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Halloween 2023
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on October 31, 2023| 2 Comments »
Diary #696
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset, Washington (state) on October 30, 2023| Leave a Comment »
The cold weather has arrived! A rather strong front moved in on Thursday, and the temperature dropped quickly. When I saw a light freeze was predicted, I made all of the usual preparations: took the hose off of the outside faucet, put the floating heater in the stock tank, etc. And of course we’re now running the propane heater again, as you can see. Speck is such a plump kitty, you’d think she would stay warm easily, but nope; the only time she moves far from the heater during the cold months is when she wants to eat, use the litterbox, or move into the bathroom (where we keep an electric radiant heater going 9 months out of the year because for some reason it is otherwise the coldest room in the house, and not by only a little bit). When she wants to go in there, she’ll follow Grace in; when she wants out, she simply waits until one of us uses it and then waits patiently by the door until we go out. Either bathroom or in front of the heater is preferable to her early-autumn nap spot, on my desk uptairs; it tends to be very cluttered, which means there isn’t enough room for a fat cat and all of the things that are there, so guess which one ends up on the floor? At least in the cold months, she’s more likely to occupy Grace’s desk, which is right beside the heater. Or to occupy my lap during our evening movie time, while I’m sitting on my own heating pad because I have embraced that aspect of old-ladyhood. 
Links #695
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, animals, bogus studies, cops, Florida, Georgia, imaginative fiction, Minnesota, New Orleans, porn, prisons, racism, video, Wisconsin on October 29, 2023| Leave a Comment »
The official nutrition scolds want your food to taste bad. – Ronald Bailey
This year, I managed to find a few Lovecraftian videos for the season; this one is a French film from 2003. The links above it were provided by The Onion; Phoenix Calida; Mark Draughn; Gustavo Turner and Mike Siegel; Nun Ya (x2); and Ronald Bailey, in that order.
- The Onion, on a seasonal roll.
- Cop murders man for proving cops wrong.
- Cops think even their dogs are your rulers.
- R.I.P. Herschel Savage and Suzanne Somers.
- I’m not sure of the point, but it’s still quite funny.
- Still think cops aren’t simply subsidized gangsters?
- Nutritionism is, and always has been, pseudoscience.
From the Archives
- “Detention center” is just a euphemism for “prison”, and that means rape.
- Remember how I pointed out that the government couldn’t win this fairly?
- Politicians keep promising the impossible & the stupid keep believing ’em.
- A rare case of a government actor actually being punished for his crimes.
- A reminder that you shouldn’t let anyone shame you for refusing to vote.
- Anything that demonstrates the absurdity of internet censorship is good.
- Cops can’t be bothered to investigate the disappearance of sex workers.
- Any information you give to the State can and will be used against you.
- “Things on cars = ‘sex trafficking’” expands to include things near cars.
- I wish more people understood the power of legal precedent this well.
- Amazon eagerly hands data from internet-connected devices to cops.
- Why is sex work still persecuted when drug bans are being loosened?
- It’s good to see this lurid narrative turned against cops for a change.
- Cops, robots, Nazca, Tom Lehrer, James Randi, and much more.
- Sex workers who experience violence are still free-willed adults.
- The first “King of the Hill” claim I’ve seen in almost three years.
- Remember, this isn’t “human trafficking”, but consensual sex is.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from October 2011 and 2012.
- Many “sex trafficking” fetishists are also fixated on hentai.
- The schadenfreude is so sweet, it almost hurts my teeth.
- Philadelphia has many different ways to rob its citizens.
- At least a few reporters seem to be beginning to get it.
- “Death is for mortals no longer an evil, but a blessing.”
- If only there were a concise term for “forced into sex”.
- Cops, supervillains, ghost cookies, and much more.
- Turning the police state’s own weapons against it.
- The stupider the belief, the harder it is to debunk.
- Me, welding a steel rafter onto the roof structure.
- A whore-snitching app that skips the middlerat.
- Another collection of spooky fun for Halloween.
- Not a specific McNeill’s Law case, but adjacent.
- More wackadoo beliefs about magic weenies.
- A new gas-powered tankless water heater.
- Not an especially satisfactory resolution.
- This is some seriously warped behavior.
- The State refuses to call this what it is.
- Links for Halloween, 2020 and 2021.
- Cops, art, Daleks, and much more.
- Putting up the winter shutters.
- A fun little Halloween game.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Frogs, meet scorpion.
- Oh, what a surprise.
- Birthday presents.
- Stop faking!
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 (#1385)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged abortion, bogus studies, cell phones, China, Colorado, cops, Creepy Coppers, crypto-moralism, drugs, Feudalism Redux, Google, I Spy, internet, law, Not An Addiction, Ohio, politicians, porn, propaganda, psychology, robots, Secret Squirrel, Shame Shame, surveillance, Texas, The Mob Rules, The Public Eye, Virginia, Welcome to the Future on October 28, 2023| Leave a Comment »
These kids have been helicoptered, snowplowed and bubble-wrapped. – Michele Borba
Sorry, crypto-moralists, but “addictive” is not a synonym for “yummy”:
A [meta-analysis] from the University of Michigan [intentionally misuses the medical term “addiction” in order to make the clickbait declaration that] people can show signs of addiction to ultra-processed foods, which include ice cream, potato chips, and other products high in sugar and carbohydrates…Those addictions were on the same levels as the ones for alcohol and tobacco, the study [claime]d…co-author Alexandra DiFeliceantonio…pointed out that while you can give up smoking, drinking or gambling, you can’t stop eating[, which is exactly why applying the “addiction” model to foods is asinine and absurd]…dietician Erin Palinski-Wade [explained,] “Although foods rich in added sugar may stimulate the feel-good chemicals in the brain..sugar itself is not addictive in the way cocaine or another drug may be…eliminating it from the diet will not result in withdrawal symptoms or side effects as would happen from a true addiction”…
To paraphrase Jacob Sullum, “the study’s findings could just as truthfully be summarized as, ‘Research Shows That Alcohol and Tobacco Are No More Addictive Than Potato Chips’.”
Curiosity offends the state, comrade:
…the Colorado Supreme Court…conceded that [a] warrant [demanding Google report everyone who searched a particular address where a crime took place] was “constitutionally defective” because it lacked individualized probably cause…[but] ruled that [pigs could use the illegally-obtained information against their chosen target anyhow, because they pinky-swore they didn’t know it was wrong]…Justice Monica M. Márquez objected in [her] dissent….[that cops knew] they were engaged in a “fishing expedition”…”reverse-keyword warrants…are…a high-tech version of the reviled ‘general warrants’ that first gave rise to the protections in the Fourth Amendment”…
Such convoluted language to distance other cops from a typical specimen:
A [typical and representative]…Cleveland [cop named]…Brandon N. Crites [has been] indicted on [charges] of receipt and distribution of child pornography…between 2022 and 2023…at least one image found in his possession involved a…prepubescent [child]…
Bird-brains still believe realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this technology:
Scroll through the livestreaming videos at 4 a.m. on Taobao, China’s most popular e-commerce platform, and you’ll find it weirdly busy. While most people are fast asleep, there are still many diligent streamers presenting products to the cameras and offering discounts…But…many of these livestream influencers seem slightly robotic…they are AI-generated [“]clones[“] of the real streamers. As technologies that create realistic avatars, voices, and movements get more sophisticated and affordable, the popularity of these deepfakes has exploded across China’s e-commerce streaming platforms…With just a few minutes of sample video and $1,000 in costs, brands can [“]clone[“] a human streamer to work 24/7…
As JD Tuccille wrote, “Kids will grow up to value freedom only if they’re raised in an environment where privacy and liberty are treated as normal and good“:
Teenagers have long balked at telling parents where they are. Now, they’re asking their parents to track them…[helicopter parenting] and real-time news—with vivid images about the pandemic, war and other disasters—have heightened…anxieties among young people…Members of Gen Z, ages [5 to 22], say they use family location-sharing apps to bolster a sense of security. Downloads of [a surveillance app named] Life360 doubled in the U.S. since 2021. The app now has more than 33 million monthly active users in the U.S. and another 20 million internationally. Even more teens share their location using Apple’s Find My, Google’s Family Link, Snapchat’s Snap Map and GPS-equipped smartwatches…
This unhinged mob-rule lunacy will spread like rot until struck down by a court:
[Fad laws that attempt to criminalize] pregnant Texas women from traveling through the [domains of showboating politicians] for an abortion in another state…[failed] in Amarillo…after…several members of the…City Council…questioned the legality of [these ordinances]…enforced through private lawsuits…these so-called abortion travel bans have questionable enforcement mechanisms, making them more like a ceremonial declaration than a legally binding statute. In an opinion following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote “May a state bar a resident of that state from traveling to another state to obtain an abortion? In my view, the answer is no based on the constitutional right to interstate travel”…
How are they verifying the recipients’ ages before they open it?
The Republican Party of Virginia says it mailed out several thousand explicit political fliers to voters. The envelopes read, “Do not open if you are under the age of 18,″ and “Warning: Explicit material enclosed.” Inside the mailer…[were] two pieces of paper with censored quotes and screenshots from [Democratic candidate Susanna] Gibson’s public porn livestream…[both campaigns and both parties then flung competing barrages of monkey-poop at each other]…
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Back Issue #124
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on October 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »
My sex appeal is about as gentle and understated as a brick to the face. – “Your Move”
- UK insists “sex trafficking” is rampant, despite never finding any victims.
- Whether the infection is biological or technological, it’s always the same.
- Writer hates some women being more interested in profit than romance.
- Some activists care more about feminist myths than about sex workers.
- Clueless lawheads shocked that women need work despite harassment.
- Cops, Codex Seraphinianus, Wonder Woman, demons, and much more.
- “Sex trafficking” fetishists claim 100,000 “victims” hiding in nail salons.
- Politicians claim nonexistent “sex trafficking” costs UK a billion pounds.
- I doubt we’ll ever know the truth about the so-called “teen girl pimps”.
- Canadian “authorities” as obsessed with “trafficking” porn as US ones.
- Cops, dark rides, Sasquatch, necromancy, Halloween and much more.
- Politicians want to protect “good” women of Saskatoon from sex rays.
- Big businesses woo valuable employees with (halfway) whores. Yawn.
- Why do prohibitionists keep stopping whores from getting other jobs?
- Teen threatened with “sex offender” registry for prank hangs himself.
- “Sex trafficking” hysteria may be starting to backfire on government.
- Jerry Brown pretends prison inmates don’t have sex with each other.
- Cops, Twitter, Kubrick, monsters, leaping maggots, and much more.
- It’s rare to see such raw misandry outside of neofeminist hate sites.
- Charlotte Shane’s scathing review of Sudhir Venkatesh’s new book.
- In the US, new tools of tyranny always spread like a social disease.
- Abuses always start with stigmatized groups, but never stop there.
- NSA says sex workers & associated parties are valid drone targets.
- Sex workers contaminate Amazon wishlists with our dirty sex rays.
- Another pregnant woman’s rights subordinated to those of a fetus.
- How can I get an escort to shower immediately before seeing me?
- “Pimp” is copese for husband, driver, landlord, roommate, parent…
- University bans pole dancing due to its association with stripping.
- And if she really had been a hooker, that would have made it OK?
- Another good article about Equality Now from Melissa Gira Grant.
- Another good anti-Swedish model essay from Dr. Graham Ellison.
- Cop can’t understand why whores “don’t realize they are victims”.
- Canadian politician caught in US sting supported by sex workers.
- The agency-denying, lie-spreading nun-SOAP cabal is at it again.
- Lawheads believe human nature can be altered by proclamation.
- Thai cops arrest sex workers to please their American overlords.
- Florida cops try to penalize people for driving on certain streets.
- Another degenerate member of the mugshot/revenge porn clan.
- Natalie Rowe raided by police after revealing dirt on a politician.
- New examples of ridiculously old-fashioned anti-whore rhetoric.
- Cops, blasphemy, Bill Watterson, Scandinavia, and much more.
- A unique and highly principled escort faces an ethical dilemma.
- Pharmacy staff called cops because a customer was Romanian.
- Woman who had sex for money says she “felt like a prostitute”.
- More ugly prohibitionist bullshit of the sort we’ve seen before.
- The especially-revolting French version of the Swedish model.
- Atlanta is the largest “sex trafficking hub” in the entire world!
- Crypto-moralists try to pretend that fatty foods are addictive.
- Illegal migrants cheated of pay; notice what word isn’t used.
- A short biography of Aileen Wuornos, whore and serial killer.
- Politician flirts with stripper online; pearl-clutching ensues.
- China moves ahead of the US in one area of human rights.
- How can I figure out what kind of sex work is best for me?
- All it takes to be arrested in a “sex sting” is to be present.
- SCOTUS refuses to hear challenge to Lawrence vs. Texas.
- Online bookstore blames porn for its poor website design.
- White US feminist goes “undercover” in a Turkish brothel.
- How should I act for my boyfriend who’s into cuckolding?
- Yet another confused “black magic sex trafficking” story.
- The noisome fruit of the “mandatory prosecution” tree.
- Dangerous teen girl jailed for kissing another teen girl.
- A collection of things to read and watch for Halloween.
- Politician says heterosexual male desire is “sickening”.
- Cops lure drug buyers to Florida in order to rob them.
- Another UN agency reaffirms support of sex workers.
- Cops ask Congress for power to destroy the internet.
- Another way the Swedish model harms sex workers.
- Woman jailed for murder after having a miscarriage.
- The vengeful badge-licking of Crime Victims United.
- Another runaway clown car of unintentional hilarity.
- A ridiculous “estimate” grows even more ridiculous.
- Swanee Hunt’s grotesque vendetta against whores.
- Prisons don’t actually have to be torture chambers.
- Sex rays are also dangerous to plants and wildlife!
- Cathy Reisenwitz on New York’s “trafficking” court.
- Fetishists claim “sex trafficking” is “unrecognized”.
- Guess why the pigs targeted this massage parlor.
- When “bring into care” means “abduct and cage”.
- Whore-hatred carries no consequences for cops.
- How can I get an interested man to pay for sex?
- Credulous reporters keep giving away ad space.
- Rupert Everett’s anti-Swedish model campaign.
- Swedish state neofeminism embraces Lamarck.
- The power to see abstractions must be useful.
- Most prison rape is committed by the guards.
- The pending release of the San Antonio Four.
- Libertarianism even happens to politicians.
- What real help for streetwalkers looks like.
- How does sexual repression affect people?
- A short interview with Dr. Heidi Hoefinger.
- Laura Lee speaks about decriminalization.
- Somaly Mam caught in another huge lie.
- Protests against the awful Project ROSE.
- A video on coming out as a sex worker.
- A stage show about the Profumo Affair.
- Whores evicted so fascists can profit.
- Frequently told lies about sex work.
- Whorearchy from a glamour model.
- Mira Sorvino, mathematical retard.
- Advice on being a good mistress.
- Tizzy Wall interviews Siouxsie Q.
- An anti-Swedish model tool kit.
- An Orientalist wanking fantasy.
- Pop stars cause sex trafficking!
- Standard operating procedure.
- A short look at the big picture.
- More cops cashing in on vices.
- Cuddling and diaper-flashing.
- Presents, presents, presents!
- Silk Road shut down by FBI.
- The campus censorship fad.
- Lawheads will be lawheads.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- “Sex trafficking” hentai.
- Handy figures revisited.
- The Gabriela Leite Law.
- Is the Patriarchy dead?
- R.I.P. Gabriela Leite.
- The Science of Fear.
- My second million.
- Doctor Mordrid.
Abbott and Costello Meet Throwback Thursday
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged blogging, cops, dehumanization, Hollywood, language, marriage, pimps, psychology, The Cop Myth, Throwback Thursday on October 26, 2023| Leave a Comment »
People who believe that the human psyche and human culture are both the products of Divine ordination have either never fallen in love, or else they think God is a sadist.
– “Since the Model Came Out”
Human beings don’t exist to serve you, to be “empowered” by you, or to be defined in relation to you. – “Up for Grabs”
The police are terrorists; their job is to inspire terror of violating the whims of politicians by inflicting violence on people who are legally innocent of any wrongdoing. – “The Cop Myth”
I call sex work a harm reduction method for monogamy because it is. – “Because It Is”
Hollywood has its collective head so far up the collective prohibitionist rectum that it has to bend over backward describing an actual pimp as a “male madam” and a “sex fixer” rather than simply admitting that the truth about sex work doesn’t resemble a bad screenplay full of evil “traffickers”, pathetic “victims” and brave “rescuers”. – “R.I.P. Scotty Bowers“
In the News (#1384)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged A Broker in Pillage, A Woman's Point of View, asset seizure, censorship, cops, Georgia, internet, Iowa, law, libraries, Michigan, New York, Panopticon, porn, rape, Rhode Island, serial killers, Shifting the Blame, South Carolina, Stalkers in Blue, surveillance, The Next Target, Thought Control, violence vs. sex workers on October 25, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Data matters, research matters, and it all shows that the con[flation of sex work and “trafficking”] is just based on ideology. – Melissa Broudo
A Woman’s Point of View (#1228)
In Rhode Island’s case, this would be re-decriminalization:
A new report by a Rhode Island study commission recommends the full decriminalization of consensual adult sex work in the state. The commission of thirteen individuals, including [politicians], sex workers, medical professionals, and [spokespigs], spent two years reviewing research and evidence, and listening to lived-experience testimonials, before releasing the report, which highlights multiple reforms intended to…promote the health and safety of sex workers…
The more vague the law, the more authoritarians like it:
Iowa…[has pass]ed a law…that…requires schools to remove books that depict a “sex act”…unleash[ing] a frenzy of book-banning across the state, one that illustrates a core truth about these types of censorship directives. Their vagueness is the point…Uncertain whether books…might run afoul of their state’s law, [bureaucrats nearly always]…decide nixing them would be the “safer” option…This week…Iowa…School[s]…released a list of 68 books…removed from schools to comply with the law. Among the titles: Ulysses by James Joyce, Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood…The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison…1984 by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut and Forrest Gump by Winston Groom…
Airports are among cops’ favorite places to lurk in order to rob people:
[Pigs and spooks lu]rking at…Atlanta International Airport rarely find drugs on passengers at departing gates. More often, they find money. Records show [thugs] have s[tolen] millions of dollars from passengers at boarding gates. The [robbery] is administratively [justified by belching out the magic words “]proceeds of drug trafficking[“] even [though] no drugs are [ever] found…[they] do not arrest the passenger. They [simply rob them]…Most cases never go before a judge….passengers are forced to [somehow] prove their money “innocent’ on the spot at the airport gate or it’s s[tolen]…passengers are forced to pull up bank statements on their phones or otherwise provide proof the money isn’t from drug trafficking. Merely flying from Atlanta to Los Angeles is suspicious, according to [porcine fantasies], because it’s a “known drug trafficking route”…
Cops are sexual predators who often specifically target traumatized women:
A Greenville [South Carolina cop has] resigned after[being caught lying] about whether he had sex in his patrol car with another [cop. But just a few months ago]…Timothy Matthews…was the subject of an anonymous complaint by a woman in the charitable organization Jasmine Road, a residential program for…wom[en who had bad experiences in]…prostitution…[because] he [repeatedly pressured her for]…her phone number [and bombarded her with texts after she gave it to him]…
Bureaucrats who committed illegal surveillance refer to their victim as a “public nuisance”:
…the Michigan Supreme Court…has the chance to decide whether a municipal government…can circumvent constitutional protections by farming out the task to a private company…warrantless drone surveillance is [explicitly un]constitutional…[but] the appeals court…said that excluding any evidence gathered would be inappropriate, so the state Supreme Court can functionally determine whether local governments can do this and get away with it. Multiple civil liberty advocacy organizations have submitted amicus briefs…argu[ing] that “if the Township gets its way, it will not only profit from its privacy violations, but open the door to other local governments deploying cheap, pervasive, flying surveillance devices to surveil private property for the smallest of civil infractions…Without consequences for arbitrary invasions into [Fourth Amendment] rights, no one can be secure in their person, house, papers, or effects”…
How many women died as a result of inaction by the murderer’s cop buddies?
Rex Heuermann, the New York architect accused of being the Gilgo Beach serial killer, has been linked to…the deaths of Shannan Gilbert and Karen Vergata…four witnesses [have come] forward with information about Heuermann…The first…went to Heuermann’s house for a sex party in February 1996 with her boyfriend, who was a cop, and Vergata…During that time, she spoke with [Heuermann’s wife, Asa] Ellerup, who…told the witness that she was “afraid of Rex”…the second witness…[i]s a taxi driver…[who] saw Gilbert and Heuerman together when she picked her up in the fall of 2009…[Gilbert was] “crying and shaking”…[because Heuermann had tried to cheat] her [with] an envelope of paper scraps instead of money…
While Mastercard chooses to discriminate vs sex workers via an elaborate concern kabuki derived from “sex trafficking” propaganda, Visa prefers to burble reasonable-sounding rhetoric about “risk” in order to justify charging sex workers more money to access their services than other businesses. Back in the old agency days, I simply lied to my card processor and called my company a consulting firm in order to avoid high fees, excessive scrutiny, or arbitrarily being dropped by the processor. But things have changed a great deal in the past two decades, and there’s no way for an online provider to cloak herself as I did. This article in XBiz is too dense for me to understand, but if you’re an online sex worker you probably already understand many of these terms, and may find it helpful.
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!
Diary #695
Posted in Diary, tagged comics, holidays, imaginative fiction, Presents on October 24, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Last week, I received a package from Amazon containing several birthday presents from my wishlist; they were sent by one of my especially-generous gentlemen, who never misses the opportunity to send me gifts at holidays or just because he saw something on the list which tickled him. I’ve been wanting to see the pictured one for a while because it’s the movie which inspired the creation of Batman’s arch-nemesis, The Joker. It’s not really a horror movie per se, but the one of the other two gifts, the definitely-a-horror-movie Vampyr, had a less-than-striking box, and the other, Vince Guaraldi’s soundtrack for A Charlie Brown Christmas, isn’t seasonal. So if you’ve sometimes wondered how I choose which gift to illustrate when there are several, now you know. And if you want one of your gifts to adorn next week’s diary column, there are still three good seasonal choices on my wishlist and almost a week for Amazon to get them here!
Trick Treatment
Posted in History, Links, Miscellaneous, tagged animals, Australia, blogging, Canada, comics, Connecticut, cops, disease, Hollywood, I can't breathe, imaginative fiction, Iowa, Maryland, Mexico, Minnesota, Poland, politicians, pregnancy, psychology, racism, recipes, teachers, United Kingdom on October 23, 2023| Leave a Comment »
I’ve always been dedicated to the idea of this as the time of year for spooky fun. So every year I collect all the spooky, creepy or scary content from the previous year into one place just before Halloween. If you’ve come to my blog in the past year, or don’t remember previous editions, they are “Trick or Treat”, “More Trick or Treat“, “Tricks and Treats“, “This Trick’s a Treat”, “Tricky Treats“, “A Trickle of Treats”, “Tricking and Treating“, “Tricks for the Treat“, “Tricked Out Treats“, and “Tricks and Treats and Such Small Deer“. Horror, death or Halloween-themed columns of the past year included “Day of the Dead 2022“, “Guy Fawkes Day 2022“, “Diary #646“, “Undead Powers“, and a three-part review of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There are creepy or spooky-fun videos in Links #643, #658, #668, #669, #682, #692, #694, “Tweets for Long Nights” and “The First Tweets of Spring“, and a collection of seasonal links appears below. PS: Have you picked up on the pattern I’m using for the names of my “Throwback Thursday” columns?
- Pleasant dreams.
- “Invasion of the…”
- PSA for the undead.
- Ooooh, so scary, kids!
- The undead of Poland.
- Recipes from the dead.
- Nightmare of the week.
- Kinda late for Halloween.
- I’ve seen this one before.
- What scares you the most?
- Is this the face of a vampire?
- I would’ve loved this as a kid.
- BEHOLD THE GHOST COOKIE!
- The Onion, in a seasonal mood.
- A new twist on “I can’t breathe”.
- Not much of an exaggeration, really.
- Where’s Kolchak when you need him?
- Sometimes The Onion is truly inspired.
- A modern version of the “cursed room”.
- Because there’s nothing scarier than people eating.
- “The House Is the Monster”: Roger Corman’s Poe Cycle.
- Most of these look more like powerful undead or demon lords.
Links #694
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, California, cops, drivers, imaginative fiction, language, New York, robots, United Kingdom, video, Washington (state), Wyoming on October 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Stop breaking my door. – Brandy Laramore
There aren’t many decent seasonal videos any more, but this little animated Loveraft adaptation caught my attention. The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker, Radley Balko, The Onion, Nun Ya, Popehat, Franklin Harris, and Phoenix Calida, in that order.
- Sounds reasonable.
- Not a police state, no sirree!
- The Onion, in a seasonal mood.
- A fine example of the exonerative voice.
- California does something right for a change.
- R.I.P. Piper Laurie, Keith Giffen, and Lara Parker.
- Another life ruined by school “zero intelligence” policies.
From the Archives
- I’ve somehow managed the best possible game with the hand I was dealt.
- I’m sure Jesus would approve of punishing children for their parents’ sins.
- There’s literally never been a case of a kid getting drugged trick-or-treat.
- Florida screws all yell “Stop faking!” at victims after breaking their necks.
- You’ve heard of “burying the lede”, but this one just keeps getting worse.
- Authoritarians can’t conceive of any non-violent solution to any problem.
- It’s great to see anti-prohibitionist views quickly becoming mainstream.
- Funny how often people “die suddenly” while cops are brutalizing them.
- Commies still love the fantasy that they can magically vanish sex work.
- The Japanese get very touchy when anyone memorializes their victims.
- Psychedelic destigmatization is happening more quickly than expected.
- It’s good to see a sex worker run for office, especially when she wins.
- The cop who stood by and watched a rape has thought up an excuse.
- The racism of “anti-trafficking” schemes is getting harder to disguise.
- Did you ever wonder why the government stopped harassing bitcoin?
- No, this is a different Louisville cop stealing women’s nude pictures.
- The government needs to be buried in lawsuits before this will stop.
- Some still believe these sociopaths really want to “protect children”.
- UK admits “human trafficking” narrative is about migration control.
- Facebook didn’t think the face-eating leopards would eat its face.
- The rescue industry provides many opportunities to play cowboy.
- Cops cosplaying pimps vs cops cosplaying sex workers & clients.
- Indian activists battle prohibitionism disguised as “public health”.
- Banks are still actively looking for whores to rat out to the pigs.
- Cops, wolves,San Francisco, Robbie Coltrane, and much more.
- All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
- Cops are just a gang of rapist thugs waiting for opportunities.
- Brooke Magnanti on how “sex trafficking” panic led to QAnon.
- Maybe the Church shouldn’t just ignore priests’ sexual needs.
- Ever notice how often predatory cops’ targets are underage?
- “Sex trafficking” propaganda has always been deeply racist.
- On the havoc wrought by Swedish criminalization in France.
- Pregnant women are uniquely vulnerable to state coercion.
- Cops, politicians, Twinkies, sound effects, and much more.
- Still think this djinni can be crammed back into its bottle?
- A custom arrangement to fit your needs and preferences.
- It’s not only Louisiana cops who prefer to rape by proxy.
- A look at Hacking/Hustling’s report on shadowbanning.
- An analysis of how the Baby Boomers wrecked the US.
- It’s always nice when filth like this feed on each other.
- Moral imbeciles are almost completely out of control.
- PayPal is becoming a major threat to civil liberties.
- The stupider the belief, the harder it is to debunk.
- All of our roofing materials are finally on the way!
- It rains an awful lot on the edge of a rain forest.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
- Once in a while, whores win a small victory.
- Yet another curated selection of tweets.
- Cops, laws, monsters, and much more.
- Learning to weld while building a roof.
- Plumbing my new bathroom.
- Cicero’s breakfast peanuts.
- Worst Phone Ever.
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