This picture was taken from the north side of the addition, looking toward the ramp; if you look closely you can see the slope of the ramp, and below it just a glimpse of the side of the hot tub. It may not look like much, but it’s a section of the plumbing that makes a bathroom functional, and the bathroom in question is the new one in my addition. Grace is competent to do supply-side plumbing, but septic-side plumbing requires a professional; fortunately I met one who was happy to do it for me as a personal favor, provided I assisted him. So I spent all afternoon Saturday doing just that, a job which involved a lot of holding things, fetching things, drilling holes to admit pipes, and generally being down in the basement. I actually found it rather interesting; I like learning about how things work, and I never fully realized how complex the venting for this kind of plumbing can be. I was also rather impressed with the cleverness of the way my plumber got three vents (shower, toilet, and lavatory) to all come together in one chimney. While he worked, we discussed the bathroom project as a whole, and he gave me lots of good advice which, after conferring with Grace, we’re going to take in order to make the project not only simpler and better, but actually less costly! You’ll see it developing over the coming weeks, and I’m rather excited to share it with you. And yes, guys, I’m going to wrap the supply pipes; I just wanted to show you more detail than a mass of insulation.
Archive for October, 2022
Annex 86
Posted in Diary, tagged Sunset on October 21, 2022| 2 Comments »
Tweets Like Dry Leaves
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged activism, animals, BDSM, blogging, bogus studies, censorship, comics, cops, disability, fascism, language, left-right myth, psychology, racism, sex work is work, Twitter, video on October 20, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The Establishment wants you to believe that "delivering packages from a private person to another private person”, like UPS and Fedex do every day, is "a very sketchy situation".
Statism at its creepiest. https://t.co/OnMdQrDvMm
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 26, 2022
…only their right wing while squawking "LEFT WING! LEFT WING!" The circles overlap each other and lots of other goony birds stand in the middle and watch, calling what they're seeing a "debate".
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 27, 2022
Except for sex workers, of course. PayPal thinks it isn't necessary to "include" a way hundreds of thousands in the US *alone* make a living, not to mention millions in other countries. https://t.co/8NhDqx9h0Y
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 30, 2022
Cops have become like demons in fantasy horror tales, who can be summoned to destroy anyone merely by invoking the victim's name in the proper black magic ritual.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 1, 2022
This is one of my favorites: pic.twitter.com/gCfUCALpkw
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 2, 2022
Maybe if people recognized this cop behavior as stemming from the cop's own obsessive needs and desires – IOW a sexual or quasi-sexual need to torture others – something would at last be done about it.
But it isn't and won't be, so here we are. https://t.co/tFLnzLDc81
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 3, 2022
Absolutely without hesitation. This is Aphrodite's work. https://t.co/RVnDvbaP20
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 4, 2022
Why you should be skeptical of doomsayers who quote "projections". https://t.co/DfZ7HCePVt
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 5, 2022
When you use terms popular in political media, try doing so without the approved modifiers such as "deadly", "illicit", "____wing", "illegal", etc. Your readers will be surprised at how much more rational you sound. And if you're honest with yourself, so will you.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 6, 2022
Sex work is work. https://t.co/nLOfiLqLWp
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 7, 2022
If someone who isn't writing about birds, airplanes, or buildings uses the word "wing" more than once or twice in an article, consider it an indication you should turn your skepticism dial way, way up.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 9, 2022
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 11, 2022
The US is dominated by two partisan cults with extreme and irrational belief-systems, both of whom deny reality in general and pretend that the few things they ARE correct about are entirely without exception.
If you belong to one of these, you are neither "smart" nor moral.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 12, 2022
I've built 2 of the 3 here at Sunset. If money were no object, I'd hire pros to come in and fix the little things I didn't do quite right; I'd also have them repair the outbuildings and build me a miniature railway all around the property so I could ride in my own choo-choo.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 13, 2022
"She Quietly Read at Home. Then She Went Back To Being A Librarian"
"He Lied to his Wife. Then He Went Back To Being A Politician"
"He Balanced His Checkbook. Then He Went Back To Being An Accountant"
"She Made Dinner For Her Family. Then She Went Back To Being A Chef"
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 14, 2022
And best of all, gathering all that busybody energy at the source would dramatically curtail the amount available for them to use in actually going out into the world and sticking their runny noses into everyone else's business.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 15, 2022
And now for a word from our drama llama: pic.twitter.com/d4q5uWO59Q
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 16, 2022
Start "The Maggie McNeill Foundation", which would support me with a stipend until I croak, then give out grants to worthy anti-prohibition causes after I'm gone.
If any billionaires see this and think it sounds good, email me. https://t.co/O8iuOo4MsS
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 18, 2022
A government action is a "raid" if:
A) it involves two or more armed agents of the State;
B) the target is not warned in advance; and
C) the target cannot legally and effectively refuse entry to the agents. https://t.co/OvCdYFsh03— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 19, 2022
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In the News (#1281)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged Canada, Colombia, consensual crime, cops, domestic violence, drugs, Florida, Ireland, Kentucky, Mexico, New Orleans, politicians, porn, prisons, rape, Stop faking!, The Cop Myth, The Public Eye, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber, transgender, Twitter, Winding Down on October 19, 2022| 1 Comment »
You ain’t paralyzed. – typical Florida screw
It’s always heartening to see a sex worker run for office, especially when she wins:
A transgender politician in Mexico’s ruling MORENA party is under fire for posting pornographic videos of herself on Twitter. But María Clemente García Moreno—a federal deputy in Mexico City who made history in 2021 when she and another politician became the first trans people elected to the country’s congress—also moonlights as a sex worker and contests that it’s within her rights to post whatever she wants…
Florida screws love yelling “Stop faking!” at their victims after intentionally breaking their necks:
Craig Ridley…[was] a 62-year-old prisoner in Florida who, after having his neck broken by guards, was left to die in his cell…Ridley…was…tackled…to the ground face first on Sept. 8, 2017…[by brutal screws who th]en manhandled, mocked and ignored [him]…even as he begged for help…as he lay in his cell, unable to walk and starving because he couldn’t reach the food he was being given. After five days of this paralysis, guards finally took him to a hospital, where…he died on Oct. 12…intubated and unable to communicate…the…story was kept hushed for years…
Destigmatization of psychedelics is happening much more quickly than I would’ve expected:
Shroomyz is Toronto’s first magic mushroom dispensary and the second in the province…A Shroomyz in Ottawa opened in May of this year…Shroomyz is akin to any cannabis store you’d find in the city. Windows are taped off for privacy and customers need to buzz in to enter…The store supplies everything from dried psilocybin and microdose capsules to mushroom chocolates and mushroom tea…
It’s great to see anti-prohibitionist views quickly becoming mainstream:
Prohibition is not working—and that can be seen most strikingly with cocaine, not cannabis…Global production hit a record of 1,982 tonnes in 2020, according to the latest data, though that is likely to be an underestimate. That record high is despite decades of strenuous and costly efforts to cut off the supply. Between 2000 and 2020 the United States ploughed $10bn into Colombia to suppress production, paying the local armed forces to spray coca plantations with herbicide…or…yank up bushes by hand. To no avail…murder in Colombia is three times more common than in the United States; in Mexico, four times. In some areas, drug gangs are so wealthy and well-armed that they rival the state…the cocaine gangs will remain powerful so long as their product is illegal in the rich countries that consume most of it, such as the United States. Half-measures, such as not prosecuting cocaine users, are not enough. If producing…is still illegal, it will be criminals who produce it…the real answer is full legalisation, allowing non-criminals to produce a strictly regulated, highly taxed product, just as whisky- and cigarette-makers do…
The New Orleans cop who stood by and watched a rape has thought up an excuse:
Earl J. Brown III…resigned a week after The Times-Picayune published audio from a 911 call demonstrating that — though he was just a block away — Brown declined to intervene [in a rape] for more than three minutes. By that point, the suspect had fled. Brown later [claimed]…he was working a security detail on a movie set and that he had been trained to wait for backup before responding. Brown also heard over the radio that New Orleans [cops] had been dispatched…[so he figured they would eventually get there, and called it good]…Scott Seymour…who investigated the incident, rejected Brown’s explanation and concluded he violated several department policies by failing to act. Seymour recommended firing Brown, but he resigned before…that [happened, which] means Brown maintains a clean record…and [could be rehired as a cop somewhere else]…
See also “To Molest and Rape (#1273)” below.
You’ve heard of “burying the lede”, but this one just keeps getting worse:
A Louisville [cop sent]…a sexually explicit photo of a woman to more than a dozen people without her consent….Harry Seeders…was arrested…and charged…under the so-called Kentucky “revenge porn” law that went into effect in 2018…Seeders…was on [paid vacation as a reward for] a previous domestic violence incident…in May 2021 [in which he attacked] a woman he was dating…[by] hit[ting her]…in the mouth and then chok[ing] her…those charges[, which] are still pending…[were filed when] Seeders was [already enjoying a paid vacation he received as a reward for murdering]…a [random] man…on Nov. 22, 2020…and [trying to blame his victim]…
It’s not only Louisiana cops who prefer to rape by proxy:
A garda is under suspension…[for trying] to hire a man to [rape] a female colleague…the [cop apparently]…contacting a man online, possibly on the Darkweb…[and the scheme] apparently came to light when the man, understood to be in Scotland, began arranging to travel to Ireland…
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Diary #642
Posted in Diary, tagged cell phones on October 18, 2022| 1 Comment »
In September of last year, I accidentally broke the screen of my cell phone. And since so-called “smart” phones have almost no physical control interfaces, this meant the phone was unusable. So I went to the Verizon store and bought a replacement; I really liked the phone that was broken, so I asked for the newer version of the same phone. What I was given instead was absolutely the worst device I’ve ever owned in over 30 years of mobile ownership, with the possible exception of my early-90s car phone with the window-mounted antenna. It’s called a “Moto G Power (2021)”, but the only actual “power” it appears to have is the power to infuriate me whenever I attempt to use it; while it seemed to have basically the same computer capabilities as my previous phone, as an actual phone it’s almost completely useless. Until I installed the repeater, it had absolutely no signal unless I drove about 5 km toward town, and even with the repeater it only works dependably if I stand in the hall within about 3 m of the repeater antenna. So needless to say, as soon as the screen on my old phone was fixed, I chucked the “new and improved” piece of shit in my desk drawer and tried to forget I had spent over $400 on something which, judged by the standards of modern telecommunications devices, was roughly as useful as a set of two Dixie cups on the ends of a piece of string. Well, the old phone never really worked properly again; the screen would go black during calls, so there wasn’t any way to hang up if the call went to voicemail (except to hold down the power button until the phone restarted). I knew that sooner or later it would die again, and it did a few weeks ago, which meant I was once again forced to use the Worst Phone Ever until I finally got so sick of it I called Verizon and complained. They gave me a decent deal on a replacement (which still means I’m out over $400 on the Shitphone), but after a week went by with no phone I called again and discovered that the order hadn’t actually been processed because of a series of very strange technical problems which made me wonder whether their order system hadn’t been created by the designer of the “G Power”. Fortunately, I happened to encounter that rara avis in terris, a customer service representative who is actually invested in providing good service; he not only got the IT folks to solve the issue, but also called me back the next day to personally process the order himself to ensure it was actually done. I should get my new phone today, but I’m not sure what I’m going to do with this painfully-expensive paperweight (since Verizon didn’t want it either); maybe I could get $100 for it on Craigslist.
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Levels of Support
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged advertising, blogging on October 17, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Most of y’all have probably noticed the new postscript following most of my columns:
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so very much!
The four levels spoken of in that paragraph are visible in the right-hand margin under “Become a Blog Patron”; 10¢/day takes the form of an annual payment of $36.50; 25¢/day takes the form of monthly payment of $7.75; 50¢/day takes the form of monthly payment of $15.50; and $1/day takes the form of monthly payment of $31.00. But as two gentlemen pointed out (though not quite in these words), there’s a fairly wide gap between my highest subscription rate and my lowest “arrangement” rate of $400/month. And since such a gap is rather irritating to my OCD, I’ve decided to create two new categories to bridge that gap, $70/month and $165/month. I’m not going to do these via PayPal buttons like the subscriptions, because they’re a new status, more than a reader but not quite a client; I’m also not going to rigidly define the privileges of those higher tiers, because everybody is different so I want to keep it flexible (but think phone and text based rather than in-person). So if you think you’d like to support my work at higher than a regular subscription level, and would enjoy regular social interaction with me, but don’t live near enough for us to regularly meet in person, just use this link to email me and we’ll custom-design an arrangement to fit your needs and preferences. And you don’t even need references or screening!
Links #641
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, California, cops, drugs, Florida, hysteria, Kansas, New York, prisons, Texas, video on October 16, 2022| Leave a Comment »
[NYPD behavior is] nothing short of an extrajudicial campaign of terror and kidnapping. – Paul Phillips et al
It wasn’t easy choosing a song to honor the passing of Loretta Lynn, but I finally settled on this one because it’s representative of a recurring theme in her oeuvre, unwanted pregnancy, which is as timely now as it ever was (other examples include “One’s On the Way” and “Pregnant Again”). The links above the video were provided by Cop Crisis; Mistress Matisse (x2); Jesse Walker; Mike Siegel and Phoenix Calida; Cop Crisis again; and Scott Greenfield, in that order.
- This is not reformable.
- Just protecting and serving.
- This only barely qualifies as satire.
- Sergio Aragonés is a humor institution.
- R.I.P. Loretta Lynn and Angela Lansbury.
- Cop decides to murder random strangers.
- Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
From the Archives
- This elaborate concern kabuki is the result of “sex trafficking” propaganda.
- Brutal clowns try to rob their victims of even the slightest shred of dignity.
- European politicians consider discussing a baby step in the right direction.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- A few journalists begin to see the danger of “sex trafficking” propaganda.
- A whole gang of sexual predators specifically target traumatized women.
- Courts finally curtail the worst of Louisiana’s nasty “sex offender” game.
- “That memories can be repressed, then recovered is pernicious folklore.“
- OUR antics have grown so bizarre not even prohibitionists can ignore it.
- Why can’t politicians to do more than “urge” cops not to violate people?
- Americans have absorbed the real American ideal: “Might makes right”.
- Calling a bunch of unrelated raids & arrests a “human trafficking sting”.
- Will Western media finally stop tiptoeing around calling this what it is?
- Are physicians finally standing up to authoritarian public health ideas?
- Halloween has become a focus for challenging “sex offender” tyranny.
- Censors are now pretending ideas they don’t like constitute a “crime”.
- Government thugs continue their crusade against Christian charity.
- Respite from UK porn censorship lasted less than three years.
- Yet another ill-conceived, internet-connected dick gadget.
- Friendship is the most powerful kind of love in the world.
- Cops, nightmares, elections, SCIENCE! and much more.
- More cops forced to deny “sex trafficking” scary tales.
- A rare rollback of state control of pregnant women.
- The anti-sex mob are those most obsessed by sex.
- Illinois readers can get $400 from the copZucker.
- Congress won’t stop until it controls the internet.
- Dr. David Ley on the consequences of hysteria.
- Maggie, where are you advertising these days?
- “This is political prosecution with no evidence.“
- A word for sponsors of The War on Whores.
- Another example of sex worker ingenuity.
- Cops, racism, absurdity, and much more.
- Is there hope for Mama Mia and Jezebel?
- Rapist cops of the week, 2020 and 2021.
- A lovely birthday present from the gods.
- The hysteria over Cuties keeps growing.
- An intermission for bathhouse updates.
- Curiosity offends the state, comrade.
- Cops, Tubular Bells, and much more.
- Apple cider, apple jelly, apple butter…
- Using my hot tub for the first time.
- The first five rafters are in place.
- R.I.P. Shane Petzer.
In the News (#1280)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged censorship, Choke Point, cops, Do As I Say, drugs, Enablers, Fair-Weather Friends, Google, Hall of Shame, Illinois, internet, lawyers, Not For Everybody, Ohio, Part of the Picture, porn, rape, scams, surveillance, Texas, To Molest and Rape, underage, You Were Warned on October 15, 2022| 2 Comments »
PayPal…shouldn’t be surprised if people don’t trust it. – Robby Soave
Funny how many cops who are willing to pay prefer underage girls:
Thomas Peoples…was [fired from his position as] the police chief in Oak Ridge, Texas…[after] he was arrested in Arlington…and charged with solicitation of prostitution from a person under 18…
Another ex-sex worker thinks it’s her job to cheat her sisters out of money:
Former porn star Lana Rhoades is hitting out against the industry that made her a worldwide star, saying it should be made “illegal”. Rhoades…worked in the field for eight months between 2016 and 2017, appearing in more than 250…films…[but she now claims] she was still scarred from the experience…Rhoades…was…19 when she appeared in her first X-rated scene…“For some reason I never comprehended that to do porn you actually have to have sex with people,” she said…
Rhoades is such a naive idiot, it seems unfair to put her in the Hall of Shame for just demonstrating what she is. But if she goes beyond words to actually work with prohibitionists, I won’t be so lenient.
Why was anyone surprised that something openly advertised as spyware is actually spyware?
Two religious surveillance apps marketed as “porn filters” to churchgoers across America…[have been] ban[ned] by the Google app store…following a recent…report by Wired magazine…[which explained that] Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You spied on churchgoers’ searches and then sent the information to religious leaders [just as they are intended to do. Yet]…after Wired [told]…Google…[that the apps functioned as advertised], the search giant determined that [the apps] violated its privacy policies…
About a twelfth of the time his long string of crimes deserves:
A [typical and representative] Columbus [Ohio] vice [pig] was sentenced to [a mere 18 months in] prison for violating the civil rights of a person he [had decided to ruin]…Steven Rosser…[repeatedly harassed] one of the owners of a gentlemen’s club…and…[also] scheme[d] to frame…[h]im for cocaine possession…
Roblox and Discord are among the platforms sued for allegedly harming children and teens in a new lawsuit…which also targets…Facebook…and…Snapchat…Filed in California state court, the suit is one of many [attempting to rob] large social media companies. But comparatively few of these have covered Discord and Roblox, both of which are popular with young users. (Over half of US children were on Roblox as of 2020.) It comes shortly after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring sites to [violate all users’ privacy in the name of “child safety”. The ambulance-chasers’ poster child is]…a 13-year-old girl…who began using Roblox around age 9…and…[supposedly developed] a “harmful and problematic dependence” on electronic devices that damaged her mental health, [even though it is not possible to become “addicted” to electronic devices]…Like most cases against social networks, the suit seeks to hold the services responsible for defective product design — and in the process, circumvent Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act…
PayPal is becoming a major threat to civil liberties:
Last week, PayPal rolled out an updated user agreement…that…prohibits “the sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials” that “present a risk to user safety or wellbeing” or contain “misinformation”…what counts as misinformation is at PayPal’s “sole discretion”…and PayPal [granted itself the “right” to steal] $2,500 from the [targeted] user’s account…[after considerable outcry] PayPal…backtracked…[claiming the threat was]…”an…error that included incorrect information”…
Since PayPal disseminated misinformation, it seems to me it now owes every one of its users $2500.
Chicago is hiding the identity of another of its costumed rapists:
A federal grand jury has indicted a [typical and representative] Chicago [cop for]…the…kidnapping and [rape] of an [unidentified] individual [o]n March [5th] 2019. James Sajdak…also faced a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Tyshee Featherstone…[whom he also raped] the same day. Featherstone’s [sui]t was settled in April 2020…Sajdak was [also] accused of harassment in a separate lawsuit filed by Geneva Perry, who[m]…he…[terrorized during a pretextual stop] on Sept. 8, 2016…then masturbated in front of her between their two parked cars…That lawsuit was settled in December 2019…
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks very much!
Annex 85
Posted in Diary, tagged Sunset on October 14, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Our plumber is coming to hook up the septic-side plumbing tomorrow, so I preferred to hold off doing anything more in the shower until that’s done. It’s not like I didn’t have lots else to do! Before I could close up the bathroom walls, I had to wire the electrical outlets, and since I was doing that already I went ahead and wired up the lights as well, and ran the feed cable back to the utility room so we can connect it to the breaker box. That of course meant I had to build the wall to put the switch box into; I left the other side of the doorway unfinished so we can more easily get the cement mixer in to do the shower. The toilet was a great find; $35 at an architectural salvage store, and in perfect condition. Plus, it was made in the mid-80s, so it’s a full-flush model as I wanted. I also found a beautiful vanity top for only $25, but it’s not in this picture. You’ll notice it’s on a pedestal; I did it that way to make it a better height for Grace, whose knees are very bad. The base is made of two layers of subfloor OSB, a layer of half-inch thick plywood, and several short pieces of 4×4; I glued and clamped the plywood layers together, cut the resulting slab to fit, cut a large hole for the outflow pipe to pass through, then surrounded the opening with a square of 4×4 pieces. It’s not bolted down right now because I figure the plumber may need it loose, yet it’s still as sturdy as if it were bolted in place. I’m really rather proud of myself; it was a good design and it came out as I intended. And I think we’re on track for getting the bathroom functional by Thanksgiving.
The Invention of Incels
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, tagged prohibitionist myths, psychology, statistics on October 13, 2022| 3 Comments »
This is basically true, but those guys were mostly not “incels”; they had the sense to occasionally avail themselves of the services of the local widow who provided attention at rates they could afford (in my home town, she was known as “Rose Marie” and everyone including the cops left her in peace). This was done on their “night out” or when “going to town”. Modern “incels” foolishly reject such services because they’ve infected each other with stupid prohibitionist notions, as cult members are wont to do. Modern people are deeply in denial about how common sexwork has been throughout human history. In the 19th century, nearly all men paid at least occasionally; even in 1948 Kinsey reported 70% of men had paid at least once. The idea of sex work being a “crime”, pathology or abberation dates to the early 20th century, but didn’t become common in the general public until the ’80s; projecting these reality-denying modern notions back into history generates absurdities like the idea that men just voluntarily went without sex when it was available for a price they could at least occasionally afford.
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so very much!
In the News (#1279)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged California, Canada, censorship, cops, drugs, Enablers, holidays, hysteria, Illinois, internet, law, New Zealand, politicians, prohibitionist myths, rape, Rescued To Death, streetwalkers, Swedish model, The Cop Myth, Thought Control, To Molest and Rape, Unsafe for Human Consumption, Whither Canada?, You Were Warned on October 12, 2022| Leave a Comment »
[Politicians want] a whole community of people [to] just cease to exist. – Jenn Clamen
Cops still believe “a woman wanted to be raped by a random cop” is credible:
A Chicago cop…[raped] a woman hours after he responded to a burglary at her home in the spring of 2016. The woman came forward years later as she struggled with mental health issues and thoughts of suicide…[after] Daniel Otero…returned to her studio apartment, had drinks with her and then [raped] her…C[ops assigned to investigate themselves] ruled there wasn’t enough evidence to prove…her allegations…and Otero…[claimed] that she wa[nted it, but at least]…Chicago Police…agreed he should be fired…Early on April 3, 2016, Otero…responded to a call of a “peeping Tom”…[who apparently stole] her cellphone, wallet and purse [after she fled to her neighbors’ and]…apparently left a door unlocked…Otero…asked for her email address since her phone had been taken…he…Otero emailed a few hours later and came over…they shared a few drinks…[and] she was already feeling drunk when he “guided” her to the bed…[and raped] her…she was left feeling “confused, in disbelief and ashamed,” but it wasn’t until early January 2019 that she…had a “mental breakdown” and was hospitalized…
So much for San Francisco’s pious bullshit about no longer sending cops to assault sex workers:
In response to [complaints from bourgeois women], San Francisco’s [cops]…promised t[o send thugs and rapists to attack sex workers on]…Capp Street…[Boss pig] Gavin McEachern acknowledged…that, for the most part, the police department has [actually left women unmolested]…over the past two years in the Mission District. “We’re looking forward to changing that” [he gloated. Another pig then oinked]…”Let the games begin”…
Sex workers ask the Canadian Supreme Court to uphold its own judgment:
Sex workers are being harmed and exploited, not protected, under the current laws, a coalition of sex workers and sex worker-led groups…argue[d] Monday at a landmark five-day Superior Court hearing — the first step in what they hope will lead to sex work being fully decriminalized in Canada…the 2014 [Canadian version of the misogynistic Swedish model]…is…intended to discourage and ultimately eliminate sex work…The Attorney General of Canada argues that the law should remain in place because it…give police[s] the [power] to…[deceive sex workers and barge into their workplaces to harass and intimidate them. Th]is [creates] a “culture of fear” for clients who need to avoid detection by police and, as a result, sex workers are forced to operate in unsafe locations, with limited communication and with no ability to work together to improve their working conditions without risking being charged with third-party offences, the coalition argues…with support from organizations including Amnesty International Canada, LEAF and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association…this lawsuit differs from previous constitutional challenges because it does not target just the third-party offences, but the key foundational provision: that purchasing sex is illegal…it is about changing the government’s ideological position that sex work is inherently exploitative…
Given this court’s behavior so far, we might be about to see the end of the open internet:
The Supreme Court…agreed to hear a challenge to…Section 230…[the law which] protect[s] free expression on the internet by shielding internet companies from liability for much of the content their users post on their platforms. The law also protects the companies from lawsuits for removing content that violates their policies. But the law has drawn [attacks] from both Democrats and Republicans [because it keeps politicians from exerting the kind of centralized control over the internet they lust for]…
In case you’ve ever wondered where the good cops are:
LAPD [cop] Houston Tipping…died during police training [because he] was targeted b[y]…fellow cops for [reporting that they committed] a…gang rape…the…fatal spinal cord injury…[was] ruled…an accident [by the coroner]…but Brad Gage, the attorney for Tipping’s mother Shirley Huffman, [explained] that [Tipping] was a whistleblower in [the gang rape] case that involved four other [cops]…one of the [rapist]s was present when he died…[though] the department…[claimed] Tipping…was injured while “grappling” with another [cop, an independent investigation revealed]…he was “repeatedly struck in the head severely enough that he bled”…[and also] suffered broken ribs…LAPD [also appears to be hiding the]…video taken of the training…
Unsafe for Human Consumption (#1269)
Despite a lack of evidence, urban legends about drug-laced Halloween candy keep circulating, aided by feckless reporters. This year, it’s “rainbow fentanyl” that has the press repeating unfounded tales of deadly drugs disguised as candy. While the narrative around rainbow fentanyl and children…is bunk, journalists just won’t stop peddling the story…[last week], Good Morning America connected the myth to a recent seizure of 15,000 fentanyl pills, which were smuggled in a Lego box…
Authoritarians are working to spread support for worldwide criminalization of speech:
…New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is trying out her professional scold routine in front of a world audience, perhaps preparing for a role at some international body. Key to that shift is her belief that this whole free speech thing is a menace, and something should be done about it, preferably around the globe…she has a whole pro-censorship project ready to go for a career reboot after electoral politics…Ardern…[talks about] the dangers of unregulated speech…[a] category encompass[ing all]…ideas the powers-that-be find threatening…she demands “international rules, norms, and expectations” comparable to those applied in weapons control…
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