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Freethought Blogs was founded by our Glorious Leader Ed Brayton on the principle that many great voices in the community (meaning, at the time, himself and PZ Myers) were being actively squelched in some fields of interest and needed a place where they could blog about atheism, skepticism, humanism, politics, et cetera, without being curtailed [...]
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Freethought, and freedom to express yourself on someone else’s private property
January 10th, 2012 
Jason Thibeault 
Posted in Asshats, Blogosphere, Meta 
Tags: blogging, dissent, freedom of speech, freedom of thought, Freethought, troll 
37 Comments »More pushback against systemic misogyny within our respective communities
December 30th, 2011 Jason Thibeault I’m sure you’ve seen quite a few of the posts that have sprung up about Freethought Blogs lately in the wake of Rebeccapocalypse 2. Posts like Greta Christina’s “Why ‘Yes But’ Is the Wrong Response to Misogyny” or Maryam Namazie’s “We are not an atheist community”. Excellent conversation abounds, but I do hope you’re looking [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Gender, Privilege Tags: atheism, feminism, gender, misogyny, pushback, skepticism, troll 4 Comments »Marieke Hardy apparently incorrectly named the man who calls her things
December 23rd, 2011 Jason Thibeault A while back, in my post The General Pushback against Misogynist Trolls Begins, I mentioned an incident where Marieke Hardy, a screen writer from Australia, has endured a years-long hate campaign by a particularly vicious little misogynist troll. She posted the name Joshua Meggitt in a post supporting the Twitter #mencallmethings hashtag, only it turns [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Gender Tags: feminism, gender, Marieke Hardy, misogyny, pseudonymity, troll No Comments »The Case Against Outing Franc Hoggle
November 8th, 2011 Jason Thibeault There’s a battle raging presently over at Ophelia’s and Stephanie’s over a guy by the ‘nym of Franc Hoggle. I say ‘nym, because a real-life friend of his learned of his online identity, evidently by him outing himself to this friend — leading to his friend discovering his blog, Grey Lining (no link, sorry). Said [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Gender, Introspection Tags: anonymity, atheism, bullshit, cheating, feminism, harassment, misogyny, pseudonymity, sexism, skepticism, troll 84 Comments »Humpty Dumpty on the meaning of words
November 5th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Relevant to a discussion at Stephanie’s about whether to out a persistent and rather unsubtle troll so their meatspace acquaintances have a better understanding of what kind of viciousness he gets up to online, allowing them to protect themselves. It has, as most conversations do, meandered into an area related to the meanings of certain [...]
Mann vindicated yet again; no tampering with hockey stick graph
August 23rd, 2011 Jason Thibeault The NSF Inspector General closed out the investigation of Michael Mann, central focus of the ClimateGate manufactroversy, after finding no malfeasance. This brings the total “vindications” up to at least seven. From the report: As part of our investigation, we attempted to determine if data fabrication or falsification may have occurred and interviewed the subject, [...]
The Woman and YOU
August 2nd, 2011 Jason Thibeault I’m falling in love with MisterSharp. Which is good, because I’m to avoid relationships with women at all costs, I hear. Additionally, it entirely explains the whole skeptic privilege blogsplosion. I’ve been fighting on the wrong side this whole time!
RCimT: Climate round-up
July 31st, 2011 Jason Thibeault Apropos of the topic of discussion for today’s radio show, here’s a roundup of some links related to climate change, plus some other related sciencey bits that I otherwise just wanted to get out of my tabs. Enjoy! Here’s how climate change was subsumed into the “culture war”. Good overview of how we got to [...]
Posted in Climate, Random Crap in my Tabs, Science Tags: astroturf, cheating, climate change, culture war, evidence, global warming, grassroots, politics, science, space, troll 1 Comment »Atheists: PHEAR HIM
July 26th, 2011 Jason Thibeault He’s completely serious. He knows Javascript. If you’re an atheist, he will hack your shit if you don’t clean your shit up.
XKCD study shows cancer causes cell phones
July 15th, 2011 Jason Thibeault As always, click through to the site for the mouseover hilarity. Wonder if this will bring back some of my older “EMF CAUSES CANCER ZOMG” trolls.
Posted in Geekery, Humour, Science Tags: cancer, cell phones, EMF, pseudoscience, troll 3 Comments »
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