No, "Orange Blossoms for Violet" does not count. https://t.co/pYnKAh0afL
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 21, 2023
History doesn't consistently repeat itself, but it has rhyme, rhythm, and refrain like a song.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 22, 2023
Those as old as me or older will remember the Senate's hearings on comic book companies' "failure to protect children", and the music industry's "failure to protect children", and video game designers' "failure to protect children". Everything BUT their own manifold failures. https://t.co/nxeqc4bBma
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 23, 2023
No. Chauvin is a sociopath, so he will always view himself as a "good guy" railroaded in the court of public opinion by the "bad people". Everyone else in prison with him is a "bad guy"; he is the exceptional martyr. He may find Jesus in prison, but he won't find introspection.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 25, 2023
TIL that some people actually believe that humans have been keeping meteorological records since the lower Paleolithic.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 27, 2023
You know, like another of the neverending parade of "special edition" Monopoly games with which Hasbro has littered the Earth for the past 32 years. https://t.co/Rrm9JJZk24
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 27, 2023
The only tweet I will ever make on this subject. pic.twitter.com/5YibdcyIDo
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 28, 2023
You need to break a lot of random eggs to make a xenophobia omelette. https://t.co/J3pibYW9vC
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 29, 2023
I really hate the way modern anglophones DESCRIBE things instead of naming them.
Caltrops. These are called caltrops.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 30, 2023
I presume these same folks don't want anyone to build a Death Star, a subspace matter transmission channel to Tau Ceti, or an antimatter-fueled power generation facility. https://t.co/frkGmK5VVt
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 1, 2023
From the POV of a game master, this is the only logical way for the geas to work, else vampires could ravage an entire land merely by turning one judge.
From the POV of an amateur folklorist, giving vampire cops carte blanche defeats the point: https://t.co/kaACqCv69j
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 1, 2023
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 3, 2023
Less than TWO YEARS AGO, "Scientific American" published this. Makes one wonder what changed.https://t.co/AdPDCKI1Zp
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 4, 2023
It's shameful and sad that after a century, dimwits STILL think Time's "Person of the Year" is an honor rather than an editorial judgment of newsworthiness. https://t.co/rRdNHjLyfn
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 7, 2023
Looks like the ravens have discovered I give a scoop of peanuts to the pigs every morning. All we need now is David Attenborough.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 7, 2023
Once again: If you don't own something on physical media in your physical possession, you don't own it at all. pic.twitter.com/BmrLqFjsbT
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 9, 2023
Too many Americans are too dim to grasp that "40 ft from someplace you rent" ≠ "your property", *especially* in a city. pic.twitter.com/Su2Lmc3Der
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 10, 2023
…that chance based upon some airy-fairy concept of "fairness". In the same vein, I'm not dumb enough to just walk across a street without looking even if pedestrians have the LEGAL right-of-way in that area. "The car SHOULD stop" won't keep me out of hospital if it doesn't.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 12, 2023
Though I hate seeing people I follow on here dogpiled, at least it gives me the opportunity to mute plenty of creeps without having to wait for them to attack me.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 14, 2023
More laws allowing cops to snoop into people's homes never lead to good outcomes.
No, it doesn't matter what excuse is used for the snooping. The US carceral explosion of the past 30 years was almost entirely justified with laws purporting to address social problems.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 15, 2023
…US Catholics started to be infected by evangelical thinking (the charismatic movement was one early example), and now most soi-disant Catholics I see online sound more like brain-damged theocratic evangelicals who believe the Book of Revelation is a literal future history.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 16, 2023
"DeSantis pledges support for vandalism, as long as he disagrees with the people whose property is vandalized".
If I were Ron's teacher, I'd make him write a 2000-word essay on the meaning of "A Government of Laws, Not of Men". https://t.co/7AhNweDLPP
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 17, 2023