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From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_3576" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Business Card Origami Orb, designed by Jeannine Mosely, with modification by me[/caption] This model has instructions…
From: A Trivial Knot
For those unfamiliar with it, yesterday's strip is an homage to the classic cross-talk act below by the comedy duo.…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_62054" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Far Side[/caption]
From: Pharyngula
Right now I have more pretty stuff that I've made than I have time to photograph well and post/discuss about.…
From: Stderr
Just when you thought that Mitch McConnell could not sink any lower in political grubbing, he does. After the attack…
From: Mano Singham
Via Mark Frauenfelder, I came across this video of a driver who misunderstood why some people were trying to get…
From: Mano Singham
I'm grateful to report that Tegan's symptoms - which remained mild throughout - have disappeared and not returned for several…
From: Oceanoxia
Bernie Sanders is holding a senate hearing on why the federal minimum wage should be raised to $15 per hour.…
From: Mano Singham
I had a dream last night that The Whispers had 500 members, like a Neil deGrasse Tyson-themed version of The…
From: Great American Satan
Yeah, I get YouTube comments now. Watch this guy go from you admitted that you think to therefore, Jesus! in…
From: Pharyngula
I mentioned earlier that I'd been on this "Philosophical Checkmate" discord server. It was an odd experience -- a few…
From: Pharyngula
As you should know, Naomi Wolf, former Clinton advisor, is now on the COVID denialism bandwagon. She has gotten worse.…
From: Pharyngula
OK, I've dealt with creationists. I've bumped into flat-earthers and walked away moaning. But now, people are claiming that there's…
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
For some reason, some atheists write to me expecting that I will agree 100% with their atheism uber alles views,…
From: Pharyngula
I had a professor (not an adjunct, full Phd) who was a great anthropologist, feminist & activist. I'm not pretending…
From: Pervert Justice
Sharing another poem from my book, Free to Roam: Poems from a Heathen Mommy. Thrive (a message to my younger self)…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
It's not a very good defense, but Oktar's allies have put together a long, long series of webpages trying to…
From: Pharyngula
I really don't like hearing from this atheist organization, ever, but here they come with more petty, ugly news. Possible…
From: Pharyngula
People still pay attention to this conservative fraudster? Skip it. Irreversible Damage is simply more right-wing hysteria. The premise is…
From: Pharyngula
Jill Bearup is has made much more fun and informative video on the infamous boob armor than those made by…
From: Affinity
Conservatives: Gender is all about the penis. If you were born with a penis, you're a man. If not, you're…
From: Pervert Justice
What a buffoon. To respond to a colleague who posted support for civil rights for LGBT folk, she had to…
From: Pharyngula
It's another lethal gender reveal party. Growing up, Christopher and Michael Pekny were brothers and best friends. It only made…
From: Pharyngula
MI6 (formally known as the Secret Intelligence Service) is the UK's foreign intelligence service which spies on and in other countries.…
From: Intransitive
In the last few days, screenshots from a certain TERF's twitter page have been making the rounds in Transgender groups.…
From: Intransitive
As it is LGBT History month, I have written an updated version of my blog post-5 Things You Should Not…
From: YEMMYnisting
Well, hello, all; it's that time of the month again. Yup, the time when we wow you with the talents…
From: Geeky Humanist
The head of Tokyo's Olympic organizing committee Yoshiro Mori gave as his reason for opposing naming more women directors that…
From: Mano Singham
Readers may recall a previous post where a turkey held me hostage in my car for about half an hour.…
From: Mano Singham
It's a local thing. UMM students are making memes praising one of the cafeteria workers at JeanJeanPizzaQueen. It's so dang…
From: Pharyngula
As the April 6 Consolidated Election approaches, Bolingbrook’s wereskunks are now fractured between supporters of the First Party for Bolingbrook…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Some people who have been skating on the frozen canals in Europe despite warnings that the ice was thawing have…
From: Mano Singham
From: Pharyngula
Dear daughter, Yesterday was difficult. We’re still in the middle of the pandemic, so it was just another day of…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
And a good topic. (By the way, spiders will eat mites.)
From: Pharyngula
During the pandemic, I started doing more jigsaw puzzles. Not real puzzles mind you—I found a jigsaw simulator on Steam…
From: A Trivial Knot
I am finishing the kitchen-knives sets, and one of the tools that I was still missing in my toolbox was…
From: Affinity
I'm grateful to report that Tegan's symptoms - which remained mild throughout - have disappeared and not returned for several…
From: Oceanoxia
People who are homophobic and transphobic do not hesitate to say that their stance is what their god wants, as…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_61986" align="alignright" width="150"] Jan 6, 2021; Washington, DC, USA; Protesters at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Congress…
From: Pharyngula
Sharing another poem from my book, Free to Roam: Poems from a Heathen Mommy. Thrive (a message to my younger self)…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
In the past few months, I’ve become a lot more open about being an atheist and I feel I have…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Isaac Bailey is not an atheist, but he makes the atheist case strongly. I'm struggling to hold fast to my…
From: Pharyngula
In general, the things that Jesus is reported to have said are fairly benign. (I do not want to get…
From: Mano Singham
The struggle for trans rights has, at the rhetorical and PR level, revolved around finding ways to get the cis,…
From: Oceanoxia
I know Christopher Hitchens' motto was that religion poisons everything, but maybe we should be smarter about parceling out the…
From: Pharyngula
Just yesterday, I was saying it brought me great joy to watch Q implode. Today, the joy is gone. I…
From: Pharyngula
I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else. I think that relativism is very probably false.…
From: Jonathan's Musings
When you start to track problems with the F-35, you may discover that the problems have problems and that there…
From: Stderr
[caption id="attachment_62063" align="alignright" width="150"] Why do artists always put domes up? We'd be living in tunnels deep under the Martian…
From: Pharyngula
Sorry, I invented a label. It's to describe a nonsensical fad that I keep running into. It's like steampunk: romanticizing…
From: Pharyngula
Gizmodo has published a slideshow of 17 images taken on Mars from the current mission. In one of them, it…
From: Mano Singham
It is stunning that anyone still thinks Elon Musk is a smart guy. Shannon Stirone tears into one of his…
From: Pharyngula
When I came up with the name "stderr" for this blog, I was thinking about the way that the error-stream…
From: Stderr
Despite the sombre milestone of 500,000 deaths being passed, the numbers in the US continue to move in a good…
From: Mano Singham
Somebody panicked when they found a few spiders. They closed the library! The University of Michigan’s Shapiro Undergraduate Library was…
From: Pharyngula
NASA has released video taken by multiple cameras as its Perseverance rover landed on the surface of Mars. The high…
From: Mano Singham
Every single thing I read about the worsening climate change disaster is scary. They all add up to very, very…
From: Stderr
Yesterday, I visited a Discord server called Philosophical Checkmate for a bit of a freewheeling discussion. It was a mixed…
From: Pharyngula
Conservatives: Gender is all about the penis. If you were born with a penis, you're a man. If not, you're…
From: Pervert Justice
So, some schmuck named Luke Russell Coffee has been arrested for his participation in the 1/6 insurrection. I don't blog about every…
From: Pervert Justice
Crusading journalist, novelist, and one-time socialist candidate for governor of California in 1934, Upton Sinclair wrote a novel The Jungle…
From: Mano Singham
Samantha Bee makes the case of why a federal minimum wage of $15 per hour is necessary. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
Unless one is a pacifist who opposes all wars on principle and is willing to live with the consequences, one…
From: Mano Singham
I recently read a story where an artist sold a recording for a flat fee, and then the song went…
From: A Trivial Knot
He roundly criticizes all those responsible for what was a foreseen and avoidable disaster. Meanwhile, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shames Ted Cruz…
From: Mano Singham
Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965. Mujahid Abdul Halim (born Talmadge Hayer), Muhammad A. Aziz (Norman Butler) and…
From: Intransitive
It is fascinating to read about cultures that one is ignorant of and with the arrival of the internet and…
From: Mano Singham
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People who are homophobic and transphobic do not hesitate to say that their stance is what their god wants, as…
From: Mano Singham
When you start to track problems with the F-35, you may discover that the problems have problems and that there…
From: Stderr
March Madness is the name given to the college basketball championships in the US but it may acquire an additional…
From: Mano Singham
Back in 2017, [I am tempted to add, "when I was still naive and optimistic"] I posted a bit about…
From: Stderr
As expected, Trump received a rapturous welcome at the CPAC conference that ended yesterday and went through his usual spiel…
From: Mano Singham
Donald Trump makes a return to the public eye with a speech today to the annual right-wing Conservative Political Action…
From: Mano Singham
Joe Biden has launchd his first airstrike, against targets in Syria, killing 22 people. The Pentagon’s chief spokesperson, John Kirby,…
From: Mano Singham
Conservatives: Gender is all about the penis. If you were born with a penis, you're a man. If not, you're…
From: Pervert Justice
Just when you thought that Mitch McConnell could not sink any lower in political grubbing, he does. After the attack…
From: Mano Singham