That last post was too grim. Have a chaser. This song is the reason I want LL Cool J to…
From: Great American Satan
Content Warning: Wacky Fictionalization of Mental Illness. I recently had occasion to read a short story from the late 19th…
From: Great American Satan
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
It feels almost quaint, in this era where politicians openly break the law and boast about getting away with it,…
From: Daylight Atheism
Goals of Experimentation with mind control technology on civilians by the DoD: "The continuous search for the most efficient weapon…
From: Jonathan's Musings
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
The state of Texas has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, resulting in the needless deaths…
From: Mano Singham
Nancy Mace poses with a crappy paper label added to a restroom sign as if it's something she's selling on…
From: Pharyngula
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
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From: Great American Satan
It would be really handy to be able to live on spite and self-loathing. [caption id="attachment_74967" align="aligncenter" width="463"] SMBC[/caption]
From: Pharyngula
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, I will be taking a break from blogging for the next few…
From: Mano Singham
There's a new phenomenon sweeping across the social media platform, BlueSky: lists. Lots of lists. The way this works is…
From: Pharyngula
This morning, I was holed up in the local hospital getting some routine tests done. I'm getting old, I get…
From: Pharyngula
I like the card game bridge and play in local duplicate club tournaments about twice a week. Depending on the…
From: Mano Singham
A while back, as Twitter lay dying and rotting, I went out and staked new accounts in other social media…
From: Pharyngula
John Jessup ran for the position of county commissioner in Hancock county, Indiana. He doesn't like gays, immigrants, or trans…
From: Pharyngula
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
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
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
My wife's flower patch:
From: Pharyngula
The state of Texas has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, resulting in the needless deaths…
From: Mano Singham
The Northmen used to disrupt monastic scholars with axes and fire, but nowadays they plan to use AI. I think…
From: Pharyngula
I have a new column today on OnlySky. It's a followup to my last column, about a massive, unappreciated obstacle…
From: Daylight Atheism
The Japanese space agency sent a probe, Hayabusa 2, to an asteroid that returned with physical samples from its surface.…
From: Pharyngula
I like the card game bridge and play in local duplicate club tournaments about twice a week. Depending on the…
From: Mano Singham
Augustin Fuentes has a letter in Science. It's pretty good. Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent…
From: Pharyngula
This one might be a bit much for some people, so skip it if you don't want to see a…
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
I've had the strange experience a few times in recent years of mentioning my childhood poverty to another person and…
From: Great American Satan
Tradescantia is a genus of "flowering herbaceous" viney things that include a number of popular houseplants. Because they creep around…
From: Great American Satan
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
What horrors will happen in 4 years, and with their power cemented by all the things they can get away…
From: Great American Satan
Seriously, what is anybody going to joke about now? It's over. I cannot imagine ever laughing at anything related to…
From: Great American Satan
The first quarter of 2025 is going to be rough. Does he even understand what tariffs do? Like, who ends…
From: Pharyngula
I remember before it was general knowledge that literal neo-nazis were the chief purveyors of pepe memes, when we'd pass…
From: Great American Satan
The state of Texas has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, resulting in the needless deaths…
From: Mano Singham
The Royal Society is one of the oldest, most respected, and most exclusive scientific societies in the world. Imagine my…
From: Pharyngula
Augustin Fuentes has a letter in Science. It's pretty good. Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent…
From: Pharyngula
Here's a little cartoon that nicely summarizes my attitude towards all those people who voted for Trump. Get the fuck…
From: Pharyngula
Sorry for the quiet here, but I have been shellshocked since the US election. As most people who follow US…
From: Pro-Science
As the divisions within this country deepen, some middle-of-the-road seem to have given up and said "sigh, guess we're all…
From: Great American Satan