Today is International Whores’ Day. It is not “Sex Worker Day”; that is March 3rd. Today is a day to shamelessly celebrate our shameless history, not a day for sanitized words or concepts; it is a day to fight society’s attempts (via law and police violence) to sanitize the wilder, unrulier, more chthonic aspects of sex. This is a day for sexual outlaws, not well-behaved “workers”; it is a day to celebrate the triumphs of criminalized human beings against a society that would rather we didn’t exist. It is a day to oppose censorship, not to engage in self-censorship; a day to honor a means of survival that predates laws and governments by eons; and a day to celebrate a power which will always defeat even the most pernicious attempts to domesticate it.
Posts Tagged ‘activism’
Whores’ Day 2023
Posted in Holidays, Perception, Philosophy, Words, tagged activism, Aphrodite, archeofeminism, censorship, holidays, language on June 2, 2023| 2 Comments »
Maytweets
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged activism, BDSM, blogging, censorship, cops, drugs, imaginative fiction, internet, language, New Orleans, politicians, psychology, Puerto Rico, rape, robots, To Molest and Rape, Twitter, Washington (state), Washington DC, yellow journalism on May 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »
If you want the State to control what you can see, read, say in public, or do with your body, I'm not going to kink-shame you. But please stop trying to violently impose your weird perversion on those who don't share it.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 23, 2023
My preference would be for something that also eliminates the veep, cabinet, and most of Congress at the same time, like a giant meteor.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 24, 2023
According to this sentence, the naked man was trying to detain the cop.
News media: editors are not optional, though y'all seem to believe otherwise. https://t.co/QUFJuUBvbw
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 26, 2023
Why do some people insist on dropping some deranged statement in the middle of an otherwise-sensible tweet? It's like setting the table and then dropping a turd right next to the salt & pepper shakers.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 27, 2023
If only there were a concise word for a cop forcing his penis into an unwilling woman's mouth. https://t.co/wgEcLiNJyU
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 27, 2023
There are some things I simply cannot wrap my brain around, no matter how I try; one of them is defining oneself in relation to some celebrity who doesn't even know one exists.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 28, 2023
It's sad to watch the lengths to which people will go to reassure themselves. https://t.co/O9vAYAMGMy
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 1, 2023
Maggie McNeill points out that you'll still be able to read whatever you like for free by simply copying the link (or finding it on Google using the headline) and putting it into https://t.co/zvZZCQagIB https://t.co/4pERzxQC0D
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 1, 2023
I believe in free will and self-ownership; nobody should "follow" me, because I have no interest in being a "leader". But if people want to read what I write, they're welcome to do so and might occasionally learn something. https://t.co/1VX6Mu5NhL
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 2, 2023
The good news is, there are already 8 decades of human-written television from many countries, so even if computers are used to "write" (ie copy, process & assemble) shows in the future, there's a lifetime of content already available, 95% of which I guarantee you haven't seen. https://t.co/5tmfcgU7pG
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 3, 2023
…finishing law school so as to help sex workers with legal issues, so we're trying to raise $2,000/month for the next 6 months to help her cover basic needs and additional costs. Please help if you are able! https://t.co/smqGSxmoxW
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 4, 2023
That's why they're called "law enforcement", not "citizen protection".
Here's an article on the cases; note "Castle Rock v Gonzalez" especially is not dissimilar to this one: https://t.co/brRAlH1G0q
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 5, 2023
It amuses me when urbanites get up in arms over things rural dwellers take for granted. https://t.co/rf4HUgHrIO
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 7, 2023
Just a reminder that the least "regulated" product in the US is government.
It's a product you're FORCED to buy & the price keeps increasing all the time. Those providing it are the ones who make up the regulations, & change them on a whim when they bother obeying them at all.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 8, 2023
Your regular reminder that most cities have businesses that rebuild and sell used appliances; they last LONGER than modern appliances and do a better job for a fraction of the cost.
Support local businesses and get a good appliance vs a "smart" status symbol. Your choice. https://t.co/IRtL9OG1QM
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 9, 2023
I'm not fully convinced that ALL national-level politicians are not either devils or malevolent aliens (depending on whether we live in a fantasy universe or a sci-fi one). pic.twitter.com/WYPWsiUbRm
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 10, 2023
Hell, this is nothing new; it's just automating what politicians have always done. https://t.co/50zbYEQAFH
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 11, 2023
The only "armed persons" I'm concerned about are those whose "traits" are a badge, a swagger, and a complete disregard for civil liberties.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 12, 2023
No. Unless a person lives in State housing, their home is not a public accommodation.
The State does not have the power to define metaphysical reality, as I point out in this tale: https://t.co/NoMba5UPj6 https://t.co/Myz34TYXSY
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 16, 2023
Your regular reminder that the Culture War is childish lunacy and all who embrace it are childish lunatics.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 16, 2023
Trying to use Twitter without muting is like trying to have a garden without weeding.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 18, 2023
As a child, the thing that infuriated me more than anything was when ignorant adults used their power and authority to demand I submit to their incorrect notions.
This is just a grown-up version of that. https://t.co/sXYjBv8Cr0
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 19, 2023
You DO know that this emotional state has gone by many different names before "depression" was settled on, right? Many famous people throughout history suffered from "melancholy" or "dark moods". Try rereading the first book of Samuel and tell me what you'd call Saul's condition. https://t.co/ipgtAq84gx
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 19, 2023
I'm a drug user, and if Inslee wants to "love" me he can pay for it like everybody else. https://t.co/flOJtUs3KE
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 21, 2023
The First Tweets of Spring
Posted in Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, Music, Philosophy, tagged activism, agency denial, asset seizure, blogging, censorship, consensual crime, cops, crypto-moralism, drugs, Florida, hysteria, language, law, left-right myth, License To Rape, Minnesota, New York, politicians, propaganda, psychology, robots, Twitter, United Kingdom, universal criminality on April 24, 2023| 5 Comments »
"Smart" devices aren't, part Umpty-eleven. https://t.co/4vzXR30qIY
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 23, 2023
If you only watch one video this week, make it this one.
This woman is heroic, and y'all know I do *not* throw that term around lightly as so many do now. She could comfortably enjoy old age, but instead she's still fighting for what is RIGHT at 100 years old. https://t.co/KRQFXVa9JU
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 24, 2023
It's always interesting to see which stranger partisans now consider it fashionable to allow to live in their heads for free.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 26, 2023
Cops molesting kids is epidemic; just because some of them prefer to call the molestation a "search" doesn't make it a different issue. https://t.co/uKOtSJOQVl
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 27, 2023
If you really want a book for more than one-time light reading, you need to actually buy it. Kindle "buying" is really just a kind of renting from a lessor who can change the terms of the contract at any time, even to substituting a different text without your consent. https://t.co/IdG64L2nny
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 28, 2023
THIS. At one time, a prescription was simply a note from one professional to another, explaining exactly *which* drug the patient needed in clinical terms the patient could not be expected to understand or repeat accurately. Prohibition turned that into a legal document. https://t.co/mCc71HL81E
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 29, 2023
"Murdered".
The word for the willful killing of a human being who poses no threat to the killer is "murder". https://t.co/9U0nzMwTPK
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 30, 2023
Men being extremely silly with their mommies is quite possibly my favorite genre of short video. https://t.co/9UrNo8tVAx
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 31, 2023
For example: pic.twitter.com/bAE8ZZc5wl
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 31, 2023
These publishers are like fast-food chains who intentionally ruin menu items in order to please people who aren't their customers and never will be no matter HOW much they change. https://t.co/E3x7qiBPWs
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 2, 2023
Historically-ignorant pronouncements have got to be one of the most irritating things on Twitter.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 4, 2023
Whenever I see people surprised that "their" politicians behave exactly like everybody knows politicians behave, I'm reminded of a quote from Rita Mae Brown (not Einstein, sorry internet): "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results."
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 5, 2023
In which "progressive" NPR calls for more of the police interactions that result in the deaths or incarceration of many thousands of Americans a year. https://t.co/tEcVJ4BMOT
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 7, 2023
I hope amateur women never change, so that future generations of whores will always have plenty of work. Is that wrong of me?
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 8, 2023
I once wrote a story based on this concept; it's a sort of theological horror romance spiced with VERY black humor. https://t.co/jJBXD1Qzue
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 9, 2023
That's probably the most incompetent. But the most pretentious rhymes definitely come from Sting; I mean, rhyming "apprentice" with "Charybdis" and "shake and cough" with "Nabokov" is pretty impressively pompous.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 10, 2023
Outrage based on conscious ignorance is driven by the need or desire to be outraged; it's that need which motivates the intentional ignorance. Therefore such outrage MUST be stronger than mere organic outrage, in the same way refined products are more potent than raw ones.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 11, 2023
"Cops admit they paid for their expensive new toys with stolen money" is not the reassurance they seem to imagine it is. https://t.co/iZJNFaoQZO
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 12, 2023
Ray Harryhausen was an irreplaceable blessing to humanity. https://t.co/5qGQ6ULdCT
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 13, 2023
"Speaker Paul Renner had to close the public viewing galleries…"
He "had to"? Was he forced to do so by an evil spell or Platonian psychokinesis? Were terrorists holding a gun to his head? Would someone have inevitably died had he not acted?
Stop making excuses for tyranny. https://t.co/2GqUSCF59O
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 14, 2023
The state thinks that legal minors are children; that children are property; and that it's the government's "right" to steal the property of any citizen as it pleases.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 15, 2023
This article may help y'all to understand what I've said since the 1980s: "nutritionism" is, to a large extent, simply puritanism disguised by a pseudoscientific veneer. https://t.co/wK3jnviqMP
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 16, 2023
Recognizing that most people who identify as "left-wing" are useful idiots.
Not coincidentally, my "most left-wing coded attribute" is recognizing that most people who identify as "right-wing" are useful idiots. https://t.co/KUIUBwvi25
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 17, 2023
Damn, and here I was planning to get a grant for my zombie-staffed lawn service company. https://t.co/NZ7Q5AXRdh
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 18, 2023
From a sociological perspective, it's interesting to watch the last adherents of a moral panic clinging desperately to whatever feeling (safety? importance? validation?) the panic gave them after everyone else has lost interest.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 19, 2023
Phrasing this as "Americans buy more of one processed plant product with mood-altering effects that's disliked by some puritans than another processed plant product with mood-altering effects that's disliked by other puritans" really puts the absurdity of prohibition on display. https://t.co/R6x7LfOchO
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 21, 2023
My two lowest subscription rates are lower than Twitter wants for its blue check. Just sayin'. pic.twitter.com/EvGzl41ik0
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 21, 2023
Your regular reminder that trying to define other people's experiences for them, or claiming they're "wrong" because they're fine with experiences (*especially* sexual experiences) that YOU think would harm YOU, is the behavior of a creepy control freak.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 22, 2023
This is good, but let me also point out that even *less* that 1% of modern literature will survive the next 5000 years.
You're welcome. https://t.co/e6GSHxEdVd
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 23, 2023
Links #664
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged activism, Believe Them, Brazil, cops, Georgia, Hollywood, Japan, Michigan, racism, restaurants, universal criminality, video, West Virginia on March 26, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Put your hands behind your…fucking back. – “Officer” Paul Arrowood
This week’s video features Topol, who passed away earlier this month, playing the part he was born to play. The links above it were provided by Stephen Lemons; Franklin Harris and Jesse Walker; Marc Randazza; Cop Crisis (x3); and Angela Keaton, in that order.
- Sushi terrorism.
- R.I.P. Bert I. Gordon and Topol.
- A giant gas bubble from Uranus.
- Cop beats man for walking while black.
- The US isn’t a police state yet, no sirree!
- Crime: drunkenness. Penalty: summary execution.
- Just another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
From the Archives
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- The new version of “safeguarding” arrested sex workers at a “safe house”.
- It’s good to see a story like this quote at least one knowledgeable person.
- Everyone harmed by “prostitution stings” needs to keep suing over them.
- Establishment media are finally beginning to admit cops are chronic liars.
- Prohibitionist profiteers will harass businesses thus until FOSTA is gone.
- “At least one person noted that the UK was at risk of looking like idiots”.
- They actually admit this shit law is designed to put people through hell.
- Hollywood actors really need to stop pretending expertise in sexology.
- Waffle House is so reliable, FEMA uses it as a disaster severity metric.
- The pandemic affects sex workers in Germany, Bangladesh & Bolivia.
- Prohibitionists’ next target isn’t just Pornhub; it’s all online sex work.
- A reminder of what the government is trying to take away from you.
- Your regular reminder that rapist screws are not confined to the US.
- Violent, coercive “wing” idiots are completely detached from reality.
- Funny how it nearly always takes years to convict cops of anything.
- Katz is in reality a duplicitous proponent of Swedish criminalization.
- For a change, this journalist doesn’t refer to torture as “correction”.
- Cops, Al Jaffee, Yaphet Kotto, George Segal, PBS, and much more.
- The majority of petty evildoers see themselves as just doing a job.
- Lots of sex workers are quoted in this rebuke of yellow journalism.
- Do I really have to add, “Not because a little boy picked a flower”?
- Cops, politicians, Stuart Gordon, Kenny Rogers, and much more.
- “Give me your huddled masses, so I can torture them to death.”
- This pro-censorship screed is utterly larded with dysphemisms.
- A thorough analysis of the awfulness of “end demand” policies.
- Idaho seems determined to ape Texas in every way possible.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- A glimpse into the violent sociopathy that is prohibitionism.
- The pandemic seems to be killing “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- And guess who gets to declare that an “emergency” exists?
- Prohibitionist whining is becoming increasingly desperate.
- The beginning of “sex trafficking” morphing into QAnon.
- The debacle that was year-round Daylight Saving Time.
- Ally Deviant Ollam on internet security for sex workers.
- Wow, two politicians with a particle of human decency!
- Dr. Laura Agustín with GAATW on the rescue industry.
- All too often, human tragedies are wholly predictable.
- As always, sex workers demonstrate our adaptability.
- I’ve never had chicks as rambunctious as this brood.
- Even rent-a-cops feel entitled to rape sex workers.
- Predictable in the current Neo-Victorian climate.
- Cops, satire, Timmy Thomas, and much more.
- So how exactly are they defining “pimping”?
- Just another cop demonstrating what he is.
- Like seeing pictures in clouds or inkblots.
- Building the roof for my new bathroom.
- My new pullets at three weeks old.
- The best surprise is no surprise.
- “A source heard it happened“.
- On chickens and bookcases.
- What a sick, sorry waste.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- On the Miller test.
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so much!
Dimensions of Support
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, tagged activism, blogging, Presents, psychology on March 16, 2023| Leave a Comment »
It’s always been difficult for me to ask for what I need, even from close friends; exactly why this should be the case in a person who has absolutely no problem speaking her mind in any other way is a conundrum I’ve never been able to adequately explain even to myself, much less anyone else. But it’s something my friends have long noticed and lovingly chided me for, to very little avail. Now, I’ve never had a problem asking for payment for services; the issue only arises when there’s no direct quid pro quo. That’s why appeals for financial support from my readers are always difficult for me to write, and always seem awkward to my eyes when I read them. So when several of y’all responded to last month’s “Inner Circle” by subscribing at my new $10 per week and $25 per week levels, it was both satisfying and validating on several levels. The more obvious one is, of course, the economic dimension; things have been a bit tight since autumn, and with tax time coming up (much more painfully than usual thanks to a 50% increase in my property taxes) it was quite a relief for more to come in just in time, not to mention helping soothe my anxiety about the rest of the year. But there’s another dimension, too; such a positive, concrete response to my request helps to quiet that part of my brain which generates formless, unidentifiable anxieties about asking, and thereby makes it less scary to do it again in the future. So to my new subscribers, thank you for supporting me in two very important ways. And to those who haven’t joined yet: won’t you please consider adding your contributions to the team of generous folks who make my work possible and my life just a little bit easier?
Sex Worker Rights Day 2023
Posted in Holidays, tagged activism, holidays on March 3, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Happy Sex Worker Rights Day to all my sisters and brothers, and our supporters. Here’s a linked list of everything I’ve written for the occasion.
Big Fish, Little Fish
Posted in Biography, Q & A, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged activism, cops, psychology, screening on February 9, 2023| Leave a Comment »
How do you deal with the legal prohibition of sex work? I don’t mean practically, but rather psychologically; don’t you fear that someday you might be caught and sent to prison?
I’ve never much been one to “borrow trouble”, as we say where I’m from; in other words, I try not to worry about what might conceivably happen, instead of what is likely to happen. What this means from a practical standpoint in this context is, I have always taken sensible precautions against being entrapped by the police, but I never lay awake at night worrying about it because the truth is, if a powerful government really and truly wants to harm any individual, it will do so regardless of precautions. However, such governments tend to employ such extraordinary means against much “bigger fish” than ordinary sex workers making very ordinary amounts of money and filing taxes every year as the State demands. This is not to say that the police don’t target ordinary sex workers, because they obviously do; however, they’re generally looking for big numbers of people whom they can easily trick with lies and then inflict criminal records upon. They don’t really want people who can fight back, so they tend to tailor their schemes to entrapping the poor and marginalized rather than people who might have lawyers. I was once caught in such a trap, in October 2005, and though it was an extremely unpleasant experience it was over pretty quickly and in the end I felt more angry than anything else. Still, the experience gave me even more empathy for people who did not have access to the resources I had, and it’s one of the life-experiences that fuels my activism: I am trying, in my own small way, to work for a world in which nobody has to endure that, especially not the people for whom a prostitution arrest means very serious and life-changing consequences rather than a temporary scare and inconvenience.
(Have a question of your own? Please consult this page to see if I’ve answered it in a previous column, and if not just click here to ask me via email.)
Inner Circle
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged activism, advertising on February 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »
After I published “I Couldn’t Do It Without You” last month, a couple of readers asked how they could make larger recurring donations. As it turns out, both of these readers were already long-time donors who have repeatedly demonstrated their generosity for years, and both already carry on correspondence with me in various ways. But it occurred to me that in general, most of my readers have only my email, blog, and Twitter as points of contact; that’s just fine for most folks, and as I check my email frequently it’s certainly not an inadequate means. But there’s a certain immediacy and a kind of quasi-intimacy that comes with texting, so I’ve decided to add two higher subscription levels in the zone between reader and client; both of these come with texting privileges. NO, I don’t mean sexting; that would be much more expensive even if I were offering it, which I’m not because I’m not any good at it. Now, it would feel strange and even creepy to me to set some frequency or number of texts a week, and I honestly don’t think I have to; my patrons, both readers and clients, have never made a habit of trying my patience or pushing my boundaries, and I hardly think it likely y’all are going to start now. So the only real difference between these two is, which one can you afford? Maybe I should have some strict delineation, but that’s over the line into salesmanship and, as I’ve pointed out before, I’m not really comfortable with that. I’ve made it this far without paywalls and bribery, and I’m too old to start using those tactics now even if I wanted to, which I don’t. At all.
Anyhow, the two new levels are $10 per week and $25 per week (converted into monthly sums of $45 and $110 respectively so you’re not getting pinged every damned week). Those are PayPal links, and there’s nothing wrong with going that route if it works for you; however, I find Zelle a lot more trustworthy and it doesn’t take a percentage of your donation. The only catches are: 1) Not every bank is part of the network, and I don’t believe it’s international; and 2) The only way to do a recurring Zelle payment is to set it up from your end, using my email address (maggiemcneill@earthlink.net). Of course, if you’re setting it up yourself you needn’t use those specific amounts; as long as you’re donating at least $31/month (the long-established “$1 a day” subscription level), I’ll be happy to text with you (and yes, that definitely applies to those of you already at that level; just email for my contact number). If you want to tease me a bit you could even make it some weird arbitrary number just to irritate my OCD. And if you’re affluent enough and think my work is important enough to go another price step higher; email me and we’ll discuss an arrangement with regular (conversation and advice) phone calls.
Tweets from the Darkside
Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Words, tagged activism, animals, blogging, censorship, child "protective" services, comics, consensual crime, cops, drugs, ethics, Google, language, left-right myth, Louisiana, politicians, porn, psychology, surveillance, teachers, Twitter, Washington (state) on January 23, 2023| 2 Comments »
THIS RIGHT HERE. If you want to understand why so many overdoses nowadays involve fetanyl, look up "Iron Law of Prohibition". Here, I'll help: https://t.co/Dh0b0CSmpT
Prohibition CAUSES overdoses. Period. Only cops & badgelickers find this controversial. https://t.co/Xme8s5jcMJ
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 25, 2022
Imagine cheerleaders hopping around chanting rhyming nonsense about how THEIR color is GREAT and will BEAT those OTHER COLOR players, RAH RAH RAH! And you'll get a sense of how this childish nonsense sounds to sensible people.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 27, 2022
From MAD Magazine, September 1969: pic.twitter.com/yyXw4wbQId
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 29, 2022
This is why every animal and plant falls in "love" and they all have marriages. Every honeybee is a licensed and ordained minister of the Christian religion, even dozens of millions of years before Jesus. https://t.co/CPwPKm4viE
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 30, 2022
Why did anyone ever imagine that something called a "cloud" would be safe and permanent? https://t.co/ZhCuxmm3Ud
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 31, 2022
I hate when journalists try to make it sound like state violence is something that "just happens".
No, these people don't "lose" their children like one "loses" socks in the wash. Their children are forcibly abducted by the state to serve its own agenda. https://t.co/Kh6mYRgOqC
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 1, 2023
Well, be fair; "one who is completely unable to mind his own business" would be a pretty useful working definition of "politician".
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 2, 2023
And you can ALSO fully embrace your sexuality without being "dirty", "horny", "little", or a "monster". https://t.co/YlZQ3htFL8
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 3, 2023
My bank recently thought it was "suspicious" that I filled up my car at a Wal-mart gas station that I've frequently used in the past, then proceeded to buy about $300 worth of toys at that same Wal-mart, a few weeks before Christmas. https://t.co/A3cJI0oDZg
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 4, 2023
WHY IS TWITTER SO OBSESSED WITH ME EVEN THOUGH I DIED 12 YEARS AGO? pic.twitter.com/bUo0JhPB8F
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 5, 2023
Another idiot who not only can't read, but thinks tall, big, fat, or rich people should have more votes than short, small, skinny, or poor people. https://t.co/bCgcXrrZVz
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 6, 2023
The mob will always agree with those advocating mob rule.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 7, 2023
Long, skinny, and wet? https://t.co/w5Os3wHBtk
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 8, 2023
Why don't we send this eccentric burglar to the home of that eccentric billionaire who's always giving away huge sums for childishly-simple tasks? https://t.co/F4riEigI2A
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 9, 2023
"Links", indeed. That's like saying our ancestors "linked" disease to sin, astrology, or witchcraft. https://t.co/h90bK2FfCh
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 10, 2023
…always been immune to the supposed omnipresence of porn. I cannot recall a single instance in the past 20 years where porn suddenly appeared before my shocked eyes in some venue where I didn't already know it might conceivably appear.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 11, 2023
Addendum: "Excited delirium" is not a real medical condition, but a lie made up by cops to pretend people they murder were actually killed by a medical condition. It's as real as the magic fentanyl that causes cops to OD by merely touching it, with no actual opiate OD symptoms.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 12, 2023
Yes, the Fossil Fuel Industry has a Death Star. https://t.co/8TZU4ZkNmQ
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 14, 2023
I think this image is going to haunt me. https://t.co/cbJIdwWWfY
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 14, 2023
Today's perfectly ordinary word Google doesn't know: "numerological".
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 15, 2023
"Sell their bodies" to mean sex work is a weird take.
"Sell their bodies online" to mean selling nude pictures is a completely deranged take.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 17, 2023
SO MUCH THIS.
If you want people to have the freedom to create content you like, you need to support them so they don't have to spend time in more lucrative pursuits. https://t.co/1JbNHzabW1
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 17, 2023
I hope her settlement is more than she'd have made in 20 years of shitty adjunct pay. https://t.co/g0yMqGyXe2
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 18, 2023
Minding other people's business. https://t.co/B6sJ53DiJh
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 20, 2023
As long as he had the money and references, why not?
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 21, 2023
Friday, January 13th, 2023
Posted in Perception, Tyranny, tagged activism, Friday the Thirteenth, holidays on January 13, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Regular readers know that every Friday the Thirteenth, I ask those who aren’t sex workers to stand up for us. If you’re one of them, you already know the sorts of things I’m going to say; if you aren’t, you can simply go back and read the essay for the August 2021 occurence, which contained quotes and links for every occurence of this particular day and date combination. And if you value all the work I’ve done fighting for sex workers over the past 14 years, a concrete sign of that (via continuing subscription or one-time donation) would not only be deeply appreciated, but also provide vital resources for the continuance of that work.