All I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets. – Donald Trump
When I first mentioned this cartoon in “My Favorite Short Films” almost 12 years ago, it was only available on the National Film Board of Canada website. But since that has changed, here it is. The links above it were provided by Greg Lukianoff, Franklin Harris, C.J. Ciaramella (x2), Mike Masnick, Lucy Steigerwald, and Jesse Walker, in that order.
- As one does.
- R.I.P. Cindy Morgan.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- The state considers this a plus.
- Fucking magnets, how do they work?
- Why is “never” so difficult to understand?
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Working people all over are done with arbitrary authoritarian “lockdowns”.
- If there’s one thing the US needs, it’s more sadistic rapists in the military.
- This disgusting trash is loaded with copsucking & emotional manipulation.
- The bipartisan war on the internet moves another step toward idiocracy.
- Nothing infuriates violent, self-important busybodies more than privacy.
- Why bother with license plate readers when fools will pay to be tracked?
- Are most people really surprised to find out that cops are habitual liars?
- Remember this when people claim prohibitionists are “well-intentioned”.
- Whores are even less popular with the Establishment than MAGA types.
- Even journalists reporting on this insist on referring to it as “correction”.
- He pronounced the wrong magic words in the magic Spell of Forfeiture.
- Some believe they can live forever by eliminating all pleasure from life.
- Though this is becoming a safe position, we still have a long way to go.
- The machine of authoritarianism is vast, complex, and has many parts.
- Cops really don’t care how many false positives these systems shit out.
- Beijing ramps up its campaign to silence Chinese people outside China.
- Another example of how “lockdowns” cause far more harm than good.
- Politicians & the media feign shock over a disaster they helped create.
- Discussing extreme fetishes in writing with any amateur is a bad idea.
- The UK’s long internet censorship campaign turns mindlessly carceral.
- The real humanitarians fight against racist “anti-trafficking” schemes.
- France becomes the first European country to start this conversation.
- Reporters must learn that “people work to make money” is not news.
- Trust is not something that can merely be given; it must be earned.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- Cops, Jeff Beck, Walter Cunningham, Fay Weldon, and much more.
- PayPal needs to be buried in similar lawsuits before this will stop.
- Universal criminality provides many avenues for State violence.
- The war on trans people has expanded to include drag queens.
- Cops, pigeons, Florida, Siegfried Fischbacher, and much more.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Texas cops raid migrant-owned businesses; what a surprise.
- “Tolerance policies” are not equivalent to decriminalization.
- Cops think they can just make up their own pharmacology.
- Cops, nerds, puritanism, Ronnie Spector, and much more.
- Another firsthand account of China’s torture of Uighurs.
- All that’s left of the once-popular “gypsy whores” myth.
- A sad regurgitation of all the usual anti-porn nonsense.
- It would be difficult to bury this lede any further down.
- “Criminality” is a status defined entirely by the State.
- The recrudescence of the “repressed memory” myth.
- Perhaps Alabama’s state bird should be the ostrich.
- Apparently, magic insta-fentanyl only affects cops.
- Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
- Probably not the outcome prosecutors expected.
- The War on Whores, now showing on YouTube.
- Alabama is trying to make up for its late start.
- Brooke Magnanti’s new project, Body of Work.
- Cathy Reisenwitz on the awfulness of Polaris.
- Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
- Sleeping with cops isn’t safe for men, either.
- Even roses need a little time off to recharge.
- Anti-sexworker bigotry harms all women.
- A new tag specifically for rapist screws.
- The ceiling of my new bathroom.
- Dealing with a constipated pig.
- What an exhausting week!
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