Since I built my bookshelves three years ago, a number of readers have expressed a desire to be able to peruse their contents. Then earlier this month, one of my Twitter readers specifically requested I provide some means of doing so, and I realized I could simply take pictures of each shelf, because cell-phone pictures are now high enough resolution to make out the titles. So here you go; most of the interruptions from alphabetical order are due to the bottom shelves being used for oversized books, though I did notice a few where visitors had apparently taken books down to look at them and then stuck them back in some random place. This collection is mostly mine, but some are Grace’s and I don’t know where others came from. Also, there are some books floating around on my nightstand or whatever, and there are several shelves full in my Seattle incall. So if you don’t see a book you yourself sent me, it’s very likely in Seattle because a disproportionate number of those are sexwork-related. Oh, and if any of you have some personal objection to some book you see here, I hope you’ll show better sense than to complain about it.
Archive for April, 2023
Library
Posted in Biography, Miscellaneous, Words, tagged imaginative fiction, libraries, Sunset on April 20, 2023| 6 Comments »
In the News (#1331)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged Absolute Corruption, Amsterdam, Arizona, brothels, censorship, cops, drugs, Dutch Threat, hysteria, India, libraries, Missouri, Netherlands, Panopticon, Policing for Profit, politicians, rape, red-light districts, Texas, Thought Control, To Molest and Rape, United Kingdom, Unsafe for Human Consumption on April 19, 2023| Leave a Comment »
My…children were the real victims in this whole fiasco. – Melvin Quinney
With a few strokes of a pen, Judge Christine Del Prado dismissed the case against 74-year-old Melvin Quinney…in the same court that 32 years ago had [wrongfully] convicted [him] of indecency with a child and sentenced him to 20 years…Quinney…spen[t] eight years in Texas prisons, [was] forced…to register as a sex offender and saw his four children [condemned]…to the foster care system. Now that same court [has admitted] that abuse never took place. It was all based on a lie — stemming from…satanic ritual abuse [hysteria]…Quinney’s now deceased ex-wife Debra along with [incompetent and evil] therapists pressured his nine-year-old son John Parker…to testify that his father molested him…in a satanic cult and that he had seen children murdered…“Whenever I had any doubts that something happened, I was told by the therapist that this was because I had multiple personalities, that my dad had programmed me this way,” Parker said…[when he] recanted his testimony as an adult, and worked to clear his fathers name…“Instead of getting help with the real mental problems she was experiencing, [my mother] was persuaded and kept mentally ill with pseudoscience and superstition”…
Cops will never stop doing this as long as the state keeps giving them pretexts:
A woman [has filed] a federal lawsuit [against] Kansas City, Missouri…[cops who] kicked in her front door, [ransack]ed her home…and [stole over] $20,000. Monecia Smith [said]…a man she did not know knock[ed] on the front door of her house at 12:17 p.m. on Jan. 13, 2020. Smith got out of bed, checked her video surveillance and saw the man had been shot. She did not open the door. A [cop] came to her house within the next two days and…[demanded] her…surveillance [recording, but she was understandably]…worried for her safety…[and so] told the detective he could not come to her house alone…[apparently he viewed this as “contempt of cop” and so sent a SWAT] team…to [her] house [armed with] a search warrant on January 15, 2020…Smith was not home [so the cops]…kicked open the front door….[stole her entire] video surveillance system…caused extensive damage to her home…[and] personal property and [stole] $20,000…
I wonder how long it will be before people realize that these surveillance systems are a liability rather than an asset?
Cops really believe they’re above the law:
[A London cop named] Ireland Murdock…was found guilty of raping a woman and is awaiting sentence…the victim…[made the mistake of allowing Murdock] some consensual sexual activity, [but he] deliberately took things further than she allowed, and she pled for him to “stop” but he did not…She…[had] to change her bedsheets because of the blood. After the victim reported [him]…he looked her up on [the cop computer] system…despite having no legitimate reason to do so. He has been charged and convicted for this as a separate offence…
The Dutch scheme to Disnify De Wallen is no longer merely a scheme:
New rules for sex workers [went] into force on April 1…requiring Amsterdam’s sex work businesses to close their doors at 3 a.m. rather than 6 a.m. to combat what local authorities describe as nuisance behavior by people visiting the red-light district. The reduced hours come amid an ongoing campaign by the city council to [forc]e sex workers into an “erotic center” outside the heart of the city [where they will get far less business]…the reforms…are [already] increasing stigma…[against sex workers, who] are being…used as a scapegoat for the city’s problem with mass tourism…Felicia Anna…of Red Light United…says the reduced business hours will drastically reduce income for window workers, leaving many barely able to cover expenses… “Most of the workers start to work after 12 or one o’clock in the morning, when the bars start to close down…Now you have maybe two hours to make any money, which is not enough”…
Just keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually:
Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in…[retaliation for] a recent lawsuit filed against the state…by the ACLU of Missouri on behalf of the Missouri Association of School Librarians and the Missouri Library Association…seek[ing to overturn an]…unconstitutional…[law] that has resulted in over 300 books getting banned from school libraries…[for offending Christian fundamentalists]…“Library funding is guaranteed in the MO constitution,” the [MLA] wrote on Twitter. “This tactic, meant to bully MLA into submission, instead directly harms public libraries who rely on those funds, especially the smaller, more rural libraries”…
Unsafe for Human Consumption (#1309)
Since doctors keep mocking cops’ fentanyl hysteria, they need to invent new bogeydrugs:
A [whiny baby Arizona cop] had a [panic attack after he made a pretext stop of a driver on]…I-10…He…searched the car [without a warrant] and found cocaine, fentanyl pills, methamphetamine, and three ounces of a gray, rock-like substance. [He immediately panicked, causing him to]…start…feeling dizzy and lightheaded, and his heart began to race. [Unlike most cops, he appears to have some small degree of self-control and calmed himself down without placebos or medical theater]…Investigators then sent the gray substance to be tested…and it was discovered the drug was a new street drug called “gray death”…reportedly a mix of fentanyl and other powerful opioids[, none of which has any effect from casual contact]…
Of course, given the lack of a name, photo, or medical record for Deputy Dawg, the sheriff may have just made the whole thing up.
They’re trying to pretend this one isn’t typical and representative by calling him a “trainee”:
A…co[p] has been arrested for…raping a seven-year-old girl in Hazaribag district of Jharkhand…on [April 8th]…the girl was alone at home, and the accused took advantage of the situation…[she told her] parents [when they got home and]…a medical examination…confirmed [she had been raped]…
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Diary #668
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Grace on April 18, 2023| 2 Comments »
Once we had established Aeryn in her flat, I started only keeping the door closed while we were asleep; during the day she would mostly hang around the area between her flat and Grace’s desk about a meter away. She especially liked sitting right outside of the cage, near her food, water, and litterbox, so I put a folded towel there and she would sit like an old lady on her porch. It was clear she was slipping fast, especially after she turned 21 in March; her hind legs became edematous, and though her appetite actually improved she seemed to have lost most of her bladder control because I had to change all the pads and towels twice a week. She became much quieter, and never wanted to wander far from Grace. Then late Friday night I noticed Grace holding her close; Aeryn was purring and much less fidgety than usual, and Grace told me she felt her time had come. I petted her and could feel it myself; the life was slipping away quickly, and we knew it would be that night. A little later she seemed unable to get comfortable, so Grace put her on a thick towel beside her food and water, and that was where I found her about two hours after dawn Saturday, lying peacefully where she had passed mere minutes earlier. Chekhov helped me to bury her in a little area we’d selected for the purpose, with stones above her to prevent animals’ digging. And though both Grace and I wept for the loss of our little friend, we were also both happy that she had such a peaceful departure, well-cared for and close to the humans she loved; would that all of us could leave this earth so gently. 
Chamber of Horrors
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Rapists of the Week, Tyranny, tagged censorship, cops, disease, drugs, fantasy, Georgia, illegal aliens, Illinois, Indiana, Mexico, Mississippi, No Escape, politicians, prisons, propaganda, rape, Stop faking!, Tennessee, The Punitive Mindset, Torture Chamber on April 17, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Law enforcement feels they can treat mental health issues like criminal issues. – Ben Crump
This will continue until journalists stop obediently referring to senseless violence as “correction”:
A [ga]ng of [screws] at a Memphis jail used handcuffs as makeshift brass knuckles to beat a Black inmate and kneeled on his back and neck until he went limp in a pool of blood, according to surveillance video…The county medical examiner ruled Gershun Freeman’s death on Oct. 5, 2022, a homicide…Freeman seemed to be experiencing a mental health crisis and was [confin]ed naked and alone to minimize the risk of [escaping further torture by killing himself]…surveillance video shows two [screws decided to]…mace…him [for no particular reason]…Freeman is seen shielding himself from the mace with an orange piece of fabric, which he was given [in lieu of an actual blanket]…and…attempting to…bat away the mace can…at least seven [screws used that as an excuse to attack Freeman]…kicking…and beating him with fists, handcuffs…mace cans…heavy rings of jailer’s keys…and “sets of brass handcuff keys”…[until he succumbed, then] kneeling on [his] back, neck and head for over five minutes…[until he] stopped breathing…jail staff did not perform CPR or attempt any resuscitation…[instead walking] over…[his] body, until medical staff arrived…
Remember, these people were locked in this cage facility because of US policies:
Guards…in [a prison for migrants]…walked out of the burning building as screams could be heard on the street in downtown Ciudad Juárez. Thirty-nine migrants died locked in that cell as the [cage stack] burned on the night of March 27, and another died later at the hospital…Survivors say those who died did so for one reason: they could not or did not pay a $200 bribe to s[crews] to be released…the…jail…was a de facto “extortion center,” where only migrants with the means to pay were released. Others would have to stay in jail and be sent to Mexico City or deported back to their origin country…
Yelling “Stop faking!” at the sick and dying is one of screws’ favorite games:
Ta’Neasha Chappell was arrested for theft in Brownstown, Indiana, in May 2021…Her bail was set at $4,000—an amount too high for her family to pay…On July 15, [she] became mysteriously and violently ill…she called for help repeatedly throughout the night…[as] she was throwing up blood. During the night she became increasingly incoherent, stripping off her clothes and soiling herself…no one provided medical care or called an ambulance…At 3:12, a jail employee told Chappell—who was lying on the floor moaning, “This just makes us think you’re faking it”…she was pronounced dead at 5:45 that evening…Chappell’s death was “probable toxicity from an unknown substance,” based upon “a green liquid in Chappell’s abdomen and her altered mental state, among others”…several inmates…said that Chappell had been poisoned by other prisoners, who “had allegedly been slipping a cleaning product…into her food and drink”…Chappell’s…family has filed a lawsuit against the jail employees who ignored her cries for help…Chappell is not the first person to die under mysterious circumstances in the Jackson County Jail. In August 2021, Joshua McLemore, a man with untreated schizophrenia died of multiple organ failure after he was left in a solitary cell for three weeks—during which time he refused to eat and became increasingly delirious. McLemore’s family has also filed a lawsuit against the jail…
Here’s more detail on the McLemore case:
…Joshua McLemore…was l[ocked] in a small, windowless cell for 20 days straight in Jackson county jail in July and August of 2021. The cell had no bed or bathroom and had fluorescent lights on at all hours. In [recently-released surveillance] footage, McLemore, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, appears detached from reality, speaking gibberish, rolling in filth and his own waste and becoming clearly emaciated. He received daily meals through a small slot in his jail door, but appears to have rarely eaten them. H[is only] human interactions [were] on…four occasions…when guards [decided to mindlessly brutalize] him…McLemore [had originally been hospitalized for]…psychosis…[but] when…he pulled [a nurse’s] hair…a guard…called…police, which sent [a whole gang of thugs]…to…carry…him out of the hospital in his underwear [and throw him into the dungeon where he eventually died]…
Of course, Georgia has an unusually-high number of these as well:
A 32-year-old man [locked in a cage] at Georgia’s Clayton County Jail begged for medical help for nearly two months before succumbing to testicular cancer in January…Alan Willison had been locked up at the scandal-plagued jail since October on a third-degree forgery charge. In November, he began complaining of severe pain and swelling in one of his testicles, but [screws]…gave him only over-the-counter medication to manage his pain. “NEED TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL,” Willison wrote in a Nov. 23 request for medical care…In early December, Willison received testing indicating that he likely had cancer, but it was not until Jan. 19 that he saw a urologist, who officially diagnosed him. He died a week later, on Jan. 26…the Clayton County Medical Examiner…determined that Willison had died of testicular cancer complicated by medical neglect….unhygienic living conditions at the jail…malnourishment and physical abuse…
LaShawn Thompson was at the Fulton County Jail for three months before he was found dead in a jail cell…”[that] was not fit for a diseased animal”…Thompson…had mental issues…but [screws] did nothing to administer aid to him or help him…until he died…[covered with bites from bed]bugs and [other] insects…
P[ropaganda about] drug overdoses in the jail…[is being used by well-known prohibition fantasist] Tom Dart…[as an excuse to] ban…visitors from bringing in paper, including documents routinely carried by attorneys fulfilling their constitutional duty to provide legal counsel to [Dart’s victims]. The facility…is among jails and prisons across the country [pre]tending…th[at]…paper soaked with illegal narcotics…[is the the cause of overdoses, despite the fact that it is well-known that drugs in jails are smuggled in by screws, as demonstrated by the fact that overdoses actually increase when mail and books from outside are banned]…Dart’s office…[c]ould not provide any…[actual facts to support the cop fantasy of] overdoses tied to deadly paper…Cook County Public Defender Sharone R. Mitchell Jr.’s office…seemed surprised and distressed by the restrictions…[which appear to be aimed at forcing] public defenders to share information with their clients…[via] computers [so cops can secretly spy on conversations they are not legally allowed to access]…
Your “leaders” refer to state-employed thugs raping women as “correction”:
[After] raping a…[prisoner]…a [Tennessee screw named]…James Thomas…[not only] still works as a [screw] for the Maury County Sheriff’s department…but…was given a raise…
In the rest of this confused mess of a news item, a so-called “victims’ advocate” burbles nonsense about “sending messages“, while the reporter thinks a 60-word digression about the rapist’s sister is more important than the crime the story is supposed to be about.
Prosecutors are rarely interested in going after rapists with badges:
Terry Grassaree [got away with rape] for years b[ecause he was first a cop and later sheriff]…in Macon, Miss…There were [regular]…rape[s] inside the jail [by] Grassaree…and [others, both cops and prisoners, and Grassaree always]…covered up the episodes. At least five people, including one of his fellow deputies, [witness]ed him…beating [prison]ers or choking them with a police baton…Now, more than three years after losing an election and retiring, and 16 years after a woman first [report]ed that…Grassaree pressured her to lie about being raped, the [typical and representative] sheriff faces criminal charges…of…bribery [rather than rape and assault]…
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Links #667
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged comics, cops, Europe, Michigan, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, teachers, video, Washington (state) on April 16, 2023| Leave a Comment »
I’ll fucking kill you. – “Officer” Kevin Hake
Every so often a song (usually from the 1970s) pops into my head, for which the only explanation I can give to puzzled young people is, “You had to be there.” The links above this example of that genre were provided by Mike Siegel (x2), Anarres Ansible, Amy Alkon, and Cop Crisis (x3), in that order.
- As one does.
- R.I.P. Al Jaffee.
- The Great European Cheese Map.
- An ivory tower so high the brains of its occupants lack oxygen.
- Cops helpfully assist suicidal man to achieve his apparent goal.
- Cops will go to any length to impose their warped views on reality.
- Just another case of cops murdering a randomly-chosen innocent man.
From the Archives
- Twitter’s connection to movies exploiting sex workers is usually less direct.
- The government’s case against the former Backpage owners is unraveling.
- Clearview is again trying to rehabilitate its reputation among useful idiots.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- I’m sure you won’t regret giving government more excuses to rob people.
- I hope this makes Swedish criminalization fans extremely uncomfortable.
- Just US cops using spy devices designed and built by a totalitarian state.
- These attempts to destroy the internet are going to keep getting worse.
- Transphobes are trying to accomplish their goals by controlling doctors.
- So it would’ve been OK if it had been invented by a “far left” extremist?
- Cops, Thor Heyerdahl, Honor Blackman, Mort Drucker, and much more.
- The Japanese government is more susceptible to shaming than the US.
- Somebody realized how tone-deaf WaPo’s coverage of a massacre was.
- Claiming this was a “mistake” will allow them to do it again and again.
- Alabama can’t let Texas beat it in the psycopathic cruelty department.
- Can’t something be wrong without being an excuse for state violence?
- Lurid gawking by creepy “reporters” can still help demystify sex work.
- Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is ruled unconstitutional.
- Government can be counted on to use any excuse to expand tyranny.
- US “authorities” pretend “because sex” is an excuse for any tyranny.
- This is OK because it’s about safety, not expanding the police state!
- I’ve never used this site because they discriminate against escorts.
- An exercise in nonsense, pseudoscience, and sexological inanity.
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- The hypocrisy of the prohibitionist New York Times is appalling.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- One oppressed group is finally regaining a few civil liberties.
- The “Online Safety Bill” is becoming a UK version of FOSTA.
- In Rhode Island’s case, this would be re-decriminalization.
- Still think this djinni can be crammed back into its bottle?
- Cops, totalitarianism, Gilbert Gottfried, and much more.
- Amber DiPietra on the US disaster compensation check.
- Forced sexual contact with strangers is “trust building”.
- My procedures for raising healthy, contented chickens.
- Cops, Wendy’s Green, Frank Jacobs, and much more.
- Lips, a community-designed social media platform.
- I’m sure a “pimp” must be forcing her to do this.
- “Sex trafficking” scarelore has invaded TikTok.
- We told you so, over and over and over again.
- Another silver lining for the COVID pandemic.
- Pat Robertson is back to bat-shit crazy again.
- I’m sure THE CHILDREN!!!™ are safer now.
- Taking the last of Matt’s stuff to California.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- “Filtered” is a euphemism for “censored”.
- My bookcase project is officially done.
- Are “talkers” still a type of customer?
- This one really was a “former” cop.
- My two previous posts for Easter.
- Starting work on a new stable.
- A frustrating lack of progress.
- More delightful conversation.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- I built some bookcases.
- Floating roof headers.
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 (#1330)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged abortion, Across the Pond, Backpage, censorship, cops, Dangerous Speech, disease, drugs, hysteria, internet, Ireland, law, Leaving the 20th Century, Missouri, racism, Stalkers in Blue, Surplus Women, surveillance, Swedish model, Texas, Thailand, The Vultures Descend, To Molest and Rape, United Kingdom, violence vs. sex workers, Without Let or Hindrance on April 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Sex workers are expected to die silently with grace every time a bad policy [gets] enacted. – Phoenix Calida
The Swedish Model claims another victim:
[Sex worker] Geila Ibram…was [murdered] in Limerick…[by] Habib Shamel, an Afghan national…on April 4, [Shamel pretended to be a client in order to trick]…the victim [into] provid[ing] her address…CCTV footage shows [Shamel] entering [her] flat just before 1.30pm, and leaving “approximately one minute 52 seconds later”…[during which time he] stabbed [Ibram] numerous times in the neck, face and abdomen…in…a “vicious and frenzied attack”…[he] the[n fled to]…Belfast…before being arrested on April 6…
Predictably, the ghouls of Ruhama are already trying to make political coin from her barely-cold corpse.
Some people still believe these sociopaths are motivated by a desire to “protect children”:
…Dallas parents Temecia and Rodney Jackson opted for a home birth for their newborn daughter, Mila, with licensed midwife Cheryl Edinbyrd…Shortly after [her] birth…she…developed a case of jaundice—a highly common condition in newborns…which typically goes away without treatment within one to two weeks. The Jacksons opted to follow Edinbyrd’s guidance to care for Mila in their home rather than leave her at the hospital. Within days…Dallas [cops] and CPS [thugs] arrived at their doorstep at around 5 a.m., informing the family that their pediatrician had reported them and demanding that they [surrender their child]…the Jacksons refused…and..reached out to their midwife…[who in turn] reached out to the pediatrician…[and] gave him all the credentials he…requested from her…he [the withdrew from the case]…but [a week later the cops]…returned…arrest[ed the father, stole] his keys, and used them to enter his home [without permission to abduct] Mila…the…warrant…didn’t even list their own names, instead listing her parents as a different couple that’s previously [been targeted by] CPS. The Jacksons still don’t even have Mila’s birth certificate because she wasn’t born in a hospital…
No woman is safe from predatory cops:
Jonathan Simon, [a London cop assigned to] Redbridge…and [adjacent areas, escaped with a mere] 16 weeks imprisonment suspended for 2 years for stalking…a…woman…[at her] home and workplace in…a…year-long campaign of harassment…he…also bombard[ed] her with messages and voicemails despite being repeatedly told to stop…After [she] block[ed] him, he began to use his police phone…he…[also] us[ed London’s dystopian network of] CCTV cameras to spy on her and t[old] her…to intimidate her. He [also] groped her…and…tried to get…he[r]…to engage in sex work w[ith him as her pimp]…
On the fifth anniversary of the government’s demolition of Backpage for hosting completely-legal, Constitutionally-protected speech politicians didn’t like, the unsinkable Liz Brown has published a thorough look at the past, present, and possible future of the wildly-incompetent, shockingly-illegal, and wholly tyrannical prosecution, complete with a plethora of quotes from many sex workers and other interested parties (including yours truly). As so often happens with Liz’s articles, there’s too much good stuff here to even attempt a block quote, so you’ll just have to read it yourself (and I strongly urge you to do so).
Thai sex workers are still fighting US-imposed prohibitionism:
…in…Thailand…a new government-led plan…calls for repealing the 1996 Prevention and Suppression of Prostitution Act, which [was enacted due to pressure from the US], and replacing it with…the Protection of Sex Work Act, affirming the rights of sex workers and their places of business to sell sex. The bill’s proponents hope it will help the country’s sex workers — estimated to number anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000 — ply their trade more safely and earn higher wages…Jintana Janbumrung…of the Department of Women’s Affairs and Family Development…[said] by giving sex workers legal status…“they can…have access to the same welfare as other occupations, whose rights will not be violated, who will not be exploited by their clients or sex business operators [and have] a better quality of life”…
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk [has] suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s longtime approval of key abortion pill mifepristone…approved…more than 20 years ago to be used in combination with a second drug, misoprostol, to terminate pregnancies at up to 10 weeks…if the stay…goes into effect, the drug would no longer be [legally] available…in the U.S. That would leave a surgical procedure or off-label use of misoprostol on its own as the only options in states where abortion is legal….though the one-drug approach has been shown in clinical trials to be somewhat less effective than the two-pill regimen…the Department of Justice filed a notice of appeal to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals…[as did] Danco Laboratories, which manufactures mifepristone…Even if the 5th Circuit Court…does block Kacsmaryk’s ruling, the challengers could ask the [same] Supreme Court…[which] overturned Roe v. Wade…to [reinstate the ban]…
Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors:
A [typical and representative Missouri cop named]…Matthew N. Skaggs…was…arrested…[for] convinc[ing] three minors…to a[llow him to molest them]…he [also] gave vape cartridges to one…in exchange for pornographic images…and paid another [hush money] not to reveal [the molestation. As is typical, the government thinks the most important factor was that he was wearing his magical clown suit at the time]…
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Annex 104
Posted in Diary, tagged psychology, Sunset on April 14, 2023| Leave a Comment »
We’re going to use the small area between the walls of the bathroom and Chekhov’s cottage as a vestibule; eventually there will be coat hooks and a boot brush there (for cleaning mud from boots), plus a few odds and ends of the sort one keeps near outside doors in farmhouses. I’ve recently finished the paneling in the area, and Jae has a few finishing touches; I also want to divide it visually from the rest of the atrium with a latticework panel, to continue that inside/outside kind of aesthetic. I should also soon finish the plastic panels in the shower roof and stick my head up into the area above the ceiling of the north porch to see if it can seal off what dripping still remains, but for some reason I find myself avoiding those tasks. They aren’t the only ones; I’ve also been putting off sealing up the roof on the south-side paddock ramp. It’s weird how every nearly construction project seems to have a few small tasks that never seem to get finished; every house I’ve lived in has had a couple of such details. When I was young my father nearly doubled the size of our house by enclosing the carport to make a bedroom for me and one of my sisters, and adding a large den and garage at the back, and yet despite doing all that work practically single-handed there were a couple of minor features that never did get done (at least not before I left home). And when a dear friend’s family built a new house, one large room on the south side sat completely unfinished for over ten years despite the rest of the house being gorgeous. I have no explanation for this phenomenon, but at least it makes me realize that I’m not alone in being able to finish some Herculean project, only to repeatedly put off some trifling task that could probably be accomplished in an afternoon or two.
Silver
Posted in Biography, Music, Philosophy, tagged Grace, New Orleans, psychology, video on April 13, 2023| 9 Comments »
25 years ago this month, Grace and I moved in together. We’d only met a few months before, in November of ’97; I had only been stripping a few weeks and a girl I worked with asked me along to a party she’d been invited to. As it turned out, she felt the party was a bust but I was enjoying myself, so when she wanted to go I asked our hostess if any of the other guests could perhaps give me a ride home later. She asked Grace, who was happy to give me a lift, and by the time she left my place later that evening we had already become friends. She started writing me (actual paper!) letters and a couple of months later mentioned she wanted to move from northern Louisiana down to New Orleans. I suggested she move in with me at least temporarily, and a quarter-century later here we are.
From the beginning, she showed herself to be a good friend and a generous roommate; I had no car of my own at the time, but she insisted I use her truck so I could dance at the more lucrative clubs in the French Quarter rather than the quieter suburban place I was commuting to on my bicycle. And when I finally got sick of strip-club management bullshit in the autumn of ’99, it was Grace who encouraged me to start escorting instead. When I bought my ranch in 2002 there was absolutely no question that she would move up to Oklahoma with me, and she took care of the place while I continued to work in New Orleans until ’06. It was her loyalty and dependability which allowed me to travel for work and activism, and when, in December of ’16, I asked how she felt about moving to Washington, she replied simply, “I want to be with you.” People have often assumed that, because Grace is very butch and I’m definitely femme, that we’re a lesbian couple, but though I’m bisexual Grace is as straight as an arrow; in fact, it’s the success of our partnership (I doubt we’ve really argued even a dozen times in all those years) which eventually made me realize that sex is really a very poor reason for two people to live together, and that the cultural messaging which paints “romantic” relationships as the pinnacle of human interaction is pure garbage:
The true pinnacle of human interaction is intimate friendship; it persists under conditions that destroy “romances”, lasts much longer on average, and is an incredibly powerful connection despite governmental attempts to place other relationships (including sexual & familial ones and even the one-sided “relationship” between individual & State) above it. Friendship is the most powerful kind of love in the world, which is why government constantly tries to weaken it; it persists despite the fact that, unlike practically every other relationship between two people, it has absolutely no legal status. Other relationships require government to prop them up; friendship is the only one which is able to stand completely on its own.
So if married couples can celebrate their silver anniversary, I see no reason why Grace and I shouldn’t celebrate 25 years of best-friendship and successful cohabitation. I don’t recall the exact day, but it was definitely mid-April, and we’re going to have a celebration this summer once the weather gets warmer and drier. So, please join me in a toast to Grace, and though she’s too camera-shy to take a picture with me, I’ll show her all the good wishes you send in the comments or on Twitter.
In the News (#1329)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged Arizona, brothels, California, cell phones, censorship, China, Colorado, cops, Dangerous Speech, Disaster, Droit du Seigneur, Egypt, Enablers, Facebook, hysteria, I can't breathe, Illinois, internet, Iraq, Islam, Jordan, law, Lebanon, LGBT rights, libraries, Moloch, Monsters, propaganda, Quiet Genocide, scams, surveillance, teachers, To Molest and Rape, Tunisia, Turkey, Twitter on April 12, 2023| 1 Comment »
The authorities…seek to punish a preschool for being a place where there are preschoolers. – Lenore Skenazy
Note that the dysphemism “sex trafficking” is conspicuously absent here:
A [typical and representative] San Diego [cop] who used his badge and his knowledge to run a string of massage…parlors in California and Arizona pleaded guilty…to federal charges. Peter Griffin and three other defendants entered pleas…to racketeering-related conspiracy, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and other crimes…The wire fraud charge carries a sentence of up to 30 years in prison and a $1-million fine…
Is this idiotic enough yet? Can we stop now?
Two Colorado child care workers will go on trial this June for presiding over a day care center where a 5-year-old pulled down a 3-year-old’s pants. Amy Lovato and Roberta Rodriguez…face criminal charges for not reporting this incident to the authorities quickly enough…Jason Flores-Williams, Lovato’s attorney…ask[ed the judge] to dismiss…charges….[which] “criminalize preschool behavior by turning a 5-year-old into a deviant and a 3-year-old into a victim for acts that are neither sexual, abusive, criminal, negligent, or against any reasonable person or community standard.” Judge [Brian] Green denied the…motion…on January 16…one of the kids wet their pants, [so] Lovato left the classroom for between 3 and 5 minutes to clean the kid and deposit the wet clothes in the laundry. When she returned, she saw the 5-year-old “crouched over” a 3-year-old who later told Lovato that the boy had tried to pull her pants down and touch her butt…The school did not ignore this misbehavior. It called the parents involved…[and] reported the touching incidents to the child welfare department …[but the prosecutor claims they did] not report…the incidents immediately enough…three days later…[though] the question of how quickly a school must report an incident of abuse is vague. So, it seems, is the definition of abuse. And so is whether leaving the room to clean off a pee-soaked kid constitutes neglect…
It’s about time professionals stopped allowing themselves to be used to hide police violence:
A leading group of medical experts says the term “excited delirium” should not be listed as a cause of death…[because it is only] used to justify excessive force by police. The National Association of Medical Examiners had been one of the last to take a stand against the commonly used but [unscientific] term…The statement has no legal weight, but will be influential among medical examiners…the term…[i]s unscientific, rooted in racism — and a way to hide police officers’ culpability in deaths. The American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association do not recognize excited delirium as a diagnosis. Yet…police training materials [think they have a right to invent convenient medical diagnoses that fly in the face of medical science]…Dr. Roger A. Mitchell Jr., who chairs the pathology department at Howard University…[says] “It’s not a real explanation for the death”…
There was a time when the West might’ve taken a stand against this, but no more:
…the Kutadgu Bilik bookshop [in Istanbul] is a trove of Uyghur culture…[which has been repeatedly] raided by the Turkish police…[stealing] hundreds of books…[each] time…Uyghur literature has…been a prime target [of the Chinese genocide], with dozens of renowned writers, poets, publishers and academics disappeared into the labyrinthine system of [concentration] camps. This has all but destroyed the small trickle of books coming out of the region, severing a critical link between those who escaped and those still trapped inside…Abdulla Turkistanli, the bookshop owner…said…there are usually only two to four copies of any given title in [his] shop. The Turkish police, when they raid the shop, [use the pretext] that Turkistanli does not have the copyrights necessary to reprint [them, but]…acquiring the copyrights…is impossible without the cooperation of Chinese authorities. Even contacting the authors…is impossible…[because] around 90% of the books in his shop were written by people who have been swallowed up by the prisons and re-education camps. He believes that the Turkish police are acting under pressure from the Chinese state when they raid Uyghur bookshops…
…Lacey and Larkin’s attorneys…argue…that the DOJ’s indictment and prosecution…of [their clients] and four others…is fatally flawed and should be dismissed…The motion points to the government’s stance…in…the Woodhull Freedom Foundation’s constitutional challenge to…FOSTA…which…[claims] the verbs “promote” and “facilitate”…are legal “terms of art” and do not have the same meanings as in everyday speech…[they] assert that the phrase “promote or facilitate” is the same as “aid and abet,” which requires proof that the defendant intended to facilitate the commission of a specific underlying criminal act — in this case, prostitution. Meanwhile…in Arizona…prosecutors have consistently fought such an interpretation, arguing that “promote” and “facilitate” are much broader and open to various meanings…The defense…argues that the government should not be allowed to railroad Lacey and Larkin, using a broader legal standard…since the DOJ is simultaneously attempting to thwart a constitutional challenge on the other side of the country by insisting that the Travel Act should adhere to a far more stringent standard…
All around the world, monsters claim the “right” to persecute and torture sexual minorities:
Human Rights Watch…accused Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Grindr of not doing enough to prevent violence against LGBTQ+ users by [cops] in…Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia…[the cops] sometimes publish…[their victims’] personal information on social media, leaving them subject to familial violence or homelessness. Other [times they trick them]…in [order to]…unlawfully search…their personal devices, often under threat of violence…[in order to] collect…private information that’ll enable them to prosecute the [victim] and their [friends]…“When police…could not find [incriminating] information…they [simply]…fabricated chats to justify…detention”…detainees are jailed under vague, trumped-up “morality,” “debauchery,”
“prostitution,” and “cybercrime” charges…they’re interrogated; denied access to lawyers, visitors, or medical care; verbally abused; subjected to forced anal examinations…sexually assaulted; tortured; and forced to sign confessions…
Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors: “A Chicago [cop named David Deleon]…sexually abused a minor…[he was] report[ed to other cops by his victim]…“
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Diary #667
Posted in Diary, tagged Sunset on April 11, 2023| 3 Comments »
After all the trouble I had getting my tub fixed, and after a winter much too cold to use it, it was really good to have a nice soak again! I hurt my back a little last week moving furniture around (because despite appearances, I really am getting too old for that sort of thing); after that I went off for an overnight with Dr. Quest, and the day after I returned I had to clean up the house for Easter Sunday company. So by Saturday evening I was tired and achy and badly in need of a relaxing soak in the spa. The ambiance is really shaping up now; the lights overhead, the greenery, the decorated walls…it’s all contributing to creating the kind of atmosphere I’ve been aiming for, and once the stove is operational it should be even better. So even though the cold weather is just about over for this year, I’m highly motivated to keep everything moving so next winter I don’t need to shut everything down for a four-month cold-weather hiatus!
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