion OTW and DW in the open source community.

lauredhel One of the people behind Hoyden About Town.

helens78 There are many, many reasons why helens78 is awesome and should be subscribed to, but the reason I'm giving you today is dreamsheep.

bossymarmalade Apart from the fact her username makes me crave toast, she's funny, smart and has the most adorable dad ever.

spotification Got Spotify? Want playlists? Look no further.

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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Holy Fuck did they just go there?

Are they trying to make the slasher's fangirl's heads explode?

Can't. Stop. Laughing.

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Today's DW news post. Today's LJ news post.

*Snuggles DW hard.*

Also GIP because I love these two new icons so much

Happy Amita is Happy

I love the faces Kate pulls

(As always I have DW invite codes if anyone wants one)

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I've been planning a post on gendered toys and clothing, but I'm coming down with a cold and my head is spinning so you're getting miscellaneous crap instead.

I heard about Patrick Swayze and Keith Floyd this morning as I was getting the kids read for school. Dirty Dancing was such a big part of my teen years and bonding over crushes on Jonny Castle was a big part of that. My sister and I wore out her VHS copy of the film by watching the last scene over and over again.*

Keith Floyd was a part of my childhood, albeit in a completely different way. My parents were really good friends with his cameraman Clive North, so my main memories of him was that of a few school friends being impressed that I knew the infamous Clive. It did make me nostalgic though when he popped up on Balamory though, in Suzie Sweet's song.

Someone linked to this on Twitter last night - Sexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed to Work

I'm a bad fan, I had no idea Eddie Izzard was doing this. My legs ache just thinking about it.

On BBC Wales they're showing an eight part documentary called Wild Welsh Zoo, (sadly that link will only work if the BBC thinks you're a UK licence player, I believe there are work arounds) about Anny Ryder Richardson, (her from Changing Rooms) buying a Zoo just outside Tenby. Well, we went there on Saturday. If anyone is in the Tenby area, it's well worth a visit. They've already done quite a bit to improve the lot of the animals at the park, (Doug and I said it's telling that they've changed the name from Manor House Wild Animal Park to Manor House Wildlife Park. Such a small change, but very indicative.) and there's still a lot of work on going. Plus it's the type of place where you as soon as you arrive you know kids are welcome there - the big lawn area in front of the house is full of Space Hoppers.


Dustjackets - A Castle Wiki - I have a half finished Castle picspam I must finish - people need know how awesome Kate Beckett, and why they need to be watching Castle. (This means YOU) Also Martha's awesomeness needs to more widely acknowledged.

I'm still watching Warehouse 13, although I'm sort of ashamed of this because it's so faily on race and sexism, and it's not particularly good telly. But I've fallen for Myka and Claudia, and Pete is as inoffensive a puppy, and so I'm hanging in on there. However Artie is a charmingless arsehole, I'm beginning to understand a bit how people who didn't like Rodney McKay felt.

I had more stuff I wanted to talk about, but my head is stuffed with cotton wool, and I can't remember what it was, so this will have to do.


*I texted her to tell her about his death. Her first reply was the standard dismay and sadness reply. Her next reply was as follows - "Do you think they will put a watermelon on his coffin? Then his pall bearers can say 'I carried a watermelon'".

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My friend Amy has a new single coming out in October, which has gone on pre-sale today* (17th August), and they're hoping to have 5000 pre-orders by October, which will count towards that weeks chart position, and they're hoping she might be able to reach the Top 40.

If you've got a minute could you go to www.amywadgeholdme.com, listen to the single, and if it's your kind of thing, consider pre-ordering it. (Non UK sales count too!)

Amy is a really lovely person, and an amazingly talented singer/songwriter. You can listen to a couple of her tracks here, here, here and you can listen to samples of her tracks on iTunes here.

It's only £0.99, (around $1.60), and it would really mean a lot to Amy to do this.

If you can signal boost and re-post or link to this post, I'd be really grateful, especially those with larger friends list/circles than me.

Diolch yn fawr iawn.




* When I was typing this it was today, but due to my sister and her kids visiting (we are currently a household of eight kids!) I didn't get to post it til today (18th August)

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