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Let’s Throw Thursday Back
Posted in Biography, History, Miscellaneous, Music, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged acting, adolescence, blogging, censorship, imaginative fiction, language, left-right myth on October 29, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Tricks, Treats, Etc
Posted in History, Links, Miscellaneous, Words, tagged animals, Antarctica, artificial stupidity, Bluesky, disease, holidays, imaginative fiction, internet, language, Pennsylvania, politicians, psychology, recipes, STEM, Thanatopsis, United Kingdom, Washington (state) on October 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I’ve always been dedicated to the idea of this as the time of year for spooky fun. So every year I collect all the spooky, creepy or scary content from the previous year into one place just before Halloween. If you’ve come to my blog in the past year, or don’t remember previous editions, they are “Trick or Treat”, “More Trick or Treat“, “Tricks and Treats“, “This Trick’s a Treat”, “Tricky Treats“, “A Trickle of Treats”, “Tricking and Treating“, “Tricks for the Treat“, “Tricked Out Treats“, “Tricks and Treats and Such Small Deer“, “Trick Treatment“, “Treats and Tricks“, and “Tricked Up a Treat“. Horror, death or Halloween-themed columns of the past year included “Day of the Dead 2025“,”Hellhound“, “A Year Gone“, Diary #800, “Perspective Shift“, “Beware of the Shoggoths“, and Enshittification (#1649), and there are creepy or spooky-fun videos in Links #800, #803, #808, #809, #849, #850, and “Endless Sunday“. A collection of seasonal links and creepy tweets appears below.
- As one does.
- Merry Cthulhumas!
- Paging Dr. Frankenstein.
- It’s good to have a hobby.
- The Cat of the Baskervilles.
- At the Mountains of Madness.
- The Onion has a gift for horror.
- Aboard the SS Queen of Ulthar.
- Simultaneously funny and horrifying.
- They used to blame underground rivers.
- Dust storms are back, now with added fungus!
- The Onion is at its best when doing horror or sci-fi.
- Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
This weird 21st-century shit of Trick-or-Treating at random times on random days in October determined by mobs or politicians, instead of on Halloween night, was a sign of cultural decline. Too bad so few recognized that.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-27T17:19:11.215Z
I'm afraid I'm committed to the ancient-forest-haunting gig for at least the next millennium, or until the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter exorcises me.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T08:25:21.562Z
I just can't get beyond the resemblance.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-16T19:29:02.571Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-12T19:50:01.065Z
The happy ending here is that despite all their ridiculous mumbo-jumbo and frantic posturing, Death will win as it always does.Ave Mortis, Imperator Mundi.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-13T18:51:08.690Z
If I were Canadian, right now I would feel like one of the guys in this scene:
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-26T03:22:24.145Z
#3 is a very, very bad idea.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-25T17:50:01.254Z
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
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
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
"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
I spoke with Mitch McConnell for twenty minutes this morning. He told me he had meddled in things that man must leave alone.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-09T08:13:53.616Z
Good thing they added the extra 40 years, just in case he manages to die and come back as a vampire twice.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-23T19:15:36.022Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-02T19:43:12.522Z
Velvet Throwback Thursday
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Tyranny, Words, tagged blogging, Bluesky, cops, crypto-moralism, fantasy, hysteria, I can't breathe, language, politicians, propaganda, psychology, transgender, Twitter, yellow journalism on October 22, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Blue Blood
Posted in Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged advertising, animals, artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, comics, contraception, cops, crypto-moralism, ethics, fantasy, Germany, Google, Hollywood, imaginative fiction, internet, Japan, language, Panama, politicians, psychology, robots, scams, The Pygmalion Fallacy, Washington DC, Who in Review, yin and yang on October 19, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Just a reminder that on the 25th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the war it caused was already 21 years in the past, Japan and Germany had largely been rebuilt and become allies, and the economic costs of the war were largely behind the US (though not Europe or Asia).
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-11T17:44:58.998Z
I think scientists should lock RFK into a Skinner box to test this. Of course, several other Trump henchmen will need to be similarly-confined as a control group. A year or two of testing should prove or disprove the assertion.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-14T17:20:16.067Z
How much of a dangerous clown does a man have to be to get fired by ICE, which is practically the dangerous clown brigade?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-15T17:15:38.468Z
Looks like I made the right choice by stopping my book at the end of New Who. amazon.com/dp/B0FBLDZ2B…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-17T18:05:39.808Z
For those of you with very tenuous attachment to reality: Don't worry, the Panama Canal has not moved; it's in the same place it has always been since its completion in 1914.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-18T18:09:51.204Z
I really wish people understood verisimilitude, and that consistency of mundane elements is MORE important in a fantasy movie under the "change only one thing" principle.But alas, that ship sailed long ago; critics were already pointing it out in the '60s.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-19T17:12:25.407Z
This is possibly one of the stupidest diktats which have ever erupted from that festering pustule he uses to make sounds.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-22T16:44:49.712Z
I have said for decades that I'd much rather talk to someone who disagrees with me *and can articulate the reasons why* than someone who agrees with me and cannot.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-25T02:38:41.198Z
The group "Very Stupid People Who Are Nonetheless Convinced They Are Geniuses" have *always* been taken in by claims that one could live forever if one merely eats the "right" foods and performs the "correct" magical rites. The scam was already old when the Comte de Saint Germain was selling it.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-25T17:42:44.300Z
There's a word for a woman who trusts a man to take care of birth control: "pregnant".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-27T01:58:03.448Z
Apparently, YouTube's search algorithm has been programmed so that when it can't find what you asked for, it just brings up a lot of commercials instead. It's like going to a restaurant, ordering something not on the menu, and being served ten dirty dishes and a bill.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-27T17:31:51.369Z
What a strange thing to say. Trump's belief that he is immune from any kind of legal limit is actually a rational one, because that's exactly how everyone in Washington behaves, including SCOTUS and Democratic members of Congress. If they want him to believe something else, they need to show him.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-28T07:28:06.777Z
All of these people are so physically warped it's almost like the director is signaling that they have warped minds and personalities. It's kind of like a Dutch angle.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-29T07:58:23.998Z
He's not far enough "underwater" until his regime implodes like a submersible full of billionaires.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-30T17:17:07.213Z
When science won't give a powerful person the answer he wants, he invariably turns to mysticism. This syndrome goes back to the dawn of science 2500 years ago, and is largely responsible for the technological and social stagnation of the European middle ages. reason.com/2026/10/02/a…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-02T19:30:06.431Z
I love that the owl's facial expression says, "You've gotta be fucking kidding me."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-03T17:26:51.356Z
Basically, all the village idiots have been networked into a giant idiotnet (like a botnet, but with idiots) which functions like a computer to spew out more and bigger idiocy than could be produced by any one idiot or group of idiots. It's a massive breakthrough in the technology of idiocy.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-04T18:16:09.793Z
The main problem with those stupid enough to believe even a single word of this Bronze-Age nonsense is that they're allowed to vote.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-06T17:50:29.076Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-07T07:42:20.746Z
Remember what "code" is: a set of instructions. If an LLM has feelings, so does every one of those printed sheets that come with Ikea furniture. So does the phrase "close cover before striking" on a matchbook.Yes, this is absurd. People need to start saying so. A picture of a human is not a human.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-10T07:43:11.040Z
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-10T18:00:31.330Z
Oh please, God, please, I don't ask for much…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-12T17:42:16.917Z
Yeah, we've noticed.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-13T17:48:41.989Z
Actual LOL.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-15T17:35:05.310Z
Quoted post: the fantasy.This post: the reality
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-16T17:56:17.598Z
That's the story of government from ancient times to the present. In all but very rare cases (so rare they are historically notable), the rulers of any political grouping are the most despicable creatures in the land.What makes Trump different is that he can't even PRETEND to be a civilized man.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-10-17T07:41:54.468Z
The Shiver of Throwback Thursday
Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged blogging, Bluesky, Catholicism, cops, ethics, illegal aliens, internet, language, left-right myth, politicians, pragmatism, surveillance, Twitter, universal criminality, yellow journalism on October 8, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Links #848
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, Words, tagged artificial stupidity, cops, language, Never Call the Cops, STEM, Stop faking!, Texas, video, Virginia on October 4, 2026| Leave a Comment »
“AI” allows you to get to a bad idea faster.
I had until recently completely forgotten about this song from The Electric Company, which I can remember my little brother singing around the house. The links above the video were provided by Shiv Ramdas, Jesse Walker, Tracy Quan, Asawin Suebsaeng, Glenn Kessler, and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- Much more of this, please.
- Did life on Earth begin twice?
- Why does Venus have no moon?
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- Another great moment in artificial stupidity.
- Crime: failure to appear. Penalty: summary execution of girlfriend.
From the Archives
- Politicians will pay for “self-care” for cops “traumatized” by raping whores.
- Do they think foot-dragging & stupid cop-talk makes him seem less guilty?
- If you’re a fan of “sex offender” registration, meet one of your bedfellows.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- When will the mainstream media admit that pigs in schools are a menace?
- Amazon also eagerly hands data from internet-connected devices to cops.
- If “official” busybodies can spy on you via your car, so can unofficial ones.
- “Child porn” is here used as pretext for mass surveillance on a vast scale.
- The word “Orwellian” is overused, but in this case it is absolutely spot on.
- “Cop murders wife/girlfriend & claims it was suicide” is a common theme.
- Anyone whose brain isn’t rotted by prohibitionism could’ve predicted this.
- There is nothing “shocking” about a cop abusing a minor or anyone else.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
- Partisans don’t give a damn about sex workers, despite contrary claims.
- “Banned Books Week” used to be little more than an academic exercise.
- Politicians no longer care about whether their diktats are Constitutional.
- It’s rare to see a modern judge explicitly rule in favor of self-ownership.
- Texas’ ruling psychopaths want to kill women and ruin doctors’ careers.
- Picture what you’d think of as “sex trafficking”, then compare it to this.
- Idaho paper approves of sheriff appointing himself chief library censor.
- Still think realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this technology?
- Euphemism for “Cop gets a teenage girl drunk so he could molest her”.
- Uthmeier doesn’t care if he has no legal grounds to harass companies.
- When sex work is marginalized, sex workers are targeted for violence.
- Making a hobby of accusing strangers of felonies might be dangerous.
- Cops will never stop these evil scams without facing criminal charges.
- Retrospective of my blogging from September 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- “Drugs” are a popular pretext for petty vindictiveness in US prisons.
- Cops, cheese, artificial stupidity, Kris Kristofferson, and much more.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- Your irregular reminder that this blog depends on you for support.
- This will never stop until it is treated as what it is: armed robbery.
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- This will continue until the evil US immigration policy is reformed.
- Cop and preacher is like the molester equivalent of a full house.
- All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
- Cops, flying, Michael Gambon, Alice Cooper, and much more.
- Even the distancing “former” is the same as for rapist cops.
- The US has achieved banana republic levels of corruption.
- Literally making mincemeat out of small green tomatoes.
- Just another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
- Cops, music, Viv Prince, Jane Goodall, and much more.
- Expect use of this term to continue expanding wildly.
- “Youth leader” = “youth pastor”, with all that entails.
- A selection from my novella, “Until the End of Days”.
- The stupider the belief, the harder it is to debunk.
- Oh look, Maggie is right again, what a surprise.
- Meet Hercules, the newest resident of Sunset.
- Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
- Prohibition inevitably leads to exploitation.
- The True Story of Throwback Thursday.
- Throwback Thursday vs. the Mummy.
- The first fire in my atrium stove.
- The Evil of Throwback Thursday.
- Trying to replace my old boots.
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Lake Throwback Thursday
Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged blogging, ethics, language, psychology on September 24, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Blue Moon
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Music, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged activism, advertising, artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, cops, crypto-moralism, Decentralization, Denmark, Enshittification, ethics, fantasy, games, Hollywood, illegal aliens, internet, language, masturbation, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, politicians, prisons, propaganda, psychology, racism, restaurants, robots, scams, surveillance, tabula rasa, teachers, Tennessee, Texas, Toys for Tots, vaccines, weaponry on September 18, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Ugh, this sounds like something he mutters to himself during masturbation.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-15T03:01:51.899Z
I always have mixed feelings about "investigations" or "studies" that "find" things which were always completely bloody obvious. On the one hand, I'm glad more people are admitting the problem. But on the other hand, HOLY SHIT WHY DID IT TAKE Y'ALL OVER 30 YEARS TO FIGURE OUT SOMETHING SO OBVIOUS?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-16T07:22:05.418Z
"School resource officer" is a cop euphemism for "sexually-predatory thug paid to lurk in schools so as to spy on, harass, and molest students, and burden them with criminal records for 'offenses' which in more enlightened times were punished with detention and writing lines on the chalkboard."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-17T18:05:16.858Z
Long ago, I realized that thinking about the money bandits extort from you via threat of burning your farm as still somehow being "yours", and obsessing about what the warlords do with it, is the way to madness.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-20T03:30:11.795Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-21T03:38:05.129Z
This looks like a CGI image of a fake CGI sign. In other words, the sign *itself* is CGI, not just the image *on* the nonexistent sign.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-21T17:38:30.715Z
Yes, "health" obsessives truly are full of shit.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-22T17:07:46.039Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-23T07:24:33.815Z
Any decent car or motorcycle can do it in under 4 seconds once it gets moving.These figures mean less than nothing without context.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-25T03:16:33.048Z
Investors stupid and gullible enough to believe this deserve to lose their money when the bubble bursts.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-25T16:40:36.172Z
Modern policing began in most parts of the US in the 1870s. At that time, $1 had the buying power of $30 today.Imagine telling the people of that time that the "law enforcement" they were voting for would one day be used to persecute people for picking up A DOLLAR someone had dropped.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-26T17:25:54.126Z
N.B.: Cryptocurrency is not an "investment", and anyone who believes it is looks like this:
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-27T17:19:23.344Z
Americans have no "philosophy"; they have religion (including partisan politics and entertainment fandom). The number of exceptions in the whole country could comfortably attend a conference on my farm, with room left over for a convention of ethical cops.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-28T17:46:16.457Z
It's very rare that airports get named after people who gave something to the world rather than taking from it; I can only think of two other examples offhand, New Orleans and Oklahoma City.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-29T02:30:21.861Z
"Doctor" Carson thinks hot dogs grow out of the ground like corn.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-30T18:05:12.332Z
We live in a fallen world.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-31T17:24:10.226Z
Reporters: "controversial" should not be used as a euphemism for "evil", "unpopular", "tyrannical", "universally reviled", etc.Words mean things; please be more professional with your vocabulary choices.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-01T17:15:02.453Z
If I'd written a satire in which Goebbels Farms honored a Neo-Nazi, my editor would've said it was too obvious.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-03T03:19:20.912Z
Headline from 1989: "Has our oat bran obsession gone too far?"Same answer.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-03T18:04:13.456Z
"Return hub" is such a nice way to say "concentration camp".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-04T17:05:19.288Z
I remember when we were at least ruled by adults.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-05T17:21:43.608Z
The idea that there could be such a thing as a "true-crime star" is like something out of a dystopian comic book universe.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-06T18:05:23.948Z
Your "leaders" want you to believe that you are a tabula rasa, a mere thing without free will to be acted upon (by media, websites, propaganda, the collective, etc) and shaped in a Skinnerian dystopia.Do not believe them. You can CHOOSE not to be warped in this way, BUT THE CHOICE MUST BE ACTIVE.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-08T17:30:09.952Z
The phrase "trusted ad partners", which appears on many adblocker-blocker popups, is really quite funny. Those "trusted partners" are picked by software in automated auctions; *y'all* may be greedy enough to trust these randos, but I'm not as gullible as you would like me to be.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-10T16:52:28.464Z
I'll just leave this here: archive.is/SGZcS
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-11T18:42:41.516Z
The only thing more infuriating than mansplaining is amateursplaining. Holy shit.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-12T07:47:56.110Z
Take THAT, "Woman of the Year"!
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-13T17:25:26.151Z
I blocked him so he won't have to be disappointed that I object to strangers driving by my house and throwing garbage on my lawn.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-14T17:44:05.619Z
It sounds like they're talking about a mad dog. Which, to be fair, isn't completely wrong.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-15T17:21:32.591Z
Dr. Altman of Dr. Altman's Medicine Show says people are right to fear snake oil, but should trust snake oil SALESMEN.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-16T19:24:36.788Z
Comparison for those of my age: just imagine if an official of Jimmy Carter's cabinet had been advocating for a no-fly zone over the "Bermuda Triangle", and other politicians were actually writing laws to ban such flights.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-09-17T19:19:44.712Z
Throwback Thursday Nude
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Tyranny, Words, tagged blogging, fantasy, imaginative fiction, language, politicians, psychology, STEM, yin and yang on September 10, 2026| 1 Comment »
Bluebells
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Music, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged abortion, Aladdin’s Satellite, artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, China, cops, crypto-moralism, dating, fascism, Grace, homosexuality, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, illegal aliens, imaginative fiction, language, lawheads, libraries, Madonna/whore, Minnesota, politicians, porn, prisons, psychology, rape, sporting events, STEM, United Kingdom, violence vs. sex workers on August 21, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Sex workers have been asking this question for 20 years.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-16T16:58:18.635Z
There is a product called "Suddenly Salad" which I've always thought had the most bizarre name. In my imagination, the ways that product works is one opens the box, then at some unknown point in the next 24 hours the salad suddenly appears in front of one without warning, which could be dangerous.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-19T03:37:39.650Z
Absolutely. Some pictures wordlessly sum up a moment in history.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-20T16:38:43.159Z
Post a Photoshop of Trump wandering aimlessly into an historical event:
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-21T18:06:59.488Z
When you were a weird kid in the '70s and you saw this on your TV, you KNEW you were in for some good viewing!
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-23T06:41:38.881Z
Good thing they added the extra 40 years, just in case he manages to die and come back as a vampire twice.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-23T19:15:36.022Z
The only moral form of warfare is War of Assassins, in which only the rulers of the warring nations, plus their deputies, agents, and operatives, are legitimate targets. In other words, nobody who does not CHOOSE to be a combatant is in direct physical danger except by accident due to proximity.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-24T07:44:29.870Z
People who cannot understand friendship, and truly believe that all close friendships are motivated by a mutual desire to rut, are both pathetic and contemptible.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-25T17:45:06.947Z
Is a "health movement" anything like a bowel movement?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-26T03:21:25.961Z
I'm sure you feel safer now.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-27T17:21:46.847Z
"The Singularity" is the God of the futurist religion. If you want perspective on anything any tech cultist says about "The Singularity", simply substitute "God", "Providence", "The Force", or any similarly-vague and irrational name for "magic"."The Singularity is coming" = "The Second Coming".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-28T17:49:37.779Z
Sex workers always warn y'all about predators, and y'all never listen.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-29T17:42:59.877Z
Absolutely. I still laugh at the memory of Mr. Moose and his various tricks to win the Captain's consent to having ping-pong balls dropped on him.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-30T18:28:53.057Z
Apparently it will take more than self-induced terminal illness to teach him to behave normally in public.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-31T17:05:53.189Z
It wasn't really Yoko's fault.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-01T07:48:22.576Z
I'm not especially concerned with anyone mistaking my writing for something a chatbot shat out, nor am I willing to change my style in any way to keep stupid people from doing so. I write as the Muse moves me, not by working from some tedious set of guidelines or to please some specific audience.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-02T07:51:12.904Z
I miss my late best friend Grace every single day. And yet, there is a part of me which is glad she passed away a few days after Trump's inauguration, so she never got to see what Musk, who was a hero to her specifically BECAUSE of SpaceX, was really like. I'm glad she was spared disillusionment.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-04T18:26:25.697Z
Nutritionism is not science, exhibit umpteen thousand, nine hundred eleventy-seven.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-05T17:18:45.827Z
Suggestion: limit data centers to whatever size they can power with on-site solar. It would remove the noise & pollution factors, and if the company wanted to go bigger they'd have to have more land, creating more buffer between them and neighbors.Don't bother to point out flaws; I'm just musing.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-06T18:07:11.455Z
Oh look, Maggie was right once again, what a shock, etc.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-07T17:09:01.629Z
Like all those Bond girls who were the supervillain's mistress, only the villains' schemes are more pathetic, like "I will ruin a beloved corporation, hahahahahaha!" instead of "I will cause World War III so my organization can rule over what is left, hahahahahaha!"
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-08T17:07:29.519Z
Your regular reminder that desalination has existed for decades; Americans just don't want to build the plants because REASONS.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-10T02:49:12.833Z
If skills were sexually transmitted, I'd be a Renaissance polymath with *exceptional* ability in medicine, engineering, physics, law, politics, music, and several sports including golf and fishing.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-10T17:30:33.743Z
The US has become a global laughingstock.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-11T17:21:45.852Z
This is breathtakingly brilliant. I don't think I've ever seen such a deft collection of clever, striking, and above all *apt* insults and condemnation of a well-known specimen of poisonous vermin.Well done, @jojofromjerz.bsky.social!
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-14T18:31:38.573Z
What avatar will he replace it with next? This?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-16T17:36:54.670Z
Librarians' chief duty is preserving human culture from the stupidity of other humans.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-17T17:31:00.759Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-19T03:52:13.785Z
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