This has been a rather timid brood; though the turkey chick has been occasionally venturing out into the chicken yard since the first day I started opening the nursery in the daytime, it took over two weeks for the pullets to even begin venturing out at all. It was last Wednesday before I found them all out of the nursery for the first time, and the only reason they even went that far was that I moved their water bottle out. Then on Sunday I stopped refilling their bottle in the morning, forcing them to use the same water dispenser as the adult hens. I’ve also started to shoo them out of the nursery in the morning; they’re going to need to be out by Sunday, when they officially join the flock. The timer (which sounds unusually loud in this video) will be also put away then, to wait until the first day of autumn before it’s again put back in control of the heat lamp.
Posts Tagged ‘animals’
Diary #828
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset, video on May 12, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Links #827
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, artificial stupidity, cops, Germany, Japan, Never Call the Cops, robots, Spain, Under Duress, United Kingdom, video, weaponry on May 10, 2026| Leave a Comment »
100% organic GMO-free dog shit. – Beeple
I loved this song from the first time I heard it in the mid-1980s, so there was no way I was not going to use it as Coe’s sendoff. The links above it were provided by Kevin Wilson (x2); Jesse Walker and Franklin Harris; Nun Ya (x2); and Violet Blue, in that order.
- Artificial stupidity in action.
- You might call this kamikaze origami.
- R.I.P. David Allan Coe and Ted Turner.
- When vultures become preservationists.
- “Never call the cops” still applies in the UK.
- Most of these are more human than the originals.
From the Archives
- 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.
- Ambulance-chasers will target businesses thus until FOSTA is overturned.
- Cop and “church youth leader” is the molester equivalent of a full house.
- Boss cops consider bestiality a worse offense than molesting a teenager.
- Until this batshittery is ruled unconstitutional, it will keep getting worse.
- Alas, this only applies to those who don’t want to violently destroy lives.
- Websites targeted by censorship try to turn the mob back on politicians.
- This insanity will keep worsening until these maniacs are forced to stop.
- 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.
- It’s good someone else recognizes this grooming scheme for what it is.
- Your “leaders” sometimes label child molestation “community support”.
- Still think realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this technology?
- 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.
- Liz Brown with a deep dive on the tyrannical persecution of Backpage.
- The State tortures thousands of people for crossing an imaginary line.
- Why are ignoramuses convinced non-vanilla sex is a recent invention?
- He wasn’t a “former” cop when he molested a teen girl for two years.
- 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.
- This absurd specificity is increasingly popular with crypto-moralists.
- “During encounters with” sounds so much nicer than “while raping”.
- I’m guessing the “underage family member” was his stepdaughter.
- The “bathroom bill” political fad returns after a three-year hiatus.
- Journalists have “discovered” what I’ve been saying for 14 years.
- Serial lawsuit abuser Ken Paxton wants Texas kids’ teeth to rot.
- This is the kind of dangerous animal the State grants power to.
- In more civilized countries, employers can’t get away with this.
- It’s always really me, not an employee or computer program.
- “Youth group director” = “youth pastor” = preachy molester.
- Rapist politicians generally prefer to assault drunk women.
- The last time we saw this lawsuit, the number was 1500.
- It’s long past time to rethink the safety of the US mail.
- This is exactly what those who passed this bill wanted.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Bernard Hill, and much more.
- I’ve never had pullets grow as quickly as this bunch.
- “Authorities” decided this girl’s fate against her will.
- Governments worldwide are emulating China’s evil.
- Cops, bananas, Gordon Lightfoot, and much more.
- Just another molester cop avoiding consequences.
- No religion has a monopoly on preachy molesters.
- Modern monogamy is becoming increasingly sick.
- Another sign that the moral panic is largely over.
- Merely the latest attempt to wreck the internet.
- Every experienced sex worker knows the signs.
- Your “leaders” want this to happen more often.
- Trying to hide another child rapist’s cophood.
- Amateurs are utterly obsessed with “pimps”.
- Dr Victoria Bateman on the nudity taboo.
- Cops, irony, Ruth Buzzi, and much more.
- Why does this story avoid the obvious?
- Yet another example of McNeill’s Law.
- Billy the Kid vs Throwback Thursday.
- So much for human uniqueness.
- Throwback Thursday Unbound.
- On the persistence of memory.
- Zuckerberg is out of his mind.
- A small shrine to Aphrodite.
- First day out of the nursery.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- My new cat, Lilith.
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Diary #827
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset on May 5, 2026| Leave a Comment »
At this time of year, the chickens tend to dominate the animal news in these diary columns, but they’re not really doing anything right now; this has been a rather timid brood, so I’m currently engaged in trying various maneuvers to coax them out during the days, so they’re used to it before I kick them out of the nursery for good a week from Sunday. Axel is doing well; as of Friday I cut his trazodone in half again, down to 12.5 mg/day, a mere 3.125% of the dose he started with at the end of November. The only really noticeable difference in his behavior is that he seems a lot more attention-starved since I cut him down to 25 mg at the beginning of April, but I’m sure he’ll adjust, and I hope to have him off of the meds entirely by the end of spring. Last Saturday I caught Lilith sunbathing on the atrium roof, but by the time I got downstairs to grab my phone and back upstairs, she had decided to get up. She has become the main pest control cat now that Rocky is getting old (I believe he’s ten now), and I often see her ranging around the area, from the roof to the atrium to the basement to the paddock, and even out on the driveway. Several times a week I find that she’s left me tribute of a dead mole or mouse, and last Friday I went out in the morning to find a rather large and rather dead rat right in front of my boots; I’m glad she rids me of vermin, but I must admit it was a bit startling to encounter a dead rodent nearly as large as my foot before breakfast. The only real complaint I have is that I wish she wouldn’t devour birds in the atrium, because it leaves a mess of feathers sprinkled with unidentifiable but definitely avian offal that I then have to vacuum up. I was concerned she might attack the pullets, but they’re nearly as big as hens now so I think they’re safe, even though I’ve actually found her in the henhouse a few times.
Links #826
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, cops, language, New York, STEM, video on May 3, 2026| Leave a Comment »
In lying fashion you ignore what even children know. – Martin Luther
Although I’m not especially fond of this song, its lyrics make it the appropriate sendoff for the man who wrote it. The links above the video were provided by Anarres Ansible, Mike Siegel, Ryan Cooper, Nun Ya, Alex Vitale, and Shiv Ramdas, in that order.
- R.I.P. Dave Mason.
- The Lutheran insulter.
- Old, clean, and very funny.
- They used to blame underground rivers.
- Just another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
From the Archives
- Australia’s rulers are even more eager to destroy the internet than the US.
- 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”.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives; some don’t stop with beating.
- On the evil dogma that offspring are owned like slaves by their parents.
- Surveillance pretexts won’t remain limited to “child porn” & “terrorism”.
- The wholly-predictable results of bad laws are happening as predicted.
- This will never stop while violent thugs have total power over women.
- When will the federal government finally read the writing on the wall?
- Cops, air hostesses, Harry Belafonte, Jerry Springer, and much more.
- Another challenge to the government’s “religious freedom” hypocrisy.
- Prohibitionists still cite the bogus Neumayer, Cho, and Dreher study.
- “Porn filter” bills are back on the “monkey see, monkey do” agenda.
- Censors now pretend thoughts they don’t like constitute a “crime”.
- Let’s hope many more challenges to these medieval laws succeed.
- Corporations have become the favored tool of censors worldwide.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from April 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- Non-cop molester exploits grooming scheme for predatory cops.
- Couldn’t she have done this before driving Jim Larkin to suicide?
- Big websites could curtail totalitarian threats if they wanted to.
- 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.
- It’s not like they’ve ever been secretive about their goals.
- Even by the standards of rapist cops, this is horrifying.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Jill Sobule, and much more.
- Gifted children are America’s most wasted resource.
- Matthew 21:31 seems pretty straightforward to me.
- Cops, Greenpeace, Terry Carter, and much more.
- Prohibitionists want this to happen more often.
- Continuing activities I used to do with Grace.
- 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.
- House of Fridaystein.
- I can’t breathe.
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Diary #826
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset, video on April 27, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Though I’ve opened the nursery every morning for over a week now, the pullets are still largely uninterested in coming out yet. This is not unusual; there was a flurry of activity on the first day which resulted in one of the pullets going missing, but since then they have stayed where they feel safe. That includes the missing one; Wednesday I needed to drive into Seattle, so I planned to let them stay in the nursery that day. But when I went out to check their food and water, whom should I find wandering around the chicken yard but the missing pullet, very hungry and very vocal, but otherwise none the worse for wear. I was able to catch her and put her in with the others, and there she has stayed since. I have no idea where she went; I spent over an hour looking for her the day she vanished, to no avail. My best guess is that she managed to get through the narrow gap under the ramp and had been hiding under the house for three days; even though I crawled under there with a flashlight as part of the search, it’s a large area and even a thorough, hours-long search wouldn’t have sufficed to peer into every space under there large enough for a pullet. I’m just glad I didn’t lose her, and choose to view her mysterious return as a good omen for this year.
Mother Riley Meets Throwback Thursday
Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged animals, blogging, Bluesky, consensual crime, cops, Never Call the Cops, psychology, Sunset on April 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I actually like winter, as one of four well-defined seasons; what I do not like is when winter is a bad guest which arrives earlier than it is supposed to or overstays its welcome.
– “Rain, Rain, Go Away”
Would that all of us could leave this earth so gently. – “Diary #668”
911…systems treat cops like Spam in the famous Monty Python sketch: a form of pork that you get with every order whether you like it or not. – “Dangerous Spam”
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. – “The Tweets Go On“
Diary #825
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset, video on April 21, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Somehow, within three hours of letting the pullets out on Sunday, one of them managed to vanish. As you can see, one hasn’t left the nursery and two are huddled in the corner fretting (not an unusual behavior for the first week or so after they’re out). The turkey chick is more bold, wandering around the entire chicken yard. But there’s no sign of the fourth pullet. She’s not anywhere in the chicken yard, nor nearby outside, nor under the house, and I neither heard a ruckus nor found feathers which would indicate that something got her. My guess is that she managed to fly over the fence and ran off to hide in the underbrush, but I have no evidence for that; I reckon it’s just one of those things that happens when one keeps poultry.
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
Links #824
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, Arizona, Believe Them, California, cops, ethics, imaginative fiction, language, Oregon, scams, video on April 19, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Hold the bus! – The Banana Splits
Since I’ve already featured the H.R. Pufnstuf theme and Land of the Lost theme before, I decided to feature the opening & closing to The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, the first Saturday morning show to feature the Krofft puppets. As a wee lass my mother enrolled me in the Banana Splits fan club, and I had the various club materials for years after the show went off the air. And it was not unusual for Grace to use one of their catchphrases, “Hold the bus!” The links above the video were provided by Franklin Harris, Ryan Marino, Jesse Walker, Ryan Cooper, Walter Olson, Radley Balko, and Jessica Pishko, in that order.
- Punctuation matters.
- “Let’s get back to work.”
- R.I.P. Sid Krofft and Don Schlitz.
- How to resurrect a bricked Kindle.
- Possibly the funniest thing I’ve read this year.
- They can’t stop demonstrating exactly what they are.
- Cops are always coming up with new ways to murder.
From the Archives
- Overseas pharmacies will sell to US customers without asking permission.
- Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses.
- The sleazy “confidential informant” system enables corruption and abuse.
- Pretending these aren’t typical & representative by calling them “rookies”.
- Yelling “Stop faking!” at the sick & dying is one of screws’ favorite games.
- In ≈ 20 years, these stories will be about victims of “trafficking” hysteria.
- Cops will never stop this as long as the state keeps giving them pretexts.
- We need a class-action suit for booksellers affected by these evil policies.
- Politicians are avid devotees of cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
- This one directly describes very typical cop behavior as “uncharacteristic”.
- Swedish politicians angry that their law doesn’t destroy enough lives yet.
- This will continue until media stop calling senseless violence “correction”.
- A few sane judges are the only thing protecting US libraries from freaks.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- This will continue for as long as cops are allowed to “police” themselves.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- Puritans destroy men’s lives for wanting consensual sex w/adult women.
- I was destined to be threatened with state violence regardless of career.
- Give sexually-aggressive thugs power over teens; what could go wrong?
- Politicians never bother to observe the consequences of laws they ape.
- Psychopathy is typical in politicians, but this is complete derangement.
- Cops are sexual predators who specifically target traumatized women.
- Missouri seems uninterested in controlling its psychopathic politicians.
- The Dutch scheme to Disnify De Wallen is no longer merely a scheme.
- Doctors mock cops’ fentanyl hysteria, so they invent new bogeydrugs.
- Politicians compete to make their new laws the most unconstitutional.
- Gentrification is a common motivation for persecution of sex workers.
- Petty torture of prisoners and more money for fascist state “partners”.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- Only a few years ago, media outlets were lionizing wackos like these.
- These people were locked in this cage facility because of US policies.
- Your “leaders” refer to rape by state-employed thugs as “correction”.
- “Drugs” are a popular pretext for petty vindictiveness in US prisons.
- Prosecutors are rarely interested in going after rapists with badges.
- If you thought regional “fusion centers” were bad, how about this?
- Software used by “legitimate authorities” also works for abusers.
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- Prohibitionists’ real goal is to completely ban online sex work.
- Many people fail to realize that calling 911 = calling the cops.
- They often try to make it sound like the prisoners consented.
- More politicians cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- Florida’s authoritarian government criminalizes kindness.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Cops, Antarctica, Richard Chamberlain, and much more.
- Your “leaders” refer to these atrocities as “correction”.
- Cops, O.J. Simpson, Dickey Betts, and much more.
- Florida knows it will lose any challenge to this law.
- No religion has a monopoly on preachy molesters.
- Cops, metaphors, Mary Quant, and much more.
- A curated selection of tweets from April 2025.
- There is nothing as hard to kill as a bad law.
- A video record of each shelf of my library.
- A small shrine to Aphrodite in my atrium.
- Cop fails upward into a career in politics.
- On the passing of our little friend Aeryn.
- Puritanism is throttling the entire world.
- Now this is an interesting development.
- The Legend of Throwback Thursday.
- My three previous posts for Easter.
- They really can’t stop themselves.
- Good riddance to toxic rubbish.
- Throwback Thursday Island.
- Bolder than most chickens.
- All prohibition is the same.
- “Spiritual care coordinator“.
- This cannot be reformed.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Well, this is different.
- Turkey in the sink.
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Diary #824
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset, video on April 14, 2026| Leave a Comment »
For the past two weeks, the pullets have lived in their nursery in the henhouse; the heat lamp is still on 24 hours a day, and every day about noon or so I top off their food and change their water. This was taken immediately after doing that, which is why you can hear the water burping as the tray fills up. The reason it’s up on the cinder block is to keep them from clogging it up with shavings when they scratch; at this stage it’s the feeder which gets clogged instead, but as long as I clean it once a day it isn’t bad enough to stop them from eating. You can see that the turkey chick has now caught up with the pullets, and by the time they’re out of the nursery completely on May 17th, it will be noticeably larger. The next change, however, will be this coming Sunday; the heat lamp will go on the timer so it’s only on at night, and in the daytime I’ll open up the coop as it is in this video, then herd them back inside every evening. Every two days I’ll shorten the timer by half an hour, so their hours of darkness will slowly increase until it’s time to shut off the lamp for the summer, and by that time the hens will have stopped trying to harass them, and we’ll be settled into our routine until it starts to change again in late September.
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