But it's not, I swear! As far as I recall, the number of products or services that I have actually…
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Remember when Harrison Ford was playing an action thriller man, who got annoyed with the president and was all like,…
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The Probability Broach, chapter 2 Win is interviewing Jenny Noble, state director of the Colorado Propertarian Party, about her murdered…
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Dreamed I got a security job at an airport. Walking a patrol, I saw a guy with his head ground…
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I just watched the four-part TV series Adolescence that has created quite a media splash. The show tells the story…
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Last November in novel-writing month, I had intended to write a Thriller in the Dan Brown-Tom Clancy-John Grisham mold, and…
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Gather round, it's anecdote time. Unpacking is a critically acclaimed indie game from 2021 that asks the player to unpack…
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The story about Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa has thrown up new complications. A private healthcare clinic in New Mexico…
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I once had a weird relationship with the alternative weekly magazines in Seattle. I read them front to back every…
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Every few weeks, I get a fresh comment on an old video I made a about a year ago about…
From: Pharyngula
Here's a provocative idea from Gregory Paul: the churches are dying. One might think that the religion in its vast…
From: Pharyngula
Martyn Iles lost his status as Ken Ham's successor at Answers in Genesis (there's a story there, I'm sure, but…
From: Pharyngula
Apparently I need to go back to bed and shut down all social media, because this is the dreck I'm…
From: Pharyngula
'Deciphering the Gospels’, by R. G. Price, argues the case for Jesus mythicism, which is the view that Jesus never…
From: Geeky Humanist
[caption id="attachment_62764" align="alignright" width="150"] Would you buy a cancer cure from this man?[/caption] It's been a while since I mentioned…
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Well, this is interesting. Answers in Genesis has had a bit of a shake-up. You may recall that Ken Ham…
From: Pharyngula
‘Deciphering the Gospels’, by R. G. Price, argues the case for Jesus mythicism, which is the view that Jesus never…
From: Geeky Humanist
Bryan Johnson -- you know, the Bryan Johnson who wants to achieve eternal youth by turning himself into a plasticine…
From: Pharyngula
Every week there are noteworthy people who pass away, but sometimes their deaths hit a little harder. This week we…
From: Pro-Science
I have stumbled into a strange YouTube niche: feminization hypnosis. It's a category of delusional videos in which voices whisper…
From: Pharyngula
On March 15, 2019, a man walked into two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand during Friday prayers and killed 51…
From: Mano Singham
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From: Pharyngula
I do find the most worrisome thing about trans rights and the struggle against fascism broadly at the moment is…
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I just watched a video by Daryl Talks Games titled "What Artificial Romance Does to People". Although crushes/romance/relationships with artificial…
From: A Trivial Knot
You heard about all the businesses capitulating to the fresh fashy vibes of the new ameriKKKa? Tossing diversity initiatives, LGBTetc…
From: Life's a Gas
I just watched the four-part TV series Adolescence that has created quite a media splash. The show tells the story…
From: Mano Singham
I once had a weird relationship with the alternative weekly magazines in Seattle. I read them front to back every…
From: Life's a Gas
What Even is Gender? is an academic philosophy book written by B. R. George and R. A. Briggs, freely accessible…
From: A Trivial Knot
Texas Republican congressman Keith Self is chair of a a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee and during a hearing, he turned…
From: Mano Singham
I arrived at my office door this morning, and what do I see? I didn't do it. I'm going to…
From: Pharyngula
But it's not, I swear! As far as I recall, the number of products or services that I have actually…
From: Stderr
In class today, I was telling students what to expect on the big genetics exam on Wednesday. I got an…
From: Pharyngula
Content warning: at the end below the fold is a picture of a dead animal that some people might find…
From: Affinity
Not us. We have to welcome spring with something more … elaborate. Not visible: the three guys with shovels and…
From: Pharyngula
Things you don't like to come home to: a backhoe parked on the grass and an 8 foot deep trench…
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AI spills the beans. An alternative to humanity is being developed from mouse stock. You should feel guilty if you…
From: Pharyngula
This is how I start my morning? Make sure you've got a clear path to the toilet before you click…
From: Pharyngula
Remember Justin Eichorn? The Minnesota Republican who was caught in a sting trying pick up 16 year old girls? This…
From: Pharyngula
For those who care, I've switched my Mastodon server. I'm now @pzmyers@freethought.online. HJ Hornbeck set this up for us a…
From: Pharyngula
You heard about all the businesses capitulating to the fresh fashy vibes of the new ameriKKKa? Tossing diversity initiatives, LGBTetc…
From: Life's a Gas
Should I call them suras? My emerging personal religion has disparate influences, which could be read as holy texts, and…
From: Life's a Gas
Shortly after we moved into our condo, my husband found a little plastic figurine of St. Joseph buried in our…
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From: Pharyngula
We were always in favor of separation of church and state -- I still am -- and I never cared…
From: Pharyngula
I got the usual email from American Atheists, and Melina Cohen brought up an interesting contrast. First, on Monday, there…
From: Pharyngula
Ben Shapiro chose to go after Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde. Unfortunately, he chose to do so by making up facts…
From: Pharyngula
A legislator in Mississippi has filed a bill in the state legislature titled “Contraception Begins at Erection Act". As written…
From: Mano Singham
I'm bewildered. I'm an anti-theist, so it makes me uncomfortable when I see a priest acting charitably and kindly and…
From: Pharyngula
Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) was a powerful logician whose contributions to logic, mathematics, and philosophy were immense. He was deeply interested…
From: Mano Singham
A lot of people - myself included - have drunk the kool-aid, Prevaricating propaganda about how ivory-billed woodpeckers Really are…
From: Life's a Gas
[UPDATE: ProPublica reports that "Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release…
From: Mano Singham
Swallows is the same. More or less. I mentioned how they partition niches based on where they feed, with barn…
From: Life's a Gas
The latest global rankings on university research by the journal Nature has been released and China has vaulted into the…
From: Mano Singham
Swallows is the same. This one looks like barn swallows but with no orange on bottom - just white beneath,…
From: Life's a Gas
Swallows is the same. I would have been very justified in only doing one life list entry for all of…
From: Life's a Gas
Male tarantulas, when they reach sexual maturity, are focused on wandering away to find sex, to the point where they…
From: Pharyngula
Blue is the lab mascot, a Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens, and after their last molt, they've acquired the dark blue and blue-green…
From: Pharyngula
Yet another species with intercontinental distribution, depending on how you define species, barn swallows are the easiest swallows to meet. …
From: Life's a Gas
I know fuck-all about diamond doves. Is that even what they're actually called, where they're from? I just remember seeing…
From: Life's a Gas
On March 15, 2019, a man walked into two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand during Friday prayers and killed 51…
From: Mano Singham
[UPDATE: ProPublica reports that "Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release…
From: Mano Singham
You are walking along a public street in daylight when suddenly you are surrounded by people dressed in black with…
From: Mano Singham
In the US, owning one's own home has always been portrayed as the ultimate dream and people strive to do…
From: Mano Singham
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about human suffering, and how it isn't a cosmic necessity,…
From: Daylight Atheism
I just watched the four-part TV series Adolescence that has created quite a media splash. The show tells the story…
From: Mano Singham
This little meme was posted by Will Stancil. I'm wondering if I'm just too online, because I got the joke…
From: Pharyngula
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former director of global public policy at Meta’s precursor, Facebook, has written a best-seller Careless People that…
From: Mano Singham
Jasmine Mooney is a Canadian who got caught in the nightmare that is run by ICE (US Immigration and Customs…
From: Mano Singham
What do the following people have in common: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Sam Bankman-Fried, George Santos, Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro,…
From: Mano Singham
This past weekend, I went to one of the Tesla Takedown protests. It was a sunny Saturday afternoon, and the…
From: Daylight Atheism
Guess who's considering running for governor of Minnesota? MAGA election conspiracy theorist and MyPillow founder Mike Lindell has eyes on…
From: Pharyngula
On March 15, 2019, a man walked into two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand during Friday prayers and killed 51…
From: Mano Singham
Teen Vogue is the surprising vanguard. Here's an article by a former Democratic staffer who has some strong criticisms of…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_76006" align="alignright" width="188"] "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" by United States. Office of Strategic Services is a historical publication written…
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[UPDATE: ProPublica reports that "Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release…
From: Mano Singham
It is astonishing how shoddy is the construction of Elon Musk's Tesla Cybertruck, with parts of the body falling off…
From: Mano Singham
We're all aware that the Secret Police swept in and sent a Tufts graduate student to a concentration camp in…
From: Pharyngula
Remember when Harrison Ford was playing an action thriller man, who got annoyed with the president and was all like,…
From: Life's a Gas
The latest global rankings on university research by the journal Nature has been released and China has vaulted into the…
From: Mano Singham