As of Saturday, the new pullets are officially out of the nursery! They are no longer confined at night, and the heat lamp (which I was still turning on via a timer for the first few hours of the evening) is now off until autumn. For the past couple of weeks, they’ve been afaid to go outside, but on Saturday they went out to get away from the commotion while I was putting things away, and on Sunday two of the three went outside on their own, though they still keep well away from the adult hens. But unless these are different from every other chickens I’ve ever had, within a few weeks they’ll all be one big flock, and around July (maybe even sooner) the pullets will start laying. Since winter we’ve been down to about 3-4 eggs a day, which is only a little more than we need so I don’t have enough to give away right now; it’ll be good when I have enough to share with friends again! And it’ll also be nice to see a more visually-interesting flock; last year most of them were white leghorns, so it was pretty monochromatic. And I’m definitely getting some reds next year, even if having a red, white, and blue flock will make me look more patriotic than I actually am.
Archive for May, 2021
Diary #567
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset on May 11, 2021| 1 Comment »
So Much Stupid
Posted in Current Events, Perception, Tyranny, tagged Count the Idiocies, diversion programs, end demand, hysteria, language, Missouri, Neither Addiction nor Epidemic, Passive Voice, propaganda, rescue industry, shame, Social Autoimmune Disorder, streetwalkers, surveillance, The Scarlet Letter on May 10, 2021| 4 Comments »
It’s time for another of those articles so packed with idiocies that there was no way to do it justice in a news column. This one, by Charlie Keegan of KSHB in Kansas City, is not only crammed full of prohibitionist nonsense, but also littered with deeply-weird language and jaw-droppingly dopey puritanisms; the result is an article so utterly permeated with the reek of stupidity it should probably be considered hazardous waste.
A new initiative to stop sex trafficking in the historic northeast part of Kansas City, Missouri, encourages residents and business owners to “Report a John,” with John referring to the name given to someone soliciting sex.
Some of these moronathons start slowly, but not this one, oh no; Charlie isn’t merely content to call sex work “trafficking” and a tired, hackneyed scheme pushed by unimaginative busybodies “new”; he also feels compelled to helpfully explain that the state calls everyone accused of “solicitation” by the proper name “John”, regardless of what their actual name might be. At least, that’s what this sentence appears to say, though I suspect by “name given to” he actually means “prohibitionist slang referring to”. And this is just the first sentence.
“What you have to do is focus on the demand because, without the demand, there is no supply. No one is in the sex trafficking trade if there is not a John,” explained Scott Wagner…of [Yet Another Rescue Industry Scam Full Of Slackjawed Yokels (YARISFOY)]…
I’m really trying to keep my editorialization outside of the block quotes, honest I am. But when I’m faced with yet another semi-literate hick whose understanding of economics is roughly as grounded in reality as a Scrooge McDuck comic book, and who uses the bizarre phrase “sex trafficking trade” as though it actually meant something…well, give me a break, I’m only human.
…The new strategy debuted last week when a billboard went up at Independence and Cypress avenues. The billboard says, “This community does not tolerate buying prostitution.”
I reckon it’s no wonder that a billboard which can erect itself can also speak, but is it too much to ask that what it says actually make sense? Given that “prostitution” is the selling of sex, what does “buying prostitution” actually mean? That’s like…”buying selling” or “purchasing vending”. The kindest word I could use to describe the phrase would be “awkward”.
The billboards and multiple smaller signs…encourage people to call 816-234-5220 to “report [the license plate number of] a John.” The…prosecutor’s office will then send a letter to the registered address for that license plate explaining the car has been suspected of soliciting sex.
What I’m encouraging people in Kansas City to do is use blocked or public phones to report the number of every city-owned vehicle they can find, especially pigmobiles. These so-called “Dear John” scams have been going on for years, but never last long in any given place because they can’t survive a lawsuit. However, I’ve never seen one where the actual cars are “suspected of soliciting sex”; I suppose if one can believe in talking billboards that magically appear without human action, a car looking for a blow job isn’t much more of a stretch.
It’s not an accusation or a warrant, simply a warning…The new initiative also calls for publishing mugshots of people arrested for soliciting sex on a new website and in the Northeast News printed newspaper…
Noooooo, it’s not an accusation at all. After all, only the car is “suspected of soliciting sex”. I’m sure all those people (disproportionately young men of color, natch) who are publicly shamed and probably lose their jobs based on some busybody’s mere suspicion will appreciate that distinction.
People found guilty of soliciting prostitution will be offered the chance to attend “John School”…
But of course they will. For a small price, natch. “John schools” are a for-profit scam related to “gay conversion therapy” and “sex addiction therapy“, and…oh, looky look!
“Johns…need some help in getting over what could be an addiction”…
What. A. Surprise. And these clueless reporters don’t even get that they’re giving a profitable scam free advertising.
Links #566
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged California, cops, Florida, masturbation, Never Call the Cops, New York, Oklahoma, video, Virginia on May 9, 2021| Leave a Comment »
I’m a wanted felon for a VHS tape. – Caron McBride
Since Billie Hayes, best remembered as Witchiepoo from H.R. Pufnstuf, died this week, it seemed only fitting to salute her unforgettable absurdity with this, probably her best-remembered number from the show. The links above it were provided by Franklin Harris, Amy Alkon, Scott Greenfield, Cop Crisis (x3), and Tim Cushing, in that order.
- R.I.P. Billie Hayes.
- Paging Inspector Javert.
- Not a police state, no sirree!
- Cops lie like normal people breathe.
- What part of “not for any reason” is so hard to grasp?
- Too ashamed to pay for your wanking supplies, “officer”?
- The only “shocking” part is that the other cops stopped him.
From the Archives
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- When a government propaganda outlet criticizes a law, you know it’s bad.
- Mistreatment of sex workers is deeply rooted in racism all over the world.
- My frigid wife mocks my masturbating; should I ask her if I can see pros?
- The scheme to cut sex workers off from the healthcare system continues.
- When fashion magazines publish articles like this, prohibition is doomed.
- Florida prohibitionists are doubling down on their awful anti-whore laws.
- The media are listening to sexworkers’ opinions of our media depictions.
- Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
- Men who respect women more also realize we don’t owe them free sex.
- Unsurprisingly, New Zealand treats sex workers like any other workers.
- Canadian cops call grotesque sex worker intimidation tactics “helping”.
- The rescue industry is desperate to find new things to call “trafficking”.
- “Rescuers” want to push whores into traditional feminine menial work.
- The hotel industry is going to regret having collaborated with fanatics.
- Oh noes, they contaminated public places with their eeeevul sex rays!
- It’s never called “trafficking” when the government or a crony does it.
- It’s satisfying when the mask of concern for “trafficking victims” slips.
- In case you failed to grasp the extent of Morality in Media’s depravity.
- The more extensive the surveillance, the more often this will happen.
- When a headline asks a question, the answer is almost always “no”.
- Those who are surprised by this haven’t read much Church history.
- If the mother doesn’t mind, how is it the state’s place to interfere?
- Prohibitionists keep insisting that decriminalization doesn’t work.
- Obviously this fireman has been hanging around too many cops.
- Another country which, like the US, shamefully neglects women.
- Finding a way to get essential self-care banned by “authorities”.
- But Georgia’s only too happy to lock up adult sex workers.
- Cops, plagues, Garfield, dolls, dark ages and much more.
- In Nigeria, terrorism is called “environmental protection”.
- I appreciate all reader gifts, even the inexpensive ones.
- I think this means a pig violently raped a sex worker.
- A judge slaps down pigs & prosecutors for a change.
- Rape victims are increasingly treated like criminals.
- Don’t ever think rapist cops are limited to the US.
- How do I find cheap, unprofessional sex workers?
- We fucking told y’all so, over and over and over.
- You mean they just made it up? Say it ain’t so!
- Your government refers to this as “correction”.
- Odd and idiosyncratic censorship on Amazon.
- How do you think they “stopped” these guys?
- Cops, rules, funk, New York, and much more.
- Imagine this actually going to trial in the US.
- A difficult but successful week of travel.
- Good news about the FOSTA challenge.
- “Living in truth” during the pandemic.
- The sweet smell of schadenfreude.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
In the News (#1135)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged Canada, censorship, cops, disability, Disaster, disease, domestic violence, Droit du Seigneur, Indonesia, internet, law, Never Call the Cops, New Jersey, Oregon, politicians, Pyrrhic Victory, rape, Skin To Skin, statistics, surveillance, The Proper Study, To Molest and Rape, United Kingdom, violence vs. sex workers, You Were Warned on May 8, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The…state may not obstruct those who wish to participate in lawful transactions nor…those who wish to help them. – Justice Hayden
If a non-cop did this, do you think the court would simply ask his employers to demote him?
A New Jersey police chief…[who] offer[ed a cop] a promotion in exchange for sex with his wife and [underage] daughter, should [merely] be demoted, a…judge [declared]…Rudy Beu…was [found] guilty of…[a few status] charges…Beu…has been [on paid vacation]…since Feb. 26, 2020…
Rapist cops often target sex workers for exactly this reason:
…on May 24, 2020…[sex worker and activist Jay St. James] was stalked and raped by Christopher Drumm, a [typical and representative Eugene, Oregon cop]…after the attack, she and her family were harassed by other [cop gang] members…No charges have been brought against Drumm—but St. James is now facing charges of her own after protesting her assault…three days before the a[ggravat]ed rape…Drumm responded to a domestic violence call at St. James’s house…St. James requested a mental health professional, but [of course they sent the pigs]…instead…the [cops refused] to make a report…about the abuse…[but instead reported her to] Child Protective Services…because [she had not magically teleported] her children [away the instant the] …domestic violence [started]…Drumm and his colleagues [also] sexually harassed her…For the next three days…Drumm continued to show up at her house unannounced…[then] on May 24…[he] returned…and raped her twice…
Another study proves what sex workers have been saying all along:
…Our research provides new causal evidence on the impact that criminalizing sex work in a lower‐income country has on the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) by exploiting a natural experiment in which commercial sex work was unexpectedly criminalized in one district in East Java, Indonesia, while it remained noncriminalized in neighboring districts…criminalizing sex work increases STI rates among sex workers…by 27.3 percentage points, or 58 percent, from baseline…the main mechanisms driving the increase…are a decrease in access to condoms, an increase in condom prices, and an increase in sex without condoms…women who…leave sex work because of criminalization have lower earnings than those who leave by choice…children of [these] women…are more likely to work to supplement household income…criminalization [also] results in substantial increases in the probability of STI transmission to the general population…Understanding the impacts of criminalization…in lower‐income countries is arguably even more important than in higher‐income countries…
Wise judge refuses to allow prudish paternalism to trump human needs:
A senior judge has ruled it is lawful for carers [of people with mental disabilities] to help clients find and pay for sex…[but entitled busybodies plan] to appeal the judgment because of its implications for policies on [sending violent thugs to attack people for desiring consensual adult sex]…The young man…known only as C, is fit and healthy but…needs daily help with many parts of his life. He has autism and a genetic disorder – but [the judge]…found that he was happy and well-supported…C knew he would probably never find a girlfriend but he nevertheless wanted to experience sex – and so he had asked his carers if they could find him a sex worker…[but] C’s carers w[orried] they would [be]…legally [classified as “pimps”] if they agreed to help…Justice Hayden ruled that…If the law banned the carers from helping C, that would be discrimination because anyone else without his condition could lawfully pay for sex…
To the state, facial recognition systems’ false positives are a feature, not a bug:
In February 2019, Nijeer Parks walked into the Woodbridge…New Jersey…[cop shop after] receiv[ing] a frantic phone call from his grandmother telling him that p[igs]…had come [root]ing for him…Parks had trouble with the law…on drug-related charges, [but]…was now working a steady job as a carpenter…Parks [unwisely walked into the cop shop without a lawyer in an attempt] to clear his name…[but was instead arrested on bogus charges of] aggravated assault, unlawful possession of weapons, using a fake ID, possession of marijuana, shoplifting, leaving the scene of a crime, [and] resisting arrest…he spent 11 days in jail…[before] learn[ing t]hat the evidence against him was…a facial recognition scan of…[the] fake ID…What followed was a year-long legal nightmare for Parks, who faced years in prison and the potential of additional time due to his prior convictions…
Canada is following Australia and the US in trying to destroy the internet:
Canadian Senate Bill S-203…is another woefully misguided proposal aimed at regulating sexual content online. To say the least, this bill fails to understand how the internet functions and would be seriously damaging to online expression and privacy…S-203 would make any person or company criminally liable for any time an underage user engages with sexual content through its service…unless the person or company “implemented a prescribed age-verification method”…[it] would criminalize the acts of independent performers, artists, blogs, social media, message boards, email providers, and any other intermediary or service…that is in some way “for commercial purposes”…The only meaningful defense…would be to verify the legal adult age of every user and then store that data…The sheer amount of technical infrastructure…would be costly and overwhelmingly complicated….[and] introduce many security concerns that weren’t previously there…the financial burden would only advantage the largest players online…the bill would likely force many companies to simply eliminate sexual content instead of carrying the huge risk that an underage user will access it…
Puritans never quite admit they want to destroy the internet, but this comes close:
U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty…has unveiled a [scheme] to repeal Section 230…and replace it with something he calls “Section 232.” His [Orwellian-named] “21st Century FREE Speech Act“…would change the nature of online communication as we know it…the…bill…attempts to establish as U.S. federal policy the act of “facilitat[ing] the…blocking…[of] objectionable or inappropriate online material”…[and to] redefine “the major internet communications platforms” as “common carriers”…In quite explicit terms, Hagerty’s bill establishes a protection from censorship of “religious and political speech” while at the same time encouraging the censorship of “objectionable and inappropriate online material”…the…bill…would essentially enshrine a peculiarly vague notion of sexual content (i.e. “signifies the form of immorality which has relation to sexual impurity”)…an[d] active[ly] call for state and corporate censorship…
A Broader Focus
Posted in Biography, Perception, Philosophy, tagged activism, blogging, imaginative fiction, psychology on May 7, 2021| 5 Comments »
As I pointed out yesterday, there are now a lot more sex workers writing articles debunking prohibitionist propaganda, sharing the truths of our lives with those outside the demimonde, and making powerful arguments in favor of decriminalization. Eleven years ago, that wasn’t the case; while I certainly wasn’t the only one writing, there were few enough of us that I felt very driven, knowing that my words were helping a lot of people understand that which our enemies don’t want them to understand: that sex workers are as diverse as any other social group and have real lives rather than being the cartoon victims or villains of prohibitionists’ sick sexual fantasies. Since Day One of this blog my primary intended audience has always been the general public; I’ve always been more interested in humanizing and destigmatizing sex workers in the minds of that public instead of preaching to the choir, which is why I’ve never felt any compulsion to restrict my topics to those of interest to activists. And now that the heavy lifting is spread out among a far larger number of far younger shoulders than mine, I think it’s time to broaden my focus even more. Some of you may have noticed it already: I’m ignoring news stories that feel too repetitive, and there are now too many good sex worker articles for me to call attention to them all. And I’m using the time and energy I save to write about stuff that’s interesting to me, like philosophy, construction projects at Sunset, and science fiction shows. But that doesn’t mean I’m abandoning my mission; I’m just going about it a different way. Instead of merely telling outsiders that sex workers are regular folks, I’m showing them instead. And I don’t plan to stop doing that anytime soon.
Pay No Attention To That Pervert Behind the Picket Fence
Posted in Current Events, Perception, Tyranny, tagged activism, censorship, dirty, domestic violence, hysteria, law, Madonna/whore, propaganda, psychology, rape, statistics on May 6, 2021| Leave a Comment »
At one time, there weren’t a lot of sex workers writing solid, substantive analyses of prohibition; that is no longer true. Every year I see greater numbers of sex workers writing strong, convincing articles on why the War on Whores is horrible for everybody, and not just in blogs or “zines” or other small-audience venues, oh no; just last week saw two powerful, in-depth articles on how prohibitionism is nothing but camouflage for the reality that the sexual abuse of children is nearly always perpetrated by people the victim knows, often inside the nuclear family worshipped as a cultic totem by those who publicly fantasize the most vociferously about imaginary pimps with magical ninja powers pulling screaming children through the internet and confining them in dog crates to be raped by 100 men a day in truck stops. Both are well worth reading in their entirety, but here’s a sample to get you started. The first one is from Reese Piper:
…One study…found that 82% of abuse was organized by a direct family member…despite all the warnings about strange men lurking in vans, only 4% of the abuse occurred by strangers when the child was being victimized by one person; 2% when the child was abused by multiple people. The rest were biological fathers, stepfathers, acquaintances of the family, mothers, stepmothers, brothers, sisters, grandmas, aunts, uncles, and trusted members of the community such as clergy, police officers, teachers, counselors, and babysitters…Projecting [sexual abuse] outside the home relieves the pressure of the cognitive dissonance, allowing people to accept the darker shades of our world without disrupting their understanding of normal. To protect the pillars that surround the Family, we need a scapegoat. Women who work outside the home have always been considered a threat. Just as daycare workers encountered vitriol and baseless allegations of harm against children in the ’80s and ‘90s, sex workers are now the vessels society empties its anguish and anger into…Often when…bills like SISEA are introduced they seem altruistic. An average person not schooled in sex work politics won’t understand how much harm censorship can cause in a profession that survives on visibility. But other times politicians are blatant about their plans to push “fallen women” back into the shadows where they can remain the other…
The other is from my friend Cathy Reisenwitz:
…Though evangelicals tend to oppose any sexual norm they believe might threaten the stability and fecundity of the Christian nuclear family—including premarital sex, interracial dating, gay marriage, trans rights, immigration, and abortion—the purity culture [politician Matt] Gaetz and other evangelicals promote may actually exacerbate sexual abuse. A recent report from the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence found that certain norms embedded in religious teachings, in particular, are associated with high levels of sexual abuse; these include gender essentialism, limited autonomy for women, limited gender egalitarianism, a view of masculinity as dominant and aggressive, and male sexual entitlement. So while it might seem counterintuitive that sexual abuse allegations proliferate in a movement that emphasizes sexual restraint and propriety, evangelical purity culture shares troubling overlaps with other cultures in which sexual abuse is common…There’s no epidemic of sex trafficking that requires the federal government to censor online pornography or arrest, deport, or incarcerate Americans for buying or selling sex. Nevertheless, evangelicals have forged a vast network of organizations meant to “raise awareness” and lobby the U.S. government to use state violence to enforce sexual purity standards…Perhaps these organizations rely on anecdotes and flawed data year after year because it has always been vanishingly rare for a stranger to successfully kidnap someone in the United States and force them into sex slavery. The most cursory analysis reveals that nearly every case of “sex trafficking” turns out to be one of two things: It’s either actually adult, consensual sex work or it’s an instance of intimate-partner violence… The real sexual abuse epidemic isn’t men in vans holding women at gunpoint. It’s…men like Gaetz, and the ideologies of abuse that they promote.
In the News (#1134)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, Words, tagged A Moral Cancer, activism, Canada, censorship, Checklist, consensual crime, cops, Crying Wolf, crypto-moralism, drivers, drugs, fascism, hysteria, internet, law, Louisiana, porn, Predictable Consequences, propaganda, racism, rape, surveillance, The Monsters Are Due, The Widening Gyre, To Molest and Rape, universal criminality, You Were Warned on May 5, 2021| 1 Comment »
Eradicating harm—[as now] redefined—may only amount to performance art, in which the semblance of action is all that is needed. – Eric Smith
This tendency has only worsened over the past decade:
The standard definition of harm has undergone concept creep…Where once the potential for harm existed in contact sports, accidents, physical altercations, traumas and so on, one might now find it while reading a question on an exam, listening to a recorded debate in a classroom or encountering an opinion on social media…the broadening meaning of harm…can cause activists to spend so much time on relatively innocuous actions that they have none left for the arduous task of dealing with real societal harms like housing and food insecurity, failed educational institutions, violence in inner cities and disproportionate mortality rates…Defining harm as shallowly as many modern activists do leads them to mistake symbolic gestures for concrete strategies for change…the redefinition of harm [also] infantilizes people of color…I don’t think a world in which people of color give their power away so easily is one any self-respecting person of color would want to see…
Uber…hire[s former pigs and spooks]…to help police catch suspected [sex worker]s…[by turning over their] uploaded information…[and] account identifiers…to…the…[pigs, referring to sex work as] human trafficking [equal to] carjackings…Uber works with the [rescue industry giant] “Polaris”…[to indoctrinate] Uber drivers [with absurd and overbroad “signs of] human trafficking[“]…
It’s unusual for prohibitionists to admit they’re openly targeting black people:
[Prohibitionist] groups are applying…pressure on the Biden administration to institute a nationwide ban…o[n] menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products…precisely because of [their] popularity with African Americans…[even if] the law [is only] enforced against sellers…entrepreneurs would still have ready access to both cigarettes and menthol flavoring…[and] combin[ing] the two…[is a fairly simple] process…Unless the federal government attempts to turn menthol itself into a controlled substance, there will surely be many small-time sellers of menthol cigarettes meeting the demand of the millions of Americans who smoke them, including at least 77 percent of black smokers, but possibly as high as 88 percent (and around a quarter of white smokers)…Recall that Eric Garner’s [murderer used]…the petty crime of selling loose cigarettes a[s an excuse, and]…Garner’s mother, Gwendolyn Carr, became a vocal opponent of a proposal to ban menthol cigarettes in New York City [as a result]…in Massachusetts, which banned menthol cigarettes in 2020, at least one [black market] seller is facing prosecution…the brunt of enforcement [will certainly] be borne by [black] people…
This is, unfortunately, par for the course; “progressive” campaigns to “improve” people against their will always ignore the fact that their moralistic crusades always disproportionately harm minorities, especially black people.
A woman has sued Reddit [because] ex-boyfriend…repeatedly post[ed nude] images of her as a 16-year-old. The lawsuit applies controversial measures instituted in 2018 under FOSTA-SESTA…The resulting case will test the limits of platforms’ legal shields amid ongoing efforts to [destroy] the law behind them. The woman…[claims] that “Reddit knowingly benefits from lax enforcement of its content polices, including for child pornography”…She’s accusing Reddit of distributing child pornography, failing to report child sexual abuse material, and violating the Trafficking Victims Protection Act…
It’s ironic that the newest target of “sex trafficking” scarelore is Target:
A…Reddit…user…who writes under the username Peeky-Lou…[and is so obsessed with] human trafficking…[fantasies that] she…[carries “]several legal self-defense items[” to go shopping at Target predictably imagined that]…three men…[in the store were] follow[ing her]…“It felt as if I was being surrounded like a wild animal —hunted, even,” she wrote…The…[nitwit spent] an hour…wandering around the store, [scaring herself silly with melodramatic fantasies of]…“darkness in his eyes…an eerie smirk [and]…sinister gaze”…[when] a male employee…walk[ed] her to her car…[she] saw [something that]… “solidif[ied] all of my suspicions…A white windowless van was parked in the lot“…
Rapist cops are sometimes treated like other rapists if their victims are prepubescent:
A [typical and representative] Louisiana [cop] has been sentenced to life in prison for raping and sexually assaulting three girls, all less than 11 years old…David Monceaux [was sentenced] to…two life terms and a 50-year sentence consecutively…without probation, parole, or suspension of sentence…his youngest victim was 4 years old…
Predictable Consequences (#1130)
Prohibitionism is an inherently violent belief system:
A mansion owned by Feras Antoon, a Pornhub executive, was torched in an apparent arson last [week]. Police…were initially called to [the Montreal] property…at 11:30 P.M when two people were spotted trespassing…when [they] arrived…shortly thereafter they found…a…fire…so massive that more than 80 firefighters were called in and the neighbours were forced to evacuate…
Diary #566
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, psychology, Sunset on May 4, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Though autumn is my favorite season, spring is my second-favorite, and for some of the same reasons: it’s (mostly) neither too hot nor too cold, neither too rainy nor too dry (although the latter doesn’t really apply here in the vicinity of the rain forest), and best of all it’s colorful. I like seeing everything turn green again after the winter brown, and flowers burst forth from both trees and lawn. Hummingbirds and honeybees are everywhere, and while there are also a lot of flies that’s also true of summer (which lacks spring’s other beauties). It does mean the days are getting longer, which increases my free-floating anxiety; however, part of that is the fault of the daylight mismanagement regime rather than the fault of spring itself, so I try not to judge her too harshly for it. And besides, once it starts getting to be a problem I can simply start my cannabis a bit earlier in the evening so as to give it more time to soothe my central nervous system before bedtime.
Links #565
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, Believe Them, consensual crime, cops, Never Call the Cops, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, universal criminality, video on May 3, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Drop the bike or you’re gonna get arrested. – unnamed cop
You may have noticed that I am rather fond of novelty songs; here’s one from my childhood that the writer/singer insists is not meant to be suggestive. The links above it were provided by Glenn Kessler, Billy Binion, Mike Siegel, The Onion, Radley Balko, Cop Crisis, and Phoenix Calida, in that order.
- R.I.P. Michael Collins.
- Not a police state, no sirree!
- Straight people, are y’all OK?
- So long, and thanks for all the fish.
- “Never” really and truly means “never”.
- Just another cop shooting another black man in the back.
- Cops regularly demonstrate what they are; why don’t you believe them?
From the Archives
- I’m sure you amateurs are happy to be censored “for THE CHILDREN™!”
- Didn’t you expect the pandemic to be used as an excuse for censorship?
- The power to declare something “non-essential” is the power to ban it.
- UK feminists release revenge porn of women who disagree with them.
- Discrimination vs sex workers invariably affects other women as well.
- How things have changed since Belle Knox was mercilessly harassed.
- Know why cops don’t like to investigate rapes? Professional courtesy.
- The rescue industry desperately seeks new things to call “trafficking”.
- Whores need to keep suing until every cop shop is buried in lawsuits.
- Politicians pretend the point of anti-porn laws is to “protect children”.
- The number of excuses government uses for robbery keeps growing.
- When a headline asks a question, the answer is nearly always “no”.
- You mean physical behaviors have stronger effects than pictures?
- Predatory cops think it’s fun to ruin the lives of racial minorities.
- Cops, lawheads, plague, parody, Dolly Parton, and much more.
- Previous columns for May Day and May Eve (Walpurgisnacht).
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Sex workers must help each other, because few others will.
- Op-eds like this have become very common since FOSTA.
- It’s been a while since we’ve talked about stage names.
- A retrospective of my blogging, mostly from April 2017.
- How Pete Buttigieg covered up for violent rapist pigs.
- Cops, anal worms, Florida, Vangelis and much more.
- Will Canadian cops go after this billboard company?
- Does this fit your idea of what “sex trafficking” is?
- Compare to the ugly behavior of France & the US.
- A look at the antics of loose-cannon Florida pigs.
- Like an explosion in a Froot Loop factory.
- The week Hermes was unhappy with me.
- Cassandra wishes to share this with you.
- Gee, I wonder where they got this idea?
- I love it when they feed on their own.
- A week of travels in the Midwest.
- My pullets at eight weeks old.
In the News (#1133)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged Alabama, Canada, cell phones, censorship, drugs, fascism, FBI, Florida, I Spy, Imaginary Evils, law, Louisiana, Minnesota, Morality Lessons, Mumbo Jumbo, Oklahoma, orgasm, politicians, porn, pregnancy, Property of the State, sex rays, Sex Rays (updates), South Carolina, South Dakota, surveillance, Swedish model, Washington (state), Whither Canada?, Winding Down, Wisconsin on May 2, 2021| 2 Comments »
The legislation…grossly limits…sex workers from taking steps to protect their health and safety. – Justice Phillip Sutherland
Is there anything the government won’t label “sex trafficking”?
In 2004 [Nicole] Daedone founded a group called OneTaste, disseminating…the practice of what she called orgasmic meditation, or OM. At its peak, OneTaste was reported to be making $12 million a year; it had centres in nine cities, including New York, San Francisco and London, and was endorsed by no less a personage than…Gwyneth [“jade vagina egg”] Paltrow. But the organisation has now shut down following accusations by former members of the group, with the FBI reportedly investigating allegations of sex-trafficking, prostitution and violation of labour laws…
Pregnant women are uniquely vulnerable to state coercion:
…each new wave of illegal drug panic and crackdowns…has spurred new excuses for monitoring pregnant women, overriding their consent, and applying strict laws against them. In Alabama, hundreds of pregnant women have been prosecuted for positive drug tests…”A woman can be charged with chemical endangerment from the earliest weeks of pregnancy“…and…face up to 10 years of prison time [if her baby is born perfectly healthy]…and up to 20 years if the child shows signs of exposure. High courts in…Alabama, Oklahoma, and South Carolina…have affirmed that it’s OK to use general child abuse statutes in the criminal prosecution of pregnant women who test positive for any illegal drug…in…South Carolina…[hospital] staff called the cops on a woman whose child tested positive for [metabolites of THC]…In Louisiana…a woman was charged with child desertion and second-degree cruelty, punishable by up to 40 years imprisonment, for smoking pot while breastfeeding. In…Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin…drug use during pregnancy can lead to involuntary civil commitment. At least 23 states [pretend] any drug use during pregnancy is…child abuse…Even in states without this explicit policy, a single positive test can trigger…investigation by child protective services…
Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion is being demolished in the hopes of [ritually] cleansing the area of [evil spirits]. The waterfront property was purchased…for…$US18 million [by real estate]…developer Todd Michael Glaser…the gated estate is modest for the area, which is largely made up of extravagant holiday homes…occupied only during the summer months, leaving the area eerily quiet during the off-season…
At least a few politicians’ moral compasses aren’t entirely defective:
A bipartisan group of [politicians] has introduced a bill to stop federal law enforcement from sidestepping citizens’ privacy rights by secretly purchasing our personal data from third-party brokers. In 2018 the Supreme Court ruled in Carpenter v. United States that the FBI violated a suspect’s Fourth Amendment rights by tracking his cellphone without getting a warrant first…[so] federal agencies began…just buy[ing] the information from brokers…And so a group…including Sens. Rand Paul…Ron Wyden…Patrick Leahy…and Mike Lee…has introduced…a…bill [which would]…require fed[s]…to…get a court order [to buy the data] just as they have to do now if they want to force a phone service provider to cough up your information. It prohibits the use of this data as evidence [unless the spooks simply lie and pretend they obtained the data using a legal method, in a dodge called “parallel construction”]…
This unconstitutional bill failed in over a dozen states before passing in Utah:
The Alabama House Judiciary Committee held a hearing…on a “copycat bill” of the legislation…passed in Utah [which] aim[s] to force phone and computer manufacturers to install default “porn filters” on devices sold in Alabama. The bill…[i]s part of a current effort…by [pro-censorship group]…Morality in Media…and other religiously motivated…organizations — to pass state-by-state laws making this requirement…
Washington state politicians demonstrate their hypocrisy:
…in February the Washington State Supreme Court…struck down the state’s felony drug possession law…decriminaliz[ing] drugs statewide and suddenly render[ing] tens of thousands of prisoners eligible for reduced sentences. The Legislature could have seen this ruling…as an opportunity [to end the drug war in]…Washington…But…the provincial, fearful mommies and daddies who run Olympia have made…plans to restart the war on mostly Black drug users. The only question is how much destruction they want to cause, and for how long…
Slowly chipping away at a terrible law:
An Ontario Superior Court judge has declared unconstitutional legal provisions that ban sex workers from being able to work safely, including by being able to advertise…hire security, work together and communicate with clients…Justice Phillip Sutherland ruled…that the law breaches the right of sex workers to life, liberty and security of the person…Jenn Clamen, national co-ordinator for the [Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform]…stressed [that] the ruling is just a partial victory [as] it does not address…provisions…banning the purchase of sex and communication for th[at] purpose…this is the second time in Ontario that a judge has partially struck down the [prohibitionist law which imposed] the Nordic model [on Canada. Crown attorneys whined]…that [it]…would be more difficult [to destroy people’s lives for consensual adult sex]…
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