Somehow, within three hours of letting the pullets out on Sunday, one of them managed to vanish. As you can see, one hasn’t left the nursery and two are huddled in the corner fretting (not an unusual behavior for the first week or so after they’re out). The turkey chick is more bold, wandering around the entire chicken yard. But there’s no sign of the fourth pullet. She’s not anywhere in the chicken yard, nor nearby outside, nor under the house, and I neither heard a ruckus nor found feathers which would indicate that something got her. My guess is that she managed to fly over the fence and ran off to hide in the underbrush, but I have no evidence for that; I reckon it’s just one of those things that happens when one keeps poultry.
Change one single vowel in this headline, and it would be a VERY different story.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-20T01:59:52.797Z
Probably the same way that holding a knife to a child's throat can open a guarded door.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-20T18:03:29.896Z
Beware of Davros.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-25T03:17:35.675Z
#3 is a very, very bad idea.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-25T17:50:01.254Z
Spring this on family members in New Orleans, and they may not stop at disowning* you.*And disowning people is mighty difficult under Napoleonic Code.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-26T17:26:22.068Z
It's fascinating to watch men with severe, easily-recognized mental illnesses publicly blaming others' mental illness on behaviors that the speakers are incapable of due to their own undiagnosed, untreated psychopathologies.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-27T17:09:35.827Z
My teen self would be confused by this.1981 Maggie: So there are new "Star Trek" shows all the time, but you haven't watched one in 20 years?2026 Maggie: CorrectM81: Ditto "Star Wars"?M26: YepM81: Plus all kinds of D&D fantasy stuff?M26: Right again.M81: I DON'T KNOW YOU
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-28T17:19:00.870Z
Reporters: doing something willfully is not a "failure", regardless of what politicians call it. If a party refuses to comply with some illegal diktat, that party has not *failed* to comply with said diktat; he has REFUSED to comply. The former is an omission; the latter an active rejection.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-29T16:55:44.729Z
This monster's face appears to have been designed by Jack Pierce. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm06823…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-30T17:38:45.538Z
"Dabbled in cross-dressing" makes it sound like alchemy or some other occult practice.(Yes, I know about the shamans and mystery religions; this isn't that, so let's not)
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-31T17:37:38.961Z
Oh please, PLEASE let them use a chatbot as architect, so we can have a "Galloping Gertie" moment on live TV soon after it's done.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T17:35:58.519Z
This is how partisanism warps minds.Distrust of politicians *in general* for wholly rational reasons is subjected to the duopoly's Procrustean bed, then for 21st century readers must be trivialized & infantilized. So anarchists & true libertarians are described by the asinine tag "double haters".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-03T17:28:10.591Z
WAAAAAAAAAH! I'VE POOPED MYSELF AND I DEMAND SOMEONE CHANGE IT! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-04T17:16:42.139Z
Please, people, I beg you not to rely on spellcheckers at the cost of your own vocabulary skills.Trade languages have nothing to do with birds.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-07T17:10:46.810Z
Meanwhile, books on my shelves which were published as far back as the 1920s, and which I purchased as far back as the 1970s, are still 100% readable. And all I have to do to access them is walk over to my bookshelves.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-08T17:13:17.853Z
Due to the high volume of "You were right all along" emails, I will not be responding to them individually. Thank you for your understanding.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-08T17:29:33.587Z
A friend who grew up on Country/Western was unfamiliar with Zeppelin, and when "Ramble On" came on she asked me what it was about. I replied, "A dude who gets his girlfriend stolen by Gollum."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-10T07:34:41.637Z
Trump is someone who consistently cheats at Solitaire and still repeatedly loses, and when he's done the deck only has about 49 cards. And some of those are from kids' game decks, like one with a picture of an old maid.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-12T17:44:13.156Z
We need Captain Kirk.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-13T03:26:13.653Z
If you want to reveal a crypto-authoritarian, just start him talking about virtually anything to do with cars.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-13T17:21:33.262Z
THIS.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-16T17:53:47.686Z
Your regular reminder that it is 100% legal to fictionally depict murder, rape, and mayhem in movies.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T17:19:44.529Z
I especially love that the stupid thing flew apart on impact.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T19:17:10.473Z
First Palantir came for the sex workers, but nobody cared because "sex trafficking".Then Palantir came for young minority men, and nobody cared because "gangs".Then Palantir came for migrants, and nobody cared because "illegals".Now it's coming for you, and I think you know the rest.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-19T17:28:11.213Z
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Hold the bus! – The Banana Splits
Since I’ve already featured the H.R. Pufnstuf theme and Land of the Lost theme before, I decided to feature the opening & closing to The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, the first Saturday morning show to feature the Krofft puppets. As a wee lass my mother enrolled me in the Banana Splits fan club, and I had the various club materials for years after the show went off the air. And it was not unusual for Grace to use one of their catchphrases, “Hold the bus!” The links above the video were provided by Franklin Harris, Ryan Marino, Jesse Walker, Ryan Cooper, Walter Olson, Radley Balko, and Jessica Pishko, in that order.
- Punctuation matters.
- “Let’s get back to work.”
- R.I.P. Sid Krofft and Don Schlitz.
- How to resurrect a bricked Kindle.
- Possibly the funniest thing I’ve read this year.
- They can’t stop demonstrating exactly what they are.
- Cops are always coming up with new ways to murder.
From the Archives
- Overseas pharmacies will sell to US customers without asking permission.
- Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses.
- The sleazy “confidential informant” system enables corruption and abuse.
- Pretending these aren’t typical & representative by calling them “rookies”.
- Yelling “Stop faking!” at the sick & dying is one of screws’ favorite games.
- In ≈ 20 years, these stories will be about victims of “trafficking” hysteria.
- Cops will never stop this as long as the state keeps giving them pretexts.
- We need a class-action suit for booksellers affected by these evil policies.
- Politicians are avid devotees of cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
- This one directly describes very typical cop behavior as “uncharacteristic”.
- Swedish politicians angry that their law doesn’t destroy enough lives yet.
- This will continue until media stop calling senseless violence “correction”.
- A few sane judges are the only thing protecting US libraries from freaks.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- This will continue for as long as cops are allowed to “police” themselves.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- Puritans destroy men’s lives for wanting consensual sex w/adult women.
- I was destined to be threatened with state violence regardless of career.
- Give sexually-aggressive thugs power over teens; what could go wrong?
- Politicians never bother to observe the consequences of laws they ape.
- Psychopathy is typical in politicians, but this is complete derangement.
- Cops are sexual predators who specifically target traumatized women.
- Missouri seems uninterested in controlling its psychopathic politicians.
- The Dutch scheme to Disnify De Wallen is no longer merely a scheme.
- Doctors mock cops’ fentanyl hysteria, so they invent new bogeydrugs.
- Politicians compete to make their new laws the most unconstitutional.
- Gentrification is a common motivation for persecution of sex workers.
- Petty torture of prisoners and more money for fascist state “partners”.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- Only a few years ago, media outlets were lionizing wackos like these.
- These people were locked in this cage facility because of US policies.
- Your “leaders” refer to rape by state-employed thugs as “correction”.
- “Drugs” are a popular pretext for petty vindictiveness in US prisons.
- Prosecutors are rarely interested in going after rapists with badges.
- If you thought regional “fusion centers” were bad, how about this?
- Software used by “legitimate authorities” also works for abusers.
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- Prohibitionists’ real goal is to completely ban online sex work.
- Many people fail to realize that calling 911 = calling the cops.
- They often try to make it sound like the prisoners consented.
- More politicians cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- Florida’s authoritarian government criminalizes kindness.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Cops, Antarctica, Richard Chamberlain, and much more.
- Your “leaders” refer to these atrocities as “correction”.
- Cops, O.J. Simpson, Dickey Betts, and much more.
- Florida knows it will lose any challenge to this law.
- No religion has a monopoly on preachy molesters.
- Cops, metaphors, Mary Quant, and much more.
- A curated selection of tweets from April 2025.
- There is nothing as hard to kill as a bad law.
- A video record of each shelf of my library.
- A small shrine to Aphrodite in my atrium.
- Cop fails upward into a career in politics.
- On the passing of our little friend Aeryn.
- Puritanism is throttling the entire world.
- Now this is an interesting development.
- The Legend of Throwback Thursday.
- My three previous posts for Easter.
- They really can’t stop themselves.
- Good riddance to toxic rubbish.
- Throwback Thursday Island.
- Bolder than most chickens.
- All prohibition is the same.
- “Spiritual care coordinator“.
- This cannot be reformed.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Well, this is different.
- Turkey in the sink.
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Real-time facial recognition…is…destroying the concept of privacy or anonymity in public spaces. – Electronic Privacy Information Center
Don’t Call It Trafficking (#1097)
There are many ways for fascist corporations to rob the public treasury:
…Kentucky’s largest drug rehab center…Addiction Recovery Care…[has profited immensely from] a boom fueled by misery and…easy money from government officials desperate to curtail the [symptoms of the] opioid crisis [without ending the prohibition that creates and maintains it]…Kentucky’s payouts for drug treatment became so lucrative that companies bused in clients from other states to fill their treatment centers…Between 2019 and 2024 ARC billed the state $1.7 billion…and…[its] growth was fueled in part by [blatantly-fraudulent] billing practices…[which are now the subject of] a whistleblower suit filed in 2023…Part of the fraud…was committed at the explicit urging of supervisors who told them they were under pressure to meet billing targets set by [bosses]…ARC…violated so many regulatory standards, lack of staff chief among them, that the conditions posed “an immediate danger to client health, safety and welfare”…[while] publicly tout[ing] a [“]Christian[“] message…
A rare bit of good news about enshittification:
The Internet…Archive’s Wayback Machine…has partnered with…WordPress…[to] launch…a new WordPress plug-in — the Link Fixer — that is designed to combat the scourge of “link rot”…by scanning…WordPress posts for outbound links, then cross-referencing the Wayback Machine for archived versions of those links. If there are none, it will automatically take new snapshots of the articles in question. Should a linked web page go offline, the new feature will then redirect readers to the archived versions, so that there is no drop in service. The tool also archives a user’s own posts, helping to ensure their longevity…if an original link that had gone offline is resurrected, the plug-in will start redirecting the user to that original page again instead of the archived version…
Rapist politicians generally prefer to assault drunk women:
[California politician] Eric Swalwell…raped [a staff member] when she was [drunk] and left her bruised and bleeding…it was the second time [he] had [raped] her [but in the previous incident] in 2019…[she was too drunk to remember…three other women [reported]…various [other] kinds of sexual misconduct…including [groping them and] sending them [dick pics]…
When Ambulance-Chasers Run the Hospitals (#1578)
Uthmeier’s hoping to get a cut of the “AI” gravy train before it collapses:
Florida’s attorney general…ha[s] opened an investigation into ChatGPT…in [hopes of profiting from] the m[urder]…of…two people at Florida State University last year [by a man obsessed] with the chatbot…James Uthmeier [babbled pompous claptrap about]…“our children” [despite the victims being adults, adding] “facilitate criminal activity, empower America’s enemies [and] threaten our national security” [for extra pomposity]…the widow of [victim] Robert Morales…[is also] considering legal action against OpenAI…
Any true Christian would recognize this as blasphemy:
…a tech company called Just Like Me is offering…video calls with a…[chatbot synchronized with a cartoon representation] of Jesus for $1.99 per minute…The rapid proliferation of [chatbots intended to exploit] faith…is…unsurprising…given the widespread a[buse] of chatbots for everything from therapy and medical advice to companionship and romance. Th[ese] burgeoning s[cams] now include…[fantasy characters who pretend to be] Hindu gurus, Buddhist priests…Jesuses, and Catholic [priest]s…Christian software engineer Cameron Pak has developed criteria to help believers navigate these new applications, insisting that…”AI cannot pray for you, because the AI is not alive”…
Any doctor who trusts chatbots should be sued for malpractice:
…bixonimania…[is an eye] condition doesn’t appear in the standard medical literature — because it doesn’t exist. It’s the invention of a team led by Almira Osmanovic Thunström…[of] the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, who…uploaded two fake studies about it to a preprint server in early 2024…Within weeks…[chatbots] began repeating the invented condition as if it were real…the fake papers were then cited in peer-reviewed literature…Thunström [used]…the name bixonimania because…“I wanted to be really clear to any physician or any medical staff that this is a made-up condition, because no eye condition would be called mania — that’s a psychiatric term”…[she] planted many [other] clues…to alert readers that the work was fake. [The make-believe author supposedly] works at a non-existent university…in [an] equally fake…city…One paper’s acknowledgements thank “Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy…in…her lab onboard the USS Enterprise”. Both papers say they were funded by “the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation for its work in advanced trickery…part of a larger funding initiative from the University of Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad”…early on…[there are] statements [such as] “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited”…
Zuckerberg and company already knew this; it’s the entire point of the gadget:
More than 70 civil liberties…[and human] rights…organizations are demanding that [Facebook] abandon plans to deploy face recognition on its [pervert] glasses…[because] the feature—reportedly known inside the company as “Name Tag”—would hand [cops, spooks, goons, and other] stalkers…[and] abusers…the ability to silently identify strangers in public…The coalition…is demanding [Facebook] kill the feature before launch, after internal documents surfaced showing the company hoped to use [Trump’s chaos]…as cover for the rollout…[because] bystanders in public have no meaningful way to consent to being identified…
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Two months ago I published “Smoke Screen“, in which I reviewed a specific first-season episode of The Fugitive and had this to say about the series in general:
For those unfamiliar with the premise, Dr. Richard Kimble is wrongly convicted for the murder of his wife, but on his way to death row by train, “Fate moves its huge hand” and a derailment allows him to escape. For four years, Dr. Kimble, engagingly portrayed by David Janssen, moved around the country, trying to hide from the relentless Lt. Gerard (Barry Morse), the Inspector Javert-like cop obsessed with his recapture, while himself hunting the real murderer, a one-armed man he saw fleeing his house just before discovering his wife’s body…
As I watched the rest of the series over the course of those two months, I was struck by the degree to which that “huge hand” influenced Dr. Kimble’s life over the seven years from his wife’s murder (September 17th, 1960) to his eventual acquittal after the discovery of both the one-armed man and a reluctant witness (August 29th, 1967). It’s easy to joke about how the writers of a television show are gods who control the lives of the characters, and how certain characters become “butt-monkeys“, the ones typically made the victims of what the TV Tropes website calls “put them through hell” plotlines. But within the fictive universe inhabited by the characters, this is typically regarded as the result of blind chance or bad luck rather than the result of divine intervention, and we in the audience willingly suspend our disbelief of the improbability of anyone having so many adventures and misfortunes. In the case of The Fugitive, however, the writers appear to be subverting this trope, deliberately signaling to the audience that Fate or God is indeed manipulating Kimble’s life to fulfill some destiny or divine plan. From the opening narration of the first episode (see video below), we are clearly shown or even told in dialogue that there is something more than mere chance at work. In several dozen episodes there are sequences in which he escapes capture by mere moments, or misses a chance to escape misfortune by an equally narrow margin. And in the majority of episodes, Kimble’s apparently-random wanderings bring him into the lives of people who need him, either as a physician or just as a caring human being.
In the first-season episode “Angels Travel on Lonely Roads” the person is Sister Veronica, a Catholic nun, who is absolutely convinced that God arranged their meeting for their mutual benefit; in the fourth-season episode “The Breaking of the Habit” they meet again, and a priest at Sister Veronica’s school is equally convinced. In the earlier episode, the rational Dr. Kimble is inclined to dismiss being characterized as the tool of Providence and says as much, but after years of miraculous escapes and even being forced to save the life of his nemesis, Lt. Gerard, no less than four times, he is less skeptical about destiny. In another fourth-season episode, “Joshua’s Kingdom“, Kimble meets Joshua Simmons, an “only prayer can heal” religious fanatic whose underage daughter’s baby is close to death from a dangerous illness. After Kimble saves the child, Simmons says, “It can’t be God’s will. Not with doctors and medicine.” And Kimble replies, “How do you know I wasn’t sent here? Why did I come to this house, why did I come to this town? Do you know?” At the time of his first meeting with Sister Veronica, those words would have been mere rhetoric, but by the time he utters them they are heartfelt, and their obvious sincerity convinces Simmons.
It is, of course, not necessary to accept this framing to enjoy the show, though it certainly provides an in-universe explanation for how Dr. Kimble manages to avoid recapture for so long. But considering how traumatized he would be after two years of wrongful imprisonment and another five years as a fugitive, perhaps it provides some spiritual solace and hope of emotional recovery for a good, decent, highly-principled character the viewer has come to respect and care about.
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Sexless escorting is mostly a fantasy of white bourgeois American women which is not found in nature. – “More Delightful Conversation”
Sex is really a very poor reason for two people to live together. – “Silver”
The chief danger of a “tolerated” system is that cops or politicians can suddenly and without warning decide to be intolerant. – “Legal Is as Legal Does (#1428)”
Americans as a group wanted extremely stupid people in charge because they themselves are extremely stupid, and their idea of “democracy” is rule by people like them, ie extremely stupid. – “Their Heart’s Desire”
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The Fifth Amendment…was designed to bar Government from forcing some people alone to bear…burdens which, in all fairness and justice, should be borne by the public as a whole. – Armstrong v. US, 1960
The quality of social science studies has not improved in the last 15 years:
A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a [predictable] finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies…John Ioannidis, a metascientist at Stanford…says…the results are “not surprising”, because they are in line with those from smaller, earlier studies…Researchers have been investigating a ‘crisis’ in the reliability of scientific results for more than a decade…not just in the social sciences, but also in the biomedical field. The…findings…don’t necessarily mean that science is being done poorly…[or dis]honest[ly; the reports may simply be written poorly, without]…enough data or details for experiments to be repeated accurately…
Apparently, his cop buddies will escape scot-free:
[The] Long Island…serial killer [has] pleaded guilty…to murdering seven women and admitted he killed an eighth…[architect] Rex Heuermann…strangled the women, m[ost] of them sex workers, over a 17-year span and buried their remains…along an isolated beach highway across the bay from where he lived…He faces life in prison and will be sentenced at a later date…The investigation began in…2010 after [the]…remains w[ere discovered, but was stalled and obstructed for years by police who were chummy with Heuermann, including disgraced former Police Chief James Burke]…
Another cop who stalked victims through the official cop grooming program:
A [typical and representative Colorado cop has been] indicted…[for molesting] two [underage] m[arks] in the [cop shop’s official grooming] program…Troy Brienzo[‘s cronies tried to protect him by only releasing a] heavily redacted [copy of the] indictment…[but] police accountability nonprofit Blue Surveillance [got ahold of a less-redacted copy]…show[ing] both victims were enrolled in the…[groom]ing program…
The erosion of US air travelers’ rights which started with TSA is now complete:
…ICE…[has] arrested more than 800 people [in the past year using] tips shared by…TSA…which supplied ICE with records on more than 31,000 travelers…the [scheme]…was created in 2007 to allow [universal surveillance of]…passenger[s by checking them against unconstitutional]…government watchlists…[and justified by barfing the word “]terrorism[” in the faces of useful idiots]…but the…Trump [regime]…is [using it to] pursu[e and persecute ordinary migrants]…and [nonwhite US citizens]…
In 2022, police caused extensive damage to Amy Hadley’s home in South Bend, Indiana, because they [willful]ly [chose to pretend] a fugitive was inside the house [despite being told otherwise by Hadley and her son]. That same year, a Los Angeles SWAT team wrecked Carlos Pena’s print shop while [staging theatrics] to arrest a [man] who [was not there]…Hadley and Pena were stuck with the tab for the havoc wrought by police operations—a plainly unfair but increasingly common situation that could be rectified by the “just compensation” that the Fifth Amendment requires when property is “taken for public use”…Hadley and Pena are asking the Supreme Court to recognize that remedy…The Institute for Justice, which represents both Hadley and Pena, argues that [the “fuck you”] exception…[is] not supported by the text or history of the Takings Clause…
Civil rights advocates often joke that the Third Amendment is the only one that hasn’t been undermined, but I fail to see any important difference between the government forcibly taking people’s homes to quarter troops and forcibly taking them to serve as props for cops and robbers games.
Safetyism is destroying society:
A row has broken out in one of Canada’s wealthiest neighbourhoods [between sane people and]…surveillance [profiteers who want to create] the country’s first “virtual gated community” to [exploit useful idiots’ unrealistic fears of “]crime[“]…Craig Campbell, the Rosedale resident who proposed the plan…runs a security company. He [told unattributed scary tales about unnamed “friends” who suffered a home invasion in order to sell] a plan in which an initial group of 100 residents would pay a C$200…monthly subscription [to impose]…licence plate [surveillance on everyone in the area, whether they like it or not]…Campbell holds the Canadian licensing rights for Flock, and [said] he “absolutely has a [scheme to exploit his neighbors’ fears, belching]…“my family’s safety” [at reporters]…
Burble burble BLUE STATE burble drool:
…Massachusetts [politicians have] passed…one of the country’s most restrictive policies on youth social media use…It would…prohibit kids under 14 from having accounts [at all regardless of the parents’ wishes, and require]…parent[al]…consent for 14- and 15-year-olds…[politicians burbled about] studies [which] have shown…ex[actly the opposite of what politicians pretend they show]…and…[vomited “]protecting our children[” in the faces of civil rights advocates, while also moronically claiming that passing surveillance measures promoted by Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg somehow constitutes]…“standing up to Big Tech”…[when] asked…if [politician]s thought about data privacy as they prepared the legislation, [Grand Poobah] Ron Mariano [barfed]…“protect kids[“], and…compare[d] their proposal to a[n unconstitutional] social media law in Florida…
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For the past two weeks, the pullets have lived in their nursery in the henhouse; the heat lamp is still on 24 hours a day, and every day about noon or so I top off their food and change their water. This was taken immediately after doing that, which is why you can hear the water burping as the tray fills up. The reason it’s up on the cinder block is to keep them from clogging it up with shavings when they scratch; at this stage it’s the feeder which gets clogged instead, but as long as I clean it once a day it isn’t bad enough to stop them from eating. You can see that the turkey chick has now caught up with the pullets, and by the time they’re out of the nursery completely on May 17th, it will be noticeably larger. The next change, however, will be this coming Sunday; the heat lamp will go on the timer so it’s only on at night, and in the daytime I’ll open up the coop as it is in this video, then herd them back inside every evening. Every two days I’ll shorten the timer by half an hour, so their hours of darkness will slowly increase until it’s time to shut off the lamp for the summer, and by that time the hens will have stopped trying to harass them, and we’ll be settled into our routine until it starts to change again in late September.
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When I was a schoolgirl, Sundays didn’t really feel like days off. It wasn’t just that I had to go to church, although that was certainly a factor; it was mostly because there was a school day looming over Sunday afternoon like a beetling cliff above a mountain meadow. Even if I didn’t have homework due, my mother still enforced an early bedtime on school nights, and even after I escaped the house the knowledge that I would not be free to spend the next day as I pleased was enough to cast a pall over Sunday activities. And since none of the jobs I had after 1987 had traditional Saturday-Sunday weekends, that inability to feel free of looming responsibilities eventually seeped into every day off, aggravating my lifelong characteristic inability to relax into a lifelong Sunday-shaped pathology: unless I was actually under the influence of a drug, whatever tasks I might have to accomplish were always lurking behind me, impossible to ignore regardless of my efforts to pretend they weren’t there. But now, five years into my retirement, I’m at last starting to have a little success in convincing myself that there really aren’t any obligations haunting my free time. Sure, I need to go to town once a week for groceries, and several times a year I need to go into Seattle, and occasionally I have some other responsibility to deal with (beside my daily blog work and household chores, which are never completely done). But other than that, it matters very little if I choose to spend a few hours reading for pleasure, or occupy my time in some frivolous but interesting pastime, or finish my next book in September rather than July. And maybe sometime in the next few years, I’ll be able to exorcise that Sunday haunt once and for all.
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I don’t think they’re aliens, I think they’re demons. – J.D. Vance
I’m not sure why I’ve never posted this song, since it’s been periodically going through my head for years now and I think you’ll agree that though it has never completely stopped being timely, it’s especially timely right now. The links above it were provided by Franklin Harris, Ed Krayewski, Radley Balko, C.J. Ciaramella, Rick Horowitz, and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- Instant karma.
- Semper fidelis.
- I’m sure you feel much safer now.
- They don’t get this serious about rapist cops.
- He isn’t really this stupid, but he thinks MAGA voters are.
- “Knife attacks” multiplied once cops realized every home has throwdowns.
From the Archives
- This is just LA County; every single jurisdiction in the US has similar rates.
- Overseas pharmacies sell to US customers without “Mother-May-I” games.
- Erosion of civil liberties only starts with those government has demonized.
- Government tried to establish a precedent that it need not feed prisoners.
- All I read about these apps makes me glad I’ve never even looked at one.
- Medical experts speak out against the copaganda term “excited delirium”.
- Irrelevant authoritarian spouts irrelevancies to promote authoritarianism.
- Note that the dysphemism “sex trafficking” is conspicuously absent here.
- Americans think “democracy” means rule by those as stupid as they are.
- Censorship laws favor big companies with full-time “compliance” people.
- Only a politician would “punish” a crime by criminalizing legal business.
- Any loophole in any right will inevitably be expanded by authoritarians.
- Some still believe these sociopaths are motivated by “child protection”.
- The entire “troubled teen” industry needs to be sued out of existence.
- Monsters claim the “right” to persecute and torture sexual minorities.
- How long will Americans accept cops terrorizing traumatized women?
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Clarence “Frogman” Henry, and much more.
- Politicians are always happy to wreck lives by inventing new “crimes”.
- Louisiana politicians can think of a way to make any legal fad worse.
- The resources flushed down the “culture war” toilet are incalculable.
- Indiscriminate murder is so much easier when blamed on machines.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently do so?
- Regular readers know that I like seasonal weather to be seasonal.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Jay North, Clem Burke, and much more.
- Government propaganda inspires the weak-minded to violence.
- I can’t feel sorry for people with problems of their own making.
- The West is complicit in the Chinese genocide of the Uyghurs.
- Thai sex workers are still fighting US-imposed prohibitionism.
- The program which first recruited kids as spies and snitches.
- Let’s hope we can soon say, “Good riddance to bad rubbish”.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Watching the fall of Asstoon has been such a pleasure.
- My 25th anniversary of living with my best friend.
- Safetyism is the police state’s most powerful fuel.
- Goodness, who could have ever predicted this?
- On timely blessings and pennies from heaven.
- Many useful idiots want this in the US as well.
- Is this idiotic enough yet? Can we stop now?
- “AI” philistines don’t understand art, period.
- A strange, anticlimactic ending to this saga.
- The Swedish Model claims another victim.
- The Satanic Rites of Throwback Thursday.
- Cops, cheese, Al Jaffee, and much more.
- Burble burble BLUE STATE burble drool.
- No woman is safe from predatory cops.
- A history of the Backpage persecution.
- A nice soak in a recently-repaired spa.
- Turns out he isn’t just a wannabe cop.
- Humpty Dumpty, federal prosecutor.
- The Terror of Throwback Thursday.
- A review of Doctor Who “Flux”.
- The chicks grow quickly.
- Your “leaders” at work.
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so much!
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