What you’re looking at here is the ring which joins the plumbing of my hot tub to the heater; the flashlight is necessary because even in broad daylight it’s pretty dark in the basement. As I learned three years ago, when there’s a leak it’s typically because a two-dollar rubber o-ring needs replacement. But my body has aged considerably in the past three years, so it was much more tiring and unpleasant than it was last time, and I experienced nearly as much anxiety around the process as I did last time despite knowing exactly what needed to be done. That’s how it has been with nearly every technical problem since Grace died; even when it was something she could no longer do (like crawling under the floor or climbing up on the roof), I could rely on her technical expertise to guide me, and because I had faith in her ability I wasn’t as reluctant to attempt things I’d never done before (like welding a steel structure together). In contrast, I now experience considerable anxiety every time something technical needs doing; I even put off changing the main water-system filter for the entire last year because I was worried something might go wrong (I finally did it recently and of course it was fine). About 30 years ago my friend Frank said that tragedies are multiplied by the inconveniences they spawn, and I’ve had the truth of that ground into my heart every time I have a technical problem, because every time it does and she’s not there to fix it herself or tell me how to fix it, I am reminded of the huge Grace-shaped hole in my life.
Posts Tagged ‘STEM’
Diary #831
Posted in Diary, tagged Grace, psychology, STEM, Sunset on June 1, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Links #830
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged artificial stupidity, Australia, Catholicism, cops, Enshittification, Google, Illinois, restaurants, Rome, STEM, teachers, Texas, video, weaponry, Wisconsin on May 31, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Before today, I cannot think of a single time when a Bing search result was more valuable than the Google equivalent. – Russell Brandom
When I saw this essay from C.J. Ciaramella two months ago, I was immediately reminded of a different Australian nun who was also an early ’70s pop star, because this one got very heavy play on New Orleans Top 40 stations in 1974; it also made its way into the guitar masses which were popular at the time. The links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel, Ryan Marino, Walter Olson, Violet Blue, and IncarcerNation (x2), in that order.
- Instant karma.
- Last week in artificial stupidity.
- A scene from a long-ago tragedy.
- Another great moment in artificial stupidity.
- Trigger-happy gypsy cop rewarded for multiple murders.
- When will the mainstream media admit pigs in schools are a menace?
From the Archives
- America’s sick lust for torture turns prison sentences into death sentences.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- The inevitable result of entrusting mentally ill people to sociopathic thugs.
- How long will the US ignore the costs of its sick worship of state violence?
- Prohibitionists keep trying to inflict the evil “Swedish model” on Scotland.
- Politicians don’t even try to make their new laws Constitutional anymore.
- The hotel industry is really going to regret its collaboration with fanatics.
- I was fated to be threatened with state violence regardless of my career.
- Psychopathy is typical in politicians, but these laws are wholly deranged.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- Cop deals with problems exactly as trained to, and everyone is shocked.
- I’m sure they helpfully yelled “Stop faking!” at this little girl as she died.
- Swedish politicians are angry their law doesn’t destroy enough lives yet.
- Denying meds to caged people is silently yelling “Stop faking!” at them.
- Local politicians’ virtue-signaling is powerless vs the fascist panopticon.
- Most coverage of this story hides the fact that the abuser was a screw.
- A large fraction of US politicians implicitly or explicitly approve of this.
- Infantilizing young victims of state violence as “children” doesn’t help.
- If he truly had trouble before, why did he call the same agency again?
- When will the federal government finally read the writing on the wall?
- One would think that the title “youth pastor” would be a big red flag.
- The only way to keep any data from being abused is not to collect it.
- Apparently, this wasn’t a rape attempt, just a cop being a dumbass.
- The government doesn’t care, as long as Lacey dies in a filthy cage.
- Cops will continue to do this until there are criminal penalties for it.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- The Spanish case of the Swedish rot has been especially virulent.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from May 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- Cops, antimatter, Tina Turner, George Maharis, and much more.
- The censors are growing bold enough to admit their real goals.
- Occasionally, cops’ lies are too outrageous even for politicians.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Letting government dictate what constitutes “disinformation”.
- The 2nd installment of a multi-part review of the Buffyverse.
- Another massive pogrom from the psychopathic Grady Judd.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Richard Sherman, and much more.
- It’s good to see someone actually studying this problem.
- Cops are nothing more than state-sponsored terrorists.
- Rapist cops often specifically target vulnerable women.
- Kaytlin Bailey on the realities of sex work Down Under.
- This sickness will get much worse before it gets better.
- Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Throwback Thursday.
- This is no surprise to anyone from New Orleans.
- The censors got what they wanted in this case.
- Cops, families, Bruce Logan, and much more.
- My Year of Disaster is now thirty years gone.
- I have a system for nearly everything I do.
- A very late end to chick season at Sunset.
- Opening up my new paddock extension.
- Definitely something to be thankful for.
- The Throwback Thursday Happening.
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Links #826
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, cops, language, New York, STEM, video on May 3, 2026| Leave a Comment »
In lying fashion you ignore what even children know. – Martin Luther
Although I’m not especially fond of this song, its lyrics make it the appropriate sendoff for the man who wrote it. The links above the video were provided by Anarres Ansible, Mike Siegel, Ryan Cooper, Nun Ya, Alex Vitale, and Shiv Ramdas, in that order.
- R.I.P. Dave Mason.
- The Lutheran insulter.
- Old, clean, and very funny.
- They used to blame underground rivers.
- Just another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
From the Archives
- Australia’s rulers are even more eager to destroy the internet than the US.
- Should’ve donned his magical Clown Costume of Legal Invulnerability 1st.
- “Disciplinary action” for UK rapist cops can be early retirement at full pay.
- Is a shiny new status symbol really worth being spied on & price-gouged?
- Cops say reporting their crimes is “an inherent danger to the community”.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives; some don’t stop with beating.
- On the evil dogma that offspring are owned like slaves by their parents.
- Surveillance pretexts won’t remain limited to “child porn” & “terrorism”.
- The wholly-predictable results of bad laws are happening as predicted.
- This will never stop while violent thugs have total power over women.
- When will the federal government finally read the writing on the wall?
- Cops, air hostesses, Harry Belafonte, Jerry Springer, and much more.
- Another challenge to the government’s “religious freedom” hypocrisy.
- Prohibitionists still cite the bogus Neumayer, Cho, and Dreher study.
- “Porn filter” bills are back on the “monkey see, monkey do” agenda.
- Censors now pretend thoughts they don’t like constitute a “crime”.
- Let’s hope many more challenges to these medieval laws succeed.
- Corporations have become the favored tool of censors worldwide.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from April 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- Non-cop molester exploits grooming scheme for predatory cops.
- Couldn’t she have done this before driving Jim Larkin to suicide?
- Big websites could curtail totalitarian threats if they wanted to.
- Previous columns for May Day and May Eve (Walpurgisnacht).
- Twelve years of puritanism badly disguised as “public health”.
- Politicians really believe everyone lies as blithely as they do.
- It’s not like they’ve ever been secretive about their goals.
- Even by the standards of rapist cops, this is horrifying.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Jill Sobule, and much more.
- Gifted children are America’s most wasted resource.
- Matthew 21:31 seems pretty straightforward to me.
- Cops, Greenpeace, Terry Carter, and much more.
- Prohibitionists want this to happen more often.
- Continuing activities I used to do with Grace.
- No, that woman wasn’t “praying to Shrek”.
- I expand my paddock to the north lawn.
- Another Australian state sees the light.
- Sunset’s apple trees are in full bloom.
- A proper ceiling for my new shower.
- Throwback Thursday Hospital.
- House of Fridaystein.
- I can’t breathe.
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Links #825
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged cops, domestic violence, False Witness, games, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, illegal aliens, language, Louisiana, prisons, psychology, STEM, Texas, Under Duress, video, yellow journalism on April 26, 2026| Leave a Comment »
It was very difficult to pick a song with which to send off Moya Brennan, so I finally decided on a live video of one of their early, more traditional songs rather than their more pop-influenced work of the ’80s and ’90s. The links above the video were provided by Anarres Ansible, Shiv Ramdas, Jesse Walker, Radley Balko (x2), and Popehat, in that order.
- R.I.P. Moya Brennan.
- Talk about lost continents…
- “Alarming”. Words mean things.
- Penn & Teller file a SCOTUS brief.
- I’m sure you feel MUCH safer now.
- “Ghoulish” doesn’t even begin to describe this.
From the Archives
- Using sleazy means to violate people’s civil rights with the typical excuses.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- When a cop tries to pass murder as suicide, it’s usually his wife/girlfriend.
- Overseas pharmacies will sell to US customers without asking permission.
- The current “monkey see, monkey do” parade escapes the US to Europe.
- Politicians no longer care about making their new diktats Constitutional.
- Surely you didn’t think they’d stop at threatening librarians & teachers.
- “Journalists” lionize a sexual predator who gets off on destroying lives.
- The first exoneration of a victim of “sex trafficking” hysteria has come.
- This will never stop until there are criminal charges for cops who do it.
- Still think realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this technology?
- This will never stop while violent thugs have total power over women.
- They try to make it sound like the rapist was doing his victim a favor.
- Cops, Pope Francis, Brad Holland, Wink Martindale, and much more.
- Your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- Cops, space travel, Lovecraft, Barry Humphries, and much more.
- Cops are sexual predators who often target traumatized women.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from April 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- Government uses a shell game to avoid making actual reforms.
- How a country treats its prisoners reveals a great deal about it.
- The claims in these nuisance lawsuits are increasingly absurd.
- Economic war, propaganda war, and “cyber” war are still war.
- This clown wants to criminalize amateur promiscuity as well.
- Never forget that “filter” is merely a euphemism for “censor”.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- Texas censors have descended completely into self-parody.
- The government calls this “correction”; you don’t have to.
- The open internet is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
- Cops, black humor, chemistry, Bob Heil, and much more.
- A psychopathic rapist-murderer cop is still unconvicted.
- Cop violence is never limited to members of the public.
- It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
- Authoritarians want to have their cake and eat it, too.
- Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
- Just another kind of cop, with typical cop behavior.
- Don’t think this was an unintended consequence.
- Medical privacy will soon be a thing of the past.
- The reporter appears to have misspelled “care”.
- Cops are a menace to women of all ages.
- Yet another curated selection of tweets.
- Burble burble BLUE STATE burble drool.
- You just can’t keep a bad law down.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
- Wacky warmish weather at Sunset.
- Throwback’s Great Aunt Thursday.
- Batman vs. Throwback Thursday.
- Phrenology for tech worshipers.
- The goose that didn’t live long.
- Many rapist cops of the week.
- A week in the playpen.
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In the Tweet of the Night
Posted in Biography, Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, Music, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged animals, artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, Catholicism, censorship, child "protective" services, crypto-moralism, fantasy, fascism, Florida, games, hysteria, illegal aliens, imaginative fiction, Iran, language, left-right myth, libraries, New Orleans, politicians, porn, psychology, racism, robots, STEM, surveillance, United Kingdom on April 20, 2026| 1 Comment »
Change one single vowel in this headline, and it would be a VERY different story.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-20T01:59:52.797Z
Probably the same way that holding a knife to a child's throat can open a guarded door.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-20T18:03:29.896Z
Beware of Davros.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-25T03:17:35.675Z
#3 is a very, very bad idea.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-25T17:50:01.254Z
Spring this on family members in New Orleans, and they may not stop at disowning* you.*And disowning people is mighty difficult under Napoleonic Code.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-26T17:26:22.068Z
It's fascinating to watch men with severe, easily-recognized mental illnesses publicly blaming others' mental illness on behaviors that the speakers are incapable of due to their own undiagnosed, untreated psychopathologies.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-27T17:09:35.827Z
My teen self would be confused by this.1981 Maggie: So there are new "Star Trek" shows all the time, but you haven't watched one in 20 years?2026 Maggie: CorrectM81: Ditto "Star Wars"?M26: YepM81: Plus all kinds of D&D fantasy stuff?M26: Right again.M81: I DON'T KNOW YOU
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-28T17:19:00.870Z
Reporters: doing something willfully is not a "failure", regardless of what politicians call it. If a party refuses to comply with some illegal diktat, that party has not *failed* to comply with said diktat; he has REFUSED to comply. The former is an omission; the latter an active rejection.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-29T16:55:44.729Z
This monster's face appears to have been designed by Jack Pierce. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm06823…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-30T17:38:45.538Z
"Dabbled in cross-dressing" makes it sound like alchemy or some other occult practice.(Yes, I know about the shamans and mystery religions; this isn't that, so let's not)
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-31T17:37:38.961Z
Oh please, PLEASE let them use a chatbot as architect, so we can have a "Galloping Gertie" moment on live TV soon after it's done.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T17:35:58.519Z
This is how partisanism warps minds.Distrust of politicians *in general* for wholly rational reasons is subjected to the duopoly's Procrustean bed, then for 21st century readers must be trivialized & infantilized. So anarchists & true libertarians are described by the asinine tag "double haters".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-03T17:28:10.591Z
WAAAAAAAAAH! I'VE POOPED MYSELF AND I DEMAND SOMEONE CHANGE IT! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-04T17:16:42.139Z
Please, people, I beg you not to rely on spellcheckers at the cost of your own vocabulary skills.Trade languages have nothing to do with birds.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-07T17:10:46.810Z
Meanwhile, books on my shelves which were published as far back as the 1920s, and which I purchased as far back as the 1970s, are still 100% readable. And all I have to do to access them is walk over to my bookshelves.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-08T17:13:17.853Z
Due to the high volume of "You were right all along" emails, I will not be responding to them individually. Thank you for your understanding.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-08T17:29:33.587Z
A friend who grew up on Country/Western was unfamiliar with Zeppelin, and when "Ramble On" came on she asked me what it was about. I replied, "A dude who gets his girlfriend stolen by Gollum."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-10T07:34:41.637Z
Trump is someone who consistently cheats at Solitaire and still repeatedly loses, and when he's done the deck only has about 49 cards. And some of those are from kids' game decks, like one with a picture of an old maid.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-12T17:44:13.156Z
We need Captain Kirk.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-13T03:26:13.653Z
If you want to reveal a crypto-authoritarian, just start him talking about virtually anything to do with cars.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-13T17:21:33.262Z
THIS.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-16T17:53:47.686Z
Your regular reminder that it is 100% legal to fictionally depict murder, rape, and mayhem in movies.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T17:19:44.529Z
I especially love that the stupid thing flew apart on impact.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T19:17:10.473Z
First Palantir came for the sex workers, but nobody cared because "sex trafficking".Then Palantir came for young minority men, and nobody cared because "gangs".Then Palantir came for migrants, and nobody cared because "illegals".Now it's coming for you, and I think you know the rest.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-19T17:28:11.213Z
Links #822
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged artificial stupidity, California, cops, I Spy, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, illegal aliens, Kentucky, Maryland, Never Call the Cops, politicians, STEM, video on April 6, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I recently discovered this funny recording, which was Chubby Checker’s first hit (a year before “The Twist”); in fact, he got his nickname “Chubby” due to his spot-on imitation of Fats Domino. The links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel, Kevin Wilson, Ryan Marino, IncarcerNation, Mistress Matisse, and The Onion, in that order.
- SCIENCE!
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- A Trumpist living her values.
- What part of “never” is so hard to grasp?
- Now this explanation is one I want to see.
- The best satire cleaves closely to the truth.
From the Archives
- Safetyism has become the go-to excuse of censors pretending they aren’t.
- Seems as though it wasn’t really the OnlyFans account that got him fired.
- As long as sex workers are marginalized, we will be targeted for violence.
- You won’t find that word, nor the word “slavery”, anywhere in this article.
- A few sane judges are the only thing protecting libraries from politicians.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- These attempts to destroy the internet are going to keep getting worse.
- Texas politicians disguise an attack on women as protection for women.
- In the online world, as in the real, you don’t get something for nothing.
- UK officials are as dedicated to hiding the truth about cops as US ones.
- If you thought “asset forfeiture” was brazen robbery, get a load of this.
- These psychopaths want actual criminalization of librarians & teachers.
- It’s a bad idea to try the work of any professional without any training.
- Living within my means is now easier most of the year, except in April.
- The State tortures thousands of people for crossing an imaginary line.
- Politicians compete to make their new laws the most unconstitutional.
- This will never stop while violent thugs have total power over women.
- In the US she’d have no recourse, but prohis say decrim is a “failure”.
- No laws protect this data from being handed to cops to root in at will.
- Crypto-moralists pretend that avoiding pleasure leads to immortality.
- This is vile even by the abysmally-low moral standards of politicians.
- If he’d succeeded, he would’ve claimed it was an accident or suicide.
- As empires age, they rot from the inside out and from the top down.
- The kind of man the State gives nigh-unlimited power over women.
- “Search” is the most common government euphemism for “molest”.
- Twitter has always claimed that this surveillance isn’t surveillance.
- Chicks always start out so cute, but don’t stay that way very long.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from March 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- Sometimes, evil dead things really can return to haunt the living.
- If you’re sick of pictures of chickens, how about pictures of eggs?
- The legacy of To Catch a Predator just keeps on hurting people.
- It’s difficult to read this without feeling a bit of schadenfreude.
- All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
- Cops, Lovecraft, Barbara Rush, Joe Flaherty, and much more.
- Homeless people are another group new evils are tested on.
- Some cops don’t limit themselves to one type of creepiness.
- This is only going to get worse for the foreseeable future.
- This fascist evil needs to be eradicated, root and branch.
- The crusade to reduce Americans to serfdom continues.
- Another example of the cop/religion molestation nexus.
- Politicians keep using sex as an excuse to destroy lives.
- I wasted a lot of my life by trying to live in the future.
- Old-fashioned Stasi-type surveillance isn’t dead yet.
- There’s at least one principled judge in Texas.
- Washington passes a “strippers’ bill of rights”.
- Cops, shapes, demon lords, and much more.
- Cops, MAGA, Val Kilmer, and much more.
- At least this one wasn’t a “youth pastor”.
- Why does anyone still trust Facebook?
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
- Throwback Thursday A.D. 1972.
- A new bar atop the utility room.
- The chicks were late in 2024.
- Young Throwback Thursday.
- Vote Blue no matter who!
- Rapist cops of the week.
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!
Links #816
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, animals, Australia, Bluesky, China, cops, ethics, Florida, language, Minnesota, sporting events, STEM, video on February 22, 2026| Leave a Comment »
A young rock is probably a good thing. – Derek Leung
Though Fred Smith left Blondie before their first album was recorded, I decided to feature this little-known, very weird, very punk song from their debut album because I’ve always liked it. The links above the video were provided by Nun Ya, Kevin Wilson, Jeremy Malcolm, Jesse Walker, Franklin Harris, Yasmin Nair, and Nun Ya again, in that order.
- Metaphor alert.
- The geology of curling.
- This is actually pretty cool.
- R.I.P. Fred Smith and Bud Cort.
- How on earth did it get into a bikini?
- In case you think this is limited to the US.
- As the young say, “Not all heroes wear capes.“
From the Archives
- They said nothing while the Times spread propaganda against sexworkers.
- The trades of actress & whore were, until a century ago, indistinguishable.
- All I see about modern square work makes me happier I became a whore.
- I was fated to be threatened with state violence regardless of career path.
- Some still believe these sociopaths are motivated by “protecting children”.
- Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses.
- This will continue as long as fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- While sex work is marginalized, sex workers will be targeted for violence.
- Mom demands politicians stop unsupervised kids from gorging on candy.
- The worst rape defense after “she wanted to be raped by a random cop”.
- Prohibitionist politicians’ real goal is government control of the internet.
- Give aggressive thugs power over teens; what could possibly go wrong?
- When it comes to surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Are the Japanese the only people left who can tell fantasy from reality?
- Journalists must stop obediently calling senseless violence “correction”.
- Still think realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this technology?
- Unconstitutional law is sort of suspended by an unconstitutional order.
- Ambulance-chasers give themselves power to rob internet companies.
- Another pogrom from the dangerous clown who rules Polk County, FL.
- Everyone abused by cops using this surveillance system needs to sue.
- Besides laughing aloud, I may have also clapped my hands in delight.
- So many rescue industry profiteers have been exposed as sociopaths.
- Surely you didn’t think they’d be satisfied with threatening librarians.
- This monster’s handlers made a conscious choice to let him run wild.
- Cops don’t like it when non-cops report “crimes” that didn’t happen.
- Cops, nightmares, Amy Winfrey, artificial stupidity, and much more.
- A dangerous new front in the Drug War has claimed another victim.
- Some politicians are starting to admit Shotspotter is a boondoggle.
- Judge vs currently-fashionable “monkey see, monkey do” parade.
- I’m sure they helped by occasionally yelling “Stop faking!” at her.
- Politicians wreck lives by inventing new crimes from copaganda.
- Remember, this isn’t “human trafficking”, but consensual sex is.
- Now that the moral panic is over, expect more articles like this.
- This will continue until there are federal criminal charges for it.
- Some cops don’t limit themselves to one type of creepiness.
- Surely you didn’t think this was just about porn, did you?
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Texas has a long history of “correcting” people to death.
- Those who facilitate cops’ evil are enemies of humanity.
- Cops are nothing more than state-sponsored terrorists.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Gerald Fried, and much more.
- Cop “magic fentanyl” hysteria has escaped the US.
- Cops view alcohol as a means of facilitating rape.
- “Crisis pregnancy centers” for the 21st century.
- Tweet selections from 2023, 2024, and 2025.
- Cops, madness, weirdness, and much more.
- Some pretty mild early-spring type weather.
- Pathetic reruns of years-old fantasies.
- At least this one didn’t attempt to lie.
- Throwback Thursday of Darkness.
- Dracula vs. Throwback Thursday.
- A mural decorating my atrium.
- Grace’s prized shillelagh.
- Thoughts on The X-Files.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Mud everywhere.
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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
Diary #815
Posted in Diary, Miscellaneous, Q & A, tagged STEM, Sunset on February 10, 2026| 2 Comments »
As I mentioned last week, CenturyLink finally got around to fixing my internet problem; the main issue was a corroded wire in the node near my house which was causing a series of errors that eventually caused my modem to “time out”. The technician said having an older modem, while not the actual cause of the issue, was exacerbating the problem, so he gave me a new one, and everything has been fine since. However, two other tech problems have now materialized, and with Grace gone I have nobody here who knows about this stuff enough to help me. So I figured I’d ask my many tech-savvy readers for help.
The first issue is that the PDF Architect software I bought in 2014 and have built seven books on suddenly decided that my copy was not “authenticated” and refuses to function without a new key PDF Architect will not give because they conveniently no longer “support” the software I bought and paid for which still perfectly fulfilled my needs up until now, and want me to pay for their fancy new subscription-based service over and over again each month, though I only use the software when I’m publishing books. Frank found me free software that will run on my XP machine, but he has never used it himself, so I’d like recommendations; all I need is resident software (not web-based) that will run on XP and combine multiple Word files into a PDF. That’s it; no bells & whistles are necessary, and free is good but inexpensive is also OK.
The other is that on Saturday evening my TV, which has been unhealthy for a few years, did something really strange: I was watching a show and a sharply-delineated vertical white band, bounded by several alternating bands of grey and black, suddenly appeared in the exact center of the screen. Stopping the disc had no effect so it was obviously the TV rather than the disc; I turned it off and turned it back on, and the problem vanished for the rest of the evening. But this smells like a harbinger of imminent catastrophic failure, so I’m going to replace it. Given that the last attempt at replacement was a failure, I should probably get either a newish low-end Samsung (to be compatible with the DVD players) or a 7-8 year old refurbished something else. But again, I don’t need bells & whistles, and I don’t even really want it to connect to the internet; I want the closest thing to a dumb monitor that will simply allow me to play DVDs that I can get. Any advice?
Throwback Thursday Untold
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged advertising, agency denial, artificial stupidity, blogging, consensual crime, cops, escort review sites, escort services, fantasy, language, law, Mad Libs, pimps, politicians, psychology, robots, scams, STEM, video on January 15, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Cops and prosecutors use the slur “sex trafficking ring” to mean anything from a broken-down pimp to an ordinary escort service to a sex worker ad site. – “Taking the Bait”
Claims about what politicians and bureaucrats “intended”…are…nothing but an excuse for evil.
– “The Road to Hell”
“AI” is a fantasy of techies, journalists, and hack sci-fi writers. – “Artificial ‘Intelligence’?”
It’s easy to “disprove” anything if you’re allowed to change the conditions.
– “Infinite Monkeys”
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