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Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 20, 2025| Leave a Comment »

They're absolutely DESPERATE to force people to listen to them.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-14T04:16:00.895Z

Dr. Zaius' ancestor.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-16T04:37:49.434Z

Textbook megalomania.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-16T17:28:24.241Z

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51233

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-17T18:00:54.379Z

Creating "criminals" with the stroke of a pen is one of the oldest governmental tricks there is. It allows the government to invent enemies where none existed, in order to justify the expenditure of manpower and treasure to "fight" the imaginary self-created evils.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-19T17:06:09.131Z

"Senate Republicans went nuclear" is a hyperbolic lie. Which is a damned shame.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-22T17:32:04.679Z

On top of being unethical, CGI pictures on social media are nearly always ugly, and often creepy.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-23T17:05:40.213Z

Too bad, so fucking sad.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-24T17:31:59.000Z

Some people on here really are so much in love with being outraged that the evil circus centered in Washington STILL isn't enough for them, so they have to invent deeply stupid things that are nothing to do with themselves to be outraged about.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-25T16:46:54.149Z

One of the things I despise most about Musk is that he has provided ammo to the "solve earthly problems first, hurp derp derp" crowd which has bedeviled space exploration at least since Gemini.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-28T17:51:58.270Z

And since they're FEDERAL secret police, we could even call them the "Secret State Police", or SESTAPO for short.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-29T17:23:32.825Z

I am begging reporters, in the name of journalistic dignity, to STOP calling Trump's package of tyranny the "One Big Beautiful Bill". It doesn't matter that the regime calls it that; find another term. This one makes anyone who uses it sound like a rather stupid first-grader.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-30T16:50:26.544Z

I must point out that "Swedish model" regimes have tried to do this with sex work clients for years, prosecuting them for paying sex workers in other countries where it's legal. Nobody cared, and the precedent was set.The avalanche has already started; it is too late for the pebbles to vote.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-05-31T17:06:35.965Z

Mad emperor is still mad.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-01T07:32:33.397Z

It's a testament to the human ability to Not Get It that, in a world where the writing of every critic, philosopher, and scholar in human history is available at their fingertips for reading and consideration, most people still have absolutely no clue what "art" is.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-02T17:54:04.679Z

Cops are overgrown children cosplaying War, with all the rest of us forced into their stupid, childish game without our consent, consuming vast funds from the public treasury and ruining lives by the hundreds of thousands.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-03T17:24:16.608Z

If your response to governmental attempts to ban things is to complain that they should be banning something you dislike instead of something you like, you are part of the problem.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-04T17:17:38.599Z

Your regular reminder that "illegality" is a status defined entirely by the state, which can be changed at the whim of politicians.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-05T16:30:56.462Z

In related news, the administration has announced it will be releasing a PDF of all Trump's sayings from his speeches and social media writings, to be called the "Little Red Book", which will be pushed into all US cell phones via the national emergency alert system and will be impossible to delete.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-06T17:51:08.259Z

If you want people to believe that cops who rob, rape, or murder are a "small and unrepresentative" minority of "bad apples", you must also admit that looters are a "small and unrepresentative" minority of "bad apple" protesters. And the latter aren't protected by QI.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-08T16:59:07.930Z

ORDNUNG WIRD WIEDERHERGESTELLT!

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-09T18:32:57.685Z

Once again: PLEASE stop calling LLMs "AI". When you keep reinforcing the techlord-promoted fantasy that these algorithms are a kind of "intelligence", YOU are helping to push mentally-ill people into belief that these systems are more than electronic parrots. futurism.com/chatgpt-ment…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-10T17:47:16.452Z

Remember how bird-brains kept claiming that the WORST POSSIBLE USE for this technology was putting celebrity faces on porn actresses, and I warned y'all it would soon be used to manufacture police state propaganda?I won't even *bother* saying "I told you so" this time. Except I guess I just did.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-11T17:14:26.984Z


I have a joke about Tantalus, but I won't tell it to you.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-13T17:52:16.380Z

Politicians don't think like that. To a politician, for adolescents to be Schrödinger people, either adult or "child" as an "official" requires, is a FEATURE, not a bug. That's why they're now trying to extend adolescence to 25 for men and menopause for women.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-14T17:57:21.198Z

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." – Frank Herbert, "Dune"

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-15T17:07:24.060Z

Politics has never been "cool" at any point in human history. It's just that politicians and their fans DELUDE themselves into BELIEVING that they are cool. Even dour shitheads like Cromwell, Robespierre and Mao thought they were fucking rock stars.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T17:07:32.168Z

Since this is all fantasy anyhow: I use my time line converter to dramatically slow my progress through the time stream so that I can set free everyone tied to the tracks, remove all the passengers from both trolleys, then tie the person who proposed the problem to the tracks and walk away.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-17T17:20:27.161Z

It's always interesting to watch people who truly believe in "right-left" idiocy get all confused when politicians or other "officials" behave in a way that doesn't neatly fit into one or the other of those boxes.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-18T17:11:18.210Z

Accurate headline: "Women are 20% less likely than men to be intellectually lazy, and 25% more likely to recognize that computers can't actually think, regardless of advertising claims to the contrary."www.ft.com/content/7f0f…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-06-19T15:34:37.150Z

 

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Throwback Thursday vs Frankenstein

Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »

There is no therapy for poor judgment.  –  “Public Service Announcement”

Just as we ignore those topological elements of a cloud or inkblot which do not fit the meaning our minds have imposed upon it, so do we forget or distort elements of a memory which fail to conform to the schema in which we have embedded it, or even invent elements which were not in reality present, but which the schema predicts should be.  –  “Imagination Pinned Down”

As long as we allow and even encourage our governments to criminalize private, consensual behaviors with no clear victim and no actual corpus delicti, lots more people are going to be senselessly killed and lots of senseless killers are going to get away with it.  –  “Rotten to the Core”

Most modern prohibitionist propaganda is based upon depicting the prostitute as a mentally inferior creature whose statements about her own thoughts and feelings cannot be trusted.  –  “Ninon de l’Enclos”

There is no magical moment of “Shazam!” at which teens are mystically imbued with the ability to consent.  –  “Legal Fiction“

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Links #779

Posted in Current Events, Favorites, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , on June 8, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Somehow the body became secreted.  –  boss hog Kevin Catalina

I’ve been re-watching The Avengers lately, and while perusing a venerable fan site for the show I came across a reference to this video, which I’d never seen before.  The show went to color in its fifth season, and this “mini-episode” was made as a color test; it was broadcast in abridged form on US TV as an ad for the new season, and provides a nice little taste of the show’s style.  The links above it were provided by Missy Mariposa, Mike Masnick, Scott Hechinger, Jesse Walker, T. Greg Doucette, and IncarcerNation (x2), in that order.

From the Archives

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Throwback Thursday’s Castle

Posted in Biography, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 22, 2025| Leave a Comment »

The only defense against [totalitarianism] is absolute rejection of its underlying premise:  that it is acceptable and even moral for “authorities” to abrogate the rights of individuals for a “greater purpose” or the “common good”.  –  “Pyrrhic Victory”

Dysphemisms…[are] one of the moralists’ chief weapons in transforming a fact of life into a “menace”, a statement into a “shocking revelation”, a thing they dislike into something “seedy”, or discussion of a taboo subject into a “conspiracy”.  –  “Dysphemisms Galore”

The noose which fits the necks of “conservatives” will suit equally well to hang “liberals” (and vice-versa).  –  “Property of the State”

The best thing about paid sex is, I get the reward I want regardless of whether my wiring decides to respond in a way that will feed my partner’s ego.
–  “The Tyranny of Orgasm“

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Batman vs. Throwback Thursday

Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 24, 2025| Leave a Comment »

In their quest for absolute power over the lives of their subjects, politicians can’t let little things like justice, decency or the law stop them.  –  “Counterfeit Comfort (#16)”

I will never cease to be amazed at the inability of statists to recognize that the expansion of government will never stop until it is somehow forced to.  –
“The Auctioneer Effect”

If your wife said, “if you wouldn’t look at food on TV you wouldn’t need to eat,” you’d recognize this as a patent absurdity, yet our culture tries to convince people this is true of sex.
–  “The Craving”

There are lots of reasons a person might desire something in the abstract, yet never partake of it in reality.  –  “In the Abstract“

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The Satanic Rites of Throwback Thursday

Posted in Biography, Current Events, Miscellaneous, Music, Perception, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 10, 2025| Leave a Comment »

The only rule without exception is that which states “all rules have exceptions”.  –  “Pendulum”

True charity does not come at the point of a gun, good causes need not be shored up with lies, and worthy idols do not have feet of clay.  –  “Feet of Clay”

Though moral panics may differ in their particulars, they all share two important characteristics: the menace is claimed to be both enormous and all-pervasive, and to represent an existential threat to Our Treasured Way of Life.  –  “Under Every Bed”

Unless I suddenly evolve into an incorporeal being who can live on air and sunlight, I will always have physical and economic needs which must be addressed pragmatically.  –  “Of Course I Would”

To paraphrase Baudelaire, the loveliest trick of religion is to convince people that the Devil exists.  –  “Could It Be…Satan?“

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Scars of Throwback Thursday

Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 27, 2025| Leave a Comment »

A woman’s right to own and control her own body includes not only the right to decisions about the possible consequences of sex, but also the right to decide how, why and with whom she has sex in the first place.  –  “Double Deal”

The belief that rape is a “fate worse than death”…portrays the penis as some sort of semi-divine instrument capable of destroying a helpless woman’s entire life at the whim of the man to whom it is attached.  –  “A Fate Worse Than Death”

I literally cannot even imagine a situation in which I would conceivably pay a man for sex.  –
“The Law of Attraction“

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Ghost of Fridaystein

Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 7, 2025| Leave a Comment »

The act of agreeing to serve as a policeman in any regime is at best an amoral one, because in doing so the individual agrees to enforce (by violence if necessary) all of the laws passed by his government, whether he agrees with them or not; he abdicates his personal morality to those in authority and allows his actions to be dictated by others, even if he knows those actions to be wrong.  –  “Godwin’s Law”

The most dangerous prohibitionists…are those who oppose no particular behavior or thing, but rather the very freedom of choice itself.  –  “Thou Shalt Not”

Despite what the anti-sex crowd likes to pretend, sexuality is not a mere “choice”, something dropped on top of a person’s personality at the last minute like pickles on a cheeseburger; it is a deep and intrinsic part of the human psyche, rooted in the hindbrain and woven throughout the psychic fabric.  –  “The Twig is Bent”

If intelligence is rare, advanced spacefaring civilizations might consider all of it valuable, and could conceivably think of any intelligent species confined to a single habitat as “endangered”.  –  “Endangered Species“

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Tweet Tooth

Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 17, 2025| 4 Comments »

Meménto, homo, quia pulvis es, et in púlverem revertéris.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-17T18:28:25.457Z

Looks like the main reason I virtually never see targeted ads is that I've never installed any Facebook product on my phone or had an account with any of them.Hope this information proves useful to you.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-18T18:45:41.677Z

Collectivism is a serious mental illness and the most dangerous of evils.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-19T18:04:50.766Z

"And you, poor creatures, who conjured *you* out of the clay? Is God in show business too?"

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-20T18:53:29.644Z

You know, it's possible to criticize Trump without sounding like a collectivist copsucker. Please do try.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-21T16:26:34.431Z

Same energy as, "the impact of Daleks on young people's mental health", "the impact of witchcraft on young people's mental health", or "the impact of Teletubbies on young people's mental health".

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-22T18:25:19.920Z

Belief in the magical protective powers of "restraining orders" gets people killed, and by SCOTUS precedent no cop will ever be held liable for failing to "protect" someone.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-23T18:12:27.098Z

Mel Gibson sharing his sexual fantasies is way far into TMI territory.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-25T04:11:45.760Z

Google should adopt the motto, "Don't be stupid".

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-28T06:20:22.877Z

It is only wrong to lie to individual human beings. Lying to collectives (including governments) and their functionaries (including cops) is often moral, especially when those collectives are engaged in evil.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-29T05:11:21.026Z

That there is no justice (as human conceive it) in the world is evidenced by the fact that I'm here grieving the death of a 66-year-old woman who never hurt anyone while Xi Jinping (71), Vladimir Putin (72), and Donald Trump (78) are still alive and aggressively destroying others' lives.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-29T18:11:50.883Z

More like watching a slug try to stand upright.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-30T18:11:31.142Z

When retailers need to raise prices due to Trump's tariff's, they need to clearly display the math on their label, eg:"OUR PRICE: $10 FEDERAL TARIFF: $2.50YOU PAY: $12.50" Like a lot of grocery stores did with municipal "soda taxes" a few years ago. Let people know EXACTLY whose fault it is.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-31T19:10:28.969Z

Pay attention to who uses the phrase "Gulf of America". Anyone who would pander to such absurdity is a dangerous opportunist, regardless of who sits on the imperial throne.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-01T19:13:04.863Z

Half of all people are stupid.More than half of the remaining half are fools.More than half of the remainder of THAT division are ignoramuses.More than half of what's left after that are self-deluded.And a healthy fraction of the last 5% are moral imbeciles.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-02T18:47:15.777Z

People talk about "representation", IOW that people like seeing others who are somehow like them in prominent positions. Well, lots of Americans are stupid, bigoted ignoramuses.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-03T19:02:18.083Z

Disconnecting it with sledgehammers would be MUCH quicker and far more effective.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-04T19:08:33.634Z

THIS RIGHT HERE. I'm all for reducing bloated government and eliminating the fat. But liposuction is a careful, sanitary medical procedure, not attacking an obese person in the street with a chainsaw.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-06T19:29:43.249Z

Ever wonder what happened to scripts that were rejected by "The X Files" for being too farfetched?

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-08T20:07:04.998Z

The so-called "right" has never actually been in favor of limited government; they have ALWAYS been in favor of more cops, more prisons, more criminalization, and more military, the most violent arms of government.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-09T18:07:09.916Z

There is no bottom to Trumpist stupidity.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-11T17:49:21.038Z

There's already an established term for this kind of "minder"; the term is "political officer" or "political commissar".

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-12T18:34:34.987Z

THIS. Trump is masculine in the same exact way that Divine was feminine.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-13T18:29:11.263Z

I've been disobeying "authorities" since before puberty, and living as an actual outlaw for 25 years. It's not instantly fatal, I assure you.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-14T18:37:03.051Z

The price we pay for the gift of having wonderful people in our lives is the pain we have to endure when they are no longer there.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-15T20:07:31.933Z

When I see the word "illegal" used as the primary adjective in a description of why the speaker hates a person or thing, it's strong evidence that the opinion can safely be disregarded.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-16T18:40:05.692Z

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The Return of Throwback Thursday

Posted in Miscellaneous, Words, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on February 13, 2025| Leave a Comment »

If ignorance about sex is grounds for a court order forbidding it…religious fundamentalists need to start worrying.  –  “Welcome To Our World (February Updates)”

Do you really want to live in a world where a complete police dossier on every friend, every neighbor, every co-worker, is only a few mouse-clicks away…and yours is equally accessible to everyone else?  –  “The Devil’s Toys”

Orgasm isn’t only about “doing it right”, sexual satisfaction isn’t only about orgasm, and nobody has the right to define the parameters of “good sex” for you, or to tell you why you “should” or “shouldn’t” have sex.  –  “Mind Over Matter”

The “euphemism treadmill” [means] any euphemism eventually becomes the semantic equivalent of the Forbidden Word in the brains of listeners, so that it, too becomes contaminated and must be replaced with a new euphemism.  –  “Unspeakable“

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