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
The other day I was trying to find out, roughly, whether the Sackler family and Perdue Pharma were a bigger…
From: Stderr
note: this is a bonus post, made to be timely news. hit previous to see a bird post. I've written…
From: Life's a Gas
[caption id="attachment_5289" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Jagged Bomb, designed by me[/caption] I'm going to the East Bay Origami Convention this weekend! I'll…
From: A Trivial Knot
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
Every few weeks, I get a fresh comment on an old video I made a about a year ago about…
From: Pharyngula
Here's a provocative idea from Gregory Paul: the churches are dying. One might think that the religion in its vast…
From: Pharyngula
Martyn Iles lost his status as Ken Ham's successor at Answers in Genesis (there's a story there, I'm sure, but…
From: Pharyngula
[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
Pay attention!
From: Pharyngula
I do find the most worrisome thing about trans rights and the struggle against fascism broadly at the moment is…
From: Life's a Gas
I just watched a video by Daryl Talks Games titled "What Artificial Romance Does to People". Although crushes/romance/relationships with artificial…
From: A Trivial Knot
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
It is time to resurrect the Mutant Giant Spider Dog. Hey, it's at least as authentic as those "dire wolves".…
From: Pharyngula
One of the curious things is how the price of eggs has become the go-to proxy for the level of…
From: Mano Singham
This is my mostest favoritestest pizza of them all, the one to find them, the one to bind them. I…
From: Affinity
The state of Minnesota would like to put up a wall along our border with the Dakotas. Or, at least,…
From: Pharyngula
There is again a dead animal under the fold at the end of the article, although this time I am…
From: Affinity
I didn't really have an answer. My guess was "hi." I thought PZ was unfailingly polite, though the other folks…
From: Stderr
This guy is doing it wrong. [caption id="attachment_76054" align="aligncenter" width="500"] SMBC[/caption] What you want to do is pick an interesting…
From: Pharyngula
The battle never ends. Put the blasters away and let's see some friendly engagement. Previous Thread
From: Pharyngula
I know everyone is talking about the Signal chat where a bunch of warmongers stupidly invited the editor of The…
From: Pharyngula
At the beginning of every month, I will repost my comments policy for those who started visiting this site the…
From: Mano Singham
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
I'm bewildered. I'm an anti-theist, so it makes me uncomfortable when I see a priest acting charitably and kindly and…
From: Pharyngula
Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) was a powerful logician whose contributions to logic, mathematics, and philosophy were immense. He was deeply interested…
From: Mano Singham
Many years ago, we took our young daughter to Wolf Haven, a sanctuary near Olympia, Washington. She loved it. She…
From: Pharyngula
One of the curious things is how the price of eggs has become the go-to proxy for the level of…
From: Mano Singham
My genetics students are working on presentations that they'll give at the end of the semester. One group was very…
From: Pharyngula
I've seen a turkey vulture once with clarity, tho my memory of it feels so weak and incoherent. It was…
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
A second child has died in Texas, reportedly due to measles. The US health and human services department confirmed the…
From: Mano Singham
This video is about an hour and 20 minutes long, but the time flew by watching it. You can learn…
From: Pharyngula
Note: I'm still interested in replies to the post before this; check it out if you have a moment. Who's…
From: Life's a Gas
Great blue herons are nesting now, and recently I saw several nests in the little managed wetland at the foot…
From: Life's a Gas
Bad news: 23andMe has gone bankrupt and is up for sale. Who knows where all that data they store is…
From: Pharyngula
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
This little meme was posted by Will Stancil. I'm wondering if I'm just too online, because I got the joke…
From: Pharyngula
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former director of global public policy at Meta’s precursor, Facebook, has written a best-seller Careless People that…
From: Mano Singham
[UPDATE: Chief justice John Roberts has lifted the midnight deadline today and asked lawyers to present written arguments by 5:00pm…
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
A second child has died in Texas, reportedly due to measles. The US health and human services department confirmed the…
From: Mano Singham
Carmel-by-the-Sea is very small upscale town near where I live, where Clint Eastwood and Brad Pitt own homes and rich…
From: Mano Singham
There's a big anti-Trump protest in St Cloud this weekend. We're not having such a good event here in Morris,…
From: Pharyngula
Does this man look like a far-right conservative advocate for manliness? Maybe. He does have woman assistants posing to help…
From: Pharyngula
Trump has released his big tariffs plan and most observers are stunned, not just by the size and scope of…
From: Mano Singham
Bad news: 23andMe has gone bankrupt and is up for sale. Who knows where all that data they store is…
From: Pharyngula
There were three major elections yesterday, two for congressional seats in Florida and one for a state supreme court justice…
From: Mano Singham
Israel has done it again. They are blatantly committing atrocities in their ongoing genocide of Palestinian people. Some of the…
From: Pharyngula