None of this is to my pride or honor, for if it was, I'd be with a troupe in the…
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From: Mano Singham
The Probability Broach, chapter 2 As I've mentioned, The Probability Broach is a work of evangelism. Unlike Ayn Rand, whose…
From: Daylight Atheism
Note: This is a bonus post. Hit "Previous" to see the scheduled post of the day. Read the previous RP…
From: Life's a Gas
I'm a classic amurrican striver. An entitled colonizer. A zombie to crapitalism. I've got this asinine notion that if I…
From: Life's a Gas
Krea's chat mode adds an interesting new dimension to image creation. For example, you can tell it "create a portrait…
From: Stderr
In discussing Trump's presidency, I though that one of the few things that he cared about, other than his own…
From: Mano Singham
Note: This is a bonus post. Hit "Previous" to see the scheduled post of the day. The last time I…
From: Life's a Gas
I didn't really have an answer. My guess was "hi." I thought PZ was unfailingly polite, though the other folks…
From: Stderr
The Probability Broach, chapter 2 Jenny Noble explains to Win Bear that her murdered colleague, Vaughn Meiss, carried a gun…
From: Daylight Atheism
He has a new book coming out, The War on Science. It does not look promising. Here's a list of…
From: Pharyngula
A new paper is out: A Critical Reassessment of the Anthropogenic CO₂-Global Warming Hypothesis: Empirical Evidence Contradicts IPCC Models and…
From: Pharyngula
I'm a recovering gun nut. I guess. I always found guns to be another example of cool design and often…
From: Stderr
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about America's descent into a new dark age - and…
From: Daylight Atheism
Krea's chat mode adds an interesting new dimension to image creation. For example, you can tell it "create a portrait…
From: Stderr
'Deciphering the Gospels’, by R. G. Price, argues the case for Jesus mythicism, which is the view that Jesus never…
From: Geeky Humanist
In two weeks, I'm going to be attending the American Atheists convention in Minneapolis. I went back and forth on…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_76057" align="alignright" width="129"] Total buffoon[/caption] OK, Christians, have a go at me. Tell me your very best argument for…
From: Pharyngula
The other day I was trying to find out, roughly, whether the Sackler family and Perdue Pharma were a bigger…
From: Stderr
Jay Bhattacharya is the new director of the National Institutes of Health. He says, As NIH Director, I will build…
From: Pharyngula
Lil' question for the scientists and science communicators and defenders of liberty who thought woke moral scolds were impinging so…
From: Life's a Gas
[caption id="attachment_50285" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Copyright: Netflix[/caption] After hearing all about it, I watched the Netflix mini series. It was hyped…
From: Affinity
Russell Brand is a British media personality who started out as a standup comedian before branching out into other fields.…
From: Mano Singham
My union talked me into writing to my representatives thru a web form, and the responses have trickled in. Clearly…
From: Life's a Gas
[caption id="attachment_76082" align="alignright" width="100"] As everyone knows, it's all about the size of the palps[/caption] The creationists (and a few…
From: Pharyngula
America's new motto: [caption id="attachment_76074" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Bob the Angry Flower[/caption] And here's a horrifying example: making a tiny number…
From: Pharyngula
Are there still cis people left? Y'all haven't transed yerselves? Shit. My schemes have availed me naught. In honor of…
From: Life's a Gas
Tomorrow is International Down with Cis Day, celebrated by no one because the inspiration for it was not even a…
From: Life's a Gas
I have stumbled into a strange YouTube niche: feminization hypnosis. It's a category of delusional videos in which voices whisper…
From: Pharyngula
On March 15, 2019, a man walked into two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand during Friday prayers and killed 51…
From: Mano Singham
My calendar is set up to pop up a message every 16 April: "Call your mother." I think I'll keep…
From: Pharyngula
Jeff Bezos launched Katy Perry into space for 11 minutes. That's it. That's our big news today. Woo hoo. You…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_76147" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Doodlebrink[/caption]
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Initially, I bought three packets of onion seeds and two packets of overwintering onions that were planted in the fall…
From: Affinity
Recently I have come across a bunch of videos on YouTube with AI generated descriptions under the videos. I presume…
From: Pro-Science
Marc Andreessen, a world class boob whose existence demonstrates that intelligence is not a prerequisite to great wealth, wants to…
From: Pharyngula
I've never grown carrots. We do not really have the soil for it - it is heavy clay with lots…
From: Affinity
Conspiracy | Contrapoints (video, 2:40 hours) - Back in 2016, Contrapoints got a reputation for "deradicalizing" people who fell down…
From: A Trivial Knot
I get all kinds of awful advice from the internet. Just now, on my work email account, I got a…
From: Pharyngula
Like every odd-numbered year, I did not buy seeding potatoes. I merely planted leftover potatoes from last year - those…
From: Affinity
Russell Brand is a British media personality who started out as a standup comedian before branching out into other fields.…
From: Mano Singham
My union talked me into writing to my representatives thru a web form, and the responses have trickled in. Clearly…
From: Life's a Gas
You heard about all the businesses capitulating to the fresh fashy vibes of the new ameriKKKa? Tossing diversity initiatives, LGBTetc…
From: Life's a Gas
Should I call them suras? My emerging personal religion has disparate influences, which could be read as holy texts, and…
From: Life's a Gas
Shortly after we moved into our condo, my husband found a little plastic figurine of St. Joseph buried in our…
From: Life's a Gas
From: Pharyngula
We were always in favor of separation of church and state -- I still am -- and I never cared…
From: Pharyngula
I got the usual email from American Atheists, and Melina Cohen brought up an interesting contrast. First, on Monday, there…
From: Pharyngula
Ben Shapiro chose to go after Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde. Unfortunately, he chose to do so by making up facts…
From: Pharyngula
A legislator in Mississippi has filed a bill in the state legislature titled “Contraception Begins at Erection Act". As written…
From: Mano Singham
note: my RP by comment is still going. see this post. I've seen falcons and possibly other small birds of…
From: Life's a Gas
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the philosophical problem of how we can warn the…
From: Daylight Atheism
None of this is to my pride or honor, for if it was, I'd be with a troupe in the…
From: Stderr
Blue seems to like her new housing. She even likes the artificial flowers I gave her, climbing to the top…
From: Pharyngula
I graduated from the University of Washington, which is a major research institution, with lots of NIH money usually flowing…
From: Pharyngula
There's an idea that famous cryptid The Jersey Devil can be explained by the sighting of a lone crane in…
From: Life's a Gas
She's been living in a plexiglas cube that used to be quite comfortable for her, but that pile of molts…
From: Pharyngula
Recently I have come across a bunch of videos on YouTube with AI generated descriptions under the videos. I presume…
From: Pro-Science
Is it kosher to put a zoo animal on your life list? I'm going to have to if I keep…
From: Life's a Gas
RFK jr is a distraction. His role is to make a lot of noise, undermine confidence in modern medicine, and…
From: Pharyngula
I'm a recovering gun nut. I guess. I always found guns to be another example of cool design and often…
From: Stderr
I posted three days ago about how Trump faced his first major test before the US Supreme Court about the…
From: Mano Singham
In discussing Trump's presidency, I though that one of the few things that he cared about, other than his own…
From: Mano Singham
I saw this on Mastodon: [caption id="attachment_76070" align="aligncenter" width="500"] US gov asks european suppliers to guarantee they don't do DEI.Next:…
From: Pharyngula
On March 15, 2019, a man walked into two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand during Friday prayers and killed 51…
From: Mano Singham
[UPDATE: ProPublica reports that "Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release…
From: Mano Singham
You are walking along a public street in daylight when suddenly you are surrounded by people dressed in black with…
From: Mano Singham
In the US, owning one's own home has always been portrayed as the ultimate dream and people strive to do…
From: Mano Singham
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about human suffering, and how it isn't a cosmic necessity,…
From: Daylight Atheism
I just watched the four-part TV series Adolescence that has created quite a media splash. The show tells the story…
From: Mano Singham
In the big cities, crosswalks are equipped with those little buttons pedestrians can press to request a light change, and…
From: Pharyngula
Elon Musk does not dream of colonizing distant worlds. His dream is to milk the federal government of every penny…
From: Pharyngula
This is also how Nazis talk. In a press conference Wednesday morning that surely delighted his allies in the anti-vaccine…
From: Pharyngula
Why will presidente tvnfp be assassinated? Place your bets! I, of course, do not endorse the assassination of even the…
From: Life's a Gas
One of the features of Trump is how he seems to view China as not merely a trade rival to…
From: Mano Singham
Really, I don't blame you. Can I move in with you, instead?
From: Pharyngula
Jon Stewart exposes the over-the-top stupidity and arrogance of the president, and also the embarrassing sycophancy of the Republicans who…
From: Pharyngula
Lil' question for the scientists and science communicators and defenders of liberty who thought woke moral scolds were impinging so…
From: Life's a Gas
None of this is to my pride or honor, for if it was, I'd be with a troupe in the…
From: Stderr
One of the most inexplicable things that Trump has done (and he has done so many that it is hard…
From: Mano Singham