It’s chick time again! I used to get my chicks at Tractor Supply, but they do first come, first served and a lot more people are buying chicks in the past few years than there used to be, so now I’m ordering them from the feed store over in the county seat. This year I got four Rhode Island reds; regular readers know I rotate the colors to make it easy to keep track of their ages (because chickens only lay for 2-3 years). Technically, last year should’ve been reds, but at the time I still had two reds and only one white, so I got whites last year (and the last one died a few months ago). Our last red died just recently, so it worked out almost perfectly; next year should be some dark color, though these blacks turned out to be disappointing layers, so I’ll need to do a little research on which dark-colored breeds lay as well as the reds and whites. But one way or the other, chick season always makes me smile every time I go into the bathroom where they live, and sometimes when it’s quiet I can hear their peeping through a closed door and all the way in the living room.
Modern “news” stories about food are rarely anything but stupid, often painfully so. Take this example from a week ago:
“Boy kibble” is one of the hottest food trends on social media today. Fitness influencers are cooking up a simple combination of ground beef and rice for a quick, low-calorie hit…Some men on social media admit to eating the meal up to seven times per week as a cheap way to build muscle…The simple and bland boy kibble diet is the newest entrant in the protein craze…
Cooked meat with rice has been a working-class staple in south Louisiana for centuries, where it’s called “dirty rice”. It’s not “kibble”, it’s not only for “boys”, and it’s only a “trend” because 21st-century Americans are largely herd animals who think meals should be exercises in either orthorexia or box-checking. My mother used to make it with ground beef, but I’ve seen people prepare it with everything from chicken livers to Italian sausage. There’s not really any “right” way to make it, though if your version is “bland” I wouldn’t try to feed it to a Louisianan if I were you. There is, however, a lesson here about how little difference in effort there is between palatable meals and something that could be called “kibble”, so I’m going to share my simple recipe. I’ve been making it this way for roughly 20 years, since the time my wasband told me he’d have liked it better if it had more gravy. It’s so simple, in fact, that it doesn’t even need to be broken into steps. First, cook a cup of rice in two cups of water. While that’s simmering, make two cups of beef bouillon; if you’re pathologically lazy, I think they have brown gravy mix in envelopes, in which case you can skip the flour in the next step. Then brown a pound of ground meat in a large skillet over medium heat; you can add chopped onion if you like, but I generally don’t. I add a tablespoon of Tony Chachere’s to the browning meat, but if you have a Yankee palate and can’t handle spices you could just use a half-teaspoon each of salt & pepper. When the meat is done, add a quarter cup of flour and stir until it is absorbed (less than a minute), then add the bouillon and stir until it starts to bubble (it won’t take long), then for one minute more. Turn off the heat, dump the rice into the skillet, and mix well. Total cooking time (discounting the rice), maybe ten minutes; easy enough for any incel to cook, and good enough that not even a sniffy “lifestyle” journalist will be tempted to compare it to dog food.Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous | Tagged Louisiana, recipes | 5 Comments »
[Computer programs do] not understand “stakes” as humans perceive them. – Tong Zhao
When an especially-prolific musician dies, I often choose one of his lesser-known works as a memorial; this Neil Sedaka composition is quite different from the pop songs he’s known for. The links above the video were provided by Matt Welch, Popehat, IncarcerNation (x2), T. Greg Doucette, and Mark Bennett, in that order.
- R.I.P. Neil Sedaka.
- Last week in artificial stupidity.
- Cops murder man for sleeping while black.
- Another triumph for cop suicide assistance.
- They keep demonstrating exactly what they are.
- New York reporter has clearly never seen an actual pig.
From the Archives
- The 1st Amendment has been so eroded it needs state law to give it teeth.
- Garbage responds to women’s deaths by trying to endanger other women.
- It’s only been six years since the UK lost in court the last time it tried this.
- When will the mainstream media admit that pigs in schools are a menace?
- I was fated to be threatened with state violence regardless of career path.
- Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses.
- David Johansen, Michelle Trachtenberg, Gene Hackman, and much more.
- Busybodies are most infuriated by affairs that are none of their business.
- Erosion of civil liberties starts with “undesirables”, but never stops there.
- I’m sure “anti-trafficking” crusaders will be going after this any day now.
- Cops try to combine fentanyl hysteria with panicmongering over edibles.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- Give aggressive thugs power over teens; what could possibly go wrong?
- I’ll believe Facebook is going to use encryption when it actually does it.
- Another moronic culture war “monkey see, monkey do” parade begins.
- How “excited delirium” was invented as an excuse for murder by cops.
- Trans people have become another canary in the civil rights coal mine.
- As an LSU MLIS alumna, I am qualified to declare this bat-shit insane.
- Female “youth ministers” aren’t safe either, at least if they’re married.
- Politicians will use any asinine rhetoric to gain control of the internet.
- Cop deals with others as he normally does, and the press is shocked.
- Government persecution now extends far beyond their own borders.
- “Disciplinary action” = asking rapists to “think about what they did”.
- Cops, puritanism, Ricou Browning, Wayne Shorter, and much more.
- Hollywood profits from sex workers while discriminating against us.
- Cops don’t care how many false positives these systems shit out.
- Starting a new D&D campaign for the first time in over a decade.
- Rapist cops are typical and representative of their warped breed.
- This blog has a lot more infrastructure than most people realize.
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- Fanatics’ crusade to control all human thought is never-ending.
- Montana politicians are trying to reduce all women to serfdom.
- Your “leaders” refer to this mindless brutality as “correction”.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Fixing a leaky hot tub seal with my own soft little hands.
- By now, the title “youth pastor” should be a big red flag.
- Wannabe preachers are often as bad as the real thing.
- Medical confidentiality has gone the way of the dodo.
- Governments worldwide are emulating China’s evil.
- My two previous posts for Sex Worker Rights Day.
- Another victory for US evangelical prohibitionists.
- Cops, Georgia, Steve Lawrence, and much more.
- The legacy of Operation Choke Point and its ilk.
- Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- It’s nice to see a journalist getting it for once.
- An excerpt from Rikki de la Vega’s new book.
- Black beauties with a calm temperament.
- These thieves have absolutely no shame.
- My three previous posts for Mardi Gras.
- What remains when a loved one dies.
- You can’t keep a bad bill down.
- Good riddance to bad rubbish.
- Throwback Thursday 1980.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- A classic case of “NHI”.
- Ghost of Fridaystein.
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In a sane culture we wouldn’t praise people for baselessly calling the cops on strangers. – Elizabeth N. Brown
[Texas politician] Tony Gonzales…faced growing pressure to resign…[because] he [raped] a staff member [and sexually harassed her so severely afterward that she committed suicide by self-immolation]…Gonzales…has denied [sending the texts, claim]ing…the[y]…were part of a smear campaign by his top rival in the race, Brandon Herrera[, apparently expecting people to believe that Herrera repeatedly spoofed his phone number]…
The moral panic is over, but useful idiots still love to sic cops on strangers:
…Jonathan Puddle…had the audacity to take his teenage daughter to an Ontario coffee shop. When another patron saw the pair together—an older man with a teenager!—he…followed the Puddles to their car, questioned them, and then called the police…[who took] an image of the pair…from a security camera and [blasted it out] online…[to] tens of thousands of people as [though they were fugitives]…”See something, say something” started as a War on Terror slogan and eventually morphed into a mantra employed by the Department of [Father]land Security…in anti–sex…campaigns…so…large swaths of the public [now believe that]…spying on and reporting fellow citizens based on vague vibes is the key to keeping everyone safe…
Everything I read about modern corporate work makes me happier I became a whore:
…“Bossware” refers to the technology some managers use to s[py on] employees…The term was popularized by a 2020 report from the [EFF]…Managers have always sought to keep an eye on employees to make operations more efficient. But the rise of [machine learning systems]…has [made it more demoralizing, humiliating, and toxic]…In…trucking, for example, [computeriz]ed video tools can trigger real-time alerts if a driver looks [anywhere but straight ahead, and]…in some white-collar desk jobs…employers are using algorithmic and biometric tools to [micromanage employees]…The use of work-surveillance technology took off during the pandemic. As many people started working remotely, [nosy control-freak] employers began…tracking keyboard strokes, taking screenshots and monitoring pauses [because they were no longer able to lurk behind employees and breathe down their necks]…The goal of these tools is to [wring] more out of workers…but [they are typically poor indicators of]…how much work someone is actually getting done…Beyond the psychological toll, “bossware” tools…present “serious health and safety risks for workers,” including potential physical injury…
Belief in the magic power of “protective orders” gets women killed:
The town of Kenbridge [Virginia] and its [cop shop have been sued for]…$140 million…by Heather Burrow…[for] gross negligence among other claims…[because she] asked the police chief for protection from [her cop ex-boyfriend] Charles Aaron Stokes. Instead of providing protection, the chief [told]…Stokes [so he could retaliate, and he did so by shooting] her…multiple times within minutes of being told…Stokes is facing separate criminal charges [but]…is not named in the civil lawsuit…
This is your regular reminder that SCOTUS has ruled that the police have no duty to protect citizens.
Surely you didn’t think this would stop with the internet?
California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043), signed by…Gavin Newsom in October…[demands that] every operating system provider in California…collect age information from users at account setup and transmit that data to app developers…with the law taking effect on January 1, 2027. The law’s broad definition of an “operating system provider”…pulls in not just Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, but Linux distributions and Valve’s SteamOS…Developers…are [thereby] “deemed to have actual knowledge” of their users’ age range under the law, [thus] shift[ing] legal liability for [enforcing politicians’ notions of] age-appropriate content…onto [people the state can more easily and profitably rob via fines]…up to…$7,500…Despite signing it, Newsom issued a statement urging the legislature to amend the law before its effective date, [thus allowing him to have his cake and eat it as well. Since politicians are too stupid to understand the concept of open source software, it should be amusing to watch their moronic flailing when they try to]…enforce…[their stupid law] against Linux distributions, [which]…have no centralized account infrastructure…
It doesn’t help young victims of state violence to infantilize them:
All unaccompanied immigrant [minors] who are pregnant, many by rape, are being [concentrated in] a single [camp] in Texas in order to avoid providing abortion services…Since July, more than a dozen pregnant [girls] have been [traffick]ed to…the [camp, near the] town of San Benito…[most are 15 to 16, but some] are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, [though] in Texas, [that makes no difference]…When a pregnant [minor] is moved to Texas…she can’t access an abortion – without a federal official needing to deny [it]…Because of their young age, “many of them will be comparatively high-risk pregnancies” who need specialized care…[but] the south Texas [concentration camp has no such] facilit[ies and]…is hours away from [any] major cities…equipped to offer that care…
Politicians want to “regulate” consensual sex, but not this dangerous fantasy:
ChatGPT Health regularly misses the need for medical urgent care and frequently fails to detect suicidal ideation…[yet] OpenAI…promotes [it] as a way for users to “securely connect medical records and [health surveillance] apps” to generate health advice…The first independent safety evaluation of ChatGPT Health…found it under-triaged more than half of the cases presented to it…[in comparison with] three [actual] doctors…In 51.6% of cases where someone needed to go to the hospital immediately, the platform said stay home or book a routine medical appointment…[they] wouldn’t live to see…Meanwhile, 64.8% of completely safe individuals were told to seek immediate medical care…
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A few years ago, in “The Sparkle of a Star“, I wrote: “When I last watched [Bewitched], in my late teens or very early twenties, I naturally identified most with Samantha. But on this rewatch, I found myself identifying with her mother, Endora…” But Bewitched isn’t the only show about witches I’ve loved, and Endora not the only no-longer-young woman character I find myself increasingly identifying with as I myself progress into cronehood. Obviously, this isn’t surprising, but I do find it amusing.
I ran into another example of it recently when I decided to revisit Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s Witch series. My own period of reading YA fiction was short, and largely confined to when I was 8 to 9; by 10 I was mostly reading light adult fantasy and sci-fi, mixed with some of the juveniles written by more typically adult authors like Robert Heinlein (Red Planet, Podkayne of Mars, etc) or those borrowed from the library by my younger siblings whose covers caught my eye (which is how I discovered one of my favorite books, Magic in the Alley by Mary Calhoun. And by 12 there weren’t many even in that category. So though I was of the right age to read Witch’s Sister when it was published in 1975, it never popped up in the Scholastic Books flyer we got at school, nor did I spot it in the library back then. In fact, I only discovered it in a rather roundabout manner, through my habit of scanning the new TV Guide magazine each week in search of anything I might enjoy (since in the days before home video, that was the only way to discover treasures). One week, in the spring of 1980 IIRC, I noticed a listing in the Saturday morning show Big Blue Marble (which I didn’t watch even before I gave up on Saturday morning fare) for a 6-part TV movie called Witch’s Sister. Naturally the title caught my attention, so I watched it and was immediately hooked; besides being an interesting story, I identified with both 10-year-old Lynn Morley (because I had a hyperactive imagination at her age also) and her 16-year-old sister Judith (because I was Goth before there was such a thing, and like her enjoyed spooking my younger siblings).
It only aired once or twice (I only saw it once) and I despaired of ever seeing it again, but during a short period when I had free premium cable in 1988 it turned up on Showtime as a unified TV movie. I of course taped it, and on a rewatch during my time as a librarian I noticed in the credits that it was based on a book; we had it in the library so I read and enjoyed it and its two sequels, which had been published in 1977 and 1978. Sometime later I transferred the movie to DVD and discovered several more sequels (published in the early ’90s) and bought them on Amazon, but never got around to reading them until recently. The reason was simple: after starting this blog in 2010 I had very little time for pleasure reading, and that only changed a year ago with Grace’s death. So for the past year, I’ve been scanning my shelves for books I own but had not yet read, and a couple of weeks ago realized I had never read those later books in the series. Since it had been over 30 years since I read the first three I started with them, and discovered to my amusement that while I still remembered feeling like Lynn as a tween and Judith as a teen, I now found myself more than a little sympathetic with Mrs. Tuggle, the elderly Englishwoman who was Lynn’s nemesis in the books! Though in the later books she was definitely a wicked witch, in the first (and IMHO the best) of the series that was portrayed with far less certainty (and in the movie which inspired my love for the stories, she was almost certainly not a real witch). So as I read, I started thinking about how I’d feel if a couple of nosy 10-year-old girls started making strange accusations, sneaking into my house to steal my things, and terrorizing my cat. And now I’m a bit wary of watching Bell, Book and Candle again.
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“Make The Empire Great Again!” is not a new idea. – “Blake’s 5”
When governments are allowed to be arbiters of fact…they wrongly label as “disinformation” facts which those in power find inconvenient. – “Disinformation About Disinformation”
Though politicians and profiteers still use “sex trafficking” as a handy excuse for tyranny, other excuses have become more fashionable and at least the endless stories about idiots with taped mouths parading around to “raise awareness” of cops’ wanking fantasies have largely dried up. – “Four Times Four“
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People [can] just tell them politely to fuck off. – Yves Jeanrenaud
A[n assistant politician in Alaska named]…Craig Scott Valdez…[has been] indicted by a federal grand jury…[for] production of child pornography…he [regularly]…used Snapchat to “groom and entice juvenile [girls]”…The indictment references a specific…15-year-old girl in Anchorage last October, though the FBI has identified at least 11 other…victims…
“Having a sexual relationship” is such a nice way to say “molesting”:
A [typical and representative] pastor at a Western Kentucky church has been arrested for [repeat]edly [molest]ing…a minor [for four to five years, starting when she was 12 or 13]…David Rodgers…was immediately fired and prohibited from participating in church-sponsored functions…he…admitted to the [crime and then killed himself]…after posting a $75,000 bond…
History will remember the early 21st century as a time of worldwide repression:
Two young women in their early 20s were arrested in Northwestern Uganda…after neighbors r[att]ed [on] them [to cops for] kissing in public and hosting other women in their one-room apartment…Wendy Faith…and Alesa Diana Denise…[had only been] in…the…apartment [for a] week…[when evil monsters sicced the cops on them] on February 18…Human rights activists…condemned the arrests…[explain]ing the “Kill the Gays” law fuels blackmail and extortion against…LGBT…[people. Earlier in the month] a…court rejected the first case brought under the [law because]…the [victim’s health had deteriorated so badly] due to his extended detention in [a filthy cage] between arrest and trial…[and politicians] associated with the [unpopular law, pushed and bankrolled by US evangelical groups including Morality in Media and Family Watch International, have been]…defeated in [recent] reelection bids…
“Smart” devices aren’t, part umpteen thousand:
A software engineer’s earnest effort to steer his new DJI robot vacuum [cleaner] with a video game controller inadvertently granted him a sneak peak into thousands of people’s homes…Sammy Azdoufal…reverse-engineer[ed] how the robot communicated with DJI’s remote cloud servers…[and] discovered that the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other vacuums across 24 countries…[which] could have [allowed cops or spooks]…to [use them as] surveillance tools…without their owners ever knowing…DJI [claim]s…the issue has been “resolved”…[but] experts who have long warned that internet-connected…devices present attractive [opportunities] for [surveillance]…
Anthropic, the wildly successful [“]AI[” scam outfit] that has cast itself as the most safety-conscious of the top [chatbot makers], is dropping the central pledge of its flagship safety policy…In 2023, Anthropic committed to never train a…[chatbot] unless it could guarantee in advance that the company’s safety measures were adequate…But in recent months the company decided to radically overhaul the [policy by] scrapping the promise to not release [chatbots] if Anthropic can’t guarantee proper risk mitigations in advance…Anthropic’s c[o-found]er Jared Kaplan…[said] “We didn’t really feel, with the rapid [inflation] of [the “]AI[” bubble], that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments…if competitors are [making more money than us]”…When Anthropic introduced the [policy] in 2023, Kaplan…hoped it would encourage rivals to adopt similar measures…But [since they didn’t]…the company [realized that]…“If one [chatbot maker] paused development to implement safety measures while others moved forward [recklessly]…that could result in a world [where we make less money than them]”…
A good idea that needs to increase by several orders of magnitude:
…in La Mesa, a small city just east of San Diego, California, observers happened upon a pair of destroyed Flock cameras…just weeks after the city decided, in [spite] of public protest, to continue its contracts with the surveillance company…In recent months, people have been smashing and dismantling the surveillance devices, in incidents reported in at least five states, from coast to coast…reflect[ing] growing anger…over the surveillance technology…Flock…readers…gather not just license plate images, but other identifying data used to ‘fingerprint’ vehicles, their owners, and their movements. This data can be collected, stored, and accessed without a warrant, making it…popular w[ith cop shops, spook houses, and goon squads]…
Every weapon eventually begets a defense:
A new…app warns if people nearby may be wearing s[urveillance] glasses…which stalkers and harassers have repeatedly used to film people without their knowledge or consent. The app scans for smart glasses’ distinctive Bluetooth signatures and sends a push alert if it detects [one]…in the local area…“I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech,” [said] Yves Jeanrenaud, the…sociologist who made the app…[which] works by looking for Bluetooth “advertising frames”, which are small bits of data devices regularly broadcast as part of their normal operation. Jeanrenaud…decided to make the app after reading [about men]…filming [sex workers and ICE goons wearing them during pogroms. He said]…after identifying a device, a user “may act accordingly”…
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Happy Sex Worker Rights Day to all my sisters and brothers, and our supporters. Here’s a linked list of everything I’ve written for the occasion.
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As you can see, Axel has continued his progress from nervous wreck to very good boy. I caught this picture of he and Speck bathing together on the 14th, and I’ve seen them even closer than that on occasion. Speck has returned to her habit of wanting to be close to me while I’m unwinding on the sofa, though not as much while I’m working at the computer (which is probably for the best); he lies on the other side of me, sometimes cuddled very close to my legs, so he and Speck are less than an arm’s length apart for hours. He doesn’t even stare at her any more, nor does he try to chase Rocky or Lilith when he’s in the atrium, so last week I took a chance on bringing him through the chicken yard with me to go up the ramp, and he barely even looked at the hens. Yesterday, I decreased his trazodone from 75 mg/day (where he was for all of February) down to 50, and in two more weeks I plan to just start giving him 50 at bedtime rather than splitting it into two doses; I figure that will give me an idea if we’re getting close to taking him off of the meds entirely, since his blood levels should be pretty low by the time each evening rolls around. I think the warmer, drier weather is also helping, because he can spend a lot more time running around and sunbathing outdoors and playing with Trip, so he has less pent-up energy at the end of the day. Assuming that all goes well, it looks like he’ll be off the meds by June, and I imagine by the end of the summer his bad times should be no more than a dim memory in his little doggie brain.
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Ah, a proud assitarian. – MechaHitler
Here’s another unusual cover from a performer we’ve seen before; it was provided by Asawin Suebsaeng. I’d argue that “Purple Rain” as performed by Prince was already blues, but this more traditional arrangement makes that more obvious. The links above it were provided by Phoenix Calida; Nun Ya; Desiree Alliance and Dan Savage; T. Greg Doucette; and IncarcerNation (x2), in that order.
- This week in artificial stupidity.
- To lose two looks like carelessness.
- R.I.P. Robert Duvall and Jesse Jackson.
- Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- It’s dangerous to be anywhere near a cop, “on duty” or otherwise.
- Cops are increasingly framing their brutal murders as absurd suicides.
From the Archives
- There’s no legitimate reason for a vending machine to have this capability.
- Another company the government is using “sex trafficking” myths against.
- The state feigns shock when men abuse power it gives them over women.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Outsourcing one’s judgment to politicians & bureaucrats is a terrible idea.
- Nobody is safe until this odious practice is recognized as unconstitutional.
- The hysteria is imploding so hard, it’s falling all the way back to its roots.
- Censorious politicians compete to make their laws more unconstitutional.
- Erosion of civil rights starts with the marginalized, but never stops there.
- Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will multiply until ruled unconstitutional.
- Authoritarians don’t care if your kind of sex work is (temporarily) “legal”.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- No rape charges; her remains were too far gone for evidence to survive.
- Shotspotter is a boondoggle designed to create false evidence for cops.
- Alabama has at long last got the “fetal personhood” it claimed to want.
- The headline is a bit misleading; he was found guilty of manslaughter.
- The entire “troubled teen” industry needs to be sued out of existence.
- This happens much more at “Christian” schools than at other schools.
- Doctors must keep suing cops who claim license to practice medicine.
- A good article about why the madonna/whore duality is pure bullshit.
- Texas doesn’t care how many women die because of its terrible laws.
- Bad laws just keep returning no matter how often they are defeated.
- The US flushes incalculable resources down the “culture war” toilet.
- Retrospectives of my blogging for February 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- Maybe this will teach fools what a danger biometric ID actually is.
- Oklahoma is another state which seems to simply hate women.
- The war on trans people has expanded to include drag queens.
- The claims in these nuisance lawsuits are increasingly absurd.
- Preachy perverts nearly always blame their crimes on others.
- Where “disgraced” is used to mean “accurately represented”.
- Paxton doesn’t actually give a damn about women’s sports.
- Crumbs thrown to the peasants from their masters’ tables.
- Nevada model proselytizing can always be safely ignored.
- Nebraska’s float in the “monkey see, monkey do” parade.
- Useful idiots think the leopards will never eat their faces.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Roger Corman, and much more.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- By now, the title “youth pastor” should be a big red flag.
- Cops, Elvis, Roberta Flack, Jerry Butler, and much more.
- Trumpist propaganda dismisses book bans as a “hoax”.
- The most Orwellian case of censorship so far this year.
- Presentation is not exactly my strong point as a cook.
- Your “leaders” say this trash is fit to “correct” others.
- This idiotic culture war has an actual body count.
- Throwback Thursday Has Risen from the Grave.
- Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- Trans men are also targets of horrific violence.
- Another box of baby dinosaurs in my lavatory.
- The fourth leap year since I started this blog.
- Just another typical and representative cop.
- A small memorial observance for Grace.
- What did this guy think he was, a cop?
- Cops, British rap, and much more.
- Good riddance to bad rubbish.
- This just keeps getting better.
- Fallback Friday.
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