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Episode 146: >TFW Your Family Makes You Fake Your Own Death

Moose gets traumatized, Katie Herzog becomes a climate criminal, Jesse Singal becomes gay, Susan Meachen dies, and Carla Rossi has a lot of explaining to do

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Journalists Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal scour the internet for its craziest, silliest, most sociopathic content, part of an obsessive and ill-conceived attempt to extract kernels of meaning and humanity from a landscape of endless raging dumpster fires.

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>be writer for podcast

>office is full of goats for some reason

>working on episode about medievalist twitter drama and a weird publisher called RECEPTIO, really crazy story

>suddenly coworker shows up in a fursuit

>goats go ballistic trying to flee the “wolf”

>destroy half the office in the process

>boss gets fed up, tells me to get rid of goats

>spend 2 hours herding them down 32 flights of stairs as they lick me the whole time

>soaking wet as I return to the office

>boss’s dog stares through the window, sad the goats are gone

>”actually, bring the goats back, Anon”

>call up other cohost for help

>”sorry bro I’m busy doing mushrooms on a gay beach with Andrew Sullivan”

>spend 4 hours tracking goats down and herding them back into the office alone

>worstdayever.jpeg

>at least I managed to land that interview with Susan Meachen

>check email

>she killed herself

The tweet Katie was sent

Rubber Jackson @Rubber_Jackson

I really don’t understand the Big Draw for ABDLs attending MAL when they are not accepting of that community. They refuse ABDL vendors and they don’t allow an official ABDL party on their schedule. I know because I’ve tried to get them onboard.

Aella’s tweet

Aella @Aella_Girl

got railed by six different ppl at an orgy last night and i have a glow today, my soul is joyous, i am nourished

Meachen’s Special Delivery

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36458042-special-delivery

The anthology dedicated to Susan Meachen

Be a lot cooler if you did 💫🌪💫 @Draggerofliars

At the time, a group of authors dedicated this anthology to her, proceeds were given to the family I believe (will confirm). Btw, these are USA Today best selling authors. Susan’s “suicide” was due to bullying

Reports of Susan’s death were greatly exaggerated

Susan’s books are pulled from circulation

The RECEPTIO Affair

Peter Kidd’s website and twitter

http://manuscripts.org.uk/

https://twitter.com/mssprovenance

Kidd’s blogposts on the affair

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-i-staff.html

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-ii.html

Carla Rossi, the director of RECEPTIO

https://www.carlarossi.info/

RECEPTIO’s secretary may not be real

Peter Kidd @mssprovenance

The person claiming to be Noemi De Santis, who deals with Prof. Carla Rossi's emails, gets only two hits with Google, both on the RECEPTIO website. Her portrait is a stock photo, as others have pointed out to me. Does she even exist?

Pictures of RECEPTIO’s sign are actually just stock images

Pictures of their offices are stolen as well

Moritz Ernst Jacob @Hallfiry

@mssprovenance (1/n) I did some more digging on their London offices (their series of photos of them on the main page): This photo belongs to this apartment and is taken from its exposé. themodernhouse.com/past-sales/roy… receptio.eu/?lightbox=data…

RECEPTIO’s board members are fake as well!

Volker Schröder 🌎 @Marphurius

@leoba @mssprovenance This stock photo is really popular (and Google image search is scarily efficient). RECEPTIO just added some bookshelves for background. Which academic wouldn't dream of having such an attractive and loyal assistant?

As well as their legal advisor:

Volker Schröder 🌎 @Marphurius

@mssprovenance Are you sure Noemi De Santis is an actual person? The picture above her name is a stock photo that can be found on various websites. So perhaps you were communicating with a bot - they can get nasty, it seems. Or else Dr de Santis is shy and doesn't want to show her face online.

When people start catching on, RECEPTIO starts pulling the images

Peter Kidd @mssprovenance

Farewell, Andrew Pritchard!

Peter Kidd @mssprovenance

And here (as kindly pointed out to me by a reader) is RECEPTIO Academic Press's "Andrew Pritchard" https://t.co/DmH0YKlo8K

More #receptiogate research

https://twitter.com/hashtag/Receptiogate

Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis

Okay, so #Receptiogate is trending in multiple countries. If you missed the beginning of this (still unfolding) drama over plagiarized research, fake research institutes, and medieval manuscripts, here's a compilation to get you started with your bowl of popcorn. ⬇️🍿

Some involved with RECEPTIO actually are real, but listed without permission

Martin Steiger @martinsteiger

@AstridBeckers1 @mssprovenance Oh … 😬 For reference:

More plagiarism

Yael Rice @Yael_Rice

I should be working, but I'm instead scouring for more plagiarism--like this uncredited "borrowing" in a description for a well-funded future project on "intersexuality in pictures." 2nd & 3rd pix from a keshetonline.org essay. receptio.eu/genderfluidity… #receptiogate

Text in project description written by Carla Rossi that reads: "The Mishnah explains: «The androgynos in some ways is like men, and in some ways is like women, and in some ways is like both men and women, and in some ways is like neither men nor women» (Bikkurim 4: 1). In the Mishnah, Rabbi Yosi makes the radical statement: «androgynos bria bifnei atzma hu / the androgynos he is a created being of her own». This Hebrew phrase blends male and female pronouns to poetically express the complexity of the androgynos’ identity."

Text that she lifted, uncredited, from https://www.keshetonline.org/resources/created-by-the-hand-of-heaven-a-jewish-approach-to-intersexuality-parashat-tazria-and-parashat-metzora/, which reads: "The Mishnah (Bikkurim 4: 1) explains: “The androgynos in some ways is like men, and in some ways is like women, and in some ways is like both men and women, and in some ways is like neither men nor women.”" It's worth noting that the authors of this essay hyperlinked "Bikkurim 4:1" to show the reader the original source text. Rossi includes no such reference, nor does she credit the authors (two rabbis) of this interpretation of Parashat Tazria and Parashat Metzora

Passage, lifted and uncredited by Rossi, that reads: "In the Mishnah, Rabbi Yosi makes the radical statement: “androgynos bria bifnei atzma hu / the androgynos he is a created being of her own.” This Hebrew phrase blends male and female pronouns to poetically express the complexity of the androgynos’ identity." -- again from the same essay published on https://www.keshetonline.org/resources/created-by-the-hand-of-heaven-a-jewish-approach-to-intersexuality-parashat-tazria-and-parashat-metzora/

RECEPTIO posts a response video to YouTube of all things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI_H140rgcw

Image: Susan Meachen attempts to fake her death certificate. (Getty)

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William Kronenberg

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Whenever an uncommon kink comes up on B&R I always think about the time my mother-in-law posted pony play to her facebook (think of puppy play but rather than puppies its people as horses). She sent this video in our family thread too and immediately one of my sister's-in-law called her and explained that this was a sexual kink and to take it down. She just thought people were having fun pretending to be ponies :D (which is very in line with her)

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