What Americans have done to the venerable word “liberal” is a crime in and of itself.
– “Meet the Tweets”
Why is it so many pictures on the internet are taken by people who apparently don’t comprehend why a photo framed as a vertical rectangle is called “portrait” style? – “Tweets for Long Nights”
I don’t actually mean to collect stray animals, but it does seem to happen more frequently than random chance would account for.
– “Diary #699”
People who interact with [chatbots] think they’re interacting with an ancestor of Commander Data or C3PO, when in actuality they’re merely accessing a program that’s roughly as aware of their existence as the software that runs modern slot machines is, often with similar psychological results. – “Mad Libs“
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Mass surveillance…threatens people’s freedom of movement.
– Christie Hebert
Cops are a constant menace to all women:
An NYPD [cop] faces federal charges [for] impersonat[ing] an ICE [goon to] demand…a victim report with [her] family to a…[concentration camp]…Atickul Islam…who [sometimes uses the alias] “James W. Anderson”…to [cloak his illegal activities, was trying to destroy the lives of]…the victim and [her entire] family…in [retaliation for her spurning his sexual advances]…
The Last Shall Be First (#1246)
Texas’ deranged jihad criminalizes kindness to troubled adolescents:
…Texas…law…[now] bars public school employees from…using a different name, pronoun or other practice that [conflicts with] the birth sex. [The law is bizarrely] dubbed the “Parents’ Bill of Rights”…[even though it] prohibits…faculty from [support]ing…[parentally]-sanctioned c[hanges]…frustrat[ing parents whose]…rights [the law ignores]…A few of these parents joined advocacy and teacher groups to file a lawsuit…in August, seeking to pause districts from enforcing the law while the case proceeds…Some Texas school districts and boards…have adopted [totalitarian] policies to [criminalize benign] teacher…[conduct] but many…are still allowing teachers to honor students’ preferred names and pronouns [at least in person]…
Religious communities very often punish the victims instead of the rapists:
Over the course of about 20 years in two states, [Clint] Massie…sexually abused children with…[the assistance of] the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church…his abuse was such an open secret…that mothers warned their daughters to stay away from him…[after numerous complaints] church leaders told Massie to stay away from…children…but…never reported Massie’s crimes to police…Instead, [they coerc]ed the victims to take part in [so-called “]forgiveness sessions[“] which allowed Massie…to continue abusing children…[it was] not…[until] 2017..[that a] victim…[disobeyed] preachers…to report the crimes to police…
Sometimes, protests can temporarily drown out the bleating of useful idiots:
…[Oakland, California politicians almost approved] a $2 million contract with Flock S[urveillance; the measure only failed because]…hundreds rallied against the threat of [ICE goons] and other federal [spooks] spying on residents, bypassing the city’s [cosmetic] sanctuary policies. [Politicians were so gung-ho about expanding surveillance]…that two members of the local Privacy Advisory Commission resigned…and one subsequently filed a lawsuit against the Oakland [cop shop, which wanted]…the cameras [to expand their already-dystopian] surveillance [network]…But hundreds of public speakers…rallied [despite politicians’ pinky-swearing]…to [oversee] camera data…
Safetyism is rapidly destroying the internet:
OnlyFans will screen creators in the United States for criminal convictions…[using a surveillance network named] Checkr Trust…[bizarrely bleating the word “]safety[” to distract from the transparent attempt to]…exclude [in-person sex workers] from the platform…
[A typical and representative] Miami…[cop named] James Hurley Edwards died by apparent suicide in [a] Federal [cage]…just days before he faced a minimum 15-year sentence for producing and possessing child [porn]…Edwards…was first arrested [in 2014 for molesting]…two brothers, ages 15 and 16…[but was given] a [typical cop sweetheart] deal…that allowed him to avoid being listed as a sexual offender…keep his $9,000 a month pension…[and serve a mere] 364 days in the Miami-Dade County jail followed by 10 years’ probation…But [last year]…Edwards [sent another man a child porn video to a gay man via a hookup app and he reported it to the FBI, who then took over]…the complainant’s online identity and…[tricked] Edwards [into incriminating himself]…He pled guilty in September to two federal charges…and was to be sentenced [last] Thursday…
The fully-realized fascist police state has arrived:
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to [harass, assault, rob] and [abduct] people whose travel patterns it [pretends are “]suspicious[“]…The [nationwide surveillance]…network of [ALPRs feeds]…an algorithm [which] flags vehicles [for persecution] based on where they came from, where they were going and which route they took. Federal agents…then [dispatch local cops serving as lackeys, who use bogus pretexts such as]…speeding, failure to signal…window tint or even [possession of]…an…air freshener…[to stop, interrogate, and even sexually assault drivers or destructively root through their possessions looking for loot]…
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Anyone who’s ever perused my Amazon wishlist has probably noticed that it features a lot more weird, nerdy things than the expensive “luxury” things most guys seem to like buying for sex workers. That was true even long before I retired, and it’s even more so nowadays. The reason, as I’ve explained before, is that I put things I actually want on my list, and my tastes run to the odd and nerdy. In the last couple of weeks, several of my generous readers have sent CDs and DVDs from the list, and several of the DVDs were of old movie serials. I’m quite pleased about that because, as some of you have noticed, I’ve increasingly turned my back on the modern world this year. Now, a large fraction of my TV and movie viewing has always consisted of things that aren’t current at the time I view them, and I rarely read any fiction written after I was born (and almost never after I graduated from high school). But since early summer that’s even more true than usual, and probably half of my current entertainment was created between 1920 and 1960. Part of the reason is practical; the new adventure fiction series I’m working on takes place in the 1920s and ’30s, so immersing myself in period fiction helps with mood and color. But the rest of it is purely emotional; this blog and its attendant social media focus mostly on current events, and I needn’t explain how absolutely awful those events have become. Simply put, by the time I’m done with blog writing every day, I am so sick of 21st century political atrocities and media enshittification that I cannot handle one more minute of it. So to those of you who have indulged me with these gifts, please accept my heartfelt gratitude not merely for the kindness of a gift, but also for helping me find temporary solace from a world which feels increasingly hostile to me.
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Premium users can also converse with Satan. – Chrissy Callahan
When I opened YouTube in search of something last week, this was at the top of the page. Naturally I could not resist. The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker, Ryan Marino (x2), Mike Masnick, The Onion (x2), and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- R.I.P. Burt Meyer.
- Artificial blasphemy.
- Teddy Ruxpin, enshittified.
- A LOT more of this, please.
- If only satire were a blowtorch.
- The best satire cleaves closely to the truth.
- Crime: petty theft. Penalty: summary execution.
From the Archives
- It’s good to see someone with a functional moral compass addressing this.
- It’s no longer unusual to see this type of article on “sex trafficking” myths.
- The latest entry in the now-fashionable “monkey see, monkey do” parade.
- When will the mainstream media admit that pigs in schools are a menace?
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- When rapists only face consequences ’cause a prosecutor is squicked out.
- Unless people learn to respect free speech again, this will only get worse.
- All promoters of state violence conspire for cops to get away with crimes.
- Your “leaders” want more such hell-holes to torture even more people in.
- A reminder that Grady Judd is an utterly loathsome excuse for a human.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- These attempts to destroy the internet are going to keep getting worse.
- Unusually, this isn’t slanted like the rapist was doing his victims a favor.
- Cops are now being dispatched to intimidate people for “bad” thoughts.
- Useful idiots destroy any hope of rebottling the facial recognition djinni.
- On Beijing’s growing campaign to silence Chinese people outside China.
- At the height of “trafficking” hysteria, this wasn’t considered a problem.
- When it comes to surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- What moral imbeciles condemned him to the registry in the first place?
- This is inevitable when men are given this kind of power and privilege.
- Some still believe these sociopaths are motivated by “child protection”.
- A detailed look at what happens when an entitled rapist cop is caught.
- Watching Tim Ballard’s reputation go down in flames is so very sweet.
- Surely you didn’t think this would stop with libraries and the internet?
- For those laboring under the delusion that Nevada is whore-friendly.
- Authoritarians want more hell-holes to torture even more people in.
- If only US cities could flush their toxic waste before somebody dies.
- Long, bright days disrupt my sleep even after the sun finally sets.
- This insanity will worsen until these maniacs are forcibly stopped.
- Cops, Kevin O’Neill, John Aniston, Ned Rorem, and much more.
- Never forget that this started with censorship of internet porn.
- I’m sure they helpfully yelled “Stop faking!” at him as he died.
- “Feminism” is slowly, falteringly, moving away from misogyny.
- Another reminder that my writing depends on reader support.
- This creepy shit appears to be a cop’s twisted idea of “flirting”.
- Dumb “anti-trafficking” events are now mostly ads for sports.
- Ambulance-chasers can’t wait to capitalize on mob rule laws.
- Michael Lacey writes from the government censorship cage.
- You’d think “youth pastor” would be a big red flag by now.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- Cops, imaginary flights, Lou Donaldson, and much more.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- The main phase of this evil self-parody is finally over.
- It’s always lovely to see them feeding on each other.
- Can’t y’all settle on one term for preachy molesters?
- A curated selection of tweets from November 2023.
- This would be hilarious if it were their own money.
- There is no such thing as “artificial intelligence”.
- I don’t actually mean to collect stray animals.
- Just another typical and representative cop.
- Cops, grisly murder, Alien, and much more.
- Toward the end of privacy, everywhere.
- Grace is diagnosed with throat cancer.
- More curated selections of tweets.
- Throwback Thursday’s Creature.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- R.I.P. Carol Leigh.
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Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they’re evil now. – app developer Mark
This one’s an associate youth pastor:
An associate youth pastor [from] Missouri…[named] Donald Aaron Axtell has been charged with…statutory rape [and] possession of child pornography…[for repeated] sexual…assault…[of a] 15[-year-old]…girl…[she reported him and he has already confessed]…
I guess “they wanted it” is considered less credible when the victim is male?
[A man named] Terrence [who was repeatedly raped in New York’s notorious Rikers Island hellhole] told [screws] again and again…he filed reports…and in two instances, pointed to video [evidence of the attacks]…But each time, jail investigators brushed his claims aside, labeling them “unsubstantiated” or [claiming “he wanted it”]…Now, New York City is paying…[him] $4 million to settle three separate August 2020 lawsuits…
Moral imbeciles can always be trusted to abuse any power they’re given:
Sending women who get abortions to prison for decades. Outlawing IUDs. Sharply restricting in-vitro fertilization. These are the [most draconian invasions of body autonomy]…being [threaten]ed by [psychopathic] South Carolina [politicians], even as opponents of [body autonomy debate]…how far [they can] go [without being lynched]…The proposal would ban all abortions unless [a doctor can convince politicians] the woman’s life is at risk [before she actually dies] and eliminates exceptions for rape and incest victims…Women who get an abortion and anyone who helps them could face up to 30 years in prison…Providing information about abortions would [count as help, so]…doctors…couldn’t [legally] suggest legal abortion elsewhere …The proposal has [created a] split [between] groups that oppose abortion [because they are sociopaths] and [those who oppose it because they are psychopaths]…
Remember when Google’s motto was “Don’t be evil”?
Google is hosting a…CBP…app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants…[for persecuti]on, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about [lurking] ICE [goons]…The CBP app, called Mobile Identify…is for local and state [cop shops in fascist collaboration with]…ICE [in a] program that…“essentially turns [pigs] into ICE [goons]“…Google removed an app called Red Dot…[absurdly] describ[ing ICE goons] as a vulnerable group…while continuing to host a CBP app that uses facial recognition to [target an actual vulnerable group for armed violence]…
Given that the app described in the next item below is called “Mobile Companion”, the two seem related.
Fascism enables surveillance at levels beyond the Stasi’s wildest dreams:
ICE…[now has] an app that lets [violent, unhinged goons] instantly scan a license plate, adding it to a database…that…[not only allows tracking] around the country, [but also cross-references] driver license data, credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations…The capability is powered by [the fascist surveillance divisions of] both Motorola…and Thomson Reuters…which…sells masses of personal data [harvested from its news service]…the capabilities allow [pre-crime] predicting…and…facial recognition…Motorola…acquired [its surveillance capabilities through purchase of] Vigilant…and…DRN…
Is there no end to this ghoulishness?
A new [machine learning] app that allows users to create interactive [cartoon]s of their deceased relatives…[may be a bridge too far for the masses], with many [social media] users calling the technology dystopian…an ad for the app…[depicts] an expectant mother communicat[ing] with a…[chatbot synchronized to a cartoon image] resembling her deceased mother…[then further] interactions the [ghoulish cartoon] has with the family as the son is born, grows up and eventually has children of his own…the ad garnered just 6,000 likes, but plenty of critical responses…One user said the app is “objectively one of the most evil ideas imaginable,” [while]…another [called it] “demonic, dishonest, and dehumanizing”…other[s correctly pointed out that] the app…profits off of grief and [is] an unhealthy way for people to deal with loss…
Do As I Say, Not As I Do (#1590) 
One of the few things neither cops nor goons can routinely get away with:
Bloomington, Minnesota[ cops are hiding the identity]…of…an…ICE [goon who talked to a sow fantasy role-playing as a 17-year-old sex worker]…”When he was arrested, he said, ‘I’m ICE, boys,'” [oinked boss hog Booker] Hodges…[who also oinked pro-censorship drivel, which he apparently believes would somehow stop cop shops from conducting entrapment scams]…
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We make government positions attractive to sociopaths by heaping accolades and privileges upon them; instead, those positions need to be made so repellent that nobody will stay in them for very long. – “Wildfire”
- Long-time readers will remember that I’ve made similar points in the past.
- Another example of profiting from whores’ images while giving us nothing.
- How many more kids’ lives have to be destroyed before we stop the cops?
- I’m pretty sure Savannah was riding in my car while giving this interview.
- How a young woman discovered her grandmother had been a sex worker.
- “Authorities” amazed imaginary problem doesn’t materialize by mandate.
- Tara Burns, Maxine Doogan and two others on “sex trafficking” in Alaska.
- 20 years of New South Wales decriminalization threatened by politicians.
- Cows, cops, Sweden, poets, metaphors, Jean-Michel Jarre & much more.
- Government steals all money Rentboy could have used for legal defense.
- They’re “changing hearts and minds”, all right, but against their tyranny.
- From the people who had hearings vs communists, comics & song lyrics.
- Go ahead, Colorado; prosecute all of ’em. That’ll teach ’em to be sexual.
- The brave heroes of Washington DC stop the menace of rogue twerkers.
- She’s right at home in a movie based on ridiculous conspiracy theories.
- Timothy T. Cutcher denies having sex with dogs or any of his relatives.
- Yet another software package designed to sell whores out to the cops.
- After AZ & WA, FL is most hysterically tyrannical over “sex trafficking”.
- As long as these laws exist, amateurs will be harmed by them as well.
- Los Angeles’ response to “sex trafficking”: increased police brutality.
- Ignorant, pearl-clutching screeds are starting to seem almost quaint.
- Noah Berlatsky with another analogy for the absurdity of prohibition.
- Cuneiform, music, cops, government, stupid people and much more.
- Scammer uses “internship” website to exploit wannabe sex workers.
- A top-secret cabal of nuns who pose as whores to infiltrate brothels.
- The “Facebook pimps” myth is one of the silliest of the whole panic.
- In the US, she would’ve been arrested when she reported the rape.
- The Swedish model has virtually eliminated prostitution in Sweden!
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- A “ring” of independent workers & the cops are looking for “pimps”.
- Let’s put the entire next generation on the “sex offender” registry!
- “Swedish model” propaganda pretends it “decriminalizes” women.
- Generally true in essence, but where are the supporting statistics?
- The rhetoric is ridiculous, but even stupid snitches are dangerous.
- Laura Agustín on the uselessness of the term “human trafficking”.
- Indian NGO wants to force sex workers into brainwashing camps.
- Sexually-regressive Washington moves forward quickly on drugs.
- Fleur de Lit is a lot more optimistic than I am; I hope she’s right.
- On the yellow journalism which permeates coverage of sex work.
- “The Harvard of sex trafficking” or “The Harvard of pimp school”?
- Kathryn Griffin and her “prostitution diversion” scam in Houston.
- The narrower the neck, the more “illegal” sex work there will be.
- Trans people hanged, stoned & even killed by their own parents.
- These are the people “feminists” want in charge of sex workers.
- Why am I so different from what society expects of mistresses?
- The New York Times apologizes for libeling nail salons, kind of.
- A pro-decriminalization argument for a conservative audience.
- The inevitable result of people being given power over others.
- Why do massage parlors bring puritans out of the woodwork?
- None of these “human trafficking” cases involve prostitution.
- What really happens when a wannabe “pimp” abducts a girl.
- Judge Posner can claim a freebie from me anytime he likes.
- How do I find a sex worker I can emotionally connect with?
- How can I find out if my girlfriend is secretly a sex worker?
- Wherever soldiers go, whores have never been far behind.
- Cops, surveillance, phenylephrine, aliens and much more.
- Sex workers present evidence in the House of Commons.
- It’s not every day that the Boss Lady drops by in person.
- If the Church were sanely-run, this article would be true.
- People sometimes ask me why I moved out of Louisiana.
- “Oakland City Council Takes Stand Against Sex Workers“.
- The cops are happy to serve as an ex’s revenge goons.
- A mainstream publication can now feature this article.
- On the anniversary of a very memorable dinner party.
- The State’s two-faced attitude toward “revenge porn”.
- Just a reminder of how nasty Mother Nature really is.
- The UK literally robs sex workers of their life savings.
- Cops, ghosts, dancing skeletons and other monsters.
- Laura Lee on the appalling blindness of “authorities”.
- This article is so stupidly evil it’s almost fascinating.
- Scotland Yard “apologizes” for enabling rapist cops.
- Another sex work-positive article in Cosmopolitan.
- Economists have nearly all come over to our side.
- The amazing Tara Burns interviews Margaret Cho.
- A parliamentary symposium on decriminalization.
- 10 Kenyan sex workers murdered in one month.
- The truth about Charlie Sheen and sex workers.
- A few hundred down, tens of thousands to go.
- Tits and Sass interviews Suzy Favor Hamilton.
- Stories like this are much more common now.
- In New Mexico, civil forfeiture is big business.
- Margaret Cho comes out as a former whore.
- None of this surprises me even one tiny bit.
- Whore stigma affects amateur women, too.
- Cops, boogers, TSA, Elvis and much more.
- It’s like they’re not even trying any more.
- Another move away from prohibitionism.
- There seems to be a word missing here.
- The gravy train just keeps rolling along.
- Sometimes cops even rape other cops.
- What wonderful company the US is in!
- An update on the ESPLERP case.
- How big is civil asset forfeiture?
- And don’t think this is atypical.
- It’s only a matter of time now.
- Glenn Kessler does it again.
- On my first year in Seattle.
- The Red Umbrella Diaries.
- Another Friday the 13th.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- I am not your monkey.
- R.I.P. Cynthia Payne.
- Because they are?
- R.I.P. Carol Doda.
- My new car.
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The speed at which censorship, up to and including calls for literal book-burning, has increased in the past few years is horrifying to any thinking person. – “Censorship Roundup”
Cannabis [is]…not a Magic Wonder Weed from the Muses which will mystically plant art in the barren soil of unimaginative brains; it’s more akin to a cabin in the woods or a studio soundproofed against traffic noise.
– “Holy Moly”
As a teen, I thought most folks were ignorant fools with atrocious beliefs. Then I grew older & wiser, and realized their beliefs being different from mine didn’t make them wrong or foolish. Then I grew older & wiser still, and realized I’d been mostly correct in the 1st place. – “Tweet Charity”
“We” is a pronoun favored by bootlickers, useful idiots, collectivists, and other sleazebags in an attempt to shift much of the blame for their collaboration with evil onto the reader and others who had nothing to do with it, or even opposed it. – “All the Tweets are Brown”
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Online age verification is not just a major invasion of privacy, but a potential bonanza for cybercriminals. – Attila Tomaschek
“Pastor” + teacher = “youth pastor”:
Fort Collins [Colorado cops] have arrested Matthew McGinley…[a typical and representative] pastor and teacher [for grooming and molesting]…a…student…for more than one year…[starting in] the 2018-2019 school year…and…continu[ing]…until the victim cut off communication [in 2020]…McGinley [later confessed] to…a church leader…
Do As I Say, Not As I Do (#1548) 
Boss hog tries the same bullshit with cops that cops routinely feed the media:
…[A Massachusetts boss hog named] Michael Alibozek…was…[rewarded with a paid vacation after offering money to a sow fantasy role-play]ing online [as a sex worker. In order to get higher charges and negatively influence the judge, the sow]…arranged for a meet-up [in a]…school parking lot…Alibozek [absurdly claimed] that he “went on a website to try to get girls off the street…He meets with them, talks with them, and attempts to set them straight”…
Western nations are competing to out-China China:
Under the pretense of protecting minors and preserving morals, [politicians] in the United States and the United Kingdom are putting the privacy of millions of citizens at risk. Age verification bills…[have metastasized] across much of the US since 2022…but…the latest proposals from [wannabe cens]ors in Wisconsin and Michigan take aim not just at access to adult content, but at virtual private networks as well…internet users have been turning to VPNs to make it appear as though their connection is originating from a different location, effectively bypassing [surveillance laws]…As a result, VPN use has skyrocketed, which is a boon for VPN providers, but…free VPNs [can hide]…malware [that will]…log their internet activity or misuse their personal data…Online age verification is not just a major invasion of privacy, but a potential bonanza for cybercriminals. With millions of internet users uploading images of their faces alongside their government-issued IDs…age verification companies have become extremely attractive targets for hackers…[regardless of politicians’ empty] promises to keep data safe…
No, this is a different pro-censorship Michigan politician caught on hookup sites:
The name, email address, and home address of [Michigan politician] Bryan Posthumus…along with a credit card bearing his name, appear in data from Ashley Madison…AdultFriendFinder and Fling.com…Posthumus used [“family values”, anti-LGBT, anti-abortion, and associated buzzwords to drive his political career, but]…his…Fling.com…lists top interests as “fetish,” “group sex,” and…an interest in men, women, or couples….
The only thing they “regret” is not getting away with this:
The county [whose sheriff illegally raided] a small-town Kansas newspaper…in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor…the…Sheriff’s Office also crafted a statement [pretend]ing regret…the…agreements [cover] Eric Meyer, the owner and editor of the Marion County Record…Ruth Herbel, the [politician] whose home was raided in tandem with the newspaper office, and two other journalists. The agreements coincide with consent judgments expected to be submitted in their federal cases against the county…the paper…[still has other] ongoing cases against the city…
Bounty hunters are the lowest, most toxic species of vermin tolerated by US society:
…ICE…is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private [dick]s who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to…[abduct. These and similar bottom feed]ers all have access to powerful [and often illegal] surveillance technology and tools…rang[ing] from…ALPR…databases [to]…location data harvested from smartphones…
Censors never, ever stop until they are forced to stop:
…Proponents of [a new UK bill pretend] the mere existence of choking porn [magically] harms women, even when it’s created consensually between adults…[politicians] are also proposing a range of other regulations related to sex work, including one that would define publishing sex worker ads as “pimping” and another that could criminalize paying sex workers for webcam performances…The [choking] ban…would [even criminalize possession of]…realistic [cartoon porn]…so…anyone who has previously downloaded or purchased any BDSM porn could be prosecuted…and…imprisoned…[another] amendment would let porn performers retroactively withdraw consent…[making adult performance] contract[s unenforceable]…yet another…would make it illegal to possess…any [image manipulation] software…
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It didn’t take long for Jonathan to get used to having Hercules around, but as of last week they seem to have become friends. At the end of each day, I give them each a scoop of oats & feed, but because Jonathan takes his time eating while goats bolt their food, Hercules is always done first and will immediately try to push Jonathan out of the way to get the rest of his. So what I’ve been doing is to feed Hercules inside the chicken coop and Jonathan in the stable, so that Hercules can’t bother Jonathan while he’s eating. It only takes about 10 minutes, so I just go about my business and return to let Hercules out once Jonathan emerges from the stable. And for the past week, I’ve found him waiting patiently outside the gate every single day for his rude friend. From Hercules’ direction, he seems to prefer grazing or browsing within sight of Jonathan for most of the day. So though I can’t yet tell if Hercules’ presence will control the ground cover, at least Jonathan has another creature whose habits are more like his than the pigs’ are.
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