The Merriam-Webster dictionary has a feature that allows you to look up by year the time words were first published.…
From: Pharyngula
Vala the Brave waits for painting to begin. © C. Ford. {AD}
From: Affinity
Pensée (Pansy). J.J. Grandville, Les fleurs animées. {AD}
From: Affinity
I made a bunch of water beads because I wanted to record the sound of squeezing them. It turned out…
From: Stderr
Seth Meyers looks at how Republican leaders, White House officials, and Trump's daughter and son-in-law are trying desperately to shield…
From: Mano Singham
Oh, souls. There are those who are insistent that souls are real, in spite of them being intangible and invisible.…
From: Affinity
That's the myth, anyway. Repressive governments will stir up a rising of protest music and street art and great poetry…
From: Pharyngula
I find stuff on the dark underbelly of the internets, where I sometimes labor to clean the tubes. "What a…
From: Stderr
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From: Mano Singham
Narcisse (Narcissus). J.J. Grandville, Les fleurs animées. {AD}
From: Affinity
I fell in love with a new word: Squink. It's onomatopoeically delicious! I had expressed a desire to use this…
From: Affinity
My guest for today is Armin Navabi, ex-Muslim and founder of Atheist Republic. He’s also the author of the book…
From: Bi Any Means
Self-styled "prophet" Mark Taylor is at it again, this time loaded with all kinds of war vernacular, made to appeal…
From: Affinity
I got some spam this morning from "Natural Health Choice", which you can guess from the name is not going…
From: Pharyngula
I see that Donald Trump tried to declare that opioid abuse is an Emergency. To be fair, it's a problem;…
From: Stderr
David Silverman of American Atheists and Andrew Copson of the International Humanist and Ethical Union have issued a statement on…
From: Pharyngula
This is just odd. From WorldNewsDailyReport, a clickbait fake news site (hence no link), comes a story a lot of…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_20884" align="alignnone" width="749"] Screengrab.[/caption] The Jefferson Gathering, a group of fanatical, conservative christians who have a lock on a…
From: Affinity
No man on earth is truly interested in sustaining error; sooner or later it is compelled to surrender to truth.…
From: Stderr
Becky N. sent me this: There is a facebook group devoted to trolley problem memes. [fb] I am not going…
From: Stderr
A gay man in Oklahoma is suing the Sheriff, Under Sheriff, Mayor, and six other officials of Hitchcock, OK. There…
From: Stderr
[caption id="attachment_20957" align="alignnone" width="1050"] Flyer courtesy Girl Mobb.[/caption] When it comes to street art, saying there's a gender disparity is…
From: Affinity
Nothing to see here, folks: 1963 The Great Breen Boondoggle: Walter Breen excluded from Worldcon as he was judged (correctly)…
From: Against the Grain
As I have said before (a number of times) in this series, a principle component of fascist policing is an…
From: Pervert Justice
My inestimable colleague Crip Dyke reminded me that I've never justified the vocabulary I use in my writings on trans…
From: Against the Grain
Cheesy singing, dirty dancing and that moment revellers jumped into the Trafalgar square fountain; it is fair to say I…
From: YEMMYnisting
I called it a "persistent, sustained, and uncoordinated gaslighting," this idea that readily observable bodily characteristics necessarily trumps a person's…
From: Against the Grain
A couple years ago, I made this linkspam on call-out culture. "Call-out culture" refers to a pattern in social justice…
From: A Trivial Knot
Following up with the previous post on changes to the United Kingdom's process for Gender Recognition Certificates, Ezra describes one…
From: Against the Grain
This is a doozy of a canard that just won't die. It's how idiots who don't understand evolution, but know…
From: Pharyngula
I am incredibly lucky, and so very privileged to know so many wonderful people. Voyager has been helping to clean…
From: Affinity
Alex Jones visited downtown Seattle to record himself ranting on street corners about immigrants and evil antifa, and posted the…
From: Pharyngula
I took a selfie: [caption id="attachment_3696" align="alignnone" width="450"] Pictured: How Siobhan feels after working out.[/caption] -Shiv
From: Against the Grain
Gonna have to grit my teeth and allow myself to get robbed, need good markers. © C. Ford, all rights…
From: Affinity
Bolingbrook police officers peacefully escorted a were-skunk from the 8/15/17 Village Board meeting. Mayor Roger Claar ordered the male were-skunk…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I am very grateful to be hale and hearty on this occasion of my 42nd Birthday. The past has…
From: YEMMYnisting
Hey, I've seen this guy around town. Nice way to become the most famous guy in Morris.
From: Pharyngula
I have been receiving complaints from readers and other bloggers for months -- and recent posts praising Fox News and…
From: Pharyngula
This beatboxer got my hitherto dead ovaries coming alive and jumping for joy when I stumbled on his street performance…
From: YEMMYnisting
Today has been interesting (in the sense of "may you live in interesting times"). Human error at one of Taiwan's…
From: Intransitive
I fell in love with a new word: Squink. It's onomatopoeically delicious! I had expressed a desire to use this…
From: Affinity
There is an interesting development in Australia where there is a raging scandal involving pedophilia in the Catholic church. A…
From: Mano Singham
Self-styled "prophet" Mark Taylor is at it again, this time loaded with all kinds of war vernacular, made to appeal…
From: Affinity
[caption id="attachment_20884" align="alignnone" width="749"] Screengrab.[/caption] The Jefferson Gathering, a group of fanatical, conservative christians who have a lock on a…
From: Affinity
No man on earth is truly interested in sustaining error; sooner or later it is compelled to surrender to truth.…
From: Stderr
"Cursing" is a left-over of the jewish restrictions on saying "Yahweh" [caption id="attachment_611" align="alignright" width="195"] Is this the right room…
From: Stderr
Robert Jeffress is an evangelical pastor who has been a steadfast supporter of Donald Trump and even said during the…
From: Mano Singham
The Vatican has fired shots across the bow, aiming at the heart of christian conservatives, and their current rule over…
From: Affinity
[caption id="attachment_20747" align="alignnone" width="800"] Queen Jezebel Being Punished by Jehu, Andrea Celesti.[/caption] Lance Wallnau is getting worse, in every respect.…
From: Affinity
Islamic mosques separate people by gender and assign inferior roles to women. Majority Islamic nations and many orthodox Muslims have…
From: Mano Singham
If you've ever wondered what squid ink is made of, here's your answer: Generally, cephalopod ink includes melanin, enzymes related…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_20941" align="alignnone" width="1136"] Screencapture.[/caption] There's been some very interesting research happening in Chicago, and it turns out that trees…
From: Affinity
Mano Singham is unenthused about the eclipse. Same here. It's neat, would be an interesting phenomenon to observe, but I'm…
From: Pharyngula
Recently I wrote a piece about The AI That Will Kill Us All [stderr] and hypothesized one thing (which my…
From: Stderr
There seems to be a lot of excitement about the solar eclipse that will pass over the US on Monday…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_20910" align="alignnone" width="765"] A depiction of a 15th-century bed. Public Domain.[/caption] Blankets, sheets. Most people have trouble sleeping without…
From: Affinity
Cassini's Grand Finale... The thin sliver of Saturn's moon Prometheus lurks near ghostly structures in Saturn's narrow F ring in…
I follow Uncommon Descent to keep up with what the cdesign proponentsists are up to, even though I've been banned…
From: Fierce Roller
The sequel is going to go a bit dark: this is a deep ocean sponge. It's dark and ominous, and…
From: Pharyngula
Last week, Mary Beard was getting sneered at because she agreed that the Roman Empire was ethnically diverse, and that…
From: Pharyngula
I fell in love with a new word: Squink. It's onomatopoeically delicious! I had expressed a desire to use this…
From: Affinity
[caption id="attachment_20952" align="alignnone" width="1935"] 150 Years of Iconography, courtesy of Southern Poverty Law Center. Sourced from their story, Whose Heritage?…
From: Affinity
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/896523232098078720 Barack Obama: "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background…
From: Affinity
Bob Vulfov has some very serious words for some very serious people: Thank you very much for coming in today…
From: Against the Grain
[caption id="attachment_20941" align="alignnone" width="1136"] Screencapture.[/caption] There's been some very interesting research happening in Chicago, and it turns out that trees…
From: Affinity
I hate this study already. Some psychologists attempted to develop a psychological profile of the alt-right by interviewing them and…
From: Pharyngula
Nothing to see here, folks: 1963 The Great Breen Boondoggle: Walter Breen excluded from Worldcon as he was judged (correctly)…
From: Against the Grain
[CONTENT NOTE: casual ableism] Our troll story today begins as they almost always do: with an unprompted comment on an…
From: Death to Squirrels
I barely remember it myself, but I do remember a machine that kills fascists. And now here's a statement from…
From: Pharyngula
I haven't posted about Nazi invasion and terrorist attack in Charlottesville because I'm feeling... well... You can easily see my…
Stephen Bannon, close advisor and confidante of Donald Trump, has been fired. Rumors of changes in White House personnel seem…
From: Mano Singham
Our 45th president will live on in graphic design. https://twitter.com/sirmitchell/status/897266210563383296 Please, Mr President, put that on your hat.
From: Pharyngula
A gay man in Oklahoma is suing the Sheriff, Under Sheriff, Mayor, and six other officials of Hitchcock, OK. There…
From: Stderr
Seth Meyers looks at how Republican leaders, White House officials, and Trump's daughter and son-in-law are trying desperately to shield…
From: Mano Singham
Just today, there has been a mass resignation from the President’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities and the Department…
From: Pharyngula
Trump's Feed is the brainchild of Philip Bump over at the Washington Post. It follows everyone that Trump is following,…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
There is an interesting development in Australia where there is a raging scandal involving pedophilia in the Catholic church. A…
From: Mano Singham
This may seem like a strange question because of course the Nazis hated Jews, enough that they set about systematically…
From: Mano Singham
It's another mass resignation: the President's Committee on the Arts & Humanities has just dumped Trump in an excellent "Dear…
From: Pharyngula
Bob Vulfov has some very serious words for some very serious people: Thank you very much for coming in today…
From: Against the Grain