Archive for April, 2020
May Eve 2020
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on April 30, 2020| Leave a Comment »
In the News (#1034)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged A Broker in Pillage, activism, asset seizure, censorship, cops, disease, hysteria, Idaho, internet, lawheads, Like Houses, politicians, porn, pragmatism, sex work is work, Social Distancing, Spain, stage names, surveillance, United Kingdom, Working From Home on April 29, 2020| 2 Comments »
Marginalized communities have always taken care of each other because the state explicitly excludes us. – Molly Simmons
The number of excuses government uses for robbery keeps growing:
…a Delaware supplier of medical equipment [has reported that federal goons stole]…hundreds of thousands of N95 respirators [under color of law]. George Gianforcaro …of…Indutex USA…said the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not pay him when it [stole two imported shipments of masks bound for customers…includ[ing] Delaware nursing facilities, the state of Michigan and boat captains who steer foreign ships through U.S. bays. He…does not know where the seized…masks are today…FEMA appeared to deny Gianforcaro’s charge without addressing the specific claims. It called reports of its officials [stealing] supplies of…critical equipment “false” [despite the fact that it’s obviously happening]…
I’m sure you amateurs are happy to be censored “for THE CHILDREN™!”:
Zoom is [attempting to censor] nudity following reports that users have been organizing orgies and sex parties during COVID-19 quarantine. The video conferencing app…surged in popularity this year after [politicians started ordering people to stay home under pain of police violence]…But as users find creative ways to maintain their social lives through Zoom, the company is…[proclaiming that its] “user policies explicitly prohibit any obscene, indecent, illegal, or violent activity or content”…Zoom declined to clarify…whether…bots would patrol meetings looking for users in various states of undress…But some are skeptical…[because] the company’s own privacy guidelines [claim] that “video, audio chat content is not stored…unless a meeting is recorded by the host,” making it difficult for Zoom to monitor or surveil content…
Sex workers must help each other, because few others will:
In the midst of a pandemic that has completely overwhelmed institutional support structures…communities [have] organize[d] mutual aid projects to redistribute resources among the most vulnerable [while politicians issue authoritarian proclamations and point fingers at one another]. Sex worker organizing could be a model for this…There is a deep history of mutual aid and redistribution—both formal and informal—within the sex worker community. As it became clear that Covid-19 would hit the United States with the force of a…disaster, sex workers were among the first to respond with broadscale mutual aid efforts…outside of [the] official [and destructive] government response…
The power to declare something “non-essential” is the power to ban it:
Christa Thompson was…charged…with a [“crime”] that carries a fine of up to $1,000 and the possibility of six months in jail. The crime? Holding a yard sale…[because politicians have declared it] not an essential business…[pigs claim] the governor’s order…[prohibits her] selling her father-in-law’s property in order to pay bills and buy groceries for her six kids…
It’s been a while since we’ve talked about stage names:
In the age of social distancing, camming has become the way to go…for adult entertainment performers…[and] amateurs [alike]…But as more models join in the online [work]…some well-established [sex workers] are increasingly finding their moneymaking names or similar ones—including those protected by trademark—being used by fakes, frauds and phonies on various cam sites. Industry attorney Lawrence Walters…says those individuals [starting online sex work]…especially need to be concerned about their stage names not riding on the coattails of established performers…“If the chosen name is the same, or confusingly similar to, an existing registered mark, this could spell trouble for the performer…Even if there is no federal [or state] trademark registration, the brand…may be used by someone without a registration, who could still have superior ‘common law’ rights.” It is best to legally clear a stage name before sinking substantial funds into marketing and promotion…
If you didn’t expect censorship, you are hopelessly naive:
The local television station London Live is facing sanctions after the [government opined that]…it had posed a threat to the public’s health by showing a lengthy interview with [professional crackpot] David Icke about the coronavirus pandemic…Icke used the broadcast to [propose the notion] that the pandemic was cover for a supposed global world order to purposefully crash the economy, end the use of cash payments, and track every individual…
Compare to the ugly behavior of France & the US:
There are literally thousands of European sex workers stuck in Spain, unable to repatriate to their country of origin, who have pleaded for help…there will be funds made available for housing and care to all…sex [workers]…in most major cities across Spain. The government wants this income to guarantee “the minimum subsistence conditions,” provided that they meet the agreed criteria. The women, many of them foreigners existing in illegal situations, generally live in social isolation…without access to the resources of the local environment…
Diary #513
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset, Washington (state) on April 28, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Despite having raised chickens many times, I never cease to be awed by the speed at which they grow. My pullets are only eight weeks old, but look at how big they are already (and the shelf on which they’re sitting there is over four feet off the floor). I started letting them out of the henhouse during daylight hours at the beginning of last week, and by Saturday they were running around the chicken yard. I also bought an automatic chicken door which opens at dawn and closes after sunset, so if Grace is here alone she doesn’t need to drag herself out there to let them in or out. We also extended the fence so the pony and llama would have more greenery to graze and browse upon, and worked up the floor plan for the bathhouse; yesterday we ordered the first of the wood, concrete and other stuff we’ll need, while we were there buying the flooring for the living room and Grace’s room. And even though I’ll be returning to Seattle on Sunday, I plan to spend a lot more weekends out at Sunset this year, and I’m working on getting things so that it’s easy and comfortable for me to do that.
Back Issue #82
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on April 27, 2020| 1 Comment »
Police…will continue to be [corrupt] until humanity grows up enough to stop giving power…to its least-evolved members. – “Election Day”
- Ghanaian sex work articles can be just as weirdly stupid as Nigerian ones.
- Prohibitionists now claim Backpage was “barred” from publishing sex ads.
- Judge lectures young sex workers about cop-created danger of sex work.
- Never mind the concentration camps Russia already had for sex workers.
- A kind of essay that’s common in the Canadian press, but rare in the US.
- Michigan cops now have to lie about raping us, as in the other 49 states.
- Prohibitionists’ attachment to this dumb canard is working against them.
- A politician is someone who believes one can never have too many laws.
- UK press, partying like it’s 1999 & nobody’s heard of escort reviews yet.
- Laura Lee on the possible wider effects of her Swedish model challenge.
- What’s more pretentious than an opera based on a current moral panic?
- This was only investigated because unsolved cases make cops look bad.
- Again, prohibitionists demonstrate their total contempt for sex workers.
- Technically competent but woefully naive kids exploited by police state.
- Another of the men who want to “protect” Seattle from consensual sex.
- Female free will is incomprehensible to “law enforcement” misogynists.
- Delicious schadenfreude: prohibitionists’ lies coming back to bite them.
- “Having sexual conduct” is an especially clumsy euphemism for “rape”.
- Defining adults as children makes it much easier to create bogus stats.
- Cops empowered to diagnose us as “victims” no matter what we think.
- It’s especially important that women make anti-prohibition arguments.
- If only amateurs realized that this is the norm, not a deviation from it.
- The UK/US competition to destroy civil liberties using “sex trafficking”.
- Hysterical phone calls don’t correlate meaningfully with actual events.
- Trying to stop an omnipresent voluntary activity older than humanity.
- Facts magically become evil when somebody says “THE CHILDREN!!!”
- Turkey continues its campaign to close brothels despite their legality.
- Pigs claim they have to stick their snouts into people’s personal lives.
- “Authorities” rape toddlers if shamans declare their parents unclean.
- Has this histrionic now made a rotting moral panic her whole career?
- Americans want anyone who ever did wrong to be punished forever.
- Puritans hate women who are comfortable paying our rent with sex.
- SCOTUS recently reaffirmed the unconstitutionality of loyalty oaths.
- NCMEC is among the most dangerous of the anti-sex organizations.
- One day I hope to see myself described as a “rebellious prostitute”.
- Our cop-worshiping culture lauds this sexual predator as a “hero”.
- “Rescuers” swoop in to “regulate” women’s jobs out of existence.
- Describing an act of barbaric violence like a visit to a thrift store.
- “Competition” from fancy fleshlights? Really, ladies, calm down.
- If I weren’t already sterile, I’d get myself sterilized immediately.
- Defining a non-crime as a “crime” creates all kinds of problems.
- Edmonton, Alberta literally treats sex workers like wild animals.
- Others recognize the War on Whores as the new War on Drugs.
- When sex is involved, a poison pen letter is considered “proof”.
- Nice to see cops ruin the life of one of their own for a change.
- Even if PROUD supports this, I’m still skeptical of the subtext.
- There’re so many reasons sex worker licensing is a bad idea.
- The coven in which I feel safe and loved grows a little larger.
- The censors who want the internet destroyed are at it again.
- Do prohibitionist idiots ever bother to think before speaking?
- From the headline writer who asked, “Is the Pope Catholic?”
- Arizona wants hospitals to rat sex workers out to the pigs.
- The whorearchy here is so thick it can be cut with a knife.
- US elections are always accompanied by virtue-signaling.
- “An increase in sex trafficking in northwestern Montana“.
- How can a newlywed woman increase her sexual desire?
- Men: pay your whores! Ladies: get the money up front!
- US courts declare taboo pictures worse than child rape.
- It’s no longer safe for men to travel with their children.
- The Libertarian Republic is Republican, not libertarian.
- Prohibitionists just can’t stop beating this dead horse.
- An interview with Laura Agustín about her new book.
- The one and only case of an actual barcode tattoo.
- More on the oppression of Ukrainian sex workers.
- Politician wants to prosecute crimes in civil court.
- Once again, actual figures disprove the hysteria.
- An excerpt from the new novel by T.J. Corcoran.
- Massage parlor pogroms are coming to Canada.
- Thaddeus Russell interviews me on his podcast.
- Sex is an exchange, whether you like it or not.
- This tells me all I need to know about Harlots.
- Even Myanmar gets it more than the US does.
- The release of The Forms of Things Unknown.
- Bollywood figures support sex worker rights.
- The larger implications of anti-sex toy laws.
- Preparing to launch my website bookstore.
- I’d really like to be wrong once in a while.
- May Aphrodite grant that I learn to relax.
- Who comes up with this infantile rubbish?
- Melissa Petro on working while pregnant.
- A snazzy T-shirt to support sex workers.
- Why April Fools’ Day isn’t fun any more.
- The real effect of “sex trafficking” laws.
- My last visit to my ranch in Oklahoma.
- George Will is apparently going senile.
- An argument I’ve often made myself.
- This would never happen in the US.
- The many kinds of Roman whores.
- Miranda Kane on annoying clients.
- Moral panic + censorship = profit.
- My first Guy Fawkes Day column.
- Sex worker rights at the UN.
- On Jezebel and other stuff.
- Rapist cops of April 2017.
- An incredibly busy week.
- My last selfie at Avalon.
- Cishet male privilege!
- An antique dildo.
- On Amsterdam.
Links #512
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged animals, California, cops, disease, Illinois, imaginative fiction, politicians, United Kingdom, video on April 26, 2020| 1 Comment »
Live forever. – Mr. Electrico
This video is no surprise, given that it’s one of my favorite songs and I’ve featured videos from the lovely Luna before. The links above it were provided by Juvenile Bluster, Mark Bennett, Anarras Ansible, Jesse Walker, Boatfloating, and Jesse Walker again, in that order.
- Much more of this, please.
- How to name animals in German.
- Buying sports equipment while black.
- Young Ray Bradbury meets Mr. Electrico.
- A cat and a dog debate ending “shelter in place”.
- No sillier than a lot of what US politicians claim, really.
From the Archives
- Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, others pose as cops to facilitate rape.
- “With faggots out of the way…we can focus on helping their child victims”.
- “A brief period of time”, when DHS is building a giant biometric database.
- Puritanical language is an intrinsic part of any massage parlor raid story.
- The last attempt to start this hysteria also involved exactly three cases.
- Irish prohibitionists celebrated this increase in violence vs sex workers.
- This will happen much more until a replacement for Backpage appears.
- At last, the psychiatric community takes aim at “porn addiction” myth.
- Could this racist attempt to deter black migrants be more transparent?
- Massage parlors are now taking the brunt of “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Americans will believe basically any scaremongering about teenagers.
- UK cops keep pretending they want to “help” the women they harass.
- Ric Curtis, Jon Jay study primary, is still debunking prohibitionist lies.
- NYC is way behind Seattle, Phoenix & Houston in promoting hysteria.
- One of those rare instances where a rapist really was a “former” cop.
- My feeings about cop fans, with help from the late, great Ted Geisel.
- Tyranny starts with despised minorities, but never stops with them.
- FOSTA may have been a serious miscalculation by the government.
- A disproportionate number of pimps who actually do exist are cops.
- Sometimes they don’t even hide the hysteria’s religious foundation.
- Your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
- Another complete shitshow involving a sleazy review board owner.
- The Young Liberals have pushed to repeal this law since it passed.
- Cops, progressivism, Waffle House, Bob Dorough and much more.
- Ken White explains the latest wrinkle in the Stormy Daniels case.
- This outcome was obvious once Trump appointed Huber to HHS.
- Are we now going to retroactively label all cults “sex trafficking”?
- “Sex trafficking” means whatever “authorities” want it to mean.
- I’m sure she was chained up & actually owned in a legal sense.
- “Sex addiction” charlatans fight to keep the gravy train rolling.
- Every so often the Nevada brothels are threatened by zealots.
- I’m pleased so many reporters recognized Harris’ sociopathy.
- Because they care so very much about “trafficking victims”.
- The right way to cancel an appointment with a sex worker.
- Prohibitionists just can’t stop beating this dead horse.
- Cops, politicians, millipedes, Nilsson and much more.
- Indian sex workers are tired of politicians’ bullshit.
- People sometimes ask why I’m not on Facebook.
- No, this sociopath isn’t pro-decriminalization.
- Dealing with an overstimulated pineal gland.
- Stereotypic conformation in progress.
- It’s just going to keep getting worse.
- Getting to meet one of my heroines.
- Far beyond mere spooge-throwing.
- Welcome back to the 16th century.
- My most generous special of 2018.
- April 2015 and 2016 in retrospect.
- All prohibitionism is the same.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- A classic case of NHI.
- A MILLION!!!!!
In the News (#1033)
Posted in Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged censorship, dehumanization, disease, Dominican Republic, France, internet, Neither Addiction nor Epidemic, porn, psychology, Social Distancing, Storyville, Swedish model, The Course of a Disease, The Pro-Rape Coalition, The Red Umbrella, video, violence vs. sex workers, Virginia on April 25, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Sex isn’t a binary problem, where you can just say “don’t do it”. – “Daniel”
Kaytlin Bailey presents a “whore’s eye view” of history:
As long as sex work is marginalized, sex workers will be targeted for violence:
…two women were critically injured…[on the] night [of March 10th] in [Virginia]…[they were hospitalized] with life-threatening injuries consistent with blunt force trauma…
The Course of a Disease (#729)
The “Swedish model” helps women!
In France…anyone selling sex must pay taxes like everyone else. But many…sex workers…are [excluded from] state income support, despite seeing their income disappear as a result of the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. Sex-worker organisations are now calling on the government to create an emergency fund to help the most vulnerable among their number…[but] it is unlikely the state will agree…[because] France has [Swedish criminalization, in which sex workers are infantilized and discriminated against]…Reports have emerged of sex workers being evicted from their homes because they cannot afford rent…France…has agreed to subsidise up to 84% of employees’ wages, and has introduced a €1,500 per month grant for the self-employed…[but] anybody working…in…the “underground” or “shadow” economy, is excluded from workers’ benefits, including income support, despite being required to pay tax…
The state regularly cages women to force their participation in morality plays:
Arresting [people the state labels] human trafficking [victims to coerce] their testimony in criminal prosecutions [is a typical practice. Prosecutors do not care that people they cage indefinitely without criminal charges] can lose [their jobs, their homes and even] custody of their children…The U.S. Department of Justice…makes [destroying human lives for points in their sick game] a priority over victims’ needs and wants…
Neither Addiction Nor Epidemic (#1022)
It’s good to see the “sex addiction” myth slowly falling apart:
Eight years ago, Daniel became a therapist working to help people try to control their sexual behaviors, resist the urge to masturbate or watch porn, and not cheat on their spouses. Today, he is still a therapist, but he is also now a porn star and is exploring a new model of sexual acceptance to help his clients in therapy…“At some level, I never really bought 100% into the sex addiction model. But, I never knew there were other models for helping people who were struggling with sexual behaviors…there were all these people with degrees in divinity, who were saying things like ‘masturbation is always unhealthy,’ or ‘all porn stars are exploited and damaged’”…Daniel…struggled with the blend of sexual ignorance and sexual absolutes that were promoted as therapeutic…
The Pro-Rape Coalition (#1023)
Notice how fanatics like to focus on demonizing one website at a time?
One of the distinctive traits of the current wave of anti-porn propaganda…is the tendency to focus the attacks and the blame on one particular company as a smokescreen for their actual goals: the abolition or eradication of all sex work, all of adult entertainment or even all sexual expression in public forums…anti-porn activists and politicians in 2020 have a Pornhub fixation. Pornhub is a popular…tube site that provides (mostly) user-uploaded content…It is not different in design from YouTube and it monetizes…in a way that is similar to Google AdWords…Pornhub is only one of several influential platforms providing free adult video content. Its main competitor has a global market share that is at least equal, and sometimes bigger, than Pornhub…But you rarely hear anti-porn activists refer to…any other large company in the adult entertainment sector. It’s as if Mormons decided to wage a war against all caffeinated beverages but exclusively referred to Coca-Cola in their anti-soda campaigns…
Compare to the ugly behavior of France & the US:
A group of 22 prostitutes in Curaçao flew back to the Dominican Republic [on April 11th after]…the island’s only regulated brothel…had to close its doors because of government’s COVID-19 measures. The women were able to leave after the intervention of the Dominicano Consulate which arranged a charter to pick them up. Upon arrival in Santo Domingo they [were] quarantined in a special hotel as a precaution…[another] group of prostitutes from Colombia…[was] repatriated [last] week…
Blessed are the Poor
Posted in Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged cops, ethics, left-right myth, politicians, psychology, Twitter on April 24, 2020| 5 Comments »
I’ve grown very, very tired of the whole “billionaires are intrinsically evil” idiocy over the past couple of years. As I’ve said many times over the past several decades, wealth and power do not create evil; they merely enable the evil that is already inherent in the human brain. Oppression is enabled by wealth and/or power, but not created by them; poor and powerless people are not morally superior to the rich and powerful. In general, they are just as shitty; they merely lack the means to inflict their evil on others by any means other than direct interpersonal violence. That’s why it’s impossible to “fix” authoritarian systems by giving more power to historically disenfranchised groups; given money and/or power they soon become indistinguishable from the other pigs. The only way to “fix” systems in which people abuse power over others is to elimate abusable power. In short, St. Augustine’s observation about children is also true (if you substitute socioeconomic weakness for physical) of the poor: “The weakness of little children’s limbs is innocent, not their souls.”
Not Reason, But Force
Posted in Current Events, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged cops, disease, hysteria, lawheads, left-right myth, politicians on April 23, 2020| 5 Comments »
Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
– George Washington
Even though I am well aware of Americans’ obsessive, single-minded and moronic devotion to black hat/white hat (excuse me, “blue hat/red hat”) fantasies of how the world works, it is especially frustrating and infuriating during the pandemic. On the one hand, we have a demented would-be emperor and his crazed followers denying that anything is wrong and claiming that the best way to deal with the possibility of a disease raging through the population is to pretend it doesn’t exist. On the other hand, we have several dozen deranged would-be kings and queens granting themselves the power to reduce people to serfdom and destroy everything they have worked toward for years or decades by declaring their jobs, businesses and even Constitutional rights “non-essential” and sending out violent thugs to enforce their “orders”, however arbitrary or nonsensical. And despite their claims to the contrary, none of these positions are based in science, logic or careful consideration; they are purely based in politics. The collectivist idiots who identify with the color “blue” (in defiance of its historical associations) like to pretend that their arbitary diktats are based in “science”, despite the fact that there’s nothing “scientific” about criminalizing the purchase of seeds while allowing the purchase of produce, or violently confining a woman in a filthy cage packed with strangers for the “crime” of being found in the company of her romantic partner. Meanwhile, collectivist idiots who identify with the color “red” (in defiance of its historical associations) like to pretend that their arbitary diktats are based in…something that isn’t arbitrary? (I’m not sure; I’ve never been good at understanding stupid people). Examples include banning abortion as “non-essential” (same reason some states gave for trying to ban gun sales; it’s a versatile excuse for authoritarianism), suspending the writ of habeas corpus, or closing the borders. In reality, both groups of violent, power-mad imbeciles are defining their positions completely in relation to one another (as they usually do), and searching for logic or consistency in any proclamation made by any US politician is a complete waste of time. My advice? You’ve got a brain; use it. Read as much as you can, decide for yourself which precautions make sense, respect the rights of others to make those decisions for themselves, and accept whatever consequences result from your choices without pointing the finger at anyone else other than the politicians and other state actors who are never content with only running their own lives, but instead demand to make decisions for everyone, and dispatch thugs and lawyers to destroy the lives of anyone who refuses to kowtow to their whims.
In the News (#1032)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged cops, crypto-moralism, disease, Florida, hysteria, illegal aliens, internet, Kentucky, Like Houses, Madonna/whore, Never Call the Cops, New York, Not for Any Reason Whatsoever, porn, pragmatism, Rooted in Racism, sex work is work, Social Distancing, stripping, surveillance, United Kingdom, Working From Home on April 22, 2020| 2 Comments »
Rarely have entitled scolds been so empowered to tattle on people doing stuff of which they disapprove. – J.D. Tuccille
Sex workers are always among the first targeted for deportation:
The COVID-19 pandemic has shut down strip clubs around the country, leaving workers without employment. Many strippers have migrated to online sex work, but this type of visibility puts undocumented and migrant sex workers at a higher risk of being deported, getting their green card application denied, or being refused entry into the United States. Without documentation…sex work is often the highest paid job available, and some clubs allow dancers to work without it. Stripping has provided Ruby…with a comfortable lifestyle in South Florida, something she would not have been able to accomplish working the other jobs, such as dishwashing, available to undocumented people…Since her club shuttered as a result of the pandemic, Ruby said she considered camming but is afraid that online sex work could hurt her chances of obtaining a green card…
Another example of sex worker ingenuity:
…unionised strippers in the UK…host[ed] a first-of-its-kind virtual strip club on Saturday, April 11th called CYBERTEASE…as a workers’ co-op, in response to the closure of strip clubs due to Covid-19…Dancers will be performing on Zoom, where the event will be DJed by Queer House Party…
…Justin LaBoy, 28, a former professional basketball player and a social media personality…ha[s] been hosting virtual pop-up strip clubs on Instagram Live…Many bars and strip clubs were forced to close nearly overnight around much of the world. Thousands of bartenders, bottle service girls and dancers have been left with no income…strip clubs have…sought to recreate the experience digitally…But Mr. LaBoy’s events have attracted a unique and fervent fandom. Music artists…top N.F.L. and N.B.A. players and [other celebrities]…have…joined the stream as special guests…LaBoy…pin[s] the dancer’s Cash App user names to the top of the feed, so that followers could send them money…[and] the “Respectfully Justin Show” was born. Several hours before the show, Mr. LaBoy begins hyping up the event on social media using the hashtag #respectfully. Because Instagram prohibits explicit content, Mr. LaBoy creates a new Instagram handle for each event. He announces this page’s name through Twitter, along with the date and time of the show…LaBoy brings in [P. Diddy’s son Justin Dior] Combs, then kicks back and begins streaming a glass of red wine, which has become a meme of its own…
Not for Any Reason Whatsoever (#1027)
Do I really have to add, “Not because you saw your neighbors outdoors”?
In the time of the pandemic the world’s snitches are in their glory, pointing fingers at “non-essential” businesses struggling to keep the lights on and at neighbors brazenly standing too closely together…Lockdown commandments hand them the opportunity not just to publicly shame violators…but to inform to the authorities, with all that entails…snitching seems to be competing with the virus itself in its spread…As always, informers are encouraged in their excess by many government officials. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti promised that “snitches get rewards,” and his sentiments are shared by [authoritarians] elsewhere. A certain segment of the public has eagerly embraced the role of social-distancing Stasi, recording perceived violations of safe practices and not just reprimanding the supposed violators for exercising independent judgment, but handing their details off to the [pigs]…
Abrogating freedom of religion and freedom of assembly at once:
As Maryville Baptist Church moved forward with its in-person Easter service Sunday morning, Kentucky State [pigs] were recording the license plates and placing notices on the roughly 50 cars parked outside…[after] Gov. Andy Beshear [issued a diktat] as part of ongoing efforts to keep Kentuckians [locked up and isolated. A spokespig oinked that]…most of the state’s [cop shops]…have responded to between two and five complaints about church services…but…found no violations of CDC guidelines…with Maryville apparently the exception. Most calls have been in reference to [drive-in] services…[which] “were specifically mentioned by the governor as being allowed”…
And guess who gets to declare that an “emergency” exists?
…New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio…really does want to [use state violence to] drag doctors and nurses from their jobs elsewhere to assigned positions in New York City [without their consent]…de Blasio isn’t alone as a government official who sees in the crisis an opportunity to go full commissar. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is stealing ventilators from upstate hospitals to give to facilities downstate. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is similarly snatching medical supplies from private firms and facilities to use as he sees fit. And President Donald Trump has invoked the Defense Production Act to force medical equipment manufacturers to abandon customers beyond the borders — and even to sell to only the federal government. In context, de Blasio’s insistence that medical providers are playing pieces to be pushed around a game board at his whim is the next logical step down the path the political class has already chosen…
Cam work isn’t just a stopgap measure; it’s a specialization:
Many people who find themselves suddenly unemployed need cash quickly, and some might be considering a side gig in online sex work…However…even for experienced, full-time sex workers, “just making an OnlyFans” doesn’t always pay the bills. Online sex work requires an entirely different skill set than in-person work like escorting and stripping, and it can pose greater risks to privacy and anonymity…top-earning performers ha[ve] one thing in common: production value. If I wanted to earn anything close to sustainable income, I would at least need a webcam ($70 for a basic model, $250 for ultra HD), professional studio lights (at least $50), and a faster Wi-Fi connection (high-speed routers start around $150). If I was really serious, I would need more dildos, bigger dildos (body-safe silicone sex toys can range from $20 to almost $200), better lingerie ($100), and a teledildonic sex toy that allowed viewers to interact with me via Bluetooth ($125). Just being a sex worker costs much more than many people realize…it was months before I actually broke even…building a loyal, reliable one can take years. It was a full year before I started making a somewhat steady income, and despite working full-time hours some weeks, the money I make is only supplemental to my freelance writing work…
…the Fourteenth Amendment…states that all citizens…have equal protection and rights…no…part…states “unless you work in the adult entertainment industry” and yet that is precisely what is happening right now….disaster relief loan…[applications] specifically list…adult entertainment businesses…as a disqualification in receiving economic assistance…[sex workers a]re still required to pay taxes, thus contributing to the resources we are banned from receiving…The language in the application…lumps strippers in the same category as criminals and deadbeat parents. Ironically, without that assistance, a lot of [sex] workers…could become exactly that by being unable to support their families…
Diary #512
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, drugs, psychology, Sunset, Washington (state) on April 21, 2020| 6 Comments »
I returned to Seattle a week ago today, only to have both of the appointments I had returned for rescheduled on Friday! So I decided there was no particular reason to remain in town, where I had to put up with all the city bullshit (such as cops playing with their sirens as though they were nine years old) without being compensated by being able to do anything I actually wanted to do. I went back to Sunset on Saturday, bringing what I needed for two weeks, and on Sunday tackled re-organizing the kitchen drawers and cupboards, finally getting them into what I think will be an order I can live with. Meanwhile, Grace made the doors for the top shelf of the bar, and yesterday she got the brass she’s going to make the lower-shelf railings from; we also put a small (but matching) shelf on the wall for edibles, and I’ll take a pic of the whole area when we’re done. Meanwhile, please enjoy this photo documenting my progress toward crazy cat lady status, while I get busy with graph paper to do the floor plan of my bathhouse project.
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