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December 2024

  1. A New Year’s Update
  2. Brain permanently scarred, but pennies saved
  3. Threads of 2024
  4. On Meta, nobody knows you don’t have a personality
  5. Life List: Glaucous-Winged Gull
  6. Jimmy Carter
  7. A Rational Number in Java
  8. The true believers
  9. Another sign of the coming dark ages
  10. The eugenicists have gotten sneaky
  11. Only fools believe in genetic determinism
  12. Life List: House Finch
  13. Back in the saddle again
  14. Jimmy Carter has died
  15. I reaffirm my support for the Freedom From Religion Foundation
  16. Life List: Squirrel?
  17. General Biochemical Patterns in Purine Biosynthesis and Protein Relatives. Part 5
  18. Gingy Breads 2024 Xmass – Part 3
  19. Why should I trust an organization that honors the worst among us?
  20. Do I want to hang out with atheists any more?
  21. I like this Neil deGrasse Tyson fellow
  22. Life List: Caspian Tern
  23. Elsevier strikes again!
  24. Here’s an Interesting Idea
  25. The pettiness is the point
  26. It’s killing the cats!
  27. Life List: American Crow
  28. Living in the dark
  29. I am quite enjoying the chaos on the right
  30. Have your genes been pacified?
  31. He really means it
  32. Time to Form a Third Party?
  33. Lunch has been served
  34. Gingy Breads 2024 Xmass – Part 2
  35. General Biochemical Patterns in Purine Biosynthesis and Protein Relatives. Part 4
  36. So this is Christmas
  37. Season’s Greetings!
  38. Merry Nothing-To-Do-Day
  39. Life List: Eurasian Starling
  40. Merry Christmas, etc.
  41. For those of you who don’t get a white Christmas…
  42. My Day Job is Threatened by AI, and I Don’t Care
  43. Good move: Biden commutes death sentences of 37 federal inmates
  44. The only superhero movie I need to see
  45. The numbers are almost magical
  46. Gingy Breads 2024 Xmass – Part 1
  47. The lurid, salacious, sensationalist news we all want to read!
  48. Do not trust this man with your medicine!
  49. Life List: American Robin
  50. MAGA means imperialism
  51. The BRICS challenge to US financial dominance
  52. Eccentricities
  53. The great pizza conflict
  54. A common thread among billionaires
  55. The imagery that should scare the wealthy
  56. Mandate of Heaven, Evil Edition
  57. Halfway across the state and back again
  58. Life List: Bald Eagle
  59. Chaos comes early to the US
  60. New on OnlySky: The balkanized future of cyberspace
  61. There is no carol that won’t wear out its welcome
  62. Insufferably credulous “journalists”
  63. You think spider sex is crazy?
  64. Unimaginable Nationalism
  65. A more sophisticated form of identity theft
  66. General Biochemical Patterns in Purine Biosynthesis and Protein Relatives. Part 3
  67. The Democratic Party will never change
  68. A novel Xian argument
  69. Life List: Pigeon
  70. The rise of the manosphere
  71. A New Thing: 1
  72. I think I just sold a house
  73. If you’ve ever wondered where all those sexist gamers came from…
  74. I do love a good spleen
  75. I guess I’m supposed to be happy
  76. Using AI to Write
  77. Michael Moore responds to the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting
  78. There’s no point in even mentioning this
  79. It’s a wrap
  80. Why I taught my son about Santa Claus
  81. Scientists as scoundrels
  82. Surprise, the Earth is a globe
  83. GLADIIATOR
  84. Life List: Dark-eyed Junco
  85. Film review: The Name of the Rose (1986)
  86. Benjamin Dixon murders the Young Turks
  87. Remember This One?
  88. Drive now, talk later
  89. Life List: Great Blue Heron
  90. The journal Intelligence really needs to change its name
  91. TODAY: Freethoughtbloggers discuss the problem of evil
  92. Popularity is (almost) scale-free
  93. Medicare tax avoidance by wealthy people
  94. I’m going to have to reorganize everything
  95. Sexual dimorphism — it’s scary
  96. New on OnlySky: Democracies fall, but so do dictatorships
  97. One habit I wish we could break
  98. Mottocraft
  99. Why I like Seattle
  100. One more day
  101. General Biochemical Patterns in Purine Biosynthesis and Protein Relatives. Part 2.
  102. Another Doctor’s Perspective About a Squashed Tick
  103. Don’t Care
  104. Rage, rage against everything
  105. Neither Elon Musk, nor Space Force Marines, nor a food bank protester could derail Clow UFO Base’s 2024 Holiday Concert (Fiction)
  106. Two wrongs don’t make a right…but also, a pox on both your houses
  107. Do we really need a taxonomy of idiots?
  108. Life List: California Scrub Jay
  109. There’s something happening here …
  110. Link Roundup: December 2024
  111. Sing it on every street corner!
  112. Good riddance, Richard Lynn
  113. The UnitedHealthcare CEO killing: Broken promises create violent men
  114. Sowing the seeds of revolution, and they don’t even know it yet
  115. Life List: Northern Flicker
  116. Prosecutorial lust for death
  117. This Sticks Out Like a Sore Thumb
  118. I wasn’t eligible to enlist for the Battle of the Somme, being -41 years old at the time
  119. Ask before opening fire
  120. Confidently ridiculous
  121. PrAIse Jeezes
  122. Sarah McBride for president
  123. A Christmas Miracle
  124. Time to take a break this afternoon
  125. It’s a grading day
  126. A totalitarian police state falls and goes splat
  127. Reading the Daily Mail is not how to do research
  128. Pondering Web Programming
  129. Black bears are clever and resourceful. I am keeping well away from them.
  130. A Good Show
  131. Police Priorities
  132. The name of the book
  133. Trying to be unambiguous
  134. You can always trust Terry Pratchett for the appropriate quote
  135. My wife will be so happy to learn that I’m gay now
  136. America has chosen acceleration
  137. A wicked way to end the semester
  138. pay raised
  139. TV Review: A Man on the Inside (2024)
  140. More AI Collapsification
  141. Musk and Ramaswamy are not qualified or disinterested in their plans
  142. General Biochemical Patterns in Purine Biosynthesis and Protein Relatives. Part 1.
  143. Sproing-oing-oing!
  144. Are you still denying that Israel is genocidal?
  145. Who needs AI?
  146. Crackin’ One Open
  147. More on card randomization
  148. First Canada, then Switzerland
  149. LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back
  150. What a winner
  151. Shocking, unbelievable news!
  152. too mad
  153. What Should I Say?
  154. LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back
  155. LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back
  156. Book review: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980)
  157. LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back
  158. LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back
  159. LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back
  160. LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back.
  161. The Raygun controversy at the Olympics
  162. Anti-trans “advice” defies sense
  163. He’s priming the MAGAts
  164. Uh-oh, South Korea has gone authoritarian
  165. New on OnlySky: The United Cities of America
  166. Here we go again
  167. Forgot Cyber Monday
  168. LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back
  169. Origami: Cube Tessellation (again)
  170. Blog comments policy
  171. I yam what I yam
  172. Planned politics is good.
  173. Pete Hegseth makes Matt Gaetz look good by comparison
  174. Abortion
  175. YouTube Video: Why I Stopped Being Anti-Woke
  176. “White” is not a synonym for “elite”
  177. One Man’s Psychic Vampire
  178. Hey, I can mangle thermodynamics, where’s my million dollars?
  179. Fvcking Dracvla, Man
  180. Lazy linking
  181. The Streak is Broken!!!

November 2024

  1. Sexy beast
  2. An hour of mathematical genetics homework
  3. Once Again I Rule Freethoughtblogs
  4. I Gets Religion
  5. See if I can’t…
  6. Deepest Bluest
  7. Where have all the flowers gone?
  8. Is it too late for me to switch fields to poetry?
  9. The Anticipation Kills
  10. Sporadic blogging over the holiday period
  11. Abuse in the Anglican church: An all-too-familiar pattern
  12. Have a merrily bigoted Xmas!
  13. Land of the List Lords
  14. Discuss: The Great God Pan
  15. Satire is Dead
  16. Who is going to profit?
  17. Adventures in medicine
  18. Targeted Individuals II
  19. Memes are Dead
  20. Exodus of ob-gyns from Texas
  21. From the depradations of the bros, deliver us, O Lord
  22. They let just anyone in
  23. New on OnlySky: The end of the road for AI
  24. Aw, shucks — no evidence of alien microbes
  25. Gaslight Ghetto
  26. Randomizing a deck of cards
  27. Science has always been political…but especially now
  28. Meming this Mofo
  29. Invasive but Cute
  30. WTF, NPR?
  31. Using “biology” as a cheaply made, poorly understood label by bigots
  32. Shellshocked
  33. Thanksgiving
  34. He is both an airhead & a rabid Christian nationalist
  35. ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Galant is a landmark decision
  36. Good catch!
  37. Guillotines might be a growth industry
  38. Mastodon flaws
  39. I Guess I Use Social Media After All
  40. Tradescantia
  41. Gaetz quits
  42. Poster boy for MAGA politicians
  43. If you can keep it
  44. Posturing buffoon
  45. How could they pass me over?
  46. Give More of Yourself
  47. This should be good. The Onion wants to buy Infowars
  48. Our cars have cancer
  49. It really did snow
  50. It’s snowing!
  51. I may have to put my retirement plans on hold
  52. Excellent images of a few things
  53. Western WA Birders Help…
  54. TV review: Maigret (2016)
  55. International Mens’ Day?
  56. A better masculinity, for those who don’t want it
  57. And so it begins …
  58. Reminder for all us guys
  59. Biblical authority as a justification for misogyny
  60. The president is a troll
  61. You Had the Surgery? Paper Doll Edition
  62. Just Don’t Like his Face
  63. Joe Biden: Craven on Israel to the very end
  64. New on OnlySky: AI will be the death of the internet
  65. Sale of InfoWars halted
  66. Have an uncanny Christmas!
  67. Goodbye, NIH
  68. Sexy Pew Pew
  69. How Nextdoor might react to the Rapture
  70. A Story About Spears
  71. Another day of probate paperwork
  72. The complicated history of Tulsi Gabbard
  73. Et tu, NPR?
  74. What do you call an innumerate hebephile?
  75. Sometimes I’m an Antichrist
  76. Why would anyone own dozens of watches?
  77. Intermittent Fun
  78. What unified government control by the GOP means
  79. The Lover Speaks About the Monsters
  80. Shadow Everything
  81. My economic simulation of spacefaring kittens
  82. Too late, I think!
  83. Can the US follow Sri Lanka’s new example?
  84. musicas, those nerds again
  85. Time for other news organizations to abandon Twitter
  86. BIRDIE!
  87. Long Live the Fighters
  88. That’s beautiful, man
  89. They just gravitate to me, I guess
  90. Kitty 2
  91. The Onion buys Infowars
  92. Alex Jones’ legacy is in good hands
  93. Things I still believe
  94. interesting video, elden ring
  95. At least, some of the phenomena trying to kill us are beautiful
  96. Government by spite
  97. How to Not Live in Rage
  98. Trump sends in the clowns
  99. The chirality issue
  100. Book review: Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz
  101. funny video, sex nerds
  102. Waiting for my eyes to adapt to the darkness
  103. Acceleration
  104. Two kinds of LLM hallucinations
  105. Bracing for impact: Bolingbrook’s paranormal inhabitants react to Trump 2.0 (Fiction)
  106. Nice
  107. Coincidentally…
  108. “a VEWY fwightened widdew man”
  109. cute animals, seal hijinks
  110. One of my role models, recognized
  111. State’s Rights
  112. Mothers have a sneaky way of getting to you
  113. Aye Maide Some Cutting Boards
  114. Don’t Miss Posts
  115. Reclaiming slurs
  116. Science needs specific, informed, productive criticism
  117. funny video, skillz
  118. Elevatorgate yet lives?
  119. Can we demand an ethical standard for government?
  120. Total Anarchy and Can’t Nobody Stop Us
  121. You have to admire their cunning
  122. So that’s how they missed me
  123. Another step in the evolution of multicellularity
  124. Link Roundup: November 2024
  125. funny video, useful information
  126. A theological dilemma
  127. Hope Without Hope
  128. We Talked About It
  129. Signs of The Times
  130. Can a passenger stop a self-driving car?
  131. My unpleasant Christmas memory
  132. funny video, birdwatching
  133. Why Doomerism Must Stop
  134. Another Addendum
  135. Witness them
  136. Random Thunk I Fergot
  137. Which bathrooms will Sarah McBride use?
  138. A small piece of good news
  139. If it’s not one thing, it’s another
  140. How They Can Think That
  141. funny video, make it so number one
  142. New on OnlySky: Heading into the dark
  143. How to Not Fear Conservatives
  144. How Can They Think That‽
  145. Ancestral fragment?
  146. The role of gender in the election
  147. Post-election discussion
  148. Life goes on
  149. cute weasel video
  150. Expanding my Thesis
  151. Targeted Individuals Part I
  152. Again but better.
  153. Resist Gradualism
  154. Where I Be
  155. The little things we can do
  156. We all need a pretty little spider to brighten up our day
  157. America reveals itself. And it is not pretty
  158. I grieve for my country
  159. Momma Mia Here We Go Again
  160. It Can Be a Surprise-EDIT some fucko told me
  161. Follow election results in real time
  162. We are at the meaningless ‘vox pop’ state of election reporting
  163. Anything but election news
  164. The Handmaid’s Tale election?
  165. I did the thing
  166. Good Scares
  167. Spåromr.?
  168. What will happen on election day and when to expect results
  169. Please Stop Pretending Like You Care About Palestine
  170. The perils of wokeness
  171. The despicable attacks by the GOP on the transgender community
  172. Another day in my history of evolutionary thought class
  173. Living in the middle of hope and fear
  174. The polls have gone cancerous
  175. Reverse Thoughts and Prayers
  176. Vote as if …
  177. A lot of people will relate to this
  178. Don’t let small town values decide the fate of women
  179. Caught up!
  180. Stories that make me want to throw things
  181. Origami: Stick Figure
  182. Spooktober Day Thirty-One
  183. Idaho region is precursor to RFK Jr.
  184. Even demons hate Tucker Carlson
  185. Minnesota has a “beaver provision” that prohibits the eating of beaver
  186. A quick summary of spider evolution
  187. It’s just a tiny violation of the Constitution
  188. Spooktober Day Thirty
  189. GOP freakout over ads of women secretly voting for Harris
  190. Another headache
  191. December 12th
  192. Blog comments policy
  193. Who remembers “trickle down economics” and other lies of the right?
  194. New on OnlySky: How selecting for Harvard in utero could go sideways
  195. Voting for the Indieverse Awards starts today! (Non-Fiction)
  196. Spooktober Day Twenty-Nine
  197. What creepy Trump has wrought

October 2024

  1. Yes, you want to buy a house
  2. Has creepy Trump’s campaign given up on women?
  3. What horror movie monster are you?
  4. Do spiders dream?
  5. Spooktober Day Twenty-Eight
  6. Teri Garr (1944-2024)
  7. Of course we are endorsing Kamala Harris for President (Fiction)
  8. SCOTUS’ Gang of Six Have Done It Again
  9. Modern education
  10. Spooktober Day Twenty-Seven
  11. A nice analysis of poll uncertainties
  12. Hey, Bro
  13. The fallout from the insult to Puerto Rico and Latinos
  14. I’d rather be voting for Bernie
  15. Hallowe’en used to be a fun holiday
  16. Make a Bank Full of Money
  17. Say no to wanna-be space tyrants
  18. My blog archives are back up, at last
  19. Spooktober Day Twenty-Six
  20. The different ground game strategies
  21. What I’ll Be Voting For
  22. Some days, I wonder why I’m doing this
  23. Spooktober Day Twenty-Five
  24. There are multiple “C words,” you know
  25. Who is that jackwad?
  26. 2024 Election positions
  27. Nazis return to Madison Square Garden
  28. Where to Escape Politics?
  29. Maybe not what the Supreme Court intended
  30. Spooktober Day Twenty-Four
  31. Cover Song Idea
  32. Transphobia rots your brain
  33. Why won’t they stand behind their own words?
  34. The FDA hates sunshine and exercise?
  35. I think I see the problem here
  36. It is always a white man
  37. Learn some real archaeology
  38. A very Shark Look
  39. Spooktober Day Twenty-Three
  40. The second return of Sherlock Holmes
  41. Little boy, you are not yet ready
  42. Today I’m doing a “fool’s experiment” in the classroom
  43. New on OnlySky: Glimpses of the solarpunk future
  44. Spooktober Day Twenty-Two
  45. Tucker Carlson gives repellent parenting advice
  46. My political “dilemma”
  47. Why US elections are so complicated and take so long
  48. Phase 2 complete
  49. A map that explains so much
  50. New Drawing
  51. Go go go, Boeing workers!
  52. Spooktober Day Twenty-One
  53. I’m in trouble with AiG and its lawyers
  54. Regarding Spooktobers
  55. The happy couple, getting ready for the wedding
  56. Biden proposes free birth control and condoms
  57. Antici…pation
  58. Walz has a way with words
  59. Spooktober Day Twenty
  60. Targeted Advertising: Good or evil?
  61. What to expect in this election
  62. Sex and gender are constellations
  63. The administrators have my paycheck, but the students have my respect
  64. Skillet Pepperoni Sandwich
  65. Creepy Trump fixates on the weirdest things
  66. If Harris wins and faces a Republican senate
  67. Living the dream, I think he should do it full time
  68. Fluff and nonsense
  69. Spooktober Day Nineteen
  70. Is creepy Trump courting the bro vote?
  71. What it was like to be a baby grad student in 1979
  72. Why are baby seals white?
  73. Spooktober Day Eighteen
  74. I Knew It
  75. Kamala Harris and the Black male voter
  76. Spooktober Day Seventeen
  77. DeSantis anti-abortion effort gets smacked down by judge
  78. I got stuff done
  79. Climb Every Mountain
  80. Asking creepy Trump the wrong questions
  81. Why are creationists so pasty pale at Answers in Genesis?
  82. Lewis Black has had it with undecided voters
  83. WordPress Earthquake
  84. Standing desks are now bad for you?
  85. Everyone’s views except mine are extremist
  86. <whimper>
  87. The United Kingdom enters the post-theist age
  88. Spooktober Day Sixteen
  89. Remote Neural Monitoring
  90. Q-nuts cartoon
  91. Left-wing populism, right-wing populism, and anti-populism
  92. He’s only missing a creationist crypto currency now
  93. RA Fisher rises again?
  94. Found in a back room at my mother’s house
  95. Spooktober 2024, Days Fourteen and Fifteen
  96. Spooktober 2024, Days Twelve and Thirteen
  97. The closing of prisons in the Netherlands
  98. Israel is turning northern Gaza into a killing cage
  99. He’s not even a good dancer
  100. Spectacular scenery
  101. Keir Starmer and the Labour party’s rapid decline
  102. I read books: Philosophical Investigations
  103. New on OnlySky: I still want to go to Mars, but not if Elon Musk punches the ticket
  104. Testa di cazzo!
  105. im gay married
  106. She saved what?
  107. The danger of storm complacency
  108. If Ayn Rand reviewed children’s films …
  109. Rural kitsch
  110. Spooktober 2024, Day Eleven
  111. MAGAwoman explains how and why the weather is being manipulated
  112. Pumpkin Mustard
  113. The real Bourne conspiracy: The wild story behind the 2020 election fraud allegations
  114. I like Ed Yong even more now
  115. Spooktober 2024, Day Ten
  116. Kris Kristofferson (1936-2024)
  117. 1958-1969, the video
  118. Spooktober 2024, Day Nine
  119. Here we go again
  120. Link Roundup: October 2024
  121. Private equity companies should not be in health care
  122. I am burdened by pessimism
  123. My personal experience matches this observation
  124. Do you believe him yet?
  125. Trying to understand the mentality of MAGAman
  126. The language police are coming for you
  127. They’ll say anything rather than admit scientists were right
  128. Bring me the head of Arthropleura
  129. You Dig on Multiverses?
  130. Is the food still good to eat?
  131. I had The Talk with my chair
  132. A year later, and the Gaza death march continues
  133. Harris proposes that Medicare cover in-home nursing care
  134. This is why the Republicans want to ban NOAA
  135. Hey, Florida, you still there?
  136. Left Accelerationists
  137. Programming Question
  138. Sally Field talks about her own illegal abortion when she was 17
  139. What’s the best and worst state?
  140. Harris-Walz media strategy
  141. Is my conference from hell finally over?
  142. Act now! Everything must go!
  143. Another fun computer game you can play!
  144. I have a computer, I don’t need to look up
  145. Spooktober 2024, Day Eight
  146. Georgia supreme court reinstates six-week abortion ban
  147. Rabbi Denise Handlarski on a year of dehumanization (Link)
  148. What do you think this is, Spring?
  149. Straight up Nazi shit
  150. False rumors about hurricane relief
  151. Put your shoulder to the wheel
  152. Find your own damn cause, Republican swine
  153. Sports organizations have way too much money
  154. Racists think they’re being sneaky
  155. Spooktober 2024, Day Seven
  156. Harper Steele and Will Ferrell talk to Seth Meyers
  157. The tax games that rich people (and companies) play
  158. When you’ve lost the New York Times…
  159. New documentary on Netanyahu’s corruption
  160. Back to the Cutting Table
  161. Spooktober 2024, Day Six
  162. Film review: Will & Harper (2024)
  163. Posole morning
  164. Mark Tatulli might get some angry letters about this comic
  165. Spooktober 2024, Day Five
  166. The Boss endorses Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
  167. Infinite Thread XXXIII
  168. What is it with toilet paper hoarding?
  169. The things we get away with at a liberal arts university…poetry in a science class? Tsk.
  170. Please, tell me more
  171. Oh, Trump is going to hate the Washington Post even more now
  172. Was he intentionally lying, or was he just stupid? It’s hard to tell
  173. Richard Dawkins keeps getting smaller
  174. Spooktober 2024, Day Four
  175. What is Melania Trump up to?
  176. Important facts
  177. We were using our crayons wrong!
  178. In which I commit a crime
  179. It’s Wisconsin — I’m surprised they didn’t fire him for veganism
  180. Spooktober 2024, Day Three
  181. Rudy Giuliani’s daughter’s shame over her father’s behavior
  182. Have I been committing a serious offense against Italian cuisine?
  183. Comments policy
  184. OK, the Debate Happened
  185. I didn’t watch the vice pres debate last night
  186. Spooktober 2024, Days One and Two
  187. Jonathan Wells is dead
  188. Failed origami experiments
  189. My immediate reaction to the debate
  190. Behold, the worst teacher in the world!
  191. Walz-Vance debate tonight
  192. New on OnlySky: Be an average citizen of the future, now
  193. The end goal of the anti-abortion movement
  194. I hope I never disappoint my daughter this much
  195. Goodbye Kris Kristofferson
  196. One day you wake up and find yourself in a dystopian eco-disaster novel
  197. Glory Be

September 2024

  1. Elric Report
  2. This summary of Chris Rufo is tight
  3. A night at the park
  4. Ever See a Dead Body?
  5. Fox News in a squeeze
  6. It’s Fall, and everything is fading with some exceptions
  7. Succession fight over Rupert Murdoch’s media empire
  8. I hope your house doesn’t look like this, Floridians
  9. The biggest disappointment of living in Morris
  10. Proximity to the Scene of the Crime
  11. A nice illustration of evolutionary change by incremental modifications
  12. So Many Magical Mysteries
  13. Racists ruin everything
  14. The most ghoulish use of AI so far
  15. Harris campaign going wide in North Carolina
  16. Good Guess
  17. The great nonreligious gender realignment
  18. You have to hate seeing your home described as “unsurvivable”
  19. The naturalistic fallacy is only to be deployed when favorable to your cause
  20. Dreamposting – Gun Culture
  21. The evolution of MAGAman
  22. Tips for respecting microlabels
  23. This is supposed to be negative ad
  24. You’ve all read the Murderbot series, I presume?
  25. Is the GOP trying to alienate women?
  26. That’s no jack-o-lantern, that’s a spider butt!
  27. Keys Mash
  28. Creepy Trump’s plan to get an extra electoral vote thwarted by local politician
  29. Is this justice, or cruel and unusual punishment?
  30. Do they just hate animals?
  31. Musk fought the law and the law won
  32. The bad actor problem in academia
  33. The official spider of Halloween
  34. Here Also Be Dragons
  35. How could Mark Robinson be so stupid?
  36. Still on Xitter?
  37. Only a fool would be fooled by Jared Taylor
  38. Let’s Talk About Bisexuality
  39. Will this be the next right wing freakout?
  40. Weekend? What’s that?
  41. Incest is a touchy subject for Ken Ham
  42. More washing machines in schools, please
  43. The End in Sight
  44. Not the way to win over women voters
  45. Another Possible Joyride
  46. Essay on Paint Chip Poetry
  47. Creepy Trump says something surprising
  48. Sri Lanka elects a new president
  49. Lazy linking
  50. Lockdowns and Teen girl brains
  51. Reading Woke
  52. A bit of history
  53. Harris-Walz rack up endorsements
  54. Political cartoons
  55. Bari Weiss is freakin’ weird
  56. They’re not even good liars
  57. Elric of Melnidrone
  58. Creepy Trump starts a crypto grift
  59. Pre-Fall
  60. Mark Robinson scandal explodes
  61. Thinkin About MAGAs
  62. The election is close. US elections are always close
  63. Definitely a PR stunt, and quite stupid
  64. New on OnlySky: The era of cleanup
  65. We’re all happy to see Miss Sassy safe and sound
  66. Centennial Hills 21
  67. Trump abortion bans are killing women
  68. I finally unsubscribed
  69. Oh, what a catastrophe the New Atheism was for lower-case “a” atheism
  70. One of those movies where I was left wondering, “What did I just watch?”
  71. Good morning!
  72. One Take Gang
  73. Election strategy question: Should campaigns go wide or go deep?
  74. My tarantula, Blue, might be mad at me
  75. Film review: Rebel Ridge (2024)
  76. “Iles” is an anagram for “lies”
  77. The grill is blue, therefore the racism is true
  78. Silverfish
  79. How social media messages can escalate rumors
  80. Rare Drops
  81. The Cybertruck in the wild
  82. Good fact checking
  83. The natalist plan hits a snag
  84. One should always take recommendations from five year olds seriously
  85. An attempted assassination is hardly worth writing about anymore
  86. The Size of the Matter – Video
  87. Just Beets
  88. Chatting with Jehovah’s Witnesses
  89. The psychology of conspiracy theory believers
  90. Every Dodecahedron Symmetry
  91. Rose Gold
  92. When does Elon Musk do any work?
  93. The source of the false Haitian rumor apologizes
  94. Time to cook the eggs!
  95. Boeing on strike!
  96. If I turn in a sicko, will I get a reward?
  97. Cozying up to the enemy
  98. The puzzling allure of extreme diets
  99. At last! Someone as pessimistic about Mars colonization as I am
  100. We got our soundbite
  101. Who needs fly paper?
  102. U Can’t Say Fanny on Telly
  103. BrookBot AI jealous of ‘sibling’ AI Brookie (Fiction)
  104. Gender Roles at the Olympics
  105. Hating on the Haitians
  106. Can we cancel this weird creep now?
  107. It pays well to be a useful idiot
  108. Transphobic Latin
  109. Flirting with danger
  110. Good News: Totally not Racist Satire Magazine also Totally not Misogynist
  111. The morning after the debate
  112. Game over, man
  113. I watched the debate
  114. Limerick Time
  115. Harris clobbers creepy Trump in debate
  116. Getting under creepy Trump’s skin in today’s debate
  117. Lies, lies, and more lies
  118. Examples of life in my neighborhood
  119. If you’re in the neighborhood…
  120. Link Roundup: September 2024
  121. You can almost get away with anything in the name of Jesus
  122. Flippin my Coin
  123. ‘Sugar Daddies’ and ‘Sugar Babies’
  124. The Great Disapotatoment
  125. Getting past the debate hype
  126. What kind of person moves to Russia?
  127. This summary of Israel’s defenses holds up
  128. Debate schmebate
  129. Fake it til u Make it
  130. The guerrilla war between fascists and anti-fascists
  131. Alive and Well
  132. Don’t let him forget it
  133. Can Ned Pump Kin Soup?
  134. Abortion on the ballot
  135. Mary Worth Hentai
  136. I must be really, really old
  137. I’m in league with Satan
  138. Finally, a cause to unite the Right and Left
  139. they don’t stop believin
  140. Liz and Dick Cheney endorsements of Harris may signal the beginning of a trend
  141. humorzzz
  142. Retro gamers ahoy!
  143. I’m getting flashbacks to the internet atheism of yore
  144. I wish I had more prairie progressives around here
  145. Rocket science is in the Bible?
  146. Aieee
  147. How much do ‘issues’ matter in US elections?
  148. Review: Umineko When they Cry
  149. I missed out on the action
  150. The more you know
  151. New on OnlySky: When we abolished borders
  152. I expect better of retired professors, Jerry Hopkins
  153. I need podcast recommendations
  154. Die Microsoft Die
  155. The steady decline of Trump’s Truth Social stock
  156. An unusually long day
  157. Have some Sheep
  158. The IVF problem is coming next for Trump
  159. Soulsborneringkiro Games
  160. Understanding the US presidential election system
  161. First day of kindergarten!
  162. Insert Saved Payment Method
  163. ‘Weird’ is spreading to right wing UK politicians
  164. Do you want to see my jiggly belly?
  165. ‘We saved the best for last’ Exclusive coverage of Day Five of the Democratic National Convention (Fiction)
  166. Trump learns that abortion politics is quicksand
  167. Wohl and Burkman sneak back into politics!
  168. What’s the least you can do to address climate change?
  169. Pause for joy
  170. “Being a pedophile, a molester, that’s not OK.”
  171. Sex Nerd Needed
  172. Update on comments policy
  173. This is the country that creepy Trump and weird Vance want to usher in
  174. Origami: Butterfly on leaf
  175. Birds of a feather …
  176. JD Vance has so many skeletons in his closets
  177. You need an atheist to explain you should respect grieving families?
  178. Titty Hurts
  179. Trump continues getting hammered on Arlington visit

August 2024

  1. Here Be Dragons
  2. America is not great but not in deep decline
  3. Why is it a good idea to have your graph axes include 0?
  4. They’re not really that big
  5. When the moon hits your eye…
  6. A Dang Shame
  7. What do windmills and bacon have in common?
  8. If you want to know what I looked like when I was 4…
  9. Paul Clarence Westad (1917-1989)
  10. The election numbers games: polls, ratings, crowd sizes, money
  11. Stop and smell the flowers
  12. Too many Christmases, and not enough Christmases
  13. Spoil Me This, but Ne’er That
  14. The cemetery incident is another example of creepy Trump thuggery
  15. Purple is always nice
  16. Visualizing the destruction of New York didn’t stop the nuclear fetishists
  17. If I weren’t a vegetarian already…
  18. How to Play Right
  19. The creepy Trump campaign is full of boors
  20. Anyone want to caption this picture?
  21. Noooo! Not chemtrails again!
  22. You don’t get to control teacher’s lives once they go home
  23. A few more flowers before winter comes along and kills them
  24. “Stanford’s Red Wedding”
  25. On Catholic integralism
  26. I GM Yo Ass
  27. The debate over the debates
  28. Meat’s back on the menu, boys!
  29. I thought you might need a bouquet today
  30. What kind of parent would you be?
  31. I’ve known gambling addicts and am wise to their lies
  32. TTRPGs as Writing
  33. The last chance for some Republicans to do the right thing?
  34. Can RFK Jr. get any weirder?
  35. Is it possible to die of a sentimentality overdose?
  36. New on OnlySky: The future is a prisoner’s dilemma
  37. Travel the world! See exotic foreign places!
  38. Alignment Systems or No?
  39. Is Kamala Harris adopting a ‘Ming vase’ strategy?
  40. Busy day
  41. School starts tomorrow – and I’m nervous like a first grader
  42. Apologies for the silence
  43. I thought capitalism & private enterprise would make space travel more efficient
  44. Keep Bill Maher away from kids
  45. Rufk
  46. RFK Jr is out
  47. RFK Jr. set to bow out
  48. Did you know that Kamala Harris is a communist?
  49. It’s always a good time to be an atheist
  50. Weird Vance learns the cost of being a chameleon
  51. Chronic Pain Tetris Game
  52. I am a fake midwesterner
  53. Who is this for?
  54. Darn. The jizz cup story is probably fake
  55. Checking the fact-checkers
  56. Uncle Vladimir wants you
  57. I was against Walz before I was for him
  58. The Harris-Walz campaign flips the script
  59. Back to regular blogging
  60. Manoposting III: An Unfortunate Self-Immolation
  61. Today is the start of claaaaa aaaarghh…
  62. I wish my butt was this pretty
  63. Crabby destiny
  64. There and Back Again: Towing a caravan with an EV
  65. Manoposting I: Two Reasonable Things
  66. I don’t often follow financial news, but when I do, it’s to giggle at asshats
  67. The ghost of Gish
  68. Manoposting II: More Heath Fun
  69. Science is not supposed to be partisan
  70. The Politics of Not Working, in Song
  71. Where Harris and Trump stand on ten issues, including abortion
  72. Ugh. “Cultural Christian.” That’s an excuse for a lot of stupidity
  73. What voting block will he piss off next?
  74. Bad Grandpa
  75. We will tell you what you want
  76. Where have all the creationists gone?
  77. Crack That Whip
  78. New policy on comments
  79. Joyride
  80. Toe-May-Toe Saws
  81. Lazy linking
  82. How weird are they getting?
  83. JD Vance – The Forgettin’ Man
  84. In which I am entertained by the antics of economists
  85. Did they really need to remake Alien ?
  86. It’s my 49th Birthday!
  87. I guess I’m a bookburner now
  88. The power of anger when channeled through joy
  89. Is Kamala Harris Black?
  90. Expect a Trump campaign shake-up soon
  91. You need some more weird tales from Ruben Bolling
  92. Bring back the mask
  93. So…you wanna be a science communicator?
  94. Step into the Cipher
  95. I Think My Trip to Wrocław Is Off
  96. A tragedy in the making
  97. OK, Megan, which is it?
  98. Teachers, soldiers, and women shouldn’t vote for these guys
  99. Totally not a cult
  100. Hey, Elon! This is how you’ll be remembered
  101. Good riddance to Columbia University president
  102. Creative Mush
  103. Some scenery
  104. “The dumbest climate conversation of all time”
  105. Now I’ll never sign up for Disney+
  106. It begins again
  107. Village of Bolingbrook considers importing water from Mars (Fiction)
  108. Light blogging coming up
  109. Seth Meyers had a lot of catching up to do
  110. The end is imminenter, maybe
  111. It’s just Texas, they won’t mind
  112. I did not watch the Musk/Trump interview. Did you?
  113. Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense
  114. The politics of crowds and poll numbers
  115. The Musk-Trump interview is a bust
  116. I read Raygun’s paper on Olympic Breaking
  117. A little logic puzzle
  118. Doom doom dooooom
  119. Who’s afraid of being weird?
  120. Creepy weird apocalyptic conspiracy theories about sex
  121. The politics of insults
  122. Francis Bacon vs. Ken Ham
  123. Sighted in Morris
  124. Tim Walz’s unusual finances
  125. I got a break “Quod Subigo Farinam”
  126. Congratulations Imane Khelif
  127. Kid Culture
  128. Laughter can be the best medicine in politics
  129. Creepy Trump is going even further off the rails
  130. The first crack in Tim Walz’s perfection appears
  131. Podish-sortacast reminder!
  132. Link Roundup: August 2024
  133. The Daily Show on the recent news
  134. Centennial Hills 20
  135. John Oliver excoriates RFK Jr.
  136. Oddments
  137. Not Quite…
  138. Creepy Trump caves on debate demands
  139. Oh no! We’ve lost Chaya Raichik’s support!
  140. Great moments in child psychology
  141. How do we celebrate this holiday?
  142. Making a Thicknesser – Part 2 – The Failure
  143. UK riots: Social media (and Elon Musk) stoke the flames of racist violence
  144. How bad could Republican control be?
  145. Ugh. Maybe Tomorrow.
  146. Sportsmanship at the Olympics
  147. This should be interesting
  148. You do not have the right to not listen to Nazis
  149. Look who’s smiling
  150. No racists down here in Texas, no sir
  151. Proscribe Professional Political Pundits
  152. This Job I Have
  153. More on RFK Jr. and the dead bear cub
  154. Harris-Walz campaign releases a video introducing him
  155. Kamala Harris picks Tim Walz to be her running mate
  156. Enough adulting!
  157. When Brains Betray Us
  158. It’s Walz!
  159. Centennial Hills 19
  160. Good god, I pray that my children like me a little bit
  161. Why is creepy Trump ramping it up to 12?
  162. Making Google, Apple, and Microsoft sweat
  163. RFK Jr joins Club Weird
  164. Republicans’ weird library policies
  165. I coulda told you so
  166. This doesn’t say much about the discernment of the movie-going public
  167. That’s a whopper of a retraction
  168. The church of childless cat ladies
  169. One Breath
  170. Sri Lanka places third in Olympics – for uniforms
  171. Vote for Democracy 2024
  172. Boeing gets another black mark
  173. New Art Show
  174. Day of the tinies
  175. Making a Thicknesser – Part 1 – The Dread
  176. John Oliver on the West Bank
  177. You can call me weird, I don’t mind
  178. Centennial Hills 18
  179. Creepy Trump and Weird Vance
  180. Julien Alfred wins 100m gold at Olympics
  181. Blood quantum is back, baby
  182. Why Roy Cooper pulled out of the race
  183. As we all know, real women lose at sports
  184. Back to tha Back to tha Old School
  185. When and why did JD Vance become so hateful and weird?
  186. James Baldwin (1924-2024)
  187. The Daily Show on the search for Harris’s running mate
  188. A great way to start the morning
  189. I guess Ken Ham won’t be voting for Kamala Harris
  190. Centennial Hills 17
  191. On what basis should we vote?
  192. The Thunderdome that wasn’t
  193. I am a hollow tube, all shiny and glistening and clean
  194. Origami: Reutersvärd Triangle
  195. Russia is devouring its own future
  196. Monster’s Wedding
  197. Trump’s outreach to Black journalists does not go well
  198. William Calley, mass murderer of My Lai, dies

July 2024

  1. He seemed surprised that the attendees at the National Association of Black Journalists were black
  2. Cicada-killer, qu’est-ce que c’est?
  3. Not going to be a great day
  4. Centennial Hills 16
  5. Progressives push back against Shapiro for vice-president
  6. Creative differences with LLMs (Book writing update)
  7. Reinforcing that dumb jock stereotype
  8. Jon Stewart on the past week’s events
  9. Cooper is out, Walz is in?
  10. Every day, same spot
  11. The planet is so screwed
  12. Dude
  13. I Voted
  14. Michael Moore weighs in on the election
  15. John Oliver on JD Vance and the couch
  16. Shall we get ahead of the cycle with the next JD Vance weirdness?
  17. Road trip!
  18. Check out my poem published by ONE ART!
  19. New on OnlySky: An urgent message from the future
  20. Burnt monkey testicles?
  21. Frittering away the presidency in a lost cause
  22. Centennial Hills 15
  23. Kamala Harris moves gingerly away from Biden on Israel
  24. That’s a cunning way to defund education and kill a lot of children
  25. The cat’s not dead yet
  26. The myth of migrant crime
  27. Random godless thought
  28. Kriswager
  29. An Atheistical Thunk for Thee
  30. ‘Weird, sick, creepy, freaks’
  31. It has not been proven that JD Vance is a dolphin porn fetishist
  32. Vivian Jenna Wilson has just about had it with her father
  33. Kamala or Harris?
  34. Fvck You Willem Dafoe
  35. Don’t be that professor
  36. Someday, I’ll learn to ignore Marvel movies
  37. I’m missing Skepticon!
  38. Centennial Hills 14
  39. Great moments in fact checking
  40. We’re talking big money here, Sam
  41. JD Vance looks worse by the day
  42. Out-of-touch billionaires showing their whole asses to the world
  43. I was neutral on Kamala Harris, but now I’m optimistic
  44. Vivian Wilson strikes back!
  45. Practicing my fan dance, just in case
  46. Fuzzoamphisbaenia Lives
  47. What makes a good running mate
  48. The Upcoming Missouri Primary
  49. <mooooaan>
  50. Haley Voters for Harris?
  51. JD Vance probably does love a comfy couch, though
  52. The problem with kaiju
  53. Centennial Hills 13
  54. War criminal Benjamin Netanyahu met with protests
  55. I miss excitement and adventure.
  56. This is not a super-villain origin story
  57. Waiting in the Car Again
  58. Giving Republicans a taste of their own medicine
  59. I told you I had to sort spiders today
  60. Hallelujah, for OnlySky has risen
  61. Paying tribute to Biden
  62. Built on trillions of refutations of their mythology
  63. I know what I’m doing today
  64. Centennial Hills 12
  65. Kamala Harris comes out swinging
  66. Illuminati and New World Order Peace Conference Special Report: Biden quits his campaign and Mayor Mary quits the Illuminati! (Fiction)
  67. Update – Sorry for the Silence
  68. So schön…
  69. Republicans caught flat-footed by Biden’s decision to quit
  70. Laughter humanizes
  71. Little princeling
  72. Nosedive right into the sewer
  73. The Magical Misery Tour is over
  74. The Size of the Matter
  75. The election gets even wilder
  76. Making a Drum Sander – Part 5 – Painted
  77. BIDEN OUT
  78. Joe Biden withdraws from the race
  79. The right to access a toilet
  80. Centennial Hills 11
  81. Do Justice, Make Peace: Portland BLM Protests 4 Years On
  82. Political maneuvering in France
  83. Another reason to dislike JD Vance
  84. Trump’s acceptance speech
  85. Back 2 tha Old School
  86. Free Idea
  87. Bob Newhart (1929-2024)
  88. Intelligent Design 3.0?
  89. Virtue signaling
  90. What are these people afraid of?
  91. Centennial Hills 10
  92. 5ggles
  93. Rat makes a good point
  94. I want my microbots
  95. Water, stone, trees
  96. Have we already given up our genetic privacy?
  97. Focussing On Right Wing Violence After The Attack On Trump Is Not Irrational
  98. More pun fun
  99. The challenge of lab grown meat
  100. Back to the 1950s
  101. Teaching kids to ‘OBEY’ is not education
  102. They can’t stop lying
  103. Centennial Hills 9
  104. Murder among the upper middle class
  105. Really, I’m expected to go through all this now?
  106. LLM error rates
  107. The lies they tell themselves
  108. That web is not tangled at all
  109. The menace of plastics
  110. Reminder: It’s okay not to have a take
  111. Centennial Hills 8
  112. Arrived at my mother’s house
  113. The ratio of mindless speculation to actual news goes through the roof
  114. More Art Shows!!
  115. Making a Drum Sander – Part 4 – It Sucks!
  116. Centennial Hills 7
  117. I think I need to lie down
  118. Welp, I guess the Republicans will finally be on board for responsible gun control
  119. The insane gun culture in the US
  120. live by political violence, die by… siiigh
  121. How to end (and not end) a limited TV series
  122. Centennial Hills 6
  123. When genetics teaching goes very, very bad
  124. Nobody here but us chickens
  125. Time for Bifocals
  126. The modern corporate university
  127. It’s an obituary
  128. Centennial Hills 5
  129. Anyone else curious what the final solution might be?
  130. The Beatles as The Four Musketeers?
  131. I found a friend in the kitchen sink
  132. Despite it all, atheists are still growing
  133. Centennial Hills 4
  134. Link Roundup: July 2024
  135. If it’s not one thing, it’s another
  136. The Three (or maybe Four) Musketeers and their puzzling lack of muskets
  137. Godless conversation tonight!
  138. Well Then
  139. A WIP
  140. Faith poster at work – the saga continues. I finally spoke up!
  141. What happened to the New Atheism?
  142. The inner life of plants
  143. If you’re wondering where I’m at
  144. What’s Really Important
  145. Centennial Hills 3
  146. Macron’s gamble pays off, sort of
  147. The algorithmic wasteland
  148. Centennial Hills 2
  149. Some people I just can’t be mad at. How would you respond?
  150. Aliens are Real, Maaan
  151. A double portion of Pie
  152. Making a Drum Sander – Part 3 – First Run
  153. Infinite Thread XXXII
  154. The light flickers
  155. That’s Not Gonna Work!
  156. Whut in Ternation?
  157. He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union …
  158. Matthew “Choad” Walther gets a free pass at the NY Times
  159. Art Shows!
  160. UK elections confirm predictions
  161. These monsters are all dead
  162. Congratulations, UK!
  163. Gas
  164. Self-Modifying and Machine-Generated Code
  165. The high price in the US of weight-loss drugs
  166. An outpost of reason in a county of conservatives
  167. I have a phenomenal idea for a horror movie!
  168. The UK is having an election on our national holiday?
  169. Stupid movie
  170. A disappointing observation
  171. What Should Biden Do?
  172. The Meeting is Over
  173. Making a Drum Sander – Part 2 – Tilting Table
  174. Dehyping AI
  175. I’ve read a few romance novels, some fantasy, and a lot of bad science fiction
  176. Good news, bad news
  177. For the good of America, Biden should become a dictator
  178. Translation, please
  179. We’ve been winning?
  180. Political maneuvering in France
  181. John Oliver on the UK elections
  182. Is this still the 19th century?
  183. Looking forward to the big meeting
  184. Three cartoons
  185. Stop Freaking Out
  186. “Faith” poster at work
  187. Fun Weirdo Art
  188. Are you ready for the 4th of July?
  189. Rural American values
  190. Origami: Ixora
  191. It’s good to know when to abandon a plan
  192. Who the heck is “Eddie”?
  193. Come back, Dave Futrelle!
  194. I’m trying!
  195. May Flowers – Another Bouquet

June 2024

  1. By Their Fruits
  2. IANAG Dreampost
  3. That Horrible Debate
  4. Betting and honors in the UK
  5. Conexiones!
  6. Making a Drum Sander – Part 1 – Base
  7. I approve of this opinion
  8. Getting religion back in schools
  9. Weep for Oklahoma
  10. Teeny tiny little friend
  11. Supreme Court rejects Sackler deal
  12. Minnesota weird: we don’t have any native tarantulas!
  13. Joe must go
  14. My first authors on authors livestream (Non-ficiton)
  15. Trump lies and dodges throughout the debate
  16. I shouldn’t be watching the debate
  17. Visualizing spacetime
  18. Why I left Facebook
  19. Cars powered by sea salt batteries
  20. Poopology
  21. The Debate
  22. Julian Assange finally walks free
  23. Why you need guard spiders to protect your home
  24. Let them eat the Ten Commandments
  25. I am disappointed in my university — do better
  26. Watch out for the abuse of language
  27. Debate mind games
  28. The Great Red Spot controversy
  29. Hatred can be so oblivious to itself
  30. More Art Shows!
  31. Cricket World Cup update
  32. Defending my castle
  33. What do you do when you have a rough day?
  34. Do I need to buy a gun?
  35. Rishi Sunak’s hapless election campaign
  36. Honesty is no way to get rich
  37. ‘Rawdogging’?
  38. Trump’s second term agenda
  39. It begins. Again.
  40. Interesting insider view of UK politics
  41. Heat horror at the Hajj
  42. The real mission
  43. Vacation trip!
  44. I Don’t Need No Gym
  45. Lessons of Covid for the next pandemic
  46. A Jack of all trades is thicker than water
  47. Ok is not ok?
  48. Sacrificing functionality for style
  49. Low Key Mentally Illin’
  50. Look who made a second egg sac!
  51. Charges dropped against Columbia student protestors
  52. Why Pride is a Celebration and a Protest
  53. Open conversation tonight at 9
  54. Public health safety measures that would never pass now
  55. “God the Original Segregationist”
  56. Patchwork people
  57. Would Don Draper laugh or cry at the progress AI has made in advertising?
  58. Too busy to read books? There’s an app for that!
  59. Dembski’s Delusion and Dishonesty Detector
  60. The Sean O’Rambo Knife – 5
  61. A new job has me feeling anxious.
  62. Flawless slasher movie content
  63. Senseless deaths
  64. Tiny. Pink. Terror.
  65. Biden hammers Trump leading up to the debate
  66. The University of Minnesota panders to genocide
  67. A Soaring Eagle Knife
  68. Oh boy, let’s revisit the lab leak hypothesis again!
  69. Another monolith appears!
  70. Chris Rufo has failed so far
  71. The puzzling gambles of Sunak and Macron
  72. Religion and capitalism are their own worst enemies
  73. Insta-doom
  74. Let’s address some comments
  75. Debate rules released
  76. Tradwives rising, rising, rising…falling, falling, falling
  77. The social media cycle
  78. Isn’t it always this way?
  79. Israel’s Space Defense Force ‘preemptively’ attacks DuPage Township (Fiction)
  80. A Kestrel Knife
  81. When you don’t want to be cited
  82. This Week in Flowers…
  83. Is raw milk the new right wing thing?
  84. Environmental impact of LLMs
  85. %f0%9f%a4%ae%f0%9f%a4%ae%f0%9f%a4%ae
  86. Things That You Cannot Unsee
  87. Black Widows: the most boring pet ever?
  88. A brilliant approach
  89. The Sean O’Rambo Knife – 4
  90. Kids These Days
  91. Foolish evangelicals. You can’t convert me!
  92. First bike!
  93. The surge of the Reform party in the UK
  94. Maybe crime is spread through the drinking water?
  95. Easy way to solve the climate crisis
  96. If only they hadn’t made that last comment
  97. US Supreme Court opens door to even more carnage
  98. The religious right is the tail that wags the GOP dog
  99. Limited victory for abortion rights
  100. “There’s something to be said for Minnesota nice”
  101. Do other countries have this sick obsession with flags?
  102. I worked on LLMs
  103. I’m doing well and god had nothing to do with it!
  104. “The Truth Floats”
  105. You can make a competitive sport out of anything
  106. The time for subtlety is long gone
  107. Fathers and sons
  108. Art Show: True Beauty 2024
  109. A Thing I Have Not Seen Before
  110. Does getting shot really throw someone back?
  111. Everyone likes to vacation in Spain
  112. Diamond Plates and Abrasive Stuff
  113. Also guilty, guilty, guilty
  114. Let the ‘lab leak’ conspiracy theory die already
  115. Weiner saves Texas butts
  116. The GOP war on democratic institutions
  117. Continuing shake-up at AiG
  118. Cars shouldn’t be a necessity for living
  119. Invest in Mass Transit. Electric Cars Still Pollute Air, Water, and Food.
  120. I don’t need to know what Tablet is
  121. How did the dog find the camp site?
  122. The new family has been efficiently transferred
  123. Link Roundup: June 2024
  124. Nearly all campus protests were peaceful
  125. And now I have an official blog poem!
  126. My new motto
  127. The great shark vs. electrocution debate
  128. Uh-oh …
  129. May Flowers – Indigo and Grey
  130. The Sean O’Rambo Knife – 3
  131. Maybe we can call it Dark Easter
  132. Some interesting primary results
  133. Horse Girls, a Dramatic Reading
  134. Trump has to meet with a probation officer before sentencing
  135. The SJWs will be scheming again this afternoon
  136. It’s a Me
  137. Independence
  138. Jonathan Pie on the UK elections
  139. Where the sewage ends up
  140. The kinky sex life of nephilid spiders
  141. US beats Pakistan in World Cup cricket shocker
  142. Empty vessels
  143. Oh boy, here come the hysterical headlines
  144. I learned how to do this on Star Trek
  145. The Sean O’Rambo Knife – 2
  146. Another day, another atrocity committed by the IDF
  147. What happens to our bodies in excessive heat
  148. My opinion of astronauts has declined precipitously
  149. The NY Times is just the worst
  150. Republicans are the forced-birth party
  151. Better than a cat
  152. Jonathan Pie on the UK elections
  153. Oh look! Egg sac!
  154. International cricket matches return to the US
  155. Can skeptics be woke?
  156. America’s gain is the UK’s loss
  157. Islamic embryology is my curse now
  158. The Sean O’Rambo Knife – 1
  159. One of my new poems is getting published!
  160. The myth of morality of the Israeli Defense Forces shattered
  161. Pro-natalism: New rationalist cult just dropped
  162. Jon Stewart’s media critique is spot on
  163. A Furiosa disappointment
  164. Have I mentioned that I dislike debate?
  165. Minnesota crooks aren’t particularly sophisticated
  166. How some jail and prison systems exploit inmates and families
  167. Congratulations to Iceland and Mexico
  168. Evolution destroyed in 5 minutes!
  169. Trump’s post-conviction incoherent rant
  170. Mother (poem)
  171. Whatever happens is good for Trump – according to his supporters
  172. The new martyrs: Christians being tortured with rainbows
  173. Verðandi eats!
  174. Origami: Box Head
  175. Skuld is sulking
  176. Kent Hovind will hate this
  177. Trump’s obsessions may have sunk his defense
  178. May Flowers – a Bouquet

May 2024

  1. Behold! The most complex creature in all of creation!
  2. Urðr is not happy
  3. Understanding the verdict
  4. With liberty and justice (especially justice) for all
  5. Only a small step, keep marching
  6. Forbidden Knowledge, French Edition
  7. How sweet it is
  8. Trump found guilty on all 34 counts
  9. The spiders have arrived!
  10. Are the rich good for anything at all?
  11. Corruption with a smirk
  12. Where are my spiders?
  13. I thought businesses liked cost-benefit analyses
  14. Check out this sign at my work.
  15. The story behind Airplane!
  16. Russia’s latest weapon: ZOMBIES!
  17. Doomer Stuff
  18. There are limits to how much creationists can deny
  19. Despairing of democracy
  20. Going overboard with portmanteaus
  21. Spider unboxing today!
  22. To start, let’s censure Alito
  23. A better AI system?
  24. I’m a gamer now!
  25. If only magic worked, Neuralink might succeed
  26. The collab I never knew I wanted <<- NEW!! NON CLICKBAIT!!!11
  27. The Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Now Seems Inevitable.
  28. The collab I never knew I wanted
  29. Red and Blue
  30. The courtroom sketch artists at the Trump trial
  31. A Carboniferous arachnid
  32. An Ordovician ancestor to spiders
  33. Growing up feminist, and associated rambling
  34. MF – White and Antifa Chick Tract
  35. WoRk??!?
  36. Mysteries do not need to be solvable
  37. Drawing I Made at Work
  38. More Impending ApOCaLyPsE! <-- MORE CLICKBAIT
  39. May Flowers – Cyan
  40. Handsome wolf
  41. Signs of Impending Apocalypse <-- YES It's CLICKBAIT
  42. Sunak’s puzzling election gamble
  43. How can a cartoon be so true?
  44. It shouldn’t take so long to recognize a fool
  45. May Flowers – Green
  46. Spiders blooming everywhere!
  47. Why isn’t religion Dionysian?
  48. The schisms in the Michigan GOP
  49. So that’s what they’re afraid of
  50. They like me! They really like me!
  51. Rishi Sunak’s election campaign gets off to a soggy start
  52. Art Show Update
  53. That’s a whole lotta legs
  54. How to cure your manly depression
  55. The formula for fame & fortune: Hate + Christianity
  56. Going behind the curtain at dog shows
  57. The orcas are at it again
  58. As expected, Trump chickens out of testifying
  59. Wear the damn seat belt!
  60. Our vigorous young athletes will not be discouraged!
  61. Picking rich people’s pockets is profitable
  62. The rights of a river
  63. You will not believe how ridiculous a Minnesota state senator can be
  64. How Not To Do Renewable Energy: A Case for Systemic Change
  65. A big legal win for consumers
  66. Texas Misery
  67. An entertaining debunking of evolutionary psychology
  68. What is the Vatican Method?
  69. May Flowers – Yellow
  70. Sentimental Value
  71. Spiderslug!
  72. Good morning from the big city!
  73. More evidence that Rudy Giuliani is an idiot
  74. Land unter (Floodings)
  75. May Flowers – Black
  76. Agility champion
  77. What, no more Jesus on toast?
  78. Senator Robert Menendez must be really stupid
  79. It’s official: The US House of Representatives is now a middle school
  80. Have there been any good commencement speeches this year?
  81. What political news reports should contain – but often do not
  82. Cops are mostly useless
  83. We had a chance to tar & feather Trump, and we missed it
  84. The Cat Farts 4
  85. The information theory of Mysterium
  86. West Virginia is the future of red states
  87. Weekend plans!
  88. Biden-Trump debates arranged
  89. All I needed this morning was a poisonous earworm
  90. This is not the morning I had planned
  91. Who knew spiders were so lucrative?
  92. UCLA counter-protestors revealed to be neo-Nazis
  93. Birds
  94. Colonialism: just an imaginary problem
  95. Bloody kings
  96. What a pretty home you have!
  97. Update on Chinese EVs
  98. Spider sex orgy, coming right up
  99. A Trump trial puzzle
  100. We’ve moved!
  101. May Flowers – Blue
  102. Are you fascinated by what frightens you?
  103. Driven to Distraction by Howling Death Machines
  104. The Raven!
  105. Freethinkers actually are bothered by people being digested by an ooze
  106. What makes the church choose tolerance?
  107. Skepticon is happening on 26-28 July!
  108. No end to Trump’s financial sleaze
  109. Roger Corman is dead
  110. the godfather, or grandfather, or one of the prime people that ended up actually killing the unity of the movement
  111. My Heart is Broke
  112. Belief vs. Culture
  113. RFK Jr.’s brain worm is not funny
  114. Tucker Carlson has always been ignorant & nuts
  115. The competition between US and Chinese electric vehicle companies
  116. Oh, it’s Eurovision season?
  117. Met Gala
  118. A cynical Mother’s Day connection
  119. Facon (Tofu bacon)
  120. The new state flag is official
  121. How fountains worked in the days before electricity
  122. Commencing
  123. Botanicals Art Exhibition
  124. Hard times for Trump allies
  125. Aurora time!
  126. Link Roundup: May 2024
  127. Jon Stewart on the week’s news
  128. Lawns should be golden
  129. My door guard
  130. What the hell is wrong with the Catholic church?
  131. The future is battery powered
  132. Bolingbrook hosts two matches in the TikTok Influencer Tournament (Fiction)
  133. Karahan Tepe
  134. OH PETER JACKSON NO
  135. I predicted the fate of Neuralink
  136. Kristi Noem’s disastrous book tour
  137. “See the Light” — Another Eyeball Flower
  138. Fringe bigots hack at Scientific American
  139. Old bitter comedians
  140. Lauren Southern is a victim of her own beliefs
  141. Since the last post…
  142. We couldn’t get anyone interesting?
  143. A spider banquet!
  144. Tories reeling after local elections in the UK
  145. Politicians making icky confessions
  146. Grendel was a T. rex ?
  147. It’s gone past funny to depressing
  148. The depths of human depravity
  149. A Question About the Student Protests.
  150. Are you looking for a light guidebook to the most interesting animals on the planet?
  151. Beware of 60 year old grandmas!
  152. Done 4
  153. Appalling behavior by NYC mayor and police
  154. Do you think medical boards protect us from quacks?
  155. Making good things cool
  156. Two Dead Whistleblowers: History’s Lessons on Capitalist Violence
  157. The Next Treatment
  158. Racism rears its head again at the University of Mississippi
  159. Spider gluttony
  160. Let’s chat with Justin, the Catholic apologist AI
  161. Noem wants to kill more animals
  162. I only have one week left on crutches and it’s changed the way I view things.
  163. Everyone should have one of these boxes
  164. Circuitous: 2
  165. Antisemitism and Islamophobia
  166. Bari Weiss created a short, simple label for the worst people in media: “IDW”
  167. May the Fourth proven false by a religious twit!
  168. I want you to know this was a challenge
  169. Do your partner’s religious beliefs differ from yours? (Plus “Smile” and “Cock and Petals”)
  170. Wouldn’t you know it?
  171. May Flowers – Prompts
  172. SCHOOL’S OUT FOR SUMMER!
  173. Silly songs
  174. Violent and unnecessary repression of students and faculty
  175. A frustrating news article
  176. Ad agencies should watch Star Trek
  177. The University of Minnesota stands down
  178. Circuitous
  179. Bad books
  180. Another demonstration of the relationship of money and intelligence
  181. What’s the right way to protest Israel?
  182. The problem of maintaining humanistic societies
  183. The Silicon Valley venture capitalists are not all right
  184. Nice anti-Abrahamic rant
  185. Origami: Coffee
  186. Flower in Her Hair (more weird art)
  187. Credentialed leftist at work
  188. The scene at UW Madison
  189. Academic freedom under threat
  190. The truth about spiders
  191. Protests everywhere
  192. Social Media and Me
  193. Happy International Workers’ Day!
  194. Social media 1, ChatGPT 0

April 2024

  1. I never cared much for Nate Silver
  2. I am so happy to see students standing proudly on the right side of history
  3. A problem I am glad not to have
  4. Too bad it’s in Florida
  5. Spring is sprunging
  6. ‘3 Body Problem’: Welcome your new alien overlords
  7. The Saber-toothed Salmon: When Fact Is Goofier Than Fiction
  8. Those darned talking boots
  9. A professor’s cri de coeur
  10. Is shooting a puppy good for a MAGA politician?
  11. Rich people hate rainbows and grey areas
  12. The argument that Trump is losing it
  13. More Randomness and Some Administrivia
  14. I don’t have a games backlog
  15. NaPoWriMo Day #27 — “Free”
  16. Campus protests over Gaza escalate
  17. I’m adding Infested to my must-see list of spider movies
  18. 2000 Words to Close the Fundraiser
  19. Republicans hate dogs
  20. It’s so good to live in a tolerant state
  21. Are all my pets psycho?
  22. Approaches to the end of life
  23. How do you feel when you know someone is praying for you?
  24. There is no indignity that some people will not accept
  25. Another dishonest website down in flames
  26. Ban on noncompete clauses gets challenged in court
  27. This. Is. UTAH!
  28. The First Amendment doesn’t have an Israel exception
  29. Crazy about cat men
  30. Good riddance to non-compete clauses
  31. Wait, what’s weird about them?
  32. Springtime, and one’s thoughts turn to spider breeding
  33. Trump did not have a good day in court
  34. Arrest those tolerant peaceniks for…something!
  35. They’re trying to wear me down
  36. Better send in the riot squad
  37. The amazing Voyager space probes
  38. TV killed journalism in America
  39. Behold, our new king
  40. Just another spring day on campus
  41. What is the size of a ‘majority’?
  42. 100 Words on the Topic of Mars vs Antares
  43. A Great Wild Mercy video (Non-Fiction)
  44. Funds Raised! Thanks!
  45. The Good Liars confront Trump supporters
  46. I am stumped by the logistics
  47. A moral concern
  48. Mondays are for disillusionment
  49. Film review: My Scientology Movie (2015)
  50. Mike Johnson is the dog that didn’t bark
  51. Funds, I Raise Them
  52. That’s my boy
  53. More pun fun
  54. The ridiculous Tesla cybertruck
  55. The Columbia administration is totally out of touch with academic principles
  56. The best vegan rabbit stew you’ve ever had
  57. 250 Words on the Topic of Loki as God
  58. The feel-good movie of the year!
  59. The cost of meaningless speed
  60. College presidents, student protests, and major political issues
  61. Two weeks to go
  62. Daniel Dennett has died
  63. NaPoWriMo Day #19…Recovery Day # 29384756
  64. 100 Words on the Topic of Humility
  65. I don’t know who I am anymore!
  66. How Trump can make money from his money-losing social media company
  67. 250 Words on the Topic of Hugs
  68. Bolingbrook corporation fires AI CEO (Fiction)
  69. Likely More Cancer
  70. Wokehammer?
  71. On a wall in Austin
  72. The proof is in the damnable pudding
  73. Does capitalism make us unhappy? No, but also yes
  74. Arizona GOP digs an even deeper hole on abortion
  75. How desperate are you for a job as a teacher?
  76. 500 Words on the Topic of Hellraisin’
  77. 1000 Words on the Role of Satan in US Religion
  78. Reason for blogging silence
  79. Is astrology low-hanging fruit? How about creationism?
  80. It’s a joke, I worry that some will take it seriously
  81. Two amendments
  82. 100 Words on Metamorphosis
  83. 200 More Words on the Topic of GMing
  84. 200 Words on the Topic of Game Masterin’
  85. Do news stories make you emotional? Do you feel differently about things that happened when you were younger?
  86. Every time I think about our economic system, I shudder
  87. The only summary of the Cass Report that I need
  88. Copenhagen
  89. Don’t get your hopes up
  90. How pathetic do you have to be to be ignored by the press?
  91. The hemorrhaging of Red America continues
  92. That lost weekend
  93. My Next Excuse for Riding Trains
  94. 500 Words on the Topic of My Pants
  95. 1000 Words on the Topic of Teeth
  96. 1000 Words on the Topic of Something That Amuses Me
  97. “Sunrise” and “Bloom” (Another Eyeball Flower)
  98. John Oliver on executions
  99. Just Bread
  100. Consequences, Vietnam edition
  101. 500 Words on the Topic of Gratitude
  102. 100 Words on the Topic of ;-)
  103. It’s a shingrix kind of day
  104. What will Monday’s Trump trial bring?
  105. The Fvcked in the Mouth Fundraiser
  106. Film review: Scoop (2024)
  107. If Rebecca Watson agrees, we must be right
  108. Dennett’s somewhat dangerous idea
  109. I wasn’t surprised at all
  110. The apes are acting funny again
  111. I’ll Give You Fish
  112. Voters seem to be wising up to the stadium con
  113. Too much social media
  114. OJ Simpson is dead
  115. The end is nigh!
  116. A better formulation of the Golden Rule
  117. A hole in the sky
  118. Have you ever worked for a religious organization?
  119. Link roundup: April 2024
  120. Grifters get slapped
  121. Arizona adds to the GOP’s abortion woes
  122. The Republican descent into insanity continues
  123. Things Psychotherapists Got Wrong
  124. Writer’s Block and Paint Chip Poetry
  125. Jon Stewart blasts the Biden administration over Gaza
  126. I don’t think I’m autistic, but I am feeling demonic
  127. The return of a cicada swarm
  128. Missed opportunity
  129. I do not like cicadas
  130. What is “art”?
  131. NaPoWriMo Day #8 — “Hometown Girl”
  132. Trump chickens out on abortion
  133. The eclipse is going to be shy today
  134. The Dawkins Apologists crawl out of the woodwork!
  135. Film review: Past Lives (2023)
  136. NaPoWriMo Day #7 — “I Flourish”
  137. The martyr complex
  138. Infinite Thread XXXI
  139. Trump’s curious campaign against his potential allies
  140. This week, we’re talking about the truck
  141. The Hobbits go plant based
  142. The negatives of food delivery services
  143. Banality and bigotry
  144. Turn off all your appliances, devices, and lights!
  145. Good riddance to No Labels
  146. Anthony Comstock should be made the face of the Republican party
  147. ACAB, now and forever
  148. Israel had the world’s sympathy and squandered it
  149. The Trump memestock
  150. The developmental origins of adult diseases
  151. Are my lungs really that garish?
  152. Dwc
  153. It’s the insincerity, Joe
  154. More on the right wing freakout over Easter and the Transgender Day of Visibility
  155. “Blooms” Art Show
  156. You must remember this: our opponents aren’t particularly bright
  157. Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse
  158. Lina Khan interviewed by Jon Stewart
  159. Moar Easter Gingerbreads
  160. Update…Pain Poetry
  161. Oh no! Please don’t send Chaya Raichik on tour!
  162. Do I need to tell everyone…do not trust the internet?
  163. Astroturfing the airwaves
  164. The horror in Gaza keeps getting worse
  165. Chemtrails? Seriously?
  166. Trump posts bond, gets a stricter gag order
  167. Origami: Snail
  168. TV review: 3 Body Problem (2024)
  169. Demographically Entitled Idiots
  170. The religious demand for enforced ignorance
  171. Tomorrow (Pre-op Poetry)
  172. How can you support Freethoughtblogs?
  173. How you can support Freethoughtblogs
  174. This is not an April Fool’s joke
  175. Better Late Than Never, I guess
  176. This is why supplements need to be regulated as well
  177. Why we should not have people routinely carrying guns
  178. For all the debate bros
  179. So that’s what AI is good for
  180. Go away, Kooi Chong

March 2024

  1. Bigots will seize upon anything to advance bigotry
  2. I am looking forward to the traditional Easter dinner
  3. Beyoncé enchants me again
  4. What are all these plastics doing to us?
  5. The Trump stock bubble
  6. Woman charged with murder over abortion sues prosecutors
  7. A plea for sympathy
  8. Surprising results in probability
  9. More weird drawings…distractions
  10. Boeing has become an object lesson in bad business
  11. Shock win for Democrat in Alabama, and Kari Lake admits defaming election official
  12. Today is the day of the dog-and-pony show
  13. How’s your sperm count doin’, guys?
  14. Buh-bye, Sam
  15. I detested the NY Times since before it was cool
  16. The celebrity memorabilia craze
  17. The Christian cult of embryo worship
  18. I join the non-engineers in solving engineering problems!
  19. Joe Lieberman has died
  20. Synchronicity! Convergence! It must be significant.
  21. Nitrogen gas manufacturers try to block use for executions
  22. Great Bible, but what about the STICKY PAGES?
  23. Big tough TV cowboy
  24. Games that are just books
  25. Wilson’s Principles of Teratology
  26. Does anyone care that the Republican candidate is obviously ill?
  27. Trump gets good and bad legal news
  28. Wow, now I really want to read this book!
  29. You know what?
  30. Were you allowed to question things growing up?
  31. Rooting out scientific fraud with cash rewards
  32. The eclipse of 2024: why are we lucky enough to have these on Earth?
  33. Bad dads
  34. Time Zones in C++
  35. Knives on Snow
  36. The power of myths
  37. Classic long-term evolutionary thinking for the win!
  38. The UFO cult
  39. 2023 Christmass Gingerbreads
  40. More weird flowers…
  41. Our own William Brinkman has received two Indieverse Awards nominations!
  42. The student loan problem
  43. NOFORN//TS//SCI Unredacted
  44. Winter is overcompensating
  45. Questions for Mac Users
  46. Things that will kill your SF book for me
  47. The Havana syndrome is still a mystery
  48. A distillation of Fox News
  49. 2024 Eeaster Gingrebreads
  50. Larry’s confusion is understandable
  51. NaPoWriMo!
  52. Inevitability
  53. Musk mocking, it’s always fun
  54. 17 unanswered scientific questions
  55. Timely, in time for untimely weather
  56. None should be too big for justice
  57. The kids are still all right
  58. This royal photoshopping thing is getting ridiculous
  59. What If It Happened in Legendary Times?
  60. National Review notices the kids aren’t conservative anymore
  61. If I were a young man today…
  62. Revolting evidence of people’s capacity for brutality
  63. I guess I should give up on the idea of retirement
  64. Cui bono ? It sure isn’t educators or students
  65. I Suppose This Will Not Matter
  66. More of the same old creationist junk
  67. Nominally flawless
  68. True enough
  69. Judicial body calls a halt to judge shopping
  70. It almost makes me believe in karma
  71. The Kushner Plan
  72. John Oliver takes on Boeing
  73. Endocrine disruptors — you’re soaking in them
  74. Vitamin D and calcium supplements don’t help much
  75. Would you like spiders or no spiders with your meal?
  76. ‘A Fire in the Shadows’ nominated for two Indieverse Awards (Non-Fiction)
  77. Bolingbrook amputee hospitalized after attempting ‘Six Million Dollar Man’ challenge (Fiction)
  78. More Arkansas Memeology
  79. There’s really no ambiguity in Musk’s politics
  80. Islands of Insight teaches logic puzzles
  81. Trump says that he doesn’t have the money to pay the bond
  82. A Little Health Update…
  83. How do you keep your personal feelings out of your professional life?
  84. Mike Pence pulls a surprise, will not endorse Trump
  85. The end is here! Again!
  86. No one gets what they deserve
  87. Habsolutly Hamazin Dhance!
  88. The Spring Came Early…
  89. John Oliver on the pig-butchering scam
  90. Will Knowland knows nothing
  91. Trump treats his followers as if they are stupid
  92. AI poisons everything
  93. Froget’s Thesaurus
  94. I guess I won’t be visiting the Blue Lagoon soon
  95. The real choice before us
  96. I could have told her that would never work
  97. 44, shhhhh
  98. Trump’s speeches are increasingly incoherent and insane
  99. But what about Free Speech?
  100. Trump’s one key to political success
  101. Ignorance and hate go well together
  102. That’s no Franken-sheep
  103. What exactly is the problem with TikTok?
  104. Hans Kristian Graebener no longer has to hide in the shadows
  105. More pun fun
  106. How to listen to women
  107. Time to find out if all my parts still work!
  108. How committed are so-called ‘Never Trumpers’ to not vote for him?
  109. On the Cancer Front
  110. The power of metadata and the photo puzzle
  111. You know, alcohol is not good for children and other growing things
  112. Attraction to nonbinary people
  113. Israel blockade of Gaza challenged
  114. People are good at producing vomit all on their own
  115. At least you quickly know to not bother reading the rest
  116. The AI apocalypse is already here
  117. Time Zones
  118. Jon Stewart on who the ‘real’ Americans are
  119. Yet another example of our disappointing winter
  120. Everyone say hello to Adam Lee
  121. Why do people choose to sit outdoors in the freezing cold?
  122. Welcome to Daylight Atheism (okay, let’s do this one more time)
  123. Democrats, listen up
  124. The face has gotten smoother, but it’s the same rot underneath
  125. Do you grow more fond of where you grew up as you get older?
  126. It’s officially the first day of spring break!
  127. The era of beautiful airplanes
  128. The GOP gets crazier and crazier
  129. Let’s Talk Websites
  130. Katie Britt gets brutally roasted on SNL
  131. You couldn’t pay me to ride in a Tesla
  132. Link Roundup: March 2024
  133. The end of UAPs? Not likely.
  134. SOTU GOP responder accused of lying
  135. Chess, AI and Lessons About Societal Impact
  136. Please Pass the Murder
  137. Some Fun Time Zone Geekiness
  138. FtB Podish-Sortacast on Israel and Palestine (and a life update from me)
  139. More pun fun
  140. A Couple of C++ Quickies
  141. The GOP ties itself up in knots over Alabama IVF ruling
  142. In my prime!
  143. Oh no! Don’t hand the Republicans a winning campaign strategy!
  144. Biden’s SOTU speech and Republican response
  145. They’re not sending their best
  146. Deja vu — it used to be called “teach the controversy”
  147. Trump has more legal setbacks – one in a UK court
  148. Existentialist thoughts on blogging
  149. Why are children so afraid?
  150. Goodbye, OnlySky
  151. One Workaround
  152. The GOP is on a very slippery slope
  153. Somehow, though, I doubt that Sydney Sweeney has any socialist sympathies
  154. Thrashing Boeing, deservedly
  155. Artificial Genius
  156. Clock ticking on payment of Trump’s fines
  157. AI is hell
  158. Moms For Liberty gets high profile interview, falls flat on face
  159. Was it actually a super Tuesday?
  160. A Lone Star State of Mind
  161. I’m not complaining about some history being erased
  162. Jonathan Pie on what is happening in the UK
  163. Film review: The Lost King (2023)
  164. Perpetually growing meat!
  165. Every time the police are scrutinized, they look worse
  166. John Oliver on the lack of ethics in the US Supreme Court
  167. Do you think it would be cool if aliens were real?
  168. Never mind the Vegas Eye, I want to see the Sludge Tunnels
  169. Origami: Woven Kusudama
  170. How US conservatives learned to stop worrying and love Russia
  171. The Explanation
  172. AI making the void look shiny, bright, and appealing
  173. Coming to Grips with the Cyberpunk Dystopia
  174. More pun fun
  175. Distributed Computing
  176. Dune 2
  177. When conservatives let their guard down
  178. Churning Experience Into the Content Machine
  179. Super Tuesday is coming up
  180. Say What You Will About Louis Wain
  181. Those DEI wokesters are canceling again
  182. The death of Alexei Navalny shows how unchecked power leads to reckless actions
  183. I thought it would be a happy story about bats
  184. Am I creepy? Kooky? Altogether ooky?
  185. Mary Poppins gets a PG rating
  186. Everything all at once!
  187. The genocidal state of Israel
  188. Haley exposes Trump’s weakness
  189. Yay, we are back!
  190. More on the purpose of readings
  191. Is This Real? Dare I Dream?
  192. Today is climate change day in the classroom
  193. A miracle??!?

February 2024

  1. Stop supporting Israel
  2. Jonathan Turley using bogus science as a political bludgeon
  3. Our nemesis revealed!
  4. Least surprising devolution ever
  5. TIL about the lethal compounds I have at my disposal
  6. SMBC Made Me Laugh Again
  7. Reading Directories in C++
  8. A Howlicool Knife
  9. What is the purpose of a reading?
  10. Nikki Haley is not a moderate
  11. I am proud to be non-religious and non-Christian
  12. I’m in the mood for some animal stories.
  13. Converting text into realistic video
  14. Are wind farms killing whales?
  15. Another conservative grifter gets a legal slapping
  16. Will the “Influencer” Market Collapse?
  17. Trump’s vice-presidential shortlist
  18. Chris Rufo is eaten alive by the naturalistic fallacy
  19. Is atheism motivation to live a healthier life?
  20. Shall we criminalize libraries?
  21. The Raelian cult
  22. Uh-oh — gay, gey, giy, goy, guy. It works?
  23. Who is letting these frauds prosper?
  24. How Does This Work?
  25. My plan for when the alpha males take over: sell spiders
  26. Don’t blame me, blame the bot!
  27. How to get a demented judicial system
  28. help me i am in hell
  29. Time Zones in C++
  30. Degree in Three — don’t fall for it
  31. Reflecting on interdisciplinary journal clubbing
  32. Parents who abuse children
  33. Peter Nyikos is dead!
  34. Alabama doesn’t hate all science
  35. How much do you hate the gays?
  36. A Tiny Place To Pack Stupidity Into
  37. It’s symbiosis week!
  38. Love Myself
  39. A death in a high school restroom
  40. My artwork is now for sale at The Gilded Exchange! Thank you for your support!
  41. So that’s how things work at Frontiers journals, eh?
  42. Review: Life On Our Planet (2023)
  43. Now I have to worry about the Netherlands as well as Australia?
  44. Martyn Iles clarifies a few things
  45. Want to get a sneak peak at Revenge of the Phantom Press? (Book related!)
  46. The Brony fandom
  47. The opposite of inspire
  48. The 2023 Hugo debacle
  49. How figleaves are replacing dogwhistles to hide ugly sentiments
  50. No wonder I didn’t get a Hugo nomination this year
  51. Speaking of spices and science
  52. SSAT is looking at coughing up real money
  53. Spices don’t cure cancer
  54. I don’t know about you, but I found these amusing
  55. We Live in a Society
  56. This is the type of person Tucker, Trump etc sucks up to
  57. Let’s all get disappointed in humanity
  58. .. In The Style Of…
  59. Fight
  60. Leapfrogging technology
  61. What happens when you farm out your scientific illustrations to an AI?
  62. New depths in pseudoscience
  63. Hind Rajab’s murder by Israeli troops was even worse than initially portrayed
  64. The Big Picture
  65. The ideal cop: paranoid and trigger-happy
  66. MonsterHearts 2024 – Days Ten thru Fourteen
  67. What is the central theme of the Bible?
  68. Nobody calls it the “gender chromosome”
  69. George Santos’s seat won by Democrat
  70. How love can last a lifetime
  71. I knew Armoured Skeptic was a kook before it was popular
  72. Bob Edwards (1947-2024)
  73. Every cube symmetry
  74. Bryan Johnson has been lying to himself
  75. Biden vs. Trump on the age issue
  76. You are not allowed to follow the evidence
  77. Fascism’s Amoeba of Hate
  78. The NFL-Swift-Pentagon conspiracy needs to be modified
  79. I Have More Questions
  80. Quick Life update (Non-Fiction)
  81. Nikki Haley’s puzzling end game
  82. Merry Darwin Day!
  83. Joel Osteen, devastated
  84. God favors the team with the racist name over the godless sodomites
  85. Christ, capitalism, and crime go hand in hand
  86. Israel’s murder of Gazans continues
  87. Still Not a Masterpiece
  88. I’m Still Here! Let’s Bitch About American Healthcare!
  89. Another Podish-Sortacast coming up!
  90. I see doppelgangers
  91. Link Roundup: February 2024
  92. Jon Stewart on gun control
  93. Poor Things , a most peculiar movie
  94. MonsterHearts 2024 – Days Six thru Nine
  95. Living the high life on donor money
  96. A conversation about orthodontia today
  97. Empirical data that shows people finding happiness is good news
  98. Scientist sues conspiracy theorists…and wins!
  99. Travel to Wrocław in the Fall
  100. Somebody didn’t get the obituary
  101. GOP: The party that can’t count straight
  102. How did that get past Jeff Bezos?
  103. Under the thumb of the supermarket
  104. Do you want to be the demon with the pitchfork, or the guys being pitchforked?
  105. Using outrageous statements to make a nice living
  106. Good morning spider!
  107. Here’s an idea for an app
  108. All right, your ominous click-bait title worked
  109. Barbarians! Barbarians everywhere!
  110. What kind of immigrants should the US admit?
  111. An arachnologist fantasizing about summer in February
  112. Today is a feeding day
  113. Riot comme des Français
  114. I’m trying to get some work done
  115. The ‘average’ child
  116. Wind, rain, and power outages
  117. Oh hell naw…
  118. This is not February
  119. If I were to compare anyone to a parasite, Thomas Friedman would be near the top of my list
  120. This is some real super-villain shit, you know
  121. MonsterHearts 2024 – Days One thru Five
  122. More on Big Numbers in C++
  123. (Almost) everyone is having fun with the Taylor Swift conspiracy theories
  124. Self-assessment time!
  125. Bronze pipework
  126. Film review: Rustin (2023)
  127. Chris Rufo figured out how to erase part of his history
  128. People Are All Crazy! Then What?
  129. Origami: Striped Box
  130. U.S. Sanctions on West-Bank Israelis
  131. Taylor Swift drives the MAGA world bonkers
  132. Someone’s got the old geezer cranked up again
  133. I get email
  134. Gordon Ramsay, Please?

January 2024

  1. Web Exclusive! Foster and Rashid clash over Gaza during debate at Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
  2. I will never see a commercial label that I lo…
  3. Dawkins is one step away from consulting a dictionary to define biology
  4. Taylor Swift, revenge porn, and deepfakes
  5. Elon has gone and done it
  6. Anyone want to go to a concert?
  7. If you think I’m too mean to Sam Harris…
  8. Nancy Pelosi makes baseless charges against those calling for ceasefire in Gaza
  9. Sam Harris and the disgraceful “philosophy” of bigotry
  10. The tragedy of Gaza keeps growing
  11. Spider season has come early
  12. We have to talk about this
  13. The sad death of a distant drone
  14. Ken Ham is sad that other denominations have gotten smarter
  15. Money talks but it can also shut people up
  16. Oh no! It’s Monday!
  17. Encouraging news from the young’uns
  18. The obsession in the US with executing people
  19. Trump’s rage and thin skin may hurt him
  20. cosas blasfemiosas
  21. Trump ordered to pay Carroll $83 million
  22. $83.3 million!
  23. Stuck in the 90s again
  24. Carroll’s lawyer nails her description of Trump
  25. The illusion of the good old days
  26. Israel is lost
  27. It’s a start
  28. Book review: Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins (2022)
  29. Ken Ham is probably thrilled
  30. Who has the time?
  31. The ‘Nones’ are now the single largest group
  32. In Loving Memory of my Son’s Dad
  33. Did you sign up for the war on Mary Lou Retton?
  34. How to make tea
  35. Bad day for Trump
  36. Crypto is camel grease!
  37. Now we have to rely on the Democrats to save us?
  38. A tragic day
  39. A Master’s Masterpiece
  40. Did I work that hard when I was young?
  41. More evidence, if you needed it, that Trump lacks any grace
  42. Let soldiers celebrate what they are fighting for
  43. All hat and no cattle
  44. It’s been a Monday, boys and girls
  45. Best Reasons To Tell Suicide To Fuck Off
  46. Bye, bye Ron
  47. Walking Disaster, Chapter 18
  48. DeSantis is DeSintegrated
  49. Creativity AIn’t the issue
  50. Order of Operations
  51. Some spiders
  52. More evidence that SSAT is losing it
  53. Medication Changes: A Rock and a Hard Place
  54. Progress, sort of
  55. Short film Thirstygirl at Sundance
  56. Anti-abortionist zealots seek kinder, gentler image
  57. Not the best way to endear oneself to SF fans
  58. No matter what, he still fails any test for common decency
  59. “Real Immunity Homeoprophylaxis Program”
  60. Cops kill
  61. Don’t donate your body to Harvard
  62. Curious squiggles
  63. Oh no, it’s that season again
  64. Film review: Downfall: The Case Against Boeing (2022)
  65. Their one true god is ignorance
  66. Capitalism Teamed Up With Global Warming To Increase Rent
  67. I almost forgot how dangerous philosophy is
  68. Trump’s strange behavior in court
  69. Then they came for the sociology departments, but I was not a sociologist…
  70. ‘The Lost Child’, Anne Atkins: review, Part Six
  71. First round of Survivor: Morris cleared
  72. I have Questions
  73. Is ignorance a prerequisite for being a Tory?
  74. Evolution is the control of development by ecology
  75. Banning football for young children
  76. Proud Atheist Mom Moment
  77. I wish we could say, “Bye, bye, Vivek”
  78. Headhunting
  79. There are jerks on Mastodon, too
  80. Why should I care?
  81. Do you know when you are dreaming?
  82. *
  83. The horror in Gaza and the media bubble in which Israelis live
  84. I’m feeling it
  85. Libertarians will never change
  86. Israel continues its descent into authoritarian brutality
  87. Void, abyss, both have their virtues
  88. Denmark has a new king
  89. My Creative Process
  90. Why the Pentagon pays more for less
  91. Why is a high government official fantasizing about shooting people?
  92. Did We Not Link the Podcast?
  93. The threat of fentanyl
  94. The benefits and risks of DNA testing of ancestry
  95. The plague resumes in 4 days
  96. Code 415
  97. Deja vu all over again?
  98. I wasn’t warned today
  99. Trump spoke at his trial after all
  100. MBAs ruin everything
  101. Trump’s planned courtroom antics foiled by judge
  102. ‘The Lost Child’, Anne Atkins: review, Part Five
  103. Let’s Read: Transformer Models, Part 3
  104. Documenting Collapse, and the Importance of Research Collections
  105. More on the rational Class
  106. Oh no! Our atheist origin myth has been obliterated!
  107. Covid-19 cases are on the rise again
  108. Lordamighty: PZ’s e-mailer’s errors
  109. Tidy mouse
  110. I get email
  111. The decline of Boeing
  112. An old antique
  113. Hidden Pins on Bone Scales
  114. All I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets
  115. The further adventures of Kristina Karamo
  116. The snow has finally arrived
  117. Big Numbers in C++
  118. Infinite Thread XXX
  119. Nostalgia and Feeling the Feels
  120. Burying the Evidence, Accidentally or Otherwise
  121. A sexy tangle of limbs
  122. Let’s Read: Transformer Models, Part 2
  123. Jerry Coyne: as dumb as a creationist
  124. Trump reveals new discovery about magnets
  125. Adventures in cringe
  126. I just noticed the date
  127. Behaving badly in theaters
  128. Happy Spiderday!
  129. The curious psychology of getting free stuff
  130. Let’s Read: Transformer Models, Part 1
  131. Why is urine yellow?
  132. Ultra Low Calorie Pixels
  133. Willy Ley would be proud of this kind of hyper-optimistic space nonsense
  134. Random Acts of Kindness
  135. Who the heck are these people?
  136. What does Auburn University do?
  137. The Latest Cancer News
  138. Probably venomous, too
  139. More Weird Flowers
  140. John Pilger (1939-2023)
  141. Three generations
  142. Every time, I regret examining the creationist literature
  143. Origami: Stars
  144. Looking forward to the end of lists
  145. The problem with photographing black widows is…
  146. Treading Water
  147. First charge my phone, next step…the Moon!
  148. Happy New Year
  149. OK, so now what?

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