So I have quite a few thoughts on this, beyond the obvious "WTF" and also "for all the effort it took getting this particular stalker banned from Twitter, it's annoying to keep getting updates from the rock he crawled under."

Mostly, this is actually terrorism on proposal here. https://twitter.com/joss_prior/status/1334418716960776196
And I don't mean in some definition-stretching "hey this member of a fringe movement with a clear agenda openly discussing intimidation tactics" although that's already not great.

I'm saying this is the first step of how American nazis have often tried to get trans people killed
Modern fascists of all stripes have shared repositories of information on as many trans people and supporters of trans people as they can get their hands on. These are generally formally maintained by the real serious, every so often one walks into a public space with loads of
guns and starts murdering as many people as they can sort of fascists, but the info gathering draws from a wide pool, and even the ones with the best respectability act happily cite them. Graham, specifically, spent a good portion of his last year on Twitter copying and pasting
what he believed to be private information about me from a particularly murder-focused repository, which I could immediately recognize because none of my other stalkers cling to the particular bits of totally inaccurate information that site has in stock.

This, of course, being
kind of a problem with relying on sketchy neo-nazi doxxing sites to learn about your perceived enemies. Sometimes a real serious nazi gets hold of some government records and delivers a target with a neatly tied ribbon, other times some 12 year old with no clue what he's doing
throws someone's twitter handle into a search engine and assumes the first result that comes back from Facebook or whatever must be the true secret identity of his target because computers are just magic like that. Either way, that info goes to the same repository with no source.
A lot of the people who use such repositories to terrorize people don't actually care if the information is accurate. They just want to mail threatening letters to someone, and don't really care who, but the ones who really want to see people dead typically want to make sure that
the pipe bomb or SWAT van or whatever they're trying to send to someone's door doesn't end up just going to the vacant lot that used to be a house someone with a similar name lived in 40 years ago.

So during the period where trying to actively get trans people killed was more of
a popular strategy than going big and trying to get transphobic laws passed, what you would typically see nazis do is go to these repositories, find the address they have for a target, and then mail them strange but innocuous things. Stacks of pizzas, magazine subscriptions, free
trial offers from adult diaper companies, off-season mother's day cards, whatever. Then they'd monitor their social media feeds for reactions. Typically when someone has a weird experience like someone sending them 20 pizzas they'll hop onto SOMETHING and go "so this is weird..."
and the moment a target does that, they have confirmed that oh hey, the hidden page on the child porn site really does have the real home address of the owner of that account. Now anyone in on that little test knows whatever bombs, fake hostage situations, or in-person violence
they plan to deliver is definitely going to the right person's home.

And of course, in and of itself, it's also an obvious "I know where you live" intimidation tactic, and a reasonably safe one too, because I've talked to enough people dealing with this that I can say the police
are never going to lift a finger if you tell them nazis are mailing you pizzas or subscribing you to magazines or sending you feathers or whatever.

In the most practical terms, if Graham there does make good on his plan here, and a random bird feather shows up in your mailbox,
I would very strongly advise you pretend it didn't happen, chuck it, and never tell a soul it was there.

Same with anyone sending you a huge food delivery you didn't order, etc.
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