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May Day 2026

Posted in Holidays, tagged , on May 1, 2026| 2 Comments »

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May Eve 2026

Posted in Holidays, tagged , on April 30, 2026| 1 Comment »

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Easter 2026

Posted in Holidays, tagged on April 5, 2026| Leave a Comment »

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Throwback Thursday After Midnight

Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , on April 2, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Censorship [is] wildly popular among…those who believe the most terrifying fact of the world is that others beside themselves have free will.
–  “Ship of Fools”

 

[In contrast with the] cost…[of] second-rate, weeks-old grocery store eggs…two hours of literally shoveling shit twice a year…begins to seem like a good bargain indeed.  –  “Diary #665”

 

“Nonprofit” merely refers to the organization; those who run it often make plenty of profit.  –  “Schadenfreude (#1425)”

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Vernal Equinox 2026

Posted in Holidays, tagged , on March 20, 2026| Leave a Comment »

The apparent path of the sun will cross the equator moving northward at 14:46 UTC today, marking the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern.  Enjoy the milder weather to come, and Blessed Be!

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Mama Throwback Thursday

Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on March 19, 2026| Leave a Comment »

The surest way to lose my cooperation is to accompany the demand with a phrase like “you must”, “you are required to”, “it’s the law”, etc.  –  “Off the Green”

Some of life’s greatest pleasures are pleasant precisely because they’re so ephemeral; if rainbows were always a feature of the sky, few would ever bother to look up at them in wonderment and appreciation.
–  “Diary #663”

Baby-step reforms…are mostly intended to distract activists and hush timid human rights campaigners.  –  “Lack of Evidence (#1421)”

[Trump] wants to make the US status as the world’s cop official, complete with the cop power to terrorize whoever he likes on a whim without anything resembling consequences.  –  “Client Kingdoms”

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Friday, March 13th, 2026

Posted in Perception, Tyranny, tagged , , , on March 13, 2026| 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 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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Sex Worker Rights Day 2026

Posted in Perception, Tyranny, tagged , on March 3, 2026| 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.

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Mardi Gras 2026

Posted in Holidays, tagged , on February 17, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Since Andrea Mistretta retired her Mardi Gras poster series last year, here’s her poster from 2011; I’ll start going backward from there in years to come.  Happy Mardi Gras, dear readers!

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Valentine’s Day 2026

Posted in Holidays, tagged on February 14, 2026| Leave a Comment »

As longtime readers know, Valentine’s Day is my least favorite of holidays, and I’m not particularly fond of the typical iconography associated with it, either (which is often weird or violent or creepy as hell).  So every year I try to share an exception, like this cute little elephant with a “clever” message that isn’t an abysmal pun.

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