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Fearless Throwback Thursday
Posted in Miscellaneous, Music, tagged advertising, artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, ethics, internet, language, politicians, psychology, Twitter, yellow journalism on August 27, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Links #842
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, censorship, Colorado, cops, Idaho, imaginative fiction, internet, language, Never Call the Cops, Ohio, psychology, racism, video on August 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I just love a captive audience. – Whitney Lynn
I always enjoy sharing my earworms, especially when they explain things about my daily life such as why I often call my pig Louie by singing, “Louie Louie Louie Loo-eeeee”. The links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel; Shiv Ramdas; Angela Keaton and Mike Masnick; Radley Balko; IncarcerNation (x2); and Mike Siegel again, in that order.
- Not the Onion.
- So funny I don’t care that it’s 13 years old.
- R.I.P. Hayden Panettiere and Juan Tamariz.
- I’m glad I haven’t used eBay in about 20 years.
- Another triumph for the police suicide-assistance service.
- This won’t stop until payouts come from the cop pension fund.
- Everything I see makes me more determined never to fly again.
From the Archives
- I’m sure they occasionally yelled “Stop faking!” at him as he wasted away.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- This time, a “sex trafficking” lie was told to divert blame for bad behavior.
- Is there no concise term for “commission of a nonconsensual sexual act”?
- Uber encourages its drivers to spy on riders and betray them to the pigs.
- Blaming torture & neglect on a building is brazen even by cop standards.
- Erosion of civil liberties starts with “undesirables”, but never stops there.
- Compare with the “nail parlor trafficking” & “car wash trafficking” myths.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
- Only a prohibitionist could imagine that 10 subjects constitute a “study”.
- I’m sure the people of Maui didn’t want her dirty whore money anyhow.
- This is exactly why chatbot “therapy” needs to be banned immediately.
- Can you imagine any non-cop getting such a love tap for forcible rape?
- Cops, mass hysteria, Tommy McLain, Terence Stamp, and much more.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- Apparently this preacher wasn’t the molester, but is covering for him.
- If you didn’t see this one coming, you haven’t been paying attention.
- A few judges are still willing to choose the Constitution vs politicians.
- A program that did one thing well tried to be all things to all people.
- It’s almost like the judge is intentionally setting up another mistrial.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- Sometimes I just can’t take cops’ sophomoric pomposity seriously.
- The “forced sex trafficking abortions” trope never quite caught on.
- Local media obediently parrots copaganda, no matter how foolish.
- The front of a wedge must by its nature be thinner than the rest.
- It’s too bad they don’t inflict all of their violence on each other.
- Florida censors lose every challenge, but it doesn’t stop them.
- The claims in these nuisance lawsuits are increasingly absurd.
- Cops, signs, Johnny Hardwick, Bob Barker, and much more.
- Cops, cults, Gena Rowlands, Wally Amos, and much more.
- Curated selections of tweets from August 2023 and 2025.
- Anyone who thinks this is “justice” is part of the problem.
- Sleeping with a cop is just as dangerous for female cops.
- Artificial stupidity makes those who use it stupid as well.
- There are many ways for governments to rob people.
- Another “youth pastor”, another distancing “former”.
- Some rapist cops are indiscriminate in their habits.
- This situation is not going to get better on its own.
- The open internet is becoming a thing of the past.
- Sleeping with cops isn’t even safe for male cops.
- The 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art.
- What kind of warped mind thinks this is OK?
- All cops will have these within a few years.
- This is an extremely dangerous precedent.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- On the pervasive rot of enshittification.
- The atrium bathroom is finally done!
- A bad year for fruit at Sunset.
- Expanding the chicken coop.
- Son of Throwback Thursday.
- Much more of this, please.
- Throwback at Thursday.
- The Throwback Theory.
- The Beat Generation.
- Meet the Flintstones.
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
Links #841
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, artificial stupidity, California, cops, imaginative fiction, internet, language, psychology, Tennessee, Texas, universal criminality, video on August 16, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Jail erodes every aspect of a person’s agency. – Lindsey Krinks
I recently watched all the Charlie Chan movies Chekhov had in his collection. The low-budget Monogram Chan pictures of the 1940s weren’t as good as the 20th Century Fox ones of the 1930s, but though Mantan Moreland, who played Chan’s chauffeur in the ’40s pictures, was typically paired with Benson Fong as “Number Three son” for comic relief, a couple of the films included guest appearances by Moreland’s former vaudeville partner Ben Carter, allowing the two to show off the very funny ‘indefinite talk” routine which made them famous. The links above the video were provided by Jesse Walker, Anarres Ansible, Mistress Matisse, IncarcerNation, Nun Ya, T. Greg Doucette, and IncarcerNation again, in that order.
- R.I.P. John Crowley.
- The ultimate online art search.
- Artificial stupidity vs. the marmots.
- Teen murdered by cops for being thirsty.
- Cops hound teens to death over petty theft.
- Another triumph for the police suicide-assistance service.
- Violently sweeping the failure of the American dream under the rug.
From the Archives
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Swedish model is not decriminalization of any kind, “partial” or otherwise.
- Trump claims to love the military, yet his regime keeps harming veterans.
- If only there were a concise term for “having sex with someone helpless”.
- Clearview was invented as a tool to use against migrants and minorities.
- Cop deals with problems exactly as trained to; reporter calls it “unusual”.
- Once bitcoin exchanges got in bed with government, this was inevitable.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives; some don’t stop with beating.
- If you need this to control your teen offspring, you’ve already lost them.
- Cop deals with problems exactly as trained to, and everyone is shocked.
- The 100% predictable results of bad laws are coming right on schedule.
- Using women’s murders as an opportunity to moralize via scare quotes.
- Cops really don’t care how many false positives these systems shit out.
- Censors, ambulance-chasers, and imbecilic judges vs the Constitution.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, William Friedkin,Robbie Robertson, and more.
- More states need to protect vulnerable people from this evil nonsense.
- The hotel industry is going to regret having collaborated with fanatics.
- It looks like British subjects will soon need a VPN to access Wikipedia.
- The entire “troubled teen” industry needs to be sued out of existence.
- Texas tacitly admits it wants women with problem pregnancies to die.
- Government wants total control of both internet & financial system.
- Funny how many cops who are willing to pay prefer underage girls.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- One of the most flagrant abusers of this unconstitutional practice.
- It’s lovely to be told that it really is OK to be a little bit frivolous.
- Another credulous regurgitation of prohibitionist propaganda.
- This is such a sterile way to say, “repeatedly raped them”.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- In surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Cops, “environmentalism”, Jim Lovell, and much more.
- “Prostitution” is such a handy excuse for surveillance.
- Seems like there’s more to this than we’re being told.
- These companies need to be bankrupted by lawsuits.
- No religion has a monopoly on preachy molesters.
- The open internet is becoming a thing of the past.
- Texas wants to have its blood and drink it as well.
- A curated selection of tweets from summer 2024.
- Working to eliminate a few stubborn roof leaks.
- Republics take work, and most people are lazy.
- All types of prohibition are doomed to failure.
- Cops, satire, horror movies, and much more.
- This raid was not remotely “unprecedented”.
- Laws are for the peasantry, not the rulers.
- What is wrong with doctors who do this?
- Granddaughter of Throwback Thursday.
- Better late tomatoes than no tomatoes.
- Another fine example of McNeill’s Law.
- And now for a word to my sponsors.
- Phrenology for tech worshipers.
- In remembrance of Jim Larkin.
- A year of perfect fruit weather.
- Bride of Throwback Thursday.
- Cop is a cop is a cop is a cop.
- Throwback Thursday’s Army.
- Note that little word “yet”.
- Rapist cops of the week.
Going Viral
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Words, tagged advertising, artificial stupidity, disease, drugs, language, scams, STEM, vaccines on August 14, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Ignorant people are panicking over a BBC article from August 6th:
Artificial Intelligence has been used to design brand new viruses that are fully functional and can replicate in the laboratory…The resulting 16 novel viruses were created to infect bacteria and pose no threat to people…The technology works similarly to large language models…which predict sequences of text…[but] Evo1 and Evo2…were trained on genetic codes from viruses, bacteria, plants and people…then refined to produce a type of virus, known as a bacteriophage, which infect only specific species of bacteria…Stanford researchers picked the most promising 302 [computer] designs and synthesised them in the lab. Of these, 16 proved effective at killing E. coli bacteria…Developing new phage could lead to new ways of treating infections that have become resistant to antibiotics…
If technologists and reporters don’t want the ignorant majority to freak out when machine learning systems are used to do something they are actually good for, they need to stop using the same marketing term to describe them as con men use to describe chatbots. It’s true that the system described in this article is far closer to being “AI” than deluxe autocomplete is, but that ship sailed several years ago; if you insist on still using the word “gay” to mean “happy”, you have only yourself to blame if people think you mean “homosexual”.
Planet Throwback Thursday
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged artificial stupidity, blogging, California, censorship, cops, Hollywood, language, left-right myth, politicians, propaganda, psychology, racism on August 13, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Heroes of Song and Story
Posted in Current Events, Music, Philosophy, Words, tagged comics, Greece, Hollywood, imaginative fiction, language, video on August 10, 2026| 1 Comment »
A classicist recently pointed out on social media that the ancient Greek notion of heroism is so different from the modern idea that mythological heroes like Odysseus must either be adapted for modern audiences, or else they end up looking at least somewhat villainous. It’s especially apparent when moderns try to adapt Hercules into what we would call a hero, and end up with a character who only barely resembles the one in the myths, because the ancient Greek word which is generally translated as “hero” has nothing to do with morality, self-sacrifice, etc. As a kid who loved both mythology and comic books, it was always a little jarring to see how differently mythic characters like Hercules were portrayed in the one vs the other. The most accurate depiction of Hercules on the big screen that I can recall was in Jason and the Argonauts, where he is clearly shown to be a bully, braggart, and delinquent who gets his friends killed and nearly wrecks the entire mission. Of course, the same movie elides Jason’s awfulness, and ends abruptly to avoid having to deal with the whole ugly business of Jason and Medea, which only goes to demonstrate our initial premise once again.
Cave of Throwback Thursday
Posted in Biography, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged animals, blogging, imaginative fiction, internet, language, politicians, prisons, psychology, Washington DC on August 6, 2026| 1 Comment »
Kiss of Throwback Thursday
Posted in Biography, Miscellaneous, Perception, tagged artificial stupidity, blogging, imaginative fiction, language, libraries, politicians, psychology, sex work is work, surveillance on July 30, 2026| Leave a Comment »
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