Saturday would’ve been Grace’s 67th birthday, so I’m not especially surprised that I felt quite sad. Everything seemed off all day; Grace always wanted me to make her favorite dish, Beef Stroganoff, for dinner, with a cheesecake for dessert. And perhaps in the future, along with burning a candle for her all day, I may prepare those things in her memory; right now the grief is still too intense, so I let Jae cook dinner after she returned from the local “No Kings” protest. While she was gone, I was here alone and decided to soak in the hot tub with a strong drink, and listen to Queen’s Greatest Hits, which Grace gave me for my birthday in 1999 (if memory serves). The album includes “You’re My Best Friend”, which as I mentioned last year was my ringtone for her, but it also includes “Who Wants To Live Forever?” which has for almost 40 years always made me cry, even long before my best friend passed from this plane into whatever comes next. I really am mostly doing better now; I can even get through most days without crying as long as I stay busy (which isn’t hard). But occasions like this are too painful to manage without grief, and I’ve never been any good at holding in the tears when they’re provoked this intensely.
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Diary #781
Posted in Biography, Diary, Music, tagged Grace, video on June 17, 2025| 1 Comment »
Links #780
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, artificial stupidity, Canada, cops, drugs, Grace, Hawaii, hysteria, Louisiana, politicians, STEM, Things We Choose To Do Together, video on June 15, 2025| 1 Comment »
There is a few, some with long words that I can’t pronounce.
– Kimberly “Science” Coates
Yesterday would have been Grace’s 67th birthday; last year I observed the occasion with the song I used for her ringtone, so this year I decided to use one she sang around the house quite often in the months before her passing (any reference to today’s two obituaries is strictly coincidental). The links above the video were provided by Ryan Marino, Mike Siegel, Clarissa, Popehat, Franklin Harris, Kevin Wilson, and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- Idiocracy.
- As one does.
- Straight people, are y’all OK?
- This week in artificial stupidity.
- R.I.P. Prentis Hancock and Clifton Jones.
- Our ancestors would have seen this as an omen.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- HuffPost asked several well-known sex workers about the the Trump trial.
- Prison bureaucrats quash information about the conditions in their cages.
- A reminder to readers & patrons of how important your support is to me.
- Maine is once again attempting to impose Swedish-style criminalization.
- Government reform policies, like other political promises, are worthless.
- Some believe they can live forever by eliminating all pleasure from life.
- Remember this next time somebody tells you “cop checks” really work.
- Cops, Rube Goldberg, Pat Robertson, Barry Newman, and much more.
- Politicians so mindlessly censorious they imagined they could win this.
- Give aggressive thugs power over kids; what could possibly go wrong?
- Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is ruled unconstitutional.
- Don’t teach kids about sex; fill their heads with anti-sex propaganda.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- Just when you thought this kangaroo court couldn’t sink any lower…
- It’s hardly strange that a typical, representative cop became chief.
- Politicians competing to see who can criminalize the most parents.
- Amateurs could learn so much about safer sex from professionals.
- Censors now pretend thoughts they don’t like constitute a “crime”.
- What the people who enforce “sex trafficking” laws are really like.
- Prosecutors have backed away from labeling this “sex trafficking”.
- There’s psychopathy and there’s pure evil, and then there’s this.
- Any country which does this has no business calling itself “free”.
- Too many people still believe in the innate goodness of religion.
- Crypto-moralists will declare any widely-enjoyed food “unsafe”.
- The people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- For a warden to be charged, there must be much more to this.
- Most tyranny starts with the pretext of “protecting” somebody.
- Hordes of useful idiots want this kind of repression in the US.
- Another shameless reminder that I depend on your support.
- Oh look, it’s what I was saying FOUR FUCKING YEARS AGO.
- Kansas politicians want to circumvent the will of the voters.
- Cops, modern scholarship, Stevie Wonder, and much more.
- Government will always use any excuse to expand tyranny.
- OUR’s increasingly-petty interference in sex workers’ lives.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- “Youth leaders” = “youth pastors” = predatory perverts.
- Another of “rescue” conman Tim Ballard’s many frauds.
- Throwback Thursday vs. the Creature from Blood Cove.
- Is an “associate pastor” anything like a “youth pastor”?
- Referring to torture as “correction” is vile bootlicking.
- Life now for the subjects of a surveillance state.
- Your “leaders” want this to happen more often.
- Seeking a temporary halt to a deranged jihad.
- Cops, punctuation, kung fu, and much more.
- I’m glad to see FIRE getting involved in this.
- The worst sinus allergy I’ve ever endured.
- Cops are a menace to women of all ages.
- On the occasion of Grace’s 66th birthday.
- Like inviting a vampire into one’s home.
- Fixing the last leak in the atrium roof.
- Asking for help with travel anxiety.
- Introducing Throwback Thursdays.
- How to be a stupid, greedy whore.
- “Pastors” are as bad as cops.
- Goodbye, ACLU; Hello FIRE.
- A simple stile does the job.
- The vestibule shapes up.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Your “leaders” at work.
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Gere Curam Mei Finis
Posted in Diary, Music, Philosophy, tagged Catholicism, Grace, language, video on June 9, 2025| 1 Comment »
Grace liked those small, fat notebooks. She always kept several around, and used them for whatever she needed to write down, without any particular order. Any given notebook might contain movies or tools she wanted to buy; rough diagram, sketches, and lists of parts for intended projects; things she encountered online when I wasn’t around that she wanted to ask me about later; things she wanted me to add to the grocery list; ideas for her D&D character; audiobooks she wanted to order; and just about anything else she felt should be written down. Now, over the last couple of years she had developed a fondness for listening to Gregorian chants on her headphones while meditating; she even listened to them while getting chemotherapy. So when I picked up one of her little notebooks Saturday before last, looking for one that was mostly empty so I could use it for something else, and discovered a page with five lines of Latin, I assumed they had come from a chant she liked. Believe it or not, her Latin was actually better than mine, so I needed to look them up, starting with the one in the title above…which translates to “help me in my final condition”. They were all lines from the Dies Irae, part of the traditional Catholic requiem mass. And of course I immediately started crying uncontrollably, though the tears were not bitter. Because even though we both knew she was dying for some time (though neither of us realized just how close it was), she had clearly come to accept it. And perhaps discovering those lines, painful as it was in the moment and in recalling it now, will eventually help me to accept it as she did.
Links #778
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged California, cops, drugs, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, Minnesota, Never Call the Cops, New York, psychology, scams, Under Duress, United Kingdom, video, Washington (state) on June 1, 2025| Leave a Comment »
[I’ve] no recollection of personally ever throwing a petrol bomb.
– James Duthoit
Longtime readers may recall that Shostakovich is one of my favorite composers, but I was unfamiliar with this piece until it was recently shared by Mike Siegel. The links above it were provided by Franklin Harris (x2), Nun Ya, T. Greg Doucette (x2), IncarcerNation, and Missy Mariposa, in that order.
- As one does.
- R.I.P. Bruce Logan.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- Cops believe everyone is as dishonest as they are.
- Was this “protecting” or “serving”? It’s hard to tell.
- There are times it’s good to be estranged from one’s family.
From the Archives
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- The inevitable result of entrusting mentally ill people to sociopathic thugs.
- Laws like this have already been ruled unconstitutional by the 4th Circuit.
- Cops will never stop doing this until the state stops giving them pretexts.
- Politicians don’t even try to make their new laws Constitutional anymore.
- The hotel industry is really going to regret its collaboration with fanatics.
- I was fated to be threatened with state violence regardless of my career.
- Psychopathy is typical in politicians, but these laws are wholly deranged.
- I’m sure they helpfully yelled “Stop faking!” at this little girl as she died.
- Denying meds to caged people is silently yelling “Stop faking!” at them.
- Most coverage of this story hides the fact that the abuser was a screw.
- The Dutch scheme to Disnify De Wallen is no longer merely a scheme.
- Infantilizing young victims of state violence as “children” doesn’t help.
- If he truly had trouble before, why did he call the same agency again?
- Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will grow until ruled unconstitutional.
- When will the federal government finally read the writing on the wall?
- One would think that the title “youth pastor” would be a big red flag.
- Apparently, this wasn’t a rape attempt, just a cop being a dumbass.
- The government doesn’t care, as long as Lacey dies in a filthy cage.
- Cops will continue to do this until there are criminal penalties for it.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- “Sex predators” are mostly men with authority over their targets.
- The Spanish case of the Swedish rot has been especially virulent.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from May 2012, 2013, and 2014.
- Cops, antimatter, Tina Turner, George Maharis, and much more.
- The censors are growing bold enough to admit their real goals.
- Occasionally, cops’ lies are too outrageous even for politicians.
- Prohibitionists’ real goal is to completely ban online sex work.
- Over half of Americans now live in states with legal cannabis.
- Letting government dictate what constitutes “disinformation”.
- The 2nd installment of a multi-part review of the Buffyverse.
- The problem isn’t religion; it’s blind submission to authority.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Richard Sherman, and much more.
- Looks like the judge didn’t buy his “porn addiction” excuse.
- It’s good to see someone actually studying this problem.
- French law provides some defense vs religious activism.
- Cops are nothing more than state-sponsored terrorists.
- Rapist cops often specifically target vulnerable women.
- Kaytlin Bailey on the realities of sex work Down Under.
- Indian sex workers have awaited this ruling for years.
- Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Throwback Thursday.
- A collection of essays for International Whores’ Day.
- Whores’ Day is not an occasion for sanitized words.
- Cops, dentists, mutant hamsters, and much more.
- The censors got what they wanted in this case.
- I have a system for nearly everything I do.
- Opening up my new paddock extension.
- I wonder when Hollywood will catch up?
- Definitely something to be thankful for.
- Instagram & TikTok users, take note.
- Nearly finished with the atrium roof.
- And it can find you just as easily.
- Building a new stable.
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The Tweetles
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Music, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged artificial stupidity, asset seizure, blogging, Bluesky, bogus studies, California, Catholicism, cops, dehumanization, disease, drugs, ethics, fantasy, fascism, France, Hollywood, homosexuality, hysteria, illegal aliens, language, law, left-right myth, Massachusetts, Nevada, politicians, prisons, propaganda, Property of the State, psychology, racism, robots, South Africa, STEM, Twitter, yellow journalism on May 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »
See also "terrorist", "trafficker", and "prostitute".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-17T18:03:29.108Z
People who are not queer, kinky, or professional: I beg you to research what a "gangbang" is, so you can stop making yourselves look like gullible idiots for repeating cops' 30-year-old sophomoric joke.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-19T04:39:04.483Z
There ain't a healthy person in that room, psychologically speaking.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-20T03:52:21.862Z
I beg reporters to recognize that this is a religion, and to cover it accordingly. Treat pronouncements about magical godlike "AI" the same way you'd treat pronouncements about Jesus or demons.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-21T17:46:02.394Z
Takeaway: Y'all aren't being NEARLY polite enough to "Cat, I farted". You need to be so scrupulously polite and indirect that you sound like a parody of a Victorian.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-22T17:54:39.862Z
Presumably, the 51% who view Vikings favorably are also big fans of having their life savings stolen by cops via asset forfeiture.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-23T18:39:54.767Z
I am not going there.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-24T04:09:00.768Z
"I'm Called Little Buttercup"
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-25T19:43:49.356Z
I wonder if he can make it through without loudly soiling his diaper.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-26T17:12:52.987Z
O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie usTo see oursels as ithers see us!
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T16:58:51.364Z
Setup: Someone just proposed the toast, "To the voters."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-28T17:28:03.370Z
If "sex trafficking" hysteria gets transferred to cops and other porcine creatures, I can live with that.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T17:32:29.234Z
But did he loudly shit his diaper at the funeral, as he did at the rededication of Notre Dame in December?www.inquisitr.com/donald-trump…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T17:13:03.854Z
Zuckerberg is a sad, pathetic person with a sad, pathetic inner life, and all his billions haven't been able to buy him a personality or real friends. So naturally he thinks everybody is like that.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-01T17:47:00.990Z
Did someone give an LLM the prompt, "fork in the road"?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-02T18:12:00.622Z
Any guesses on what movie Trump watched recently?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-05T03:54:24.166Z
Oh, look, I was right again. Must be a day ending in "y". bsky.app/profile/drew…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-05T17:16:21.183Z
Many more headlines like this, please. Reporters & editors: you can editorialize in your own paper/website. You needn't parrot the government's euphemisms, dysphemisms, and other propaganda.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-06T16:50:24.831Z
Collaboration. maggiemcneill.com/2025/05/07/i…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-07T16:57:55.264Z
See also "political lesbian".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-08T17:13:58.409Z
So he's basically saying he can't do it because Democrats might be mean to him, then he'd cry and soil his diaper.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-09T19:30:14.678Z
I would like to be able to cast a huge spell that would cause ANYONE who uses the phrase "some say" to immediately explode.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-12T04:00:06.232Z
I will never have as much money as this Avelo dude.But I have a soul, which is more than I can say for him.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-13T07:37:35.404Z
YOU can be arrested for leaving a 12-year-old unattended.For ICE thugs, it's part of the job description.Neither of these is a sign of a healthy society.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-13T16:51:14.913Z
Politicians and cops (including prosecutors) are sick human beings who think everyone is as warped and dishonest as they are. Accordingly, they think drug tests with a high rate of false positives are "more accurate", and those are the ones they buy. reason.com/2025/05/11/m…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-14T16:58:19.261Z
If Grok's current behavior doesn't help you to recognize that there is no "intelligence" in these programs, you are hopeless. http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/nationa…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T05:36:15.208Z
To my friends and others I follow on here:NOTHING makes me skip right over your tweet without even reading it faster than a CGI picture. If you want original pictures, pay an actual human artist for them.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-16T17:08:15.258Z
It's unsurprising the Trump regime is able to blatantly violate the Constitution with the full support of many Americans, because most of them are too goddamned stupid to understand it even if they'd ever bothered to read it, which they haven't.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-17T16:21:35.767Z
Diary #776
Posted in Biography, Diary, Favorites, Music, tagged New Orleans, Presents, video on May 13, 2025| 1 Comment »
My tastes in TV shows often run to the eccentric, so I’m never especially surprised when I can’t find shows I enjoyed on DVD. Sometimes the shows were never popular enough, and often they were cancelled after one season; a lot of the time I seem to be the only person who even remembers them. One such program was The Steven Banks Show, produced for New Orleans’ public TV station, WYES, in 1994 by ex-NBC executive Brandon Tartikoff after he semi-retired to the Crescent City; I actually caught it on the Baton Rouge PBS affiliate, WLPB, because it aired at 10:00 PM on Saturday night, just before Doctor Who. At the end of every episode was an address to order a copy of the soundtrack album, and given that I thought Banks’ brilliant comedic songs were the best part of the show, I of course ordered it (and still play it every so often). That single viewing over 30 years ago, just before the beginning of my “year of disaster”, was the only time I ever saw the show; even after the debut of YouTube I could never find any trace of it other than the Showtime special which was essentially its pilot, and an upload of the soundtrack album. Then last month, I discovered someone had uploaded all 13 episodes; I immediately contacted the same generous gent who sent me the two missing seasons of The Muppet Show last year, and he found even better copies somewhere online. So now I’m watching them again; I only wish I could’ve shared them with Grace, because I think she’d have enjoyed all the musical humor very much. Anyhow, here’s the series on YouTube; I hope y’all enjoy it as much as I do.
Links #775
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged advertising, animals, California, cops, drugs, Georgia, Never Call the Cops, Twitter, video, Wyoming on May 11, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Has anyone seen the moon lately? I’ve been looking for 7 days. – Kambree Nelson
I’ve featured several other unusual covers of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” over the years, but here’s another one provided by Steve Roonie. The links above the video are from Franklin Harris, Jesse Walker, IncarcerNation (x3), Radley Balko, and Franklin Harris again, in that order.
- R.I.P. Ruth Buzzi.
- He’s dedicated, that’s for sure.
- “Never” really does mean “never”.
- What part of “never” is so hard to grasp?
- Cops murder actor for riding a motorcycle.
- It’s like RAY-AY-AIIIIIN on your wedding day…
- A fine example of the typical Trump supporter.
From the Archives
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- The problem isn’t religion; it’s teaching kids to blindly submit to authority.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses.
- Politicians compete to see how many rights they can violate with one law.
- Ambulance-chasers will target businesses thus until FOSTA is overturned.
- Cop and “church youth leader” is the molester equivalent of a full house.
- Leaked SCOTUS decision spawns wave of opportunistic authoritarianism.
- Boss cops consider bestiality a worse offense than molesting a teenager.
- Until this batshittery is ruled unconstitutional, it will keep getting worse.
- Undermining rights only starts with “undesirables”; it never stops there.
- Websites targeted by censorship try to turn the mob back on politicians.
- These attempts to destroy the internet are going to keep getting worse.
- Ballard’s downfall will be even sweeter if he takes a politician with him.
- Your “leaders” sometimes label child molestation “community support”.
- It’s good someone else recognizes this grooming scheme for what it is.
- The way to address politicians’ demands for website user surveillance.
- Australian prohibitionists won’t stop trying to impose this evil scheme.
- Politicians no longer care whether their new diktats are Constitutional.
- Prohibition can never succeed, regardless of the substance prohibited.
- Why are ignoramuses convinced non-vanilla sex is a recent invention?
- Liz Brown with a deep dive on the tyrannical persecution of Backpage.
- Too bad WA only supports self-ownership where drugs are concerned.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do that?
- Another version of this story tried to gloss over his being a preacher.
- This should happen to every State tattle-site regardless of its target.
- In which your “leaders” refer to spreading child porn as “correction”.
- “During encounters with” sounds so much nicer than “while raping”.
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- If the Swedish model is so successful, why increase the penalties?
- The “bathroom bill” political fad returns after a three-year hiatus.
- Journalists have “discovered” what I’ve been saying for 14 years.
- This is the kind of dangerous animal the State grants power to.
- “Youth group director” = “youth pastor” = preachy molester.
- Another of those cases whose reported details don’t add up.
- Everyone involved in producing this copaganda is garbage.
- The last time we saw this lawsuit, the number was 1500.
- This is exactly what those who passed this bill wanted.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Bernard Hill, and much more.
- Your “leaders” refer to wanton murder as “correction”.
- I’ve never had pullets grow as quickly as this bunch.
- Governments worldwide are emulating China’s evil.
- Cops, bananas, Gordon Lightfoot, and much more.
- Just another molester cop avoiding consequences.
- Another sign that the moral panic is largely over.
- Cops, metaphors, Naomi Judd, and much more.
- On the asinine authoritarianism of “real names”.
- Your “leaders” want this to happen more often.
- Amateurs are utterly obsessed with “pimps”.
- Dr Victoria Bateman on the nudity taboo.
- Why does this story avoid the obvious?
- So much for human uniqueness.
- Throwback Thursday Unbound.
- On the persistence of memory.
- Another Friday the Thirteenth.
- Dealing with delinquent hens.
- “Pastors” are as bad as cops.
- A small shrine to Aphrodite.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Bound By the Cloak.
- My new cat, Lilith.
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so much!
Links #774
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, Arizona, artificial stupidity, child "protective" services, cops, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, Minnesota, Never Call the Cops, New York, STEM, video on May 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Users hate being tricked by a machine posing as a human.
– Cassie Kozyrkov
I’m not familiar with most of Sobule’s work, but I quite liked this song when it came out (much more than Katy Perry’s later song by the same title); the links above the video were provided by Mike Stabile, Mike Masnick (x2), Andrew Fleischman, Jesse Walker, Mike Siegel, and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- As one does.
- R.I.P. Jill Sobule.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- I hate it when this happens.
- This week in artificial stupidity.
- Don’t talk to them in person, either.
- Cops murder teen girl for fleeing kidnappers.
From the Archives
- Australia’s rulers are even more eager to destroy the internet than the US.
- At least some reporters are finally getting skeptical of this popular excuse.
- Should’ve donned his magical Clown Costume of Legal Invulnerability 1st.
- “Disciplinary action” for UK rapist cops can be early retirement at full pay.
- Is a shiny new status symbol really worth being spied on & price-gouged?
- Cops say reporting their crimes is “an inherent danger to the community”.
- Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, others pose as cops to commit rape.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives; some don’t stop with beating.
- Surveillance pretexts won’t remain limited to “child porn” & “terrorism”.
- This will never stop while violent thugs have total power over women.
- This has been going on for years, and platforms do nothing to stop it.
- When will the federal government finally read the writing on the wall?
- Cops, air hostesses, Harry Belafonte, Jerry Springer, and much more.
- Even seemingly-consensual sex with a cop may be something else.
- Modern fascism has spun a terrifyingly-extensive surveillance net.
- Corporations have become the favored tool of censors worldwide.
- Couldn’t she have done this before driving Jim Larkin to suicide?
- Non-cop molester exploits grooming scheme for predatory cops.
- Another specimen of the garbage the state pays to violate kids.
- Big websites could curtail totalitarian threats if they wanted to.
- Politicians are always happy to indulge cops’ violent fantasies.
- Previous columns for May Day and May Eve (Walpurgisnacht).
- Twelve years of puritanism badly disguised as “public health”.
- Politicians really believe everyone lies as blithely as they do.
- The worse the idea, the more eager politicians are to ape it.
- This is the first honest thing he’s said since he was caught.
- Infantilizing victims of sexual assault does not help them.
- It’s not like they’ve ever been secretive about their goals.
- Pigs in schools are a menace which should be abolished.
- Big heroes prove their manhood by terrorizing women.
- Even by the standards of rapist cops, this is horrifying.
- Gifted children are America’s most wasted resource.
- Matthew 21:31 seems pretty straightforward to me.
- The last part of the framework for my annex roof.
- Cops, Greenpeace, Terry Carter, and much more.
- Prohibitionists want this to happen more often.
- On wings, colors, and looking-glass partisans.
- The FOSTA challenge is proceeding yet again.
- Cops, Kevin, Neal Adams, and much more.
- No, that woman wasn’t “praying to Shrek”.
- I expand my paddock to the north lawn.
- Another Australian state sees the light.
- Sunset’s apple trees are in full bloom.
- A proper ceiling for my new shower.
- Throwback Thursday Hospital.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Bad Chicken Diaries.
- I can’t breathe.
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Links #773
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Music, News, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, Catholicism, cops, Georgia, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, politicians, psychology, racism, scams, Stop faking!, video, Wisconsin on April 27, 2025| Leave a Comment »
It’s an obvious attempt not to go to jail. – genius cop, about paralyzed man
Since I recently featured the video for what may be my favorite Blondie song, I figured I’d also share this one, which was my favorite Blondie song in high school; I especially liked blaring it on the car stereo while driving. The links above it were provided by Marc Randazza; Justin Amash; Warren Bell; Andrew Fleischman; Popehat; Jesse Walker and Franklin Harris; and Kevin Wilson, in that order.
- As one does.
- R.I.P. Pope Francis.
- This looks like an omen.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Death by imperial proclamation.
- R.I.P. Brad Holland and Wink Martindale.
- Horror and humor are adjacent and sometimes identical.
From the Archives
- Using sleazy means to violate people’s civil rights with the typical excuses.
- Overseas pharmacies will sell to US customers without asking permission.
- How long will the US ignore the costs of its sick worship of state violence?
- Houston isn’t satisfied with waiting for useful idiots to grant them access.
- Politicians no longer care about making their new diktats Constitutional.
- “Journalists” lionize a sexual predator who gets off on destroying lives.
- The first exoneration of a victim of “sex trafficking” hysteria has come.
- This will never stop until there are criminal charges for cops who do it.
- This will never stop while violent thugs have total power over women.
- They try to make it sound like the rapist was doing his victim a favor.
- Your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
- At least Florida’s anti-trans crusade isn’t as psychopathic as Texas’.
- Cops, space travel, Lovecraft, Barry Humphries, and much more.
- Cops are sexual predators who often target traumatized women.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from April 2012, 2013, and 2014.
- Cops, puritanism, animation, Andrew Woolfolk, and much more.
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- Government uses a shell game to avoid making actual reforms.
- This clown wants to criminalize amateur promiscuity as well.
- Never forget that “filter” is merely a euphemism for “censor”.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- Cops, black humor, chemistry, Bob Heil, and much more.
- A psychopathic rapist-murderer cop is still unconvicted.
- Cop violence is never limited to members of the public.
- It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
- Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
- There won’t be any shortcut to stopping Clearview.
- Don’t think this was an unintended consequence.
- The reporter appears to have misspelled “care”.
- Spring has finally arrived, albeit a month late.
- Connecting the whole atrium roof framework.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- Cops are a menace to women of all ages.
- Yet another curated selection of tweets.
- Burble burble BLUE STATE burble drool.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- You just can’t keep a bad law down.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
- Wacky warmish weather at Sunset.
- Throwback’s Great Aunt Thursday.
- Phrenology for tech worshipers.
- The goose that didn’t live long.
- Many rapist cops of the week.
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The Tweets Go On
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Music, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged abortion, artificial stupidity, Bluesky, censorship, China, cops, disease, drugs, ethics, fascism, games, Google, illegal aliens, imaginative fiction, language, left-right myth, masturbation, Neither Addiction nor Epidemic, politicians, porn, psychology, surveillance, Twitter, Washington DC on April 18, 2025| Leave a Comment »
"A long-time struggle with pornography addiction" is as real as "A long-time struggle with a witch's curse", "A long-time struggle with pikachu", or "A long-time struggle with the Klingon Empire".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T02:17:58.912Z
After the Democratic theatrical performance yesterday, do y'all still think I'm a crank for saying there's really only one political party in the US?If there were a functional opposition party, what do you think they'd be doing right now?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-15T18:14:46.211Z
Yes, that includes when your doctor thinks you could benefit from opioid pain medication.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-16T20:01:01.703Z
The answer to the question, "Can [common food] prevent [common chronic ailment]?" is always "No".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T17:44:28.283Z
Many, many people are finally approaching the level of distrust and cynicism I have always had for government. This does not please me in any way; I wish we could go back to everybody thinking I was kind of a crank on the subject, given what it took to open everyone's eyes.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-20T07:34:11.042Z
I daresay the majority of US homeowners reading this own houses valued at ten times their annual salaries or more. That's why they have mortgages.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-21T17:00:22.654Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-22T03:34:57.621Z
Because obviously "leaders" like Schumer should be able to enjoy their safe positions while the people are beaten, sprayed with tear gas, and shot in the eye with rubber bullets.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-23T22:41:48.369Z
This will continue until the voters stop it. Politicians are addicted to power, sometimes so pathetically they're still pushing that needle in at 80.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-25T07:24:00.384Z
God only forgives the sincerely penitent.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T21:56:50.311Z
Gee, I wonder what 700,000 angry people converging on Washington could accomplish, given that only a few thousand were able to terrorize cringing Congress just a few years ago?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-28T04:45:11.563Z
I refuse to do this, because it would be foolhardy to give my enemies such a dangerous weapon.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-30T16:45:40.960Z
There's some sweet irony in Google's spellfucker trying to capitalize "philistine" because its programmers don't know what the lower-case noun means.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-31T17:10:37.847Z
New way for us to look at things, ladies.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-03T08:19:31.892Z
One underrated GREAT thing D&D does for young people is teach them demons are imaginary.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-04T16:37:42.359Z
Because Bluesky STILL hasn't given us the ability to mute RTs from individual users, I'm having to get extra-creative with my muted words list.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-06T17:22:29.253Z
So I'm a "thrifter"? In that case I'll tell you fresh vegetables are a waste of $ unless you're planning to cook 'em within ≈ 3 days of purchase, 6 at the outside. Canned or frozen will keep indefinitely, and if you're using them in a recipe (not served as a pile) nobody will notice the difference.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-07T17:31:58.069Z
It's especially designed to hide pervasive rot under a beautiful, polished surface that will last without change for decades.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-08T07:34:22.931Z
Remember when good-hearted people were chastising some of us for declaring that some politicians are just plain evil rather than "misguided" or "wrong but mean well"?If you can't call THIS evil, I don't know what to tell you.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-09T17:23:11.454Z
Smuggling is, was, and always will be a social good, providing to individuals what collectives and/or tyrants wish to deny to them or bleed them for wanting.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-10T18:40:50.868Z
True, but as a prostitute I must point out that's a REALLY low bar.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-11T03:11:21.535Z
Because everything so-called "AI" produces is shit.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-11T19:22:11.481Z
"Leaders".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-13T07:18:35.192Z
"Space mission" is a strange way to spell "publicity stunt".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-14T18:06:36.656Z
Doesn't China have their own water?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-16T04:22:03.213Z
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D8T…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-16T16:54:08.948Z
Politicians are moral imbeciles who want to be called "leaders" and treated like nobility, but don't want to do the hard, morally strenuous work of actual leadership.They are human garbage, and unless this country learns that, it cannot and will not ever come back from Trumpism in any degree.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-17T17:29:37.740Z
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