When we buried Jonathan in the pit near the propane tank, I decided to plant a tree over him, but I couldn’t decide what kind of tree I wanted. I really miss the crepe myrtles which are so commonly seen in the New Orleans area, and I’ve seen some beautiful ones in the nearby town of Hoquiam. But when I talked to a nursery about it, they told me it takes about three years for them to get established, and even a single hard winter in that time can stunt or even kill them. The lady told me that if I wanted a southern flowering tree that would grow well here, I should consider a magnolia. Grace liked magnolias very much, and when I mentioned to Chekhov that I was thinking about getting one for the spot, he immediately told me that he had seen them at Home Depot in Aberdeen and offered to buy one for me. So on Sunday the 19th he brought it in his van and we planted it together; it wasn’t difficult because the soil over the grave was still very loose, and it only took a few minutes of fairly light effort to clear a properly-sized hole for the root ball. Yellowbird is an avid gardener and advised me to water it every day without rain until the rainy season starts again in October, but luckily we’ve had several rainy days in the past week (unusual for this time of year) so that took care of the watering on those days. Then on one of the days I was watering it last week, it occurred to me that the area beneath the tree would be a fitting place for most of Grace’s ashes; I’m going to give the tree a few months to be sure it’s taking well, then I’m going to do a little ritual on the Day of the Dead to bury the ashes. And from now on, I will think of her every time I see it bloom.
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Welcome to the future. – Joel Feder
The backlash isn’t nearly severe enough yet:
[Pervert] Glasses…are so [morally repugnant] that [even] some [who were sociopathic enough to buy them] are now leaving their expensive [gewgaw]s at home…men…have been using the glasses to…non-consensually…capture footage of…women [they] attempt…to hit on…then post[ing them] online…Some…have even attempted to extort victims of covert recordings for cash. That’s on top of serious…privacy breaches by [Facebook]…and…the simple fact that [normal] people just really don’t like the idea of the world’s largest [psychopath collective]…facilitating abuse and surveillance in this way…[fortunately] the intensity of the [online] response [has] made [even moral imbeciles] think twice…[about being publicly recognized as] a predator or a creep…
Here’s hoping Flock backlash will snowball:
The Los Angeles Police Department is ending its agreement with Flock…surveillance…”This contract is not being renewed because of serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights issues, particularly around privacy and the data that is being collected from these cameras,” [oinked a spokespig, but in reality cops]…are continuing discussions with Flock…[in order to] revis[e the contact to give]…LAPD…[more control of the] data…
If this guy had brown skin, he’d probably be dead now:
…On an otherwise normal Sunday afternoon in late June, I’d decided to take the…Range Rover I was testing that week out to run some errands…and [ended up] surrounded by police…in a Kohl’s parking lot in suburban Minnesota…after a tense hour…the [cops finally admitted they] had been tracking me for days using Flock…cameras…because they thought I’d stolen the Range Rover…[due to] a simple data error made 2,000 miles away in California…that Flock’s [cop-siccing chatbot] was unable to handle…
In surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down:
Cops across [California] accessed the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s…Flock S[urveillance]…ALPR…system at least 145 times to track protesters within the span of a year and seven months…Eleven [cop shops]…as far as…400 miles away, searched for protesters…on or around dates when protests against ICE were held…Cops are required by state law to list the reason for [warrantless] searching…but the[y]…have been [trained to “be as vague as permissible” so most “reasons” are]…vague one-word responses…A Flock [mouthpiece absurdly barfed]…“leverage”…[and] “crimes” [at reporters]…and…OCSD…[idiotically denied the word “protest” means] Flock is…used to track protesters…
An internal Madison Square Garden database…a[ssigns]…“risk [scores” to]…roughly 400 celebrities…[out of] 39,539 entries in the so-called “talent” database…which…is part of a much larger trove of documents published last month by ShinyHunters, a[n anti-fascist] hacker collective…a celebrity…marked with a risk score…means “you’ve done something [on]…social media…that has caught the attention of the wrong people”…People…are ranked on a scale…“Flag” is the lowest…next is “low risk” [including] Falco, [Tracy] Morgan, and Ben Stiller…After that is “medium risk” [including] Lily Allen, her ex David Harbour, and…country singer Morgan Wallen) and “high risk” (the hip-hop stars Freddie Gibbs, Lil Jon, DaBaby, and A Boogie Wit da Hoodie). The rapper Lil Tjay…is “BANNED FROM MSG”…The…database also tracks some celebrities’ race, gender identity, and sexual orientation; 93 entries are marked as “LGBTQIA”…
Which is greater, Zuckerberg’s greed or his psychopathy?
[Facebook] quietly announced that [its pervert] glasses’ Conversation Focus feature will soon be limited to three hours of use per month, unless [owner is willing to] pay for a $19.99 M[onthly] subscription…The Conversation Focus feature, which amplifies the voice of [nearby people so as to facilitate eavesdropping]…runs on-device, using the chips inside the glasses…[which don’t] require an internet connection …[the feature] isn’t as [morally repugnant]…as…facial recognition [but Zuckerberg is apparently banking on the moral imbeciles who buy these surveillance tools wanting to hear while they leer]…
With warrantless surveillance, no woman is safe from cops:
A [Florida cop named Lamar Roman sped] 70 MPH down a two-lane highway…over a bridge in the Florida Keys…passe[d two] dump truck[s] in a no-passing zone…[and] nearly caus[ed] a head-on collision…[while stal]king and chasing a woman that he met and harassed on the set of the…TV…show Bad Monkey, [for] which he had worked a security detail shift…After…catcalling her and harassing her for her full name and Instagram details, the [dangerous sleazebag] illegally looked up her vehicle information on DAVID, a Florida Department of Motor Vehicles database for [cops]…He then put her license plate details on a surveillance “hotlist,” meaning he would get a notification in real time anytime she drove by an A[LPR]…Roman…was caught and arrested in March…[his victim] told investigators that she tried to be “standoffish” to deter him…[but] Roman would not leave [her] alone….[and threatened] to pull [her] over…in the [future]…
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You know what you have to do, carry on. – Leandro Andrés Bertazzo
This seemed to me the appropriate song for the passing of Orbison’s longtime songwriting partner. The links above it were provided by Desiree Alliance; Kevin Wilson; Jesse Walker; Dan Savage and Jesse again; IncarcerNation; Angela Keaton; and Ryan Marino, in that order.
- As one does.
- Quite an exit.
- Paging Dr. Frankenstein.
- R.I.P. Sam Neill and Joe Melson.
- What part of “never” is so hard to understand?
- It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.
- Anti-vaxxers’ disregard for children’s lives is rarely so direct.
From the Archives
- I’m sure they occasionally yelled “Stop faking!” at him as he wasted away.
- On Beijing’s aggressive campaign to silence Chinese people outside China.
- Western countries have criminalized politically-unpopular fiction for years.
- Holding up little signs saying, “The house is on fire!” instead of fighting it.
- I’m sure other federal laws could be used vs other state prostitution laws.
- Fanatics claim their propaganda is unprovable ’cause they disseminate it.
- It does not help victims of State brutality to infantilize them as “children”.
- This will continue as long as fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- As predicted, Amazon’s retreat from fascist collaboration was short-lived.
- The “TIP” crowbar has been largely disused since the first Trump regime.
- The return of a silly fantasy we haven’t seen much in the past few years.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- “This bill is not about kids’ safety, because it will put their safety at risk”.
- QAnon cranks have made “sex trafficking” rhetoric unpalatable to most.
- The practice of banning mail & books from prisons needs to be banned.
- That anyone thinks this is OK shows censoriousness is a mental illness.
- Prohibition can never succeed, regardless of the substance prohibited.
- Several states choose to punish sex workers in this deranged fashion.
- New Jersey residents are compelled by law to surrender DNA to cops.
- Ballard’s increasingly-bizarre antics upset his partners in profiteering.
- “Sex trafficking” hysteria paved the way for anti-migrant pogroms.
- It’s heartening to see so many rescue industry profiteers exposed.
- Pornhub has repeatedly refused to spy on its users for the State.
- Everyone victimized by “child protection” agencies needs to sue.
- Another dodge to pretend a typical and representative cop isn’t.
- The first interesting development in this whole affair since ever.
- If only there were a concise term for “coerced women into sex”.
- Another troubled woman fakes an “abduction” to get attention.
- If you think this will go away when Trump does, you are a fool.
- I’m sure they yelled “Stop faking!” at her several times a day.
- Will this be another victory for US evangelical prohibitionists?
- Partisans deny this when it’s their side making “suggestions”.
- A sex-worker hating psychopath desperately craving power.
- Wave bye-bye to the last remaining shreds of your privacy.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Ozzy Osbourne, and much more.
- This isn’t a “shelter”, “housing”, or “school”; it is a prison.
- Gee, I wonder why violent men often target sex workers?
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Ever year I honor St. Mary Magdalene on her feast day.
- Another bizarrely-anachronistic “sex trafficking” article.
- Cops are nothing more than state-sponsored terrorists.
- The last time we saw this lawsuit, the number was 95.
- It seems July is nearly always a busy month for me.
- CGI slop is another cause of the coming dark age.
- The urge to censor is a dangerous mental illness.
- Cops love awkward, overcomplicated language.
- Cops, Muppets, Bob Newhart, and much more.
- Cops, satire, animated sci-fi, and much more.
- “You know who doesn’t screen? Cops.“
- Blood for Throwback Thursday.
- Bikini Throwback Thursday.
- A Study in Emerald.
- A growing turkey.
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In a few short years, the entire Western world might finally end the age of the open internet. – Kelsey Piper
For a warden to be charged, there must be much more to this:
State p[igs] and [screwlords] are conducting a “potential criminal misconduct” investigation into…a Western Maryland prison after the latest in a rash of [murder]s of prisoners…on…May 20 [screws found] the body of Colin Wolf…[decomposing] inside his cell in the Roxbury [Dungeon]…Roxbury’s warden and chief of security are out…[and] 19 [screws have been given demerits, while]…eight medical staffers [have been banned] from facilities statewide…officials [are trying] to [figure out how to cover up the] homicides…[but] Wolf was the ninth [victim] this year…and the 33rd…since 2023. [Politician] Carolyn Scruggs…wrote that…the [screws]…had violated “basic human decency”…to…[a greater] extent [than the ordinary violations of basic human decency inherent in locking human beings up in cages]…Just two weeks before Wolf’s death…Kelvin Hite…was also killed at Roxbury…
When will the mainstream media admit that pigs in schools are a menace?
A [typical and representative cop paid to lurk in]…New Jersey [schools in order to spy on, harass, and intimidate students has been arrested for] sexually assaulting an underage girl. [Louis J.] Baselice…[groomed and enticed the girl by buying her] an electric scooter…a…cell phone…and…food. [He was reported by her friends]…
Because this worked so well when it was tried next door in the UK:
[Irish politicians] seek…to [invent crim]es relating to the possession, production or distribution of extreme or violent pornography, and acts of necrophilia…Minister Jim O’Callaghan [promied the scheme by absurdly barfing]…”contributes to perpetuating misogynistic attitudes” [in a government know for misogynistic laws against abortion, sex work, etc]…
Most federal courts below the SCOTUS level are still doing their jobs:
…Mayday Health runs a website with information about where people can obtain abortion pills…[but] doesn’t provide abortion pill prescriptions itself…Nonetheless, South Dakota has been engaged in a monthslong First Amendment battle with the group, [absurdly claim]ing…the [First Amendment doesn’t apply to speech about]…abortion…Mayday sued…[over the] unconstitutional [censorship attempt and] U.S. District Judge Camela Theeler seems poised to agree…[as she has] issued a preliminary injunction against South Dakota enforcing the law against Mayday or against…[politician] Nancy Turbak Berry….[for] wearing a Mayday sweatshirt…with…the…[same] message…[as] on Mayday’s gas station placards…South Dakota’s abortion advertising law is a[n illegal] content-based restriction on speech…Commercial speech is generally held to receive less First Amendment protection than non-commercial speech. But Mayday’s website is not commercial speech, as…”there is no evidence that Mayday holds an economic motivation for its advertisements…Rather, [it]…is a nonprofit organization expressing a moral belief and providing information for free”…
These things are designed to appeal to the dregs of humanity:
[Perve]rt glasses might seem like a great way of cheating on exams, [if you]…are [a moral imbecile], but…[it may result in legal] consequences …A…South Korea[n] man is facing criminal charges…after using [perve]rt glasses to cheat on a state-run fire engineer test in May. [When] he was…[caught by the test] administrator…he…pretty much copped to the entire thing…This isn’t the first instance where [perve]rt glasses have been at the center of an academic cheating scandal, but it’s a particularly [serious] one given the context of the exam…it’s fair to say that someone’s competency could be a contributing factor in whether people live or die…
The open internet will soon be a thing of the past:
Senator Ed Markey…rolled out what he [advertises as] an “AI Accountability Agenda”…[but in reality] he wants to [put] unchecked power [to spy on and censor the internet]…into the hands of the American [government]…Two bills in the s[cheme]…move the internet toward a place where you prove your age before you read a page or say anything on it…[one is] brand[ed] COPPA 2.0…[and] lifts the age of a [restri]cted user from under 13 to under 17, then rewrites the rule that decides when a company is liable…[so] an ordinary website…has to judge whether some hypothetical reasonable person would have figured out that a visitor was under 17. If you guess wrong, the Federal [Government] can [destroy your business]. The cheapest way to stop guessing is to card everyone at the door…Age gates…stand between a reader and everyone else’s expression, and they turn speaking up into a chore rather than a reflex…
Politicians love aping each other’s schemes while also ignoring their failure:
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen signaled that a European Union–wide identity verification scheme for social media users may be coming soon…[saying] “It is up to [the government] to decide when children…can join social media”…[and] touting the European Commission’s [failed] age-verification app…In truly Orwellian fashion, von der Leyen claimed that “this is about putting power back into the hands of parents”…despite report after report suggesting that Australia’s ban is a flop…politicians in the U.S. and in the U.K. are rushing to emulate Australia. Now, it looks like the whole of the European Union could be next…
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I recently decided to reread my entire comic book collection, and this splash page from Action Comics #52 (September, 1942) caught my attention for reasons that should be obvious. In the story, the soi-disant emperor is a mad scientist who has invented a machine that broadcasts rays which nullifies resistance, so people will agree with anything anyone tells them to do, regardless of how ridiculous. Naturally Superman is immune, and early in the story utters the soliloquy, “What’s happened to everyone? Have they gone insane?” before flying to Washington to defeat the villain in his usual style. But in the course of the story, the madman takes actions which may seem familiar 84 years later: pillaging the treasury, replacing the cabinet and Supreme Court with his hoodlum henchmen, etc.
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
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Every year on her feast day, I honor St. Mary Magdalene; even though the Church does not officially recognize her as the patron of whores, she certainly is in the public imagination. And if beliefs have power, that recognition of sacred whoredom in the minds of millions has far more metaphysical and philosophical weight than any official Church designation.
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I’m not sure why Amazon decided people who send gifts from others’ wishlists don’t need to be thanked, but that’s exactly what it has done. It used to be possible to send a sender a “Thank You” email, which may be superfluous if the sender and recipient know each other in real life, but is very important to those of us who receive gifts from those who admire our work online. For several years now, though, I had noticed that though it was still possible to send such a message, the gift sender rarely received it. Then some months ago I realized it was no longer possible to even send one; when I got three anniversary gifts recently, I decided to dig through the “wishlist help” to see if they’d merely hidden the function in some submenu somewhere. But no; I soon found a clear statement that it was not possible to send it at all. So I really hope the readers who sent me a DVD of Sinners, a collection of four Kurt Vonnegut novels, and The Lensman Anthology, all see this and accept my thanks for your generosity; I never want anyone to think I take such gifts for granted, even if Amazon believes such respect for one’s audience is somehow outmoded.
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I used to try to explain when a young or pre-menopausal woman makes some sort of confident statement about what she will be like post-menopause. Now I just shrug and say, "You'll find out soon enough."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-17T17:21:31.990Z
It's always amusing to me when a paywall demanding I provide my personal information is followed almost immediately by a popup admitting they will sell that information to anybody who wants it.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-18T18:46:19.972Z
"Mmmm, a meat-free savoury loaf!" said no hungry person ever.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-19T18:57:53.004Z
The best part of this algae bloom is, it only needs to stay in place for two more weeks from today to achieve maximum humiliation value for Trump and the whole MAGA movement. After the 4th, it can vanish overnight; what will be remembered is the perfect metaphor for the semiquincentennial.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-20T17:51:22.612Z
5 million djinn and imps working 24/7 can build Baghdad in ≈ 6 months. Now just imagine what the world looks like when we have 10 billion of them by 800. Now imagine the year 1000. Amazing abundance for all!
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-21T17:27:00.933Z
I don't generally call attention to toxic filth from Twitter, but if you're still on Twitter at all you may want to look up this sewer outlet which calls human beings "farm equipment" just for the pleasure of blocking it.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-23T17:52:42.652Z
"It’s Donald Trump’s violent, pawing need, not to win, but to be *seen* to have won. To see *himself* as a winner or, when observable reality disagrees, to declare war on reality. It’s the president’s shrieking demand that everyone else join him in waging war upon a mirror."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-24T16:58:10.225Z
Why are the US media and Democratic politicians so averse to recognizing that SCOTUS judges can be impeached?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-25T18:01:45.727Z
A new dimension of "throwing like a girl".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-28T03:27:07.509Z
This is actually a good way to deal with drive-by commenters on social media."This is stupid!""OK."They don't know how to continue when you refuse to give them the theatrical conflict they crave.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-28T18:12:37.049Z
Maybe they're all ninjas, disguising themselves by becoming blades of grass.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-28T18:06:43.769Z
Musk is a Bond supervillain. Zuckerberg is a Batman supervillain.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-30T07:37:56.774Z
Well come ON! If you looked like that, you'd be depressed, too.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-01T17:52:32.638Z
THANK YOU.It's rare to see *anyone* who grasps this nowadays, even though it's right there in the name of the movement.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-02T17:43:57.214Z
The Trump regime keeps people from entering the US "because of who they are" all the time.Monkey see, monkey do.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-04T17:43:32.766Z
Without a doubt, it would have to be the guy who said that any female character in a fantasy story with extraordinary powers was a "Mary Sue".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-06T19:08:47.786Z
Another American institution destroyed by private equity: http://www.salon.com/2026/07/03/h…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-07T17:02:26.485Z
As a former reference librarian, I can tell you what people did before Google. (HINT: it wasn't sitting around helplessly wishing for the information.)
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-08T07:57:06.570Z
I spoke with Mitch McConnell for twenty minutes this morning. He told me he had meddled in things that man must leave alone.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-09T08:13:53.616Z
Reminds me of this argument which anyone who knew teen boys in the late '70s & early '80s will remember:Boy 1: Rob Halford is not gay!Boy 2: Dude, he's gay. Look at his costumes.Boy 1: Leather is tough, not gay!Boy 2: What about gay leather dudes?Boy 1: They stole that from bikers!Boy 2: …..
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-11T18:16:55.618Z
Every so often the very first tweet I see from someone is so absolutely, moronically authoritarian, I block them instantly to spare myself from ever seeing another violently-stupid utterance from them.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-12T17:12:55.939Z
"Verify your age"Fuck you! In my day, computers didn't talk back or make demands. And we watched TV by attaching the set to an antenna.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-13T17:03:24.239Z
So very many words to say, "I don't understand the concept of hubris and anyone who tries to explain it to me is Satan."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-14T17:41:15.926Z
"The alternative would be to admit that we as a nation have done what we have in fact done, which is install a demented narcissistic madman as president."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-15T17:58:14.068Z
Partisanism is a form of brain rot. Today's example: claiming the increasingly-totalitarian Trump regime is "anti-government".If Trump's metastasizing police state is "anti-government", I shudder to think what a "pro-government" regime would look like.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-16T17:03:55.420Z
People used to think I was kooky for refusing to eat green, leafy vegetables and uncooked or undercooked food.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-18T03:39:10.780Z
My favorite Sanders tell is how his refrain used to be blaming "millionaires and billionaires" for everything until someone correctly pointed out that SANDERS is a millionaire, at which point he switched to just blaming "billionaires".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-19T16:53:53.906Z
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Generative AI doesn’t generate information; it generates words. – Hannah Cyrus
This very impressive cover was called to my attention by Radley Balko, who also supplied “pope”. The other links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel; Tracy Quan; Ryan Marino and Stephen Lemons; Nun Ya; IncarcerNation; and Mike Masnick, in that order.
- Metaphor alert.
- Librarians vs. slop generators.
- R.I.P. Martha Ann Lillard and Louise Lasser.
- Maggie admitted to herself, “I like this pope”.
- Good riddance to bad rubbish, Catholic edition.
- Cops sic dog on helpless man, then leave him to die.
- The BBC appears to be re-assigning Doctor Who writers.
From the Archives
- Canadian politicians join the “monkey see, monkey do” censorship parade.
- The “Facebook pimps” myth has gone from merely silly to wholly pathetic.
- While others back away from these medieval laws, Phoenix doubles down.
- It isn’t only sex workers being hunted to death by armed thugs any more.
- How are this guy & disgraced former Police Chief James Burke connected?
- Americans’ sick lust for torture can turn any prison into a death sentence.
- “Marijuana-related” hospital visit = “visit after using cannabis that week”.
- This sleazy harassment tactic started in Canada and has reached Ireland.
- Local media attack the same myths they eagerly spread for two decades.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- Beware of men who “volunteer” to be in positions of authority over kids.
- Let’s see if this lasts any longer in Pittsburgh than it did in New Orleans.
- Violence against a marginalized group never stays limited to that group.
- If “official” thugs can get your data sans warrant, so can unofficial ones.
- Politicians are no longer satisfied with censoring libraries & the internet.
- If I followed up on every rapist, I wouldn’t have room for anything else.
- “Safety” has become the #1 excuse for Orwellian levels of surveillance.
- People who believe Bronze-Age myths are dangerously-stupid fanatics.
- Cops, Robin, Richard Simmons, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and much more.
- Cops should’ve never been allowed in any doctor-patient relationship.
- Ballard’s increasingly-bizarre antics upset his partners in profiteering.
- Doctors mock cops’ fentanyl hysteria, so they want new bogeydrugs.
- Politicians now use nuisance lawsuits to circumvent the Constitution.
- Have you ever wondered what a $500 piece of pipe would look like?
- Escaped “monkey see, monkey do” parade careens all over Europe.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- These crackpots get more dangerous every time we hear of them.
- This will continue until the evil US immigration policy is reformed.
- A law journal article demonstrating that, as usual, I was correct.
- The stupidity of algorithms also applies to those who use them.
- It’s too bad they don’t inflict all of their violence on each other.
- Curated selections of tweets from July 2023, 2024, and 2025.
- I just can’t feel sorry for cops sexually abused by other cops.
- I fully support your right to be a bit tired of pictures of eggs.
- Your “leaders” work hard to ensure this happens more often.
- “The only actual power government has is to inflict violence.“
- Tennessee has a disturbingly high number of such incidents.
- This “youth pastor” appears to have an oddly specific fetish.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- The open internet is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Connie Francis, and much more.
- Rapist cops often specifically target vulnerable women.
- Safetyism is the police state’s most powerful fuel.
- Cops, Florida, Tony Bennett, and much more.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- Cops are a menace to women of all ages.
- How to make an LLM simulate psychosis.
- Burble burble BLUE STATE burble drool.
- Why does anyone still trust Facebook?
- The Throwback Thursday Syndrome.
- Bram Stoker’s Throwback Thursday.
- When writer’s block comes loose.
- The end of another heat wave.
- The subtitle says it all.
- A pig in the trough.
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