When I planted the magnolia tree in July, I decided I’d bury most of Grace’s ashes beneath it on the Day of the Dead. Well, that was just a week ago, and when the day arrived I found it harder to actually do than I had anticipated. First I put it off for an hour or so despite the weather being clear; then I moved the container to the table and procrastinated a little more, until I realized the trouble was that even though it was Grace’s soul that I loved rather than her mortal form, deep down I had trouble letting go of that tangible reminder of her existence. So I decided to compromise by putting aside a small amount of the ash in a container I could seal up and keep close by, and burying the rest. It took me a while to find a container of the right size that I felt would not be disrespectful to her memory, and that I thought she would have liked or found amusing. And while her sense of humor wasn’t quite as macabre as mine can be, I know she would’ve approved of my choice, which also has the advantage of telegraphing the contents to anyone who might find it on my nightstand after I, too, pass into the Unknown.
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You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis.
– Stig Børsen Hansen
Patrick Stewart gave so many amazing, iconic performances I’m marking his passing in the same way I did that of James Earl Jones and Paul Reubens: by featuring an obscure performance (called to my attention by T. Greg Doucette) you may be unfamiliar with. The links above it were provided by Nun Ya (x2); Ryan Marino; Mike Masnick; Mike Siegel; Clarissa, Jason Kuznicki, and Ryan Cooper; and Nun Ya again, in that order.
- As one does.
- Miracle wheat.
- Headline of the month.
- Another great moment in artificial stupidity.
- The world’s oldest known joke is about farting.
- R.I.P. Patrick Stewart, Walter Koenig and Eric Bauza.
- Cops never stop demonstrating exactly what they are.
From the Archives
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Greg Hildebrandt, Quincy Jones, and much more.
- The state uses bogus excuses to permanently cram people into dungeons.
- Why does it take the US press so long to recognize governmental abuses?
- Anyone whose brain isn’t rotted by prohibitionism could’ve predicted this.
- Local media reflexively parrots copaganda despite its evident foolishness.
- It always starts with a politically-unpopular group, but never stops there.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
- The Nordic Model is as rooted in reality as her other beliefs re sex work.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Ken Mattingly, Frank Borman, and much more.
- The entire “troubled teen” industry needs to be sued out of existence.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- Imaginary “sex traffickers” forced to give up Wile E. Coyote schemes.
- Crypto-moralists believe anything unpleasant must be “good for you”.
- Texas doesn’t care how many women die because of its terrible laws.
- Neither court rulings nor public protest deter the “bathroom bill” fad.
- The government needs to be buried in lawsuits before this will stop.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Donna Jean Godchaux, and much more.
- If you think this will go away when Trump does, you are a fool.
- Another reminder that my writing depends on reader support.
- All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
- Barring a counterweapon, the internet will soon be unusable.
- “Youth leader”, “youth pastor”…just another preachy pervert.
- Cops use universal warrantless surveillance to frame people.
- The first actual association between “trafficking” and pizza.
- Pregnant women are uniquely vulnerable to State violence.
- Just another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Grady Judd is an utterly loathsome excuse for a human.
- It’s good to see sane people speaking up about this.
- Liz Brown’s deep dive on the Backpage persecution.
- Groceries for Halloween is like socks for Christmas.
- My three previous columns for Guy Fawkes Day.
- As you can see, my fountain is finally working!
- Police departments attract predatory garbage.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- It only starts with demonized minorities.
- Decriminalization is only the first step.
- In which Jonathan begins to decline.
- Actual facts cannot stop copaganda.
- Exactly how I like my birthdays.
- Throwback Created Thursday.
- “The Power of the Powerless”.
- Throwback Thursday 3000.
- Throwback Thursday 1970.
- The Cthulhu chia pet.
- Fascism in action.
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All that seems to matter is the idea that the government should have unchecked access to our financial lives. – Nicholas Anthony
Matthew 21:31 seems pretty straightforward to me:
…Christianity’s relationship with sex is complicated by Christians themselves. While some traditions celebrate sex and desire during marriage, others long wielded shame, morality, and religious authority to regulate sex and people’s bodily autonomy. And while some Christians preach moral “purity,” others find the lines around religion and sexuality blurry. Today, those tensions are playing out in an increasingly politicized porn landscape, where Christian nationalist efforts to restrict sexuality collide with the complications of faith, lust, and pleasure. No one is putting those ideas to the test more than Christian porn stars…
…[After the] Tarrant County…jail…sent…Mack Greer…to the hospital…the [family was barred from]…see[ing him by barfing the word “]custody[” in their faces. By the time someone decided to pretend to have a particle of human decency]…Greer…was already brain dead…due to massive hemorrhaging…[caused by pigs repeatedly] banging his head [against] the wall…[when they] re[alized] Greer [was about to die they]…pulled out an ink pad, grabbed Greer’s limp hand, pressed his thumb on the ink and then onto the signature line of the release form…[so as to avoid the mandatory] investigat[ion of a] death…in jail custody…The Texas Commission on Jail Standards…ruled…the do[dge…in]valid…and appointed [more pigs] to investigate…Greer w[as] the third person in as many days sent from the jail to the hospital and then quickly pronounced deceased…[due to violence inflicted by the stooges of] T[rumpist] Sheriff Bill Waybourn…
Facebook is the most antisocial corporation other than those who run prisons:
Facebook is hosting a large number of accounts dedicated to [computer]-generated content depicting coaches inappropriately touching young female athletes…and [refusing to take] them down, even when they’re directly reported by users…the coaches are [always] older men…some [of the girls] look as young as teenagers…with braces on their teeth…The coaches run their hands over their lower backs and inner thighs as they stretch or practice poses…sometimes patting them on the buttocks or…genitals over their outfits…[the cartoon] girls in the clips react as though the touching is normal, often smiling and giggling…Some of the clips…are thinly veiled as educational…[while] other[s]…make little effort to hide their prurient intent…it wasn’t until it was contacted by a journalist that [Facebook] backtracked on its initial assessment that the pages didn’t violate its policies…After we reported the abusive pages, Facebook’s recommendation algorithm started serving up many more similar…videos…[so it] has the tech it needs to identify the disturbing clips, but instead of using it to crack down on the content, it’s using it to recommend more…[Facebook] has also declined to remove [computer]-generated content depicting extreme…child abuse…
The Incredible Shrinking Dollar
In comparison with your grandparents, you have no financial privacy:
The Trump [regime keeps] expand[ing] financial surveillance at the southern border to target more than…3.5 million people. The heightened surveillance began in March 2025 with a…temporary order lower[ing] the threshold for currency transaction reports…from $10,000 to just $200 for money service businesses like Western Union that operate in 30 zip codes along the border. The surveillance order was quickly met with challenges in court by the Institute for Justice, and other organizations. And…the courts agreed that…the $200 surveillance order…“defies common sense,” and “likely violates the Fourth Amendment.” The court issued an injunction to put the surveillance on ice…[but] instead of respecting the ongoing litigation, [the regime] issued a new order with a $1,000 threshold covering four times as many zip codes…small businesses have become trapped under hefty compliance burdens…[while] people [turn]…to illegal markets…In September 2026, the order was expanded again…to 304 zip codes…It didn’t matter to the government that there was a court case challenging the surveillance. It didn’t matter to the government that people were losing their businesses. Instead, all that seems to matter is the idea that the government should have unchecked access to our financial lives…
Everything I read about modern work makes me happier I became a whore:
Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton, [spewed deranged nonsense at] an employee…who urged the company to at least take a few days to pentest newly written code before pushing it live. “That’s bullshit and loser thinking…focus more on how to be faster”…His ultimate message for the team was to “stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and [enshittify]…more”…In the last few months, Yen set up an email address for employees to [rat out]…any[one counseling caution against letting chatbots ruin] Proton, so leadership can “ruthlessly smash every[one] that stands in the way”…Proton [also] installed software on workers’ computers [to] track how much [slop] the company is generating…and Yen said…Proton will [soon replace all software] engineers…with [chatbot fanatics]…Proton said it would re-interview staff about their [delegating their thinking to chatbots], with the clear implication that…employees’ willingness to [submit to virtual lobotomization] could decide whether a worker is fired or not…Workers describe an environment where employees have genuine concerns about security…but feel unable to voice them, lest Yen…threaten…their [livelihood]. “The CEO is in full AI psychosis and has been for a while now,” one of the sources told 404 Media…
The software can’t be stopped, but Facebook’s advertising it can:
At first glance, the self-proclaimed “pet portrait” app Viefur appears to be just another…slop generator…pet photos can be turned into an “anthropomorphic portrait,” with the critter dressed in “human clothing” and inserted into bizarre scenes…[but that’s] cover for…the app’s true purpose: creating sexually abusive deepfake images…the app is part of a network of more than 400 connected domains and apps that…claim to be everyday services—such as language tuition..[but] when accessed under certain conditions…load a web interface allowing the generation of explicit…sexual images and videos using photos users upload…includ[ing such] scenes…as “bedroom rape” and “threatening knife”…The network was discovered hiding in plain sight, by multiple researchers, after they investigated links from thousands of video ads containing explicit deepfake content…published on…Facebook and Instagram…
Some cops don’t limit themselves to one type of creepiness:
A [typical and representative] Pensacola [Florida cop named]…Matthew Baxter [was arrested after fellow cops rooting in his phone discovered]…child [porn, bestiality porn]…and [images taken in various bathrooms] of [non-consenting subjects]…The [rooting]…began in October when Baxter was arrested for possession of controlled substances without a prescription…
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Since I’ve already said plenty on this subject, this time I’m just going to leave you with a link to a collection of earlier essays; remind you that all government is at best a necessary evil rooted in the idea that might makes right; and point out that there is absolutely nothing “conservative” about the current regime, and nothing “liberal” about the so-called opposition party.
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You have a right to know who’s recording you when you leave home. – Proton
Australian politicians really believe the laws of Australia apply worldwide and can change reality:
Australia’s government [apparently believes it can] sue Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube [into magically circumvent]ing t[he ability of] under-16s [to get around politicians’ attempts to control them]…The lawsuit is yet to be filed, but [a politician bloviated] that the [Lord High Censo]r, Julie Inman Grant, has new [magical] powers to build a [magical wall] against the five companies [which will keep people under 16, but not adults, from using VPNs to access them]…“She’s now using those [magical] powers to prepare her [spell],” the minister [moronically bloviated, adding] …“The law is not failing – platforms are failing to c[ensor the entire world to enforce] the law”…[the Australians believe their bureaucrats] can demand information and documents from any person she believes has them, and [magically] summon people to appear before her [in a pentagram]…At no point have the authorities stopped to consider that the law itself may be the problem. The platforms have already built age-checking systems, scanned profiles with [computer algorithms], and closed millions of accounts – and yet [young adults] continue to find ways to use social media. To better enforce the law, the platforms would have to start checking every Australian user [without a VPN] more closely – including adults.
These companies need to be sued until they’re completely annihilated:
The owners of Elvis Presley’s music sued the a[utomated plagiarism] company Anthropic…[because] it trained its models on more than 200 of Presley’s songs without their permission…[thereby commit]ing…copyright infringement. The suit…seeks a jury trial and more than $41 million, or $150,000 per song, in damages…Anthropic, the company behind the popular chatbot Claude…circumvent[ed] measures used to protect the music and remov[ed]…copyright management information from the songs…“The…defendant…has built its entire business model…on copyright infringement at a scale never seen before,” the lawsuit [correctly pointed out]…Anthropic…[denied] the [self-evidently true] claims [even though fellow chatbot-pusher Sam Altman admitted during sworn testimony that it would be “impossible to train [chatbots] without using copyrighted materials”]…Anthropic [has also been sued by Reservoir music] and…Universal Music Group [for the same reason]…
If this sounds good to you, you might be a useful idiot:
GM says it will roll out a new in-car [chatbo]t, called OnStar AI, starting with 2027 Cadillac Lyriqs…Paired with a new app, the system will start by letting drivers, for example, turn on their air conditioning with a voice command without [the incredible effort of turning a knob]…The automaker plans to expand its “eyes-off” highway driving technology to its most popular cars, inching closer to its years-old promise of making a personal self-driving car…[it plans] to slowly expand “eyes-off” capabilities to more sorts of roads, letting drivers text or eat or watch YouTube first on some highways, and then on more highways, and then on local roads, and then maybe everywhere…The cabin…can become a space to “relax, work, and unwind”…The personal [robot] car will pick up groceries, drop off children, and then maybe even find a parking spot at the end. Urban planners and infrastructure experts have worried about this vision…of…roads…crowded with pods full of [oblivious nitwits] sleeping, emailing, and YouTubing while their vehicles slowly pilot them onward…
Proton…is…hosting a free map of Flock surveillance devices on its servers [after]…Flock tried to [intimidate] the researcher behind the original project to take it down[, describing him as a “malicious actor“]…you can enter your ZIP code to see devices in your area, or zoom and pan around the country. Note that the data is a snapshot from December 2025, though. Cameras installed or removed since then won’t be reflected…This isn’t the [only] effort to put surveillance cameras on the map…DeFlock Maps lets people look up license plate readers in their neighborhoods, including devices from Flock, Motorola…and other manufacturers. Volunteers report cameras they spot and add their locations to OpenStreetMap…MapQuest also added a “Surveillance Layer” to its app this month, letting users see known license plate reader locations…
If they even convict this guy, it’s going to be a love tap:
[A typical and representative] NYPD [cop named Victor Romero murdered a motorist]…on the George Washington Bridge [last] week [but is only being charged with]…manslaughter [despite the fact that he deliberately shot] Koran Irvine…in…an [infantile display of anger because Irvine did not let him go first at the] entrance ramp to the bridge…Romero started to tailgate Irvine’s car, following him…aggressively….[then] pulled up right next to Irvine’s car and [deliberately shot him]…Romero [then] sped [away, hoping to escape, while]…Irvine…crashed and was found dead in his car…
Politicians want to “regulate” consensual sex, but not this dangerous toy:
Bowen Wan…began messaging ChatGPT during a lonely time in her life. The medication that had kept her [severe] epilepsy at bay for more than a decade had…stopped working…[she sometimes suffered] seizures…more than once a day…[and] she could no longer handle the demands of her software engineering job at Amazon. So, in 2021, Bowen went on disability leave…she rarely left the safety of her apartment…Then, in 2023, she…[started asking] ChatGPT…for…advice…sometimes chatting for hours…late into the night…her doctor…was unaware [she was using] ChatGPT to…write messages to him…the chatbot [advised her to]…“cut the pills…without telling the doctor”…she used…[a] cutter to slice [each] pill into four pieces…the chatbot] praised her for hiding her plans to wean off the drug…calling it a “solid avoidance strategy”…[and saying] “You have absolutely no need to worry” [while she cut her dose]…from 400 milligrams down to 0 milligrams in a matter of weeks [until she suffered a fatal seizure]. Bowen’s parents..[have] file[d] a lawsuit against OpenAI…
The only way to stop the panopticon is to tear it up by its roots:
When Andrae Wright [was sacked five years ago from a Georgia cop shop]…he kept…his log-in credentials for Flock…[and] searched the system more than 60 times…[in an attempt to find dirt on his estranged] wife…[which he could use to win] permanent custody of their teenage daughter. In July, after [someone reported him, he was finally]…arrested…[for] stalking…unauthorized users [routinely] access…Flock…[mostly] to track [sexual prey. The routine abuse]…expose[s]…alarming vulnerabilities within Flock’s nationwide [surveillance] network…[which persist in defiance of] calls from their own staff to implement stricter guardrails…[because cops don’t] want t[hem]…accounts [of fired, suspended, or even convicted cops are] not shut off…[and cops routinely] share…log-ins or passwords with [each other or even outsiders]…Flock has [even refused] to adopt basic safeguards that are standard practice among commercial and government software vendors…and…does not [even] monitor for log-ins occurring from unusual locations and devices…
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My birthday got quieter and smaller after Grace died, and quieter still after Yellowbird’s recent passing. But Chekhov still insisted on getting me a cake and a gift, and he and Jae and I had pizza and watched Bela Lugosi movies, and he stayed in his cottage overnight. Though I understand what he’s going through to some degree, he has it worse because in my case, Grace lived in my house and I could simply avoid dealing with her things; they’re still in her room or on her desk, and I don’t touch anything unless I have to. But in his case, he has to do the difficult work of clearing her house and getting it ready for sale, and regardless of how much friends can help the bulk of the stress will be on him. So for right now I’m going to try to get him to spend as much time at Sunset as possible so he isn’t surrounded constantly by reminders, while also giving him the space to grieve in whatever way feels right to him.
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When I came out of my mom’s vagina, they put a cowboy hat on me. – Clint Patterson
I picked this song as John Anderson’s sendoff because I used to sing a parody of it called “Weeblin'” to amuse Grace after she declared that as she put on weight she felt like a weeble. The links above the video were provided by Franklin Harris, IncarcerNation (x2), Charles Hill, Mike Masnick, Jesse Walker, and Jessica Pishko, in that order.
- That Bigfoot film finally proven a hoax.
- Cops never stop showing what they are.
- What part of “never” is so hard to grasp?
- Another great moment in artificial stupidity.
- Dementia often manifests as a loss of verbal filters.
- R.I.P. John Anderson, Tom Skerritt, and Peter Medak.
- They only start with targets the government has demonized.
From the Archives
- Lawsuits are the only way to hinder a government that won’t control itself.
- Cops & goons hate queers & migrants, so they really hate queer migrants.
- How defective does an adult need to be to think doing this to teens is OK?
- Maybe the Church should delineate ways for clergy to meet sexual needs.
- The predictable results of bad laws happen just as sane people predicted.
- Serial lawsuit abuser Ken Paxton wants to profit from Trumpist delusions.
- Trumpist politicians fight to protect “trafficking” hysteria from debunking.
- Screws’ idea of health care is yelling “Stop faking!” at the sick and dying.
- Can you imagine this even being in question for any other form of work?
- Though the judge was constrained by law to rule thus, it’s still welcome.
- Lovely to see so many rescue industry profiteers exposed as sociopaths.
- Realistic cartoons are cartoons, but many can’t tell fantasy from reality.
- There are many ways for cops to enrich themselves at others’ expense.
- Picture what you’d think of as “sex trafficking”, then compare it to this.
- Hysteria spins ordinary business dealings into “exploitation” & “crime”.
- Cops are sexual predators who specifically target traumatized women.
- Oh look, word-guessing programs produce nonsense, what a surprise.
- Another cop stalks victims through the official cop grooming program.
- Cops think violence solves every problem, including caretaker stress.
- Cops, Aleister Crowley, Richards Roundtree & Moll, and much more.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from October 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- The State calls torture “correction”; journalists needn’t parrot that.
- Censors now pretend thoughts they don’t like constitute a “crime”.
- The scheme to cut sex workers off from healthcare isn’t dead yet.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Mitzi Gaynor, Teri Garr, and much more.
- The state believes it owns every human being within its borders.
- It’s so satisfying to see this sleazebag hoist with his own petard.
- These things are designed to appeal to the dregs of humanity.
- What would cops do if you shot someone dead in the street?
- Another reminder that my work depends on reader support.
- This started as a scheme to keep sex workers off of Tinder.
- There is no such thing as an original idea from a politician.
- Cops now want their own mobile surveillance platforms.
- I’m still $1000 ahead on my reader-donated car fund.
- When Grace & I first watched The Haunting together.
- My three previous columns for the Day of the Dead.
- This situation is not going to get better on its own.
- Don’t let a fucking computer call them, either.
- Cops, cats, Prunella Scales, and much more.
- My three previous columns for Halloween.
- Halloween Ruins Throwback Thursday.
- The League of Throwback Thursday.
- Teenage Throwback Thursday.
- The cold weather has arrived!
- Another ghoul looting graves.
- A Boris Karloff triple feature.
- R.I.P. Stephanie Johnson.
- “Youth group leader“.
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I do not weep because my best friend died; I weep because I have to go on living without her. – “Day of the Dead 2025”
Every year on this day I remind my readers about the inevitability and goodness of Death, and the passing of my beloved friend Grace has not changed that. Unlike the powerful and privileged men who embrace childish fantasies about life extension or even immortality to assuage their fear of the dark, sane, mature minds do not whine and stomp their feet in protest of the fact that all who are born must die; rather, they grieve those loved ones they have lost and prepare as best they can (spiritually, emotionally, and practically) for the day when they, too, must depart this plane to make room for the uncountable numbers who have yet to arrive.
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Happy Halloween, dear readers, and Blessed Be!
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