I’ve written before about how Grace’s cat Speck was much more closely bonded with her than is typical for cats, and after Grace died in January, Speck’s behavior slowly became more erratic. She’s always been one to stake out specific places to sleep in when she wasn’t with her humans, but when the weather started to get cooler in September she started choosing dirtier places, like the area around her litterbox, and as a result she started smelling to the point I was about to give her a bath. But first, I decided to try picking her up and holding her whenever I found her in such places, to get her out of the habit. It worked, and she soon started sleeping in nicer places again, like on the back of the sofa or in front of the French window. But she also realized that if she came up to me while I was on the computer and demanded my attention, I would let her sit in my lap and I could simply type around her. You can see her favorite posture below: sitting upright with her head in my cleavage and her little paws hugging me under my robe; if I let her, she will stay there for hours, and because she doesn’t actually impede my work or comfort I’m content to let her stay until I need to get up for some reason. Even then, she will usually go get herself a bite or a drink and then come right back as soon as I’m back at the keyboard. I don’t think I’ll ever really replace Grace in her affections, but I’m glad we both have someone to cuddle who reminds us of the friend we’ve lost.
Archive for October, 2025
Diary #799
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Grace, psychology, Sunset on October 21, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Tweets in the Belfry
Posted in Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, Catholicism, censorship, cops, drugs, ethics, France, hysteria, illegal aliens, imaginative fiction, Israel, language, law, Oklahoma, politicians, Post-Christianity, propaganda, psychology, Shame Shame, teachers, Texas, Thanatopsis, Twitter, vaccines, Venezuela, video, yin and yang on October 20, 2025| Leave a Comment »
I love that so many media outlets are now using the most ridiculous-looking Trump photos they can find, such as this one which makes him look constipated. LOOK HIM WUB HIS TUMTUM!
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-15T02:26:10.801Z
Since he's over a decade younger than I am, statistically I won't live to see him go. But it'll be pretty funny when this dude dies of a statistically typical cause at a statistically typical age despite wasting a quarter of his life chasing the illusion of "immortality".Behold the folly of Man.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-17T17:04:43.609Z
Dementia doesn't always present as befuddlement a la Biden; it can also present as confusion and disinhibition, both of which Trump displays with increasing frequency and severity. You ever hear nursing home nurses talk about being grabbed by dirty old demented men? Disinhibition. As is this.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-19T07:47:06.295Z
One of the rewards of being old is you get to smile sweetly when the young people finally start recognizing the wisdom of a position you've espoused for decades that THEY previously proclaimed wrong.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-20T17:06:21.614Z
How is that even supposed to be pronounced, "Kadollar-huh"?Holy heavy metal umlaut, Batman!
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-21T17:15:31.307Z
Looks like Trump isn't the only well-known psychopath who has a fetish for pretending to be an inflatable sex doll.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-22T03:30:51.581Z
There are TWO links between acetaminophen and autism!1) Both start with "A"2) Both are subjects you might ask a doctor about.SMOKING GUN!!!
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-24T16:25:49.304Z
I hate living in a time where I know who the fucking *education superintendent* of fucking OKLAHOMA is.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-25T17:55:25.694Z
A look at Antichrist prophecies by an actual theologian (as opposed to a Thiel-origin): archive.is/SGZcS
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T03:16:23.700Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T18:36:48.693Z
Anyone familiar with the folklore of primitive cultures will recognize this. It's based on the idea of names having magical power, so if the name of some evil thing is mentioned it may appear (hence the traditional phrase "Speak of the Devil…") Not speaking of something robs it of power.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-27T17:24:42.257Z
I don't believe @alyankovic.bsky.social had anything to do with this video.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-28T16:48:49.339Z
Beginning to look more and more like this:
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-30T17:23:36.102Z
Trump inflatable sex dolls come in several sizes, to fit all needs:
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-01T17:57:06.284Z
Also: the groundwork for this was laid by US courts repeatedly excusing cops for smashing into random people's homes in the middle of the night because they didn't care to get the address correct. And in a larger sense, by allowing unconstitutional "no knock" warrants in the first place.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-02T18:10:58.682Z
Better headline: "Extremely Stupid People are Angry at Pope for Being Catholic".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T02:24:46.168Z
Before you dash off some sophomoric apologia of police-statery, ask yourself if you *really* want one of the best living American journalists thoroughly vivisecting you in a multi-part essay.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T17:43:15.609Z
It's funny how many nitwits have no problem with all the businesses they hate as long as politicians they hate get to run it roughly half of the time.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-05T18:33:43.795Z
Post a "demonic sexual performance" at Superb Owl halftime.I'll start.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-06T16:31:59.573Z
Can you imagine going through life as a quadriplegic because your parents were too stupid and evil to vaccinate you?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-08T02:44:54.470Z
We really need Anglophone journalists in the UK, Canada, and Australia to start writing about the political situation in the US using the same kind of language they use when writing about political situations in developing countries. "the regime", "dissidents", "the regime's secret police", etc.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-08T17:05:00.733Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-09T17:50:30.707Z
Someone needs to invite Miller to a late-night tea party.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-10T16:31:59.503Z
Reporters: stop using the deferential term "detaining" when talking about ICE goons' abduction of innocent people from US streets. You proper term would indeed by "abduction", but if you want to pretend neutrality you could use "capture", which at least says nothing about the captors' motives.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-11T17:22:08.981Z
So long, Mommy.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-13T02:17:15.023Z
It would be a far better world if things like this happened more often.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T17:32:47.303Z
21st-century soi-disant "Christians" commit blasphemy as casually and often as Marquis de Sade characters.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-15T18:10:07.405Z
Thinking is, always has been, and always will be the greatest enemy of power; that's why the powerful always want to shut it down.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-16T19:42:10.008Z
Is it completely impossible for MAGA creatures to keep their mouths SHUT for long enough to take a fucking picture?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-18T07:29:32.013Z
The mad emperor is now tweeting cartoons of himself making poo-poos on people who are mean to him.You thought there were a lot of books and documentaries about Hitler over the past 80 years? You ain't seen NUTHIN' yet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWHD…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-19T19:59:02.583Z
Links #798
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Catholicism, comics, cops, Georgia, Hawaii, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, illegal aliens, Never Call the Cops, Oregon, politicians, propaganda, racism, video on October 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »
[Journalists] act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to…rule by dividing. – Pope Leo XIV
Here’s a seasonally-themed a cappella medley called to my attention by Phoenix Calida; the links above it were provided by Aaron Ross Powell, Radley Balko, Ryan Cooper, IncarcerNation, Ryan Marino (x2), and Nun Ya, in that order.
- R.I.P. Drew Struzan.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- With apologies to Watterson.
- Another successful suicide by cop.
- An unending catalog of Trump’s crimes.
- What is wrong with people who do this shit?
- It’s good to see a Pope who sees the Zeitgeist.
From the Archives
- Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, others pose as cops to facilitate rape.
- Modern attorneys general are vile even by the low standards of politicians.
- They make these cases sound like the rapist was doing his victims a favor.
- Politicians don’t even try to make their new laws Constitutional any more.
- His magic clown costume would’ve made this very different for his victim.
- Florida screws all yell “Stop faking!” at victims after breaking their necks.
- You’ve heard of “burying the lede”, but this one just keeps getting worse.
- This will continue as long as fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- Politicians will keep abusing civil suits until it’s declared unconstitutional.
- Child porn is only the first of many excuses to bleed internet companies.
- Cops, California, Piper Laurie, Keith Giffen, Lara Parker, and much more.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”; “journalists” shouldn’t parrot them.
- Give aggressive thugs power over teens; what could possibly go wrong?
- It’s great to see anti-prohibitionist views quickly becoming mainstream.
- “Authorities” actually do something about a serial rapist of sex workers.
- If “authorized” busybodies can spy on you, so can “unauthorized” ones.
- Politicians and bureaucrats are empowered to force stupidity on others.
- Why does a vacuum cleaner need either a speaker or a wifi connection?
- Psychedelic destigmatization is happening more quickly than expected.
- It’s good to see a sex worker run for office, especially when she wins.
- As a tool of social control, pseudoscience is more useful than science.
- The cop who stood by and watched a rape has thought up an excuse.
- These tyrannies often start with sex workers, but never stop with us.
- No, this is a different Louisville cop stealing women’s nude pictures.
- Some still believe these sociopaths really want to “protect children”.
- UK admits “human trafficking” narrative is about migration control.
- Your regular reminder that my writing depends upon your support.
- Anyone with a functional brain could’ve predicted this outcome.
- Cops, wolves,San Francisco, Robbie Coltrane, and much more.
- The claims in these nuisance lawsuits are increasingly absurd.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, crypto-moralism, and much more.
- I’m content for the time being to keep things as they are.
- A custom arrangement to fit your needs and preferences.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- It’s not only Louisiana cops who prefer to rape by proxy.
- Etowah County, Alabama needs to be sued into oblivion.
- If only there were a specific word for this sort of thing.
- Facts have absolutely nothing to do with US sex laws.
- Moral imbeciles are almost completely out of control.
- PayPal is becoming a major threat to civil liberties.
- The stupider the belief, the harder it is to debunk.
- Tim Ballard’s house of marked cards is collapsing.
- Sleeping with cops isn’t safe for men, either.
- Yet another curated selection of tweets.
- Yet another example of McNeill’s Law.
- The Throwback Thursday Chronicles.
- Throwback Thursday’s Daughter.
- Why all “100 best” lists are bad.
- This is only going to get worse.
- A month of good, spooky fun.
- Plumbing my new bathroom.
- A game of musical cars.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Your “leaders” at work.
- Worst Phone Ever.
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In the News (#1582)
Posted in Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, News, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged activism, artificial stupidity, cops, disease, Enshittification, Georgia, I Spy, If Men Were Angels, illegal aliens, McNeill's Law, Minnesota, Never Call the Cops, porn, prisons, scams, Shame Shame, Stop faking!, The Puritan Recrudescence, Torture Chamber, transgender, Walled Garden on October 18, 2025| Leave a Comment »
You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. – Zelda Williams
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a legendary transgender activist…since Stonewall, died Monday at age 78…she…had suffered from health problems for some time and had recently begun receiving hospice care…In 1962, she moved to New York City, where she…performed in drag shows…[and] became a sex worker. She participated in the Stonewall uprising of 1969…and…[after h]er arrest…on a robbery charge…spent time in men’s prisons and mental hospitals in the early 1970s, [where] she was often severely mistreated…Upon regaining her freedom, she became an advocate for incarcerated trans people, especially trans women [cag]ed in men’s prisons and those who have survived police brutality…In the 1980s, Miss Major became involved in addressing the AIDS crisis…[and] after moving to San Diego…started a home health care agency, Angels of Care, to assist people with the disease…she [later] became a health educator with the Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center…and…[retir]ed to Little Rock in 2016…
“Non-consensual gynecological procedures” are just institutionalized rape:
The Trump [regime] is planning to [cage] immigrants at a Georgia jail that became known for…subject[ing women] to non-consensual gynecological procedures…the Irwin County D[unge]on…drew nationwide attention in the fall of 2020, when a number of [victims] and a nurse-turned-whistleblower [reveal]ed the [rampant] medical misconduct. After months of [unsuccessfully trying to repress the reports], the Biden administration stopped [lock]ing immigrant women there in 2021…Fourteen women sued ICE and Irwin…over the [viol]ations in 2021, [but there were] at least 40 [victims]…Early this year, the lawsuit was settled…
In Europe, the latest proposal for a “chat control” regulation put forward by the Danish presidency would require every internet-connected device to include government spyware…[which] would flag artwork, fan fiction, family photos and chats, relying on unreliable [computer algorithms]…Globally, [surveillance and censorship] laws…are driving users underground…virtual private network (VPN) usage has soared, as has usage of the privacy-centric Tor browser, which reached its highest level ever this year – nearly 20 million daily users, six times its long-term average…Tor was created by the US navy to counter authoritarian regimes when the “open Internet” was official US policy. Now…western [governments are]…becoming the authoritarians Tor was designed to circumvent, while the Tor network becomes the new “open Internet”…
This will not stop until SWAT cops murder a prankster:
…teenagers…are using [image-generation software] to create images of a disheveled, seemingly unhoused person in their home and sending them to their parents…[claiming] they let the…[imaginary person] in to use the bathroom, take a nap, or…get a drink of water…then, predictably, the parents lose their cool and demand they kick the [imaginary] man out. The kids, of course, record the whole thing, and post their parents reactions to TikTok…[some gullible] parents call the [cops, potentially leading to]…“a SWAT response”…
As in modern politics, the collapse of reality online is leading to real-world consequences.
Experiencing any kind of medical emergency when cops are around is tantamount to a death sentence:
A new…federal lawsuit [has been filed by the family of] a Minnesota postal worker [who] died after [cops] and [screws deliberately] ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke – [choos]ing [instead to pretend] his medical emergency [was] drug impairment…Kingsley Fifi Bimpong…[was dumped] on a jail cell floor [and allowed to lie] in his own urine for hours without medical attention…On the night of November 16, 2024, [a pig saw] Bimpong…driving the wrong way…into oncoming traffic…after being pulled over, Bimpong appeared extremely confused. He couldn’t say where he lived or worked, even though he was wearing a USPS vest, and repeatedly said, “I don’t know”…[big pig] Martin Jensen [is supposedly] trained…to…distinguish…drug impairment from medical emergencies such as strokes…[but couldn’t be bothered to perform an] evaluation…[claiming it] would be “a whole bunch of time wasted”…[because] Bimpong [was black. So instead he]…was arrested for…DWI…[thrown violently to the floor] in a holding cell…and…[left him to die] in his own waste…for more than three hours…the…nurse was not called until…he [started] foaming at the mouth and having [a] seizure…Toxicology reports…later…confirmed no drugs were in his system…
It isn’t merely disrespectful; it’s ghoulish:
Dr. Bernice King, daughter of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr…has joined calls to stop the use of [machine learning image generators] to recreate deceased celebrities. King voiced support for filmmaker Zelda Williams, who…criticized [computer]-generated videos of her late father, Robin Williams…saying, “If you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop”…
Wannabe preachers are often as bad as the real thing:
In August, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas was arrested in Michigan…Thomas Wideman…[was arrested for talking to a cop fantasy role-playing] online…as a 14-year-old [girl. Cops]…later found child [porn] on his phone…DeHaas covered some of his stepson’s $300,000 bond…
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!
One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State
Posted in History, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged ethics, fascism, left-right myth, Louisiana, Oklahoma, politicians, Washington (state) on October 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »
The whole left-right, red-blue, all-or-nothing nonsense rots the brains of those who embrace it. If you actually look at the percentages, so-called “red states” don’t actually have many more “red” voters than “blue states” do. The idea of monolithic “red” or “blue” states is a fiction promoted by nitwits with childlike views of the world who long for easy, clear “white hat-black hat” narratives that simply don’t apply to mass politics. I grew up in a so-called “red state”, lived for a while in an even “redder” one, and for ten years now have lived in a “blue state”. And the balance of political commentary I heard from neighbors, casual conversation in public, etc hasn’t changed much over my lifetime. What has changed is the amount of power given to dangerous, psychopathic crackpots, and the erosion of citizens’ protections from said crackpots. This has been a bipartisan project all along; even the Constitutional crisis which started 24 years ago last month and finally came to a boil in January, was a contest between the GOP and Dems to see who could erode more civil liberties and scream “FOR THE CHIIIIIIIIIILDREN!!!” the loudest. In the end, the GOP turned out to be the party that broke and completely succumbed to populist-flavored fascism, but that’s because it has long cultivated a more rigid belief-system which broke when the winds of change blew hard enough. The Dems cultivated a more flexible catechism which did not snap in those winds, but instead has become so warped and weakened it isn’t good for anything. Trumpism is the immediate danger, and needs our focus. But don’t fall for lies that Democrats are noble saviors, else ending trumpery will be no more than leaping from one boiling pot to another.
Pages from Throwback Thursday
Posted in Favorites, History, Miscellaneous, Perception, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged blogging, censorship, consensual crime, cops, hysteria, Imagine the Sky, McNeill's Law, politicians, pragmatism, prohibitionist myths, psychology, rape, Reviews on October 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Paradoxically, the anti-sex mob are those most obsessed by sex; they see it even where normal people do not. – “Obsession and Bedevilment”
Modern people are deeply in denial about how common sex work has been throughout human history. – “The Invention of Incels”
Though cops are still conducting their entrapment schemes and pretending they’re something more than an excuse for moral degenerates to rape and rob women and ruin men’s lives, the public has largely lost interest in the “sex trafficking” hysteria which drove them, and they’re limping along on a mixture of inertia, sadism, and the federal government’s profligate spending until such time as the sociopaths in office can think of a way to interject more mindless carceral violence into their war on the internet. – “Newsworthy”
It’s one of the ironclad rules of media journalism that all “100 best” lists are bad. – “By Non-fans, For Non-fans“
In the News (#1581)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged A Moral Cancer, Above the Law, artificial stupidity, Buried Truth, censorship, consensual crime, cops, crypto-moralism, domestic violence, drugs, ethics, Facebook, internet, libraries, Mad Libs, McNeill's Law, Michigan, North Carolina, Oregon, politicians, porn, rape, scams, Shame Shame, Tennessee, The Cop Myth, Thought Control, Wyoming on October 15, 2025| Leave a Comment »
[“]AI[“]…is beginning to resemble one of the great speculative manias of market history. – Karim Moussalem
A North Carolina…[politician nam]ed Cecil Brockman…was arrested on [October 8th for child molestation and]…statutory rape…[before his court appearance the next day,] Brockman suffered [a panic attack and]…was taken to a local hospital…his…party is calling for Brockman to resign…[so] the[y can]…pick a replacement..[but] if Brockman doesn’t resign, the[y will probably]…impeach…[him]…
Yet another example of McNeill’s Law:
A [politician] leading a campaign to ban pornography in Michigan appears to have had an account on a pornographic hook-up website that promised users they could “find sex” and “get laid tonight”…Josh Schriver…has called porn a “scourge” and compared it to heroin…but…an account linked to his personal AOL email address appeared in a data breach from Fling.com…[where his] profile indicat[es] sexual interests including “fetish” and “groupsex”…
Prohibitionists never tire of treating adults like children:
In 2015, Oregon [politicians impos]ed a law that prohibited the sale of vaping products “packaged in a manner that is attractive to minors”…The resulting regulations offer a “non-exclusive list” of packaging features that the OHA deemed “likely to appeal to minors,” including images of “food or beverages…such as candy, desserts, soda, [and] food or beverages with sweet flavors including fruit or alcohol.” Also forbidden: “terms or descriptive words for flavors that are likely to appeal to minors such as tart, tangy, sweet, cool, fire, ice, lit, spiked, poppin’, juicy, candy, desserts, soda, [and] sweet flavors including fruit, or alcohol flavors.” The premise of these rules is that such flavors [never] appeal to…adult smokers looking for a less hazardous form of nicotine consumption…[but] adults who switch from smoking to vaping overwhelmingly prefer the flavors that the OHA views as juvenile…The…regulations require vape shops to actively conceal information that their customers want…[by censoring] labels…[which] means customers must ask employees for information that ordinarily would be on the label…a state appeals court [has] rul[ed] that the law…is “unconstitutional on its face”…
Zuckerberg’s sleaziness has no bottom:
Strike 3 Holdings, a company that…makes [adult videos it describes as] “high quality,” “feminist,” and “ethical”…is suing [Facebook]…for…infringing its copyright-protected content [by] using it to train [machine learning systems]…since 2018…[Facebook’s] motive was partly to obtain otherwise difficult-to-scrape visual angles, parts of the human body, and extended, uninterrupted scenes—rare in mainstream movies and TV—to help it create what Mark Zuckerberg [absurdly] calls [artificial] “superintelligence”…[Facebook] used the BitTorrent protocol to download and distribute [2,396 of Strike 3’s copyright-protected porn videos], which is illegal…[and] made [the] videos accessible to minors…since BitTorrent does not have age verification…
The only way to stop these maniacs is to hit them where it hurts most:
A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an [attempt to censor] books with sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes…will be paid $700,000 after settling a lawsuit. Terri Lesley was fired…[by] Campbell County in 2023, two years into the [censorship crusade]…P[oliticians collud]ed with the [wannabe censors] and violated Lesley’s First Amendment rights…[but the] board…[l]ied…claim[ing she was fired for incompetence]…Lesley’s attorney, Iris Halpern…and her firm, Rathod Mohamedbhai in Denver, have supported fired library employees elsewhere in recent years. Under the settlement agreement, Lesley is dropping her lawsuit, though a separate lawsuit she has filed against [the] three [wannabe censors]…will continue…
Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do:
A [typical and representative Tennessee cop] has been indicted…on federal charges [for violently attack]ing his estranged girlfriend…Alan James Greenman…was initially arrested Aug. 21…[the day after he barged into] her apartment complex at 6:25 a.m. [while wearing his magical clown costume]…he…accused her of cheating on him and demanded to see her cellphone. She told [him] to leave and [he responded by destroying her]…television…and…cellphone…he…[then threw] her…onto the bed…[and] punched her in the head multiple times…she tried to leave [but] Greenman [threatened] her…[with his] gun…[saying] “I’m going to fucking kill you”…he [then went on a rampage, destroying] her belongings…[until she managed to escape with] her [toddler] son…[the Clarksville cop shop] has sensors on their duty holsters that activate their p[igmobile’s] in-car camera when the weapon is drawn…the camera…captured…her [escape] and [his subsequent confession]…to…an unknown male…when [cops later] searched the [victim’s] apartment, they found Greenman hiding under clothing in [her] bedroom closet with his personally owned pistol[, apparently planning to ambush and murder her when she returned]…
The Bank of England [is]…warning of an intensifying risk of a “sudden correction” in global financial markets driven by the spending frenzy on [machine learning]…it’s the…clearest warning yet that we could be on the precipice of an [economic] disaster…the…[“]AI[“] bubble…[is] 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis…only a measly five percent of [machine learning] pilot programs…succeed…with the vast majority falling flat. Yet [the mania]…now accounts for roughly 40 percent of the United States’ gross domestic product…[so when] the…spending boom falls apart, it could take down the entire economy with it…
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 #798
Posted in Diary, tagged psychology, Sunset on October 14, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Every October, before the rains start mid-month, I put the atrium shutters back in place. But since I don’t have the energy I had even a few years ago, nowadays I tend to do that sort of chore on days when I feel I have the energy. That’s how I mucked out the henhouse a couple of weeks ago, and the system seems to be working. So when I had the urge to install the shutters a week ago today, I went ahead and did it. In the past, I’ve always installed the north-side shutters by myself, but waited until I had help for the much-larger south-side shutter. Well, this time I moved the ladder and all the shutters from the garage into place and installed the north-side ones as usual. But though I was winded from that, I decided for some unfathomable reason to attempt the south side alone. I leaned the ladder against the wall, put one end of the shutter on the ramp railing, lifted the other side to the top of the ladder, then climbed up a few steps and lifted the shutter onto the studs. To my surprise and pleasure, it went right into place on my very first try, and all I had to do was tighten down the wingnuts to secure it. Then I put the ladder away, et voilà; done until I take them down again somewhere between Easter and May Day. It may seem a small thing, but with Grace gone there are a lot of things she used to do for me or with me, that I now have to do for myself. So please allow me to celebrate these little victories which represent my settling into the way things must be now.
Cowboy Logic
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Perception, Tyranny, tagged abortion, cell phones, censorship, consensual crime, Eavesdropping, fascism, Florida, I Spy, left-right myth, libraries, nanny state, Panopticon, politicians, propaganda, Pyrrhic Victory, racism, surveillance, teachers, Texas, The Last Shall Be First, Thou Shalt Not, Thought Control, transgender, universal criminality, Universally Criminal updates, Welcome to the Future on October 13, 2025| Leave a Comment »
There’s usually some kind of boogeyman…that justifies the building of a very extreme…policing apparatus. – Matthew Guariglia
It’s not unusual these days for a news item to fall into more than one category, so I have to figure out which is best; in such cases I typically link recent examples of the other applicable categories, or at least include them among the tags. But sometimes the article does such a good job of analyzing the connections between the various categories, I feel it’s better to simply call my readers’ attention to the article and urge y’all to read it in its entirety. This Reason article from a week ago today is a good example:
…On issues such as library books, abortion, gender, and even food, the culture war is now feeding the police state. This phenomenon started in the states, and none have pursued it with more intensity than Florida and Texas, where governors and legislatures have competed to show that they’re fighting the hardest against what they call “woke”…[but] now…using criminal law, mass surveillance, [snitch] lines, and the threat of police violence to wage the culture war…is [becoming]…a danger to every American who wants to live, work, and travel without being monitored and menaced by the state…
…the…Trump…[regime]’s campaign against universities on such issues as anti-Israel protests, transgender athletes, and critical race theory were all preceded by Florida, wh[ich]…PEN America…[has] dubbed…the “blueprint state” for the White House’s run of education-related executive orders…The sheer number of bills churned out over the past few years by Florida and Texas is notable, especially in light of how petty the targets can be—drag queens, librarians, whoever might be using a certain bathroom stall…Also notable [is] those laws’ dismal track record in court. Federal judges, even those appointed by Trump…have repeatedly struck down culture-war bills…represent[ing] a boundless paternalism…indistinguishable from the…identitarian politics that [proponents of such laws claim to oppose, such as bans on]…cultivated meat…[one] Texas [politician ludicrously defended as]…”plain cowboy logic“…in the bizarre, zero-sum logic of politicians like DeSantis and [Nebraska Governor Jim] Pillen, the freedom to eat bacon harvested from a pig that was alive and sensate before it was slaughtered is contingent on consumers never being given a choice to try an alternative…
…What makes the creation of new criminal statutes especially worrisome is law enforcement’s sweeping power to search and investigate targets…[via] vast, nationwide databases of personal information…facial recognition, cellphone surveillance, license plate tracking, sophisticated social media monitoring, and more…the huge surveillance architecture and data-sharing networks being created now won’t go back in the box when the current…[regime] is over, nor will they consider whether their targets used to have the right kind of politics…
There’s much, much more, bridging tags including Eavesdropping, Guinea Pigs, I Spy, The Last Shall Be First, Panopticon, Pyrrhic Victory, Thou Shalt Not, Thought Control, Universal Criminality, The Vultures Descend, Welcome to the Future, and many others. So go read it!
Links #797
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, animals, cops, Florida, imaginative fiction, Michigan, Missouri, Never Call the Cops, nostalgia, politicians, racism, Tennessee, Texas, video on October 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Y’all gonna have to kill me, I will kill myself. – Jarrell Johnson
I came to know and love jazz and swing not only via my grandparents, but also via Captain Kangaroo, which used to feature what amounted to music videos with puppets. Alas, none of those bits from the show seem to be available online or anywhere else, but I did find this charming little slideshow backing one of the songs the Captain used to play. The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker, Mike Siegel, Amy Alkon, Scott Greenfield, and IncarcerNation (x3), in that order.
- R.I.P. Diane Keaton.
- Portrait of a psychopath.
- Lovecraftian entity of the week.
- Prosecutors don’t want justice, but victory.
- Was this “protecting” or “serving”? Hard to tell.
- No, your reason for calling them is not an exception.
- Crime: petty theft. Penalty: summary execution of bystander.
From the Archives
- Modern people are in deep denial about the ubiquity of historical sex work.
- Nobody is going to give expensive cannabis edibles to your spawn for free.
- Cops’ typical Halloween nonsense, now with fentanyl instead of marijuana.
- Thinking with the wrong head creates its own problems sans political help.
- How long will airlines accept liability for government-brand racial profiling?
- Sexworkers ask the Canadian Supreme Court to uphold its own judgment.
- If you didn’t see where this was going, you haven’t been paying attention.
- So much for SF’s pious BS about not sending cops to assault sex workers.
- Nobody is safe until this odious practice is recognized as unconstitutional.
- As practical limits on surveillance vanish, legal limits are more important.
- Over 90% of all whores work illegally rather than submit to “registration”.
- Cops believe “a woman wanted to be raped by a random cop” is credible.
- Ordinary business arrangements get spun into “exploitation” and “crime”.
- The government is working to ensure these men die in their filthy cages.
- Looking-glass politicians say adding window to bathroom “adds privacy”.
- Cop deals with disagreement exactly as paid to; all claim to be shocked.
- Cops, Sergio Aragonés, Loretta Lynn, Angela Lansbury, and much more.
- I find it sweet that so many people are so enchanted by our pig, Cicero.
- Another individual protection the Establishment is working to eliminate.
- When it comes to surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Authoritarians are working toward worldwide criminalization of speech.
- Something advertised as spyware is spyware, and people are shocked?
- Another ex-whore thinks it’s her job to cheat her sisters out of money.
- Profiteers will continue to harass businesses thus while FOSTA stands.
- Politicians believe “election” grants them license to practice medicine.
- Surely you didn’t think this would stop with libraries and the internet?
- Many overseas pharmacies don’t care about politicians’ permission.
- Funny how many cops who are willing to pay prefer underage girls.
- These abuses are finally getting the attention they’ve long needed.
- Your regular reminder that my writing depends upon your support.
- It is not the job of libraries to enforce parental censorship choices.
- A reminder that I depend on your support to keep this blog going.
- Every Friday the 13th, I ask non-sexworkers to stand up for us.
- As I’ve said many times, the urge to censor is a mental illness.
- The people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- About a twelfth of the time his long string of crimes deserves.
- I can’t feel sorry for cops hoist with their own twisted petard.
- Some rapist cops are indiscriminate in their choice of victim.
- Cops, Russell Batiste, Jr, gay furry hackers, and much more.
- Conditioning kids to accept constant, intrusive surveillance.
- Privacy as we once knew it will soon be a thing of the past.
- Cops, dark ages, Nazca lines, John Amos, and much more.
- In case you’ve ever wondered where the good cops are.
- We might be about to see the end of the open internet.
- Because this kind of prohibition will surely be different!
- Politicians keep openly trying to destroy the internet.
- PayPal is becoming a major threat to civil liberties.
- I’ve been wanting one of these for quite a while.
- Consider the massive waste on display here.
- All cops will have these within a few years.
- Throwback Thursday Meets the Wolf Man.
- Connecting my new bathroom plumbing.
- Sometimes I really miss the Beatles.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
- Victor Throwback Thursday.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Water for the piggies.
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