Grace’s cat Aeryn will turn 21 in March, and though she’s not on her last legs yet, she definitely has her share of the problems of age. She has arthritis and cataracts, doesn’t hear too well, and appears to be suffering the feline equivalent of dementia; she spends a lot of time wandering around the house yowling, and the only thing that seems to calm her is a THC concentrate Grace makes for her and puts into her food. The only food she won’t quickly throw up is pate-style cat food, and even then we need to water it down somewhat because she hasn’t got many of her teeth left. Of course, that doesn’t stop her from trying to eat everyone else’s food (including the dogs’ and humans’) and then, predictably, throwing up. She also seems to have recently lost the ability to find the litterbox, which means finding turds and puddles in random places (but most often on the stair landing) has become a daily occurrence of late. So after shampooing the rug three times in one week, I told Grace we needed to do something. I pulled Cicero’s piglet-pen out of the garage and set it up in the living room near the heater; I put in pee-pads, a litterbox, her food & water bowls, and a pillow, and placed Aeryn inside. We were both concerned she wouldn’t like being in a cage, even a large and comfortable one, but to our relief she seems to be quite happy with the arrangement. Instead of spending her days wandering around the house, crying like a lost soul, she’s quietly napping on her pillow; the only time she cries is when her bowl is empty, and now that the other animals can’t get to it that only happens about once a day. Even when Grace opened the cage door so she could come out for a while, she preferred to stay inside, and when Grace held her so I could clean the cage, she complained until we put her back. So now I’m kicking myself for not thinking of this earlier; I guess she sees the cage not as a prison, but a safe little sanctuary from a world that has become just too big and confusing.
Archive for January, 2023
Diary #657
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset on January 31, 2023| 5 Comments »
Back Issue #115
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on January 30, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Whenever a tragedy involving children is publicized, the vultures are never long in arriving. – “For the Children”
- I’m so frustrated I’m having sick fantasies & have begun to hate women.
- What’s the solution to sexual frustration beside whores or masturbation?
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
- Time glorifies the controlling behavior of a pathologically-entitled prude.
- Why isn’t it OK to advise women how to protect themselves from rape?
- Judge says tricking women into sex is OK because James Bond does it.
- With Friends Like Radio Netherlands, sex workers don’t need enemies.
- Cops, debutantes, robots, cats, spiders, zombies, and flaming cheese.
- What do you think about verification services like Date Check & P411?
- New York video helpfully explains that a law doesn’t say what it says.
- For one who’s “not trying to be condescending”, she does a good job.
- This reaction to a terrible freak accident is, apparently, not a parody.
- Members of the mainstream media are slowly beginning to wake up.
- Prohibitionist French politician pronounces free speech “dangerous”.
- Looks like the Philippines is moving toward British-type legalization.
- Texas wants all sex work as dangerous as criminalized street work.
- Susie Bright on how prosecutorial incentives spawn abominations.
- Prosecutors never hesitate when there’s political coin to be made.
- Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea has become five times as common.
- The Red Umbrella Fund, a grant source governed by sex workers.
- Foreign officials: pay your hookers! Hookers: collect in advance!
- Judge blocks law intended to ban inexpensive escort advertising.
- Every religion has a creed; the “trafficking” cult is no exception.
- Michael Roth shows just how easily false memories are formed.
- A preliminary injunction against a narrow part of the CASE Act.
- The transformation of “illegal aliens” into “sex trafficking rings”.
- Burmese journalists are much freer than their US counterparts.
- Apparently, the average age of Xactware board members is 12.
- Nanotechnology, Lovecraft, cops, Spirograph, and much more.
- Some just use extraordinary powers as a way to meet people.
- Cops trash escort’s home after she reports an abusive stalker.
- What fraction of male sexual encounters are with prostitutes?
- Public choice theory explains the behavior of all large groups.
- The medicalization of sexual dysfunction is bad for everyone.
- Will severe Peyronie’s Syndrome doom a sexual relationship?
- Take especial note of the un-ironic use of the word “rescue”.
- Canadian men arrested for the “crime” of talking about sex.
- Prohibitionists claim repressive laws “protect” sex workers.
- Neofeminists hate whores more than “gender stereotypes”.
- Another Jezebel debutante gets the vapors over sex work.
- Politician accused of rape is beaten by a crowd of women.
- The beginning of the end of the “anti-prostitution pledge”.
- The highly dishonorable Prime Liar of Japan is at it again.
- Louisiana cops make moronic “gypsy whore” statements.
- Cops, cocoa, cats, Lego, Mother Goose, and much more.
- Spain accuses 17 people of “trafficking” via black magic.
- The problem with modern interpretations of Irene Adler.
- “For the children!” hysteria actually endangers children.
- How can I get over feeling that paid sex is all business?
- This woman takes the term “cougar” much too literally.
- Another feel-good law which will help virtually nobody.
- Actress works as courtesan; whores collectively yawn.
- Cops, cats, cards, Cthulhu, cannabis, and much more.
- News on two ladies who were fired for past sex work.
- Can a consensual adult incestuous relationship work?
- A rather peculiar article about sex workers in Malawi.
- A constitutional challenge to Korean prostitution law.
- A Swiss newspaper challenges “trafficking” hysteria.
- The story of compulsive busybody Thomas Radecki.
- Politician fights law requiring sex ed teachers to lie.
- After reading this, you’ll want to wash your eyes.
- Anti-gay lawyer “sex traffics” her own daughter.
- Miranda Kane on selling comedy vs. selling sex.
- Tall tales about technology and “sex trafficking”.
- Cheryl Overs: “A Good Year for Red Umbrellas”.
- Q: What’s the Cost of a Rumour? A: £500,000.
- Another Brazilian woman auctions her virginity.
- Melissa Gira Grant: “The War on Sex Workers”.
- Another excellent anti-criminalization editorial.
- Dr. Brooke Magnanti debunks “porn addiction”.
- Juxtaposing “sex trafficking” hype with facts.
- Intra-family spying gets ever more intrusive.
- Politician accuses rape victim of prostitution.
- In which I change my mind on a few issues.
- A holier-than-thou rock music radio station.
- Language classes for Brazilian sex workers.
- Lawyer disbarred for billing a client for sex.
- How do whores deal with underage clients?
- Can hookers orgasm several times a day?
- A lawsuit against the “condom porn” law.
- The UK’s first brothel for disabled clients.
- Do most hookers enjoy sex with clients?
- Old man caged for grossing out prudes.
- Is there such a thing as too much sex?
- A fake Swedish model “consultation”.
- Flute of Sand & Crisis and Leviathan.
- The outing of Suzy Favor Hamilton.
- The French edition of Paying For It.
- Ed Bagley accepted a plea bargain.
- The truth about “The Truth About…”
- In which I am inundated by spam.
- I share my hate mail with y’all.
- Wisconsin cops infiltrate P411.
- Am I being led on by my ATF?
- YOU are a computer criminal!
- The legacy of Roe vs. Wade.
- Marc Antony’s first mistress.
- Previously asked questions.
- WWAV gets a new building.
- Sex, Lies and Audiotapes.
- Bullshit! and Sex Power.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Paypal is at it again.
- My favorite movies.
- Cuckoo advertising.
- Is squirting real?
Links #656
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, Arkansas, Believe Them, California, Colorado, cops, Never Call the Cops, New York, Pennsylvania, prisons, teachers, video on January 29, 2023| Leave a Comment »
They’re trying to George Floyd me! – Keenan Anderson
This week’s video, provided by Stephen Lemons, was made by a hip-hop musician called Afroman to mock the cops who raided his home on bogus pretexts; like the taqueria I featured back in January of ’16, he used surveillance footage in the video to have the last laugh on the thugs who violated his property. The links above the video were contributed by Mirriam Zary; Franklin Harris and Dan Savage; N. Colby; and Cop Crisis (x4), in that order.
- R.I.P. Lisa Marie Presley.
- R.I.P. Adam Rich and Carole Cook.
- Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- Do I really need to say, “Don’t go to them either”?
- Even being in the same room as a cop is dangerous.
- Gang of thugs wantonly murders a teacher in the street.
- Crime: Pointing. Penalty: slowly starved to death in a cage.
From the Archives
- The “Victorian doctors invented female masturbation” myth dates to 1999.
- Snitching apps first sold as anti-whore technology are widening their nets.
- Does any sane person still believe this is about anything other than profit?
- Everything about modern corporate work makes me happier I’m a whore.
- It’s good to see more writers criticizing insulting hooker tropes in movies.
- This’ll never change while screws have absolute power over their victims.
- Prohibitionist profiteers will harass businesses until FOSTA is overturned.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- Cops will keep this up until people stop pretending adults dislike sweets.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
- We may be seeing the beginning of the end of these medieval practices.
- Nothing infuriates violent, self-important busybodies more than privacy.
- Authoritarians want people to forget the true nature of this psychopath.
- Still think those toothless facial recognition bans will rebottle the djinni?
- Actresses & whores were until recently considered the same profession.
- How often must I say, “Don’t let non-doctors inject filth into your body“?
- Sex work is a major part of the Thai economy, but don’t tell politicians.
- GAATW is the only “anti-trafficking” group concerned with exploitation.
- Believing what politicians say is like trying to build a castle on a cloud.
- Half a year old, but since the events were over a century ago anyhow…
- Do cops realize how stupid their narrative-mixing makes them sound?
- If you want a good threesome, you really need to hire a professional.
- Hysterics claim typing words into an algorithm constitutes “violence”.
- Another good little article on interacting with sex workers on Twitter.
- Rashida Jones’ sleazy prohibitionism ties into a much bigger picture.
- 18 months between a blatant offense and actually being fired for it.
- TSA goons can freely molest citizens, but this was a bit too blatant.
- This mass surveillance tool won’t long be restricted to sex workers.
- The bipartisan war on the internet continues without even a pause.
- Truckers Against Trafficking uses sexual fantasies as propaganda.
- Cops, drugs, candles, Mira Furlan, Hank Aaron, and much more.
- While stigma and criminalization exist, this will keep happening.
- Call prohibitionists what they are, not what they pretend to be.
- Politicians are always happy to indulge cops’ violent fantasies.
- Many more people die from scalpels than from meat cleavers.
- In this anti-whore climate, a wholly predictable development.
- Cops, Lovecraft, Yvette Mimieux, Meat Loaf, and much more.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from January 2011 and 2012.
- Cops, metaphors, John Karlen, Terry Jones, and much more.
- Preventing a cascade of predatory “sex trafficking” lawsuits.
- The majority of self-reports about sexual accidents are lies.
- Cops are still masturbating to the “barcode tattoo” fantasy.
- Don’t worry, the Swedish model “decriminalizes the seller”!
- Pig talks dirty to another pig who’s pretending to be a kid.
- Not much of a sentence for attempted kidnapping & rape.
- Just another typical and representative government thug.
- All Londoners are now part of a perpetual police lineup.
- How “sex trafficking” myths resemble pulp sci-fi tales.
- 578,759 people total at a density of about 2 per km2.
- The first installment of a six-part review of Blake’s 7.
- Prohibitionism is an inherently violent belief system.
- 40% increase in violence after FOSTA became law.
- The New York Times subtly speaks ill of the dead.
- The US finally decides to call a spade a spade.
- They’ll use any excuse to protect their own.
- More of the racist “nail salon slaves” myth.
- Good news about the FOSTA challenge.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- Sealing a roof gap against the rain.
- The results of a tolerance break.
- Much more of this, please.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- 500 weeks of blogging.
- Micro-events.
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 much!
In the News (#1308)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged abortion, agency denial, Arizona, Blunt Instrument, brothels, California, censorship, Kentucky, law, libraries, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Dakota, Panopticon, politicians, Presumption of Guilt, propaganda, racism, Robocops, sex offender registry, surveillance, teachers, The End of the Beginning, The Vultures Descend, Thought Control, violence vs. sex workers on January 28, 2023| Leave a Comment »
A right does not, as a practical matter, exist without any remedy for its enforcement. – Justice Elissa Cadish
The End of the Beginning (#1197)
A rule that Attorney General Merrick Garland issued in 2021…requires people to do things that are plainly impossible. If they have been convicted of a sex offense, they must register with their state, even when the state neither requires nor allows them to do so. They also must supply the state with all the information required by federal law, even when the state does not collect that information…someone [unable] to meet those requirements…who travels outside his state can be charged with a federal crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. At trial, the defendant has the burden of proving that he was unable to register “as required”…That Kafkaesque situation, a federal judge in California [has] ruled…violates the constitutional right to due process…The case, John Doe v. Department of Justice, illustrates the perverse consequences of the federal government’s attempt to identify and track sex offenders through detailed registration requirements that often conflict with state law…
Useful idiots keep providing government with excuses for Orwellian levels of surveillance:
A bill…in the Mississippi Legislature would require public schools and postsecondary institutions to install video surveillance cameras all over their campuses. The bill would require that the cameras also record audio and that they be installed in classrooms, auditoriums, cafeterias, gyms, hallways, recreational areas, and along each facility’s perimeter. Further, it would permit [even adult] students’ parents to view live feeds of classroom instruction…the bill’s sponsor…Stacey Hobgood…[belched out the catchphrases] “critical race theory”…and…”accountable”…[to justify creating a stifling] atmosphere of suspicion and distrust [across every school in the state]…
…the Nevada Supreme Court [has] unanimously ruled that victims of wrongful searches and seizures have the right to sue the responsible government officials. Just as critically, the court firmly rejected qualified immunity as a potential defense against those lawsuits. The court’s twin holdings will better ensure that government officials can actually be held accountable for their misconduct…
Books containing [what politicians vaguely term] “sexually explicit” content…would be banned from North Dakota public libraries under [newly-proposed] legislation…the measure…proposes up to 30 days imprisonment for librarians who refuse to remove the [censored] books…In addition to banning depictions of “sexual identity” and “gender identity,” the measure specifies 10 other things that library books cannot visually depict, including “sexual intercourse,” “sexual preference” and “sexual perversion,” — though it does not define any of those terms. The proposal does not apply to books that have “serious artistic significance” or “materials used in science courses,” among other exceptions…
Presumably, the “serious artistic significance” would be determined by politicians, which is a bit like asking a panel of tone-deaf 11-year-olds to discuss the relative merits of Bach cantatas.
Calling politicians on their hypocrisy is an interesting strategy:
A group of religious leaders who support abortion rights [has] filed a lawsuit…challenging Missouri’s abortion ban, saying [politicians] openly invoked their religious beliefs while drafting the measure and thereby imposed those beliefs on others who don’t share them. The lawsuit…is…among nearly three dozen post-Roe lawsuits that have been filed against 19 states’ abortion bans…and…was…filed on behalf of the faith leaders by Americans United for Separation of Church & State and the National Women’s Law Center…Lawsuits in several other states take similar approaches. In Indiana, lawyers for five anonymous women…and…Hoosier Jews for Choice have argued that state’s ban infringes on…Jewish teaching that a fetus becomes a living person at birth and…Jewish law prioritizes the mother’s life and health…In Kentucky, three Jewish women sued, claiming the state’s ban violates their religious rights under the state’s constitution and religious freedom law…
Another step toward total financial surveillance:
…if you’ve sent money across American borders…Big Brother is likely watching. In what began as an Arizona-led effort before going nationwide, a not-so-independent nonprofit organization has been indiscriminately compiling sensitive financial information and making it available to [cop shops and spook houses] across the country…ACLU…has published more than 200 documents revealing details of the program which fed a vast database of sensitive data…run by an organization called the Transaction Record Analysis Center…The surveillance dates to 2006, when Arizona’s attorney general sought details from Western Union about money transfers to and from the Mexican state of Sonora…[the ensuing] legal battle [was] settled in 2010…and…TRAC was established in 2014 as a nominally independent repository for intercepted financial records…in 2019…DHS took over funding TRAC and…[began] compel[ling] financial disclosures with…a type of subpoena…
This will continue for as long as the voters allow it to:
Attorney General Daniel Cameron has announced [a scheme]…to [use “]human trafficking[” as an excuse to carry out violent pogroms] in Kentucky by targeting “illicit massage businesses”…[Cameron plans to threaten] landlords and [spread racist propaganda] to [encourage useful idiots to snitch on migrant-owned] businesses that Cameron [wanks to pedophilic fantasies about]…Cameron is…running for governor this year…
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Annex 94
Posted in Diary, tagged STEM, Sunset on January 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »
After that double power outage we had around Christmas, I was rather peeved at the gas company for failing to connect my new heater in November or early December as they were supposed to (not to mention failing to return my calls about the delay). So a month ago today I called again and happened to get the technician himself on the phone. He apologized profusely for mislaying my paperwork, and volunteered to make room in his schedule to get us connected as soon as possible. That was Monday, January 9th, and as you can see it’s now all hooked up and running perfectly. It was a few days before we could switch the water system over to the new heater, but we got it done two weeks ago today and I’m very pleased with it; the temperature range is basically the same as the electric, but the temperature doesn’t fluctuate as much, so one needn’t fiddle with it throughout the duration of the shower. I don’t think I’m going to save any money in the log run; Dr. Quest crunched the numbers for me and it looks too close to call, plus it cost twice as much to have the new line run and connected as the heater itself cost. But it’s going to be worth it to have hot water the next time the power goes out. Once we got it all connected I made an insulated box to go over the works, but I didn’t include it in this picture because it’s pretty featureless (it’s just plywood with a layer of the same styrofoam insulation I used for the bathroom ceiling). Once I install some skirting on the north side, that will help prevent heat loss as well, and next winter the wood-burning stove will keep the atrium at least temperate, if not actually warm.
Another Rapist Roundup
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged cell phones, Colorado, cops, fantasy, Florida, Follow Your Bliss, If Men Were Angels, Law of the Instrument, Minnesota, psychology, rape, Stalkers in Blue, Tennessee, To Molest and Rape, United Kingdom on January 26, 2023| 1 Comment »
This isn’t a few “bad apples”; it’s a culture of rampant misogyny. – Rachel Cunliffe
I guess they figure describing rape as “sex trafficking” will net a larger payout:
A federal sex trafficking and forced labor lawsuit filed by a former employee against…shipping giant Crowley Maritime will move forward…[after the] Judge…denied a motion…to dismiss…the plaintiff claims she was 21 years old when she was hired by Crowley as a credit and collections coordinator in Crowley’s San Salvador office and that she was paid less than $10,000 per year. She says that in 2017 she was sexually assaulted inside an elevator at the Crowley offices by a supervisor…[and that] Crowley moved the supervisor to a new department instead of firing him…
The “sex trafficking” angle seems to derive from the fact that she was forced by her job to travel with the supervisor who raped her.
How nice of this guy to “volunteer” for a position that gave him access to children:
A [typical and representative] volunteer youth pastor at the Abba’s House church in Hixson [Tennessee, who was also the] PTA president at Wolftever Creek Elementary School…now faces [charges of] child molestation…and aggravated sexual battery…Dustin Spillers…is [originally from Louisiana and the charges appear to originate in Georgia]…
A [volunteer] Colorado Springs Bible study teacher, Carlton Ranquist, pleaded guilty to [molest]ing a [girl under 15]…Ranquist accepted a plea deal that saw him plead guilty to just one of the nine charges he initially faced…the remaining eight charges will all be dismissed as part of the plea deal…Ranquist was arrested in Maine…to [which he had moved] in 2020…Five [of the] charges Ranquist faced prior to accepting the plea deal…[were for molesting other kids] between 2006 and 2012…
Even the use of the distancing “former” is the same as for rapist cops:
A [typical and representative] youth pastor…[named] Sean Patrick Masopust…pleaded guilty to [molesting a teenage girl]…and was sentenced…to 10 years of supervised probation, 28 days in the Steele County [Minnesota] Jail, and a $1,000 fine…
Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working out?
A [London cop]…who[se identity is being covered up by the government]…is…being investigated…[for] sexually assault[ing] a female colleague…the woman had previously complained about his…behaviour [to supervisors before he actually attacked her]. The man, who was [wearing his magical clown costume] at the time of the…attack, works [covering up other cops’ attacks on other women]…
Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is:
A [cop] pulled down a teenage woman’s top and took a photograph of her breasts after pretending to ejaculate on her chest [by flicking beer foam onto her]…Paul Hinchcliffe…also…[loudly announced] he would use it [and other pictures he took without her consent] to masturbate …the [disgusting] incident took place when he was drinking with three other [pigs]…in a pub in Rotherham on October 3, 2020…[after] the woman l[eft due to his behavior]…she received a message from Hinchliffe saying: “God I’d do you, is that bad?”…accompanied by a number of emojis that the woman took to represent masturbation…
This guy needs to be put away before he murders her:
William Ray Pruitt…was arrested…for [stalking and harassing] a…girl [he raped at gunpoint]…in [December] 2020[, when she was 14]…the…stalking began in October 2021, when the victim was 15…and continued into December 2022…[after the rape], the victim’s mother left her job and moved [with her daughter] to an undisclosed location. But soon after, a private investigator…was hired by Pruitt [to find them so he could]…start…driving by the…new residence…Pruitt [then] began leaving cryptic messages around the neighborhood referencing…an…[imaginary] unborn child…he [named “Libby” and pretended to have sired on his victim by the rape. Then]…On 8/22/22 [the girl] was driving [home] alone from…school when…Pruitt pulled up next to her and yelled at her to pull over…the[n]…attempted to…force…her…off the road…[she escaped by dr]iving [to] her cousin’s apartment…[and running] inside…[before] Pruitt…[could catch her]…
It’s rare to see someone whose name isn’t Maggie McNeill expressing these thoughts this strongly:
[David] Carrick showed…his employers…who he was before he even became a [cop]…he had been under criminal investigation for…burglary. They let him in anyway. He was accused of assault against a former partner. Nothing was done. He continued to rape and assault women, and was promoted…14 [complaints]…of…violence…were ignored…Carrick did not commit these crimes in spite of being a [cop]…he was part of a force that enabled him to commit these crimes…power-hungry individuals are drawn to positions that give them power and enable them to abuse it. A man predisposed to raping and harming women will seek a job in an organisation that provides him the opportunity to do so. If that organisation ignores the blinking red lights and lets such men continue with virtual impunity, it will become a magnet for abusers…This isn’t a few “bad apples”; it’s a culture of rampant misogyny, and such cultures naturally attract and embolden rampant misogynists…The [police have] shown us what [they are]. Now we need to believe it.
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In the News (#1307)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, Alabama, censorship, cops, Divided We Fall, domestic violence, Facebook, fantasy, Florida, Guinea Pigs, Hot Mess Alabama, hysteria, LGBT rights, Maine, Morality Lessons, nanny state, politicians, prisons, prohibitionist myths, psychology, rape, surveillance, The Mob Rules, The Punitive Mindset, The Widening Gyre, Thou Shalt Not, To Molest and Rape, United Kingdom, Utah, violence vs. sex workers, Wisconsin on January 25, 2023| Leave a Comment »
There [is] a culture of impunity for…police officers. – Harriet Wistrich
[Politicians] in Wisconsin voted to strike down a ban on [using] conversion therapy [against LGBT people]…effectively making the practice legal. Conversion therapy is a broad term that can describe many practices that generally involve trying to force…sexual…[minorities] to [stop whatever sexual practices those with power over the victims dislike]. The methods involved in these practices are highly discredited by medical professionals, and those who have been victims of conversion therapy have described it as torture…
Bangor [Maine] police sa[id a] kidnapping [from a Target parking lot] is not part of a larger human trafficking ring, despite claims to the contrary on Facebook…Colby Cooper…arrived at the store with the unnamed woman[, but when she broke up with him while there] he…forced [her]…into a U-Haul rental van…[and] fled…police spotted Cooper a short time later…and…arrested [him]…The department cautioned people to refrain from believing everything they read on Facebook…
Just a few isolated incidents:
A [London cop] who used his [job] to put fear into his victims has admitted [to] dozens of rape[s] and [highly abusive] sexual [relationships with] 12 women. David Carrick…who met some victims through dating websites, pleaded guilty to 49 offences across two decades. The [police bureaucracy] has apologised after it emerged he had [been reported for rape]…nine [times]…between 2000 and 2021. A [boss cop attempted to downplay the pervasiveness of rape among cops by uttering the obvious lie that] his [behavior] was “unprecedented in policing”…His offences spanned 2003 to 2020 and most took place in Hertfordshire, where he lived. [In his abusive relationships] Carrick…would control what the women wore, what they ate, where they slept and even stopped some of the women from speaking to their own children…
Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness:
Bringing cake into the office should be seen as being as socially unacceptable as inflicting passive smoking on your colleagues, Britain’s top food [nanny]…said…[Nutrition cultist] Susan Jebb…said it was not enough to rely on…personal [responsibility and free choice]… “If nobody brought in cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes in the day, but because people do bring cakes in, I eat them. Now, OK, I have made a choice, but people were making a choice to go into a smoky pub”…
Florida’s prison system has banned more than 20,000 books — the most tracked in the U.S., according to a new study from The Marshall Project…[which] published a database…of about 54,000 titles banned by [human-caging bureaucrats] in 18 states with such records…Most prison systems ban…books containing content related to violence, [criticism of the carceral system], sex or nudity…But…other books banned in Florida prisons include: adult coloring books, French language textbooks, [and] How to Make Money in Stocks…In Texas, The Color Purple is banned, while Dungeons and Dragons books are prohibited in Michigan…
Computer modeling developed by…University of Alabama…collects data from online sex ads…[in order to] help…[cops] locate…and arrest s[ex workers]…the modeling has…[led to] over 100 arrests since February 2021…
The article goes on to dredge up lots of moldy decade-old “sex trafficking” propaganda, including the claim that half of all sex workers are children; “Human trafficking is the second-largest criminal enterprise…bring[ing] in as much as $150 billion…a year“; the claim that someone other than gibbering idiots calls I-20 the “sex trafficking superhighway“; and the utterly-absurd fantasy of “6,000 human trafficking victims per day in Alabama alone.”
Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will keep multiplying until they’re ruled unconstitutional:
Utah may follow Louisiana’s lead by requiring residents who want to access pornographic websites to verify their age first….[pro-censorship politician] Todd Weiler…[bloviated a lot of nonsense and dismissed] privacy concerns…[which should come as no surprise given that he’s the jackass who sponsored the bill]…declar[ing] pornography a [“]public health crisis[“ and also tried to establish a state internet censor]…
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Diary #656
Posted in Diary, tagged Sunset, Washington (state) on January 24, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Having been raised in Louisiana, I know that a very damp environment comes with its own special problems, but for some reason it did not occur to me that building supply stores in such an area might nonetheless carry products unsuited to that environment. So when I bought two pre-hung doors for the atrium, I never thought the frames would swell so much in damp weather that opening and closing them would require so much effort that it’s practically a workout. Of the two doors I hung myself, the southwest corner door sticks a little and the bathroom door still operates as smoothly as ever, which I guess should teach me a lesson about trusting a corporation over my own abilities. Anyhow, when I asked Grace what could be done about the problem, she said she’d have to plane the frames down a bit so they wouldn’t bind; she picked out this power planer and I added it to my Amazon wishlist, where it was seen the very next day by one of my generous gentlemen and here it is! We plan to use it this week, and then maybe I won’t have to hurt my hands trying to open the doors or my shoulder trying to close them. So hurray for Grace! And hurray for Amazon! And hurray for generous gentlemen! And a big raspberry for Home Depot.
Tweets from the Darkside
Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Words, tagged activism, animals, blogging, censorship, child "protective" services, comics, consensual crime, cops, drugs, ethics, Google, language, left-right myth, Louisiana, politicians, porn, psychology, surveillance, teachers, Twitter, Washington (state) on January 23, 2023| 2 Comments »
THIS RIGHT HERE. If you want to understand why so many overdoses nowadays involve fetanyl, look up "Iron Law of Prohibition". Here, I'll help: https://t.co/Dh0b0CSmpT
Prohibition CAUSES overdoses. Period. Only cops & badgelickers find this controversial. https://t.co/Xme8s5jcMJ
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 25, 2022
Imagine cheerleaders hopping around chanting rhyming nonsense about how THEIR color is GREAT and will BEAT those OTHER COLOR players, RAH RAH RAH! And you'll get a sense of how this childish nonsense sounds to sensible people.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 27, 2022
From MAD Magazine, September 1969: pic.twitter.com/yyXw4wbQId
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 29, 2022
This is why every animal and plant falls in "love" and they all have marriages. Every honeybee is a licensed and ordained minister of the Christian religion, even dozens of millions of years before Jesus. https://t.co/CPwPKm4viE
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 30, 2022
Why did anyone ever imagine that something called a "cloud" would be safe and permanent? https://t.co/ZhCuxmm3Ud
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 31, 2022
I hate when journalists try to make it sound like state violence is something that "just happens".
No, these people don't "lose" their children like one "loses" socks in the wash. Their children are forcibly abducted by the state to serve its own agenda. https://t.co/Kh6mYRgOqC
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 1, 2023
Well, be fair; "one who is completely unable to mind his own business" would be a pretty useful working definition of "politician".
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 2, 2023
And you can ALSO fully embrace your sexuality without being "dirty", "horny", "little", or a "monster". https://t.co/YlZQ3htFL8
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 3, 2023
My bank recently thought it was "suspicious" that I filled up my car at a Wal-mart gas station that I've frequently used in the past, then proceeded to buy about $300 worth of toys at that same Wal-mart, a few weeks before Christmas. https://t.co/A3cJI0oDZg
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 4, 2023
WHY IS TWITTER SO OBSESSED WITH ME EVEN THOUGH I DIED 12 YEARS AGO? pic.twitter.com/bUo0JhPB8F
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 5, 2023
Another idiot who not only can't read, but thinks tall, big, fat, or rich people should have more votes than short, small, skinny, or poor people. https://t.co/bCgcXrrZVz
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 6, 2023
The mob will always agree with those advocating mob rule.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 7, 2023
Long, skinny, and wet? https://t.co/w5Os3wHBtk
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 8, 2023
Why don't we send this eccentric burglar to the home of that eccentric billionaire who's always giving away huge sums for childishly-simple tasks? https://t.co/F4riEigI2A
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 9, 2023
"Links", indeed. That's like saying our ancestors "linked" disease to sin, astrology, or witchcraft. https://t.co/h90bK2FfCh
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 10, 2023
…always been immune to the supposed omnipresence of porn. I cannot recall a single instance in the past 20 years where porn suddenly appeared before my shocked eyes in some venue where I didn't already know it might conceivably appear.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 11, 2023
Addendum: "Excited delirium" is not a real medical condition, but a lie made up by cops to pretend people they murder were actually killed by a medical condition. It's as real as the magic fentanyl that causes cops to OD by merely touching it, with no actual opiate OD symptoms.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 12, 2023
Yes, the Fossil Fuel Industry has a Death Star. https://t.co/8TZU4ZkNmQ
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 14, 2023
I think this image is going to haunt me. https://t.co/cbJIdwWWfY
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 14, 2023
Today's perfectly ordinary word Google doesn't know: "numerological".
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 15, 2023
"Sell their bodies" to mean sex work is a weird take.
"Sell their bodies online" to mean selling nude pictures is a completely deranged take.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 17, 2023
SO MUCH THIS.
If you want people to have the freedom to create content you like, you need to support them so they don't have to spend time in more lucrative pursuits. https://t.co/1JbNHzabW1
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 17, 2023
I hope her settlement is more than she'd have made in 20 years of shitty adjunct pay. https://t.co/g0yMqGyXe2
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 18, 2023
Minding other people's business. https://t.co/B6sJ53DiJh
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 20, 2023
As long as he had the money and references, why not?
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 21, 2023
Links #655
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Canada, cops, Never Call the Cops, Rome, STEM, video, West Virginia on January 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Please don’t kill my husband. – Shameka Smith
Grace suggested this video to commemorate the passing of guitar legend Jeff Beck; I was unfamiliar with it, but less than 60 seconds in I knew it was the right choice. The inks above the video were provided by Dan Savage, Mama Tush, Clarissa (x2), Mike Siegel, and Cop Crisis (x2), in that order.
- R.I.P. Jeff Beck.
- Tampons make Jesus cry.
- Never underestimate Roman genius.
- R.I.P. Walter Cunningham and Fay Weldon.
- Another cop wantonly murders another kid.
- The message here is, “We know who you are”.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
From the Archives
- Wherever there are men making money, there will be sex workers nearby.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Working people all over are done with arbitrary authoritarian “lockdowns”.
- If there’s one thing the US needs, it’s more sadistic rapists in the military.
- This disgusting trash is loaded with copsucking & emotional manipulation.
- Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
- The bipartisan war on the internet moves another step toward idiocracy.
- Nothing infuriates violent, self-important busybodies more than privacy.
- Are most people really surprised to find out that cops are habitual liars?
- Remember this when people claim prohibitionists are “well-intentioned”.
- SCOTUS leaves the conflict between the 7th & 10th Circuits unresolved.
- Whores are even less popular with the Establishment than MAGA types.
- He pronounced the wrong magic words in the magic Spell of Forfeiture.
- Even journalists reporting on this insist on referring to it as “correction”.
- Though this is becoming a safe position, we still have a long way to go.
- The machine of authoritarianism is vast, complex, and has many parts.
- Anti-vaping lunacy is reaching “sex trafficking” levels of disinformation.
- Another example of how “lockdowns” cause far more harm than good.
- Pro-decrim article by a sex worker in conservative-leaning newspaper.
- Politicians & the media feign shock over a disaster they helped create.
- Discussing extreme fetishes in writing with any amateur is a bad idea.
- The fashion and beauty industries owe their very existence to whores.
- Some rapist cops take measures to permanently silence their victims.
- An account of Epstein’s crimes that doesn’t devolve into torture porn.
- France becomes the first European country to start this conversation.
- Reporters must learn that “people work to make money” is not news.
- Silly “awareness raising” stunts are now mostly marketing gimmicks.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- PayPal needs to be buried in similar lawsuits before this will stop.
- PayPal is now actively seeking to rat sex workers out to the pigs.
- The only way to market yourself as I do is to be Maggie McNeill.
- Cops, pigeons, Florida, Siegfried Fischbacher, and much more.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Texas cops raid migrant-owned businesses; what a surprise.
- “Tolerance policies” are not equivalent to decriminalization.
- Cops think they can just make up their own pharmacology.
- Cops, nerds, puritanism, Ronnie Spector, and much more.
- Still doubt that politicians are deranged megalomaniacs?
- Another firsthand account of China’s torture of Uighurs.
- All that’s left of the once-popular “gypsy whores” myth.
- A sad regurgitation of all the usual anti-porn nonsense.
- It would be difficult to bury this lede any further down.
- Fascist profiteers sue to force censorship on everyone.
- The recrudescence of the “repressed memory” myth.
- Old-fashioned Stasi-type surveillance isn’t dead yet.
- Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
- The War on Whores, now showing on YouTube.
- Alabama is trying to make up for its late start.
- We told you so, over and over and over again.
- Brooke Magnanti’s new project, Body of Work.
- Cathy Reisenwitz on the awfulness of Polaris.
- Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
- Cops, Bach under glass, and much more.
- The Essential Maggie McNeill, Volume I.
- Not concerned yet? You should be.
- Dealing with a constipated pig.
- So helping! Many respectful!
- What an exhausting week!
- Rapist cop of the week.
- A visit with Dr. Quest.
- Fascism in action.
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