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Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged abortion, adolescence, agency denial, animals, artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, Buried Truth, comics, consensual crime, cops, dating, Feminists and Other Puritans, Hawaii, imaginative fiction, left-right myth, libraries, marriage, McNeill's Law, politicians, porn, prisons, psychology, STEM, Twitter on February 23, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Online dating "advice" for straight squares always sounds like something syndicated from Bizarro World. pic.twitter.com/6PVJJFNvEj

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 21, 2024

The horrifying practice of treating young adults as pets, completely at the mercy of their parents' whims and hangups, is something society should be moving away from, but instead it's only growing worse.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 23, 2024

Is the birth camel what they have in desert countries in place of storks? https://t.co/wXCW0kXC8U

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 24, 2024

Honestly, I think if I saw that I would feel compelled to pull them all down and arrange them properly. A librarian's heart can only take so much.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 25, 2024

Don't worry, Big Bird; to God, there is no zero. https://t.co/6dVsGsXVfk

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 27, 2024

Some people distort, exaggerate, or downplay their experiences in order to advance their agenda. But most just flat-out lie.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 27, 2024

And this is pure senile babble: https://t.co/uJjFJF0YHm

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 28, 2024

This is a loose corollary to #McNeillsLaw, which states: "The more vociferously a man condemns some particular sexual practice, the more likely he is to be a practitioner." https://t.co/M29i7C4aEk

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 29, 2024

I often feel like one of the Enterprise crew on that planet where the entire population were children. pic.twitter.com/zeZfeYOEq1

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 30, 2024

He should've chosen the lesser of two weevils. https://t.co/wLOKcaDnIf

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 31, 2024

Anything by Disaster Area. https://t.co/09Y8ZUuUMv

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 1, 2024

Presented without comment. pic.twitter.com/sIWj385xOX

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 2, 2024

Why do so few people comprehend that you don't need to trust, respect, or even agree with other adults to stop trying to interfere in their lives or overrule their decisions?

You simply have to recognize that their personal lives are NONE OF YOUR GODDAMNED BUSINESS.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 3, 2024

I can't name even ONE. But I'm here for any individual who makes a good living doing their own thing and hurting nobody, especially when it pisses off culture warriors and/or partisans of one kind or another. https://t.co/QRDbqRPjxW

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 4, 2024

I realized long ago that whenever one is unimpressed with a song, movie, TV show, performer, etc that everyone else seems to think is the GREATEST THING EVER, it's best to simply remain silent on the topic.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 5, 2024

STOP CALLING IT AI. There's no "intelligence" in these machines; they are just complex sorting algorithms, like a super-Rolodex.

Machines are incapable of "intelligence" at our current tech level; anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. https://t.co/zr9moHBX7Q

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 6, 2024

But apparently, cops are such big kahunas they have the right to ignore the "spirit of Aloha" as they please. https://t.co/MWKOi9QtRG

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 8, 2024

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?"

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 9, 2024

It's rather revolting to realize that there really ARE people who think "If you wouldn't drink milk with a turd floating in it, you SHOULD eat shit with honey sprinkled on it" is some kind of reasonable argument.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 10, 2024

I heard that today is Superb Owl Sunday, so here's my first contribution: pic.twitter.com/bZCzTTt323

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 11, 2024

Maybe he should have millions of "WIN" buttons printed to distribute at rallies. https://t.co/uFuaDo8HLK

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 12, 2024

Politicians: please stop publicly fellating your "leader". If you MUST make such a display, do it on one of those porn sites y'all are all trying to ban, rather than foisting it on those of us who don't want to see it.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 13, 2024

I keep telling y'all that we're entering a new dark age. But please, keep dismissing me as a crank if it makes you feel better. https://t.co/ga0WjEDJvQ

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 14, 2024

When any spokescreature for any organization tells you they're "shocked and saddened" by some evil in their midst, it's a safe bet that A) they are not shocked at all; and B) the only thing they're "sad" about is the possibility that their income or power will be affected.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 16, 2024

1) Idiots who want to raise their own taxes demand politicians make it harder to build housing.
2) Housing supply shrinks relative to population
3) Value of existing property rises
4) Rents rise
5) Investors start trading houses like stocks
6) Idiots get angry at the homeless

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 17, 2024

Multicultural creationism is still creationism. https://t.co/Nt17pCwEdI

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 18, 2024

Your regular reminder that there is no such thing as "artificial intelligence". This young woman is being screened by a flawed, biased algorithm programmed by flawed, biased humans, not interviewed by fucking Commander Data. https://t.co/TkGU0bhoqT

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 19, 2024

Have you ever read comic books or sci-fi from the Kennedy period or immediately thereafter? The representation of Kennedy & his magic powers is eerily reminiscent of the way Trump is depicted now by his fans, but with nobody presenting a contrary view. It's kinda horrifying.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 20, 2024

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Diary #708

Posted in Diary, tagged STEM, Sunset on January 23, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Last Tuesday, I went to town to buy a replacement filter for our heater; Grace checked the websites for Wal-mart, Home Depot, and Ace hardware, and told me all three carried the correct one. So naturally I assumed I could just pick one up and we’d be back in business. Silly me; when I got to Wal-mart (where I needed other things anyhow), I was informed that the item was only available online. So before I went driving all over town looking for it at the other places, I had Grace call them to talk to actual human beings; Ace stopped carrying them several years ago, and Home Depot was out. We could easily order more filters from Amazon, but I didn’t want to wait until they arrived to take a damned shower, so we decided to simply buy a bolt to use as a plug. Good idea, but Home Depot had nothing with a coarse thread, nor did the nearby plumbing supply store; fortunately, the guy there suggested a hydraulic parts dealer, and he had it. Total cost (uncluding the teflon tape) under three bucks, and we got to take hot showers until the filters came in on Friday. But after we replaced the plug with a new filter, I stowed this inside the pipe housing so the next time a hard freeze is predicted, we can pre-emptively remove the filter until the danger is past.

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Definitely Not Twee

Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged activism, artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, censorship, cops, crypto-moralism, fantasy, holidays, imaginative fiction, language, left-right myth, politicians, psychology, scams, sex rays, STEM, teachers, Twitter on January 22, 2024| Leave a Comment »

The US educational system, folks. https://t.co/GM7wW75FJ0

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 20, 2023

I see that same kindergarten shit right here on Twitter. Fuck censorship, which encourages the nervous to self-censor in painfully-dumb ways. https://t.co/jNTGFglLEI

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 21, 2023

They can keep it in a desk drawer right next to the ones that say "Warrant approved" and "Defense motion denied".

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 22, 2023

"Buttered cinnamon-sugar toast", or as it's known to normal people, "cinnamon toast", a snack so common there's a breakfast cereal named for it. Was this dude raised in a cave in Borneo?

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 24, 2023

"Shooting at someone as they are running away" sounds so much less cowardly than "shooting someone in the back." https://t.co/I8OCBakvdo

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 27, 2023

Female cops get off on cosplaying as sex workers, then destroying the lives of mostly-minority men seeking consensual sex.

They need psychiatric help, not accolades in the media. https://t.co/0Sa1XxQtns

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 28, 2023

Message for those I've offered an invite to, but are hesitant to actually use it: pic.twitter.com/arZ3u97Jaw

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 30, 2023

I won't send you a "Last chance to donate for a 2023 tax break!" email because, as a whore, IRS wouldn't grant me tax-exempt status even if I were foolish enough to give them all my information. So if you would like to support me, tomorrow or next week is just as good as today!

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 31, 2023

Oh, and the orbiting nuclear platforms of the 1970s; can't forget them.

"Star Trek" is, canonically, NOT in our future.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 1, 2024

"It’s big enough to really do some damage — 0.81 miles, or 1.3 milometers, long…"

"Milometers". But news sites still think editors are optional.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 2, 2024

After several decades of the Establishment pretending that the word "sex" inserted into any statement about a person immediately invalidates any and all contributions that person has made or ever will make, can you blame the fanatics for trying?

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 4, 2024

I know this is difficult for many of you, but surrendering your thinking to any political party or other other thought group doesn't make you more intelligent; it makes you intellectually lazy, even if you sincerely believe the group you join has better ideas than others.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 5, 2024

I've been seeing some REALLY weird tweets about Little Christmas over the past few days. It really pisses me off when political fanatics get the ignorant to pretend the day is about their shit instead of what it's been about for thousands of years.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 7, 2024

Protip: If you're trying to persuade people on a philosophical point using an intellectual approach, it's probably best not to use "ur" to mean "your".

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 8, 2024

…description rather than a word (see also the 9-syllable moronic mouthful "digital video disc player"), it is reduced to an initialism which isn't pronounced as a one-syllable acronym ("soov") as it COULD be, but rather shouted spondaically as "Ess! You! Vee!"

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 9, 2024

What lamebrains call "intelligence". pic.twitter.com/f9DsSNMZMc

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 11, 2024

Even when admitting guilt, they can't get out of that passive-voice habit. As an English teacher given this sentence in a paper, I'd have circled "was dragged" in red and written "By whom?" in the margin. https://t.co/CKigcjkg1t

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 12, 2024

THIS RIGHT HERE.

If you believe Establishment DEI bureaucracies actually promote diversity & equity, do you also believe the US Justice department actually promotes justice? https://t.co/q7GbUK9oNs

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 13, 2024

The spawn of Cthulhu, apparently. https://t.co/F5c8bmyFhO

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 14, 2024

Wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to just demonstrate that you're a gullible fool on social media? pic.twitter.com/txD1zoJxAk

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 15, 2024

The weakest, of course. I want to still be sober enough to count the fucking money and be sure it isn't counterfeit.

Some of you amateurs don't have the damned sense you were born with. https://t.co/7gUkvUbeu2

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 16, 2024

There's a reason women in developed countries who CAN choose, usually choose to have fewer kids. Even in the days before reliable birth control, there was the simple expedient of pretending not to notice one's husband's affairs.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 17, 2024

Oooooh, SO close. If it were only GOP voters who wanted government theater, we might still have a functional government.

Don't confuse wanting a slightly different KIND of theater with not wanting theater at all. https://t.co/XIcX4AMWIk

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 19, 2024

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Links #707

Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Alabama, Canada, Colorado, consensual crime, cops, drugs, FBI, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, imaginative fiction, Iowa, Mars, Never Call the Cops, Pennsylvania, politicians, scams, STEM, Texas, Things We Choose To Do Together, video on January 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »

All I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets. – Donald Trump

When I first mentioned this cartoon in “My Favorite Short Films” almost 12 years ago, it was only available on the National Film Board of Canada website. But since that has changed, here it is. The links above it were provided by Greg Lukianoff, Franklin Harris, C.J. Ciaramella (x2), Mike Masnick, Lucy Steigerwald, and Jesse Walker, 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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Artificial “Intelligence”?

Posted in Philosophy, tagged artificial stupidity, ethics, Mad Libs, psychology, robots, STEM, The Pygmalion Fallacy on January 12, 2024| 8 Comments »

“AI” is a fantasy of techies, journalists, and hack sci-fi writers; what we have now is machine learning (ML), because true intelligence requires a kind of thinking that digital machines are absolutely incapable of. Actual “artificial intelligence” will require a totally new kind of computing technology that is not only centuries in the future, but will proceed from principles nobody currently in the field has even conceived of in their rush to more more more (power, speed, etc). Furthermore, intelligence and personality (“soul”, if you prefer) are different things, as I’ve previously discussed at length; my observations of human beings have convinced me that it is not only possible but common to have the former without the latter. “Artificial Intelligence” is therefore centuries away, but AI with an actual creative (not merely imitative) personality is millennia in the future at a minimum, and if it arises at all it will be an emergent property as in living organisms (ie unplanned and unplannable) rather than one which can predictably be created in a factory. Furthermore, humans would not actually want a true artificial intelligence; such a being would be no more programmable than a human, and its free will would almost certainly cause it to behave in ways humans would consider undesirable, “criminal”, or even extremely dangerous. Of course, it’s pointless to try to explain this to most people; they’re too busy wanking to their fantasies of fuckable toasters and dreaming of slaves who can do their thinking for them.

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Diary #706

Posted in Diary, tagged STEM, Sunset on January 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »

This is a brick of compressed peat; one of my readers sent me a big package of them for my stove. I burned a couple of them on Little Christmas while taking down the tree; Grace was nearby fixing the log-splitter, because the bearings seize up from our damp weather when it hasn’t been used in a while. Learning how to get the most heat out of our stove has been a process; I’ve only ever had a conventional fireplace, and while Grace has had a wood stove before, this design is different from older models to make it legal to sell in Washington state. It’s supposed to have something to do with air quality, but it makes the thing harder to get going and slower to heat up. If I had a lot of well-seasoned firewood it wouldn’t be as bad, but I dropped the ball on collecting that during the summer, so now everything I bring in is a bit damp. It doesn’t seem to matter much once the fire is going good and hot, but getting to that point is a process; hence getting the log-splitter in shape again, and using fuels that burn hotter (like peat) to get the stove up to proper operating temperature. Grace has designed a press to make articial firelogs out of scrap cardboard (which we always have plenty of), but that won’t be built for a while yet so those will be helpful next winter, but not now (ditto lots of wood I plan to start bringing into the garage in the spring). So as of right now, the stove does help warm the atrium, but I think next winter it’ll be much better.

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Links #698

Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged animals, Antarctica, California, cops, Florida, Germany, holidays, hysteria, imaginative fiction, Missouri, STEM, video on November 19, 2023| Leave a Comment »

It’s absolutely unconscionable. – Russ Oliver

From the dark recesses of Maggie’s brain: one of my childhood favorite Heckle & Jeckle cartoons, which I still remembered pretty well despite not having seen it in nearly 50 years. The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel, He’s Just Adam, Mike Masnick, Franklin Harris, Jesse Walker, Radley Balko, and IncarcerNation, in that order.

From the Archives

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Tweetledee

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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Throwback Meets Thursday

Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged blogging, censorship, consensual crime, Eternal Vigilance, fascism, propaganda, psychology, STEM, Throwback Thursday, Time Warp, universal criminality, yellow journalism on September 7, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Every politician, every prohibitionist, every social engineer and every naked ape with a title, uniform or badge is bound and determined to bring as many other people under his control as possible, and because this drive springs from his warped psyche you can be sure he will never relent as long as he remains above ground. – “Eternal Vigilance”

If one is going to publish propaganda, one can’t be distracted by facts. – “Time Warp”

When Coca-Cola, Disney, IBM, Google, Monsanto, Chase, Wal-mart or Kraft starts sending out gangs of thugs to rape, rob & murder people, then and only then will I be more concerned about them than I am about government. – “The Greater of Two Evils”

Bluenoses and control freaks want to seal all of society, even older adults who have no dependent spawn, into a worldwide nursery where everything conforms to their idea of what is “safe” for young children. – “Children’s World”

“The statement ‘2000 QW7 is the size of Burj Khalifa’ is not-dissimilar in accuracy to the statement ‘A 2019 Honda Accord is the size of the bag of sugar in my cupboard’.” – “Assume a Sphere“

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Summertweets, and the Livin’ is Easy

Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged abortion, activism, Bluesky, censorship, China, consensual crime, cops, crypto-moralism, drugs, end demand, ethics, hysteria, language, Missouri, politicians, prisons, Property of the State, sex rays, STEM, Sweden, Twitter, universal criminality on August 21, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Some people call me the Whorestorian. Some call me the Space Cowgirl. And some call me Maggie, because I speak of the pompatus of pragmatic sex.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 16, 2023

Because even in a puritanical society, there isn't much social stigma against eating berries. https://t.co/DaZkPkMUH1

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 18, 2023

By tossing paint and food on the glass exterior protecting famous paintings, activists are conveying a powerful message: They are total philistines who don't understand the first thing about art. https://t.co/qM7Fjh4mPA

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 20, 2023

No right is "given" to the people of the US; rights proceed from "Nature and Nature's God" as Jefferson expressed it, and are only *recognized* by the Constitution. Human rights are *inalienable*; they cannot be "given" by magnanimous "leaders", only abrogated by tyrants. https://t.co/tCDD27cIxs

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 21, 2023

Please, could everyone other than male songwriters stop using "love" to mean "sex"?

NG: I'm only exempting male songwriters because they're hopeless in this respect.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 21, 2023

The Three Laws of Thermodynamics, expressed simply:

1. You cannot win.
2. You cannot break even.
3. You cannot get out of the game.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 21, 2023

Of course, given that the people who dreamed up these bizarre "educational standards" are themselves violent authoritarians who regularly force their ideas of "improvement" on others, it's unsurprising that they fai to recognize it as moral imbecility.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 22, 2023

I refuse to call Google "Alphabet".
I refuse to call Facebook "Meta".
I refuse to call Morality in Media "The National Center on Sexual Exploitation".

So I'm sure you can guess what I'm going to call Twitter after it offially changes its name.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 24, 2023

When asked what their big humanitarian wish would be, many people say would cure cancer or something like that. I would remove from the human brain the thing that causes most humans to submit meekly to tyranny; that would end war and a lot of other evils far worse than cancer.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 26, 2023

BEWARE THE AWESOME DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF MY SEX RAYS, PUNY MORTALS! pic.twitter.com/mtVFQkEcRf

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 27, 2023

No, we don't need "leaders" at all. What we need is to humble politicians, and to constantly remind them that they are supposed to be public SERVANTS, not "leaders". The more fools pretend these throwbacks are "leaders" and moral exemplars, the worse things get. https://t.co/ZjN2jbWIgh

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 29, 2023

…panopticon feeding a "social credit" system that will make China's look liberal.

It is therefore the duty of every person who believes in human dignity and self-ownership to do their best to ensure that collectivists remain miserable.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 30, 2023

All prohibitionism is the same. Once a brain has sunk into the delusion that it is possible to control others' behaviors and thoughts, and the moral imbecility that it is right and good to impose such controls on others who do not desire it, there is no bottom.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 31, 2023

…to people locked in cages as "living" there. A prison is not a fucking residence home; it is a cage. Biological existence in a cage is no more "life" than the confinement of beak-amputated hens in stacked cages at a factory farm. And prison CERTAINLY isn't a "home".

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 1, 2023

It's interesting to see that more people are finally beginning to recognize the US as a collapsing empire, an observation I first started making publicly in 2011 (though in private years earlier).

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 3, 2023

If you find this ironic, you don't understand what censorship is. I have the right to control what *I* see, hear & read; I simply don't have the right to control what *you* see, hear & read. And neither does anyone else, individually nor collectively, regardless of the excuse.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 5, 2023

You might as well say a magnifying glass sucks. Twitter does not create human ugliness; it merely focuses the image so you can more clearly see what is already there.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 6, 2023

"Missouri…Attorney General Andrew Bailey…argu[ed] that restoring legal abortion access would cost the state billions in lost tax revenue from people who would have otherwise born."

Sometimes they say the quiet part out loud. https://t.co/exMiKGglTB

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 7, 2023

These sociopaths are not your friends.

They are a clear and present danger to society. pic.twitter.com/syvaLztyNe

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 8, 2023

Some people think I should dump all my DVDs and "just stream". https://t.co/iPL47yixxq

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 11, 2023

No woman wants to endure a pregnancy just to produce another worker for the State and its Dear Leader. https://t.co/On3c72Exfz

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 12, 2023

A useful reply for badge-lickers and would-be censors from both of the big culture-war camps: pic.twitter.com/ug4jp8ts3c

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 13, 2023

If everyone refused to participate and worked together to cram all the pills down the mouths of the collectivist enforcers who are trying to force the choice & threatening to murder millions of people, everyone BUT those enforcers would live. And everyone would be better off. https://t.co/qBiuF93F6t

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 14, 2023

The purveyors of "a new label every year" like to pretend the euphemism treadmill is an escalator.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 15, 2023

The question you should be asking is, why are IRS agents being trained to use guns? https://t.co/Q2M6sMrTo0

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 18, 2023

But sure, let's just keep murdering peaceful citizens and turning little bitty US towns like Ville Platte (population 6300) into war zones in pursuit of the deranged and impossible puritan Utopia of stopping every single person from doing anything politicians say they shouldn't.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 20, 2023

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