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The Invasion of Throwback Thursday
Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged blogging, Bluesky, ethics, left-right myth, psychology, Twitter, Washington (state) on July 16, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Links #835
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged acting, Aphrodite, archeofeminism, artificial stupidity, cops, Florida, Mississippi, psychology, robots, Texas, video, Washington (state) on July 6, 2026| Leave a Comment »
You owe me lunch. – “Officer” Caleb Pomazon
Today’s video was called to my attention by Jessica Crabbit on Whores’ Day, but this is the first time I’ve had space for it. The links above it were provided by Dan Savage, The Onion, Jesse Walker, Kevin Wilson, Phoenix Calida, Nun Ya, and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- R.I.P. Ann Blyth and Penelope Keith.
- Sometimes The Onion isn’t really satire.
- Zappa had the courage of his convictions.
- Another great moment in artificial stupidity.
- Why is this reporter fixated on the smoking?
- Just another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- Crime: shoplifting diapers. Penalty: summary execution of baby.
From the Archives
- Pregnant women & new mothers are uniquely vulnerable to state coercion.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- How long will Western society allow cops to terrorize traumatized women?
- “Claiming age verification preserves online anonymity doesn’t make it so“.
- SCOTUS isn’t quite ready to allow full-on government censorship just yet.
- I’m fine with this as long as it’s only tech companies harming each other.
- Cop violence is never limited to members of the public, nor to male cops.
- Maine defines women as moral imbeciles, and men as our moral betters.
- It’s too bad most authoritarian diktats don’t blow up in politicians’ faces.
- Cop deals with problems as he was trained to, and everyone is shocked.
- “Rescue” profiteers demand government conjure “victims” from thin air.
- SCOTUS rules that the First Amendment does not apply on the internet.
- Contradictory laws are an inevitable result of rampant authoritarianism.
- The first prosocial application of facial recognition technology I’ve seen.
- Pretexts for this would not remain limited to “child porn” & “terrorism”.
- Microsoft makes censorship easier, when it should be making it harder.
- This is what Pride should be: a gigantic “fuck you” to authoritarianism.
- Cops will ignore the Constitution until doing so is actually criminalized.
- Schools could best help the US by actually teaching basic math again.
- The New Orleans city council rewards the NOPD for criminal behavior.
- One of those fools who thinks anything involving gadgets is laudable.
- Cops, pizza, Julian Sands, Sue Johanson,Alan Arkin, and much more.
- shitty laws were used against an actual violent criminal for a change.
- Societies’ tendency to self-lobotomize will probably never be solved.
- “Search” is the most common government euphemism for “molest”.
- He wasn’t a “former” cop when he repeatedly raped a teenage girl.
- There is no “intelligence” in an automated high-resolution scanner.
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- A short EN Brown piece on the legacy of the Assange persecution.
- This will continue until the evil US immigration policy is reformed.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from June 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- Cops still use laws overturned in 2003 to harass gay men today.
- Unfortunately, a new Chromebook means more enshittification.
- One reason I added on to my house was to host guests at will.
- Your “leaders” work hard to ensure this happens more often.
- Cops, insects, Gailard Sartain, Bill Moyers, and much more.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”, but you don’t have to.
- Crypto-moralists believe anything people enjoy is “unsafe”.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Kinky Friedman, and much more.
- I’m happy to have been proven wrong about her chances.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Cops are not known for intelligence and good judgment.
- In surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Another of the many reasons not to play with chatbots.
- Good grief, don’t volunteer to be around them either.
- It’s rare that a rapist cop stops at only a few victims.
- The headline writer omitted the word “temporarily”.
- My three previous columns for Independence Day.
- Oh look, another “youth pastor”, what a surprise.
- Anyone “shocked” by this must live in a cave.
- Nearing the end of my annex project.
- The Wedding of Throwback Thursday.
- Good riddance to bad rubbish.
- Expanding my chicken yard.
- The Return of Fridaystein.
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In the News (#1649)
Posted in Current Events, Fiction, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged Africa, Angola, artificial stupidity, Botswana, cops, Enshittification, fascism, Florida, Gabon, Google, homosexuality, I Spy, illegal aliens, imaginative fiction, internet, law, LGBT rights, Mad Libs, Namibia, Niger, No Difference, Ohio, politicians, pregnancy, prisons, Pyrrhic Victory, racism, Stop faking!, surveillance, teachers, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber, United Kingdom, Washington (state) on June 24, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Hello, I am…a…toaster. – Google’s “AI summary” algorithm
The UK wants a flawed computer algorithm to officially override migrants’ self-reported ages:
Age verification is consuming the internet…[and] is about to seep into the offline world…Starting next year, the British government is planning to introduce facial age [guessing software]…to [overrule] the [self-reported] age of asylum seekers…[using the excuse that] many asylum seekers…[do] not have documents proving their age, [so the government can officially]…class…[many legal minors] as adults…strip…[them of] legal protections and [hurl them into] adult-only [concentration camps]…an internal UK government report…shows how the systems regularly mistake [adolescents] for adults…[especially when] deployed against…Sub-Sarahan Africans…[which are typically] off by an average of 4.6 years, meaning that a 13.5-year-old girl could be assessed as an 18-year-old adult…
How long before Google becomes completely useless?
If you Google “SCP-565” — an iconic entry in the collaborative fan fiction universe known as the “SCP Foundation” — the [so-called “]AI Overviews[“] describes the nonexistent entity as though it were entirely real, without a single acknowledgement that it’s a piece of online horror fiction…Ed’s Head is a made-up “anomaly” among the many fictional “objects, entities, and phenomena” dreamed up by members of the SCP Foundation fandom. As the lore goes, the SCP Foundation is a non-government organization that collects and contains supernatural discoveries. Writers catalogue these fictional phenomena — which range from the terrifying to the downright bizarre — in the form of fake records, studies, research documents, and logs, all of which are indexed in a sprawling archive…[but] Google’s [Chatbot] Overviews…[predictably] present…entities from the expansive SCP universe as real items, events, or beings…We first caught wind of th[is when]…social media discovered that a Google search for “SCP-426” — a fictional toaster that causes anyone talking about the toaster to refer to it in the first person — returns an…Overview in which the [chatbot] discusses the mysterious entity in the first person, as if [it had] itself…been impacted by the toaster’s supernatural effect…
Once again: chatbots are incapable of telling fantasy from reality because they are incapable of understanding that the word fragments (“tokens” in industry jargon) they process correspond to anything outside of the chatbot itself. 
A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners:
It has always been difficult to get help inside federal prison. But in recent years, it has become nearly impossible…The rate at which the bureau granted [relief] has fallen from just under 7% in 2000 to less than 2% in 2023…[the vast majority] are rejected without consideration for the content of their complaint, for arcane reasons such as including too many pages or not filing enough copies…[and] a 1996 federal law requires prisoners to complete the internal grievance process before filing a lawsuit…healthcare-related requests…[a]re the third most common reason for…complaint, behind [dehumanizing living conditions] and [sexual or physical abuse by] staff…Of all medical grievances [clos]ed in 2023, fewer than 1% were granted…state [dungeons typically give slightly more relief, with most]…grant[ing it in] roughly 15% of [cases, though some like]…Texas…[h]over [around] 4%…reasons for rejections [are often ludicrously cruel], like writing with a pencil instead of a pen, or a woman reporting sexual abuse who was rejected for misspelling her abuser’s last name. One…Spanish-speaking prisoner filed a grievance asking for translation services, but was rejected for writing it in Spanish…
African anti-LGBT campaigns are a lot like US anti-sex work campaigns:
Niger’s military junta announced a new penal code that criminalizes…anyone who “commits or attempts to commit an immodest or unnatural act or practices lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender, Queer, intersex, Asexual…acts”…What does it mean to punish “acts” that are “asexual”? Does having a platonic relationship constitute an “asexual act” that violates this prohibition? Ghana’s parliament recently criminalized [merely] “identifying” as [LGBT and invented]…a “duty”…to [rat out one’s friends, family, and confidantes to] police…On the other hand, the high court in Namibia…recently struck down laws against gay sex…[as did] Angola in 2021, Gabon in 2020, and…Botswana…[in 2019]…
His involvement with a grooming program isn’t mentioned until 5 lines from the end:
Bethel [Ohio boss hog] Chad Essert [has been arrested] in Florida after a…grand jury indicted him on 70…sex crime…[charges for repeatedly molesting at least one] minor…from…2005 [to] 2010…Essert…served as an instructor with the Young Marines [at] the time…Essert [fled to Florida]…in May [after being rewarded with a paid vacation for some other unnamed crime]…
It’s OK; soon all “healthcare” will just be chatbots anyway:
For more than two years, a D[anish chatbot]…has been listening to Seattle residents’ 911 medical calls without their knowledge…to [algorithmically determine] which callers don’t deserve a[ctual help, but are instead]…route[d]…to a nurse-staffed Texas call center [with a wait time of several hours. And as is typical for so-called “AI” systems, this is done]…without any disclosure to callers [or] public review…Seattle [bureaucrats describe this as]…a conservative approach [despite]…the…wrongful death of one 911 caller…
How clueless would a woman have to be to give busybodies this kind of data?
Stanford graduates Jenny Duan and Abhinav Agarwal want to solve two hard problems: create a [gewgaw fools will buy] and measure hormones to help [the government track women’s pregnancies]. The pair is building a startup called Clair Health to track inflammation and bloating markers, energy levels, and cycle phase classification to give [government bureaucrats] insights into cycle irregularities and perimenopause, as well as hormonal fluctuations, and how to [target women for violence using] those changes [as justification]. The company has raised $11.6 million in [fascist] funding…and…uses [buzzwords like “]onboarding[“]…[“]AI[“]…[“]biomarkers[“] and…[“]voice stack[” to dazzle marks with bullshit]…Clair Health’s device has 10 biosensors, including a novel biomagnetic sensor for hormonal [surveillance]…of…women [who can get pregnant]…
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In the News (#1646)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged Banishment, bogus studies, California, cell phones, censorship, cops, Facebook, fascism, Florida, illegal aliens, Illinois, law, left-right myth, LGBT rights, Morality Lessons, New Jersey, Opting Out, Panopticon, Policing for Profit, prisons, Pyrrhic Victory, racism, sex offender registry, South Carolina, sporting events, surveillance, teachers, Texas, The Last Shall Be First, Torture Chamber, transgender, United Kingdom, Walled Garden, Washington (state) on June 13, 2026| Leave a Comment »
No-one in a democracy should need to show their passport just to get online. – Silkie Carlo
There are many ways for cops to enrich themselves at others’ expense:
A [New Jersey cop named Darryl Brown] stole more than $10,000 in camera equipment from a photographer who had to abandon her bag after she was injured during [a pogrom] outside a…[concentration camp] in Newark [named] Delaney Hall…which has been the focus of ongoing protests since Memorial Day weekend…after [political prisoner]s inside announced a hunger and labor strike…Angelina Katsanis was [hit so hard] by a [cop she] could barely walk…as state troopers [attack]ed…the…protesters [with pepper spray and blunt weapons] late [on the] night [of May 30th]…She…tucked her bag aside so she could seek medical help…[it] was clearly labeled with her name, and her keys were airtagged. After a friend unsuccessfully tried to retrieve the bag later that night, they were able to monitor the airtag [be]ing [carried by] Darryl Brown [to his house, where operatives of the attorney general’s office of public integrity]…found some of [it on June 3rd after gaining entry via a search warrant]…
One more baby step toward ridding our society of this evil:
South Carolina is one of 20 states that authorize indefinite [warehousing] of [people] after they have completed their prison sentences…[if] a jury [declares them]…a “sexually violent predator”…Although the South Carolina Office of Mental Health…concluded that Andy Hyman was not an SVP, a jury d[eclared otherwise because a prosecutor tricked them with an “expert”]…opinion based largely on penile plethysmography (PPG), a scientifically dubious technique that [cl]aims to measure sexual response to images, audio narratives, or textual descriptions by gauging tiny changes in the circumference of the subject’s penis. That test, the South Carolina Supreme Court [has now] unanimously ruled…in response to Hyman’s appeal, is “generally inadmissible in judicial proceedings”…join[ing] a long list of state and federal courts that have deemed PPG results unreliable and inadmissible…
The Last Shall Be First (#1523)
Burble burble BLUE STATE burble drool:
Student athletes in Washington state schools who want to compete in girls’ sports would likely have to obtain genital exams to participate, if a[n authoritarian] ballot initiative passes in November…students would have several options to confirm their sex: a visual genital exam, a lab test to determine their genetic makeup, or an analysis of testosterone levels in the blood…[high-profile bigot] Brian Heywood and his political action committee Let’s Go Washington are backing the measure…[which they defend by barfing the word “]safety[“] in girls’ [faces]…the measure would be a major shift in the way the state has…handled school sports participation for transgender kids…since 2007…[there are only about] 10 trans athletes out of more than 200,000 kids [in academic sports] across the state…
In the authoritarian mind, for students to voluntarily allow other people to examine their genitalia for the purpose of pleasure is a “crime”, but for the same students to be forced by law to allow strangers to examine their genitalia for the purpose of bigotry is “protection”.
Cops will invariably use warrantless surveillance to frame people:
…[Ariel Beltran and] Hugo Parra [were falsely] arrested last year on felony [assault] charges…[because] San Diego police…de[cided]…the Alfa Romeo car [they were] riding in…[could teleport] five miles away from…the crime [instantly]…a…[Flock] license plate reader…captured…an…[image of] a different Alfa Romeo [whose license plate cops could not read, so they simply]…arrested Beltran and Parra [for riding in a similar car in a different part of town, also captured by the reader 23 seconds later]…Parra spent nearly one month behind bars…before the…charges were dropped…Now Parra and Beltran are preparing to sue the city for civil rights violations and negligence…several other Flock cameras…[and] the location data on their cell phones [showed they were nowhere near the crime scene, but the cops]…ignored [inconvenient] evidence [to frame the men, who now]…seek $1.5 million apiece in damages…
Zuckerberg sneakily added this dystopian software, hoping civil liberties groups wouldn’t notice:
[Facebook] has quietly embedded face-recognition technology for its [perve]rt glasses into an app downloaded to millions of phones…over multiple updates this year…while publicly…[lying that it w]as something the company was still “thinking through”…Though not yet enabled, NameTag sits inside a…companion app that’s…necessary for use of key features of its [perve]rt glasses…[when] activated, it will transform faces captured by [the pervert] glasses into unique biometric signatures…and check each one against faceprints stored on the user’s phone—a database that…[could easily be re]configured to…revive…technology [Facebook lied about retiring] in 2021, when the company…paid $650 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by Illinois users and, in 2024, agreed to a separate $1.4 billion settlement with Texas over…[illega]lly collect[ing] biometric data…
Nuremberg-style trials are the moderate solution to these atrocities:
[Victims of] Florida’s notorious [Dade-Collier concentration camp reported that screws are]…denying them food and fresh water…[in an attempt to coerce them into] sign[ing] documents presented to them in English that they [can]not understand…the water given to them…[is] “rotten” and contain[s] mosquito larvae…They…[are also denying] medicine to…diabetic[s], [people] with high blood pressure…and others [who need daily medication. The concentration camp is so expensive to]…operate…[it is scheduled to] wind down operations in [the next few weeks in preparation for] its eventual closure…[after only] one year of operation, the t[orture] facility…has developed a reputation for the brutal treatment of [human beings crammed into]…metal cages, and…su[bjected to nigh-constant] human and civil rights abuses…[including] denial of access to immigration lawyers, frequent and sudden movement of [victims] to other [concentra]tion [camp]s, and pressure to consent…to deportation…[the new tortures] appear…to be a ramping up of that pressure…
Fascists will never be satisfied until they control all people see, say, and do:
The UK government [is demanding tech companies install Utah-style software] to block access to…images [badly-flawed algorithms identify as “nude”, a la Facebook,] on smartphones and other devices for [all residents of the UK unless they submit to having those devices permanently linked to their identities in government databases]. Sir Keir Starmer has [issued incoherent threats] to…firms [while barfing “]children[” and “]sexually explicit[” at sensible people]…and…[bloviating about what he] “believe[s]”. The government [issued a]…three month…[ultimatum and threatened corporations not resident in the UK with] criminal [charges, even demanding that corporations force the censorship & surveillance software into]…existing…phones [without the owners’ consent]…The [new threats are a tacit admission that the much-ballyhooed]…Online Safety Act – [which took over 12 years to enact] – i[s as utter a failure as sensible people predicted eight years ago]…However, [authoritarian lunatics] have [demand]ed the government…[completely control everything young adults] see…online[, moronically belching “]sextortion[” as though it were a sensible term used by reasonable adults]. The [scheme includes a proposed ban]…on…social media [for all Britons who refuse to submit to a surveillance regime]…
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In the News (#1640)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged abortion, agency denial, artificial stupidity, consensual crime, cops, Cops and Robbers, Creepy Coppers, Do As I Say, domestic violence, drugs, fantasy, Follow Your Bliss, Kansas, Kentucky, language, law, lawheads, Louisiana, Mad Libs, Maryland, Monsters, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, porn, propaganda, scams, teachers, The Cop Myth, The Vultures Descend, transgender, Washington (state), Washington DC on May 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »
This is just one in a long line of attacks on our rights. – Alexis Johnson
When will the mainstream media admit that pigs in schools are a menace?
A [typical and representative Pennsylvania cop paid to lurk in]…school[s to spy on, harass, and intimidate students] has been arrested on child pornography charges…[an anonymous snitch tattled on] David Jayne…[to cops, who raided his house and found a trove of child porn going back] about 20 years…[Reporters interviewed a mob of slackjawed nitwits who expressed confusion over the revelation that cops are hypocrites and fear of sex ray contamination]…
Cops claim they “don’t know” if this was hate-motivated:
…a Santa Fe [New Mexico] transgender teen…[named] Juniper Blessing…was stabbed more than 40 times [at a University of Washington student housing complex in Seattle on the evening of May 10]…Christopher Leahy [surrendered]…to police [the following] Thursday…He…[is being] charge[d]…with first-degree murder…Blessing [was found] dead in the laundry room of Nordheim Court…around 10:10 p.m…[and Leahy was] caught on surveillance video…as…he…unplugged [the camera in preparation for]…the attack…Police haven’t referred the case to prosecutors as a hate crime investigation…Last month, a 39-year-old transmasculine person named Lucas Knapp was [murdered] in [New Mexico by]…David Thomas Byington, [who] fired at Knapp multiple times with a rifle…Investigators in Kentucky are continuing to search for 22-year-old Murry Foust, a trans man enrolled at Northern Kentucky University who has been missing since April 27…
Unsafe for Human Consumption (#1549)
Cops won’t drop this fantasy until “news” media stop obediently parroting it:
An [anxiety-prone Pennsylvania cop faint]ed in a p[igmobile] and [his bosses decided to turn it into “magic fentanyl” copaganda because]…he…help[ed] destroy narcotics inside the evidence room…about 20 minutes [earlier]…fentanyl [does not have a delayed effect, nor any effect from casual contact]…no[r any side effect of] memory [loss, but cops decided to turn it into a “magic fentanyl” scary tale anyhow, assuming it happened at all (given that no name was provided)]…
Do As I Say, Not As I Do (#1591) 
It’s too bad cops don’t spend all of their time fantasy role-playing with each other:
A D.C. [cop] has been arrested in Maryland [for talking to another cop]…Matthew Mahl…exchanged sexually explicit text messages with a Maryland [cop fantasy role-playing online]…as a 15-year-old boy…Mahl has been [rewarded with a paid vacation. The game]…was [part of a moneymaking scheme organized by toxic con artist] Chris Hansen, known for his [unethical] exp[loitation of public fears about “]child predators[” which resulted in a trail of ruined lives and even suicides, and inspired dozens of sleazy YouTube imit]ations. Hansen, who[se]…”To Catch a Predator” [show was cancelled due to successful lawsuits by its victims,] now hosts the series “Takedown with Chris Hansen” which fo[llows the same revolting formula]…
Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do:
A Wichita [Kansas cop named]…Grayson Hoofer was [arrested] for [breaking into his estranged girlfriend’s house to beat and sexually terrorize her]…Hoofer…[was, predictably,] a member of [a cop gang supposedly intended to intervene in]…domestic…violence [cases]. His [bosses have] since [hidden that, but also bragged that Hoofer]…has been re[warded with a]…paid [vacation]…
No, it can’t connect to my bank account; “your” is not a pronoun meaning “any fool’s”:
OpenAI wants…[fools] to…be able to connect their accounts across more than 12,000 financial institutions to…[Cat, I farted so it can root] “in your…financial accounts…in a way that feels more personal and complete”…If you are someone reasonably [sane]…you might be thinking, “Why on Earth would I want to do that?” But OpenAI…is [not marketing to sensible]…people…
Just a reminder that even if they’d let this diktat stand, it is wholly unenforceable:
The Supreme Court [has overruled a 5th Circuit diktat attempting to stop] the abortion pill mifepristone [from being] available by mail without an in-person appointment…The decision, a loss for the state of Louisiana, ensures [clinicians] will not be [criminalized when they prescribe]…the drug [for women in forced-birth states]…Two [totalitarian judg]es, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, dissented…[absurdly barfing] “criminal enterprise” [at the plaintiffs]…
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In the News (#1638)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged Alaska, BDSM, Broken Record, California, cops, drugs, End Demand (updates), fascism, Florida, France, He Said-She Said, homosexuality, hysteria, If Men Were Angels, illegal aliens, LGBT rights, Maryland, politicians, porn, pregnancy, prisons, propaganda, rape, robots, Shame Shame, sporting events, statistics, Texas, The Vultures Descend, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber, Washington (state), Welcome to Our Updates, welcome to our world on May 16, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I thought I was going to die. – Pedro Cantú Ríos
When will amateur women learn cops are dangerous sex predators?
San Francisco prosecutors [let]…four Baltimore [cops who raped a San Francisco woman skate without charges. All four rapists were rewarded]…by the Baltimore Police Department [with paid vacations] since November of last year…[for] the…September 2024 [rape by pigs]…Jai Etwaroo…Juan Rivas, Angel Villaronga
and Jahmoor Acosta…The woman…[foolishly] met up with the [predato]rs…[via] social media….went out for drinks, [was roofied by one of them and gang-raped]…she woke up…naked the next day alongside one of the [rapist pigs] in a [strange] hotel room, bewildered and unable to remember what had happened. All of the [cops ignored her and left]…
As Mistress Matisse has said many times, there is no safe way to choke someone:
In recent years, choking during sex has become much more common, especially among younger adults in the United States…31.9 percent of women ages 18-24 reported ever being choked during sex…40.6 percent of women ages 25-29 reported the same…[but] only 5 percent of women in their 50s reported this experience…many young people are exposed to rough sex—including choking—through…Pornography…Social media…[and other] online content…[but] have little formal education about sexual safety, consent, or kink practices…A recent study…found that [near point convergence, a simple test used to detect mild brain injuries such as concussions]…increased after sex in general but that the increase was significantly larger after sex involving choking. In simple terms, participants showed more signs of mild neurological impairment after being choked…these effects can last for days or weeks….
Another predictable impact of “fetal personhood” dogma on fertility procedures:
Last August, a married couple went before a [Florida] court in…a routine surrogacy case. The couple, two men living in France, had contracted with a Florida woman…to carry their child. As her due date approached, the fathers-to-be petitioned for early parental rights. While the judge did grant the order, h[e also]…opin[ed]…that surrogacy [should] be unconstitutional….[barfed “]personhood[” in the plaintiffs’ faces, and tipped off Florida’s psychopathic anti-queer]…Attorney General James Uthmeier[, who immediately] began pushing to intervene in the case…[pretend]ing that surrogacy is akin to slavery…This is not the first time [the deranged] Uthmeier…has injected himself into a[n]…uncontested court case. His office’s involvement in a 17-year-old’s request for an abortion last spring further whittled down Florida’s abortion access…and…[now] seems…interested in securing a court opinion limiting reproductive technology …in…[order to] limit Floridians’ access not only to surrogacy but to things like the use of sperm donors and…in-vitro fertilization…[he also wants to be able to inflict] child support [on sperm donors]…
This is what Pentecostals call “holiness”:
Daniel Savala, a [typical and representative]…Assemblies of God…minist[er who was allowed to run loose by his superiors] for years despite repeated warnings about his predatory behavior, [has] pleaded guilty…to…sexually abus[ing] boys…[and] sentenced to 30 years in prison without the possibility of parole…The…case…began in 2023 after revelations that leaders in the Chi Alpha campus ministry repeatedly [refus]ed to [stop] Savala, allowing him to continue m[olest]ing teens and young men for years…in Texas — even after a 2012 child sex abuse conviction in Alaska. Instead…Chi Alpha…called him…“the holiest man alive” and sent scores of students to his Houston home for [sexual assault]…
…Seattle [cop shops and fascist collaborators] are [attempt]ing…to [revive the moribund “]human trafficking[” hysteria, specifically the “gypsy whores” myth]…ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup…the Seattle [cop shop], the Port of Seattle, and the [prohibitionist, pro-censorship fascist organization] Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking…pr[esented] a [tired rehash of decade-old prohibitionist propaganda, including]…the [ever-popular]…signs of exploitation [idiocy]…
The only difference between this and the typical US prison is the total lack of due process:
…on…at least 780 [occasions in the past year, ICE goons have beaten or gassed]…immigrant [victims]…of the Trump [regime, according to]…ICE records [leaked by] a government employee [who could no longer ignore his conscience]…the “Daily Detainee Assault Report”…summarize[s] every incident in which [goons assaulted helpless victims]…at 98 [dungeons and concentration camps. The goons routinely]…punch…kick…ta[ckle, choke]…and [torture by] restraint…[in addition to using] Tasers and pepper spray…[on victim]s who [dare to] ask…for things to which they are legally entitled, including food and water, medical care and personal belongings…
I don’t generally wish for anyone to go to prison, but I make exceptions for fascists:
French prosecutors are seeking [criminal] charges against Elon Musk and [Twitter]…for child sexual abuse images on the platform, deepfakes, disinformation and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by [Musk’s erratic chatbot, MechaHitler]…
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In the News (#1634)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged activism, agency denial, An Avalanche of Bullshit, Banned Books Week, brothels, cell phones, censorship, cops, dehumanization, dirty, Enshittification, fascism, hysteria, internet, libraries, Link Rot, Morality Lessons, Nightfall, Permanent Record, prisons, propaganda, racism, sex rays, Something Rotten In Sweden, sporting events, statistics, surveillance, Thought Control, Torture Chamber, United Kingdom, Walled Garden, Washington (state) on May 2, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Why are immigrant businesses being targeted by large-scale investigations…over fire code violations? – MPOP
An Avalanche of Bullshit (#976)
If your raid can’t find evidence of any real crime, just punish your victims with “code violations”:
…police [raids in Bothell, Washington] are simply the latest example of discrimination and state violence against Asian women and immigrant workers. “You’re patting your own back for solving fabricated issues based on your own sexist, racist ideas, and Asian massage workers are paying the price,” said Lee Chen at an April 20 rally outside of the King County Jail…organized by the Massage Parlor Organizing Project …Whose Streets? Our Streets, Red Canary Song, and the International Migrants Alliance…Two of the raided businesses—including one just feet away from the Bothell police headquarters—are owned by Lizhen Yang…who was booked into the King County [jail but]…released the next day, without charges. All five massage businesses were shut down, with authorities citing fire code violations…[as justification for] “ripp[ing] security cameras from walls…knock[ing] down doors, [tearing] signage…and artwork from the walls…[and robbing] workers” …[who] are now [all] out of jobs…[as cops] offered no indication if or when the five [targeted] businesses may be allowed to reopen… “advocates said the [pogroms] were a publicized effort to ‘clean up’…ahead of this summer’s FIFA Men’s World Cup matches in Seattle”…
Clearly, they were concerned he’d carry dangerous sex rays to other wrestlers:
…Jamie Bigg, known as Giant, has left the BBC show [Gladiators] following the end of this series. Bigg…said: “I made it clear that I was planning to go public with my relationship, including the fact my partner works as an OnlyFans creator, and shortly after that I was told I wouldn’t be continuing on Gladiators“…
The American Library Association…has reported a record high in the number of books banned in US libraries. In 2025, 5,668 books were banned – representing 66% of the total number challenged – with an additional 920 censored through access restriction, such as relocation …The most-banned book in 2025 was Sold, a [tragedy porn] novel by Patricia McCormick [sensationalizing “]sex trafficking[“] in India…challenges were recorded against 4,235 unique titles…the second highest since the organisation began tracking censorship data…topped only by 4,240 titles in 2023…40% of the materials challenged…involved representations of LGBT…people or people of colour…challenges are becoming more coordinated and politically driven: 92% came from pressure groups, [politician]s or [bureaucrat]s, compared with 72% in 2024…2.7% were attributed to [random busybodie]s and [only] 1.4% to [act]ual library users…
Sold was once so highly regarded among “sex trafficking” fetishists that the 2014 film adaptation was later released in a PG-13 digital version for propaganda use in schools and churches.
A Books Unbanned library card gives teens across the United States free digital access to ebooks and digital resources, including banned and challenged books—no matter where they live. Books Unbanned helps ensure teens can read what they like, explore new ideas and form their own opinions. This is a free digital library card for teens, created to protect the freedom to read in the face of growing book censorship…
Though this article is a year and a half old, it has statistics and reports I haven’t seen elsewhere:
…Several courts have ruled that extreme temperatures in prison violate the Eighth Amendment’s provision against “cruel and unusual” punishment. But these rulings have not led to a widespread adoption of…methods to cool prison facilities or prevent heat-related deaths. Public health researchers at Brown University estimate that just one day of above average summer temperatures is associated with a nearly 4% increase in prison deaths. Suicides spike 23% in the three days following a heat wave. And for every 10 degrees above the average summer temperature, prison deaths increase 5%…Below, we’ve published stories from 42 writers across 27 states…reveal[ing] the brutal reality…
In today’s digital landscape, corporate interests, shifting distribution models, and malicious cyber attacks are threatening public access to our shared cultural history…When digital materials are vulnerable to sudden removal—whether by design or by attack—our collective memory is compromised, and the public’s ability to access its own history is at risk. Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record [is a free, downloadable collection of] essays from…the Internet Archive…and [many]…humanities scholar[s]…detail[ing] recent instances of cultural loss…and emphasiz[ing] the critical role that public-serving libraries and archives must play in preserving these materials for future generations…
Surely you didn’t think this would stop with the internet?
If some [politician]s get their way, Americans could have to show IDs or submit facial scans to so much as open a laptop or power up an iPhone. A [uniparty] federal bill [with the propaganda name] the Parents Decide Act would require age verification at the operating system level. That means most computers, smartphones, and tablets would all be age-gated…It would also require operating systems to share “any information as is necessary…to verify the date of birth of a user” with app developers…
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Diary #813
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset, Washington (state) on January 27, 2026| Leave a Comment »
The climate here at Sunset is not unlike that of England; rainy and on the chilly side, and rarely extremely hot or extremely cold. Because the utility room containing the well and the water tank are inside the atrium, I don’t need to take any precautions if the overnight low is going to be warmer than -3o C, which is usually the case for >80 days of the winter. And if it isn’t going to be lower than about -5o C, all I need to do is turn on a heater in the utility room and let one faucet run at a trickle. But once in a while it gets colder than that for a night or two, so I need to take a few extra precautions, like running the hot water tap for a few minutes whenever I get up to use the bathroom (since the propane heater is outside). It was like that Friday and Saturday nights; if the daytime temperatures are reasonable I don’t need to make any special arrangements for the big animals, because they just huddle together in the stable and emerge to sun themselves after dawn. But our cats are not used to these kind of temperatures, so I bring the outside cats inside on nights like that. Rocky got the atrium bathroom and Lilith the old one; I need to keep the door closed so she and Speck won’t fight (and Axel adds another complication). But Sunday night was back to normal, with a low of only -2o C, so I was able to suspend the freeze protocols. And unless we get some stray cold front later in February, that’s probably it for this winter.
In the News (#1603)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged abortion, agency denial, Aladdin’s Satellite, artificial stupidity, California, censorship, consensual crime, cops, drugs, fascism, holidays, hysteria, internet, law, New York, Pennsylvania, propaganda, Pyrrhic Victory, rescue industry, scams, surveillance, The Cop Myth, The Last Shall Be First, The Puritan Recrudescence, The Vultures Descend, Theatrics, transgender, violence vs. sex workers, Washington (state), Wyoming on January 10, 2026| Leave a Comment »
If stings worked we wouldn’t still be doing them. – Alex Andrews
The “sex trafficking” moral panic is over, but the rescue industry isn’t:
Let’s talk about the American tradition of the human trafficking sting – part press conference, part moral panic, part budget sinkhole. Across the country, these branded operations promise to crack down on exploitation and rescue victims…Since agencies don’t release itemized budgets, we built conservative cost models using…Local news reporting, booking data…court records…Known staffing levels and standardized pay/benefits rates…Publicly documented tactics (decoy operations, press briefings, multi-agency involvement)[, etc]…All told, these efforts can run $10,000 to $30,000+ per arrest – whether or not a trafficking charge ever materializes…
Customers need to teach these nosy creeps a lesson by shopping elsewhere:
Wegmans in New York City has begun collecting biometric data from anyone who enters its supermarkets…their face, eyes and voice[-prints will be] collected and stored…the [management vomited the word] “safety” a[s a ludicrous justification for fascist collaboration with cops, spooks, and goons]…Legislation aiming to block businesses from using such systems was introduced in the City Council in 2023…But [of course it went nowhere], and other supermarket chains like Fairway already use biometric collection systems…
Another judge doing what judges should do more often: nullify tyrannical laws:
Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws including the country’s first explicit ban on abortion pills…[because] they violate the state constitution…[which clearly states] that competent adults have the right to make their own health care decisions…the state…[absurdly] argued that a…[medical procedure] is not health care…
The psychopaths who market chatbots as “intelligent” need to be sued into bankruptcy:
…Sam Nelson…routinely turned to ChatGPT to…ask for help with…drugs…ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and…consistent encouragement…Then, last May…the 19-year-old…died from an overdose, just hours after [more bad advice from]…ChatGPT…Nelson’s death…joins a growing list of tragedies connected to ChatGPT and other…chatbots. In November, seven lawsuits were filed against OpenAI in one day [because] ChatGPT gave awful responses to vulnerable people who ended up…co[mmitting] suicide…[or] other[wise spiraling into] mental health crises…OpenAI [is directly responsible because it falsely advertises] ChatGPT as a trustworthy source for health information…
The Puritan Recrudescence (#1555) 
Burble burble BLUE STATE burble drool:
New York Governor Kathy Hochul just signed a law that’s going to get expensive fast…[it] forces websites to slap unscientific warnings on their services [falsely] claiming that features like algorithmic feeds and push notifications cause [“]addiction[“]…compelled speech…[is] blatantly unconstitutional, and courts have already rejected nearly identical schemes. But Hochul and [other busybody politicians] either don’t care or don’t understand First Amendment basics, so New York taxpayers are about to fund a losing legal battle whose only real purpose is generating headlines for those politicians pretending to care about “protecting the children”…
What would cops do if you shot someone dead in the street?
A…[Father]land Security [goon murdered] a neighbor [because he] fired gunshots into the air [to celebrate the]…New Year…in…Los Angeles…The [murderer claimed he could fly, therefore shots]…fired [into the air were in reality] at [him, therefore it was self-defense even though he] was in his apartment when he heard…[the] shots…he [also claimed he was a super crack shot who was firing]…to disarm hi[s victim yet killed him instead. LAPD is hiding the deranged goon’s identity]…
The Last Shall Be First (#1600)
This is why some of us are wary of demands for “regulation”:
Passional Boutique & Sexploratorium…of Philadelphia…is now [being harassed] by [the] Trump…[regime] for selling an undergarment…the [FDA] sent a [threat] letter to Passional stating it was illegally selling breast binders…[which] the FDA [absurdly] classifies…as a medical device. Businesses that distribute them in the [US] must be registered with the FDA or [else]…Passional was one of only 12 businesses…including companies in Singapore and the Netherlands, that [were thus threatened]…They included Seattle-based Tomboyx…and Manhattan-based For Them…During a Dec. 18 news conference, FDA Commissioner Martin Makary [vomited the moronic phrase]…“transgender ideology” [in reporters’ faces]…
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Links #808
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged animals, cops, Maryland, politicians, psychology, racism, restaurants, STEM, Texas, video, Washington (state), Wisconsin on December 28, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Only Stalin and North Korea’s Kim dynasty have ever reached this level of absurdity. – Nina L. Khrushcheva
There aren’t many seasonal videos any more, but once in a while it’s possible to stumble upon a good one. The links above the video were provided by Nun Ya, Charles Hill, David Ley, Mike Masnick (x2), and Franklin Harris, in that order.
- Instant karma.
- Metaphor alert.
- I hate it when this happens.
- An immense cosmic bowling ball.
- In America, facts no longer matter.
- A view you won’t see in US state media.
From the Archives
- Sometimes molester cops helpfully provide photo evidence of their crimes.
- If more companies did this, the surveillance state would be badly hobbled.
- Cops piss into the wind so much, some will inevitably spray back on them.
- This is the kind of garbage the state pays to spy on and harass your kids.
- This will continue as long as fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- Moral imbeciles can always be trusted to abuse any power they’re given.
- It’s always nice to see authoritarian fanatics hoist with their own petard.
- Previous columns for Yule, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day & Boxing Day.
- Paxton is a monster Texas enabled to destroy as many lives as possible.
- Moral courage in a politician is like a platypus performing Shakespeare.
- The fashionable “monkey see, monkey do” parade has escaped the US.
- Why does a vacuum cleaner need either a camera or a wifi connection?
- A retrospective of my blogging from December 2012, 2013, and 2014.
- Politicians love redefining words to mean something more convenient.
- Cops, epic stupidity, Tommy Smothers, Reed Lee, and much more.
- Never forget that this started with censorship of internet porn.
- This one really was an ex-cop, but still just as dangerous.
- Some light enters the defective brain of a moral imbecile.
- Those who facilitate cops’ evil are enemies of humanity.
- Cops, Monty Python, Herbert Deutsch, and much more.
- Just in case you thought this was restricted to the US.
- There are many ways for governments to rob people.
- Cops, The Onion, Barry Malzberg, and much more.
- This week’s entry in the “No shit” department.
- We’ve got a certain routine on holidays.
- Don’t let computers call them, either.
- You can’t always get what you want.
- A wonderful Christmas at Sunset.
- An absolutely grueling week.
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