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October 2026

  1. I’m pretty sure we have no flat earthers here
  2. Spooktober 2026, Days Twenty-Nine and Thirty
  3. People I’d never heard of
  4. Pre-Hallowe’en festivity
  5. The Probability Broach: Forty acres and a mule
  6. North Carolina’s attempt to suppress the vote of Black college students
  7. Spooktober 2026, Days Twenty-Seven and Twenty-Eight
  8. Truth in labeling
  9. MAGA=racist
  10. Please, please put O’Keefe in jail
  11. Spooktober 2026, Days Twenty-Five and Twenty-Six
  12. It’s going to be a busy day and weekend
  13. The 2026 Golden Crocoduck
  14. Give that man a medal!
  15. I Am Not a Transphobe, But…
  16. The nerds were feeling festive
  17. Spooktober 2026, Days Twenty-Three and Twenty-Four
  18. The self-immolation of America
  19. People have been willfully blind for too many years
  20. The end of a distinguished legacy
  21. Der Stieglitz Beglimpst
  22. Spooktober 2026, Days Twenty-One and Twenty-Two
  23. Lula wins in Brazil! And so does popular movement in Serbia!
  24. He’s polluting everything
  25. Batman sans Batman
  26. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 52 – Asessing Arable Area Again
  27. Peak Republican
  28. Spooktober 2026, Days Nineteen and Twenty
  29. The Hugging Face episode reveals cult-like behavior of AI agents
  30. Now I know a little bit about Denisovans
  31. If We Can Stay Online for a Minute…
  32. We’re Back…Again
  33. Spooktober 2026, Days Seventeen and Eighteen
  34. It’s been a rough few weeks
  35. Spooktober 2026, Days Fifteen and Sixteen
  36. The instinct to avoid giving offense
  37. Ebro Ahmed saves schoolbus full of kids
  38. Colossal Biosciences predictably scams again
  39. The Probability Broach: Liberum veto
  40. House of Wax
  41. Jon Stewart interviews Abdul El-Sayed
  42. The possible October surprise attack on Iran that Trump may be envisaging
  43. Where did they go?
  44. Trump has high standards for his press secretaries
  45. I attended a community event tonight
  46. Another FtBpocalypse?
  47. Rainin’ Ruin
  48. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 51 – Colorful Corn
  49. Sorry, Texans, you are so screwed
  50. A truly original interpretation of Also Sprach Zarathustra
  51. I Got My Sample Ballot in the Mail
  52. We’re Back
  53. AI is driving some people mad
  54. One could argue that capitalism is satanic, I guess
  55. Oooh, Morris is at the center of a UFO conspiracy theory!
  56. We’re back
  57. I express my exasperation with bad questions
  58. Wait, what? We’re live again?
  59. The Zachbot’s spectacular flameout
  60. We’re back!
  61. A resonant quote
  62. The Biggest Short-Term Danger of AI
  63. Spooktober 2026, Day Fourteen
  64. Introducing the Zachbot
  65. Update on Professor Piss
  66. Our president is a bloody-minded child
  67. They’re all idiots
  68. Kimberley Guilfoyle out
  69. Spooktober 2026, Day Thirteen
  70. California 2026 election
  71. A matter of interest (1): The major economic indicators
  72. I may not be able to see this movie
  73. Who is the real criminal who deserves federal investigation?
  74. How stupid are creationists?
  75. Spooktober 2026, Day Twelve
  76. Lewis Black on biohackers
  77. This is why I’m not a romantic
  78. The real danger of AI
  79. Second thoughts on Verity
  80. Nokoomis Nibii Equay
  81. Should fraternities be shut down?
  82. Spooktober 2026, Day Eleven
  83. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 50 – Ridiculous Roots
  84. Trump is desperate for a ‘win’ before mid-terms
  85. Oh BROTHER, this guy STINKS!
  86. I’m Genteel Now
  87. The LLM Brain Drain
  88. Today I started getting ready for Hallowe’en
  89. Spooktober 2026, Day Ten
  90. George Carlin on public executions
  91. A dismal season for movies
  92. Panzergoth
  93. Your Story Matters
  94. Czech Word to Consider: “Slibotechna”
  95. Former UN human rights chief and critic of Israeli genocide wins Nobel Peace Prize
  96. Spooktober 2026, Day Nine
  97. Let me sleep a little longer, it’s such a nice dream
  98. Oppression works!
  99. The Probability Broach: When is a war not a war?
  100. Does he lie about everything?
  101. The US Collectively Loses Its Shit
  102. Why not bring back public hangings and the guillotine as well?
  103. Counting down
  104. Spooktober 2026, Day Eight
  105. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 49 – Sure Slight Soybean Success!
  106. I’m sick of election coverage
  107. The Epstein mine isn’t tapped out yet
  108. The Bribe
  109. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 48 – Winter Wheat
  110. The rise of BRICS and the decline of SWIFT
  111. Sorry, Seattle, you’re not special
  112. Spooktober 2026, Day Seven
  113. Discriminating against bigots is bigotry!
  114. A man “died” and saw the afterlife…and it was Fox News
  115. Narrative analysis of The Remake of The End of The Greatest RPG of All Time
  116. Too many spiders?
  117. Campus drama
  118. The ugliest woman in the news
  119. Say hi to Tammy Faye… in Hell
  120. Spooktober 2026, Day Six
  121. George is me
  122. Influencer Ms. Sunshine rocks Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
  123. Spooktober 2026, Day Five
  124. New on OnlySky: Christians are AI-pilled
  125. The scariest thing I’ve seen this Hallowe’en season
  126. The battle over California’s billionaire tax
  127. But how will we tell the difference?
  128. It looks like it’s Nobel season
  129. Have you ever heard of BBM?
  130. Freestylin’
  131. Cookin’ Potatoes
  132. Vox Day responds to my criticism of his refutation of evolution
  133. TV review: Scammed (2026)
  134. Spooktober 2026, Day Four
  135. Can we be done with Vox Day now?
  136. Spooktober 2026, Day Three
  137. From Step Back History: A history of Rhodesia, and why US Nazis can’t let it go
  138. Funny SNL sketch
  139. It’s not just Cornell
  140. How could AI kill everyone?
  141. Vox Day’s amazing ego, and Bill Dembski don’t care
  142. The Probability Broach: A day late and a dollar short
  143. The wolf spiders are raiding
  144. Spooktober 2026, Day Two
  145. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 47 – Acceptable Agrie
  146. When a state execution goes wrong
  147. Origami: Icosahedral Weave
  148. Welcome to October
  149. Mmmm…hot soup
  150. Spooktober 2026, Day One
  151. The Shame of Capital Punishment
  152. More fun with Schmitt’s humiliation

September 2026

  1. Great moments in ‘Gotcha!’ questioning
  2. It’s only an El Niño
  3. Goofballs with clout
  4. The incredible self-annihilating creationist argument
  5. China is the big winner in the US-Israel war against Iran
  6. Infinite Thread XXXXI
  7. Almost October!
  8. Illinois has a real winner
  9. U Might Not Be Aware Of: Dollcore
  10. Monday morning comedy
  11. The intellectual pick-pocket
  12. Building Better Men
  13. Revisiting Whalefall
  14. Why DoorDash spent so much to defeat Mamdani
  15. Wolfin’ around
  16. Got Emotional
  17. Bad abortion arguments and an attack on liberal Christianity
  18. The US as a terrorist state
  19. the ozarks of king county
  20. What’s with the furries obsession?
  21. The dumbest man in congress
  22. About interest rate hikes
  23. The Probability Broach: The irrevocable crime
  24. Tripe
  25. Another sign of America’s anti-science turn
  26. War on Science: Urgent call to action
  27. The danger of roller coasters
  28. How not to campaign in Minnesota
  29. The North of England has been blessed with a new invader
  30. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 46 – Some Slight Soybean Success?
  31. John Oliver on the evil UnitedHealth Group
  32. Plumbing is for human benefit, the spiders can take advantage, too
  33. We really are deficient in development education
  34. Bin Laden Weed Revisited Again
  35. The US is winning battles and losing wars
  36. Why 4
  37. The belated and well-deserved decline of Steven Pinker
  38. Rosh Hashana, humanist style
  39. The instinct to buy and hold on to stuff
  40. A discussion with Aron Ra
  41. Nathan Cofnas needs to be discarded from the discourse
  42. Shenanigans afoot!
  43. Ninjutsu, Tears, and Inexpert Musical Guff
  44. Who are the Houthis and what do they want?
  45. A movie I’d like to see
  46. Double-feature at the bijou
  47. The Plan, Stan
  48. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 45 – Pumpkins & Pattypans
  49. The Lincoln pool debacle continues
  50. The Probability Broach: Somebody else’s problem
  51. I’m going to have to give up on modern medicine
  52. LLMs Destroyed my Ass dot GIF
  53. Touch Grass
  54. The death of movements
  55. I guess I’m handing out Skittles for Halloween
  56. New on OnlySky: The energy crisis is coming
  57. Peter Max has died
  58. Quantificosis
  59. LLMs Destroy Communities
  60. US sinks deeper into the Middle East quagmire
  61. High praise
  62. No voice, but a guardian angel
  63. Should Books be Easier to Read?
  64. Controversy clouds secret convention for progressive political influencers (Fiction)
  65. Widow’s Bay shows how out of touch I am (minor spoilers)
  66. It’s happened
  67. A Cambrian chelicerate!
  68. It’s a mask day
  69. AI generates a Navier-Stokes controversy
  70. I know there are differences between male & female anatomy, but…
  71. Have we all forgotten Tom Corbett and Rocky Jones?
  72. Biology don’t care
  73. kicking windows in the nux
  74. What the hell is x ?
  75. Salmon Steak With Butternut Squash
  76. Our kitchen helper
  77. Oh no! I’ve been erased from history!
  78. Rebound from the storm
  79. Will this year be another Texas mirage?
  80. A reason to love the internet
  81. Repetition
  82. A very polite inquiry
  83. Another view of Gloria Steinem
  84. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 44 – Black Beans?!
  85. The Probability Broach: The inevitable car chase scene
  86. Anyone else remember Brian Wansink?
  87. Please clap
  88. Looking down
  89. Laughable status seeking
  90. Sock’s Adventures: Meet the Pack
  91. Link Roundup: September 2026
  92. A suggestion for commenters
  93. How dare you use variables in your math!
  94. Veggie Patch – Year One
  95. Je ne blorbe pas.
  96. The Fetterman problem
  97. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 43 – Disappointing Dali
  98. Cat and familiar
  99. A call to action for the post-Trump era
  100. AntinAItalist
  101. Pilfering the NIH for missile-money
  102. Is Mitch McConnell alive?
  103. The bad graphics alliance
  104. You know Fall is here when…
  105. AfD Wins
  106. Celebrating Labor Day properly
  107. My viking ancestors would be proud
  108. The value of public libraries
  109. Ha ha, meaty overlords, take your punishment
  110. Robot Birdwatching
  111. Kinda Mindblowing
  112. Maybe he has a large family?
  113. The secret abilities of plants
  114. The Tate brothers are in deep trouble
  115. Lazy linking
  116. There got to be a reckoning
  117. Putting on my prophet hat again
  118. The shaky business model behind AI
  119. Are you a fan of space opera and alien cat people?
  120. The Probability Broach: The inevitable deus ex machina
  121. Oh no! A schism!
  122. The attack of the mega-farm!
  123. Missouri’s Gerrymandering
  124. A fight that both people should lose
  125. Another loss: Gloria Steinem is dead
  126. rocknroll bus to hell
  127. Origami: Pacman Ghost
  128. New on OnlySky: Our shady future
  129. Socks’ Adventures: Walking the Wadden
  130. The real cost of the Iran war
  131. I got a haircut
  132. Unjected?
  133. The bad guys have faces
  134. DO NOT WANT
  135. I almost completely missed the meteoric career of Joe Schmid!
  136. The Facebook/Meta settlement
  137. Whatsit

August 2026

  1. Is Primeval worth watching?
  2. Not used to these spiders being colorful
  3. Using the mantle of science to advance reactionary views
  4. Rich enough to own history
  5. This is one of those weeks
  6. Why would Google go along with Trump’s insane renaming habit?
  7. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 42 – Topsoil Tilling Tiles Trouble
  8. ‘Trump’s Folly’
  9. Socks’ Adventures: Fun with Friends
  10. More BS for My RPG
  11. Are Creepypastas Real?
  12. Can Canada actually join the EU?
  13. Friday Night at the Movies
  14. The rise in CO2 is slowly poisoning us all
  15. If only we could get rid of all the anti-immigrationists so easily
  16. RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine crusade may have led to the deaths of 83 Samoans
  17. Quality entertainment with TNT and exploding cigars
  18. It’s another Incitatus moment
  19. It’s over, Mike
  20. The Probability Broach: You and what army?
  21. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 40 – Double Digging
  22. How about a pretty video?
  23. Nothing is correct in this illustration
  24. The aspiration of homeownership
  25. Why does Trump hate Canada?
  26. Have you been wondering what Ken Ham thinks of Dolly Parton?
  27. A fun technique
  28. What socialists stand for
  29. Now Tim Curry?
  30. Oh no — I’m an ineffective brainwasher!
  31. Eat it, Republicans!
  32. I detest bad writing
  33. If the electorate were rational…
  34. Who Put the “FLU” in InFLUencers?
  35. Grisly & horrible
  36. Do That to Me One More Time
  37. No! Not Dolly!
  38. The Most Baffling Thing About Tolkien
  39. Another sleepless night
  40. An interesting, but arbitrary, engineering exercise
  41. Survival: Day One
  42. The rise and fall of the evil Sackler family and the opioid addiction crisis
  43. I will march into that classroom confidently!
  44. Support your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!
  45. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 39 – Bursting Butternuts
  46. The truth about trickle-down economics
  47. Loneliness, 4
  48. Another right-wing hater squashed by Minnesota
  49. Is there a prize for bad apologetics?
  50. backherts
  51. Trump plays at being an aeronautical engineer
  52. Loneliness, 3
  53. The US healthcare system is a crime against humanity.
  54. Our “luxury” apartment
  55. Three brothers
  56. Entomologist Needed
  57. Insecure men retreating into fantasy worlds
  58. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 39 – Large Loofahs
  59. Socks’ Adventures: Fly like a bird!
  60. I meet some students for real today
  61. Where should Paloma go to college?
  62. The Probability Broach: Checks, unbalanced
  63. Another election victory for a progressive
  64. I get mail
  65. The company they keep tells you all you need to know
  66. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 37 – Cosplaying Cinderella
  67. The lesson of apples
  68. Election denial is a psychological disorder
  69. The queen has a beau!
  70. Silencio!
  71. Mixed election results for progressives
  72. My Daena is Dead Sexy
  73. Progress achieved
  74. The petty cruelty of Pirro and Trump
  75. New on OnlySky: Abolish the Senate
  76. Lock him up!
  77. I think this is a fictitious trend
  78. The death of superheroes
  79. Still Here (Life Update)
  80. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 36 – Crusty Camels
  81. Bomb Oman? Sure, why not? What could go wrong?
  82. Which hurts worse: Calvin Smith’s lies, or being flayed alive?
  83. I haven’t seen this in a while
  84. A few hours later…
  85. Thoughts on the blog comments policy
  86. James O’Keefe still likes to play dress-up
  87. Kids these days…
  88. Trump and Pirro’s Lincoln pool problem may well get worse
  89. Adopt, Don’t Shop! – and its Limitations
  90. The Midnight Collection, Volume the Last One Ever
  91. Fight for your scraps or starve, peasants!
  92. Re: South Park, in Brief
  93. What that movie should have been
  94. The live-streaming menace
  95. I was lucky my family wasn’t god-soaked
  96. The Probability Broach: Breaking and entering
  97. I Am Officially Half a Century Old Now
  98. Farage beats Count Binface
  99. Hegseth’s logistical failures
  100. We’ve got epic losers in this state
  101. Behold, my replacement!
  102. Struck down mid-paragraph
  103. Socks’ Adventures: The Big Water
  104. Trump’s list of enemies gets even weirder
  105. Another good election day for progressives
  106. To those people, ALL of your reproductive choices are to be questioned
  107. What a strange feeling…
  108. Another reason that the US is running short of weapons for the Iran war
  109. Socks’ Adventures: Holidays
  110. Who is Adam Bly?
  111. Backlash against Facebook and Meta’s pervert glasses
  112. Would an AI lie to you?
  113. This is what happens when you let a senile fool run the country
  114. It’s Minnesota Primary Day!
  115. Letter from an ex-slave to his former owner
  116. Link roundup: August 2026
  117. Fecundity
  118. What did I live on in the years from 0 to 30?
  119. Trump fails the first rule of war: Know your enemy
  120. It’s that time
  121. In case you were wondering, Mel Gibson is still a colossal asshole
  122. Build more guillotines
  123. What if the Lincoln reflecting pool can’t be fixed?
  124. We are kidnappers!
  125. A little body horror
  126. Remember that One Time
  127. God’s explosive diarrhea
  128. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 35 – Thistle Test
  129. Did you know…
  130. I’ve been enrolled in The Shadow League
  131. It’s Bandcamp Friday
  132. The step-children have arrived!
  133. Infographic: The Wallpaper groups
  134. The Lincoln pool fiasco reveals how despicable these people are
  135. He just lies non-stop
  136. Civil Time Again
  137. The Probability Broach: Cannonball run
  138. Race in High Fantasy
  139. And to think…
  140. More prisons to hold the innocent
  141. The Trump administration consists of ‘The Worst and the Dimmest’
  142. The most fun I’ve had in ages!
  143. Makin’ mealworms
  144. Life in the duck factory
  145. New on OnlySky: Why can’t America have Israel’s welfare state?
  146. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 34 – Bellarosa Bounty
  147. Mostly good elections for progressives
  148. Good news from Michigan
  149. Hello world!
  150. Texas hates education
  151. Film review: Nomadland (2020)
  152. The modal ontological argument
  153. The sky is falling!
  154. Farm politics? Not something I ever thought I’d get into
  155. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 33 – Getting Grains
  156. Iran is not on the ropes, they are playing rope-a-dope
  157. too few spiders, too much technobabble
  158. you can be a scholar of the bible and still understand basic neuroscience?
  159. damsel in distress
  160. Why LLM Intelligence is Irrelevant
  161. The misleading impression given about the Iran war
  162. left handed one finger typing
  163. On LLMs and Intelligence
  164. Origami: U4-30 floral ball
  165. Long day
  166. The Genocide Election and the Kshama Calculation
  167. DOJ loses Illinois Voter Data Access Challenge
  168. Manchester mayoral results
  169. Technology is killing some people’s ability to think
  170. Tap-outs
  171. Trump’s lies about Lincoln pool vandalism exposed by his own justice department
  172. Oh look, Elon’s bombing the moon.

July 2026

  1. Absolute Peak Masculinity
  2. Smoke and Sweat: Cities and Communities for a Warming World
  3. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 32 – Little Loofahs
  4. How much does a process server cost?
  5. Africa? Where’s Africa?
  6. The Probability Broach: Pistols at dawn
  7. Do I blame our incompetent state department, or do I blame AI?
  8. Yes! Push that piss baby billionaire right over the edge!
  9. The Cybertruck breaks a record, and not in a good way
  10. Political discrimination against beer!
  11. Kangaroo court is in session
  12. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 31 – Absolutely Abysmall and Atrotious Alliums
  13. Anthony Fauci slams senator Rand Paul as ‘unhinged’
  14. Too hot
  15. Jon Stewart blasts the White House Correspondents Dinner
  16. It’s so much better to spend other peoples’ money!
  17. All Creativity All of The Time
  18. I can be even more delusional!
  19. They’ll kill anything
  20. New on OnlySky: Wildfire skies are back
  21. It’s been ages since I encountered a Forth joke
  22. A review of The Odyssey I can respect
  23. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 30 – Obtaining Oats
  24. Ask The Strategic Genius: Iran Edition
  25. That time of year
  26. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 — good start!
  27. The mass extinction of languages
  28. All of Elon Musk’s heroes are frauds
  29. I’m Wild, Dog
  30. The Automation of Hope
  31. Light blogging coming up
  32. Becoming a President Not Intelligence Proof of Is
  33. The rightwing snit over the The Odyssey (2026)
  34. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 29 – Pretty Polinators
  35. Ever watch a yellow garden spider wrap up her prey?
  36. Trump Station
  37. Post delayed
  38. Come on! I double-dog-dare you!
  39. Oh no, science to get the Trump “gold” treatment
  40. You can’t get a philosophy degree in Wyoming
  41. Everything is looking Odyssey now
  42. Grandpa 3 !
  43. The Probability Broach: Barbarians at the gates
  44. Road Rage II
  45. > huuuaaaallllp <
  46. Your stabilimentum so fine, girl
  47. Anti-establishment candidates keep winning Democratic primaries
  48. [CONSERV]ATIVES: gimmicky title, bad movie
  49. Does everything have an explanation?
  50. Hey atheists — I have a question. Is Lily Jay fake?
  51. Welcome to my den of iniquity
  52. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 28 – Bee Busy
  53. Iris haz disappoint. :|
  54. More Civil Time Geekiness
  55. I’m sorry, Canada
  56. How Joe Biden enabled Israel’s war crimes
  57. My terrible confession
  58. What? The all-meat diet isn’t a panacea?
  59. Ugly man, ugly statue
  60. Will Trump step in to rescue the Tates?
  61. Uh-oh. I saw another movie this weekend
  62. My Next Votes
  63. Take That, Human Traffickers
  64. Having ‘The Talk’ with your children
  65. Guess who else is back?
  66. Look who’s back!
  67. A beautiful response by Talarico
  68. The Cult Of LLMs
  69. Count Binface is on a roll in the UK
  70. Environmental inanity — it’s a good reason to throw this guy out of office NOW
  71. Ponder This
  72. Garfield Sobers, cricketing legend, dies at age 89
  73. Blame Canada!
  74. The Probability Broach: Dead men tell no tales
  75. I do believe in foreign interference in our elections
  76. The Bolingbrook Babbler interviews the ghost of Lindsey Graham (Fiction)
  77. The Lincoln Pool is a metaphor for the Trump presidency
  78. Our troops will be getting gender-affirming care
  79. Space is full of sugar!
  80. Science should be getting the credit, not your silly god
  81. More Time Zone Silliness
  82. Cancer Update (if anybody actually cares)
  83. Busy morning with spiders
  84. Count Binface debates at the Oxford Union
  85. I Joined the DSA
  86. E. Jean Carroll finally gets some money from Trump
  87. I don’t ask much of the Democrats
  88. Now you tell me
  89. Late to Death Grips
  90. Jon Stewart on Lindsey Graham’s death
  91. NOOO! TOO HOT!
  92. feelies my cumply-an-yoes
  93. Larval creationist crawls out of the corpse of an old dead creationist
  94. New on OnlySky: Mamdani’s army
  95. Sam Neill does not satisfy the Rule of Three
  96. What an excellent brain exercise!
  97. The kitchen spider says, “Good morning!”
  98. The efficient fencing problem
  99. Meanwhile the World Cup
  100. What is Good Code?
  101. Do not taunt the bison
  102. Lindsey Graham will not be missed by me
  103. Weird little warmonger & Trump bootlicker dies, suddenly
  104. Roaderial Raginosis
  105. There are no good billionaires
  106. doge, gone but – wait, only just now?
  107. More on the Data Centers that Will Kill Us All
  108. Writer’s Block?
  109. The best laid schemes o’ Nigel Farage gang agley
  110. A slow week at the movies
  111. Link Roundup: July 2026
  112. The Probability Broach: Media darling
  113. The fate he deserves
  114. We’re back to square one, again and again
  115. No! You’re saying students cheat?
  116. Are they unable to find candidates without misogynistic traits?
  117. Road Rage I
  118. Vote for Count Binface!
  119. Darwin came up with memetics?
  120. Another reason to have voted for Kamala
  121. Jeanson sinking deeper into the swamp
  122. Chlodnik night!
  123. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 27 – Squashes Start
  124. My desk spider
  125. Belgians rub Trump’s nose in the dirt after defeating US 4-1 in the World Cup
  126. Minnesotans have to be flexible
  127. We already knew Bryan Johnson was going to die someday
  128. Schrodinger’s McConnell
  129. The Democratic Party establishment is rattled by the progressive surge
  130. Kalshi is not evidence. Shut the fuck up, Harry Enten
  131. Mmmm, taurine…
  132. When MBAs decide they’re qualified to run higher ed…
  133. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 26 – Lots of Legumes
  134. you know how i do
  135. Historically and scientifically absurd, but I’d still like to adopt a minion
  136. Another tool in the fight against cancer
  137. Barriers to reproducibility
  138. Life is busy
  139. The wheels on Trump’s fair keep falling off
  140. Designing a “balanced” strategy game
  141. I refuse to celebrate Christian Nationalist holidays
  142. USA – 250 years later
  143. The skill of headline writers
  144. Goldenrod crab spiders want to love you
  145. Invertebrate of the Year
  146. The clowns rise to the top
  147. The Great American State Fair Fiasco
  148. Evolution wasn’t “made up by a guy”
  149. This is supposed to frighten us?
  150. From vanity to insanity
  151. More good news for progressives
  152. Looking at you across the table…
  153. The University of Minnesota creates life in the laboratory!
  154. Origami: Exdented boxes
  155. What long limbs you have…
  156. I am so pessimistic
  157. Roadrageous Character Contemplations

June 2026

  1. The Supreme Court finally puts some limits on Trump’s excesses
  2. Everyone gets cancer, some forms are less worrisome than others
  3. The Temu State Fair
  4. Spiders evolved, get over it
  5. Not my VBS
  6. Are hot and cold streaks illusions?
  7. Everything is the way it is because it got that way
  8. Muggy. Buggy.
  9. Tickled by a reference
  10. Infinite Thread XXXX
  11. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 25 – Horrendous Heatwave
  12. Predators at work
  13. So That’s What Happened to Laura Palmer
  14. A girl loves her dog
  15. You call that a fair?
  16. Gilead, here we come!
  17. Dead and Funky, Lethally Sunny
  18. Why euphemisms keep changing
  19. The Process is the Punishment: America was already oppressive
  20. Axial Twist Theory
  21. The Probability Broach: Nuke the moon
  22. The Lincoln Pool and Gandhi’s salt march
  23. Jurassic Park is a bad movie
  24. I didn’t laugh
  25. Kill your lawn
  26. Nadia Rose
  27. Jon Stewart on the US-Iran MOU and the Lincoln Pool farce
  28. Good riddance to Starmer
  29. New on OnlySky: Factory resetting the immune system
  30. Good election day for progressives
  31. If I were bit by a wolf spider, could I become a wolf spider man?
  32. Why is their evidence always nothing but assertions and cartoons?
  33. We don’t think enough about what comes after
  34. Palestine Action protests in the UK
  35. I’ve got to avoid Ed Zitron in the morning
  36. A succinct summary of our situation
  37. Maybe Jesus Died for God’s Sins
  38. Will Burnham learn from Starmer’s fall?
  39. It’s always someone else’s fault
  40. Evidence that the world might be getting better
  41. Remember the .049?
  42. Bring on the days of stupidity!
  43. Check ya Baskets
  44. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 24 – Green Growth
  45. I Hurt Yer Daddy, Sunshine
  46. The Lincoln Pool fiasco
  47. In Praise of Italian Anarchists
  48. Thoughts on maintaining a game diary
  49. Oooh, I liked this one
  50. That didn’t last long
  51. An evening discovery
  52. Waiting for the Murk
  53. TNET 50: Gothic Remake
  54. Happy Juneteenth!
  55. Pruning the greenery to find more green
  56. Burnham set to challenge Starmer for UK premiership
  57. Happy Juneteenth!
  58. Minnesota pride
  59. The Probability Broach: Whistle blowers
  60. Happy Juneteenth, Nobody is Free Until Everyone is Free
  61. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 23 – Potatoes Petals
  62. The reviews are coming in for the MOU
  63. Elon Musk is a dangerous racist
  64. The war is over. We lost.
  65. The curious saga of the US-Iran deal
  66. How do they avoid motion-sickness?
  67. Anticipating Kent Hovind’s next wack-a-…what?
  68. Respect the intelligence of all living things!
  69. I don’t understand American Christians
  70. A science star!
  71. What makes a film worth watching again?
  72. I went gluten-free and it worked
  73. They’re against science and free speech
  74. The nefarious prickly pear
  75. Space Force and IDF hold joint exercise in Bolingbrook (Fiction)
  76. Can we stop ‘going forward’?
  77. New on OnlySky: Cutting off the tail of climate change
  78. To boldly go where everyone has gone before
  79. Trogloraptor !
  80. That went about as well as expected
  81. Random Thoughts About The Data-Centers That Will Kill Us All
  82. Your True Name
  83. It’s a technicolor world
  84. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 22 – Still Sowing
  85. Switzerland votes against population limits
  86. Since we’re talking about UFOs…
  87. Goldman v. Landers in NY-10.
  88. Scampering Animals
  89. I told you I might go see Disclosure Day
  90. What may be in the rumored US-Iran peace deal?
  91. The wee gardening of 2026
  92. Toxical Disk Horse
  93. We missed our chance. Now what?
  94. Still exaggerated
  95. Here we go again, Trump vacillating wildly on Iran
  96. Edging
  97. The Probability Broach: Robert’s rules of order
  98. Southern Baptists: always on the wrong side
  99. Thinkin About Conformity
  100. You have my permission to be horrified
  101. Tonight was movie night
  102. Do you remember…?
  103. Happy Facial Recognition Day!
  104. Encouraging primary election results for progressives
  105. Playing with Fire in a House of Decay
  106. Trump booed at basketball game
  107. I Got My Voter ID Today…
  108. Link Roundup: June 2026
  109. Another creationist falls into my cunning trap
  110. Pathetic pretense
  111. New on OnlySky: Conservatism is hazardous to your health
  112. Wake up! The spiders are watching you!
  113. The only reason to make this movie was money
  114. Rain O’er Me
  115. It may take the collapse of the AI bubble to save us from these sociopaths
  116. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 21 – Testing Tomato Trellises
  117. Mine
  118. Being apolitical is political
  119. Move over, Jessica Rabbit
  120. Not Even Vaguing
  121. LLM’s Shouldn’t Code
  122. Model ship building fad
  123. Arts & Crafts on a lazy Sunday morning
  124. Good News for Fancy Birds
  125. The trial of Rodrigo Duterte
  126. A baby with a desire to see the world
  127. Institutional cowardice opposing scientific truth
  128. Do You Do This To Yourself?
  129. A new twist on the Turing test?
  130. Prepping, Famine, and Food Intolerance
  131. There are no atheists in foxholes, by definition
  132. Agnostic atheism and other hairsplitting terms
  133. The Probability Broach: Law of unintended consequences
  134. Forgive and forget
  135. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 20 – Deeply Depressed
  136. The end of the American empire
  137. Happy news on the religious front
  138. Fun with knees
  139. Preliminary primary results
  140. This man should just admit that he wants to kill women
  141. How would a future anthropologist interpret the graveyard of Everest?
  142. Trump and the Kennedy Center fiasco
  143. Quick follow up on Jey McCreight
  144. Flowers
  145. Go into the light, Donny
  146. What is music anyway?
  147. Road Raging
  148. The GOP tactic from now until doomsday
  149. Let’s all forget that Gad Saad exists
  150. It’s going to be a boring election season in Minnesota
  151. Origami: Sferica
  152. More pun fun

May 2026

  1. I wonder what happened to the coward who attacked Jey?
  2. Stephen Colbert in Only in Monroe
  3. I have been replaced
  4. Mullets and Sexbombs and Prog Rock O My
  5. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 19 – O-ko-pa-ni-ny
  6. Judges fight Trump corruption
  7. Don’t ask me for diet advice
  8. This too shall pass
  9. The Measurement of Suffering
  10. Fall of a Scottish power couple
  11. Eat and live
  12. The Probability Broach: Heads in the sand
  13. Overpoliced Minorities and Oph…
  14. Very funny Jimmy Kimmel clip
  15. Shouldn’t a president be mildly aware of the world around him?
  16. The Iran war has become a catastrophe for the US and Israel
  17. I choose not to be optimistic
  18. Do Not Reblog Callouts of Transwomen
  19. Lunchtime
  20. Saying no to patriotism
  21. An epic humble brag
  22. No bread for you, only circuses
  23. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 18 – Potato Potential
  24. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 17 – Towering Trellises
  25. The Democratic Party establishment has to be overthrown
  26. First day of PT!
  27. New on OnlySky: Don’t look now, but Ukraine is winning
  28. I think the Ark is slowly sinking
  29. I was doing this long before it was cool
  30. Lewis Black is utterly maxxed out
  31. I went outside today
  32. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 16 – Bad Beans
  33. The fallacy of inferring the spiritual superiority of our ancestors
  34. Of Boomers and dogs
  35. Concepting the Rock Epic
  36. Sex tips from the Bible
  37. What is the meaning of life?
  38. Idiots demanding special status for being idiots
  39. Review: I Want to Be a Wall
  40. They meant to do that
  41. No, Ken, molecular biology does not support Biblical dogma
  42. Israel sinks deeper and deeper into depravity
  43. Recovery update
  44. Who-Who: John Morales
  45. Goodbye and good riddance to Tulsi Gabbard
  46. Will This Be the Coldest Summer of the Rest of Your Life?
  47. The Probability Broach: Who speaks for me?
  48. YouTube Video: About the Czech Language
  49. Gauging the Xi-Trump summit and its geopolitical implications
  50. Annoyances with AI Wars
  51. How About Something Cool Now That It’s Too Late for Us?
  52. The truth about border crossers
  53. “Wheel in the sky”
  54. Jerusalem Day in 2026
  55. Trump is the Republican party
  56. Stirring feebly in my sick bed
  57. Still alive
  58. Is mathematics invented or discovered?
  59. Immigrants abused by DHS seek millions in damages
  60. What politics can do, other than enriching the rich
  61. Today is DreadDay, tomorrow is KnifeDay
  62. Who Are You? (Owl Noises)
  63. Xi-Trump summit stalemate
  64. Lazy linking
  65. Am I smug?
  66. Just another smug, ignorant creationist
  67. I Remember the Loving Vampyress
  68. Red vs blue button
  69. The Republican Party’s War on Autistic People
  70. The problem with having a finely tuned spider sensor
  71. How ProPublica works to address important local and national issues
  72. The Probability Broach: The art of war
  73. Dog Day Hangover
  74. Go Northwest, young people!
  75. What is the point of this summit?
  76. New on OnlySky: Petrostates fade, electrostates rise
  77. Not in my backyard
  78. This carcinization trend has gone too far
  79. Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash with Ghost Riders in the Sky
  80. Link Roundup: May 2026
  81. Life is like an absurd movie
  82. Is agnosticism a viable stance on the existence of God?
  83. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 18 – Medicine
  84. We’re safe right now
  85. Professors are disposable now
  86. AI is making spam moderation harder
  87. Oooh, a provocative philosophical conundrum
  88. I say it again: I don’t like Sam Harris
  89. Bolingbrook PR firm tries to counter Iran’s AI Lego videos (Fiction)
  90. You can’t damn me any harder than my own remorse already does
  91. Looking right at the sun
  92. Evaluating the Democratic candidates for CA governor
  93. New on OnlySky: Is there a quiet revival?
  94. Looking for moral authority in all the wrong places
  95. Yahtzee to Hit
  96. Two of my books are on sale!
  97. Mother’s Day matters
  98. Gigo
  99. California primary election dilemma
  100. Happy Mothers Day.
  101. Is AI a bigger clownshow than creationism?
  102. This is where we’re at
  103. DOJ Fallout Over Comey Prosecution.
  104. Good grief! How can people do this?
  105. I am grimly determined to have fun this summer
  106. The ceremonies have begun!
  107. New Patreon Rewards!
  108. Kash Patel channels Captain Queeg
  109. Fun with knees
  110. The Probability Broach: Tangled in red tape
  111. Everything’s Comin’ Up Poison
  112. What kind of incompetent goofball would schedule maintenance for the last week of classes/finals week?
  113. Quit blaming Loxosceles !
  114. All it takes to make a girl happy is a big rock
  115. Going into debt to visit Disney parks
  116. The drudgery begins…now
  117. I had nothing to do with Kyle Rittenhouse’s recent hospitalization
  118. Free speech…unless you criticize the Gaza genocide
  119. The next stage of Iran failure – blaming the critics
  120. Stupid birds don’t like me
  121. Dogpile on Dawkins
  122. A Kentucky pharyngulation?
  123. Go ahead, ruin my day
  124. The Goomba Fallacy
  125. My consolidated response to the AI generated emails targeting authors
  126. Novel legal strategy to eliminate smoking
  127. Oh god…Dawkins said what now?
  128. The curse is hereby lifted!
  129. WHITE PEOPLE: LET’S ALL FORFEIT OUR VOTES TO BLACK WOMEN.
  130. NFTs are now largely worthless
  131. There’s no penalty to enabling pedophiles, I guess
  132. Art Thou Mementing Mori? Truly?
  133. God’s Away on Business by Tom Waits
  134. I’ve been shirking today
  135. The cruelty is sickening
  136. Origami: Polyrhythmic flower
  137. We Lost Gost
  138. The False Promises of Ethnocracy
  139. Banksy: Now in 3-D!
  140. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 15 – Sowing Soybeans
  141. John Oliver on AI chatbots
  142. RUMORS OF MY DEATH HAVE BEEN SLIGHTLY EXAGGERATED.
  143. This post will probably make the infestation worse
  144. I have to roll my eyes when a creationist says information!
  145. The Probability Broach: Fire in a crowded theater
  146. I’m Surrounded by Some Pizzaheads

April 2026

  1. Last gasp of Spring 2026
  2. World of Main Characters
  3. Powell to stay on at Fed until 2028
  4. There Aren’t Bad Guys, Just Guys
  5. Kash Patel is an immature idiot
  6. Testing: one… two… three…
  7. NO KINGS.
  8. It’s knee day
  9. Capitalism has lost the plot
  10. The personification of astronomical bodies is always amusing
  11. Ken Ham is easily triggered
  12. The lessons of Vietnam seem to be never learned
  13. She’s giving me signals
  14. Relax, the Iran War will end soon
  15. Saw another bird
  16. Time Traveler arrested in Bolingbrook for posting on X (Fiction)
  17. The gambling markets and addiction
  18. I hope this kills the WHCA dinner for good
  19. A stifling ignorance
  20. New on OnlySky: America and Israel are headed for divorce
  21. Spiders in Spaaaaaaaace!
  22. Learning about birds
  23. Keeping up with the Joneses
  24. It’s summertime, and you know what that means…
  25. Suspicious!
  26. What a waste of an evening
  27. What kind of perfect date is this?
  28. Errol Flynn the Butcher
  29. Who knew I that am surrounded by witches?
  30. This is a spider
  31. Suppressing good news that goes against your agenda
  32. Revealing photos
  33. Now tempted to run a casino out of my house
  34. An adorable baby
  35. The Probability Broach: The self-rescuing hostage, part 2
  36. Not a spider
  37. Grifters all the way down
  38. I’m not the only one easily seduced by giant Cretaceous octopuses
  39. ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari’, Chapter Three
  40. Remaking the image of socialism
  41. Oh no, last week of classes
  42. Hulking Out and Kenning Gee
  43. The Starmer-Mandelson puzzle
  44. What does Theridion eat? Asked & answered
  45. Something has happened to my blog
  46. Failing upward
  47. Boomers. Ugh.
  48. Good riddance to yet another Trump cabinet member
  49. Signpost spider
  50. A sad anniversary
  51. Mother of spiders!
  52. Yum
  53. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 14 – Elevating Earth
  54. Trolleyology bad
  55. Training Dogs: Gender Gap
  56. Texas FAFO
  57. “Viewpoint diversity” is a misleading way to say “conservative welfare”
  58. Screaming for joy?
  59. Brainjackin: Sad Endings
  60. Bolingbrook braces for massive global ‘transquake’ (Fiction)
  61. My poor spiders
  62. Blogging break
  63. The dangerous allure of self-medication
  64. Newcomb’s Paradox occurs in real life
  65. We need better Supreme Court justices
  66. Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
  67. Humans are awful creatures
  68. The Probability Broach: Make the desert bloom
  69. A Blast from the Past
  70. Tetragnatha , the long-jawed orbweaver, or the stretch spider
  71. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 17 – Seed Supplies
  72. Vance gets smacked down by Catholic bishops
  73. The loons have been handed the control of science
  74. Need something to counter the signs of spring, stat
  75. He was unqualified from the beginning
  76. Everything I do, I do it 4 U
  77. The shadowy world of gambling on world events
  78. Hunting season has begun
  79. It’s going to get ugly on the AI front
  80. Medical mystery explained
  81. How is your alma mater holding up?
  82. Trump, as Usual, Fucks Everything Up
  83. War mismanagement, in Helldivers
  84. What’s an atheist to think?
  85. It’s official
  86. New on OnlySky: Hungary says “Igen!” to democracy
  87. Just Doesn’t Hit the Same
  88. Well, that didn’t take long
  89. Another S. borealis !
  90. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 13 – Superb Seed Supplies
  91. Penalize ALL the TikTok psychics
  92. Losers 2
  93. At last some good news – Orbán loses in Hungary
  94. Down, down, in the dark
  95. Teacher’s Corner: Teaching kids and training dogs
  96. Pope Leo seems to have had it with Trump
  97. Trump is Clearly an Atheist
  98. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 16 – Fertilizers
  99. This may be Melania’s other shoe dropping
  100. Melania springs a surprise
  101. I’ve got homework for you
  102. The Probability Broach: The self-rescuing hostage, part 1
  103. Genetics progress
  104. Netanyahu is a monster
  105. Not funny
  106. The dumb ones keep coming back
  107. How Netanyahu pushed Trump into attacking Iran
  108. Life from space? I have questions
  109. He always chickens out. Good.
  110. Why a top general was fired by Hegseth
  111. I’ve had few opportunities to photograph spiders
  112. Rock Paper Scissors and variants
  113. He’s absolutely, utterly insane, and a danger to the world
  114. Are you relieved, Canada?
  115. Far, far away
  116. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 12 – Fertilizing Fields
  117. A new record (Non-Fiction)
  118. Pentagon is hiding US casualties as frustrations mount
  119. Shizuoka – a model city
  120. Picking the right side
  121. Dr Dunsworth is good at this
  122. I’m in show business!
  123. Can we please stop using this film cliche?
  124. Walking Disaster, Chapter 26
  125. Al Jolson
  126. I would have forgotten that today is Easter, if the president hadn’t reminded me
  127. Making babies with a computerized sperm storage site
  128. In spite of Trump, wind energy is spreading
  129. Twitter’s feed algorithm is harmful
  130. Lazy linking
  131. More Meme Warfare
  132. No Nukes
  133. Trump comes to Starmer’s rescue
  134. The man is insane
  135. This was the morning I was supposed to sleep in & then grade papers
  136. Origami: Drawer box
  137. Anti-Trump Meme Warfare
  138. JnBvtWoI II:X
  139. Appropriate Honor
  140. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 11 – Planting Potatoes
  141. I got a nice little card!
  142. Why Bondi was fired
  143. NASA is going to pull an Apollo 8 on us, aren’t they?
  144. The Probability Broach: Fly the heavily armed skies
  145. Meanwhile, WTAF?
  146. Bye, bye, Bondi
  147. Bondi is out
  148. Lessons I probably shouldn’t use in my classes
  149. Yay! The war is over!
  150. Blog comments policy
  151. A Fascinating New Element to Warfare
  152. Artemis 2 successfully launched
  153. Trying to explain stock market gyrations
  154. We get prizes?
  155. Old Copenhagen
  156. “List of Jews” has an ominous ring
  157. I don’t think the division chair would react the same way
  158. A good slogan
  159. JnBvtWoI II:IX

March 2026

  1. Do Not Post Bette Midler Plz
  2. Oh no, I agree with Nancy Mace!
  3. How the manosphere influencers distort gender power relationships
  4. All millionaires are welcome to leave Grandmother Mountain’s domain
  5. The Future of Education!
  6. New on OnlySky: One terawatt per year
  7. There’s a sane reply, and there’s the batshit crazy reply
  8. Space Force ship crash lands in Bolingbrook (Fiction)
  9. Now I know what they do at faculty meetings on the humanities/social sciences side of campus
  10. Infinite Thread XXXIX
  11. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 15 – The House
  12. They never learn
  13. Mark Twain’s War Prayer should be read by everyone
  14. No Kings
  15. A good protest
  16. JnBvtWoI II:VIII
  17. Noking Around
  18. Protest NOW
  19. The barbarians attacking the rich cultural heritage of Iran
  20. ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari’: Chapter Two
  21. My sharpie is ready
  22. How Epstein got rich
  23. Our president is openly racist, again
  24. The Probability Broach: Inside job
  25. What a strange thing to brag about
  26. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 10 – Preparing Potato Patches
  27. I hate it when Republicans do this; I might hate it more when Democrats do it
  28. The options with the war
  29. Imagine having a robot to teach your kids Greek and Latin
  30. Bassem Youssef knows how to use a needle
  31. Oh no! I have to agree with a Catholic!
  32. Explosive growth of legal gambling in America
  33. The queen of incompetent bigotry is “winning,” big time
  34. I must be doing something right
  35. JnBvtWoI II:VII
  36. I’m still cranky about Project Hail Mary
  37. We should perhaps avoid the TACO taunt
  38. We need to topple a wanna-be king
  39. Hell is an American airport
  40. The Mood Here
  41. Trump and RFK Jr are going to kill us all
  42. Madman at the wheel
  43. I don’t like this feeling of deja vu
  44. Walking Disaster, Chapter 25
  45. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 14 – Pets, Pests & Other Animals
  46. Four reviews of musical sequels
  47. I am definitely not avant garde
  48. The last Andy Weir movie I will ever waste money on
  49. How to respond to a death
  50. You tryin’ to tell me P is evidence of P?
  51. Isn’t anyone vetted in the Trump administration?
  52. What is the Appeal of Cameo?
  53. Jane Austen’s Period Drama
  54. Noah, or Snow White?
  55. Just don’t call it “war”
  56. Fascinating things I learned today
  57. The Probability Broach: Do no harm
  58. What’s with all the pedos nowadays?
  59. This is Not Big News
  60. What is the appeal of Cameo?
  61. Kudos to my 2026 Genetics students!
  62. Cesar Chavez revealed as pedophile and rapist
  63. Anyone remember the Metaverse?
  64. I’m trying to keep it light here
  65. Teacher’s Corner The integrative power of small towns
  66. Tucker Carlson on the Oscars
  67. In a Way, This Makes the Iran War Worse
  68. Biologists aren’t funny
  69. New on OnlySky: The stupidity of the Iran war
  70. Republican landlord abuses tenants and spiders
  71. JnBvtWoI II:VI
  72. The Newt Solution
  73. Film review: Inside the Manosphere (2026)
  74. This is new
  75. The mad tyrant speaks
  76. Getting on the Take
  77. Review: Revenge of the Phantom Press
  78. Look at that goofy nerd with the beautiful girl
  79. Let’s end Spring Break for good
  80. The danger of the increasing use of AI companions
  81. The Answer is “Yes.” We are The Baddies.
  82. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 9 – Aching All Avo Again
  83. How to kick a professor off campus
  84. Five Holidays in a Row?
  85. Spring break surprise
  86. Decade
  87. Marcus Ranum is one scary guy
  88. We no longer own many of the things we buy
  89. A random elevatorgator appears! Roll for initiative
  90. Wow —
  91. I hate to be that guy, but…
  92. What’s the point of having inside info if they won’t talk?
  93. Evidence versus logic in changing core beliefs
  94. A graph of corruption
  95. The Probability Broach: Turf wars
  96. Finally! A definition!
  97. Link Roundup: March 2026
  98. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 13 – Froots
  99. This is what it feels like to be a rogue state
  100. Lyrical Genius
  101. There is no reasoning with such people
  102. New on OnlySky: Reforestation
  103. A good maggoty morning to you, too
  104. This woman cannot fade into obscurity fast enough
  105. Does China know something we don’t?
  106. The dangers posed when academics go outside their area of expertise
  107. Apple Hell
  108. Please meet Socks
  109. FBI interviewed woman who claimed sexual encounter with Trump as a minor
  110. The snow is melting!
  111. I get email
  112. Nice to know that good guys exist
  113. I just can’t watch TikTok
  114. 69, nice
  115. Chicagoland’s UFO bases deal with the fallout from the Persian Gulf War (Fiction)
  116. Scientists who rejected Epstein
  117. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 8 – Sowing Seeds
  118. SNL on Kristi Noem’s firing
  119. Terrible jobs numbers
  120. Behind the scenes of Blazing Saddles (1974)
  121. That indie game money
  122. ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari’, Chapter One
  123. A new level of cowardice
  124. This feels weird
  125. The Probability Broach: You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore
  126. OK I’m Done Now
  127. Good riddance to Kristi Noem
  128. Kristi Noem has been taken out to the gravel pit
  129. Snakes are boring
  130. The rot is everywhere
  131. I Spare a Thought for Slime
  132. My doctor recommended that I see a chiropractor
  133. Blog comments policy
  134. There (Probably) Will Be Another 9/11 Level Event
  135. I am also in the Epstein files
  136. That put the fear of God into me
  137. Their claims of apostasy are grossly inflated
  138. Bad Puzzles
  139. New on OnlySky: The Bible is too woke
  140. Get this guy outta here
  141. The Time the FBI Tried to Entrap Me
  142. A lapsed atheist’s journey back to faith
  143. Goddamn cancer
  144. The GREATEST, HOTTEST, and MOST SPECTACULAR ego ever
  145. On a cheery, optimistic note
  146. I can’t compete with that!
  147. Sidebar Mysteries Solved?
  148. This summer will be no fun
  149. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 7 – Tilling Topsoil
  150. The grooming of Virginia Roberts Giuffre
  151. They’re all cowards
  152. I could have told them that
  153. Can’t Even with these Dicks
  154. My secrets exposed!
  155. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 12 – Fruigetables
  156. I have opinions on Sam Harris and murdering Iranian people
  157. Origami: Horses
  158. The arrest of Andrew, the man formerly known as prince
  159. Dunt Love CEOs
  160. The madness of the attack on Iran

February 2026

  1. The Probability Broach: Crime is everywhere, crime, crime
  2. Neil Sedaka (1939-2026)
  3. WWIII: Picking Sides
  4. And we’re back! (I think …)
  5. And lo, Freethought Blogs has risen
  6. We live, under the dead hand of Ed Brayton
  7. No ghosts in the brain
  8. You’ve convinced me, Mr Feynman
  9. I’m not going to be an entitled old man
  10. Never let your sons join a fraternity
  11. How the security thugs operate
  12. Well, that’s disappointing
  13. Thoughts and plans for future book reviews
  14. America Resist!
  15. He has one of those faces I hate to see in a video
  16. I suppose I should look deeper for better correlations
  17. Her schemes grow ever more twisted
  18. Real Science Hurts Brains: Crow Edition
  19. John Oliver on ICE and DHS
  20. The video corporate media doesn’t want you to see
  21. The billionaires, tech bros, and intellectual enablers of Epstein
  22. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 11 – Fields
  23. Jesse Jackson has died
  24. Why do creationists shy away from gene duplication?
  25. Is your community on this map?
  26. How bad can country-western music be?
  27. ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’: Questions, part 3
  28. Men who want to propagate
  29. Darwin was not the final authority on anything
  30. Epstein left a slime trail everywhere he went
  31. Barack Obama sets off ET controversy
  32. ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’: Questions, Part 2
  33. Maybe figure out the meaning of life over Spring Break?
  34. ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’: Questions, part 1
  35. Dangerously irresponsible gun owners
  36. The Discourse Continues
  37. An easy genetics quiz
  38. That time I interviewed a fraud
  39. Meanwhile, over in the UK …
  40. I ATEN’T DED
  41. The Probability Broach: Search and seizure
  42. The MAGA outrage over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show
  43. ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’: Chapter 12, Part 3
  44. New on OnlySky: American brain drain
  45. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah. Stayin’ Alive.
  46. Link Roundup: February 2026
  47. I hate ICE and ice
  48. Lead and criminality
  49. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 6 – Cutting Coppice
  50. Year of the Fire Horse!
  51. Today in Genetics class
  52. Racists never meet a good end
  53. In case you missed it…
  54. Maybe Venus wouldn’t be as awful as Earth
  55. Another evolutionary biologist exposed as a jerk
  56. Dee-licious Potato Bread
  57. The Epstein scandal reveals extent of victimization of women by a cabal of privileged men
  58. Phenotypic plasticity is part of evolution, too
  59. ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’: Chapter 12, Part 2
  60. My morning present
  61. Israel lobby switches to using dark money channels
  62. Back to School or Else
  63. I think this might be a little bit racist
  64. What’s next in game dev?
  65. The Probability Broach: Who cares about the Bill of Rights?
  66. Basic scientific understanding should squelch these ideas
  67. Jeffrey Epstein thought he was mostly innocent. So did Noam Chomsky.
  68. All the regrets
  69. So much tea spilled
  70. Internationally humiliated
  71. I’m a board member at the local theater!
  72. MAGA warrior gets his ass kicked by teenagers
  73. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 10 – Sewage
  74. Grading day
  75. The Minnesota governor race will be a blend of boring and insane
  76. New on OnlySky: Protecting secularism in religious enclaves
  77. Don’t believe Tom Homan
  78. Epstein fallout continues
  79. I’m too old for a naked Vampirella now
  80. Save us from the glut of ugly statuary
  81. Upper Midwest, Unite!
  82. A seismic change
  83. The disparagement of the achievements of indigenous peoples
  84. “renovations”
  85. Why is conservative music so awful?
  86. I’m in the Epstein files??!?
  87. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 9 – Coppice
  88. Publicly exposing the ICE thugs
  89. Roger is still hanging in there
  90. Raising money for a great cause
  91. Brinkman Rides Again
  92. Blog comments policy
  93. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 8 – Land Partitioning Again
  94. Origami: Practical Bookmark
  95. Wheee, more Epstein revelations
  96. I read a Chris Rufo post

January 2026

  1. Revenge of the Phantom Press just released! Book post
  2. wan light
  3. Nationwide anger forces Trump to back down
  4. It’s too much
  5. How much drinking of alcohol is safe?
  6. An unpleasant memory
  7. My game released
  8. Impressive mechanical work
  9. The Probability Broach: Meet the big bad
  10. Another reason to ignore social media
  11. Run the Country Like a Business?
  12. Streets of Minneapolis lyric video
  13. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 5 – Purchasing Potatoes
  14. The problem of finding ways to combat bad speech
  15. They aren’t coming back, you know
  16. An Angel of Reason (Book Post)
  17. Is fear winning?
  18. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 7 – Land Partitioning
  19. Bruce Springsteen’s powerful new song Streets of Minneapolis
  20. What’s happening in Minnesota is Science
  21. When conspiracy theorists try too hard to find a conspiracy
  22. A resilient Minnesotan
  23. Waiting for another creepy old man to die
  24. didn’t go to work today
  25. Jon Stewart and Seth Meyers on the murders by ICE
  26. Trump is finding out that murdering white Americans is unpopular
  27. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 6 – Tools
  28. Kickin’ Thomas Chatterton Williams and The Atlantic? Yes, please
  29. Don’t be afraid to get weird
  30. Gruppenführer Bovino slinks away
  31. “Why?,” I blog.
  32. My games of the year 2025
  33. Why I blog
  34. Tempted to get a septum piercing
  35. Every time I try to feel sympathy for a church, they push me away
  36. It’s all lies
  37. New on OnlySky: American autocracy
  38. Nazispotting
  39. The secret ICE training process revealed
  40. Loneliness, 2
  41. The Dead Hand
  42. Murdered man identified
  43. My talk on “The Death of Free Will”
  44. Another man shot in South Minneapolis
  45. Catch Me if You Can
  46. Minnesotans are going to be insufferable for a while
  47. How You Treat AI Says Something About You
  48. An Important Dynamic
  49. Incompetence all the way down
  50. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 5 – Storage
  51. The Probability Broach: Shame, shame
  52. Cootie Catcher
  53. The least we can do — do better, University of Minnesota
  54. This is the person they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to?
  55. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 4 – Land
  56. An interesting argument
  57. I…yet…live…sorta
  58. Trump forced to back down on Greenland threats
  59. Adventures in enterocolitis
  60. Life During Wartime
  61. The relative decline of research universities in the US
  62. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 4 – Rejuvenating Raspberries
  63. Estimating true ratings
  64. Hello! I’m not dead!
  65. Trump may be insane. Really.
  66. Death to Star Trek !
  67. Where’s the Concentration Camp?
  68. A reminder there is no arc
  69. DIA? DPA? MiB? GiG? What’s the difference? (Book update)
  70. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 3 – Climate and Environment
  71. Trump doesn’t get a consolation prize
  72. The benefits and dangers of online support groups
  73. A Prophecy
  74. Old man babbles about the Bible as science
  75. UATX is crumbling fast
  76. More pun fun
  77. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 2 – Diet
  78. Another day, another rally in Minnesota
  79. Trump’s Greenland obsession and the Mercator map projection
  80. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 3 – Molehills
  81. Dream Scheme
  82. Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 1 – Thoughts
  83. Trump and Machado compete to see who is more pathetic
  84. Too soon? Too accurate?
  85. The Probability Broach: Backyard WMDs
  86. Oh dearie me. Oh me oh my.
  87. The future of big physics
  88. Doubly fortunate
  89. She’s right, you know
  90. Remember when Democrats were criticizing people for calling Republicans “Nazis”?
  91. Margaret, the hoarder
  92. New on OnlySky: Why the rent is too damn high
  93. The Battle of Wrecktangle Pizza
  94. “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome Fed chair?”
  95. The Boys are all right
  96. Michael Shermer is scum
  97. Fortunately, I’ve never used door dash
  98. Welcome, little one!
  99. We Dem Boyz
  100. Oh no! Another major data leak!
  101. Pray for the gallant heroes who must meet this behemoth
  102. The false claims by DOGE and Musk
  103. Scott Adams is dead
  104. It’s good to be back
  105. Ars Technica loses its mind
  106. How ICE training works
  107. Why is genetics hard?
  108. Use it or lose it
  109. What the internet and now AI reveal about us
  110. Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work I go
  111. Chaos continues
  112. He’s gone now, but he launched an industry that continues on
  113. Aliens arrested after bombing Palatine (Fiction)
  114. Blog comment policy
  115. Grim but accurate
  116. Juggalo Reprezentation
  117. Link Roundup: January 2026
  118. I didn’t get shot
  119. I don’t expect to be shot, but you just don’t know anymore
  120. Shadows in the snow
  121. Stare at my wall with me
  122. I’ve always known Robin Ince was a good guy
  123. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 2 – Winter Wood Woes
  124. The obvious comparison
  125. The more things change the more they stay the same
  126. The Probability Broach: Non-state violence
  127. Another day, another murder by ICE
  128. Tom Tomorrow is psychic
  129. Her name is Renee Nicole Good
  130. A murder in Minneapolis
  131. Down with Plato!
  132. You don’t need to be wise to appeal to our power brokers
  133. Christmas messages
  134. New on OnlySky: Will you be immortal by 2039?
  135. In which I defend AI
  136. More Bad Ideas
  137. Experience with AI coding
  138. Noam Chomsky and Epstein
  139. A stupid person is in control of the US
  140. On The Big Stage:
  141. Why 99% of scientists believe in evolution
  142. Typeset Your Transphobia
  143. Speaking of disease…
  144. The new imperialism, just like a very old imperialism
  145. The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 1 – Starting Seed Snails
  146. It’s a pit of disease as well as ignorance
  147. Not even cool enough to be cyberpunk
  148. Blood sacrifice as forgiveness: Who made that rule?
  149. “It doesn’t have to be…”
  150. What next in Venezuela?
  151. Jesus has been arrested
  152. ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’, Chapter 12, Part 1
  153. Origami: Free pleating
  154. The Ignoble War Prize Goes to Trump
  155. Trump attacks Venezuela
  156. Stuff is changing everywhere
  157. I don’t recall a declaration of war…(Non-fiction)
  158. FtB Vaulderie
  159. Mamdani not backing away from progressive election platform
  160. Revenge of the Phantom Press: Chapter 1 Preview
  161. The scandals keep dribbling out
  162. The Probability Broach: Blue sky
  163. Guess the Source
  164. An atheist creed
  165. Gingerbready New Year!
  166. Twenty Year Date-iversary
  167. Hope for the New Year
  168. AI is Safer Company
  169. Loneliness, 1
  170. ‘Popular. Unpopular. I’m the one with the drones!’ The Babbler’s shocking predictions for 2026 (Fiction)

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