Archive for April, 2023
May Eve 2023
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on April 30, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Links #669
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, Azerbaijan, California, cops, crypto-moralism, drugs, fascism, Kansas, New Zealand, racism, STEM, surveillance, video, Washington DC on April 29, 2023| Leave a Comment »
The gang list is absolutely asinine. – Tracey Mason
In observance of May Eve, here’s another Lovecraft video from the creators I featured last week; the humor in this one is both drier and darker, and does not entirely override the horror concept at the core of the story. The links above it were provided by Walter Olson, Mike Siegel, Lucy Steigerwald, Greg Lukianoff, Cop Crisis (x2), and Radley Balko, in that order.
- R.I.P. Barry Humphries.
- A “space program in a box”.
- Fascism is permeating the arts.
- The puritans won’t like this at all.
- My sincere wish is that he never be caught.
- Your tax dollars at work, keeping America safe.
- I suspect US culture war fans would be confused.
From the Archives
- How long will the US ignore the costs of its sick worship of state violence?
- Houston isn’t satisfied with waiting for useful idiots to grant them access.
- I’m sure you amateurs are happy to be censored “for THE CHILDREN™!”
- Didn’t you expect the pandemic to be used as an excuse for censorship?
- The power to declare something “non-essential” is the power to ban it.
- Believing what politicians say is like trying to build a castle on a cloud.
- The rescue industry desperately seeks new things to call “trafficking”.
- The number of excuses government uses for robbery keeps growing.
- Transphobes are trying to reach their goals by criminalizing doctors.
- At least a few politicians’ moral compasses aren’t entirely defective.
- Every politician in Pasco should be jailed & the cop shop shut down.
- This nonsense bill failed in > a dozen states before passing in Utah.
- At least Florida’s anti-trans crusade isn’t as psychopathic as Texas’.
- We did warn y’all that this wouldn’t stop with actual sex workers.
- Another sexual predator specifically targets traumatized women.
- Predatory cops think it’s fun to ruin the lives of racial minorities.
- Cops, puritanism, animation, Andrew Woolfolk, and much more.
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- Cops, lawheads, plague, parody, Dolly Parton, and much more.
- Cops, skates, straight people, Michael Collins, and much more.
- Is there anything the government won’t label “sex trafficking”?
- Retrospectives of my blogging from April 2011 and April 2012.
- Previous columns for May Day and May Eve (Walpurgisnacht).
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Sex workers must help each other, because few others will.
- Pregnant women are uniquely vulnerable to state coercion.
- Another sleaze turns old news into an ad for his business.
- Op-eds like this have become very common since FOSTA.
- Washington state politicians demonstrate their hypocrisy.
- It’s been a while since we’ve talked about stage names.
- Unfortunately, this is not strictly a Chinese pathology.
- How I reconcile loosey-goosey fictional chronologies.
- There won’t be any shortcut to stopping Clearview.
- Does this fit your idea of what “sex trafficking” is?
- Compare to the ugly behavior of France & the US.
- Speaking at a convention in Port Orchard, WA.
- Spring has finally arrived, albeit a month late.
- Connecting the whole atrium roof framework.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- Cassandra wishes to share this with you.
- Slowly chipping away at a terrible law.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- My pullets at eight weeks old.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- R.I.P. Tempest Storm.
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In the News (#1334)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged A Moral Cancer, California, censorship, consensual crime, cops, Devil's Advocate, internet, language, law, LGBT rights, New York, No Difference, Pennsylvania, politicians, psychology, rape, sex toys, South Carolina, Stalkers in Blue, To Molest and Rape, Uganda, You Were Warned on April 28, 2023| Leave a Comment »
It would be bizarre for the state to create another category of illegal product that could lead to more conflict between law enforcement and the community. – Kent Sopris
Dr.David Ley, with your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster:
In August of 2022…Harper and Lievesley published [a study]…of persons sexually attracted to children who owned child sex dolls…The researchers recruited online and found 85 individuals who owned such dolls, whose results they then compared to 120 individuals who did not. All of these individuals self-reported sexual interest in children…But…the owners of such dolls were found to be less antisocial and reported less arousal at the idea of actually sexually abusing a child, compared to those who did not own such dolls. Given that antisocial traits are a high predictor of contact sex offending against children, and that the owners of such dolls appear to have a high level of emotional and relational connection to the dolls, it suggests that owning such dolls may not significantly predict a higher risk of offending against children…When researchers examined the intentions, and past offending behaviors of the child doll owners, they found no results suggesting such individuals were at higher risk of future sexual offending against children…
“Sexual misconduct” sounds so much nicer than “forcible rape”:
South Carolina [cop]…Gerard James Hildebrandt…was [arrested and] charged…[for forcibly raping a woman while wearing his magical clown costume]…
You just can’t keep a bad law down:
Some politicians never learn. Congress has been trying to shove through the EARN IT Act for the past two sessions, and thankfully it’s failed both times. But, now it’s back…and…it’s got all the same problems as the bill from last session…includ[ing]…nearly identical misleading language…regarding encryption…under EARN IT, encrypting content and messages is a liability…it’s kinda funny that they still even include the language pretending this doesn’t touch encryption, considering that sponsor Senator Richard Blumenthal admitted in an interview last year that the point of the bill was totally to target services that use encryption…
Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet:
[New York governor Kathy] Hochul…is quietly trying to fire up support for a complete ban on the sale of tobacco products in New York…despite [her] failure to secure support from state legislators to include a ban on menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products in the yet-to-be-approved state budget…Kent Sopris, president of the New York Association of Convenience Store Owners, p[ointed out that] a ban would put many stores out of business but wouldn’t stop tobacco use because smokers would just buy cigarettes out of state, online, or…on the black market…
Unfortunately, I must disagree with Mr. Sopris’ quote at the top of today’s column; providing new excuses for police violence is exactly the point of new prohibitions.
Cops are sexual predators who often specifically target traumatized women:
First, the detective sent unusual emails — asking the mother of a Philadelphia homicide victim to send him photos of herself…or suggesting that they go out together. [W]hen…the woman…me[t] the detective, Donald Suchinsky, for an interview about her son’s case…he groped her, put his hand down her pants, and digitally penetrated her…Suchinsky…has since been fired over the [2020] assault…and…prosecutors…believe…[he] may have victimized other women…
Don’t think this was an unintended consequence:
…[LGBT] people from…Uganda…began leaving after Uganda’s Parliament passed a sweeping anti-gay bill in late March that threatens punishment as severe as death for some perceived offenses, and calls for life in prison for anyone engaging in same-sex relations….Mbajjwe Nimiro Wilson…fled with a single backpack…after a hostile crowd…cornered him a[t a]…grocer[y]…“They kept saying, ‘We will hunt you. You gays should be killed. We will slaughter you,’” he said…The latest move to target L.G.B.T.Q. people in Uganda has drawn support from local Christian and Muslim groups, and for years the financial and logistical backing of some conservative evangelical groups in the United States. One of the key organizers of the parliamentary conference in Uganda last month was Family Watch International, an Arizona-based organization that spreads anti-L.G.B.T.Q. and anti-abortion [propaganda]…
They’re trying to pretend this one isn’t typical and representative by calling him a “rookie”:
A rookie Los Angeles [cop]…was arrested…[for] rape of a child under 14…[swineherds are distancing] Diego Jose Miranda Lopez…[from other cops not only by stressing his]…probationary [status, but also by implying that the rape occurring] before Lopez joined the department [signifies anything at all about the kind of people who become cops]…
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Back Issue #118
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on April 27, 2023| 2 Comments »
I will never cease to be amazed at the inability of statists to recognize that the expansion of government will never stop until it is somehow forced to. – “The Auctioneer Effect”
- Observable fact: 16-year-old leaves home. Conclusion: sex trafficking!
- D&D, Star Wars, cops, statist bingo, medieval incest, and much more.
- Articles with minimal whore-bashing in CNN and the New York Times.
- Add Latin America to the list of places better at activism than the US.
- Porn watching has a negligible effect on young adult sexual behavior.
- Tattoos, sexy clothes & looking for work are signs of “sex trafficking”.
- She hated sex work so much she married a client & owned a brothel.
- Femen demonstrates its deep concern for women by attacking them.
- Sydney madam convicted of keeping students in “sexual servitude”.
- Religious fanatics are always ready to make convenient exceptions.
- Study shows that laws targeting “pimps” actually hurt sex workers.
- Politicians broaden crime’s definition, panic when it then increases.
- Another article supporting disabled men’s right to see sex workers.
- Cops, goats, Star Trek, empty-headed celebrities, and much more.
- Who are the real monsters when sexual minorities are persecuted?
- Police state jails elderly quadriplegic for “crime” of sexual feelings.
- Cops, Calvin and Hobbes, tits, zombies, beavers, and much more.
- What are the possible social effects of the male contraceptive pill?
- Politicians are totally unable to comprehend the bottleneck effect.
- It isn’t “trafficking” when a politically-connected company does it.
- Fetishists attack study because it contradicts “trafficking” dogma.
- Gloria Steinem uses “pro-life” rhetoric to attack women’s rights.
- Observation: missing drunk woman. Conclusion: Russian mafia.
- More on End Demand Illinois’ ugly campaign of disinformation.
- Why don’t journalists actually read what they’re writing about?
- The Gambia criminalizes male prostitution and cross-dressing.
- Thaddeus Russell on A Renegade History of the United States.
- Cops partied for four months at a strip club, then busted girls.
- Dr. Laura Agustín explains that all prohibitionism is the same.
- A short biography of Skittles, best of the grandes horizontals.
- The tale of a series of brothel raids that don’t go as planned.
- I wish I had all the magical powers Zimbabwean harlots do.
- Cops, Elvis, hipster babies, Gospel Lizards, and much more.
- When a law fails, politicians assume it didn’t go far enough.
- Heidi Fleiss is helping to renovate Dennis Hof’s Love Ranch.
- Another example of how prostitution laws harm all women.
- In which Alice explains “burden of proof” to a large mouse.
- The fight in the SCOTUS over the “anti-prostitution pledge”.
- In which feminists throw sex workers under the bus again.
- What is the market for heterosexual male prostitutes like?
- Another prohibitionist screed is debunked by Feminist Ire.
- Laws often have nothing to do with their stated purposes.
- “Sex trafficking”, “survivors” and “reframing experiences”.
- Why the media perpetuate the ignorance of their readers.
- What can a woman do if she stays dry during “duty sex”?
- The word “legal” is not part of this reporter’s vocabulary.
- Becky Adams on her plans for a brothel for the disabled.
- “Sex trafficking” fetishists start contradicting each other.
- Young people are pragmatic about sex; adults freak out.
- The end of the beginning of “sex offender” registration.
- Two girls drown while trying to escape their “rescuers”.
- The French repeal a law against looking & acting sexy.
- The re-awakening of the sex worker rights movement.
- Three months in prison for downloading cartoon porn.
- Prohibitionist claims Beyonce causes “sex trafficking”.
- “Sex offender” registration just keeps getting worse.
- What a sane, agenda-free sex work study looks like.
- Cops make excuses for raping whores to bust them.
- Cops use dysphemisms to destroy legal businesses.
- Another idiotic and dangerous “sex trafficking” law.
- Laura Lee on why the Swedish model is a bad idea.
- Women flee exploitative maid work for prostitution.
- How government regulations increase exploitation.
- Why brothel raids are an enormous waste of time.
- Another “sex trafficking” NGO exposed as a scam.
- San Francisco bans condoms as evidence, sort of.
- Indian prohibitionists seek to censor the internet.
- Eight years in prison for “promoting prostitution”.
- I rolled my eyes so hard, I think I saw my brain.
- Here’s that weird “pay back” euphemism again.
- Does the Arab Spring need a Summer of Love?
- Is it true that some women orgasm from rape?
- Rapist-by-deceit charged with “sex trafficking”.
- An excellent take on the “teen girl pimp” case.
- The truth about European porn ban proposals.
- Christmas Eve in a brothel, mid-22nd century.
- Texas tries to criminalize escort advertising.
- Dr. Laura Agustín on “trafficking” hysteria.
- Another collection of songs about whores.
- Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
- The Swedish rot reaches South America.
- Joyce Arthur shows allies how to do it.
- Ugandan men refuse to use condoms.
- A prohibitionist deception from 2000.
- The Anti-Barbie League is at it again.
- Escort becomes infidelity counselor.
- Yet another anti-sex education law.
- It all happened on Mulberry Street.
- An escort critiques The Client List.
- Clay Nikiforuk appears to “get it”.
- Go the Fuck to Sleep: the movie.
- A “trafficker” under every bed.
- Polygamy should be legalized.
- Alexis Wright’s plea bargain.
- Chimpanzee metacognition.
- Iceland’s futile war on porn.
- Muslimahs rebuke Femen.
- R.I.P. Carmine Infantino.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Are all women crazy?
- May Eve.
Diary #669
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset on April 26, 2023| 4 Comments »
One thing about living on a small farm is, whenever anybody has some animal they no longer want (for whatever reason), they immediately think of giving it to me. Now, that’s not really a problem when they take the time to ask; I like having animals around, and it gives the place character. But sometimes they don’t bother to ask; they just find the nearest farm, ranch, or whatever and dump the animal there (which was how we ended up with Orville here and several dogs in Oklahoma). This time, it was a goose and I was asked; last week Yellowbird texted to ask whether we could take it because the owners couldn’t protect it from coyotes which had started coming around. So I said “sure”, and here she is. So far she’s mostly just waddling around; she can duck under the gates (no pun intended) and spends most of her time either in the paddock or the west side of the house, hunting bugs in the grass (at least, I think that’s what she’s doing). She seems cautious of the other animals right now, so she’s mostly keeping to herself, but yesterday I saw her pretty close to Jonathan so I guess she’s getting used to them. Now if I can only figure out how to get her to consistently take a little poultry feed every evening, it’ll be nice to occasionally have a goose egg rather than chicken eggs with my bacon; I had one Friday and it was the size of three large hen eggs by itself, with a slightly richer flavor.
In the News (#1333)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged abortion, Above the Law, Alabama, Business As Usual, cops, Creepy Coppers, drugs, If Men Were Angels, internet, law, Michigan, New York, No Escape, Ohio, Pennsylvania, politicians, porn, prisons, rape, Tennessee, The Cop Myth, The Vultures Descend, To Molest and Rape on April 25, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Most…people don’t really want to…identify in any way with women in prison. – Serena Liguori
It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops:
A [Tennessee] pastor was indicted…fo[r using]…his church’s internet connection to upload images of child sex abuse online…Daryl Hayes…was immediately fired from the church…[cops] do not believe the…child victims [were members of]…the church…
A psychopathic rapist-murderer cop is still unconvicted:
…a [copsucker-filled] jury…[found] a [typical and representative] Columbus [Ohio] vice [cop]…not guilty of murder…[for] fatal[ly] shooting…a [100-pound] woman [he was attempting to rape] in August 2018…the family of 23-year-old Donna Dalton Castleberry said…the verdict in the case against…[psychopathic rapist] Andrew Mitchell was a “miscarriage of justice”…but…Mitchell will remain in police custody….[to] face…multiple federal charges [due to his being a serial rapist of sex workers]…and lying to federal investigators. Trial in that case is scheduled to begin in July…
They try to make these cases sound like the scumbag was doing his victim a favor:
[Typical and representative] Seward [Pennsylvania] police Chief Robert I. Baldwin Jr. pleaded guilty…to charges he [coerced] two women…in[to submitting to rape by threatening them with criminal charges]…in early 2020…
This will never stop while violent thugs have total power over the lives of women:
Kim Brown…is among nearly 1,000 women filing claims so far this year as part of New York’s Adult Survivors Act (ASA), which briefly waives New York’s statute of limitations requirements to file sexual abuse lawsuits. But…Brown is one of only a small number of women likely to be doing so from prison…[because] filing a claim…carries…[the] risk…[of more violent rape than before and other] serious…retaliation from prison staff…In 2003, Congress unanimously passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act…[which] stipulates that prisoners [“]must[“] be able to report abuse by guards to third parties…but…[provides] no way to bypass staff members…[and is toothless because, as is typical for laws pretended to limit the power of government actors, contains neither criminal charges nor]…give[s victims] the right to sue…[their] abuser or [his bosses]…
The reporter appears to have misspelled “care”:
Detroit police commissioners [are pretending] they didn’t know that a detective they unanimously promoted had…a[ssault]ed…three different women [in acts of] domestic abuse…[despite] Lemuel Sims…[being] criminal[ly] charge[d twice]…in 2011…Sims “forced entry” through his then-girlfriend’s kitchen window, ransacked her home and choked her…the case was later dismissed when his [victim] declined to testify…Three years later, Sims was [seen choking] a different girlfriend…[by] three witnesses…and, again, the…victim declined to testify. Sims was suspended for one week. Then in 2015, Sims…hit…another woman…and bruis[ed] her…police commissioners received a summary of…Sims’ history of [domestic] assault…33 citizen complaints and…17 separate…suspen[sions; they just didn’t bother to read it]…
Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors:
A [typical and representative Alabama cop named]…Tomas Arias was arrested [in October] by the Alabama State Bureau of Investigation…[for] sexual abuse of a child under 12…and…production of [child porn]…
The Supreme Court on Friday granted the government’s request for a stay in a case concerning access to mifepristone. The ruling means the status quo will hold—for now—with regard to prescribing the…drug, as the…5th Circuit considers the merits of the case. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the majority…
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The First Tweets of Spring
Posted in Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, Music, Philosophy, tagged activism, agency denial, asset seizure, blogging, censorship, consensual crime, cops, crypto-moralism, drugs, Florida, hysteria, language, law, left-right myth, License To Rape, Minnesota, New York, politicians, propaganda, psychology, robots, Twitter, United Kingdom, universal criminality on April 24, 2023| 5 Comments »
"Smart" devices aren't, part Umpty-eleven. https://t.co/4vzXR30qIY
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 23, 2023
If you only watch one video this week, make it this one.
This woman is heroic, and y'all know I do *not* throw that term around lightly as so many do now. She could comfortably enjoy old age, but instead she's still fighting for what is RIGHT at 100 years old. https://t.co/KRQFXVa9JU
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 24, 2023
It's always interesting to see which stranger partisans now consider it fashionable to allow to live in their heads for free.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 26, 2023
Cops molesting kids is epidemic; just because some of them prefer to call the molestation a "search" doesn't make it a different issue. https://t.co/uKOtSJOQVl
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 27, 2023
If you really want a book for more than one-time light reading, you need to actually buy it. Kindle "buying" is really just a kind of renting from a lessor who can change the terms of the contract at any time, even to substituting a different text without your consent. https://t.co/IdG64L2nny
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 28, 2023
THIS. At one time, a prescription was simply a note from one professional to another, explaining exactly *which* drug the patient needed in clinical terms the patient could not be expected to understand or repeat accurately. Prohibition turned that into a legal document. https://t.co/mCc71HL81E
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 29, 2023
"Murdered".
The word for the willful killing of a human being who poses no threat to the killer is "murder". https://t.co/9U0nzMwTPK
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 30, 2023
Men being extremely silly with their mommies is quite possibly my favorite genre of short video. https://t.co/9UrNo8tVAx
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 31, 2023
For example: pic.twitter.com/bAE8ZZc5wl
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 31, 2023
These publishers are like fast-food chains who intentionally ruin menu items in order to please people who aren't their customers and never will be no matter HOW much they change. https://t.co/E3x7qiBPWs
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 2, 2023
Historically-ignorant pronouncements have got to be one of the most irritating things on Twitter.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 4, 2023
Whenever I see people surprised that "their" politicians behave exactly like everybody knows politicians behave, I'm reminded of a quote from Rita Mae Brown (not Einstein, sorry internet): "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results."
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 5, 2023
In which "progressive" NPR calls for more of the police interactions that result in the deaths or incarceration of many thousands of Americans a year. https://t.co/tEcVJ4BMOT
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 7, 2023
I hope amateur women never change, so that future generations of whores will always have plenty of work. Is that wrong of me?
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 8, 2023
I once wrote a story based on this concept; it's a sort of theological horror romance spiced with VERY black humor. https://t.co/jJBXD1Qzue
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 9, 2023
That's probably the most incompetent. But the most pretentious rhymes definitely come from Sting; I mean, rhyming "apprentice" with "Charybdis" and "shake and cough" with "Nabokov" is pretty impressively pompous.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 10, 2023
Outrage based on conscious ignorance is driven by the need or desire to be outraged; it's that need which motivates the intentional ignorance. Therefore such outrage MUST be stronger than mere organic outrage, in the same way refined products are more potent than raw ones.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 11, 2023
"Cops admit they paid for their expensive new toys with stolen money" is not the reassurance they seem to imagine it is. https://t.co/iZJNFaoQZO
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 12, 2023
Ray Harryhausen was an irreplaceable blessing to humanity. https://t.co/5qGQ6ULdCT
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 13, 2023
"Speaker Paul Renner had to close the public viewing galleries…"
He "had to"? Was he forced to do so by an evil spell or Platonian psychokinesis? Were terrorists holding a gun to his head? Would someone have inevitably died had he not acted?
Stop making excuses for tyranny. https://t.co/2GqUSCF59O
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 14, 2023
The state thinks that legal minors are children; that children are property; and that it's the government's "right" to steal the property of any citizen as it pleases.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 15, 2023
This article may help y'all to understand what I've said since the 1980s: "nutritionism" is, to a large extent, simply puritanism disguised by a pseudoscientific veneer. https://t.co/wK3jnviqMP
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 16, 2023
Recognizing that most people who identify as "left-wing" are useful idiots.
Not coincidentally, my "most left-wing coded attribute" is recognizing that most people who identify as "right-wing" are useful idiots. https://t.co/KUIUBwvi25
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 17, 2023
Damn, and here I was planning to get a grant for my zombie-staffed lawn service company. https://t.co/NZ7Q5AXRdh
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 18, 2023
From a sociological perspective, it's interesting to watch the last adherents of a moral panic clinging desperately to whatever feeling (safety? importance? validation?) the panic gave them after everyone else has lost interest.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 19, 2023
Phrasing this as "Americans buy more of one processed plant product with mood-altering effects that's disliked by some puritans than another processed plant product with mood-altering effects that's disliked by other puritans" really puts the absurdity of prohibition on display. https://t.co/R6x7LfOchO
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 21, 2023
My two lowest subscription rates are lower than Twitter wants for its blue check. Just sayin'. pic.twitter.com/EvGzl41ik0
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 21, 2023
Your regular reminder that trying to define other people's experiences for them, or claiming they're "wrong" because they're fine with experiences (*especially* sexual experiences) that YOU think would harm YOU, is the behavior of a creepy control freak.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 22, 2023
This is good, but let me also point out that even *less* that 1% of modern literature will survive the next 5000 years.
You're welcome. https://t.co/e6GSHxEdVd
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 23, 2023
Links #668
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Arizona, cops, crypto-moralism, disease, games, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, imaginative fiction, Kansas, Montana, Never Call the Cops, teachers, Texas, United Kingdom, video on April 23, 2023| Leave a Comment »
You have to physically take their phones…because [otherwise]…they’re just too tempted to play chess. – Justine Wewers
One of the great things about the internet is that it’s a lot easier to share fan-made films than it used to be; here (just in time for May Eve) is a funny little Lovecraft video from creators we’ve seen here before; next week I’ll share another one. The links above the video were provided by Clarissa, Mike Siegel (x2), Radley Balko, and Cop Crisis (x2).
- R.I.P. Mary Quant.
- Juvenile delinquents.
- Another metaphor alert.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Not a police state yet, no sirree!
- “Flagging cops down” is the same as calling them.
From the Archives
- Sex work businesses are ineligible for loans; individuals still get the check.
- Declaring things “non-essential” is a versatile excuse for authoritarianism.
- As long as our work is marginalized, whores will be targeted for violence.
- It’s good to see a few government employees with spines and principles.
- Do I really have to add, “Not because you saw your neighbors outdoors”?
- So many “enlightened” countries still pretend disease is caused by “sin”.
- The state cages women to force their participation in its morality plays.
- I’ve been pointing out the inherent violence of prohibitionism for years.
- Another dog’s-breakfast record review billed as a “sex trafficking sting”.
- Notice how fanatics like to focus on demonizing one website at a time?
- Violence against trans people is finally starting to get media attention.
- Does anyone still believe that this is about anything other than profit?
- Liz Brown takes a detailed look at the current US pro-censorship cult.
- The prohibitionist crusade against all adult material online continues.
- Innocent people targeted by attention-hungry loons are hitting back.
- I find it funny so many get so bent out of shape by the Babylon Bee.
- The more complicated a plan, the more there is to go wrong with it.
- A headline writer without a boot permanently lodged in his mouth.
- Pro-Swedish criminalization politicians will lose their shit over this.
- China attacks those who tell the truth about the Uighur genocide.
- Abrogating freedom of religion and freedom of assembly at once.
- Female victims of violence are increasingly treated like criminals.
- Sex workers are always among the first targeted for deportation.
- Desire in the abstract is often different from partaking in reality.
- Cops, pets, bullshit, Mr. Electrico, song covers and much more.
- Cop murders pregnant girlfriend, claims it was suicide. Again.
- It’s good to see the “sex addiction” myth slowly falling apart.
- Cam work isn’t just a stopgap measure; it’s a specialization.
- Wealth and power do not create evil; they merely enable it.
- And guess who gets to declare that an “emergency” exists?
- Cops, lost cities, Jim Steinman, Felix Silla, and much more.
- Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will only keep multiplying.
- Maya Morena on yet another gang of prohibitionist nitwits.
- Kaytlin Bailey presents a “whore’s eye view” of US history.
- Anything can be “trafficking” if you use your imagination.
- Documenting my progress toward crazy cat lady status.
- Cops, pigs, Robert Morse, Bertha Butt, and much more.
- A psychopathic rapist-murderer cop is still unconvicted.
- Hey lede writer, the word you’re looking for is “abolish”.
- They’ve chased the ambulance back to Texas again.
- Compare to the ugly behavior of France & the US.
- A murderer is also a rapist. Gee, what a surprise.
- It’s so lovely to see them feeding on each other.
- Sociopaths claim this is what sex workers want.
- Five months of winter is two months too much.
- On century-old houses and “clean enough”.
- How to challenge Swedish criminalization.
- Another example of sex worker ingenuity.
- Another collection of bits from Twitter.
- It’s just going to keep getting worse.
- The “Swedish model” helps women!
- “Youth pastors” are as bad as cops.
- Cashmere and chainsaws.
- April 2017 in retrospect.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- What a koinkydink.
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In the News (#1332)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged abortion, agency denial, cell phones, censorship, cops, domestic violence, drugs, Florida, Germany, internet, law, Missouri, New York, politicians, pregnancy, prisons, rape, Secret Squirrel, Stop faking!, surveillance, Texas, The Last Shall Be First, The Next Target, The Vultures Descend, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber, transgender, Twitter, violence vs. sex workers, Washington (state) on April 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »
You’re faking it! Stop screaming! – Texas screw to woman in labor
…an app called Life360…which claims over 50 million active users across 195 countries, is among the most popular [surveillance] apps in America. It lets parents [track their] kids…at all times, displaying their live coordinates on a map. But, according to nine federal cases dating back to at least 2018, it has also been used by sexual predators to monitor and control their victims. And privacy and trafficking experts say such misuse is hardly an anomaly; it’s becoming an issue with other apps like it including Apple’s “Find My Friends” and Google’s “Find My Phone” tools…
Prohibitionists’ real goal is to completely ban online sex work:
German police have been targeting and intimidating specific Twitter users who post or retweet explicit material, in an attempt to move forward local bureaucrat Tobias Schmid’s campaign to purge all open platforms of adult content…Der Spiegel…devoted an entire feature to the authorities’ campaign to deter users from sharing sexual content…NetzPolitik’s Sebastian Meineck has been covering Schmid’s meticulous, obsessive attempts to ban all sexual content from open platforms in Germany and Europe. In an in-depth report…Meineck wrote that authorities had already [censored] some 150 Twitter accounts for “distribution of pornography”…using the police to confront and threaten adult performers, creators and other sex workers over explicit videos and images they tweeted or promoted…Paulita Pappel, German porn producer and spokeswoman for the Free Speech Coalition Europe, [said]…“We are treated like criminals”…
Florida’s…Legislature…passed a ban on most abortions after six weeks…Ron DeSantis…has said he would sign the measure into law…House Speaker Paul Renner [chose] to close the public viewing galleries [using the absurd excuse that] a…protester…threw…a…[piece of] paper on the…floor…the…[only] exceptions [are] for rape and incest up until 15 weeks. The measure does not change the exceptions for the life and health of the mother up until 15 weeks that are in current law…the six-week ban will be on hold pending a ruling from the Florida Supreme Court on the constitutionality of a 15-week abortion ban DeSantis [recently] signed into law…[politician] Yvonne Hinson…[said] “I wonder how much Florida money is being spent on legal fees attempting to defend that bill”…the six-week…ban is not popular among Florida residents of either [duopoly faction]…A…poll in March showed 75%…opposed the six-week ban. That included 61% of Republicans…
Your “leaders” refer to these atrocities as “correction”:
Texas Jail Project…[h]as [collected hundreds of]…stories of medical neglect and abuse during pregnancy in county jails…We started bringing these stories and impacted community members to the quarterly meetings of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards…[where] we were mocked and brushed off by the commissioners and sheriffs as indulging in “mama drama”. This kind of dismissive response continued at the county commissioner’s court as well…a sheriff once alleged that we were making up these horror stories of pregnant women being neglected, miscarrying, and giving birth alone on dirty cell floors because “we don’t really have that many pregnant women in our jails”…[in reality] pregnant [women]…were rendered invisible in an already opaque system designed primarily by men, for men…The first successful bill we advocated for in 2009…mandated that jails [keep] count…[which showed that]…300 to 500 pregnant…[women] are booked monthly into Texas county jails…
Not mentioned in this article: the chief architect of the laws that resulted in this huge explosion in the number of female prisoners now resides in the White House.
Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working out?
A NYPD captain allegedly sent [dick pics] to a female detective and offered her favors if she would send him her panties, during a “relentless” 18 months of sexual harassment…Brian Flynn…sent more than 45…inappropriate photos and messages to…Michelle Almanzar…and retaliated against her when she spurned his advances…by making her stay late and redo reports and denied her personal time off…”he would often take his frustration out on her work partner as well as her team,” [her] lawsuit [explain]s…
Sleeping with cops is a bad idea even for other cops: 
Ammy Ventura…a…civilian [NYPD] employee…[foolishly submitted to the advances of] her supervisor, Widler Lucas…[who claimed] he was…going through a divorce at the same time she was…The pair then started dating in April 2021, with Ventura believing Lucas was divorced…They broke up around September 2021, after…Lucas [started behaving abusively]…Nine months after the pair’s break up, during a shift in August 2022, Lucas…grabbed Ventura by her hair, pulled her behind his desk and forced her to give him oral sex while his office door was wide open…Lucas [later] told Ventura never to speak about the affair, saying, “I’ll fucking kill you” and threatening to “push [her] in front of a train”…
The Last Shall Be First (#1319)
Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses:
The Missouri attorney general, citing a consumer protection law normally used to prosecute fraudulent business practices, issued a new state directive…that would severely restrict gender-transitioning treatment for both adults and minors…[based on the false claim that] they were considered “experimental”…[and claim]ing that the attorney general “is charged with protecting consumers, including minors, from harm”…While there is some debate among medical professionals about how to put in place gender-transitioning treatment for [legal minors], leading medical groups in the United States…oppose legislative bans…
The Washington state House approved a bill that would authorize state agencies to hide [legal minors] seeking transgender medical intervention from parents…under the bill, a disagreement between a[n adolescent] and parents over the [adolescent]’s desire for a medical transition constitutes “abuse and neglect,” only because the parent hasn’t “properly affirmed what the child [sic] wants”…
The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked heavy restrictions on the use of mifepristone…and will allow…physicians to continue using mifepristone for abortions past seven weeks and distributing the pill by mail and without an in-person visit…Kacsmaryk[‘s decision] in Texas…was robustly criticized by legal scholars and medical experts…[and] was in conflict with another decision issued by a district judge in Washington state…Judge Thomas Rice said that the FDA could not change how it regulates the drug in the locales that had filed suit…the…5th Circuit…partially blocked Kacsmaryk’s ruling, but said that instead, the FDA had to revert its approval of mifepristone to what was permitted in 2016: only allowing the drug to be used for people up to seven weeks of pregnancy, prohibiting its provision through telemedicine and requiring three in-person physician visits for anyone getting a prescription. Currently, the FDA permits mifepristone to be used up to 10 weeks of pregnancy, and the World Health Organization recommends its use up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. Both endorse telemedicine for medication abortions…
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Annex 105
Posted in Diary, tagged Aphrodite, Sunset on April 21, 2023| 2 Comments »
Jae has mostly been working with the bar top lately; as you can see, she’s trying out some designs for a sort of shrine to Aphrodite there, and decided to redo the bar from the way she had me do it before, in order to finish it and drop the bar surface to what she feels is a more usable height. She’s finished the primary staining, but is also clear-coating the top to create a waterproof bar surface (with that same stuff they use when they want to decorate a restaurant bar or table surface with something like maps, pictures, or postcards). It’s going pretty slowly right now because it’s been cold and rainy all week; next year I think I’ll leave the shutters up until May Eve because it’s not unusual for us to have this kind of weather in late April, and even though the roof keeps out the rain it’s too chilly to work comfortably. We had one mild day this week, but the rest was just yucchy; I’m honestly trying to remember how the hell I motivated myself to build the roof in this kind of weather last year, and the only answer I can come up with is that it was just pure stubbornness. 
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