The prolific author Georges Simenon, in the years between 1931 and 1972, published 75 novels and 28 short stories featuring…
From: Mano Singham
I saw over at PZ's that it is "What about the menz?" Day. [pha] What is particularly sad is that…
From: Stderr
I had a consciousness-raising experience about transgender people shortly after age thirty. I don't think I was a complete shit…
From: Great American Satan
You ever hear Sex Shooter, by Apollonia 6? No? I'm sorry, but now we must all experience it together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwl8ZxliHIQ…
From: Great American Satan
I have written before about how the neighborhood app Nextdoor seems to be an outlet for people who like to…
From: Mano Singham
So, I texted my friend Kitten and said, "Hey, I made a spear. Do you want it?" She replied, "Wait,…
From: Stderr
I am moderately high on painkillers right now, so I decided to wash them down with some vodka. Don't worry,…
From: Stderr
Note: I’ve been queuing serious posts as part of my Hope Series for 6:30 AM Eastern time, and a frivolous…
From: Great American Satan
remember when i posted about lovage? here's a video by them, in kinda wretched quality, but it's what we have. …
From: Great American Satan
This sounds like a parody article from the Onion, but it is true: The Onion wins auction for Alex Jones' media…
From: Pro-Science
I saw over at PZ's that it is "What about the menz?" Day. [pha] What is particularly sad is that…
From: Stderr
I greatly appreciate Dan McLellan's work -- he's a serious scholar of the Bible and he often addresses the shallow…
From: Pharyngula
This is a post that sat not-quite-finished in my drafts since before October, dusted off because I am done with…
From: Great American Satan
I might have to become a fan of the boxer, Mike Tyson. He has an ugly history, and now he's…
From: Pharyngula
The years ahead are going to be a time of trials for us. We're all going to face pressure to…
From: Daylight Atheism
A silly speculation: what if you die, go to heaven, and discover that a god had a set of fundamental…
From: Pharyngula
This was taken right before the election: The stand is still there, but something interesting has happened in the rest…
From: Stderr
Freethoughtblogs has a podcast coming up on Saturday, at 4pm Central time. Get your injection of liberal tears then! (Actually,…
From: Pharyngula
This is a two part series on how subcontractors hired from the Department of Defense are experimenting on 3500 or…
From: Jonathan's Musings
This hasn't gotten a lot of press because, frankly, it shouldn't matter. But, every political issue - big or small…
From: Stderr
A few months ago, I went to an ace unconference--an unconference being an event where attendees create sessions on the…
From: A Trivial Knot
I wrote earlier that when Sarah McBride was elected as a member of the House of Representatives, that her taking…
From: Mano Singham
Today is International Men's Day. Finally! I'm so tired of being ignored all the other days of the year. I…
From: Pharyngula
He's leaking the idea that he might appoint Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, to be the Secretary of…
From: Pharyngula
Kevin Drum stirred up a hornet's nest in his comments in a post asking what exactly the term 'queer' meant…
From: Mano Singham
I knew it. It's all Rebecca Watson's fault that Trump got elected. [caption id="attachment_74804" align="aligncenter" width="500"] shitter.com[/caption] Who would have…
From: Pharyngula
In the previous post, I wrote about how Sarah McBride has been elected as the first transgender person in the…
From: Mano Singham
The results of the election were overwhelmingly bad but in the debris there was one piece of good news and…
From: Mano Singham
There are going to be plenty of postmortems of the last election, trying to understand how Trump managed to win.…
From: Mano Singham
The people have spoken and what they say is that they want a corrupt, amoral, hateful narcissist as their president.…
From: Mano Singham
You can see a bit of it in this photo. Mainly, though, this is a picture of my wife's swarm…
From: Pharyngula
I saw over at PZ's that it is "What about the menz?" Day. [pha] What is particularly sad is that…
From: Stderr
So, I texted my friend Kitten and said, "Hey, I made a spear. Do you want it?" She replied, "Wait,…
From: Stderr
You will either be amused or horrified by my discovery of the documents leading to the original sale of my…
From: Pharyngula
Matt Gaetz. [caption id="attachment_74864" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Being nominated to head the DOJ is such sweet revenge after they came after…
From: Pharyngula
I am moderately high on painkillers right now, so I decided to wash them down with some vodka. Don't worry,…
From: Stderr
Kittens Game is a clicker game that you can play in your browser. It makes a strong first impression, as…
From: A Trivial Knot
If you were dreaming of buying my mother's house in Auburn, WA, you may have missed your chance: we had…
From: Pharyngula
The Guardian has announced that they will no longer cite Twitter. We wanted to let readers know that we will…
From: Pharyngula
You may recall that InfoWars' stuff was going to be auctioned off. The auction is over! Guess who won? The…
From: Pharyngula
What if, instead of thoughts of positive energy and prayers for jesusly intercession, we could make a bad situation better…
From: Great American Satan
Tucker Carlson is a very strange man, espousing all manner of hateful ideas and conspiracies. But his latest admission really…
From: Mano Singham
Well, it's been a year since my post in response to the attack last October. The months since have contained…
From: Oceanoxia
On Saturday morning there was a knock on my door. This is unusual since the condominium complex that I live…
From: Mano Singham
Ah, it's a good day to be alive and bearing the Mark of the Beast. I can do commerce and…
From: Great American Satan
Almost. There's a line you can cross that will finally get the FBI on your case, but you have to…
From: Pharyngula
still trying to keep this one-post-per-day streak going. what to say next? i'd like to get away from grim topics…
From: Great American Satan
[caption id="attachment_74101" align="alignright" width="144"] This is how they think science works[/caption] But it's unavoidable when one party is explicitly anti-science.…
From: Pharyngula
I'm weird. Statistically, if you're reading this, you are too. As an atheist, a secular humanist and a socialist, I'm…
From: Daylight Atheism
Uh-oh. You knew that somewhere in the next few months the frantic digging for dirt on Harris/Walz would strike gold,…
From: Pharyngula
You know what that means: I am welcoming all the spiders to come in from the cold and find a…
From: Pharyngula
Would you like some free biological illustrations that aren't the products of an AI's unrestrained imagination? NIH BioArt is such…
From: Pharyngula
There's this stretch of 320th Street in Federal Way, a bit east of I-5, just business parks trees and gas…
From: Great American Satan
I have a new column today on OnlySky. It's about a problem we're only beginning to glimpse that could spell…
From: Daylight Atheism
Time to dig up another fossil. It's a bird, but it has no connection to the sabre-toothed kitty cat I…
From: Pharyngula
I stepped out of my house and started walking to work, when I noticed a dot moving out of the…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_74843" align="alignright" width="150"] External appearance of three-week-old heads of large felid cubs, right lateral view: (A) Homotherium latidens (Owen,…
From: Pharyngula
What a beautiful photo! [caption id="attachment_74837" align="aligncenter" width="500"] January 12, 2020, Philippines: Lightning streak over Batangas as Taal Volcano continue…
From: Pharyngula
After writing about LLM error rates, I wanted to talk about a specific kind of error: the hallucination. I am…
From: A Trivial Knot
[caption id="attachment_74827" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Andrew Blaurock[/caption]
From: Pharyngula
I saw over at PZ's that it is "What about the menz?" Day. [pha] What is particularly sad is that…
From: Stderr
I wrote earlier that when Sarah McBride was elected as a member of the House of Representatives, that her taking…
From: Mano Singham
I have written in the past about Sri Lanka's deteriorating democracy, with corrupt, nepotistic family dynasties that enriched themselves while…
From: Mano Singham
This sounds like a parody article from the Onion, but it is true: The Onion wins auction for Alex Jones' media…
From: Pro-Science
This was taken right before the election: The stand is still there, but something interesting has happened in the rest…
From: Stderr
There are going to be plenty of postmortems of the last election, trying to understand how Trump managed to win.…
From: Mano Singham
Some of the bloggers here at Freethoughtblogs will get together on Saturday and talk about the election, the results, and…
From: Pro-Science
The people have spoken and what they say is that they want a corrupt, amoral, hateful narcissist as their president.…
From: Mano Singham
The final day of voting for the US elections is Tuesday. As with everything else involving elections in the US,…
From: Mano Singham
In films and TV shows, you sometimes see people who are really angry or upset smash things by throwing them…
From: Mano Singham
Infowars was the site where Alex Jones promoted all his conspiracy theories. Probably the most hateful one was where he…
From: Mano Singham
I made a quick grocery run during the lunch hour, and, as usual, noticed that my car was made invisible…
From: Pharyngula
I was planning to go into phased retirement at the end of the next school year. I'd told the chair…
From: Pharyngula
I saw over at PZ's that it is "What about the menz?" Day. [pha] What is particularly sad is that…
From: Stderr
I wrote earlier that when Sarah McBride was elected as a member of the House of Representatives, that her taking…
From: Mano Singham
He's leaking the idea that he might appoint Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, to be the Secretary of…
From: Pharyngula
if nature could finish the job on the scrotum elect, i wouldn't mind. i'd sure appreciate it. as incompetent as…
From: Great American Satan
Joe Biden has been cravenly subservient to whatever the Israeli government does. Nowhere has this been more apparent that his…
From: Mano Singham
It sure must be handy to be able to lead a billionaire around by his dick. Elon Musk is using…
From: Pharyngula
For better or worse, Coca Cola has driven the iconography of Christmas -- that jolly bearded fat man in a…
From: Pharyngula