The world was beautiful for eons before there were self-aware eyes to appreciate it, and it will still be beautiful for eons after we are all gone. And there are countless other beautiful worlds which have never been seen, and never WILL be seen, by thinking beings.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-14T17:08:13.335Z
Intentionally conflating normal people whose lives are ruined by persecution with shameless politicians returned to prominence by a machine is a choice. A stupid or evil choice, but a choice nonetheless.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T17:10:38.247Z
It came from the same place as the "300,000 trafficked children being raped 100 times a day" came from: the Justification for State Violence factory.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-19T15:25:32.902Z
"Vice offenses" is a government dysphemism for "poor people enjoying the same adult pastimes as politicians".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-20T17:31:41.920Z
If the HPV vaccine had been available 20 years earlier, my beloved Grace might still be alive.Get vaccinated, while you still can.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-21T17:38:43.497Z
If you had written a satire in the 1980s or '90s where the president of the US wears a freaking BALL CAP everywhere, even in serious situations like giving formal speeches or planning goddamned WAR, critics would've said it was unrealistic.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-22T07:50:44.028Z
Actual LOL.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-23T07:57:01.365Z
PROTIP: If you can't use a word without feeling a psychological compulsion to misspell it by replacing one of its letters with "x", find a different word.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-24T16:51:07.852Z
Now if only we can get the US to abolish summary execution for misdemeanors.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-25T17:45:45.761Z
I'm not one to kink shame, but have these people no discretion? I mean really. bsky.app/profile/meid…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T08:12:44.396Z
Your regular reminder that websites outside the US can ignore US law, and the only way the US can stop them is by playing an endless game of whack-a-mole.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-27T18:27:08.695Z
I've decided the proper term for ICE thugs who hide their faces & leap out of vans to abduct people is "goons". I use the venerable term "spooks" to describe most G-men, but as one born during the '60s spy craze I can't help feeling it implies a degree of cleverness completely lacking in ICE goons.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-28T18:34:21.499Z
At this point, his being made into a martyr is probably less damaging in the long run.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-29T16:53:32.222Z
I'm not one to kink shame, but maybe you should keep this between you and your dominatrix.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-30T03:19:42.645Z
His approval rating is still MUCH too high. We need to see "Mussolini's funeral" approval ratings for him and his whole gang.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-07-01T02:40:20.242Z
Look at the bright side; the next two or three generations will have new cartoon villains to use in fiction, so they won't have to reach all the way back to the historical German Nazis whom absolutely none of them are old enough to remember as anything BUT cartoon villains.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-07-02T17:59:01.208Z
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4-G…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-07-03T07:57:38.253Z
No. Both used their votes to help THEMSELVES politically. The difference lies not in their motive, but in their interpretation of what kind of vote will improve their political fortunes.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-07-04T17:52:24.728Z
Actually, YOU don't choose which entity you're praying to; the content of your prayers does that automatically.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-07-05T17:16:41.634Z
Yes, that's the point.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-07-07T03:52:48.861Z
I like to think Grace was there in spirit, jamming along on a ghostly bass; Ozzy was probably her favorite musician.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-07-07T17:51:16.476Z
Trump declares that whales can fly.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-07-08T17:36:38.666Z
THIS. Reporters need to STOP using Trump's second-grade names for everything. STOP calling legislation that will result in millions forced into poverty and a metastasized police state as "beautiful". STOP using cutesy nicknames for concentration camps. Just fucking STOP.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-07-09T18:21:48.165Z
The most realistic part of this joke is Trump not knowing that $1000 bills were discontinued in 1969 and banks are required to send any they get to the Treasury to be destroyed.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-07-10T04:21:57.746Z
Reporters: are y'all ready to use the word "megalomania" yet?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-07-11T07:44:20.516Z
"What we need is not a non-volatile storage medium which is impossible to change once created, allowing dependable preservation of their contents, but rather centralized digital media which can be surreptitiously changed by 'authorities' at will, possibly without people noticing."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-07-12T17:08:42.978Z
It always astonishes me to see people making the equivalent argument to, "air travel, including both freight and passenger, should be a government monopoly, because billionaires."It *shouldn't* astonish me because people really are that stupid. But that's the last little pest in Pandora's box.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-07-13T17:27:32.516Z
Watching Trump name things has given me a new respect for the names Eternian villains choose for themselves.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-07-14T18:34:26.533Z
This looks like liquid fabric softener.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-07-15T08:15:13.976Z
The way I've explained it friends who don't live here is: "Seattle people drive on the highway as though it were a surface street; on surface streets as though they were parking lots; and in parking lots as though they were at a square dance and the caller has left the room."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-07-16T08:22:47.910Z
Guys, I keep telling y'all that seeing escorts is less expensive in the long run.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-07-17T19:08:26.779Z
Re: The library article:
Are you familiar with the project to create an archival storage method which will survive for ten thousand years?
http://Www.longnow.org