It is interesting how people at reddit are upset about this: after they have invaded other people's privacy.

Children's privacy, in fact. Upskirt photos and all.

I'm a hardass about not outing people in fandom, but it's really hard to hang onto that principle in light of someone who trolls so hard.

This does have me thinking about anonymity. Some of the people on that Predditors tumblr have their Reddit profiles linked on twitter with their real name, so -- no sympathy. If you want to be anonymous on the internet, it doesn't seem that hard. Make a dedicated email address, don't talk about your personal life details, don't tell people you meet in person your handle, etc. Obviously, anyone could read this site and know exactly who I am, but I'm pretty careful not to put stuff on the internet that I wouldn't want generally public. At least, not locked down to people I (think I can) trust.

Considering he was posting salacious pictures of minors without their permission in a forum devoted to same, I don't really have any problem with someone outing him to the legal authorities, nevermind the general public.

Have you read The Stress of Her Regard? Byron! Shelley! Keats! Vampires! Yes, it's my favorite by him.

I am so very unsurprised that you love this book. My favorite Powers, though, is Last Call. Tarot! Poker! Vegas! Bugsy Siegel! Fisher King mythos!

That's basically what's going on in the Temeraire series, except with dragons instead of steampunk tech.

That's true, and there's rather a steampunk air to the way the outfit the dragons.

I haven't read later Moorcock, so in my head Oswald Bastable is still digging for treasure.

Moorcock always said he named Bastable after the character from the treasure hunters, but he was not supposed to be what the character turned into. The name was a link to a sort of liberal imperialism, the sort that claims to support invasions for the good of the nation being invaded. Of course this is way after the fact analysis. It is possible that the name was picked on a "wouldn't it be cool" basis, and the justification thought of long after.

yeah all this reddit stuff I'm reading the last few days? It's like really gross extreme libertarians.

A message from our local parents' email list has the subject heading, "need someone to deliver uterus plushes to NYC Comic Con." As my DH is headed to NYC tonight, I am trying to convince him to lend these local business people a hand.

He should totally do it! That's hilarious.

Make a dedicated email address, don't talk about your personal life details, don't tell people you meet in person your handle, etc

They can start with IP addresses and work from there. I'd wager that you have to be purposely hiding, as opposed to just not revealing. Who are you hiding from? Because there's some scary people out there, doing some jackass stuff.