Matt Mullenweg and the Wordpress debacle - we told you so, you fucking fools!
Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, owner of WordPress and Tumblr, has been having a pretty bad time in the media of late, entirely of his own doing. I'll not rehash the whole sordid tale here (if you're interested, there's a good summary here), but in short, Matt attempted to extort a company called WP Engine, repeatedly threatening them in private messages, retroactively filing to register trademarks that they didn't previously own, and when these avenues failed, publicly blasts WP Engine during his keynote address at WordCamp US (which WP Engine was sponsoring) and in several other venues. He's since gone off the rails entirely, stalking and harassing WP Engine employees on social media and just generally being a toxic little shit: this escalated recently to Wordpress.org, at Matt's behest, banning WP Engine sites from accessing the WordPress plugin repository, introducing massive amounts of security vulnerabilities into millions of sites. Generally charming behaviour, and it's almost certainly going to go to court and do some serious damage to both Matt and WordPress.
What's a little startling, however, is the fact that a lot people are quite surprised by Matt's conduct: for those of us in the know, this was no surprise. And so, us trans people find ourselves having to repeat the immortal words of Robert Conquest (who probably would not have liked trans people in the slightest, but the wording is too good to miss). With only minor alterations, therefore:
