Sex with 'Deadpool Killer' Wade Wilson?

I gotta gets me some MANgione before he gets on Death Row with Wade Wilson.

'Deadpool Killer' Wade Wilson's disturbing X-rated prison calls revealed in new documentary

Disturbing X-rated prison calls revealed in new documentary

All is forgiven, even double murder

A string of American women has reportedly been keeping the double murderer company over the phone while he sits on Death Row.

Double murderer Wade Wilson has reportedly been enjoying sordid sexual conversations from prison with an array of female admirers.

 

The 31-year-old, who was dubbed the "Deadpool Killer" as he shares a name with Ryan Reynolds' popular Marvel character (in the Deadpool series), is currently on Death Row in Florida.

Trauma drama? Ick! No thank you! I just want to get famous on Drops of God.

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Wade Wilson with Nazi swastika on face

He's not been short of company while behind bars at the Union Correctional Institution, according to reports. A new documentary titled Handsome Devil: Charming Killer is said to include a host of shocking footage and recordings featuring Wilson flirting with various women.

The three-part series, which premiered on Paramount+ on Tuesday (January 20, 2026), includes snippets of the prison phone calls he has shared with females, some of whom who he refers to as his "girlfriend."

Wilson reportedly discussed impregnating one admirer [with his wand] and "sinking his fangs" into another, among other bizarre statements.

The killer's X-rated prison calls with female admirers are featured in the documentary (CBS/Paramount+). More

COMMENTARY

Why would a woman fall in "love" (or even lust) with a murderer who has killed more than one female like herself? Why would a woman want a man in prison, out of touch and sunk in a hellish world of rapist homosexual men, violent guards, and dreary demons? Who would be attracted to that? Whoever it is, she has to question herself at least a little. We allow it. We even allow conjugal visits, but who finds this alluring, preferable to men on the outside, preferable to "boring" non-murderers? Well, Valentine's Day is approaching, and some can imagine Nothing Higher to Live For: Romantic Love.

• Olivia Burke, ladbible.com, Jan. 20, 2026 GMT; Ashley Wells, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The New Age of Sexism: porn AI robots

'The New Age of Sexism' explores how misogyny is replicated in AI and emerging tech

Emerging technologies are reinventing misogyny

Author Laura Bates has 4.5 out of 5 stars with 58 ratings. Misogyny is being hardwired into our future. Can we stop it? We like to believe we're moving closer to equality, riding the wave of technological progress into a brighter, [whiter] fairer future.

But beneath the glossy surface of innovation lies a chilling truth: new technologies are not just failing to solve age-old inequalities―they're deepening them.

In The New Age of Sexism, acclaimed author and activist Laura Bates exposes how misogyny [hatred of females, the counterpart to misanthropy] is being coded into the very fabric of our future.

From the biases embedded in artificial intelligence to the alarming rise of sex robots and the toxic dynamics of the metaverse, Bates takes readers on a shocking journey into a world where technology is weaponized against women.

Author and activist Laura Bates

This isn't a dystopian warning about what might happen. It's a harrowing account of what's happening now and the dangers we face if we don't act.

With clarity and urgency, Bates reveals how these advancements are dragging society backward, reinforcing harmful stereotypes, and jeopardizing decades of progress in the fight for gender equality.

Eye-opening and empowering, The New Age of Sexism is a rallying cry for awareness and action in a world where the battle for equality has entered a dangerous new frontier. More

Hidden devils and demons all around

Skip to Minute 3:25 for Fengdu Ghost City based on Buddhist and Chinese mythology

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The UnXplained: Hidden Devils and Demons Surround Us

(HISTORY) Evil (pāpa, Nio) is all around us. See more in this compilation from The UnXplained.

• VIDEO

First, there was the USA's first known serial killer, Mr. H. H. Holmes from the Chicago World's Fair, the real name of which is World's Columbian Exposition (because Columbia is the USA's little-known first name before reverting to the reptilian name Amerika, not related to Amerigo Vespucci as we are all taught).

Where are the "devils"? They are with the ghosts and demons in the underworld (ancient Greek Hades), Gehenna, or what the ancient Chinese call Fengdu Ghost City (Chinese 丰都鬼城, 豐都鬼城) pinyin Fēngdū Guǐ Chéng, originally 酆都鬼城 [1]).

This is a large complex of Chinese shrines, temples, and monasteries dedicated to the afterlife located on Ming Mountain [2] in Fengdu County, Chongqing municipality, China [3]. It is situated about 110 miles (170 km) downstream from Chongqing on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

The city consists of buildings, structures, dioramas, and statues related to Diyu and Naraka, concepts from Chinese mythology and Buddhism that signify the underworld or hell(s). It is modeled to resemble Youdu, the capital of Diyu.

After the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the rising of the water level of the river it became separated from the city of Fengdu, which was rebuilt higher up the mountainside on the south side of the river [4]. More: Fengdu Ghost City

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• The UnXplained, Nov. 17, 2024: CC Liu, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Eating KORN for suicide prevention

Korn at BMO after supporting SOAD at SSW

Now that Suicide Prevention Month is wrapped up, it's time to listen to some Korn again. They're in concert this weekend in SoCal. Due to leaks of credit card and personal financial information, one woman had her virtual tickets transferred to someone else. TicketMaster is to blame. How doe 

September is National Suicide Prevention Month (samhsa.gov) and if you've found a way to hang on, let's see if we could feel, think, and reason our way through this. Unless you're recovering from some attempt, the thoughts are the problem. What reasoning has let to contemplating a permanent solution to a temporary problem? It's all in the thinking. Thinking is a trap, basing decision on unquestioned assumptions. Become aware of the assumption, and all the thinking built on them magically falls away..

September is a month to [listen Guns 'n' Roses' "September Rain," very sad and depressing] and to remember the lives lost to suicide. Millions of people have struggled...

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NAMI (nami.org) don't like it. Get involved because awareness is the way to prevention, whereas lack of mindfulness and clear comprehension (sati-sampajanna) is the way to automatic pilot. A dog chases a tail. Does it ever figure out that's its tail? One bite would do it, but it's too fast.

Is there ever a time to raise awareness of this urgent crisis? It's like asking, "When is the best time to plant a tree?" We use this month to shift public perception and spread hope.

Prevention beats trying to cure the spiraling when someone falls into a tailspin. That dog just won't stop. One way is to call (988) LIFE-LINE. Every year, the 988 Lifeline and other mental health organizations and individuals across the U.S. raise awareness of suicide prevention during September.

AFSP.org hails National Suicide Prevention Month and Week. This is a moment in time when we rally the public to create awareness of this leading cause of death and inspire more self-compassion.

If only there were a toolkit for suicide prevention (nimh.nih.gov). There is a Digital Toolkit for Suicide Prevention Month. Join the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to raise awareness by sharing resources that can help one recognize the warning signs of suicide and do something about it.

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Porn stars dying: sex work exploitation

AI knows all states: what must it think of Cali?

When asked what I want to be when I grow up, I always say the same thing: "Famous."

"For what?" people ask me. Even Dr. Drew asks that. Well, anything really or, better yet, for nothing at all. I'd like to be a comedian, but I don't really know any interesting anecdotes, just one-liners. Like, "Q: What did the father buffalo say to his boy as he went off to college? A: Bison." Okay, no one said I was Gary Steinfeld over here. All the rest of them are vulgar and puerile, exciting prurient interest, not exactly Buddhist right speech, you know.

Dead porn stars are flooding our feeds.

I guess, if pressed, I always thought I would be famous for rock, EDM, or rap lyrics and music (beats on the computer), or porn (beats on the computer), all interesting pastimes for American youths. It's the beat, the beat, the beat. I think I could do it. Hoops, maybe? If I could be an Internet Influencer making TikToks or YouTube content, that might be good. I should probably take music lessons or learn to use my cell phone for making movies. Porn is out, too dangerous. They're all dying:

Why so many porn stars are dying

(It's Blanko) This year (2024) has been a curse for the adult film industry. With all the porn stars dropping like flies, there seems to be a pattern. Let's take a look as to why.

• It's Blanko, March 25, 2024; Bela, Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

How we live is how we die: Pema Chodron

The Pema Chodron Foundation; CC Liu, Crystal Q., Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Discover newfound freedom in life’s ever-constant flow of endings and beginnings with the wise words of Pema Chödrön, beloved American Buddhist nun and bestselling author of When Things Fall Apart.

Bardo's peaceful, wrathful deities

As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment — the end of a breath, the end of a day, the end of a relationship, and ultimately the end of life.

And accompanying each ending is a beginning, though it may be unclear what that beginning holds.

In How We Live Is How We Die, Pema Chödrön shares her wisdom for working with this flow of life —

• learning to live with ease, joy, and compassion through uncertainty, embracing new beginnings, ultimately preparing for death with curiosity and openness rather than fear.

Tibetan Book of the Dead (Tim Leary on LSD)

Poignant for readers of all ages, her teachings on the bardos — a Tibetan term referring to an intermediate state of transition, including what happens between this life and the next — reveal their power and relevance at each moment of our lives.

She also offers practical methods for transforming life’s most challenging emotions about change and uncertainty into a path of awakening and love.

As she teaches, the more freedom we can find in our hearts and minds as we live this life, the more fearlessly we’ll be able to confront death and what lies beyond.

In all, Pema provides readers with a master course in living life fully and compassionately in the shadow of death and change. How We Live is How We Die • The Pema Chodron Foundation

To embed w/ Israel's Extermination Team: IDF

Slayer; Fear; Dimmu Borgir; Abby Martin on the Joe Rogan Experience; The Jimmy Dore Show; Mindset Vibrations; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Maybe we have been to hard on Israel and Jews. Maybe they should kill, murder, and exterminate their "enemies" as they wish. Maybe we should even cheerlead the folks under the blue banner from the sidelines as they annihilate and exterminate those under the red flag. Here's some killing music for their joyously self-righteous and Godly war on fellow human beings.

Slayer: Show No Mercy, "Fight Till Death"

Metal and men clash once more to the end

Warriors above, with the power to kill, descend

Militia of Blood, Troops of Hate, march to die

Soldiers of Hell, Veterans of Death, arise

[Chorus:]

Prepare for attack

Your bodies will burn

Endless war

There's no return

Prepare for attack

Death will arrive

Your orders are clear

No way to hide

Fight till death

Senseless death of all mankind overtakes

Armored assassins destroy, at will, your escape

Children of Sorrow are trampled into the grave

There is no future, no f*cking world to be saved

[Chorus]

To reign in Hell

[Guitar Solo: Jeff Hanneman]

Gods of Steel unleash their destruction on man

Reign of death, what is the final Command?

Scepters of hate are dropped upon this Earth

Clouds of terror destroy all hope of rebirth

[Chorus]

Fight till death

Fight till death

Fight till death

Abby Martin explains it to Joe Rogan

Death Cult Armageddon

Dimmu Borgir: Death Cult Armageddon, "Unorthodox Manifesto"

"Hail S*t*n..."

"Gentlemen: Destroy!"

Memories far beyond my reckoning

Have begun to lurk in the distance

Like visual objects dearly known

The grace of devils' hands

As they walk with me like a medium

When I choose and require to burnout

Resting in expanded malicious IDForces

Drained for murderous weapons

Knowing where you stand

In the magnitude of this thought

Looking at the spirit of fire and flames

Enduring on the throne of the black heart

Knowing where you stand

In the magnitude of this thought

Looking at the spirit of fire and flames

A bringer of evil I am

But therefore also a carrier of light

As I use this focus through the dark

And face the shine in the dead end

Limitations do not exist

When you are ahead of the crown

With the art of confidence

I reign at the throne of my soil

The value of this darkness unwinds

Travelling the other path

A hidden triumph

But obvious to the strong and wise

By understanding this reality

I remain in a twice colored cloud [blue and white]

With feet connected solid on my ground

And thus I get peace of mind

And thus I get peace of mind

A bringer of evil I am

But also a carrier of light

As I use this scope through the dark

And face the shine in the dead end

A bringer of evil I am

But also a carrier of light

As I use this scope through the dark

And face the shine in the dead end

How Israel's war will end (but it's fun to kill while the world allows it)

This is how the war on Gaza will end – with George Szamuely

(The Jimmy Dore Show) Nov. 4, 2023:  It’s been nearly a month since Israel decided to start bombing civilians in a devastating pre-war on Gaza that followed the stunning October 7th Hamas cross border attacks in territory occupied by Israel, and many have begun to wonder whether we’re approaching an end game as so much of Gaza has been littered with baby body parts (just like self-righteous PM Golda Meir talked about) has been reduced to rubble. The question is whether Israel will continue with the onslaught and attempt to drive Palestinians out of Gaza and into Egypt while facing the possibility of sending ground troops into tunnels after the El Qassam Brigades, or if Israel will decide to pull back in the face of ballooning IDF casualty numbers. Guest host Craig Jardula and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger speak with columnist George Szamuely about why he feels the Israeli military is incapable of exterminating Hamas.

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(Mindset Vibrations) The Power of Perception

Israel: "War for Territory" Sepultura (video)

Sepultura, 10/26/09; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

Who's waving the Union Jack, Eddie?

This story of British "divide and conquer" is so old, it was probably taken from the Roman Empire, which morphed into Britain (United Kingdom) or what we call England, which morphed into what we can call the genocidal marauders who created this country (Columbia, aka Amerigo Vespucci's "America," which is not really where the name comes from, but that's the cover story. It seems naga rajas wanted to keep some place names). Did Rome morph out of ancient Greece? Did the Greeks come out of India and its previous Indus Valley Civilization, or did no one dominate the world before all the nation states were contesting the "Middle Earth" (Mediterranean)? Who's next, China? Will the Persians come around again as the Iranians? Will the sleep bear that is Russia awaken and reunite? No, the Bible says it'll be the Jews in Armageddon fighting some Middle Eastern Antichrist figure sitting the White House charming everyone. Could have sworn it was a Bush, but it's destined to be a... Who knows? The Bible was forged (changed), according to biblical scholar Prof. Bart D. Ehrman, so all the prophecies we hear in the mainstream media are self-serving, twisted to mean something else or changed more fundamentally from the start. Maybe the Maya (the word for "Illusion" in the Dharmic religions) and rule the world. It's just been so eye-opening to learn what a hypocritical and murderous country and culture we've been living in, the United States of War (which began with Manifest Destiny, taking New York then ramming all the way to California, to NOT stop there and immediately invade the Philippines as a territorial conquest. Settler colonialists on a genocidal campaign at home, American imperialists abroad.

"Territory" Metal Veins live at Rock in Rio (feat. Les Tambours du Bronx)

Sepultura: "Territory" (official video)

(Roadrunner Records) Sepultura's video for "Territory" from the album Chaos A.D. available on Roadrunner Records or as download on iTunes: smarturl.it/chaosad.

LYRICS

Just do what Jared tells you, understand? - Yup

Unknown man

Speaks to the world

Sucking your trust

A trap in every world

War for territory

War for territory

Choice [mind] control

Behind propaganda

Poor information [psyops]

To manage your anger

War for territory

War for territory

Dictator's speech

Blasting off your life

Rule to kill the urge

Dumb @sshole's speech

Years of fighting

Teaching my son

To believe in that man

Racist human being

Racist ground will live

Shame and REGRET

Of the pride

You've once possessed

War for territory

War for territory

Gojira covers Metallica then Sepultura's "[War for] Territory" Oct. 2017

Executed for too much dating in China (video)

Winston (SerpentZA), May 9, 2023; CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Executed for sleeping around in China

How many guys is too many?

(Serpentza) Why did the Chinese government execute this sexy young woman? She had too many boyfriends. She wasn't cheating with them at the same time ("double dating" or adultery in the West, which formerly incurred the death sentence in Christian Europe society), but just dating and sleeping around like a freedom-loving adult.

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Who is it I'm living to please?

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CIA-backed Death Squads in Afghanistan

Democracy Now!, 1/12/23; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Buddha was from Afghanistan (Gandhara/Kapilavastu), Central Asia, next to proto-India

More war crimes are committed by the USA's CIA (secret service) than any other syndicate.

Night Raids: Victims of CIA-backed Afghan Death Squads known as “Zero Units” demand accountability

(Democracy Now!) Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) speaks with journalist Lynzy Billing, whose investigation for ProPublica details how CIA-backed death squads, known as "Zero Units," have yet to be held accountable for murdering hundreds of civilians during the U.S. War on Afghanistan.

The CIA loves war, killing, controlling minds

The Afghan units, which were routinely accompanied by [Christian] U.S. soldiers, were feared throughout rural [Islamic] Afghanistan for their brutal night raids, often descending upon helpless villagers from helicopters and carrying out summary executions before disappearing.

Dalai Lama in bed with CIA

Families of victims continue to demand answers. But since the operations were directed by the CIA rather than the [formal U.S.] military, there is almost no oversight or disclosure when things go wrong.

“Many people I spoke to feel that these operations…were counterproductive and actually had turned their families against the U.S.-backed government in Kabul and against the U.S.,” says Billing.

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One Israel is better than five CIAs, admits high American official accidentally telling the truth.

Four CIA spies at the dawn of the Cold War

ADMISSION (New York Times): "cooperation between intelligence agencies of the two countries [US and Israel], a subject generally...shrouded in vagueness. Mr. [Wolf] Blitzer has some of the specifics on the record: the retired Air Force intelligence chief, Gen. George F. Keegan, told him of Israeli assistance in discovering Soviet Air Force capabilities, new weapons, electronics and jamming devices. ''I could not have procured the intelligence...with five CIAs,'' General Keegan is quoted as saying. More

American corruption threatens global security

Weed, abortion, jail, Biden, VP Kamala (TJDS)

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J.J. Masters: Buddhist on Death Row (NPR)

Scott Simon, NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, 8/8/20; CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly

David Sheff charts Jarvis Jay Masters' Buddhist journey in prison in a new book

TRANSCRIPT

The Buddhist on Death Row (David Sheff)

NPR Host Scott Simon speaks with inmate Jarvis Jay Masters and David Sheff about his new book, The Buddhist on Death Row.

HOST SCOTT SIMON: Jarvis Jay Masters is a [falsely] convicted murderer and an admired Buddhist practitioner and teacher of Buddhism who sits on Death Row.

David Sheff has written a book that's not just about the crime of which Masters was convicted and strong doubts raised about the case but what amounts to the remaking of a man in a forbidding place, The Buddhist on Death Row: How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place.

David Sheff, the author of previous bestsellers that include Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, joins NPR from Inverness, California. Thanks so much for being with us again.

AUTHOR DAVID SHEFF: Uh, Scott, thank you so much for having me.

SIMON: And we're also connected with Buddhist Jarvis Jay Masters from Death Row in San Quentin State Prison. We should expect periodic automatic interruptions on the line. Mr. Masters, thank you for being with us.

Finding Freedom: How Death Row...My Heart

PRISONER JARVIS JAY MASTERS: No problem, no problem.

SIMON: Well, I understand you've just been sick with COVID, right?

MASTERS: Oh, yeah, yeah. I've had it. And it's a terrible, terrible three weeks for me, what and, yeah, I got sick, very sick. And it just was like in every other cell.

SIMON: Uh, David Sheff, of course we want to talk about your book and Mr. Masters' story, The Buddhist On Death Row. What did you see in the Jarvis Jay Masters story?

SHEFF: Well, I'd heard about Jarvis from friends who were in the Buddhist community. And the two things that I kept hearing over and over was that this man, who was framed, shouldn't be on Death Row.

• Jarvis Jay Masters wrote Finding Freedom: How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart with his investigator Melody Ermachild Chavis (with foreword by American Buddhist nun and bestselling Tibetan Buddhist author Pema Chodron)

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When Things Fall Apart

And in spite of the fact that he was there and now it's been, you know, 30 years and 22 years in solitary confinement, he was one of the most extraordinary people that they'd met. His story was really about how a person changes and the remarkable transformation, because he was a person who could be as bitter, angry as anybody could be, and yet he was the opposite. He was this light in the lives of many, many people.

SIMON: Mr. Masters, we do want to talk about that spiritual journey, but I think you'll understand we don't want to lose, lose the fact that you are on death row, whether you agree with the conviction or sentence, or not, because you were convicted of assisting in the stabbing death of a prison guard named Dean Burchfield -- right? -- in 1985.

MASTERS: Yeah, absolutely. Later on that year, I was charged with two other guys, and we stood -- end up standing trial in 19 -- I think it was 1989, '90.

PRERECORDED VOICE: This call and your telephone number will be monitored and recorded.

MASTERS: And we were all three convicted, and I was the only one who was sentenced to death. And since then, this is where I've been.

SIMON: How did you find Buddhism?

That Bird Has My Wings (Jarvis Jay Masters)

MASTERS: I got in trouble. You know, I got in a lot more trouble than I ever been in. It started off with me waiting for a death sentence. Actually, I was in the courtroom, and the jury was trying to determine whether I should be -- they should put me to death or not. My investigator, Melody Ermachild [Chavis], who's done so much to help my spiritual growth, she gave me this little pamphlet, and the pamphlet was called "Life in Relationship to Death."

So I thought that was the best place I was right then -- you know, my life in relationship to death. And I start getting visits from this Buddhist community I got involved with, and I was so blessed because I did.

SIMON: David Sheff, what kind of difference did these people make in each other's lives?

SHEFF: Well, when I started to hear about Jarvis, I heard people talk about how he had impacted their lives. And, you know, first, as a journalist, I was skeptical. You know, first of all, everybody in prison basically says that they're innocent. And then the second one, people talked about him as if he was this -- I don't know -- this enlightened being in San Quentin, the Buddhist on Death Row.

And I began to do the research and talking to a lot of people, reading all the transcripts, reading boxes and boxes and boxes of material from the trials. And I became convinced that, you know, Jarvis is innocent. ...

SIMON: You know, a few minutes ago, I would've told you that I would never ask this question of someone on Death Row, but I feel -- are you happy?

MASTERS: (*Laughter*) Oh, wow, I never thought I'd get a question like that.

Mass incarceration means we're all going in.

PRERECORDED VOICE: You have 60 seconds remaining.

MASTERS: You know, yeah, I am happy. I'm happy for, you know, all the things that I can think of that makes my life, give my life some quality, give my life some joys, give my life, you know, some people to care for it.

You know, you have to compare yourself to someone to say that. So compared to my environment, you know, compared to what people on these various tiers have in their lives, I am extremely blessed, you know? And I really mean that. More

(*Ironically*) Now let's kill him. Death sentence, Baby!