"Smart" devices aren't, part Umpty-eleven. https://t.co/4vzXR30qIY
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 23, 2023
If you only watch one video this week, make it this one.
This woman is heroic, and y'all know I do *not* throw that term around lightly as so many do now. She could comfortably enjoy old age, but instead she's still fighting for what is RIGHT at 100 years old. https://t.co/KRQFXVa9JU
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 24, 2023
It's always interesting to see which stranger partisans now consider it fashionable to allow to live in their heads for free.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 26, 2023
Cops molesting kids is epidemic; just because some of them prefer to call the molestation a "search" doesn't make it a different issue. https://t.co/uKOtSJOQVl
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 27, 2023
If you really want a book for more than one-time light reading, you need to actually buy it. Kindle "buying" is really just a kind of renting from a lessor who can change the terms of the contract at any time, even to substituting a different text without your consent. https://t.co/IdG64L2nny
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 28, 2023
THIS. At one time, a prescription was simply a note from one professional to another, explaining exactly *which* drug the patient needed in clinical terms the patient could not be expected to understand or repeat accurately. Prohibition turned that into a legal document. https://t.co/mCc71HL81E
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 29, 2023
"Murdered".
The word for the willful killing of a human being who poses no threat to the killer is "murder". https://t.co/9U0nzMwTPK
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 30, 2023
Men being extremely silly with their mommies is quite possibly my favorite genre of short video. https://t.co/9UrNo8tVAx
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 31, 2023
For example: pic.twitter.com/bAE8ZZc5wl
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 31, 2023
These publishers are like fast-food chains who intentionally ruin menu items in order to please people who aren't their customers and never will be no matter HOW much they change. https://t.co/E3x7qiBPWs
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 2, 2023
Historically-ignorant pronouncements have got to be one of the most irritating things on Twitter.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 4, 2023
Whenever I see people surprised that "their" politicians behave exactly like everybody knows politicians behave, I'm reminded of a quote from Rita Mae Brown (not Einstein, sorry internet): "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results."
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 5, 2023
In which "progressive" NPR calls for more of the police interactions that result in the deaths or incarceration of many thousands of Americans a year. https://t.co/tEcVJ4BMOT
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 7, 2023
I hope amateur women never change, so that future generations of whores will always have plenty of work. Is that wrong of me?
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 8, 2023
I once wrote a story based on this concept; it's a sort of theological horror romance spiced with VERY black humor. https://t.co/jJBXD1Qzue
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 9, 2023
That's probably the most incompetent. But the most pretentious rhymes definitely come from Sting; I mean, rhyming "apprentice" with "Charybdis" and "shake and cough" with "Nabokov" is pretty impressively pompous.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 10, 2023
Outrage based on conscious ignorance is driven by the need or desire to be outraged; it's that need which motivates the intentional ignorance. Therefore such outrage MUST be stronger than mere organic outrage, in the same way refined products are more potent than raw ones.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 11, 2023
"Cops admit they paid for their expensive new toys with stolen money" is not the reassurance they seem to imagine it is. https://t.co/iZJNFaoQZO
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 12, 2023
Ray Harryhausen was an irreplaceable blessing to humanity. https://t.co/5qGQ6ULdCT
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 13, 2023
"Speaker Paul Renner had to close the public viewing galleries…"
He "had to"? Was he forced to do so by an evil spell or Platonian psychokinesis? Were terrorists holding a gun to his head? Would someone have inevitably died had he not acted?
Stop making excuses for tyranny. https://t.co/2GqUSCF59O
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 14, 2023
The state thinks that legal minors are children; that children are property; and that it's the government's "right" to steal the property of any citizen as it pleases.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 15, 2023
This article may help y'all to understand what I've said since the 1980s: "nutritionism" is, to a large extent, simply puritanism disguised by a pseudoscientific veneer. https://t.co/wK3jnviqMP
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 16, 2023
Recognizing that most people who identify as "left-wing" are useful idiots.
Not coincidentally, my "most left-wing coded attribute" is recognizing that most people who identify as "right-wing" are useful idiots. https://t.co/KUIUBwvi25
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 17, 2023
Damn, and here I was planning to get a grant for my zombie-staffed lawn service company. https://t.co/NZ7Q5AXRdh
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 18, 2023
From a sociological perspective, it's interesting to watch the last adherents of a moral panic clinging desperately to whatever feeling (safety? importance? validation?) the panic gave them after everyone else has lost interest.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 19, 2023
Phrasing this as "Americans buy more of one processed plant product with mood-altering effects that's disliked by some puritans than another processed plant product with mood-altering effects that's disliked by other puritans" really puts the absurdity of prohibition on display. https://t.co/R6x7LfOchO
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 21, 2023
My two lowest subscription rates are lower than Twitter wants for its blue check. Just sayin'. pic.twitter.com/EvGzl41ik0
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 21, 2023
Your regular reminder that trying to define other people's experiences for them, or claiming they're "wrong" because they're fine with experiences (*especially* sexual experiences) that YOU think would harm YOU, is the behavior of a creepy control freak.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 22, 2023
This is good, but let me also point out that even *less* that 1% of modern literature will survive the next 5000 years.
You're welcome. https://t.co/e6GSHxEdVd
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 23, 2023
