Is this idiocy starting again? From the 1920s to the early 1960s, animation was correctly viewed as a format everyone could enjoy. The theatrical cartoons of the Golden Age of animation (late 1930s to mid-1950s) were largely intended for adult theatrical audiences, and the animated TV shows of the early ’60s (such as The Flintstones and Jonny Quest) were prime-time shows intended for all ages. It wasn’t until the late ’60s, around the time that the eldest Baby Boomers were reaching adulthood, that American nitwits suddenly decided en masse that “cartoons” were only for “children”; Japan and Eastern Europe never bought into that, so their animation art developed while America’s sank into a kiddie ghetto from which it did not begin to emerge until The Simpsons premiered on The Tracy Ullman Show in 1987. Let’s not return to the “animation is for kids” fallacy, please.
Posts Tagged ‘psychology’
Please, Not Again
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, tagged imaginative fiction, psychology on March 16, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Links #819
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged Afghanistan, artificial stupidity, Australia, censorship, cops, domestic violence, Florida, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, Illinois, lawyers, Maryland, Never Call the Cops, politicians, psychology, racism, robots, Texas, video on March 15, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Cool off, give [your husband] a break. – cop, just before woman’s murder
Since the Taliban doesn’t want anyone to hear these women play, it is my great pleasure to share the video as a big “fuck you”. The links above it were provided by Ryan Marino, Walter Olson, Nun Ya, Popehat, IncarcerNation, and Ryan Marino again, in that order.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- This is an attack on all of humanity.
- What part of “never” is so hard to understand?
- When artificial stupidity meets natural stupidity.
- Crime: petty theft. Penalty: summary execution.
- Was this “protecting” or “serving”? It’s hard to tell.
From the Archives
- Politicians like to pretend their “monkey see, monkey do” float is different.
- “Sex addiction” will be used to excuse crime until judges stop accepting it.
- Appeals for financial support from my readers are difficult for me to write.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses.
- Sick minds think it’s OK for male cops to barge into a women’s bathroom.
- The only way to keep personal data from being abused is not to collect it.
- Beware of men who “volunteer” to be in positions of authority over kids.
- “Multiple sex-trafficking charges and continuous sexual abuse of a child“.
- Bird-brains still believe realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this.
- Maybe a few more big lawsuits will teach corporate busybodies a lesson.
- Puritans claim consensual sex constitutes “a dangerous criminal record”.
- “Bathroom bills” are back after blessedly vanishing for over three years.
- Give sexually-aggressive thugs power over teens; what could go wrong?
- Must be well-connected for Big Pigs to care about his girlfriend’s report.
- The main principle of politicians’ behavior is “monkey see, monkey do”.
- Politicians no longer care whether their new diktats are Constitutional.
- Cops usually make up some pretext for their armed robbery schemes.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- The government calls this “correction”; for anyone else to is a choice.
- The government needs to be buried in lawsuits before this will stop.
- Another study shows what’s already been shown over & over again.
- Major events provide an excuse for State violence vs “undesirables”.
- The mad emperor has absolutely no idea how tariffs actually work.
- Absolutely nothing is “safe” if government actors know where it is.
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- Amazon’s fascist collaboration with cops just keeps getting worse.
- It didn’t take long for this one to demonstrate exactly what he is.
- Prohibitionists claim surprise at predictable effects of their bans.
- A precedent here could be used against all such evil “registries”.
- Prohibition turns the body of every citizen into a “crime scene”.
- Cop excuses produced by human bootlickers are bad enough.
- In mass surveillance, fascism runs rings around communism.
- I just can’t feel sorry for cops sexually abused by other cops.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- Cops, Roy Ayers, Carl Dean, George Lowe, and much more.
- Baby-step reforms are mostly intended to distract activists.
- I always manage to be surprised by how fast chicks grow.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Clearly “lay pastors” are no better than “youth pastors”.
- “Criminality” is a status defined entirely by the State.
- The conclusion of my two-part review of The X-Files.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Joe Camp, and much more.
- Chicago originally hid this costumed rapist’s picture.
- Why is Florida such a perpetual cavalcade of crazy?
- A tutorial on ethanol extraction of THC from resin.
- Actual pigs, singing cartoon pigs, and much more.
- Tracking down persistent leaks in the atrium roof.
- Animals loved Grace as much as she loved them.
- The 5th Circuit is, as usual, somewhat confused.
- A box of tiny dinosaur clowns in my bathroom.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- Laws are for the peasantry, not the rulers.
- These ghouls have absolutely no shame.
- Taste the Blood of Throwback Thursday.
- What did this guy think he was, a cop?
- Why does anyone still trust Facebook?
- This is a cop’s idea of “friendship”.
- Flesh for Throwback Thursday.
- On the atrophy of literacy.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Oh, what a surprise.
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Zombie Throwback Thursday
Posted in Biography, History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Tyranny, tagged blogging, consensual crime, cops, Creepy Coppers, ethics, Grace, language, Leaving the 20th Century, libraries, Prohibition (alcohol), propaganda, psychology, yellow journalism on March 12, 2026| Leave a Comment »
The first prohibitionist laws date to the late 19th century, but it was in the 20th that the concept…penetrated the minds of the general public so thoroughly that most took it for granted that for governments to tell people what they could consume, what they could own, and even what thoughts they could have…was not only normal, but desirable. – “Leaving the 20th Century”
If you find an article interesting, infuriating, or whatever, you can follow the thread of references back through similar articles, often for years, while marveling at the obsessive lengths and depths to which my librarian’s brain will go to impose order on chaos. – “Rabbit Hole”
Copsucking reporters waste considerable space quoting boss pigs oinking about how typical and representative cops aren’t really typical or representative. – “Creepy Coppers (#1418)”
I have never broken a promise to [Grace] in the past and I’m not going to start now merely because she’s not in a position to remind me. – “Diary 766“
In the News (#1618)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged abortion, Above the Law, artificial stupidity, California, Canada, cell phones, censorship, cops, domestic violence, games, hysteria, illegal aliens, law, Mad Libs, Never Call the Cops, Not for Any Reason Whatsoever, politicians, pregnancy, prisons, psychology, rape, restaurants, scams, Signs, statistics, surveillance, Texas, The Cop Myth, The Vultures Descend, Torture Chamber, Virginia, Walled Garden, Welcome to the Future on March 7, 2026| Leave a Comment »
In a sane culture we wouldn’t praise people for baselessly calling the cops on strangers. – Elizabeth N. Brown
[Texas politician] Tony Gonzales…faced growing pressure to resign…[because] he [raped] a staff member [and sexually harassed her so severely afterward that she committed suicide by self-immolation]…Gonzales…has denied [sending the texts, claim]ing…the[y]…were part of a smear campaign by his top rival in the race, Brandon Herrera[, apparently expecting people to believe that Herrera repeatedly spoofed his phone number]…
The moral panic is over, but useful idiots still love to sic cops on strangers:
…Jonathan Puddle…had the audacity to take his teenage daughter to an Ontario coffee shop. When another patron saw the pair together—an older man with a teenager!—he…followed the Puddles to their car, questioned them, and then called the police…[who took] an image of the pair…from a security camera and [blasted it out] online…[to] tens of thousands of people as [though they were fugitives]…”See something, say something” started as a War on Terror slogan and eventually morphed into a mantra employed by the Department of [Father]land Security…in anti–sex…campaigns…so…large swaths of the public [now believe that]…spying on and reporting fellow citizens based on vague vibes is the key to keeping everyone safe…
Everything I read about modern corporate work makes me happier I became a whore:
…“Bossware” refers to the technology some managers use to s[py on] employees…The term was popularized by a 2020 report from the [EFF]…Managers have always sought to keep an eye on employees to make operations more efficient. But the rise of [machine learning systems]…has [made it more demoralizing, humiliating, and toxic]…In…trucking, for example, [computeriz]ed video tools can trigger real-time alerts if a driver looks [anywhere but straight ahead, and]…in some white-collar desk jobs…employers are using algorithmic and biometric tools to [micromanage employees]…The use of work-surveillance technology took off during the pandemic. As many people started working remotely, [nosy control-freak] employers began…tracking keyboard strokes, taking screenshots and monitoring pauses [because they were no longer able to lurk behind employees and breathe down their necks]…The goal of these tools is to [wring] more out of workers…but [they are typically poor indicators of]…how much work someone is actually getting done…Beyond the psychological toll, “bossware” tools…present “serious health and safety risks for workers,” including potential physical injury…
Belief in the magic power of “protective orders” gets women killed:
The town of Kenbridge [Virginia] and its [cop shop have been sued for]…$140 million…by Heather Burrow…[for] gross negligence among other claims…[because she] asked the police chief for protection from [her cop ex-boyfriend] Charles Aaron Stokes. Instead of providing protection, the chief [told]…Stokes [so he could retaliate, and he did so by shooting] her…multiple times within minutes of being told…Stokes is facing separate criminal charges [but]…is not named in the civil lawsuit…
This is your regular reminder that SCOTUS has ruled that the police have no duty to protect citizens.
Surely you didn’t think this would stop with the internet?
California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043), signed by…Gavin Newsom in October…[demands that] every operating system provider in California…collect age information from users at account setup and transmit that data to app developers…with the law taking effect on January 1, 2027. The law’s broad definition of an “operating system provider”…pulls in not just Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, but Linux distributions and Valve’s SteamOS…Developers…are [thereby] “deemed to have actual knowledge” of their users’ age range under the law, [thus] shift[ing] legal liability for [enforcing politicians’ notions of] age-appropriate content…onto [people the state can more easily and profitably rob via fines]…up to…$7,500…Despite signing it, Newsom issued a statement urging the legislature to amend the law before its effective date, [thus allowing him to have his cake and eat it as well. Since politicians are too stupid to understand the concept of open source software, it should be amusing to watch their moronic flailing when they try to]…enforce…[their stupid law] against Linux distributions, [which]…have no centralized account infrastructure…
It doesn’t help young victims of state violence to infantilize them:
All unaccompanied immigrant [minors] who are pregnant, many by rape, are being [concentrated in] a single [camp] in Texas in order to avoid providing abortion services…Since July, more than a dozen pregnant [girls] have been [traffick]ed to…the [camp, near the] town of San Benito…[most are 15 to 16, but some] are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, [though] in Texas, [that makes no difference]…When a pregnant [minor] is moved to Texas…she can’t access an abortion – without a federal official needing to deny [it]…Because of their young age, “many of them will be comparatively high-risk pregnancies” who need specialized care…[but] the south Texas [concentration camp has no such] facilit[ies and]…is hours away from [any] major cities…equipped to offer that care…
Politicians want to “regulate” consensual sex, but not this dangerous fantasy:
ChatGPT Health regularly misses the need for medical urgent care and frequently fails to detect suicidal ideation…[yet] OpenAI…promotes [it] as a way for users to “securely connect medical records and [health surveillance] apps” to generate health advice…The first independent safety evaluation of ChatGPT Health…found it under-triaged more than half of the cases presented to it…[in comparison with] three [actual] doctors…In 51.6% of cases where someone needed to go to the hospital immediately, the platform said stay home or book a routine medical appointment…[they] wouldn’t live to see…Meanwhile, 64.8% of completely safe individuals were told to seek immediate medical care…
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!
Perspective Shift
Posted in Biography, Favorites, tagged imaginative fiction, libraries, nostalgia, psychology, video on March 6, 2026| 1 Comment »
A few years ago, in “The Sparkle of a Star“, I wrote: “When I last watched [Bewitched], in my late teens or very early twenties, I naturally identified most with Samantha. But on this rewatch, I found myself identifying with her mother, Endora…” But Bewitched isn’t the only show about witches I’ve loved, and Endora not the only no-longer-young woman character I find myself increasingly identifying with as I myself progress into cronehood. Obviously, this isn’t surprising, but I do find it amusing.
I ran into another example of it recently when I decided to revisit Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s Witch series. My own period of reading YA fiction was short, and largely confined to when I was 8 to 9; by 10 I was mostly reading light adult fantasy and sci-fi, mixed with some of the juveniles written by more typically adult authors like Robert Heinlein (Red Planet, Podkayne of Mars, etc) or those borrowed from the library by my younger siblings whose covers caught my eye (which is how I discovered one of my favorite books, Magic in the Alley by Mary Calhoun. And by 12 there weren’t many even in that category. So though I was of the right age to read Witch’s Sister when it was published in 1975, it never popped up in the Scholastic Books flyer we got at school, nor did I spot it in the library back then. In fact, I only discovered it in a rather roundabout manner, through my habit of scanning the new TV Guide magazine each week in search of anything I might enjoy (since in the days before home video, that was the only way to discover treasures). One week, in the spring of 1980 IIRC, I noticed a listing in the Saturday morning show Big Blue Marble (which I didn’t watch even before I gave up on Saturday morning fare) for a 6-part TV movie called Witch’s Sister. Naturally the title caught my attention, so I watched it and was immediately hooked; besides being an interesting story, I identified with both 10-year-old Lynn Morley (because I had a hyperactive imagination at her age also) and her 16-year-old sister Judith (because I was Goth before there was such a thing, and like her enjoyed spooking my younger siblings).
It only aired once or twice (I only saw it once) and I despaired of ever seeing it again, but during a short period when I had free premium cable in 1988 it turned up on Showtime as a unified TV movie. I of course taped it, and on a rewatch during my time as a librarian I noticed in the credits that it was based on a book; we had it in the library so I read and enjoyed it and its two sequels, which had been published in 1977 and 1978. Sometime later I transferred the movie to DVD and discovered several more sequels (published in the early ’90s) and bought them on Amazon, but never got around to reading them until recently. The reason was simple: after starting this blog in 2010 I had very little time for pleasure reading, and that only changed a year ago with Grace’s death. So for the past year, I’ve been scanning my shelves for books I own but had not yet read, and a couple of weeks ago realized I had never read those later books in the series. Since it had been over 30 years since I read the first three I started with them, and discovered to my amusement that while I still remembered feeling like Lynn as a tween and Judith as a teen, I now found myself more than a little sympathetic with Mrs. Tuggle, the elderly Englishwoman who was Lynn’s nemesis in the books! Though in the later books she was definitely a wicked witch, in the first (and IMHO the best) of the series that was portrayed with far less certainty (and in the movie which inspired my love for the stories, she was almost certainly not a real witch). So as I read, I started thinking about how I’d feel if a couple of nosy 10-year-old girls started making strange accusations, sneaking into my house to steal my things, and terrorizing my cat. And now I’m a bit wary of watching Bell, Book and Candle again.
Diary #818
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, drugs, psychology, Sunset on March 2, 2026| Leave a Comment »
As you can see, Axel has continued his progress from nervous wreck to very good boy. I caught this picture of he and Speck bathing together on the 14th, and I’ve seen them even closer than that on occasion. Speck has returned to her habit of wanting to be close to me while I’m unwinding on the sofa, though not as much while I’m working at the computer (which is probably for the best); he lies on the other side of me, sometimes cuddled very close to my legs, so he and Speck are less than an arm’s length apart for hours. He doesn’t even stare at her any more, nor does he try to chase Rocky or Lilith when he’s in the atrium, so last week I took a chance on bringing him through the chicken yard with me to go up the ramp, and he barely even looked at the hens. Yesterday, I decreased his trazodone from 75 mg/day (where he was for all of February) down to 50, and in two more weeks I plan to just start giving him 50 at bedtime rather than splitting it into two doses; I figure that will give me an idea if we’re getting close to taking him off of the meds entirely, since his blood levels should be pretty low by the time each evening rolls around. I think the warmer, drier weather is also helping, because he can spend a lot more time running around and sunbathing outdoors and playing with Trip, so he has less pent-up energy at the end of the day. Assuming that all goes well, it looks like he’ll be off the meds by June, and I imagine by the end of the summer his bad times should be no more than a dim memory in his little doggie brain.
Twin Throwback Thursday
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged blogging, consensual crime, dirty, ethics, language, law, neofeminism, propaganda, psychology on February 26, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Accept no source as an absolute authority, especially when they demand you should. – “No Absolute Truths”
Many criminals are entrepreneurs; it’s just that their business happens to be illegal. – “Midwinter Tweets”
It’s always rather funny when a fanatical devotee of fundamentalist Christianity or fundamentalist feminism (they’re hard to tell apart) tries to attack me on some post from over a decade ago, and the best they can come up with is “You’re a whore!” And I’m like, “Yes, and?” – “Tweets for the Tweet”
In the News (#1614)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, Apple, artificial stupidity, brothels, Censor Chic, censorship, cops, dehumanization, Droit du Seigneur, Facebook, fascism, Google, Having and Eating Cake, I Spy, illegal aliens, Illinois, internet, Kansas, law, Mad Libs, Nevada, Panopticon, politicians, porn, psychology, Pyrrhic Victory, Shame Shame, surveillance, teachers, The Mob Rules, The Puritan Recrudescence, TikTok on February 21, 2026| Leave a Comment »
[The US] constitution…cannot be overwritten by a state legislature. – Jeffrey Sandman
On the Simultaneous Having and Eating of Cake (#1051) 
It’s not surprising this started at the most oppressive of the Nevada brothels:
Sex workers at one of Nevada’s legal brothels are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America …If successful, it would be [a] first [for]…the U.S. The effort came after [Sheri’s Ranch in Pahrump attemp]ted t[o impose] a new contract that would give the business perpetual control over workers’ intellectual property rights…A majority of the brothel’s 74…workers…have agreed to join the union. Managers …have [retaliated by] fir[ing] at least three of the workers…and…threaten[ing] other[s]…To unionize, the workers must first prove to federal labor authorities that they are employees rather than independent contractors…Sheri’s Ranch…is owned by [typical and representative] Chicago [pig] Chuck Lee, [and is so notorious for its infantilizing repression of its] workers [it is widely derided in the industry as “Pussy Prison”. The abuses include confiscating their laptops and medications, spying on email and negotiation with clients, and random room searches, and]…beginning in late December…it [started] demanding [workers] grant Sheri’s Ranch “irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual” rights to any content they produce while staying at the brothel…[including] the ability to sell videos or photos…without their permission…[to] create [computer]-generated c[artoons] featuring their images…[even] after [their] death…and…to…[grant] the brothel…power of attorney [over all such content]…
It’s about time US sex workers started unionizing like their European sisters.
Remember when Google’s motto was, “Don’t be evil”?
Google [obey]ed an [ICE] subpoena that demanded a wide array of personal data on a student activist and journalist, including his credit card and bank account numbers…Amandla Thomas-Johnson had attended a protest targeting companies that supplied weapons to Israel at a Cornell University job fair in 2024 for all of five minutes, but the action got him banned from campus. When [the] Trump [regime]…issued a series of [diktats] targeting student…proteste[rs], Thomas-Johnson and his friend Momodou Taal went into hiding…Thomas-Johnson, who is British, believes that ICE [intended to use] that information to track and eventually [abduct] him — but he had already fled to Geneva, Switzerland…The Electronic Frontier Foundation…and the ACLU of Northern California sent a letter to Google, Amazon, Apple, Discord, [Facebook], Microsoft, and Reddit…calling on tech companies to resist similar subpoenas in the future…without [actual warrants]…to give [intended victims] the opportunity to fight [such extrajudicial demands], and to resist gag orders…
A federal judge in Kansas has dismissed two of the four private age verification lawsuits filed…by an unnamed plaintiff [using] her teenage son [as a prop]…the judge granted the defendants’ motions to dismiss…ruling that…simply operating a website accessible in Kansas – even one that Kansas residents could view – is not enough to establish liability. Under the U.S. Constitution, courts may only exercise power over defendants that have deliberately targeted or conducted activities in the state. Allowing lawsuits based solely on website accessibility…would mean any website could be sued anywhere, a result long rejected by federal courts…
[The ignoramuses running] many companies are [foolishly trying] to get more employees to use [chatbots so they don’t have to pay]…workers [their full]…value…But…they…may not see what [imaginary] gains are costing them until it’s too late…[because chatbot]s d[o]n’t reduce work, they consistently intensif[y] it. In an eight-month study…we found that employees [regularly] worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day…because [the hype] made “doing more” feel possible…[but] once the excitement of experimenting fades, workers can find that their workload has quietly grown and feel stretched from juggling everything that’s suddenly on their plate…lead[ing] to cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making…[in addition] to lower quality work…and other problems…
Safetyism is destroying society:
[Cop shop]s across the US are quietly [abus]ing school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass [pogroms]…The a[buse] originate[s] from Texas school districts that contract with Flock S[urveillance to target teachers]…parents and students as young as five…[demonstrating how] campus surveillance technology [justified by barfing out the formula “]student safety[“] is being repurposed to support [the police state]…Flock devices have been installed by more than 100 public school systems nationally…and audit logs from six Texas school districts show campus camera feeds are captured in a national database that [cop shops, spook houses, and goon squad]s across the country can access…
These things are designed to appeal to the dregs of humanity:
…Social media is awash with videos of men…approaching women in public spaces and attempting to flirt with them or ask for their numbers..the videos are filmed and uploaded to platforms like TikTok and Instagram without the permission or knowledge of the [woman] being filmed…[and] rack up thousands…[or] millions of views…While the concept of the pick-up artist is nothing new…so-called “manfluencers”…are covertly filming women to create misogynistic content…
Civil suits are society’s best weapon against jawboning:
…[FIRE] is suing…[Trumpist henchwomen] Pam Bondi and…Kristi Noem on behalf of Kae Rosado and Mark Hodges, who respectively created a Facebook group and an app that hosted video footage of ICE operations to inform the public and hold our government accountable…Mark runs Kreisau Group, which aims to preserve evidence of governmental abuses of power. On his Eyes Up app, users can upload videos, record new videos, or access uploaded videos, which Eyes Up arranges on a map of the United States after Mark and his moderators review and approve each video. Kae…started a Facebook group in January 2025…about the impact of ICE raids on daily life in Chicago…The group remained small until Sept[ember]…when ICE commenced…a…[massive pogrom sophomorically] dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz”…[after which the] group grew to…nearly 100,000 members…it is unconstitutional for the government to coerce private companies like Apple and Facebook into censoring content on their behalf. However…Bondi and Noem [not only did this, but openly]…boasted [about it]…
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!
Tweet Moss
Posted in Biography, Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged blogging, Canada, cell phones, cops, dating, Denmark, disease, ethics, fascism, Hollywood, illegal aliens, Korea, language, left-right myth, politicians, propaganda, psychology, Pyrrhic Victory, Samoa, scams, STEM, surveillance, Tennessee, yin and yang on February 20, 2026| Leave a Comment »
These guys really need to watch more film noir.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-15T18:12:23.909Z
You have to sleep sometime, guys.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-17T19:01:24.980Z
Four of these look WORSE in the "after" pictures. Middle right is DRAMATICALLY worse.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-19T02:53:53.205Z
They really do believe Heaven is clouds where people walk around in a semblance of life forever. It's remarkably stupid, childish, Bronze-Age thinking.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-20T08:26:34.100Z
The International Board of Kakistocracy
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-23T18:25:56.755Z
American flag lapel pins are virtue signaling. The FBI saying how much they loved MLK is virtue signaling. Laws named after dead kids are virtue signaling. State-sponsored "prayer breakfasts" are virtue signaling. Etc, etc. Any sincerely moral person can see the difference without effort.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-25T09:01:06.051Z
If I were Canadian, right now I would feel like one of the guys in this scene:
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-26T03:22:24.145Z
"Dismantled" in the same sense as the Hindenburg was "dismantled".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-26T18:37:28.791Z
Treasury Secretary Meisterburger has some advice for parents.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-28T16:56:31.831Z
Modern journalists:Talking about a guy who has been out of political office for decades: "President So-and-So", "Senator So-and-So"Talking about a cop sent to prison for using his position to murder or rape somebody last year: "Former officer So-and-So"
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-29T19:23:12.888Z
I hereby declare the word "pivot" officially hackneyed. Find a different verb to beat to death by overuse.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-30T08:52:51.698Z
The "We need new Democrats" whine triggers off the Mom region of my brain: "You haven't done anything with the Democrats I already gave you."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-31T18:05:24.186Z
Raise your hand if you're old enough to remember when it was the DEMOCRATS pretending "unified government" was a good thing.Extra points if you remember that the Clintonian slur for "checks and balances" was "gridlock".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-01T18:02:15.967Z
Oh look, it's another of those things us cranks have been warning all y'all Very Smart Futurist People about for years.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-02T17:20:55.791Z
What is this thing supposed to be? An Easter Island statue?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-03T03:38:50.271Z
If only there were some simple way to kill the bacteria so the milk would be safe to drink. If some genius were to invent such a process, we could even name it after him.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-04T03:20:03.432Z
Actual economists disagree.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-04T19:49:45.952Z
How can anyone who has ever read Asimov's nonfiction not know this? He used to BRAG about it. I knew Asimov was a sex pest before entering HIGH SCHOOL because when I was in 8th grade I got on a kick of reading all of his essay collections, and he talks about it more than a little.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T03:08:49.403Z
I was used to sex workers being the most *ethical* people on the internet, but in the past 15 years they've proven themselves to be among the most intelligent and literate as well.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-07T18:29:51.990Z
"Facts undermine his testimony" is such a weird, nerf-bat way of saying "He lied".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-08T17:46:14.535Z
I was taught in catechism that God is all-forgiving, so from a Christian perspective the answer to this would be "yes".That having been said, I am neither a god nor a Christian, so I am under no obligation to forgive those who enabled the current police state over the past ≈ 150 years.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-09T19:09:35.536Z
They make ME think of the campfire scene in "Stand By Me" where the boys seriously discuss, "Who is stronger, Superman or Mighty Mouse?"
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-10T18:20:24.645Z
They really do think "But he gave them candy after molesting them" is a defense.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-11T08:51:42.315Z
It has dawned on me that most young people don't understand that political parties are about as fixed as sand dunes, and drift all over with the political and social winds over time. Which is just a more extreme example of the common inability to recognize that the same is true for species.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-12T18:25:49.074Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-13T19:18:32.880Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-15T08:58:03.773Z
Your regular reminder that Eisenhower warned us about all this in January 1961, but everyone just basically ignored him until it was much too late.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-16T18:10:17.125Z
You've gotta admire a man who trusts his friends' understanding of physics enough to attempt this.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-17T19:04:26.838Z
Given that the statement "This power will be abused" is always 100% accurate over the long term, you'd think the Pollyannas would've learned by now. But I reckon that's against their dopey natures.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-18T18:21:26.639Z
I just noticed this:
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-19T19:01:26.364Z
Lust for Throwback Thursday
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged blogging, Bluesky, consensual crime, cops, ethics, nostalgia, psychology, teachers on February 19, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Roughly 60% of prostitution charges in the US result from the charged sex worker becoming the victim of some crime. – “Micromanagement (#1213)”
Denying bright kids honors or AP classes doesn’t make you a champion of the proletariat; it makes you an abuser.
– “Little Puppets”
The Kennedy era…was…an…odd little interlude, no longer the ’50s but not yet what we think of as the ’60s.
– “The Space Age”
It is only wrong to lie to individual human beings. Lying to collectives (including governments) and their functionaries (including cops) is often moral, especially when those collectives are engaged in evil. – “Tweet Tooth” 
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