As I explained recently, I’ve been cooking for those I love for most of my adult life, so cooking just for myself can seem like a chore. And that’s even more true when it comes to desserts; it seems almost silly to bake a cake or pie or cookies if I’m the only one who’s going to be eating them. But since I do like my little treat with my tea and show while unwinding in the hours before bed, it’s either make them myself or buy them from a store, which is far more disagreeable to me than making them. And besides, I can’t let all that fruit growing on my property go to waste. So I’ve started to get into the habit of baking on Sundays; when I go into town for groceries on Monday or Tuesday I bring some of the pie or cake or cookies for Chekhov and Yellowbird, and then I have enough for one piece myself each night for most of the week. Last week I got off-schedule and made an apple pie on Wednesday, which meant by Sunday afternoon there were only two slices left; that inspired me to make more crust and simply walk out back for a few more apples to create another pie. I’ve also discovered that making several smaller batches of salsa or whatever seems less daunting than one big batch, so that’s how I’m doing it now. Changing the habits of a lifetime can be difficult, but when one’s circumstances change it’s also necessary. And though it’s probably harder for me than it would be for someone less OCD than I am, I feel like I’m doing OK. And once I settle into the new routines, perhaps I won’t feel Grace’s absence quite so keenly.
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The way people of later times view a dark age is…not at all the same as the way people living in such an age view it. – “Nightfall”
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to live in a dark age, wonder no more; you are in one now, at least the early part of one. As I wrote last year,
…a dark age is one lacking reliable records, so historians cannot be certain of what actually happened. Of course, censorship is typically part of that; if a government or religion burns books, anything recorded in those books is not available to future historians…20th century tyrants could never hope to find and destroy every copy of a banned book, film, recording, etc, but when physical media are no longer the norm, universal censorship of a work enters the realm of the possible. And now that it has become child’s play to flood the world with computer diarrhea presented as fact, even electronic records which somehow escape a purge will be lost in a vast fecal sea, making it difficult for even experts to know what is real. And if the techlords get their way, there will be a lot fewer experts in the future to attempt it or even care about it…
There is little point in my using the occasion of Banned Books Week to write about this any longer; besides the fact that I’ve written about it every year since 2011 and the old columns are all still there for your perusal should you desire, many news columns every month include items on various forms of censorship. So this year I’m simply going to call attention to the fact that the book-banners and book-burners are no longer satisfied with the pretense that they merely want to keep “obscene” (defined in whatever fanciful and impossibly-broad way suits them) books and other media from “children” (defined in such a fanciful and impossibly-broad way it includes all high school students and even many university students) everywhere in the civilized world; they are even now attempting to prevent people everyone agrees are adult from seeing any books or electronic media any government anywhere in the world has any objection to, via a combination of banning physical books, internet censorship, mass surveillance, flooding the world with garbage, and enticing the intellectually-lazy majority into never, ever thinking for themselves. And this combination has the potential to create an age so dark, it will make every previous dark age look like the Enlightenment in comparison.
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“AI” allows you to get to a bad idea faster.
I had until recently completely forgotten about this song from The Electric Company, which I can remember my little brother singing around the house. The links above the video were provided by Shiv Ramdas, Jesse Walker, Tracy Quan, Asawin Suebsaeng, Glenn Kessler, and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- Much more of this, please.
- Did life on Earth begin twice?
- Why does Venus have no moon?
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- Another great moment in artificial stupidity.
- Crime: failure to appear. Penalty: summary execution of girlfriend.
From the Archives
- Politicians will pay for “self-care” for cops “traumatized” by raping whores.
- Do they think foot-dragging & stupid cop-talk makes him seem less guilty?
- If you’re a fan of “sex offender” registration, meet one of your bedfellows.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- When will the mainstream media admit that pigs in schools are a menace?
- Amazon also eagerly hands data from internet-connected devices to cops.
- If “official” busybodies can spy on you via your car, so can unofficial ones.
- “Child porn” is here used as pretext for mass surveillance on a vast scale.
- The word “Orwellian” is overused, but in this case it is absolutely spot on.
- “Cop murders wife/girlfriend & claims it was suicide” is a common theme.
- Anyone whose brain isn’t rotted by prohibitionism could’ve predicted this.
- There is nothing “shocking” about a cop abusing a minor or anyone else.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
- Partisans don’t give a damn about sex workers, despite contrary claims.
- “Banned Books Week” used to be little more than an academic exercise.
- Politicians no longer care about whether their diktats are Constitutional.
- It’s rare to see a modern judge explicitly rule in favor of self-ownership.
- Texas’ ruling psychopaths want to kill women and ruin doctors’ careers.
- Picture what you’d think of as “sex trafficking”, then compare it to this.
- Idaho paper approves of sheriff appointing himself chief library censor.
- Still think realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this technology?
- Euphemism for “Cop gets a teenage girl drunk so he could molest her”.
- Uthmeier doesn’t care if he has no legal grounds to harass companies.
- When sex work is marginalized, sex workers are targeted for violence.
- Making a hobby of accusing strangers of felonies might be dangerous.
- Cops will never stop these evil scams without facing criminal charges.
- Retrospective of my blogging from September 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- “Drugs” are a popular pretext for petty vindictiveness in US prisons.
- Cops, cheese, artificial stupidity, Kris Kristofferson, and much more.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- Your irregular reminder that this blog depends on you for support.
- This will never stop until it is treated as what it is: armed robbery.
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- This will continue until the evil US immigration policy is reformed.
- Cop and preacher is like the molester equivalent of a full house.
- All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
- Cops, flying, Michael Gambon, Alice Cooper, and much more.
- Even the distancing “former” is the same as for rapist cops.
- The US has achieved banana republic levels of corruption.
- Literally making mincemeat out of small green tomatoes.
- Just another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
- Cops, music, Viv Prince, Jane Goodall, and much more.
- Expect use of this term to continue expanding wildly.
- “Youth leader” = “youth pastor”, with all that entails.
- A selection from my novella, “Until the End of Days”.
- The stupider the belief, the harder it is to debunk.
- Oh look, Maggie is right again, what a surprise.
- Meet Hercules, the newest resident of Sunset.
- Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
- Prohibition inevitably leads to exploitation.
- The True Story of Throwback Thursday.
- Throwback Thursday vs. the Mummy.
- The first fire in my atrium stove.
- The Evil of Throwback Thursday.
- Trying to replace my old boots.
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[It] basically looks like a baby [rattle]. – Katie Seaborn
It’s likely that flashing is the least of his crimes: A[n Oregon cop named]…Luis Rivera…e[xposed himself to a woman at a gym and was rewarded with a paid vacation]…
OfCom is trying to rob corporations for being unable to do the impossible:
[The UK censorship bureau] Ofcom [is trying to bleed] Pornhub owner…Aylo [of £18 million, using the excuse that]…the site’s new age checks are [not 100%] effective…[at stopping tech-savvy legal minors] from accessing…content [the UK wants censored]…in May…Pornhub started using a new age verification process [owned by]…Apple [which]…Ofcom…praised…as “a real win for children and families” [until Apple refused to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service which would allow the UK government to access any UK user’s data at will]…Aylo [correctly points out that the “age verification” surveillance regime has effectively driven UK web traffic]…to riskier sites that aren’t following Ofcom’s rules…
Courts regularly pretend there’s a “fuck you, we’re cops” exception to the Takings Clause:
Abigail Trujillo was in the middle of a shift at her job…when Houston [cops decided to use] her car [for target practice, shooting it] dozens of times. Neither Trujillo nor her Nissan sedan had [done] anything [illegal]. But weeks [later]…attorneys for the city told…Trujillo, a 20-year-old University of Houston student who [is] working a retail job to help pay for college…[to fuck off, adding insult to injury by calling a totaled car she still owes thousands on an] “inconvenience”…
…a new map published [on September 23] by a cybersecurity researcher reveals Flock’s nationwide reach is [much] bigger…[than it claims,] show[ing] more than 170,000 cameras, plus more than 130,000 accompanying gadgets…Joshua Michael’s Flock Surveillance Map highlights the locations of…[all] Flock surveillance devices…across the country…Unlike crowd-sourced projects such as DeFlock, which are built on locations submitted by users, the Flock Surveillance Map relies on location data culled from a snapshot, archived by Michael in December 2025, of Flock’s own records…color-cod[ing] each Flock device according to its model…[and including it in a] searchable dataset table…
If you hated the adult pacifier fad of the ’90s, what about a surveillance rattle?
[Because of] the [ongoing] backlash against…pervert…glasses…Mark Zuckerberg launched a[n]…alternative [designed to trick infantile minds]: the Muse [gewgaw]. With a screen that shows a cutesy little avatar, it has drawn comparisons with Tamagotchis…[and] could fit, like a Labubu, on to a keychain or bag.
But unlike a Labubu, the [built-in chatbot] will have significant capabilities, including the ability to [dri]ve [the owner into psychosis, incorrectly]…answer [questions]…or [give dangerous and possibly deadly medical “advice”]…Joshua Paul Dale…[of] Chuo University in Tokyo [said]…“Everyone hates…[perve]rt glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm [nitwits] wear around [their] neck, it shifts the agency [in the minds of those with poor thinking skills]. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out
on the world”…this [“]companion[“]…tracks with Zuckerberg’s [obsession with] the idea of [a world completely without privacy]…
Prosecutors in Marion County, Indiana, [surprising]ly charged five Indianapolis [cops for]…misusing their [unconstitutional warrantless] access to Flock license-plate-reader cameras.
The action comes [only because] The Washington Post highlighted thousands of questionable Flock searches, [embarass]ing the city…The five [pigs] — Michael Rogers, Jonathan Schultz, Cassandra Crawley, Matthew Binford and Abigail Cramer — were all charged…with fraud and…recommended for termination…Flock [is scrambling to design a] tool that automatically scans for…misuse [in an attempt to head off the wave of bad publicity]…
A Naperville [Illinois cop] used Flock [ALPRs] to track a girlfriend and her ex-fiance…Oscar Maldonado…[performed the unconstitutional warrantless searches] hundreds of times between June 18, 2025, and Sept. 15, 2025…When the department received a citizen complaint…Maldonado was [rewarded with a paid vacation, but]…ultimately [saw the writing on the wall and] resigned in May [before he could be fired]…When asked why he used Flock [for the unconstitutional warrantless surveillance], Maldonado
[moronically barfed]…the [word “]safety[” in the investigators’ faces, apparently assuming they were as naive as the public]…
Durango [Colorado] residents took to the streets…to [protest]…the growing mass surveillance system
[based on] automated license plate readers…the…Durango [cop shop thinks people are so stupid they will believe]…its switch [from Flock] to Axon…is [other than a mere cosmetic change]…
It’s not only small cities, either:
The [LAPD’s much-ballyhooed ending of its contract with Flock is in reality merely a misdirection for its new and even worse contract with]…Axon…for [even more invasive surveillance], including new p[igmobile-mounted ALPRs]…and [truth-hiding chatbot report writers. Spokespig]…Dean Gialamas…[absurdly tried to defend the surveillance expansion by oinking “]public safety[” at reporters]…
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I recently re-watched The Day the Earth Stood Still, one of my favorite movies since I first saw it roughly 50 years ago. As I wrote about it 15 years ago,
This is one of the first serious science fiction films, and since the minimal special effects take a back seat to old-fashioned concepts like “story”, “character development” and especially “acting”, it’s still better than just about everything which has come along in the genre since. Michael Rennie’s portrayal of the alien diplomat Klaatu set the bar for humanoid aliens for decades.
But this was the first time I saw it under the influence of THC, thus allowing me access to a new level of appreciation of how good it is. The skillful direction of Robert Wise (The Haunting, The Sound of Music, and Star Trek: The Motion Picture) and the striking and innovative score composed by Bernard Herrmann (Citizen Kane, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, and Psycho) create a dark, paranoid, and suspenseful mood which marks the film from the outset as a serious, thoughtful film which has virtually nothing in common with the silly, low-budget sci-fi movies which were typical of the genre at that time, and the near-perfect casting of the principals (Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, and Sam Jaffe) did justice to an intelligent script which never panders to popular attitudes nor talks down to its audience. Despite the fact that he comes from another world, Rennie’s Klaatu is completely human; he is ignorant of Earthly culture, but his reactions – frustration at Earth people’s irrationality, genuine affection for Helen Benson and her son, a warm smile when he discovers what a music box does – allow the audience to understand that he is no monster from outer space, but a man overwhelmed by the gravity of his mission. And one of the emotions he displays, fear of the consequences should he fail, unlocks a more subtle meaning in the film than its overt anti-war message. And that message is just as important to modern audiences, 75 years after the movie was made, as the more obvious one.
In reviews, analyses, or discussions of the film I’ve read over many years, Klaatu’s warning to Earth is often mischaracterized as a threat, but that is an error resulting from not listening carefully enough to the dialogue. The word “threat” would imply that Klaatu, or at least the government he represents, has control over the potential doom hanging over the Earth. But he absolutely does not; his speech in the final scene is not, “Do what we say or else,” but rather, “Here is a situation that exists, and we felt Earth ought to be warned about it.” There is heavily-underlined foreshadowing in the scene where Klaatu and Helen realize the military has their taxi surrounded:
- Klaatu: I’m worried about Gort. I’m afraid of what he might do if anything should happen to me.
- Helen: Gort? But he’s a robot. Without you, what could he do?
- Klaatu: There’s no limit to what he could do. He could destroy the Earth.
But the danger is fully spelled out in Klaatu’s final speech:
We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets and for the complete elimination of aggression…For our policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked. At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk.
Let me emphasize that: the interplanetary confederation has put all weapons under the control of robots like Gort, and there is no way to revoke that power. The situation is not candy-coated or presented as Utopian; a few lines later Klaatu says, “We do not pretend to have achieved perfection, but we do have a system, and it works. I came here to give you these facts.” On the most obvious level, the film presents a warning about the costs of barbarism. But on a deeper level, the film asks, “Was it wise for these other human beings to give absolute power to machines whose response to aggression of any kind is almost entirely unpredictable?” There is no “right” answer, not for Klaatu, nor for the Earth people within the story, nor for us in the audience. There is only a choice, and the decision to cede control over one’s security to an inhuman, unstoppable power, however terrible the alternative, is not without cost. 
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I built SparrowMap to give…the watchers a taste of how it feels to be watched. – Matthew Montney Jr.
I’m sure they’ll try to thwart the court order with delays & halfway measures:
A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s…prison[s]…by the end of 2029…at [present only] a third of the agency’s 104 [dungeons a]re fully air conditioned…[despite summer] conditions in Texas prisons without air conditioning [clearly] violat[ing] the Eighth Amendment [ban on]…cruel and unusual punishment…
“Shot detection” systems are a boondoggle designed to manufacture false evidence for cops:
Flock…sells a surveillance bundle…called the “Safe City” subscription…[which] includes the much-discussed ALPRs, along with a live video camera—and a gunfire microphone…[intentionally designed to] turn…lawful gun owners into criminal suspects based only on proximity…Cities also have deployed firearm detection systems that rely on [machine learning] to [pretend Doritos bags are guns]…or combine [detected sounds with cops’ editing] to [frame innocent people]. Flock [brags that its]…technology…can…turn…suspected gunfire into a list of nearby vehicles…that sweeps in drivers who had nothing to do with the noise…
The rise of computerized zombies:
The former chief executive of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s entertainment group has obtained a near-£15m investment for his UK music [scam] that hopes to [make cartoon versions of] classic concerts by ma[king cartoon versions of dead] musicians…[or] “hyper [ghoulish]” digital [cartoons] of living artists who [have] no [scruples about bleeding their fans]…The music industry has long [lusted after] the [ability to exploit popular musicians, who have an annoying habit of dying young]…such as the 2012 [cartoon] of the late rapper Tupac Shakur [which was played] alongside Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre at Coachella festival. The concept found mainstream success with the 2022 launch of Abba Voyage, a lucrative…con…[featuring cartoons] of the Swedish pop group…Unit1’s aim is to stage shows with real musicians playing live instruments on stage alongside [cartoon characters on]…a high-definition LED screen, which is combined with extra lights, sound and props to give them the illusion they are [in the universe of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]…However, [true] fans have expressed unease about [the memories of] dead musicians [they loved] being [violated in this manner]. Earlier this year, a [scheme] to [dig up the corpse] of the late…Ozzy Osbourne was [recogn]ised as being disrespectful and in poor taste by [true] fans…
Promoters of dystopia love to vomit words like “safety” into the faces of useful idiots:
The University of Kentucky is installing…facial [recognition] scann[ers]…on several campus buildings. The technology, [moronically] called Rock, is made by [a company whose name, “]Alcatraz[“, would be panned as too obvious if used by the writers of a dystopian TV show]…Alcatraz…CEO Tina D’Agostin…[argued that key card] technology most campuses use today is [automatically bad because it is] 30 years old…She…[then barfed up a bunch of lies about privacy followed by obfuscatory buzzwords including “]active shooter[” and “]physically assault a female[“]…Three [out] of…four students interviewed on campus [simply stared with a glazed expression and belched either “safety” or “the future”]…
The open internet will soon be a thing of the past:
The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet…will put online services behind age gates, expand the use of intrusive age verification, and undermine the privacy of all users. [Proponents of ] the EU Kids Act [justify it by barfing “]protect children[” in the faces of rational people, but in reality]…age gates…reduce safety…and create barriers to…marginalized groups…this…compliance nightmare…rel[ies] on the [already-failed] EU age verification scheme…parents…who [want to allow their teens to use the internet] must set up accounts and prove that they are, in fact, parents, adding yet another problematic layer of verification…the…design…[appears to be a way to circumvent the fact that] a French court [has already] declared s[ocial media] bans unconstitutional…
Some child-molesting cops are indiscriminate in their choice of victims and acts:
[A cop named] Joseph Gallagher Jr…[was arrested on multiple] child sex charges…[for repeatedly] urinat[ing] in [the] mouth [of a 4-year-old boy. After the child told his teacher, investigation revealed]…Gallagher [had] also…rap[ed] a [10-year-old] girl…in 2021…Gallagher was employed with the East Stroudsburg University Police…[w]here…he…had a history of urinating on campus buildings when he had access to restrooms…
Department of [Father]land Security…fusion centers have started monitoring anti-surveillance activists…in[cluding]…online critics of…ALPRs…[and] a website, SparrowMap, that uses ALPR technology to track police vehicles in real time…There is nothing illegal about SparrowMap…[which] processes publicly available livestreams from municipal cameras and footage provided by volunteers using everyday cameras…Volunteers…confirm…anything before it is published as a government vehicle…But the federal government’s desire to beat back the growing wave of “anti-surveillance extremism” will have to contend with the reality that impassioned sentiment opposing [mass] surveillance [is] now a majoritarian position across America. Politicians from [across the uni]part[y] have scrambled to introduce legislation curbing or eliminating automated license plate readers altogether, at the same time [anti-civil liberties organiz]ations hold secret briefings in Washington attempting to stem the anti-surveillance tide…
The tagline is from this article on cops getting butthurt when pervert glasses are used against them.
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Sometimes I feel as though Grace is watching over me. The device in the picture is an apple peeler/corer; it works like a charm for preparing apples to cook, because all one need do is stick an apple on those spikes and turn the crank, and the apple is peeled, cored, and spiral-sliced in about 30 seconds. But a few weeks ago, I noticed I hadn’t cleaned it thoroughly enough when I put it away last year, and in the process of remedying that I accidentally unseated the spring you can see at lower left. In the past, I would’ve simply taken it to Grace’s workbench and she’d have fixed it in under five minutes, but this time I had to do it myself. It wasn’t easy, but I found some close-up pictures on the internet and was eventually able to get it back together properly. At least, I was fairly sure it was correct; the moment of truth came on Sunday, when I picked a basket of apples to turn into mincemeat. The first apple I tried fell apart, showing me that I had adjusted something incorrectly, but a little examination and a second messed-up apple showed me what I’d done wrong, and I was soon back in business. It’s a small thing, I know, but I’m easily frustrated by problems that are outside of my scope of expertise, so when I suddenly see what I’m doing wrong and I’m able to fix whatever it is, I feel as though Grace is there behind me, invisibly pointing out what I wasn’t able to see by myself. 
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I’m an autumnal sort of gal; I like the days short & chilly, the leaves a riot of color, and the nights filled with warm beverages & savory scents. – “Diary #326”
- We don’t want to be “legalized & regulated”; we just want to be left alone.
- Even credulous reporters now feel compelled to at least mention Amnesty.
- Yellow journalism about young women from PBS and the New York Times.
- The prosecutor couldn’t exercise his discretion & decline to press charges.
- Judge thinks it’s her job to convince young sex worker that she’s a victim.
- Why does Gay, Inc never speak up for sex worker rights until it’s too late?
- Whores are morons whose lives must be micromanaged by governments.
- “Unbelievably” is a good adverb for nearly every sentence in this fantasy.
- A rather lackluster study of underage sex workers; not bad, but slipshod.
- Since this fascist wankfest hasn’t sold as a TV show, they made a movie.
- Maybe if we keep repeating this, it’ll eventually sink into the public skull.
- Say you’re “fighting sex trafficking” & stupid people will give you money.
- Prosecutors have the magical ability to transform a “child” into an adult.
- Another rape victim caged to force participation in a state morality play.
- 1.5% is my standard estimate of coercion among Western sex workers.
- “Children” are inanimate objects who can’t move without being carried.
- Extra nasty: reporters gloating over popular stars’ sex worker siblings.
- Remember, cops, you’re allowed to RAPE us, but not to obtain consent.
- Amateurs: a public health menace who should be licensed & regulated.
- Now the precedent’s established, expect more laws that presume guilt.
- “Virginity tests” are a sign of our culture’s deeply-sick sexual attitudes.
- Another way to destroy lives, funded by the sociopathic Swanee Hunt.
- Is it a good idea to reject mentally disabled clients or those under 18?
- A better monument: abolish the bad laws that enabled their murders.
- Only in Australia would a politician follow this insult with this apology.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever, especially not whores.
- I can’t think of a venue less conducive to selling sex than a state fair.
- Dysphemisms are used to conjure a story out of nothing but rumors.
- I’m an adult virgin with a new girlfriend; should I see an escort first?
- Pathetic losers wanking to their fantasies of superhuman sex robots.
- Cops, Unheimlichkeit, Space Ghost, schools, nom nom nom & more.
- Interesting that this article doesn’t mention the anti-Backpage mob.
- Cops, fascism, good deeds, clowns, poor judgment and much more.
- Is it wrong to be bothered by professionals trading services for sex?
- Please use public computers to report every police car you can find.
- A coalition between fundamentalist groups is in no way “surprising”.
- For a change, it only took the MSM two years to catch up with me.
- Mistress Matisse chats with Dan Savage about SWOP Behind Bars.
- Just another example of “authorities” paying men to rape whores.
- The defense of choice for non-violent sex offenders, plus “autism”.
- A reminder that in most of the US, the situation is still worsening.
- I truly hope many more clients are inspired to speak out like this.
- Let’s hope other ACLU chapters start following New Jersey’s lead.
- In the US, the government would’ve “helped” by prosecuting her.
- Ricochet‘s series on the effects of Canada’s new anti-whore laws.
- Quickly becoming one of the stupidest tropes of the whole panic.
- Why people view sex work as an “unacceptable” risk for women.
- Article equates sex workers with child molesters and murderers.
- Serious question: How do we nominate Liz Brown for a Pulitzer?
- More anti-sex violence funded by the sociopathic Swanee Hunt.
- Remember the creepy Swedish cop who collects used tampons?
- Watch for escorts to be prosecuted for “trafficking” themselves.
- Thugs brutalize two old women, rob over $500,000 from them.
- Government-backed internet gentrification harms sex workers.
- Sheltered reporter thinks a cop groping a woman is “shocking”.
- Pimp-like con artist fights to keep her “rescue” scam going on.
- I’m not going to try to quote any of this massive garbage fire.
- Can activist mean someone who literally does & says nothing?
- Expect a lot more cases like this before potty hysteria is over.
- “Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose.”
- Assume your internet-connected devices are spying on you.
- Politician hires sex worker; meanwhile, bear shits in woods.
- Cops, fascism, clowns, rock opera, The Prisoner and more.
- Criminalization always makes sex work conditions shittier.
- Another example of “grocery store sex trafficking” lunacy.
- Kudos to the IWW for supporting sex workers in Iceland.
- Like something Melissa Farley would make up, only true.
- Pigs steal $26,000 from citizens & spend it on strippers.
- No, it won’t, but it’ll make these opportunists wealthier.
- 10 reasons decriminalizing sex work is a feminist issue.
- What a witch hunt looks like through an anti-sex filter.
- Make sure you swallow your drink before reading this.
- It’s nice to know that at least a few reporters get this.
- I guess that “outside agency” never heard of Snopes.
- What exactly is the rationale behind this prosecution?
- My friend Kaytlin Bailey, on coming out to her father.
- Is it bad if I can only feel intimacy with sex workers?
- Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
- Why Brazil turned down $40 million in US handouts.
- Cops, clowns, kratom, Gene Wilder and much more.
- People who love me are a medicine for melancholy.
- In which I finally finish decorating my apartment.
- Becoming less tense with the arrival of autumn.
- This excuse is pathetic, even by cop standards.
- How you can help me wake up in the morning.
- Canada really is trying to be more like the US.
- Another victory against a political witch hunt.
- WARNING: Lelo Hex condoms are NOT safe!
- Debunking of prohibitionist lies is spreading.
- I really hate being right all the fucking time.
- Mostly just a lot of prohibitionist posturing.
- Cop stalks sex workers via police records.
- Another dumb “awareness-raising” stunt.
- Another sex worker on a TV reality show.
- Clients of Sex Workers Allied for Change.
- Sometimes the two “wars” blur into one.
- You can’t keep a bad organization down.
- You know you’re in a moral panic when…
- Chester Brown discusses his new book.
- It’s almost like he wants to get caught.
- I hope she gets every damned penny.
- A step in the right direction, at least.
- I really admire this lady’s chutzpah.
- Child-raping politician of the week.
- A special rate just for my readers.
- The body count continues to rise.
- Alas, the victory was short-lived.
- A strange, unwholesome week.
- Nothing happened; film at 11!
- Of course it’s a fucking setup.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- “Threatening the peace.”
- Five million pageviews.
- The stupidity defense.
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I had a few. – “Officer” Dustin Christina
This video, called to my attention by Mike Siegel, speaks for itself. The links above it were provided by Scott Greenfield, Kevin Wilson, Nun Ya, Jessica Pishko, IncarcerNation, Ryan Marino, and Mistress Matisse, in that order.
- R.I.P. Peter Max.
- Paging Dr. Dolittle.
- Some things never change.
- Cop murders student for getting lost.
- They keep demonstrating exactly what they are.
- Some studies just prove what everyone already knew.
- Everything I see makes me more determined never to fly again.
From the Archives
- The predictable result of giving aggressive men power over young women.
- What would you call a gang who conspired to rob a demented old woman?
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- How long will the US ignore the costs of its sick worship of state violence?
- This “monkey see, monkey do” parade is now parading around the world.
- This will continue as long as fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- The less often I have to mooch like a public TV station, the happier I am.
- In the 21st century, censorship & surveillance are tightly bound together.
- Cops let one of their gang rape a baby for 2 years after he was reported.
- “Sexual misconduct targeting vulnerable women” is used to mean “rape”.
- Erosion of civil liberties starts with “undesirables”, but never stops there.
- Censorship is very popular in dark ages, which is why they’re dark ages.
- Cops excuse any right violation with magic words like “crime” or “gang”.
- The naive can’t grasp why so many women are reluctant to report rape.
- Tech cultists want to let a defective algorithm act as its own gatekeeper.
- It took prosecutors 13 years to get this from accusation to plea bargain.
- Stupid authoritarian diktats should always result in political humiliation.
- Who would waste good money to see a program parroting a dead man?
- Texas’ ice-pick self-lobotomization is becoming increasingly spasmodic.
- Predictable effects of prohibition appear; prohibitionists claim surprise.
- When “sex trafficking” is used to mean ordinary “Fly Me To You” deals.
- Politicians viewing kinky porn is less an issue than being psychopaths.
- “Sex trafficking” hysteria rests on pseudoscience, woo, and nonsense.
- Cops, metaphors, pumpkin people, David McCallum, and much more.
- What’s worse than chatbot “therapy”? Chatbot marriage “counseling”.
- Too bad cops don’t spend all their time fantasy role-playing together.
- Are amateurs really so sheltered that this sort of thing shocks them?
- Irish “gypsy whores” tales were quaint even before they were passé.
- Some politicians are starting to admit Shotspotter is a boondoggle.
- Women of childbearing age should avoid Alabama if at all possible.
- US institutions and norms used to curb politicians’ worst impulses.
- It’s impossible to know how many of these were actually murders.
- Cop and preacher is like the molester equivalent of a full house.
- Expect nothing but hypocrisy from any part of any government.
- A new censorship regime has been imposed on British subjects.
- If hope y’all realize these ads will be “personalized” by spying.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, rubber chickens, and much more.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- The entire Utah rescue industry appears to be collapsing.
- What happens when puritans are not ignored as lunatics.
- Read this if you wish, but pay attention to the slant.
- Cops, library bats, Maggie Smith, and much more.
- Hypocritical trash behaving like hypocritical trash.
- Welcome to the “safe” future you keep voting for.
- In which Louie really makes a pig out of himself.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- My three previous columns for Mabon.
- The Revenge of Throwback Thursday.
- A rapist cop’s evil begets more evil.
- Oh look, another “youth pastor”.
- Dark Throwback Thursday.
- A good year for tomatoes.
- Throwback Thursday, MD.
- This is called pomace.
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