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Maggie McNeill

@maggiemcneill.bsky.social
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Overeducated and unrepentant whore who talks far too much and writes the popular blog The Honest Courtesan in addition to the usual harlotry.

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Destination Venus sells comics in Harrogate! @destinationvenus.bsky.social · 15h
No. Absolutely not. Under no circumstances. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. variety.com/2026/tv/glob...
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BBC Boss Says He Watched a ‘Pretty Good’ AI-Generated Episode of ‘Doctor Who’: ‘Everyone’s a Creator, Not All the Creativity Is Bad’
BBC boss Matt Brittin says he watched an episode of 'Doctor Who' entirely generated by AI which he deemed 'pretty good.'
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 8h
I’ve been saying for a while, someone needs to estimate the net cost of millions of people having to spend a chunk of every day worrying about what the insane president has done or will do.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 8h
Another way of making this point: The wheels may be coming off the Trump administration and the authoritarian movement energizing it. But a large tractor-trailer barreling down a highway at full speed whose wheels come loose is very dangerous to innocent people in the vicinity.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13h
This is an incredibly important point. Every time I've warned of fascism or dictatorship, people have laughed and said that full-blown dictatorship has obviously not arrived. But that's often not how it arrives, fully garbed. It arrives thru steady erosion of norms that you barely notice are gone.
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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 4h
If they do 360's, that means they end up in the same ... you know, what ... never mind. Let her cook.
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 3h
I mean, yeah, the book and mail bans are a two-bird-one-stone thing for prisons, because they're "doing something" about contraband and also further degrading incarcerated people. Three birds, actually, because mail and books are replaced with third-party tablets and kiosks they can monetize.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 9h
It's almost like the Founders knew what they were doing when they put obstacles between government operatives and the people they want to spy on or "search".
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wish Americans would stop wasting their energy thinking about "reforming" the halves of the duopoly. All we REALLY need to do is kick out the laws & regulations propping up these two giant edifices of garbage and they will collapse of their own weight, clearing the way for new, healthier parties.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I would've been excited about SpaceX had it been founded 20 years earlier, when I was still young enough to believe "Star Trek" could come true one day. Grace was still a huge fan until the day she died; it was merciful she didn't have to see Musk's mask ripped off.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"It is nourishment. We call it that."
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Video of the Day: "How reliable is your memory?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB2O...
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Three Years Ago Today: "Collectivism, the foul authoritarian belief that individuals do not own their own bodies and lack the right to manage their own lives, is the single greatest threat to human growth and happiness in the modern age." maggiemcneill.com/2023/09/28/t...
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The Revenge of Throwback Thursday
We are living in the past of Fahrenheit 451, the early stages of a culture which values feelings above thought, the history of a world in which the solution to any troubling idea is to eradicate it…
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Two Years Ago Today: politicians, "gypsy whores" myths, rapist cops, preachy molesters, surveillance, and more: maggiemcneill.com/2024/09/28/i...
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In the News (#1476)
Slavery is not bad.  Some people need to be slaves.  I wish they would bring it back.  I would certainly buy a few.  –  Mark Robinson Elephant in the Parlor (#705) Politicians watching kinky …
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One Year Ago Today: cops, artificial stupidity, rubber chickens, and much more: maggiemcneill.com/2025/09/28/l...
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Links #795
You’re not the minority anymore.  –  Old Karen’s friend When Mike Siegel tweeted a TikTok video of Creepy Stare Piano Guy performing “My Heart Will Go On” on rubber chickens…
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A retrospective of my blogging from September 2016: maggiemcneill.com/2026/09/28/b...
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Back Issue #159
I’m an autumnal sort of gal; I like the days short & chilly, the leaves a riot of color, and the nights filled with warm beverages & savory scents.  –  “Diary #326” We don…
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
His brain is less like Swiss cheese and more like casu martzu.
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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The day is coming when a bunch of American soldiers die from American weapons that President Swisscheesebrain sold to our enemies.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've never heard that one, either. If a song came out in the '90s I *might* know it; if it came out after about 2002 the chances are very, very slim.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The puritans have managed to get typical Americans describing food in the most unappetizing terms possible. "Bowls" are to eat OUT OF, not to eat.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pauvre petit.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I endeavor to raise cantankerousness to an art form.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10h
Repairing a kitchen tool without Grace: maggiemcneill.com/2026/09/29/d...
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Diary #848
Sometimes I feel as though Grace is watching over me.  The device in the picture is an apple peeler/corer; it works like a charm for preparing apples to cook, because all one need do is stick an ap…
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As I was reading this, I kept thinking to myself, "they're confining these kids in a massive Skinner box." Then I reached paragraph 15: "When scientists want to condition lab animals to perform tasks repetitively, they may use a Skinner box, a device invented by...psychologist B. F. Skinner..."
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Exactly. And they cannot grasp at all that people who want kids want them for reasons of the heart or spirit, not to serve every petty führer's spiritual sickness.
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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It would be one thing if they treated mothers really well in this country, but - they don’t!
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"You must devote over two decades of your life, over and over again, to produce new subjects, workers, and soldiers for the glorious Fatherland!" is not as persuasive as politicians believe it is.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The governments of developed countries are panicking about the ever-decreasing population of tax cattle, and trying to incentivize existing herds to accept the massive economic and legal burden of reproducing not for their own *personal* reasons, but specifically as a gift to the state.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 20h
The notion that a drag performer would expose his genitalia during a performance betrays a stunning lack of comprehension of what drag performers are trying to achieve.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Woman accuses Idaho drag performer of exposing himself, uploads edited version of his act blurring out what she claims are his private parts. After he sues her for defamation, her appellate filings misstate and hallucinate Idaho law. Idaho Supreme Court upholds $1.1 million verdict in his favor.
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$1.1M Libel Award to Drag Performer Who Had Been Accused of Exposing Himself Upheld
Idaho Supreme Court finds false caselaw quotations, after jury found false factual assertions.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 20h
I mean...
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 20h
All of these people are so physically warped it's almost like the director is signaling that they have warped minds and personalities. It's kind of like a Dutch angle.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10h
Gosh, it's almost like chatbots are just word-prediction algorithms which don't actually understand your "explicit" orders.
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off-crypt86.bsky.social @off-crypt86.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨 Chat Control 2.0 is back on the table tomorrow, September 29. I strongly oppose any system that could enable broad, suspicionless scanning of private communications. Private messages, photos and personal data should not become subject to mass surveillance. #ChatControl #StopChatControl #Privacy
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Anita ⚡️🌈 @anita.link · 28/09/2026
Europeans! Chat Control 2.0 is around the corner and it could mean that all our chats will be monitored even without a warrant. Sending emails to your EU representatives takes only 2 minutes. Do it NOW (I did) fightchatcontrol.eu/?level=national…
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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 15h
I hear the kids are getting into NPR these days.
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Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat
Blocked from other social media, middle schoolers have had to get creative.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10h
More like Beta School. "I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid...I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse..."
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 16h
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SilentSnerk @silentsnerk.bsky.social · 14h
I've heard the explanation is actually more straightforwardly misogynist: suppressing estrogen levels to an unhealthy point shapes men in really weird ways.
Front and side profile of a cis man with unhealthily low estrogen levels. His legs are thin and spindly, though he has a big gut and a weird bulge on his upper back near his shoulders. It makes him look almost hunchbacked, but his head is aligned with the rest of his back. It gives his side profile an S shape.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 22h
Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money
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GC Rust @gcrust.bsky.social · 14h
Historians are going to be absolutely RIVETED by this period in history.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 12h
For people who don’t read much, they keep nailing the literary references.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Protein bowls" sounds like something characters in a shitty 1960s sci-fi show would eat. "Oh no, Dr. Smith sold all of our protein bowls to the aliens!"
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 16h
That saying about how the people in power actually want you to go thru the proper channels because they created said channels and they know that the system will never actually work for you. It's called systemic discrimination for a reason.
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 11h
When does concern about pornography become a reason to criminalize fiction? A new C4OSL article examines the difficult line between real-world harm and fictional expression. c4osl.org/pornography-harm-and-the-… #DigitalRights #FreeExpression #OnlineSafety
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Pornography, Harm, and the Limits of the Law - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
Explore the relationship between pornography regulation and child protection, through recent legal developments that may blur ethical lines.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14h
Tennessee plans to execute a woman tomorrow. She was 18 when she committed the crime. She's now 50. Like most on death row, she's also a victim. And like most on death row, she's a far different person now than she was then. No one humanizes the condemned better than @lilianasegura.bsky.social.
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The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.
After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 17h
The late great JAMES GARNER signing autographs while filming ‘The Rockford Files’ in Burbank in 1977.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 20h
All of these people are so physically warped it's almost like the director is signaling that they have warped minds and personalities. It's kind of like a Dutch angle.
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