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.
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“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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#fightchatcontrol #savespeech #DONOTCOMPLY
GERMANS! YOUR GOVERNMEMT WAMTS TO OVERREACH AND DEBANK ADULT SITES WHO DONT HAVE "Adequate age verification."
They imoliment it Dec. 1st. CALL YOUR MEPS AND TELL THEM TO OPPOSE THIS.
segpay.com/blog/germany...
www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/sear...
GERMANS! YOUR GOVERNMEMT WAMTS TO OVERREACH AND DEBANK ADULT SITES WHO DONT HAVE "Adequate age verification."
They imoliment it Dec. 1st. CALL YOUR MEPS AND TELL THEM TO OPPOSE THIS.
segpay.com/blog/germany...
www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/sear...
segpay.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
#fightchatcontrol #savespeech #DONOTCOMPLY
GERMANS! YOUR GOVERNMEMT WAMTS TO OVERREACH AND DEBANK ADULT SITES WHO DONT HAVE "Adequate age verification."
They imoliment it Dec. 1st. CALL YOUR MEPS AND TELL THEM TO OPPOSE THIS.
segpay.com/blog/germany...
www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/sear...
GERMANS! YOUR GOVERNMEMT WAMTS TO OVERREACH AND DEBANK ADULT SITES WHO DONT HAVE "Adequate age verification."
They imoliment it Dec. 1st. CALL YOUR MEPS AND TELL THEM TO OPPOSE THIS.
segpay.com/blog/germany...
www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/sear...
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'It's hard to look at legislation like this and imagine that it's actually about anything but punishing women who have abortions.' - @enbrown.bsky.social in @reason.org. And punishment is the point, ofc. But, maybe better than North Dakota... & what a closing image... reason.com/2025/11/24/c...
'Catch kits' for fetal remains are Republicans' latest dystopian plan to punish abortions
GOP lawmakers in Wisconsin and elsewhere are pushing the idea that abortions are a water quality issue.
reason.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
'It's hard to look at legislation like this and imagine that it's actually about anything but punishing women who have abortions.' - @enbrown.bsky.social in @reason.org. And punishment is the point, ofc. But, maybe better than North Dakota... & what a closing image... reason.com/2025/11/24/c...
Crypto-moralists believe anything unpleasant must be “good for you”.
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Crypto-moralists believe anything unpleasant must be “good for you”.
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The Overton Window has shifted and increasingly wanton overt bigotry and evil are mainstream. Don’t accept it. Fight and defy people like this.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-colu...
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-colu...
British columnist Melanie Phillips lashes out at Palestinians at pro-Israel NYC event
The controversial columnist and broadcaster also mocked Christianity and claimed the West is facing a 'death cult' in 'forces of Islam'
www.middleeasteye.net
November 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
The Overton Window has shifted and increasingly wanton overt bigotry and evil are mainstream. Don’t accept it. Fight and defy people like this.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-colu...
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-colu...
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Trump wrongly indicted me. I’ll rightly impeach him.
Impeachment isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent — but is it working?
Impeachment isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent — but is it working?
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Trump wrongly indicted me. I’ll rightly impeach him.
Impeachment isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent — but is it working?
Impeachment isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent — but is it working?
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
“Often entire sections of networks or company internal networks are running slower than they would if all devices were up to the newer standards”
Boo fucking hoo.
Boo fucking hoo.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
“Often entire sections of networks or company internal networks are running slower than they would if all devices were up to the newer standards”
Boo fucking hoo.
Boo fucking hoo.
Abolish TSA, start treating travelers like citizens again instead of criminals, and force the airlines to reduce the number of seats in an aircraft by at least 15%, and you might see some improvement.
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Abolish TSA, start treating travelers like citizens again instead of criminals, and force the airlines to reduce the number of seats in an aircraft by at least 15%, and you might see some improvement.
My favorite cousin's usual casual hanging-with-friends outfit in the 1980s and '90s was a polo shirt with jeans, but only new ones that were still very blue. When they faded he put them aside for work use. He never wore t-shirts or ball caps.
George was right, and the trend of men dressing like little boys with baseball caps and shorts year round was part of our overall cultural decline.
I remember when George Will wrote a whole op ed on how distasteful wearing blue jeans was.
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/3956...
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/3956...
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 AM
My favorite cousin's usual casual hanging-with-friends outfit in the 1980s and '90s was a polo shirt with jeans, but only new ones that were still very blue. When they faded he put them aside for work use. He never wore t-shirts or ball caps.
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Funny, but two of these are in my viewing queue for the rest of this year.
Definitive Stars Wars ranking:
1. Yojimbo
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
3. Metropolis
4. Casablanca
5. Spaceballs
1. Yojimbo
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
3. Metropolis
4. Casablanca
5. Spaceballs
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Funny, but two of these are in my viewing queue for the rest of this year.
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My buddy just called Robert Kennedy Jr. “Dr. Felchi” and I don’t think I’m gonna recover…
November 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
My buddy just called Robert Kennedy Jr. “Dr. Felchi” and I don’t think I’m gonna recover…
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Here's wishing them all coal in their stockings and a well funded primary opponent
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Here's wishing them all coal in their stockings and a well funded primary opponent
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I think television and movie copoganda is a HUGE issue. From "law and Order" to "NCIS" and its many derivatives. Every episode is a series of civil rights violations, all validated in pursuit of "justice". "CSI" back in the day? Every iteration of it. "Blue Bloods". Glorification and nonsense.
If you actually expect laws and courts to deliver "justice", you have been watching WAAAAAAAY too much copaganda on TV.
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I think television and movie copoganda is a HUGE issue. From "law and Order" to "NCIS" and its many derivatives. Every episode is a series of civil rights violations, all validated in pursuit of "justice". "CSI" back in the day? Every iteration of it. "Blue Bloods". Glorification and nonsense.
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This guy made a couple of movies as well.
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This guy made a couple of movies as well.
Some of us remember when the fashionable way to prop up a sagging business was to promote a sale as "anti-trafficking".
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Some of us remember when the fashionable way to prop up a sagging business was to promote a sale as "anti-trafficking".
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We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
I don’t know what the Supreme Court will do, but I am confident that at the District Court level it is still the case that the Pentagon cannot recall a sitting US Senator to active duty in order to court martial him for something he said. Article 1, Section 6, among other constitutional provisions.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
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I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders
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Writers — the ones you know and love, the ones you think of as successful — have sources of income outside that book you read. Most of us are a half-step ahead of the landlord at best, and struggling to maintain health insurance. We figure out other ways to make a buck.
I wrote 12 novels.
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Writers — the ones you know and love, the ones you think of as successful — have sources of income outside that book you read. Most of us are a half-step ahead of the landlord at best, and struggling to maintain health insurance. We figure out other ways to make a buck.
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RFK Jr. Denies Ever Laying Eggs In Olivia Nuzzi https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-denies-ever-laying-eggs-in-olivia-nuzzi/
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
RFK Jr. Denies Ever Laying Eggs In Olivia Nuzzi https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-denies-ever-laying-eggs-in-olivia-nuzzi/
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The situation these judges are being put in for doing their work is unbelievable. They can’t use any US services - and not just for work, in their private lives too.
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The situation these judges are being put in for doing their work is unbelievable. They can’t use any US services - and not just for work, in their private lives too.
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This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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About a third of all people, regardless of surface politics, are authoritarians to the core. Another third are happy to accept authoritarianism if the Dear Leader and his enforcers spew the "correct" propaganda and direct most of their violence against those the wishy-washy third see as different.
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
About a third of all people, regardless of surface politics, are authoritarians to the core. Another third are happy to accept authoritarianism if the Dear Leader and his enforcers spew the "correct" propaganda and direct most of their violence against those the wishy-washy third see as different.
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Today's entry: it tried to change "uttered" into "buttered".
November 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Today's entry: it tried to change "uttered" into "buttered".