Cicero is now officially a biggie piggie; as of last Friday he lives outside full-time. I had planned on October 1st as the date for some time, then in the last few days of September he confirmed that decision by figuring out how to get out of his pen in the morning whether we let him out or not. He’s up to about 60#, and we’ve been letting him run around outside from early in the morning until about dinnertime for the past month anyhow; the only thing that’s changed is he gets his dinner outside now and sleeps where he likes, which seems to mostly be up on the bathhouse deck or on the dog’s bed in the shop. He didn’t even cry or try to get inside the first night, and let me tell you, I find him a lot cuter now that I don’t have to clean up after him twice a day. He likes to follow us around like a puppy; this was taken from inside the chicken yard, because he tends to follow me there when I go to feed them, and will circle the outside trying to figure out how to get in to eat their scratch corn. Other times he forages near Shiloh and Jonathan out in the paddock, or hangs out with them in the barn. He also likes to nap on the deck near the hot tub when it’s running; I reckon he likes the sound of the water. All in all he seems a happy, contented animal, and the transition to outside couldn’t have been smoother.
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October Country, that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain… – Ray Bradbury
My 2011 essay “Moondance” was mostly an examination of the psychological and philosophical consequences of modern people’s disconnection with nature, but it also included the following:
October usually enjoys a particular sort of cool weather, a crisp breeziness quite unlike that one might experience on an early spring day or a comparatively warm winter one; this is October Weather, my name for that special atmospheric condition I associate with turning leaves and the imminent arrival of my birthday. In New Orleans I was often cheated of it…but when [it] did arrive I was filled with a sort of wild, witchy joy; I wanted to stay out late, to suck the fragrant air into my lungs and fly through the night under the harvest moon with my hair streaming behind me. As a young teen I often sneaked out in the middle of the night to enjoy such weather, and after I arrived at UNO I would wander about the campus on such evenings or ride my bicycle to midnight movies…And though as I age my reaction to October Weather isn’t nearly as strong as it was in my teens and twenties, on clear, cool October nights I still feel the urge to go out and dance in the dry leaves under the moon.
I’m now a decade further from those days than I was when I penned those lines, and my days of dancing under the moon are long gone; each October takes me still further, and now my reaction to October weather is less euphoria and more blessed relief from the discomfort and anxiety produced by the excessive light and heat of summer. October is more than just my native month; it is my native country, and the time in which I have always been most at peace and (paradoxically for a time associated with haunts, dying vegetation and the dying year) felt most alive. I’ve always had a taste for the weird and macabre, for spooky tales and shadow-shows, for rain and dry leaves and pumpkins, for black cats and the imagery of wild woods, sunless seas, and catacombs; I was “Goth” long before either the term or the subculture existed. So it should be no surprise to anyone that I gravitated first toward a profession associated with musty books, and later toward one associated with the night, nor that as I aged I moved my habitation westward (the direction historically associated with death) to finally settle in the region of this continent with the least sunlight and the most rain. These days, I mostly celebrate this Month of Months with the watching of horror movies, culminating in my birthday; if you’d like to help me celebrate by sending a token of your esteem, I’d very much welcome that. And as you’ve probably already guessed, many of the selections are very much in keeping with the season.
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This bitch is lying. She’s high on something. – a cop’s medical expertise
This song brings back some very special memories for me, especially during October, but I recently realized I had never featured it here. The links above it were provided by Yasmin Nair, Franklin Harris, Wendy Lyon, Radley Balko, Cop Crisis, and Desiree Alliance, in that order.
- Shades of Redwall!
- The Odyssey of Star Wars.
- A very patient practical joker.
- Not. For. Any. Reason. WHATSOEVER.
- Cops regularly demonstrate what they are.
- Is this from one of those men’s adventure magazines?
From the Archives
- Asian press can’t let go of the word “rescue”, even when patently absurd.
- Trumpists are completely taking control of the “sex trafficking” narrative.
- Non-wealthy victims of this illegal surveillance still had their lives ruined.
- I’ll be so glad when the current incarnation of the Cult of the Child ends.
- Think I’ll comply with the European “right to be forgotten”? Think again.
- AirBnB “trafficking” fantasies aren’t popular in Belgium; sadfeelz ensue.
- When the topic is sex, Philippine reporters can’t write like sane adults.
- Twitter welcomes fake sex workers while working to silence real ones.
- Americans will believe basically any scaremongering about teenagers.
- Cops don’t care how many lives they destroy with their sick fantasies.
- This could potentially be useful in winning the support of bureaucrats.
- This decision is necessary to prevent a cascade of predatory lawsuits.
- Normal people are increasingly sick of prohibitionism and puritanism.
- It’s good to see psychologists debunking hysteria over “pedophilia”.
- Everyone arrested in a “sting” should sue the cops if at all possible.
- Destroying Asian masseuses’ livelihood does not constitute “help”.
- A report by Hacking/Hustling on shadowbans and similar policies.
- Americans pretend “politician hires whores” is other than a yawn.
- So much for the claimed “increase in sex trafficking in Montana”.
- Transphobes try to accomplish their goals by spreading hysteria.
- Don’t try to imagine this in the US; you’ll overload your brain.
- All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
- Elizabeth Nolan Brown on the Blocked and Reported podcast.
- Cops, prohibition, Mac Davis, Helen Reddy, and much more.
- Looks like Michael Hobbes has joined the debunkers’ club.
- Censorship has now become almost universally popular.
- It’s far too late to put this evil djinni back into its bottle.
- Cops, Jessye Norman, rubber chickens and much more.
- In true horror cinema, there is little to no “explanation”.
- Big masked heroes in riot gear brutalize naked women.
- Can you imagine this happening in the puritanical US?
- Thai sex worker activists are made of awesome.
- A reception for The War on Whores at Reason.
- Politicians’ potty obsession has gone federal.
- This was a wise move on Stagliano’s part.
- The Indian high court’s ruling in action.
- This is still a hot-button issue in Japan.
- Rethinking the floor-leveling project.
- Switching to our new power system.
- Everything’s Better Than a Hooker.
- The “security” system that isn’t.
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The key question we need to ask is why she was in prison in the first place. – Deborah Coles
The Lesser of Two Evils (#722) 
Maybe the Church should delineate acceptable ways for priests to meet their sexual needs:
A Roman Catholic priest has been arrested for stealing over $117,000 in church funds to buy drugs for his gay sex parties. Father Francesco Spagnesi…has been placed under house arrest while police interview 200 people who reportedly attended his lavish orgies over the past two years…when a parish accountant discovered that he had withdrawn [the money]…from the parish’s bank account…the local bishop…cut off [his] access to the funds…Spagnesi…the[n]…began taking money from the collection plate and soliciting money directly from parishioners, who were told he was raising aid for poor families. The parishioners have now initiated legal action…to reclaim their money…
News flash: humans have sexual urges. Deprive them of socially-sanctioned ways to meet their needs, and they’ll find other ways. It really is that simple.
What is it about massage parlors that brings the puritans out of the woodwork?
In one of New York’s toniest neighborhoods…a shady massage parlor is hidden in plain view…[it] sees a steady stream of well-dressed male clientele late into the night. The alleged illicit massage business in the upscale neighborhood is one of at least 629 others currently operating across the five boroughs — a network of illegal enterprises so vast, they outnumber Starbucks 2 to 1 citywide…this summer, a local [prohibitionist] in search of…a [way to drum up anti-sex hysteria supposedly sent her teenage son into one, then got him to parrot her ugly propaganda to a prohibitionist reporter for a yellow rag]…
When you see the word “illicit”, you can be sure you’re reading prohibitionist propaganda.
British screws also love yelling “Stop faking!” at caged people:
A vulnerable 18-year-old whose baby died after her calls for help were ignored as she gave birth alone in a prison cell was not provided with bereavement support – but the prison guards who [refused]…her medical assistance were offered counselling…the [guards finally noticed her]…cradling her dead baby more than 12 hours after…[she told] staff…she needed an ambulance…
At least the UK press uses fewer copsucking euphemisms that that of the US.
Oh noes, they contaminated public places with their eeeevul sex rays!
A South Carolina couple, previously arrested in January over public sex videos they had uploaded to adult platforms, has once again been charged under local “obscenity” statutes after an anonymous [snitch] gave the police a USB drive containing their adult content…Eric and Lori Harmon…ar[e]…being held without bail…
Do As I Say, Not As I Do (#1119)
It’s always nice when they feed on each other:
A [typical and representative] Jacksonville [Florida cop] has been arrested on charges of distributing…child…[porn]…Scott Matthew Yotka…faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted, as well as [condemnation to the “sex offender” registry]…Yotka…[was caught when he] used a social media app to [chat] with an…FBI [spook fantasy role-playing]…as the parent of a child…[he] was a[pparently offering to] Yotka [or some similar thing buried in the news report under prevarication and euphemisms]…
I’ll be optimistic when she clearly repudiates the Swedish model:
[New York governor] Kathy Hochul did not endorse the decriminalization of sex work…but s[aid]…“It is absolutely something I’ve thought about and I’m considering”…[unfortunately there are] two competing bills…before the state Legislature….“We hope that when (Hochul says) ‘decrim’ that she’s talking about the real comprehensive decriminalization for sex workers that will ultimately lead to better outcomes for people,” [said] Jared Trujillo…[of the NYCLU; however]…the Hochul administration has had discussions with people backing a [Swedish model bill sponsored by [prohibitionist] Liz Krueger [which would treat sex workers as moral imbeciles and target their partners, friends, co-workers and families for persecution]…
So many words to downplay raping children:
A [typical and representative] Coos Bay [Oregon cop] has been indicted and arrested [for] child [rape]…Terry Scott Rogers…started [repeatedly raping] a child [under 12] in 2012…and…continued [regularly raping her] for six years. Rogers was indicted on [five] counts of…[rape], eight counts of [molestation]…and [other associated] charges…Rogers’ attorneys argued his…background [as a rapist] is proof he can be released on his own recognizance…[but the judge set bail at] $50,000…and…Rogers [w]as [rewarded with a paid vacation]…
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At long last, we have an operational hot tub! Week before last my electrician wired up the GFCI panel, then early last week I took advantage of a warm last day of summer to drain the rainwater accumulation out the tub; those who have been paying close attention may remember that the French drain starts immediately beside the tub, so all we need to do is pump the water out and the drain carries it away. After that I cleaned out all the dust, dead bugs and other detritus, then filled it again for a test run to clean out the system; next, we drained it and refilled it, and it’s ready to go! Of course, it’ll be much nicer when there’s a roof above it, but that’s on the way too; even before we get everything closed up nicely, the autumn here is mild enough that we’ll still probably get some enjoyment out of it even before it’s properly enclosed.
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Politicians never want to limit the number of ways they can harass, threaten and persecute people. – “They Speak for Themselves”
- “‘Morality’ cannot be used to violate the rights of even a single individual.“
- Christian eschatology, Scientology, and ancient-astronaut tinfoil-hattery.
- “I pray that what happened to me never happens to those who did this.“
- Those uncomfortable with their own sexuality want nobody to have sex.
- Why don’t decrim supporters work with those who support legalization?
- Is there anything narrower & meaner than the mind of a prison official?
- Private Dancer, A Woman’s Story, Hot Child in the City and La Grange.
- Why do some people ask questions but refuse to accept the answers?
- “It’s time to stop letting zealots destroy the lives of innocent people.“
- Michael Weinstein’s campaign to turn porn movies into commercials.
- “60,000 arrivals into a continent of half a billion isn’t an emergency.“
- I really like sharing my nice things with those who appreciate them.
- “We didn’t want to publicly air rapey cop conduct in a prosecution.“
- “To many people, what we do is more important than who we are.“
- “These nowadays men, they like to get but they don’t like to give.“
- An Algerian tribe in which prostitution was normal and accepted.
- An elderly harlot tells her granddaughter about a favorite client.
- Hiding migration control behind the “sex trafficking” narrative.
- On sex workers who waste energy in internecine squabbles.
- Winnowing out the time-wasters, clowns, and cheapskates.
- On the prohibitionist fantasy of a sex worker caste system.
- Can you let me know when [you do some particular thing]?
- A rare moment of calm in this stormy, difficult incarnation.
- Cops spouting neofeminist rhetoric is like lipstick on a pig.
- An illustrative example of clueless neofeminist whining.
- A list of sex-worker friendly criminal defense attorneys.
- How “feminist” laws infantilize or pathologize women.
- The man behind much of Swanee Hunt’s propaganda.
- Lulu White, one of Storyville’s most famous madams.
- On the recrudescence of direct, top-down censorship.
- A few politicians’ uncensored opinions about whores.
- How feminists cut off their noses to spite their faces.
- “My body is my business – and it is a money maker.“
- “Cops are too busy playing these goddamn games.“
- In the UK, bureaucracy is a shield against sex rays.
- One runs into former clients in the oddest places.
- Why only some religions have freedom in the US.
- Dehumanization, sex workers and serial killers.
- Politicians judge others, but never themselves.
- Whores in the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
- A week where I was almost too busy to think.
- Somehow, I doubt he thought this through.
- Florida prefers to keep fornication criminal.
- Dr. Ronald Weitzer on “trafficking” myths.
- Guest columnist: Norma Jean Almodovar.
- Arianna Huffington panders to hysteria.
- A nude selfie and running out of steam.
- A minor setback for Michael Weinstein.
- It’s not a good time to begin sexwork.
- An open letter to Australian feminists.
- I despise misuse of the word “vagina”.
- Women’s views of male sex workers.
- A picture is worth a thousand words.
- Workers’ paradise vs. gold diggers.
- How the Swiss deal with sex work.
- The fallacy of “empowerment”.
- A glossary of sex work terms.
- Dominatrices in the news.
- Banned Books Week.
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Authoritarian regimes are able to reach across borders much more effectively than they could in the past. – Ronald Deibert
The Pro-Rape Coalition (#1024) 
A natural 21st-century development for the brand:
Playboy announced…the launch of premium fan site Centerfold…expected to roll out in the coming months. Centerfold will “build upon our long history of passing the mic to the most revolutionary voices of our day. And true to our heritage, we will amplify their messages even further through digital covers, feature stories, interviews and, of course, striking and sensual pictorials…We will also arm our creators with access to content production, merchandise capabilities, blockchain integration and more”…
Even prohibitionists like Holmes can tell which way the wind is blowing:
…a Seattle Municipal Court Judge approved a motion by Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes to quash all outstanding warrants for misdemeanor prostitution, including some issued well over a decade ago…The City Attorney’s Office hasn’t prosecuted anyone for selling sex since 2019, when the Seattle Police Department ramped up arrests and sting operations targeting both sex workers and [client]s in response to…pressure [from idiots who thought sex work would magically vanish after]…the federal shutdown of Backpage…
Predictable Consequences (#1134)
Prohibitionism is an inherently violent belief system:
The FBI arrested a Michigan man [last] Monday fo[r]…threats of violence…against telecommunications companies, which the man had blamed for “broadcasting pornography, cursing and immoral content.” Federal prosecutors charged John Douglas Allen…with “extortion and attempting to destroy a building”…Th[reat] letters were sent from a supposed “Coalition for Moral Telecommunication (CMT)” and addressed to several companies, including AT&T and Verizon. The letters [threatened the imaginary group would] “begin distroying [sic] inner city tower communication”…unless several demands were followed…includ[ing] a $5 million payment and [total censorship of]…”immoral content”…
They should’ve done this years ago:
A trade organization for the adult entertainment industry has hired a D.C. lobbying firm to build its relationships with [politicians]…on behalf of…the industry. Most notably it is trying to beat back major changes to Section 230…[which] is key to its ability to exist. The same law that protects Instagram and YouTube from being sued over illegal content posted by its users…also protects sites like PornHub and OnlyFans…But [a majority of politicians] of both parties…have…[only been stopped from] strip[ping]…that protection away [by their inability to agree on what should be censored and who exactly should control Americans’ thoughts and speech]. The Free Speech Coalition…has enlisted two lobbyists at Clarity Consulting…Keith Nelson…and…Shawn Delaney…So far, [Nelson] has been meeting with [politicians] and their [lackeys] to address…“a huge vacuum of information” about the adult entertainment industry…
For the umpteen thousandth time: the bipartisan drive to censor the internet is not “Trump-fueled”, didn’t begin with Trump, and is being ramped up by Biden, who has repeatedly stated that he wants Section 230 repealed. But I guess partisanism trumps facts in the modern yellow press.
A prosecutor is just a kind of cop:
…a tough-on-crime prosecutor…[named] Jeffrey Lynn Thomas…[raped a] woman…he…knew…in a professional capacity…[who] had for years rebuffed his persistent sexual advances…he…walked into the woman’s home with an armload of beer cans and…refused [to leave]…After she slapped him, Thomas hit her in the face and gave her a nosebleed…[then] raped [and throttled] her…Thomas finally left…after the woman promised him she wouldn’t report him to the police…She reported the rape to Pennsylvania State Police on [September 20th]…
Worst of all, Western governments are looking at this as a model:
Once Dan arrived in Canada and began adjusting to a new city and a new university, he continued to browse Twitter in his dorm room…He retweeted only three posts: the news that Nobel laureate and Chinese democracy advocate Liu Xiaobo had died, a short satirical video about…Xi Jinping, and a chart on levels of Chinese government corruption. With only two followers, he wasn’t making a splash — but…then his father called him out of the blue, clearly disturbed. “Son, did you say something about the Chinese government on the internet? The public security bureau called us twice”…Soon after…a [Chinese cop] contacted him on the WeChat social media app…[even though] Dan hadn’t accepted a new friend request…“The police told me the Ministry of Public Security…tracked me by my IP address and knows where I live in Canada. They have evidence the Twitter account belongs to me”…the [cop] ordered Dan to immediately delete the offensive posts [or] “You will face trouble.” “Trouble” is a well-known euphemism in China for state persecution. It can range from repeated visits and phone calls all the way to…house arrest [of relatives still in China]…
Notice how often predatory cops’ victims are underage?
Prosecutors…charged St. Louis [cop] Mark West with three counts of…molest[ing children]…younger than 12…[and] asked for a $100,000 bail “due to the number and serious nature of the offenses and because the defendant constitutes a threat to the victim and other children he may encounter”…
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Now that I’m semi-retired and living full-time at Sunset, I schedule all of my appointments (professional, medical, beauty, etc) during the same two-day period every three weeks, so I don’t have to drive into Seattle more than is necessary; of course there are occasional exceptions (such as for all-night appointments and the like), but in general I’ve been able to keep things clustered closely together. And on most visits, Lorelei and I can synchronize our schedules enough for a Who night. TV and movie watching are social experiences for me; I rarely watch anything longer than a music video unless I’m in the company of someone I can discuss them with during or after, and if I happen to love my viewing companion it’s even better! That’s why I still get excited about Who night with Lorelei despite the fact that I’m watching nearly every night with Grace; watching with a different person creates a different experience for me, and the different intoxicants (edibles at home with Grace and a sonic screwdriver when watching at Lorelei’s) probably make a difference as well.
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Censorship, once condemned by all ethical people, has now become almost universally popular. – “The Convergence of Censors”
The last week of September is “Banned Books Week“; over the 11 years I’ve been writing this blog, my columns on the topic have changed as threats to intellectual freedom have dramatically increased worldwide. As I said last year,
When I was a librarian, [this] Week was little more than an academic exercise; censorship was an intermittent and generally impotent threat proceeding from small numbers of narrow-minded busybodies, which was easily defeated by librarians and other guardians of our shared cultural heritage. But that was a generation ago, and would-be censors have become numerous, aggressive, well-organized and (most concerningly) popular. Few of those under 30 even understand what free speech is or why it’s important, and the majority or those over that age imagine all sorts of exceptions that they believe should be reasons to violently suppress speech…the censor-morons…are…multiplying like bacteria and have already infested all the centers of power…
The links are all there for your perusal, but just in case you’ve been asleep for the past three or four years, here are a few stories from the past six months so you can see for yourself that I’m not exaggerating. There’s still plenty of old-fashioned, bluenosed, school-based censorship conducted in the name of THE CHIIIIIIIIILDREEEEEEN!!!™, but now they’ve learned to pretend ideas they don’t like constitute a “crime” so as to threaten their enemies with police violence. Furthermore, institutions writers could once count on to defend them, including libraries and publishers, now race to see who can kowtow most obsequiously to the censor-morons, sometimes even volunteering to act as censors themselves, and institutions which need free speech the most are lobotomizing themselves by peddling pro-censorship sophistry and even conducting literal book burnings. Governments are increasingly claiming the “right” to declare which facts are “correct” and to suppress ideas they declare “disinformation” or “fake news”, and in our increasingly-connected world governments are increasingly able to cause trouble for people who say things they dislike far beyond their own borders (China is the worst offender, but is far from alone). Soon, ideas the mob, the government, or other violent simian gangs dislike may become impossible to acquire outside of caches of virtual samizdat, at which point the censor-morons will pivot to criminalizing avenues of access to such caches while “intellectuals” cheer and pen screeds about how obedience and conformity are far better for “society” than imagination and critical thinking.
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A murder. – Murray Smalpage
I’ve always been fond of this song, and it started going through my head about a week ago, so here you go. The links above it were provided by Mark Bennett, Mike Siegel, Scott Greenfield, Mistress Matisse, and Cop Crisis (x2), in that order.
- Escher’s diner.
- Sodom and Gomorrah?
- Paging Inspector Javert.
- Good riddance to bad rubbish.
- It’s not usually quite so literal.
- Sometimes even pigs oink out the truth, even if only by accident.
From the Archives
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Even by local news standards, the sound of bootlicking here is deafening.
- “Legalization” features weird, arbitrary laws from obsessive bureaucrats.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives. Some don’t stop with beating.
- Meanwhile, the “enlightened” West just watches a genocide in progress.
- I’m sure you amateurs are happy to be censored “for THE CHILDREN™!”
- Bizarre, stilted language used to describe a very ordinary escort service.
- The government keeps trying to hide information in the Backpage case.
- Politicians are gradually starting to realize that whores and clients vote.
- The media flail against a hysteria they’ve worked for decades to create.
- Do I really have to add, “Not because you saw a picture of a Nerf gun”?
- Serial rape is just one of the fringe benefits afforded to Florida screws.
- Much worse than the typical government propaganda such as “DARE”.
- Guess why he was allowed to rack up three victims before they acted?
- Why local laws banning surveillance technology are feel-good bullshit.
- Judge reverses one iota of government persecution of two journalists.
- Don’t teach kids about sex; fill their heads with anti-sex propaganda.
- Even shitty sex work doesn’t really resemble prohibitionist fantasies.
- It might be wise to restrict this to fully-anonymized online accounts.
- Deaths from a black market product? Just expand the black market!
- “Sex trafficking” is imploding in spectacular & entertaining fashion.
- A good general overview of political attacks on Dutch sex workers.
- Yet another example of why sex worker licensing is a terrible idea.
- Top-down government censorship has returned with a vengeance.
- On the collectivist campaign to rob the world of a beneficial plant.
- Without penalties, laws like this are mere political grandstanding.
- Oh look, someone in Hollywood appears to have grown a spine.
- A federal court finally recognizes what should’ve been obvious.
- On the deeply misogynistic basis of modern “consent” dogma.
- A retrospective of my columns for September 2016 and 2017.
- At least this judge didn’t give the stolen money to Ruhama.
- Cops, vegetables, shoggoths, little boys and much more.
- I love seeing prohibitionists hoist with their own petard.
- Cops, tombs, George Harrison, and much more.
- Laws are for the peasantry, not the rulers.
- My two previous columns for Mabon.
- A week of invisible improvements.
- News about the FOSTA challenge.
- Sliding smoothly into autumn.
- How I dress to buy steel.
- Rapist cop of the week.
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