This has been a rather timid brood; though the turkey chick has been occasionally venturing out into the chicken yard since the first day I started opening the nursery in the daytime, it took over two weeks for the pullets to even begin venturing out at all. It was last Wednesday before I found them all out of the nursery for the first time, and the only reason they even went that far was that I moved their water bottle out. Then on Sunday I stopped refilling their bottle in the morning, forcing them to use the same water dispenser as the adult hens. I’ve also started to shoo them out of the nursery in the morning; they’re going to need to be out by Sunday, when they officially join the flock. The timer (which sounds unusually loud in this video) will be also put away then, to wait until the first day of autumn before it’s again put back in control of the heat lamp.
One of my regular readers recently told me that an Asian masseuse he knows wanted to tell her story; since these women now bear the brunt of anti-sex worker police violence in the US, I was happy to provide her the opportunity. CiCi reads English well but is much more comfortable writing in Chinese, so I used Google translate to prepare the rough draft, then edited it and let her check it for accuracy prior to publication.
My name is CiCi Liu. I came to the United States from Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China in 2010. After first arriving in Flushing, New York, and resting for a week, I found a job as a live-in nanny through a newspaper advertisement. I worked there for a year, but it was both stressful and boring, and I lacked freedom due to living with my employer 24/7. I wanted to change jobs and relax a bit, so I went back to the newspaper ads and found a job at a restaurant. But after working there for six months, I found it was not suitable for me; I was very tired and overworked, so I quit and rested for a few months before entering the massage industry through a friend’s introduction.
Initially, I had a lot of freedom, going into parks with my partner and using simple massage chairs we made ourselves to massage tourists, starting from the grass. Then every day from morning until midnight, I would go to the entrance of some bar and wait for customers to come out, trying to persuade them to buy massages from me; the results were pretty good, and I maintained this routine for several years. Unfortunately, this kind of massage work could only be done in the summer, so in the winter I did temporary jobs and odd jobs, but that wasn’t a real solution; I needed to find a stable job.
So it was back to the newspaper again, where I found a job posting for a massage place in a shopping mall, which I found quite suitable. I’m relatively quiet and prefer to give slow, gentle massages; the place had both chair back massages and mattress massages. Over a five-year period, I learned a lot of English and mastered massage techniques; I became much stronger, worked as a massage manager and massage instructor, and gained several years of experience. So I wanted to start my own business, but that presented many difficulties; then a friend asked me to help her with house massages, which I thought was a great opportunity.
In-room massage turned out to be the best for me; it’s quiet, slow, and I feel free. More importantly, it allows me to utilize my strengths. My massage skills are top-notch. I can control the entire process and know every acupoint on the body, so my clients feel very satisfied; many clients will extend the time again and again, and I can also meet their additional requests. No matter what kind of client they are, I will treat them all the same, like my own family, with care, patience, and sincerity, and they reward me accordingly. Every guest appreciates the cleanliness and hygiene of my environment; I use numerous small, warm towels to wipe the surfaces clean, and the sheets are changed daily. Guests can shower freely. When I’m working, I rarely answer the phone or send any messages; all my time is devoted to the customer receiving a massage. As a result, 80% of my guests return, and my diligent efforts have earned me the support and affection of many guests, for which I am deeply grateful. If you are in the Portland, Oregon area and would enjoy visiting me, you can email me at CiCithegoat@proton.me.
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100% organic GMO-free dog shit. – Beeple
I loved this song from the first time I heard it in the mid-1980s, so there was no way I was not going to use it as Coe’s sendoff. The links above it were provided by Kevin Wilson (x2); Jesse Walker and Franklin Harris; Nun Ya (x2); and Violet Blue, in that order.
- Artificial stupidity in action.
- You might call this kamikaze origami.
- R.I.P. David Allan Coe and Ted Turner.
- When vultures become preservationists.
- “Never call the cops” still applies in the UK.
- Most of these are more human than the originals.
From the Archives
- The problem isn’t religion; it’s teaching kids to blindly submit to authority.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses.
- Ambulance-chasers will target businesses thus until FOSTA is overturned.
- Cop and “church youth leader” is the molester equivalent of a full house.
- Boss cops consider bestiality a worse offense than molesting a teenager.
- Until this batshittery is ruled unconstitutional, it will keep getting worse.
- Alas, this only applies to those who don’t want to violently destroy lives.
- Websites targeted by censorship try to turn the mob back on politicians.
- This insanity will keep worsening until these maniacs are forced to stop.
- These attempts to destroy the internet are going to keep getting worse.
- Ballard’s downfall will be even sweeter if he takes a politician with him.
- It’s good someone else recognizes this grooming scheme for what it is.
- Your “leaders” sometimes label child molestation “community support”.
- Still think realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this technology?
- The way to address politicians’ demands for website user surveillance.
- Australian prohibitionists won’t stop trying to impose this evil scheme.
- Politicians no longer care whether their new diktats are Constitutional.
- Prohibition can never succeed, regardless of the substance prohibited.
- Liz Brown with a deep dive on the tyrannical persecution of Backpage.
- The State tortures thousands of people for crossing an imaginary line.
- Why are ignoramuses convinced non-vanilla sex is a recent invention?
- He wasn’t a “former” cop when he molested a teen girl for two years.
- Another version of this story tried to gloss over his being a preacher.
- This should happen to every State tattle-site regardless of its target.
- This absurd specificity is increasingly popular with crypto-moralists.
- “During encounters with” sounds so much nicer than “while raping”.
- I’m guessing the “underage family member” was his stepdaughter.
- The “bathroom bill” political fad returns after a three-year hiatus.
- Journalists have “discovered” what I’ve been saying for 14 years.
- Serial lawsuit abuser Ken Paxton wants Texas kids’ teeth to rot.
- This is the kind of dangerous animal the State grants power to.
- In more civilized countries, employers can’t get away with this.
- It’s always really me, not an employee or computer program.
- “Youth group director” = “youth pastor” = preachy molester.
- Rapist politicians generally prefer to assault drunk women.
- The last time we saw this lawsuit, the number was 1500.
- It’s long past time to rethink the safety of the US mail.
- This is exactly what those who passed this bill wanted.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Bernard Hill, and much more.
- I’ve never had pullets grow as quickly as this bunch.
- “Authorities” decided this girl’s fate against her will.
- Governments worldwide are emulating China’s evil.
- Cops, bananas, Gordon Lightfoot, and much more.
- Just another molester cop avoiding consequences.
- No religion has a monopoly on preachy molesters.
- Modern monogamy is becoming increasingly sick.
- Another sign that the moral panic is largely over.
- Merely the latest attempt to wreck the internet.
- Every experienced sex worker knows the signs.
- Your “leaders” want this to happen more often.
- Trying to hide another child rapist’s cophood.
- Amateurs are utterly obsessed with “pimps”.
- Dr Victoria Bateman on the nudity taboo.
- Cops, irony, Ruth Buzzi, and much more.
- Why does this story avoid the obvious?
- Yet another example of McNeill’s Law.
- Billy the Kid vs Throwback Thursday.
- So much for human uniqueness.
- Throwback Thursday Unbound.
- On the persistence of memory.
- Zuckerberg is out of his mind.
- A small shrine to Aphrodite.
- First day out of the nursery.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- My new cat, Lilith.
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[Chatbot “journalism” is] nothing but a race to the bottom.
– The Washington State News Guild
[Eating] a small bag of potato chips…may raise your risk of dementia even if you normally eat a [pious] plant-rich diet, according to a new study…[which] only show[s] an association, not a direct cause and effect. However…this [does]…not [stop “nutritionists” from making outlandish claims about the magically-harmful powers of the vaguely-defined fad concept called]…ultraprocessed foods…The…[authors admitted that they think eating should be a counting ordeal requiring] a…[years-long] commit[ment] to…[pseudoscientific dogmas bizarrely described as “]award-winning[“]…and…[“]highly respected[” and encumbered with ungainly labels like]…the DASH diet and the MIND diet…[while foods people enjoy are described with the unappetizing adjective] “predigested”…
The incoherence of the “ultraprocessed” concept is demonstrated by the fact that potato chips – i.e. slices of potato fried in vegetable oil – are included despite requiring no more “processing” than is needed to make any other raw vegetable palatable, which can be done in any ordinary kitchen.
Samsung is rolling out a new wave of [so-called “]AI[“] features that can recognize your voice, update your shopping list, and [report on what’s in your refrigerator to your health insurance company so your premiums can be raised if you eat anything they deem “unhealthy”]…Many of its…features are powered by Google Gemini…the [artificially-stupid]…oven comes with a camera that can recognize the dishes you place inside and recommend cooking time [for those too illiterate to read a cookbook]…Competitors like LG are also bringing [surveillance] into their appliances…by learning your habits and [sharing them with the corporation and its “partners”]…Samsung also has its own virtual assistant, Bixby, that it’s infusing into appliances…to provide a companion [to people whose lives are so pathetic they have nobody to talk to other than a refrigerator]…The goal is to create technology that f[osters dependence so as to be able to encumber marks with ever-more subscription services]…
The open internet will soon be a thing of the past:
[Utah politicians imagine their] new age-verification law…[can stop] minors [from] using VPNs to access [web]sites [politicians don’t want them to see]…by barring [targeted web]sites [across the entire internet] from recommending VPNs…[or] posting instructions on how to access them…the law [absurdly demands] age verification [of all Utah] users, “regardless of whether the individual is using a virtual private network, proxy server, or other means”…[despite the fact that] there’s no surefire way for a website to determine whether a…user is masking their location with a VPN. The…[only way] a [web]site could…[obey] the law [would be] to…mandate age verification for every visitor globally…
Corporations can’t see that their stupidity, gullibility, and greed will wreck their business:
McClatchy, the newspaper chain behind publications including The Sacramento Bee, The Miami Herald and The Idaho Statesman, [is using a chatbot] to…summarize [re]al articles and spit out [enshittified] versions for different audiences…Journalists in many of the company’s newsrooms are now withholding their bylines from articles created by the [chatbot], meaning that those articles will run with a generic credit rather than a reporter’s name…Related [attempts to exploit people] are playing out in newsrooms across the country, as [greedy own]ers experiment with [trying to replace humans entirely] …McClatchy…[is owned by a] hedge fund [rather than a genuine publisher, as is evident in the buzzwords]…executives have [vomi]ted [in the faces of reporters whom they describe as]…“defiant”…for…[pointing out that] the tool’s use…[violates] their union contracts…reporters are a[lso being ordered] to edit…the [chatbot vomit, taking]…time away from serious journalism…
This will continue unless forcibly shut down due to public outcry:
[Naifs in] an Atlanta suburb have been [sh]ocked by the [highly predictable news] that sales employees at Flock have been…demonstrat[ing] the company’s surveillance technology to [cop shops] around the country…[by spying on] a children’s gymnastics room, a playground, a school, a Jewish community center, and a pool…Flock has [absurdly justified this abuse by belching]…”demo partner program”…“well-intentioned”…”safety”…[and] “cutting-edge”…at…residents [who] universally explained to [fascist politician]s that they did not want their tax money funding surveillance technology that has been used to collaborate with [ICE], to [persecute]…abortion [seekers]…to stalk women and [to] surveil protests…
Prohibition can never succeed, regardless of which substance is prohibited:
[The ever-deranged Fifth Circuit is attempting to] restrict…access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by [attempting to] block…mailing of prescriptions of mifepristone…[and demanding] that the abortion pill be distributed only in person at clinics…[on the grounds that] Louisiana…and [other forced-birth states own]…every [citizen]…and [can use them as brood mares if it sees fit]…the Supreme Court…[has temporarily block]ed enforcement of [that] ban…
Even if SCOTUS changes its collective mind and allows the ban to go into effect, there is no practical way for the Post Office to consistently intercept discreetly-packaged pills sent from overseas by telehealth services like Women Help Women.
The only way to ensure data is not abused is not to collect it:
A teenage hacker is suspected of breaching a French government agency responsible for identity documents and attempting to sell millions of citizens’ personal data…the National Agency for Secure Documents (ANTS)…processes applications for passports, national identity cards, residence permits and driver’s licenses. French authorities did not…[even know about] the…intrusion [until] the data appeared on underground marketplaces…The agency also oversees a new government age-verification app [politicians imagine can] prevent [young people of the hacker’s age] from accessing social networks…
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If you are on Bluesky, you’ve probably noticed that I haven’t been around for the past few days; that’s because on Tuesday evening, some moderator over there decided I was a bad girl who needed her social media taken away to teach her a lesson about offending Trumpists. I was scanning my timeline, getting ready to close the computer for the evening, when suddenly my screen sort of blipped and I was looking at a weird generic timeline, featuring stuff from nobody I follow; in the margin was a signin button. I thought it was odd and went to sign back in, only to be told my account was suspended for violating the ToS by “hate speech”, and my account would be suspended until the 9th (no time was given). They did tell me which post was the one which had provoked their fit of pearl-clutching; it was one which stated that Trump’s poll numbers were not yet bad enough, illustrated by this picture: 
I’ve used the same picture with a similar statement literally dozens of times, with absolutely no pushback, so it’s obvious that what actually happened was mass reporting by a gang of Trumpists offended by my being mean to their god-emperor. But given that in the past Bluesky has been fairly resistant to that sort of thing, this rings an alarm bell for everyone using the site; it means not only that they’re now trying to establish more rigid censorship, but that there are now enough Trumpists over there to make a reporting-gang. Bluesky’s block function is very aggressive; blocked accounts can’t see the blocker to engage in retaliatory reporting. I’ve subscribed to several MAGA blocklists, to preemptively close off this exact risk, but clearly that is no longer sufficient because there are enough stealth Trumpists around (who haven’t yet been blocked) to organize a gang.
I have no suggestions about avoiding this, other than pointing out that the picture having actual dead people in it is probably what they took exception to. I’m merely pointing out that mass reporting has obviously made it to Bluesky, and the Trumpists have access to the weapon. According to their official email my account should be back sometime tomorrow, which means a ton of playing catch-up, and alas, the retirement of this useful image.
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The whole “wing” nonsense became totally arbitrary in the US right around the time they moronically assigned the color traditionally associated with nationalism to the “left” and the color traditionally associated with the “left” to the “right”. –
“Far Beyond the Glass”
Physical objects don’t determine spirituality; the intent of mind and heart do.
– “Praying to Shrek?”
Exceptional children…[are] bored to tears…in a system designed to churn out docile, obedient factory workers.
– “Unwanted Gifts”
Computer programs are not self-aware, despite advertising claims to the contrary. – “Shame, Shame (#1535)”
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Without the constitutional safeguard of a warrant requirement, [cops] predictably…abuse their access to [surveillance] systems for things like stalking [women]. – Michael Soyfer
Don’t Call It Trafficking (#1463)
A baby step toward eradicating the noxious “troubled teen” industry:
Ron Wyden [has], introduced a Senate bill, the BRIDGES for Kids Act, to better regulate residential treatment centers – closing loopholes that have allowed for the abuse of vulnerable youth…follow[ing a two-year investigation] by the Senate Finance Committee…which…found that abuse, neglect and acute safety concerns…are “endemic” to the [“troubled teen” industry]…the Department of Health and Human Services would create a national public dashboard that would compile and publicly report on data like how often [victims] are restrained…secluded[, injured, or killed]…and…states would be required to look into significant complaints within two days…The bill would also no longer allow privately accredited facilities in 21 states to skip some licensing…and…would invest in community-centered alternatives, increasing federal support for…[young people] in the [foster] system placed with kin…
No information entered into an internet-connected device is actually private:
…therapy sessions on the telehealth platform Talkspace are…record[ed] and store[d to create]…“one of the largest mental health data banks in the world,” containing 140 million message exchanges. The end goal: training a soon-to-be-released [pseudo-]therapy [chat]bot…In a traditional therapy session, therapists might scribble only a few sentences recording a patient’s progress…by creating a transcript of the exact back-and-forth of a digital therapy session, Talkspace has created a new [way for the State and other malefactors]…to [invade] people’s private lives…Talkspace executives [pretend to] investors [that] data is anonymized, but [don’t tell them] such anonymity can [easily] be broken…by…court order…[while] in a[n ethic]al therapy session that wouldn’t be true…Talkspace executives e[ven lie]…that the company is compliant with…HIPAA…[which] the Electronic Frontier Foundation [points out was]…not [an actual protection even before the Trump regime started its data grab]…In 2022…Talkspace [was forced to admit to the US Senate]…that…the company [allows some] data [to be] used for ads. [It has also]…shar[ed the] personal information of New York City teens with Facebook, Amazon…Google, and Microsoft via website trackers…Talkspace [hides all this in convoluted language embedded deep in the fine print of] the company’s privacy policy…
Remember when ninnies thought realistic porn cartoons were the worst use for this technology?
Last week, Taylor Swift filed a trio of trademark applications to protect her image and voice…[because] deepfakes [of her] continue to proliferate across social media…Swift and other stars have recently had their likenesses used in scammy advertisements…a cluster of sponsored videos on TikTok…appear…to show Swift, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, and others promoting…fraud…[and] mal[ware designed]…to…[capture] the…[marks’] personal information…the nonprofit Consumer Federation of America [has] sued [Facebook for lying]…about its [supposed] efforts to crack down on scam ads…[while actually] profit[ing] by allowing them to proliferate…social media scams have surged overall, with Facebook scams accounting for the highest total of financial losses…
Scenes from the early days of a dark age:
Academic freedom continues to decline globally, with a marked fall in the US, according to the 2026 update to the Academic Freedom Index…academic freedom has slipped in 50 countries, with just nine [including Bangladesh, Syria, Thailand and Uzbekistan] registering improvement…[those in decline include] the UK…Portugal, Germany, Austria, Italy and Greece…the United States [in particular] has experienced a remarkably sharp drop…compared to other countries in Western Europe and North America…beg[inning] in 2020 and intensif[ying] last year, driven by…attacks by the Trump [regime against] faculty members, staff and students…The pressure on universities and research institutes in the US was more dramatic than in other countries such as Hungary, India and Turkey, where institutional autonomy declined more gradually…
With warrantless surveillance, no woman is safe from cops:
[Cops] across the US are [predictably] using automated license plate readers…to stalk [sexual prey]…there are already 14 cases across the country where cops…abused ALPR access to follow spouses, exes, and even complete strangers…with the majority of the…cases coming after 2024…when…Flock S[urveillance] initiated a massive expansion into over 4,000 US cities…In Milwaukee, for example, a…[typical and representative cop]…named Josue Ayala resigned after…using Flock to track his…[girlfriend and her] ex, almost 180 times over just two months. The two victims only became aware they were being stalked [by using]…HaveIBeenFlocked.com…Flock [now infests] over 6,000 cities across the US, with over 76,000 license plate readers and counting…[so] the number of active ALRP abuse cases…is [undoubtedly very high]…
Western nations are competing to out-China China:
The Greek government is pressing ahead with a [scheme] to [attempt to] ban anonymity on social media, aiming to curb [criticism of politicians, which they slander as “]hate speech[“. But because Greek pigs and spooks have]…attempted – unsuccessfully – to identify users who [say things politicians don’t like]…the…[government wants to] find a way to require platforms to verify the identity of [people who post via] accounts…[belch]ing…the [meaningless catchphrase “]real person[” as part of a song-and-dance intended to transfer blame for government-mandated surveillance]…to…platforms…[while absurdly characterizing inflicting violence on people for their ideas as “]safeguarding democracy[“]…
Once this falls flat on its face, they’ll next try to criminalize VPNs.
Do I really need to say, “Don’t give your credit card to a fucking chatbot”?
…there are enough digital security problems out there…with[out so-called “]agentic AI[“, meaning chatbots which can fuck up idiots’ lives directly instead of merely urging them to do so. But]…now…the authentication-focused industry association known as the FIDO Alliance [has] said…it will launch a pair of working groups to develop industry standards for validating and protecting payments and other transactions carried out by [chatbo]ts. The goal is to pro[tect people stupid enough to give a chatbot access to their finances from obvious perils such as]…phish[ing or losing control of the chatbot to hackers]…The standards would…include cryptographic tools that digital services could use to confirm [chatbo]ts are accurately and legitimately carrying out an authenticated person’s instructions, as well as [data harvest]ing frameworks to give users, merchants, and other service providers the ability to validate transactions…initiated by [chatbo]ts…
Why are so many modern journalists so bad at pronoun usage, especially the second-person pronoun? Because I guarantee you that no chatbot will ever “be buying…stuff for” me, “soon” or otherwise. But I guess that’s too much to ask of some kid who thinks $100 is a reasonable price for fucking sneakers.
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At this time of year, the chickens tend to dominate the animal news in these diary columns, but they’re not really doing anything right now; this has been a rather timid brood, so I’m currently engaged in trying various maneuvers to coax them out during the days, so they’re used to it before I kick them out of the nursery for good a week from Sunday. Axel is doing well; as of Friday I cut his trazodone in half again, down to 12.5 mg/day, a mere 3.125% of the dose he started with at the end of November. The only really noticeable difference in his behavior is that he seems a lot more attention-starved since I cut him down to 25 mg at the beginning of April, but I’m sure he’ll adjust, and I hope to have him off of the meds entirely by the end of spring. Last Saturday I caught Lilith sunbathing on the atrium roof, but by the time I got downstairs to grab my phone and back upstairs, she had decided to get up. She has become the main pest control cat now that Rocky is getting old (I believe he’s ten now), and I often see her ranging around the area, from the roof to the atrium to the basement to the paddock, and even out on the driveway. Several times a week I find that she’s left me tribute of a dead mole or mouse, and last Friday I went out in the morning to find a rather large and rather dead rat right in front of my boots; I’m glad she rids me of vermin, but I must admit it was a bit startling to encounter a dead rodent nearly as large as my foot before breakfast. The only real complaint I have is that I wish she wouldn’t devour birds in the atrium, because it leaves a mess of feathers sprinkled with unidentifiable but definitely avian offal that I then have to vacuum up. I was concerned she might attack the pullets, but they’re nearly as big as hens now so I think they’re safe, even though I’ve actually found her in the henhouse a few times.
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In lying fashion you ignore what even children know. – Martin Luther
Although I’m not especially fond of this song, its lyrics make it the appropriate sendoff for the man who wrote it. The links above the video were provided by Anarres Ansible, Mike Siegel, Ryan Cooper, Nun Ya, Alex Vitale, and Shiv Ramdas, in that order.
- R.I.P. Dave Mason.
- The Lutheran insulter.
- Old, clean, and very funny.
- They used to blame underground rivers.
- Just another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
From the Archives
- Australia’s rulers are even more eager to destroy the internet than the US.
- Should’ve donned his magical Clown Costume of Legal Invulnerability 1st.
- “Disciplinary action” for UK rapist cops can be early retirement at full pay.
- Is a shiny new status symbol really worth being spied on & price-gouged?
- Cops say reporting their crimes is “an inherent danger to the community”.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives; some don’t stop with beating.
- On the evil dogma that offspring are owned like slaves by their parents.
- Surveillance pretexts won’t remain limited to “child porn” & “terrorism”.
- The wholly-predictable results of bad laws are happening as predicted.
- This will never stop while violent thugs have total power over women.
- When will the federal government finally read the writing on the wall?
- Cops, air hostesses, Harry Belafonte, Jerry Springer, and much more.
- Another challenge to the government’s “religious freedom” hypocrisy.
- Prohibitionists still cite the bogus Neumayer, Cho, and Dreher study.
- “Porn filter” bills are back on the “monkey see, monkey do” agenda.
- Censors now pretend thoughts they don’t like constitute a “crime”.
- Let’s hope many more challenges to these medieval laws succeed.
- Corporations have become the favored tool of censors worldwide.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from April 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- Non-cop molester exploits grooming scheme for predatory cops.
- Couldn’t she have done this before driving Jim Larkin to suicide?
- Big websites could curtail totalitarian threats if they wanted to.
- Previous columns for May Day and May Eve (Walpurgisnacht).
- Twelve years of puritanism badly disguised as “public health”.
- Politicians really believe everyone lies as blithely as they do.
- It’s not like they’ve ever been secretive about their goals.
- Even by the standards of rapist cops, this is horrifying.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Jill Sobule, and much more.
- Gifted children are America’s most wasted resource.
- Matthew 21:31 seems pretty straightforward to me.
- Cops, Greenpeace, Terry Carter, and much more.
- Prohibitionists want this to happen more often.
- Continuing activities I used to do with Grace.
- No, that woman wasn’t “praying to Shrek”.
- I expand my paddock to the north lawn.
- Another Australian state sees the light.
- Sunset’s apple trees are in full bloom.
- A proper ceiling for my new shower.
- Throwback Thursday Hospital.
- House of Fridaystein.
- I can’t breathe.
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