Though I’ve already moved well beyond this point in the construction of my shower, I wanted to share this picture from the beginning of the month to show how it was constructed. As you can see, the walls are just standard frame walls, except for the seat built into the near wall. Due to her mobility issues, Grace has trouble standing for long enough to take a proper shower; the one in our existing bathroom is the standard tub with shower, so she sits uncomfortably on the edge of the tub and can’t really relax. This way, she can sit 
for as long as she likes, using a shower extension on the end of a flexible hose. The existing bathroom is on the other side of the finished wall; as you’ll see in a few weeks, we’ve drilled through it to tap into the existing plumbing, and the new tankless propane water heater will supply both rooms (leaving the current electric one to feed only the washing machine and kitchen). The grey sheets to the left are cementboard; it’s what we’re using as a wall-base inside the shower, and the concrete will bond to it. But since it’s very brittle, the sheets will be attached to a substrate of OSB, as shown in the second picture; I took this one before I finished closing it up so you can see the insulation in the wall, which is necessary because that’s an outside wall so I want to minimize heat transfer through it during the cold months. There’s still quite a lot of preparation before the concrete, though, as you’ll see over the next few weeks.
Archive for September, 2022
Annex 83
Posted in Diary, tagged Sunset on September 30, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Back Issue #111
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on September 29, 2022| Leave a Comment »
A successful life is judged by its character rather than by the number of years it endures. – “Enough is Enough”
- The phrase “vulnerable to economic opportunities” came from a sick mind.
- The CASE Act is so bad, even bona fide coerced prostitutes are against it.
- Basic “trafficking” sting: consenting adults caged, 44; victims rescued, 0.
- Yet another poor fool dies from allowing filth to be injected into her arse.
- The “most stressful jobs in America” don’t include any form of sex work.
- As long as government actors have power over people, this will happen.
- Phoenix only “treats prostitutes as trafficking victims” when convenient.
- You can tell a legitimate scientific argument by its quotation of Genesis.
- Canadian courts slap down another attempt to deny sex workers rights.
- Rapists & pedophiles find job where they can grope women & children.
- “Trafficking” fanatics claim all whores make more than $300,000/year.
- The nuns who ran the Magdalene laundries are still exploiting whores.
- Cops’ and journalists’ unwholesome obsession with underage whores.
- A few journalists are beginning to question the “sex trafficking” hype.
- The CASE Act is so awful even trafficking victim advocates oppose it.
- How would one tell a prospective husband cheating with a pro is OK?
- Cambodian cops have learned to parrot their American masters well.
- While bureaucrats have power over people, this will keep happening.
- Why can’t women understand that most “creeps” are just frustrated?
- Cause: brothels cannot operate legally. Effect: many illegal brothels.
- Women who want their choices respected need to have 14 kids first.
- Ethically-retarded academics get in bed with morally-bankrupt cops.
- If abortions are criminalized, should women who get be imprisoned?
- Charlotte Shane on journalists who pester non-activist sex workers.
- Another study discovers the truth of what whores have always said.
- Texas begins to realize that locking up whores is a waste of money.
- Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
- An excellent New York Times op-ed against “end demand” rhetoric.
- Swedes try to reconcile “whore as criminal” with “whore as victim”.
- Christians say GOP should do everything possible to increase rape.
- Most women pick bigger implants after wearing a padded bra first.
- Most women are more sexually open when they’re very turned on.
- Prohibitionists have a weird idea of meaning of “support” & “help”.
- The Backpage-Village Voice split and Michael Wolff’s opinion of it.
- Police launch “crackdowns” in anticipation of brothel legalization.
- Korean sex workers demand revision of anti-sex trafficking laws.
- Another pervert “helping” teenage runaways by molesting them.
- A short biography of the late founder of SWOP-US, Robyn Few.
- Coming out to parents who are in denial about one’s sex work.
- An anti-sex fanatic’s crusade to criminalize a lump of bronze.
- Sons of two Indian whores picked for champion soccer team.
- Can good professional relationships replace romantic ones?
- What if we were closely related to the other kind of chimp?
- Support for decriminalization continues to grow in Canada.
- Sex strikes: good in theory, but usually poor in execution.
- What are so many economists so stupid about sex work?
- Indian actress recognizes that sex work reduces rape.
- “End demand” schemes actually increase prostitution.
- Anna Gristina pleads guilty to promoting prostitution.
- The collapse of UK Olympic “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- French intellectuals ridicule sex work prohibitionism.
- A prohibitionist harpy interviews the Fokkens twins.
- Inspiration for the movie Taken is exposed as a liar.
- A dangerously unbalanced buyer’s market in Japan.
- French hookers work to circumvent busybody laws.
- Another rescue industry group exposed as frauds.
- Monkeys prefer to play with gender-typical toys.
- Another win-win situation ruined by busybodies.
- Unambitious gypsy whores in Washington, D.C.
- The inevitable result of trying to stop sex work.
- Not the wisest way to deal with an extortionist.
- A bizarrely backward news report from India.
- Aspasia on the hypocrisy of Jezebel readers.
- A bioethicist asks, “Is Prostitution Harmful?”
- Quality is far more important than quantity.
- Susannah Breslin on the war against porn.
- A place where 14% of women are whores.
- A feminist guide to silencing sex workers.
- I make a brief appearance in this video.
- Another transgender person murdered.
- An illustrative examples of Poe’s Law.
- Switzerland’s first sex workers’ union.
- Every whore is somebody’s daughter.
- My very first professional conference.
- An interview with Melissa Gira Grant.
- Brooke Magnanti on The New Rules.
- The neuroscience of a dead salmon.
- Prohibitionism is a mental illness.
- Thoughts on my first conference.
- An introduction to Laura Agustín.
- In Sweden, begging equals rape.
- Welcome to our world, chemists.
- Filmmaker persecuted for profit.
- Kristof’s prohibitionist omelette.
- When a man meets a donkey.
- David Vitter doesn’t tweet.
- Another Asstoon photo op.
- My favorite short films.
- A Pete & Pete reunion.
- The bottleneck effect.
- Planet of the Apes.
- R.I.P. Robyn Few.
- E pur si muove.
- Nevada Rose.
In the News (#1275)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged censorship, Choke Point, cops, Florida, hysteria, Kansas, libraries, New York, Permanent Record, porn, Pyrrhic Victory, rape, sex rays, South Carolina, statistics, surveillance, teachers, The Pro-Rape Coalition, Thought Control, To Molest and Rape, weaponry, Welcome to the Future on September 28, 2022| Leave a Comment »
You don’t address issues in a broken criminal legal system by layering technology on them. – Jumana Musa
Surely you didn’t think this would only be used to punish sex workers?
Erick Adame says that he has been fired from his position as the morning meteorologist on Spectrum News NY1 for a leaked appearance on an adult cam site. Adame [said he was]…aiming to “share [his] truth rather than let others control the narrative of [his] life”…[and] not[ed] that his psychiatrist has called his actions “compulsive behavior” and that he is “not in a position to disagree”…Adame made a point to highlight that while he regrets his appearance on the website, he rejects any criticism that may come about his sexuality…He also filed a lawsuit against Unit 4 Media Ltd. to seek the identity of the anonymous user who leaked the content of him on the adult site…
Just another study showing the same results as every other one:
A recent study published in the academic journal Crime & Delinquency suggests that sexual offenders rarely replicate what they see in pornography as a driver of sexual aggression…the research suggests that “sexual scripts learned through pornography use are not present in patterns of sexual offending behavior,” reports Craig Harper in his recurring column “Articles of Heterodoxy” for the Psychology Today directory website…Other research has arrived at similar conclusions. The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Stetson University in Florida, in a paper published in the summer of 2020 for the academic journal Trauma, Violence, & Abuse found that pornography does not cause violent sex crimes. Harper referenced this study in his Psychology Today column, as well. The researchers, Chris Ferguson…and Richard Hartley…found that there are scores of poorly designed studies that “tended to be more likely to support a link between pornography and sexually assaultive behavior…Our evidence suggests that policymakers should examine other causes of sexual aggression and that beliefs about pornography may be driven more by methodological mistakes than sound science”…
Fascists are trying to destroy young people’s lives before they even get started:
For a few thousand dollars a year, Social Sentinel offer[s] schools across the country sophisticated technology to s[py on] social media posts from students…[thus] allowing campus police to surveil student protests…as more students have embraced social media as a digital town square to express opinions and organize demonstrations, many college police departments have been using taxpayer dollars to pay for Social Sentinel’s services to monitor what they say. At least 37 colleges…collectively educating hundreds of thousands of students, have used Social Sentinel since 2015. The true number…could be far higher…and…the company has been moving in a new and [even] more [dangerously] invasive direction — allowing schools to monitor student emails on university accounts…a…private Ohio-based company…acquired Social Sentinel in 2020…and…changed the name…to Navigate360 Detect earlier this year…
Government officials continue deputizing private businesses to implement restrictive policies that can’t win traction through the political process or are forbidden by the Constitution. The latest…development comes in the form of a specific merchant category code for retailers of firearms and ammunition, breaking them out from the broader category of specialty retailers in which they were previously included. The code makes credit card purchases from such businesses much easier to track and potentially exposes buyers and sellers to harassment…That has industry insiders worried that politicians are again weaponizing the financial system to target activities they don’t like but haven’t been able to ban through law…such as abortion…
It took 35 years of evil for the government to notice a serial rapist:
A [typical and representative] Kansas [cop] who had long…rap[ed] and terroriz[ed] Black women as he p[row]led the streets of Kansas City has been indicted on federal charges that he repeatedly sexually assaulted two women over several years while on duty…Roger Golubski, 69…face[s] a maximum possible sentence of life in prison…
Clearview is once again trying to rehabilitate its reputation among useful idiots:
…Andrew Grantt Conlyn…[was] the passenger…[when] his [drunk] friend drove [wrecked the car at] approximately 100 miles per hour…When he came to, his friend was gone, the car was on fire and his seatbelt buckle was jammed. Luckily, a good Samaritan intervened, prying open the driver’s side door and pulling Mr. Conlyn out of the burning vehicle…that Wednesday night in March 2017…[after] the police…found the body of his friend, Colton Hassut, in the bushes near the crash…[they decided to try to railroad] Conlyn…[because they believe no tragedy should go unexploited as an excuse to destroy someone]’s life. If Clearview AI…hadn’t granted his lawyer special access to [its] facial recognition database…Conlyn might have spent up to 15 years in prison because the police [didn’t care whom they crucified]…Clearview…now plans to offer access to public defenders. Hoan Ton-That, the chief executive, said this would help “balance the scales of justice,” but…“I think it’s a rare situation in which most defense attorneys would want to use it,” said Jerome Greco, who oversees a forensics technology lab at the Legal Aid Society, in New York City. “This is mostly being done as a P.R. stunt to try to push back against the negative publicity that Clearview has about its tool and how it’s being used by law enforcement”…
The Greenville County [South Carolina] Republican Party wants [politicians] to investigate who ordered and displayed a number of LGBTQ children’s books at public libraries earlier this year. It also wants the county to ban books that mention LGBTQ topics from the children and juvenile sections of the county’s libraries…The resolution names a handful of children’s book titles…[including] Twas the Night Before Pride, My Shadow is Purple, The Rainbow Parade, I’m Not a Girl, and My Own Way: Celebrating Gender…Jeff Davis, GCGOP chairman, said party members have checked the books out of the library and plan to [steal them so as]…to prevent them from being displayed for children to see…“They’re downstairs here at the (GCGOP) headquarters,” Davis said…
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen would-be censors advocating the actual theft of books from libraries, and I suspect it won’t be the last.
Diary #639
Posted in Diary, tagged Sunset on September 27, 2022| Leave a Comment »
On Sunday Jae’s patron came over to work on the stable for a few hours, and we got the roof mostly finished and minimally protected from the rain predicted for later in the week. He really can’t get up on the roof, which means me again; every damned time I think I’m done with rooves for a while, I find myself having to get up on another one. And since I can’t easily do a shingle roof alone, and I would like this finished before the seasonal rain starts again in earnest (probably within two weeks), I’ve asked him to once again hire a young man who has helped us on the project before (but wasn’t available this past weekend). I think two of us could probably knock it out in an afternoon; the roof pitch isn’t as steep as that of the cottages, so we can work without safety harnesses, and that speeds things up a good bit. Fingers crossed for that, but one way or another the whole project should be finished before the end of October.
Late Summer Tweets
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging, Twitter on September 26, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Y'all punish your elected officials for being human, then wonder why you get nothing but inhuman garbage in office. https://t.co/0l504uDbRF
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 25, 2022
Not as creepy as a mental health professional breaking confidentiality in hopes of a fast buck and her 15 minutes. https://t.co/zMzKyl98iK
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 27, 2022
There is an entire subgenre of so-called "love" songs which are, in reality, "cheapskate trying to get laid" songs.
This is the song which inspired this observation, but it's only one of many. https://t.co/mWnRvI9l4k
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 30, 2022
Wow, how did she pronounce all those asterisks? https://t.co/14aerdkkyF
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 30, 2022
It's interesting that, like so many men, he uses the broad term "sex" to specifically mean "unprotected penis-in-vagina intercourse with a fertile woman".
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 31, 2022
We need to teach kids to hide when they see cops coming.
I *would* say teach them to run away, but cops (and the judges who enable them) view running away as permission to shoot people in the back.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 1, 2022
I've just added another reason for instant muting: demonstrated inability to understand the concept of parody.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 2, 2022
You know you're looking at yellow journalism when the phrase "raked in" is used to describe some paltry amount. For TWO men to earn $25,000 each for NINE MONTHS of work translates to about $33,000 a year, which is hardly a high salary in Pennsylvania. https://t.co/3YWa4aW97B
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 4, 2022
I'll be 56 on Halloween. I look like this, and my exercise consists of hefting 50# sacks of feed and building an entire addition to my house basically by myself. pic.twitter.com/PhwrE5hHiz
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 5, 2022
I still wanna know the identity of this mad billionaire who keeps offering exhorbitant sums for not-remotely-difficult tasks. I have a proposition for him. https://t.co/9eKGjd1htG
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 6, 2022
I know it's a typo (and I make plenty myself), but I can't help giggling over the idea of a "Tigger warning". pic.twitter.com/HSeSBP3Gxv
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 7, 2022
Fusion as a power source has been "about 20 years in the future" since I was in high school and first read the word "tokamak".
I doubt this time will be different, but I'd be overjoyed to be proven wrong before I croak. https://t.co/u6ifSPmqym
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 9, 2022
They seem to think we're all plotting with the Whore of Babylon to overthrow Western Civilization. Of course, I *am* the Whore of Babylon, so it just shows how much THEY know. pic.twitter.com/YA3BcnzFwp
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 10, 2022
Funniest thread you'll read today. https://t.co/5uWYGk7WWf
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 13, 2022
Thread for language nerds like myself.
Incidentally, my favorite compound word from Beowulf is one used to describe the monster Grendel: "sceadugenga" (shadow-walker). https://t.co/5KgwX7CBQq
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 13, 2022
FACT CHECK: King Charles II died in 1685. https://t.co/JqAImYojEF
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 14, 2022
Not at all coincidentally, it's also what "sex trafficking" hysteria has looked like to sane people since at least 2008. https://t.co/UkoAHcgbdS
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 14, 2022
It is not only the right, but the duty, of moral people to break unjust laws. https://t.co/HDZPxb9Cj1
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 16, 2022
What political "environmentalists" want instead of SCAAAAAAAARY nuclear power: https://t.co/B9fk6mCRA0
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 17, 2022
Criminals are attracted to criminality. When a government criminalizes something, it's like leaving food all over the floor and then blaming the vermin for appearing. The easiest way to stop the criminals is by simply not criminalizing normal, non-violent behaviors.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 19, 2022
Make no mistake: this is the ultimate form of what promoters of book bans, "hate speech" laws, "don't say gay" laws, "content restrictions", Section 230 "exceptions", laws against "disinformation", and other censorship measures want for the West as well. https://t.co/D6sLdwoydJ
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 20, 2022
Clearly, she was going to do this with her mutant powers that allow her to transform any heavy metal into Pu-239 *and* also transform its surroundings into unstable material that spontaneously detonates to compress the fissible mass within. Wow, good thing they caught her! https://t.co/K0ZIA1Gzgq
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 22, 2022
The concept of "self-plagiarism" is a cynical attempt to attack established writers, who are naturally going to re-use some concepts and turns of phrase, in order to advantage younger writers, who haven't written long enough yet for that to happen.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 23, 2022
Links #638
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Alabama, animals, California, Colorado, cops, Egypt, France, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, Michigan, prisons, Stop faking!, video on September 25, 2022| 1 Comment »
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end – but not necessarily in that order. – Jean-Luc Godard
My online friend Patrick, late of the Popehat blog and creator of the hilarious DPRK News parody Twitter account, passed away of longstanding health problems last week. There is nothing I could say which would express the grief of those who knew him as well as Ken White’s eulogy, so I’ll leave it at that. I don’t know what sort of music he liked, so I’ll honor his fondness for the weird with this unusual cover of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” (which is still not as strange as the last one). The video was provided by Mike Siegel, who also supplied “aliens”, and the other links are from Mirriam Zary, Yasmin Nair, Fiona Harrigan, Mark Bennett, C.J. Ciaramella, and Popehat, in that order.
- Stop faking!
- It wasn’t aliens.
- R.I.P. Jean-Luc Godard.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- “Smart” devices aren’t, part umpteen.
- Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- The events which eventually led to decriminalization in New South Wales.
- “An investigator can’t just pick up a murder weapon with ungloved hand.“
- “Legalization” features weird, arbitrary laws from obsessive bureaucrats.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives. Some don’t stop with beating.
- Meanwhile, the “enlightened” West just watches a genocide in progress.
- The media flail against a hysteria they’ve worked for decades to create.
- Serial rape is just one of the fringe benefits afforded to Florida screws.
- Why local laws banning surveillance technology are feel-good bullshit.
- Cops and politicians think barfing out “children!” excuses any tyranny.
- Judge reverses one iota of government persecution of two journalists.
- About damned time, considering they backed Amnesty six years ago.
- Did you ever wonder why the government stopped harassing bitcoin?
- It might be wise to restrict this to fully-anonymized online accounts.
- Deaths from a black market product? Just expand the black market!
- It’s rare for a UK article on sex work to be so free of dysphemisms.
- “Sex trafficking” is imploding in spectacular & entertaining fashion.
- A good general overview of political attacks on Dutch sex workers.
- Top-down government censorship has returned with a vengeance.
- On the collectivist campaign to rob the world of a beneficial plant.
- What the people who enforce “sex trafficking” laws are really like.
- Why do people refuse to see injustice until it’s inflicted on them?
- “Inappropriate contact with inmate” = “rape of a caged woman”.
- Oh look, someone in Hollywood appears to have grown a spine.
- On the deeply misogynistic basis of modern “consent” dogma.
- Cops, Escher’s diner, Sodom & Gomorrah, and much more.
- Prohibitionists learned nothing from the Atlanta massacre.
- “We’re not going to sit around and wait to be prosecuted.“
- Cops, vegetables, shoggoths, little boys and much more.
- The same everywhere sex work is at all criminalized.
- Spooge-based sexual assaults are growing worse.
- Cops, tombs, George Harrison, and much more.
- Laws are for the peasantry, not the rulers.
- Improving cell phone service at Sunset.
- Basically the same as a “youth pastor”.
- Getting the first steel rafter into place.
- My two previous columns for Mabon.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- A week of invisible improvements.
- Sliding smoothly into autumn.
- Presented without comment.
- How I dress to buy steel.
- Stop faking!
In the News (#1274)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged censorship, hysteria, If Men Were Angels, Imaginary Victims, India, internet, Iowa, Maggie in the Media, neofeminism, Permanent Record, pimps, porn, rape, sex rays, stripping, Taiwan, The Implosion Begins, The Pro-Rape Coalition, Traffic Jam, underage, video, violence vs. sex workers, yellow journalism on September 24, 2022| Leave a Comment »
We cannot set the house on fire to roast the pig.
– Justice S. Ravindra Bhat, after Frankfurter
A teenage [runaway] who was initially charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed her…rapist to death was sentenced…in an Iowa court to five years of closely supervised probation and ordered to pay $150,000 restitution to the man’s family. Pieper Lewis, 17…pleaded last year to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury in the June 2020 killing of…Zachary Brooks of Des Moines. Both charges were punishable by up to 10 years in prison…judge David M. Porter…deferred those prison sentences, meaning that if Lewis violates [even the most arbitrary or trivial condition] of her probation, she could be sent to prison to serve that 20-year term. As for being required to pay the estate of her rapist, “this court is presented with no other option,” Porter said, noting the restitution is mandatory under Iowa law…Lewis was [a] 15 [year old]…runaway who was seeking to escape an abusive life with her adopted mother…when a 28-year-old man took her in [and started] forcibly [pimp]ing her…Brooks…had [paid her pimp to] rape…her multiple times in the weeks before his death…after Brooks had raped her yet again, she grabbed a knife from a bedside table and stabbed [him] in a fit of rage. Police and prosecutors…took issue with Lewis [correctly] calling herself a victim…and [were eager to make it look like she was at fault for being coerced and raped]…
Cathy Reisenwitz interviews me on her podcast:
In Taiwan, strippers are a traditional part of funerals and autumn festivals. This is no more “raunchy” than having performers in Halloween costumes would be in the West, and any pretense to the contrary is due to the influence of more puritanical cultures such as China and the US:
The Taoyuan Veterans Home, a state-run facility for retired army personnel in Taiwan, paid [a stripper to perform for] for a…celebrat[ion of the] Mid-Autumn Festival — an important holiday in [several Asian] culture[s]…the…performance…[was branded “raunchy” by bluenosed busybodies who were not present, but saw a video] filmed by an attendee…[which] went viral…nursing home residents clapped along enthusiastically…relish[ing] the…show. But [people uncomfortable with the idea that the elderly are stil sexual beings attacked the]…facility…[whic] subsequently released a statement saying: “The intention of the event was to entertain residents and make them happy. We are very sorry for the offense that was caused”…
It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops:
Five woman are suing an international megachurch and its leader, convicted felon Naasón Joaquín García, in California state court over decades of…child sexual abuse…earlier this year…[Garcia] was…sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison…[but] his church, which claims more than 5 million members worldwide, has stood b[ehind him the whole time]…Now, in a 49-page complaint, the church, García, and several affiliated businesses and individuals are being sued for various damages to a class that is expected to include well over 500 alleged victims as plaintiffs. The introductory lines of the complaint do not mince words and stake out shocking allegations that criticize the church…as an enterprise that intentionally existed for the purpose of finding and providing children to be raped by the leader…The five principal plaintiffs are Jane Doe women [now] aged 20-28…who were originally cited in the criminal complaint…
The Pro-Rape Coalition (#1089)
India protects rights the West now seems determined to destroy:
The Supreme Court of India has rejected a petition seeking to codify a…[pretend]ed link between viewing internet pornography and committing crimes such as rape and child sexual abuse…the…court…stated that “child sex abuse is a crime by itself” and [said]…“What you are advocating may be surveillance and collection of data”…The court expressed concern about where the type of Internet surveillance being proposed might lead…
An OnlyFans content creator…was [fired] from her nursing position because other nurses were watching her adult videos on the clock…Jaelyn says she was called into the office of a woman she’s never met, who told her she knew about the OnlyFans. The woman allegedly claimed that the nurses at this particular nursing home have been looking at her socials and OnlyFans while [she] is with patients…Jaelyn adds that her co-workers would have to be paying for her OnlyFans in order to be watching her videos on the clock…This isn’t the first time someone found out their co-worker was watching their OnlyFans videos, as one creator claimed their manager subscribed to their account. Similarly, another Only Fans creator…was forced out of her nursing job due to her adult content in August…
The hysteria is imploding so hard, it’s falling all the way back to its roots:
…in…a spate of recent examples…individuals have been targeted with accusations of Satanism or so-called ritualistic abuse, marking…a [recrudescence] of the moral panic of the 1980s, when hysteria and hypervigilance over protecting children led to [wildly-]false allegations, wrongful imprisonments, decimated communities and wasted resources…While the current obsession with Satan was boosted in part by the QAnon community, partisan media and…politicians have been instrumental in spreading newfound fears over the so-called ritualistic abuse of children that the devil supposedly inspires, sometimes weaving the allegations together with other culture war issues such as LGBTQ rights…which are amplified on social media and by [yellow journalism], and can mobilize mobs to seek vigilante justice…Online accusers can bypass police, therapists and the traditional media and out their alleged accusers straight to audiences of millions…
It’s rather funny to see the expression “partisan media” used pejoratively by NBC News, considering the stark partisanism of its offspring MSNBC.
Mabon 2022
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on September 23, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The apparent path of the sun crossed the celestial equator southbound at 1:03 UTC today, making this the first day of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and the first of spring in the Southern. This is the time of harvest, when plans come to fruition; it is also the harbinger of the time of rest, especially for Daughters of Darkness like myself who are exhausted and overstimulated by the long days of summer. But even if you’re not a fan of the growing gloom, I hope you can enjoy the cooler days and hold summer in your heart while waiting for its return, just as I wait patiently through the long, bright days for the time that best reflects my inner landscape.
Blessed Be!
More Than a Bathhouse
Posted in Words, tagged language, Sunset on September 22, 2022| Leave a Comment »
When I first started planning the addition to my house, I was mostly thinking of it in terms of the hot tub and the bathroom, and the guest cottages were sort of separate entities in my mind. But as the plan came together and I realized that the new annex was going to have multiple functions, of which the bathroom and hot tub were the only bath-related ones, I realized that calling it a bathhouse was really a misnomer. But by that point I had already started calling the columns “Bathhouse #X”, and since I’m a creature of habit it just kept on that way for 2 years. But once I was done with the roof, and I could really see the thing as a whole, I started referring to the big open space as the atrium because that’s what it is, an open space at the center of the house (the main house and both cottages open onto it). So even though I am currently working on the bathroom, I’ve decided it’s time to rename these columns; the whole project amounts to a new wing of my house, an annex, so that’s what I’m going to start calling the columns, starting next week. I’m going to go back and relabel the older ones as well, but I’m not going to change the links because it would just be too much trouble and I’m not trying to memory-hole the history of the project or anything. I just have a thing for accuracy, and though it took a while, it finally overcame my inertia.
In the News (#1273)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged abortion, California, consensual crime, cops, drugs, Enablers, hysteria, law, Louisiana, Michigan, Micromanagement, New York, No Escape, politicians, prisons, rape, surveillance, Texas, The Implosion Begins, The Vultures Descend, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber, United Kingdom on September 21, 2022| 3 Comments »
When you become a snitch, [cops] keep your drug problem going and then they arrest you for it. – Harold Murry
Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”:
Throughout this summer, [young adults] in Texas’ youth prison system have repeatedly been trapped in their cells, forced to urinate in water bottles and defecate on the floor…Calls for immediate action by juvenile justice advocates and dozens of [politicians] to address the crisis have largely gone unanswered by Gov. Greg Abbott…In May and June, more than a dozen detained youths at the Giddings [Cage Stack] said [screws] didn’t let them out of their cells to use the bathroom between 4:30 p.m. and 8 a.m. during the week due to short staffing…On the weekends…youths were sometimes kept in their cells 22 hours a day…[so they] had no choice but to use water bottles, milk cartons, lunch trays or pieces of paper as makeshift toilets…
Just because his victim was gullible doesn’t make this not rape:
The Department [of locking people in cages] quietly canned a Rikers Island guard after…he repeatedly [raped] a [prisoner], provided her with drugs and pressured her to delaying filing a report that she’d [also] been raped by a [different screw]…Leonard McNeill [was] fired for…“exploit[ing] the inmate, pos[ing] a security risk, [and providing an example of the system’s] corruption”…[the other rapist screw,] Jose Cosme…copped a plea with prosecutors, and as part of his deal was fired, forced to register as a sex offender and sentenced to 10 years of probation. McNeil has so far avoided prosecution…
Any information you give to cops can and will be used against you:
A woman whose rape kit DNA was used to link her to an unrelated property crime has filed a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco over the incident…police…later dropped the charges against her…[after] a backlash from advocates…legal experts and [even a few politicians], many of whom warned the practice could affect victims’ willingness to [report crimes against them]…
Everyone who spread “sex trafficking” hysteria contributed to this atrocity:
A Michigan man, who had reportedly been sucked into QAnon…was killed by police after [murder]ing… his wife…Igor Lanis…also [shot and killed his dog and shot] one of [h]is…daughters, Rachel, [but the girl managed to call police]…after being shot in the back and legs…
This vulture feeding frenzy is going to get a lot uglier:
After decades of saying abortion’s legality should be left up to individual states, Republicans are wasting no time in exposing that for the convenient lie it was…Sen. Lindsey Graham…is reportedly backing a federal ban on abortions at 15 weeks of pregnancy…The bill’s name [“Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act”] is…designed to make anyone who votes against it seem to the casual observer like an extremist or even a monster. (See also: any bill with sex trafficking in the name.) The phrase late-term abortion is not a medical term. But in general, it refers to an abortion in the third trimester (which starts at 28 weeks) or, at least, an abortion that takes place after the point of fetal viability (when a fetus could survive outside the womb, around 23 or 24 weeks)…
Some Louisiana cops prefer to rape by proxy:
A woman…[whom cops coerced into being a snitch w]as…left…on her own [by the cops who coerced her]…unprotected and unmonitored in real time…Under threat of violence, the dealer…oral[ly raped her]…twice — in an attack so brazen he paused at one point to conduct a separate drug deal…Even as the woman cried and her assailant threatened to put her “in the hospital,” [pigs fucked off]…down the block…[supposedly] unaware of what was going on…because…they [didn’t care whether] such an attack might happen and the devices the woman carried didn’t have the ability to transmit…in real time…it wasn’t until the woman left the area on her own and contacted her handlers that [cops bothered to]…arrest…Antonio D. Jones…And while it’s not clear what kind of deal the woman struck with the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office…Just three weeks after her recorded assault…[s]he…was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia…and she’s been pulled over and booked on possession charges at least twice since then…
Most rapist cops have multiple underage victims:
A [typical and representative London cop] has been charged with [raping] an underage girl…child…[porn] and other child sex offences…Hussain Chehab…is accused of a total of 13 crimes…he was arrested in July 2021 [but not] charged [until September 13th 2022]…The offences [were committ]ed between 2019 and 2021…
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