Meet Hercules, the newest resident of Sunset. Ever since Jae gave Shiloh to a petting zoo over a year ago, the grass in the paddock has been getting out of hand; Jonathan just doesn’t eat enough by himself to keep it all clear. So I asked Jae to find someone giving away a goat, and she succeeded just over a week ago. Hercules was trained to be a pack goat, but just over a year ago he escaped his pen and ate most of a sack of feed; somehow, he managed to survive the resulting colic, but never really recovered enough to be a pack animal again, so his owners just wanted to give him to someone who needed a brush eater. Last Wednesday we took Jae’s van up to Port Angeles to get him, and for the past week I’ve kept him tied to a post with a long enough rope for him to graze and browse; on Sunday I tried letting him off the rope for a while, but as soon as we went inside he found the stile and within minutes was standing on the front porch. So he’s tied up again; yesterday I got a tag for his collar and today I’m going to put a temporary block on the stile, and we’ll try it again. The other animals seem okay with him; Jonathan lived with goats for the first few years of his life, and the pigs are mostly just ignoring him. So here’s hoping he settles in and is able to adequately perform the function I got him for.
Archive for September, 2025
Diary #796
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset on September 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Back Issue #147
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on September 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »
It’s not [a sex worker’s] responsibility to determine which men are married, just like it isn’t a bartender’s job to guess which of his customers may belong to a religion that forbids drinking. – “Off Limits”
- FBI agent fantasizes about entrapping women who advertise on Backpage.
- Anti-sex laws are repeatedly supported by courts until the day they aren’t.
- Elizabeth N. Brown examines the profit motive behind the War on Whores.
- The Rentboy raid was a turning point in the struggle for sex worker rights.
- Another attempt to cast young people as passive, agency-less vegetables.
- The absurd pretense that whores who want decrim are “unrepresentative”.
- Any law, no matter how outmoded, will be drafted for the War on Whores.
- Cops, poop, Oliver Sacks, Darth Vader, unintended consequences & more.
- Canadians scheme to harm as many as possible via increased prohibition.
- It’s rare that “authorities” officially admit no actual crime was committed.
- A brave girl battles severely-debilitating injuries to complete her mission.
- Rape-panic profiteers create bogus “studies” to uphold the “1 in 5” myth.
- Why do would-be allies kill their own arguments with anti-whore bullshit?
- Prudes just can’t stand the idea of others having sex on their own terms.
- Seems I wasn’t the only one who had Ashley Madison pegged as a scam.
- Southern articles about prostitution stings are usually shockingly stupid.
- Another jurisdiction classifies women as passive objects without agency.
- “Authorities” literally destroy a man’s life because his wife was a whore.
- An anti-whore article that reads as though it were stuck in a time warp.
- Why won’t US media use the word “rape” when whores are the victims?
- A more nuanced view of sex work than one would see in the US media.
- Contrast the way this is covered by badge-lickers & by rational people.
- Indian critique of anti-whore “feminism” has words for Gloria Steinem.
- Alas, this revolting attitude is not unusual among picket-fence queers.
- Melissa Petro on what some vile women refer to as “theft of services”.
- Much of the “sex trafficking” hysteria has descended into self-parody.
- This “editorial” cannot have possibly been written by an actual editor.
- Computer security expert John McAfee on the Ashley Madison “hack”.
- Nasty pest skitters out of its nest to vomit poison in others’ territory.
- Judge should be caged for years, then life on “sex offender” registry.
- What kind of sick propaganda are men subjected to in “john school”?
- Hilary Hanson of Huffington Post is starting to demonstrate allyship.
- The prohibitionist shitshow that is New York’s “sex trafficking court”.
- Farley’s going to keep hawking this same snake oil until she croaks.
- Humor sites have much better coverage of sex work than the MSM.
- Thargelia barely missed being the most influential whore in history.
- But not, alas, despite the orders of Seoul’s masters in Washington.
- I recharge my super-batteries with wonder treats and super-sleep.
- It didn’t take long to cram this into the “sex trafficking” paradigm.
- It’s rare to see someone attempt this defense with a straight face.
- A few tips to the media about how to ethically report on sex work.
- How do I know if an escort’s heat rash was really just a heat rash?
- Hunt’s weapons need to be forcibly removed by decriminalization.
- Porn viewers are more feminist than those who don’t watch porn.
- What would it matter if Farley’s latest nonsense claims were true?
- Cops, pretexts, LSD, Superhenge, the Dutch angle & much more.
- Sex education, no. Stupid anti-sex propaganda, enthusiastic yes.
- I wonder how much Michael Weinstein has cost California so far?
- Backpage seeks court protection from power-mad Thomas Dart.
- The loathsomeness of linking sex work to historic black slavery.
- Jean Urquhart, MSP moves beyond merely “calling for debate”.
- I’m rather glad to see the return of “criminal whore” rhetoric.
- I can’t help laughing at how seriously people take this drivel.
- Why do some gay dudes announce their ignorance so loudly?
- The French just love these massive DNA fishing expeditions.
- There’s a word for people who exploit sex workers for profit.
- How many moronic prohibitionist plays can the market bear?
- Eyewitness statements are inherently unreliable and erratic.
- “Induce sex trafficking”? That’s some serious bullshit there.
- 38 “anti-trafficking” groups speak up in support of decrim.
- As is typical for outsiders, this reporter just doesn’t get it.
- Belief in “porn addiction” correlated to sexual repression.
- Let’s hope the moralists all start devouring one another.
- I know I’ve written about this before, but I can’t find it.
- I agree with Charlotte Shane on words like “prostitute”.
- The “Prostitutes Protection Law” is nothing of the kind.
- How did you stop thinking of your husband as a client?
- A retrospective of my columns from September 2012.
- Shamans punish youth for stealing his partner’s soul.
- Politicians can’t keep their hands off of golden geese.
- Cops, leaves, Alabama, government and much more.
- All the bad arguments against polygamy, debunked.
- Of course, this was glaringly obvious from the start.
- No doubt the child was contaminated with sex rays!
- It’s so wonderful to have Glenn Kessler on our side.
- Man wants law declaring women below 21 minors.
- A pretty decent explanation of reaction formation.
- 7 famous people who did sex work in their youth.
- Why aren’t married men off limits for prostitutes?
- Another woman who calls rape “theft of services”.
- This is what our society refers to as “correction”.
- Should I hire an escort to surprise my husband?
- Elizabeth N. Brown on Candida Royalle’s legacy.
- Another celebrity pretends to be a “sex addict”.
- Cops, headlines, Dr. Demento and much more.
- Cops charge “victims” with various sex crimes.
- The descent of LGBT rights into conservatism.
- Here’s an interview with a gay Rentboy client.
- A fine example of barking up the wrong tree.
- Her escorting was “caused” by being bipolar?
- Savannah Sly & I bring Jae home to Seattle.
- What German prostitution law actually says.
- We are living in the past of Fahrenheit 451.
- The internet allows extreme specialization.
- Ireland heads toward the Swedish model.
- Jae begins to awaken after her accident.
- Kari Lerum on the Amnesty declaration.
- Nobody ever sold sex before Backpage!
- Preparing to take Jae back to Seattle.
- Another attempt to bring Jae home.
- If you want something done right…
- In praise of the Whore Nation.
- I just love Elizabeth N. Brown.
- It’s starting, slowly but surely.
- Zoo Weekly closes its doors.
- A lawsuit against 8 Minutes.
- A guest column by a client.
- My first missed post ever.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- R.I.P. Candida Royalle.
- Desnudas in the news.
- More of this, please.
- 4 million pageviews.
- Surprising no one.
- Rise of the apes.
- Scary Poppins.
Links #795
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged animals, artificial stupidity, Austria, Catholicism, Colorado, cops, drugs, Illinois, language, Mexico, Montana, Never Call the Cops, New York, racism, teachers, Things We Choose To Do Together, video, weaponry on September 28, 2025| Leave a Comment »
You’re not the minority anymore. – Old Karen’s friend
When Mike Siegel tweeted a TikTok video of Creepy Stare Piano Guy performing “My Heart Will Go On” on rubber chickens, I went to YouTube to find a copy I could embed, but it was not there. However, this cover of the same song by a different deadpan rubber chicken musician was, so here you go. The links above it were provided by Nun Ya (x2), Ryan Marino (x2), Mike Siegel again, and Radley Balko, in that order.
- This week in artificial stupidity.
- Cops as suicide assistance providers.
- Writer arrested for sitting while black.
- Was this “protecting” or “serving”? Hard to tell.
- Gotta like a headline that starts with “defiant nuns”.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Fascists want to destroy young people’s lives before they even get started.
- The predictable result of giving aggressive men power over young women.
- My 1st profession has become as much an authoritarian target as my 2nd.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- How long will the US ignore the costs of its sick worship of state violence?
- This will continue as long as fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- The government’s evil clown show has been renewed for another season.
- The less often I have to mooch like a public TV station, the happier I am.
- In the 21st century, censorship & surveillance are tightly bound together.
- “Sexual misconduct targeting vulnerable women” is used to mean “rape”.
- Erosion of civil liberties starts with “undesirables”, but never stops there.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
- Censorship is very popular in dark ages, which is why they’re dark ages.
- Cops excuse any right violation with magic words like “crime” or “gang”.
- The naive can’t grasp why so many women are reluctant to report rape.
- Stupid authoritarian diktats should always result in political humiliation.
- Clearview’s still trying to rehabilitate its reputation among useful idiots.
- Texas’ ice-pick self-lobotomization is becoming increasingly spasmodic.
- When “sex trafficking” is used to mean ordinary “Fly Me To You” deals.
- Surely you didn’t think this would only be used to punish sex workers?
- Politicians viewing kinky porn is less an issue than being psychopaths.
- “Sex trafficking” hysteria rests on pseudoscience, woo, and nonsense.
- Americans will believe basically any scaremongering about teenagers.
- Cops, metaphors, pumpkin people, David McCallum, and much more.
- Too bad cops don’t spend all their time fantasy role-playing together.
- Inability to pass a law doesn’t stop politicians from getting their way.
- Irish “gypsy whores” tales were quaint even before they were passé.
- I’ve never understood why some men are so attached to this notion.
- Some politicians are starting to admit Shotspotter is a boondoggle.
- Women of childbearing age should avoid Alabama if at all possible.
- Cops, archaeology, Shel Silverstein, Henry Silva, and much more.
- Just another study showing the same results as every other one.
- Cop and preacher is like the molester equivalent of a full house.
- A new censorship regime has been imposed on British subjects.
- Expect nothing but hypocrisy from any part of any government.
- The South Carolina Supreme Court declares itself illegitimate.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- An in-depth look at the arguments in the anti-FOSTA suit.
- The entire Utah rescue industry appears to be collapsing.
- Read this if you wish, but pay attention to the slant.
- Cops, library bats, Maggie Smith, and much more.
- Hypocritical trash behaving like hypocritical trash.
- Welcome to the “safe” future you keep voting for.
- Every damned time I think I’m done with rooves…
- It’s too bad most arrests aren’t of other cops.
- Building a shower in my new bathroom.
- The Revenge of Throwback Thursday.
- My two previous columns for Mabon.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- A rapist cop’s evil begets more evil.
- Oh look, another “youth pastor”.
- A good year for tomatoes.
- Throwback Thursday, MD.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- This is called pomace.
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 (#1576)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged advertising, Aladdin’s Satellite, artificial stupidity, California, censorship, comics, cops, marriage, Maryland, Massachusetts, No Escape, porn, prisons, psychology, rape, robots, See No Evil, Shame Shame, Stop faking!, Texas, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber on September 27, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Don’t we have something more interesting and important to think about? – Jan Kirsch
What happens when puritans are not ignored as lunatics:
No one had any problem with the eggplant, then the peach showed up. To those [with sick minds, these fruit represent]…phallic and derrière references…the…sculpture[s] in…Ellicott City…[Maryland are the work of]…Jan Kirsch, an artist and landscape designer who[se oeuvre consists mostly of large]…sculptures…of…fruit[s] and vegetable[s such as]…Chile Pepper #2…a six-foot pear…and a couple of intertwined carrots…Kirsch [is not mentally ill and therefore] knew nothing about peach and eggplant emojis being used suggestively [by adolescents] to represent body parts…[but pearl-clutchers filed] anonymous complaints about the sculptures…with the county’s planning and zoning department in June…And Julie Danna, the commission’s chair, [is herself a censorious prude, so the result was a foregone conclusion regardless of protests from sane people]…
Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”:
A [typical and representative] Boston [screw named]…William Cooper…rape[d]…a person [locked] in [one of the city’s filthy cages]…on July 7…Cooper taped trash bags to the office window before [forc]ing [his victim in there]…The [victim said nothing until she was released from the cage]…and…“no longer fearing retribution” [from the rapist or his fellow gang members]…
Cops allowed one of their gang to rape a baby for almost two years after he was reported:
A [typical and representative San Antonio cop named]…Albert John Sanchez Jr. was [finally] arrested and charged with…[repeatedly raping a baby under 2 years old. The cops have known about the rapes since January 5th, 2024, when another of his victims], a 13-year-old[, reported witnessing]…the [rapes, but they merely]…charged [him] with…child pornography [and let him otherwise run free]…
Why would anybody waste good money to talk to a computer program pretending to be a dead man?
…nearly seven years after [Stan Lee’s] death at the age of 95, [his celebrity is being exploited by people who programmed] a hologram that will use [a linked chatbot] to have [fake] conversations with fans…at the Stan Lee Experience section of the [Los Angeles Comic] Con…which costs…$20 to enter…tak[ing] photos with the hologram or hav[ing] a three-minute…[interac]tion with [the chatbot while the hologram mimes talking will cost extra]…
If you think these ads won’t be “personalized” by spying, I have a “smart” bridge to sell you:
A software update rolling out to Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerators in the US is putting ads on the [screen]s…despite Samsung insisting…in April that it had “no plans” to do so…the writing’s been on the wall ever since Samsung embraced a “screens everywhere” initiative for its home appliances. After all, it was Samsung that started bunging ads into its old smart TVs ten years ago…
A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners:
…more than a dozen [victims of a prison “nurse” named Joseph Eastridge have filed]…more than 20 federal lawsuits…since 2002 [after he] withheld or cut off access to medication or equipment, including bandages and braces, even if the prisoner had had access to the items for decades; told prisoners that their conditions, ranging from debilitating back pain to diarrhea, were fake or “normal”; refused to write passes for people with injuries or disabilities to keep them in bottom bunks; and [repeat]edly retaliated against those who filed grievances by removing access to meds…
What’s worse than chatbot “therapy”? Chatbot marriage “counseling”:
As [chat]bots…become inextricably tangled with [gullible] people’s private and public lives, it’s causing [100%]…predictable new crises…in romantic relationships…an uncanny dynamic is unfolding across the world: one person in a couple becomes fixated on ChatGPT or another bot — for some combination of [pseudo-]therapy, [bad] relationship advice, or [pseudo-]wisdom — and ends up tearing the partnership down as the [program] makes more and more radical interpersonal suggestions…Spouses relayed bizarre stories about finding themselves flooded with pages upon pages of ChatGPT-generated psychobabble, or watching their partners become distant and cold — and in some cases, frighteningly angry — as they retreated into an [algorithmically-warped] narrative of their relationship. Several even reported that their spouses suddenly accused them of abusive behavior following long, pseudo-therapeutic interactions with ChatGPT…
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Electric Fence
Posted in Current Events, History, Tyranny, tagged politicians, psychology on September 26, 2025| 2 Comments »
The most important aspect of this is, Johnson was an incredible asshole who would’ve punished the Smothers Brothers if he could, but by the prevailing political norms of his time he had to humble himself and issue a statement like this. Only moral defectives are drawn to positions of power, but US institutions and norms used to curb their worst impulses (and act to punish them when that failed). Now, the institutions have been undermined and the norms have collapsed, so we can see what power-seekers are actually like. Do not make the mistake of thinking Trump and his cabal of monsters are abnormal in politics; what is abnormal for Americans is that there is no longer any attempt to harness or control those monsters and slowly cull the worst of them. They are being allowed to run free and do as they will. And once the immediate nightmare is largely over, unless those guardrails and electrified fences are not only replaced but tripled, you can expect more of the same going forward, regardless of whether the next emperor touts the magical sigil “D”, “R”, “T”, or anything else.
Dark Throwback Thursday
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged Banned Books Week, blogging, censorship, dirty, I Spy, libraries, surveillance, Twitter on September 25, 2025| 4 Comments »
Nothing infuriates violent, self-important busybodies more than the knowledge that there are private affairs that are none of their business.
– “I Spy (#1173)”
I’m honestly unsure where this will end; we’re well into uncharted territory my librarian self would’ve found unbelievable.
– “The Book Burners”
Some people are such economic imbeciles I wouldn’t even trust them to make change. – “Tweetledee”
Censorship is extremely popular in dark ages, which of course is a large part of what makes them dark ages in the first place. – “The Oncoming Night“
In the News (#1575)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged A Broker in Pillage, A Moral Cancer, Aladdin’s Satellite, artificial stupidity, asset seizure, Brazil, censorship, consensual crime, cops, crypto-moralism, Droit du Seigneur, drugs, ethics, fascism, Georgia, I can't breathe, internet, Michigan, Never Call the Cops, New York, Pennsylvania, Perquisites, pimps, psychology, Stop faking!, stripping, surveillance, underage, Virginia, Walled Garden, Washington DC on September 24, 2025| Leave a Comment »
So-called “quality of life” policing is…literally costing lives. – Meghna Philip
Are amateurs really so sheltered that this sort of thing shocks them?
Top executives of [RCI Hospitality Holdings, the] company that owns [Rick’s Cabaret and other] strip clubs across the [US,] sent a New York state auditor on at least 13 free trips to Florida, lavishing him with lap dances in Miami…In exchange for the favors, RCI settled audits for less than it owed, in total avoiding $8 million in taxes…[now an] indictment…[has] charged six men — five executives and the auditor — and three RCI-owned strip clubs in Manhattan with 79 crimes between 2010 and 2024…the executives falsified business records to conceal the bribes, recording cash payments to the auditor as promotional expenses for the clubs…
[Typical and representative Washington DC cop] Linwood Barnhill…[has] pleaded guilty…to sex trafficking a minor…Barnhill…[pimp]ed minor girls…[making] over $10,000…from one of…his victims…Barnhill…is already a registered sex offender…[he was first accused in the current case in September 2012 and rewarded with a paid vacation, but nothing else was done until he was actually caught on December 3, 2013, with a teen girl who had been reported missing]…
Due to the complicity of medical examiners, it’s impossible to know how many of these were murders:
Deaths in NYPD custody have surged to levels not seen in at least a decade, with 40 people dying in 2023 and 2024 combined — roughly double the toll of any two-year period since at least 2016…One of those deaths was…Christopher Nieves, who collapsed repeatedly inside a Brooklyn courthouse holding cell last month after being arrested for allegedly shoplifting food. His Legal Aid attorney frantically pleaded with [cops] to take him to a hospital as his skin yellowed and his body gave out[, but the cops just yelled “Stop faking!’ at him repeatedly until] he collapsed and died a few hours later…two [of the deaths, those of Saniyah Cheatham in July and Musa Cetin in August, were claimed to be] suicides [bu]t…families and advocates [have questioned] that…one…case…where the police claimed no force was used was the [death] of…Samuel Williams…but [in reality cops intentionally]…veered [their pigmobile] into his lane [on a narrow bridge so]…Williams’ [motorcycle would] collide with [it]…and go soaring through the air…Williams died from those injuries the following day…
Prohibitionists always claim surprise when the predicted effects of one of their bans appear:
In 2023, New York [state] raised its cigarette excise tax…to $5.35 per pack. New York City imposes its own tax of $1.50 per pack, and that’s before you include federal and sales taxes, making for the most expensive smokes in the country…at…about $12 [a pack. Prohibitionists]…hailed the increase, [pretend]ing it [would] lead to fewer smokers…[but in reality] “New York has created a cigarette-smuggling empire, and the worst is yet to come,” [said economist] Todd Nesbit…even before the…hike, more than half of cigarettes sold in the state of New York lacked local tax stamps and were smuggled from elsewhere…[but a new] study found that in 2024, the percentage of littered packs bearing the proper NYC tax stamp declined to 16.6%. Georgia [taxed at 37¢/pack] surpassed Virginia [taxed at 60¢/pack] as the primary source of littered cigarettes…only about one cigarette pack of every six gathered by the research team in New York City passed through legal channels…[and many] bypassed the legal and taxed supply chain [entirely, bearing no tax stamp at all]…
What would you call a gang who conspired to rob an old woman with dementia?
…a 91-year-old Pennsylvania woman has lost her home—and all of its worth—over a small tax debt…In 2020, Gloria Gaynor (not the disco queen) forewent her yearly trip to the tax office during COVID-19…Gaynor’s faculties noticeably declined around then…[she] returned in 2021 to pay her property taxes…under the impression that…the government would apply her money toward the previous year. Instead, it went to 2021, and her…$3,500 bill ultimately reached $14,419 with penalties, interest, and fees. The government sold that debt to a real estate firm, the CJD Group, which then [legally stole] the deed to the home…a…2023 Supreme Court case…ruled home equity theft illegal…But…governments are getting around it…by selling properties for the value of the debt—instead of putting it on the market or selling it at auction—so…the…excess equity [goes] to…a private company…CJD Group…has acquired 62 deeds from [just that one] county…since 2011 and…the issue…isn’t limited to Pennsylvania…
OpenAI has announced it is introducing new safety measures for ChatGPT after [it caused] a wave of…teen suicide[s]…ChatGPT will now attempt to guess a user’s age, and in some cases might require users to share an ID…OpenAI [has been] sued by the parents of Adam Raine, who died by suicide in April…ChatGPT helped him write…his suicide note, suggested improvements on his methods, ignored early attempts and self-harm, and urged him not to talk to adults…In August…a 56-year-old man…committed a murder-suicide…after ChatGPT indulged his paranoia…[and] another lawsuit…[was filed by the parents of] a 13-year-old girl…[who was encouraged by a fictional-character chatbot to hide her] suicid[al ideation from friends and family]…ChatGPT will now also apply different rules to…[people it guesses] are…under…18 [by calling the cops on them if they seem] suicidal…
This “monkey see, monkey do” parade is now parading around the world:
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva…signed into law new rules [demanding surveillance of all Brazilians who] use…social media, online video games and other digital services…[without a VPN, under the typical cl]aim of [“]protecting children[“]…“Freedom of expression is…an excuse for committing crimes in the digital world,” he said…
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 #795
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset on September 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Because if I don’t say it, most of y’all probably will by the end of this column: Louie is really making a pig out of himself. Every year, once the apples start dropping from the trees, both pigs visit the trees at least once a day to, well, pig out. But this year, Louie has practically camped out there; by the time I show my face roughly two hours after dawn, he’s already gobbling, and even when he takes a break he mostly just naps in place or very nearby. He eats so much I don’t even bother to make him dinner right now because he isn’t interested; by the time the sun is approaching the horizon he’s already snoozing in the stable. I’ve even seen him fall asleep while on his way somewhere; he just suddenly stops waddling and sinks to the ground, and within a few minutes he’s snoring. Loudly. Twice he’s managed to constipate himself, and let me tell you he does not like the taste of mineral oil (not that I blame him). Right now I start getting the giggles every time I need to interact with him; pigs are always comical creatures to me, but there’s something extra funny about a constipated, narcoleptic pig, as long as both are temporary conditions (as I assume they will be).
Mabon 2025
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on September 22, 2025| 1 Comment »
The apparent path of the sun crosses the celestial equator southbound at 18:19 UTC today, making this the first day of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and the first of spring in the Southern. This is the time of harvest, when plans come to fruition; it is also the harbinger of the time of rest, especially for Daughters of Darkness like myself who are exhausted and overstimulated by the long days of summer. But even if you’re not a fan of the growing gloom, I hope you can enjoy the cooler days and hold summer in your heart while waiting for its return, just as I wait patiently through the long, bright days for the time that best reflects my inner landscape.
Blessed Be!
Links #794
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, artificial stupidity, cops, domestic violence, Hollywood, imaginative fiction, Massachusetts, Never Call the Cops, Oklahoma, politicians, racism, STEM, teachers, Texas, video, Washington DC on September 21, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Who thought of this? – Brent Chapman
Everybody knows Popeye, but did you know he was introduced to the screen (he first appeared in the “Thimble Theater” comic strip in 1929) in a 1933 Betty Boop cartoon? By the end of the following year he had already replaced Betty as the Fleischer Studio’s biggest star. The links above the video were provided by Carol Fenton, Mike Siegel, Phoenix Calida, Ryan Marino, IncarcerNation, The Onion, and T. Greg Doucette, in that order.
- Leadership!
- R.I.P. Robert Redford.
- Tooth is stranger than fiction.
- This week in artificial stupidity.
- Artificial stupidity grows more deadly.
- The best satire cleaves close to the truth.
- Cop just randomly abducts random woman.
From the Archives
- Everyone who spread “sex trafficking” hysteria contributed to this atrocity.
- Government thinks it even has the right to leer at the inside of your body.
- Cops, robots, aliens, Patrick Nonwhite, Jean-Luc Godard, and much more.
- “Fentanyl” is now another porcine pretext for harassing & robbing people.
- Australian cops bravely protect imaginary children from imaginary abuse.
- This will continue as long as fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- The hysteria is imploding so hard, it’s falling all the way back to its roots.
- This phrasing strongly implies strangling a woman while on duty is A-OK.
- Asstoon’s surveillance company will keep outing sex workers to the pigs.
- This is no more “raunchy” in Taiwan than Halloween costumes in the US.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
- Why does society allow its medical system to be used for state violence?
- The wholly-predictable results of bad laws, happening just as predicted.
- Is a shiny new status symbol really worth being spied on and harassed?
- The real culprit: invasive surveillance & onerous infantilization of teens.
- Never forget that “filter” used thus is merely a euphemism for “censor”.
- Government often attacks with civil suits rather than criminal charges.
- Anyone who’s ever closely known a narcissist will see the truth of this.
- Sleeping with a cop is dangerous even if the woman is a cop herself.
- It’s more than a bathhouse, and my terminology should reflect that.
- Don’t infantilize young victims of government brutality as “children”.
- Politicians will never let go of prohibitionism until they’re forced to.
- Any information you give to cops can and will be used against you.
- All laws should sunset after 10 years unless intentionally renewed.
- India protects rights the West now seems determined to destroy.
- Cops, immigrants, Tom Bombadil, Tito Jackson, and much more.
- Just because his victim was gullible doesn’t make this not rape.
- “Pastor and sex offender” is a large and ever-expanding group.
- Arresting men for fictitious “crimes” against imaginary people.
- Surprising absolutely no one who understands McNeill’s Law.
- The state is only sympathetic to imaginary “perfect” victims.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- I’m honestly unsure why this doesn’t happen more often.
- The “cops bearing gifts” PR scam is not limited to adults.
- Authoritarians, like leopards, cannot change their spots.
- Can a sex worker win an election in the puritanical US?
- A selection of tweets from September 2023 and 2024.
- It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
- This vulture feeding frenzy is going to get a lot uglier.
- Cops, “records”, Roger Whittaker, and much more.
- Quotes from my “Banned Books Week” columns.
- Cathy Reisenwitz interviews me on her podcast.
- Some Louisiana cops prefer to rape by proxy.
- AHF has a history of financial shenanigans.
- My first and only guest column by a robot.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- What is wrong with doctors who do this?
- “Smart” devices aren’t, part umpteen.
- My recipe for fried green tomatoes.
- The Curse of Throwback Thursday.
- Thursday of Throwbacks.
- Goldilocks blackberries.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Our outside cat, Rocky.
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