Some people make fun of me for refusing to eat uncooked or undercooked food.

Republicans are literally putting criminal men into women’s bathrooms

Mad emperor is also deeply stupid.

download your own copy. make this thing samizdat, until CBS is forced to air it.

Oh look, President Meisterburger's "Department of Sombertown Security" is STILL trying to draft Kris Kringle into complying with their moronic laws.

Haven't received any requests yet today, but since I know they're coming: No, it's still called the Streisand Effect. It's not the Epstein Effect or the Bondi Effect or anything like that. Stop trying to change the name. The name works.

Looking forward to Nancy Mace’s condemnation of these men in a women’s bathroom.

Keep babbling about ideology and parties if you want. All of this, all of it, is about money and power. And the players will say whatever buzzwords to tickle your priors you want them to as long as they get the power and the money Follow the money. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

ICE has posted a video of Santa Claus arresting immigrants. Your government is hijacking a symbol of charity to spread fear and hate. it’s up to all of us to defeat these twisted fascists.

It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes. Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.

I am still shocked by the degree that casual racism has been completely normalized in the US. I shouldn't be after the last 10 years, yet I am.

New Branding Dropped

This where we are: On Thursday Trump made a multi billion dollar PERSONAL bet on a competing energy source and Monday he straight attempted to cancel potential competition. It's incredible how inured the world has become to his naked corruption.

I can’t even with this. “Battleships”? “Golden Fleet”? Honest to Pete what is happening

trump is really just running with the idea that as long as you say the words "national security" you can do whatever you want the legacy of the war on terror coming home to roost--we chipped away at the rule of law for years, years, years. now here we are. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

We could never trust them before, but now the mask of competence that previously fooled the gullible and silly has been ripped off.

My sincere thanks to these writers for properly framing this as "authoritarian vs free" rather than the usual & nonsensical "authoritarian vs democratic".

There was also no pretense that it would cure cancer and magically create a post-scarcity world.

When Google search launched, people didn’t need to be berated into it. There was no “you better figure out some way to use this.” People just tried it, quickly saw it directed them to information they sought and helped them navigate the internet, and kept going back to use it more. Just sayin’.

Could be worse. In the US the typical state response is to murder people in mental health crisis, and failing that to lock them up until they die on a concrete floor in a cage, surrounded by their own wastes, except on the off-chance an incompetent jail doctor has the whim to send them to hospital.

Relatedly, the HRMs police forces have been saying this for over a year cause we also have provincial legislation that makes cops sit in hospitals with folks until a doctor sees 'em.

Stop saying "failed" in cases like this. Failure requires an earnest attempt; this was a case of REFUSAL to act. Refusal is not failure; it is much worse.

Something that does not exist in the first place cannot go away.

There should be new articles of impeachment against Trump or one of his henchmen every single day.

I actually have nothing against the mere EXISTENCE of robot taxis, though it would cost you a good bit to get me to ride in one. What infuriates me are the self-satisfied crypto-moralists crowing about how "safe" they are and dreaming totalitarian dreams of no human ever being allowed to drive.

Today's video is my second-favorite adaptation of Dickens' immortal "A Christmas Carol", the only one to ever win an Oscar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN6I...

My three previous posts for the occasion: maggiemcneill.com/2024/12/21/y... maggiemcneill.com/2023/12/22/y... maggiemcneill.com/2022/12/21/y...

Wishing all my readers the blessings of the Yuletide season, and hoping our fortunes improve as the days wax after today: maggiemcneill.com/2025/12/21/y...

I know "using AI smarter" would've been a much closer parody, but I just couldn't bring myself to use a construction I would've given a "D" in a student composition.

Maggie's tips for using chatbots more intelligently: Don't.

"Punishment"? This writer is a bit drunk on puritanism. This is equivalent to stopping a vicious animal with a tranquilizer dart; no moral judgment is involved.

Would you ask your son if he'd like to share the list? I'll trade him my list of the 10 scariest short stories, which has at least some overlap. (Includes PDFs of all but two). maggiemcneill.com/2012/04/30/w...

My son found a list of the most disturbing short stories ever and has decided to read them all tonight. He just finished "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream," and is now working his way through "The Lottery." Then it's "The Yellow Wallpaper." So, you know, the traditional Christmas reading trilogy.

This Week's Links: cops, artificial stupidity, Rob Reiner, Gil Gerard, and much more: maggiemcneill.com/2025/12/22/l... Courtesy of @notjessewalker.bsky.social @ryanmarino.bsky.social @antiwardotcom.bsky.social @franklinh3000.bsky.social @theonion.com and @incarcernation.com

I started early; when every clown was lugubriously moaning "We're all New Yorkers now!" my typical response was, "I'm not". By the time "Fatherland Security" came down the pipe, most of the easily-offended had either fled my society or learned to keep their jingoistic yaps shut.

People used to say I was exaggerating by calling this the Department of Fatherland Security.

Paul needs to save these photos for when his son becomes a master baker specializing in fancy centerpieces.

Vote Fascist for a Third Decade of Total Law Enforcement! Red Dwarf - Back to Reality

Robots stop dead when something happens which their programmers did not anticipate; most humans instantly adapt. And that is one of many reasons humans will ALWAYS be superior to robots.

Except that most of what those peddlers were selling was actually useful.

Describing AI marketing as a traveling salesmen shoving their foot in the door is as on point as it gets

I cry that so many of my fellow-humans are too stupid to see these programs cannot think, and too gullible to ignore tech company publicity lies to the contrary.

It's like RAY-AY-AIIIIIN on your wedding day...

My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!” Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.

Aren't segments like this stored as big video files now? It'd be a shame if somebody leaked this to a torrent site.

Greenlanders prepare a big greeting for Trump's Reichsstatthalter, Jeff Landry.

Note that the same people who want to deny children protection from deadly diseases are the ones claiming they have to censor and control the entire internet to keep kids "safe" from possibly seeing pictures or words they dislike.

First of all, you’re and idiot if you think they will follow through with this promise. This is entrapment. Second of all, what an incredible “fuck you” to all of the Trump voters out there who aren’t getting money for Christmas!

Holy shit practically the entire Heritage legal center resigned www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...