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 occurrence of this particular day and date combination. And if you value all the work I’ve done fighting for sex workers over the past 16 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.
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Friday, February 13th, 2026
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In the News (#1608)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged abortion, activism, agency denial, Aladdin’s Satellite, artificial stupidity, Broken Record, end demand, fascism, Florida, Gorged With Meaning, illegal aliens, internet, law, Minnesota, New York, porn, prisons, propaganda, psychology, Sex Rays (updates), sex toys, Something Rotten In Sweden, sporting events, surveillance, The Vultures Descend, Too Close To Home, Torture Chamber, Welcome to the Future on January 28, 2026| Leave a Comment »
[Letting] pregnant women [die]…is consistent with accepted standards of care in our region. – mouthpiece for Cone Health in North Carolina
Former adult film star Abella Danger found herself at the center of unexpected attention this week after a televised crowd shot during the NCAA final sparked online chatter and attention she…never wanted…she is…currently a [law] student at the University of Miami, a[nd when she attended]…the [game]…at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium…[an ESPN] camera[man made the questionable decision to] linger…on [her]…during a pivotal moment late in the game…[hypocritical porn] viewers [who] recognized [her apparently blamed her sex rays for jinxing the team or something]. “I am so deeply sorry to anyone I offended with my attendance at the game,” she told [TMZ]…
Something Rotten in Sweden (#750)
[Politicians] are moving fast to [worsen] Washington’s laws on [adults having consensual sex]…before international travelers come to town for the 2026 FIFA World Cup…the King County Prosecut[or’s office vomited decades-old prohibitionist propaganda at them to]…bump up…paying for sex from a simple misdemeanor to a…felony [because prosecutors aren’t ruining enough lives yet]…
When there’s no censorious payment processor in the way, sex businesses can be powerful helpers:
…the folks at Minneapolis sex shop Smitten Kitten…have mobilized to support neighbors amid a violent and unrelenting [pogrom] by the Trump [regime]…inside the shop, volunteers are organizing canned foods, diapers, clothes, and other essentials to be distributed to…“families that are stuck at home because they’re scared of…ICE [attacks]”…the shop’s Instagram page has been leveraging its platform to boost donation opportunities for community members in the area, sharing GoFundMe, Venmo, and Cash App campaigns…The shop is also partnering with neighboring businesses…to make sure people are being fed. And volunteers are standing outside of the shop to protect anyone coming in or out from [attack by goons] in the immediate area…
Anything connected to a computer can be used to spy on you:
…It’s standard for workplace printers to log certain information, such as the names of files they print and the users who printed them. In an apparent attempt to avoid detection, [a whistleblower]…took screenshots of [government] materials, cropped the screenshots, and pasted them into a Microsoft Word document…[but his fascist contractor] employer could see not only the typical metadata stored by printers, such as file names, file sizes, and time of printing, but…also…the actual contents of the printed materials — in this case…the screenshots themselves…Whenever someone presses print in a network outfitted with this printer monitoring software, the program creates a clandestine copy of the file and generates an image of page…printed…users might be entirely unaware that the contents of printed files are archived…
New York supposedly bans long-term solitary confinement:
Teenagers as young as 12…in New York [dungeons] are held for prolonged periods in solitary confinement cells without plumbing…A federal class action lawsuit [was] filed by the Legal Aid Society and the law firm Jenner and Block [because]…New York…”routinely and unlawfully imposes solitary confinement”…in filthy, dehumanizing…cells for 23 to 24 hours a day—in some cases for weeks or even months at a time…”Almost none of the cells…have toilets or sinks. As a result, [victims] must [beg] to be released from their cells to use the bathroom or be forced to use garbage pails, water bottles, food containers, or buckets to relieve themselves…The smell of urine and feces can permeate these [cell blocks]”…
Another look at the totally-predictable results of bad laws:
…dangerous miscarriages…are relatively rare events. What are far more common…are high-risk pregnancies…Each year, hundreds of thousands of women enter pregnancy with chronic conditions that put them at an elevated risk of long-term complications and, in some cases, death…[bu]t abortion bans generally don’t include exceptions that cover these kinds of health concerns…instead, the exceptions are for the “life of the mother.” In practice, this often means doctors won’t act without strong evidence that their patients are very likely to die. Where there have been efforts to create…exceptions to cover a range of medical risks women can face in pregnancy, [forced-birth fanatic]s have fought against them…
Every so often the areas of my reporting beat converge:
…In posts on ManyVids, the porn platform’s official account holds imaginary conversations with aliens, alongside [computer]-generated videos of UFOs, fractal images, “angel numbers,” and a video of its founder and CEO Bella French in a space suit shooting lasers from her eyes. French launched the site in 2014 as a former cam model herself, and the platform has millions of members and tens of thousands of creators…[yet she] recently changed her personal website to state her new goal is to “transition one million people out of the adult industry and do everything we can to ensure no one new enters it.” The statement follows posts…about new strategies to pivot the site toward safe-for-work, non-sexual content. This sudden shift away from years of messaging about being a compatriot with sex workers, combined with bizarre [chatbot]-generated text and images…has made some creators worry for their livelihoods, and caused others to leave the site completely…When faced with backlash, MV removed the ability to comment on posts…[which] appear to be ramblings and images generated by a person in active psychosis…
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Links #810
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged activism, animals, California, censorship, cops, lawheads, Oregon, politicians, Spain, surveillance, video on January 11, 2026| Leave a Comment »
There’s a bear under my house, and there’s nothing I can do about it! – Ken Johnson
I think my old friend Terry would’ve loved this video, provided by Mike Masnick; he also provided the first link above it, and those after that were provided by Jason Kuznicki, Nun Ya, Jesse Walker, The Onion, and Popehat, in that order.
- Lèse-majesté.
- Pro-social surveillance.
- She suffered for her art.
- They drew with crayons.
- The best satire cleaves close to the truth.
- I want to see the sheriff try to serve him a summons.
From the Archives
- The 1st Amendment has been so eroded it needs state law to give it teeth.
- The 100% predictable results of bad laws are happening just as predicted.
- It’s easy to “disprove” anything if you’re allowed to change the conditions.
- If “official” busybodies can spy on you via your car, so can unofficial ones.
- The press ignores a censorship law’s dangerous enforcement mechanism.
- Apple “unintentionally” pisses on customers’ legs & tells them it’s raining.
- Is having a shiny new status symbol really worth being spied on like this?
- The toll will continue to rise until policing as we know it now is abolished.
- This will continue as long as fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- Some psychopaths use moral panics to get attention at others’ expense.
- Cop treats disagreement as he normally does, and the press is shocked.
- Telling cops to “think about what they did wrong” is criminal negligence.
- Another attempt to extend legal minority to 25 based in pseudoscience.
- Politicians are terrified of losing ways to destroy peaceful citizens’ lives.
- I hope these opportunists get the same treatment as the Nirvana baby.
- Pure political theater, given that judges have struck down similar bans.
- Cops, cats, Shecky Greene, Glynis Johns, David Soul, and much more.
- Another cop murders his family; another “news” outfit buries the lede.
- An important step toward ending this front in the ruinous culture war.
- Bureaucrats make long-overdue effort to control the rescue industry.
- “Child protection” abuses are finally getting the attention they need.
- Government thugs continue their crusade against Christian charity.
- This monster may turn out to be the best witness against himself.
- It’s unusual to see a male university-level teacher targeted thus.
- It’s kinda nauseating to read this monster’s prattle about Jesus.
- The legacy of To Catch a Predator just keeps on hurting people.
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- Cops, witches, Anita Pointer, Adolfo Kaminsky, and much more.
- This will continue until there are federal criminal charges for it.
- Conmen now claim 1.25% of the world population are “slaves”.
- “AI” is a fantasy of techies, journalists, and hack sci-fi writers.
- 37 years after the rape/murder and 81/2 after he was caught.
- If you didn’t foresee this, you haven’t been paying attention.
- Cops, censorship, Linda Lavin, Sam Moore, and much more.
- This “good intentions” shit is nothing but an excuse for evil.
- Politicians no longer care if their laws are unconstitutional.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”, but you don’t have to.
- You’ll have to forgive me for finding this terribly amusing.
- Pornhub has repeatedly refused to facilitate state spying.
- Cop and preacher is like a huge, wildly-waving red flag.
- Pornhub has repeatedly chosen not to spy on its users.
- Rapist cops often specifically target vulnerable women.
- Liz Brown on the insidious spread of the Swedish rot.
- “Journalists” call this senseless violence “correction”.
- Most rapist New Orleans cops don’t do it by proxy.
- Your “leaders” refer to this atrocity as “correction”.
- Another example of real activism for the West.
- De-Yuling the house is always just a little sad.
- I’ll believe this when and if it’s ever proven.
- I’m still using the TV with the shadow on it.
- “Smart” devices aren’t, part umpty-eleven.
- “Free speech for me, but not for thee”.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
- This is a brick of compressed peat.
- Party Like Throwback Thursday.
- Zuckerberg is out of his mind.
- Friday, January 13th, 2023.
- Throwback Thursday Jr.
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!
In the News (#1600)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Obituary, Perception, Tyranny, tagged abortion, activism, Aphrodite, Arizona, censorship, domestic violence, drugs, If Men Were Angels, Illinois, Indiana, internet, libraries, Missouri, Oklahoma, politicians, porn, rape, scams, Size Matters, Stalkers in Blue, surveillance, Tennessee, The Cop Myth, The Last Shall Be First, The Puritan Recrudescence, The Vultures Descend, Thought Control, transgender, When Ambulance-Chasers Run the Hospitals on December 27, 2025| Leave a Comment »
[Public libraries]…exist so that no one—not a church, not a politician, not a board—gets to decide who deserves access to the truth. – Keri Lambert
Tracy Elise Johnson…died on Nov. 17, 2025…[of] glioblastoma…In the 1990s…she developed a framework she called “female-led sacred healing through the body-temple,” eventually founding spiritual communities in Seattle and later Arizona devoted to…tantra-informed teachings…and ancient feminine-centered traditions. She envisioned her ministry as a modern revival of global goddess temples, grounded in the belief that women’s bodies are inherently sacred and healing. [From 2012 to] 2016, her spiritual work [was used as an excuse for years of persecution by the State]. She chose integrity over convenience, enduring years of hardship, incarceration, and supervision without renouncing her beliefs. Her story, later covered internationally, became…evidence of how our culture still struggles to honor the sacred feminine without fear…
“Ministered to” is a hell of a euphemism for “molested”:
Joe Campbell, a Pentecostal preacher who for half a century ministered to thousands of children across four states, has been arrested on child sex abuse charges…in Elkland, Missouri…where he [now awaits extradition] to Oklahoma…[and possible] life in prison…[for multiple cases of rape and other] sexual…abuse…in the 1970s and ’80s when he was an Assemblies of God minister…one of th[e first to accuse him was] Kerri…Jackson, now 53, [whom] he molested…for years in Tulsa in the early 1980s, beginning when she was around 9…some of the [victims have] pursued [justice] for most of their lives…Past attempts…in Oklahoma and Missouri failed [due to stonewalling by] police and prosecutors…But the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office…[is now] applying a frontier-era statute that pauses the statute of limitations for suspects who flee…elsewhere. Prosecutors recently used the same legal theory [against typical and representative] megachurch pastor Robert Morris…Oklahoma…authorities[‘ change of heart was motivated by an]…NBC News [investigation] published…in May…children [were taught by] their parents…to [see]…Campbell as an almost mythical figure…with [magical] power to…cast out demons and heal the sick. He gr[oomed]…girls from broken homes…and…was…[at first protected by] Assemblies of God officials…[until] 1988…Around 1990, he founded a nondenominational church [which]…became a refuge for…convicted sex offenders…
Surely you didn’t think they’d be satisfied with only threatening librarians and teachers:
…[Luanne James, the] newly hired library director [of Rutherford County, Tennessee]…asked [the library board] for whistleblower protection….[after] board chair [Cody York] direct[ed] her to [censor books at his sole say-so] and to…produce a spreadsheet listing [the] names, home addresses…and [other information about any patron who had checked out one of the forbidden] books[, presumably for targeting by official or unofficial violence]…he [also]…showed her books he had [stolen from the library to unofficially censor them]…the Rutherford County Library Board [has endured] repeated battles over [demands for censorship by anti-intellectual authoritarians who have no place on a library board]…A motion to remove York followed James’s [report of his] misconduct…[but] the [censor-dominated] board declined to do so…the…developments mark…a new and dangerous phase in…[the] Rutherford County [culture war that] now threatens to become a national test case for how far government power can [undermine] public libraries…Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett…re[cently demanded a purge of thousands of books from]…Tennessee…libraries…in [a show of obeisance to the mad emperor]…
Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do, even if she’s a cop herself:
A…[former] Chicago [cop is suing her former cop shop because they intentionally and repeatedly] ignored complaints that [her ex-boyfriend cop] had “repeatedly physically, mentally, and sexually abused” [her]. The [victim is] identif[ied]…as Jane Doe…[and psychotic cop] Marco Torres viciously abused her and threatened her life…[while] high-ranking officials, including then-chief of the Bureau of Internal Affairs…Yolanda Talley, not only failed to protect Doe, but also retaliated against her for reporting the abuse…Torres relentlessly tried to find Doe’s new home address despite an order of protection against him…he [told another cop]…that he needed her address because he has a “guy from gangs” who “can get rid of her” for “a grand”…[the boss hog]s were aware of the…message, which the recipient sent to in[ternal affairs], but they never warned Doe…or [did anything else]…Doe [later] found a GPS tracking device on her car which…Torres used to stalk her…he was [finally] convicted of assault in December 2024 over his previous threats to kill Doe…[but] she had [been] report[ing] Torres’ abuse…[since] November 2022…and…at least two other [cops had] rep[ea]tedly submitted written reports…describ[ing] violence and stalking against a different female [cop] years earlier…
When Ambulance-Chasers Run the Hospitals (#1578)
States now routinely use nuisance lawsuits as a way to circumvent the Constitution:
Indiana[‘s Trumpist] Attorney General Todd Rokita…[has] announced…that his office sued Aylo…for [suppos]edly violating the state’s age verification laws due to [not attempting] to block users using…VPNs…all IP addresses in Indiana are still blocked, as the company chose to withdraw from the state’s digital space to comply with [Indiana law]…But…Rokita is proposing…that…Aylo…is…to…blam[e for]…the existence of VPNs…Corey Silverstein, an attorney who represents adult industry clients…[said] this [is]…”a dangerous concept…because what’s next? Power companies? Landlords that lease data center space?”…[David Greene of the EFF said,] “What the state’s lawsuit seems to be doing is saying that Aylo deceived Indiana consumers when it said it was geoblocking Indiana users…[because] it knew that…VPNs [exist]…It essentially bases liability on the failure to accomplish impossibilities”…
Prohibition can never succeed, regardless of which substance is prohibited:
[Due to] abortion…[being] criminalized…an increasing number of women [worldwide] are accessing abortion pills outside of the formal medical system…Women Help Women [is] a global telehealth…service that supports self-managed abortion by providing abortion pills and information about how to use them…After a decade of relying on pharmaceutical companies to supply them…Women Help Women…recently announced they have begun working directly with drugmakers in India to produce their own innovative combipack of mifepristone and misoprostol for distribution around the world…the…pack…includes one mifepristone tablet and eight misoprostol tablets…[because] some women want extra misoprostol to ensure a complete abortion…Its smaller packaging also requires less postage [so it] is easier to mail discreetly…
The Last Shall Be First (#1587)
“Protecting children” is an all-purpose excuse:
…the Trump [regime has] announced…a…[de facto] ban…[on] gender-affirming care for transgender young people, even in states where it is still legal…[against the advice of] the American Academy of Pediatrics…[one] new…rule…prohibits doctors and hospitals from receiving federal Medicaid reimbursement for gender-affirming care provided to transgender patients younger than…18…The second…blocks all Medicaid and Medicare funding for any services at hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care. Virtually every hospital in the country takes Medicare…The American Civil Liberties Union has announced plans to sue to stop the rules; other legal action is also expected…[Secretary of Pestilence Robert] Kennedy…insisted that [all doctors]…are wrong [and presented a trained parrot which absurdly squawked about]…God…[then Trump stooge] Dr. Marty Makary, who [mismanage]s the Food and Drug Administration, announced that the FDA would be sending warning letters to businesses that manufacture chest binders…
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!
Tweet Wave
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, Words, tagged activism, advertising, animals, artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, censorship, comics, cops, crypto-moralism, disease, fascism, holidays, imaginative fiction, internet, language, left-right myth, New Orleans, politicians, porn, propaganda, psychology, Russia, scams, STEM, surveillance, The Puritan Recrudescence, Turkey, Twitter, witchcraft, yellow journalism on December 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Who first used the German word "blitz" ("lightning") to describe sudden, intense bursts of violence? I forget.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-14T19:43:33.619Z
I just can't get beyond the resemblance.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-16T19:29:02.571Z
When cops use profanity at us, think of what they're telling us. Would you ever curse at your boss? No, but he can curse at you because he has power over you. What would happen if you cursed out a cop? But they curse at us routinely. That tells you how they perceive their relationship with us.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-17T08:31:30.244Z
The universe does things on a subatomic level that would get you arrested for bank fraud if you tried the financial equivalent.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-19T04:59:00.841Z
People suffering from advanced dementia often fall back on old "scripts". It's why your senile great-grandmother calls you by your mother's (or even grandmother's) name, and it's why Trump seems to think he's still on a TV show he did two decades ago.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-19T18:14:28.117Z
Magnificent. Words that deserve to be included in future editions of Bartlett's.If you're not following Ken, why are you even on here?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-20T18:37:49.142Z
Reporters need to ditch the word "taken" when writing about actions of government thugs.The property wasn't "taken" by goons; it was STOLEN.The person wasn't "taken to the ground"; he was TACKLED.The person wasn't "taken into custody" as if on a date; he was ABDUCTED.Stop soft-peddling evil.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-21T18:12:37.117Z
Reading what people say about Twitter makes me realize that the vast majority online expend absolutely no effort on account hygiene. If they treated their bodies like they treat their social media accounts, they'd never bathe, brush their teeth, or change their clothes, and would eat only junk.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-23T18:27:53.081Z
I will never cease to be amused by the notoriety Fate chose to bestow upon a minor Sumerian merchant of the 18th century BCE.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-24T18:42:59.559Z
Crypto-moralists believe anything unpleasant must be “good for you”.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-25T08:41:09.810Z
In the late 19th century, the Ottoman Empire was called "the sick man of Europe". Now the American empire has become the sick man of the entire planet.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-26T19:46:57.721Z
I found my own solution to Thanksgiving guest tensions many years ago: I host. Nobody dares start shit in MY house.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-27T17:53:29.116Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-29T03:35:45.932Z
I have lived my life in such a way that I can't picture either of these women accurately enough to compare them in my mind. And I'm very pleased about that.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-29T18:42:27.556Z
I block every single MAGA account and every associated lunatic on Twitter the first time I see it. As a result, I now see far more Trumpery on Bluesky than on Twitter, because people keep screenshotting and calling attention to accounts I blocked long ago.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-03T18:04:51.442Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-04T09:14:45.895Z
What's the Greek word for rule by mathematical imbeciles?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T18:10:12.603Z
I'm so exhausted by journalists, who should know the meaning of the words they use, referring to people who are not cautious of change but rather mindlessly destroy every Chesterton's fence they can find, as "conservative".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T20:21:41.880Z
"We are not the party of participation trophies…"I hate to break this to you, but…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-07T03:39:24.651Z
Maybe this misuse of the word "democracy" is a problem of Millennials and Zoomers, who are too young to remember that about half the communist dictatorships of the late 20th century had the word "Democratic" in their names, eg "Deutsche Demokratische Republik" (German Democratic Republic).
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-07T18:47:29.470Z
Mad emperor babbles like a baby: "A pwus pwus pwus pwus pwus!!" {claps tiny pudgy hands and gurgles}
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-09T20:02:40.319Z
Ahem.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-10T09:23:43.373Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-12T19:50:01.065Z
OK, y'all, we all get it: politicians and partisans are all huge hypocrites who theatrically perform anger when the "other team" does the same thing they do when in power.Find another goddamned tweet boilerplate. Holy shit.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-13T18:34:07.084Z
The problem is that the tech industry is intentionally conflating two different things under the fantasy label "AI". Machine learning is a real, useful tool; chatbots are a toy and a technological blind alley. Conflating the two is like pretending color TV is the same technology as a hula-hoop.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-14T18:46:37.811Z
I'm sick of the idiocy of the term "kinetic strike".As opposed to what, a static strike?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-16T17:48:03.150Z
My home town, ladies & gents.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-18T08:51:51.030Z
December 17th, 2025
Posted in Perception, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged activism, holidays, The Red Umbrella, violence vs. sex workers on December 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Saint Throwback Thursday
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged activism, blogging, cops, disease, holidays, left-right myth, Madonna/whore, psychology, sex work is work, Twitter on December 11, 2025| Leave a Comment »
The modern “simulation” fantasy as typically conceived imagines a simulacrum of a universe created by some finite being or beings for some definable purpose and existing within some physical instrumentality. And such a model is, due to those arbitrary limitations, pure claptrap.
– “The Limits of Resolution”
Sex workers who should certainly understand the wrongness of Madonna vs whore will nonetheless subscribe to the equally absurd renters vs landlords or labor vs management dichotomies if they find it politically convenient to do so. – “Imaginary Dualities”
One needn’t know why a rabid dog wants to bite one in order to recognize that it’s dangerous. –
“The Philosophy of Rabies”
20 million people who don’t typically cook need to stop thinking there’s no skill involved, and they can do it as well as someone who’s been practicing every day for decades. The same could be said of those who aren’t sex professionals, but that’s a topic for another day. – “Twitter Wonderland“
In the News (#1593)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged activism, Alabama, Aladdin’s Satellite, artificial stupidity, California, censorship, consensual crime, cops, fascism, Feminists and Other Puritans, libraries, neofeminism, New York, No Escape, politicians, prisons, propaganda, teachers, Thought Control, Torture Chamber, transgender, Twitter, welcome to our world on November 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »
We do not need to be the board of censorship of Alabama. – Ron Snider
Feminists and Other Puritans (#1177)
Once again: this alliance is neither new nor “bizarre”:
…[Prohibitionists] who…identify as “radical feminists”…have long-utilised anti-trafficking legislation to push for restrictions on sex work. Fighting “sex trafficking” is also a popular crusade for [fundamentalist] Christian groups, who view sex work as depraved moral behaviour…At times, these two groups have joined forces in a…[not at all] “unlikely alliance” to pursue these ends…We at GAATW have noticed that many organisations from both camps have recently expanded their use of anti-trafficking frameworks to also advocate for the abolition of surrogacy and [persecution of trans people]…GAATW has broadened its own fight by forming new alliances with social justice movements beyond trafficking, sex work and migration…to counter the increasingly organised and well-funded attack on the rights of sex workers and people who act as gestational surrogates…
A few sane judges are the only obstacles to the mad emperor’s reign of terror:
…the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island [has] struck down the Trump [regime]’s [unconstitutional] attempts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The decision was issued in response to a lawsuit filed by the Attorneys General of 21 states…[the mad emperor wanted] to take away…shared access to books in rural and remote areas…and…countless [other] library services…to…terminat[e]…the agency’s grants…halt…data collection and research, and…[sack] nearly all of the agency’s staff….the…court ruling [correctly recognized] that those actions were arbitrary…capricious and [illegal]…and permanently prohibits the [mad emperor] from t[rying again] in the future…
The inevitable result of giving sexually-aggressive thugs total power over women:
…women [locked] in a San Francisco jail were…forced to undress in front of [screws] while [the leering thugs]…filmed them with their body-worn cameras…17 women [have] filed a claim with the city…[while cops tried to excuse the violation as a “]search[“]…
Elon Musk is a better role model than Jesus, better at conquering Europe than Hitler, the greatest blowjob giver of all time, should have been selected before Peyton Manning in the 1998 NFL draft…[can] “drink piss better than any human in history,” and is a better porn star than Riley Reid, according to [MechaHitler, Twitter]’s sycophantic…chatbot that has seemingly been reprogrammed to…choose Musk as being superior to the entire rest of humanity at any given task…It is…pretty funny…but…also an example of how big tech companies…regularly put…their thumbs on the scales of their…chatbots to distort reality and to obtain their desired outcome. “Elon’s intelligence ranks among the top 10 minds in history, rivaling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton,” one…answer reads…
Alabama censors are still trying to force obedience by illegally choking off library funds:
A two-year [censorship] battle…at the Fairhope Public Library is…flar[ing up] again…as the…[highly-politicized] Alabama Public Library Services board [is once again trying to illegally withhold] tens of thousands of dollars in state funding…John Wahl, chairman of the…board…[bloviated] “I…should control the content that children are exposed to…[regardless of what] parents…want”…Read Freely Alabama…has criticized the [rogue boards’s actions, saying]…“It’s a slap in the face to the taxpayers of Fairhope…The money was appropriated for our library by the legislature”…
It took seven years for people to start fighting wannabe censors:
In a stunning rebuke of the [pro-censorship cult], Moms for Liberty…candidates failed to win a single contested race across the United States in the November 4, 2025, elections…all 31 M4L-endorsed candidates…in [races where anybody at all ran against them] were defeated, marking the first total shutout for the organization since…2021…the…elections confirmed…[that] voters across party lines are increasingly rejecting the [bizarre police-state] tactics that defined Moms for Liberty’s national strategy…and…are tired of outrage politics in schools…
This will continue until screws face criminal charges for each and every assault on prisoners:
Even in a system known for its brutality, [the gang murders of] Robert L. Brooks and Messiah Nantwi stood out. Both men were handcuffed…[and literally] torture[d to death]…resulting in criminal charges against 20 of the [murderers] and sending officials scrambling to try to portray the episodes as unacceptable aberrations. But…New York…state prison guards [routinely]…restrain…[victims before] assaulting them…thousands of…times…in the past decade…guards [routinely]…punch…kick…[and] stomp…on prisoners, smash…their fingers in cell doors…[hit their testicles] with batons, and even waterboard…them…[and] the rate…has been climbing steadily for the past decade…[especial]ly in…the past three years…
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Yuletide 2025
Posted in Holidays, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged activism, advertising, games, Grace, holidays, Presents, Toys for Tots on November 28, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Every year on this day, the traditional beginning of the Yuletide season in the US, I remind my readers that the real spirit of the season involves giving to others rather than literally fighting to get more for yourself. Children and whores are St. Nick’s two favorite groups of people; you can help the latter by donating to a sex worker charity such as SWOP Behind Bars, or you can help both by booking a session with a sex worker you know has kids. And if you don’t know any, you can help by participating in my annual toy drive! Regular readers know how it works: from today until Tuesday, December 16th, I’m collecting donations with which to buy toys, which I then donate to Toys for Tots. Send your donation via PayPal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net, and please put “Toys for Tots” in the subject line so I’ll know it’s not a regular blog donation; I can also accept donations via Zelle if you prefer not to use PayPal. If you’re not hurting economically yourself, please consider donating (either to my drive or to one near you). Mad Emperor Scrooge’s destructive tariffs are going to make toys much more expensive this year, and his pogroms & mass firings, plus the inflation resulting from his idiotic policies, will result in a lot of people having a lot less money for presents. Please help me provide some joy to at least a few little ones, who are even less able to understand economics than politicians. And you’ll also be helping me to enjoy some Christmas cheer in a year when my heart is likely to be heavy.
In the News (#1588)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Philosophy, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged activism, Aladdin’s Satellite, All-Purpose Excuse, brothels, California, censorship, child "protective" services, Facebook, fascism, If Men Were Angels, illegal aliens, internet, law, McNeill's Law, Oklahoma, porn, Pyrrhic Victory, Sexcrime, surveillance, The Last Shall Be First, The Puritan Recrudescence, United Kingdom, violence vs. sex workers, Walled Garden, Without Let or Hindrance on November 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »
The real debate [is] whether technology this dangerous should even exist. – “Ban Facial Recognition”
Another fine example of McNeill’s Law:
California [youth] pastor Joshua David Kemper [has been] arrested…[for repeatedly molest]ing a 15-year-old girl…in his…church…[after grooming her with] explicit messages, photos and videos…Kemper [has] a…[history of spreading propaganda on] Facebook [claiming] LGBTQ+ people [a]re a danger to youngsters…
Without Let or Hindrance (#1459)
“Child protection” has become an all-purpose excuse for state violence:
Teams of armed federal [goons] have been making unannounced [raids on] the homes of immigrant families across Memphis [us]ing…the [excuse] of…“wellness checks’’…[on] undocumented children…[and barfing the magic formula “]human trafficking[” at their victims as a]…pretext to…arrest as many immigrants as possible…The FBI…confirmed it is co[llabo]rating [with]…the Department of [Father]land Security…in…the [scheme]…
It’s much too late for this in the US, but it may inspire activists in less-fascist countries:
Facial recognition technology is unreliable, unjust, and a threat to basic rights and safety…which is why we [should have] act[ed] to stop it [years ago]…Like nuclear or biological weapons, facial recognition’s threat to human society and civil liberties far outweighs any potential benefits…Industry-friendly and government-friendly oversight will not fix the…inherent [dangers]…we need an all-out ban…Facial recognition is unlike any other form of surveillance…[because] it enables automated and ubiquitous monitoring of an entire population, and it is nearly impossible to avoid…
The Last Shall Be First (#1518)
Oklahoma politicians want to foist liability for their unconstitutional laws onto local governments:
Oklahoma[‘s new bill]…H.B. 1217 d[oes] not explicitly mention drag performers. But [its] supporters…such as…Dusty Deevers…made it clear that…”We’re basically banning drag shows in front of kids”…[censorious politician]s have taken to using the term “obscenity” colloquially to describe all sorts of sexual…content…they don’t like, particularly…homosexuality or gender bending…But the…average drag show does not rise to the level of [legal] obscenity…so…[politicians are] threatening to hold municipalities criminally [li]able for allowing “obscene” performances…[by demanding they]…make sure [any approved event] “will not be obscene.” [But] whether a performance or art work is obscene is something to decided by juries after the material exists. Government authorities can’t decide in advance of a performance or event that it might contain obscenity and therefore can’t happen…Technically, H.B. 1217 doesn’t require prior review or prior restraint. It just [threatens] that a government body that allows a…[performance later deemed] obscene…can be prosecuted for it…
It’s been less than seven years since the UK lost in court the last time it tried this:
The UK government has o[nce again reintroduced]…the…porn ban [struck down in court in February 2019, excusing the attempt by barfing the magic formula “]violence against women[” and defaming people who enjoy this kind of porn as “]criminals[” regardless of consent. Politician]…Alex Davies-Jones [spouted out threats against both individuals and]…firms [extending] even [to] prison sentences…[belching “]Ofcom can go after the platform]….and…[“]children[“], then…[unscientific nonsense about how what lay people “]believe[” about porn [trumps actual facts]…
Just laws are intended to correct wrongs, not to allow governments to persecute (“go after”) people who have not actually harmed anyone.
The…CHAT Act of 2025 is Washington’s newest attempt to regulate speech through mandatory age checks…[in order to] normalize showing a government ID for basic online speech. The CHAT Act [claims] to target fictional role-play bots [of the type that regularly drive fragile minds into psychosis, but]…defines a chatbot so broadly that anything that “simulates emotional interaction” could be restricted…[including] some video game characters…or…customer service bot[s. Since nothing will stop tech companies’ insane crusade to cram their fake “AI” garbage into everything, the likely result would be the imposition]…of…ID verification…into nearly every digital product…
These things are designed to appeal to the dregs of humanity:
A number of Instagram accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers and millions of views…upload…videos filmed with [Facebook]’s Ray-Ban glasses [that] show men entering massage parlors across the country and soliciting the workers…In some cases, the women laugh at the men [or] dismiss them…but in a few cases they discuss specific se[rvices] and [prices]…the women [clearly don’t] know they are being filmed and that the videos are being shared online…This is extremely dangerous [because] the women…can be targeted by both [violent rapists who work for the state] and [those who don’t. Facebook]…has built an entire supply chain for dangerous, privacy violating content on the internet. It sells glasses that allow people to surreptitiously film others in public and operates a social network where inflammatory, outrageous content is rewarded and monetized, and [nothing is done about it until]…journalists reach out for comment…the company [hides behind the fact that]…“our glasses [show] an LED light [when]…recording”…[ignoring the fact that] people can pay $60 for a modification to…disable that…SWAN…[reports these] disgusting and dangerous…videos, and…use[s its] Abuser Alert system to notify workers…
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