I would never have guessed that so many people online not only don’t know what a Socratic question is, but are so insecure about their ignorance they call such questions “stupid”. But last week a parade of clowns on Bluesky declared that such a question I posed was not only “stupid”, but also not a Socratic question at all because…they believe all Socratic questions follow some kind of rigid and predictable form, I guess. Given that they could simply have consulted the Wikipedia entry I linked above, this cannot be a mere failure of education; it appears to be a manifestation of Asimov’s observation that Americans seem to think that “democracy” means an ignorant opinion is equal to an educated one. Another factor is that very few (two people as of this writing) of those who responded with more than a “like” or retweet seem to have actually understood the question that was being asked. Unfortunately, there’s a great deal of that online; most people seem to glance at a sentence or tweet, recognize a few words, quickly form their own question from those few words, and respond to that mistaken notion of the question rather than the one which was actually asked. I’m not sure if that has to do with the “guess the meaning” school of reading which was popular in US public schools for several decades, or if it’s a manifestation of the inability to focus that seems to plague many younger Americans, or both. Most social media users would rather guess at the meaning of a tweet and vomit out a quick reaction than actually read the question asked and consider it before replying, or else simply ignore it and move on to something else. They seem to consider it some kind of moral failing to simply bypass things without spewing out some kind of reaction, yet at the same time they don’t want to invest the cerebral effort to answer like a rational adult rather than like an ill-bred and rather stupid child who would rather be playing in the mud than actually [ugh] thinking.
Posts Tagged ‘language’
Socratic Stupidity?
Posted in Philosophy, Words, tagged Bluesky, internet, language, psychology, teachers on July 3, 2026| 1 Comment »
Links #833
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, Alabama, Arkansas, artificial stupidity, cops, Florida, imaginative fiction, language, lawyers, Mad Libs, Never Call the Cops, New Mexico, Oklahoma, propaganda, psychology, Reviews, robots, Texas, video on June 22, 2026| Leave a Comment »
There were two clients who basically were paying for ChatGPT…to argue against itself. – Rob Freund
My friend Chester Brown, the well-known comic book artist, plays Merlin in this video from Sook-Yin Lee‘s new album. The links above the video were provided by Jesse Walker and Dan Savage; IncarcerNation; The Onion; Mike Masnick; Ryan Marino; and IncarcerNation again (x2).
- R.I.P. Joe Negri and Gene Shalit.
- “Never” really does mean “never”.
- The best satire cleaves close to the truth.
- Another great moment in artificial stupidity.
- In which “nudged” is used to mean “violently rammed”.
- “Crime”: contempt of cop. Penalty: summary execution.
- Another triumph for the police suicide-assistance service.
From the Archives
- I was fated to be threatened with state violence regardless of career path.
- Civil liberties violations only start with targets of politicians’ demonization.
- No parody of puritanism could be as absurd as the current Florida reality.
- Too few states have held this, because the spying is convenient for cops.
- Another textbook example of McNeill’s Law, courtesy “Moms for Liberty”.
- Non-busybodies block Indiana’s “monkey see, monkey do” parade float.
- It’s too bad cops don’t spend all their time role-playing with each other.
- “Died after an altercation” is a sterile way to say “murdered by screws”.
- Are prosecutors going to retroactively label all cults as “sex trafficking”?
- If there’s a camera, cops will conscript it for use as a surveillance tool.
- They’re still not implicating cops we know were Heuermann’s buddies.
- Another cop stalks victims through the official cop grooming program.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- Cops, undead, Sly Stone, James Lowe, Brian Wilson, and much more.
- Backpage was only the test case for this ethically-bankrupt strategy.
- The resources flushed down the “culture war” toilet are incalculable.
- McCarthy, Romita, Jackson, Ellsberg, Williams, Vaziri & much more.
- Sick men may respond violently when they can’t own sex workers.
- This pernicious abuse of power has become more common of late.
- Hanging a camera on an animal turns it into a surveillance drone.
- Dare I hope fewer journalists are willing to cover up cops’ crimes?
- If you didn’t see this coming, you haven’t been paying attention.
- Cops, elephants, artificial stupidity, Willie Mays, and much more.
- Unbalanced minds use external tools to amplify existing beliefs.
- WaPo has discovered what I’ve been writing about for 14 years.
- Elon Musk’s “DOGE” didn’t “fail”; it worked exactly as intended.
- Politicians will never stop until the open internet is destroyed.
- Your “leaders” work hard to ensure this happens more often.
- Florida censors have descended completely into self-parody.
- Most Americans still believe France is a sex-positive society.
- Ruling thus on standing doesn’t actually mean a great deal.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”, but you don’t have to.
- You’d think “youth pastor” would be a big red flag by now.
- Any use of this error-prone surveillance system is misuse.
- Gaining a new, adult appreciation of childhood favorites.
- Curated selections of tweets from June 2023 and 2025.
- It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
- Some people still claim we don’t live in a police state.
- Honoring what would’ve been Grace’s 67th birthday.
- My three previous columns for the summer solstice.
- This ongoing travesty has a complicated backstory.
- Just another kind of cop, with typical cop behavior.
- Anyone who trusts Zuckerberg is out of his mind.
- Religion is often used an excuse for molestation.
- Scream, Throwback Thursday, Scream.
- Why does anyone still trust Facebook?
- An unusually chilly spring at Sunset.
- Redoing the atrium ceiling lights.
- Another cop following his bliss.
- I’m pretty sure it’s the daisies.
- Why zombies?.
- Fridaystein.
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Blue Skies Above
Posted in Biography, History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged advertising, artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, Catholicism, censorship, China, comics, crypto-moralism, fascism, games, Google, Grace, illegal aliens, imaginative fiction, Japan, language, left-right myth, libraries, Massachusetts, Michigan, politicians, prisons, propaganda, psychology, racism, restaurants, robots, scams, sex work is work, sporting events, STEM, Thanatopsis, United Kingdom on June 19, 2026| Leave a Comment »
They'll need to figure out how to send a letter back in time to threaten Warner Brothers as well.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-14T18:02:09.514Z
This is called "the martial arts".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-17T04:09:51.125Z
I reckon this must be a tataille, because it sure ain't a lougarou.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-17T17:54:41.692Z
"When somebody offers you a seat on the rocket ship, just get on" http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-18T03:50:10.197Z
Reporters, please stop saying "pod" to mean "cell block". Imprisoned people are neither whales nor alien body snatchers; they don't come from "pods". Just because the monsters in the US carceral system use euphemisms to hide their evil, doesn't mean you need to parrot them.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-19T16:59:03.072Z
If you think THAT'S something, just wait until you see Ram Man.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-21T04:12:32.430Z
People are doing "10 bands you've seen live" on Twitter & it keeps reminding me of Grace, who was a studio musician for years. Once we were at a party where this girl was bragging about getting backstage passes & Grace said to me, "I've *blown* more big name rock stars than she's seen in concert."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-21T16:52:25.724Z
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." – Frank Herbert, "Dune"
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-22T17:29:39.662Z
It boggled my mind that a restaurant would be named after a dessert. It still does. I mean, nobody goes to "Flan Bell" or "Hand Pie King" or "Spumone Hut".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-23T18:42:01.117Z
No D&D player should be surprised when a high-level cleric quotes a high-level wizard.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-25T17:06:01.707Z
Crypto-moralists never let little things like facts get in the way of barfing the word "unhealthy" in people's faces every time they do anything more exciting than eating raw vegetables & water once a day after their toil & drudgery, then going to sleep on the floor in an un-climate-controlled room.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-26T16:52:56.642Z
"Are we just going to give up and breathe?""Are we just going to give up and eat?""Are we just going to give up and be affected by gravity?""Are we just going to give up and have mass?""Are we just going to give up and emit heat?"This is what you sound like to sane people.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-27T17:35:31.457Z
You'd think that after all these decades as an adult, I'd have grown jaded enough to feel something milder than utter contempt for nitwits who believe the entire world of human political thought can be reduced to a single one-dimensional axis. But in actuality, my contempt merely grows more bitter.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-29T17:23:12.409Z
If you're a scientist on social media who wants to be accepted as an authority in your field, it's probably a bad idea to claim that a cause can be responsible for "more than 100%" of an observed effect.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-30T17:01:30.319Z
"Trump is acting like an authoritarian" = "Einstein is acting like a scientist" = "Streisand is acting like a diva" = "Spielberg is acting like a director" = "Kermit is acting like a Muppet" = "Lassie is acting like a dog" = "Yersinia pestis is acting like a disease organism".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-31T17:08:54.673Z
Hey fellow old folks, remember the late '80s, when food companies were trying to cram oat bran into everything because "nutritionists" told the hoi-polloi it had magical life-extension powers?Some things never change.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-01T17:10:49.087Z
Sooner or later, sensible people will need to just tell anti-immigration bigots to go to hell. archive.is/ZwLwc
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-02T17:26:11.101Z
Also, electricity and the microcomputer actually did most of what they were claimed to be able to do.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-04T03:33:10.119Z
Imagine having enough money to do basically anything which doesn't actually violate physical laws, and instead choosing to live your life like this.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-04T17:58:36.047Z
The heckler's veto as US government policy.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-05T17:57:26.404Z
Nobody who ever watched a single episode of any '60s spy show involving double agents should be surprised at this.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-07T17:51:58.453Z
You know how "I had sex with your dad" has become a way for sex workers to mock squares? Well, I had sex with a lot of people's grandpas. A lot of great-grandpas too.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-09T17:31:16.476Z
Fucking a lot of people of both sexes, reading omnivorously, writing A+ essays, running a D&D campaign, hanging out with my friends and predicting the eventual disasters that would result from bad US politics?Yep, checks out.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-10T17:31:49.443Z
I know it's difficult for males stuck at 12, but not everything is a pissing contest.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-11T17:21:28.738Z
Can we please stop saying [name of Trumpified institution] to mean "Trump"? Don't tell me "The Pentagon" or "The Department of Justice" or "The Kennedy Center" did something; the management of those places are just sock puppets speaking in Trump's voice, like an evil Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-12T17:30:43.841Z
"Mythos".They are taunting y'all, and few are literate enough to recognize it.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-13T17:38:37.133Z
Doctor Dolittle books. As players rise in levels, they learn more animal languages and gain more animal helpers. Experience is earned by traveling around the world, making friends with animals & with people of different races; by finding unique beings; and by visiting fantastic places like the Moon.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-15T03:51:15.730Z
If it looks like a circle jerk, sounds like a circle jerk, smells like a circle jerk, and jerks around like a circle jerk, it's probably a circle jerk.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-17T04:07:56.859Z
One of the most important causes of the Great Depression was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-17T18:05:59.672Z
People who accept domination by "leaders" cannot be free.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-18T18:42:45.618Z
Atom Age Throwback Thursday
Posted in Biography, History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged blogging, Catholicism, ethics, imaginative fiction, language, Mad Libs, psychology, STEM on June 18, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I’ve always thought [“inflation”] was a serious misnomer, because the problem isn’t really that prices are going up; it’s that the value of the currency is going down. –
“When Ends Don’t Meet”
The one moral concept from my Catholic upbringing which has remained steadfastly lodged in my head is that waste is a sin. – “Throwback Thursdays”
While traditional zombies are objects of horror to be feared, modern “zombies” are objects of loathing, to be exterminated…they…are people it’s OK to hate and even kill without having to worry about their rights, a fantasy outlet for violent impulses. – “Why Zombies?”
Digital computers…are fundamentally unable to think as we understand the concept, regardless of how big or fast they are or how complex the software, because intelligence requires grasping the concept “maybe”, which is excluded by binary data processing. – “Mad Libs (#1546)“
Throwback Thursday and the Ballerina
Posted in Miscellaneous, Music, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged blogging, cops, fantasy, Follow Your Bliss, holidays, imaginative fiction, language, McNeill's Law, psychology, teachers, video, violence vs. sex workers, Who in Review on June 4, 2026| Leave a Comment »
The naive believe that “child predators” are creepy dudes who hang out at playgrounds; in reality, they are largely people in positions of authority over their preferred targets. – “Follow Your Bliss (#1242)”
The more fantastical a world, the more important it is that it doesn’t contradict itself if an audience is to accept it. – “The Buffyverse, Part Two”
This is a day for sexual outlaws, not well-behaved “workers”; it is a day to celebrate the triumphs of criminalized human beings against a society that would rather we didn’t exist.
– “Whores’ Day 2024”
Whores’ Day 2026
Posted in Holidays, Perception, Philosophy, Words, tagged activism, Aphrodite, archeofeminism, censorship, holidays, language, paganism on June 2, 2026| 1 Comment »
Today is International Whores’ Day. It is not “Sex Worker Day”; that is March 3rd. Today is a day to shamelessly celebrate our shameless history, not a day for sanitized words or concepts; it is a day to fight society’s attempts (via law and police violence) to sanitize the wilder, unrulier, more chthonic aspects of sex. This is a day for sexual outlaws, not well-behaved “workers”; it is a day to celebrate the triumphs of criminalized human beings against a society that would rather we didn’t exist. It is a day to oppose censorship, not to engage in self-censorship; a day to honor a means of survival that predates laws and governments by eons; and a day to celebrate a power which will always defeat even the most pernicious attempts to domesticate it.
Links #829
Posted in Biography, Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged artificial stupidity, cell phones, Chile, cops, dating, Georgia, language, Michigan, Never Call the Cops, New Jersey, politicians, prisons, robots, Utah, video on May 24, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Approving a project that will consume water and energy at this scale is irresponsible and dangerous. – Franque Bains
This week’s video is a recently-discovered shellac master pressing of “Cross Road Blues” by Robert Johnson, who died mysteriously in 1938 before his career even got properly started, yet still influenced the young blues-inspired guitarists of the Sixties. The video was provided by Brooke Magnanti, and the links above it by Mike Siegel, Shiv Ramdas, Kevin Wilson, Reason, IncarcerNation, and Nun Ya (x2), in that order.
- R.I.P. Ann Robinson.
- So much safer than human drivers.
- Another of Easter Island’s many mysteries.
- What part of “never” is so hard to understand?
- Cops are predators, and behave like predators.
- Artificial stupidity is enabled by natural stupidity.
- Remember computer dating? These folks apparently don’t.
From the Archives
- Why pay for surveillance when useful idiots can be talked into providing it?
- A little bit of good news about mob-rule attempts to castrate Section 230.
- How long will Western society allow cops to terrorize traumatized women?
- Every “official” involved in this abomination should be imprisoned for life.
- Crypto-moralists believe that people enjoying any food makes it “unsafe”.
- Modern courts curtail the power of cops and prosecutors much too rarely.
- Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is declared unconstitutional.
- Wannabe censors & ambulance-chasers both capitalize on mob rule laws.
- This will continue as long as fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- If other big websites followed suit, the damage would’ve been contained.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- These attempts to destroy the internet are going to keep getting worse.
- Give aggressive thugs power over teens; what could possibly go wrong?
- Government using “sex trafficking” myths to destroy another company.
- If you thought “asset forfeiture” was brazen robbery, get a load of this.
- As long as sex work is criminalized, rapist cops will target sex workers.
- The US government is almost completely out of Constitutional control.
- Articles about misconduct shouldn’t include making excuses for cops.
- Hiding a murderer’s cop identity by shoving it down to paragraph 20.
- Wow, she managed to call for help without magic bathroom stickers.
- It’s barely even possible to talk about this under criminalization.
- Prohibition can never succeed, regardless of what is prohibited.
- All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Cop excuses produced by human bootlickers are bad enough.
- Politicians want to micromanage every aspect of teens’ lives.
- Remember, Twitter claims this surveillance isn’t surveillance.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- Washington state politicians demonstrate their hypocrisy.
- Another baby step toward recognizing sex work as work.
- No matter how little their victims have, cops will steal it.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Your curated selection of tweets for May 2023 and 2025.
- Cops, “discovery”, rolling ball thingies, and much more.
- Cop violence is never limited to members of the public.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, David Lazer, and much more.
- Of course Florida had to have its own “bathroom bill”.
- This one prowled for any kind of victim he could find.
- Politicians keep openly trying to destroy the internet.
- Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
- Cops, headlines, Dabney Coleman, and much more.
- Anyone who trusts Zuckerberg is out of his mind.
- Privacy as we once knew it is a thing of the past.
- I really wish I were wrong about the Uniparty.
- Looks like I was wrong about Belgian decrim.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
- The pullets come forth from the nursery.
- Much, much, much more of this, please.
- I’m gradually seeing more signs of age.
- Thoughts on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- Finally getting my fountain into place.
- The shittiest-paying sex work ever.
- It’s two! Two! Two fads in one!
- Throwback Thursday’s Castle.
- Paying For It: The Premiere.
- Once a cop, always a cop.
- Yes, They’re Still Tweets.
- Your “leaders” at work.
- Throwbilly Thursday.
- Who in Review.
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In the News (#1640)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged abortion, agency denial, artificial stupidity, consensual crime, cops, Cops and Robbers, Creepy Coppers, Do As I Say, domestic violence, drugs, fantasy, Follow Your Bliss, Kansas, Kentucky, language, law, lawheads, Louisiana, Mad Libs, Maryland, Monsters, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, porn, propaganda, scams, teachers, The Cop Myth, The Vultures Descend, transgender, Washington (state), Washington DC on May 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »
This is just one in a long line of attacks on our rights. – Alexis Johnson
When will the mainstream media admit that pigs in schools are a menace?
A [typical and representative Pennsylvania cop paid to lurk in]…school[s to spy on, harass, and intimidate students] has been arrested on child pornography charges…[an anonymous snitch tattled on] David Jayne…[to cops, who raided his house and found a trove of child porn going back] about 20 years…[Reporters interviewed a mob of slackjawed nitwits who expressed confusion over the revelation that cops are hypocrites and fear of sex ray contamination]…
Cops claim they “don’t know” if this was hate-motivated:
…a Santa Fe [New Mexico] transgender teen…[named] Juniper Blessing…was stabbed more than 40 times [at a University of Washington student housing complex in Seattle on the evening of May 10]…Christopher Leahy [surrendered]…to police [the following] Thursday…He…[is being] charge[d]…with first-degree murder…Blessing [was found] dead in the laundry room of Nordheim Court…around 10:10 p.m…[and Leahy was] caught on surveillance video…as…he…unplugged [the camera in preparation for]…the attack…Police haven’t referred the case to prosecutors as a hate crime investigation…Last month, a 39-year-old transmasculine person named Lucas Knapp was [murdered] in [New Mexico by]…David Thomas Byington, [who] fired at Knapp multiple times with a rifle…Investigators in Kentucky are continuing to search for 22-year-old Murry Foust, a trans man enrolled at Northern Kentucky University who has been missing since April 27…
Unsafe for Human Consumption (#1549)
Cops won’t drop this fantasy until “news” media stop obediently parroting it:
An [anxiety-prone Pennsylvania cop faint]ed in a p[igmobile] and [his bosses decided to turn it into “magic fentanyl” copaganda because]…he…help[ed] destroy narcotics inside the evidence room…about 20 minutes [earlier]…fentanyl [does not have a delayed effect, nor any effect from casual contact]…no[r any side effect of] memory [loss, but cops decided to turn it into a “magic fentanyl” scary tale anyhow, assuming it happened at all (given that no name was provided)]…
Do As I Say, Not As I Do (#1591) 
It’s too bad cops don’t spend all of their time fantasy role-playing with each other:
A D.C. [cop] has been arrested in Maryland [for talking to another cop]…Matthew Mahl…exchanged sexually explicit text messages with a Maryland [cop fantasy role-playing online]…as a 15-year-old boy…Mahl has been [rewarded with a paid vacation. The game]…was [part of a moneymaking scheme organized by toxic con artist] Chris Hansen, known for his [unethical] exp[loitation of public fears about “]child predators[” which resulted in a trail of ruined lives and even suicides, and inspired dozens of sleazy YouTube imit]ations. Hansen, who[se]…”To Catch a Predator” [show was cancelled due to successful lawsuits by its victims,] now hosts the series “Takedown with Chris Hansen” which fo[llows the same revolting formula]…
Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do:
A Wichita [Kansas cop named]…Grayson Hoofer was [arrested] for [breaking into his estranged girlfriend’s house to beat and sexually terrorize her]…Hoofer…[was, predictably,] a member of [a cop gang supposedly intended to intervene in]…domestic…violence [cases]. His [bosses have] since [hidden that, but also bragged that Hoofer]…has been re[warded with a]…paid [vacation]…
No, it can’t connect to my bank account; “your” is not a pronoun meaning “any fool’s”:
OpenAI wants…[fools] to…be able to connect their accounts across more than 12,000 financial institutions to…[Cat, I farted so it can root] “in your…financial accounts…in a way that feels more personal and complete”…If you are someone reasonably [sane]…you might be thinking, “Why on Earth would I want to do that?” But OpenAI…is [not marketing to sensible]…people…
Just a reminder that even if they’d let this diktat stand, it is wholly unenforceable:
The Supreme Court [has overruled a 5th Circuit diktat attempting to stop] the abortion pill mifepristone [from being] available by mail without an in-person appointment…The decision, a loss for the state of Louisiana, ensures [clinicians] will not be [criminalized when they prescribe]…the drug [for women in forced-birth states]…Two [totalitarian judg]es, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, dissented…[absurdly barfing] “criminal enterprise” [at the plaintiffs]…
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Not of Throwback Thursday
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged A Broker in Pillage, abortion, agency denial, blogging, censorship, cops, end demand, language, law, politicians, scams, sex work is work, Swedish model on May 21, 2026| Leave a Comment »
If there is one succinct statement which sums up my political philosophy, it’s “Every adult individual owns themselves and absolutely nobody has the right to overrule that.” –
“Your Body, Your Choice”
Politicians can always be counted on to pander to hordes of ignorant lackwits who view any knowledge that might contradict their deeply-stupid weltanschauung as an existential threat. – “The Kinsey Factor”
I fail to see any important difference between the government forcibly taking people’s homes to quarter troops and forcibly taking them to enable cops and robbers games. – “A Broker in Pillage (#1438)”
Prohibitionists have learned…that decriminalization is viewed by all experts as the best framework, so now they’re all lying by calling whatever modified criminalization scam they’re selling “decriminalization”, so as to trick ordinary voters into believing they actually support human rights. – “Not Decriminalization“
On the Tweet Where You Live
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Old-style criminals ran their criminal activities as businesses; techies run their businesses as criminal enterprises.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-18T07:51:15.991Z
These things look like the wearer's head shrunk, which makes them a perfect visual metaphor for chatbot usage.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-21T03:54:52.643Z
"She swindled him out of the $40,000 he spent on her…"Make up you minds; either he spent it or she swindled him. Buyer's remorse does not a "swindle" make.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-23T03:32:42.585Z
In my youth, nobody used a word any harsher than "eccentric" to describe old ladies who refused to drive economy cars, insisted big tube radios sounded better than transistor radios, or was unimpressed with cinema special-effects spectacles.I hope to be afforded the same courtesy.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-23T17:07:28.260Z
Not crushing enough.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-24T17:45:48.193Z
"Sam Altman, the head (in the nautical sense) of OpenAI…"Please proceed.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-25T17:29:34.342Z
A sophomoric twit proposes a stupid thought experiment involving button-pushing. If more than 50% of people on social media respond, other sophomoric twits will continue to propose stupid thought experiments, but if less than 50% respond the fad will die. Do you participate?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-26T16:31:10.502Z
I'm sick to death of hearing this nonsense about "girl dads" and "boy moms". How about just being parents who actually CARE about their children, regardless of gender? And I don't mean "help them achieve arbitrary standards of success" or "keep them physically 'safe' at the cost of personal growth".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T17:44:27.936Z
I do not keep cursed objects in my home, and furthermore as a wise old crone who lives near a damp, creepy forest I advise y'all not to keep them in your homes, either.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T18:01:27.631Z
Dude looks like he just got a facefull of Joker toxin.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-30T03:59:39.099Z
A housecat is much smaller than a human, and absolutely cannot win in a fight with a determined human. But it doesn't need to; all it NEEDS to do is make grabbing it so painful and bloody that the human decides grabbing it isn't worthwhile.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-30T18:23:30.477Z
The Bluesky autocensor has labeled this "explicit or potentially disturbing". If you're disturbed by the Three Stooges' cartoon violence, I suggest you just mute or block me now, because it isn't going to get any better for you.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-01T18:04:59.499Z
I stopped considering myself a Christian about 50 years ago, and I am still nauseated by the level of blasphemy constantly pouring out of Gomorrah-on-the-Potomac.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-02T02:52:58.126Z
I propose we change the name from the Department of Justice to the Department of Vengeance, so as to more accurately describe its activities. If a hypothetical future regime somehow changes that in a way that will make abuse much harder*, we can consider changing it back.*This will never happen.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-03T17:54:28.666Z
Millennials and Gen Xers may recognize this song as the main title of "The Adventures of Pete & Pete". But what Polaris didn't dare tell Nickelodeon, for fear of losing the gig, is that the song is about the Kent State massacre. The titular "Sandy" is Sandra Lee Scheuer.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-04T16:59:54.865Z
It's true, I was there.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-05T04:03:23.278Z
A lot of people (ESPECIALLY in cities like Portland or Seattle) use the term "anarchist" as a synonym for "hooligan", when in actuality they're closer to antonyms. True anarchists have their own moral code which they firmly adhere to, for reasons which should be obvious.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-05T16:45:46.775Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-09T04:45:27.463Z
So the antecedent of "you" here is…countries? Or is he saying all "not stupid" countries should shoot at an individual, such as a US local cop, who shoots at me, Maggie McNeill? Or does he mean there should be a grand free-for-all in which all national militaries avenge all individual shootings?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-09T17:26:29.171Z
"it is context window buffers""I thought a string of instructions could be my friend""Mensa"{insert "I am very smart" meme}
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-11T17:19:05.355Z
This looks worse than "Reptilicus".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-12T17:34:06.980Z
My favorite subgenre of country is philosophical country, epitomized by songs written by Jimmy Webb.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-13T16:47:24.314Z
Roughly 1/3 of US voters are authoritarian.Roughly 1/3 are liberal.And the remaining 1/3 are spineless reeds who will bend with the political winds.The entire history of US politics, from the founding generation until now, is the struggle to capture the middle third.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-14T17:45:43.395Z
He also announced future initiatives to fight saline bags, stints, dental chairs, and MRI machines, but he's leaving the fights against vaccines and antibiotics to his buddy Frankennedy.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-16T17:31:42.572Z
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