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December 2023

  1. More pun fun
  2. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark adbicates
  3. Good parenting
  4. Screw 2023, 2024 is going to be awful
  5. Recycling wastewater for drinking
  6. ‘The Lost Child’, Anne Atkins: review, Part Four (aka 3B)
  7. Eddie Izzard
  8. Beware of electronic cards, invitations, links, and attachments
  9. Are spiders attracted to Sephora cosmetics?
  10. Let me make myself clear
  11. Annoying article headers
  12. Prudes on parade
  13. A dangerous comic
  14. The Human Supremacist Position: Another Angle
  15. What the hell is going on in the Michigan GOP?
  16. What does Sam Altman do ?
  17. That’s not the right answer, Nikki
  18. Consume
  19. ‘The Lost Child’, Anne Atkins: review, Part Three
  20. Do I have to do this again?
  21. AI and the vagaries of language
  22. The Bolingbrook Babbler’s shocking predictions for 2024! (Fiction)
  23. I think my guinea pigs know more than I think they do.
  24. Why do we still have smoking in films?
  25. The true meaning of Christmas
  26. Merry Whatever
  27. Xmas plans…kaput!
  28. Should I take attendance in my classes?
  29. Merry Xmas to you, if you own a house
  30. Using OLC coordinates as addresses
  31. Rat and me
  32. Film review: Maestro (2023)
  33. More on Trump and Colorado
  34. When Gun Regulations Fail
  35. It’s not genes that make a family
  36. A welcome dent in the qualified immunity defense
  37. Waiting for our snow
  38. Happy Holidays and a Weird Flower Drawing
  39. Was Y2K an overhyped threat?
  40. If I were asked to put up a Xmas display, I’d do this
  41. West Virginia University is so screwed
  42. We have permission, and cause, to compare Trump to Hitler!
  43. ‘The Lost Child’, Anne Atkins: review, Part Two
  44. American exceptionalism
  45. Moms for Liberty is an old story that keeps getting recycled
  46. I have come home to a new state flag!
  47. Why is my bedroom so crowded?
  48. Trump Off the Ballot in Colorado (for now)
  49. The anti-abortion zealots are losing their minds
  50. What would a criminal justice system in the absence of free will look like?
  51. Travel day, yuck
  52. Temu: A rival to Amazon
  53. My history in music
  54. The Human Supremacist Position
  55. Found! Treasured knife, a bit of history
  56. Film review: Minari (2021)
  57. I’m Still Here
  58. Sex work should be legalized and destigmatized
  59. What are you working on?
  60. Improvipairing mah Belt Grinder Again – New Platen
  61. I have completed my Fall 2023 grading
  62. True, the charlatans have not gone away
  63. Next step for Trump: Shrines and sainthood?
  64. Conversion therapy banned in Norway
  65. They left out an important detail about Brian Dunning… (non-fiction)
  66. Giuliani ordered to pay $148.1 million in damages
  67. America’s Mayor fall down, go boom
  68. Crow city!
  69. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine
  70. Giuliani the coward faces the reckoning
  71. Daydreaming…
  72. Undermining the model minority myth
  73. A slight correction
  74. Book review: ‘The Lost Child’, Anne Atkins. Part One.
  75. Add ‘compassion’ to the ‘thoughts and prayers’ cop-out
  76. In case you were concerned
  77. Here we go again with the War on Xmas
  78. Laudatory categories
  79. Link Roundup: December 2023
  80. What AI systems know about me
  81. Good Terrorists Stay Bought
  82. Judge asks Giuliani’s lawyer: Is he mentally competent?
  83. Jordan Peterson v. the College of Psychologists of Ontario
  84. Some good news from Washington state
  85. Film review: The Duke (2022)
  86. Kate Cox leaves Texas for her abortion
  87. Vivek Ramaswamy creates a new facet of the model minority myth
  88. Embarrassing photo!
  89. By the way, I’m in the Pacific Northwest this week
  90. The Transphobes are Losing at the Voting Booth
  91. The rising of the full loon
  92. The Proverbial FireHose
  93. Belt Grinder Re-Wheeeeeeled
  94. I’m at the airport, sorry to say
  95. Susanna Gibson speaks out
  96. Todd in the Shadows
  97. The nightmare for Kate Cox continues
  98. Does God exist? Perry Hendricks & I argue about it
  99. Bye Shane
  100. What if two of the most annoying people in the world had a conversation?
  101. Pray for me
  102. The Blade of Lord Shiva
  103. The latest bonkers Republican debate
  104. Will every abortion in Texas have to be approved by a court?
  105. New Poem — “Stay”
  106. An exercise in geography
  107. Another delusional person seeks Santos’s seat
  108. So…how’s Xitter doing nowadays?
  109. Youtubes I didn’t like
  110. The real problems that Tuberville’s hold highlighted
  111. Gibbering quietly in my corner
  112. Is it enough to just exist?
  113. Bye, bye, Kevin
  114. Johnson’s johnson
  115. Inventing philosophers and their works
  116. People Are All Idiots! Then What?
  117. Improvipairing mah Belt Grinder Again – New Tracking Wheels
  118. Tommy Tuberville caves on abortion issue
  119. Plagiarism, the scandal du jour
  120. Don’t make fun of my career!
  121. The Supreme Court believes in magic
  122. Critiques of Train
  123. Venusian/McDonalds fusion restaurant to open in Bolingbrook in early 2024 (Fiction)
  124. UIs matter
  125. That was quick: Film about Santos already in the works
  126. Finally, a football game I might care about
  127. Last week of the semester!
  128. Dr. Darrel Ray’s Presentation on Religious Trauma and How It Affects Your Brain
  129. Bezos Aims to Divide the Working Class with New Real Estate Scheme
  130. Science contest at the Ark Park!
  131. For some, doing well is not enough
  132. Pounding plagiarism into a thin vile slime
  133. The Bacchanal
  134. Trump faces even more lawsuits
  135. This is valid
  136. iNaturalist has been observing me
  137. Glitchcore AI Art
  138. My Annual “I Hate Christmas” Post/Share Your Secular Holiday Traditions Here!
  139. Origami: Wave
  140. Santos soap opera comes to an end – maybe
  141. Incredible! A Republican held accountable?
  142. Space Scam
  143. Kissinger gets the send-off he deserves
  144. The day is ruined

November 2023

  1. It could have been worse
  2. Henry Kissinger finally dies
  3. One monster less
  4. What a legacy!
  5. Elon Musk is such a tough guy
  6. Kissinger
  7. HENRY KISSINGER IS DEAD!
  8. Frivolous space tourism?
  9. Napoleon
  10. Jonathan Pie on David Cameron’s return to the British government
  11. He’s done: Rebecca Watson takes on Avi Loeb
  12. The BBC backs down
  13. Oh god no
  14. How safe are self-driving cars?
  15. It’s been a long time since I heard that complaint
  16. Whatever happened to compatibility and love?
  17. Kelly and Zach Weinersmith give good interview
  18. The Friedman Doctrine and alternatives
  19. Total rubbish from the BBC
  20. The sports stadium grift
  21. We have a bigoted billionaire shortage
  22. Avi Loeb has an opinion
  23. Making a New Forge – Part 3
  24. Conservative jerks like Rufo are pushovers
  25. How dangerous are deepfakes?
  26. The prey proves unable to read the mind of the predator
  27. A Database Access Library
  28. Idea for Some Content
  29. The problem with Zoom…confirmed!
  30. Sensory Overload: Why is the world so loud? (plus some fun news)
  31. Speak, George!
  32. Rational Math
  33. Toughness
  34. Crosspost from Tumblr
  35. Big Numbers
  36. Dream Morality
  37. The Amtrak-Related Code
  38. Would you rather feel happy or feel deeply?
  39. It is time to call out Trump’s derangement
  40. A Trivial Statics Library
  41. On the Cancer Front
  42. What privilege looks like
  43. Well, now I know how spiders celebrate Thanksgiving
  44. I have proof that the aliens are here
  45. Not in my home!
  46. We won’t have Michael Voris to kick around anymore
  47. Will no one speak up for white billionaire men?
  48. What Does “Too Old” Look Like?
  49. What is going on with OpenAI?
  50. I want to see the mighty sex battles
  51. Crypto is disintegrating before our eyes
  52. The problem with Dollar stores
  53. PSA —
  54. Joe Biden’s age and popularity
  55. The end of Zoom…for me
  56. Poor squid
  57. He was dressed in every red flag
  58. While My BF Isn’t Looking
  59. Could Trump Be Disqualified?
  60. Do you like being depended upon?
  61. Okay boomer
  62. Protests worldwide increase at Israel’s assault on Gaza
  63. Oh come on now
  64. Holidays coming! Let’s get depressed!
  65. Interesting Toy Shopping — Should I be offended?
  66. Bless your beautiful hide!
  67. Making a New Forge – Part 2
  68. Déjà Vu Isn’t a Glitch, It’s the Matrix Working as Designed
  69. Detachment: Anger vs. Empathy
  70. Santos continues to surprise
  71. Everyone is talking about Homo naledi now
  72. Sympathy for Linda Yaccarino?
  73. Making My Own LPs
  74. Do you have vivid dreams? Do you remember them?
  75. Kona Trip Report day 14
  76. Great moments in parenting
  77. On free will
  78. That One Teacher
  79. Someone want to break the news to him?
  80. Little victories
  81. The desperate GOP effort to find an acceptable message on abortion
  82. Good riddance, Xitter
  83. More Lies
  84. The need to “pass the rule” is further stymying the GOP leadership
  85. Interesting news from outer space
  86. Local pseudo-archaeology
  87. What do you do when you feel overwhelmed?
  88. Kona Trip Report day 13
  89. Suella strikes back
  90. Kona Trip Report–the COVID ain’t over edition
  91. Kona Trip Report days 11-12
  92. Shutdown averted. For a short while. Again.
  93. Kona Trip Report day 10
  94. John Oliver on the Israel-Hamas war
  95. For us pescatarians
  96. The myth about the GOP before Trump
  97. Yay! The Supreme Court has a code of conduct! Sorta.
  98. Leftover People in Fiction
  99. That was quick: Braverman sacked
  100. Ohio dead-enders seek to undermine referendum on abortion
  101. Failing upwards
  102. I guess you could argue that corporate capitalism is a kind of religion
  103. Southern Adventist University is a pit of lies
  104. The problem with college athletics
  105. Occult Expert Needed
  106. This is the GOP shutdown avoidance plan?
  107. Making a New Forge – Part 1
  108. Assembly Theory pops up again
  109. A Case Study
  110. Suella Braverman is a really awful person
  111. How often do you think about death?
  112. Kona Trip Report partial
  113. A clear-eyed look at the situation in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank
  114. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Christian now
  115. Some people don’t understand free speech
  116. Big wins for unions are wins for many others as well
  117. Your morning wake-up call
  118. I’m Down
  119. Kona Trip Report days 6-9
  120. Link Roundup: November 2023
  121. A cable problem explained
  122. The need for immigrants
  123. Why You Should Be Spiritual
  124. And here we go with the shutdown threats, again
  125. Some days…
  126. Speaking of “A Shock”
  127. By The Way: Welcome
  128. Is this any way to run a family business?
  129. Minnesotans detest our state flag
  130. Elections results were even better than I thought
  131. The appalling inanity of Denyse O’Leary
  132. I Bet Y’all Are Gonna Be Shocked
  133. Dramatic Toaster
  134. Good election night for Democrats
  135. Let the gnashing of teeth commence
  136. Space bastards vs. space geeks
  137. Another good sign
  138. We survived another election day!
  139. Are you patriotic? How do you feel about the military?
  140. Why do they take the abuse?
  141. Kona Trip Report day 5
  142. Addressing all the important questions about living in space
  143. Serious injuries in rugby
  144. The orca are learning
  145. In Praise of Universal Healthcare
  146. Unjustifiable crimes…unless you read the Bible
  147. Do you genuinely connect with others?
  148. Only strong turkeys survive in New Jersey
  149. Republicans cannot handle the truth
  150. This is how a thoughtful, intelligent person speaks
  151. Shut up, Sam
  152. Kona Trip Report day 4
  153. More pun fun
  154. Where Everybody Knows Your Name
  155. Update: Happy Halloween and Some Creepy Flowers
  156. Poor Ivanka, so put upon, like all the Trump family
  157. Feeling sorry for all of Alabama
  158. I also browse social media
  159. You are reading media
  160. Kona Trip Report day 3
  161. The explosion in the numbers of destitute people in the UK
  162. Kona Trip Report days 0-2
  163. Consent culture and fitness
  164. New speaker’s cynicism already on full display
  165. Kona OOPS More Info
  166. More Blame for The British
  167. SBF found guilty on all counts
  168. Bad news
  169. Should long films include intermissions?
  170. Sam Bankman-Fried…guilty!
  171. The Phillips flameout begins
  172. A Masterclass of Whataboutism
  173. Original sin was a good thing
  174. Spooktober 2023, Days Twenty-One through Thirty-One
  175. My grandson is a superhero!
  176. Kona Trip Oops
  177. Rename all the things!
  178. Pharma is wobbling between useless and lethal
  179. Origami: Little Turtle
  180. A Lesson in Programming
  181. The motivations of mass shooters
  182. “Killing salmon to lose money deserves a deeper analysis”

October 2023

  1. Happy Halloween
  2. Oh no, I’m home alone
  3. Preparing for Winter
  4. Kona Trip Report day minus one
  5. This is Relevant, Why Not?
  6. No anthropophagy among spiders, yet. That we know of.
  7. The tastiest part of a cockroach is its heart
  8. The predictable aftermath of the Israeli response in Gaza
  9. I Am Not Sure How I Missed This
  10. Thoughts on Fear
  11. Lewis Black is not a fan of The Golden Bachelor
  12. When You Go Dark, Stay Dark
  13. Vignettes from home school conferences
  14. I think there might be a few other things about Halloween that repel dentists
  15. Robert E. Lee statue melted down in secret
  16. Spooktober 2023, Days Eleven through Twenty
  17. Halloween colors
  18. Clow UFO Base survives Taylor Swift concert (Fiction)
  19. Sunchokes!
  20. Responsibility
  21. Death and suffering inside Gaza
  22. Chemo Three
  23. Stephen Colbert on the Maine shooting
  24. Spooktober 2023, Days One through Ten
  25. Caturday: A Study in Incompetence
  26. The birthday party is ON
  27. I Don’t Celebrate Halloween
  28. For corporations, money excuses everything
  29. The Golden Crocoduck
  30. I have a new audiobook! (Non-fiction)
  31. Cartoonists can often make a point that it takes me hundreds of words to capture
  32. Lesson of Johnson’s election: The squishes always cave in the end
  33. Learn to love your spiders!
  34. I wonder who wrote this exception?
  35. Air those grievances!
  36. The great American memory hole
  37. A test of how prudish Virginia’s electorate is
  38. Maybe the fact of having a Twitter account is sufficient to explain anti-social tendencies?
  39. Clarence Thomas is a cadger
  40. Now Look What You Made Me Do!
  41. The Christianist ghouls are crawling out now
  42. The best of the Republican Party
  43. The New Speaker of the House
  44. There is a new speaker – and he is awful
  45. Update: I’m still here!
  46. Do you want a creationist for Speaker of the House?
  47. A Modest Proposal
  48. Maybe they’ll act as a MAGA repellent?
  49. You didn’t want Tom Emmer anyway
  50. It looks like déjà vu all over again
  51. Ellis becomes the fourth to take a plea deal in Georgia
  52. Sympathy For The Devil
  53. Racist Against the Irish
  54. It’s OK to be indifferent to the lives of Palestinian civilians
  55. Oh, god, not that
  56. The Republican beauty contest
  57. Waiting for the skeletonization to be complete
  58. Dread Monday
  59. Is Trump showing signs of dementia?
  60. Under capitalism, the worst thing you can do to someone is destroy their money
  61. Rugby World Cup final set
  62. I’d hang this on my wall
  63. Now Look…
  64. Ladies and gentlemen, The Republicans!
  65. The GOP fed the beast. Now the beast is turning on them
  66. Jokes that depend on iconic film scenes
  67. The Story of A Succesfull Medium Sized Company
  68. Things fall apart: The GOP cannot hold
  69. Infinite Fractal Mazes
  70. Jordan goes down for the third time
  71. Boo Stead
  72. A Future of Collapse
  73. The Halloween Incident of 1993
  74. The siege of Gaza
  75. We need to clean the water. All of it. Here’s how that’s not an impossible task.
  76. The neuroendocrinologists strike back
  77. Ken Ham sees racist pigeons!
  78. Sydney Powell takes a plea deal
  79. That’s what I could do in my retirement!
  80. The surprising resistance to Jim Jordan for speaker
  81. What’s an arachnophile who needs his morning coffee to do?
  82. Jordan Klepper goes back to MAGAland
  83. Where has techno-optimism gotten us?
  84. Materialism, scientism, and meaning
  85. Oh. So that’s why he was called “the Corsican Ogre”
  86. World-class sarcasm
  87. Solving Fractal Mazes
  88. The GOP has become the party of political thuggery
  89. The Gamete Delusion
  90. Oh Joe Say It Ain’t So
  91. Blowback
  92. Using large language models to understand whales
  93. The vortex of madness that is Denyse O’Leary
  94. Another thriller in rugby World Cup
  95. still atheist
  96. Atheists must debate while naked now
  97. Bias in coin tosses
  98. Thriller in rugby world Cup
  99. The world is not helping my depression
  100. Blame The Brits
  101. Don’t Republicans know how negotiations work?
  102. We’ll probably collapse into a bunch of rational explanations
  103. Podish-Sortacast: Spooky Stories this Saturday
  104. meet great american satan!
  105. Explanation for the puzzling World Cup rugby draw
  106. Friday the 13th!
  107. Steve, we hardly knew ye
  108. The Republican speaker fiasco continues
  109. Apologists for state-sponsored violence can fuck right off
  110. Mopin’ time
  111. It’s Just Words
  112. George Santos gets even more indictments
  113. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
  114. McCarthy as speaker again?
  115. How’s your relationship going?
  116. One of the few reasons to read Xitter: Lee Cronin’s whines
  117. Fanaticism in the name of resistance is a vice (non-fiction)
  118. Link Roundup: October 2023
  119. Kill them all, let god sort them out
  120. How do you fix a broken political party?
  121. Signs of hope
  122. Infinite Thread XXIX
  123. It’s Official
  124. A health/blog update, and some thoughts on Israel and Palestine
  125. Fiji-Portugal thriller in rugby World Cup
  126. Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day
  127. What next in Israel and Gaza?
  128. Assembly Theory is Ontogenetic Depth relabeled, nothing more, and is just as useless
  129. Can somebody explain this to me?
  130. Two Down, Two to Go
  131. Cartoons that explain McCarthy’s downfall
  132. Negative Serendipity
  133. Did Trump want a jury or not?
  134. Nightmare nest
  135. Don’t trust self-driving cars
  136. Rebuilding Damaged Brains with 3D Printing
  137. Now the spiders are leaving
  138. More Neeping About Trump’s Stolen Secret Docs
  139. The GOP internal fight is going to be nasty
  140. Give her all the moneys
  141. I’m not interested in promoting your Xian book
  142. Embracing Traditions
  143. Video: Casual Geographic with 10 animals you forgot about (but I didn’t)
  144. A Weird New Scam
  145. My Lucky Pear Tree
  146. Do you harden with age?
  147. McCarthy has only himself to blame for his woes
  148. Is Eric Hovind trying to provoke me?
  149. I thought the cacophony was bad…
  150. Video: Leeja Miller on the GOP’s Extremist 2025 Project
  151. I don’t like Star Trek anymore
  152. McCarthy loyalist Republicans lash out
  153. I remember the conservative lockstep
  154. Now I can’t help thinking about the Roman empire
  155. Keep working hard, maybe someone will notice you
  156. The Random Number Game
  157. NFTs Were a Wasteful, Destructive Scam
  158. McCarthy ousted as Speaker. Now what?
  159. Personal Responsibility: The Devil Isn’t Your Scapegoat and God Doesn’t Deserve Credit
  160. Shutdown averted – for now. What next?
  161. The new normal?
  162. Origami: Water drops
  163. The Worse Relapse I’ve Ever Had and the Start of My Comeback Story
  164. I’m still around
  165. Prisoner’s Dilemma situation in Georgia
  166. October is here!

September 2023

  1. The Biden impeachment inquiry falls flat
  2. Sacrifices made in the name of lust
  3. Video: Olayemi Olurin on the many reasons to hate Eric Adams
  4. The Cost of Keeping Our Bellies Full
  5. Stupid old bigot says the quiet part out loud
  6. Dianne Feinstein is dead
  7. Let’s stop calling these debates
  8. Anthropology panels, Elizabeth Weiss, and the devious self-serving propaganda of “gender critical” bigots
  9. Biden Is Tying Himself to Unions, and That’s a Good Thing
  10. We can skip the accreditation process and go straight to the employers
  11. Summer research presentation time!
  12. Meat, manliness, and the search for the perfect diet
  13. Dinosaur embryos…on the MOOOOOON!
  14. Zoe Bee on the Real Meaning of “Parents’ Rights”
  15. Etiquette Rules: Don’t Call Me, I’ll Call You
  16. Don’t waste our time with Kathleen Stock’s hateful agenda
  17. Trump loses again in fraud lawsuit
  18. Fervent Catholic conservatives make for very bad doctors
  19. Do spiders have anxiety?
  20. A soothing interlude
  21. Central Brain Not Required for Learning
  22. Those randy Etruscans!
  23. A Close Call: Twice
  24. A Quick Thought To Say…
  25. I got mine
  26. Republicans get slapped down on gerrymandering efforts
  27. Awful person…and he was a scientist, too
  28. Is the enabling behavior driving Trump insane?
  29. Update: When It Works So Well Until It Doesn’t
  30. Capital in board games
  31. And on the Cancer Front …
  32. What happens on 4 October?
  33. Menendez is just an old-fashioned guy
  34. Bullies
  35. The puzzle of why Tucker Carlson was fired by Fox
  36. Hugo Schwyzer still exists?
  37. Have Patience: Finding Facts in a Flurry of Fakes
  38. Good question
  39. Synchronicity is just another word for coincidence
  40. Controversy over consciousness
  41. A horror scenario
  42. The algorithm may have killed another expert for me
  43. RSS Feed
  44. Another C++ Meeting
  45. The Inevitable Conclusion of the Jesus Images
  46. The crash of the NFT market
  47. Jesus
  48. Video: Are Rhinos OP?
  49. Running up the score
  50. Another dreary shutdown drama
  51. What’s the worst job?
  52. It’s your lucky day!
  53. Google Keeps Pushing Scams
  54. A Dream
  55. United Auto Workers Outsmarted the Bosses, Amid Widespread Popular Support
  56. No, not the dog!
  57. Going electric
  58. The word of the day must be “mismanagement”
  59. Is it not mismanaged?
  60. The legal woes of Trump’s cronies mount up
  61. No one could have predicted this
  62. Loeb sure sounds like a religious kook
  63. Cody’s Showdy Takes On Planned Obscolescence
  64. Winning ugly in rugby
  65. Dream Lover
  66. Republicans looking for magic formula on abortion
  67. Grading…
  68. Pressure Grows for Biden To Create Civilian Climate Corps
  69. The Trump interview
  70. Pardon me, but is my brain leaking?
  71. Am I turning into a Midwesterner? Scary.
  72. Mother and her lovely children-to-be
  73. Oil companies sued by California for lying about climate change
  74. The comparison to Ford is apt
  75. The zeitgeist is white and male, I guess
  76. Ubu Roy
  77. More Stable Audio
  78. Russian hackers file DMCA complaint against Bolingbrook (Fiction)
  79. Huge Study Shows Importance of Diversity in Ecosystem Restoration
  80. Fiji beats Australia for the first time in Rugby World Cup
  81. A Good Rebuttal of “Capitalism is Good” Video
  82. Time running out for the Republican unicorn to appear
  83. Empty noise, lazy science
  84. Russell Brand finds a way to endear himself to his audience
  85. On the scientificity of string theory
  86. Holidays with Hindrances 4: Muckross House, Farm and Abbey
  87. Stable Audio
  88. Blah blah blah
  89. We need a more thoughtful approach to weight
  90. Welp, guess I’m all done now
  91. The “Do you know who I am?” ploy almost never works
  92. Idiots are just an excuse to talk about real science
  93. memos to self
  94. Fables, Wage Theft, and Asymmetrical Class Warfare
  95. You just can’t hide in darkness anymore
  96. Rugby players and referees
  97. IANAL, But
  98. Floating Sea Farm Design Passes Proof of Concept
  99. I still need glasses, and my eyes get worse every year
  100. Accuracy standards on the internet
  101. These ‘aliens’ wouldn’t be out of place in a roadside museum
  102. The impeachment charade
  103. He should have stopped with the first line
  104. This is no way to run a movie theater
  105. Arachnophobia Warning
  106. Capitalist Demands That Governments Kill Poor People To Discipline Workers
  107. Surprise lecture!
  108. We’re Baaaack!
  109. American is a land of many happy returns
  110. What I’d like my yard to look like
  111. We now return to our regular programming …
  112. How not to defend your university’s reputation
  113. How do you show empathy to someone who has wronged you?
  114. IT’S ALIVE!
  115. Fraud, liar, Rufo
  116. Another bad memory
  117. Desktop
  118. Oh, right, I was reminded
  119. Conservative Mormons torturing children for profit
  120. Link Roundup: September 2023
  121. RIP Dennis Austin
  122. Brain Fart Inaction
  123. Breaking things and risking lives for entertainment
  124. Another Camera Test
  125. “I am Spartacus!”
  126. Misfit
  127. The Fine-Tuning Narrative
  128. False labeling in foods
  129. Holidays with Hindrances 3: The Ring of Kerry
  130. Finishing my First Round of Chemo
  131. Video: Roblox and Digital Child Labor
  132. Trump’s obsession over the classified documents is even weirder than I thought
  133. Can anyone be truly redeemed?
  134. A 2600-year-old burn from the grave
  135. Myers U-Stor-It in lovely downtown Morris, MN
  136. Simply Delightful
  137. Podish-Sortacast: Redemption Arcs
  138. At last, a concrete example of “woke”! Poetry.
  139. Just Testing My New Camera
  140. Biden Did Another Good Thing
  141. This made me laugh.
  142. That Israel is an apartheid state has become undeniable
  143. Air Pollution Shows That Segregation Never Fully Ended
  144. MORE SPIDERS
  145. Proud Boys leader gets 22 years in prison
  146. Is there hope of justice?
  147. Bat
  148. More Trolleylolology
  149. Video Games, Bat Brains, and the Social Landscape
  150. I refuse to mansplain vaginas to you
  151. The perfectly representative Fox News story
  152. A hopelessly inaccurate diagram
  153. A Month Later, Maui Still Needs Help
  154. I am a bad scientist
  155. Gazelle lessons
  156. These people are mad
  157. schadenfreude for hippie-wanna-bes
  158. The controversy over Bradley Cooper playing Leonard Bernstein
  159. No, Sabine, Capitalism Is Not Good and Your Explanation Is Nonsense.
  160. Don’t put non-educators in charge of education
  161. Origami: Wolf
  162. Do you think you’ll ever “come around”?
  163. They Were Naive: How North Korea tricked 94,000 people into moving there
  164. Res Ipsa Loquitur
  165. Nothing Changed: Soviet incompetence was always Russian incompetence
  166. The crunch begins
  167. Why I am a “Doomer”
  168. True and false remorse
  169. IMF Correctly Castigates Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Ignores Own Role in Climate Crisis

August 2023

  1. Agree to disagree
  2. Global Warming, School Buses, and the Attainability of Climate Action
  3. I sometimes wonder what would happen if we had an “active shooter” on my campus
  4. Giuliani really is a crackpot lawyer
  5. Avi Loeb found what he was looking for
  6. Holidays with Hindrances 2: Killarney, the Gap of Dunloe
  7. Beau of the Fifth Column on Hurricane Idalia, Evacuation, and Hurricane Tips
  8. Women and endurance running
  9. So a few billion people die? It’s just a number
  10. I Wonder If Anyone Agrees
  11. I learned some Latin this morning
  12. Uh-oh, Florida
  13. Holidays with Hindrances 1 : Let’s get started in the Normandy
  14. It’s Not Just Summer: Winter Heatwave Scorching South America
  15. Bizarre coda to Rubiales controversy
  16. What I learned today
  17. A small step to a happier planet
  18. Where do you get your news from?
  19. Video: Pirated books used to teach LLM AIs (Non-Fiction)
  20. There and almost not back again: Holidays with Hindrances
  21. Who the heck is Clay Clark?
  22. NLRB Decision Is a Major Win for Workers’ Rights
  23. A woman has to be brave to work at a remote research station
  24. Troll army attacks Bolingbrook book reviewer (Fiction)
  25. Pirate, Curate, And Violate: Is the British Museum run by incompetents or thieves?
  26. Pardon Me, Ma’am…
  27. I don’t think Facebook understands the word ‘privacy’
  28. Just go already!
  29. This is Actually Good, But…
  30. Abortion is a trans rights issue, and trans rights are reproductive rights
  31. How to hear FM Synthesis
  32. Why is Google Promoting Scams?
  33. My Art Show at The Guggenheim
  34. Shoes allow me to better serve my ravenous masters
  35. I Got Nuked
  36. Indictments are not good for Trump
  37. Am I a Homeowner?
  38. Video: More Perfect Union Takes a Look at Protesting in France and the United States
  39. An astonishing high school football scam
  40. He looks pissed
  41. Arizona Trans Woman Arrested and Jailed for Self-Defense
  42. European Wildcat Project Looking for Supporters
  43. The ‘big’ question to be answered today
  44. Revenge is a dish best served flaming hot with lots of collateral damage
  45. The state of AI
  46. The children were bickering at the kiddie table last night
  47. It bugs me about Nimona
  48. The only photo of Giuliani I’ll ever need
  49. Kooks hate being called on their kookery
  50. Uber CEO’s Poverty Tourism Cannot Fix What Capitalism Has Broken by Design
  51. Perfect sheet webs
  52. When thieves fall out, the prosecution wins
  53. Sympathy for the state next door
  54. FIRST DAY OF CLASSES!
  55. An excellent commencement speech
  56. Despair for humanity
  57. Is ambition caused by a fear of mortality?
  58. Why Baldur’s Gate 3 Is Bottled Lightning: A Full Review and Analysis
  59. Some More News about the Weirdos Who Want to Be the Next Trump
  60. Men’s superior brains give them an edge, I guess
  61. Two-tier health care in a post-Roe US
  62. Possible January Trip
  63. Yikes, low enrollments are a problem
  64. Elon Musk gets the Ronan Farrow treatment
  65. A Cool Video about Semi-Aquatic Cats
  66. First student meeting…accomplished!
  67. Open the floodgates
  68. The last place I’d want to be in October is Vegas
  69. Reality check
  70. New acquisitions
  71. Spelling
  72. Global Warming Cripples Panama Canal
  73. Heartstopper season 2
  74. Patriot Legal Defense Fund
  75. The Sick Leave: Cheetolini may have a case of domain poisoning
  76. The NFT racket
  77. Questions Unasked
  78. Not the greatest idea in counter-programming
  79. Oil Train Project Hits Judicial Red Light
  80. The power of the ellipsis
  81. Video: A History of Men Not Being OK in America
  82. I called it
  83. Update: I don’t think they were lesbian spiders
  84. The violence to come
  85. Aliens students go back to school (Fiction)
  86. Shut up, Bryan
  87. Consent is obedience
  88. Happpy 48th Birthday to me!
  89. Nowhere on Earth Is Safe: City of Yellowknife Evacuated
  90. Ehm, Akshually Hrdlička…
  91. Lesbian spiders? Dimorphic males? Precocious adolescents?
  92. Be it resolved
  93. Coincidences happen all the time
  94. All we’ve got are bones
  95. Charles Murray is still an ignoramus
  96. Weight: A Poem from My Book “Unsettled”
  97. GPS Trackers and Stalking: Police Repression of Left-Wing Activists Continues
  98. If this is what we’re like, the heart of America is rotten
  99. How to kill a university
  100. Georgia on his mind?
  101. I’m getting outta here!
  102. Reminds me of someone else
  103. Montana Court Upholds Right to Clean and Healthful Environment.
  104. Charles Hamilton Houston and the Montana environment case
  105. Camping
  106. Motion on the Cancer Front
  107. HeLa wins one
  108. Thank you, Georgia
  109. Trump and 18 others indicted in Georgia
  110. My son went to a concert, and all I got was a T-shirt
  111. Video: Free Stuff is Good, Actually
  112. Sometimes you need to really spell it out
  113. I’m probably going to regret this
  114. The horrible ghouls of 20th century anthropology
  115. DeSantis’s unforced errors
  116. How my morning is going
  117. Aw, shucks, I missed it
  118. Court Rules Mississippi Felony Disenfranchisement Unconstitutional
  119. The book banning craze
  120. Oh god no, not this question again
  121. A Metric Of Sorts?
  122. The rise and fall of neoliberalism
  123. A Belated Post on the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  124. If you want to discourage teachers from entering the profession…
  125. This would be obvious to anyone but SSAT
  126. ‘Deciphering The Gospels Means Jesus Never Existed’: Chapter 9, part 4
  127. Physical Pain and a Wake-Up Call
  128. Climate Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Fighting Fascism With Solidarity
  129. Skepticon NOW!
  130. I laughed: A pair of cartoons seen recently
  131. Benefits of walking
  132. Sherri Tenpenny is not a doctor
  133. Behold, Matt Walsh, nakedly Nazi
  134. Some good news about the Sackler bankruptcy case
  135. Aliens vs. God: Who explains the unexplained?
  136. Ohio Democrats Slap Down GOP Attack On Democracy
  137. SSAT puts RNC in an embarrassing position
  138. Link Roundup: August 2023
  139. Not…great
  140. The DeSantis wave that wasn’t
  141. Jesus Christ, impeach him already
  142. Podish-Sortacast Episode 21: Transphobia
  143. Goodbyes
  144. What’s popular today that will be considered unsafe in the future?
  145. The hazards of pickleball
  146. Building Community Is Climate Action
  147. His Words Bite: Steve Shives is a treasure
  148. Are all TERFs this stupid?
  149. Reading history will make you aware of the wall you’re about to hit
  150. Republican effort to defeat abortion rights fails spectacularly in Ohio
  151. Poor kid
  152. Asked and answered
  153. Video: Border Patrol Caging Migrants Outdoors in Arizona Heat Wave
  154. WordPress isn’t so simple…
  155. Starved Out: Houston’s new way of killing public education
  156. Mush Room Seas ‘n
  157. A Flood Of Anger Washes Over: Kill the poor to protect the rich, in China
  158. The Kuritsy Are Coming Home To Roost: And to rape and pillage
  159. A Story Well Told: War Games at 40
  160. Bob Newhart cracks up Dean Martin
  161. Something To Follow Up: An essay (in video form) on scientific fraud
  162. This is a filthy obscene post
  163. The man who boasts of being a winner keeps losing
  164. How can obvious fraud Avi Loeb continue to bamboozle?
  165. Video: Casual Geographic Takes On Foxes
  166. I am an AI training module
  167. Trump showing signs of desperation
  168. Another racist outed, time to follow the threads to his promoters
  169. Cooling the Planet With a Space Shade Is Now Very Slightly More Plausible
  170. On the Affirmative Defense
  171. TNET 48: Messer Duel
  172. More pun fun
  173. Did you think my personal medical saga was on the mend?
  174. Trump’s free speech defense is unlikely to succeed
  175. Hierarchical Perspective
  176. That’s Texas logic
  177. Firewatch was too hard
  178. How the mighty have fallen
  179. Adaptation and Mitigation: Food Production in a Rapidly Warming World
  180. Drilling Deep: Methane, Hydrothermal Vents, and a False Alarm
  181. Great moments in policing
  182. Jeffrey Epstein’s legacy
  183. Questions About Love and Socialization (Plus a Little Art)
  184. The bad news from the past week
  185. The quiet death of the incandescent light bulb
  186. Resigned to a new normal
  187. Get Your Indictment Here
  188. Adopting a healthy lifestyle for longer life
  189. Should we be worried about ancient frozen bugs? Yes, but not for the reasons you might think.
  190. An Open Letter to Republicans
  191. Origami: Lucky Star
  192. UFO crashes into Long Grove’s covered bridge (Fiction)
  193. Video: Unions Will Save America
  194. The Ever Growing Absurdity of UK Knife Laws
  195. The next Trump indictment drops
  196. My Story
  197. Chronic pain sucks
  198. Good luck with that, Mitt!
  199. There Should be Dryads Here
  200. White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
  201. Day-in-a-Life -Posting

July 2023

  1. Video: Amsterdam Just Closed their Busiest Road
  2. Angels in America
  3. “severe ensethopathy”
  4. Trump did not learn the lessons of Watergate
  5. They’re like ticks
  6. Letting you all know…
  7. Shivdashi
  8. Video: The Minneapolis Police Department Is a Criminal Organization
  9. Are you different? Is that normal?
  10. Should you be polite to a robot?
  11. Burning religious books
  12. Morality Police: Who will prosecute the prosecutors?
  13. Richard Dawkin’s Discontinuous Mind
  14. Scams of the Future: Surviving OceanGate Co-Founder Promises His Venus Colony Will Be Safe
  15. The redemption of Jar Jar Binks
  16. Book Ends: Houston’s final solution to school discipline
  17. More Trolleyology
  18. Extra-terrestrials are obviously English speakers
  19. It’s EcoStation day!
  20. Possible Movement on the Cancer Front
  21. Video: Let’s talk about heat, pavement, and Arizona mostly…
  22. Beauty and pain
  23. Weird Musk’s weird obsession with X
  24. A natural experiment in policing
  25. I saw this coming way off
  26. Who needs an education when you’ve got a blue check mark?
  27. Non-human biologics …OK, show me
  28. Danny Boy
  29. Floating Away on a Strange Day
  30. AMOC Time: Entering a New Era in Ocean Currents
  31. Green flash
  32. Arbitrarily Applied: Another Covid-19 scam, this time on scientists
  33. The Only Ever Suspect Has Died: James Lewis, dead at 76
  34. This young person gets it better than some senior scientists
  35. The need to balance fear with hope
  36. School’s Out for Summer!
  37. Sinead
  38. Some good news for a change (Non-fiction)
  39. Video: Some More News Takes Down Billionaire Philanthropists
  40. Empathy games and critiques
  41. Big win for UPS workers and unions
  42. An Isolated Case: The exposure is the exception, not the academic fraud
  43. Violent weather
  44. I feel like half my life is spent goggle-eyed in amazement at the stupidity of humanity
  45. A Desert Full of Bones: Razor Wire, Asylum, and Fascism
  46. Religious people can be so touchy
  47. My brain might need rewiring
  48. Benefits are benefits, no matter how odious the circumstances
  49. Life in a small town isn’t the pastoral paradise some think it is
  50. Cretaceous Mudslide Captured Mammal Attacking Dinosaur
  51. Recovery is making a choice…(add to my list!)
  52. The ‘No Labels’ charade
  53. It’s all about ethics in war
  54. No! Not a professor!
  55. Suckered!
  56. Good news from the heartland
  57. The delusions have begun
  58. People To Remember: Two giants in STEM recently passed away
  59. Video: Let’s talk about a trillion trees and the GOP
  60. Halfway Through the Summer
  61. The slipperiness of conspiratorial rabbit holes
  62. Notice to anti-vaxxers and other quacks
  63. Response to Dr. Collier on AI
  64. You want my syllabus when?
  65. A Tumblr Poll
  66. Scientists are Raving about this Hot New Basking Shark Fact!
  67. An Ammosexual Misfires: Shooting his mouth off
  68. The allure of extreme temperatures
  69. He’s half right, you know
  70. Video: True Facts about Elephants
  71. The strike by writers and actors
  72. No, I knew this was exactly what they would say
  73. More AI Remixing
  74. Science relies on honest observation
  75. “Barbie crotch”?
  76. Unrelated
  77. Some More News on Hawaii, National Parks, and the Perils of Overtourism
  78. Harry Frankfurt (1929-2023)
  79. Thanks, Marge!
  80. Theories of “mind” for corporations
  81. Barbenheimer will be an improvement over the latest hot conspiracy theory fraud
  82. I always wondered how you can be a university president & on the board of pharmaceutical companies & run a gigantic research lab
  83. I double-dog dare you to pronounce that name
  84. Can Mass Labor Action Succeed?
  85. Finding My Motivation: How Do You Stay on Track?
  86. Progress in embryo analysis!
  87. Tree Law: Hollywood Producers Really Are Villains
  88. Abraham Lincoln’s complex views on race and slavery
  89. Ending the legacies!
  90. Gosh, I sure hope Marjorie Taylor Greene keeps working for the Biden campaign
  91. He Was Screwed, Blued, And Tattooed: Religious fanatics commit murder again
  92. Eliminationism Starts With Language
  93. Our green campus
  94. Cell phone data as investigative tool
  95. Burying the dead
  96. Unacceptable: Universities and Environmental Groups Paying and Working with Fossil Fuel Lobbyists
  97. Center for Inquiry and Richard Dawkins filming ‘The Sound of Reason’ in Bolingbrook (Fiction)
  98. A pro-gun Leftist?
  99. Video: Please, Kill Your Lawn
  100. How the rich avoid taxes
  101. Yes, please: death to the lawn!
  102. Exploring underground
  103. Perspectives on the apocalypse
  104. Today is Dungeon Adventure Day
  105. This. Is. CONSERVATISM!
  106. Semi-cooperative board games and the win/loss binary
  107. This blessed day
  108. Video: Let’s talk about electoral options and other parties…
  109. Crawford Lake, Ontario, Chosen to Represent the Beginning of the Anthropocene
  110. Cool spiders and macrophotography tips? Yeah, I’ll be there
  111. Naval origins of some English expressions
  112. An effective ad
  113. How do people get swept up into it?
  114. Everybody Knew Already: The Supreme Corrupt’s “decision” and its consequences
  115. Video: What Does A Second American Civil War Look Like?
  116. How to make the medical establishment very angry
  117. Even a cult leader’s death does not kill the cult
  118. Ken Ham is a disingenuous fraud on climate change
  119. Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning: Part 1: A surfeit of colons
  120. Marine ecosystems are struggling, and mining is set to make it worse.
  121. Hitler is obviously maligned
  122. The other GOP primary
  123. What has happened with TYT?
  124. The George Floyd murder only exposed a deeper rot in Minnesota
  125. The Muslim fly studies are back!
  126. Froot Seezun Continues
  127. Research Clarifies Air Pollution’s Role in Insect Decline
  128. Musk has the mind of a six-year old
  129. A bizarre reason for allowing groping
  130. People actually think that way
  131. The Trans Agenda is a conspiracy to sterilize your children!
  132. Freckled Boy From ’80s Toy Commercial Needed
  133. Trans Eliminationist Radical Feminism
  134. Video: How The Barter Myth Harms Us
  135. Some More News To See: Another excellent video destroying false arguments
  136. Dawkins embarrasses himself again
  137. Freedom – GOP Style
  138. Against travel
  139. Being a good scientist might be harder than you think
  140. Context vs. Content?
  141. Two hours of Shaun?
  142. Quick life and author update
  143. An Expose On Nosey Parker Exposes: Just what sort of sewer the bigotry comes from
  144. God vs. Love
  145. Video: True Facts about Sharks
  146. Infinite Thread XXVIII
  147. Link Roundup: July 2023
  148. This isn’t my hobby, it’s my life!
  149. The evolution of Columbo
  150. Harnessing insomnia for the greater good
  151. I hope William Deresiewicz never tries to defend me
  152. Do you want to play a game?
  153. Rich people poison everything they touch
  154. Climate Threat to Crops Underestimated: What can we expect as the world warms?
  155. New Subject
  156. Intersection of DnD and Social Justice
  157. This weekend was a bust
  158. Goths Needed
  159. Practicing Scientists?
  160. Video: Israel “Mows Lawn” in Jenin
  161. Deconstructing DeSantis
  162. A very different Hitchens
  163. Return to the homeland
  164. More asexuality in rightwing media
  165. Elementary Ethics
  166. Industrial Nitrous Oxide Emissions Could Be Easily Mitigated
  167. Ask us anything!
  168. shhhh…secret mission
  169. There is no dark side of the moon
  170. A Lawyer Jokes: It’s the 30th anniversary of the most infamous Darwin Award
  171. You missed your chance!
  172. Variation is wonderful
  173. Well, that’s going to ruin the weekend
  174. Climate Change is Heating Up, and We’re Not Ready
  175. Reminder: Atheists exposed!
  176. The Thing Doesn’t Even Speak: Another fascinating youtube channel
  177. But Was Amnesty Allowed: A 120 year old book was returned to a library
  178. More Cancer Thoughts
  179. The allure of magic
  180. We don’t have beach reading in the Midwest, lacking in oceans
  181. Wisconsin isn’t a popular site for reality
  182. Social media confusion!
  183. What Is Behind ID? Just One Premise
  184. Well, this was weird
  185. History Rhymes: Comparing bad apples and annoying oranges
  186. History is cruel
  187. The people who have all the money have no art
  188. Charging by the mile for gas
  189. Video: Capitalists Know They Can’t Win in a Fair Fight
  190. Nerds Needed
  191. Do things have to be perfect for you to be happy?
  192. Will The Dead Finally Speak? : The victims of Franco’s fascist regime are being uncovered
  193. Music Rules: Affecting the disaffected, and speaking for the voiceless
  194. A well-timed contribution from Katy Stoll
  195. Geologists have pride!
  196. Affirmative Action vs Fair Lending
  197. I’m taking this personally
  198. The myth of multitasking
  199. Lorie Smith is a liar
  200. Mormonism is declining
  201. Unequal Protection in a White Supremacist Police State
  202. Ignorant Pontificating
  203. A sobering analysis of what it might take to overcome vaccine skepticism
  204. Today I am Death
  205. What? Atheists talking about atheism?
  206. It is a good day to get some work done
  207. Genocide and Overthrowing Democracy: Biden Appointment Signals Grim Continuance of Bipartisan US Foreign Policy
  208. Aww, baby spiders!
  209. Running Costs: Car drivers can’t do basic math
  210. Present Company Excepted: When corporations beat education
  211. Video: Let’s talk about legacy admissions and a meme…
  212. Targeting legacy admissions
  213. If Galton invented it, it must be true
  214. The incentives are all wrong
  215. Human Resources
  216. Next step: compulsory pregnancy
  217. Another AI Prediction Coming True
  218. Nighttime Wind Farm Noise No Worse Than Traffic
  219. Culture Cancelled: Sandblast, 1972-2003
  220. Origami: Koi
  221. Minnesota makes North Dakota sad
  222. No cheese, no tomato sauce? That’s not a pizza
  223. Poverty is the 4th leading cause of death in the United States
  224. Twitter: The End
  225. Would you let this man run your Mars colony? (Non-fiction)
  226. Road Movie to Sura
  227. How NOT to win friends and influence people
  228. Anyone else feeling panicky?
  229. No porn for you, Virginia
  230. Infectious disease is not a threat, says famous idiot
  231. Blind, Pitiless, Indifference

June 2023

  1. Video: Why Is There So Much Right-Wing Media?
  2. ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’ review: Chapter 9, Part 3
  3. Alan Arkin (1934-2023)
  4. Trollpocalypse Dreampost
  5. All I ever got off my comic books were sea monkeys
  6. The seductive appeal of identical twin stories
  7. Learn something about Steatoda !
  8. The toxic man-children want to fight
  9. Rerouting around the damage
  10. FTO Update, May-June 2023
  11. GOP is Trying to Outlaw the Declaration of a Climate Emergency
  12. Tell me, what is “ideological”?
  13. Do You Mind? : Soma cubes, at 90
  14. Documentary of the Shakespeare authorship question
  15. Do you believe in luck? Do your trinkets have meaning?
  16. Another stereotype squashed by the evidence
  17. Shakespeare controversy keeps going
  18. DEI working exactly as intended
  19. My nightmare
  20. Skepticon registration is now open
  21. Fair lending and discrimination
  22. Is Malaria Returning to the U.S.?
  23. Web Exclusive: Canadian wildfire smoke wreaks havoc at Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
  24. About the Lung Cancer
  25. Is everything a binary?
  26. Justice Alito and the Wall Street Journal
  27. I Did a Stupid Thing
  28. Learning from history is a good idea
  29. I Love When AI Go All-Conquering
  30. Texas heat wave is a good reminder that we are not ready for a warmer world
  31. Jesse Watters to replace Tucker Carlson
  32. Chicken Patties
  33. A genuinely evil guy
  34. Binary troll alert!
  35. More on Amazon’s devious practices
  36. I am not a “tentmaker,” go away
  37. I’m not opposed to tearing it all down
  38. How much are you influenced by the people in your life?
  39. Hill Article Twists Research to Blame Scientists for Climate Inaction
  40. Blogaversary
  41. Well, that’s over
  42. The Polynesian puzzle
  43. The struggle continues…
  44. Video: Pinging the Depths of the Most Dangerous Stretch of Water in the World
  45. You May Observe: A new Solar Calendar unearthed in the Netherlands
  46. The cruelty is hard to comprehend
  47. The adventure begins!
  48. They’ll keep vibrating until they explode
  49. ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’ review: Chapter 9, Part 2
  50. ChatGPT Fun
  51. Moral panics and the bigoted subversion of biology
  52. Bridge Collapse Sends Traincars of Asphalt and Sulfur into Yellowstone River
  53. Sharpenatrix upgrade
  54. Chaos
  55. Life in zero gravity
  56. Video: Beau of the Fifth Column on updates in Russia
  57. Indigenous Knowledge Leads to Likely Treatment for Episodic Ataxia
  58. Would you take this job?
  59. When the future looks back on the deplorable events of our time, this will be one of the photos
  60. 90% of everything is junk
  61. Strawberry Chips
  62. Video: Meteorologist Resigns Following Right-Wing Threats Over Climate Change Coverage
  63. Music Rules, part 1: Happy 75th anniversary to LP records
  64. Fear of the Cat People
  65. Unfortunately, my expectation has been confirmed
  66. Finally, a definition of ‘woke’
  67. Varna Trip Report, days twelve and thirteen
  68. Amazon under fire from the FTC and Bernie Sanders
  69. <Homer drooling noises>
  70. Jerry Coyne’s bogus fears of “ideological subversion”
  71. As a species, we cannot afford rich people.
  72. The real danger to children
  73. Why do some people litter?
  74. The Chief of Staff
  75. Elon Musk thinks my identity is a slur! EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
  76. Missing submersible is still in the news
  77. Trans boxer defeats cis athlete!
  78. Cool! Let’s go to Enceladus!
  79. Living with a Mental Illness: What I Wish I Knew When I Was Younger
  80. Video: True Facts Animal Awards
  81. Conservatives are Boring and Predictable
  82. Do you like blowflies?
  83. The rival platforms for 2024 take shape
  84. The debate bros are getting wound up again
  85. If it’s any consolation, we also treat people horribly
  86. Do not read this article
  87. One of our submarines is missing
  88. Defeat By Small Victories
  89. Juneteenth Dreamposting
  90. Busy Week (Non-fiction)
  91. Chess shark
  92. When victims of bigotry are bigoted towards others
  93. My grandson got to go to the beach, and I didn’t
  94. The rich are bad everywhere
  95. The Right-Wing Recipe
  96. Today I learned about Gell-Mann Amnesia
  97. Varna Trip Report, day eleven
  98. Happy Father’s Day for those of you who have fathers you respect
  99. Video: New Reporting Adds to Kissinger’s Death Toll
  100. Support fellow skeptics
  101. Searching for the invisible
  102. Transitions
  103. Computer models advancing science
  104. Varna Trip Report, day ten
  105. Reckless Water Consumption Is Tilting The Entire Planet
  106. Bye, bye Boris (again!)
  107. Colonialism, Cobalt, and the False Promise of Electric Cars
  108. Ulysses and the nature of difficult novels
  109. I’m a monster
  110. Varna Trip Report, days eight and nine
  111. A retraction long overdue
  112. Careers are apparently an outmoded concept
  113. A Poem from an Anxious Mother
  114. Double Standards, Greed, and Wage Theft
  115. Cars Suck: Desert edition (or should I say, desertification)
  116. Glenda Jackson (1936-2023)
  117. Rediscovering Pen and Paper RPGs
  118. On the retraction of an ROGD paper
  119. Film review: Russian Ark (2002)
  120. Guilt by association
  121. Bari Weiss is an agglutinizing agent for losers
  122. Some More News: What Are The Real Dangers Of A.I.?
  123. Varna Trip Report, days six and seven
  124. Mission actually accomplished
  125. What’s next in SSAT’s legal travails
  126. It’s all quantum
  127. Christianity is a death cult
  128. Children’s events — successfully poisoned by the right wing
  129. Just less.
  130. Tremble and Behold: The Rare and Marvelous Irish Piano Spider!
  131. Web Exclusive: Bolingbrook Bears? (Fiction)
  132. At this rate, the Right will starve themselves to death
  133. They might turn me into a Luddite at this rate
  134. This is why administrators don’t teach
  135. Surviving a plane crash
  136. Varna Trip Report, day five
  137. ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’ review: Chapter 9, Part 1
  138. Aaaaahaaahaaahaaaa!!
  139. Scrying the Wind: New Research Will Revolutionize Biodiversity Tracking
  140. Delusion Collapse
  141. What’s with all the naked Greek men?
  142. A lesson for parents of trans kids everywhere
  143. A New Knife Blogge
  144. We won. Everything is woke now.
  145. An excellent summary of K-Pop
  146. So torn
  147. Ceci n’est pas une définition
  148. June 2023 is shaping up to be a good month
  149. Dear god I hate this
  150. I Need To Backtrack: Regarding Ted Cruz and his “commission”
  151. Video: Writers Guild Strikes Back
  152. Varna Trip Report, day four
  153. Extraordinary survival and rescue of four children in the Amazon
  154. Plumbing the Plumbing
  155. The Don’t-Be-Fired Button and the Human Floppy Disk
  156. Link Roundup: June 2023
  157. Driving Tests: My patience, definitely
  158. The Unabomber is dead
  159. Video: Casual Geographic Takes On The Biggest Weasel
  160. I guess Dr Who was a documentary
  161. Bye, bye, Boris
  162. Varna Trip Report, day three
  163. What Did You Expect?: Cop dogs can’t be trusted either
  164. The sad case of Waltine Nauta
  165. Apparently there are consequences after all
  166. Reminder: It’s a podcast Saturday
  167. The whole story really ought to end in a bunker with a pistol
  168. A Chain of Beauties 01
  169. Use Your Delusion
  170. Varna Trip Report, day two
  171. Greetings from County Kilkenny
  172. What the Trump indictment contains
  173. If laws didn’t exist, would you still trust people?
  174. The second Trump indictment drops
  175. It’s Not Journalism
  176. The aliens took over Tucker Carlson’s brain!
  177. a lil outpatient procedure, nice and easy
  178. James Watt has been extremely deregulated
  179. The dumbest way to secede
  180. Lock him up!
  181. Seen Today: QED
  182. Seven Felonies
  183. Varna Trip Report, day one
  184. “Love is love”
  185. Lock Him Up
  186. Lying to AI
  187. Drugged Delusions
  188. Goodbye, and Good Riddance!
  189. Compare, Contrast, And Contradict: The media still doesn’t get it
  190. Lying Tracks: Anti-rail propaganda
  191. A hateful voice is no more
  192. Pat Robertson is dead
  193. The Republican race for the nomination takes shape
  194. Here we go
  195. They’re dropping like flies!
  196. Smoke and Sweat: City Design in a Warming World
  197. I keep missing their funerals!
  198. Varna Trip Report, day zero
  199. Some More News: Protests Don’t Need To Be Civil
  200. Walking Disaster, Chapter 17, Part 2
  201. Creative Fun: Painting Ceramics
  202. More Anniversaries To Note: PDF turns 30, Ethernet turns 50
  203. Un-Intel-ligent Design: They didn’t learn the first time
  204. The problem with men
  205. The AI hype machine might be in trouble
  206. Quick update on Chris Licht
  207. Don’t make Zinnia angry
  208. God to Smite Bolingbrook is out and it’s free! (Non-Fiction)
  209. Bones in the Sand: A Trip to Bull Island
  210. It Just Goes To Show: Anyone can fake patriotism
  211. Varna Trip Report, day minus one
  212. The Girl From Ipanema
  213. Negatives of electric vehicles
  214. There are consequences?
  215. Are you middle class?
  216. But I was joking!
  217. Slogans, and “Born this way”
  218. Video: 15 Minutes of Purely Educational Bird Slander
  219. Annoying film titles
  220. Only Apple could pull this off
  221. The Gardening: Almost Done!
  222. It’s the ERA or the Gender Nazis: You Can’t Have Both
  223. Existential alarms about AI and longtermism
  224. The good little robot
  225. The problem isn’t artificial intelligence, it’s natural stupidity
  226. Police State: Atlanta Cops Arrest Organizers for Legal Activity
  227. The Inevitable Happens: Rabid ideologues get dragged out of court
  228. A former gun industry executive speaks out
  229. The Confessions of a Mother
  230. Horse racing is even worse than I thought
  231. Will my Mac fly?
  232. Snake oil salesman, grifter, flimflammer, scoundrel, swindler…I could go on
  233. A night visitor
  234. A New Age of Fire and Floods
  235. Some Knives Again – Part 3
  236. AI 20 Questions
  237. The other defamation case by E. Jean Carroll
  238. We’re in the Spider-Verse now
  239. AI Experiments to Try
  240. Debt ceiling raised just in time
  241. Good news for my Varna trip…
  242. The dangers of social media for young people
  243. Tom Morello is too mean to Nazis
  244. How to make a science movie
  245. Backlash incoming?
  246. Origami: Turtle
  247. An Experiment in AI
  248. The triumph of form over content
  249. On Older Prose
  250. Are both sides the same? Yes, but also no.
  251. Some Knives Again – Part 2
  252. Corporate-Backed Research Highlights Need for Public Funding
  253. Is age just a number? How do you feel about it?
  254. BCE/CE is older than I thought
  255. Frederick Douglass memoir of being a slave
  256. Chisels – 5
  257. Now? You do this now when I’ve got a busy couple of days ahead of me?
  258. Mastermind at work
  259. Ken Ham is right!
  260. A Problem with my Varna Trip

May 2023

  1. Video: Supreme Court Guts Clean Water Act
  2. Copium Overdose: Was this made by the Walk-owskis?
  3. We hunted the rabbit
  4. Some Knives Again – Part 1
  5. I Don’t Mind At All: Mind Your Decisions, on youtube
  6. Spaced Out: This is cart and horse, not chicken and egg
  7. The administration has destroyed all my lesson plans!
  8. Uganda’s harsh new attack on LGBTQ+ rights
  9. This is Lawrence Krauss’s career now
  10. Video: The Unspeakable Horrors of the Deep Sea
  11. AI-generated garbage videos
  12. Cash Crops: May 31st is World No Tobacco Day
  13. Help me, I’m tempted
  14. DeSantis may have misjudged the tide
  15. A chiropractic schism?
  16. Who keeps putting all these globes everywhere?
  17. Global warming is driving insurers out of California
  18. When they said “pathetic, posturing little wimp” I thought they were talking about me
  19. Texas attorney general impeached and suspended from office
  20. Today I learned…
  21. The Debt Ceiling Dance
  22. The complex story of Jessica Watkins
  23. A Giveaway
  24. Mayor Alexander-Basta lays wreath at the Bolingbrook Time War Memorial (Fiction)
  25. Video: The Aristocratic Propaganda of Downton Abbey
  26. The Matrix Recalculated: This is beautiful
  27. Tentative debt ceiling deal reached
  28. Anti-abortion meme: Crystal bellies?
  29. I guess these are the kinds of people who run the country now
  30. Chisels – 4
  31. Bros movie review
  32. How the internet went to hell and what to do about it
  33. High octane crazy blood!
  34. Presenting: Mister Elegance
  35. Greedflation Exists: Even the corporate raiders now admit it
  36. Music Rules: Why I love bands that play
  37. A few more raptors would reduce the noise
  38. Another reason I won’t get Neuralink
  39. There’d have to be something wrong with your brain to sign up for a Neuralink trial
  40. The government will run out of money by June 5th
  41. I hope you choke on your birthday cake, Henry
  42. Video: Life at the Foot of a Literal Mountain of Trash
  43. Unverified Claim: Dubious sources suck
  44. Remember the dress color controversy?
  45. Another Movie To See: “Special Bulletin”
  46. Bonsai for Beginners – Part 10 – Money Tree
  47. Math Rules: The solution is the sum of the square of two teens
  48. Oath Keepers get stiff sentences for role in January 6th riot
  49. You call this news?
  50. I Have Cancer
  51. Sweet Lovely Death
  52. Child Calls Police for Help, Gets Shot
  53. Government cash balance drops below $50 billion
  54. Never Forget: The anniversary where it all began
  55. How do you explain the world to kids?
  56. Another example of why I despise Christianity
  57. Bogus story about veterans being displaced for immigrants
  58. Texas rides again!
  59. How’s that war in Ukraine going, anyway?
  60. The Republican brand: incompetence and ideology
  61. Music To Hear: The Fixx’s “Reach The Beach”
  62. Tina Turner (1939-2023)
  63. TV To See: “V” at forty
  64. Video: Unions Make Things Better (Even If You’re Not In One)
  65. Ranking the Cyan games (again)
  66. A Quick Word To Say
  67. Tina Turner has died
  68. They tried. They failed
  69. Kansas is us
  70. Compare two states
  71. Compare and contrast
  72. I think I saw this guy on Dr Strangelove
  73. Video: How One Spider Became (Mostly) Vegetarian
  74. All it takes is a one-vote majority to do great things
  75. Bill Donohue is mad again
  76. Great moments in policing
  77. They’re learning
  78. Chisels – 3
  79. The insufferable pettiness of Anna Krylov
  80. Affirmative Action
  81. There’s a flaw in his argument
  82. Could be grim…but I’ll probably watch it
  83. Headhunters
  84. You really don’t want to live there
  85. Motivational Monday: We Are One
  86. Phantom Birding
  87. In memory of my beloved sister
  88. Global “Leaders” Still Living in Fantasy World Where Natural Gas is Green
  89. Maybe we’ll have 4 PhDs in the family?
  90. Oh yuck…that was an awful paper by Krylov and her cronies
  91. Chisels – 2
  92. The paparazzi problem
  93. Happy International Bee Day! Have a documentary about wild European bees!
  94. Debt Ceiling Theatrics
  95. The Satanic Temple holds a convention
  96. They’re just like me! Hammerhead Sharks Hold Breath for Deep Dives
  97. The government’s cash balance drops further
  98. Quick life/author update (Non-fiction)
  99. Chisels – 1
  100. The trials and convictions of extremists
  101. I can’t believe I’m gonna say something nice about Lauren Boebert
  102. The veil of gender ignorance
  103. The Onion explains trans sports
  104. The creationist heat problem…SOLVED!
  105. The government’s cash balance dips sharply again
  106. Video: The Weimar Fallacy
  107. Yet none of us are qualified to prescribe good drugs
  108. Body Acceptance, Positivity, and a Double Standard
  109. Black villains and stereotypes
  110. For the birds
  111. Summer plans
  112. The government’s cash balance goes up slightly
  113. A Brief Lull
  114. “Upcycling” an Old Whisky Bottle
  115. The Worst Thing Russia Has Done to Socialism
  116. Potential Pollinator Hints at New Frontiers in Froggery!
  117. The puzzling appeal of Nazism in the US today
  118. Poor Peterson, beset on all sides
  119. The government’s cash balance takes a big dip
  120. Video: Two minutes
  121. They grow up too fast
  122. Brain bleach, stat
  123. On liking furries incidentally
  124. The government cash countdown and novel solutions to the crisis
  125. Feeling blue
  126. FTO’s Bills, February-April 2023
  127. Hey everybody! They figured out why the temperature’s rising!
  128. Trusting Others: Gut Feelings, Logical Thinking, and Wishful Thinking
  129. The dangerous mania of seeking for views on social media
  130. Where’s my Big Carrot money?
  131. TV Review: Les Misérables (2018) and color-blind casting
  132. Everyone hates Elsevier
  133. Ball o’ spiders
  134. This. Is. Capitalism.
  135. When I used to debate creationists
  136. ChatGPT, Creativity, and The Boring
  137. Video: The “Darwin’s Finch” of Mammals
  138. What we can learn from the E. Jean Carroll trial
  139. Genetics…done!
  140. The Gardening: building a greenhouse
  141. The ‘town hall’ was not that great for convicted sex offender Donald Trump
  142. Commencement 2023: the kids are all right
  143. Gardaí Look Away as Fascists Commit Arson
  144. Origami, and artistic values
  145. Wearing the formal face mask today
  146. The debt ceiling
  147. I got the question
  148. Who will replace Ken Ham?
  149. If psychic powers were a thing, would you want them?
  150. Floating solar panels
  151. New boss, same as the old boss
  152. The Birds are Shrinking!
  153. Another podish sortacast tomorrow
  154. Today is the day
  155. Video: Are Giraffes OP?
  156. Laughter is the best medicine
  157. CNN’s hour of lies
  158. Mo Money Mo Problems
  159. Link Roundup: May 2023
  160. Video: What Does It Mean To Be Indigenous?
  161. Let’s not forget that other serial liar …
  162. Run/fly away, little fellas, I have cruel plans in mind
  163. What next for convicted sex offender Donald Trump?
  164. Suddenly wishing I knew how to sew
  165. Am I surprised that Jordan Peterson was a bad psychiatrist psychologist?
  166. I don’t want to be at the mercy of people like Harlan Crow
  167. Damn Right!
  168. Austin Police Association Demonstrates the Problem with Reform
  169. Guilty, but it won’t matter
  170. Trump found guilty of sexual assault and defamation
  171. Trump issues yet another lie
  172. In honor of the new Interim President of the University of Minnesota
  173. Cobweb art
  174. Alloys
  175. Trump lies to the bitter end
  176. Every accusation a confession
  177. Whatever happened to Dr Oz?
  178. I predicted this
  179. A walk in the wetlands
  180. When did body parts become offensive?
  181. Dark Powers Resurrect Dead Argument, Demonstrate Need for Direct Action
  182. Bolingbrook readies its own currency (Fiction)
  183. Backlash to ‘thoughts and prayers’
  184. The problem with horse racing
  185. Let’s pretend humans are single-celled organisms
  186. Minnesota is feeling increasingly special
  187. Solidarity Sunday: Support the WGA Strike
  188. Tagging AI art
  189. What will it take to get sensible gun reform in the US?
  190. Video: Why Lawns Must Die
  191. I Made Some Shroomce
  192. Haw haw haw
  193. Sneering at people could be Trump’s downfall
  194. It is all out of my hands now
  195. Am I indoctrinating my daughter?
  196. Will not achieve today’s goals
  197. Want To Scare Some Republican Donors?
  198. How “AI” Technology Can Dramatically Increase Research Speed
  199. Bonsai Tree – Persimmon Still Mysterious
  200. Turbo Tax refunds to go out to the people they defrauded
  201. The end of a stressalicious semester
  202. Blatant both-siderism from a physicist
  203. Is it Halloween already?
  204. It’s called a bribe
  205. Video: Positive Leftist News for May 2023
  206. Mandated Reporting and Our Local Clergy
  207. The Longest-Operating British Crime Family
  208. Trump keeps losing in court
  209. I Have Strong Values (Shush)
  210. The Pit!
  211. The GOP ignore these warning signs at their peril
  212. One more day, I think
  213. The corruption is just oozing out
  214. Unequal Protection: Jordan Neely Killing Highlights White Supremacy Ingrained in US Society
  215. PSA: Colonoscopies are good, and you should get one
  216. This testimony could be very damaging for Trump
  217. Cultural differences: Immigrants in Germany
  218. “That’s not how white men fight”
  219. Hope – 2
  220. When South Africa came close to civil war
  221. I never thought I’d say I was grateful for Steven Crowder
  222. One class done (mostly)
  223. What did Harlan Crow get for his gifts to Clarence Thomas? Power.
  224. Your law intrigues me
  225. Extraordinary developments in Haiti
  226. They’re killing libraries
  227. I went to a concert on campus last Saturday
  228. Video: Hbomberguy on Flat Earthers
  229. Jimmy Kimmel has fun with the news
  230. Origami: Aperiodic Chevron Tessellation
  231. The Perils of Literal AI
  232. Bringing back knobs and buttons for car controls
  233. Welcome to the last week of the semester
  234. Another Bad Creation

April 2023

  1. The only kind of mouse my cat has the energy to pounce on…
  2. Credibility is the key issue in Carroll case
  3. Another day, another bad EvoPsych article
  4. The wellness craze
  5. Homelessness Exists to Make the Rich Richer
  6. Would I be happier if I were a Christian?
  7. I don’t qualify at all
  8. Excellent summary of spider evolution from Aron Ra
  9. This does not mean much
  10. Yes, I did see John Wick: Chapter 4
  11. An Open Letter to The New Media
  12. Juvenile Justice in Texas: Done in our name
  13. It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity: The Dark Side of Urban Greenery
  14. Exams and Fish Tacos and John Wick
  15. Another judge caught with his snout in the trough
  16. “the suppleness of the flesh, the grace of the contours, the flexibility of the membranes, the transparency and the coloring”
  17. Men behaving badly
  18. Video: Phone Security and Surveillance
  19. A good and lively conversation about bad, tired AI
  20. Competition is fierce — Is it more important to be different than good?
  21. A Surprise Guest
  22. Spam bloggers get
  23. Disney decides to play hardball with DeSantis
  24. How can anyone find this to be a bad idea?
  25. These are all valid perspectives on science
  26. The rapist who would be president
  27. A Parable for flex
  28. Record Ocean Heat Frightens Scientists, Threatens Grim New Era
  29. They really, really hate transgender people
  30. Adhesives
  31. Whoa, it’s been an awful long time since I had a french fry. Must be why I’m depressed.
  32. The sexual assault case against Trump began yesterday
  33. Two losers having a perfectly normal conversation
  34. How to turn a bad relationship into a click-baity article
  35. Harry Belafonte (1927-2023)
  36. River study shows how global warming is killing Indigenous Alaskans
  37. Another Supreme Court justice bought & paid for
  38. The sheep look up
  39. What to expect after Carlson’s departure
  40. The most punchable face in America is back!
  41. I know what kind of houseplant I want to get this summer
  42. The Conscience of Conservatives Is Unconscious
  43. Even slime doesn’t last (Non-fiction)
  44. Video: Child Labor is Back In The USA
  45. Fox News splits with Tucker Carlson
  46. Tucker Carlson is OUT
  47. An interesting infographic
  48. Sex and seances
  49. An Easy Piece
  50. Why aren’t you moving to Minnesota?
  51. Tough times for education
  52. Psychosis, Religion, and Lingering Fear
  53. President Boric proposes plan for Chilean lithium to benefit the Chilean people
  54. Willie Nelson at 90
  55. Araneus gemmoides left us a present last year
  56. Jewish extremist attacks on Christians in Israel
  57. Starship post-mortem
  58. Video: True Facts about the hippopotamus
  59. The argument from “my piece of wood hasn’t evolved eyeballs”
  60. The Republican war against sex
  61. Bonsai for Beginners – Part 9 – Larch
  62. It’s Not The Ocean Levels
  63. Easy access to guns results in needless death and injury
  64. What are we going to do about Missouri?
  65. Republicans ignore the principles of a good education — clearly, they never had one
  66. The global economy has lost more money to invasive species than to earthquakes
  67. Mighty Morphin’ Spiders
  68. Tower of Spiders
  69. Rightwing extremists fare poorly in school board elections
  70. I was wondering what that stench was
  71. Groomers for Christ in Texas
  72. Forced Error
  73. Elon Musk is the damned soul leading us through the social media hellscape
  74. Making surface parking lots into solar farms
  75. Murdered for defending a forest: Official autopsy undermines cop justification
  76. Lindell has to pay $5 million over false election claims
  77. Since when is America fair?
  78. How Harry and Meghan’s child became part of the Disney-DeSantis feud.
  79. Starship tries again
  80. Georgia National Guard plans to track teenagers’ locations to flood them with recruitment ads
  81. Cat-egory Errors Explained?
  82. P. G. Wodehouse books changed to remove offensive language
  83. Urs
  84. The aftermath of the Fox-Dominion settlement
  85. All sheriffs are bad, too
  86. Can we debate about how remote the desert island debate bros should be abandoned on should be?
  87. To Everyone in Recovery
  88. Bird feeders aren’t problem-free, but they make a difference when winter comes
  89. A Chinese-Filipino family history
  90. Saturday Night Live on last week’s news
  91. Small towns are the same everywhere — all screwed up
  92. The only way Kent Hovind gets attention now
  93. Last minute delay in Fox-Dominion defamation trial
  94. Video: The USA Treats Farm Workers Like Shit
  95. Atheist ‘missionaries’ arrive to ‘help’ DuPage Township residents (Fiction)
  96. An Interesting Talk
  97. The ethical dilemma posed by AI generated art
  98. The Covid has Landed
  99. You can’t teach this
  100. Big rocket go “whoooooosh”…not
  101. Things you won’t be able to teach in Tennessee
  102. Garl Latham
  103. Northerners right now
  104. Lazy Sunday: Frostpunk game review
  105. For better or for worse: How much are your kids like you?
  106. Why does Ken Ham hate poodles?
  107. Attack ad against DeSantis
  108. The Tennessee state legislature goes off the rails
  109. Springtime
  110. Teacher’s Corner: Fuck TikTok Parents
  111. Covid Inbound
  112. Luna Moth Tails: Alluring Display, or Sophisticated Stealth Tech?
  113. Space is really, really big
  114. The latest classified information leak
  115. Maybe social media shouldn’t be for profit?
  116. Furious Friday: NYPD Stole Money from New Yorkers, Spent It on Robots.
  117. What beast emerges from the dark depths?
  118. Evangelicals put the Republican party in a bind
  119. The only reason to pay attention to the haters is to shame them
  120. Naked corruption
  121. I went back to high school for a day
  122. The Party of Child Marriage
  123. Signpost of Spring!
  124. The right wing freakout over transgender issues gets ever more idiotic
  125. An Oldie
  126. Republicans are failing at debt ceiling hostage taking
  127. Teaching outside my comfort zone
  128. An Atheist in a Red State: How do I make it better?
  129. You didn’t think it was only going to affect the gays and the transes, did you?
  130. The waning of Trump’s influence
  131. Reactionary Tantrums and Free Advertising
  132. Layers and layers of grifting
  133. Time is fleeting…madness takes its toll
  134. The title of my work in progress (Non-Fiction)
  135. Wage theft and surplus value: Capitalist greed is unaffordable
  136. Debating the Trans Question
  137. Infinite Thread XXVII
  138. Behold! A sign of spring!
  139. The cruelty of solitary confinement
  140. The Renfield protocol
  141. Heathens 01
  142. What to do if you get bitten by a snake
  143. What are they teaching in journalism school nowadays?
  144. What meritocracy?
  145. Ben Shapiro Defends Harlan Crow
  146. Link Roundup: April 2023
  147. I wish I could write a poem about her
  148. Research suggests we’re on track for 3 degrees
  149. It Never Changes
  150. Republicans choose abortion as the hill to die on
  151. Texas takes another step into the abyss
  152. Noah was a prevert
  153. My genetics class is going ‘woke’!
  154. Mouse
  155. The true meaning of Easter
  156. WLW Rep and the Triple Six Mafia
  157. Starlings and Potatoes
  158. It’s all inbreeding
  159. Here we go again: cis man aggressively ‘protecting’ children has…can you guess?
  160. I like religious pluralism for keeping Catholic fanaticism in check
  161. Hope – 2
  162. Video: Rebecca Watson takes on Easter myths and misinformation
  163. This Fucken Guy
  164. One Grateful Atheist
  165. The Parang
  166. North Dakota Republicans take food from children while adding to their own plates
  167. I’ve been seen!
  168. How I generally feel reading headlines
  169. There are two kinds of people: Those who think everything is binary, and those who don’t
  170. Biden Betrays Trans Students, Offers Discrimination Guide
  171. Nightmare Blunt Rotation
  172. Democratic states are so much nicer than Republican ones
  173. Travis Tritt, so brave
  174. “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine”
  175. In Which I Meme With The Herd
  176. Kobo Plus comes to the UK and the US! (Non-fiction)
  177. April Podish-Sortacast: When you have a problematic fave, what do you do?
  178. Sexy Talk, Appropriate Remove
  179. Seems like Clarence Thomas is on the take
  180. Project Phoenix – Part 6 – Finished
  181. Oh no! They’re going to have to get sober!
  182. Fox’s own fact checking team knew the claims of election fraud were false
  183. Kansas is for perverts
  184. So much for impartial justice
  185. You May Have Noticed
  186. The right-wing wackaloon temper tantrum against…beer?
  187. A Quick Game
  188. I have an online store! (Non-fiction)
  189. There can be only one! First Party for Bolingbrook takes the Village Board! A Babbler Special Report (Fiction)
  190. “Problematic favorites”
  191. Noticed! At last!
  192. More Papism
  193. Sour grapes
  194. The case against Trump
  195. Yesterday was a good day
  196. It’s Not Just Us: Viral outbreaks in Pacific corals worsened by climate change
  197. Last year I was at a treatment center for eating disorders. Here’s where I’m at today.
  198. Seafloor mining threatens to open dark new phase of habitat destruction
  199. Monumental
  200. Ranking the Myst games
  201. I Voted
  202. The new NATO
  203. Trump the creep
  204. Go Greene, go unseen
  205. Admit it, Texas: you want to be a theocracy
  206. A Little Chat with the ChatGPT
  207. A glimmer of hope for a critically endangered wildcat
  208. Another good article on sociogenomics
  209. Adam ruins AI
  210. Truth, but funny
  211. Get ready for the next 18 months to be very dark
  212. I think I’ll avoid the news for a few days
  213. What the heck is sociogenomics?
  214. Quick Fundraiser Update
  215. Video: Don’t Join the Military
  216. I’m not lurking, really
  217. Saturday Night Live on the Trump indictment
  218. Not the usual people Trump likes to surround himself with
  219. April-ficial Intelligence
  220. More on My Aborted Trip
  221. Origami: Bacteriophage
  222. Help a FTB member out.
  223. New study reinforces concern over the collapse of oceanic currents
  224. Leave Rudy Raff alone, he disliked creationists intensely
  225. Dominion case against Fox News to go to trial in April
  226. How AI will destroy us
  227. The Future of Therapy: Cat GPT
  228. Non-Trip Report
  229. I feel the need to tell everyone how much I love my psych meds.

March 2023

  1. Happy Trans Day of Visibility
  2. Even Wall Street welcomes Trump indictment
  3. Trans Day of Visibility (Non-Fiction)
  4. TDoV Fundraiser, White Rap, Cringe On
  5. Gets My Vote
  6. The Trump indictments dam is breached
  7. Video: Pat Robertson’s surprising trans take from 2013
  8. Gerrymandering as a Republican instinct
  9. Please show me how to calculate a “wokeness” index
  10. First feathers, now lips?
  11. Quick Life and book updates (Non-fiction)
  12. Video: No More Presidents
  13. Finally, we’re going to see an arrest!
  14. Suppressing the youth vote
  15. Welcome growth of Medicaid expansion
  16. Travel to Japan
  17. They’re getting closer
  18. We are resilient! How have you adapted in life?
  19. Florida. Charter school. Principal a fan of Elon Musk. Need I say more?
  20. Video: Why is RIKERS Still Open? The War on Bail Reform
  21. How Tucker Carlson gets his his facial expressions
  22. I AM NOT A FEMINIST!!
  23. Meeting between the Interstellar Commonwealth representatives and the Angry Astronaut described as ‘productive’ (Fiction)
  24. PopeMobile
  25. Evolutionary relationships are just whatever Ken Ham decides
  26. TV Review: Upstart Crow (2016-2018)
  27. The Christian rot is everywhere
  28. Those dirty, filthy, disgusting rainbows
  29. Historic Welsh Village Becomes Investment Opportunity, Residents Become Collateral Damage
  30. The snow is getting crusty
  31. Eradicate the guns, not the people
  32. No, I honestly don’t think further research is warranted
  33. The puzzling strategy of Ron DeSantis
  34. America, land of school shootings and train derailments
  35. Behold! The resurrected mammoth!
  36. Genius investor!
  37. This is A Song of Hope
  38. View from the other side
  39. Environmental Racism Made Worse by Global Warming: West Coast Edition
  40. AI Puns
  41. It’s not just a planet of straight white men anymore
  42. Bad Server!
  43. Video: Life Atop a Glacier
  44. How do you feel about where you grew up?
  45. The irony of a creationist moaning about others denying science…
  46. Fundraiser Ideas?
  47. Three arguments on AI Art
  48. Dammit, Richard
  49. Military Glory: The Ronin’s Progress
  50. Cigna executives caught in “legally gray” cash grab
  51. The size and quality of one’s social groupings
  52. Sneaky AiG
  53. Cops botch raid, sue homeowner for being mean
  54. Jordan Klepper goes to the Trump protest
  55. Uncommon Sense: Ursula K. LeGuin Edition
  56. The wonderful world of caterpillars
  57. The “woke” freakout
  58. Art is going to disappear when the Puritans take over
  59. An Update…
  60. Video: Gender Criticals Don’t Understand Female-Only Spaces
  61. I get mail
  62. Goal keeper scores goal
  63. Transcript (Declassified)
  64. There’s good and evil in all of us. Do you know what you’re truly capable of?
  65. The New War Between Science and Religion
  66. Rising, so far
  67. Marcel Duchamp Would Love AI Art
  68. Videos: Lichens have a bit more going on than we used to think
  69. Women Educators on YouTube – Czechamerican – Dream Prague
  70. A tech bro pleads for a little bit of socialism
  71. Famous person found to have ordinary genetic history
  72. Am I a Thief?
  73. The Trump legal circus goes on and on
  74. Extremism leads to more extremism
  75. Feature, or bug?
  76. Norfolk Southern disaster shows how corruption endangers Americans
  77. Timeshares are even worse than I thought
  78. Communicating with the dead
  79. Never ever read your email
  80. Florida of the North!
  81. Life in the lab
  82. Elderly Americans Blockade Banks, Demand Divestment
  83. Now that’s optimism
  84. Not my spring, yet
  85. The people who lied us into the Iraq war
  86. So this is what happens when you put the Democrats in charge
  87. Pinker is embarrassing
  88. A distinction without any meaning
  89. Video: Let’s talk about 8 months of change
  90. PLATO and Me
  91. Democracy, Thy Name is “Ratfuck”
  92. Exposing the closeted MAGAts in Congress
  93. You Sang The Union Forever
  94. Robert Reich on why he loves Bernie Sanders
  95. Maybe my wife thinks I’m Ben Shapiro?
  96. Conflict between humans and animals is rising with the temperature
  97. Ken Ham really doesn’t get science
  98. Degenerates!
  99. Marina Zolotova: The Revolution
  100. Coral reefs are losing oxygen as the planet warms (and we should do socialism about it)
  101. My coworker wants to tell me about her higher power. Should I welcome the conversation?
  102. Galileo knew the answer to this question
  103. A Capitalism Thought Experiment
  104. Is there any limit to the silliness that the MAGA world will accept?
  105. Texas being Texas
  106. The raccoon dogs, and the virus, didn’t intend to kill us
  107. Can we stop ‘going forward’?
  108. Fun with a “natural theist”
  109. Lying liars are still lying
  110. Silicon Valley Bank collapse
  111. Making new friends as an adult
  112. Another anniversary!
  113. Pharyngula
  114. Video: BetterHelp Shares Your Data With Facebook
  115. My Brother Midjing: Jellicle Juggalos
  116. The Biden administration just approved a rail merger, because of course they did.
  117. John Oliver on the abuse of TANF
  118. Too many spiders?
  119. Death of an ivermectin influencer
  120. You can clearly see the direction they want to go
  121. Stump the right-winger
  122. Researchers say IPCC models under-estimate Arctic warming
  123. Michael Moore on medical bankruptcies
  124. Here’s an Easy Buck
  125. Finally, A True Justification for Outlawing Drag
  126. Controversy over claims of room temperature superconductors
  127. I appreciate a short, simple summary of the current banking chaos
  128. Why would Tim White and UC Berkeley hoard old bones?
  129. Today’s weather forecast
  130. Who Are We Occupying This Week?
  131. Yes, “Too Old To Be President” is a Thing
  132. What do you think of finance?
  133. Where Lies My Empathy — Animals vs. Humans
  134. First Party canvassing robot crashes into house (Fiction)
  135. Never trust a pope
  136. Having fun with ChatGPT and Bell’s theorem
  137. CAM and credulity
  138. It’s the first really nice day, so I’m writing outside!
  139. A tiny scrap of good news
  140. Reading it knotted up my guts with anxiety
  141. Who would want this?
  142. Check out this interview about the movement to #StopCopCity
  143. The Uptown Shiv
  144. Remaking Caligula
  145. Always tell Steve Kirsch “NO”
  146. Video: 10 Fascinating Lion Facts You Need To Know
  147. Culture wars forever!
  148. It does not snow in Sri Lanka
  149. What do others think of Evolutionary Psychology?
  150. Come to Minnesota, one of the few sane states in the country
  151. Link roundup: March 2023
  152. Coming up!
  153. Short-term and Long-term: Democratic Governor Makes Minnesota a Sanctuary for Trans People
  154. Biden’s budget proposals puts Republicans in a bind
  155. Glinner evokes the mob!
  156. Woke
  157. This one hits hard
  158. The DEEMONS rose up in him and made him say those stupid evil things
  159. Reducing the cost of insulin is big news
  160. Important Video: “Gender Criticals” & Autism
  161. This is the way.
  162. FREEEEEDOOOOMMM! For a few days, anyway
  163. I’m only a baby Beast today
  164. Are Childproof Container Caps Worth the Price?
  165. Are you intense like me? Is that good or bad?
  166. How to terminate seemingly endless arguments
  167. Terrifying dive in Antarctic lake reveals bizarre, ancient life
  168. The Republican lane problem
  169. A new podcast episode this weekend…
  170. Twitter will not fade away in a controlled demolition
  171. Find the spider
  172. What a horrible idea…please do it
  173. Why doesn’t EA divest from crypto?
  174. Video: How pseudoscientific “911 call analysis” became a weapon against US citizens
  175. I’m invited!
  176. ‘Anti-wokism’ as a distraction from the lack of any positive policy proposals
  177. The Republican contradictions on diversity
  178. Creationist thinks evo-devo ‘refutes’ evolution
  179. A Fire in the Shadows is finally out (Non-Fiction)
  180. The Brinkman is Back
  181. Sad news in Bolingbrook (Non-fiction)
  182. The fossil fuel industry is pouring methane into the sky
  183. Jon Stewart debates a gun extremist
  184. Biden outmaneuvers Republicans on Social Security and Medicare – for now
  185. Cobwebs as art
  186. Rich white man…guilty? Unbelievable!
  187. A government of trolls (Non-fiction)
  188. Wildfire CO2 emissions are rising with the temperature
  189. Frauds hiding behind religion
  190. Girl + Cats = Happiness
  191. Dallas Humber, American terrorist
  192. The Genocide Party had their yearly get-together
  193. A few things in defense of EA
  194. Video: New Zealand’s ground-hunting bat
  195. The golden age of grifting
  196. Ride Share Services
  197. Teens and social media
  198. Cocaine Bear
  199. I think I could agree with this guy fairly well
  200. Three Arrows on Prager U’s lies about the Iraq War
  201. DC TV Extinction
  202. When circling the drain, skepticism will of course fall for the same old scams
  203. Naomi Wolf thinks my penis is going to rot and fall off. Should I be concerned?
  204. Disappointed, and relieved
  205. Book review: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (2022)
  206. The Value of an Education
  207. The problem isn’t the industry buying our blood, it’s everything else around it.
  208. John Oliver on the state of AI
  209. The Havana Syndrome is still a mystery
  210. It’s too early in the morning for this crap
  211. They should never have increased the Twitter word count
  212. Origami: Purple Graphite
  213. Author from another universe visits Bolingbrook (Fiction)
  214. An Author Interview and less than a week to go until my new book comes out (Non-Fiction)
  215. Some More News: Bad things we only have because of lobbying
  216. Wanda Sykes on the abuse of speeding tickets
  217. When replacing the cartoonist improves the strip…
  218. The Roald Dahl books controversy revisited
  219. Also, I get more email
  220. Spider sex is more complex than the binary paradigm
  221. Some Birds
  222. I Missed It
  223. The bot

February 2023

  1. Air pollution from plants is getting worse (and we should do universal healthcare about it)
  2. Hasan Minhaj on the lab leak and Dilbert stories
  3. Puritans promote porn
  4. I spend a lot of time doing important spider work
  5. The myth of the free market and the rising popularity of The Communist Manifesto
  6. AiG delenda est
  7. MonsterHearts Days Nine Again, Six, and X
  8. LGBTQA+ readers, I need advice. Are you ever too young to come out?
  9. MonsterHearts Days Nine, Eleven, and Twelve
  10. Dilbert comic being canceled all across the country
  11. Encouraging increase in wind and solar power generation
  12. Some musings and a John Oliver video on AI technology
  13. Hiring a Catholic ex-priest was only one of many stupid decisions
  14. You knew this combo was coming
  15. MonsterHearts Days Seven, Four, and Five
  16. Gotdam the SandyMan
  17. Solidarity Sunday: HarperCollins Union Victory
  18. Florida, again
  19. Combating junk science as evidence
  20. Wow, Florida…
  21. Video: How Energy Privatisation Bankrupted Britain
  22. Hmmm, I was right?
  23. Some political news
  24. This is not that much of a surprise
  25. Probably touched by an angel
  26. Is there an atheist culture defining our beliefs?
  27. A peek into the fantasies of a creationist
  28. Coppice Harvest
  29. Millions threatened by toxic dust from drying Great Salt Lake
  30. Tomorrow is a “Day of Hate”
  31. LGBT+ History Month 2023: #BehindTheLens. How will history portray us 20 years from now?
  32. Dogs with seat belts
  33. There be spiders under there!
  34. The full extent of the rot at Fox News
  35. We came this close to electing a bozo governor
  36. Cancel Scott Adams
  37. A Fire in the Shadows news (Non-fiction)
  38. Judged By Others: I’m Learning How Not to Care
  39. Video: Rebecca Watson on mask science (they work!)
  40. Now that’s how I’m going to think of them all the time
  41. Measuring Christian nationalism in the US
  42. Today I learned that courtesy & moderation are woke conspiracies
  43. A Really Good Paper
  44. Research suggests we’re under-estimating global warming feedbacks
  45. Dodging and blocking
  46. Changing the language in children’s books
  47. Snow day, sort of
  48. Are they making a show of my life?
  49. Good news from Spain!
  50. Are there any other atheists that have a hard time with science? Just me?
  51. The rehabilitation of psychedelic drugs
  52. Another malignant billionaire cheating on their taxes
  53. Remember when the atheist movement exploded over coffee?
  54. Childfree people are slow to gain acceptance
  55. The Onion is thriving
  56. Thanks for clearing up that reasoning
  57. IOKIYAR
  58. Good luck with that!
  59. Video: John Oliver on Psychedelics
  60. Baby Seal Attack
  61. Plush of the Month: Meet Ferdinand and Sweetie
  62. Yet another person creating a fake ethnic background
  63. Fooled again
  64. It looks like a good day to just give up
  65. You’re not alone: Labor Action Tracker shows strikes across the United States
  66. This feels familiar …
  67. The horde awakens
  68. Why not just skip ahead and try them for witchcraft?
  69. They’re lying to us: news at 11
  70. Skeptical Sunday: A video on the sorry state of the Discovery and History channels
  71. Biphasic sleep
  72. Early Planning for my November Trip
  73. Video: Daily life in a Swedish moose park
  74. Costly Status Striving
  75. Subscribe
  76. I am Sydney
  77. Gender Critical logic
  78. Can a woman ever win the US presidency?
  79. I went to a party last night
  80. Do you mentally rehearse for shootings?
  81. Alien ‘balloon’ cruise ship crash lands at Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
  82. Rail Workers United: Nationalize the rail industry!
  83. Jordan Klepper attends Nikki Haley rally
  84. Fox News personalities are craven liars, and other non-news
  85. Looks like you might have me to kick around for a while
  86. Sciencing Sharpness – Part 5 – My Sharpening Kit
  87. We have become a spider-breeding machine!
  88. A Poem About Poverty and a Rally Cry to My Neighbors
  89. Nicola Sturgeon steps down as Scottish leader – and gets blasted by Trump
  90. Keeping what we’ve won: The ozone layer still needs defending.
  91. Manipulating elections
  92. Science apologizes
  93. Important breakthrough in our understanding of bat whiskers
  94. Sciencing Sharpness – Part 4 – Failing to Improve the Measurements
  95. Now it can be revealed
  96. John Ringo In The Crosshairs
  97. Blizzarding world
  98. Driftglass & Blue Gal tell it like it was
  99. Brain damaging sports
  100. I agree with Blake Stacey
  101. Running up his score with a cheat
  102. Back to the World
  103. The university administration is spooked
  104. Issaquah Trip Report, day twelve
  105. What do you do when you realize you’re the problem?
  106. Video: Rebecca Watson on the East Palestine train derailment
  107. Researchers see good results from lower mowing intensity, and fewer pesticides
  108. Adam Rutherford ruins Valentine’s Day
  109. Shame on Temple University
  110. Is there a Silicon Valley philosophy that isn’t just ego and vanity and selfishness?
  111. Are some people trying to start a war with China?
  112. True Love
  113. Creepy Uncle Jordy has some advice about rape
  114. Sciencing Sharpness – Part 3 – Angle vs. Sharpness
  115. Issaquah Trip Report, days ten and eleven
  116. Norfolk Southern set off a weapon of mass destruction in Ohio last week.
  117. Sciencing Sharpness – Part 2 – Grit vs Sharpness
  118. Jordan Klepper attends a Trump non-rally
  119. Do spiders celebrate Darwin’s birthday?
  120. Give the kids a radial arm saw and a nail gun, it’ll be loads of fun!
  121. Music appreciation
  122. The groomers are at it again
  123. ChatGPT totally fails my one-question exam on Junk DNA
  124. Like, Comment, and Subscribe
  125. Issaquah Trip Report, day nine
  126. Sciencing Sharpness – Part 1 – Predictions
  127. Tax implications of having a kidnapped child?
  128. Has swearing become socially acceptable?
  129. A Stolen Meme
  130. A brief update on the movement to Stop Cop City
  131. Magic is not mechanism
  132. Worst review ever
  133. The End to Peterson (Sneak Preview)
  134. Is traveling important to you?
  135. Household Chores and Sam Vimes’ Boots
  136. Nextdoor discussion about lizards
  137. The Podish-Sortacast goes live today: Atheist Organizations and their discontents
  138. The ‘My client is an ignorant idiot’ defense did not work well
  139. Ben Shapiro doesn’t care about anti-Semitism.
  140. The little things that progress with a democratic state government
  141. Issaquah Trip Report, days seven and eight
  142. Videos: Beau of the Fifth Column on the ongoing saga of the Nord Stream pipelines.
  143. How did the world’s greatest love story in Jesus become known as a hate group?
  144. Childless by choice
  145. More From The Marilyn Files
  146. Exposing how the rich avoid taxes
  147. First, get rid of all the misogynists
  148. Keep authoritarians away from all children
  149. Link Roundup: February 2023
  150. So that’s what it’s like to work with Musk
  151. Sharpmeter
  152. Some More News: Why Being Poor Is So Expensive
  153. Liars lying getting hysterical about it
  154. How to Nihilism
  155. Biden’s State of the Union speech
  156. Jesus Haploid Christ
  157. Rap Battle
  158. Issaquah Trip Report, days four to six
  159. For this day of social media glitches, we thank you, O Lord
  160. Fellow creatives, is it ever okay to be a sellout?
  161. I think Twitter might be done
  162. REI Workers Win Fight for Union Election
  163. It takes multiple mechanisms to drive evolution
  164. COINTELPRO Never Stopped
  165. Stop ‘honoring’ people using stereotypes
  166. I listened to an “evil” song and survived
  167. Issaquah Trip Report, the reason for the trip
  168. Would you like a nice little ditty before bedtime?
  169. No atheist groups have stooped this low, have they?
  170. Now that’s going too far
  171. Biodiversity assessment shows 40% of U.S. ecosystems in danger of collapse.
  172. Greedy old people
  173. Could we come up with a more boring title?
  174. Science fiction isn’t gendered anymore
  175. Uteruses are scary, so protect them!
  176. Heed the octopuses’ warning!
  177. Bolingbrook’s opposition parties respond to the 2023 State of the Village address (Fiction)
  178. Advocacy Groups Present Path to End Prison Profiteering
  179. How ‘died suddenly’ has been exploited by anti-vax ghouls
  180. “just a little bit fascist”
  181. Such a whiner
  182. No evil deed goes unrewarded
  183. Issaquah trip report, day 3
  184. Nitrogen pollution causing soil to lose carbon
  185. Elon’s Head
  186. Issaquah trip report, days 1 and 2
  187. This is not normal
  188. Rammstein cats
  189. Why no freakout over sugar reduction recommendations?
  190. Issaquah trip report, day zero
  191. Video: Ze Frank takes on slime molds
  192. Who was afraid of the big bad balloon?
  193. Those Go-Go’s
  194. The Ant and the Universe
  195. Small steps towards Irish unity
  196. Listen to the whispers
  197. MonsterHearts Days Two and Three
  198. I think you have the wrong address
  199. Why Terves are Full of Shit, Part 16714
  200. Contaminated eyedrops lead to blindness, death in United States
  201. Making retirement age eligibility fairer
  202. Lest you think I’m too easy
  203. Trip Reports Delayed
  204. Stereotypical liberal college professor
  205. Big win for the University of Minnesota Morris
  206. Video: History of the Great Dismal Swamp
  207. Was this deliberate?
  208. Felicia Entwhistle has the deets
  209. Half-Assing
  210. The role of black conservatives
  211. Never mind the corpses, the pandemic is over!
  212. A patchwork dodo is not a dodo
  213. FTO’s Bills, January 2023
  214. MonsterHearts Day One
  215. Origami: Ace and Arrow
  216. (Web Exclusive) Bolingbrook Trustee candidates face off at Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
  217. Are you a trusting person?
  218. Goddamnit, American Atheists
  219. How the government kills for Capital in the class war
  220. Why the John Birch Society is evil
  221. Right Wing M&Ms, From Midjourney
  222. A Thought Experiment
  223. Be skeptical of police reports and their initial statements
  224. Nobody is more obsessed with “woke” than right-wingers
  225. He’s probably getting ripe
  226. Trip Report, day minus 1
  227. Guns Say Trans Rights
  228. Greenpeace occupies Shell oil rig
  229. Good work, Minnesota

January 2023

  1. A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – No. 33 “Empathy”
  2. Musk Personally Suspended the Account of Left-Wing Journalist
  3. Women Crafter on Youtube – Knitter – Engineering Knits
  4. Film review: Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
  5. Finally! A superhero comic with a sound philosophical foundation
  6. Bored with zombie movies, but…
  7. Montana is right next to North Dakota
  8. The Never-Ending Peterson Comment
  9. USA, More Weimar Than Weimar
  10. In case you wondered how big a spider egg is
  11. A deficiency of education in language
  12. A video and some thoughts on police reform
  13. Good luck with accreditation, New College of Florida!
  14. Training Day
  15. What Republicans want to cut
  16. Not clear on the “free speech” concept, I guess
  17. Where do Nazis come from, Mommy?
  18. Common levels of traffic pollution impair human brain function.
  19. Jewellery meets Art: Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa
  20. The toxic culture in US police departments
  21. Billionaire Trolleyology
  22. Uses of language
  23. Video: The history (and pre-history) of trans people
  24. The AI Singularity
  25. Greedy, selfish, rich jerks
  26. Creepypastor
  27. Royalty is ridiculous
  28. A Couple of New Poems about Death and Family
  29. The Satanic Temple is Still Bullshit
  30. Filtration Friday: Kelp farms reduce water pollution
  31. Lovely eggs!
  32. Massachusetts lawmakers propose prison organ-harvesting scheme
  33. Football kills and you cannot make it safer
  34. Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Elaine Chao
  35. Let There Be Elephants.
  36. What the Speaker holdouts achieved
  37. North Dakota Republicans…enough said
  38. Troll farming is a growth industry
  39. A Fire in the Shadows available for pre-order (Book Related)
  40. Some More News: Why Is Housing So Expensive
  41. A complete story with a satisfying conclusion
  42. A Question Nobody Seems to Have Asked
  43. A Really Worthwhile Article
  44. Here we go again with the debt ceiling dance
  45. Saying dumb stuff for fun & profit
  46. About how I feel about the latest political contretemps
  47. A Funeral and Religious Service – A Day of Firsts for My Daughter
  48. Warhammering
  49. Rapacity
  50. Dave Allen’s visual gags
  51. Children are collateral damage in Tim Pool’s anti-LGBTQIA hate campaign
  52. Any train people out there?
  53. What You’ll Find on Amtrak Trains
  54. Are we living in an Age of Unreason?
  55. Great Moments in Broadcasting
  56. Freethoughtblogs has a Mastodon server!
  57. …shoot my sperm into an incubator and give it 9 months…
  58. You have a hundred million dollars? You can stop right there, I know you’re a crook
  59. Spiders make it look easy
  60. Am I letting myself go? Or does age set you free?
  61. Join the Federation! The Mastodon Federation! (Non-Fiction)
  62. Diversity is our strength: Planting a mixture of crops can benefit the surrounding ecosystem
  63. Hello world!
  64. What lesson should I learn?
  65. Ted Baxter is the archetype for TV personalities who pretend to be journalists
  66. Wanna be a Mastodon?
  67. The religion that is destroying America
  68. The skills of a cult leader
  69. The eugenicists are always oozing out of the woodwork
  70. Part Three: Welcome to OUR Mastodon!
  71. I hope I don’t wait 10 years to bust loose
  72. Video: Let’s talk about Pink Floyd, rainbows, and social media…
  73. Fog, two different kinds
  74. The Santos lies keep coming
  75. Part Two: Welcome to Mastodon.
  76. Solidarity with the Movement to Stop Cop City and Defend the Atlanta Forest
  77. Daring to assert sovereignty: Zimbabwe bans all exports of raw lithium
  78. David Crosby (1941-2023)
  79. Sad squid
  80. Public libraries survive despite threats
  81. Goat Rodeo
  82. Are atheists more health-conscious than believers?
  83. ‘Beautiful Disaster’ interlude (part of ‘Walking Disaster’ review)
  84. Part One: Welcome to Mastodon!
  85. With Ecstatic Music On
  86. Teacher’s Corner: I Encountered a Karen in the Wild
  87. Global warming reached central Greenland (over a decade ago)
  88. Every state should do this
  89. Dungeons and Dragons
  90. Harvard reverses rejection of Israel critic
  91. You know you’re in a fascist state when they plan to arrest librarians
  92. It’s Complex; Ergo Goddditit, Part 1
  93. Hobo Flotilla vs Hamster Plague
  94. Greener environments can improve breast milk
  95. Media obsession with the British monarchy
  96. Stock up on boxes!
  97. It’ll be great when they work out the quirks in AI
  98. Atheists who can’t even talk to theists
  99. A puzzling feature of Tesla stock
  100. The stark truth
  101. Politics is for the kids who never grew out of high school
  102. I’m really not a “people person”. Anyone else?
  103. Project Phoenix – Part 5 – The Tail Finished
  104. Mo FtB Mo Problems
  105. If it’s on a list, it must be true
  106. Police kill Atlanta forest defender
  107. More males!
  108. What is empty space?
  109. Intelligence Failures
  110. Highways are already scary, self-driving cars won’t help
  111. When politicians interfere in health care…
  112. Clow UFO Base investigating alien involvement with the Jaguars’ stunning victory (Fiction)
  113. Military indoctrination forced on U.S. children
  114. The art of small talk
  115. They get away with it because they can get away with it
  116. A video and some thoughts on school lunch and child poverty in the U.S.
  117. Now what?
  118. Gina Lollobrigida (1927-2023)
  119. One bad apple
  120. You know what’s worse than a faceful of spiders?
  121. A stiff shot of spiders
  122. I “fired back” to the god talk around the office!
  123. Body High vs. Head High
  124. Mud Wizard Monday: Serving corporate interests leaves German police stuck in the muck
  125. Boston has unveiled an… interesting new tribute to MLK Jr.
  126. Detecting lies and liars
  127. Implications of Petersonism
  128. How I think of arachnophobes
  129. The feminine isn’t an absolute
  130. Nothing will ever be done
  131. Good old puzzles
  132. Wasting food
  133. Video: Fungal photography and facts
  134. A case study of dogged perseverance in mathematics
  135. I, for one, will welcome our new State Religion
  136. I am prepared!
  137. You have annoyed the Great and Mighty Professor Bostrom!
  138. Mystifying behavior
  139. Music calendar 2023
  140. If you want something to do this weekend, Atlanta forest defenders are asking for solidarity
  141. Is there a difference between a deity and a higher power?
  142. Hate-Blinded Bigots Legislating Language
  143. Eddie Izzard on dinosaurs
  144. Bad Mensa puzzles
  145. I’m a 16
  146. Discreet and discrete
  147. Another podcast?
  148. Rot in hell, Pell
  149. Video: Positive Leftist News from December (and late November), 2022
  150. Nick Bostrom wrote an email
  151. When the sulfur in the air just isn’t cutting it anymore…
  152. Finally, news reports that month-over-month CPI has dropped
  153. Who Are You? (Owl Impression)
  154. No Regrets in The Struggle
  155. The Ivory Tower
  156. The Religious Stage
  157. Oh My My, Oh Hell Yes
  158. On Genital Preference
  159. FreethunksBlogdotWho?
  160. Pepsi and Mania
  161. Why did T. Rex have such small arms?
  162. How do you tell someone their dad was a world-class jerk?
  163. The things we don’t do in lab
  164. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the governor of Arkansas now
  165. What’s worth the risk?
  166. Infinite Thread XXVI
  167. The Science Fair experience
  168. Movement within Mars
  169. Be careful when using unfamiliar words
  170. So Much for “Superiority”
  171. Covid finally catches me
  172. Not Fine with Ultrafine: Airplane pollution comes from engine lube, not just burned fuel
  173. Link Roundup: January 2023
  174. Argument Clinic: Pseudo-Skepticism
  175. Plumbing the depths of gullibility
  176. Government, politics, and compromise
  177. Oh no! Classes begin one week from today!
  178. I believe they are all witches
  179. Antisemitism and Phishing
  180. A Fire in the Shadows is the next Bolingbrook Babbler book (Non-fiction)
  181. Fear, Discovery, and Animal Crossing
  182. But packages were delivered on time, right?
  183. I Started a Vicious Cycle by Accident (and will stop asap)
  184. The NYTimes hired a new opinion columnist?
  185. The riot in Brazil – inspired by the US?
  186. Turning point in the war against my personal virus
  187. Jewelry: Tales of the Raksura
  188. Destroy All Cameras!
  189. Back to normal!
  190. A battered and bruised McCarthy finally gets his dream job
  191. Six-year old shoots teacher
  192. Crypto, Scams & Ableism
  193. Fundamentally an atheist – but is the rest murky?
  194. I’ve Been Cursed, Surely
  195. Confessions of a process nerd
  196. What a mess of a city
  197. I’m sorry, I may have gone too far
  198. The puzzling hatred of Kevin McCarthy
  199. Student Evaluation of Teaching
  200. Are you fascinated with religion?
  201. The Peterson Challenge
  202. Photoreceptor evolution
  203. And the Heavens Proclaimed: “Trans Rights!”
  204. The Speaker vote fiasco
  205. Origami: Sparaxis/Bitterroot
  206. Rough Start of a New Year
  207. Pro-natalists, long-termists, the Church of the Future Police…what a nightmare
  208. The link between machismo and climate change denial
  209. Strategies for teaching math
  210. Effective shunning
  211. Happy New Year, have some Ma’amoul
  212. The House of Silence
  213. Inner Turmoil: Mean People Suffer, Too
  214. Evangelicals souring on Trump
  215. Grow a segmented spine!
  216. Funzies in the grandparent’s house
  217. You don’t have to bring back blogging
  218. It’s a brain! Don’t trust it
  219. The Sext in the Collection
  220. Follow-up on ID at conferences
  221. Happy New Year, I guess
  222. Happy new year to this blog’s readers
  223. Pope Benedict XVI has died

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