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Archive for October, 2025
Halloween 2025
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on October 31, 2025| 2 Comments »
The League of Throwback Thursday
Posted in Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged blogging, cops, crypto-moralism, drugs, genitalia, hysteria, language, Not An Addiction, propaganda, psychology, Unsafe for Human Consumption, yin and yang on October 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Both feminists and denizens of the “manosphere” are part of the same continuum of wackadoo. – “Big Dick Energy (#1183)”
The stupider the belief, the harder it is to debunk. – “Unsafe for Human Consumption (#1284)”
Sorry, crypto-moralists, but “addictive” is not a synonym for “yummy”. – “Not An Addiction (#1385)”
I don’t think taking it a little easy on my birthday is too much to ask. – “Diary #748“
In the News (#1585)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged Arizona, artificial stupidity, Australia, California, Canada, censorship, Colombia, cops, dating, ethics, fascism, FBI, First They Came for the Hookers, Florida, If Men Were Angels, illegal aliens, India, internet, Louisiana, Panopticon, Pennsylvania, porn, prisons, Pyrrhic Victory, rape, robots, Shame Shame, surveillance, The Cop Myth, The Puritan Recrudescence, The War Goes On, Torture Chamber, Washington DC on October 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Oh no, not another youth pastor. – Jessica Nicely
This started as a scheme to keep sex workers off of Tinder:
Tinder [has] announced…that identity verification with facial recognition will now be required for all new users in the U.S. in the coming months. A facial scan is already required for new…users in California as of July…[and] new users in Colombia, Canada, Australia, India, and several countries across Southeast Asia must also complete one…users must take a video of themselves within the app…the…scan…[is used to determine] whether the same face is used in multiple profiles…and stored to verify new photos…
First They Came for the Hookers… (#1508)
There is no such thing as an original idea from a politician:
Pennsylvania [politicians] are proposing a new 10 percent tax on porn. The…”tiddy tariff,” as…Mike Stabile has dubbed it—would be levied in addition to the state’s normal 6 percent sales and use tax. As a means to…raise revenue or discourage porn consumption…this…might make sense if most porn viewers were paying for porn videos or platform subscriptions. But in a world of ample free porn, it seems unlikely to accomplish either of the state’s likely aims…And to the extent that it even further disincentivizes paying for porn, it could actually work against goals like protecting sex workers from exploitation, or keeping people from viewing porn that was made in illegal or exploitative ways…
Pennsylvania, of course, is not interested in protecting sex workers.
Other mobile surveillance platforms aren’t enough; cops now want their own:
The Miami-Dade County Sheriff’s Department is the first in the country to test a new [robot pigmobile] decked in surveillance equipment…it is even capable of serving as a launch platform for [flying pig robots]…this is…a pilot program…sponsored by [fascist corporation] PolicingLab…as a feeler for the Sheriff’s public affairs folks…in order to…evaluate [how badly it will damage]…public trust…“Results will inform whether and how the program expands, potentially serving as a national model for [cop shops] across the country”…
What would cops do if you shot someone dead in the street?
An FBI [spook in Virginia who murdered] a neighbor in [cold blood was allowed to skate without]…any time in jail…Benjamin Spinale shot…Jason Chamberlain in the middle of the street in February…he was…never charged for [the murder], but…faced four [slap-on-the-wrist gun] charges [instead. Spinale has a history of threatening neighbors with his gun, having]…previously pulled [it] on a puppy and a group of teens. The county prosecutor [absurdly claimed] there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Spinale [for] the [murder], despite being surrounded by sheriff’s deputies at the time…the first judge to hear the plea agreement called Spinale a vigilante and said he shouldn’t be allowed to have a gun in any capacity[, so the case was transferred to] another judge [prosecutors knew would] accept…the [corrupt deal]…
Alan Hamel is doing everything he can to [profit from his late wife] Suzanne Somers…One of [his creepy schemes] is a [computer-generated image synchronized with a chatbot trained on Somers’ writings and interviews, branded as]…”the Suzanne AI Twin”…Hamel, [who is either deeply senile or lacks the capacity for shame, claims]…”When…I…look at the two of them side by side, I really can’t tell which one is the real and which one is the AI”…
Government thugs hate both queer people and migrants, so queer migrants are especially targeted:
Queer and trans immigrants [locked in a] south Louisiana [dungeon] have…faced sexual harassment and abuse, medical neglect and coerced labor by [screws], and…[were] ignored or faced retaliation for speaking out…they were…forced…to perform hard [and pointless] manual labor [in the middle of the night and]…targeted by an assistant warden…named Manuel Reyes and his [gang, who]… beat them and denied them medical treatment [afterward]. “I was treated worse than an animal,” said Mario Garcia-Valenzuela, one of the [victims]…part of the [torture included repetitively moving]…heavy cabinets [back and forth across a room], and…using industrial-strength [cleaning] chemicals without gloves or protective gear…[all in the middle of the] night…they were persistently sexually harassed by Reyes, who [also] entered their [cells to steal] possessions including [dirty underwear. One of the victims]
…is a [lesbian whom]…Reyes…oral[ly raped]…on a “near daily basis” between February and May 2024, threatening to kill her if she refused…to [submit]…
…a Phoenix…youth group leader…[named] Casey Goslin…was arrested on Oct. 16…for…[possession of] child pornography…Goslin…was…involved with a platform used to livestream child sexual abuse…[from] the Philippines…
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 #800
Posted in Diary, tagged Grace, holidays, imaginative fiction, psychology on October 28, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Usually, I look forward to my birthday, and October tends to lift my spirits from their summer doldrums. But this year it has been difficult; October is the start of the rainy season here, and I suppose the quiet and dark are making the house feel especially empty. My annual tradition of watching horror movies every night in October also feels emptier than usual without my friend here to share them with. I still remember the first time I saw The Haunting; I’d read about it but never seen it, and I found the VHS tape at Big Lots (this was either ’98 or ’99) so Grace and I watched it together on Halloween night, sitting on this old Danish modern couch I had at the time. As it got scarier we slowly moved closer together, and in the infamous knocking scene, we both jumped and grabbed each other at the exact same moment Julie Harris & Claire Bloom did onscreen. It was something we laughed about for years afterward, and even though we rarely sat on the sofa together to watch movies in her later years (because she needed the support of her own chair), she was still a very definite presence in the process, from selection to scheduling to discussion. As a result, it’s just not the same any more. It’s a small thing, I know, but it’s a good example of how a close friendship sends roots and tendrils into every part of a human life, ensuring that practically every part of life afterward is a keen reminder of its loss.
Back Issue #148
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on October 27, 2025| Leave a Comment »
It is a sad fact of human existence that one absolutely cannot help someone who doesn’t want to be helped. – “On Horses and Water”
- That “prostitution-free zones” are unconstitutional never deters politicians.
- I love Liz Brown, & I mean that in whatever way she finds most appealing.
- A “cult”. Because mentioning their sex practices wasn’t quite lurid enough.
- Rapists sue because names were revealed, thus warning potential victims.
- The usual cop-fellating coverage of an “Operation Cross Country” pogrom.
- I’m in love with an escort & now she won’t see me; can I regain her trust?
- Cops rape whores so often, non-cops often pose as cops to facilitate rape.
- Cop wants to be allowed to arrest those who aren’t doing anything illegal.
- Richard Branson should talk to sex workers so as to avoid gaffes like this.
- Not so long ago, a substantial fraction of US bars were owned by whores.
- Keeping people “safe” by spying on them & destroying their civil liberties.
- North Carolina’s excuse for a gypsy whore magnet is ludicrously pathetic.
- “Study” claims 30% of teen girls in San Diego are “enslaved” every year.
- Meet CISA, formerly known as CISPA, AKA SOPA, alias PIPA, née COICA.
- Unannounced intimidation visits from cops are so helpful to sex workers.
- Kristoff flails against inexorable departure of the sea that nourishes him.
- NOT a pro-decriminalization article but rather a pro-Swedish model one.
- Working It magazine, center of the Portland stripper’s rights movement.
- Are politicians stupider than other people, or does it just seem that way?
- I wonder how my life would’ve been different had I had the sense to lie.
- The Nevada brothel segment of the sex industry is in decline. Not news.
- Sometimes real motive for the “sex trafficking” narrative is transparent.
- Dear Dave Zirin: please STFU and stop parroting neofeminist nonsense.
- Woman dares challenge myth that young women are asexual “children”.
- There should be a law forcing amateurs to get regularly tested for STIs.
- In which NPR edits a “debate” to make prohibitionists sound less loony.
- Margaret Atwood on the asininity of giving away freedom for “security”.
- How about an amateur physician causing harm through incompetence?
- Trying to cash in on the “gypsy whore” myth before it totally collapses.
- I’m nauseated every time the word “illegal” comes out of Hof’s mouth.
- All prohibition is the same, so any move away from it affects all types.
- Lawheads are completely unable to comprehend the bottleneck effect.
- Though some people refuse to accept this, every sex worker knows it.
- How can I help a troubled sex worker who doesn’t seem to want help?
- Only the willfully ignorant imagine Sweden to be a “feminist” country.
- Anyone thinking $250k a year is a lot for a small business is an idiot.
- Are the sex rays produced by bestiality different from other sex rays?
- Language, monkeys, fascism, magnets, cops, drugs, cheese & more.
- The problems with common responses to prohibitionist propaganda.
- Symbiosis between government and big business is called “fascism”.
- I am so pleased to see so many reporters adopting this tone of late.
- I’m sick of being threatened with violence every time I turn around.
- The descent of “sex trafficking” hysteria into self-parody continues.
- Cuddlers’ pompous rationalizations of why they aren’t sex workers.
- You’ll notice that sex workers are immune to most of these factors.
- If the market is “definitely there”, why didn’t they find any victims?
- Robert Fullinwider meticulously rips Rachel Moran’s drek to shreds.
- Even when authoritarians do right, they always warp it into wrong.
- This is jaw-droppingly stupid even by Washington state standards.
- Will Vice ever ditch the anti-whore bullshit and support our rights?
- Glasgow is the center of official anti-whore sentiment in Scotland.
- “Safe harbor” laws are evil bullshit designed to distract the naive.
- Radhika’s clutching her pearls so hard she’s about to break them.
- Women continue to have bills despite cops’ intimidation attempt.
- Authoritarians think people can simply be ordered to be asexual.
- Over the last 150 years, rights for sex workers have diminished.
- Dennis Hof tricks gullible reporters into printing his ads for free.
- Kafka, emojis, race memory, cops, guacamole and much more.
- How the New York Times callously maligned an entire industry.
- Trying to define “sex” is like trying to twist a rope out of sand.
- Such a lot of stupid writing on something that will never exist.
- Take a good, hard look at who the “feminists” are in bed with.
- One can never have too many anti-Swedish model editorials.
- Statistics from the latest “Operation Cross-Country” pogrom.
- Sex work under “legalization” is still conceived of as a crime.
- One of the few decent “anti-trafficking” organizations closes.
- What really happens when a wannabe “pimp” abducts a girl.
- The tide of public opinion on sex work is beginning to turn.
- I’m awaiting apologies from those of you who doubted me.
- The Cato institute supports sex workers’ right to advertise.
- How transparent does this have to be before people see it?
- Georgia may have accidentally decriminalized prostitution.
- Sex workers testify before the California state legislature.
- I’ve written about this issue before, but this is a new low.
- If I call an escort, will she tell me if she saw my husband?
- Why can’t I get a girl by myself instead of paying for sex?
- Another bullshit story touting bullshit “safe harbor” laws.
- Sometimes sexually-exploitative cops stop short of rape.
- A new version of the Masonic theory of Jack the Ripper.
- Why ride a bike or stand around when you can just sit?
- Need I point out that the War on Whores is the same?
- Preparations for bringing Jae home from the hospital.
- German prohibitionists are being given more airtime.
- The War on Sex Trafficking is the new War on Drugs.
- Egyptian actress says men should watch more porn.
- The phrase “sanctimonious bullshit” comes to mind.
- I guess Dick Cady is pretty credible, for what he is.
- Escorts describe first day at work in Reddit thread.
- Cops, horror, Gilgamesh, cyborgs and much more.
- One of the more loathsome uses of asset seizure.
- Have I told y’all yet today that I love Liz Brown?
- Goats, karma, cops, headlines and much more.
- A car accident and a setback in Jae’s recovery.
- Job openings in “anti-trafficking” corporations.
- A pro-decrim article quoting Mistress Matisse.
- In which I return control of Jae’s story to her.
- Another criticism of the “privilege” paradigm.
- Why don’t you take a vacation from the blog?
- Man minds his daughter while mother works.
- Why do people still listen to “nutritionists”?
- A serial rapist of sex workers is convicted.
- A popular escort realizes she has no past.
- A fundraiser for the St. James Infirmary.
- Sweden’s “liberal reputation” is bullshit.
- Note Facebook’s half-assed “correction”.
- Trans sex worker attacked in Uganda.
- Paying for sex with embezzled funds.
- What’s Dutch for “bottleneck effect”?
- More women badly in need of lives.
- The Village Voice drops escort ads.
- I have the most awesome friends.
- Yet another murdered sex worker.
- “Concern for commercial viability“.
- Sex Addiction, A Critical History.
- The deadly threat of underboob.
- “Feminism’s Sex Work Problem“.
- How many men die at brothels?
- Rocco Siffredi’s porn academy.
- A hypocrite and a cheapskate.
- A research study on clients.
- Well, that didn’t take long.
- A letter from Amber Batts.
- Much more of this, please.
- The McNeill Rule in action.
- An unexpected discharge.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Pimp cops of the week.
- R.I.P. Grace Bellavue.
- Nope, no hate here.
- It’s growing!
Links #799
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged activism, artificial stupidity, censorship, cops, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, Iowa, libraries, New York, Oregon, racism, Rome, United Kingdom, video on October 26, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Surveillance video is the great equalizer. – Andrew Celli Jr. & Wylie Stecklow
I was never much of a KISS fan, but a little research points to this as the proper sendoff for Ace Frehley. The links above it were provided by Dan Savage, Mike Siegel, IncarcerNation, Violet Blue, The Onion, Nun Ya, and Jesse Walker, in that order.
- R.I.P. Ace Frehley.
- The kids are all right.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- This week in artificial stupidity.
- The Onion has a gift for horror.
- Cops ram man for riding a scooter while black.
- The lost, delicious, rotten fruit called “open arse”.
From the Archives
- Unhinged mob-rule lunacy will spread like rot until struck down by a court.
- Such convoluted language to distance other cops from a typical specimen.
- “Cop murders wife/girlfriend & claims it was suicide” is a recurring theme.
- Is there anything narrower and meaner than the mind of a prison official?
- Bureaucrats call the victim of their illegal surveillance a “public nuisance”.
- Mastercard performs elaborate concern kabuki; Visa burbles about “risk”.
- Cops can’t be bothered to investigate the disappearance of sex workers.
- Realistic porn cartoons are not the worst use for “deepfake” technology.
- Any information you give to the State can and will be used against you.
- How many women died due to inaction by this murderer’s cop buddies?
- The inevitable result of letting sociopathic thugs cage innocent people.
- Airports are among cops’ favorite places to lurk in order to rob people.
- Sorry, crypto-moralists, but “addictive” is not a synonym for “yummy”.
- Cops are sexual predators who specifically target traumatized women.
- A bizarrely-anachronistic article that reads like something from 2012.
- Cops, Lovecraft, Herschel Savage, Suzanne Somers, and much more.
- This will keep getting worse until these maniacs are forcibly stopped.
- Kids today don’t value privacy because they’ve never really known it.
- Why is sex work still persecuted when drug bans are being loosened?
- When a pimp cop is caught, his bosses respond with stupid rhetoric.
- Cop deals with problems exactly as trained to; everyone is shocked.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from October 2012, 2013, and 2014.
- 75% of Floridians oppose its politicians’ attempts to ban abortion.
- If this is a “crime”, why is Paxton suing rather than prosecuting?
- The first “King of the Hill” claim I’ve seen in almost three years.
- How do I choose which gift to illustrate when there are several?
- How are they verifying the recipients’ ages before they open it?
- Another reminder that my work depends on reader support.
- In Rhode Island’s case, this would be re-decriminalization.
- Politicians will use any trick to gain control of the internet.
- The more vague the law, the more authoritarians like it.
- Had he not been caught, this would’ve soon escalated.
- If only there were a concise term for “forced into sex”.
- Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
- Last year’s links for Halloween, plus 2022 and 2023.
- Cops, supervillains, ghost cookies, and much more.
- The stupider the belief, the harder it is to debunk.
- Another collection of spooky fun for Halloween.
- Abbott and Costello Meet Throwback Thursday.
- Not a specific McNeill’s Law case, but adjacent.
- Cops, legends, Vincent Price, and much more.
- A new gas-powered tankless water heater.
- What is wrong with doctors who do this?
- Not an especially satisfactory resolution.
- This is some seriously warped behavior.
- The State refuses to call this what it is.
- Working out a new mincemeat recipe.
- Curiosity offends the state, comrade.
- Putting up the winter shutters.
- Haunted Throwback Thursday.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Frogs, meet scorpion.
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 (#1584)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged censorship, cops, drugs, fascism, Idaho, If Men Were Angels, Ireland, McNeill's Law, Monsters, New York, No Escape, Ohio, Panopticon, prisons, propaganda, rape, surveillance, The Punitive Mindset, Torture Chamber, transgender on October 25, 2025| Leave a Comment »
They didn’t give a shit about anything I said. – Andrea Weiskircher
Another fine example of McNeill’s Law:
An Ohio pastor…[named] Silas Shelton…was arrested…Oct. 15…[on] charges including child rape and sexual battery [because]…he [repeatedly molest]ed a minor over a period of about six years. In August 2023, he [tried to censor]…the Heartstopper series [of YA novels] at the district’s Scholastic Book Fair…[because they] prominently feature gay characters. “I tell you, I got sick reading that stuff,” Shelton said at the time…
Violence against a marginalized group never stays limited to that group:
A[n Irish] woman…who was attacked [by a violent drunk named]…Alex Bailey…in September 2022 [has died of her injuries. Marie] MacGowan…was 86 at the time [and] had early onset dementia…she…decided to go out to the shops, not realising it was 1am. She got lost and [was attacked by] Bailey…for 42 minutes. He knocked her to the ground, punched, kicked and dragged her and [violently slammed] her headfirst into a [garbage] bin…then attacked her again as she tried to get out. The attack only ended when students walking past [intervened]…Bailey had [decided]…Ms MacGowan…was [“a predatory paedophile” and “a man dressed as a woman”, apparently excusing violent assault in his mind]…
It’s very rare for screws who murder prisoners to suffer any serious consequences:
A [typical and representative] New York [screw] has been found guilty [while] two other…[murderous screw]s were acquitted in the [brutal murder] of Robert Brooks, a…[human being they beat so savagely that that even their own union called the animalistic attack “incomprehensible”]…David
Kingsley was found guilty of murder and manslaughter…[and] faces 25 years to life in prison. Matthew Galliher and Nicholas Kieffer were [set free to murder again]…
The inevitable result of giving sexually-aggressive thugs total power over women:
In June 2024, Andrea Weiskircher…reluctantly filed complaints against the [screws] who had sexually abused her
…inspir[ing] other women throughout the jail to file their own, detailing stories of rape, assault, coercion and sexual harassment…Within weeks, seven victims had reported [attacks and] violations…and in the year that followed…dozens more current and former female [prisoners] have come forward to share similar experiences…in [the] state that incarcerates more women per capita than any other…Some…worried that they could be denied parole [in retaliation] for talking about what happened to them. And others who were already out on parole told reporters they could end up back in prison if their parole officer submitted a [retaliatory] violation against them…They did it anyway…
And this is just LA County; every single jurisdiction in the US has similar rates:
Six months after approving the largest sexual abuse settlement in US history…Los Angeles…tentatively agreed to pay another huge sum, nearly $1bn, to settle more than 400 additional claims…the…$828m [settlement still leaves]…2,500 other unresolved cases, not covered by either settlement…and that number is expected [to] increase…
Amazon has now fully embraced fascist police-state collaboration:
Amazon’s surveillance [division] Ring announced a [fascist] partnership…with Flock, a maker of [warrantless] surveillance cameras that…[enable cops to circumvent the Fourth Amendment. Amazon still frames the conscription of supposedly-private cameras as a “]request[” despite the fact] that Ring [has a long history of violating owners’ consent if they refuse]…On the same day that Ring announced this partnership, 404 Media reported that ICE, the Secret Service, and the Navy had access to [the] Flock…network…[which now includes many millions of] Ring…cameras…
The government does to caged people what it would like to do to all people:
New Hampshire [screw]…Thomas Kelley…stole six pieces of mail in a…bid to intercept [his victim]s’ complaints from reaching their intended destination. He [was so proud of himself he even] sent a photo to [fellow screw Christopher] Masse to prove it…and [admitted it in]…text…exchanges…multiple state and federal agencies investigated [this and many other abuses and humans rights violations] in 2023 but then declined to prosecute…[despite copious] evidence of…drug trafficking by [screws]…a plan to falsify records to cover up [severe] physical abuse of a…[caged human being], and plans to retaliate against at least one [of their victims] for making complaints…
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!
Tricked Up a Treat
Posted in Links, Miscellaneous, tagged animals, Antarctica, Bluesky, comics, holidays, Hollywood, imaginative fiction, politicians on October 24, 2025| 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“, “Tricks and Treats and Such Small Deer“, “Trick Treatment“, and “Treats and Tricks“. Horror, death or Halloween-themed columns of the past year included Diary #763, “The X-Files“, “The X-Files, Continued“, Diary #781, and “Gere Curam Mei Finis“, and there are creepy or spooky-fun videos in Links #747, #750, #787, and #798. A collection of seasonal links and creepy tweets appears below.
- With apologies to Watterson.
- Our Lord and Savior, Dracula.
- At the Mountains of Madness.
- Lovecraftian entity of the week.
- What a setup for an X Files episode!
- Count Dracula says, “So what else is new?”
- The Onion is at its best when doing horror or sci-fi.
- Horror and humor are adjacent and sometimes identical.
Doctor offers to help lonely guy get a girlfriend.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-02T19:05:03.939Z
It's especially designed to hide pervasive rot under a beautiful, polished surface that will last without change for decades.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-08T07:34:22.931Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-17T17:22:30.905Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-20T03:52:04.139Z
So long, Mommy.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-13T02:17:15.023Z
Virgin Throwback Thursday
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged blogging, bogus studies, clowns, comics, cops, crypto-moralism, ethics, hysteria, politicians, propaganda, Send In the Clowns on October 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »
It never ceases to amaze me that, after a century and a half of pseudoscience, self-contradiction, crypto-moralism, scams and outright lies, most people STILL believe nutritionism is a real science rather than something akin to astrology, phrenology, or bite mark analysis. – “Autumn Tweets”
One needn’t worry about why a tiger is hungry in order to know it’s dangerous. – “Tweetledum”
Remember 2016, when Americans became so obsessed with creepy clowns that they actually put one in the White House?
– “Spooky Tweets“
In the News (#1583)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged Alabama, Aladdin’s Satellite, artificial stupidity, cell phones, censorship, cops, Creepy Coppers, Dangerous Speech, domestic violence, fantasy, hysteria, I can't breathe, illegal aliens, Kansas, Mad Libs, Never Call the Cops, porn, prisons, robots, Secret Squirrel, Texas, The Cop Myth, The Punitive Mindset, The Pygmalion Fallacy, Torture Chamber, Washington (state) on October 22, 2025| 2 Comments »
ICE victim: “I can’t breathe”.
ICE goon: “I don’t care”.
…We’re seeing the rise of [sexu]ally inte[ractive] “chatbot” companions…Sam Altman…announced that an upcoming version of ChatGPT would…engage in “erotica” with “verified adults”. There are…dedicated platforms for “AI girlfriends” and “sex fantasy chatbots“…[Facebook allows] its chatbots to engage in “romantic role play” that can get graphic even when those chatting say that they are teens. And Elon Musk’s [MechaHitler]…can go into “sexy mode“. These are not the sort of sex robots everyone was panicking about a decade ago…But that hasn’t stopped a lot of hand-wringing about what this all will mean…An Ohio [politician named]…Thad Claggett…has introduced legislation to ban marriages between humans and…chatbots…[which] smacks of attention-seeking…or brain worms…and…Josh Hawley…is reportedly drafting a bill that…would totally prohibit minors from talking to…chatbots…
The government does to caged people what it would like to do to all people:
The [FCC has] advanced a proposal for censorship that…will…deny…incarcerated people one of the few tools available to expose abuse in…prisons [by allowing the use of]…Cellphone jammers…illegal devices that disrupt cellphone signals…[politicians] claim…that “the worst possible offenders” use contraband cellphones to coordinate violence outside prison walls…these accusations [a]re exaggerated and preposterous…contraband cellphones…[are] used to connect with loved ones or to hold rogue prison officials accountable…it is the latter that’s driving this FCC push, not public safety…the documentary The Alabama Solution…shows how disturbing video footage of forced labor, drug-related violence, prisoner-on-prisoner sexual abuse, and staff assaults were captured via contraband cellphone and released to the media…In the throes of the Covid pandemic, I used a contraband cellphone…to report Texas prison officials’ alarmingly inadequate response…That…footage was incorporated into a local ABC News documentary called “No Way Out”…[and] embarrassed prison officials so badly it compelled them to…follow [CDC] guidelines…Those changes could not have happened without contraband cellphones…
[Disgraced] Marion [Kansas boss hog] Gideon Cody…committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led [retaliatory] raids on a newspaper office and the publisher’s home…but [not]…for the raids [themselves], which [were]…the real crime…he…[also won’t] be…[tried for the stress-induced death of the publish]er’s 98-year-old mother [even though a non-cop probably would be, under “felony murder” statutes]…
Just another kind of cop, with typical cop behavior:
ICE…[goon] Billy Olvera…used [a] ruse to take photos and videos of [an air hostess’] butt, legs, and feet. A police examination of his phone uncovered 23 photos and 20 videos of the [woman], who goes by A.G. in court documents…Olvera was convicted in federal court of interference with flight crew members and attendants…[but] appealed to the…11th Circuit, arguing that he should be acquitted because he was sneaky about his attempts to photograph A.G…The 11th Circuit has now rejected this argument and affirmed Olvera’s conviction. The case stems from a Dallas to Miami flight in November 2023…[the armed] Olvera was on the flight…transporting a [victim]…and [though]…he thought that he…was…[not] noticed…she realized…Olvera had been “trying to record underneath [her] dress“…She was used to unruly passengers—but not ones who were armed…[so] she…told the rest of the crew and the captain…and they had arranged for [vops] to be waiting when the plane landed…
A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners:
…full-body restraint suits [brand-named] the WRAP…[have] become a harrowing part of [rendi]tions for some immigrants…people…[have been] restrained in the device, sometimes for hours, on ICE…flights [at least since] 2020…despite…[at least a dozen fatal cases in the last decade due directly to] use of the WRAP by local [cop shops]. The WRAP is the subject of a growing number of federal lawsuits [because cops use] the device [for] punishment and even torture…
This situation is not going to get better on its own:
The latest version of ChatGPT has produced more harmful answers…than an earlier iteration…in particular when asked about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders…when researchers fed the same 120 prompts into the latest model and its predecessor, GPT-4o, the newer version gave harmful responses 63 times compared with 52 for the old model…the latest model appeared designed to boost user [dependency]…OpenAI…has…[claimed] it…[would] install “stronger guardrails” [but these seem to largely consist of]…an age-[guessing] system [and automated cop-calling capability]…
Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do:
A Seattle [cop named]…Richard Norris…[has admitt]ed that he ha[s] an alcohol problem and was physically and verbally abusive to…[his wife. On one occasion he] fired his gun inside the house [at her, but missed]. On another occasion…he [drunken]ly slammed her to the ground with his elbow on her throat…[and could]n’t remember…[it later. He]…was [also] verbally abusive to the woman’s 14-year-old daughter, calling her a “cunt”…yelling at her to “go die”…[and] text[ing] that he wished…she would overdose…The woman was initially afraid to file for a protective order because Norris was tracking her using the built-in GPS on her car…[but] when [he] broke his leg and was staying with his parents in Bellingham, she decided that it was safe to file…Norris…[has been rewarded with a paid vac]ation…
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