Did you know "pace sticking" is a real thing? I guess it makes sense, when you're doing precision drill -…
From: Stderr
One of the nice things about the AI art generators is that they can be entertaining in their own right.…
From: Stderr
One of my favorite "tropes" in modern environmentalism is the idea of solving human problems by improving, amplifying, or adjusting…
From: Oceanoxia
This is a chapter-by-chapter review of problematic romance novel ‘Walking Disaster’ by Jamie McGuire. Posts in the series will all…
From: Geeky Humanist
There is a new Rammstein music video out Content warning: violence, religious imagery Usually I have some understanding of the…
From: Pro-Science
By Reporter X An Interplanetary Twitter server hosted at Clow UFO Base exploded, injuring 12 Clow employees and 18 IT…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
For the rest of November, I'm going to be doing low-effort posts for the most part. I'm behind on my…
From: Oceanoxia
Since everyone else is having a Black Friday sale, I’m going to as well. The eBook version of my novel,…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I’ve always been a big dreamer. When I was a child I was certain I could do or be anything.…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I've bee having a gloomy sort of day, for various reasons, and I don't have much of anything to post,…
From: Oceanoxia
People will say they believe in god because of a convincing personal experience - the argument from personal revelation. Interestingly…
From: Great American Satan
How do you define spirituality? It feels like a very vague term that can encompass a lot. I facilitate support…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
The Walmart murderer left a death note behind. It's disturbing. "One of the most loving people in the world" who…
From: Pharyngula
This recent bit of news had me asking myself some rather strange questions, once I accepted (arguendo) one of the…
From: Stderr
Serious question…do you think there is more good or evil in the world? I ask this question because lately, I’ve…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Isn't it miraculous how we religious types can believe in something that runs counter to everything that makes sense in…
From: Great American Satan
Adnan Oktar, the infamous creationist, has been sentenced to 8,658 years in a Turkish prison. That's a bit harsh. Also,…
From: Pharyngula
Can you be raised an atheist? Or is it a conclusion one must come to on their own? Obviously, I…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I have so much I would like to write about but have not had the time lately. I appreciate those…
From: Jonathan's Musings
Back in the day when I was a naive young man, the news would occasionally run stories about the Future…
From: Pharyngula
The fact that I'm writing this is, in itself, evidence that things are not going well in the United States.…
From: Oceanoxia
This is a chapter-by-chapter review of problematic romance novel ‘Walking Disaster’ by Jamie McGuire. Posts in the series will all…
From: Geeky Humanist
The man running for the office of dumbest politician in America has put out another ad, this time slamming trans…
From: Pharyngula
It was an epic battle in Club Q: one hateful gunman inflamed with the rhetoric of conservative pundits versus a…
From: Pharyngula
One never knows where research might lead, and I'm not going to disparage work that attempts to quantify what seems…
From: Pharyngula
They are, every single one of them. Even the ones I don't see because they're just a black rectangle on…
From: Pharyngula
cw: suicide, tasteless behavior, on my part as much as anybody else's I kid, that title "Tom Hanks Hate Crime"…
From: Great American Satan
Every day, they seem to add a new criterion for being a True Woman™. Here's one that surprised even me.…
From: Pharyngula
You remember burlesque? That was a thing a few years back, where the sex nerds would put on pasties and…
From: Great American Satan
Remember back when Trump got elected? There was a torrent of articles on surviving under authoritarianism, and how to fight…
From: Oceanoxia
Last weekend, we visited the beloved plague rat granddaughter, who was all sniffly and coughing with something she picked up…
From: Pharyngula
When making the commissioned machete in the summer, I had enuff steel left for one additional blade and two more…
From: Affinity
I recently went through ALICE training at work. Surprisingly it was my very first time getting active shooter training. The…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Thanks, Washington Post. And first thing in the morning, too! What a thing for an old geezer to wake up…
From: Pharyngula
It's time to heat up the War On Christmas, with love. The new Fox News strategy is to sow confusion.…
From: Pharyngula
The cringiest. Some group of Musk cultists created a cryptocurrency called ElonGOAT, and decided to promote it in the goofiest…
From: Pharyngula
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From: Affinity
The grandson turned 5 today, and he is applying himself with great focus and intense concentration, even stripping down for…
From: Pharyngula
Teh almighty YuTub algorithm has recommended this video to me: Why military gear isn't always a good idea... And whilst…
From: Affinity
How do you define spirituality? It feels like a very vague term that can encompass a lot. I facilitate support…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Here's an observation: as Christianity fades in England and Wales, some evangelical religious groups are finding a niche, like the…
From: Pharyngula
The United Kingdom has tripped over the precipice into godlessness. Or at least, into following a different god. They're waaay…
From: Pharyngula
In 2021, I did a posting about Smedley Butler and the great Wall St banker's plot to overthrow the US…
From: Stderr
Person the first, Travis Clark, a defrocked priest who was arrested for having consensual relations with two sex workers in…
From: Pharyngula
This recent bit of news had me asking myself some rather strange questions, once I accepted (arguendo) one of the…
From: Stderr
Isn't it miraculous how we religious types can believe in something that runs counter to everything that makes sense in…
From: Great American Satan
I thought the 2022 elections were rather good news, not great, but the Democrats did a little better than expected,…
From: Pharyngula
Between the Church Militant and Nick Fuentes, it's pretty clear what the theocratic Right wants to do: they want to…
From: Pharyngula
The day of the election, Michael Voris of the Vortex/Church Militant posted a strange video. The grey/blonde junkyard rat he…
From: Pharyngula
Can you be raised an atheist? Or is it a conclusion one must come to on their own? Obviously, I…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
In this corner, in the blue trunks, it's ELON MUSK. In the other corner, in the rainbow colored trunks, it's…
From: Pharyngula
Did you know "pace sticking" is a real thing? I guess it makes sense, when you're doing precision drill -…
From: Stderr
The skeleton of one of the largest dinosaurs known to have inhabited the Earth, reconstructed from the fossil bones of…
From: Mano Singham
It's nice to see someone who got famous for calling out bullshit turn his sights on capitalism. I very much…
From: Oceanoxia
I never hear people proposing policies for cleaning up chemical pollution. I don't know whether that's because the ways to…
From: Oceanoxia
One of my favorite "tropes" in modern environmentalism is the idea of solving human problems by improving, amplifying, or adjusting…
From: Oceanoxia
We all have lots to worry about already, with pandemics and climate change and political crises and growing irrationality, but…
From: Pharyngula
Steve Donziger, who became famous for essentially being captive for years for exposing corporate human rights abuses, has shared a document…
From: Oceanoxia
Twitter laid off 50% of its employees and 80% of its contractors, and then at least 16% more of its…
From: A Trivial Knot
So much spider biology in this one. Look, gastrulation! Segmentation! Sex! What more could you ask for?
From: Pharyngula
The fact that I'm writing this is, in itself, evidence that things are not going well in the United States.…
From: Oceanoxia
The political commentariat in the US is agog with a report of Donald Trump hosting a dinner at Mar-a-Lago for…
From: Mano Singham
Whenever anyone starts discussing the accomplishments of communist governments, someone is likely to pop up to point out that those…
From: Oceanoxia
FIFA, the controlling body of international football, has long been known to be utterly corrupt. The nation of Qatar has…
From: Mano Singham
Not really. It is just that right wing media suddenly loses interest in the story once it is no longer…
From: Mano Singham
Steve Donziger, who became famous for essentially being captive for years for exposing corporate human rights abuses, has shared a document…
From: Oceanoxia
It is curious that given that although going to the bathroom is a basic human function, society does not make…
From: Mano Singham
Here's another perspective on the soup protest. I like Doel's take on it, and I think that Phoebe Plummer, the…
From: Oceanoxia
I don't mean a lack of security in tech or otherwise infosec/opsec. That's probably well on its way, mind, but…
From: Impossible Me
Here's a teacher having an old, tired, familiar argument with his students…and the students getting the better of him. It's…
From: Pharyngula
Readers may recall Adam Conover as the genial host of the TV series Adam Ruins Everything where in each episode…
From: Mano Singham
The fact that I'm writing this is, in itself, evidence that things are not going well in the United States.…
From: Oceanoxia
It is unfortunate that while almost everything about Elon Musk is fake, his power in our society is very real.…
From: Oceanoxia
The war in Ukraine is draining American stockpiles of things that blow up, so the defense industry has come up…
From: Pharyngula
The political commentariat in the US is agog with a report of Donald Trump hosting a dinner at Mar-a-Lago for…
From: Mano Singham
Whenever anyone starts discussing the accomplishments of communist governments, someone is likely to pop up to point out that those…
From: Oceanoxia
It's nice to see someone who got famous for calling out bullshit turn his sights on capitalism. I very much…
From: Oceanoxia
FIFA, the controlling body of international football, has long been known to be utterly corrupt. The nation of Qatar has…
From: Mano Singham
One of the last races for the House of Representatives has been called, that for the single congressional seat in…
From: Mano Singham
We have a little tradition here at Chez Myers for Black Friday: we stay home, refuse to do any shopping,…
From: Pharyngula