I’m now done with all the coarse work on the roof, and by the time you read this I’ll have been doing the finish work all week. But as I’ve pointed out before, a lot of that won’t show up well in pictures, and besides I’d rather document the process step by step. The new section in this picture went very smoothly; it only took me three days to do, and though it has rained several times since then there isn’t a drop under that section, so I guess I did it correctly! As you can see if you look closely, the main roof deck of this leaf is rectangular, with two wedge-shaped sections to carry water from the edges down onto that rectangular deck. Now, the next section (which is still open in this picture) was much more difficult, because the bathroom area extends much farther along the wall of the cottage than the other side. So, I had to come up with a design and build it on the fly as it were, because Grace couldn’t really see from below what had to be done. But done it is, and you’ll see it next week; by the time the following week rolls around, I hope to be able to show you the finished roof!
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Today is a day to shamelessly celebrate our shameless history, not a day to cater to the precious fee-fees of amateurs by neutering our terminology so as not to offend their delicate sensibilities. – “Unsanitized”
Last year, I observed every one of the days I usually observe with polemics by instead providing quotes from and links to all the previous essays for that day. I did this “lest I grow irrelevant due to repetition. Besides, I’ve already written plenty“…but I did make one exception: this one, International Whores’ Day, because for the past few years I’ve noticed some sex worker organizations and social media accounts trying to sanitize our struggle by eliminating the “nasty” word “whore” rather than celebrating our long history as sexual outlaws. I already explained last year why this is misguided and counterproductive; this year I’m going to bring this observance into line with the others by quoting previous years’ essays.
Yes, things are very damned bad right now…and it will pass, as everything does. And when it does we will still be here, just as we always have been. – “Eternal as the Sea”
Politicians who up until recently coudn’t even be bothered to accept that sex workers have basic civil rights are now actively calling for decriminalization. – “Galvanized”
It is the intrinsic nature of government to continue growing ever more tyrannous until a revolution becomes inevitable. – “Cornered Animals”
Every day, sex workers of all backgrounds, all around the world, work to debunk prohibitionist lies and expose the ugly truth about government persecution of individuals for the “crime” of consensual sex. – “Whores’ Day 2017”
We are winning at last. And there’s not a damn thing the prohibitionists can do about it. – “Whores’ Day 2016”
Most feminists of 1975 still actually supported women’s choices. – “The Revolt of the Prostitutes”
Prohibitionists…have…in[vaded] the public’s imagination with…lurid masturbatory fantasies of gypsy whores, weeping teenage “sex slaves” and leering “pimps” with magical powers. – “A Day for Whores”
Though the crusade was rooted in American Protestant notions of “pure and pious womanhood”…it is the poorer countries of the developing world which have borne the brunt. – “International Whores’ Day”
The tide of history is toward greater individual and sexual rights, and those who would restrict others’ sexuality, no matter what propaganda they employ, will eventually be swept away. – “The Birth of a Movement“
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The nuisance comes from drinking and drunkenness, but no one is saying close the bars. – Brenda, Dutch sex worker
I wonder when Hollywood will catch up?
The brothels look brighter, the alleyways are cleaner, and a stirring soundtrack accompanies the protagonists, but a new Bollywood film set in Mumbai’s red-light district has struck a chord with India’s roughly one million sex workers. Gangubai Kathiawadi is a biopic telling the story of a sex worker of the same name who went from being a [coerced underage sexworker] to fight[ing] for the rights of women working in the trade in the 1950s, a battle still being fought today…Many sex workers in Kamathipura…and across India say the film starring celebrated actress Alia Bhatt shows rare understanding of their everyday struggles…“There have been so many films on women like us, but none that raised these issues,” said Kiran Deshmukh, president of National Network of Sex Workers. “People believe what they see in Bollywood films. And this film has shown that sex work is work…that…helps us live our lives and feed and raise our children”…
And it can find you just as easily:
Cher Scarlett, a software engineer…uploaded some images of her[self]…to PimEyes, a facial-recognition website meant to be used to find pictures of yourself from around the web — ostensibly to help stamp out issues such as revenge porn and identity theft…the results [included]…porn…[she was coerced into making as a 19-year-old] addict…in New York in 2005…She has since tried and failed to get all of the explicit photos removed from PimEyes’ search results, despite the site saying it would scrub images of Scarlett from results…Giorgi Gobronidze…the current owner and director of PimEyes…[deflected blame by saying] “The problem isn’t that there is a search engine that can find these photos; the problem is…people who actually uploaded [the photos] on purpose”…Scarlett’s saga starkly shows how easily facial-recognition technology, which is now available to anyone with internet access, can lead to unexpected harms that may be impossible to undo…
Instagram and TikTok users, take note:
Digital studies and sexuality researcher Dr. Carolina Are is asking sex workers, adult performers and others who have experienced discrimination to participate in a study investigating Instagram and TikTok’s approach to malicious flagging or reporting of “gray area” content, including nudity. Are is seeking participants over 18 years of age who have received negative comments and simultaneously had their accounts and/or content removed…Are plans to circulate an anonymous survey and then interview specific case studies. Those wishing to share their experience with social media discrimination can fill out the survey here…
The Dutch scheme to Disnify De Wallen is no longer merely a scheme:
In November 2020, Mayor Femke Halsema announced plans to [forcibly] relocate sex workers to a purpose built “Erotic Center” on the city’s outskirts in hopes of luring bands of drunk men and general carnality away from residents to make space for new cafés, art galleries, and designer boutiques…according to the mayor’s office…“We want less dominance of cheap nightlife”…if built, it will be the most extreme measure taken to “clean up” De Wallen, which has, in recent years, already been subject to a raft of new regulations and s[urveillance]…Amsterdam’s sex workers are ambivalent about the city’s plans to relocate them. Brenda, a sex worker…[who] met me at the Prostitution Information Center…said sex workers were soft targets in the city’s gentrification push…Iris, a coordinator at the center, said the “so-called nuisance and antisocial behavior” was just another excuse to get rid of sex workers and free up lucrative real estate in the sought-after inner city…
Over half of Americans now live in states with legal cannabis:
Rhode Island…became the 19th state to legalize marijuana for recreational use…[the] bill…immediately allows adults 21 or older to possess up to an ounce of cannabis in public and grow up to three plants at home. State-licensed recreational sales are supposed to start on December 1, beginning with the state’s three existing medical marijuana dispensaries. The law also requires automatic expungement of marijuana possession convictions…public consumption…will be legal in any place where cigarette smoking is allowed…The law caps the number of retailers at 33, which amounts to about one store per 32,000 people…Rhode Islanders may find it easier to buy pot from black-market dealers or from stores in Massachusetts or Connecticut, both of which have legalized recreational use. Like California, Rhode Island will allow local governments to ban pot shops, but only through referendums and not in the three cities (Providence, Warwick, and Portsmouth) where medical marijuana is already being sold…
French law provides some defense vs religious activism:
A Paris court of appeals rejected…the attempt by local War on Porn groups, led by an extremist Catholic organization, to use France’s media authority and the courts to block the most popular adult tube sites in the country…following months of…threats pressuring tube sites to implement vaguely defined age verification schemes, French media regulator ARCOM went to court…to demand that French ISPs block Pornhub…and [a number of similar sites, but]…the Council of State…issued a ruling rendering null all the activities taken up by…ARCOM in connection with the…block…the Council…specifically pointed out the role played by extremist Catholic organization Civitas in orchestrating the campaign…
Civitas is associated with the Society of Saint Pius X, the reactionary organization founded by Archbishop Lefebvre to fight modernization efforts such as performing the Mass in the vernacular rather than Latin.
Shortly after the nation’s latest mass shooting…at an elementary school in Texas, the California Senate passed a bill…to allow private citizens to file suit for at least $10,000 — a bounty-hunter provision modeled on a Texas abortion law — against makers or sellers of [3-D printed firearms] or [rifles banned under California law]…
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Now that the weather is slowly getting warmer and drier, we’ll soon be able to start working on the stable again; Jae’s patron had the rest of the materials shipped here, but it has rained nearly every weekend (and he isn’t available on weekdays). But worse come to worst, July and August are generally dry here, so we’ll be able to get it done then if not before (I think perhaps two more dry weekends of good work can probably accomplish it). That means it’ll be all done before the autumn; which is the next time it’ll really be needed; right now there’s very little hay in the barn, so the animals have plenty of room to shelter in there when it rains. But as summer goes on it will fill up with hay, which means Shiloh won’t be able to shelter there because of her bad reaction to hay dust. I think they’ll like the stable; as you can see, they already prefer to be in that part of the paddock when they aren’t doing something important somewhere else.
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In the 5000 years since [Gilgamesh] was first pressed into clay, Man’s world has forgotten its debt to us and has generally succumbed to the hubris of believing it no longer needs us. – “The Daughters of Shamhat”
- Would an older escort be more understanding of my kinks & insecurities?
- When I was 12 a strange man helped me escape possible sexual assault.
- The strong resemblance between American and Ugandan prohibitionism.
- Senators “discover” that G-men hire whores, feign surprise and outrage.
- “Sex trafficking” hysteria is really the old “Satanic Panic” in a new guise.
- Tracy Quan on a documentary about whores in three different countries.
- Irish authorities use the label “human trafficking” for almost everything.
- “Abstinence only” sex education is even worse than previously believed.
- Namibians prove they understand human rights better than Americans.
- Reading Pennsylvania sex work articles is like looking into a dirty toilet.
- Another man convicted of “child pornography” for owning comic books.
- Zimbabwean cops claim whores force men to have free sex with them.
- Busting myths about migration, extramarital sex and mythology itself.
- Prostitution is not an evil to be tolerated, but a good to be celebrated.
- Why extrajudicial punishment of whores is a spectacularly bad idea.
- Don’t go on a call without someone reliable knowing where you are.
- “We looked at sex addiction, but there was no science at all. None.”
- Turkish brothels provide an example of the problems of legalization.
- Congresscritters love them some compelled speech and censorship.
- US State Department urges Malaysia to violently persecute whores.
- India: protest vs cops abusing whores. US: cops molest protesters.
- The sleazy deal to impose the Swedish Model on Western Australia.
- Another female academic tells the truth about East Asian sex work.
- I dated an escort for a long time; now I feel guilty when I hire one.
- Los Angeles begins to realize that its condom law is unenforceable.
- How yesterday’s forbidden activity becomes compulsory tomorrow.
- The real purpose and effects of the “Violence Against Women Act”.
- I decide that the outing of anti-whore politicians is commendable.
- How can a man get a driver job with an escort service or brothel?
- The tale of a young woman who wins a chance at her dream job.
- Organized persecution of Canadian whores continues to crumble.
- The FBI wants private companies to enable its spying on people.
- Lawheads delight in charging a crime victim with another crime.
- In which I demolish a load of total nonsense about “sex robots”.
- What a “sex trafficking” trial reveals about the “Swedish Model”.
- Zimbabwean politicians want women forced to be unattractive.
- Cops in riot gear and masks save Houston from evil harlots.
- Compulsory “rehabilitation” is indistinguishable from prison.
- A Japanese service provides sex workers with cover stories.
- This is sleazy even by Ashley Madison’s abysmal standards.
- An early draft of one of my favorite books is auctioned off.
- Another serial killer targeting whores, this time in Detroit.
- A biography of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the “D.C. Madam”.
- Gonorrhea is rapidly becoming immune to all antibiotics.
- Octomom says a masturbation video isn’t “really” porn.
- Did you ever have a client who physically repulsed you?
- Phoenix jumps into “trafficking” hysteria with both feet.
- And all it took was triple jeopardy and lying to the jury.
- Nepal turns low-caste people into persecuted criminals.
- The man who helped bring my favorite heroines to life.
- How the whorearchy is used as a tool of social control.
- Spain continues to turn the screws on streetwalkers.
- Christopher Ryan on sex work and harm reduction.
- Reminiscing about my dear, departed friend Terry.
- South Australia moves toward decriminalization.
- Dania Suarez is interviewed on the Today show.
- The first of several virginity auctions that year.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- On the infantilization of teenagers and adults.
- The arrival of armed drones on American soil.
- Elderly patron dies while getting a lap dance.
- Nobody will admit that the emperor is naked.
- Another of Nick Kristof’s exercises in fatuity.
- Another criticism of “sex robot” foolishness.
- Arthur Huntington, AKA Agent Cheapskate.
- Why Janet Jackson’s nipple won’t go away.
- Genesis, Pretty Baby and Looney Tunes.
- What I really mean by the word “myth”.
- Do working girls really appreciate gifts?
- A two-part look at my favorite poems.
- We have met the enemy and he is us.
- 69-year-old identical twin whores.
- The Wicker Tree and You Will Die.
- Are most clients easy to please?
- The menace of rock and roll.
- Thoughts on Mother’s Day.
- Politician. Whores. Yawn.
- Fake internet girlfriend.
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You did this to yourself. – cop, to grandmother he assaulted
I don’t think I can really explain the silly kitchen banter between Grace and me that resulted in my jokingly threatening to throw a “ricochet biscuit” at her, so I won’t try; I’ll just share this video for those who have no clue what I’m talking about. The links above it were provided by Radley Balko, Franklin Harris, Jesse Walker, Cop Crisis, Boatfloating, Kevin Wilson, and Cop Crisis again, in that order.
- But for video.
- R.I.P. Fred Ward.
- “A temple in Eden“.
- Cops burn man alive for attending a meeting.
- Too bad it won’t come out of the cops’ budget.
- Clearly, the reaction vaporized the entire mass.
- Do I really need to say, “Don’t call on them in person either”?
From the Archives
- Cops raping sex workers is so accepted in PA the state actively defends it.
- Web companies use sex workers to build themselves, then screw us over.
- Sweden’s government thinks it owns the people & legislates accordingly.
- Cops, The Riddler, violins hepa, vagina-scented flames, and much more.
- “A child is 3x as likely to be hit by lightning as kidnapped by a stranger.“
- It boggles the mind that anyone could be gullible enough to install this.
- Even in a crisis, politicians have to advertise their hate for sex workers.
- Bills and hunger don’t “socially distance” from people without income.
- Using “public health” as an excuse for tyranny is increasingly popular.
- Now that the pandemic is fading, cops are back to their usual panics.
- Cops refuse to release the name of a dangerous, violent serial rapist.
- I’m sure you know the answer to the question posed in this headline.
- Civil rights violations often start with whores, but never stop with us.
- This is the woman who beat the pro-decrim candidate Tiffany Caban.
- Proponents of the Swedish rot will use any excuse to push their filth.
- A retrospective of my work from (mostly) May 2016 and May 2017.
- Beneath their “red x” silliness, “End It” are dangerous copsuckers.
- Potty-obsessed politicians attempt to circumvent a federal ruling.
- Another sexual predator specifically targets traumatized women.
- Cops, power-madness, Jane Roe, The Beatles, and much more.
- Looks like we’re going to have to rethink the safety of the mail.
- As I’ve said for decades, so-called “radical” feminism is a cult.
- Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Violence is safety.
- It’s so nice to see them feeding on their own for a change.
- One wonders if any actual crime ever occurs in Redbridge.
- Don’t you amateurs put at least some value on your time?
- Finally getting my “nonessential” grooming back on track.
- The plague year showed me semi-retirement could work.
- My two previous columns for International Whores’ Day.
- My go-to argument for skepticism about flying saucers.
- A retrospective of my blogging, mostly from May 2017.
- I’m sure these pompous blowhards’ scheme will work.
- At their core, the Netherlands are still prohibitionist.
- Susannah Breslin interviews a stripper activist.
- Logging the progress on building a bathhouse.
- Getting ready to remove that shitty awning.
- Our cat Aeryn was born in March, 2002.
- Bewitched as an allegory for sex work.
- Cops, trees, popcorn and much more.
- I love it when they feed on their own.
- Rapist cops of the week, everywhere.
- More blood on prohibitionists’ hands.
- One of my hens is working overtime.
- Clearly, this is all Trump’s doing.
- Still traumatized after 24 years.
- In case you missed this.
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Extortion, there’s no other way to explain it. – Marc Deldin
Distorting a rapist pig’s image is almost as bad as hiding it:
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation arrested a [typical and representative] Canadian County [cop]…who…rap[ed a woman] he [had locked in a cage-truck]…David Wayne Loman [raped her]…three times at three different locations…at [least once anally]…
Wayne County, Michigan has openly extorted money for years with similar tactics:
…in December of 2020…the mayor…and…police chief [of Highland Park, Michigan] dropped by a 13,000-square-foot building owned by Justyna and Matt Kozbial [using the pretext of] an impromptu fire code inspection…[in reality, the politicians needed pretext to pretend to “find” a [state-licensed] marijuana grow operation…[in order to steal] the building…and h[o]ld on to it for 17 months without charging them with a crime…police never alleged there was any major criminal activity…[and] In…response to an interrogatory filed in the Kozbials’ subsequent lawsuit against Highland Park…they received a settlement offer from the town: Stop growing marijuana and buy two [brand-new pigmobiles] for the [cop shop, for]…a…total…[cost of] about $70,000…after WXYZ Detroit reported on the fiasco, Highland Park informed the Kozbials that it would be giving them back their building. Their lawsuit is still ongoing…
How much longer will the Western Establishment ignore this?
Thousands of photographs from the heart of China’s highly secretive system of mass incarceration in Xinjiang, as well as a shoot-to-kill policy for those who try to escape, are among a huge cache of data hacked from police computer servers in the region. The Xinjiang Police Files, as they’re being called, were passed to the BBC earlier this year…and…reveal…in unprecedented detail, China’s use of “re-education” camps and formal prisons…for Uyghurs – and…[makes it harder for Western politicians to pretend to believe its ridiculous] public narrative about…[the concentration camps being] “schools”…The documents provide some of the strongest evidence to date for a policy targeting almost any expression of Uyghur identity, culture or Islamic faith – and of a chain of command running all the way up to the Chinese [dictator], Xi Jinping…
There is nothing as contagious as a bad idea:
[After the] Virginia Beach (VA) school…[board ordered the] remov[al of the book] Gender Queer from [school libraries]…a Virginia [ambulance-chaser seized upon the opportunity to]…fil[e]…suit[s] against [a] school [which stocked the book] and against the Barnes & Noble store in Virginia Beach…[because the book, and another one named] A Court of Mist and Fury are [available]…to minors…[shyster Tim Anderson,who is also (unsurprisingly) a politician, openly admitted his suit is intended as a nuisance and encouraged other wannabe censors to file] “suits like this…all over Virginia. There are dozens of books. Hundreds of schools”…Neither book fits the [legal] definition of obscene and neither book is pornography…
This batshittery is virulent, and will only get worse:
The Oklahoma Legislature gave final approval…to a bill that prohibits nearly all abortions starting at fertilization, which would make it the nation’s strictest abortion law. The bill subjects abortion providers and anyone who “aids or abets” an abortion to civil suits from private individuals…The measure is modeled on a law that took effect in Texas in September, which has relied on civil…instead of criminal enforcement to [circumvent] court challenges”…The bill makes exceptions for cases of rape and incest, but only if [the victims invite cops to gawk at them, ask disgusting questions, and pry into every corner of their lives]…
Oklahoma ladies: please allow me to aid and abet you in having a medication abortion at home.
Cops have been doing this for years, and platforms do nothing to stop it:
…a little-known [gang in the Chicago cop shop]…called the Social Media Exploitation…team…had been set up to [conspire with] the FBI [to] find [weak people who could be suborned] and [spy on citizens] using information gleaned from social sites. The Intercept and Chicago-based transparency groups obtained more than 800 pages of emails and other documents about the [gang] through public records requests. These show that the [gang members] were given broad leeway to [spy on] people across platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, using fake social media accounts furnished by the FBI, in violation of some platforms’ policies…
This cop just keeps demonstrating what he is:
Matthew Dominguez…[the infamous Wanking Pig of] San Jose…[has] sexually harassed and assaulted…other…wom[en]n [in the past]…Dominguez…touched [one woman’s] breasts and thigh and kept trying to touch her even after she rebuffed his advances…she and her boyfriend…reported the…sexual assault…but [of course nothing was done]…Another woman…[w]as…[groped by] Dominguez…[while] arresting [her in December. Conveniently]…the body camera footage [for the arrest is] missing…
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This section of roof went much more quickly than any of the previous ones because the orientation of the leaf allowed me to use the panels with very little cutting; I simply had to trim a short section off of each one and then haul it into place and screw it down. Indeed, since the polycarbonate panels are shorter than the metal ones (12′ vs 16′), all I had to do was cut the metal ones to the same length. The only difficult part is holding each panel in place while drilling the first two holes; once there are two screws in place, the panel can’t shift and the rest of the task is relatively quick and easy. Better still, I was able to climb back and forth between the shop roof and cottage roof on the steel framework, and once the roof panels were in place I could actually walk on them (though I need to step over the polycarbonate panels because they aren’t strong enough to support human weight). You can see the roof peak beam through the transparent panels; each panel goes a little past the peak right now, but when it’s time to install the ridge caps those will be trimmed down until they fit under the caps. This picture was taken on the 9th, and I’ve already finished the section visible on the other side; however, as I’ve written in the past, I like to space out these reports because progress can be very uneven and it might be weeks between developments that will show in pictures. I expect that will be especially true once I start working on the ridge caps, which will involve a lot of waterproofing with Gorilla tape and silicone sealant.
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If there's one thing the 21st century has been notable for, it's demonstrating that both sides in the so-called "culture war" are repulsive authoritarian busybodies who should all be dumped into the sea.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 26, 2022
As one who's been selling sex for longer than most current escorts have been alive, I can assure you that this is pure, undistilled bullshit. We had an extensive blacklist in the early Oughts, as did every other agency in town. https://t.co/pR5CR5K71g
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 28, 2022
It's fascinating to watch the increasingly-idiotic and increasingly-asymetrical attempts to cram all human political thought into one dimension.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 29, 2022
Billionaire's opinions are just as dumb and misinformed as those of most everybody else.
Big fucking headline.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 30, 2022
The number of shootings by police which contain the phrase "in the back" should be a source of national shame for Americans. Y'all have empowered a horde of chicken-hearted slimeballs and given them dominion over you. https://t.co/nIBzkfemgu
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 2, 2022
I'm starting to see some "burn down the house to roast the pig" suggestions.
Can we just NOT?
Couldn't y'all just conduct a wee thought experiment on the possible ramifications of your clever plan before belching it out half-digested onto Twitter?
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 3, 2022
To those who are scrpulously avoiding mentioning Alito's invocation of criminalized "prostitution" as though it were a mere trifle rather than a central part of his argument: I see you. And I keep receipts.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 3, 2022
The secret to getting violent authoritarians out of your business is NOT standing behind a different-yet-allied gang of violent authoritarians.
I know its hard for people unused to doing difficult things like thinking & moral consideration for yourselves. But do try.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 3, 2022
"Powerful overlords should be able to do whatever they want to you without any constraints of law or custom" is a helluva take, wokester. I suggest you consider the implications of your stupid opinions before vomiting them out on social media.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 4, 2022
In any conflict between two societal groups, the group who wants the government to have more power than it currently does is in the wrong.
The number of exceptions is so small, each could be fully set forth in the Constitution or amendments.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 8, 2022
Florida man deceives his blind father, steals his brother's inheritance, claims he wrestles angels, then has 12 kids by different mothers. https://t.co/1J8ZPZqQVC
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 11, 2022
I don't know why people are surprised, when polticians at every level of US government have repeatedly voted against bodily autonomy for citizens (especially but not only women) for over a century now. Americans call this "democracy".
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 12, 2022
I have a strong predisposition to rooting for anyone "escaping" from anything. It's not necessarily rational, but it demonstrates how badly I hate authoritarian attempts to restrict individual movement.
No, I don't want to hear whataboutery. This is just an over-tea musing.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 13, 2022
Don't worry, I'm sure Biden has a clever plan such as manufacturing and distributing millions of "WIN" buttons. https://t.co/vZMnjFRDer
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 15, 2022
Given the inflation nd the specter of coming gas lines, it's the 1970s over again. Except without all the good parts. https://t.co/ID2J8x27Zd
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 17, 2022
Reminder that Kamala Harris, now only an old man's heartbeat from the power so desperately craves, made a very similar argument against releasing California prisoners because they're needed as slave labor to fight wildfires. https://t.co/qKo38Sk3Az
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 19, 2022
Your regular reminder that just because someone is attacking or being attacked by a bad person, does not make them a good person.
Adults shouldn't need to be told this, yet here we are.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 21, 2022
I can think of nothing less interesting than the marital problems of two awful millionaires I don't even know.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 22, 2022
That puritans have convinced so many Americans that the relative ages of adults in romantic relationships (much less the relative ages of ACTORS portraying FICTIONAL CHARACTERS in FICTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS) is a matter for Collective Concern, does not bode well for the future. https://t.co/8RvdnNNK6F
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 24, 2022
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The viewpoints…individuals and businesses hold are real, even if they differ from the views of…government officials. – Judge Aleta A. Trauger
The BBC feeds stigma just as much as the Russian media this story criticizes:
On the day she was murdered, 20 July 2020, Olga had a profile on an online escort site where she went by the name Margo. A 53-year-old former convict, Oleg Tochilkin – who had been released on parole after serving part of a 20-year prison sentence for crimes including murder…b[eat] and strangled Olga…then [dump]ed her naked body…at the entrance to [his apartment] building…One headline read, “Do you feel sorry for this kind of victim of violence?” Another was, “The bloody details of how a prostitute from Bryansk was killed”. And there was the one that called Olga a “whore” and referred to her killer as “grandpa”…
This guy is lucky his evil wife wasn’t smarter:
…on April 18…Angel Moore [told cops in]…Wynnewood [Oklahoma that]…she’d [somehow] seen a man using his phone to download child [porn. She claimed]…the man’s wife, Lacey Hucks, managed to get the phone away from her husband and gave it to Moore so she could alert police. The man was swiftly arrested, and…over 800 child sex abuse images [were found] on that phone…[but] deputies noticed that the phone that the husband had on him at the time of his arrest didn’t have any content similar to what was on the phone Moore had given them. They only kept the husband in jail overnight, and got a warrant for Hucks’ phone—which showed that she and Moore had been discussing plans to make the police report before April 18…Moore quickly folded under questioning…an[d]…told a deputy that Hucks had…coached her…to deliver the false report against her husband…in hopes of winning a child custody battle…Hucks and Moore…were arrested on charges of conspiracy and knowingly reporting a false crime. Hucks faces an additional charge of aggravated possession of child sex abuse material; if convicted on that charge, she faces up to life in prison…
Buttons, Bags & Banknotes (#770)
I’m not sure who Bindel thinks she’s convincing with this tedious claptrap, but I’ve got to hand it to Liz Brown for being far more patient with her than I could possibly manage.
Are there really sane adults gullible enough to swallow this?
The NSA — which has undermined encryption standards in the past — says it won’t undermine the next strain of encryption, one being built to withstand the inevitable arrival of quantum computing…“There are no backdoors,” said Rob Joyce, the NSA’s director of cybersecurity…Pardon my cynicism, but that’s exactly the sort of thing someone planning to backdoor encryption would say…While it’s true the NSA has spent less time agitating (at least publicly) for encryption backdoors than, say, the FBI, its troubling past strongly suggests it should not be taken at its word this time around…Quantum computing has the capacity to be the pipe wrench that makes security efforts mostly irrelevant. The sooner a new standard can be put in place, the better. If the NSA can help achieve this more quickly, it should. But it should never be assumed the NSA’s intentions are pure…
The Last Shall Be First (#1140)
One small victory against a rising tide of bigotry:
A federal judge struck down a Tennessee law…that would have [forced] businesses in the state to post warning notices on their public restrooms if they have policies allowing transgender patrons to use the facilities that match their gender identities…Judge Aleta A. Trauger…wrote…that the law violates the First Amendment of the Constitution because it compels speech that is controversial and with which the plaintiffs disagree. “It would do a disservice to the First Amendment to judge the Act for anything other than what it is: a brazen attempt to single out trans-inclusive establishments and force them to parrot a message that they reasonably believe would sow fear and misunderstanding about the very transgender Tennesseans whom those establishments are trying to provide with some semblance of a safe and welcoming environment,” Trauger wrote…
The next level beyond spooge-based sexual assault:
An Arby’s manager…urinated in the milkshake mix…for his own “sexual gratification” on at least two occasions…Stephen Sharp, who was being investigated for child pornography, admitted to police that he enjoyed relieving himself in the restaurant’s milkshake mix while working as a night manager at a Vancouver, Washington, location…[cops found] dozens of [child porn] photos and videos…as well as the urine video on his digital devices…
Investigators are looking for any unlucky customers who bought and drank the urine-contaminated shakes…
So many rapist cops, so many underage victims:
A Dallas [cop who was] arrested last summer [for] sexual assault of a child is now facing a second charge after more victims came forward…Tyrone William Jr….[h]as [been on paid vacation since…June [of last year]…
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