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December 2025

1. 31 DecGood riddance to 2025
2. 31 DecI’m ready for 2025 to end
3. 30 DecThe pleasures of being alone and staying home
4. 30 DecThe first five star review for my upcoming novel!
5. 30 DecInfinite Thread XXXVIII
6. 30 DecMinnesotans have been following this tale of local con artists for years. It’s nothing new.
7. 30 DecMerry Gingermas 2025 – Part 2
8. 30 DecAre Republicans just crazy-pants dingle-bunnies?
9. 29 DecFilm review: Cover-Up (2025)
10. 29 DecPerspective
11. 29 DecA terrible feud
12. 29 DecA Dreamworld of Magic
13. 28 DecDear Nigerian Christians, Donald Trump is not your friend.
14. 28 DecEncyclopedia wars
15. 28 DecFarage needs to go away, apologies would be redundant
16. 28 DecIt’s blizzard time!
17. 28 DecEhh… How’s Yer Mudder?
18. 28 DecHuman Supremacy is Real
19. 27 DecDon’t Harue Out on Me
20. 27 DecLLMs, Creativity, Free Will, and Cognition
21. 27 DecAre dictionaries obsolete?
22. 26 DecHead Awhirl
23. 26 DecI thought Canada was supposed to be better than us?
24. 26 DecI wonder if we could at least vacation in Albania?
25. 26 DecThe Probability Broach: The myth of the lone genius
26. 26 DecIrony, Thy Name is Ludd
27. 25 DecMerry Gingermass 2025 – Part 1
28. 25 DecSeason’s Greetings to all this blog’s readers
29. 24 DecDrug Tolerance and Genre Death
30. 24 DecUS uses visa bans to aid tech companies
31. 24 DecGawain is a girl?
32. 24 DecIt’s Christmas Eve, and you know what that means…
33. 24 DecBenny Johnson wants to kill people
34. 24 Dec“The hottest campaign stop is this Salvadoran supermax.”
35. 24 DecThe Supreme Court Rules Against Trump…amazing!
36. 23 DecA conspiracy of absolute morons
37. 23 DecOklahoma’s disgrace continues
38. 23 DecThe slow release of the Epstein files
39. 23 DecPut Bari Weiss and Kristi Noem in CECOT
40. 23 DecAnother Four Star Review! (Book Update)
41. 23 DecA Thing of Stuff and Such
42. 22 DecThe menace of influencers and the ‘Free Birth’ movement
43. 22 DecNostalgia night
44. 21 DecWhen Archie Bunker meets Meathead
45. 21 DecIT
46. 20 DecThe perils of perfectionism
47. 20 DecI have many pets. One of them is Guenevir. Guenevir is a spider.
48. 20 DecAI is a notorious confabulator
49. 20 DecI envy them their coats
50. 20 Decmind control music in cartoons
51. 19 DecLet’s talk on Saturday
52. 19 DecAside: Let’s Bisect an LLM!
53. 19 DecThe Probability Broach: What have the Romans ever done for us?
54. 19 Deci oughtter be more lady-like
55. 19 DecLLMs and Markov Chains
56. 18 DecEmojis and text-speak
57. 18 DecNew on OnlySky: Abortion bans don’t stop abortion
58. 18 DecBuzzard visit
59. 18 DecDDT causes polio???!?
60. 18 DecNightlife or Night Life?
61. 17 DecCopyrightpocalypse
62. 17 DecAvi Loeb is nuts
63. 17 DecThe story of punctuation
64. 17 DecThe spiders will feast tonight!
65. 17 DecLLMs Think
66. 16 DecOne of my characters is coming out
67. 16 DecSome days, the news is just too depressing to blog
68. 16 DecA good use for AI
69. 16 DecHow does this nonsense persist?
70. 16 DecSuspicious of Comfort or Sentiment?
71. 15 DecCory Doctorow on ‘enshittification’ and how to combat it
72. 15 DecThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 57 – Assessing Arable Area
73. 15 DecIf we’re going to hang any member of the “loser generation,” start with…
74. 15 DecHeated Rivalry
75. 15 DecAnother mass shooting
76. 15 DecMy Class Traitor Dreams Collapse
77. 15 DecThis guy really, really loves sleeping
78. 15 DecI’ve been distracted lately
79. 13 DecA psychic’s con
80. 12 DecWhat recent Democratic upset wins might mean
81. 12 DecWhere’s his white hood?
82. 12 DecThe Probability Broach: Robots do nothing
83. 12 DecAwash
84. 11 DecThe Business Idiot and Tesla
85. 11 DecFamine fears allayed
86. 10 DecBusy morning in the lab
87. 10 DecGood to know the administration has its priorities straight
88. 10 DecHow Uruguay’s energy supply became 98% renewable
89. 10 DecLink Roundup: December 2025
90. 10 DecNew on OnlySky: The end of marriage?
91. 10 DecSympathy for Samantha Fulnecky
92. 9 DecThis Made Me Laugh
93. 9 DecTrump and pardons
94. 9 DecRacist old fool trash-talks Minnesota
95. 9 DecJust call me the dude
96. 9 DecFor the capitalist parasites: they’re asking for it
97. 9 Decoh well whatever nevermind
98. 8 DecTake this award. Please!
99. 8 DecHow DHS celebrates Xmas
100. 8 DecNo nervous system interference there at all, thank you very much
101. 8 DecJesus would have bombed those boats!
102. 8 DecTactical Cosplay
103. 7 DecMerry MAGA Xmas
104. 7 DecJust when you think ICE and CBP brutality cannot get worse …
105. 7 DecWanna see a beautiful fossil?
106. 7 DecHubristickal Schemes
107. 7 DecPresidential Pardons
108. 6 DecWhy the rich won’t leave New York after Mamdani’s win
109. 6 Dec‘Tis the season for office holiday parties
110. 6 DecCome and Get Me
111. 6 DecWho Do You Learn From
112. 5 DecMildly concerned about the trajectory of the education profession
113. 5 DecThe deliciousness of sleep
114. 5 DecYou need some more spider information
115. 5 DecKrampus lives here
116. 5 DecStreaming series belong in the upside-down
117. 5 DecThe Probability Broach: Too much freedom
118. 5 DecRobot Jox
119. 5 DecChaos and Initiative
120. 5 DecBrookbot caught scamming independent authors (Fiction)
121. 4 DecMission for our next president: institute the damnatio memoriae
122. 4 DecPickleball playing now a misdemeanor in Carmel
123. 4 DecI see presentiments of my future fate
124. 4 DecOn Steam AI disclosures
125. 3 DecA good editorial from the Star Tribune
126. 3 DecThis is what stupid rich means
127. 3 DecI was already predisposed to mistrust dollar stores
128. 3 DecOrigami: early works
129. 3 DecProgressive gains strike fear into Democratic party leaders
130. 2 DecDisgustingly racist president says disgustingly racist things
131. 2 DecIt’s tough to argue with someone who lacks evidence
132. 2 DecYou mean Legally Blonde was not a documentary?
133. 2 Decxkcd doesn’t cover all the possibilities
134. 2 Decbruck mind uggen
135. 1 DecAssisted dying pioneer dies the way he wished
136. 1 DecSorry, I’m going to be pessimistic again
137. 1 DecNew on OnlySky: American religion continues its fadeout
138. 1 DecSomebody got paid
139. 1 DecI Smell a Rat? A Dialogue of Engines – 2

November 2025

1. 30 NovRepeated warnings of Trump collapse
2. 30 NovCologuard said Fvck You Bitch
3. 29 NovCan breaking stuff be cathartic?
4. 29 NovThe most cutting burn ever
5. 29 NovSpiderhouse Rules
6. 28 NovThe strange world of airport status-seeking
7. 28 NovThe Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 0 – Thoughts, not Prayers.
8. 28 NovDon’t trust anything from the Anhui Vocational College of Press and Publishing
9. 28 NovThe Probability Broach: Fair cop
10. 28 NovThanks for Giving Us the Plague
11. 27 NovThankful for…
12. 27 NovThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 57 – The Reckoning
13. 27 NovThe Thanksgiving Feast is ready!
14. 27 NovThe weaponization of the justice system
15. 26 NovHeart attack snow
16. 26 NovThe snowplows are cruising by
17. 26 NovNostromowrimo
18. 25 NovSnowing!
19. 25 NovWeird behavior
20. 25 NovKneeling Chair – Part 1 – Proe-toe-type
21. 25 NovI exercised some restraint
22. 25 NovIt’s been a good month for my upcoming novel
23. 25 NovJellicoe’s Beard Via Minatogawa, a Dialogue of Engines – 1
24. 25 NovRecent health developments
25. 24 NovYou can read it on Patreon
26. 24 NovTheological “wisdom” makes me roll my eyes
27. 24 NovAre insect populations declining or not?
28. 24 NovWicked: For Good
29. 23 NovThey couldn’t find Americans gullible enough?
30. 23 NovStrange weekend political developments
31. 23 NovRepublicans must hate nurses
32. 23 NovMTG jumping ship
33. 23 NovRocks – UhOh and Apology
34. 22 NovAre you in the Epstein emails?
35. 22 NovColorblind glasses
36. 22 NovWalking Disaster, Chapter 24
37. 22 NovPolitico fails at basic journalism
38. 21 NovI Uncle Hui’d It
39. 21 NovWhat is the appeal of horror and gore on screen?
40. 21 NovI didn’t think my opinion of Riley Gaines could get any lower
41. 21 NovThe Probability Broach: Economies of scale
42. 21 NovMirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most vain of them all?
43. 21 NovI was only there for Santa
44. 20 NovThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 56 – Hoarding Horseradish
45. 20 NovThe problem of the modern university
46. 20 NovFascinatingly bad genetics
47. 20 NovOrigami should take a page from music
48. 20 NovWhen I picture Hell, it looks like Dubai
49. 20 NovThat was a weird thing to find in a frying pan
50. 19 NovGuess who else is in the Epstein files?
51. 19 NovGood riddance, Larry Summers
52. 19 NovVisit beautiful Utqiaġvik!
53. 19 NovKen Ham makes an admission
54. 19 NovThe most suspicious creeps among us
55. 19 NovA Mission Possible: Get Your Drank On
56. 18 NovWe shouldn’t have to wait 20 years for a glimmering of justice
57. 18 NovAphantasia and hyperphantasia
58. 18 NovZero surprise
59. 18 NovCleaning up spam
60. 18 NovHow many churches would feed a starving baby?
61. 18 NovLife sometimes gets in the way
62. 17 NovTrump abruptly reverses course on Epstein files
63. 17 NovLink Roundup: November 2025
64. 17 NovSome Disjointed Thoughts on the Current Crisis
65. 17 Novdid u see that?
66. 16 NovThe strange saga of the Epstein files
67. 16 NovThe long-term consequences of misogyny
68. 16 NovOur continuing descent into corruption
69. 15 NovMy imaginary companion and me
70. 15 NovTexas leads the way!
71. 14 NovI expect this to be the official excuse soon
72. 14 NovI guess Chinese scientists have cooties
73. 14 NovMore AI hype
74. 14 NovThe Probability Broach: Whose streets? Our streets!
75. 13 NovOH NO! Larry Summers and Bill Clinton might be hurt by the Epstein files? Threaten me with a good time already.
76. 13 NovHow the ‘Sandwich Guy’ jury deliberated
77. 13 NovIt’s all cringe
78. 13 NovAurora tonight!
79. 12 NovDoes anyone object to invading Hitler’s privacy?
80. 12 NovExotic berries
81. 12 NovAn academic takedown of The New York Times
82. 12 NovNew on OnlySky: The era of Zohran Mamdani
83. 12 NovShe was asking for it
84. 12 NovBird Mystery Solved?
85. 11 NovPlacebos to give us the illusion of control
86. 11 NovWhat’s up with 3I/ATLAS now?
87. 11 NovA Mission from Me
88. 10 NovThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 55 – Red Roots
89. 10 NovThe politics of Zohran Mamdani’s father
90. 10 NovI love a good NYT takedown
91. 10 NovAnd nothing was accomplished
92. 10 NovEssential Milks
93. 9 NovICE and Border Patrol brace for ‘Antifa weather attack’ (Fiction)
94. 9 NovThe Republican war on arithmetic
95. 9 NovMidwest chic
96. 9 NovPlease improve the biology of “Predator” movies
97. 9 NovGo ahead, make me feel old
98. 8 NovThe pettiness of Trump never ends
99. 7 NovThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 54 – Coppice Care
100. 7 NovJames Watson is dead at 97
101. 7 NovSometimes a sandwich is just a sandwich
102. 7 NovInspector Clouseau is still employed, I see
103. 7 NovA neglected (or hidden) history
104. 7 NovI got my sticker!
105. 7 NovSupport a scientist!
106. 7 NovThe Probability Broach: Cracks in utopia
107. 6 NovPelosi leaves, time for Schumer and Jeffries to also go
108. 6 NovUntangled!
109. 6 NovKim Kardashian news
110. 6 NovDeer hunting season opens this weekend
111. 6 NovI get email…from the Daily Wire
112. 6 NovRepublicans flailing in the aftermath of Tuesday’s losses
113. 5 NovGolden Fall
114. 5 NovHow many legs does a spider have?
115. 5 NovNew on OnlySky: The fossil fuel era is ending in flames
116. 5 NovCocking a snook at Republicans
117. 5 Novdepressed, but you know
118. 5 NovVoters give the finger to Trump and Republicans
119. 4 NovA war criminal dies
120. 4 NovTV review: Maigret (2025)
121. 4 NovDing-dong, the witch is dead!
122. 4 NovA little wisdom from Chief Joseph of the Nez Percés
123. 4 NovSpace Force Marines release BP Commander Greg Bovino (Fiction)
124. 3 NovConsciousness, measurement, and quantum mechanics – Part 7
125. 3 NovWanna see something yucky?
126. 3 NovHe’s a sleazy furniture salesman at heart
127. 3 NovMore pun fun
128. 2 NovThe fall of a royal grifter
129. 2 NovThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 53 – Bountiful Beans
130. 2 NovI don’t know if I’m ready to teach genetics again
131. 1 NovQueen Coke Francis noticed me!
132. 1 NovPost-Hallowe’en shopping day
133. 1 NovJudges order that SNAP payments must continue
134. 1 NovOrigami: Radiant Star
135. 1 NovSpoonkt

October 2025

1. 31 OctIt’s Tim Curry time!
2. 31 OctJury nullification on the rise
3. 31 OctA kid in costume
4. 31 OctA doleful lack of anatomically accurate spider decorations
5. 31 OctThe Probability Broach: Might makes right
6. 31 OctTasteless suits made to fit
7. 31 OctHappy Hallowe’en!
8. 31 OctSpooktober the 31st
9. 30 OctCancel that Nobel Peace Prize
10. 29 OctThe brave new world of online relationships get newer and braver
11. 29 OctNew vermin for a new generation
12. 29 OctBehold, the magnificent swoop of my slippery slope!
13. 28 OctIt’s a feeding day
14. 28 OctGood and bad news in international politics
15. 28 OctGood news from Minnesota
16. 28 Octspiderman said abolish ice
17. 28 OctThat’s some persecution complex you’ve got, Anna Krylov
18. 28 OctThey’re harmless, let’s kill them
19. 28 OctUsing identity to sell beer?
20. 27 OctA grim ending
21. 27 OctDonk
22. 27 OctThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 52- Tallying Tomatoes
23. 27 OctHe is a very stupid man
24. 27 OctHistory repeats itself, again
25. 27 OctNot all astronauts know much about geology
26. 27 OctSpooks Unrelenting
27. 27 OctThe possible real reason that Trump is angry about latest Chinese trade move
28. 26 OctMy grandson is flying to South Korea
29. 26 OctPut to shame!
30. 26 OctQuestion for E-Readers
31. 26 OctThe oddities of the English language
32. 26 OctHalloween decorating: done
33. 25 Oct2025 California Special Election position
34. 25 OctA very dirty guest
35. 25 OctTrump preparing military assault on Venezuela
36. 25 OctAlways Shooting Blanks
37. 24 OctConsciousness, measurement, and quantum mechanics – Part 6
38. 24 OctThe silence of the worms
39. 24 OctThe Probability Broach: Justice for sale
40. 23 OctPublicly admitting to awful thoughts
41. 23 OctThe era of destruction
42. 23 OctI waited too long to prepare for winter
43. 22 OctVote ‘Yes’ on California referendum on redistricting
44. 22 OctFire Greg Abbott for pushing right wing ideologies instead of education
45. 22 OctSidebar Shorter?
46. 21 OctThe Anglican schism culminates
47. 21 OctHow stupid are Republicans?
48. 21 OctNFTs are still a thing?
49. 21 OctReview: The Fifth Head of Cerberus
50. 21 Oct“We Asked ‘No Kings’ Protesters What Made Trump A King. They Couldn’t Say.”
51. 21 OctThe gang that couldn’t shoot straight screws up again
52. 20 OctCan you tell on sight if someone is sleazy?
53. 20 OctIf you were wondering how big these juveniles are…
54. 20 OctBig game hunters
55. 19 OctThey like to eat things that are bigger than they are
56. 19 OctThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 51 – Lecsó
57. 19 OctMassive protests against Trump
58. 19 OctRight wing culture is so bad
59. 19 OctMy Quantum Itch
60. 18 OctNo Kings, October 2025
61. 18 OctConsciousness, measurement, and quantum mechanics – Part 5
62. 18 OctThe Morris protest march
63. 18 OctYou didn’t know you’d wake up this morning to hear an old man raving about teenaged boys’ sperm counts
64. 18 OctNo More Kings!
65. 18 OctWare the Witches
66. 17 OctFilm review: Bad Shabbos (2025)
67. 17 OctEnglish, do you speak it, Kelbie Murphy?
68. 17 OctConsciousness, measurement, and quantum mechanics – Part 4
69. 17 OctAll for moi?
70. 17 OctHe is embarrassingly tacky
71. 17 OctNeeds more spiders
72. 17 OctThe Probability Broach: Go directly to jail
73. 17 OctSpookt a Third Time
74. 16 OctFingertips
75. 16 OctConsciousness, measurement, and quantum mechanics – Part 3
76. 16 OctThe problem with trying to make sense of a bad sci-fi movie
77. 15 OctThe Ventures play the theme from Hawaii Five-O
78. 15 OctNew on OnlySky: A cure for Huntington’s disease?
79. 15 OctEncouraging news for Oklahoma
80. 15 OctConsciousness, measurement, and quantum mechanics – Part 2
81. 15 OctEvil isn’t just banal, it’s also petty and childish
82. 15 OctTeaching with AI
83. 15 OctWhat time is it?
84. 14 OctYoung Republicans, same as the Old Republicans
85. 14 OctConsciousness, measurement, and quantum mechanics – Part 1
86. 14 OctThe latest medical nonsense
87. 14 OctNot the prettiest jumping spider I’ve seen
88. 14 OctCommon gallinule
89. 14 OctThe things we do for our kids
90. 14 OctFor the Flat Earthers Out There:
91. 14 OctICE clashes with Chicagoland weredogs over the weekend (Fiction)
92. 14 OctDeconversion Narrativization
93. 13 OctA cautionary tale
94. 13 OctHide the Evidence!
95. 13 OctOsoraku – 2
96. 12 OctChina raises the stakes
97. 12 OctIliana’s 7th birthday
98. 11 OctNew Trump slogan: Make America Sick Again!
99. 11 OctHe wants us all to die
100. 11 OctAnother Spooktober Batch
101. 11 OctLink Roundup: October 2025
102. 10 OctTrump will be mad that Nobel committee says, “No peace prize for you!”
103. 10 OctThe Probability Broach: Crime and punishment
104. 10 Oct“Are observers fundamental to physics, or simply byproducts of it?”
105. 9 OctLooks like we won’t have ol’ Jordan to kick around anymore
106. 9 OctI already hated Stephen Miller, but…
107. 9 OctNew on OnlySky: What would it take to raise the birth rate?
108. 9 OctGroup portrait for Saturday’s podish-sortacast
109. 9 OctThe illogical logic of Avi Loeb and the 3I/ATLAS clown show
110. 8 OctThe world’s worst translator
111. 8 OctThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 50 – Walnut Windy Whammy
112. 8 OctOn the 8th of October…
113. 8 OctLink: The Emergency is the Atmosphere
114. 8 OctPeople have been policing masculinity for a good long while
115. 8 OctPretty damn scary
116. 8 OctYou’re gonna give us what we want, or else
117. 7 OctSpider gynandromorph!
118. 7 OctPortland is burning?
119. 7 OctDIY Coffins for Your Stuff
120. 7 OctUS policies are shifting global alliances
121. 6 OctThe future looks bleak
122. 6 OctI sometimes wonder how ICE agents live with themselves
123. 6 OctMidnight Muse Challenge
124. 5 OctOrigami: 2nd Brillouin Zone of the fcc structure
125. 5 OctThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 49 – Pumpkin Puréé
126. 5 OctKen Ham claims to have saved a life
127. 5 OctMore instances where I am on Rat’s side
128. 5 OctI have evidence that spiders are posting on the internet
129. 5 OctOh You Thought I Forgot?
130. 5 OctThe president is insane
131. 4 OctMeet Tilly Norwood, who may be the next big star
132. 4 OctNazis will be prosecuted
133. 4 OctThe country is being run by snot-nosed, immature teen-aged man-children
134. 4 OctThe Battle of Chicago has begun
135. 3 OctWalking Disaster, Chapter 23
136. 3 OctSeptember jobs data not released
137. 3 OctAmerica’s Gravestones
138. 3 OctThe Probability Broach: Ook ook
139. 2 OctThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 48 – Belated Butternut
140. 2 OctSo proud of my alma mater
141. 2 OctChicago fights back against ICE thuggery
142. 2 OctI could have predicted this would flop
143. 2 OctIsrael demonstrates their criminality again
144. 2 OctThe misinformation economy
145. 1 OctJane Goodall has died
146. 1 OctThe damage done to autism research
147. 1 OctNew on OnlySky: Vaccine wars
148. 1 OctThat’s not accurate, you know
149. 1 OctInfinite Thread XXXVII
150. 1 OctWest Point is training antifa traitors!
151. 1 OctAre you a criminal?
152. 1 Oct‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’, Chapter 11

September 2025

1. 30 SepThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 47 – Ploughing Problems
2. 30 SepNew book covers for the Bolingbrook Babbler Stories
3. 30 SepNo, that broken robot does not need human rights
4. 30 SepWhy are they on the front lines?
5. 30 Sep“medbeds”
6. 29 SepTastes like chicken?
7. 29 SepJust another liberal-atheist terrorist
8. 29 SepIt wasn’t all gloomy
9. 29 SepWNBA in MAGA’s crosshairs
10. 29 SepHow are you holding up, Oregonians?
11. 29 SepI don’t want to care about Jimmy Kimmel, or Disney Corp.
12. 29 SepSo that’s what Jey McCreight has been up to…
13. 29 SepICE escalates in Chicagoland (Non-Fiction)
14. 28 SepWhat happened to the gentility of golf?
15. 28 SepAn American sickness
16. 27 SepAre you looking for an excuse to avoid raking leaves?
17. 27 SepMegyn Kelly is deeply weird
18. 27 SepThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 46 – Cthulhu Carrots Conclusion
19. 26 SepJimmy Kimmel keeps hammering Trump and Conservative networks put him back on the air
20. 26 SepBack to the days of half-baked medical advice
21. 26 SepDefinitely passes the Bechdel test
22. 26 SepThe Probability Broach: Indian trouble
23. 26 Sepoh no you di’int
24. 25 SepHell is Us: War and emotional distance
25. 25 SepSome good news!
26. 25 SepDisappointment and despair
27. 25 SepWatch this while eating your cheerios
28. 25 SepI want one!
29. 24 SepCaught one!
30. 24 SepJimmy Kimmel returns and slams Trump
31. 24 SepNew on OnlySky: An era of violence
32. 24 Sep…and now it’s out!
33. 24 SepThe monarch chrysalides are changing color!
34. 24 SepIt must hurt when he ejaculates
35. 24 SepI have this nightmare, too
36. 24 SepIt’s not the escalator that was broken
37. 24 SepThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 45 – Terminating Tomatoes
38. 24 SepWhat makes a disease incurable?
39. 23 SepSympathetic pains…rising, rising
40. 23 SepIt’s Tylenol?
41. 22 SepDon’t panic if I’m not posting tomorrow
42. 22 SepCanada grapples with medically assisted dying
43. 22 SepNice name
44. 22 SepThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 44 – Froot Frenzy
45. 22 SepFailed Rapture prophecies (2025 edition)
46. 22 SepI guess I’m in hiding
47. 22 SepA totally predictable AI delusion
48. 22 SepFalse idol
49. 22 SepIt’s All About the Sidebar
50. 21 SepOh, the humanity!
51. 21 SepFed the babies this morning
52. 21 SepA very Chesley Bonestell future
53. 20 SepConfession
54. 19 SepHere we go again – another cutely-named voting group
55. 19 SepThe Probability Broach: Villainous authoritarians
56. 19 SepDe novo genes in the news
57. 18 SepRebecca Watson spills the tea
58. 18 SepThis is where we are now
59. 18 SepProving that free speech was never the goal
60. 18 Sep‘Ghost who cannot be named’ spotted in Bolingbrook (Fiction)
61. 18 SepGuessing the Next Number
62. 17 SepCreepy Epstein tributes
63. 17 SepMust-see TV!
64. 17 SepLooking forward to going under the knife
65. 17 SepIt’s going to be hard going back to work in January
66. 17 SepTwo Weeks
67. 16 SepPreparing for the unexpected
68. 16 SepThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 43 – Picking Potatoes
69. 16 SepStill falling apart
70. 15 SepHow to make a gene
71. 15 SepThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 42 – Making Mustard
72. 15 SepEverything can become a competition
73. 15 SepHealth advice — consider the source
74. 15 SepNever has a man’s own words so adeptly justified contempt for him
75. 15 SepNew on OnlySky: Will China save the world from climate change?
76. 14 SepI made a video!
77. 14 SepEddie Izzard on the Daleks
78. 14 SepAdded a new spider to my life list
79. 14 SepComputer difficulties
80. 14 SepThey work so hard to climb so high
81. 14 SepThe reactions to the death of Charlie Kirk
82. 13 SepLiving in an alternate reality
83. 13 SepFor real, this time
84. 13 SepI am not surprised that the shooter was far right
85. 12 SepThe dilemma for the Federal Reserve
86. 12 SepI’m starting to pity the milkweed
87. 12 SepThe Probability Broach: Who lives, who dies, who tells your story
88. 12 SepBin Laden Victory Lap
89. 11 SepBolsonaro gets 27 years in prison
90. 11 SepThey do like their lists
91. 11 SepWhy the shock?
92. 11 SepRandom thought
93. 11 SepWhile we’re at it, we should condemn all assassinations
94. 11 SepWhat was I saying..?
95. 10 SepLink Roundup: September 2025
96. 10 SepCharlie Kirk shot
97. 10 SepMeeting the deportation quotas drags in ordinary people
98. 10 SepBlissfully unaware
99. 10 SepThis has got to go on my office door
100. 10 SepUpdate on my new novel, Revenge of the Phantom Press
101. 10 SepAn insufferable student
102. 9 SepAmerican science is screwed
103. 9 SepThe dumb blonde stereotype
104. 9 SepBut will he pay it?
105. 9 SepEpstein had some weird and creepy friends
106. 8 SepOperation Midway Blitz begins in Illinois
107. 8 SepComplicity in Israeli genocide is Starmer’s shame
108. 8 SepNew on OnlySky: Cities without cars
109. 8 SepThe official cult mask
110. 8 Sep“Renowned scientists and scholars” who deserve shaming
111. 8 SepLLMs Can’t Code
112. 8 SepThe ‘cold plunge’ fallacy
113. 7 SepI want to hug it and squeeze it and name it George…
114. 7 SepWe’ve got lots of monarch caterpillars, but not for long
115. 7 SepSoviet propaganda, or gay porn novel covers?
116. 7 SepAn American president wants to declare war on the American people
117. 6 SepLabour government in disarray in the UK
118. 6 SepOnly the heterosexuals are safe
119. 6 SepThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 41 – The Nutcranker!
120. 5 SepThe FtB Podcast tomorrow
121. 5 SepTime to fire more people at the Bureau of Labor Statistics
122. 5 SepThe Probability Broach: Roosevelt the warmonger
123. 4 SepQuick! Time to mobilize the 2nd amendment-worshipping gun fondlers!
124. 4 SepThe precursor to Sherlock Holmes
125. 4 SepNever learn anatomy from social media
126. 4 SepChorus: a very very bad idea
127. 4 SepThey’re feminizing dinosaurs now!
128. 4 SepEpstein was a window into the privileged elite
129. 3 SepHow much lower can the US sink in rogue nation status?
130. 3 SepAntithetical to good science
131. 3 SepIt’s true — in Minnesota, we’re all above average
132. 3 SepHow did Dennis Prager become the leader of American education?
133. 2 SepThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 40 – Topping & Trimming Tomatoes
134. 2 SepThey’ve never been funny
135. 2 SepMentour Pilot rocks Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
136. 1 SepI have validation from PragerU!
137. 1 SepGreat moments in sports fandom
138. 1 SepOh, what a lovely graveyard
139. 1 SepThey’re talking about me!
140. 1 SepWe got your monarchs right here

August 2025

1. 31 AugThe abundant availability of health data
2. 31 AugMy grandfather, in WW2
3. 31 AugAbortion Action Nonsense
4. 31 AugA historical perspective, and the long view
5. 30 AugI tried sorting out spiders. They were not cooperative.
6. 30 AugSo much available, so little to watch
7. 30 AugHating the artist, hating the art
8. 30 AugI kinda like Quakers…but not all of them
9. 29 AugThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 39 -Toe-May-Toe Saws
10. 29 AugI didn’t even know she was pregnant
11. 29 AugPrepare for chaos
12. 29 AugGood news on the autism front!
13. 29 AugThe Probability Broach: Blood on the highway
14. 28 AugI told you I was going to check out the front yard today
15. 28 AugThe corrosive spread of tech company mentality
16. 28 AugThey’re not hiring the best
17. 28 AugChurch shooting in Minneapolis
18. 27 AugYet another school shooting
19. 27 AugSome people think the innocent are still criminal
20. 27 AugI ventured into the jungle…I mean, garden
21. 27 AugThe horrifying revelations in The Tesla Files
22. 27 AugThe conservative inability to consider others as people
23. 27 AugICE is digging in like a tick, I see
24. 27 AugThe Tapout
25. 27 AugSelling out as a game dev
26. 26 AugMaybe I should lighten up on the AI contempt
27. 26 AugThere’s a reason Lindsay Ellis is a master of the video essay
28. 26 AugBaby black widows!
29. 26 AugIt’s never going to end…
30. 26 AugRelease the Beasts
31. 25 AugWe traded cancer research for a fancy new paint job
32. 25 AugExploiting people for ratings and profit
33. 25 AugMonarchs like our house
34. 25 AugSure, go ask Google
35. 25 AugComplacency will not defeat stupidity
36. 25 AugRewrite This Fvcking Song Plz
37. 24 AugI thought I was going to miss out this year
38. 24 AugThree Times Three Eyes
39. 23 AugCan’t Tell My Husband
40. 22 AugLiving wounded and dealing with feelings
41. 22 AugAn exciting Friday morning!
42. 22 AugSlimy underbelly #2: Jillian Michaels
43. 22 AugThe Probability Broach: Nine-tenths of the law
44. 22 AugBrainjackin: Let’s Play
45. 21 AugAvi Loeb loses a soccer match
46. 21 AugFocus on this, you dead turd
47. 21 AugSlimy underbelly #1: Clay Travis
48. 21 AugLoon sighting confirmed!
49. 21 AugWhen it’s Over
50. 21 AugWalking Disaster, Chapter 22
51. 20 AugContinuing adventures in making friends as an adult.
52. 20 AugAwkward Murder
53. 19 AugWhere I’m at
54. 19 AugNo Thoughts, Head Empty
55. 19 AugBlogging hiatus
56. 18 AugReid v Lauer…again!
57. 18 AugMurdercat Management
58. 17 AugThe strange second summit on Ukraine
59. 17 AugWhat is identity?
60. 17 AugThe real WWII experience
61. 17 AugWassup
62. 17 AugThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 38 – Oodles of Onions
63. 16 AugThe summit that wasn’t
64. 16 AugYou may have heard about Minnesota winters…
65. 16 AugJenny McCarthy sang Trans Rights?
66. 16 AugAirshow today!
67. 16 AugFilm review: The Penguin Lessons (2024)
68. 15 AugImagine finding a 10 foot long sausage
69. 15 AugThe Probability Broach: Constant vigilance
70. 15 AugBe Still and Know
71. 15 AugMinnesota has creationists
72. 14 AugDon’t try to tell me this isn’t cosmic horror
73. 14 AugDOGE savings exposed as a fraud
74. 14 AugFound a stunning portrait of Stephen Miller
75. 14 AugTeacher’s Corner: Keep your paws off the holidays and buy those damn pencils
76. 14 AugThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 37 – Elevating Earth
77. 14 AugLife List: Sooty Grouse
78. 14 AugFrom the drafts: Data science as function fitting
79. 13 AugICE thugs allowed to freely prey on people
80. 13 AugHey Greydies
81. 12 AugLaws be damned
82. 12 AugI’m supposed to be on sabbatical!
83. 12 AugThe desire of the wealthy to live forever
84. 12 Augthe muddy burner
85. 12 AugThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 36 – Stuffed Squash
86. 12 AugDictator Trump is mad
87. 11 AugWe all need car cameras to protect us from police brutality
88. 11 AugBats
89. 11 AugHe’s useless
90. 11 AugWhooosh, boom!
91. 11 AugNew on OnlySky: The fertility freeze
92. 11 AugJim Acosta, ghoul
93. 11 AugYa Talk Too Much
94. 11 AugA Little Analysis Goes
95. 10 AugLink Roundup: August 2025
96. 10 AugOrdering delivery of small items
97. 10 AugThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 35 – Weather Woes
98. 10 AugBad apples identified
99. 10 AugTha Bomb
100. 9 AugMultiple monarchs munching on milkweed
101. 9 AugSouth Park trolls Kristi Noem and ICE
102. 9 AugDoes this sound familiar?
103. 9 AugSpider apocalypse
104. 9 AugJordan Peterson gets another bashing
105. 9 AugPathetic Little Bluesmen
106. 9 Aug“Brain art” sparks controversy
107. 9 AugCooking next month’s jobs numbers is not going to be easy
108. 8 AugTorturing myself with ChatGTP.
109. 8 AugSome Fanciful Amtrak Trips
110. 8 AugMany fat happy babies!
111. 8 AugIt’s the confidence, stupid
112. 8 AugThe Probability Broach: Smoke ’em if you got ’em
113. 8 AugCruelty…war…despair
114. 8 AugLife List: House Sparrow
115. 7 AugSchool funding complications, the bank told me no.
116. 7 AugThe arrogance of creationists is but a speck in the face of reality
117. 7 AugWhat happened to Transtifa?
118. 7 AugNo pierogis for Mr Dershowitz!
119. 7 AugIt’s a circus all the way to the top
120. 7 AugThe lies will kill us all
121. 7 AugMe and Sadako McGee
122. 6 AugIs there a middle ground between atheism and theism?
123. 6 AugAbby Hafer has died
124. 6 AugLife List: American Kestrel
125. 6 AugNSFW and defensibility
126. 5 AugThey grow up so fast!
127. 5 AugClassic first world problem?
128. 5 AugSpider mommies are the best mommies
129. 5 AugThey have to be desperate to resurrect boomer technology
130. 5 AugSex is a spectrum
131. 5 AugThe Corporate War is Here
132. 4 AugWe have a visitor
133. 4 AugI expect I’ll see her at CPAC next
134. 4 AugThree boys
135. 4 AugVOTE VOTE VOTE
136. 4 AugBrainjackin: Francis Bacon Good
137. 4 AugTrump will send the economy into a tailspin
138. 3 AugThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 34 – Processing Pea Pods
139. 3 AugAn almost day
140. 3 AugThe Convenient Fiction of the Self?
141. 3 AugConfabulation, dementia, and Trump
142. 2 AugI can do arachnomancy, too
143. 2 AugSome Dream Girls
144. 2 AugMore F-35 Hell
145. 2 AugOrigami: Passiflora Ornata with Spirals
146. 1 AugTime to fire the Bureau of Labor statisticians?
147. 1 AugKent-Meridian High School Class of 1975 50th Reunion!
148. 1 AugI’m not mad at Sydney Sweeney. I’m just disappointed that this is the only genetics education most people will get
149. 1 AugThe Probability Broach: White people’s histories
150. 1 AugAt least I’m briefly entertained
151. 1 AugERposting
152. 1 Aug‘Deciphering the Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’: Chapter 10, part 6

July 2025

1. 31 JulI am so happy to have a label for my political alignment
2. 31 JulThe Nazis loved kitsch, too
3. 31 JulLife List: Common Pheasant
4. 31 JulHow Brazil came so close to a coup
5. 30 JulIt’s a cult
6. 30 JulThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 33 – Juicin’ n’ Jammin’
7. 30 JulI’m off the leash!
8. 30 JulKaty did what?
9. 30 JulThe Lowest White Person
10. 30 Jul“What’d he say? Blessed are the cheesemakers?”
11. 30 JulWaking up, past tense
12. 29 JulHappy day?
13. 29 JulLife List, Supplemental: Chill Geese
14. 29 Jul“The enshittification of American power”
15. 28 JulMy first recipe from a Neandertal cookbook
16. 28 JulAnyone feel like a good chant?
17. 28 JulIt’s derecho time
18. 28 JulIsrael is not a lawful state
19. 28 JulKein Mensch ist Illegal
20. 28 JulTom Lehrer (1928-2025)
21. 27 JulI missed the TCCSA debate until now. Nothing was lost.
22. 27 JulJust the facts
23. 27 JulTrue superheroes can resist the malign influence of plague rats
24. 27 JulEverything he touches turns to crap
25. 27 JulDreamposting: Annihilation
26. 27 JulGetting Rid of Spare F-35s
27. 26 Jul“We can’t look away from what is happening in Gaza”
28. 26 JulAvi Loeb makes stuff up about another space rock
29. 26 JulDoes Bébé Want to Fvck Glenn Danzig?
30. 25 JulA racist, union-busting, back-stabbing thug died the other day
31. 25 JulRP by Comment 00008
32. 25 JulNightmare scenario
33. 25 JulStephen Meyer is the guy in the red sweater
34. 25 JulAn exciting new opportunity!
35. 25 JulI’m hoping for the death of the debate bro
36. 25 JulThe Probability Broach: Charity cases
37. 25 JulBrainjackin: Silent Hill Good
38. 24 JulA Wee Bit of Good News
39. 24 JulTransvestigators are nuts
40. 24 JulSnack time!
41. 24 JulNew on OnlySky: The future of antisemitism
42. 24 JulConservative pundits have no clue about academia
43. 24 JulAm I a conspiracy theorist now?
44. 24 JulThe NSFW game purge
45. 24 JulFascism is Misogynist First
46. 23 Jul“Died peacefully surrounded by family”
47. 23 JulCodependency and 12-step programs.
48. 23 JulRepublican sycophant sucks up to vulgar philistine
49. 23 JulThe doctor says…
50. 23 JulAtheists aren’t bubble-headed apologists for disasters
51. 23 JulThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 32 – Greenhouse Growth
52. 23 JulI am suddenly craving a pizza from Detroit
53. 23 JulAnother problem with the Democrats
54. 23 JulDiscolology: Nirvana II
55. 23 JulCan AI treat loneliness?
56. 22 JulOzzy Osbourne, dead at 76
57. 22 JulStephen Colbert on his show’s cancellation
58. 22 JulOff to the doctor!
59. 22 JulIt’s just a movie
60. 22 JulWhat’s insane about it?
61. 22 JulMonavation
62. 22 JulCritical thinking as community value
63. 22 JulICE unleashes the sadism
64. 21 JulIt’s like raaaain on your wedding day…
65. 21 JulThe perils of listening to Marjorie Taylor Greene
66. 21 JulHow to make a seahorse
67. 21 JulGod’s glory is awfully tawdry
68. 21 JulDiscolology: Nirvana I
69. 21 JulThe killing fields of Gaza
70. 20 JulStir-crazy
71. 20 JulAnother Goddamn Tapout
72. 19 JulDelicious Monster Salad
73. 18 JulI don’t want to talk about Epstein either
74. 18 JulThe Probability Broach: The man who killed Washington
75. 18 JulBirthday Foolery
76. 18 JulThe big unresolved question from the Scopes trial onwards
77. 17 JulScary tech
78. 17 JulAI slop is now in charge
79. 17 JulLying about Native American history to benefit creationism
80. 17 JulBucket o’ Frogs
81. 17 JulThe surprising impact of the Scopes trial
82. 16 JulCreationists still exist?
83. 16 JulSuperman has always been woke…and goofy
84. 16 JulPlatonic Inversion
85. 16 JulHow the Scopes trial came about
86. 15 JulI might change my mind if it literally gives you wings
87. 15 JulTo be fair…
88. 15 JulEmergence!
89. 15 JulAn Aurelian wager
90. 15 JulGossip time!
91. 15 JulThe Gang of Six Have Done It Again
92. 15 JulBrainjackin: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Good
93. 15 JulThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 31 – Pumpkin Precursors
94. 15 JulThe Scopes appeal
95. 14 JulRecalling the Scopes trial on its 100th anniversary
96. 14 JulRecovery time!
97. 14 JulHow Fringe Figures Wield Outsized Influence
98. 13 JulWhy are we persecuting immigrants in our democratic society?
99. 13 JulBrainjackin: Kafka Good
100. 13 JulTrump has declared war on the Hispanic community
101. 12 JulThe revolutionary water clock
102. 12 JulUltimate cause of Air India crash remains a mystery
103. 12 JulLike finding candy on a leaf
104. 12 Jul‘Deciphering the Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’: Chapter 10, part 5
105. 12 JulI never thought I’d be a conspiracy theorist
106. 12 JulLemme At Im
107. 11 JulMilkweed longhorn y beetles, am I right?
108. 11 JulLink Roundup: July 2025
109. 11 JulDoes shark dentistry pay well?
110. 11 JulIt’s science!
111. 11 JulSpider-starved
112. 11 JulMake them cry
113. 11 JulThe Probability Broach: Good guys with guns
114. 11 JulBrainjackin: Renaissance Cuties
115. 10 JulHow is this not a police state?
116. 10 JulPlanet of the Flies
117. 10 JulThey are the baddies
118. 10 JulNew on OnlySky: AI deep research
119. 10 JulThrowing the Game
120. 10 JulThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 30 – Raspberry Riches
121. 9 JulFalse stories in the aftermath of tragedy
122. 9 JulThe MRI results are in
123. 9 JulDon’t waste your time on this graph, or this essay, or Patrick Dodd
124. 9 JulThe kids are coming to visit
125. 9 JulFascism in, fascism out
126. 9 JulThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 29 – Lessons Learned
127. 9 JulGangbusters
128. 9 Jul‘Deciphering the Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’: Chapter 10, part 4
129. 9 JulThe implications of Mamdani’s win
130. 8 JulChina opens up as the US shuts down
131. 8 JulEscaped, briefly
132. 8 JulWorth reiterating
133. 8 JulBigotry and ignorance kill
134. 8 JulA Moment of Bothsiderism
135. 8 JulShameless AI Art!
136. 7 JulBalancing the universality of humanism with one’s specific ethnic heritage
137. 7 Jul“Going Orange” (Book writing update)
138. 7 JulThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 28 – Bloom Boom
139. 7 JulCats: The next generation (Non-fiction)
140. 7 JulPrincesa de la Nuca
141. 7 JulLots of F-35 News Lately!
142. 6 JulGreat moments in driving
143. 6 JulThey don’t make ’em like this anymore
144. 6 JulI’m arachnophobic?
145. 6 JulHow Racist Were These Candies?
146. 6 JulGoing to have a conversation on YouTube. Let’s see how it goes
147. 6 JulSteve Coogan blasts the UK Labour Party
148. 5 JulI released my game
149. 5 JulMay all these anti-woke crusaders sink without a trace
150. 5 JulBirds are OK, I guess
151. 5 JulDiscolology: Dead Milkmen IV
152. 5 JulNautical units
153. 4 JulDreading 2026
154. 4 JulI’m cancelling the Fourth of July at my house
155. 4 JulThe Probability Broach: Affordable care
156. 4 JulYankee Doodle Fvck the USA
157. 4 JulThe terrible budget bill that just passed
158. 3 JulNew on OnlySky: The future is (still) less religious
159. 3 JulWelcome to America?
160. 3 JulI have an appointment with the Machine
161. 3 JulThe family of antique names
162. 3 JulLike a More Edgy Star Trek or Something
163. 2 JulInfinite Thread XXXVI
164. 2 JulI’m just an old fuddy-duddy, I guess
165. 2 JulMurderbot
166. 2 JulI Said No Motherfvcking Backsies
167. 2 JulThe threat posed by masked law enforcement
168. 2 JulOrigami: Eye of the Wave
169. 1 JulBlog comments policy
170. 1 JulI saw the sunshine!
171. 1 JulBrainjackin: The Normal
172. 1 JulGreat moments in legislation

June 2025

1. 30 JunThe Oligarchs are Tightening their Grip
2. 30 JunKeep your AI slop out of my scientific tools!
3. 30 JunMy self-critique
4. 30 JunHaters Can’t See Us
5. 30 JunThe moves to stop Zohran Mamdani have begun
6. 29 JunA conserved genetic signal for building neuronal pathways
7. 29 JunFalling rock sign
8. 29 JunThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 27 – Sewage Surprises
9. 29 JunLife List: Brown-headed Cowbird
10. 29 JunA Thing That Should Happen
11. 28 Junhewwo? is it me you’we wooking fow?
12. 28 JunSimile Songs
13. 28 JunBlogversary, 2025
14. 28 JunSocial justice and empiricism
15. 27 JunWorse than I thought
16. 27 JunRP by Comment 00007
17. 27 JunThe Probability Broach: Good samaritans
18. 27 JunLife List: Grackle and Boat-tailed Grackle
19. 27 JunThe dangerous practice of subway surfing
20. 26 JunPrognosis: boredom
21. 26 JunYou’re Not Ready for the Future
22. 26 JunSome things never change
23. 25 JunMAGA loses its mind over Mamdani win
24. 25 JunI done gone did it again
25. 25 JunLobsters, OK — but please don’t boil the bison
26. 25 JunSaid a Joker to the Thief
27. 25 JunFinally, a bit of good news
28. 24 JunLearning a bit about neurodivergence
29. 24 JunTruth Social is nothing but self-serving lies
30. 24 JunImposterous
31. 24 JunChicago Skepticamp Returns! (non-fiction)
32. 24 JunTexas lottery controversy
33. 23 JunFarce Protection
34. 23 Jun“our nation’s reputation abroad is plummeting”
35. 23 JunPut yourself in their shoes
36. 23 JunNew on OnlySky: The future of drone war
37. 23 JunSo much effort spiraling down the drain of AI
38. 23 JunThis cartoon is entirely false
39. 23 JunLife List: Yellow-Headed Blackbird
40. 23 JunThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 26 – Making More Muck
41. 23 JunIt is the War Party that runs the US
42. 22 JunFound a bee
43. 22 JunAmerica is a zombie nation infected with the rage virus
44. 22 JunThe Auction
45. 22 JunTen Commandments cannot be posted in public schools in Louisiana
46. 21 JunA proud ally of Morris Pride
47. 21 JunThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 25 – Pumpkins Planted
48. 21 JunComing out as political action
49. 21 JunMicrobial evolution…in spaaaace!
50. 21 JunCelebrate today!
51. 21 JunLife List: Ruddy Turnstone and Surfbird
52. 21 JunWhat can mass protests hope to achieve in the US?
53. 21 JunBombs, Propaganda, and Money
54. 20 JunWhen will we get a vaccine against Billionaire Brain Disease?
55. 20 JunThe Probability Broach: Coffin nails
56. 20 JunSelection Selection
57. 19 JunNot in the market right now, but I’d consider it
58. 19 JunMy purpose in life
59. 19 JunBoom, again
60. 19 JunLife List: Pileated Woodpecker
61. 19 JunA theory of jerks and jerk behavior
62. 18 JunPeople are irrational by nature
63. 18 JunThe Gang of Six Again
64. 18 JunTrump’s small crowd for his parade overshadowed by protests
65. 18 JunJurassic spider tracks!
66. 18 JunThe army is fast-tracking corruption right into the officer corps
67. 18 JunI can’t believe I’m suddenly pro-Iran
68. 18 JunMinnesota has lost a thriving business
69. 18 JunRun, if you see this in a car
70. 18 JunDEIteenth
71. 18 JunHow I Made an EP
72. 17 JunWomen’s bodies must be hidden!
73. 17 JunI recognize that specific racist Uncle Sam!
74. 17 JunYou may want to avoid produce from Texas
75. 17 JunLife List: Downy Woodpecker
76. 17 JunThis is what a police state looks like
77. 16 JunA famous hoax
78. 16 JunI’m sorry, we’re going to have to ban tea now
79. 16 JunAre you unmarried? Are you a Democrat?
80. 16 JunCreep 2
81. 16 JunThey caught him!
82. 16 JunSurreal Profundity and Philosophical Materialism
83. 16 JunF-35 Blues
84. 16 JunAnti-Trump protests overshadow Trump’s parade
85. 15 JunManhunt!
86. 15 JunWe know how to really hurt Donald Trump
87. 15 JunBrainjackin: Abbott Handerson Thayer
88. 15 JunNo Kings
89. 14 JunNo Kings San Francisco
90. 14 JunThe Morris “No Kings” protest march
91. 14 JunIt is escalating
92. 14 JunA dismal way to start the march
93. 14 JunTime to protest
94. 14 JunWhen the Shit Goes Down
95. 14 JunOpen thread
96. 13 JunTomorrow is another podcast day
97. 13 JunGray days
98. 13 JunThey’re not geniuses — they’re pretentious twits
99. 13 JunThe Probability Broach: Vegas on steroids
100. 13 JunDiscolology: Dead Milkmen III
101. 12 JunDon’t use these posters
102. 12 JunNow what?
103. 12 JunIt’s not just me
104. 12 JunI guess I’m supposed to be relieved
105. 12 JunMonster People
106. 12 JunStephen Pinker slides down the slippery slope of a public intellectual
107. 12 JunMusk’s groveling to Trump begins
108. 11 JunSad news for fans of the Newsboys and the God’s Not Dead movies
109. 11 JunI curse the day he was born
110. 11 JunNew on OnlySky: Is it better not to exist?
111. 11 JunThe mystery is how anyone falls for it
112. 11 JunThey let Tom Cotton write another op-ed
113. 11 JunAll eugenicists are incompetent geneticists
114. 11 JunDiscolology: Dead Milkmen II
115. 11 JunIs LA a rehearsal for the nationwide June 14th protests?
116. 11 JunLink Roundup: June 2025
117. 10 JunMy sentiments exactly
118. 10 JunJinxed!?
119. 10 JunBan Charlie Kirk and Matt Walsh
120. 10 JunMonstroid Brainstormin
121. 10 JunNIH scientists risk careers to stand up for the public good
122. 9 JunBoots’ end
123. 9 JunEvil and stupid?
124. 9 JunThat PR coup went perfectly
125. 9 JunRise up!
126. 9 JunDiscolology: Dead Milkmen I
127. 9 JunSpace Force Marines ‘accidentally’ assist masked robbers (Fiction)
128. 9 JunA club for people like me
129. 8 JunAgain, I find myself agreeing with Rat
130. 8 JunA familiar story told again
131. 8 JunMonstral Cladismo
132. 8 JunA plague on both their houses
133. 8 JunWhat NOT to do if you are late for your flight
134. 7 JunFTO Update, June 2023 to June 2025
135. 7 JunBureaucracy Hurts
136. 7 JunFinally! Kilmar Ábrego García (and another) returned after illegal deportations
137. 6 JunI show up in two videos, but listen to them for the other guys
138. 6 JunI have a new little friend
139. 6 JunThe perils of spinelessness
140. 6 JunThe Probability Broach: Mo’ money, mo’ problems
141. 6 JunI finally get to try out this toy
142. 6 JunThinkin on Monsterology
143. 6 JunThe circus monkeys are running wild
144. 5 JunSlap fight!
145. 5 JunSpotted: teeny-tiny itsy-bitsy orbweaver
146. 5 JunWe’re being invaded by ASTRONOMERS!
147. 5 JunFace-eating leopards hard at work
148. 5 JunI like the name: Operation Spiderweb
149. 5 JunLife List: American Coot
150. 5 JunThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 24 – Agricultural Arithmetics
151. 5 JunThe double pendulum as a metaphor for the Trump administration
152. 4 Jun“Not my circus, not my monkeys”
153. 4 JunReviewing 6 conlang games
154. 4 JunSomething is laying eggs on our milkweed!
155. 4 JunHow Pete Hegseth celebrates Pride Month
156. 4 JunI’m confused about math
157. 4 JunZoroastrian Optimism
158. 3 JunThanks, Canada!
159. 3 JunTrump reveals his weakness with China
160. 3 JunI’d rather embrace the tooth fairy
161. 3 JunKen Ham is having a snit
162. 3 JunCatgirl Zoo
163. 2 JunWho’s that peeping out of the Aporia web page?
164. 2 JunDiminishing America
165. 2 JunLearning to appreciate difficult novels
166. 1 JunOrigami: Pulsar
167. 1 JunBlog comments policy
168. 1 JunThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 23 – Garden Gym
169. 1 JunDualism
170. 1 JunJurassic Living Room
171. 1 JunThe search for a non-opioid painkiller

May 2025

1. 31 MayI feel a bit cthulhu-esque
2. 31 MayWelcome to the new Dark Ages
3. 31 MayJeffrey Tomkins strikes again!
4. 31 MaySips from the Iggy Bucket
5. 30 MayMusk’s costly trail of damage
6. 30 MayThe children are squabbling
7. 30 MaySpartan Mosquito Pro — save your money
8. 30 MayThe Probability Broach: Kindergarteners packing heat
9. 30 MayStill carrying water for Musk
10. 30 MayLife List: Grey Goose
11. 29 MayWhy are Xian apologists so inane?
12. 29 MayNew on OnlySky: Resurrecting the chestnut
13. 29 MayIt’s Thursday. Do you know what the tariffs are?
14. 29 MayDon’t worry about the next pandemic
15. 29 MayI suggest we call it the “Unread Journal of Stupid Ideas”
16. 29 MayDisability Criteria
17. 28 MayI’ve been doing spider stuff all day
18. 28 MayThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 22 – Shitty Seed Supplies
19. 28 MayWhy loans cost money
20. 28 MayLook what I found in the compost bin
21. 28 MayLife List: Canada Goose
22. 28 MayUnitedHealth puts profit over health care
23. 27 MaySpider Baby !
24. 27 MayRP by Comment 00006
25. 27 MayIt does feel like 1933, but nothing is fine
26. 27 MayA Stupid Idea
27. 27 MayThe Big Beautiful Bill is a joke
28. 27 MayWhy Loan?
29. 26 MayI was never constructed to begin with
30. 26 MayI need to shut up and tend to my spiders
31. 26 MayIt’s Memorial Day
32. 26 MayLife List: Cackling Goose
33. 26 MayThe population pendulum
34. 25 MayMessage from Amtrak
35. 25 MayStop punching Nazis
36. 25 MayThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 21 – Plan P
37. 25 MayThe guiding principle of American news
38. 25 MayClosing the circle
39. 25 MayMellifluosity
40. 25 MayA college student’s powerful critique of Israeli genocide
41. 24 MayRacism in the NY Times? Say it ain’t so
42. 24 MayGetting old sucks
43. 24 MayAstronauts can be total dumbasses, too
44. 24 MayVampire Fury
45. 24 MayTrump’s costly war on international students and higher education
46. 23 MayDecisions and careers
47. 23 MayThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 20 – Serious Setbacks
48. 23 MayThe Probability Broach: Self-hating government scientists
49. 23 MayPurple Pill Poppers
50. 23 MayFor Trump and his cronies, only white people matter
51. 22 MayTragically, we’re going to have to nuke Florida
52. 22 MayI usually imagine more hurtling when you say “moons of Mars”
53. 22 MayIt’s a rough season for boots
54. 22 MaySome Good News…Maybe?
55. 22 MayNo sympathy for the toadies
56. 22 MayDeadwood must be cleared
57. 22 MayHidden in the Fine Print
58. 22 MaySuperhero Violence Deux
59. 22 MayBolingbrook High School rejects Brookbot’s commencement speech (Fiction)
60. 21 MayReflections on the working poor
61. 21 MayBret Weinstein is an ignorant clown
62. 21 MayNew on OnlySky: In vivo gene editing
63. 21 MayBoots
64. 21 MayMy family secret
65. 21 MayDeath to Squirrels: Shadow of the Colossus Edition
66. 21 MayPreparing for confrontations with CBP and ICE
67. 20 MayThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 19 – Billie The Hook and Wee Willie Weeder
68. 20 MayDear god, she’s the Secretary of Homeland Security?
69. 20 MayToday is World Bee Day!
70. 20 MayLife List: Snowy Egret
71. 19 MaySome sports fans are the worst
72. 19 MayFirst they came for the libraries
73. 19 MayWe’ve made Nathaniel Jeanson cry
74. 19 MayNeeds More Hoes
75. 19 MayA true friend
76. 18 MayThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 18 – First Fails
77. 18 MayStop letting creationists host your ideas
78. 18 MayLife List: Eastern Kingbird
79. 17 MayIt’s gonna be a slapstick rout
80. 17 MayWhat you should do in the police state that the US has become
81. 17 MayCurtail Executive Power or Else
82. 16 MaySupreme Court blocks Trump’s efforts to quickly deport Venezuelans
83. 16 MayFire
84. 16 MayMokele-mbembe!
85. 16 MayThe Probability Broach: Visit sunny Colorado
86. 16 MayLife List: Northern Mockingbird
87. 16 MayTrump administration policy: “Only tell us what we want to hear”
88. 15 MayWhat biology looks like
89. 15 MayDisappointed
90. 15 MayDo not trust IFLScience
91. 15 MayLet’s start a cult!
92. 15 MayMah Spoon is Too Big
93. 14 MayFilm review Oppenheimer (2023), runaway fusion, and runaway AI
94. 14 MayAlive on YouTube again
95. 14 MayI’m way ahead of you, Nature
96. 14 MayRP by Comment 00005
97. 14 MayThe problem with putting limp-dick dumb-ass right-wingers in charge of the military
98. 14 MayMaking the whole world ring like a bell
99. 14 MayLet’s chop the Endangered Species Act to bits, shall we?
100. 14 MayLife List: Blue Jay
101. 14 MayOrthosomnia or sleep obsession
102. 13 MayNew on OnlySky: The future of dying
103. 13 MayHow to fold D. Hinklay’s “Stone Board”
104. 13 MayI can’t take accusations of blasphemy seriously
105. 13 MayI found the next Patient Zero!
106. 13 MayTales from the Ghetto: Schoolhouse Foolhouse
107. 13 MayI’d spider-watch it
108. 12 MayTariff uncertainty not over
109. 12 MayNew role at OnlySky
110. 12 MayWhat is wrong with California?
111. 12 MayUseful insight to begin the day
112. 12 MayWhy Lamarck was wrong
113. 12 MayLife List: Baltimore Oriole
114. 11 MayAmbitions
115. 11 MayThere will be nothing left after the billionaires are done with us
116. 11 MayTwo signs of the end of democracy
117. 11 MayTales from the Ghetto: Excursions
118. 11 MaySounds and chimpanzees
119. 10 MayA story that will make your blood boil
120. 10 MayRetailers share their tariff woes
121. 10 MayWe will never colonize Mars
122. 10 MayLink Roundup: May 2025
123. 10 MayAn interesting psychological insight
124. 10 MayDreamposting: All Hell
125. 10 MayRümeysa Öztürk released but not safe from further harassment
126. 9 MayThe Pope has a surprise for us all
127. 9 MayMary tells me I should take more photos of birds
128. 9 MayBelieve me, Americans want to sing the same song
129. 9 MayThe Daily Show on the new pope
130. 9 MayThe Probability Broach: Education isn’t efficient
131. 9 MayAlmost there!
132. 9 MayVandals get punished
133. 9 MayTales from the Ghetto: Grandparents’ House
134. 9 MayRevenge of the Phantom Press now available to preorder
135. 8 MayWe have a new Pope, same as all the old Popes
136. 8 MayI gotta get a better hobby
137. 8 MayLife List: Red-Tailed Hawk
138. 8 MayNo surprise: Tourism industry is cratering
139. 7 MayNone of us are going anywhere anyway
140. 7 MayThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 17 – Mixin’ Muck
141. 7 MayI may be in Fargo for Flag Day
142. 7 MayThe fundamental fork in the road to destiny!
143. 7 MayTammy Faye is calling you home, Jim
144. 7 MayNew on OnlySky: AI and the post-truth era
145. 7 MayTales from the Ghetto: Primordial Soup
146. 7 MayJust what we don’t need: another war
147. 6 MayAnother podcast coming up!
148. 6 MayTNET 49: Full Auto Crossbow
149. 6 MayJust in time for summer
150. 6 MayMissionary Lizards!
151. 6 MayLife List: Brewer’s Blackbird
152. 6 MayDisease Consortium honors JFK Jr. at the Bolingbrook Golf Club (Fiction)
153. 6 MayThe Mormons really want me
154. 5 MayHumanity is not fading away
155. 5 MayI Get Mail…
156. 5 MayHelters of Skelter
157. 4 MaySpider season begins
158. 4 MayHave mercy!
159. 4 MayAgainst fallacy-spotting
160. 4 MayLife List: Red-Winged Blackbird
161. 3 MayMix Harvard and the NY Times to get perfect mush
162. 3 MayTrumpism failed in Canada and again in Australia
163. 3 MayIs This Going Somewhere?
164. 3 May1/3 done
165. 2 MayThe Probability Broach: Smoke gets in your eyes
166. 2 MayLife List: Barred Owl
167. 2 MayOrigami: Fish Curler
168. 2 MayRFK Jr. is going to cause the death of us all
169. 1 MayDream about a cat.
170. 1 MayI wish I could make stuff up and call it science
171. 1 MayBlog comments policy
172. 1 MayThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 16 – Now We’re Cooking With Grass
173. 1 MayOh no, I’m an accountant!
174. 1 MayPostmodernism Eating Itself
175. 1 MayAircraft carriers can swerve?

April 2025

1. 30 AprWinding down
2. 30 AprLife List: Bewick’s Wren
3. 30 AprThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 15 – Laurel Leaves
4. 30 Apr1000th Post
5. 30 AprJon Stewart on Trump’s first 100 days
6. 29 AprI wish I could laugh anymore
7. 29 AprThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 14 – Peek-a-Potato
8. 29 AprLiberals win in Canada election
9. 29 AprWelcome to America? Not so much
10. 29 AprRepublican madness reigns
11. 29 AprPope Francis dies
12. 29 AprHow about that Canadian election, eh?
13. 29 AprHow to write gooder
14. 29 AprI might be slightly optimistic about possibilities in the future
15. 29 AprDeath Magic
16. 29 AprUK’s Keir Starmer tries to placate Trump
17. 28 AprSo, you’re telling me I shouldn’t expect my tax refund check any time soon?
18. 28 AprThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 13 – Hawt Heap
19. 28 AprLong-legged, pointy, & venomous…my kind of girl
20. 28 AprMeals on Wheels
21. 28 AprScience is being murdered in the USA, and we know who is doing it
22. 28 AprJongleurs of Love
23. 27 AprDon’t Lose Hope, …
24. 27 AprAny Java Gurus Out There?
25. 27 AprHere come the quackpots
26. 27 AprThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 12 – Creating Compost
27. 27 AprGiliell goes electric part 2: I want to ride my bicycle
28. 27 AprThe fascists are already here, and they’re in control
29. 27 AprIt’s a Kind of Magic
30. 26 AprAmerica!!!
31. 26 AprTrump becoming increasingly pathetic
32. 26 AprI get email
33. 26 AprThe most discouraging xkcd ever yet
34. 26 AprLife List: Song Sparrow
35. 25 AprGeorge Santos sentenced to 87 months in prison
36. 25 AprRP by Comment 00004
37. 25 AprThe Probability Broach: Superfluous villainy
38. 25 Apr“Anatomically fulsome”
39. 25 AprVisited by an alien
40. 25 AprThese Gay Antics
41. 25 AprLawrence Krauss taken down by Rebecca Watson
42. 24 AprCalifornia is now the world’s fourth largest economy
43. 24 AprKRAUSS SMASHED
44. 24 AprSocial Media is trying to make me cry
45. 24 AprIt’s a race to the end
46. 24 AprWhat do you think I am, Vernonia amygdalina ?
47. 24 AprThat isn’t ominous at all
48. 24 AprLife List: Black-Capped Chickadee
49. 24 AprTrump must be looking like a paper tiger to China
50. 23 AprLife is tough.
51. 23 AprAn ugly word: “warfighter”
52. 23 AprOur government is occupied by pure evil
53. 23 AprThis is a good time to say “NO!”
54. 23 AprAnother mammoth resurrected!
55. 23 AprNow that’s a good science fair project
56. 23 AprRuining Lives for Fun and Profit
57. 22 AprLarry David skewers Bill Maher for normalizing Trump
58. 22 AprNew on OnlySky: Will China build the future?
59. 22 AprEarth Day (or is it Air Day?)
60. 22 AprSpidersign!
61. 22 AprThe Celebs Are at It Again
62. 22 AprTrump backtracking on boasts to end the war in Ukraine
63. 21 AprThey want to claim vaccines are a bioweapon now
64. 21 AprHow the new pope will be elected
65. 21 AprHow I developed a game
66. 21 AprWhat’s your IQ?
67. 21 AprOh oh
68. 21 AprThere is an extremely smug crackpot prowling the streets of Minneapolis today
69. 21 AprAnyone want a furry 10-lb wrecking ball?
70. 21 AprFascism was Never Cool
71. 21 AprTime for a new pope
72. 20 AprSupreme Court stops deportations
73. 20 AprAnd a good time was had by all
74. 20 AprA Meme
75. 20 AprSurreal Products and Services
76. 19 AprThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 11 – Mossy Mess
77. 19 AprThe Worst Goddamn Show
78. 19 AprI went for a walk in Minneapolis, near the atheist con
79. 19 AprWhat I learned yesterday
80. 19 AprWhy Will Mxbk be Assassinated?
81. 19 AprAppeals Court slaps down Trump
82. 19 AprWe Have Always Been at War With Eurasia
83. 18 AprRefreshed opinions on AI art
84. 18 AprThe Probability Broach: Free-market mafiosi
85. 18 AprSecond thoughts
86. 18 AprLife List: Water Ouzel
87. 18 AprThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 10 – First Fruit Flowers
88. 18 AprAffirmative action for US students
89. 17 AprA bad way to protest
90. 17 AprYou know, he’s not actually ever going to Mars
91. 17 AprThis is how eugenicists talk
92. 17 AprWhy Will Tvnfp be Assassinated?
93. 17 AprTrump’s China obsession will hurt him and the US
94. 16 AprHappy birthday, Mom
95. 16 AprLife List: Merlin
96. 15 AprLawrence Krauss is getting worse
97. 15 AprI take it none of my European friends will be coming to visit me
98. 15 AprMajor space news!!!!
99. 15 AprNew on OnlySky: How to warn the future
100. 15 AprIs blood the only alternative to comedians?
101. 15 AprAre You the Baddies?
102. 15 AprIf You Read Nothing Else I Write, Read This. Really.
103. 15 AprWhat’s happening in Canada
104. 14 AprI’ll never think of Spider-Man any other way
105. 14 AprIf you thought they could lie fast before, now AI has been harnessed to spew them harder & faster
106. 14 AprSuch a cutie-pie
107. 14 AprMy alma mater isn’t feeling so good
108. 14 AprLife List: Greater Sandhill Crane
109. 14 AprSaturday Night Live on the tariff fiasco
110. 13 AprAdolescence, mini series, a review (Spoilers, of course)
111. 13 AprThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 9 – Overabundance of Onions
112. 13 AprBlue has outgrown her home!
113. 13 AprRP by Comment 00003
114. 13 AprCivil war in the Minnesota Republicans!
115. 13 AprPresident Cal Worthington
116. 13 AprTrump has blustered himself into a corner
117. 12 AprDisable AI training on your YouTube videos
118. 12 AprThat’s what they are: enemies of democracy
119. 12 AprLife List: Luzon Bleeding Heart Dove
120. 12 AprOn The Uniquely American Ability to Make Things Worse
121. 11 AprThe premise is false
122. 11 AprJesus, not patriotism, has become the last refuge of the scoundrel
123. 11 AprThe Probability Broach: Metal detectors cause terrorism
124. 11 AprMAHA by turning the country into a toxic wasteland
125. 11 AprPrimary they Asses
126. 11 AprSupreme Court says Trump must return man illegally sent to El Salvador
127. 10 AprWeb Exclusive: Aliens release abducted ICE agents (Fiction)
128. 10 AprThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 8 – Complicating Carrots
129. 10 AprLink Roundup: April 2025
130. 10 AprOh god…NO, DIRE WOLVES HAVE NOT BEEN BROUGHT BACK FROM EXTINCTION!
131. 10 AprBeware of ‘free’ offers
132. 10 AprYou aren’t bad, neither is your phone…but the capitalists who abuse it are evil
133. 10 AprFirst hint this wasn’t going to work out: he’s a pastor
134. 10 AprA wall looms before me
135. 10 AprLife List: White-Crowned Sparrow
136. 9 AprThe fall in bond prices, not stocks, may have caused Trump to cave on tariffs
137. 9 AprThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 7 – Planting Potato Patches
138. 9 AprWho benefits from Trump’s abrupt reversals of policy?
139. 9 AprFtB & Social Media
140. 9 AprPrison Labor Will Set You Free
141. 9 AprMacroeconomics with Peter Navarro
142. 8 AprSupport real wolves, not genetic abuse
143. 8 AprInspired by Colossal Biosciences
144. 8 AprRP by Comment – Still Open
145. 8 AprEggflation
146. 8 AprNew on OnlySky: The coming dark age
147. 8 AprDire puppies
148. 8 AprLife List: Turkey Vulture
149. 7 AprStuff about bacteria and archaea.
150. 7 AprGeorgia Purdom explains sex
151. 7 AprShrim Pizza
152. 7 AprTrump’s ‘act first and fight the courts’ policy faces first major test
153. 7 AprThis man served in the North Dakota senate for 54 years
154. 7 AprIt’s all about uniformity, injustice, and exclusion
155. 7 AprThe Beautiful Dream
156. 7 AprRandomness
157. 7 AprTrump plays dominance games with the world economy
158. 6 AprThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 6 – Starting Strawberries
159. 6 AprWhy is RFK Jr going to this funeral?
160. 6 AprAn impossible compromise
161. 6 AprAn in-depth look at one of my favorite spiders
162. 6 Apr‘Deciphering the Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’: Chapter 10, part 3
163. 6 AprLife List: Rowdy Cocks
164. 6 AprThe fierce intensity of small town politics
165. 5 AprI may have been a bad influence
166. 5 AprTwo weeks until the American Atheists convention
167. 5 AprRP by Comment – Welcome to Community College
168. 5 AprCis Boxing Day
169. 5 AprGood question:
170. 4 AprWhy do their arguments suck so bad?
171. 4 AprThe Probability Broach: Minarchists vs. anarchocapitalists
172. 4 AprThe real secret
173. 4 AprThe end of The Daily Wire?
174. 4 AprLife List, Supplemental: Great Blue Heron Chicks
175. 4 AprPuzzling About Pills
176. 3 AprThe bizarro world of Trumpian economics
177. 3 AprDoes anyone in Tucson, AZ want an extra player for games?
178. 3 AprInfinite Thread XXXV
179. 3 AprDelete your data now!
180. 3 AprDown With Cis Eve
181. 3 AprThe book is off to the editor! (Non-Fiction!)
182. 3 AprWisconsin and Florida elections
183. 2 AprDungeon Village 2: a closer look.
184. 2 Apr“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”
185. 2 AprMonstrous
186. 2 AprNaNoWriMageddon: The Whimper
187. 2 AprSecret group chats…in 2008
188. 2 AprHappy news from the state next door
189. 2 AprLife List: Vaux’s Swift
190. 2 AprOrigami: Jagged Bomb
191. 2 AprThe myth of universal body standards
192. 1 AprBlog comments policy
193. 1 AprThe dirty little secret of universities everywhere
194. 1 AprDeath of personality
195. 1 AprI had visitors last night
196. 1 AprApril Fools’ Day
197. 1 AprRun, Mike, run!
198. 1 AprSissy hypno?
199. 1 AprLife List: Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
200. 1 AprThis May Sound Like an Ad
201. 1 AprTV review: The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram

March 2025

1. 31 MarWatch the skies!
2. 31 MarThe problem with the Democratic party
3. 31 MarHappy International Transgender Day of Visibility!
4. 31 MarThank the OSS!
5. 31 MarWhat it Sounds Like when TDoVs Cry
6. 31 MarTop health officials resign over Kennedy’s misinformation and lies
7. 30 MarLife List: Violet-Green Swallow
8. 30 MarTesla cybertruck looks like a piece of junk
9. 29 MarOn artificial romance
10. 29 MarThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 5 – Breaking Back
11. 29 MarUniversities need to FIGHT BACK
12. 29 MarThe Na-K pump is not controversial at all
13. 29 MarA Clear and Present Danger
14. 29 MarScience? We don’t need no stinking science!
15. 28 MarJehovah’s got competition
16. 28 MarGet ready for more stories like this
17. 28 MarThe Probability Broach: Anarchist standard time
18. 28 MarLife List: Tree Swallow
19. 28 MarIsraeli snipers targeting Palestinian children?
20. 27 MarThis is what a police state looks like
21. 27 MarMost people would decorate with a few garden gnomes
22. 27 MarThe secret police are here
23. 27 MarRed State Leftists Please Start Voting
24. 27 MarWhat the newly released JFK files reveal
25. 26 MarOH NO! MY LAWN!!!
26. 26 MarThe administration is a mob of children
27. 26 MarMy academic career finally ended
28. 26 MarPoor Martyn Iles
29. 26 MarOur replacement is almost ready
30. 26 MarLife List: Cliff Swallow
31. 26 MarChoosing to rent instead of buying a home
32. 25 MarI am relieved that our invasion plans are all going to fail
33. 25 MarNew on OnlySky: Suffering is optional
34. 25 MarThe fox is in charge of the henhouse
35. 25 MarFeminine stereotypes
36. 25 MarThe “Average Christian” is a believer in lies
37. 25 MarSo bad
38. 25 MarGorescalator
39. 24 MarJB Pritzker makes my day
40. 24 MarSuccessful immigrants seemingly always arrive with just $10
41. 24 MarThe Eichorn saga is sinking into the abyssal depths
42. 24 MarI think Blue is a she
43. 24 MarIf I lived in Illinois, I’d vote for her
44. 24 MarColumbia University’s shame
45. 24 MarLife List: Barn Swallow
46. 24 MarTV review of Adolescence (2025) and incels and the manosphere
47. 23 MarEfficiency according to Musk-Trump
48. 23 MarIs this too much of an inside joke?
49. 23 MarThe fascist wrecking ball is here
50. 23 MarStill at It, Unfortunately
51. 23 MarLife List: Diamond Doves
52. 23 MarYou have no rights when trying to enter the US
53. 23 MarThat time a cozy game triggered me
54. 22 Mar‘Deciphering the Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’: Chapter 10, part 2
55. 22 MarNew Mastodon server!
56. 22 MarFinding cause and time of death is messy
57. 22 MarDon’t visit America
58. 22 MarThey hate libraries, too
59. 22 MarSexy Anonymous
60. 21 MarBluest of the blue
61. 21 MarThat problem is too easy
62. 21 MarThe Probability Broach: Soda pirates
63. 21 MarFascists erasing history for racist reasons
64. 21 MarMinphis Don’t Play
65. 21 MarExposé of Facebook
66. 20 MarEgregiously predictable
67. 20 MarVivian Wilson, cover girl
68. 20 MarAnother day of cobweb watching
69. 20 MarIt couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy
70. 20 MarA new low
71. 20 MarLife List: Barn Owl
72. 20 MarTrump gang’s message to other countries: We don’t want your people here
73. 19 MarBusy, busy, busy spider
74. 19 MarAlex Shieh is learning a lesson at Brown University
75. 19 MarFun times at AiG!
76. 19 MarLostwave
77. 19 MarPeople are really mad at Musk
78. 19 MarA “game changer” as we Americans say
79. 18 MarNew on OnlySky: The future of food
80. 18 MarThe Minnesota Republican party is full of these guys
81. 18 MarSpiders make art
82. 18 MarThe body of a Greek god
83. 18 MarPrimary Schumer
84. 18 MarOld
85. 18 MarLife List: Anna’s Hummingbird
86. 18 MarThe Tragedy of The Left
87. 18 MarOn bullshitters
88. 17 MarWinter isn’t over yet
89. 17 MarAn end to American science
90. 17 MarCategories
91. 17 MarI’ll take a dozen
92. 17 MarBad Arterfinger
93. 17 MarThe Trump gang keeps shredding civil liberties
94. 16 MarI’m with Rat on this
95. 16 MarWhat Even is Gender? (Book review)
96. 16 MarLife List: Spotted Towhee
97. 16 MarBy The Way
98. 16 MarCan there ever be real ‘closure’ after a tragedy?
99. 16 MarThe Face-Eating Leopards Strike Again
100. 15 MarMinnesota doesn’t like students
101. 15 Mar‘Deciphering The Gospels Means Jesus Never Existed’: Chapter 10, part 1
102. 15 MarIt always turns into a grift with these people
103. 15 MarRepublican Senators Wassup
104. 15 MarOxidizing More Hydrocarbons
105. 15 MarBook and TV review: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
106. 14 MarMAGA hates science
107. 14 MarA hopeful historical story
108. 14 MarThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 4 – Garlic Poking Out
109. 14 MarRepublicans cannot help being bigoted jerks
110. 14 MarThe word of the day is Gleichschaltung
111. 14 MarThe Probability Broach: Worthless yellow rocks
112. 14 MarHomemade-ish Vegetarian Pizza
113. 13 MarCrap. Now Elizabeth Vrba has died.
114. 13 MarFlooding the zone works!
115. 13 MarLife List: Canada Jay
116. 13 MarCreating chatbots of the dead
117. 12 MarBlue has molted!
118. 12 MarThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 3 – Massivating Mah Greenhouse
119. 12 MarThe biggest immigrant DEI grifter
120. 12 MarNew on OnlySky: The benefits of disconnecting
121. 12 MarGotdam Stygian Depths
122. 12 MarThe sad end of Hackman’s and Arakawa’s lives
123. 11 MarMy sister Lisa
124. 11 MarLink Roundup: March 2025
125. 11 MarThe line goes down?
126. 11 MarOh no! Our school is failing!
127. 11 MarLife List: Stellar Jay
128. 11 MarFilm: “I’m not a robot” (2024)
129. 10 MarTwo deaths of note
130. 10 MarKevin Drum (1958-2025)
131. 10 MarPriorities!
132. 10 MarFlorida is taking pride in what they’re good at
133. 10 MarA musical interlude
134. 10 MarDon’t listen to RFK jr
135. 10 MarLife List: Bushtit
136. 10 MarSNL on the Musk-Rubio clash
137. 9 MarI may have just turned 68, but I still have a little dignity
138. 9 MarFat Middle-Aged Genderqueer ASMR Unbagging Reaction: Trader Joe’s Crispy Dried Watermelon Chips
139. 9 MarHistory is Indelible
140. 9 MarInsulting federal workers
141. 8 MarLike father, like son
142. 8 MarCanadians are mad at Trump and the US
143. 8 MarTeacher’s Corner: It’s Ramadan
144. 8 MarAn open letter to all science-fiction/fantasy authors
145. 8 MarA science rally!
146. 8 MarWe’re celebrating International Women’s Day with a podcast
147. 8 MarOMG It’s Full of VVitches
148. 8 MarWith friends (and relatives) like these, who needs enemies?
149. 7 MarAm on Bluesky
150. 7 MarToday is the day to rally
151. 7 MarSome conservatives might be persuadable
152. 7 MarThe Probability Broach: Corpus delicti
153. 7 MarI hate that I’m cheering for space exploration failures
154. 7 MarPlague Etiquette
155. 7 MarYou can never have too much cowbell
156. 6 MarAnother chickenshit Democrat
157. 6 MarFear of spiders
158. 6 MarBut we’ve already got wooly mice
159. 6 MarFrench, the language of love
160. 6 MarSceney Scene Scene
161. 6 MarMusk family values
162. 5 MarNews you can’t use?
163. 5 MarSOTU, in brief
164. 5 Mar70 Scenes
165. 5 MarFilm review: Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
166. 4 MarI thought they were free speech absolutists
167. 4 MarInteresting planet, but not on my tourism itinerary
168. 4 MarLooking Back at Wasted Potential
169. 4 MarEasier to predict than the weather
170. 4 MarWeep for America
171. 4 MarFurious overconfidence does not counter the evidence
172. 4 MarThe old darkness returns
173. 4 MarA creationist denies molecular evolution
174. 4 MarIt’s been a Bluey kind of week
175. 4 MarWelcome to America!
176. 3 MarThe hateful loons are gathering in Austin this month
177. 3 MarThe Democrats are dead, we need a new party
178. 3 MarSuperhero Violence
179. 3 MarWhy would anyone like these things?
180. 3 MarIn The Beginning, There Was a Blog
181. 3 MarSNL on the Zelensky press conference fiasco
182. 2 MarWar criminal Benjamin Netanyahu commits yet another war crime
183. 2 MarTreat your allies like crap, this is what you get
184. 2 MarWhy delete rules unless you plan to break them?
185. 2 MarIt’s a Gas
186. 2 MarThe 6% lie
187. 2 MarWhich Side Are You On, Boys, Which Side Are You On?
188. 1 MarBlog comments policy
189. 1 MarOrigami: Spike Dome
190. 1 MarPitfalls of RP: A Fistful of Eastwoods
191. 1 MarThe very public gaslighting of Zelenskyy
192. 1 MarA real life mystery

February 2025

1. 28 FebWow, that was some press conference with Zelensky, Trump, and Vance
2. 28 FebDo spiders count?
3. 28 FebWill USA Suffer Brain Drain?
4. 28 FebEconomic blackout today
5. 28 FebThe Probability Broach: Blaming capitalism on socialism
6. 28 FebMinnesota in the crosshairs
7. 28 FebGotdam Aliens
8. 28 FebAnother crypto heist and the NFT bust
9. 27 FebThat’s how you get spiders, you know
10. 27 FebIs anyone still unconvinced that he is absolutely mad?
11. 27 FebA guilty pleasure
12. 27 FebWhat would you tell people who want to gut basic research?
13. 27 FebAccurate
14. 27 FebThe Bestiestiest
15. 27 FebCoincidences and brain connections
16. 26 FebThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 2 – First Sowing
17. 26 FebA spider with two hoo-has
18. 26 FebThe Bestiest
19. 26 FebNo Politics?
20. 26 FebYou should really check this out
21. 26 FebRemembering my grandmother
22. 25 FebThese people are certifiable
23. 25 FebBesteningeningening
24. 25 FebNew on OnlySky: This too shall pass
25. 25 FebInformative! What wealthy universities can’t do
26. 25 FebIt’s all about wrecking things
27. 25 FebGetting Bullied
28. 25 FebStupid Musk tricks
29. 24 FebWhat is Trump’s beef with medical research?
30. 24 FebGerman elections, quick and dirty rundown
31. 24 FebI think that there might be other forces that kill my favorite YouTube channels
32. 24 FebMy senator is doing the work
33. 24 FebUnthinkable Bastards
34. 24 FebHow Musk is benefiting from his government role
35. 23 FebThe world is riddled with maggots
36. 23 FebMore pun fun
37. 23 FebGet ready for the Resistance
38. 23 FebMy ancestors!
39. 23 FebBesteningening
40. 23 FebThe government is already grinding to a halt
41. 22 FebAm I one of the cool kids yet?
42. 22 FebThinking About Comments
43. 22 FebThe UK has a misinformation problem
44. 22 FebA new podcast – the Know Rogan Experience
45. 22 FebMachine learning has a pseudoscience problem
46. 22 FebPhysiognomy tells me this man is the village idiot
47. 22 FebThe US has always had an anti-science core, anyway
48. 22 FebLooking for news sources
49. 22 FebBloodywood
50. 22 FebThe United States Postal Service is under Attack
51. 22 FebNew Sura Just Dropped
52. 22 FebThe courts are the only thing holding Trump back
53. 21 FebI will never be nice to MAGA
54. 21 FebI fear for the Republic
55. 21 FebBreakfast time
56. 21 FebThe Probability Broach: Peak oil
57. 21 FebSlices of You
58. 21 FebCourage is what we need
59. 20 FebWalking Disaster, Chapter 21
60. 20 FebBernie Sanders has a plan
61. 20 FebFurry Rights Now
62. 20 FebReal estate scammer now advising on government real estate
63. 19 FebI get email — flu brain edition
64. 19 FebFlu brain
65. 19 FebTrpC2 and human evolution.
66. 19 FebThe weak opposition to Trump
67. 19 FebRisky heroics: Examples
68. 19 FebDreamposting – Close Again
69. 19 FebSchool marching band as an extreme sport
70. 19 FebThis song made my day…
71. 18 FebThe Great Gardening of 2025 – Part 1 – LED There be Light
72. 18 FebI exploded this morning
73. 18 FebMore fossilized soft tissue
74. 18 FebOK, Fine, One Last AI Post
75. 18 FebWhat people say about government funding
76. 17 FebUkrainian Peace Bracket
77. 17 FebThe complicated history of USAID
78. 17 FebThe only thing you need to know about Paddington in Peru
79. 17 FebMaybe I’ll stay home for a few years
80. 17 FebListen to Alex
81. 17 FebBack to the Miocene
82. 17 FebCentennial Hills – It’s Over!
83. 17 FebTesla buyers’ remorse
84. 16 FebI’m not banal enough to be a NYT columnist
85. 16 FebRisky heroics
86. 16 FebPaging Alan G Humphrey
87. 16 FebThe misguided ‘return to the office’ policy
88. 15 FebI get email
89. 15 FebMonsterHearts 2025 – Day Fourteen
90. 15 FebLibraries rule, Amazon drools
91. 15 FebThe latest news on creationism in Kentucky
92. 15 FebThe Herfy Diaspora
93. 14 FebFridays are not working for me
94. 14 FebCreating a government of crooks, fools, and cowards
95. 14 FebMonsterHearts 2025 – Day Thirteen
96. 14 FebA whale puked him up
97. 14 FebThe Harvest
98. 14 FebThe Probability Broach: Meet L. Neil Smith
99. 14 FebLove Time
100. 14 FebHeard This One Before?
101. 14 FebChallenging Trump in the courts
102. 14 FebNIH Funding and Me
103. 14 FebPour one out for the CFPB
104. 13 FebMonsterHearts 2025 – Day Twelve
105. 13 FebA little good news
106. 13 FebCreativity Feels Like…
107. 13 FebAnd the looting begins …
108. 12 FebMonsterHearts 2025 – Day Eleven
109. 12 FebFears over pornography
110. 12 FebNew on OnlySky: A less crowded future
111. 12 FebI bet you think this day is about him, don’t you?
112. 12 FebDiscovery Institute ♥ Joe Rogan & Bret Weinstein
113. 12 FebChaos Rules Everything Around Me
114. 12 FebCreativity. Some Personal Observations
115. 12 FebWhat happens when you mix the colors in various nations’ flags?
116. 12 FebThese people are infantile twits
117. 11 FebLGBT+ History Month 2025: Activism and Social Change
118. 11 FebUh-oh. My granddaughter is going to cause trouble
119. 11 FebMonsterHearts 2025 – Day Ten
120. 11 FebHeckle government stooges at every opportunity
121. 11 FebIt’s the International Day of Women & Girls in Science!
122. 11 FebLife List: White Cockatoo
123. 11 FebKilling science in the US
124. 10 FebHow bad is it?
125. 10 FebMonsterHearts 2025 – Day Nine
126. 10 FebIs your state on this list?
127. 10 FebLink Roundup: February 2025
128. 10 FebAnother memo from the UM president
129. 10 FebMicrobiologists, hang your head in shame (or fight back!)
130. 10 FebCheesiest giant spider monster ever
131. 10 FebWhen an idiot is in charge of science’s purse strings…
132. 10 FebWe Weren’t Abandoning You
133. 9 FebMonsterHearts 2025 – Day Eight
134. 9 FebIt required a coward to be this petty
135. 9 FebSri Lanka’s recovery fueled by women
136. 9 FebDreamposting: Ejection Seat
137. 8 Feb(sex cells are binary)≠(sex is binary)
138. 8 FebMonsterHearts 2025 – Day Seven
139. 8 FebNothing is too big or petty to be a revenge target for Trump
140. 8 FebDiscrimination, Inequity and Exclusion (DIE)
141. 8 FebSomebody tell us what to do!
142. 8 FebThe argument for god from consistent anatomy
143. 8 FebSieg Fvck All Y’all
144. 7 FebMonsterHearts 2025 – Day Six
145. 7 FebZizians?
146. 7 FebWe don’t allow our cat outside…and she’s bitter about it
147. 7 FebLet’s review The Probability Broach!
148. 7 FebUnder a Catholic Spell
149. 7 FebThe great egg heist
150. 7 FebIlluminati honors Elon Musk at the Bolingbrook Golf Club (Fiction)
151. 6 Feb‘Arab Americans for Trump’ change their name
152. 6 FebMonsterHearts 2025 – Day Five
153. 6 FebWho is the disgrace now?
154. 6 FebAre you telling me that Billy Bob Thornton is lying to me?
155. 6 FebGetting Terrorized
156. 6 FebDavid Foster Wallace on luxury cruises
157. 5 FebMonsterHearts 2025 – Day Four
158. 5 FebFascinating Theory of Mind and Default Mode Network concepts associated with a paper.
159. 5 FebThat’s so Dawkins
160. 5 FebA true meme
161. 5 FebNew on OnlySky: The passing of the American era
162. 5 FebAI anatomy is weird
163. 5 FebAnti-DEI = racist
164. 5 FebHow to kill American science
165. 5 FebLife List: Budgie
166. 5 FebThe danger of breaking the government
167. 4 FebMonsterHearts 2025 – Day Three
168. 4 FebScientific censorship is here
169. 4 FebThis fuckin’ guy
170. 4 FebIgnore that amateur prognosticator
171. 4 FebDid Weinersmith read my mind?
172. 4 FebProud to support DEI
173. 4 FebSleepyTime BooBoo Bears
174. 4 FebIs Trump staging a retreat from US empire?
175. 3 FebMonsterHearts 2025 – Day Two
176. 3 FebSorry, lady scientists, you don’t count
177. 3 FebTrump wants all of us to have more lead and TCE in our bodies
178. 3 FebWorse than the New Atheists?
179. 3 FebLess than two weeks in, and already the creationists are stirring
180. 3 FebThe Bestening
181. 3 FebHow the media fails us
182. 2 FebMonsterHearts 2025 – Day One
183. 2 FebWe should not ignore the real Trump agenda
184. 2 FebSpecific Actions for Blue States
185. 2 FebThat is a mighty fragile wrist
186. 2 FebA New Thing: 3
187. 2 FebWill the Democrats Return to Working for the Workers?
188. 2 FebDubious diets
189. 1 FebBlog comments policy
190. 1 FebOrigami: Four linked Triangles
191. 1 FebLife List: Osprey
192. 1 FebUnbelievable cruelty being inflicted across the globe

January 2025

1. 31 JanMarianne Faithfull (1946-2025)
2. 31 JanThat is a door, a mighty mighty door
3. 31 JanA Civil Restructuring
4. 31 JanWhat happened to Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi?
5. 30 JanIf logic were a horserace, this guy would have lapped himself multiple times
6. 30 JanRussian “Morality”
7. 30 JanI guess I’m the last psychic scientist left
8. 30 JanYou can’t blame the spider!
9. 30 JanNew on OnlySky: Is oligarchy the human condition?
10. 30 JanLife List: Chestnut-Backed Chickadee
11. 30 JanLife List: Pine Siskin
12. 30 JanHistory Says Trans Rights
13. 30 JanIs social media more like cigarettes or junk food?
14. 30 JanI should tidy up more often
15. 29 JanThings I’m reading or rereading and some extra bits.
16. 29 JanSoup in spaaaaace!
17. 29 JanMy depressing prophecy
18. 29 JanAre Black People Smarter?
19. 29 JanTrump is nuts: Example #453
20. 29 JanIt’s the economy
21. 28 JanWalking Disaster, Chapter 20
22. 28 JanTwo portraits of Christianity in America
23. 28 JanIt will always be the Gulf of Mexico to me
24. 28 JanA bad way to defend America
25. 28 JanJoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Spoilers
26. 28 JanDreaming of a rainbow bridge (Non-Fiction)
27. 27 JanNew DeepSeek AI chatbot challenges other chatbots and US monopolies
28. 27 JanThe nice thing about all-meat diets is they kill my appetite
29. 27 JanSex combs!
30. 27 JanTvxnp Wants You Stuck in Traffic
31. 27 JanTrump’s obsession with ending birthright citizenship
32. 26 JanAnti-DEI is another word for racism and sexism
33. 26 Jan20th anniversary of this blog
34. 26 JanGingy Breads – Ree-Sye-Pea
35. 26 JanIt’s genocide
36. 26 JanNot how it actually works
37. 26 JanLife List: Kinglets
38. 25 JanThe cultural practice of community agreements
39. 25 JanWhat is Vladimir Putin’s game?
40. 25 JanDon’t look more closely at your government
41. 25 JanHas Trump Overreached?
42. 25 JanThe Best Story in the World
43. 25 JanBabbler Special Report: Interstellar Court blocks Trump’s remote work ban for off-world employees (Fiction)
44. 25 JanTrue horror
45. 24 JanLooking for employment advice/inspiration.
46. 24 JanThe anti-science attacks begin
47. 24 JanGood biologists understand the complexity of sex determination & differentiation
48. 24 JanShut the hell up Ben
49. 24 JanThe price of eggs is too damn high!
50. 24 JanRIP David Lynch, Properly
51. 24 JanEvery sperm is sacred
52. 23 JanOh no, not Thunderf00t!
53. 23 JanWhat fathers are supposed to share with their sons
54. 23 JanNew on OnlySky: Weather whiplash
55. 23 JanStuffing a gag in the mouth of science
56. 23 JanA Christian acting like they tell us a Christian is supposed to act
57. 23 JanShould I Write This or That?
58. 23 JanWhen all you’ve got is a hammer …
59. 23 JanNo apology
60. 23 JanAiG ❤️ Dawkins & Coyne
61. 22 JanPutting biology in perspective
62. 22 JanDiscrimination, Inequity and Exclusion (DIE)
63. 22 JanOur government has officially gone full TERF
64. 22 JanTearing stuff down is easier than building them up
65. 22 JanDestroy Pop Culture?
66. 22 JanThe US is a dying democracy
67. 22 JanFixing Websites
68. 21 JanBusy day of making the younguns happy
69. 21 JanEither it was a Nazi salute, or he is very very stupid
70. 21 JanDreamposting – Cat Jobs
71. 21 JanJnBvtWoI II:V
72. 21 JanHow much license does a writer of nonfiction have?
73. 21 JanJnBvtWoI II:IV
74. 20 JanJnBvtWoI II:III
75. 20 JanThat wasn’t an accidental Hitlergruß
76. 20 JanThe human vestigal accessory olfactory systems and feelings.
77. 20 JanI have got to turn off the news now
78. 20 JanI don’t want a Great Firewall of America
79. 20 JanIt’s inauguration day
80. 20 JanAIs Regurgitate Training Data
81. 20 JanJnBvtWoI II:II
82. 20 JanJnBvtWoI II:I
83. 20 JanDistinguishing between long-term and short-term trends
84. 20 JanJnBvtWoI I:XIX
85. 19 JanJnBvtWoI I:XVIII
86. 19 JanTikTok, ping-pong, yes-no, nothing really matters anymore
87. 19 JanAn homage
88. 19 JanCrime is legal now
89. 19 JanJnBvtWoI I:XVII
90. 19 JanJnBvtWoI I:XVI
91. 19 JanJnBvtWoI I:XV
92. 19 JanJnBvtWoI I:XIV
93. 19 JanJnBvtWoI I:XIII
94. 19 Jan“AI Art Just Regurgitates Existing Images”
95. 19 JanJnBvtWoI I:XII
96. 19 JanJnBvtWoI I:XI
97. 18 JanJnBvtWoI I:X
98. 18 JanBook review: Kitchen Confidential (2000) by Anthony Bourdain
99. 18 JanJnBvtWoI I:IX
100. 18 JanWhy are fewer men going to college?
101. 18 JanJnBvtWoI I:VIII
102. 18 JanJnBvtWoI I:VII
103. 18 JanJnBvtWoI I:VI
104. 18 JanJnBvtWoI I:V
105. 18 JanJnBvtWoI I:IV
106. 18 JanJnBvtWoI I:III
107. 18 JanJnBvtWoI I:II
108. 17 JanJnBvtWoI I:I, continued
109. 17 JanRIP David Lynch
110. 17 JanSurprise! We have a 28th amendment?
111. 17 JanTypical Scandinavian-American family, circa 1900
112. 17 JanThe Horrendous Space Kablooie
113. 17 JanElon Musk is a fake everything
114. 17 JanJnBvtWoI I:I
115. 17 JanFlex? Dennis K? Writing Freaks?
116. 17 JanBiden will leave office with the blood of Gazans on his hands
117. 17 JanKent Hovind’s latest ‘wife’ says bye-bye
118. 16 JanAn unfortunate retraction
119. 16 JanRebecca Watson is on the case
120. 16 JanThe red lines are imaginary
121. 16 JanIf we say the obvious often enough, will people figure it out?
122. 16 JanHope: How?
123. 16 JanI Watched Biden’s Farewell Address
124. 15 JanKurt Gödel’s belief in the afterlife
125. 15 JanI knew a few people at Bryn Mawr
126. 15 JanPlastic shall rule over all!
127. 15 JanOh boy, back to back classes today!
128. 15 JanNeed therapy?
129. 15 JanNeil Gaiman responds
130. 15 JanLife List: Raven
131. 15 JanRIP Robert Paul Wolff (1933-2025)
132. 15 JanI did my civic duty
133. 14 JanCool — catching the crash of a space rock
134. 14 JanAnother conference I won’t be attending
135. 14 JanCongestion pricing and change rage
136. 14 JanThe US is going to ban TikTok?
137. 14 JanWhat’s the opposite of chocolate and peanut butter?
138. 14 JanBy This Time Next Week
139. 14 JanConspiracy Theorists
140. 14 JanWhat does it mean that AI is “remixing existing work”?
141. 14 JanNeil Gaiman and the OTHER Lie of Purity
142. 13 JanPalisades fire and Monday morning quarterbacking
143. 13 JanAustralians don’t fool me
144. 13 JanI’ll never be able to read Neil Gaiman’s work again
145. 13 JanBelieve in belief, says famous physicist
146. 13 JanMonday Before TurboWriting
147. 12 JanGotta Go Fast
148. 12 JanMaybe we should just cancel the whole semester?
149. 12 JanIt’s all Kilkenny Cats out there
150. 12 JanNew Blog Name
151. 11 JanThe ghouls are rising in California
152. 11 JanDreamposting – Fish for Dinner
153. 11 JanWould-be ‘Pizzagate’ avenger shot dead by police
154. 11 JanLink Roundup: January 2025
155. 10 JanMan tracks!
156. 10 JanNew DC ‘think tank’ staffed entirely by AI robots
157. 10 JanOnce more unto the breach
158. 10 JanWhy libertarian cities fail, part 2
159. 10 JanLife List: Killdeer
160. 9 JanLife List: California Quail
161. 9 JanI, for one, will welcome our Canadian overlords
162. 9 JanAI is Better Company
163. 9 JanRemember What I Said?
164. 9 JanPeter Yarrow (1938-2025)
165. 8 JanMano has posted the right take
166. 8 JanThe end of four legacy empires
167. 8 JanStunningly beautiful
168. 8 JanKen Ham is greatly annoyed
169. 8 JanThe 25th Amendment won’t save us now
170. 8 JanLife List: Known Unknowns
171. 7 JanNegative feelings about things.
172. 7 JanNew on OnlySky: The coming drone wars
173. 7 JanWhen will we wise up to they AI hype machine?
174. 7 JanTCL rhymes with hell
175. 7 JanLess than a week until classes start again…and an upcoming podcast
176. 7 JanOverthrow the technocrats!
177. 7 JanLife List: Varied Thrush
178. 7 JanOrigami: Three-headed Crane
179. 7 JanTrump Day One agenda
180. 6 JanWalking Disaster, Chapter 19
181. 6 JanI didn’t devolve, I just got angry
182. 6 JanWhat Are You Doing for MLK Day?
183. 6 JanThe phony debate over cutting the budget deficit
184. 5 JanWe’re home at last!
185. 5 JanWrite, Jan 17th-20th
186. 5 JanHow to fold a fitted sheet so that it is flat
187. 4 JanMake Your Own
188. 4 JanI would like to spider there
189. 4 JanJust Pound Me
190. 3 JanIgon and the Joy of Overacting
191. 3 JanInfinite Thread XXXIV
192. 3 JanFFRF and Jerry Coyne: Atheists for human rights, or atheists for the religious right?
193. 3 JanTravelin’ day
194. 3 JanHippo New Year (with plush)
195. 3 JanLife List: Wilson’s Warbler
196. 3 JanBlog comments policy
197. 2 JanLife List: White Pelican?
198. 2 JanThe psychology of owning a pick up truck
199. 2 JanProteins related to purine biosynthic proteins, the big picture.
200. 2 JanA New Thing: 2
201. 1 Jan‘Our 250 year nightmare is over!’ The Babbler’s shocking predictions for 2025 (Fiction)
202. 1 JanI was going to call in a haruspex, but…
203. 1 JanThis is not ‘cool’ or ‘edgy’, it’s just stupid
204. 1 JanWoe! I failed to perform the ritual!
205. 1 JanLife List: Eurasian Collared Dove
206. 1 JanDon’t believe the lies about the minimum wage
207. 1 JanGrandma’s Ring