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Tweets in the Belfry

Posted in Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 20, 2025| Leave a Comment »

I love that so many media outlets are now using the most ridiculous-looking Trump photos they can find, such as this one which makes him look constipated. LOOK HIM WUB HIS TUMTUM!

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-15T02:26:10.801Z

Since he's over a decade younger than I am, statistically I won't live to see him go. But it'll be pretty funny when this dude dies of a statistically typical cause at a statistically typical age despite wasting a quarter of his life chasing the illusion of "immortality".Behold the folly of Man.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-17T17:04:43.609Z

Dementia doesn't always present as befuddlement a la Biden; it can also present as confusion and disinhibition, both of which Trump displays with increasing frequency and severity. You ever hear nursing home nurses talk about being grabbed by dirty old demented men? Disinhibition. As is this.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-19T07:47:06.295Z

One of the rewards of being old is you get to smile sweetly when the young people finally start recognizing the wisdom of a position you've espoused for decades that THEY previously proclaimed wrong.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-20T17:06:21.614Z

How is that even supposed to be pronounced, "Kadollar-huh"?Holy heavy metal umlaut, Batman!

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-21T17:15:31.307Z

Looks like Trump isn't the only well-known psychopath who has a fetish for pretending to be an inflatable sex doll.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-22T03:30:51.581Z

There are TWO links between acetaminophen and autism!1) Both start with "A"2) Both are subjects you might ask a doctor about.SMOKING GUN!!!

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-24T16:25:49.304Z

I hate living in a time where I know who the fucking *education superintendent* of fucking OKLAHOMA is.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-25T17:55:25.694Z

A look at Antichrist prophecies by an actual theologian (as opposed to a Thiel-origin): archive.is/SGZcS

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T03:16:23.700Z

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T18:36:48.693Z

Anyone familiar with the folklore of primitive cultures will recognize this. It's based on the idea of names having magical power, so if the name of some evil thing is mentioned it may appear (hence the traditional phrase "Speak of the Devil…") Not speaking of something robs it of power.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-27T17:24:42.257Z

I don't believe @alyankovic.bsky.social had anything to do with this video.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-28T16:48:49.339Z

Beginning to look more and more like this:

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-30T17:23:36.102Z

Trump inflatable sex dolls come in several sizes, to fit all needs:

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-01T17:57:06.284Z

Also: the groundwork for this was laid by US courts repeatedly excusing cops for smashing into random people's homes in the middle of the night because they didn't care to get the address correct. And in a larger sense, by allowing unconstitutional "no knock" warrants in the first place.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-02T18:10:58.682Z

Better headline: "Extremely Stupid People are Angry at Pope for Being Catholic".

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T02:24:46.168Z

Before you dash off some sophomoric apologia of police-statery, ask yourself if you *really* want one of the best living American journalists thoroughly vivisecting you in a multi-part essay.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T17:43:15.609Z

It's funny how many nitwits have no problem with all the businesses they hate as long as politicians they hate get to run it roughly half of the time.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-05T18:33:43.795Z

Post a "demonic sexual performance" at Superb Owl halftime.I'll start.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-06T16:31:59.573Z

Can you imagine going through life as a quadriplegic because your parents were too stupid and evil to vaccinate you?

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-08T02:44:54.470Z

We really need Anglophone journalists in the UK, Canada, and Australia to start writing about the political situation in the US using the same kind of language they use when writing about political situations in developing countries. "the regime", "dissidents", "the regime's secret police", etc.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-08T17:05:00.733Z

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-09T17:50:30.707Z

Someone needs to invite Miller to a late-night tea party.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-10T16:31:59.503Z

Reporters: stop using the deferential term "detaining" when talking about ICE goons' abduction of innocent people from US streets. You proper term would indeed by "abduction", but if you want to pretend neutrality you could use "capture", which at least says nothing about the captors' motives.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-11T17:22:08.981Z

So long, Mommy.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-13T02:17:15.023Z

It would be a far better world if things like this happened more often.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T17:32:47.303Z

21st-century soi-disant "Christians" commit blasphemy as casually and often as Marquis de Sade characters.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-15T18:10:07.405Z

Thinking is, always has been, and always will be the greatest enemy of power; that's why the powerful always want to shut it down.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-16T19:42:10.008Z

Is it completely impossible for MAGA creatures to keep their mouths SHUT for long enough to take a fucking picture?

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-18T07:29:32.013Z

The mad emperor is now tweeting cartoons of himself making poo-poos on people who are mean to him.You thought there were a lot of books and documentaries about Hitler over the past 80 years? You ain't seen NUTHIN' yet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWHD…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-19T19:59:02.583Z

 

 

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Links #798

Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »

[Journalists] act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to…rule by dividing.  –  Pope Leo XIV

Here’s a seasonally-themed a cappella medley called to my attention by Phoenix Calida; the links above it were provided by Aaron Ross Powell, Radley Balko, Ryan Cooper, IncarcerNation, Ryan Marino (x2), and Nun Ya, in that order.

From the Archives

I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one.  Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful.  But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer.  So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets.  Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements.  Thanks so much!

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Links #795

Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 28, 2025| Leave a Comment »

You’re not the minority anymore.  –  Old Karen’s friend

When Mike Siegel tweeted a TikTok video of Creepy Stare Piano Guy performing “My Heart Will Go On” on rubber chickens, I went to YouTube to find a copy I could embed, but it was not there.  However, this cover of the same song by a different deadpan rubber chicken musician was, so here you go.  The links above it were provided by Nun Ya (x2), Ryan Marino (x2), Mike Siegel again, and Radley Balko, in that order.

From the Archives

I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one.  Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful.  But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer.  So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets.  Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements.  Thanks so much!

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Tweet Street

Posted in Miscellaneous, Music, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Sorry, partisans: both vaccines and french fries are good.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-12T16:41:51.013Z

A Maggie story that will surprise no one:When I was about 16 politicians imposed a curfew on minors in our parish (county). I had never been especially interested in going out late until then, but after the curfew was imposed I started going on 3 AM walks every Sunday just to flout it.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-14T17:50:46.184Z

A word crying out for more widespread usage.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-16T07:50:27.486Z

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-17T17:22:30.905Z

Someone whose name isn't Maggie McNeill FINALLY had the intellectual courage to use the word that best describes Trump. http://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-18T16:51:49.659Z

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-20T03:52:04.139Z

What kind of servile bootlickery is Google pushing?In a liberal republic, "those in positions of authority" should get the LEAST respect and the MOST derogatory language. Lèse-majesté is for autocracies.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-21T03:25:32.476Z

You have to admit it's funny (in a short of frustrating way) when career politicians try to engage with Trump's deranged mouth farts as though they were statements by a rational person. It's like watching them argue with barnyard fowl.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-21T18:40:32.072Z

Europe has been shaped by crusades against reality for quite a few centuries now.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-23T17:57:13.545Z

Protip: it's better to set your apocalyptic "predictions" far enough in the future that you won't still be alive when the passage of time proves you to be an idiot.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-24T03:05:09.833Z

Martin is apparently laboring under the misapprehension that he is a train.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-25T07:37:24.002Z

"Don't give money to strangers you meet on the goddamned internet."Done.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-26T07:29:49.402Z

Yes, decaying things often change noticeably on a daily basis. reason.com/2025/08/27/t…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-28T16:48:42.823Z

1) "Father Justin" is the name of a program, not a person.2) There is no such thing as "AI"; programs cannot think.3) In Catholic doctrine a program has no soul & cannot be ordained to the priesthood.4) Chatbots function by word association; their action is more like shitting than "suggesting".

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-29T17:09:20.519Z

I find it difficult to believe that this thing is an actual human being rather than a plastic mannequin animated by the Nestenes or some other parasitic alien species.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-30T03:35:04.593Z

One important but unappreciated sign of America's decline is that these audiences are contented with merely booing people their grandparents and great-grandparents would've pelted with rotting vegetables.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-08-30T17:22:38.679Z

The most outlandish thing I would do is to have a miniature railroad installed on my property, so I could ride around in my very own choo-choo. Everything else I'd buy is pretty sensible.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-01T03:57:52.756Z

The only positive thing this monster has accomplished is dealing the death-blow to Americans' idolization of his family.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-01T16:52:48.744Z

The mad emperor now claims anyone may justify wanton violence by pointing at the intended victim & barfing the words "drug boat". I'm sure digitally-altered audio will soon be produced in which the lunatic who shot that 11-year-old prankster will be clearly heard to say "drug boat!" before firing.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-03T18:01:32.308Z

Read this as, "I'm praying every day for God to deliver us from the scourge of cancer and send us a bountiful harvest.""AI" is a cult.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-04T17:41:19.853Z

People ask why I don't have ads on my blog.Yes, they'd bring in money. But I couldn't live with myself if I enabled this kind of shit.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-05T07:22:26.399Z

ALL bending of the knee is symbolic kneeling. That is the exact, specific meaning of the gesture: "I should be kneeling to you, but our practical circumstances require me to keep moving so I'll just acknowledge my subservience and then move on."

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-06T17:36:40.009Z

There is no "debate".Politicians want to control X.Sensible people explain why that's a bad idea.Politicians invent propaganda justifying their control.Critical mass of useful idiots believe politicians.Politicians gain control of X.Decades of damage, waste, and other consequences follow.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-07T17:16:34.136Z

You misspelled "Master".

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-08T17:31:11.121Z

It's almost like a lot of people don't know the difference between static load and dynamic load, nor really grasp what the phrase "potential energy" actually means.Physics is hard.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-09T07:25:29.051Z

Not REMOTELY panicked enough. When he retreats into his Führerbunker and won't come out, I'll say he's NEARLY panicked enough.When he cries like a baby on the way up the scaffold steps, THEN he'll be panicked enough.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-10T07:46:49.657Z

Private ownership of something may possibly result in it being controlled at some point by someone you dislike and oppose.Government ownership of that thing makes that a certainty.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-11T17:36:19.407Z

Teacher reply: "Politicians and bureaucrats are not role models."

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-12T17:25:04.514Z

My rule is to treat everyone with respect (like a person) up until the moment they start barking "orders" at me as though I were a dog. To behave as a cog in an authoritarian machine is to voluntarily surrender one's humanity to that machine, releasing me from the obligation to pretend otherwise.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-13T17:25:40.274Z

At this point, I'm glad as long as it ENDS. Stroke, assassination, committed as a lunatic, impeachment, war crimes tribunal, eaten by rats, being picked up by aliens, riding into Heaven in a flaming chariot, I don't care. He's the fucking Marvin K. Mooney of Washington.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-14T07:30:10.016Z

Zuckerberg's living on the other side of the looking glass. Here's what actual scientists on OUR side of the glass have to say: maggiemcneill.com/2025/09/06/i…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-15T17:17:24.605Z

This proposal met with general applause, until an old mouse got up and said: “That is all very well, but who is to bell the Cat?”

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-16T17:29:33.849Z

No mortal is worthy of worship. For one man or woman to worship another degrades the worshiper and deludes the one who is worshiped.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-09-17T18:17:31.017Z

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Magdalene’s Day 2025

Posted in Holidays, tagged , on July 22, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Every year on her feast day, I honor St. Mary Magdalene; even though the Church does not officially recognize her as the patron of whores, she certainly is in the public imagination.  And if beliefs have power, that recognition of sacred whoredom in the minds of millions has far more metaphysical and philosophical weight than any official Church designation.

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Gere Curam Mei Finis

Posted in Diary, Music, Philosophy, tagged , , , on June 9, 2025| 1 Comment »

Grace liked those small, fat notebooks.  She always kept several around, and used them for whatever she needed to write down, without any particular order.  Any given notebook might contain movies or tools she wanted to buy; rough diagram, sketches, and lists of parts for intended projects; things she encountered online when I wasn’t around that she wanted to ask me about later; things she wanted me to add to the grocery list; ideas for her D&D character; audiobooks she wanted to order; and just about anything else she felt should be written down.  Now, over the last couple of years she had developed a fondness for listening to Gregorian chants on her headphones while meditating; she even listened to them while getting chemotherapy.  So when I picked up one of her little notebooks Saturday before last, looking for one that was mostly empty so I could use it for something else, and discovered a page with five lines of Latin, I assumed they had come from a chant she liked.  Believe it or not, her Latin was actually better than mine, so I needed to look them up, starting with the one in the title above…which translates to “help me in my final condition”.  They were all lines from the Dies Irae, part of the traditional Catholic requiem mass.  And of course I immediately started crying uncontrollably, though the tears were not bitter.  Because even though we both knew she was dying for some time (though neither of us realized just how close it was), she had clearly come to accept it.  And perhaps discovering those lines, painful as it was in the moment and in recalling it now, will eventually help me to accept it as she did.

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The Tweetles

Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Music, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »

See also "terrorist", "trafficker", and "prostitute".

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-17T18:03:29.108Z

People who are not queer, kinky, or professional: I beg you to research what a "gangbang" is, so you can stop making yourselves look like gullible idiots for repeating cops' 30-year-old sophomoric joke.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-19T04:39:04.483Z

There ain't a healthy person in that room, psychologically speaking.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-20T03:52:21.862Z

I beg reporters to recognize that this is a religion, and to cover it accordingly. Treat pronouncements about magical godlike "AI" the same way you'd treat pronouncements about Jesus or demons.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-21T17:46:02.394Z

Takeaway: Y'all aren't being NEARLY polite enough to "Cat, I farted". You need to be so scrupulously polite and indirect that you sound like a parody of a Victorian.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-22T17:54:39.862Z

Presumably, the 51% who view Vikings favorably are also big fans of having their life savings stolen by cops via asset forfeiture.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-23T18:39:54.767Z

I am not going there.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-24T04:09:00.768Z

"I'm Called Little Buttercup"

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-25T19:43:49.356Z

I wonder if he can make it through without loudly soiling his diaper.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-26T17:12:52.987Z

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie usTo see oursels as ithers see us!

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T16:58:51.364Z

Setup: Someone just proposed the toast, "To the voters."

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-28T17:28:03.370Z

If "sex trafficking" hysteria gets transferred to cops and other porcine creatures, I can live with that.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T17:32:29.234Z

But did he loudly shit his diaper at the funeral, as he did at the rededication of Notre Dame in December?www.inquisitr.com/donald-trump…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T17:13:03.854Z

Zuckerberg is a sad, pathetic person with a sad, pathetic inner life, and all his billions haven't been able to buy him a personality or real friends. So naturally he thinks everybody is like that.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-01T17:47:00.990Z

Did someone give an LLM the prompt, "fork in the road"?

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-02T18:12:00.622Z

Any guesses on what movie Trump watched recently?

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-05T03:54:24.166Z

Oh, look, I was right again. Must be a day ending in "y". bsky.app/profile/drew…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-05T17:16:21.183Z

Many more headlines like this, please. Reporters & editors: you can editorialize in your own paper/website. You needn't parrot the government's euphemisms, dysphemisms, and other propaganda.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-06T16:50:24.831Z

Collaboration. maggiemcneill.com/2025/05/07/i…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-07T16:57:55.264Z

See also "political lesbian".

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-08T17:13:58.409Z

So he's basically saying he can't do it because Democrats might be mean to him, then he'd cry and soil his diaper.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-09T19:30:14.678Z

I would like to be able to cast a huge spell that would cause ANYONE who uses the phrase "some say" to immediately explode.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-12T04:00:06.232Z

I will never have as much money as this Avelo dude.But I have a soul, which is more than I can say for him.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-13T07:37:35.404Z

YOU can be arrested for leaving a 12-year-old unattended.For ICE thugs, it's part of the job description.Neither of these is a sign of a healthy society.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-13T16:51:14.913Z

Politicians and cops (including prosecutors) are sick human beings who think everyone is as warped and dishonest as they are. Accordingly, they think drug tests with a high rate of false positives are "more accurate", and those are the ones they buy. reason.com/2025/05/11/m…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-14T16:58:19.261Z

If Grok's current behavior doesn't help you to recognize that there is no "intelligence" in these programs, you are hopeless. http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/nationa…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T05:36:15.208Z

To my friends and others I follow on here:NOTHING makes me skip right over your tweet without even reading it faster than a CGI picture. If you want original pictures, pay an actual human artist for them.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-16T17:08:15.258Z

It's unsurprising the Trump regime is able to blatantly violate the Constitution with the full support of many Americans, because most of them are too goddamned stupid to understand it even if they'd ever bothered to read it, which they haven't.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-17T16:21:35.767Z

 

 

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Just As Good

Posted in Biography, History, Philosophy, tagged , , , , on May 12, 2025| 4 Comments »

Since an aborted fetus is not yet a baby, and certainly not yet a toddler or small boy as shown, why use pictures of children at all? If you're intending this to represent the aborted fetus' future self, a picture of a big ugly thug or an old woman would be just as good.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-04T07:33:35.413Z

You could go all the way to the other end of the life-cycle & show a bare skeleton, and it would be just as representative of an embryo or fetus as that sappy picture is.Children should be taught this kind of critical thinking in school so as to make them resistant to emotional manipulation.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-04T07:38:39.956Z

Long, long before US evangelicals decided that they were going to be anti-abortion, Catholics were; Jerry Falwell himself only started preaching against it in 1978:

Evangelicals considered abortion a “Catholic issue” until the late 1970s…Evangelicals in the late 1960s and throughout most of the 1970s by and large refused to see abortion as a defining issue, much less a matter that would summon them to the front lines of political activism…and some groups with historic ties to evangelicalism pushed for legalization…When the Roe decision was handed down on January 22, 1973, W. A. Criswell, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention…[said] “I have always felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person…what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed.”  Baptists, in particular, applauded the Roe decision as an appropriate articulation of the line of division between church and state, between personal morality and state regulation of individual behavior…[even Jerry] Falwell…did not preach against abortion until February 26, 1978, more than five years after the Roe v. Wade decision…

And yet, 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.  I once wrote a paper arguing that anti-abortion propaganda relying on graphic pictures was immoral because it attempted to emotionally manipulate the audience rather than making a moral argument; my teacher, a nun, had some choice words for me, but still gave me an “A”.  I see that evangelicals are not so principled.

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Links #773

Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Music, News, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on April 27, 2025| Leave a Comment »

It’s an obvious attempt not to go to jail.  –  genius cop, about paralyzed man

Since I recently featured the video for what may be my favorite Blondie song, I figured I’d also share this one, which was my favorite Blondie song in high school; I especially liked blaring it on the car stereo while driving.  The links above it were provided by Marc Randazza; Justin Amash; Warren Bell; Andrew Fleischman; Popehat; Jesse Walker and Franklin Harris; and Kevin Wilson, in that order.

From the Archives

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Rapists of the Week #19

Posted in Current Events, Perception, Rapists of the Week, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 14, 2025| Leave a Comment »

If Men Were Angels

No religion has a monopoly on preachy molesters:

A…zionist rabbi [from Dallas] who publicly spread false claims about Hamas raping Israeli women…has been arrested for sexually abusing a teenage boy.  Rabbi Yizhak Meir Sabo…was…arrested…on April 1…[for] repeatedly pull[ing] down a [high school] student’s pants and touch[ing] his genitals…Sabo also watched the student shower and gave him inappropriate “massages”…

Here’s another one:

A Catholic priest…in [California] was arrested…[for] raping a minor…Fr. Jaime Arriaga…was removed from ministry…[because] the LA Archdiocese [can’t afford another]…$880 million settlement over…child sexual abuse…

Business As Usual

They’re trying to pretend these aren’t typical and representative by calling them “rookies”:

Two [typical and representative] NYPD [cops have finally been] arrested for [armed robbery of] two [sex workers] and [sexual assault of] one of them while [wearing their magical clown costumes]…Justin Colon…and Justin McMillan…[followed typical cop procedure by turning off their] body-worn cameras…so that their [violent crimes] would not be recorded…[prosecutors are already trying to prejudice possible jurors by barfing out the word “]prostitution[” and giving the rapists paid vacation since they committed the crimes]…in July…[they assaulted the first] woman [they encountered], throwing her purse to the ground and stealing a key…[they then] returned eight hours later and used the key to enter an apartment, where they [robbed and sexually assaulted] another woman…both women fled from [the dangerous thugs] after they were robbed…

Stalkers in Blue (#1396)

Cops are sexual predators who often specifically target traumatized women:

A woman who was groomed by a predatory [London cop] has received an apology from the Metropolitan Police after the [other cops] blamed her and spread false information about her mental health instead of investigating him…Phil Hunter…[was sent to her home on a so-called “]welfare visit[” after some busybody called them] in 2017…[but cops ignored her complaints about his stalking her for] seven…year[s until he]…was found guilty of gross misconduct a[nd sacked] in August…[for the same behavior with a different] victim…[the cop-defamed victim] said…”Surely predators are more drawn to vulnerable people with mental health issues than people that can stand up to them, so…surely they would investigate that more, not less, had it been true?  What about other women who’ve come forward who do have a mental health issue of some description and they’ve completely ignored them on that basis?”…


To Molest and Rape (ROTW #18)

Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors:

A [typical and representative Michigan cop named…Ryan Dornbos [has been] sentenced…to 10 to 40 years in prison for [molesting a minor boy]…He must also register as a sex offender…the victim’s mother [foolishly]…trusted…Dornbos…because…he [is a cop]…

If Men Were Angels (#1519)

“Spiritual care coordinator“:

Douglas Cotta[, a hospital chaplain in Bangor, Maine,] pleaded guilty to…possession of [child porn after he was caught]…upload[ing] a…video [of] an adult man and woman sexually assaulting a [toddler] girl between the ages of 3 and 4….Maine State Police…[tossed] his home…[and found more child porn on his] cell phone and laptop…[due to a plea bargain] Cotta [was] sentenced to [a mere] 6 months [in jail]…

 

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