We’re not anti-fairies but it’s in danger of getting out of control.
– Steven Acreman
There was a good assortment of links this week, but only one video of note again. And again, that one video was provided by Mistress Matisse; the links above it were contributed by Jesse Walker (“fairy”), Grace (“horse” and “art”), Sarah Woolley (“RIP”), Angela Keaton (“naked”), Eddie Cunningham (“movie”), Lucy Steigerwald (“rules”), and Gideon (“cleaning”).
- Fairy control.
- Walmart dot horse.
- R.I.P. Terry Pratchett.
- Cop murders man for being naked.
- Teacher caged for showing a movie.
- Portrait of a man dedicated to his art.
- Rules are more important than people.
- Much easier than actually cleaning up the police.
- Another politician trying to ban something that doesn’t actually exist.
From the Archives
- Mars, machines, aliens, zeroes, criminalization, censorship, cops, captions, courts, cocks, teeth, tits and welcome to our world.
- While pretending to care about “trafficking”, Ireland turns down nearly all asylum requests from “trafficking victims”.
- Is it possible to rescue trafficked victims, whilst not interfering with willing sex workers?
- 10 Things You Need to Know Before You Support the Swedish Model of Sex Work.
- Prosecutor lies about a service’s fee to ratchet up the number of counts.
- This is only “stunning” to those who believe in the “pimps & hos” myth.
- Dr. Brooke Magnanti on Comic Relief’s subscription to prohibitionist lies.
- Cops, Kiwis, fossils, nursing, comics, graffiti, ovens, goats and lawyers.
- Swedish neofeminists label surrogate motherhood “human trafficking”.
- The deep connection between addiction rhetoric and crypto-moralism.
- Cops use “sex trafficking” as excuse to send SWAT team to strip club.
- Politician says caging people & giving them criminal records is “help”.
- Cops claim hiring whores was a “botched prostitution investigation”.
- Dallas tries to push off its “diversion” scheme on the rest of Texas.
- A legal clinic in Cape Town provides legal services for sex workers.
- The media finally notice that using condoms as evidence is insane.
- Government officials attacked for failing to find what isn’t there.
- A federal appeals court struck down Virginia’s anti-sodomy law.
- Cops have a strange way of showing they dislike stupid myths.
- Advocate arrested as “pimp” for helping sex workers organize.
- An introduction to Linda Smith and Shared Hope International.
- Dominique Roe-Sepowitz makes up bullshit & calls it a “study”.
- Propping up the narrative by calling male sexworkers “pimps”.
- Male delusions about sex work start extra-early in Sweden.
- 4% of the adult female population of Chicago are whores.
- Is the sex worker rights movement nearing a watershed?
- The radical concept of paying people for things they sell.
- The tale of a lonely woman who found a higher calling.
- Spanish whores offer an “intro to prostitution” course.
- Tullia d’Aragona: courtesan, poetess and philosopher.
- Dr. Laura Agustín on the concept of “empowerment”.
- Another attempt to decriminalize in South Australia.
- Another politician demonstrates reaction formation.
- Joyce Arthur hits it out of the park with this satire.
- Jesse Walker’s good short piece on Santa Muerte.
- Another state arrests whores to brainwash them.
- Jennifer Reed debunks the “sex trafficking” panic.
- Dr. Brooke Magnanti reviews Ladies of the Night.
- Three incorporeal beings share travelers’ tales.
- Supporting moral panics with bogus checklists.
- Why banishment has come back into fashion.
- Believing in nonsense does not make it true.
- One of those awkward sex work moments.
- Why Rachel Moran’s story is pure bullshit.
- Virginia Postrel on anti-Barbie nonsense.
- McMartin Preschool: Anatomy of a Panic.
- Video ridicules condom criminalization.
- Two reader-authors exchange books.
- Prohibitionists sometimes wake up.
- Couple arrested for witchcraft.
- Why Viagra ruined sex work.
- Another stupid licensing law.
- A profile of Grace Bellavue.
- Rapist cops of the week.
I read a lot of stories on the internet about companies going to “absurd” lengths to protect their trade marks and copy rights. I would find these stories a great deal funnier if there wasn’t ample evidence that said companies were only doing what they need to to keep some nitwit judge from voiding their trademark or copyright. The legal principal should be “This company has been in business for decades. It’s marks are well and widely known. Some idiot came along and used one or more in a funny way and they let it go because they aren’t bullies, and this in no way affects their legal rights”. It isn’t.
When you find a large corporation acting like an asshole it is entirely possible this is because that particular corporation is evil incarnate. But in my experience it is far more likely that the corporation is reacting to some nitwit regulation or legal precedent.
Agreed. You have to ask yourself … “would Walmart be willing to LOSE all that money paying lawyers just to go after an idiot with no money?”
There’s a larger reason here.
Terry Pratchett is not dead. He just joined the group of ”differently alive” citizens.
I’m sorry, but I don’t think he’s just pinin’ for the fjords.
No, but maybe there’s going to be another haunted front row seat at the Pink Pussycat Club.
Maybe he’s spending a year dead for tax reasons.
“damaging a prison sink while he was placed in solitary confinement in 1997”
Really? Solitary confinement is an internationally recognized form of torture. This is no different than charging someone with damaging their restraints during a waterboarding session.
I was devastated to hear about Terry Pratchett. His whole illness had been such an unusually cruel curse – the mind that created and held the whole of Discworld slowly forgetting all of it.