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Easter 2024
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In the News (#1425)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged cell phones, Colorado, cops, dating, FBI, Google, homosexuality, I Spy, internet, Michigan, Micromanagement, Not So Different, Oklahoma, Permanent Record, Pyrrhic Victory, rescue industry, scams, Schadenfreude, Stalkers in Blue, surveillance, teachers, To Molest and Rape, Utah on March 30, 2024| Leave a Comment »
No one should fear a knock at the door from police simply because of what the YouTube algorithm serves up. – Albert Fox-Cahn
Politicians can’t resist using popular web services to expand surveillance:
A bill recently introduced in Colorado aims to make dating apps such as Hinge and Bumble [worse] for users [under the pretext of “safety”]. The first section…would force all dating services with any users in Colorado to submit an annual report to Colorado’s attorney general about misconduct reports from users in the state or about users in the state…[or] the entire United States. These reports would all become public…Scorned lovers, racists, incels, and others with hostile motives could file false reports and harm people’s job and dating prospects in the future. And a report on a government website looks a lot more legitimate than someone mad on social media. These reports might even lead to [cops harass]ing innocent users…
Teachers are supposed to be robots who have no lives outside of school:
Domonique Brown was a history teacher…in the Detroit area, but in her off hours…worked as an aspiring rapper named Drippin Honey…she was [fired] from her job…[because one single] parent complained that she was a “bad influence” on her students because she’s a rapper, despite being voted teacher of the month in December…the parent [was allowed to] remain…anonymous [after the drive-by character assassination,] and didn’t [even bother to] go into detail about what they found objectionable about her rapping…Brown said she plans to take legal action against the school…
Even seemingly-consensual sex with a cop may actually be something else:
A [typical and representative FBI] agent…has been arrested for…secretly filming women [he had] sex [with] at his home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with [cops] estimating there could be more than 80 victims. Mark Allen Wells…stored the pornographic images and videos on his computer in neatly organized files. Morgan Ballou, who dated Wells off and on between 2016 and 2022 said that he had shown her the library of nudes, at which point she contacted one of the women whose name showed up, his now ex-fiancé Savanna Smith…The pair went to the police [last] May…and…over the following months, more victims were identified. His ex-wife came forward [to report] that he had secretly recorded her via a hidden camera on the bookshelf in one of their bedrooms. It was also revealed that Wells…sent sexually explicit images of them to at least eight people…
“Nonprofit” merely refers to the organization; those who run it often make plenty of profit:
…Candace Lierd is the founder and former CEO of a [Utah-based “rescue industry organization named]…Exitus…[who embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars] donated to the organization…she made false claims that she was a nurse or physician, [that she] had a position with the United Nations[,] and [that she had] founded several multimillion-dollar companies…Lierd has a stack of 42 charges filed against her…[most of which are] fraud[-related]…felonies…Exitus…did not renew its business license after it expired in 2022, but continued to seek donations on Facebook and Instagram….[with fantasies about fictional] orphan rescues in Europe…Exitus raised over $1,697,000 through [lies and fabric]ations…the[n used the] money…to buy a…new home[, a car for her son, and other things, but]…much of the money is still unaccounted for.
In keeping with law enforcement’s grand tradition of taking antiquated, invasive, and oppressive technologies, making them digital, and then calling it innovation, police in the U.S. recently combined two existing dystopian technologies in a brand new way to violate civil liberties. A police force in California recently employed the new practice of taking a DNA sample from a crime scene, running this through a service provided by US company Parabon NanoLabs that guesses what the perpetrators face looked like, and plugging this rendered image into face recognition software to build a suspect list…scientists have affirmed that predicting face shapes—particularly from DNA samples—is not possible. But this has not stopped…police [from] using DNA to create a hypothetical and not at all accurate face, then using that face as a clue on which to base investigations…Not only is this full dice-roll policing, it also threatens the rights, freedom, or even the life of whoever is unlucky enough to look a little bit like that artificial face…
Curiosity offends the state, comrade:
Federal [spooks] have ordered Google to provide information on all viewers of select YouTube videos…the orders are unconstitutional because they threaten to turn innocent YouTube viewers into criminal suspects…Kentucky…cops sought to identify the individual behind the online moniker “elonmuskwhm”, who they suspect of selling bitcoin for cash, potentially [ope]ning [him up to persecution under] money laundering laws…In conversations with the user in early January [2023, spooks] sent links of YouTube tutorials for mapping via drones and augmented reality software, then [demand]ed Google [dox everyone] who…viewed the videos [that week by exposing]…the names, addresses, telephone numbers and user activity for all Google account users who accessed the…videos…and…the IP addresses of non-Google account owners who viewed the[m]…court records do not show whether or not Google [licked the boot that time]…
[A retired] Utah [cop]…Sheriff’s Office administrator…[and] mental health counselor…[named] Mitchell McKee [has been] arrested…[for molesting] a teen[age boy]. The teen…told police he was abused by an adult man in exchange for vape pens…he is [considered dangerous because he is] a retired [cop who]…knows where…[his] victim lives…
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Back Issue #129
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on March 29, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Laws which violate whores’ rights invariably violate everyone’s.
– “Lack of Evidence (#311)”
- Indian sex workers saved a 14-year-old girl from being sold to a brothel.
- Can you imagine U.S. cops contradicting a prohibitionist politician’s lies?
- Prosecutor lies about a service’s fee to ratchet up the number of counts.
- Interestingly, the phrase “sex trafficking” appears nowhere in this story.
- How should I answer a therapist’s claim that ALL prostitutes are slaves?
- Ireland turns down nearly all asylum requests from “trafficking victims”.
- Dr. Brooke Magnanti on Comic Relief’s subscription to prohibitionist lies.
- This is only “stunning” to those who believe in the “pimps & hos” myth.
- French whores continue to push back against increased criminalization.
- Swedish neofeminists label surrogate motherhood “human trafficking”.
- Redefine prostitution as “sex trafficking”; get a grant for street stings.
- The deep connection between addiction rhetoric and crypto-moralism.
- How do verification services like Date Check and P411 screen escorts?
- Dutch “authorities” narrow bottleneck, wonder why “crime” increases.
- Is there a penis length or thickness that is too large for most escorts?
- One would never know these claims have been repeatedly debunked.
- Emi Koyama exposes journalists who knowingly repeated false myth.
- Umbrellas, cops, redshirts, dogs, sorcery, Pokemon, and much more.
- Russians use “sex trafficking” hysteria as Anti-American propaganda.
- Politician says caging people & giving them criminal records is “help”.
- Robots, Ys, cops, bugs, bunnies, terrifying pastries, and much more.
- Cats, crayons, Kipling, Lovecraft, Sherlock Holmes, and much more.
- Cops claim hiring whores was a “botched prostitution investigation”.
- Dallas tries to push off its “diversion” scheme on the rest of Texas.
- The media finally notice that using condoms as evidence is insane.
- A legal clinic in Cape Town provides legal services for sex workers.
- In which I go far outside my comfort zone to attend a symposium.
- Indian sex workers triumph over attempt at covert criminalization.
- Nuns and SOAP fanatics harass hoteliers in the American Midwest.
- Phone app for teen girls who are suddenly “trafficked” by surprise.
- Drone-enabled universal surveillance is about to become a reality.
- Cops puzzled when “rescued” whores immediately return to work.
- Soi-disant conservative declares individuals are owned by society.
- Margo St. James on the birth of the sex worker rights movement.
- More evidence of the evangelical basis for “sex trafficking” myth.
- Government officials attacked for failing to find what isn’t there.
- Washington state puritans’ bizarre persecution of coffee stands.
- Tracy Elise of Phoenix Goddess Temple involuntarily committed.
- Hawaii expands asset forfeiture to include petty misdemeanors.
- Sex therapist argues disability should cover hiring sex workers.
- Dr. Brooke Magnanti on the lessons we can learn from Pompeii.
- A federal appeals court struck down Virginia’s anti-sodomy law.
- Indian government reverses its sneaky criminalization attempt.
- Client screening tips & helpful links from a New Orleans escort.
- Video of my appearance at the Albany Law School symposium.
- The vulnerable party in a sex work transaction isn’t the whore.
- The Dutch consider licensing, despite knowing it doesn’t work.
- The “Facebook pimps” myth just keeps growing and growing.
- What positions are good for a small penis and a large vagina?
- Arizona wants to force some women to use men’s restrooms.
- Nobody can challenge secret surveillance because it’s secret.
- A $100,00 grant to develop “the next generation of condom”.
- More on the escort who was arrested for reporting a stalker.
- Officials pretend that licensing schemes “help” sex workers.
- Indian feminists serve “vinegar pie” to Harvard do-gooders.
- Proposed South Australian law isn’t quite decriminalization.
- Charlotte Shane on the weakness of “enthusiastic consent”.
- The evangelical Christian roots of “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- A collection of vile, psychopathic, literally genocidal hatred.
- Dutch anti-sex politicians use a shill to attack sex workers.
- Cops, de-extinction, Scientology, fascism and much more.
- A really bad review of a “sex trafficking” propaganda film.
- The real attitude of Swedes toward the sex payment law.
- Few Irish politicians dare to stand up to Magdalene nuns.
- Is the sex worker rights movement nearing a watershed?
- Nevada is not more whore-friendly than other US states.
- Bolshoi ballet dancer calls the company a “giant brothel”.
- The radical concept of paying people for things they sell.
- “You don’t change the world with a Hitachi Magic Wand“.
- ASPaSIA is working on a code of ethics for sex workers.
- Yet another example of what real sex slavery looks like.
- The wholly predictable outcome of prohibitionist idiocy.
- The fantasy of porn prohibition via internet censorship.
- Should I “out” a sex worker friend to my other friends?
- The tale of a lonely woman who found a higher calling.
- The topless Tunisian checks into a psychiatric hospital.
- Can mature, chubby women make a living as escorts?
- The logical end result of “human trafficking” rhetoric.
- Tullia d’Aragona: courtesan, poetess and philosopher.
- Sex worker says calling her a sex worker is “slander”.
- Why do women tend to be more talkative than men?
- Dr. Laura Agustín on the concept of “empowerment”.
- Justine Reilly, Ruhama’s all-purpose anti-whore shill.
- Another good argument against anti-polygamy laws.
- A thorough refutation of Neumayer, Cho and Dreher.
- Charlotte Shane reviews a sex surrogate’s memoirs.
- The view on the Swedish model from inside Norway.
- Another attempt to decriminalize in South Australia.
- Is this really the company you want the US to keep?
- Bitcoin is now the world’s best-performing currency.
- “Following the Money: Spending on Anti-Trafficking”.
- Baboons have been observed keeping dogs as pets.
- Bernard Baran, another victim of the Satanic Panic.
- The US Treasury’s first attempt to regulate Bitcoin.
- Contrasting stories on sex work with the disabled.
- I just love it when predators feed on one another.
- Jennifer Reed debunks the “sex trafficking” panic.
- Jesse Walker’s good short piece on Santa Muerte.
- Horrible Houma whore helps cops entrap clients.
- UK literally robs a sex worker of her life savings.
- Oregon ramps up the “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Supporting moral panics with bogus checklists.
- Interviews with Rob Arthur and Laura Agustín.
- Why banishment has come back into fashion.
- New Wikipedia article on “Migrant Sex Work”.
- Secret Lives and A Natural History of Rape.
- 14 more people have been cured of HIV.
- A challenge to prostitution laws in Ohio.
- The Fokkens sisters have finally retired.
- Mars, cops, teeth, tits and much more.
- Turkey’s slow-motion war on sex work.
- Because financial survival is shameful.
- Big City Girls at the Baroque Bordello.
- Why Anne Hathaway should go-away.
- Two reader-authors exchange books.
- Caty Simon interviews Audacia Ray.
- Unpacking the sex trafficking panic.
- King of the Hill: Portland, Oregon.
- Amanda Brooks’ advice for clients.
- Who really paid her, and for what?
- When prostitution wasn’t a crime.
- No, rape is not worse than death.
- Nevada joins the “pole tax” mob.
- A new low in intra-family spying.
- When science looks like religion.
- King of the Hill: North Carolina.
- An interview with Tracy Quan.
- Who victimizes sex workers?
- A profile of Grace Bellavue.
- When sex is your day job.
- My favorite short stories.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Superfreakonomics.
- R.I.P. Harry Reems.
- Baby cured of HIV.
Throwback Thursday and the Monster from Hell
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged blogging, consensual crime, cops, fascism, Guinea Pigs, language, neofeminism, psychology, surveillance on March 28, 2024| Leave a Comment »
You just go right ahead believing that the US military-industrial complex is so very concerned with commercial sex that it’s willing to spend considerable funds just to stop people from having it. – “Guinea Pigs”
To [sex prohibitionists] trapped in this horrifying belief-system, all the women in the world are stuck in one immense elevator together and the whores are smoking, farting and pissing on the floor. – “Policing Womanhood”
The idea that it’s “counterintuitive” that totalitarian government creates more problems than it solves is one that could only emerge from the mind of a statist who learned history from a pop-up book. – “Ceding Ground”
The majority of cops, bureaucrats and other petty evildoers don’t see themselves as evil; they see themselves as just people doing a job.
– “All the Quiet Sociopaths“
In the News (#1424)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged acting, activism, artificial stupidity, Canada, cell phones, censorship, Censorship Ascendant, Colorado, cops, Dirty Amateurs, disease, hysteria, I can't breathe, internet, law, libraries, Moral Climate, politicians, porn, propaganda, racism, STEM, surveillance, Tennessee, The Next Target, The Puritan Recrudescence, Thought Control, transgender, United Kingdom, Virginia on March 27, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Artificial intelligence is not that intelligent. – Ella Dawson
Why are amateurs so damned averse to using condoms?
…Calmara claims to use AI to screen photos uploaded by users for STIs. They want you to open their website, take a picture of your partner’s genitals before having sex, and upload it to their database so that a…[computer] can review it and scan for 10+ “conditions” including herpes, syphilis, and HPV. Buried in the Q&A section…Calmara makes it clear-ish that they cannot actually diagnose anyone with any STI, the AI only “works” for penises, and you should really just go to a doctor for an accurate STI test. But you wouldn’t glean any of that from their cocky Instagram or glossy imagery. “No cap, just facts,” the copy reads beneath an illustration of a dancing robot. “Up to 90% accuracy, our AI is grounded in real science.” Uh… sure…the service is so misguided that it’s easy to dismiss it as satire. But…Calmara is…not satire, and available to download right now…their…own fine print says, “These offerings should not be used as substitutes for professional medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or management of any disease or condition.” So what is this service for? Literally why does it exist when it cannot provide the service it advertises?…
Cathy Simpson, the CEO of the Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library, [h]as [been] fired…[because the board dislikes a group she quoted in] an op-ed column published by The Lake Report. The Feb. 22 opinion piece, “Censorship and what we are allowed to read”…drew strong criticism from a few…over its promotion of some of the principles espoused by the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR)…[regarding] “hidden library censorship,” which she said takes two forms — “the vigorous defence of books promoting diversity of identity, but little to no defence of books promoting diversity of viewpoint, and the purchase of books promoting ‘progressive’ ideas over ‘traditional’ ideas”…[library board chair Daryl Novak tacitly admitted that Simpson was fired purely due to the] content related to FAIR, [because] “the balance of (Simpson’s) article, you can’t really criticize”…
Censors are now pretending ideas they don’t like constitute a “crime”:
Police Scotland…will in[timid]ate actors and comedians if a…[wannabe censor points at them and croaks the magic words] “threatening and abusive” [because] under the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) [Law, the taboo magic] can be communicated “through public performance of a play”…the Assistant Chief Constable responsible for overseeing the implementation of the controversial legislation has [washed his hands of it] after just a year in the post…Police Scotland has [threaten]ed that it will investigate every [incident, no matter how trivial, reported as a “]hate crime[“]…despite the force adopting a “proportionate response” approach to [actual] crimes…there [h]as [been] an outcry from artists…[pointing out] that in the past shows ha[ve] been picketed by organisations trying to get them shut down and warn[ing] that “putting theatre in its own category makes it a target”…
It’s about time cops stopped being allowed to cover up their murders so easily:
The Colorado Senate [has] pass[ed] legislation that would bar the term “excited delirium” from use by [cops and medical examiners. If signed by]…Governor Jared Polis…it would bar the term [or any of its synonyms] from being used in [cop] training or incident reports, or from being listed as a cause of death on a death certificate…Prominent medical organizations have urged [cops and medical] professionals to not use the [pseudoscientific] term…[whose sole purpose is] to justify injury or death to individuals [attacked and restrained by] police…
Some censors are so mentally ill they feel threatened by the sexuality of trees:
The Floyd County (Va.) Public Schools have suspended a…community reading of Katherine Applegate’s Wishtree following complaints that the middle-grade novel depicts a monoecious red oak, a tree with reproductive parts that can pollinate and flower simultaneously. In the book, originally published in 2017, the tree claims an identity that is “both” female and male and responds to diverse pronouns: “Call me she. Call me he. Anything will work”…[wannabe censor] Jodi Farmer…took to Facebook to [warn] Floyd County residents about the [terrifying] reference to…[vegetable biology], calling the book “indoctrination at its finest”…
Apparently, Farmer imagines these scary, scary words will bewitch her children into transkingdomism.
Rather than actually filing a lawsuit against Mastercard for its discriminatory policies against sex workers (which would cost them actual money), ACLU prefers to Tweet, to dilly-dally with complaints to the FTC (a bureau of a government which actively persecutes sex workers and encourages corporations to do the same), and now to file a petition which I can’t imagine will prove to be any more effective than its other slacktivist efforts. Given the wording of the petition and the website page it’s included in, this seems more like an exercise in virtue-signaling than an actual effort to right an injustice, but I reckon it can’t actually hurt you to sign it.
The Puritan Recrudescence (#1417)
Tennessee’s float in the current “monkey see, monkey do” parade will cost it millions every year:
A Tennessee bill would make it a felony for an adult content website to allow access to a minor without age verification…[bill sponsor] Becky Massey…[burbled a lot of nonsense about magic sex-ray emitting pictures, but didn’t publicize that her exercise in morality theater] will cost the state more than $4 million in the first year and then $2 million each year after that…
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 #717
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, psychology, Sunset, video on March 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »
On Sunday, I moved the pullets into their “playpen” in the henhouse, then cleaned up all their mess in the bathroom. Of course I then had to check on them a number of times to make sure they knew where their food and water were, and that their pen was secure from intrusion by the adult hens. I already “trafficked” the two remaining sapphire gems to the farm down the road last week, and none of the remaining ones are nearly as aggressive as they were; still, chickens are chickens so I still worry a bit. The books say they’re able to maintain their body temperature pretty well by the end of two weeks, but I always wait three and give them a good heat lamp; still, I tend to fret enough that I felt the need to check on them before I go to bed the first night. I needn’t have worried; when I went out there about 1 AM Sunday night/Monday morning, they were busily running around the pen rather than huddling together for warmth under the lamp, so it’s fine. And the predicted lows every other night this week are higher than last night, so even better. Still, it’s funny; after having them inside for three weeks, I’ve gotten so used to them that all day Sunday and yesterday I kept imagining that I heard them peeping. Oh, and I think it’s obvious now that the little one is of a different breed, apparently a bantam breed. Well, as long as she lays eggs I’m not concerned about it.
Rapists of the Week #8
Posted in Current Events, Tyranny, tagged California, cops, drugs, FBI, Florida, If Men Were Angels, Indiana, Missouri, No Escape, Oklahoma, prisons, rape, South Carolina, teachers, To Molest and Rape, Washington (state) on March 25, 2024| 2 Comments »
A [screw] at a [Washington] juvenile [jail raped] a 15-year-old [prisoner] inside a [pigmobile]…Antwon Jones…[h]as [been] charged [with]…rape and fir[ed]. Jones was tasked with transporting the girl on Jan. 26 [for vaguely-described reasons, and quite predictably coerced]…her during transport [into submitting to rape]. The girl said she [was afraid to refuse him]…So…he…stopped the vehicle in a parking lot…[near] the [cage stack]…and…got into the back seat with…her…[but] after the [rape], Jones realized he had [idiotic]ally locked himself in the back of the vehicle with the girl, s[o he was trapped]…until [he was caught, though he tried to excuse himself with a dumbass tale about]…lock[ing] himself [in] while adjusting her handcuffs…
The people who actually need “correction” are the ones who enable this horror:
FBI agents…raided a federal women’s prison in California so plagued by sexual abuse it was known among [prisoner]s and [screw]s as the “rape club”. The action coincided with the ouster of…Warden Art Dulgov — just a few months into his tenure — and three other top…[screws, due to their]…retaliation against a…[prisoner] who testified in January in a lawsuit…against the prison…The developments are just the latest twist in a years-long [parade of atrocities] surrounding the facility. Since an FBI investigation was launched…in 2021, eight FCI Dublin [screw]s have been charged with sexually abusing inmates. Five of them have pleaded guilty…and two have been convicted by juries…[the feds have now] appointed [a woman as] interim warden of Dublin…the fourth person to hold the office since [rapist warden Ray] Garcia was removed…[in a transparent attempt to convince the painfully-naive that everything will be better now]…the number of women who have come forward [as victims of rape, other] sexual abuse[,] and retaliation [at the prison]…has reached 63…
I doubt this will make much difference until cops’ power is severely curtailed:
A [typical and representative] Oklahoma [cop] convicted [on a federal civil rights charge resulting from the violent rape] of a woman during a traffic stop will become the first to face a heftier penalty under the 2022 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act…Jeffrey Scott Smith Jr…is facing up to 40 years in prison after a jury found him guilty this week of [violently raping the woman and deactivating his body camera and dashboard camera to cover it up]…
In addition to being a “pastor”, he’s also a wannabe cop. Quelle surprise:
South Florida pastor…Monte Lavelle Chitty…was arrested…[for] rap[ing a 15-year-old girl who]…told deputies that “Chitty gave her alcohol that she thinks might have been ‘spiked’ with something else”…When she woke up, she found Chitty [rap]ing her…Chitty “was a registered volunteer with the Sheriff’s Office” [in addition to being] a pastor…
Stories about child-molesting cops are often larded with obfuscatory language:
[A typical and representative] South Carolina [cop named]…David Lonny Geronimo Templet…[has been] charged with…[multiple] sex…[crimes against multiple children]…In July 2019…[he molested] an 11-year-old…
[and] between July 2019 and September 2020, [he repeat]edly masturbated in the presence of two [other] children…
They’re also often really vague about the victims’ ages:
A…Missouri…[cop named] Johnathon…Taylor…was arrested…[for] the [repeated] sexual assault of [two] minor girls…beginning in 2017 [and continuing until at least 2022]…
Give sexually-aggressive thugs power over teens; what could possibly go wrong?
An [Oklahoma cop assigned to spy on, harass, and intimidate students]…was arrested after [predictably raping a student]…James Matthew Waltman p[lied the girl with] alcohol to [facilitate the rape, and the article is heavily padded with clowns feigning surprise at this 100% predictable outcome]…
Even if they’re only part-time lurkers, that’s as much opportunity as they need:
[An Indiana cop named] Rico E. Butler[, who was assigned to spy on, harass, and intimidate students part-time,] was charged on March 2 with…child seduction…for sexual abuse of…a…17-year-old…[since] September…Butler…has been [rewarded with a] paid [vacation]…
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!
Links #716
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Australia, cops, disease, Florida, imaginative fiction, Massachusetts, Never Call the Cops, New Mexico, North Carolina, Not for Any Reason Whatsoever, video on March 24, 2024| Leave a Comment »
I don’t know what the solution is. – man who built tennis court on sand
It isn’t often that YouTube’s algorithms show me anything I want to see, but this was an exception: my favorite living animator’s first student film, from 1999. The links above it were provided by Mike Masnick, Jesse Walker, Clarissa, Franklin Harris, IncarcerNation, Phoenix Calida, and C.J. Ciaramella, in that order.
- The Canute Effect.
- R.I.P. Vernor Vinge.
- Talk about a heckler’s veto…
- A lovely headline & lede for breakfast-time.
- Cop attempts to murder man for being autistic.
- Killer cop roughs up disabled man for being slow.
- Do I really need to say, “Not because a reporter asked for public records”?
From the Archives
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- The new version of “safeguarding” arrested sex workers at a “safe house”.
- It’s good to see a story like this quote at least one knowledgeable person.
- Establishment media are finally beginning to admit cops are chronic liars.
- Unless this insanity is found unconstitutional, things will keep worsening.
- Prohibitionist profiteers will harass businesses thus until FOSTA is gone.
- “At least one person noted that the UK was at risk of looking like idiots”.
- Forcing the government back from establishing a dangerous precedent.
- They actually admit this shit law is designed to put people through hell.
- Wayne County has openly stolen thousands of cars with similar tactics.
- Prohibitionists’ next target isn’t just Pornhub; it’s all online sex work.
- Your regular reminder that rapist screws are not confined to the US.
- Funny how it nearly always takes years to convict cops of anything.
- Katz is in reality a duplicitous proponent of Swedish criminalization.
- For a change, this journalist doesn’t refer to torture as “correction”.
- Cops, Al Jaffee, Yaphet Kotto, George Segal, PBS, and much more.
- Lots of sex workers are quoted in this rebuke of yellow journalism.
- The result of teaching kids unquestioning obedience to “authority”.
- This anti-abortion law seems to be specifically targeted at doctors.
- Do I really have to add, “Not because a little boy picked a flower”?
- This pro-censorship screed is utterly larded with dysphemisms.
- A thorough analysis of the awfulness of “end demand” policies.
- Idaho seems determined to ape Texas in every way possible.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- Just another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
- The debacle that was year-round Daylight Saving Time.
- Ally Deviant Ollam on internet security for sex workers.
- Dr. Laura Agustín with GAATW on the rescue industry.
- The predictable result of “fetal personhood” snake oil.
- Cops, Uranus, Bert I. Gordon, Topol, and much more.
- All too often, human tragedies are wholly predictable.
- I’ve never had chicks as rambunctious as this brood.
- Tennessee is now apparently emulating Alabama.
- Cops, satire, Timmy Thomas, and much more.
- My two previous posts for the vernal equinox.
- So how exactly are they defining “pimping”?
- The word “pause” means a temporary stop.
- Just another cop demonstrating what he is.
- Cops view alcoholism as a rape facilitator.
- Like seeing pictures in clouds or inkblots.
- Taking the shutters down a bit too early.
- This outcome was unsurprising for Italy.
- Building the roof for my new bathroom.
- A wood-burning stove for the atrium.
- Rapist cops don’t only target women.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- The “Swedish model” helps women!
- My new pullets at three weeks old.
- The best surprise is no surprise.
- “A source heard it happened“.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- On the Miller test.
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In the News (#1423)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged abortion, Canada, censorship, consensual crime, cops, domestic violence, drugs, Indiana, internet, Monsters, Oklahoma, politicians, porn, racism, rape, surveillance, The Cop Myth, The Mob Rules, The Puritan Recrudescence, The Vultures Descend, To Molest and Rape, transgender, Washington (state), When Ambulance-Chasers Run the Hospitals on March 23, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Parents have the right to exercise their religious beliefs…but…not…in a manner that causes…harm to [their] child. – Indiana Court of Appeals
The Supreme Court declined to [intervene in the case of] an Indiana couple who believe [young adults are “]children[” who] should be [tortured for not conforming to] their sex at birth [and therefore] lost custody of their [16-year-old] transgender [daughter]…The state said the parents, who are self-described devout Christians, lost custody not because of their views but because…the[ir unceasing abuse]…of…the teen…[was causing a] severe eating disorder…Indiana also argued that the custody dispute is [moot] because the teen, who was 16 when removed from the home, is now an adult…Mary and Jeremy Cox re[peatedly portrayed themselves as champions of “]parental rights[” despite the fact]…that the State…remove[d]…the teen…[because] the parents…verbally and emotionally abus[ed her]…and [would not relent despite] individual and family therapy…[and court orders] not to discuss transgenderism with their [daughter] outside of the therapy sessions…The Indiana Court of Appeals sided with the state, and the Indiana Supreme Court declined to review the case…
The Washington Post has “discovered” something I’ve been writing about for over a decade:
Americans have been forced to reckon with sexual misconduct committed by teachers, clergy, coaches and others with access to and authority over children [and adolescents]. But there is [widespread denial] of…sex crimes perpetrated by members of another profession that many children are taught to revere and obey: law enforcement…At least 1,800 state and local police officers were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022…[and] were rarely related to the children [or adolescents] they…rap[ed], fondl[ed,] and exploit[ed]. They most frequently targeted girls…13 to 15 years old — and regularly met their victims through their jobs…In case after case, [rapist cops] intentionally earned the trust of parents and guardians, created opportunities to get kids alone and threatened repercussions for broken silence…and…when abuse is suspected, [rapist cops] are [either] allowed to remain on the job [or rewarded with paid vacations] while investigations of their behavior are left in the hands of their c[ronies]…
How long will America ignore the costs of its sick worship of state-sanctioned violence?
For decades, we’ve been [s]old [the lie that cops] just need training and resources to do their jobs correctly…cultural sensitivity training, implicit bias training, de-escalation training, and so on, cost billions every year…But [the evidence clearly demonstrates]…that no amount of training or resources will stop police from killing…or…ensure that police treat people with dignity and respect. Worse still, the “training” that cops already receive often glorifies violence, reinforces racist ideas, and is taught by [cops] with histories of misconduct…at least 46 states have paid a…company…which does business under the name “Street Cop”—to fill [cop]s’ heads with hateful rhetoric and bad legal advice…trainers urge…[their fellow pigs] to make unconstitutional traffic stops and indiscriminately shoot at those who defy their authority…[and feed] trainees a steady diet of racism and misogyny…[one] advised [pigs] to treat criminal suspects like “live tissue labs” to “practice on”…When Street Cop’s instructors weren’t too busy talking about their penis sizes or mimicking masturbation (yes, really), they were promoting a…checklist…riddled with legal inaccuracies about what is needed to justify a traffic stop or search…
Prohibition can never succeed, regardless of which substance is prohibited:
The Oklahoma House of Representatives [has] passed a bill Thursday that bans the…possession of non-prescribed abortion inducing medications…since all of the surgical abortion clinics in the state have [been] closed…there has been an increase in unattended at-home [chem]ically induced abortions…and [politicians are butthurt that]…someone can simply buy the pill, take it, and terminate their pregnancy for any reason [without having to beg The Almighty State for permission]…
The Puritan Recrudescence (#1391)
Indiana’s float in the “monkey see, monkey do” parade took a few months to get rolling:
Indiana…governor…Eric Holcomb…has signed into law the state’s version of the age verification bills being sponsored around the country by [pro-censorship] activists…SB 17…goes far beyond [other such laws by]…stipulat[ing] that any website [which fails to guess what some politician or wannabe censor will point at and barf]… “material harmful to minors”…can [be subjected to a nuisance lawsuit by either opportunistic citizens or opportunistic politicians]…
The Puritan Recrudescence (#1400)
The currently-fashionable “monkey see, monkey do” parade has escaped the US:
…a private member’s bill introduced by Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne…aims to…requir[e] people to use a third-party service to verify their age to access adult content online in Canada…Proponents of the bill [speciously argue] that…the…[internet is a bar]…but we’re not talking about controlling access to a physical space or object. It’s access to ideas, to data…and to intercept specific ideas, you need to control access to all ideas…
That’s just about everything worthwhile about this piece; the writer’s naive and somewhat-silly opinions about politicians’ motivations and why surveillance and infantilization of adults are wrong (synopsis: TITTIES!) are good indicators of why this keeps happening and why there isn’t a vehement public outcry against these internet-censorship schemes.
Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do:
…Bellingham [Washington cop] Joshua Richard McKissick…was ordered Feb. 26 to surrender all firearms and other dangerous weapons and any concealed pistol licenses to the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office. An emergency domestic violence protection order was also issued the same day…[on behalf of] McKissick]’s girlfriend] and her two children…because…McKissick subjected her to a “significant amount” of [physical, sexual, and] emotional abuse in 2022[, often while drunk]…
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Tweetenstein
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged abortion, agency denial, animals, blogging, Canada, cell phones, cops, cult of the child, dehumanization, drugs, ethics, Europe, fantasy, fascism, hysteria, imaginative fiction, language, lawheads, left-right myth, Missouri, neofeminism, politicians, prohibitionist myths, Property of the State, psychology, STEM, Tennessee, Thanatopsis, TSA, Twitter, Utah on March 22, 2024| 1 Comment »
ONE politician photographed in a clean suit with a shovel in his hand looks like a moron.
Now get a load of THIS moronathon. https://t.co/APeYGKUdrv
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 23, 2024
Oh look, the Scooby gang has pulled the hood off of the Sex Trafficking Phantom, and underneath it was really Old Man Satanic Panic all along. https://t.co/Tn2g4BItuw
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 24, 2024
Sex work is the only field I can think of where there is a special, pejorative term for a manager or agent.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 26, 2024
Why you can't get the Adderall you need to function normally: "[DEA] Investigators found two instances in which Ascent employees had drawn the line but failed to write the word [cancel]."
Allergy sufferers who need pseudoephedrine sympathize with y'all.
Abolish the DEA. https://t.co/80LJBb9imj
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 27, 2024
God forbid people decorate their own property as they like, or that white folks actually live in neighborhoods where the houses can be told apart by something other than the address. https://t.co/vMLVnwNCE8
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 28, 2024
Whenever a headline asks a question, the answer is virtually always "no". https://t.co/cid2PqpxWw https://t.co/xP1KmJXP59
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 29, 2024
These are the same people who believe in widespread "child sex trafficking" and "Satanic ritual abuse". I've seen tumbleweeds more firmly rooted in reality than they are.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 1, 2024
Am I the only person who remembers that when Dr. Bill & his wife Elsie Jean had a baby, they named her Ornithorhynchus anatinus, "Anna" for short? https://t.co/4Bfiv27Pov
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 2, 2024
One of the funniest absurdities of the 21st century is the existence of "radical feminists" who worship a sacred book written by a dead, bearded old white man.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 4, 2024
Humans are, beneath all else, human. They WILL abuse any power they are given if allowed to do so; it is therefore wrong & foolish to give them even the narrowest opportunity to abuse power, nor any leeway in review of their motives, nor the smallest mercy when they DO abuse it.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 4, 2024
It also functioned perfectly, year after year, without ever needing "updates"; it didn't spy on you or get "viruses"; and people couldn't disturb others by toting it into movies & concerts. https://t.co/KXUznl7abR
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 6, 2024
Y'all have a really wimpy concept of "total disaster". He ain't gonna automatically lose the election just because his ersatz Twitter crashed. https://t.co/SYfWTW6fpW
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 8, 2024
It always is, which is why great libraries are burned down and dark ages happen.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 10, 2024
Political parties have been sometimes co-opted or degenerated into cults of personality for as long as political parties have existed. The problem is that in the US, the two largest parties have managed to lock themselves in as the ONLY official ones. So when one degenerates… https://t.co/cPyGFdGUwh
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 12, 2024
The assumption that women are property underlies all sexual laws so completely they can't even get it out of their language ("selling her body"), much less their legal assumptions (casting sex workers as passive, doll-like entities to be done TO rather than doing things).
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 12, 2024
Sex workers will recognize this tendency of progressives to infantilize minorities they claim to "support", demanding they exist as dolls for the progressives to pose and dress in little costumes, and becoming angry when the minorities refuse to act as progressives want them to. https://t.co/dEIW8KGs0n
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 13, 2024
Remember, kids, no matter how disturbing and invasive the unwanted touching, it's OK if somebody in a uniform does it to you! https://t.co/4hBYmb8Ejl
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 14, 2024
Mickey Mouse stars in, "My Mother is a Fish". https://t.co/dyEgyuNx8Q
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 15, 2024
I'm trying to estimate the level of naivety necessary to really believe that stealing a corporation from its owners and giving it to bureaucrats or political cronies will actually DECREASE corruption. But I don't think I've been that silly since I started grammar school.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 16, 2024
I sometimes lie in bed at night, and think about how much money I could've made were I not so ethical.
And then I go to sleep, because I can.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 18, 2024
Your regular reminder that when speaking about young people, "innocence" is merely a fanciful euphemism for "ignorance".
"We want to preserve children's innocence" usually means "we want to keep teenagers ignorant".
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 20, 2024
Correction to this story: white dwarf stars are not "dead"; they are formerly-healthy stars which have lost the glory of their youth and are now limping along in an extended senescence as a pale shadow of their former selves. Kinda like the UK. https://t.co/krIji78h7v
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 20, 2024
Budgeting tip from a person whose income has ALWAYS been uncertain for 40+ years: Avoid recurring expenses wherever possible. There are some you cannot avoid (utilities, food, rent, insurance, etc), so don't add things like car payments if you can substitute a 1-time expenditure.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 21, 2024
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