Maggie McNeill
@maggiemcneill.bsky.social
Overeducated and unrepentant whore who talks far too much and writes the popular blog The Honest Courtesan in addition to the usual harlotry.
Pinned
“Healthcare personnel often do not realize that in the U.S., HPV-related mortality far surpasses the mortality from tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis & meningococcal disease combined. Each year, about 4,000 deaths are the result of cervical cancer; most are preventable through pre-exposure vaccination”
Technically Speaking: Why HPV Vaccination Before Age 11 Years Is a Good Idea
Dr. Sean O’Leary, Chair of AAP’s COID, explains why AAP and CDC recommendations about HPV vaccine differ.
www.chop.edu
If the HPV vaccine had been available 20 years earlier, my beloved Grace might still be alive.
Get vaccinated.
Get vaccinated.
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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But they never want to talk about militarized cops, prohibition, mass surveillance, etc as much as they want to whine about taxes.
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
But they never want to talk about militarized cops, prohibition, mass surveillance, etc as much as they want to whine about taxes.
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One disagreement I've always had with most "libertarians", a disagreement serious enough that I've never really accepted the label, is their fixation on violations of economic autonomy vs civil rights. I wouldn't mind losing 20% of my income if I had a government that never violated ANYONE's rights.
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
One disagreement I've always had with most "libertarians", a disagreement serious enough that I've never really accepted the label, is their fixation on violations of economic autonomy vs civil rights. I wouldn't mind losing 20% of my income if I had a government that never violated ANYONE's rights.
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Attention, @vulture.com's headline writer: The Pope is not God. Nobody believes the Pope is God, except maybe some highly-delusional Catholic in an institution somewhere.
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Attention, @vulture.com's headline writer: The Pope is not God. Nobody believes the Pope is God, except maybe some highly-delusional Catholic in an institution somewhere.
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They're lucky I'm not still teaching; I'd both give them a zero and report them to the principal for cheating.
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
They're lucky I'm not still teaching; I'd both give them a zero and report them to the principal for cheating.
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Alas, it doesn't work that way. The internet can no more stop the decline and death of the collective organism we call an empire than it can stop the decline and death of any individual organism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Yp...
Sooner or later you'll dance with the Reaper.
YouTube video by tvsdavid316
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Alas, it doesn't work that way. The internet can no more stop the decline and death of the collective organism we call an empire than it can stop the decline and death of any individual organism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Yp...
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Every woman knows that "ugly" is the insult pathetic, unmanly men are most likely to use first against women.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Every woman knows that "ugly" is the insult pathetic, unmanly men are most likely to use first against women.
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Video of the Day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxQj...
The Birch | "The Protector" | Crypt TV Monster Universe | Short Film
YouTube video by Crypt TV
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November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Video of the Day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxQj...
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Three Years Ago Friday: A retrospective of my blogging from November 2012: maggiemcneill.com/2022/11/28/b...
Back Issue #113
The world is full of people who really cannot understand the difference between weed-smoking and assault or between prostitution and rape, and are willing to say so in courtrooms and legislatures. …
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November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Three Years Ago Friday: A retrospective of my blogging from November 2012: maggiemcneill.com/2022/11/28/b...
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Two Years Ago Friday: Annie reminds you to support my annual toy drive: maggiemcneill.com/2023/11/28/d...
Diary #700
Annie has always had lots of moles and the like, but recently one of them on her right side started growing and filling with fluid, so I had the vet remove it. She was such a good girl she left th…
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November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Two Years Ago Friday: Annie reminds you to support my annual toy drive: maggiemcneill.com/2023/11/28/d...
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One Year Ago Today: "Government repeatedly grants to even its most minor actors immunity from the edicts by which it establishes universal criminality for the rest of us." maggiemcneill.com/2024/11/26/t...
Throwback Tuesday
Making wildly exaggerated Criswell-like predictions of the number of hookers who will descend upon a major sporting event has become a popular pastime of prohibitionists. – “Hidden Ho…
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November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
One Year Ago Today: "Government repeatedly grants to even its most minor actors immunity from the edicts by which it establishes universal criminality for the rest of us." maggiemcneill.com/2024/11/26/t...
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People who interact with [chatbots] think they’re interacting with an ancestor of Commander Data or C3PO, when in actuality they’re merely accessing a program that’s roughly as aware of their existence as the software that runs modern slot machines is, often with similar psychological results.
Mad Libs
As I have repeatedly said and will continue to say, there is no such thing as “artificial intelligence” regardless of what tech billionaires and their marketing departments tell you. …
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November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
People who interact with [chatbots] think they’re interacting with an ancestor of Commander Data or C3PO, when in actuality they’re merely accessing a program that’s roughly as aware of their existence as the software that runs modern slot machines is, often with similar psychological results.
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I don’t actually MEAN to collect stray animals, but it does seem to happen more frequently than random chance would account for. maggiemcneill.com/2023/11/21/d...
Diary #699
I don’t actually mean to collect stray animals, but it does seem to happen more frequently than random chance would account for. Ever since I moved to Sunset full-time, I’ve noticed th…
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November 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I don’t actually MEAN to collect stray animals, but it does seem to happen more frequently than random chance would account for. maggiemcneill.com/2023/11/21/d...
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Why is it so many pictures on the internet are taken by people who apparently don’t comprehend why a photo framed as a vertical rectangle is called “portrait” style? maggiemcneill.com/2022/11/21/t...
Tweets for Long Nights
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 sa…
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November 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Why is it so many pictures on the internet are taken by people who apparently don’t comprehend why a photo framed as a vertical rectangle is called “portrait” style? maggiemcneill.com/2022/11/21/t...
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What Americans have done to the venerable word “liberal” is a crime in and of itself. maggiemcneill.com/2021/11/22/m...
Meet the Tweets
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November 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
What Americans have done to the venerable word “liberal” is a crime in and of itself. maggiemcneill.com/2021/11/22/m...
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Yeah, the LLM-pushers love trying to pretend the people who don't want to see computer vomit everywhere we look are somehow the weird ones.
November 27, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Yeah, the LLM-pushers love trying to pretend the people who don't want to see computer vomit everywhere we look are somehow the weird ones.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers who celebrate! And may Fortune smile upon all of y'all, even if today is just another November Thursday to you: maggiemcneill.com/2025/11/27/t...
Thanksgiving 2025
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November 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers who celebrate! And may Fortune smile upon all of y'all, even if today is just another November Thursday to you: maggiemcneill.com/2025/11/27/t...
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In the late 19th century, the Ottoman Empire was called "the sick man of Europe". Now the American empire has become the sick man of the entire planet.
"The rise of easy to use, free AI generative tools have supercharged this effort, and social media monetization programs have incentivized this effort and are almost entirely to blame." www.404media.co/americas-pol...
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
In the late 19th century, the Ottoman Empire was called "the sick man of Europe". Now the American empire has become the sick man of the entire planet.
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Is this platform still massively against fraud, plagiarism, and marketing scams, or has it moved more towards acceptance?
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Is this platform still massively against fraud, plagiarism, and marketing scams, or has it moved more towards acceptance?
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BRB, muting "Nuzzi". Which means I won't be able to see this, and I'm cool with that.
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 AM
BRB, muting "Nuzzi". Which means I won't be able to see this, and I'm cool with that.
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It's not EVER justified in a Constitutional government of enumerated powers. It's just that prior to the ascension of the mad emperor, the screaming of those mangled in the machinery of the State was drowned out by the music of "decorum" inside the ivory towers inhabited by judges.
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 AM
It's not EVER justified in a Constitutional government of enumerated powers. It's just that prior to the ascension of the mad emperor, the screaming of those mangled in the machinery of the State was drowned out by the music of "decorum" inside the ivory towers inhabited by judges.
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Poor baby. Maybe he should resign for his health.
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Poor baby. Maybe he should resign for his health.
"This system we choose to employ can't help being wrong because it has neither intelligence nor judgment" is not the defense y'all seem to think it is.
“The IG’s [inspector general] report found that it wasn’t the bag of chips that was the perceived threat, but rather the student’s hand movement.” 🙄
State investigators: AI tool wasn't biased when it flagged student’s chips as gun
Maryland’s Office of the Inspector General for Education recommended more training for school staff and police in use of its AI-powered Omnilert weapon detection technology.
www.thebanner.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"This system we choose to employ can't help being wrong because it has neither intelligence nor judgment" is not the defense y'all seem to think it is.
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)