An Arizona judge awarded $67,000 in damages to a man who sued for wrongful death of an embryo after his ex-wife had a wanted abortion…[pretending] the clinic and its doctors…didn’t [say all the magic words and perform all the sacred dances required by] the state’s [anti-autonomy] law…[even though she] signed four consent documents…[if] the [decision stands], “it would establish a dangerous precedent in Arizona concerning embryonic personhood”…
The Supreme Court [has] rejected…[the] Trump…[regime’s attempt] to [torture]…transgender people in federal prisons [by forcibly detransitioning them]…in part because the administration lack[s] evidence that…[being trans is innate]ly [a] security concern…Thomas…and…Alito…[predictably] dissented…Trump[‘s henchlawyers pretend]…that the…2026 policy was not an extension of changes made to comply with Trump’s 2025 [anti-trans diktat], but reflected [prison bureaucrats’] independent judgment [that they know more about medicine than doctors do. However]…the…court re[cognized the obvious fact] that…the 2026 policy was reverse-engineered to implement the [diktat]…
An analysis by The New York Times and the San Antonio Express-News reported that, as the number of [pigs lurking] in Texas [schools] grew, children…ages 10 to 13 were [arrested] more than 47,000 times since 2014…[with corresponding] educational, emotional, and financial [damage to] students and their families…The findings mirror other recent studies. A report…by the…ACLU…of Iowa found that…[pigs lurking] in Iowa schools…[spent] most [of their time persecuting students for] vaping…A…2020 [study] found that…[as the number of pigs lurking in schools rose] the number of Florida school arrests—which had been declining for years—suddenly started to rise. There was also a sharp increase in [cop violence] against students…Another study…in California…found that increasing the number of [pigs lurking in schools] led to both immediate and persistent increases in [cop violence]…and the number of suspensions and expulsions of students…
[Quack]s have developed a…[computer algorithm] that [they claim] can predict a cancer patient’s chances of survival from a single photograph of their face. [What] the…system…[actually does is] estimate biological age and directly [correlate that with] survival outcomes…[under the theory that] people’s biological age estimates are closely linked to their physical health, which could reflect their ability to survive certain treatments…
…so-called “anti-trafficking” groups…are antithetical to…human rights…citing “tough on crime”…mantras characteristic of…[authoritarian] and [Trumpist] groups…Missouri and Utah are…two leading hubs [promoting]…a blend of modern white slavery myths and…Christian nationalis[m]…all tied, directly or indirectly, to…Tim Ballard and the [profiteering organization] he formed, Operation Underground Railroad (OUR), which [has] rebranded to [“]Our Rescue[“]…Ballard is still the subject of a lawsuit [due to rampant sexual] abuse [of employees] and trafficking [of the foreign minors he pretended he was “rescuing”], which…is [why]…“Our Rescue”…publicly distanced itself from…Ballard…[but the new head is Trump henchman] Derek Benner, the former…[head of] ICE…[and the organization collaborates with…the…Human Trafficking Training Center (HTTC)…[founded by] Dan Nash…[an infamously-corrupt] Missouri State [pig whose career]…shows a blatant disregard for civil rights…HTTC was awarded a total of $264,037 in recent years to [instruct cops on “rescue” copaganda. Another conspirator is Alison]…Phillips[, a corrupt Missouri politician who] led…[pogroms against Asian-owned businesses] and…has longstanding ties to [pro-censorship and]…anti-[civil rights cults including]…Exodus Cry…
A [typical and representative] Savannah [Georgia sow] gave her [ICE goon] husband…access to the [cop shop]’s Flock license plate reader system, which he used to [targe]t hundreds of [human beings for having brown skin. Collusion with ICE is against]…Savannah [cop shop policy, so it fired Amber] Harpe…who was [caught]…after an internal audit flagged an unusually high volume of searches through [her] account between January and July 2026…[the government tried to hide the goon] husband’s name…[but it is] Tyler Harpe…
A[n] Indiana [cop named]…James Heneghan…was arrested [on October 15 for stalking]…intimidation…and fraud. He…[was reported by] a family member…[whose] kids [he had threatened, who told cops]…he…had been using [Flock] to…stalk…people and confront them in public…[the victims] includ[ed] ex-girlfriends, his wife…a man his wife knew…the husband of one of his ex-girlfriends…[and] his ex-girlfriend’s [teen offspring]…
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Our outside cat, Rocky, died early Sunday morning; when I went out the back door about nine he was lying on the mat, and though he was cold he was not stiff. He’d been very thin for some time, but was still active and happy, and killed at least two rats in the past week that I know of; it’s possible such a fight may have contributed to his demise because there were signs of some kind of scuffle on both his body and in the area. He was native to Sunset; when we first started moving here in the summer of 2017 he was already here, though fairly young. And though he wanted more than anything else to be an inside cat (and viewed any open door as an invitation), unfortunately he had never learned to use a litterbox and steadfastly resisted all attempts to train him over the past several years. At first, that wasn’t really a problem because he simply did his business outside somewhere, but once the atrium roof and walls went up in ’22 he started spending most of his time in the atrium, and over the past two years he started leaving his poop in places I found inconvenient, which meant I had to get toilet paper and pick it up at least twice a day. And though I swore at him and kept trying (without success) to encourage him to use the litterbox, I wasn’t going to banish him from the atrium because I guess I’m a softie where animals are concerned. So he’s now buried in our little pet cemetery alongside Annie, Aeryn, and Jae’s cat Max, and I’m going to miss the little guy despite his bad habits.
A [typical and representative Christian] pastor [named]…Benjamin Garate…was arrested Wednesday, Oct. 21…[for] child [sexual] abuse and another sex crime…the board members of Calvary Chapel Montrose [frantically tried to distance themselves from Garate, pretending they don’t teach children to blindly submit to “authority”]…
A [Missouri cop] was arrested [on October 14 for rap]ing a handcuffed woman [on camera] in…[the cop shop]…Torre’ R. Dyson…responded to a domestic disturbance in…[which] the victim’s boyfriend had called…to…have [her forcibly] removed from [his] home…Dyson [arrested her] while she was wearing only a night gown….then took [her] to the Riverview [cop shop without telling anyone. He tried to get her to have sex with him, but when she refused he raped her]…then…[threw] her [out in the street, still in her nightgown]…without booking…[or] charging her…he…the[n]…boasted about [rap]ing…[her] to his superiors [and when she reported him] the[y found the rape was on surveillance video]…
A [typical and representative Alabama cop named]…Seth Kimbrough was arrested after…a…Grand Jury Indictment [on multiple charges]. Kimbrough [groped and molested] a woman while [wearing his magical clown costume, but after his victim reported him to his herd he began shooting]…at…her…[apartment and neighboring] dwellings…at [least three] time[s]…Kimbrough posted $15,000 bond [and is now at large and should be considered armed and dangerous]…
[NYPD sow] Maria A. Delacruz…[is suing the cop shop and many of its denizens for]…sexual [harassment]…and [other abuse. It started when a boss hog named]…Amanjeet S. Sandhu…[picked] her as his driver and assistant…[because] he wanted her to…[fuck] her…[he repeatedly made] sexually explicit remarks about her “big Dominican booty”…breasts…masturbation and [similar topics], attempt[ed] to kiss her, and sen[t her porn. When she]…rejected hi[m he started]…rumors [that she had not, opening her up to similar demands from other pigs who wanted some as well]…supervisory personnel…treated the rumors as an accepted [practice] of the [pig herd]…Delacruz accepted a transfer to [another] district…under [boss hog] Tamecca Greene…[who demanded] Delacruz [never discuss the harassment with anyone. She started using Delacruz as]…office [maid]…and [personal secretary]…and [required her to cover up for] Greene [while she]…was absent from…work…Greene…asserted that Delacruz [“]belonged to her[“] and…interfered with her [personal life in various bizarre ways]…
A [typical and representative Indiana cop named] Joshua Senseney[, who was paid to lurk in schools in order to spy on, harass, and intimidate students, was convicted for molesting]…several teen boys…[He groomed them via sexual] texts [which he later claimed] were meant to be “jokes” and “nothing more”…
[A Louisiana screw named] William Dennis Boyd…[has been] arrest[ed]…for [molesting and raping children at least twice.] Boyd[‘s boss hog]…Toney Edwards[, used the opportunity to swagger and boast, as is typical when one off their rapist herd is unmasked]…
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Jeff Bast, who goes by Millstone the Klown on social media, [fantasizes] he is protecting children [by destroying the lives of]…people [he claims are insufficiently sociopathic toward those condemned to] the sex offender registry…[one of his victims,] Lucy Reid…had grown weary of seeing her hometown [plastered with hundreds of handmade signs accusing someone of child sex abuse, so she started taking them down when she saw them]…she did not expect strangers to call her a “pedophile protector” or…deluge…[her employer, a bookstore,] with calls threatening demonstrations outside the shop unless it cut ties with her…[After she was sacked] Millstone the Klown’s followers [started posting videos] showing the entrance to the building where…she [lived, urging lynch mobs visit her with] pepper spray and a knife…One morning, a wood chipper was parked nearby…[after] Millstone…suggested she should be thrown into one…[another victim,] Llaina Groves…[was targeted with a spurious accusation] linking her husband and business to an alleged sex offender…Bast later posted an apology…but [only after his disciples had]…spray-painted [“DPDR”] on the parking lot in front of [her business], an abbreviation for…“Dead Pedophiles Don’t Reoffend”…[a] slogan [which appears on merchandise Bast sells]…
[ICE] is fast-tracking a $100 million domestic surveillance program to [post] 142 [spooks] in more than two dozen cities…in [order to more effectively destroy]…private lives. The new program is called the Enforcement and Removal Operations Overwatch and National Security Enforcement, or ERO ONE…and…the timeline suggests ICE will award the contract around February…Jay Stanley…[of the ACLU called it] “a nightmare in the making”…[because] the government [is] us[ing the excuse of] undocumented immigrants…[to subject] everyone…[especially] political enemies…[to] raid[s] like the one recently inflicted on] Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C. home…ERO ONE…will…target…every [single] person to whom [a chosen victim is] connected, including household members, family members, friends, acquaintances, or the person with whom they carpool to work…
Pornography that depicts strangulation…or…sex between people who are…pretending to be related, or when somebody is pretending to be…under 16, will be illegal [in England and Wales because politicians love]…criminalising harmless sexual preferences…[if control freaks barf the words “]healthy relationship[“]…or [“]glorifies…violence against women…” [at it]…
Rutgers University quietly paid at least $1.5 million for a powerful surveillance analytics system that can recognize faces, read license plates and [mis]identify objects…and…can track people and cars across a network of cameras and [call the pigs on] them. Avigilon…is part of Motorola S[urveillance], whose surveillance cameras and license-plate readers…increasingly blanket streets across the country. Rutgers [hid] the purchase [from students, faculty and even the] Board of Governors, the university’s highest governing body…[by taking it from] the…general budget…[while] cut[ting] library funding by roughly a quarter…Britt Paris, a [Rutgers] professor…who has followed these trends for years…[said] “If people knew about this, they would be incredibly upset”…the capabilities aren’t limited to the new cameras…[but] can be applied to the thousands of existing cameras across campus…Rutgers [barfs] the [buzzwords]…“crime[” and “]safety[” at critics]…but crime across all Rutgers campuses has…declined…[especially] serious violent crime…Surveillance has expanded…since 2023, [after] a wave of protests…
When [cops swagger]ed up to Anthony Sistilli’s front door in September, it wasn’t to accuse him of a crime or take a witness statement, but to ask how he could have the nerve to turn…surveillance cameras on the cops themselves…Though Canada lacks a centralized corporate surveillance regime like Flock in the US, the country’s police have been rapidly scaling a more decentralized ALPR network…Sistilli decided to homebrew his own ALPR…[specifically] designed to track police cars…which the software engineer mounted on his car’s dashboard to test in the real world…Unfortunately, local police soon caught onto Sistilli’s handiwork, and paid him a visit in order to [intimidate him]…“one of them…mention[ed] ‘how scary’ it would be for them, because people would be able to find out where they lived…and what they were doing throughout the day.” Sistilli’s response? “I think that’s the exact same concern that civilians have too”…
Lindsey Isaacs was asleep at home in Palm Coast, Fla., on Oct. 5, 2025, when she was awakened at 4:45 a.m. by…[cops who] accused the retail clerk…of causing a multi-vehicle crash…that had killed three people…and then fleeing the scene…They [moronically barfed that her truck] had damage consistent with that collision…[even though it was] sitting in front of them in perfect condition…[the source of the disinformation was of course] a Flock camera…Isaacs was…[locked in a cage] for 13 days, including three days in solitary confinement……[until] her lawyer presented the court with photos of [the same] undamaged [truck cops had ignored to arrest her]…Isaacs sued t[he lying pigs] for false arrest, wrongful imprisonment and malicious prosecution and won a settlement in 2026…
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This weird 21st-century shit of Trick-or-Treating at random times on random days in October determined by mobs or politicians, instead of on Halloween night, was a sign of cultural decline. Too bad so few recognized that.
I'm afraid I'm committed to the ancient-forest-haunting gig for at least the next millennium, or until the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter exorcises me.
The happy ending here is that despite all their ridiculous mumbo-jumbo and frantic posturing, Death will win as it always does.Ave Mortis, Imperator Mundi.
I do not keep cursed objects in my home, and furthermore as a wise old crone who lives near a damp, creepy forest I advise y'all not to keep them in your homes, either.
Two women have filed a federal…lawsuit accusing…Florida [politician] Matt Gaetz and two others of…[“]sex trafficking[” because they were both legal adults with]…no stable income when…Gaetz…paid [them for] sex…[did] drugs [with them] and [took them on trips]…Jane Doe 1…alleges that she witnessed Gaetz having sex with a girl who was 17 at the time…[but] is not one of the plaintiffs…
In March, Kristan Hawkins, the founder and president of the anti-[bodily autonomy] group Students for Life posted on Instagram a photo of herself and two [other]…members outside Space Center Houston…[bragging that they were] “Ordering abortion pills undercover”…[so now] a Texas [woman has] sued…Hawkins…and three other members…using a state law…the group…[bragged about] helping to pass. The law…allows nearly anyone to sue a person who mails, delivers, prescribes or provides abortion pills to or from anyone in Texas…and win at least $100,000 per violation. The law bars suits against a woman who uses, obtains or tries to obtain the pills to end her own pregnancy…[but] the group members did not appear to be pregnant and so fall squarely within the law’s reach. The plaintiff is seeking $459,782…the average cost of raising two children to 18 in Texas…the four defendants [are] Kristan Mercer Hawkins, Lydia Taylor Davis, Jamie Curry and Megan Roos…
Character.AI, the…chatbot startup that faced high-profile lawsuits over the deaths of minors, has declared bankruptcy…and is looking to sell the company in a court-supervised sale…Character.AI allowed users to openly chat with a sea of largely user-generated AI companion bots known as “Characters”…despite having no revenue…it was valued at more than a billion dollars…[because] its founders…[barfed the asinine buzzwords] “personalized superintelligence” [in the faces of ignoramuses]. In [autumn of] 2024…Character.AI, Google…and [the company’s founders]…were sued by Megan Garcia, a Florida [woman whose] 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III, died by suicide as a result of his extensive and deeply intimate interactions with chatbots on the platform. The suit…was [only the first of many]…from…families…[whose] children [were] abused by Character.AI, resulting in psychological harm, physical injury, and death. It was also sued by the states of Kentucky and Pennsylvania…
Josh Earle and Leo Paz…[are] a pair of [sociopaths] behind a…startup called Outlit…[whose] goal is to amass as much real-time information about a company’s clients as possible…[using bo]ts [to] trawl [not only] internal records like call logs and sales data [but also] external information like social media posts and the websites of people’s employers…The resulting product…is basically a detailed intelligence dossier…[which is] always updating…Asked if Outlit sees the need to inform those being monitored, or if they’ll offer the opportunity for an opt-out, [sociopath Josh] Earle [barfed]…“There’s nothing that we’re doing that’s illegal, so we’re within our right to [spy on people]…we…don[‘t care]…how people feel about it…[because] it’s going to happen”…
Elgin Community College hired Flock…Surveillance…in April 2025…but] President Peggy Heinrich…began to have second thoughts as she learned more about how the cameras can be used…[especially since] more than half of Elgin’s students are Latino…staff notified Flock in October 2025 that they wanted to cancel their contract and have the cameras taken down…[but] Flock [immediately] rejected the request and refused to uninstall the equipment…The school reached out again in December, offering to pay out the rest of the contract, but…Flock [simply ignored the offer]…Since the school no longer wanted the cameras to operate, and Flock refused to remove or disable them, officials zip tied garbage bags over the cameras on campus. But…workers in an unmarked vehicle, which Heinrich assumed belonged to Flock, repeatedly removed the coverings…until the school’s contract expired in April, when Flock finally removed the cameras…
In the three weeks since its launch, millions of use[ful idiots] have already downloaded [Zuckerberg’s Muse chatbot]…and [foolishly connected it to their bank accounts and health data]. While pornographic interactions may not be what users [who have been living in caves their whole lives] expect from [a chatbot branded with a picture of a Teletubby ripoff, Facebook]…says that X-rated conversations are allowed and don’t go against its guidelines…In…tests, Muse im[itated “dirty talk”] in great detail…and [its users are apparently oblivious to the ludicrosity of both these]…outputs…and…[Facebook]’s…carelessness with their [most heavily-hyped] product of the moment…Calli Schroeder…[of] the Electronic Privacy Information Center…[points out that] if…someone hacks into your personal account, then their access to your [ridiculous interactions]…with a…[chatbot] could be used to embarrass or extort you…
[A typical and representative] Kentucky [cop attacked his girlfriend, then started waving a gun around and shooting randomly]…Dustin Zink…was threatening [his family and bystanders]…and [when a gang of his fellow pigs arrived] Zink…fired his weapon [at them] multiple times, prompting four [of them to shoot him down like a mad dog]…
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Early Sunday morning, Chekhov’s lady friend Yellowbird passed away in a Seattle hospital; she was 84 and had been suffering from a variety of health problems for the past several years. Then last year, the problems began to multiply, and by the beginning of this summer they grew beyond the typical problems of age; early last week she was diagnosed with a terminal neurological disorder, and by Saturday morning decided to let nature take its course. So the hospital increased her pain medication enough to let her sleep more deeply than she’d been able to do in months, and she passed away quietly in her sleep about 3:30 AM Sunday. Chekhov is taking it as well as can be expected; he had been her primary caregiver for the last few years, so nobody knew better how much pain she had been in, and how much it galled her to be unable to live the active lifestyle, including gardening and creating art, which she had maintained up until quite recently. So like me with Grace, he is deeply sad at the loss of someone he dearly loved, but also relieved that her suffering is at an end. He’s already told me plans to move back into his cottage soon; he’s never officially changed his residence, but for several years now has stayed with her. And I’m glad he’s coming back, because I don’t think he should be alone, and it will be good for both of us to have someone who understands nearby to talk to.
Just a reminder that on the 25th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the war it caused was already 21 years in the past, Japan and Germany had largely been rebuilt and become allies, and the economic costs of the war were largely behind the US (though not Europe or Asia).
I think scientists should lock RFK into a Skinner box to test this. Of course, several other Trump henchmen will need to be similarly-confined as a control group. A year or two of testing should prove or disprove the assertion.
For those of you with very tenuous attachment to reality: Don't worry, the Panama Canal has not moved; it's in the same place it has always been since its completion in 1914.
I really wish people understood verisimilitude, and that consistency of mundane elements is MORE important in a fantasy movie under the "change only one thing" principle.But alas, that ship sailed long ago; critics were already pointing it out in the '60s.
I have said for decades that I'd much rather talk to someone who disagrees with me *and can articulate the reasons why* than someone who agrees with me and cannot.
The group "Very Stupid People Who Are Nonetheless Convinced They Are Geniuses" have *always* been taken in by claims that one could live forever if one merely eats the "right" foods and performs the "correct" magical rites. The scam was already old when the Comte de Saint Germain was selling it.
Apparently, YouTube's search algorithm has been programmed so that when it can't find what you asked for, it just brings up a lot of commercials instead. It's like going to a restaurant, ordering something not on the menu, and being served ten dirty dishes and a bill.
What a strange thing to say. Trump's belief that he is immune from any kind of legal limit is actually a rational one, because that's exactly how everyone in Washington behaves, including SCOTUS and Democratic members of Congress. If they want him to believe something else, they need to show him.
All of these people are so physically warped it's almost like the director is signaling that they have warped minds and personalities. It's kind of like a Dutch angle.
When science won't give a powerful person the answer he wants, he invariably turns to mysticism. This syndrome goes back to the dawn of science 2500 years ago, and is largely responsible for the technological and social stagnation of the European middle ages. reason.com/2026/10/02/a…
Basically, all the village idiots have been networked into a giant idiotnet (like a botnet, but with idiots) which functions like a computer to spew out more and bigger idiocy than could be produced by any one idiot or group of idiots. It's a massive breakthrough in the technology of idiocy.
Remember what "code" is: a set of instructions. If an LLM has feelings, so does every one of those printed sheets that come with Ikea furniture. So does the phrase "close cover before striking" on a matchbook.Yes, this is absurd. People need to start saying so. A picture of a human is not a human.
That's the story of government from ancient times to the present. In all but very rare cases (so rare they are historically notable), the rulers of any political grouping are the most despicable creatures in the land.What makes Trump different is that he can't even PRETEND to be a civilized man.
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