Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 13hnothing like heading to the bathroom in the middle of the night and suddenly seeing four yellow eyes in the darkness (my pair of void cats) 030
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026i keep suggesting this but nobody's listening! i bet we'd have plenty of volunteers to drive the boats 170
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026and if you do go to the bar, you have to go immediately and you can only stay while the men are sober enough to be their least creepy selves. which in my experience is 15 minutes MAX, and next day some of those men will single you out during the day and ask why you left so early ugh 0341
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026goddammit my family has three members with chronic illness, one completely disabled, and the only reason we're not dead is the ACA. What a genius -- stealing healthcare money to bribe voters. Where is the impeachment? 081
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I just asked Felix about this cat conspiracy and he absolutely denied it. Although he has literally just stolen my pillow and refuses to budge. So now I don't know what to think. 070
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026two of my family members are alive today due to Obama's healthcare reforms and i didn't wake up with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach every morning wondering how our president had destabilized the world economy overnight 040
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026if you add some silvervine and catnip then you've got a party! 170
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 05/10/20261. I understand hate, fear, bigotry, and violence sufficiently. 2. It is useless to attempt to persuade someone who is dead set in their ways. Why would I waste my time on people who are actively destroying civilization? 0100
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026he's jealous that nobody texted him to come over 010
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I was kind of bummed out this year when it became clear that scheduling would not permit a whole family vaccination trip -- it's not a bad thing to get the post-vaccine grumpies all out of the way together. We usually try for a Friday afternoon. 060
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I find myself frequently screaming into the void: DID WE LEARN NOTHING FROM CLIPPY??? 150
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When I was a kid, my parents had VIVID memories of having the dangerous childhood diseases, and knew kids who died from them. I understood how lucky I was to have vaccines. Can't this generation of parents understand death and disability without it actually happening to them or their kids? 020
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026that's my bottom-line indicator of true friendship i will offer to beat someone up for somebody I love 030
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is powerful and tightly reasoned and totally awesome! 000
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026no no no no no no no no no what is wrong with these fucking people 030
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026she is gripping his right wrist and pushing SO hard 1460
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Thanks for the tip! I just bookmarked them. 010
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026i'm also a clinical psychologist and i think your concern for this particular situation is well-founded some situations are intrinsically traumatizing and preventing PTSD in nurses should be one of our highest priorities 010
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026i would double follow you if i could! my brother is a nurse and i've been disabled with a neurological disease for 26 years so i have nothing but gratitude and respect for health care workers just got back home from a migraine infusion, actually. love my current infusion nurses! 110
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Oh, I know! It's one of the most repulsive things our government does, and the privatization makes things exponentially worse. That's why I seriously wish there were still a way to banish people who can't or won't live within the social contract. Prison may be more inhumane than death. 000
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026thank goodness you were reading carefully! i missed that one 110
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026so impressive! my cats started doing this recently this morning I woke up with a catnip banana on my pillow 010
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026people this sensitive about being dumb probably shouldn't run for public office it's pretty hard to hide being stupid when you're constantly in public also just amazing that anybody thinks they can fake being more intelligent than they are you know who can see right through that? smart people 000
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026this is emphatically NOT a "groupie baby with a rock star scenario" but i do wonder sometimes just how many babies were actually fathered by touring musicians or actors (it happened in my high school circa 1980) 000
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026every time I have criticized Roberts' lawlessness, lack of ethics, and power grabs, i have been dead fucking serious this shit is life and death and i take it extremely seriously but Robert apologists would call thit "incivility" i call it patriotism 020
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026this is how all of us who dissent will die 010
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it seems harmless and cute to pretend an AI is a "person" until we fully understand that by deliberately participating in a "social interaction" that IS NOT REAL we are self-inflicting significant brain damage 020
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026some people don't deserve to participate in society anymore prison is expensive, creates more violence, and doesn't rehabilitate most offenders shunning/driving them away would accomplish the essential goal, but we lack a continent on which to maroon all of them i seriously believe in removal 100
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026i mean "we the people" anytime any one of us failed to openly confront any hate speech, no matter how mild and no matter what the setting we chose "politeness" over truth because we didn't want to get into it with our racist uncle or the lady on the bus or our kids' coach we're all guilty 020
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026i can make a compelling professional argument that this person: is of below average IQ (no lower than one standard deviation below the mean lacks an adult general fund of knowledge is moderately delusional (non-schizophrenic) is paranoid at a clinically significant level, potentially dangerous 150
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026call him a coward he's afraid of anything even mildly challenging he wants you to leave because he can't handle interacting with a black woman it's all hate and cowardice 000
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026if we can't bring ourselves to be extremely confrontational every single time they open their hateful mouths if we're unwilling to call them liars and a danger to our democracy if we give one inch more if we do not PUNISH them we are lost 121
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026we allowed the right to be openly racist & sexist, and accepted the blame for being "rude and disrespectful" when we challenged them rather than imposing consequences, directly confronting the dangers of inciting speech, and shunning them from society we showed them they could get away with it 120
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026i can make a compelling professional argument that this person: is of below average IQ (no lower than one standard deviation below the mean lacks an adult general fund of knowledge is moderately delusional (non-schizophrenic) is paranoid at a clinically significant level, potentially dangerous 0160
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You're not alone. And you're making change, but it may not bloom in our lifetimes. But what's the alternative? Not fighting? I don't have the temperament for that, although I respect any woman who cannot or will not head into the fray. Self-protection comes first, always. 010
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I have done exactly as you have, for exactly the same reasons. I LIKE male energy. But I'd be a real name in my academic field if it weren't for the vengeance of (inferior) male colleagues and the inability to go to professional conferences without a fucking bodyguard! But I've raised cool sons. 010
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I use the vampire stare when I say in a bloodless tone "you're ordering a grown adult to defer and submit to a coworker because he is a man and says he's a Christian?" "You'll need to put that in writing for clarity" "You'll need to specify exactly how I must submit to him" (making Mom proud!) 020
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I expect to be burned at the stake! Possibly within this decade.😁 The misogynists who cloak themselves in "Christianity" have turned America into a wannabe cult. They can go to the Hell that I don't believe in, for trying to shame you publicly. I've developed what my family calls my vampire stare 120
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Most men have no idea what we face when we wake up every morning and try to live a "normal" human life, knowing that we can minimize our risk but not eliminate it. We can't avoid all men. We give birth to them, raise them, & sometimes marry them and love them passionately. Men -- police yourselves 110
Cheryl McNeilly @cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It WAS getting better for awhile. Slowly but surely. I'm glad my mom didn't live to see this resurgence of misogyny. I'm sorry for your hurt. The men always make us pay, eventually. The 1st time Mom was stalked by an angry coworker, he included me & my sister in the obscene phone calls & threats. 220
