Posts Tagged ‘Washington DC’
Cave of Throwback Thursday
Posted in Biography, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged animals, blogging, imaginative fiction, internet, language, politicians, prisons, psychology, Washington DC on August 6, 2026| 1 Comment »
The Emperor of America
Posted in Current Events, Fiction, Tyranny, tagged comics, politicians, Washington DC on July 24, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I recently decided to reread my entire comic book collection, and this splash page from Action Comics #52 (September, 1942) caught my attention for reasons that should be obvious. In the story, the soi-disant emperor is a mad scientist who has invented a machine that broadcasts rays which nullifies resistance, so people will agree with anything anyone tells them to do, regardless of how ridiculous. Naturally Superman is immune, and early in the story utters the soliloquy, “What’s happened to everyone? Have they gone insane?” before flying to Washington to defeat the villain in his usual style. But in the course of the story, the madman takes actions which may seem familiar 84 years later: pillaging the treasury, replacing the cabinet and Supreme Court with his hoodlum henchmen, etc.
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
Bluebird
Posted in Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged adolescence, animals, blogging, Bluesky, dehumanization, fantasy, fascism, Google, holidays, illegal aliens, internet, language, left-right myth, libraries, politicians, propaganda, psychology, racism, robots, sporting events, surveillance, Thanatopsis, Turkey, Twitter, Vermont, Washington DC on July 20, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I used to try to explain when a young or pre-menopausal woman makes some sort of confident statement about what she will be like post-menopause. Now I just shrug and say, "You'll find out soon enough."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-17T17:21:31.990Z
It's always amusing to me when a paywall demanding I provide my personal information is followed almost immediately by a popup admitting they will sell that information to anybody who wants it.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-18T18:46:19.972Z
"Mmmm, a meat-free savoury loaf!" said no hungry person ever.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-19T18:57:53.004Z
The best part of this algae bloom is, it only needs to stay in place for two more weeks from today to achieve maximum humiliation value for Trump and the whole MAGA movement. After the 4th, it can vanish overnight; what will be remembered is the perfect metaphor for the semiquincentennial.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-20T17:51:22.612Z
5 million djinn and imps working 24/7 can build Baghdad in ≈ 6 months. Now just imagine what the world looks like when we have 10 billion of them by 800. Now imagine the year 1000. Amazing abundance for all!
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-21T17:27:00.933Z
I don't generally call attention to toxic filth from Twitter, but if you're still on Twitter at all you may want to look up this sewer outlet which calls human beings "farm equipment" just for the pleasure of blocking it.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-23T17:52:42.652Z
"It’s Donald Trump’s violent, pawing need, not to win, but to be *seen* to have won. To see *himself* as a winner or, when observable reality disagrees, to declare war on reality. It’s the president’s shrieking demand that everyone else join him in waging war upon a mirror."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-24T16:58:10.225Z
Why are the US media and Democratic politicians so averse to recognizing that SCOTUS judges can be impeached?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-25T18:01:45.727Z
A new dimension of "throwing like a girl".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-28T03:27:07.509Z
This is actually a good way to deal with drive-by commenters on social media."This is stupid!""OK."They don't know how to continue when you refuse to give them the theatrical conflict they crave.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-28T18:12:37.049Z
Maybe they're all ninjas, disguising themselves by becoming blades of grass.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-28T18:06:43.769Z
Musk is a Bond supervillain. Zuckerberg is a Batman supervillain.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-06-30T07:37:56.774Z
Well come ON! If you looked like that, you'd be depressed, too.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-01T17:52:32.638Z
THANK YOU.It's rare to see *anyone* who grasps this nowadays, even though it's right there in the name of the movement.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-02T17:43:57.214Z
The Trump regime keeps people from entering the US "because of who they are" all the time.Monkey see, monkey do.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-04T17:43:32.766Z
Without a doubt, it would have to be the guy who said that any female character in a fantasy story with extraordinary powers was a "Mary Sue".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-06T19:08:47.786Z
Another American institution destroyed by private equity: http://www.salon.com/2026/07/03/h…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-07T17:02:26.485Z
As a former reference librarian, I can tell you what people did before Google. (HINT: it wasn't sitting around helplessly wishing for the information.)
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-08T07:57:06.570Z
I spoke with Mitch McConnell for twenty minutes this morning. He told me he had meddled in things that man must leave alone.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-09T08:13:53.616Z
Reminds me of this argument which anyone who knew teen boys in the late '70s & early '80s will remember:Boy 1: Rob Halford is not gay!Boy 2: Dude, he's gay. Look at his costumes.Boy 1: Leather is tough, not gay!Boy 2: What about gay leather dudes?Boy 1: They stole that from bikers!Boy 2: …..
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-11T18:16:55.618Z
Every so often the very first tweet I see from someone is so absolutely, moronically authoritarian, I block them instantly to spare myself from ever seeing another violently-stupid utterance from them.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-12T17:12:55.939Z
"Verify your age"Fuck you! In my day, computers didn't talk back or make demands. And we watched TV by attaching the set to an antenna.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-13T17:03:24.239Z
So very many words to say, "I don't understand the concept of hubris and anyone who tries to explain it to me is Satan."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-14T17:41:15.926Z
"The alternative would be to admit that we as a nation have done what we have in fact done, which is install a demented narcissistic madman as president."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-15T17:58:14.068Z
Partisanism is a form of brain rot. Today's example: claiming the increasingly-totalitarian Trump regime is "anti-government".If Trump's metastasizing police state is "anti-government", I shudder to think what a "pro-government" regime would look like.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-16T17:03:55.420Z
People used to think I was kooky for refusing to eat green, leafy vegetables and uncooked or undercooked food.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-18T03:39:10.780Z
My favorite Sanders tell is how his refrain used to be blaming "millionaires and billionaires" for everything until someone correctly pointed out that SANDERS is a millionaire, at which point he switched to just blaming "billionaires".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-07-19T16:53:53.906Z
Links #836
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, cops, disease, Mexico, Michigan, New Orleans, politicians, video, Washington DC on July 12, 2026| Leave a Comment »
She is not only vastly stupid, but also vastly lazy. – W.A. Mozart
There was no way I was going to feature anything by the Village People over one of my favorite songs (which I’ve somehow never featured), sung by Bonnie Tyler but written by the legendary Jim Steinman. The links above it were provided by T. Greg Doucette; Kevin Wilson; Mike Siegel; Jesse Walker; Dan Savage ; Radley Balko; and Mike Masnick, in that order.
- Metaphor alert.
- The new “Adolf”.
- Cops really hate being outdone.
- Seven lost Mozart compositions.
- R.I.P. Victor Willis and Bonnie Tyler.
- Cops are consistently a menace to society.
- There is still occasional good news, at least in STEM.
From the Archives
- There are a few judges willing to block “monkey see, monkey do” parades.
- Was this the person who sent me the proof of Ashley Madison’s con game?
- Crypto-moralists want people to fear even moderate alcohol consumption.
- I’m sure they helpfully yelled “Stop faking!” at him whenever he coughed.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Another of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- While sex work is marginalized, sex workers will be targeted for violence.
- Politicians are avid devotees of cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why shut us out of other jobs?
- It’s only been 4 years since the UK lost in court the last time it tried this.
- What so-called “AI” is actually best at is parting fools from their money.
- Mexican cops are more concerned about sex workers than US cops are.
- Erosion of civil liberties starts with “undesirables”; it never stops there.
- New tyrannies are often tested first on whores, but never stop with us.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- What loser would pay to talk to computer programs posing as people?
- It’s not like 2011 is ancient history, or Florida far away from Georgia.
- Cops will continue to do this until there are criminal penalties for it.
- Politicians recognize bank blacklisting when it affects their cronies.
- Kansas courts aren’t allowing politicians to circumvent the voters.
- This surveillance is only “mandatory” for adults ignorant of VPNs.
- Cops, religion, Spencer Milligan, Shelley Duvall, and much more.
- An attempt to push back the swelling tide of adult infantilization.
- There is no part of this reeking pile of shit that fails to be stupid.
- Another attempt to use antique laws to ban abortion is foiled.
- My thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth anniversary columns.
- Naturally, because it’s cops’ job to cause harm, not reduce it.
- Cops, satire, Jim Shooter, Michael Madsen, and much more.
- There’s a reason I’ve repeatedly called this cult “dangerous”.
- Even the distancing “former” is the same as for rapist cops.
- Wave bye-bye to the last remaining shreds of your privacy.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- The first installment of my Throwback Thursday feature.
- Cops, crypto-moralism, Balkanization, and much more.
- Using crypto-moralism as an excuse to rob businesses.
- I was in this Hulu documentary about Ashley Madison.
- The only thing LLMs can actually process is language.
- Unfortunately, this is all we could expect right now.
- “YES, this really is a djinni who can grant wishes!”
- Another sign that the moral panic is largely over.
- Nosy authoritarians hoist with their own petard.
- There will never be another day like this again.
- Sleeping with cops isn’t safe for men, either.
- Words fail me in the face of such barbarity.
- When Jimmy Swaggart departed for Hell.
- A cop posing as a masseur is still a cop.
- How Cicero and Louie keep their cool.
- A shortcut to LLM-induced psychosis.
- This is a cop’s idea of “friendship”.
- Installing the atrium chimney.
- Throwback Thursday Girl.
- Far too little, far too late.
- The Curse of Fridaystein.
- My recipe for crumpets.
- Fascism in action.
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Independence Day 2026
Posted in Current Events, Holidays, Tyranny, tagged fascism, holidays, politicians, Washington DC on July 4, 2026| 1 Comment »
The saddest thing about the collapse of the US empire is that instead of a dignified decline or a catastrophic collapse, we had to endure the spectacle of the White House being turned into the White Trash House.
In the News (#1640)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged abortion, agency denial, artificial stupidity, consensual crime, cops, Cops and Robbers, Creepy Coppers, Do As I Say, domestic violence, drugs, fantasy, Follow Your Bliss, Kansas, Kentucky, language, law, lawheads, Louisiana, Mad Libs, Maryland, Monsters, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, porn, propaganda, scams, teachers, The Cop Myth, The Vultures Descend, transgender, Washington (state), Washington DC on May 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »
This is just one in a long line of attacks on our rights. – Alexis Johnson
When will the mainstream media admit that pigs in schools are a menace?
A [typical and representative Pennsylvania cop paid to lurk in]…school[s to spy on, harass, and intimidate students] has been arrested on child pornography charges…[an anonymous snitch tattled on] David Jayne…[to cops, who raided his house and found a trove of child porn going back] about 20 years…[Reporters interviewed a mob of slackjawed nitwits who expressed confusion over the revelation that cops are hypocrites and fear of sex ray contamination]…
Cops claim they “don’t know” if this was hate-motivated:
…a Santa Fe [New Mexico] transgender teen…[named] Juniper Blessing…was stabbed more than 40 times [at a University of Washington student housing complex in Seattle on the evening of May 10]…Christopher Leahy [surrendered]…to police [the following] Thursday…He…[is being] charge[d]…with first-degree murder…Blessing [was found] dead in the laundry room of Nordheim Court…around 10:10 p.m…[and Leahy was] caught on surveillance video…as…he…unplugged [the camera in preparation for]…the attack…Police haven’t referred the case to prosecutors as a hate crime investigation…Last month, a 39-year-old transmasculine person named Lucas Knapp was [murdered] in [New Mexico by]…David Thomas Byington, [who] fired at Knapp multiple times with a rifle…Investigators in Kentucky are continuing to search for 22-year-old Murry Foust, a trans man enrolled at Northern Kentucky University who has been missing since April 27…
Unsafe for Human Consumption (#1549)
Cops won’t drop this fantasy until “news” media stop obediently parroting it:
An [anxiety-prone Pennsylvania cop faint]ed in a p[igmobile] and [his bosses decided to turn it into “magic fentanyl” copaganda because]…he…help[ed] destroy narcotics inside the evidence room…about 20 minutes [earlier]…fentanyl [does not have a delayed effect, nor any effect from casual contact]…no[r any side effect of] memory [loss, but cops decided to turn it into a “magic fentanyl” scary tale anyhow, assuming it happened at all (given that no name was provided)]…
Do As I Say, Not As I Do (#1591) 
It’s too bad cops don’t spend all of their time fantasy role-playing with each other:
A D.C. [cop] has been arrested in Maryland [for talking to another cop]…Matthew Mahl…exchanged sexually explicit text messages with a Maryland [cop fantasy role-playing online]…as a 15-year-old boy…Mahl has been [rewarded with a paid vacation. The game]…was [part of a moneymaking scheme organized by toxic con artist] Chris Hansen, known for his [unethical] exp[loitation of public fears about “]child predators[” which resulted in a trail of ruined lives and even suicides, and inspired dozens of sleazy YouTube imit]ations. Hansen, who[se]…”To Catch a Predator” [show was cancelled due to successful lawsuits by its victims,] now hosts the series “Takedown with Chris Hansen” which fo[llows the same revolting formula]…
Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do:
A Wichita [Kansas cop named]…Grayson Hoofer was [arrested] for [breaking into his estranged girlfriend’s house to beat and sexually terrorize her]…Hoofer…[was, predictably,] a member of [a cop gang supposedly intended to intervene in]…domestic…violence [cases]. His [bosses have] since [hidden that, but also bragged that Hoofer]…has been re[warded with a]…paid [vacation]…
No, it can’t connect to my bank account; “your” is not a pronoun meaning “any fool’s”:
OpenAI wants…[fools] to…be able to connect their accounts across more than 12,000 financial institutions to…[Cat, I farted so it can root] “in your…financial accounts…in a way that feels more personal and complete”…If you are someone reasonably [sane]…you might be thinking, “Why on Earth would I want to do that?” But OpenAI…is [not marketing to sensible]…people…
Just a reminder that even if they’d let this diktat stand, it is wholly unenforceable:
The Supreme Court [has overruled a 5th Circuit diktat attempting to stop] the abortion pill mifepristone [from being] available by mail without an in-person appointment…The decision, a loss for the state of Louisiana, ensures [clinicians] will not be [criminalized when they prescribe]…the drug [for women in forced-birth states]…Two [totalitarian judg]es, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, dissented…[absurdly barfing] “criminal enterprise” [at the plaintiffs]…
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On the Tweet Where You Live
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Music, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged Aladdin’s Satellite, artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, comics, consensual crime, dirty, drugs, ethics, fascism, imaginative fiction, internet, Iran, language, politicians, Post-Christianity, psychology, Pyrrhic Victory, robots, sex work is work, video, Washington DC on May 18, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Old-style criminals ran their criminal activities as businesses; techies run their businesses as criminal enterprises.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-18T07:51:15.991Z
These things look like the wearer's head shrunk, which makes them a perfect visual metaphor for chatbot usage.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-21T03:54:52.643Z
"She swindled him out of the $40,000 he spent on her…"Make up you minds; either he spent it or she swindled him. Buyer's remorse does not a "swindle" make.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-23T03:32:42.585Z
In my youth, nobody used a word any harsher than "eccentric" to describe old ladies who refused to drive economy cars, insisted big tube radios sounded better than transistor radios, or was unimpressed with cinema special-effects spectacles.I hope to be afforded the same courtesy.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-23T17:07:28.260Z
Not crushing enough.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-24T17:45:48.193Z
"Sam Altman, the head (in the nautical sense) of OpenAI…"Please proceed.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-25T17:29:34.342Z
A sophomoric twit proposes a stupid thought experiment involving button-pushing. If more than 50% of people on social media respond, other sophomoric twits will continue to propose stupid thought experiments, but if less than 50% respond the fad will die. Do you participate?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-26T16:31:10.502Z
I'm sick to death of hearing this nonsense about "girl dads" and "boy moms". How about just being parents who actually CARE about their children, regardless of gender? And I don't mean "help them achieve arbitrary standards of success" or "keep them physically 'safe' at the cost of personal growth".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T17:44:27.936Z
I do not keep cursed objects in my home, and furthermore as a wise old crone who lives near a damp, creepy forest I advise y'all not to keep them in your homes, either.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T18:01:27.631Z
Dude looks like he just got a facefull of Joker toxin.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-30T03:59:39.099Z
A housecat is much smaller than a human, and absolutely cannot win in a fight with a determined human. But it doesn't need to; all it NEEDS to do is make grabbing it so painful and bloody that the human decides grabbing it isn't worthwhile.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-04-30T18:23:30.477Z
The Bluesky autocensor has labeled this "explicit or potentially disturbing". If you're disturbed by the Three Stooges' cartoon violence, I suggest you just mute or block me now, because it isn't going to get any better for you.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-01T18:04:59.499Z
I stopped considering myself a Christian about 50 years ago, and I am still nauseated by the level of blasphemy constantly pouring out of Gomorrah-on-the-Potomac.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-02T02:52:58.126Z
I propose we change the name from the Department of Justice to the Department of Vengeance, so as to more accurately describe its activities. If a hypothetical future regime somehow changes that in a way that will make abuse much harder*, we can consider changing it back.*This will never happen.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-03T17:54:28.666Z
Millennials and Gen Xers may recognize this song as the main title of "The Adventures of Pete & Pete". But what Polaris didn't dare tell Nickelodeon, for fear of losing the gig, is that the song is about the Kent State massacre. The titular "Sandy" is Sandra Lee Scheuer.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-04T16:59:54.865Z
It's true, I was there.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-05T04:03:23.278Z
A lot of people (ESPECIALLY in cities like Portland or Seattle) use the term "anarchist" as a synonym for "hooligan", when in actuality they're closer to antonyms. True anarchists have their own moral code which they firmly adhere to, for reasons which should be obvious.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-05T16:45:46.775Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-09T04:45:27.463Z
So the antecedent of "you" here is…countries? Or is he saying all "not stupid" countries should shoot at an individual, such as a US local cop, who shoots at me, Maggie McNeill? Or does he mean there should be a grand free-for-all in which all national militaries avenge all individual shootings?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-09T17:26:29.171Z
"it is context window buffers""I thought a string of instructions could be my friend""Mensa"{insert "I am very smart" meme}
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-11T17:19:05.355Z
This looks worse than "Reptilicus".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-12T17:34:06.980Z
My favorite subgenre of country is philosophical country, epitomized by songs written by Jimmy Webb.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-13T16:47:24.314Z
Roughly 1/3 of US voters are authoritarian.Roughly 1/3 are liberal.And the remaining 1/3 are spineless reeds who will bend with the political winds.The entire history of US politics, from the founding generation until now, is the struggle to capture the middle third.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-14T17:45:43.395Z
He also announced future initiatives to fight saline bags, stints, dental chairs, and MRI machines, but he's leaving the fights against vaccines and antibiotics to his buddy Frankennedy.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-05-16T17:31:42.572Z
Links #828
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged animals, Canada, cops, FBI, games, Hawaii, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, imaginative fiction, politicians, robots, video, Washington DC on May 17, 2026| Leave a Comment »
It’s a huge public safety risk. – Kyla Lee
I’m still not sure why squeaky rubber chickens have become musical instruments on YouTube, but this one from Creepy Stare Piano Guy (shared by Mike Siegel) is certainly the most elaborate one yet. Mike also provided the last link above the video; the others are from Wendy Lyon, Ryan Marino, T. Greg Doucette (x2), and Radley Balko, in that order.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Fucking around and finding out.
- You can play the Trump video game!
- “Smart” devices aren’t, part umpty-eleven.
- Mad emperor creeps ever-deeper into dementia.
- This storyline was more believable when it was done on The X-Files.
From the Archives
- How long will airlines accept liability for government-brand racial profiling?
- Why are people shocked when men encouraged to behave violently do so?
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Kinsey has always been a target for bluenoses, fanatics and other creeps.
- What kind of warped mind wants male cops barging into women’s rooms?
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Roger Corman, David Sanborn, and much more.
- Rural folks are less affected by surveillance than urbanites, but not safe.
- Georgia cops love destroying lives over racist “brat snatching” fantasies.
- Censors are angry they couldn’t force obedience by taking library funds.
- At least a few judges are willing to restrain other judges’ megalomania.
- The costs of society’s sick infatuation with incarceration are staggering.
- Now MAGA controls the “sex trafficking” narrative, expect more of this.
- A psychopathic wacko who even discomfits some“trafficking” fetishists.
- Redefining words is one of the oldest tricks in the politicians’ playbook.
- Fools refuse to grasp what a danger biometric identification actually is.
- The State tortures thousands of people for crossing an imaginary line.
- There can never be too many articles on sex workers for the disabled.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- The inevitable result of giving sexual predators power over women.
- Making unconstitutional threats should be an impeachable offense.
- Cops, politicians, administrators, Tim Bachman, and much more.
- A new censorship regime has been imposed on British subjects.
- The people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- A small victory for American ideals, but a victory nonetheless.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Government at every level crusades against Christian charity.
- Most Americans still believe France is a sex-positive society.
- When predators aren’t culled, they just keep on predating.
- Just another kind of federal cop, with behavior to match.
- Pigs in schools are a menace which should be abolished.
- The inevitable result of a blatantly-unconstitutional law.
- One “war” on consensual behavior is very like another.
- There are many ways for governments to rob citizens.
- It’s far too late to stuff this djinni back into its bottle.
- Children should be taught critical thinking in school.
- It’s about time somebody sane spoke up about this.
- A murderer is also a rapist. Gee, what a surprise.
- My tastes in TV shows often run to the eccentric.
- Confusing coverage of Belgian decriminalization.
- Government censors are growing ever bolder.
- When ambulance-chasers run the hospitals.
- A great deal has changed in fourteen years.
- Where all of my marble statues came from.
- All cops will have these within a few years.
- Only decriminalization is decriminalization.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- Court rules that illegal searches are legal.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, and much more.
- Preachers are like cops in many ways.
- An appearance of the aurora borealis.
- Mary Shelley’s Throwback Thursday.
- Creating a vestibule in my annex.
- Blood of Throwback Thursday.
- Zuckerberg is out of his mind.
- Rapist cop of the week.
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Links #813
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, artificial stupidity, consensual crime, cops, Florida, France, games, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, law, Minnesota, politicians, video, Washington DC, weaponry on February 1, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Get back in the game, or I’ll shoot you. – Andrew Lawson
Due to the plethora of guillotine memes that have populated social media since the current guillotine-worthy regime took power, I’ve often thought of this song, but it was the recent death of Brigitte Bardot which finally moved me to feature it. The links above the video were provided by Nicholas Grossman, Jesse Walker, The Onion, Nun Ya, Jesse Walker again, Jessica Pishko, and Popehat, in that order.
- R.I.P. Catherine O’Hara.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Another perfect strike from The Onion.
- The funniest thing I’ve read so far this year.
- Criminality is a status defined entirely by the state.
- Even being in the same room as a cop is dangerous.
- Goons slam man into wall, claim he did it to himself.
From the Archives
- Better cops escape consequences than this ugly trope be reinforced again.
- Cop deals with disagreement in typical cop fashion & the press is shocked.
- Texas is completely uninterested in controlling its psychopathic politicians.
- Remember that legal protection we used to have against double jeopardy?
- All laws should sunset in 10 years unless specific action is taken to renew.
- This piece is so restrained it doesn’t even use the term “super gonorrhea”.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- A grab-bag of bigotry & superstitions sprinkled with a few Biblical quotes.
- The way local media parrots clearly-foolish copaganda is utterly pathetic.
- Everything that comes out of government bureaus is now pure trumpery.
- If it’s supposedly on the news now, why should the victim pay blackmail?
- Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will multiply until ruled unconstitutional.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- Cops really don’t care how many false positives these systems shit out.
- The First Amendment is now being eroded just like many of the others.
- Politicians believe they can excuse hypocrisy by the magic word “illicit”.
- Raping women & clumsy censorship attempts must run in cop families.
- Trans people have become another canary in the civil rights coal mine.
- Declare anything a “public health crisis” and it can be harassed at will.
- Politicians compete to make their new laws the most unconstitutional.
- “Age verification” laws are bad for speech, but good for VPN business.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time“.
- This’d be a real improvement if the release conditions were objective.
- Silly “awareness raising” stunts are now merely marketing gimmicks.
- Dr. David Ley schools his fellow therapists on the reality of sex work.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from January 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- Give aggressive thugs power over teen girls; what could go wrong?
- If only there were a concise term for “having sex without consent”.
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- CGI women are replacing “sex robots” in prohibitionist fantasies.
- Cops, prohibition, Mary Weiss, Carl Weathers, and much more.
- This will keep happening, because too many people want it to.
- In which natural stupidity masquerades as artificial stupidity.
- A small obstacle to Amazon’s fascist collaboration with cops.
- Censorious sleazebags are targeting Onlyfans models again.
- Just another kind of federal cop, with behavior to match.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Cops, Gina Lollobrigida, David Crosby, and much more.
- Rapist cops often specifically target vulnerable women.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Jules Feiffer, and much more.
- Rapist cops are rarely caught after only one victim.
- They only start with relatively minor offenses.
- Laws are for the peasantry, not the rulers.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- Caring for our elderly cat in her last days.
- There is nothing contradictory about this.
- It looks like Florida is aping Texas again.
- Why does anyone still trust Facebook?
- For those inclined to wade in sewage.
- My two previous columns for Imbolc.
- The Legacy of Throwback Thursday.
- The Horror of Throwback Thursday.
- On the passing of my best friend.
- On movies I’ve never seen.
- Beginning the annex decor.
- 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!
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Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Music, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged artificial stupidity, Bluesky, comics, crypto-moralism, fascism, holidays, Illinois, language, left-right myth, Louisiana, New York, politicians, propaganda, psychology, robots, The Privilege Paradigm, Twitter, video, Washington DC on November 17, 2025| 1 Comment »
The left-right nonsense, once confined to politics, has in the past 30-someodd years penetrated all of US culture like cat spray.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-13T18:19:23.319Z
Any slang term is moribund when it is used to describe a number of different, sometimes unrelated or even contradictory, things. "Cringe" has now reached that point; proceed accordingly.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-19T17:52:18.693Z
I'm ready to listen to him; he can't be THAT much worse than what we have now.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-20T17:58:53.721Z
Until I got on social media, I would never have suspected that there were so many people in the US who never, ever, EVER need to transport cargo or disabled people, or travel more than 100 km from their homes.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-21T17:14:00.903Z
One of the more interesting aspects of this time period for me is that I get to see other people saying or agreeing with the kind of statements I've incessantly made for over 40 years, mostly to eye-rolling and dismissal.You bet I'm gonna say "I told you so".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-22T07:37:13.312Z
Actually, if one considers the political conditions which allowed Trump to ascend to the throne and carry out his reign of madness, it is far more accurate to say Trump is working to finish the job Bin Laden started.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-23T17:49:38.750Z
I'm trying to get this to fit the meter of "My Little Buckaroo" and not succeeding.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-24T18:11:09.142Z
Oh please, please, PLEASE let it be so. It'll be much easier for the Invertebrate Party to agree to tear it down if it's structurally unsound.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-25T17:42:06.630Z
This weird 21st-century shit of Trick-or-Treating at random times on random days in October determined by mobs or politicians, instead of on Halloween night, was a sign of cultural decline. Too bad so few recognized that.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-27T17:19:11.215Z
I've decided to start blocking anyone who admits to using a chatbot to write, or obviously does so in the absence of omission. I have no interest in reading computer vomit.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-28T17:40:53.747Z
The Mechanical Turk redux.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-29T07:39:43.119Z
Ever since the "Department of Homeland Security" was created by Bush II, I have referred to it as the "Department of Fatherland Security". People used to claim I was exaggerating. I don't hear that accusation much any more.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-29T19:39:13.880Z
Once again, mainstream voices are starting to agree with what I've been saying since high school > 40 years ago. But knowing what it took to shake people out of their ovine complacency and childish "leader" fantasies, I take no real pleasure in having been right. Cassandra was not a happy person.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-10-31T18:23:18.074Z
Louisiana, will you please get Landry off his knees? Nobody wants to see their private activities.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-02T02:59:52.276Z
Anybody who's ever had young children knows what it looks like when they're actively engaged in pooping their diapers.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-02T18:03:11.334Z
The more often you call politicians "leaders", the more they will behave like Führers.Go back to calling them "public servants" and treat them like servants rather than nobles.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-03T18:19:14.325Z
Humans are the ONLY entities we know who can make ANY art, "great" or otherwise.Computer output is not art. Period. End of discussion.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-04T18:04:19.468Z
Democratic politicians are so brave about criticizing Republican politicians when the subject is dead.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-05T17:36:53.488Z
I'm afraid I'm committed to the ancient-forest-haunting gig for at least the next millennium, or until the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter exorcises me.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T08:25:21.562Z
Carl Sagan did not believe in an afterlife. But if he was wrong, I hope he haunts these people into madness.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T18:18:30.556Z
"Abducted". They ABDUCTED her from a daycare. "Took" is for inanimate objects, not people, and even then only if they have the owner's permission; otherwise the correct verb is "stole".RIGHT: "A goon took his lunch to work".WRONG: "A goon took a teacher's phone."WRONG: "Goons took a teacher."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-08T19:06:43.666Z
Oh, well that makes it all better, then.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-09T08:26:07.790Z
You know, Democrats, y'all don't have to keep proving me right, really. I mean, I appreciate the thought, but I'm a big girl and can handle being proven wrong once in a while. Truthfully, it'd be kinda nice.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-10T18:22:33.566Z
Stop referring the characters in computer-generated videos as they were people. These videos are animations, even if they look real; those who appear in them are therefore cartoon characters, and should be described as such.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-11T17:44:21.958Z
Reporters: please stop using the word "shocking" to describe the actions of the Trump regime. Anybody who is still shocked by Trumpist behavior after 10 months of this is either hopelessly stupid or deeply in need of professional help.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-12T22:23:07.794Z
"Drug boat!" is the new "It's coming right for us!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTrM…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-14T20:12:22.312Z
This buffoon is so fixated on winning vs losing, he actually thinks a medical test is like a school test. It's obvious in the way he refers to things like getting an "outstanding" result from an MRI.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-15T08:20:55.352Z
For the same reason she's advertising her IQ on her hat.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-16T17:41:53.127Z
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