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Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged advertising, agency denial, animals, Backpage, Believe Them, blogging, censorship, Choke Point, cops, Dangerous Speech, domestic violence, language, left-right myth, Neither Addiction nor Epidemic, Objectification Overruled, prisons, psychology, sex rays, sex work is work, STEM, Sunset, tits, Twitter, Washington (state) on September 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »

It's clearly pointless to attempt to explain anything about addiction to a clod who thinks the plural of "anecdote"is "data". So instead, I'll just mute you so you can enjoy shouting whatever gibberish you like into your own rectum without fear of contradiction.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 21, 2023

Dear Advertisers,

Your "suggestions" are not actually "for me" if I didn't explicitly ask for them. So please stop trying to put one arm around me as though I'm your bosom buddy while trying to put your other hand in my purse.

Sincerely, Maggie

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 21, 2023

We've reached the point where we're actually seeing people argue aloud that some ideas and beliefs should be illegal.

IOW, they're arguing for literal thoughtcrime.

God help us.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 22, 2023

"The effect it will have on other people." IOW, he's afraid of sex rays emitted from the side of the tit outside of the baby's mouth that creepy people can see if they choose to stare at a woman nursing. https://t.co/Ug59w8ewOA

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 23, 2023

"people who connect with her story can even call her and talk about their own experiences, for $50 per one-hour call…"

So she's charging money fordoing emotional labor? Yeah, so do I. Know what that's called, Jourdan? https://t.co/guXAyb0PYF

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 26, 2023

The Days of Future Past. https://t.co/olbJDOGCtZ

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 26, 2023

I wish collectivists would stop trying to include me in their collective-blame game when I have opposed practically everything they try to set blame for, and had nothing to do with the rest.

Sorry, but I'm not part of your political "we" statements.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 27, 2023

And yes, this is equally true whether you stand there in a herd, mouth agape, pointing at either the "left wing" or the "right wing". I know it's fun to belong to these partisan gangs, but is paying attention to what's going on around you too much trouble?

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 29, 2023

I liked "Pride" much better as a parade one weekend than as a corporate "LGBT Christmas" going on for an entire month as an excuse to sell things.

But I liked it MUCH better as a month than as an ever-expanding series of only-tangentially-related events stretching out all year.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 30, 2023

That's going to come as a surprise to a lot of historians. https://t.co/7DZLywnkqy

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 31, 2023

Another example: the incompetence of prosecutors in the kangaroo trial of Michael Lacey & Jim Larkin resulted in a mistrial, using up what little funds were available for the defense, so as to weaken it even MORE before the retrial and directly causing the death of Jim Larkin.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 1, 2023

Some people are such economic imbeciles I wouldn't even trust them to make change.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 2, 2023

I am TOTALLY going to name my next dog "Loud is his Bark". pic.twitter.com/YSB9SziNle

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 2, 2023

Siri, show me someone who's never set foot south of the Mason-Dixon line in her entire life. https://t.co/G8kxcsT61E

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 4, 2023

René Magritte would tell you that this is not a hot dog. https://t.co/2Xu4Aq6lXc

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 4, 2023

Big thanks to fruitcakes who signal that I should mute them by advertising themselves as brain-dead partisans right there in their handle. It saves me so much time!

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 6, 2023

The only way to keep ANYONE from misusing ANY power is not to give it to them in the first place. https://t.co/3gRhXJMfqj

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 8, 2023

Some of us were warning y'all about this over a decade ago, but as usual nobody listened until it had already become a serious and deeply-entrenched problem.

Expressed more colorfully: we told y'all to get that lump checked out, but y'all waited until it became stage-4 cancer. https://t.co/pqRn9aOJFg

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 9, 2023

I might not hate the word "upgrade" as much if corporations didn't use it to mean, "replace something older that functions in a satisfactory manner with something newer that doesn't."

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 10, 2023

Cops show Americans exactly what they are on a regular basis, but Americans just keep pretending they can't see it. https://t.co/eDcQou9W4v

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 12, 2023

Despite over five decades of having to live with it, I will never understand why so many people absolutely CRAVE being ordered around and punished when they fail to obey arbitrary diktats.

And no, I'm not talking about kink.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 14, 2023

An old friend and I were once discussing abusive relationships, and she told me about a couple she knew where the guy managed to gaslight his wife into believing that, when she ACTUALLY CAUGHT HIM IN BED with another woman, it was just a dream.

Good metaphor for US politics.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 15, 2023

Oh dear, I see the circular firing squad is still in action. That'll REALLY defeat the prohibitionists, yessiree!

{slow clap}

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 18, 2023

I am often bemused by modern people's crusade to "cancel" every artist they discover was an awful person, because if actually successful it would eventually result in a world almost entirely bereft of art.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 19, 2023

Apparently, I was slightly befuddled. UNIFIED field theory, dammit!

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 20, 2023

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The Curse of Throwback Thursday

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging, Divination, hysteria, left-right myth, marriage, Paint By Numbers, politicians, surveillance on September 21, 2023| Leave a Comment »

[A “sex trafficking” story asserted] that “Traffickers often change locations…using standard transportation that wouldn’t raise eyebrows…” As opposed to what, howdahs? Pogo sticks? Dirigibles? Amphibious landing craft? – “Paint By Numbers (#438)”

Insecure women may refer to sex workers as “homewreckers”, but in fact we save far more marriages than we destroy because we allow men to manage the sexual impulses their wives either can’t or won’t cater to, and which they would otherwise follow into affairs which might indeed wreck the home. – “Off Limits”

Since the beginning of civilization, “authorities” have lusted for the magical ability to divine which of the peons might be disobeying their diktats. – “Divination”

The pretense or belief that giving women, minorities, queers, etc more power in authoritarian systems will somehow make those systems more humane is childish and counterproductive; as long as the system remains authoritarian, the gender, race, sexual orientation, religion or whatever of the individual cogs in that system is of absolutely no consequence. – “Interchangeable Parts”

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Another Throwback Thursday

Posted in History, Miscellaneous, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged blogging, cops, dehumanization, ethics, hysteria, imaginative fiction, Ireland, left-right myth, rape, violence vs. sex workers on July 20, 2023| Leave a Comment »

How many more skeletons need to be found in closets or cesspools before the public wakes up to the evil of prohibitionism? – “How Many Will It Take?”

Two extra pairs of arms shot forth from her gown with the speed of striking cobras; six sets of razor-sharp fingernails glinted like gems for only an instant before they were coated in blood; thirty powerful digits ripped out the princely entrails with the ease and energy of a child scattering shredded paper from the interior of an eagerly-awaited package. And Marilith was not sure if she would ever stop screaming, much less sleep again. – “Willpower”

Sex work isn’t going anywhere, no matter what cops, prosecutors and morally-retarded billionaires want you to believe. – “Scrupleless in Seattle”

While nobody has yet managed to sell the idea of a humorous ride centering around terrorists, a kids’ movie series about carjackers or a “Talk Like a Rapist Day”, somehow pirates (bizarrely conceived as forever locked in the late 17^th century) have been stripped of basically all of their realities (except maybe the ships) and re-imagined as lovable seafaring clowns led by strangely gender-and-sexual-orientation-ambiguous performance artists with highly idiosyncratic fashion senses. – “Humorous, Adventurous Rapists“

There is no legitimate “debate” over whether people own their own bodies, nor whether they have the right to consensual sex with other adult partners; pretending that there is such a “debate” is nothing more than catering to evil control freaks and sucking the dick of power. – “Not Even Close”

The only actual power government has is to inflict violence.
– “The Gun in the Room”

Democrats have always joined Republicans in enthusiastic support for anti-sex worker laws since such laws first started popping up in the late 19^th century, and half of the blame for “sex trafficking” hysteria and the horrible laws it has enabled is scattered all over the Dems’ front lawn like overturned garbage cans.
– “Fair-Weather Friends”

Rape cases don’t go uninvestigated because cops and prosecutors don’t believe victims; they languish because cops and prosecutors don’t care about victims, especially not the marginalized women who make up the majority of serial rapists’ targets. – “Low Priority“

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Lazy Tweets

Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, tagged blogging, cops, dating, ethics, Facebook, Hollywood, imaginative fiction, language, left-right myth, politicians, restaurants, Swedish model, The Mob Rules, Twitter on July 17, 2023| Leave a Comment »

THIS RIGHT HERE. https://t.co/QjN2nP540L

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 21, 2023

Apparently, it isn't enough time to learn addition & subtraction. pic.twitter.com/8zAOz2WnZK

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 23, 2023

Governments use euphemisms to disguise their crimes.

Robbery is called "taxation" or "asset forfeiture". Kidnapping is called "arrest". Home invasion is called "executing a warrant". Sexual assault is a "search", murder "execution", and mass murder a "policy decision". https://t.co/St3lsNdAMQ

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 24, 2023

Boba Fett. But that book on the right is only the first of 18 volumes. https://t.co/R6gf4Seq1X

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 26, 2023

It's so cute to watch lamebrains bloviating about "billionaires" while exempting the astonishingly-wealthy who create their favored entertainment or parrot their preferred political propaganda.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 27, 2023

Koyaanisqatsi. https://t.co/NfuyMR3JKC

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 29, 2023

Actually, eating alone in a public restaurant is the same old level of business travel. https://t.co/r2Avf4xfMy

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 30, 2023

Same energy: pic.twitter.com/l6QsS2jozq

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 30, 2023

It's shocking how much pro-mob rule idiocy is emitted by people burbling about the rights of minorities…which essentially don't exist under the mob rule systems these dolts favor.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 1, 2023

A politician's "pledge" is worth a little less than what my dog barfed up on the rug this morning. https://t.co/hrNgrxivbj

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 2, 2023

Politicians & bureaucrats: There's a WORLD of difference between asking or suggesting, vs. ordering or demanding. Maybe if you learned it you might actually get something accomplished other than mindless violence and the waste of trillions.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 4, 2023

"America" is here used to mean "the US federal government". They are not the same thing, and conflating them has long been a contributing factor to this issue. https://t.co/vbHHyLLjsS

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 5, 2023

Every time I see "Threads" mentioned I at first think it's about the devouring menace from the Pern books. Which, to be fair, isn't THAT far off if one considers Meta's propensity for consuming everything it can infest. https://t.co/CL8aVV80z2

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 7, 2023

The belief and insistence that every organization, corporation, or institution must prioritize the same goals and principles demanded by some authority is an intrinsically totalitarian one, and therefore inimical to individual rights and human progress.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 8, 2023

And *off* the internet, too; this is called "politics". https://t.co/A3KUfNMNew

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 10, 2023

Oh no, people are being practical about a biological function!

THIS MUST BE STOPPED AT ANY COST!!!! https://t.co/sII02Hmgcu

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 12, 2023

Wisdom. https://t.co/CfbpBIoixJ

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 12, 2023

Anyone careless enough to make that "mistake" is far too careless to be entrusted with a gun, and even too careless to entrust with driving privileges (lest they "mistake" a red light for green). They could probably handle bussing tables, maybe. https://t.co/OPsOMNnexy

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 14, 2023

But sex work is SO EXPLOITATIVE. https://t.co/XH3z5X93va

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 15, 2023

No, they're still doing it by that much older form of artificial stupidity, the committee.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 16, 2023

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Links #677

Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, comics, cops, FBI, left-right myth, Massachusetts, Ohio, sporting events, Things We Choose To Do Together, video on June 25, 2023| Leave a Comment »

The idea that [cops] have a protectable right to personal privacy while conducting a search of someone’s home is nothing short of absurd. – David Carey

Wow, there sure were a lot of celebrity deaths in the past couple of weeks; I think the most obits I’ve had in one Links column before was three or four; it was certainly less than six. But none of them were musicians, so here’s a parody of one modern ritual surounding the other end of the human experience. The links above it were provided by Stephen Lemons and Franklin Harris; Dan Savage and Radley Balko; Jesse Walker and Scott Greenfield; C.J. Ciaramella; and Scott Long, 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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The First Tweets of Spring

Posted in Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, Music, Philosophy, tagged activism, agency denial, asset seizure, blogging, censorship, consensual crime, cops, crypto-moralism, drugs, Florida, hysteria, language, law, left-right myth, License To Rape, Minnesota, New York, politicians, propaganda, psychology, robots, Twitter, United Kingdom, universal criminality on April 24, 2023| 5 Comments »

"Smart" devices aren't, part Umpty-eleven. https://t.co/4vzXR30qIY

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 23, 2023

If you only watch one video this week, make it this one.

This woman is heroic, and y'all know I do *not* throw that term around lightly as so many do now. She could comfortably enjoy old age, but instead she's still fighting for what is RIGHT at 100 years old. https://t.co/KRQFXVa9JU

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 24, 2023

It's always interesting to see which stranger partisans now consider it fashionable to allow to live in their heads for free.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 26, 2023

Cops molesting kids is epidemic; just because some of them prefer to call the molestation a "search" doesn't make it a different issue. https://t.co/uKOtSJOQVl

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 27, 2023

If you really want a book for more than one-time light reading, you need to actually buy it. Kindle "buying" is really just a kind of renting from a lessor who can change the terms of the contract at any time, even to substituting a different text without your consent. https://t.co/IdG64L2nny

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 28, 2023

THIS. At one time, a prescription was simply a note from one professional to another, explaining exactly *which* drug the patient needed in clinical terms the patient could not be expected to understand or repeat accurately. Prohibition turned that into a legal document. https://t.co/mCc71HL81E

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 29, 2023

"Murdered".

The word for the willful killing of a human being who poses no threat to the killer is "murder". https://t.co/9U0nzMwTPK

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 30, 2023

Men being extremely silly with their mommies is quite possibly my favorite genre of short video. https://t.co/9UrNo8tVAx

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 31, 2023

For example: pic.twitter.com/bAE8ZZc5wl

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 31, 2023

These publishers are like fast-food chains who intentionally ruin menu items in order to please people who aren't their customers and never will be no matter HOW much they change. https://t.co/E3x7qiBPWs

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 2, 2023

Historically-ignorant pronouncements have got to be one of the most irritating things on Twitter.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 4, 2023

Whenever I see people surprised that "their" politicians behave exactly like everybody knows politicians behave, I'm reminded of a quote from Rita Mae Brown (not Einstein, sorry internet): "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results."

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 5, 2023

In which "progressive" NPR calls for more of the police interactions that result in the deaths or incarceration of many thousands of Americans a year. https://t.co/tEcVJ4BMOT

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 7, 2023

I hope amateur women never change, so that future generations of whores will always have plenty of work. Is that wrong of me?

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 8, 2023

I once wrote a story based on this concept; it's a sort of theological horror romance spiced with VERY black humor. https://t.co/jJBXD1Qzue

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 9, 2023

That's probably the most incompetent. But the most pretentious rhymes definitely come from Sting; I mean, rhyming "apprentice" with "Charybdis" and "shake and cough" with "Nabokov" is pretty impressively pompous.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 10, 2023

Outrage based on conscious ignorance is driven by the need or desire to be outraged; it's that need which motivates the intentional ignorance. Therefore such outrage MUST be stronger than mere organic outrage, in the same way refined products are more potent than raw ones.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 11, 2023

"Cops admit they paid for their expensive new toys with stolen money" is not the reassurance they seem to imagine it is. https://t.co/iZJNFaoQZO

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 12, 2023

Ray Harryhausen was an irreplaceable blessing to humanity. https://t.co/5qGQ6ULdCT

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 13, 2023

"Speaker Paul Renner had to close the public viewing galleries…"

He "had to"? Was he forced to do so by an evil spell or Platonian psychokinesis? Were terrorists holding a gun to his head? Would someone have inevitably died had he not acted?

Stop making excuses for tyranny. https://t.co/2GqUSCF59O

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 14, 2023

The state thinks that legal minors are children; that children are property; and that it's the government's "right" to steal the property of any citizen as it pleases.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 15, 2023

This article may help y'all to understand what I've said since the 1980s: "nutritionism" is, to a large extent, simply puritanism disguised by a pseudoscientific veneer. https://t.co/wK3jnviqMP

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 16, 2023

Recognizing that most people who identify as "left-wing" are useful idiots.

Not coincidentally, my "most left-wing coded attribute" is recognizing that most people who identify as "right-wing" are useful idiots. https://t.co/KUIUBwvi25

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 17, 2023

Damn, and here I was planning to get a grant for my zombie-staffed lawn service company. https://t.co/NZ7Q5AXRdh

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 18, 2023

From a sociological perspective, it's interesting to watch the last adherents of a moral panic clinging desperately to whatever feeling (safety? importance? validation?) the panic gave them after everyone else has lost interest.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 19, 2023

Phrasing this as "Americans buy more of one processed plant product with mood-altering effects that's disliked by some puritans than another processed plant product with mood-altering effects that's disliked by other puritans" really puts the absurdity of prohibition on display. https://t.co/R6x7LfOchO

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 21, 2023

My two lowest subscription rates are lower than Twitter wants for its blue check. Just sayin'. pic.twitter.com/EvGzl41ik0

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 21, 2023

Your regular reminder that trying to define other people's experiences for them, or claiming they're "wrong" because they're fine with experiences (*especially* sexual experiences) that YOU think would harm YOU, is the behavior of a creepy control freak.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 22, 2023

This is good, but let me also point out that even *less* that 1% of modern literature will survive the next 5000 years.

You're welcome. https://t.co/e6GSHxEdVd

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 23, 2023

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Thaw-time Tweets

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged adolescence, agency denial, blogging, cops, crypto-moralism, dehumanization, drugs, language, law, left-right myth, politicians, pregnancy, robots, surveillance, Twitter, universal criminality on March 23, 2023| Leave a Comment »

The number of women whose lives were ruined by sex work is dwarfed into utter insignificance by the number of women whose lives were ruined by unwanted pregnancies.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 24, 2023

"Misleading" is such a nice way to say "lying outrageously to cover up their own crimes". https://t.co/ZbjkZIMZNI

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 24, 2023

I don't think I've ever muted anyone on here for being a humorless, pompous scold before. But there' a first time for everything.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 26, 2023

This is rhetorical sleight of hand. There's no such thing as a "prostituted woman"; it's an imaginary construct based in the fantasy that sex workers are passive, vegetable-like entities. Since there ARE no such creatures, talking to none is talking to all.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 27, 2023

One of the most important principles of existing in a world full of violent authoritarians and their pet snitches is, "Never give anybody any personal information that they do not absolutely need".

Most sex workers understand why this is important; I wish the rest of y'all did.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 28, 2023

Politicians and bureaucrats are ALWAYS in favor of more laws, rules and "regulations" about every single aspect of human existence, so THEIR preferences are not arguments in favor of ANYthing. It would be like trying to advertise a food product by proclaiming that dogs like it.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 28, 2023

Catastrophist authoritarians love saying "planet" when they actually mean "human society", and "universe" when they actually mean "this one tiny planet".

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 1, 2023

Don't ever say Cassandra McNeill never warned y'all. https://t.co/9XQiw9VR7b

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 2, 2023

I first encountered coconut milk when I was about 5; it was obvious to me even then that it got the name from its appearance and had nothing to do with dairy.

But I guess most politicians aren't as bright as I was at 5. https://t.co/llcXds1xFU

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 3, 2023

Make cops carry individual insurance, and pay for it themselves. When a cop has too many suits to be insurable, he can no longer work as a cop. This may be the only way to stop the carnage, considering politicians are too spineless to fix it themselves. https://t.co/WszZaYpkMU

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 4, 2023

Another person arguing that big, tall, fat, or wealthy people should have more votes than small, short, skinny, or poor ones. https://t.co/XJ90ZE6597

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 5, 2023

I beg to differ about it not being healthy; it saved my sanity, my health, and very possibly my life, far more effectively than any prescription drug could've, for a fraction of the cost, and fully under MY control rather than some doctor's. And I'm far from alone.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 8, 2023

This is your regular reminder that infantilizing young adults as "children" does not actually help them, and if anything makes them MORE vulnerable to whatever it is you're claiming you want to protect them from.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 9, 2023

Gotta say I'm amused by the sudden realization by both reporters and social media denizens that politicians lie, constantly and egregiously. Now if they can just grok that this is neither new nor novel nor limited to politicians of only one party, we might actually get somewhere.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 10, 2023

I have never and will never understand the childlike faith people put in "restraining orders". But then, perhaps because I've played D&D for over 40 years, I *know* magic is just make-believe.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 11, 2023

I wish people would stop using this backward phrasing invented by journalists.

It's "1/50 as fast", not "50 times slower". Slowness is a lack of speed, just like cold is a lack of heat. That's why your car has a "speedometer" not a "slowometer". https://t.co/bXJ7JXFc7r

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 11, 2023

Many years ago, Robert Heinlein proposed a Constitutional amendment requiring all laws to be written in plain English comprehensible to average high-school graduates. https://t.co/ov9M5Nz5yp

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 11, 2023

Every time one of these "feminist" prohibitionists opines, she demonstrates that she not only fails to comprehend that is a wide variety of clients who want all sorts of different experiences, but also that she has absolutely not the faintest clue what any of them is like.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 13, 2023

CSPI has nothing to do with science; it’s an authoritarian organization dedicated to promoting the latest nutritional pseudoscience. These are the same people who once said that raw poppy seeds are "contaminated" with opium (which comes from, you guessed it, poppy seeds). https://t.co/l8fneOWKfu

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 15, 2023

Oh yes, statism is just another religion. The gods have been replaced by parties and agendas, and the prayers go by other names. But the adherents are still expected to mindlessly regurgitate dogma, and heretics and infidels are punished as ruthlessly as ever.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 16, 2023

The problem with "progressive" types & "parental rights" types BOTH is that they view young adults as "children" & children as objects, to be managed & programmed by state or family. Neither gives a damn about the young people themselves; they're just quibbling about ownership.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 17, 2023

One of the stupidest things about modern culture wars is that, when
culture warriors' opponents CLEARLY STATE what's bothering them, the warriors deny it and say, "No, your problem is REALLY 'x' motivation from our dogma about you" rather than using the knowledge.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 19, 2023

Why do prohibitionists make ridiculously-obvious statements like "people only do work if they feel the money is worth their time" and then pretend it's somehow a "gotcha"?

Puritanism blinds people. https://t.co/6xSPPZFTXC

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 20, 2023

I mean really; this is the online equivalent of taking your dick out at a party and wriggling it around while pretending it's talking, as though it were a puppet. Only the online behavior is more sophomoric.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 22, 2023

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Tweets from the Darkside

Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Words, tagged activism, animals, blogging, censorship, child "protective" services, comics, consensual crime, cops, drugs, ethics, Google, language, left-right myth, Louisiana, politicians, porn, psychology, surveillance, teachers, Twitter, Washington (state) on January 23, 2023| 2 Comments »

THIS RIGHT HERE. If you want to understand why so many overdoses nowadays involve fetanyl, look up "Iron Law of Prohibition". Here, I'll help: https://t.co/Dh0b0CSmpT

Prohibition CAUSES overdoses. Period. Only cops & badgelickers find this controversial. https://t.co/Xme8s5jcMJ

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 25, 2022

Imagine cheerleaders hopping around chanting rhyming nonsense about how THEIR color is GREAT and will BEAT those OTHER COLOR players, RAH RAH RAH! And you'll get a sense of how this childish nonsense sounds to sensible people.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 27, 2022

From MAD Magazine, September 1969: pic.twitter.com/yyXw4wbQId

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 29, 2022

This is why every animal and plant falls in "love" and they all have marriages. Every honeybee is a licensed and ordained minister of the Christian religion, even dozens of millions of years before Jesus. https://t.co/CPwPKm4viE

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 30, 2022

Why did anyone ever imagine that something called a "cloud" would be safe and permanent? https://t.co/ZhCuxmm3Ud

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 31, 2022

I hate when journalists try to make it sound like state violence is something that "just happens".

No, these people don't "lose" their children like one "loses" socks in the wash. Their children are forcibly abducted by the state to serve its own agenda. https://t.co/Kh6mYRgOqC

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 1, 2023

Well, be fair; "one who is completely unable to mind his own business" would be a pretty useful working definition of "politician".

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 2, 2023

And you can ALSO fully embrace your sexuality without being "dirty", "horny", "little", or a "monster". https://t.co/YlZQ3htFL8

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 3, 2023

My bank recently thought it was "suspicious" that I filled up my car at a Wal-mart gas station that I've frequently used in the past, then proceeded to buy about $300 worth of toys at that same Wal-mart, a few weeks before Christmas. https://t.co/A3cJI0oDZg

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 4, 2023

WHY IS TWITTER SO OBSESSED WITH ME EVEN THOUGH I DIED 12 YEARS AGO? pic.twitter.com/bUo0JhPB8F

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 5, 2023

Another idiot who not only can't read, but thinks tall, big, fat, or rich people should have more votes than short, small, skinny, or poor people. https://t.co/bCgcXrrZVz

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 6, 2023

The mob will always agree with those advocating mob rule.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 7, 2023

Long, skinny, and wet? https://t.co/w5Os3wHBtk

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 8, 2023

Why don't we send this eccentric burglar to the home of that eccentric billionaire who's always giving away huge sums for childishly-simple tasks? https://t.co/F4riEigI2A

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 9, 2023

"Links", indeed. That's like saying our ancestors "linked" disease to sin, astrology, or witchcraft. https://t.co/h90bK2FfCh

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 10, 2023

…always been immune to the supposed omnipresence of porn. I cannot recall a single instance in the past 20 years where porn suddenly appeared before my shocked eyes in some venue where I didn't already know it might conceivably appear.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 11, 2023

Addendum: "Excited delirium" is not a real medical condition, but a lie made up by cops to pretend people they murder were actually killed by a medical condition. It's as real as the magic fentanyl that causes cops to OD by merely touching it, with no actual opiate OD symptoms.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 12, 2023

Yes, the Fossil Fuel Industry has a Death Star. https://t.co/8TZU4ZkNmQ

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 14, 2023

I think this image is going to haunt me. https://t.co/cbJIdwWWfY

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 14, 2023

Today's perfectly ordinary word Google doesn't know: "numerological".

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 15, 2023

"Sell their bodies" to mean sex work is a weird take.

"Sell their bodies online" to mean selling nude pictures is a completely deranged take.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 17, 2023

SO MUCH THIS.

If you want people to have the freedom to create content you like, you need to support them so they don't have to spend time in more lucrative pursuits. https://t.co/1JbNHzabW1

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 17, 2023

I hope her settlement is more than she'd have made in 20 years of shitty adjunct pay. https://t.co/g0yMqGyXe2

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 18, 2023

Minding other people's business. https://t.co/B6sJ53DiJh

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 20, 2023

As long as he had the money and references, why not?

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 21, 2023

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Yuletweets

Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, tagged bad customers, BDSM, blogging, Canada, Catholicism, censorship, drugs, ethics, games, language, left-right myth, Mars, New York, politicians, psychology, robots, Twitter on December 23, 2022| Leave a Comment »

TFW the name of a dude you blackballed from your escort service suddenly seems very popular on Twitter.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 23, 2022

Because obviously what the world REALLY needs is an artificial liar which is better at political deception and "strategic lying" than humans. https://t.co/yTOlaCVAlv

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 23, 2022

Not entirely wrong. https://t.co/YOWPVJHWdz

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 25, 2022

Humans have such silly ideas. https://t.co/kCAzzPyWx1

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 28, 2022

Sometimes history reflects itself rather than repeating or rhyming. https://t.co/ebgtxoFRed

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 29, 2022

It really irritates me when I see a tweet that makes a great point, but then tacks on some inane culture war shibboleth at the end, making it un-retweetable by any intellectually honest person.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 30, 2022

https://t.co/Z32l9J1VlE

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 1, 2022

As so often in these exonerative voice constructions, the sentence is structured to place the blame on the gun. It's especially loathsome this time by including the unusually-specific detail that it was an AR-15, a note calculated to ignite readers' hysteria vs that model.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 2, 2022

Never trust someone who tries to convince you that something isn't a problem by contrasting it with a more serious problem.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 4, 2022

One of the most important differences between physics and political "science" is that in physics, nobody pretends "entropy increases" is controversial or unduly pessimistic.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 4, 2022

Do you think you'd escape consequences for grand theft if you pinky-swore to the judge that you'd pay it back? https://t.co/Bpqakk5YjA

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 5, 2022

And yet they all want to impose their "solutions" upon, and extract the things they want from, YOU. By force and by threat of violence. https://t.co/q6tMZEvnXt

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 6, 2022

Sex workers have been telling y'all this for years. https://t.co/XzKAzGRtyG

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 9, 2022

I don't even OWN any yellow clothes because they make me look ill due to skin undertones.

Brides like this need to be shut down from the get-go; her fiance should also deeply consider whether he should get legally entangled with such a narcissistic control freak. https://t.co/tDlu4ILlTE

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 9, 2022

That's called the exonerative voice.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 10, 2022

The greatest source of evil in the world is a pair of linked cravings: the desire for power over others, and the desire to be controlled by "leaders". Each is reinforced and supported by the other.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 11, 2022

Corollary: "Follow your dreams" is text for a Hallmark card or a poster on a '70s teenager's wall, not serious life advice for adults with a realistic view of the world.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 12, 2022

Gotta say, I did not expect to read something as stupid as "Ugh ugh, me hate books" today.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 13, 2022

If someone tells you that you're so stupid you can only subscribe to beliefs in big packages approved by one of the Culture War Clubs, so that if you are skeptical of "X" you *must* believe "Y", that person is not your friend and cannot be trusted. Shun them.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 15, 2022

Doctors are always fascinated by idiots; they provide natural experiments it would be unethical to subject normal people to.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 16, 2022

"And what do *you* want to do when you grow up, little girl?"
"I want to align with industry demands as a cog in tomorrow's global workforce."

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 17, 2022

85. I've discovered 10 mph over is usually the best setting to make good time without attracting predatory cops or having to come out of cruise too often due to obstruction by slower-moving traffic. https://t.co/ogdm8cThEC

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 18, 2022

Everything not forbidden is compulsory. https://t.co/K8DRkNi5Dp

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 20, 2022

Never trust a man who uses "pleasure" as a verb.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 21, 2022

Who the hell decided "factory" was a good word to include in the names of chain restaurants? I can't think of a lot of less-appetizing words they could've used without being actually off-putting.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 22, 2022

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Imaginary Dualities

Posted in Perception, Philosophy, The Dark Side, tagged agency denial, cops, language, left-right myth, Madonna/whore, prohibitionist myths, rape, screening, streetwalkers on December 15, 2022| 1 Comment »

I don’t think it’s controversial (it certainly shouldn’t be) to say that street workers suffer far more violence than sex workers with higher screening barriers. It’s not like every damned study ever done on the subject hasn’t said the same thing. If this is in any way controversial to some people, I’d say it derives from the modern infatuation with Manicheanism. Far too many moderns want to believe that all of society can be neatly divided into sheep and goats, “workers” and “capitalists”, renters and landlords, oppressors and oppressed, white and POC, old and young, straight and queer, etc, etc, ad nauseam. So when people laboring under that grievous cognitive error see a statement like “x is safer than y”, they read it as “X is completely safe and Y unrelentingly dangerous”. But of course, that’s no more true than any of the others; we don’t live in a Hollywood black hat/white hat world. The first time I was ever raped on the job, it was by a businessman in a 5-star hotel, but that doesn’t change the fact that on average, I was safer from violence by clients, cops, and criminals than my sisters on the streets. The chance of a suburban kid being killed by cops firing wildly into her parents’ house is dramatically less than that of an inner-city kid suffering that fate, but it still isn’t zero. And of course the same can be said for all those other imaginary dualities. Sex workers who should certainly understand the wrongness of Madonna vs whore will nonetheless subscribe to the equally absurd renters vs landlords or labor vs management dichotomies if they find it politically convenient to do so, even while simultaneously condemning the state’s pretense that sex workers can be cleanly divided by a bright, clear line from “pimps” (despite the fact that this notion is a littermate of the Marxist labor vs management divide).

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