Archive for April, 2024
May Eve 2024
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on April 30, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Diary #722
Posted in Diary, tagged Sunset on April 29, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Another sign of spring at Sunset: the apple trees are in full bloom! One of our neighbors started keeping bees a year or so ago, so the pollination is usually reliable around here. And though it’s still a little chilly most days, we’ve had a number of sunny days interspersed with the rainy ones. From now until the end of June, we’ll see fewer rainy days each week, and lighter rain when they come, and I have the feeling we’re going to have another good fruit year unless the heat of July and August proves excessive. I’ve never been a gardener, but I do enjoy having fresh fruit in late summer and early autumn, including tomatoes again this year. As time goes by and I perfect all my various chores and practices, I’m slowly adding new things (like the tomatoes, and composting) as I think I can handle them without packing my already-busy schedule too tightly; I am semi-retired, after all. So I just need to find the golden mean of farm work: enough to keep me active and supplied with the fresh foods I like, but not so much that I don’t have time to enjoy it. 
Links #721
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged animals, California, cops, fantasy, Kansas, libraries, Papua New Guinea, politicians, STEM, Thanatopsis, video on April 28, 2024| Leave a Comment »
An unintentional body movement can lead to death. – Scott Harlan
Since I often share my earworms with you, I’m unsure how this one – presenting a view of death not at all unlike mine – has managed to avoid being featured before. The links above the video were provided by Jesse Walker, Winnie Pond, The Onion, Mike Siegel, C.J. Ciaramella, Popehat, and Marc Randazza, in that order.
- R.I.P. Bob Heil.
- Political metaphor alert.
- Black humor is the best humor.
- Periodic table of elemental lickability.
- Cue “The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down”.
- Cops turn every mistake into a potentially fatal one.
- Another easily-disproved fantastical lie about mundane reality.
From the Archives
- How long will the US ignore the costs of its sick worship of state violence?
- Overseas pharmacies will sell to US customers without asking permission.
- Houston isn’t satisfied with waiting for useful idiots to grant them access.
- Believing what politicians say is like trying to build a castle on a cloud.
- This will never stop while violent thugs have total power over women.
- They try to make it sound like the rapist was doing his victim a favor.
- Transphobes are trying to reach their goals by criminalizing doctors.
- At least a few politicians’ moral compasses aren’t entirely defective.
- Every politician in Pasco should be jailed & the cop shop shut down.
- This nonsense bill failed in > a dozen states before passing in Utah.
- Your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
- At least Florida’s anti-trans crusade isn’t as psychopathic as Texas’.
- We did warn y’all that this wouldn’t stop with actual sex workers.
- Cops, space travel, Lovecraft, Barry Humphries, and much more.
- Cops are sexual predators who often target traumatized women.
- Cops, puritanism, animation, Andrew Woolfolk, and much more.
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- Cops, skates, straight people, Michael Collins, and much more.
- Is there anything the government won’t label “sex trafficking”?
- Retrospectives of my blogging from April 2012 and April 2013.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- Pregnant women are uniquely vulnerable to state coercion.
- Another sleaze turns old news into an ad for his business.
- Washington state politicians demonstrate their hypocrisy.
- A psychopathic rapist-murderer cop is still unconvicted.
- It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
- Unfortunately, this is not strictly a Chinese pathology.
- How I reconcile loosey-goosey fictional chronologies.
- There won’t be any shortcut to stopping Clearview.
- Don’t think this was an unintended consequence.
- The reporter appears to have misspelled “care”.
- Speaking at a convention in Port Orchard, WA.
- Spring has finally arrived, albeit a month late.
- Connecting the whole atrium roof framework.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- Yet another curated selection of tweets.
- Slowly chipping away at a terrible law.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- You just can’t keep a bad law down.
- The goose that didn’t live long.
- Many rapist cops of the week.
- R.I.P. Tempest Storm.
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In the News (#1433)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged Bait and Switch, California, Canada, censorship, cops, Cops and Robbers, fantasy, fascism, hysteria, I Spy, internet, Iowa, law, O Canada!, Oklahoma, politicians, porn, prisons, racism, scams, Served Cold, surveillance, teachers, The Puritan Recrudescence, TikTok, Torture Chamber, Traffic Jam, You Were Warned on April 27, 2024| Leave a Comment »
They destroyed my life…and now they want to keep quiet. – Daegun Chun
The first exoneration of a victim of “sex trafficking” hysteria has come, 14 years earlier than I expected. Of course, it happened in Canada, where the hysteria was never as virulent as in the US, and like the Heather Wyker “Somali sex trafficking gang” case, it was based entirely in cop wanking fantasies without a shred of actual evidence or a single credible witness, and collapsed because the primary victim refused to be intimidated into signing a fake confession and “admitting guilt” to the mob at gunpoint. But the victims of the Satanic Panic were convicted on even more fantastical (and often physically-impossible) charges, with even more absurd “evidence”, and it was more than ten years after the end of the hysteria before any of them were exonerated. I don’t know if this bodes well for most victims of “trafficking” hysteria, given that the US government is still actively engaged in promoting the lies and fantasies that were used to cage them. This is a long and intense article, but I think it’s worth every free-thinking person’s time and effort to thoroughly grasp the lengths to which modern “democratic” governments will go to destroy innocent people’s lives in order to advance a propaganda narrative those in power find convenient to their agenda.
Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi:
…the [newly-enacted]…RISAA…’s primary purpose is to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act…But the bill also… “vastly expands the U.S. government’s warrantless surveillance capabilities”…that provision means that nearly any…entity with access to telecom or internet equipment could be forced to participate in the federal government’s digital spying regime. The big target…is likely to be the owners and operators of data centers…but…”any company, vendor, or any of their employees who touch the physical infrastructure of the internet could now be…compelled to assist with FISA surveillance“…even someone like a custodian could be legally compelled to assist in the federal government’s spying efforts…gathering places like hotels and coffee shops have been specifically excluded from the law. But…because…places where journalists work are not specifically exempted…”American newsrooms [could be]e bugged by the government. And journalists won’t [honestly] be able to reassure [sources] that they’re not, because, for all they know, the building maintenance worker is an involuntary government spy”…
A…[surveilla]nce system that can identify aliases and collect years of personal data from hundreds of online sources is now being used by the Polk County [Iowa] Sheriff’s Department…ShadowDragon surveillance software is [one of many justified to the public by barfing out the words “]human trafficking[“, but in reality has mostly been used so far to spy on protests, pregnant women, gamers, black people and kinky people]…The…software can…map out online identities and associations or correlations among people using…social media, chat rooms and dating platforms…Operation Underground Railroad — a [disgraced Utah]-based [“rescue industry” corpor]ation — donated $4,000 to pay for Polk’s first-year of software expenses…
“Journalists” lionize a sexual predator who gets his jollies destroying lives:
…Olive Hugh…use[s fake] Facebook accounts…to [fantasy role-play as] girls between the ages of 12 to 16…[so he can entrap young men with trickery in order to get them charged as “]child predators[” by p]rosecutor[s who don’t care that they’re getting people convicted entirely on the evidence of online conversations]…Hugh finds a sense of [sexual satisfaction] with each successful [entrapment, especially since he has an audience in cops who]…monitor…the chats between [Hugh] and [his victims, not to mention his]…social media accounts have over 50 thousand followers…
Politicians no longer care about whether their new diktats are Constitutional:
…the House of Representatives [has] passed a measure that would require a change in [TikTok]’s ownership or ban it if that doesn’t happen…it’s essentially the same divestiture-or-ban bill…now tucked into…the insanely named 21st Century Peace through Strength Act…that deals with everything from fentanyl trafficking to Russian sanctions, Iranian petroleum, Hamas, and boatloads of foreign aid. The…Act would ban TikTok unless it completely breaks ties with its Chinese parent-company, ByteDance, within 270 days…and could be used to justify a ban on all sorts of popular apps tied to China, Russia, Iran, or any other country that gets deemed a foreign adversary…The most obvious constitutional problem is the First Amendment…It may also amount to a[n unconstitutional] bill of attainder.—a law punishing a specific person or entity, without a trial…and…the forced sale violates the Fifth Amendment…[because on paper] the government cannot take your property without accusing and convicting you of a crime…
The Puritan Recrudescence (#1424)
Burble burble BLUE STATE burble drool:
…the California Assembly’s Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee voted last week to move forward a version of the age verification bills being sponsored around the country by [pro-censorship] activists…AB 3080 is backed by Exodus Cry…and [a host of other busybodies, bluenoses, pearl-clutchers, and other useful idiots]…
Your “leaders” call this “correction”:
[Prisoners] in…Oklahoma…were locked in filthy shower stalls…for days on end. In a lawsuit filed last week, the [prisoners seek reparations for such]…an obvious violation of their Eighth Amendment rights…[screws] at the Great Plains C[age Stack] locked [their victims]…in [the] stalls for extended periods, without access to basic amenities like adequate food and water. Most were placed in 3-foot by 3-foot shower cells, though at least one was confined in an even smaller space. Confinement periods listed in the suit ranged from 24 hours to four days…[some of] the…stalls [were] filled with human feces and [they were given no] bathroom…the only water they had access to was scalding hot shower water. One prisoner…was repeatedly pepper sprayed during his [confinement] in the ad hoc [oubliette]. Another…was left without clothing, and had to borrow a shirt…[which] he later used to attempt suicide [in order to escape unending torture inflicted solely]…because guards knew that he was a sex offender…a…state…investigation…found that several different Oklahoma facilities regularly locked [prisoners] in shower stalls…
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Back Issue #130
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on April 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »
This is the heart of “Progressive” thought: force people (via social engineering, prohibition and criminalization) to only eat, wear, watch, read, hear, say, do and think what “experts” have decided is “good” for them, and the Millennium will arrive on the very next high-speed train. – “Zero Intelligence”
- Repetition, cabinets, Yuggoth, headlines, cops, paranoia, blasphemy & tits.
- It’s a good sign when a claim is too ridiculous even for cops and reporters.
- You’ve got to love the way she makes it sound as though it were her idea.
- Apparently, scads of women think escort to barista is a good career move.
- “Sex trafficking” trainer asks people to sexually fantasize about their kids.
- Amateurs could at least be grateful to whores for thinking of these things.
- The newest anti-whore fad: using “licensing” to jack up prostitution fines.
- More on the German politicians who want to make life harder for whores.
- Public policy based in the fantasy of magical “pimp” mind control powers.
- Following in the illustrious innocent-railroading tradition of Lauren Hersh.
- Truly bad article on Montana “sex trafficking” reaches new level of idiocy.
- Canadian prohibitionist is sad he can no longer force his spiel on whores.
- Monster porn, evolutionary psychology and the idealization of ignorance.
- Accused rapist says it wasn’t rape because his victims were only whores.
- The more sex workers are treated as other professionals are, the better.
- Beijing suppresses city’s major industry, wonders why its economy dies.
- Rapist subdues his victim with pepper spray. Conclusion: sex trafficking!
- Politicians, cops and naïve, whiny women are a dangerous combination.
- I’m not sure what the word “jilted” is supposed to mean in this context.
- School, airlines, Nick Cage, tits, cops, cadavers and Asian commercials.
- The invaluable Wendy Lyon debunks another bogus “trafficking” study.
- Did you think the government had given up on censoring the internet?
- It takes a special kind of stupidity for a reporter to call for censorship.
- Nursing home ignites controversy by hiring sex workers for residents.
- Trafficking victim takes fall for his captors; deafening silence ensues.
- Even Swedish model propaganda increases violence vs sex workers.
- An excellent Christian argument against criminalization of sex work.
- The sadfeelz of naïve prudes are more newsworthy than a stabbing.
- Emily J does a splendid job of ripping apart prohibitionist nonsense.
- Only three weeks earlier they were saying there was no serial killer.
- What event sparked all this portentous talk of vast criminal cartels?
- Cops, superheroes, inherited debt, magic for pets, and much more.
- “Anti-prostitution advocate” didn’t quite have the cachet he craved.
- Cops, spontaneous order, Spider-Man, silly walks, and much more.
- The Bundesrat is not impressed with “sex trafficking” propaganda.
- Should I work for a company which spreads “trafficking” hysteria?
- An attempt to impose the Swedish model on England via trickery.
- Funny how a certain word vanishes when there’s no sex involved.
- Men: Pay your hookers! Ladies: Get the damned money up front!
- Is there anything more worthless than an “authority’s” promise?
- Pro-decrim articles appear in the mainstream media in Canada.
- A police operation to spy on Parisian courtesans, 1747 to 1771.
- Another politician wants to destroy the internet because of sex.
- Porn actress argues that whorearchy helps the fight for decrim.
- The White House courts an “elite group” of young billionaires.
- The noblewoman who became a whore and a pirate for love.
- A strong criticism of the ethical bankruptcy of Project ROSE.
- Queer Strike “names and shames” anti-whore LGBT groups.
- Phoenix “authorities” give arrestees choice of church or jail.
- NGO assists Nigerian cops in raping & robbing sex workers.
- Note the moronic “people can be sold repeatedly” canard.
- Sex rays can pass between Legos via quantum tunneling.
- Measure, countermeasure, and counter-countermeasure.
- Do you have any advice for interviewing with an agency?
- The “gypsy whores” myth spreads to every public event.
- It’s so gratifying to see “sex trafficking” in scare quotes.
- How can I help a friend lose his virginity with an escort?
- “It Happened To Me: I Read And Believed Nick Kristof”
- “Sex trafficking” as excuse for racism and xenophobia.
- A protest against Indian cops who attack sex workers.
- Trying to judge humans by rigid standards is idiotic.
- Can an escort avoid reviews and still be successful?
- Deon Haywood, Women With a Vision & the arson.
- Belle Knox on the “desperate exchange” concept.
- Cop-pleasing lies drawn directly from a TV show.
- The Swedish model is like burying women alive.
- Massive fraud dismissed as “certain allegations”.
- Massage parlors are victims of licensing as well.
- Is it possible to become addicted to prostitutes?
- Historian Thaddeus Russell on “white slavery”.
- An unusually-sensible attitude for a politician.
- Another adjustment to my blogging schedule.
- In which I hint at a return to active sex work.
- “Sex trafficking” nonsense from Down Under.
- Somehow, I doubt she thought this through.
- What the hell does she think prostitution is?
- How some prohibitionists handle donations.
- My appearance on the Inspireland podcast.
- Which of her lies is the most unbelievable?
- Epidemic levels of mathematical illiteracy.
- Does real sneakiness require a double X?
- The official launch of Ladies of the Night.
- The Swedish model is GOOD for women!
- Politician tries to ban books in prisons.
- The latest teen panic: coffee smoking.
- The Swiss sex work contract dilemma.
- The facts in the case of Monica Jones.
- An uneven student article quotes me.
- Stupid cop outs his sex worker wife.
- The Mussolini prostitution scandal.
- Mr. Potato Head is not impressed.
- Another lunatic sheriff runs wild.
- Rapist military man of the week.
- An interview with Valerie Scott.
- Whore stigma in the academy.
- Another awful celebrity client.
- Sweet, sweet schadenfreude.
- Guest columnist: Laura Lee.
- Whores like wild elements.
- Rapist priest of the week.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- The Call Girl of Cthulhu.
- RIP Michael Glawogger.
- Yet another P411 sting.
- With friends like these…
- R.I.P. Andrew Hunter.
- Credibility inversion.
- PayPal is at it again.
- Boo fucking hoo.
Throwback’s Great Aunt Thursday
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged blogging, left-right myth, politicians, surveillance, The Puritan Recrudescence on April 25, 2024| 1 Comment »
Self-appointed guardians of the public morals are always looking for new ways to ensure that absolutely no one can escape their snooping or whatever scarlet letters they’ve been branded with. – “The Puritan Recrudescence”
Apparent humans with the attention span of a goldfish and the research skills of a ficus tree blam[ed] FOSTA…on a man who couldn’t find his own moral center with both hands, Google maps and a burning dumpster full of advisors.
– “One Side”
A species is nothing more than a temporary configuration of genes; it is as permanent as a sand dune, albeit on a much longer time scale, and we can no more “save” a species than we could freeze the column of smoke from a burning cathedral into some interesting or beautiful shape. – “Frozen Smoke”
Wealth and power do not create evil; they merely enable the evil that is already inherent in the human brain. – “Blessed are the Poor“
In the News (#1432)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged A Broker in Pillage, asset seizure, California, censorship, cops, Dirty Amateurs, disease, domestic violence, drugs, Enablers, fascism, internet, Kansas, law, Missouri, No Escape, Ohio, Oklahoma, Opting Out, politicians, porn, prisons, Pyrrhic Victory, rape, surveillance, teachers, The Cop Myth, The Scarlet Letter, To Molest and Rape, Utah on April 24, 2024| Leave a Comment »
The privacy threats posed by facial recognition technology are, in many ways, unprecedented. – Michal Kosinski
Cops are a menace to women of all ages:
A…Utah [cop named] Bronson Willas Wood [forcibly groped a young] woman “against her consent”…on March 18, 2023, b[ut] she [was afraid to report him before now. She is a friend of]…Wood’s…daughter, both 19 years old, [and on that night she was visiting their house, when Wood allowed them to]…”drink alcohol and encouraged them to take shots.” She [eventually went] to sleep on the couch in Wood’s basement, where he later went down and a[ccosted her, claiming]…that “he…had been in love with her” since she was 17 years old…[she called] a friend [to] pick…her up after [convincing] Wood [to] go…back upstairs. W[hen] confronted the next morning b[y unnamed parties, Wood] initially denied everything…[but] later…conf[ess]ed [his actions that] night…to two [other unnamed] people. Wood was arrested and [charged with]…forcible sexual abuse and…contributing to the delinquency of a minor…
Only an authoritarian could simultaneously classify someone as a “woman” and a “minor”. And why is “against her consent” in scare quotes?
Oklahoma [politician]s are seeking to criminalize the spread of several more sexually transmitted diseases, a move…[which] could turn nearly every resident into a felon. House Bill 3098 adds chlamydia, Hepatitis B, genital herpes, trichomoniasis, and…HPV…infections to the list of…STDs…that are illegal to knowingly or recklessly spread…Previously only smallpox, syphilis and gonorrhea were on the list…Toni Hasenbeck…the bill’s…author, [foamed at the mouth while spouting paranoid nonsense about] domestic abuse…The [law would] deter people from getting the necessary testing and treatment…because of [valid] fears that positive tests could open someone up to prosecution…and…no test exists to diagnose [HPV] in men…
Never forget that “filter” is merely a euphemism for “censor”:
A middle school student in Missouri had trouble collecting images of people’s eyes for an art project. An elementary schooler…couldn’t access a picture of…Florence Griffith Joyner to add to a writing assignment. A high school junior couldn’t read analyses of…The Odyssey for her language arts class. An eighth grader was blocked repeatedly while researching trans rights…All of these students saw the same message in their web browsers as they tried to complete their work: “The site you have requested has been blocked because it does not comply with the filtering requirements as described by the Children’s Internet Protection Act”…CIPA, a federal law passed in 2000, requires schools seeking subsidized internet access to keep students from seeing…images [politicians, bureaucrats, or their fascist “partner” corporations declare “]obscene or harmful[“. Many] school districts…go much further, limiting not only what images students can see but what words they can read…forcing students to jump through hoops to complete assignments and keeping them from resources that could support their health and safety…including suicide prevention…
Phrenology for tech worshipers:
Scientists have demonstrated that facial recognition technology can predict a person’s political orientation with a surprising level of accuracy. Their research, published in the journal American Psychologist, shows that even neutral facial expressions can hold clues to someone’s political beliefs. This finding poses significant privacy concerns, especially since facial recognition can operate without an individual’s consent…
This will never stop until there are criminal charges for cops who perpetrate the robberies:
The Kansas Legislature unanimously passed a bill overhauling the rules for when police can [legally steal citizens’] property under a practice known as civil asset forfeiture…the legislation would make offenses related to possession or personal use of drugs ineligible for civil asset forfeiture, require [cop shops] to notify county prosecutors of a request for forfeiture within 14 days, and limit when local police can [dodge the restrictions by letting] fed[pigs] “adopt” their forfeiture cases. It would also require judges to consider whether a seizure is unconstitutionally excessive, put the burden of proof on prosecutors to show that the seizure was proportional to the offense, and allow some property owners to recoup legal costs when they successfully challenge a seizure…More than 30 states have reformed their asset forfeiture laws over the past decade…but Kansas was not among them.
Cop violence is never limited to members of the public:
An Akron [cop] who is under scrutiny for shooting a teen earlier this month was [previously arrest]ed in two violent, drunken incidents with his girlfriend. In December 2020, [pig] Ryan…Westlake threw h[is girlfriend] into a coffee table…[while they were together in] Florida…Westlake then pinned her arms to the ground under his legs and struck her [repeatedly, but] she declined to press charges. A few weeks later at Westlake’s…apartment…[he] pushed her to the ground and [gave her a black] eye…[then] pointed a gun at her head and threatened to kill her and her father…the girlfriend again declined to…[press charges, but then-]Mayor Dan Horrigan…[fired him, saying he] wasn’t “fit” to be an Akron officer. One day later…the Akron police union [got him] reinstated [by issuing unspecified threats] and [he was merely] suspended for 71 days…Westlake [had] numerous [other] disciplinary actions against him [as well, leaving naifs]…in the community questioning why Westlake was still on the job April 1 when he shot Tavion Koonce-Williams…
Government uses a shell game to avoid making actual reforms:
The Federal Bureau of Prisons [has] announced…that it will close a…women’s prison in California…known as the “rape club”…after several years of [unserious] efforts to root out systemic misconduct and abuse…Eight Dublin employees, including a former warden, have since been convicted or pleaded guilty to [rape and] sexual…assault…[yet] the culture of abuse and whistleblower retaliation [predictably] continued…this is not the first time the BOP has [made the cosmetic change of] shuttering a scandal-ridden prison [rather than enacting meaningful reform. In this case]…the women currently [locked in rape cages] at Dublin will be transferred to other [rape cages], and…no [rapist or enabler screws will] lose their jobs [but will instead merely be transferred to other cage stacks, to continue raping and enabling as before]…
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so much!
Diary #721
Posted in Diary, tagged Sunset, Washington (state) on April 23, 2024| 1 Comment »
Last year, I definitely took the shutters down too early because I unwisely let a warm week convince me it was time. So this year, I decided I would do it no earlier than Easter and no later than May Eve, essentially sometime in April; that seems right because I put them back on when the rains start in October. But the weather has been wackier than usual this year, so it wasn’t until this past Thursday that I decided it was time. We’re still getting some chilly nights, but the days are sunny and reasonably warm, and we’re past the really heavy rains now. It’s true that we’re definitely too far north for a screen porch like the ones that were ubiquitous where I grew up, but the atrium is a nice compromise: closed in enough for the cold months, but with a nice breeze and plenty of light in the few warm ones. And as you can see, Rocky agrees with me.
The Last Angry Tweets
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged abortion, blogging, Childish Things, consensual crime, cops, cult of the child, fantasy, genitalia, Greece, illegal aliens, imaginative fiction, internet, language, law, libraries, politicians, propaganda, psychology, racism, rape, sex offender registry, sex rays, STEM, Twitter, yellow journalism, yin and yang on April 22, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Friendly suggestion to folks who feel inspired to spout out "hot takes" about how awful the modern world is because capitalism, patriarchy, wokeness, or whatever your favorite folk devil may be:
Study some history. Even just a LITTLE will make your opinions far less stupid.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 23, 2024
THIS RIGHT HERE.
The information in a ten-minute video, if written out, can be read in about 90 seconds, and skimmed even faster. Video is an *incredibly* inefficient way to disseminate most kinds of information. https://t.co/710rI4krnA
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 25, 2024
If your headline or lede in a story about an appeals court decision comes across like a trick True-False question, you're doing journalism wrong.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 26, 2024
Whenever my income tax is dramatically higher than I expect (which happens in about 40% of years), I always get very upset about it, even when I can technically afford it without *completely* draining my business account. Paying tribute to warlords doesn't sit well with me.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 27, 2024
Since Harvard doesn't seem to think proper terminology is important, I'm here to inform you that librarians call this an anthropodermic binding.
You're welcome. https://t.co/MkGJ5EmltY
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 29, 2024
The US is & always has been a nation of immigrants; the current denial of that is sheer madness. Many white folks seem to have convinced themselves that they're the indigenous population, when the very oldest European families have only been here for 500 years (and most < 200). https://t.co/ymQ2P1cqJX
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 30, 2024
"Imagine" is the right word. You could also imagine getting there by wishing, a Star Trek transporter, astral projection, magic carpet, one of your own fleet of private jets, or burrowing underground with Bugs Bunny, all of which are roughly as realistic as this rail fantasy. https://t.co/n5RgXz0gzD
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 30, 2024
If you think I *want* the US to fall, you haven't been reading very carefully. What I've always said is that its fall is *inevitable*, not *desirable*. You might as well imply that it matters whether those aboard "want" an airplane to fall if its engines stop.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 31, 2024
Getting rid of AUTHORITARIANISM is the solution. Rare non-authoritarian religions are not the problem, and secular authoritarianism is not an improvement over the religious kind. "We can brutalize you because you're a criminal" = "We can brutalize you because you're a sinner". https://t.co/Pp56akFNVh
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 1, 2024
I guess it must be comforting to have a mind so narrow and shallow that it can truly sum up its beliefs in short, chantable slogans. Ignorance is, as they say, bliss.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 2, 2024
PROTIP: If you aren't *very* familiar with the topic you're opining on, avoiding the phrase "of all time" will help you avoid sounding like a 13-year-old dumbass.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 3, 2024
Those working to promote a partisan agenda are politicians, even if they aren't themselves running for office.
Politicians lie so constantly only fools, madmen, and little children believe them.
Calling your political group "Truth" (in any language) doesn't change that. https://t.co/UY9oUlYwVD
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 4, 2024
There are pathetic attempts at "negging", and then there's this. https://t.co/VUINnl7zBK
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 5, 2024
That is, of course, known to the rulers, which is why they usually excuse campaigns of aggression (military or political) by telling the Great Unwashed that "They're coming for our jobs!" or "…our land!" or "…our women!" or "…our Precious Way of Life!" or "THE CHILDREN!!!"
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 7, 2024
Whenever I see a headline proclaim that "we" (meaning Americans or Westerners or whoever) did some stupid, destructive thing, I always say "I didn't".
I know it's both childish & pointless, but it gives me some small measure of cost-free satisfaction.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 10, 2024
You can see it in all kind of laws & popular beliefs: no sex offenders near a school, the mere *possession* of a taboo substance being a "crime", banning flag-burning, equating representations of women or children with the real article, etc.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 12, 2024
The problem, of course, is that authoritarians will claim these are "isolated incidents", just like every time a cop commits rape, robbery, mayhem, or murder is an "isolated incident". Definitely not a predictable result of bad laws & policies, no sirree! {banjo music} https://t.co/GCJy4zZW2B
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 12, 2024
To be fair, it wasn't much of an "empire" by that point; it was barely larger than modern Greece. https://t.co/ofT9BDqIAZ
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 13, 2024
Wisdom is reaching the point where you actually understand the meaning of the expression, "Youth is wasted on the young."
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 13, 2024
It's not bad enough that many people are so stupid they actually believe that wealth consists of big piles of paper money a la Scrooge McDuck; some of them ALSO appear to believe it spoils over time like food.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 16, 2024
Recently, Grace asked me to make her stuffed bell peppers, so we had them for dinner last night. Just thought y'all might like a picture. I use an adaptation of a recipe I found many years ago in "River Road Recipes", a south Louisiana cookbook published in 1976. pic.twitter.com/IGHa6FwAM5
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 18, 2024
"Inmate" is one of those words that isn't quite a euphemism, but is still much softer-sounding than "prisoner", and far more dehumanizing. When one hears "prisoner" one remembers that it means a person confined by violence. But "inmate" sounds more like "patient". Use "prisoner".
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 19, 2024
War is the health of the State, at the expense of the health of the body politic it infests like a cancer. https://t.co/pQ4IExyoMK
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 21, 2024
Links #720
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It’s the victim’s fault cops murdered him. – Dan Thompson (paraphrase)
Of all the Allman Brothers songs on which he played, this is probably the best showcase of the late Dickey Betts’ talents. The links above the video were all provided by IncarcerNation, except for “RIP” (Dan Savage and Asawin Suebsaeng) and “abduct” (Billy Binion).
- R.I.P. O.J. Simpson and Dickey Betts.
- Cops murder woman for being homeless.
- Cops murder man for sitting in parked car.
- Cops murder old man for suffering from dementia.
- Government tries to abduct kids because cop tried to murder one.
- Summary execution is becoming the de facto penalty for any crime.
From the Archives
- Overseas pharmacies will sell to US customers without asking permission.
- Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses.
- Yelling “Stop faking!” at the sick & dying is one of screws’ favorite games.
- In ≈ 20 years, these stories will be about victims of “trafficking” hysteria.
- Cops will never stop this as long as the state keeps giving them pretexts.
- This will continue until media stop calling senseless violence “correction”.
- It’s good to see a few government employees with spines and principles.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- So many “enlightened” countries still pretend disease is caused by “sin”.
- I’ve been pointing out the inherent violence of prohibitionism for years.
- Another dog’s-breakfast record review billed as a “sex trafficking sting”.
- Petty torture of prisoners and more money for fascist state “partners”.
- Violence against trans people is finally starting to get media attention.
- The Dutch scheme to Disnify De Wallen is no longer merely a scheme.
- Doctors mock cops’ fentanyl hysteria, so they invent new bogeydrugs.
- Does anyone still believe that this is about anything other than profit?
- Liz Brown takes a detailed look at the current US pro-censorship cult.
- The prohibitionist crusade against all adult material online continues.
- Innocent people targeted by attention-hungry loons are hitting back.
- I find it funny so many get so bent out of shape by the Babylon Bee.
- These people were locked in this cage facility because of US policies.
- Your “leaders” refer to rape by state-employed thugs as “correction”.
- The more complicated a plan, the more there is to go wrong with it.
- Prosecutors are rarely interested in going after rapists with badges.
- A headline writer without a boot permanently lodged in his mouth.
- Pro-Swedish criminalization politicians will lose their shit over this.
- China attacks those who tell the truth about the Uighur genocide.
- Female victims of violence are increasingly treated like criminals.
- Software used by “legitimate authorities” also works for abusers.
- Desire in the abstract is often different from partaking in reality.
- Cop murders pregnant girlfriend, claims it was suicide. Again.
- Prohibitionists’ real goal is to completely ban online sex work.
- Cops, lost cities, Jim Steinman, Felix Silla, and much more.
- Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will only keep multiplying.
- More politicians cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
- Anything can be “trafficking” if you use your imagination.
- Cops, pigs, Robert Morse, Bertha Butt, and much more.
- A psychopathic rapist-murderer cop is still unconvicted.
- Hey lede writer, the word you’re looking for is “abolish”.
- Your “leaders” refer to these atrocities as “correction”.
- They’ve chased the ambulance back to Texas again.
- A murderer is also a rapist. Gee, what a surprise.
- It’s so lovely to see them feeding on each other.
- Cops, metaphors, Mary Quant, and much more.
- Sociopaths claim this is what sex workers want.
- Five months of winter is two months too much.
- On century-old houses and “clean enough”.
- How to challenge Swedish criminalization.
- A video record of each shelf of my library.
- A small shrine to Aphrodite in my atrium.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2021 and 2022.
- On the passing of our little friend Aeryn.
- Another collection of bits from Twitter.
- It’s just going to keep getting worse.
- “Youth pastors” are as bad as cops.
- Cashmere and chainsaws.
- What a koinkydink.
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