Like something Bill Theiss would design while very drunk. https://t.co/KzYdGrNeut
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 24, 2023
Clearly a very important discovery for building solid machines with no electronic parts which can escape from cages as long as there's a mold handy. 🙄
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 26, 2023
For "deleted", instead use "memory-holed" for greater precision. Things can be "deleted" for many reasons, but when it's due to political embarrassment "memory-holed" is more specific. https://t.co/rpYkpTDiyB
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 27, 2023
Ray Bradbury was one of the great souls of modern times. He will be remembered when every contemporary power-hungry politician has been reduced to a footnote in history texts or a name in a list of fallen, buried, forgotten "rulers". https://t.co/pFIQDdzYv3
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 27, 2023
Your regular reminder that "proactive policing" actually means "terrorizing people who haven't committed any crimes, under the pretext that they *might*". https://t.co/wx4Z4lEyil
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 28, 2023
Also, about #5: "Not allowed to listen" is a very different thing from "are unable to listen". https://t.co/0ZurrNGJEc
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 29, 2023
Amateurs are so cute. https://t.co/DHsG6jTkvi
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 30, 2023
Cops acting as though they're in the entertainment business should be a summary firing offense. https://t.co/FVsep5DmoL
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 31, 2023
I'm sure she believes that the sailors on the Flying Dutchman are happy because they have job security. And like the Wandering Jew, they get to travel to many lands on a sort of eternal vacation!
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 1, 2023
“I think that people see police as a part of the government”
Yes, that's because they ARE part of the government. The most visible and violent part, the hand of the state that holds the gun, whip, or club. https://t.co/PkPkr3iATP
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 3, 2023
We *do* understand discretion, honey. After all, it's part of why you pay us, remember? https://t.co/oAVtft9K8q
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 4, 2023
The rise of trucks as passenger vehicles in urban areas is largely the result of government fuel efficiency "regulations" which made station wagons and other large (but low) cars illegal.
This is a striking example of the Law of Unintended Consequences at work. https://t.co/uMH85IhtVk
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 5, 2023
…elaborate protections. Near the end of the cycle, even opening a tap results in a flood of disgusting filth spewing out in every direction, coating walls, floor, and ceiling of the bathroom or kitchen and suffusing everyone's house & clothes with an unbearable reek.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 5, 2023
"Vascular neck restraint" is a scientific-sounding euphemism for "choking somebody to cut off blood flow to the brain so they pass out".
"Pass out" is itself euphemized as "slip into unconsciousness". Choking a victim to within minutes of death depicted as a lullaby. https://t.co/CsKD5MJrR3
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 7, 2023
An orbit is a path described by mathematics; it is not a physical object that can be "crashed into".
Please can we at least have SOME science "reporters" who aren't less scientifically literate than the average @BillNye viewer? https://t.co/3N05AUiYbk
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 9, 2023
Many criminals are entrepreneurs; it's just that their business happens to be illegal. https://t.co/nMqBcW3CmK
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 10, 2023
I don't think it would be bragging to say that I probably have more cerebral capacity than most. And yet, I *still* don't have enough space there to allow various public figures to live rent-free in my head as so many otherwise-intelligent people seem wont to do.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 11, 2023
Cops constantly demonstrate *exactly* what they are; why don't you believe them? https://t.co/Ipnk6dS3Rr
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 12, 2023
Isaac Asimov once described computers as "high-speed morons". He was correct, ad anyone who blathers about artificial "intelligence" is wrong. https://t.co/EzyEU9CdsX
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 14, 2023
And as for "dating apps", I think the less said the better; they concentrate the toxic aspects of both "dating" culture and "looking for relationships" and add a heavy component of superficiality.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 14, 2023
"From behind" doesn't sound nearly as bad as "in the back".
Journalists need to start using those words, rather than mealy-mouthed softeners. https://t.co/DugFSaRgx6
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 15, 2023
This phrasing sounds so much nicer than "cops abduct drunk woman, rip off her clothes, then take nude pictures without her consent." https://t.co/8knRR6TU2z
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 17, 2023
How much longer will Americans allow cops to use robot guns and cars that go berserk and attack people on their own? https://t.co/pW3gzG4ADO
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 18, 2023
Experts: The Drug War increases deaths by overdose and has been catastrophic to civil liberties.
Economists: The Drug War has cost trillions and had absolutely no positive effects.
Civil libertarians: End the damned drug war already!
Your "leaders": https://t.co/OuV6nM5dfJ— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 19, 2023
Many scientists used to claim that the sci-fi concept of a murderous Frankensteinian computer was impossible. https://t.co/cRidQsQwMu
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 21, 2023