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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
Requiem for Throwback Thursday
Posted in Fiction, History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged animals, blogging, Bluesky, cops, ethics, language, politicians, psychology, racism, Twitter on October 15, 2026| Leave a Comment »
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 »
Throwback Thursday of Wonders
Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged blogging, Bluesky, bogus studies, crypto-moralism, drivers, drugs, politicians, propaganda, scams, Send In the Clowns, Twitter on October 1, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Back Issue #159
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on September 28, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I’m an autumnal sort of gal; I like the days short & chilly, the leaves a riot of color, and the nights filled with warm beverages & savory scents. – “Diary #326”
- We don’t want to be “legalized & regulated”; we just want to be left alone.
- Even credulous reporters now feel compelled to at least mention Amnesty.
- Yellow journalism about young women from PBS and the New York Times.
- The prosecutor couldn’t exercise his discretion & decline to press charges.
- Judge thinks it’s her job to convince young sex worker that she’s a victim.
- Why does Gay, Inc never speak up for sex worker rights until it’s too late?
- Whores are morons whose lives must be micromanaged by governments.
- “Unbelievably” is a good adverb for nearly every sentence in this fantasy.
- A rather lackluster study of underage sex workers; not bad, but slipshod.
- Since this fascist wankfest hasn’t sold as a TV show, they made a movie.
- Maybe if we keep repeating this, it’ll eventually sink into the public skull.
- Say you’re “fighting sex trafficking” & stupid people will give you money.
- Prosecutors have the magical ability to transform a “child” into an adult.
- Another rape victim caged to force participation in a state morality play.
- 1.5% is my standard estimate of coercion among Western sex workers.
- “Children” are inanimate objects who can’t move without being carried.
- Extra nasty: reporters gloating over popular stars’ sex worker siblings.
- Remember, cops, you’re allowed to RAPE us, but not to obtain consent.
- Amateurs: a public health menace who should be licensed & regulated.
- Now the precedent’s established, expect more laws that presume guilt.
- “Virginity tests” are a sign of our culture’s deeply-sick sexual attitudes.
- Another way to destroy lives, funded by the sociopathic Swanee Hunt.
- Is it a good idea to reject mentally disabled clients or those under 18?
- A better monument: abolish the bad laws that enabled their murders.
- Only in Australia would a politician follow this insult with this apology.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever, especially not whores.
- I can’t think of a venue less conducive to selling sex than a state fair.
- Dysphemisms are used to conjure a story out of nothing but rumors.
- I’m an adult virgin with a new girlfriend; should I see an escort first?
- Pathetic losers wanking to their fantasies of superhuman sex robots.
- Cops, Unheimlichkeit, Space Ghost, schools, nom nom nom & more.
- Interesting that this article doesn’t mention the anti-Backpage mob.
- Cops, fascism, good deeds, clowns, poor judgment and much more.
- Is it wrong to be bothered by professionals trading services for sex?
- Please use public computers to report every police car you can find.
- A coalition between fundamentalist groups is in no way “surprising”.
- For a change, it only took the MSM two years to catch up with me.
- Mistress Matisse chats with Dan Savage about SWOP Behind Bars.
- Just another example of “authorities” paying men to rape whores.
- The defense of choice for non-violent sex offenders, plus “autism”.
- A reminder that in most of the US, the situation is still worsening.
- I truly hope many more clients are inspired to speak out like this.
- Let’s hope other ACLU chapters start following New Jersey’s lead.
- In the US, the government would’ve “helped” by prosecuting her.
- Ricochet‘s series on the effects of Canada’s new anti-whore laws.
- Quickly becoming one of the stupidest tropes of the whole panic.
- Why people view sex work as an “unacceptable” risk for women.
- Article equates sex workers with child molesters and murderers.
- Serious question: How do we nominate Liz Brown for a Pulitzer?
- More anti-sex violence funded by the sociopathic Swanee Hunt.
- Remember the creepy Swedish cop who collects used tampons?
- Watch for escorts to be prosecuted for “trafficking” themselves.
- Thugs brutalize two old women, rob over $500,000 from them.
- Government-backed internet gentrification harms sex workers.
- Sheltered reporter thinks a cop groping a woman is “shocking”.
- Pimp-like con artist fights to keep her “rescue” scam going on.
- I’m not going to try to quote any of this massive garbage fire.
- Can activist mean someone who literally does & says nothing?
- Expect a lot more cases like this before potty hysteria is over.
- “Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose.”
- Assume your internet-connected devices are spying on you.
- Politician hires sex worker; meanwhile, bear shits in woods.
- Cops, fascism, clowns, rock opera, The Prisoner and more.
- Criminalization always makes sex work conditions shittier.
- Another example of “grocery store sex trafficking” lunacy.
- Kudos to the IWW for supporting sex workers in Iceland.
- Like something Melissa Farley would make up, only true.
- Pigs steal $26,000 from citizens & spend it on strippers.
- No, it won’t, but it’ll make these opportunists wealthier.
- 10 reasons decriminalizing sex work is a feminist issue.
- What a witch hunt looks like through an anti-sex filter.
- Make sure you swallow your drink before reading this.
- It’s nice to know that at least a few reporters get this.
- I guess that “outside agency” never heard of Snopes.
- What exactly is the rationale behind this prosecution?
- My friend Kaytlin Bailey, on coming out to her father.
- Is it bad if I can only feel intimacy with sex workers?
- Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
- Why Brazil turned down $40 million in US handouts.
- Cops, clowns, kratom, Gene Wilder and much more.
- People who love me are a medicine for melancholy.
- In which I finally finish decorating my apartment.
- Becoming less tense with the arrival of autumn.
- This excuse is pathetic, even by cop standards.
- How you can help me wake up in the morning.
- Canada really is trying to be more like the US.
- Another victory against a political witch hunt.
- WARNING: Lelo Hex condoms are NOT safe!
- Debunking of prohibitionist lies is spreading.
- I really hate being right all the fucking time.
- Mostly just a lot of prohibitionist posturing.
- Cop stalks sex workers via police records.
- Another dumb “awareness-raising” stunt.
- Another sex worker on a TV reality show.
- Clients of Sex Workers Allied for Change.
- Sometimes the two “wars” blur into one.
- You can’t keep a bad organization down.
- You know you’re in a moral panic when…
- Chester Brown discusses his new book.
- It’s almost like he wants to get caught.
- I hope she gets every damned penny.
- A step in the right direction, at least.
- I really admire this lady’s chutzpah.
- Child-raping politician of the week.
- A special rate just for my readers.
- The body count continues to rise.
- Alas, the victory was short-lived.
- A strange, unwholesome week.
- Nothing happened; film at 11!
- Of course it’s a fucking setup.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- “Threatening the peace.”
- Five million pageviews.
- The stupidity defense.
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 Doll
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged animals, blogging, cops, domestic violence, infidelity, New York, politicians, psychology, United Kingdom on September 17, 2026| Leave a Comment »
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 »
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