I would never have guessed that so many people online not only don’t know what a Socratic question is, but are so insecure about their ignorance they call such questions “stupid”. But last week a parade of clowns on Bluesky declared that such a question I posed was not only “stupid”, but also not a Socratic question at all because…they believe all Socratic questions follow some kind of rigid and predictable form, I guess. Given that they could simply have consulted the Wikipedia entry I linked above, this cannot be a mere failure of education; it appears to be a manifestation of Asimov’s observation that Americans seem to think that “democracy” means an ignorant opinion is equal to an educated one. Another factor is that very few (two people as of this writing) of those who responded with more than a “like” or retweet seem to have actually understood the question that was being asked. Unfortunately, there’s a great deal of that online; most people seem to glance at a sentence or tweet, recognize a few words, quickly form their own question from those few words, and respond to that mistaken notion of the question rather than the one which was actually asked. I’m not sure if that has to do with the “guess the meaning” school of reading which was popular in US public schools for several decades, or if it’s a manifestation of the inability to focus that seems to plague many younger Americans, or both. Most social media users would rather guess at the meaning of a tweet and vomit out a quick reaction than actually read the question asked and consider it before replying, or else simply ignore it and move on to something else. They seem to consider it some kind of moral failing to simply bypass things without spewing out some kind of reaction, yet at the same time they don’t want to invest the cerebral effort to answer like a rational adult rather than like an ill-bred and rather stupid child who would rather be playing in the mud than actually [ugh] thinking.
Archive for the ‘Words’ Category
Socratic Stupidity?
Posted in Philosophy, Words, tagged Bluesky, internet, language, psychology, teachers on July 3, 2026| 1 Comment »
Blue Skies Above
Posted in Biography, History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged advertising, artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, Catholicism, censorship, China, comics, crypto-moralism, fascism, games, Google, Grace, illegal aliens, imaginative fiction, Japan, language, left-right myth, libraries, Massachusetts, Michigan, politicians, prisons, propaganda, psychology, racism, restaurants, robots, scams, sex work is work, sporting events, STEM, Thanatopsis, United Kingdom on June 19, 2026| Leave a Comment »
They'll need to figure out how to send a letter back in time to threaten Warner Brothers as well.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-14T18:02:09.514Z
This is called "the martial arts".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-17T04:09:51.125Z
I reckon this must be a tataille, because it sure ain't a lougarou.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-17T17:54:41.692Z
"When somebody offers you a seat on the rocket ship, just get on" http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-18T03:50:10.197Z
Reporters, please stop saying "pod" to mean "cell block". Imprisoned people are neither whales nor alien body snatchers; they don't come from "pods". Just because the monsters in the US carceral system use euphemisms to hide their evil, doesn't mean you need to parrot them.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-19T16:59:03.072Z
If you think THAT'S something, just wait until you see Ram Man.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-21T04:12:32.430Z
People are doing "10 bands you've seen live" on Twitter & it keeps reminding me of Grace, who was a studio musician for years. Once we were at a party where this girl was bragging about getting backstage passes & Grace said to me, "I've *blown* more big name rock stars than she's seen in concert."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-21T16:52:25.724Z
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." – Frank Herbert, "Dune"
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-22T17:29:39.662Z
It boggled my mind that a restaurant would be named after a dessert. It still does. I mean, nobody goes to "Flan Bell" or "Hand Pie King" or "Spumone Hut".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-23T18:42:01.117Z
No D&D player should be surprised when a high-level cleric quotes a high-level wizard.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-25T17:06:01.707Z
Crypto-moralists never let little things like facts get in the way of barfing the word "unhealthy" in people's faces every time they do anything more exciting than eating raw vegetables & water once a day after their toil & drudgery, then going to sleep on the floor in an un-climate-controlled room.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-26T16:52:56.642Z
"Are we just going to give up and breathe?""Are we just going to give up and eat?""Are we just going to give up and be affected by gravity?""Are we just going to give up and have mass?""Are we just going to give up and emit heat?"This is what you sound like to sane people.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-27T17:35:31.457Z
You'd think that after all these decades as an adult, I'd have grown jaded enough to feel something milder than utter contempt for nitwits who believe the entire world of human political thought can be reduced to a single one-dimensional axis. But in actuality, my contempt merely grows more bitter.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-29T17:23:12.409Z
If you're a scientist on social media who wants to be accepted as an authority in your field, it's probably a bad idea to claim that a cause can be responsible for "more than 100%" of an observed effect.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-30T17:01:30.319Z
"Trump is acting like an authoritarian" = "Einstein is acting like a scientist" = "Streisand is acting like a diva" = "Spielberg is acting like a director" = "Kermit is acting like a Muppet" = "Lassie is acting like a dog" = "Yersinia pestis is acting like a disease organism".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-31T17:08:54.673Z
Hey fellow old folks, remember the late '80s, when food companies were trying to cram oat bran into everything because "nutritionists" told the hoi-polloi it had magical life-extension powers?Some things never change.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-01T17:10:49.087Z
Sooner or later, sensible people will need to just tell anti-immigration bigots to go to hell. archive.is/ZwLwc
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-02T17:26:11.101Z
Also, electricity and the microcomputer actually did most of what they were claimed to be able to do.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-04T03:33:10.119Z
Imagine having enough money to do basically anything which doesn't actually violate physical laws, and instead choosing to live your life like this.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-04T17:58:36.047Z
The heckler's veto as US government policy.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-05T17:57:26.404Z
Nobody who ever watched a single episode of any '60s spy show involving double agents should be surprised at this.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-07T17:51:58.453Z
You know how "I had sex with your dad" has become a way for sex workers to mock squares? Well, I had sex with a lot of people's grandpas. A lot of great-grandpas too.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-09T17:31:16.476Z
Fucking a lot of people of both sexes, reading omnivorously, writing A+ essays, running a D&D campaign, hanging out with my friends and predicting the eventual disasters that would result from bad US politics?Yep, checks out.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-10T17:31:49.443Z
I know it's difficult for males stuck at 12, but not everything is a pissing contest.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-11T17:21:28.738Z
Can we please stop saying [name of Trumpified institution] to mean "Trump"? Don't tell me "The Pentagon" or "The Department of Justice" or "The Kennedy Center" did something; the management of those places are just sock puppets speaking in Trump's voice, like an evil Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-12T17:30:43.841Z
"Mythos".They are taunting y'all, and few are literate enough to recognize it.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-13T17:38:37.133Z
Doctor Dolittle books. As players rise in levels, they learn more animal languages and gain more animal helpers. Experience is earned by traveling around the world, making friends with animals & with people of different races; by finding unique beings; and by visiting fantastic places like the Moon.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-15T03:51:15.730Z
If it looks like a circle jerk, sounds like a circle jerk, smells like a circle jerk, and jerks around like a circle jerk, it's probably a circle jerk.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-17T04:07:56.859Z
One of the most important causes of the Great Depression was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-17T18:05:59.672Z
People who accept domination by "leaders" cannot be free.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-18T18:42:45.618Z
Atom Age Throwback Thursday
Posted in Biography, History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged blogging, Catholicism, ethics, imaginative fiction, language, Mad Libs, psychology, STEM on June 18, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I’ve always thought [“inflation”] was a serious misnomer, because the problem isn’t really that prices are going up; it’s that the value of the currency is going down. –
“When Ends Don’t Meet”
The one moral concept from my Catholic upbringing which has remained steadfastly lodged in my head is that waste is a sin. – “Throwback Thursdays”
While traditional zombies are objects of horror to be feared, modern “zombies” are objects of loathing, to be exterminated…they…are people it’s OK to hate and even kill without having to worry about their rights, a fantasy outlet for violent impulses. – “Why Zombies?”
Digital computers…are fundamentally unable to think as we understand the concept, regardless of how big or fast they are or how complex the software, because intelligence requires grasping the concept “maybe”, which is excluded by binary data processing. – “Mad Libs (#1546)“
Throwback Thursday and the Ballerina
Posted in Miscellaneous, Music, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged blogging, cops, fantasy, Follow Your Bliss, holidays, imaginative fiction, language, McNeill's Law, psychology, teachers, video, violence vs. sex workers, Who in Review on June 4, 2026| Leave a Comment »
The naive believe that “child predators” are creepy dudes who hang out at playgrounds; in reality, they are largely people in positions of authority over their preferred targets. – “Follow Your Bliss (#1242)”
The more fantastical a world, the more important it is that it doesn’t contradict itself if an audience is to accept it. – “The Buffyverse, Part Two”
This is a day for sexual outlaws, not well-behaved “workers”; it is a day to celebrate the triumphs of criminalized human beings against a society that would rather we didn’t exist.
– “Whores’ Day 2024”
Whores’ Day 2026
Posted in Holidays, Perception, Philosophy, Words, tagged activism, Aphrodite, archeofeminism, censorship, holidays, language, paganism on June 2, 2026| 1 Comment »
Today is International Whores’ Day. It is not “Sex Worker Day”; that is March 3rd. Today is a day to shamelessly celebrate our shameless history, not a day for sanitized words or concepts; it is a day to fight society’s attempts (via law and police violence) to sanitize the wilder, unrulier, more chthonic aspects of sex. This is a day for sexual outlaws, not well-behaved “workers”; it is a day to celebrate the triumphs of criminalized human beings against a society that would rather we didn’t exist. It is a day to oppose censorship, not to engage in self-censorship; a day to honor a means of survival that predates laws and governments by eons; and a day to celebrate a power which will always defeat even the most pernicious attempts to domesticate it.
Not of Throwback Thursday
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged A Broker in Pillage, abortion, agency denial, blogging, censorship, cops, end demand, language, law, politicians, scams, sex work is work, Swedish model on May 21, 2026| Leave a Comment »
If there is one succinct statement which sums up my political philosophy, it’s “Every adult individual owns themselves and absolutely nobody has the right to overrule that.” –
“Your Body, Your Choice”
Politicians can always be counted on to pander to hordes of ignorant lackwits who view any knowledge that might contradict their deeply-stupid weltanschauung as an existential threat. – “The Kinsey Factor”
I fail to see any important difference between the government forcibly taking people’s homes to quarter troops and forcibly taking them to enable cops and robbers games. – “A Broker in Pillage (#1438)”
Prohibitionists have learned…that decriminalization is viewed by all experts as the best framework, so now they’re all lying by calling whatever modified criminalization scam they’re selling “decriminalization”, so as to trick ordinary voters into believing they actually support human rights. – “Not Decriminalization“
On the Tweet Where You Live
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Music, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged Aladdin’s Satellite, artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, comics, consensual crime, dirty, drugs, ethics, fascism, imaginative fiction, internet, Iran, language, politicians, Post-Christianity, psychology, Pyrrhic Victory, robots, sex work is work, video, Washington DC on May 18, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Old-style criminals ran their criminal activities as businesses; techies run their businesses as criminal enterprises.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-18T07:51:15.991Z
These things look like the wearer's head shrunk, which makes them a perfect visual metaphor for chatbot usage.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-21T03:54:52.643Z
"She swindled him out of the $40,000 he spent on her…"Make up you minds; either he spent it or she swindled him. Buyer's remorse does not a "swindle" make.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-23T03:32:42.585Z
In my youth, nobody used a word any harsher than "eccentric" to describe old ladies who refused to drive economy cars, insisted big tube radios sounded better than transistor radios, or was unimpressed with cinema special-effects spectacles.I hope to be afforded the same courtesy.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-23T17:07:28.260Z
Not crushing enough.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-24T17:45:48.193Z
"Sam Altman, the head (in the nautical sense) of OpenAI…"Please proceed.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-25T17:29:34.342Z
A sophomoric twit proposes a stupid thought experiment involving button-pushing. If more than 50% of people on social media respond, other sophomoric twits will continue to propose stupid thought experiments, but if less than 50% respond the fad will die. Do you participate?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-26T16:31:10.502Z
I'm sick to death of hearing this nonsense about "girl dads" and "boy moms". How about just being parents who actually CARE about their children, regardless of gender? And I don't mean "help them achieve arbitrary standards of success" or "keep them physically 'safe' at the cost of personal growth".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T17:44:27.936Z
I do not keep cursed objects in my home, and furthermore as a wise old crone who lives near a damp, creepy forest I advise y'all not to keep them in your homes, either.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T18:01:27.631Z
Dude looks like he just got a facefull of Joker toxin.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-30T03:59:39.099Z
A housecat is much smaller than a human, and absolutely cannot win in a fight with a determined human. But it doesn't need to; all it NEEDS to do is make grabbing it so painful and bloody that the human decides grabbing it isn't worthwhile.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-30T18:23:30.477Z
The Bluesky autocensor has labeled this "explicit or potentially disturbing". If you're disturbed by the Three Stooges' cartoon violence, I suggest you just mute or block me now, because it isn't going to get any better for you.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-01T18:04:59.499Z
I stopped considering myself a Christian about 50 years ago, and I am still nauseated by the level of blasphemy constantly pouring out of Gomorrah-on-the-Potomac.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-02T02:52:58.126Z
I propose we change the name from the Department of Justice to the Department of Vengeance, so as to more accurately describe its activities. If a hypothetical future regime somehow changes that in a way that will make abuse much harder*, we can consider changing it back.*This will never happen.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-03T17:54:28.666Z
Millennials and Gen Xers may recognize this song as the main title of "The Adventures of Pete & Pete". But what Polaris didn't dare tell Nickelodeon, for fear of losing the gig, is that the song is about the Kent State massacre. The titular "Sandy" is Sandra Lee Scheuer.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-04T16:59:54.865Z
It's true, I was there.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-05T04:03:23.278Z
A lot of people (ESPECIALLY in cities like Portland or Seattle) use the term "anarchist" as a synonym for "hooligan", when in actuality they're closer to antonyms. True anarchists have their own moral code which they firmly adhere to, for reasons which should be obvious.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-05T16:45:46.775Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-09T04:45:27.463Z
So the antecedent of "you" here is…countries? Or is he saying all "not stupid" countries should shoot at an individual, such as a US local cop, who shoots at me, Maggie McNeill? Or does he mean there should be a grand free-for-all in which all national militaries avenge all individual shootings?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-09T17:26:29.171Z
"it is context window buffers""I thought a string of instructions could be my friend""Mensa"{insert "I am very smart" meme}
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-11T17:19:05.355Z
This looks worse than "Reptilicus".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-12T17:34:06.980Z
My favorite subgenre of country is philosophical country, epitomized by songs written by Jimmy Webb.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-13T16:47:24.314Z
Roughly 1/3 of US voters are authoritarian.Roughly 1/3 are liberal.And the remaining 1/3 are spineless reeds who will bend with the political winds.The entire history of US politics, from the founding generation until now, is the struggle to capture the middle third.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-14T17:45:43.395Z
He also announced future initiatives to fight saline bags, stints, dental chairs, and MRI machines, but he's leaving the fights against vaccines and antibiotics to his buddy Frankennedy.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-16T17:31:42.572Z
Throwback Thursday’s Coffin
Posted in Biography, History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged abortion, BDSM, blogging, Catholicism, ethics, internet, language, porn, propaganda, psychology, surveillance on May 14, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Calling the name on government records “real”, rather than the name by which people are widely known, the name they chose for themselves and built a career on, is a sickening obeisance to the State. – “What is Real?”
True principles and valid ethics don’t depend on the gut-level preferences of any one person. – “Under the Sun”
My lifelong practice of burning my candle at both ends has resulted in my brain aging far more than those of people who haven’t been running theirs on “high” since the Nixon era.
– “More Often Nowadays”
Catholic education has traditionally put such a strong emphasis on critical thinking skills that some wit once pointed out that the Church was its own worst enemy because it provided children with the tools that undermine faith.
– “Just As Good“
In the Tweet of the Night
Posted in Biography, Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, Music, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged animals, artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, Catholicism, censorship, child "protective" services, crypto-moralism, fantasy, fascism, Florida, games, hysteria, illegal aliens, imaginative fiction, Iran, language, left-right myth, libraries, New Orleans, politicians, porn, psychology, racism, robots, STEM, surveillance, United Kingdom on April 20, 2026| 1 Comment »
Change one single vowel in this headline, and it would be a VERY different story.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-20T01:59:52.797Z
Probably the same way that holding a knife to a child's throat can open a guarded door.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-20T18:03:29.896Z
Beware of Davros.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-25T03:17:35.675Z
#3 is a very, very bad idea.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-25T17:50:01.254Z
Spring this on family members in New Orleans, and they may not stop at disowning* you.*And disowning people is mighty difficult under Napoleonic Code.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-26T17:26:22.068Z
It's fascinating to watch men with severe, easily-recognized mental illnesses publicly blaming others' mental illness on behaviors that the speakers are incapable of due to their own undiagnosed, untreated psychopathologies.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-27T17:09:35.827Z
My teen self would be confused by this.1981 Maggie: So there are new "Star Trek" shows all the time, but you haven't watched one in 20 years?2026 Maggie: CorrectM81: Ditto "Star Wars"?M26: YepM81: Plus all kinds of D&D fantasy stuff?M26: Right again.M81: I DON'T KNOW YOU
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-28T17:19:00.870Z
Reporters: doing something willfully is not a "failure", regardless of what politicians call it. If a party refuses to comply with some illegal diktat, that party has not *failed* to comply with said diktat; he has REFUSED to comply. The former is an omission; the latter an active rejection.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-29T16:55:44.729Z
This monster's face appears to have been designed by Jack Pierce. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm06823…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-30T17:38:45.538Z
"Dabbled in cross-dressing" makes it sound like alchemy or some other occult practice.(Yes, I know about the shamans and mystery religions; this isn't that, so let's not)
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-31T17:37:38.961Z
Oh please, PLEASE let them use a chatbot as architect, so we can have a "Galloping Gertie" moment on live TV soon after it's done.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T17:35:58.519Z
This is how partisanism warps minds.Distrust of politicians *in general* for wholly rational reasons is subjected to the duopoly's Procrustean bed, then for 21st century readers must be trivialized & infantilized. So anarchists & true libertarians are described by the asinine tag "double haters".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-03T17:28:10.591Z
WAAAAAAAAAH! I'VE POOPED MYSELF AND I DEMAND SOMEONE CHANGE IT! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-04T17:16:42.139Z
Please, people, I beg you not to rely on spellcheckers at the cost of your own vocabulary skills.Trade languages have nothing to do with birds.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-07T17:10:46.810Z
Meanwhile, books on my shelves which were published as far back as the 1920s, and which I purchased as far back as the 1970s, are still 100% readable. And all I have to do to access them is walk over to my bookshelves.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-08T17:13:17.853Z
Due to the high volume of "You were right all along" emails, I will not be responding to them individually. Thank you for your understanding.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-08T17:29:33.587Z
A friend who grew up on Country/Western was unfamiliar with Zeppelin, and when "Ramble On" came on she asked me what it was about. I replied, "A dude who gets his girlfriend stolen by Gollum."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-10T07:34:41.637Z
Trump is someone who consistently cheats at Solitaire and still repeatedly loses, and when he's done the deck only has about 49 cards. And some of those are from kids' game decks, like one with a picture of an old maid.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-12T17:44:13.156Z
We need Captain Kirk.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-13T03:26:13.653Z
If you want to reveal a crypto-authoritarian, just start him talking about virtually anything to do with cars.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-13T17:21:33.262Z
THIS.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-16T17:53:47.686Z
Your regular reminder that it is 100% legal to fictionally depict murder, rape, and mayhem in movies.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T17:19:44.529Z
I especially love that the stupid thing flew apart on impact.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T19:17:10.473Z
First Palantir came for the sex workers, but nobody cared because "sex trafficking".Then Palantir came for young minority men, and nobody cared because "gangs".Then Palantir came for migrants, and nobody cared because "illegals".Now it's coming for you, and I think you know the rest.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-19T17:28:11.213Z
Throwback Thursday Bites
Posted in Biography, History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Tyranny, Words, tagged animals, blogging, censorship, fascism, language, law, politicians, psychology, Sunset, Twitter on March 26, 2026| Leave a Comment »
There really isn’t an excuse for repeated attempts at social engineering that aren’t even tied to some kind of grift, pork, or fascist collaboration.
– “In the Dark”
Being able to look out a window and see grass and trees and animals…is so much better for my mental and spiritual health then being subjected to a “view” which consists of nothing but concrete, glass, and automobiles.
– “Diary #664”
“Innocence” is merely a fanciful euphemism for “ignorance”. – “Tweetenstein”
For me, no sorrow is ever experienced in isolation; new tears falling into the pool immediately cause it to overflow, and then it’s impossible to tell how much of my anguish is due to the proximate source of the grief, and how much is old pain which has never been fully resolved. – “Pool of Tears“
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