There's a guy in the Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree named Igon, who is just deeply hilarious. The…
From: Great American Satan
I'll say it out oud, 2024was not my favourite year. Apart from the world going to shit, I had to…
From: Affinity
Part 1: Sir Pervicale and the Quest of the 1/2-20 Wingnut When I had most of the steel pieces cut,…
From: Stderr
It’s a new year and time for our annual psychic predictions for 2025. Our council of psychics is still recovering…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
it's time. electric six, the cheesy sex jokester band of early millennium, was moved by bush II to write a…
From: Great American Satan
This has been a somewhat long hiatus from blogging due to being down with flu. That may have suggested to…
From: Mano Singham
I can talk a little shit about people in my life on here because they all have reasons for not…
From: Great American Satan
I'm going to post about this project as it assembles itself, to remember what I did, and/or what I was…
From: Stderr
Where does one draw the line with using AI to create art? A court ruled AI art could not be…
From: Great American Satan
I saw this film a long time ago, soon after it came out. I did not remember much of the…
From: Mano Singham
Now, both Jerry Coyne and Steven Pinker have announced their resignation from the honorary board at the FFRF. Good. They…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_75210" align="alignright" width="134"] Actually, in my experience the decay is spread everywhere[/caption] A commenter made me aware of a…
From: Pharyngula
I'm tempted. American Atheists national convention is being held in Minneapolis on April 17-20 in 2025. Hey, that's just down…
From: Pharyngula
A reader sent me a request to help him debunk an evolutionary psychology paper. It's easy: it's evolutionary psychology, which…
From: Pharyngula
Today, someone at the hardware store said, almost aggressively, "Merry Christmas." It took me a few minutes to remember (so,…
From: Stderr
It's only 4 minutes long, but it's just packed with 'clever' arguments for god. If you don't feel like wasting…
From: Pharyngula
In 2018, when my son was two, I wrote about what I, as a secular parent, was going to tell…
From: Daylight Atheism
Just in time for your Christmas shopping list! It seems obvious today that people are operating on different principles for…
From: Pharyngula
I'm going to be a bit contrarian. Years ago, one phenomenon that was horribly popular among skeptics was the identification…
From: Pharyngula
Oh boy. There are places on the internet that are still full of arrogant ignorance. A creationist charged into a…
From: Pharyngula
Once again, the secular community has been split by Deep Rifts. In a pattern we should all be familiar with…
From: Daylight Atheism
This has been a somewhat long hiatus from blogging due to being down with flu. That may have suggested to…
From: Mano Singham
There have been many ugly developments following the election victory of Trump. It seems like all the worst elements in…
From: Mano Singham
Sexism in gaming isn't a new thing at all -- good ol' Dungeons & Dragons was full of it. Here's…
From: Pharyngula
Sometimes I miss Twitter. It's the place where you can find the dumbest arguments and most stupid people on the…
From: Pharyngula
It is not easy being the first to break through some barrier, especially in the field of politics. An elected…
From: Mano Singham
A wiser woman than I said we should all give dems the spurs on trans rights, specifically to say we'll…
From: Great American Satan
This post is part of a blogging protest arranged by Julia Serano, in response to not only Republican transphobia but…
From: Geeky Humanist
... because there is nowhere to go back to. It's been two years since my last post here, which shocks…
From: Impossible Me
One of my long-standing frustrations with the Democratic Party is they way they will happily campaign and fund-raise on all…
From: Oceanoxia
I've been having a grand time with the family in Madison, but I'm dreading the long drive home. Then, suddenly,…
From: Pharyngula
Now, live from Wisconsin! It's amazing how sharp the boundary is between Minnesota and Wisconsin: you cross the border and…
From: Pharyngula
At the beginning of every month, I will repost my comments policy for those who started visiting this site the…
From: Mano Singham
Part 1: Sir Pervicale and the Quest of the 1/2-20 Wingnut When I had most of the steel pieces cut,…
From: Stderr
Why try to foretell the future by pawing through entrails when the gods send such a clear sign? Cybertruck on…
From: Pharyngula
This is not an omen. This is just the brain of a 53 year old man-child raised on 4chan, who…
From: Pharyngula
The Aztecs would rip out still-beating human hearts to honor the sun god Huitzilopochtli, so that the sun would continue…
From: Pharyngula
The sale of my mother's house is imminent -- closing is on 3 January. I have spent my afternoons since…
From: Pharyngula
At the end of each year, I do a roundup of the stories and ideas that I kept revisiting over…
From: Daylight Atheism
I was running some simple errands this morning -- I need a short bit of ethernet cat8 cable, something I…
From: Pharyngula
Today, someone at the hardware store said, almost aggressively, "Merry Christmas." It took me a few minutes to remember (so,…
From: Stderr
Any kind of nationalism is kinda fucked up and weird to me. Born and raised on stolen land, soaked in…
From: Great American Satan
I saw this film a long time ago, soon after it came out. I did not remember much of the…
From: Mano Singham
For reasons, I wanted to create an image of jeezis that looked like an old Klasky-Csupo cartoon, like Rugrats, Ahh…
From: Great American Satan
The setting is November 1327 in an abbey in the mountains of northern Italy. A highly learned English Franciscan monk…
From: Mano Singham
This post is part of a blogging protest arranged by Julia Serano, in response to not only Republican transphobia but…
From: Geeky Humanist
You gotta get yourself religion And try to serve the lord While the blood's Still warm In your veins... I…
From: Great American Satan
Ken Ham is proud to announce that Answers in Genesis will be celebrating a non-Woke Christmas. It wasn’t that long…
From: Pharyngula
i saw this uncredited and don't feel like tracking down the credit, but enjoy a raw-ass meme about ameriKKKa: [caption…
From: Great American Satan
Pete Hegseth is much more than just a Fox News airhead. He's a man with a plan. When Donald Trump…
From: Pharyngula
I don't know how you feel right now, but I feel like the racist lunatic fringe of conspiracy theorists and…
From: Stderr
You know how they have birding apps where you can record bird calls, and have them identified? Great. And how…
From: Great American Satan
My brother was living in Kansas with wife and kid. He helped with air fare so I could visit. His…
From: Great American Satan
I tend to be lumpy on some of these bird posts. Taxonomy is the practice and study of putting names…
From: Great American Satan
It's hard to believe they can actually do this, but Meta plans to make the Internet objectively worse. Meta says…
From: Pharyngula
I've been reminded recently that glaucous-winged and western seagulls hybridize in my region so heavily there's a common name for…
From: Great American Satan
House finches are a very common bird in urban and suburban areas here. As befits the name house finch. I…
From: Great American Satan
Now, both Jerry Coyne and Steven Pinker have announced their resignation from the honorary board at the FFRF. Good. They…
From: Pharyngula
I've mentioned before that when I hear a bird call I don't recognize, it often turns out to be an…
From: Great American Satan
Neil deGrasse Tyson went on Bill Maher's terrible show (that's not good, I wish everyone would just starve that guy…
From: Pharyngula
I don't know how you feel right now, but I feel like the racist lunatic fringe of conspiracy theorists and…
From: Stderr
As is often the case, commenters pick up on some aspect of a blog post that was not central to…
From: Mano Singham
It’s a new year and time for our annual psychic predictions for 2025. Our council of psychics is still recovering…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
State and federal-mandated minimum wages set a floor for what employers can pay their employees. It benefits more than the…
From: Mano Singham
The only good thing for me to personally emerge from the disaster that we are going through is that I…
From: Mano Singham
This has been a somewhat long hiatus from blogging due to being down with flu. That may have suggested to…
From: Mano Singham
A secular sermon for the 2024 solstice season We're living through a time of darkness, both literally and metaphorically. This…
From: Daylight Atheism
As his term of office winds down, Joe Biden is trying to minimize the damage that Trump can do and…
From: Mano Singham
There have been many ugly developments following the election victory of Trump. It seems like all the worst elements in…
From: Mano Singham
In response to the outpouring of anger at the for-profit health insurance companies for their predatory practices that was unleashed…
From: Mano Singham
I don't know how you feel right now, but I feel like the racist lunatic fringe of conspiracy theorists and…
From: Stderr
As is often the case, commenters pick up on some aspect of a blog post that was not central to…
From: Mano Singham
It’s a new year and time for our annual psychic predictions for 2025. Our council of psychics is still recovering…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
State and federal-mandated minimum wages set a floor for what employers can pay their employees. It benefits more than the…
From: Mano Singham
it's time. electric six, the cheesy sex jokester band of early millennium, was moved by bush II to write a…
From: Great American Satan
The only good thing for me to personally emerge from the disaster that we are going through is that I…
From: Mano Singham
Lots of biology teachers show their students this map in their classes. I'm one of them. The US has an…
From: Pharyngula
It is so delicious that even before Trump is signed into office, MAGA is ripped with an internal war. Civil…
From: Pharyngula
This has been a somewhat long hiatus from blogging due to being down with flu. That may have suggested to…
From: Mano Singham
Gone at age 100, a life well lived. My very first presidential election was in 1976, and of course I…
From: Pharyngula