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Imbolc 2025
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on February 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Yule 2024
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on December 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »
The apparent path of the sun reached its southernmost point at 9:20 UTC today, the exact moment this posted; that makes this the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest day of the year in the Southern. This is a time for remembrance, renewal and rebirth; I wish for all my readers the blessings of the season, and pray that all of you get all you hope for in the new year. Blessed Be!
The Last Throwback Thursday
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged activism, agency denial, blogging, evidence, holidays, Lack of Evidence, paganism, politicians, Thought Experiment on December 19, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Prostitution is to my knowledge the only “crime” which is entirely defined by its motive. – “Lack of Evidence”
Adult women are ADULTS. It isn’t the job of strangers, nor that of “rescue” organizations or the government, to police their private lives. – “Thought Experiment”
To anyone who knows anything at all about the origin and development of Christmas, the insistence by American Christians that the holiday belongs to them and them alone is bizarre indeed; it’s rather like someone buying a used car, giving it a new paint job, and then declaring that he was the inventor of the internal combustion engine. – “Christmas Eve 2012”
In a very real sense, Christmas is literally as old as civilization, and we owe the majority of what makes us more than just high-falutin’ monkeys to [an] ancient event that we now only remember in myths of a time when life was easy.
– “Yule 2013”
There are still far too many…who want sex workers silent, invisible, and preferably caged, enslaved, or dead. – “Before It Gets Better“
Day of the Dead 2024
Posted in Holidays, Philosophy, tagged holidays, paganism, Thanatopsis on November 1, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Though worlds and suns are considerably longer-lived than we, they too must eventually perish in the fullness of time. – “Let There Be Dark”
“Every single thing in the Cosmos is mortal, and will pass away in its time. [Organisms and empires alike] rise, thrive, decline, and fall, to be replaced by younger ones which then decline and fall in their time…crumbling into dust and passing first into memory, then legend, and eventually beyond the horizon of sentient knowledge.”
Halloween 2024
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on October 31, 2024| 2 Comments »
Happy Halloween, dear readers, and Blessed Be!
Mabon 2024
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on September 22, 2024| 1 Comment »
The apparent path of the sun crosses the celestial equator southbound at 12:43 UTC today, making this the first day of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and the first of spring in the Southern. This is the time of harvest, when plans come to fruition; it is also the harbinger of the time of rest, especially for Daughters of Darkness like myself who are exhausted and overstimulated by the long days of summer. But even if you’re not a fan of the growing gloom, I hope you can enjoy the cooler days and hold summer in your heart while waiting for its return, just as I wait patiently through the long, bright days for the time that best reflects my inner landscape.
Blessed Be!
Lammas 2024
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on August 1, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Happy Lammas, dear readers, and Blessed Be!
Links #734
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged artificial stupidity, consensual crime, cops, drugs, Italy, Korea, Never Call the Cops, paganism, Texas, video on July 28, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Given the…lack of viewer response, we weren’t sure the signal was even getting out of the building. – Bob Newhart
Since I liked the last video of a TV superhero performing “Orange Colored Sky” that he sent me, the same gentleman sent me this one. The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel, IncarcerNation, Radley Balko, Anarres Ansible, and Nun Ya, in that order.
- R.I.P. Bob Newhart.
- “Never” really does mean never.
- The Drug War has descended into self-parody.
- “Smart” devices aren’t, part umpteen thousand.
- These “officials” don’t seem to know what Bacchus stood for.
From the Archives
- It’s probably a bad idea to accept the offer of a job you aren’t qualified for.
- “Sex trafficking magnet” tall tales been reduced mostly to pathetic reruns.
- When the victim is a small child, rapist cops sometimes get comeuppance.
- I’m sure they occasionally yelled “Stop faking!” at him as he wasted away.
- On Beijing’s aggressive campaign to silence Chinese people outside China.
- Do airlines really want liability for employees racially profiling passengers?
- It does not help victims of State brutality to infantilize them as “children”.
- The bipartisan war on the internet is past even trying to look reasonable.
- Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will multiply until ruled unconstitutional.
- The return of a silly fantasy we haven’t seen much in the past few years.
- “This bill is not about kids’ safety, because it will put their safety at risk”.
- My 1st profession is now as much a target for authoritarians as my 2nd.
- Cops will never stop doing this as long as the state gives them pretexts.
- When will amateurs learn that the War on Whores affects them as well?
- Parents should keep kids far away from both cops and “youth pastors”.
- Prohibition can never succeed, regardless of the substance prohibited.
- This is sick even by the abysmal standards of US “sex offender” laws.
- Ballard’s increasingly-bizarre antics upset his partners in profiteering.
- Cops don’t like non-cops falsely accusing people of imaginary crimes.
- “The increase in…risk is [too] small…to be relevant for the individual“.
- Amazon only likes fascist surveillance schemes it owns and controls.
- Any information you give to cops can and will be used against you.
- “Progressives” want everyone forced into “regulated” collectives.
- If only there were a concise term for “coerced women into sex”.
- Another troubled woman fakes an “abduction” to get attention.
- The people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- Representation matters, especially for anti-authoritarian kids.
- Will this be another victory for US evangelical prohibitionists?
- Partisans deny this when it’s their side making “suggestions”.
- Cops, commies, Jackie Mason, Dusty Hill, and much more.
- Why “policies” not backed up by law reform are worthless.
- Gee, I wonder why violent men often target sex workers?
- Retrospectives of my blogging from July 2012 and 2013.
- An analysis of what China absurdly claims are “schools”.
- When will people learn that “artificial intelligence” isn’t?
- This is absurd even by the low standards of bluenoses.
- It seems July is nearly always a busy month for me.
- Cops, Mars, TMI, David Warner, and much more.
- Cops love awkward, overcomplicated language.
- Gee, I wonder why she “stopped cooperating”?
- Cops, satire, animated sci-fi, and much more.
- The two main roof supports are now in place.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2021 and 2022.
- A good view of my atrium as of July ’22.
- “You know who doesn’t screen? Cops.“
- Rapist cops don’t only target women.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- A prosecutor is just a kind of cop.
- “Pastors” are as bad as cops.
- Professor Balthazar.
- Freedom Fest 2021.
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Litha 2024
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on June 20, 2024| Leave a Comment »
The apparent path of the sun will reach its northernmost point at 20:50 UTC today, marking the longest day of the year and the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and the shortest day of the year & first day of winter in the Southern. May all of your plans come to fruition in the fullness of time, and Blessed Be!
May Day 2024
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on May 1, 2024| Leave a Comment »
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