Grace’s cat Aeryn will turn 21 in March, and though she’s not on her last legs yet, she definitely has her share of the problems of age. She has arthritis and cataracts, doesn’t hear too well, and appears to be suffering the feline equivalent of dementia; she spends a lot of time wandering around the house yowling, and the only thing that seems to calm her is a THC concentrate Grace makes for her and puts into her food. The only food she won’t quickly throw up is pate-style cat food, and even then we need to water it down somewhat because she hasn’t got many of her teeth left. Of course, that doesn’t stop her from trying to eat everyone else’s food (including the dogs’ and humans’) and then, predictably, throwing up. She also seems to have recently lost the ability to find the litterbox, which means finding turds and puddles in random places (but most often on the stair landing) has become a daily occurrence of late. So after shampooing the rug three times in one week, I told Grace we needed to do something. I pulled Cicero’s piglet-pen out of the garage and set it up in the living room near the heater; I put in pee-pads, a litterbox, her food & water bowls, and a pillow, and placed Aeryn inside. We were both concerned she wouldn’t like being in a cage, even a large and comfortable one, but to our relief she seems to be quite happy with the arrangement. Instead of spending her days wandering around the house, crying like a lost soul, she’s quietly napping on her pillow; the only time she cries is when her bowl is empty, and now that the other animals can’t get to it that only happens about once a day. Even when Grace opened the cage door so she could come out for a while, she preferred to stay inside, and when Grace held her so I could clean the cage, she complained until we put her back. So now I’m kicking myself for not thinking of this earlier; I guess she sees the cage not as a prison, but a safe little sanctuary from a world that has become just too big and confusing.
Posts Tagged ‘animals’
Diary #657
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset on January 31, 2023| 5 Comments »
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
Links #654
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, Arizona, cops, France, Hawaii, holidays, I can't breathe, Italy, Louisiana, Never Call the Cops, New York, paganism, STEM, video on January 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »
They’re trying to kill me, they’re trying to kill me. – Akeem Terrell
I’m sure most of y’all are already very familiar with most of The Pointer Sisters’ hits, but were you aware that they had recorded this one for Sesame Street? The links above the video were provided by Jesse Walker (x3), Cop Crisis (x3), and Mike Siegel, in that order.
- Christmas witches from the sea.
- Music no one alive has ever heard.
- R.I.P. Anita Pointer and Adolfo Kaminsky.
- Cops never get tired of suffocating people.
- Cops are a clear and present danger to society.
- Cop logic: cop beats up little girl to “stop a fight”.
- “How many times has Mommy told you not to do that?“
From the Archives
- When migration control disguised as “sex trafficking” law is very apparent.
- Stop denying the agency of women you don’t know just to “pwn the cops”.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- The bipartisan war on the internet takes us another step toward idiocracy.
- “The pimps who sell sex” may be one of the most clueless headlines ever.
- The numbers are so low, fetishists want cops to manufacture larger ones.
- They’re not only giving cops your info, but selling it to companies as well.
- AirBnB “invest[s] in new technology” to discriminate against sex workers.
- The public believes anything it sees on billboards, no matter how absurd.
- Useful idiots destroy any possibility that this djinni can ever be rebottled.
- More on the prohibitionist shitshow New York calls “sex trafficking court”.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives. Some don’t stop with beating.
- The only ones who still believe these tales are cops, politicians & the AP.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- I predicted this when politicians started belching about “contact tracing”.
- The only thing this “documents” is Sarah Jones’ creepy sexual fantasies.
- The scheme to deny sex workers healthcare adds intrusive surveillance.
- The writer of this article appears to understand very little about politics.
- Cops arbitrarily group unrelated arrests & call it a “sex trafficking sting”.
- Innocent people accused of “sex trafficking” by attention-hungry loons.
- Florida prosecutors have apparently realized how desperate they look.
- Dutch authorities pretend registration is intended to help sex workers.
- Cops, war, metaphors, Buck Henry, Michael Jackson, and much more.
- Philippine cops “rescue” Chinese women from lucrative employment.
- I have never enjoyed a conference as much as I enjoyed Hereticon.
- Cops will continue to do this until there are criminal penalties for it.
- When a headline asks a question, the answer is nearly always “no”.
- Amateurs’ fantasies about “sex traffickers” are growing ever sillier.
- A deep dive on the history of the current US pro-censorship cabal.
- Why wasn’t it “a step too far” when they started doing it in 2016?
- Straight-up anti-sex propaganda repeated by a delusional parrot.
- After a long slump, “King of the Hill” claims are again increasing.
- I guess 5 years is longer than most Americans’ attention spans.
- A very brave woman working to expose a colossal abomination.
- “Sex work under ‘legalisation’ is still…conceived of as a crime“.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- In which the UN throws away what little credibility it had left.
- It usually starts with sex workers, but it never stops with us.
- Everything cops and other “justice” officials tell you is a lie.
- It won’t be long until this spreads into the greater internet.
- More weak-minded panic over ordinary social interactions.
- Send not to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
- Cops, mass surveillance, Sidney Poitier, and much more.
- Despite appearances, I’m really quite the homebody.
- It’s best not to upset useful idiots at a time like this.
- Cops, irony, hysteria, Beowulf, and much more.
- This is just the “Facebook pimps” myth again.
- How can a new client get his first references?
- A conversation with Matisse and Carol Leigh.
- Copmala’s psychotic hatred of sex workers.
- If it’s too wet for pigs, ponies and llamas…
- Cops want their hysteria to trump reality.
- “Smart” devices are not, part umpteen.
- Public masturbation on the gravy train.
- The “swimming pool of iniquity”.
- The Fourth Tower of Inverness.
- On course for semi-retirement.
- In Miami Beach for Hereticon.
- More of my Twitter musings.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- R.I.P. Margo St. James.
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Links #650
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged Alabama, animals, Believe Them, cops, Europe, Florida, hotels, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, internet, law, Never Call the Cops, politicians, Rome, slavery, Texas, video on December 19, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Is anybody out there? – “Metaverse gala” attendee
Not an especially seasonal selection, but it seemed the appropriate one for the death of its composer. The links above the video were provided by Ed Krayewski; Amy Alkon; Radley Balko; Cop Crisis (x2); Jesse Walker, Mike Siegel, and Ally Fogg; and Clarissa, in that order.
- The kids are alright.
- Chihuahua or muffin?
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- R.I.P. Bob McGrath, Kirstie Alley, and Angelo Badalamenti.
- Why the US understanding of slavery must be confined to the US.
From the Archives
- Hundreds of hours & thousands of dollars wasted on political showboating.
- Biden tries to take the “sex trafficking” narrative back from the Trumpists.
- Prohibition never eradicates the banned thing; it just helps shady actors.
- Until there are criminal penalties for this, cops have no incentive to stop.
- New Zealand cops apparently lack sufficient reasons to brutalize people.
- More cops using non-consenting people as props in a propaganda show.
- The key to breaking these evil laws is recognizing them as punishment.
- “Signs of sex trafficking” have continued to proliferate to absurd levels.
- Remember, this is not slavery, but lucrative, flexible, voluntary work is.
- Backpage case judge claims the Backpage case “isn’t about Backpage”.
- “We simply can’t allow government officials to continue raping people.“
- The hotel industry is going to regret having collaborated with fanatics.
- The adventures of a fanatical, unhinged lawyer and his pet fantasist.
- Pretending to be a sex worker gets the attention without the stigma.
- Why are men with so much to lose so goddamned stupid about sex?
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- Cops think they can never have enough pretexts to harass people.
- Kiran Deshmukh of the National Network of Sex Workers in India.
- Cops, odors, Pooh, Charley Pride, John le Carré, and much more.
- We aren’t living in a simulation; at least, not the kind you mean.
- “The line between legal and illegal sex should turn on consent.“
- The government’s latest sleazy trick: attacking with civil suits.
- A district court judge has to do SCOTUS’ job because it won’t.
- Arizona screws think they can cure mental illness by torture.
- Why end-to-end encryption is only the beginning of security.
- Still doubt that politicians are deranged megalomaniacs?
- FBI thugs are just federal cops, and behave accordingly.
- Providing some small help to needy kids in a lean year.
- “Lockdowns…mak[e] poor people an awful lot poorer“.
- Prohibitionists care only about “messages”, not facts.
- Cops, snakes, Mars, Anne Rice, and much more.
- Prohibitionists are targeting all online sex work.
- Your government refers to this as “correction”.
- Cops, farts, Caroll Spinney, and much more.
- But please, tell me more about the “wings”.
- We finally have all of our roofing materials.
- Spending the holidays with my best friend.
- A better toy drive than I initially expected.
- A tag just for cops caught with child porn.
- My previous columns for December 17th.
- Setting an example for his underlings.
- This subtitle is no exaggeration.
- I believe in Father Christmas.
- Rapist cops of the week.
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In the News (#1289)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged A Broker in Pillage, animals, Arkansas, asset seizure, California, Canada, censorship, Colorado, consensual crime, cops, domestic violence, drugs, fascism, Florida, I Spy, If Men Were Angels, Imaginary Victims, Iowa, libraries, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, prisons, rape, South Dakota, Stalkers in Blue, The Cop Myth, Thought Control, underage, Virginia, Winding Down on November 16, 2022| 2 Comments »
No one wins in this. – Connor Cook
It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops: “A pastor [named Fredy Gonzalez]…in Wildomar [California] has been arrested for [molesting] a child…”
Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations:
Vera and Apollonia Ward…were just getting a dog-breeding business off the ground…when…[cops attempted to rob]…them…the…sisters…had…tried to send $17,500 in cash through FedEx to a…California…dog broker…to scout and purchase two new animals for them…[like most people, they did not know] FedEx [has a] fa[scist pact with cops which allows them to root through parcels at FedEx sorting centers if they claim a dog gave them permission. The cops first vomited out the phrase]…drug proceeds…[and claimed their Sooper Cop noses] smelled marijuana on the money…[but] the sisters…had receipts to [show they had withdrawn the cash from their bank]…When the sisters refused to cave and say the money was drug proceeds, the…[cops] threatened to go after them for money laundering…[but] after the Wards connected with the Goldwater Institute, prosecutors relented and returned the…money…six months [later]…
Well, this is certainly novel:
A Miami [cop was]…shot in the head by his estranged…girlfriend…Yessenia Sanchez…a[nother cop paid to lurk in]…school[s in order to spy on and harass students]…Sanchez went to [Damian] Colon’s [home]…around 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 4…to argue [with him], a[fter] which [she]…shot [him]…then fled…in a red pick up truck, [which she almost immediately wrecked into]…an oncoming car. She [then]…los[t] control, hit two parked cars…and continued for another block until her [truck died, after which she]…fled on foot…[and] was later arrested at her home…
This kind of behavior is just another sexual power trip:
A [typical and representative Mountie] convicted of multiple sex offences has been sentenced to 18 months in jail…Andrew Seangio…will [also] be placed on a sex offender registry for 10 years…[because] between 2018 and February 2019…he exposed himself to four girls, one of whom was just 14 years old, as well as [disguised cops]…Seangio would drive…past York House School and Little Flower Academy, both all-girls K-12 private schools, until he spotted an isolated victim. He would then roll down his window, expose himself and drive away…
Just keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually:
[When] the Patmos Library millage failed in…August…it lost 84% of its operating budget because its staff refused to remove its LGBTQ books. The board put it on the ballot again [last week]…hoping that with more residents aware of the measure, it would pass. It failed, again. Without taxpayer funds, the library will close. Exactly when that will happen is not yet known. A GoFundMe for the library raised about $265,000, with the help of author Nora Roberts, but it won’t be enough to sustain it long-term…
The state is far too concerned with “punishing” this girl to actually help her:
…On November 4, [Pieper] Lewis cut off her GPS tracker and [escaped] from [a gingerbread house named] Fresh Start…[cops] issued a warrant for her arrest…and [she was captured 5 days later]…Judge David Porter sentenced Lewis in September to probation for five years to be served at the [gingerbread house]. He also gave her a deferred judgment, which meant her conviction would be expunged from her record if she [successfully jumped through all the] probation [hoops]. Porter warned Lewis at her sentencing hearing that by affording her an opportunity to avoid prison he was giving her a second chance. “You don’t get a third,” he said…[because of her escape, pigs want] the court to…revoke her probation and deferred judgment and send her to prison…
When will the federal government finally read the writing on the wall?
Voters…approved the legalization of recreational marijuana in Maryland and Missouri while rejecting similar measures in Arkansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Meanwhile, voters in five Texas cities passed ballot measures that bar local police from issuing citations or making arrests for low-level marijuana possession. But the most striking election result for drug policy reformers looking beyond the ongoing collapse of marijuana prohibition happened in Colorado, where a broad psychedelic decriminalization measure [squeaked by despite clucking from puritans that not sending cops to destroy people’s lives over possession of plants]…is bad, because people might use psychedelics for fun…
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Links #644
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, cell phones, cops, Poland, recipes, robots, surveillance, video on November 7, 2022| Leave a Comment »
It’s like a Swiss Army knife of excretory openings. – Jakob Vinther
Since I like to memorialize musicians with one of their songs, I try not to feature two musicians’ obits in the same column. But since most of Jules Bass’s best lyrics were from the Christmas specials he and his partner Arthur Rankin are best remembered for, and it’s a bit too early for that, I gave this week’s video to Jerry Lee Lewis. The links above it were provided by Radley Balko, Walter Olson, Franklin Harris, Clarissa, Ally Fogg, and Aaron Ross Powell, in that order.
- But of course it is.
- Recipes from the dead.
- R.I.P. Jules Bass and Jerry Lee Lewis.
- Good. Let’s hope all the others follow suit.
- Who among us has never wanted to drive a choo-choo?
- The excuses for intrusive surveillance are growing ever more absurd.
From the Archives
- And yet amateurs pretend that sex workers are the one who spread STIs.
- Kristof is a vile excuse for a human being; naturally he went into politics.
- The government doesn’t care that its war on thought is unconstitutional.
- Swedish criminalization harms sexworkers by creating a climate of fear.
- Calling a bunch of unrelated raids & arrests a “human trafficking sting”.
- The power to declare something “non-essential” is the power to ban it.
- Bird-brains still think realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this.
- Nevada politicians accomplish by decree what they couldn’t do legally.
- PREA is feel-good pap while screws have absolute power over victims.
- The only “evidence” these racist sociopaths need is being Romanian.
- Nobody is giving expensive cannabis edibles to your spawn for free.
- “The truth is, what affects sex workers eventually affects everyone.“
- Sex workers need to keep suing prohibitionists whenever possible.
- “Porn addiction” is still being used as an excuse for violent crimes.
- While US cops favor VR porn games, Kazakh cops prefer LARPing.
- Brnovich does what an ethical judge would’ve done a year earlier.
- Politicians will criminalize virtually anything that can be defined.
- The “Violence Against Women Act” promotes its named subject.
- We are watching the beginning of the end of the War on Drugs.
- ACLU finally bothers to call for decriminalization, 45 years late.
- There has literally never been a case of drugged trick-or-treat.
- All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
- Remember, Twitter claims this surveillance isn’t surveillance.
- “Vagina Egg” Paltrow joins noted bigot Jada Pinkett Smith.
- Vomit out the right buzzwords and you can censor at will.
- Watch what you say in front of your children, comrade.
- “Migrant workers are a driving force of the…economy.“
- It wasn’t easy to get the steel for my bathhouse roof.
- Cops, horror, irony, Sean Connery, and much more.
- There’s too much surveillance to fit in just one tag.
- A firsthand account of China’s torture of Uighurs.
- Cops, scary music, Mort Sahl, and much more.
- My two previous columns for Guy Fawkes Day.
- A permanent dumb “awareness raising” stunt.
- A fancy Halloween spread for my birthday!
- My two previous columns for Halloween.
- Cops, gender, covers, and much more.
- The first leaf of my bathhouse roof.
- Birthday presents are awesome.
- Prohibitionists call this “rescue”.
- My encounter with a “Karen”.
- Much more of this, please.
- A catalog of thanatopses.
- Rapist cop of the week.
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!
Links #643
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged animals, California, cops, disease, Florida, holidays, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, Massachusetts, prisons, Stop faking!, Tennessee, Texas, video on October 30, 2022| 1 Comment »
I’m going to blow your fucking brains out. – “Deputy” Rodriguez
It’s been a few years since YouTube showed me an interesting Halloween video, so I was quite pleased to be offered this one last week! The links above it were provided by C.J. Ciaramella, Cop Crisis (x3), Missy Mariposa, and Walter Olson, in that order.
- Stop faking!
- Working while black.
- Just protecting and serving.
- A supervillain’s humble origin.
- BEHOLD THE GHOST COOKIE!
- I’m sure you feel much safer now.
From the Archives
- “Detention center” is just a euphemism for “prison”, and that means rape.
- Remember how I pointed out that the government couldn’t win this fairly?
- Politicians keep promising the impossible & the stupid keep believing ’em.
- A reminder that you shouldn’t let anyone shame you for refusing to vote.
- A rare case of a government actor actually being punished for his crimes.
- Anything that demonstrates the absurdity of internet censorship is good.
- “Surveillance rivals nuclear weapons in the threat it poses to humanity.“
- “Things on cars = ‘sex trafficking’” expands to include things near cars.
- I wish more people understood the power of legal precedent this well.
- Amazon eagerly hands data from internet-connected devices to cops.
- It’s good to see this lurid narrative turned against cops for a change.
- Cops, robots, Nazca, Tom Lehrer, James Randi, and much more.
- Sex workers who experience violence are still free-willed adults.
- Remember, this isn’t “human trafficking”, but consensual sex is.
- Many “sex trafficking” fetishists are also fixated on hentai.
- The schadenfreude is so sweet, it almost hurts my teeth.
- Philadelphia has many different ways to rob its citizens.
- At least a few reporters seem to be beginning to get it.
- “Death is for mortals no longer an evil, but a blessing.”
- A retrospective of my blogging from October 2011.
- Turning the police state’s own weapons against it.
- Me, welding a steel rafter onto the roof structure.
- Cops, politicians, a horror story, and much more.
- A whore-snitching app that skips the middlerat.
- More wackadoo beliefs about magic weenies.
- Links for Halloween, 2020 and 2021.
- Cops, art, Daleks, and much more.
- A tale of the death of an immortal.
- “Does this protect my rights?“
- A fun little Halloween game.
- Kaytlin Bailey’s wedding.
- Oh, what a surprise.
- Birthday presents.
- Stop faking!
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Tricks and Treats and Such Small Deer
Posted in History, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, tagged animals, apes & monkeys, comics, cops, Egypt, Europe, France, holidays, Israel, Japan, Ohio, Poland, robots, Texas, United Kingdom, Wisconsin on October 24, 2022| Leave a Comment »
I’ve always been dedicated to the idea of this as the time of year for spooky fun. So every year I collect all the spooky, creepy or scary content from the previous year into one place just before Halloween. If you’ve come to my blog in the past year, or don’t remember previous editions, they are “Trick or Treat”, “More Trick or Treat“, “Tricks and Treats“, “This Trick’s a Treat”, “Tricky Treats“, “A Trickle of Treats”, “Tricking and Treating“, and “Tricks for the Treat“. Oddly, though there were enough spooky or Halloweeny links to justify collecting them, the only horror, death or Halloween-themed column of the past year was “Books of the Dead“, and the only creepy or spooky-fun video appeared in Links #591. Here’s hoping for a better collection next year!
- As one does.
- Necromantics.
- R.I.P. Anne Rice.
- I hear dead people.
- Nightmare of the week.
- When pigs become ghouls.
- Lovecraftian prohibitionism.
- The sad decline of “fact checking”.
- I checked, and this is actually real.
- The great Glasgow Vampire Hunt of 1954.
- I’m pretty sure I’ve already seen this one.
- The French Lovecraft revival of the late ’50s.
- I’m sure a license would have prevented this.
- I know I saw this one on TV in the early ’80s.
- Don’t any archeologists watch horror movies?
- Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
- I’m pretty sure it was buried like this so it wouldn’t be opened.
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Links #642
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, animals, California, cops, Illinois, restaurants, teachers, Texas, video, Virginia on October 23, 2022| 1 Comment »
Why? – Erik Cantu
I’ve always been fond of this song, and given that the story it references was originally a werewolf tale, it seems seasonally appropriate. The links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel, Cop Crisis, Scott Greenfield, Mike Siegel again, Cop Crisis again, Thaddeus Russell, and Elizabeth N. Brown, in that order.
- R.I.P. Robbie Coltrane.
- Libertarianism happens to people.
- San Francisco demonstrates Poe’s Law.
- Myth is sometimes half-remembered history.
- Crime: playing hooky. Penalty: skull fracture.
- Cop tries to murder a teenager for eating a hamburger.
- What happens when reality is more ridiculous than parody.
From the Archives
- I’ve somehow managed the best possible game with the hand I was dealt.
- I’m sure Jesus would approve of punishing children for their parents’ sins.
- There’s literally never been a case of a kid getting drugged trick-or-treat.
- Authoritarians can’t conceive of any non-violent solution to any problem.
- Funny how often people “die suddenly” while cops are brutalizing them.
- Commies still love the fantasy that they can magically vanish sex work.
- The Japanese get very touchy when anyone memorializes their victims.
- “Moran is a liar, a bitch and a bully who was never even a sex worker.“
- The racism of “anti-trafficking” schemes is getting harder to disguise.
- Did you ever wonder why the government stopped harassing bitcoin?
- Allena Gabosch presents an essay collection called Sex Positive Now.
- The government needs to be buried in lawsuits before this will stop.
- Facebook didn’t think the face-eating leopards would eat its face.
- The rescue industry provides many opportunities to play cowboy.
- Cops cosplaying pimps vs cops cosplaying sex workers & clients.
- Indian activists battle prohibitionism disguised as “public health”.
- Banks are still actively looking for whores to rat out to the pigs.
- Cops are just a gang of rapist thugs waiting for opportunities.
- All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
- Brooke Magnanti on how “sex trafficking” panic led to QAnon.
- Maybe the Church shouldn’t just ignore priests’ sexual needs.
- Ever notice how often predatory cops’ targets are underage?
- “Sex trafficking” propaganda has always been deeply racist.
- “The carceral feminists are frightened. This is a culture war.“
- On the havoc wrought by Swedish criminalization in France.
- Pregnant women are uniquely vulnerable to state coercion.
- Cops, politicians, Twinkies, sound effects, and much more.
- Still think this djinni can be crammed back into its bottle?
- A look at Hacking/Hustling’s report on shadowbanning.
- An analysis of how the Baby Boomers wrecked the US.
- It’s always nice when filth like this feed on each other.
- All of our roofing materials are finally on the way!
- It rains an awful lot on the edge of a rain forest.
- Cops, Muppets, Florida, words, and much more.
- Once in a while, whores win a small victory.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2020 and 2021.
- Cops, laws, monsters, and much more.
- Learning to weld while building a roof.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- An exceptionally pleasant autumn.
- Cicero’s breakfast peanuts.
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Tweets Like Dry Leaves
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged activism, animals, BDSM, blogging, bogus studies, censorship, comics, cops, disability, fascism, language, left-right myth, psychology, racism, sex work is work, Twitter, video on October 20, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The Establishment wants you to believe that "delivering packages from a private person to another private person”, like UPS and Fedex do every day, is "a very sketchy situation".
Statism at its creepiest. https://t.co/OnMdQrDvMm
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 26, 2022
…only their right wing while squawking "LEFT WING! LEFT WING!" The circles overlap each other and lots of other goony birds stand in the middle and watch, calling what they're seeing a "debate".
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 27, 2022
Except for sex workers, of course. PayPal thinks it isn't necessary to "include" a way hundreds of thousands in the US *alone* make a living, not to mention millions in other countries. https://t.co/8NhDqx9h0Y
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 30, 2022
Cops have become like demons in fantasy horror tales, who can be summoned to destroy anyone merely by invoking the victim's name in the proper black magic ritual.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 1, 2022
This is one of my favorites: pic.twitter.com/gCfUCALpkw
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 2, 2022
Maybe if people recognized this cop behavior as stemming from the cop's own obsessive needs and desires – IOW a sexual or quasi-sexual need to torture others – something would at last be done about it.
But it isn't and won't be, so here we are. https://t.co/tFLnzLDc81
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 3, 2022
Absolutely without hesitation. This is Aphrodite's work. https://t.co/RVnDvbaP20
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 4, 2022
Why you should be skeptical of doomsayers who quote "projections". https://t.co/DfZ7HCePVt
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 5, 2022
When you use terms popular in political media, try doing so without the approved modifiers such as "deadly", "illicit", "____wing", "illegal", etc. Your readers will be surprised at how much more rational you sound. And if you're honest with yourself, so will you.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 6, 2022
Sex work is work. https://t.co/nLOfiLqLWp
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 7, 2022
If someone who isn't writing about birds, airplanes, or buildings uses the word "wing" more than once or twice in an article, consider it an indication you should turn your skepticism dial way, way up.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 9, 2022
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 11, 2022
The US is dominated by two partisan cults with extreme and irrational belief-systems, both of whom deny reality in general and pretend that the few things they ARE correct about are entirely without exception.
If you belong to one of these, you are neither "smart" nor moral.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 12, 2022
I've built 2 of the 3 here at Sunset. If money were no object, I'd hire pros to come in and fix the little things I didn't do quite right; I'd also have them repair the outbuildings and build me a miniature railway all around the property so I could ride in my own choo-choo.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 13, 2022
"She Quietly Read at Home. Then She Went Back To Being A Librarian"
"He Lied to his Wife. Then He Went Back To Being A Politician"
"He Balanced His Checkbook. Then He Went Back To Being An Accountant"
"She Made Dinner For Her Family. Then She Went Back To Being A Chef"
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 14, 2022
And best of all, gathering all that busybody energy at the source would dramatically curtail the amount available for them to use in actually going out into the world and sticking their runny noses into everyone else's business.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 15, 2022
And now for a word from our drama llama: pic.twitter.com/d4q5uWO59Q
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 16, 2022
Start "The Maggie McNeill Foundation", which would support me with a stipend until I croak, then give out grants to worthy anti-prohibition causes after I'm gone.
If any billionaires see this and think it sounds good, email me. https://t.co/O8iuOo4MsS
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 18, 2022
A government action is a "raid" if:
A) it involves two or more armed agents of the State;
B) the target is not warned in advance; and
C) the target cannot legally and effectively refuse entry to the agents. https://t.co/OvCdYFsh03— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 19, 2022
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