They want to restore the "integrity" of an agency built by J. Edgar Hoover.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-14T18:58:24.002Z
Brussels sprouts are disgusting; they even SMELL disgusting. As do all their siblings.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-15T18:18:53.218Z
Not to mention that being restricted to idiotic, simplistic 18th-century notions of "right" and "left" reduces all political thought and commentary to a second-grade level.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-17T16:31:24.699Z
He also seems ignorant of the fact that Canada is geographically larger than the United States.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-18T18:22:25.152Z
A truly Ozymandian monument to futility and the hubris of politicians.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-19T17:00:46.680Z
And yet some think I'm a weirdo for refusing to eat uncooked or undercooked food.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-21T03:41:07.764Z
We *really* need mandatory retirement ages for politicians.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-22T04:53:57.294Z
Another timeline cleanse.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-22T18:34:52.255Z
206-year-old Christmas carol annoys rando, and the Atlantic is ON IT
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-25T18:08:12.311Z
Finding "trending topics" in my margin this morning was like finding a big cat turd on the kitchen floor. Luckily, a "sweep this shit away" button was included.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-26T18:07:13.546Z
Because a healthy brain can't help learning?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-27T18:59:40.901Z
Why don't techies who name their software after mythical people, places, and things bother to think about the implications of the name they choose?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-30T22:33:12.105Z
"As Attorney General, I will not permit steroidal Oklahoma thugs to face criminal prosecution for conduct adhering the state principle of violence toward all minorities who fail to abase themselves and unquestioningly obey state actors."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-31T16:34:59.336Z
When a headline asks a question, the answer is nearly always “no”.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-03T04:05:11.236Z
THIS RIGHT HERE.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-03T18:22:20.545Z
I sometimes wonder what kind of abuse it takes to reduce a human mind to a collectivist one. In darker moods, I assume it's a disease of the soul itself.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-04T18:02:54.971Z
In real life, I was 25 from the time I was about 15 until the time I was about 35. Professionally, I was 28 from 33 to 40, then aged about 1 year for every 2 until 2015, when I turned 49.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-06T05:30:30.070Z
The real reason for this is not "AI", but that most teachers are lazy thinkers who predictably reward certain statements and conclusions which can be tracked and tabulated by machine learning algorithms, rather than rewarding actual thinking ML systems cannot parrot.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-06T18:51:13.912Z
Very close: the full picture is that a democracy in which there are functionally only two parties is not sustainable.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-07T05:45:48.471Z
Some of us warned y'all about allowing chief executives to govern by monarchical diktat by declaring "emergencies".Y'all were all for it when the executives were on "your" schoolyard team.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-08T18:24:52.542Z
"No civilization—no matter how resilient—is actually permanent."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-09T18:12:38.106Z
Reporters: please stop saying a law is "meant to" do such-and-such when it's obvious it was never ACTUALLY intended to do any such thing, but rather to convince the gullible that it was.The phrase you're looking for is, "the law was PRETENDED to do such-and-such".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-10T18:09:50.321Z
"Looks like your adblocker's on!"Yes, I turned it on a decade ago and left it that way. What next, Captain Obvious? "You're breathing"?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-14T16:41:16.344Z
He "looked like" a hypocrite for the simple reason that he *is* a hypocrite; it kinda goes with the territory. Republics are like cesspools: the biggest chunks float to the top.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-15T18:44:02.688Z