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Bloodlust and Love of Blades (Fascination With Murder) Nothing New Among Microsofters

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 01, 2025

Yesterday: Common Sense 101: Do Not Write Blog Posts Saying You Want to Murder Colleagues (or Yourself)

blood lust

Menacing messages must not be ignored or dismissed as merely a joke or a prank ("he's just doing a joke", "no, she didn't really mean it!") because many people who commit acts of violence openly talk about this desire before doing so. There are typically clear warning signs predating the incidents and signals of distress from soon-to-be victims cannot - as such - be brushed aside. See the link above. It's from yesterday. We've been acting accordingly all along and still do (in 2025). It's no joking matter when dealing with people who got arrested and charged for strangling women or people who openly call for violence against other people. That's just common sense.

The first Microsoft SLAPP (they both came from the US; they're not disconnected as there are many overlaps and Microsoft is kept in the loop) was lodged by a man who - as an adult in his twenties - presented himself like this in his own homepage:

Matthew Garrett is 22 years old and an agriculture student in Devon. He is in no way related to Matthew Garrett (formerly) of Jesus College, Cambridge, who is frankly terrified at the idea of anyone wanting to know anything about him and wishes you'd all go away and stop bothering him. He's sorely tempted to write a book entitled 'Axe-murdering for fun and profit' in order to ensure that this happens if you carry on. Note: Any 'Chris Buckley' mentioned within this site is a fictional character. Resemblance to any other 'Chris Buckley', living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Note, too, that this site is now newly updated and full of exciting stuff that wasn't there before.

Spooky.

In the coming days - just like in prior articles - we'll revisit actual threats of violence of violent fantasies this man expressed in public. His spouse posts in social control media with expletives about bearing an actual chainsaw and playing violent computer games. Who would find such "jokes" or "humour" funny? If my next-door neighbour acted this way, I'd stay indoors.

Violence is not a joke and no group is magically entitled to make such "jokes". The man above keeps expressing his fear (in public) of being arrested. He did so more than a dozen times in the past year alone. Having lost almost everything (money, job, spouse, dog, health and probably home), he's gleefully announcing an unscheduled (short notice) trip to the UK, and not because he's invited to our party. We can only hypothesise that the true reason is that his poor legal representatives are in a terrible shape: hardly any money in the bank, only one new lawsuit this year* (it's June already), potential of losing its licence to operate, and the lawyer who opened both cases (for the Microsofters) is leaving, based upon the fact the firm has repeatedly advertised his position with immediate start.

Violent people who by their own admission seek professional help (for psychological issues) are more likely to do irrational things, including the destruction of their own life (not limited to career). As our lawyer put it in his explanation to us, such people just cannot think logically and cannot be expected to behave logically.

At this stage it seems like those frivolous SLAPPs are meant as "punishment" or "revenge", knowing there's no prospect/hope/substance to them (even the law firm filing these SLAPPs implicitly admitted so many times). Consider the 'Axe-murdering for fun and profit' guy. His own lawyers have already told him he'd be billed close to half a million pounds if he proceeds all the way to a trial [1, 2] - money he can never recover. Instead of taking the hint he seems to have persisted to the point of personal breakdown. I already hinted to him in 2023: "If you want to sue, be sure to provide a valid address (not your outdated one) so I can sue you and win and perhaps bankrupt you. My case is miles stronger than the fiction and fantasy inside your misaligned head."

That statement seems to have aged well. Two years later he finds himself on the same side as an actual con man who was arrested for assaulting women. Nice company you got there. What will the Master think? Rational people do not destroy their own life because of some attempt to destroy someone else's. RMS is still attracting massive crowds and the FSF is more than happy to have him in the Board because his accomplishments are real, he is not faking them. Despite the smears from actual perverts, people discover that as the world shifts to GNU/Linux everywhere it actually started in 1983 at MIT.

oh good lord, New York? Thanks for the evidence that I've been part of the conspiracy for 20 years

Balabhadra (Alex) Graveley, Miguel de Icaza

Related: Brett Wilson LLP [Repeatedly] Does Not Deny Microsoft or Another "Third Party" Secretly Funds the SLAPPs Against Techrights, Bankrolling Despicable People Who Deserve Criticism

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* It's already backfiring with a counterclaim, as usual. The person or entity they sue ends up suing them, that's in a nutshell bad litigation or poor foresight. It typically happens in firms which give poor legal advice or seek to attract clients and cases that have no chance of winning.

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