2026
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October 2026
- I’m pretty sure we have no flat earthers here
- Spooktober 2026, Days Twenty-Nine and Thirty
- People I’d never heard of
- Pre-Hallowe’en festivity
- The Probability Broach: Forty acres and a mule
- North Carolina’s attempt to suppress the vote of Black college students
- Spooktober 2026, Days Twenty-Seven and Twenty-Eight
- Truth in labeling
- MAGA=racist
- Please, please put O’Keefe in jail
- Spooktober 2026, Days Twenty-Five and Twenty-Six
- It’s going to be a busy day and weekend
- The 2026 Golden Crocoduck
- Give that man a medal!
- I Am Not a Transphobe, But…
- The nerds were feeling festive
- Spooktober 2026, Days Twenty-Three and Twenty-Four
- The self-immolation of America
- People have been willfully blind for too many years
- The end of a distinguished legacy
- Der Stieglitz Beglimpst
- Spooktober 2026, Days Twenty-One and Twenty-Two
- Lula wins in Brazil! And so does popular movement in Serbia!
- He’s polluting everything
- Batman sans Batman
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 52 – Asessing Arable Area Again
- Peak Republican
- Spooktober 2026, Days Nineteen and Twenty
- The Hugging Face episode reveals cult-like behavior of AI agents
- Now I know a little bit about Denisovans
- If We Can Stay Online for a Minute…
- We’re Back…Again
- Spooktober 2026, Days Seventeen and Eighteen
- It’s been a rough few weeks
- Spooktober 2026, Days Fifteen and Sixteen
- The instinct to avoid giving offense
- Ebro Ahmed saves schoolbus full of kids
- Colossal Biosciences predictably scams again
- The Probability Broach: Liberum veto
- House of Wax
- Jon Stewart interviews Abdul El-Sayed
- The possible October surprise attack on Iran that Trump may be envisaging
- Where did they go?
- Trump has high standards for his press secretaries
- I attended a community event tonight
- Another FtBpocalypse?
- Rainin’ Ruin
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 51 – Colorful Corn
- Sorry, Texans, you are so screwed
- A truly original interpretation of Also Sprach Zarathustra
- I Got My Sample Ballot in the Mail
- We’re Back
- AI is driving some people mad
- One could argue that capitalism is satanic, I guess
- Oooh, Morris is at the center of a UFO conspiracy theory!
- We’re back
- I express my exasperation with bad questions
- Wait, what? We’re live again?
- The Zachbot’s spectacular flameout
- We’re back!
- A resonant quote
- The Biggest Short-Term Danger of AI
- Spooktober 2026, Day Fourteen
- Introducing the Zachbot
- Update on Professor Piss
- Our president is a bloody-minded child
- They’re all idiots
- Kimberley Guilfoyle out
- Spooktober 2026, Day Thirteen
- California 2026 election
- A matter of interest (1): The major economic indicators
- I may not be able to see this movie
- Who is the real criminal who deserves federal investigation?
- How stupid are creationists?
- Spooktober 2026, Day Twelve
- Lewis Black on biohackers
- This is why I’m not a romantic
- The real danger of AI
- Second thoughts on Verity
- Nokoomis Nibii Equay
- Should fraternities be shut down?
- Spooktober 2026, Day Eleven
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 50 – Ridiculous Roots
- Trump is desperate for a ‘win’ before mid-terms
- Oh BROTHER, this guy STINKS!
- I’m Genteel Now
- The LLM Brain Drain
- Today I started getting ready for Hallowe’en
- Spooktober 2026, Day Ten
- George Carlin on public executions
- A dismal season for movies
- Panzergoth
- Your Story Matters
- Czech Word to Consider: “Slibotechna”
- Former UN human rights chief and critic of Israeli genocide wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Spooktober 2026, Day Nine
- Let me sleep a little longer, it’s such a nice dream
- Oppression works!
- The Probability Broach: When is a war not a war?
- Does he lie about everything?
- The US Collectively Loses Its Shit
- Why not bring back public hangings and the guillotine as well?
- Counting down
- Spooktober 2026, Day Eight
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 49 – Sure Slight Soybean Success!
- I’m sick of election coverage
- The Epstein mine isn’t tapped out yet
- The Bribe
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 48 – Winter Wheat
- The rise of BRICS and the decline of SWIFT
- Sorry, Seattle, you’re not special
- Spooktober 2026, Day Seven
- Discriminating against bigots is bigotry!
- A man “died” and saw the afterlife…and it was Fox News
- Narrative analysis of The Remake of The End of The Greatest RPG of All Time
- Too many spiders?
- Campus drama
- The ugliest woman in the news
- Say hi to Tammy Faye… in Hell
- Spooktober 2026, Day Six
- George is me
- Influencer Ms. Sunshine rocks Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
- Spooktober 2026, Day Five
- New on OnlySky: Christians are AI-pilled
- The scariest thing I’ve seen this Hallowe’en season
- The battle over California’s billionaire tax
- But how will we tell the difference?
- It looks like it’s Nobel season
- Have you ever heard of BBM?
- Freestylin’
- Cookin’ Potatoes
- Vox Day responds to my criticism of his refutation of evolution
- TV review: Scammed (2026)
- Spooktober 2026, Day Four
- Can we be done with Vox Day now?
- Spooktober 2026, Day Three
- From Step Back History: A history of Rhodesia, and why US Nazis can’t let it go
- Funny SNL sketch
- It’s not just Cornell
- How could AI kill everyone?
- Vox Day’s amazing ego, and Bill Dembski don’t care
- The Probability Broach: A day late and a dollar short
- The wolf spiders are raiding
- Spooktober 2026, Day Two
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 47 – Acceptable Agrie
- When a state execution goes wrong
- Origami: Icosahedral Weave
- Welcome to October
- Mmmm…hot soup
- Spooktober 2026, Day One
- The Shame of Capital Punishment
- More fun with Schmitt’s humiliation
September 2026
- Great moments in ‘Gotcha!’ questioning
- It’s only an El Niño
- Goofballs with clout
- The incredible self-annihilating creationist argument
- China is the big winner in the US-Israel war against Iran
- Infinite Thread XXXXI
- Almost October!
- Illinois has a real winner
- U Might Not Be Aware Of: Dollcore
- Monday morning comedy
- The intellectual pick-pocket
- Building Better Men
- Revisiting Whalefall
- Why DoorDash spent so much to defeat Mamdani
- Wolfin’ around
- Got Emotional
- Bad abortion arguments and an attack on liberal Christianity
- The US as a terrorist state
- the ozarks of king county
- What’s with the furries obsession?
- The dumbest man in congress
- About interest rate hikes
- The Probability Broach: The irrevocable crime
- Tripe
- Another sign of America’s anti-science turn
- War on Science: Urgent call to action
- The danger of roller coasters
- How not to campaign in Minnesota
- The North of England has been blessed with a new invader
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 46 – Some Slight Soybean Success?
- John Oliver on the evil UnitedHealth Group
- Plumbing is for human benefit, the spiders can take advantage, too
- We really are deficient in development education
- Bin Laden Weed Revisited Again
- The US is winning battles and losing wars
- Why 4
- The belated and well-deserved decline of Steven Pinker
- Rosh Hashana, humanist style
- The instinct to buy and hold on to stuff
- A discussion with Aron Ra
- Nathan Cofnas needs to be discarded from the discourse
- Shenanigans afoot!
- Ninjutsu, Tears, and Inexpert Musical Guff
- Who are the Houthis and what do they want?
- A movie I’d like to see
- Double-feature at the bijou
- The Plan, Stan
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 45 – Pumpkins & Pattypans
- The Lincoln pool debacle continues
- The Probability Broach: Somebody else’s problem
- I’m going to have to give up on modern medicine
- LLMs Destroyed my Ass dot GIF
- Touch Grass
- The death of movements
- I guess I’m handing out Skittles for Halloween
- New on OnlySky: The energy crisis is coming
- Peter Max has died
- Quantificosis
- LLMs Destroy Communities
- US sinks deeper into the Middle East quagmire
- High praise
- No voice, but a guardian angel
- Should Books be Easier to Read?
- Controversy clouds secret convention for progressive political influencers (Fiction)
- Widow’s Bay shows how out of touch I am (minor spoilers)
- It’s happened
- A Cambrian chelicerate!
- It’s a mask day
- AI generates a Navier-Stokes controversy
- I know there are differences between male & female anatomy, but…
- Have we all forgotten Tom Corbett and Rocky Jones?
- Biology don’t care
- kicking windows in the nux
- What the hell is x ?
- Salmon Steak With Butternut Squash
- Our kitchen helper
- Oh no! I’ve been erased from history!
- Rebound from the storm
- Will this year be another Texas mirage?
- A reason to love the internet
- Repetition
- A very polite inquiry
- Another view of Gloria Steinem
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 44 – Black Beans?!
- The Probability Broach: The inevitable car chase scene
- Anyone else remember Brian Wansink?
- Please clap
- Looking down
- Laughable status seeking
- Sock’s Adventures: Meet the Pack
- Link Roundup: September 2026
- A suggestion for commenters
- How dare you use variables in your math!
- Veggie Patch – Year One
- Je ne blorbe pas.
- The Fetterman problem
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 43 – Disappointing Dali
- Cat and familiar
- A call to action for the post-Trump era
- AntinAItalist
- Pilfering the NIH for missile-money
- Is Mitch McConnell alive?
- The bad graphics alliance
- You know Fall is here when…
- AfD Wins
- Celebrating Labor Day properly
- My viking ancestors would be proud
- The value of public libraries
- Ha ha, meaty overlords, take your punishment
- Robot Birdwatching
- Kinda Mindblowing
- Maybe he has a large family?
- The secret abilities of plants
- The Tate brothers are in deep trouble
- Lazy linking
- There got to be a reckoning
- Putting on my prophet hat again
- The shaky business model behind AI
- Are you a fan of space opera and alien cat people?
- The Probability Broach: The inevitable deus ex machina
- Oh no! A schism!
- The attack of the mega-farm!
- Missouri’s Gerrymandering
- A fight that both people should lose
- Another loss: Gloria Steinem is dead
- rocknroll bus to hell
- Origami: Pacman Ghost
- New on OnlySky: Our shady future
- Socks’ Adventures: Walking the Wadden
- The real cost of the Iran war
- I got a haircut
- Unjected?
- The bad guys have faces
- DO NOT WANT
- I almost completely missed the meteoric career of Joe Schmid!
- The Facebook/Meta settlement
- Whatsit
August 2026
- Is Primeval worth watching?
- Not used to these spiders being colorful
- Using the mantle of science to advance reactionary views
- Rich enough to own history
- This is one of those weeks
- Why would Google go along with Trump’s insane renaming habit?
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 42 – Topsoil Tilling Tiles Trouble
- ‘Trump’s Folly’
- Socks’ Adventures: Fun with Friends
- More BS for My RPG
- Are Creepypastas Real?
- Can Canada actually join the EU?
- Friday Night at the Movies
- The rise in CO2 is slowly poisoning us all
- If only we could get rid of all the anti-immigrationists so easily
- RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine crusade may have led to the deaths of 83 Samoans
- Quality entertainment with TNT and exploding cigars
- It’s another Incitatus moment
- It’s over, Mike
- The Probability Broach: You and what army?
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 40 – Double Digging
- How about a pretty video?
- Nothing is correct in this illustration
- The aspiration of homeownership
- Why does Trump hate Canada?
- Have you been wondering what Ken Ham thinks of Dolly Parton?
- A fun technique
- What socialists stand for
- Now Tim Curry?
- Oh no — I’m an ineffective brainwasher!
- Eat it, Republicans!
- I detest bad writing
- If the electorate were rational…
- Who Put the “FLU” in InFLUencers?
- Grisly & horrible
- Do That to Me One More Time
- No! Not Dolly!
- The Most Baffling Thing About Tolkien
- Another sleepless night
- An interesting, but arbitrary, engineering exercise
- Survival: Day One
- The rise and fall of the evil Sackler family and the opioid addiction crisis
- I will march into that classroom confidently!
- Support your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 39 – Bursting Butternuts
- The truth about trickle-down economics
- Loneliness, 4
- Another right-wing hater squashed by Minnesota
- Is there a prize for bad apologetics?
- backherts
- Trump plays at being an aeronautical engineer
- Loneliness, 3
- The US healthcare system is a crime against humanity.
- Our “luxury” apartment
- Three brothers
- Entomologist Needed
- Insecure men retreating into fantasy worlds
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 39 – Large Loofahs
- Socks’ Adventures: Fly like a bird!
- I meet some students for real today
- Where should Paloma go to college?
- The Probability Broach: Checks, unbalanced
- Another election victory for a progressive
- I get mail
- The company they keep tells you all you need to know
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 37 – Cosplaying Cinderella
- The lesson of apples
- Election denial is a psychological disorder
- The queen has a beau!
- Silencio!
- Mixed election results for progressives
- My Daena is Dead Sexy
- Progress achieved
- The petty cruelty of Pirro and Trump
- New on OnlySky: Abolish the Senate
- Lock him up!
- I think this is a fictitious trend
- The death of superheroes
- Still Here (Life Update)
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 36 – Crusty Camels
- Bomb Oman? Sure, why not? What could go wrong?
- Which hurts worse: Calvin Smith’s lies, or being flayed alive?
- I haven’t seen this in a while
- A few hours later…
- Thoughts on the blog comments policy
- James O’Keefe still likes to play dress-up
- Kids these days…
- Trump and Pirro’s Lincoln pool problem may well get worse
- Adopt, Don’t Shop! – and its Limitations
- The Midnight Collection, Volume the Last One Ever
- Fight for your scraps or starve, peasants!
- Re: South Park, in Brief
- What that movie should have been
- The live-streaming menace
- I was lucky my family wasn’t god-soaked
- The Probability Broach: Breaking and entering
- I Am Officially Half a Century Old Now
- Farage beats Count Binface
- Hegseth’s logistical failures
- We’ve got epic losers in this state
- Behold, my replacement!
- Struck down mid-paragraph
- Socks’ Adventures: The Big Water
- Trump’s list of enemies gets even weirder
- Another good election day for progressives
- To those people, ALL of your reproductive choices are to be questioned
- What a strange feeling…
- Another reason that the US is running short of weapons for the Iran war
- Socks’ Adventures: Holidays
- Who is Adam Bly?
- Backlash against Facebook and Meta’s pervert glasses
- Would an AI lie to you?
- This is what happens when you let a senile fool run the country
- It’s Minnesota Primary Day!
- Letter from an ex-slave to his former owner
- Link roundup: August 2026
- Fecundity
- What did I live on in the years from 0 to 30?
- Trump fails the first rule of war: Know your enemy
- It’s that time
- In case you were wondering, Mel Gibson is still a colossal asshole
- Build more guillotines
- What if the Lincoln reflecting pool can’t be fixed?
- We are kidnappers!
- A little body horror
- Remember that One Time
- God’s explosive diarrhea
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 35 – Thistle Test
- Did you know…
- I’ve been enrolled in The Shadow League
- It’s Bandcamp Friday
- The step-children have arrived!
- Infographic: The Wallpaper groups
- The Lincoln pool fiasco reveals how despicable these people are
- He just lies non-stop
- Civil Time Again
- The Probability Broach: Cannonball run
- Race in High Fantasy
- And to think…
- More prisons to hold the innocent
- The Trump administration consists of ‘The Worst and the Dimmest’
- The most fun I’ve had in ages!
- Makin’ mealworms
- Life in the duck factory
- New on OnlySky: Why can’t America have Israel’s welfare state?
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 34 – Bellarosa Bounty
- Mostly good elections for progressives
- Good news from Michigan
- Hello world!
- Texas hates education
- Film review: Nomadland (2020)
- The modal ontological argument
- The sky is falling!
- Farm politics? Not something I ever thought I’d get into
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 33 – Getting Grains
- Iran is not on the ropes, they are playing rope-a-dope
- too few spiders, too much technobabble
- you can be a scholar of the bible and still understand basic neuroscience?
- damsel in distress
- Why LLM Intelligence is Irrelevant
- The misleading impression given about the Iran war
- left handed one finger typing
- On LLMs and Intelligence
- Origami: U4-30 floral ball
- Long day
- The Genocide Election and the Kshama Calculation
- DOJ loses Illinois Voter Data Access Challenge
- Manchester mayoral results
- Technology is killing some people’s ability to think
- Tap-outs
- Trump’s lies about Lincoln pool vandalism exposed by his own justice department
- Oh look, Elon’s bombing the moon.
July 2026
- Absolute Peak Masculinity
- Smoke and Sweat: Cities and Communities for a Warming World
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 32 – Little Loofahs
- How much does a process server cost?
- Africa? Where’s Africa?
- The Probability Broach: Pistols at dawn
- Do I blame our incompetent state department, or do I blame AI?
- Yes! Push that piss baby billionaire right over the edge!
- The Cybertruck breaks a record, and not in a good way
- Political discrimination against beer!
- Kangaroo court is in session
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 31 – Absolutely Abysmall and Atrotious Alliums
- Anthony Fauci slams senator Rand Paul as ‘unhinged’
- Too hot
- Jon Stewart blasts the White House Correspondents Dinner
- It’s so much better to spend other peoples’ money!
- All Creativity All of The Time
- I can be even more delusional!
- They’ll kill anything
- New on OnlySky: Wildfire skies are back
- It’s been ages since I encountered a Forth joke
- A review of The Odyssey I can respect
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 30 – Obtaining Oats
- Ask The Strategic Genius: Iran Edition
- That time of year
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 — good start!
- The mass extinction of languages
- All of Elon Musk’s heroes are frauds
- I’m Wild, Dog
- The Automation of Hope
- Light blogging coming up
- Becoming a President Not Intelligence Proof of Is
- The rightwing snit over the The Odyssey (2026)
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 29 – Pretty Polinators
- Ever watch a yellow garden spider wrap up her prey?
- Trump Station
- Post delayed
- Come on! I double-dog-dare you!
- Oh no, science to get the Trump “gold” treatment
- You can’t get a philosophy degree in Wyoming
- Everything is looking Odyssey now
- Grandpa 3 !
- The Probability Broach: Barbarians at the gates
- Road Rage II
- > huuuaaaallllp <
- Your stabilimentum so fine, girl
- Anti-establishment candidates keep winning Democratic primaries
- [CONSERV]ATIVES: gimmicky title, bad movie
- Does everything have an explanation?
- Hey atheists — I have a question. Is Lily Jay fake?
- Welcome to my den of iniquity
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 28 – Bee Busy
- Iris haz disappoint. :|
- More Civil Time Geekiness
- I’m sorry, Canada
- How Joe Biden enabled Israel’s war crimes
- My terrible confession
- What? The all-meat diet isn’t a panacea?
- Ugly man, ugly statue
- Will Trump step in to rescue the Tates?
- Uh-oh. I saw another movie this weekend
- My Next Votes
- Take That, Human Traffickers
- Having ‘The Talk’ with your children
- Guess who else is back?
- Look who’s back!
- A beautiful response by Talarico
- The Cult Of LLMs
- Count Binface is on a roll in the UK
- Environmental inanity — it’s a good reason to throw this guy out of office NOW
- Ponder This
- Garfield Sobers, cricketing legend, dies at age 89
- Blame Canada!
- The Probability Broach: Dead men tell no tales
- I do believe in foreign interference in our elections
- The Bolingbrook Babbler interviews the ghost of Lindsey Graham (Fiction)
- The Lincoln Pool is a metaphor for the Trump presidency
- Our troops will be getting gender-affirming care
- Space is full of sugar!
- Science should be getting the credit, not your silly god
- More Time Zone Silliness
- Cancer Update (if anybody actually cares)
- Busy morning with spiders
- Count Binface debates at the Oxford Union
- I Joined the DSA
- E. Jean Carroll finally gets some money from Trump
- I don’t ask much of the Democrats
- Now you tell me
- Late to Death Grips
- Jon Stewart on Lindsey Graham’s death
- NOOO! TOO HOT!
- feelies my cumply-an-yoes
- Larval creationist crawls out of the corpse of an old dead creationist
- New on OnlySky: Mamdani’s army
- Sam Neill does not satisfy the Rule of Three
- What an excellent brain exercise!
- The kitchen spider says, “Good morning!”
- The efficient fencing problem
- Meanwhile the World Cup
- What is Good Code?
- Do not taunt the bison
- Lindsey Graham will not be missed by me
- Weird little warmonger & Trump bootlicker dies, suddenly
- Roaderial Raginosis
- There are no good billionaires
- doge, gone but – wait, only just now?
- More on the Data Centers that Will Kill Us All
- Writer’s Block?
- The best laid schemes o’ Nigel Farage gang agley
- A slow week at the movies
- Link Roundup: July 2026
- The Probability Broach: Media darling
- The fate he deserves
- We’re back to square one, again and again
- No! You’re saying students cheat?
- Are they unable to find candidates without misogynistic traits?
- Road Rage I
- Vote for Count Binface!
- Darwin came up with memetics?
- Another reason to have voted for Kamala
- Jeanson sinking deeper into the swamp
- Chlodnik night!
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 27 – Squashes Start
- My desk spider
- Belgians rub Trump’s nose in the dirt after defeating US 4-1 in the World Cup
- Minnesotans have to be flexible
- We already knew Bryan Johnson was going to die someday
- Schrodinger’s McConnell
- The Democratic Party establishment is rattled by the progressive surge
- Kalshi is not evidence. Shut the fuck up, Harry Enten
- Mmmm, taurine…
- When MBAs decide they’re qualified to run higher ed…
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 26 – Lots of Legumes
- you know how i do
- Historically and scientifically absurd, but I’d still like to adopt a minion
- Another tool in the fight against cancer
- Barriers to reproducibility
- Life is busy
- The wheels on Trump’s fair keep falling off
- Designing a “balanced” strategy game
- I refuse to celebrate Christian Nationalist holidays
- USA – 250 years later
- The skill of headline writers
- Goldenrod crab spiders want to love you
- Invertebrate of the Year
- The clowns rise to the top
- The Great American State Fair Fiasco
- Evolution wasn’t “made up by a guy”
- This is supposed to frighten us?
- From vanity to insanity
- More good news for progressives
- Looking at you across the table…
- The University of Minnesota creates life in the laboratory!
- Origami: Exdented boxes
- What long limbs you have…
- I am so pessimistic
- Roadrageous Character Contemplations
June 2026
- The Supreme Court finally puts some limits on Trump’s excesses
- Everyone gets cancer, some forms are less worrisome than others
- The Temu State Fair
- Spiders evolved, get over it
- Not my VBS
- Are hot and cold streaks illusions?
- Everything is the way it is because it got that way
- Muggy. Buggy.
- Tickled by a reference
- Infinite Thread XXXX
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 25 – Horrendous Heatwave
- Predators at work
- So That’s What Happened to Laura Palmer
- A girl loves her dog
- You call that a fair?
- Gilead, here we come!
- Dead and Funky, Lethally Sunny
- Why euphemisms keep changing
- The Process is the Punishment: America was already oppressive
- Axial Twist Theory
- The Probability Broach: Nuke the moon
- The Lincoln Pool and Gandhi’s salt march
- Jurassic Park is a bad movie
- I didn’t laugh
- Kill your lawn
- Nadia Rose
- Jon Stewart on the US-Iran MOU and the Lincoln Pool farce
- Good riddance to Starmer
- New on OnlySky: Factory resetting the immune system
- Good election day for progressives
- If I were bit by a wolf spider, could I become a wolf spider man?
- Why is their evidence always nothing but assertions and cartoons?
- We don’t think enough about what comes after
- Palestine Action protests in the UK
- I’ve got to avoid Ed Zitron in the morning
- A succinct summary of our situation
- Maybe Jesus Died for God’s Sins
- Will Burnham learn from Starmer’s fall?
- It’s always someone else’s fault
- Evidence that the world might be getting better
- Remember the .049?
- Bring on the days of stupidity!
- Check ya Baskets
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 24 – Green Growth
- I Hurt Yer Daddy, Sunshine
- The Lincoln Pool fiasco
- In Praise of Italian Anarchists
- Thoughts on maintaining a game diary
- Oooh, I liked this one
- That didn’t last long
- An evening discovery
- Waiting for the Murk
- TNET 50: Gothic Remake
- Happy Juneteenth!
- Pruning the greenery to find more green
- Burnham set to challenge Starmer for UK premiership
- Happy Juneteenth!
- Minnesota pride
- The Probability Broach: Whistle blowers
- Happy Juneteenth, Nobody is Free Until Everyone is Free
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 23 – Potatoes Petals
- The reviews are coming in for the MOU
- Elon Musk is a dangerous racist
- The war is over. We lost.
- The curious saga of the US-Iran deal
- How do they avoid motion-sickness?
- Anticipating Kent Hovind’s next wack-a-…what?
- Respect the intelligence of all living things!
- I don’t understand American Christians
- A science star!
- What makes a film worth watching again?
- I went gluten-free and it worked
- They’re against science and free speech
- The nefarious prickly pear
- Space Force and IDF hold joint exercise in Bolingbrook (Fiction)
- Can we stop ‘going forward’?
- New on OnlySky: Cutting off the tail of climate change
- To boldly go where everyone has gone before
- Trogloraptor !
- That went about as well as expected
- Random Thoughts About The Data-Centers That Will Kill Us All
- Your True Name
- It’s a technicolor world
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 22 – Still Sowing
- Switzerland votes against population limits
- Since we’re talking about UFOs…
- Goldman v. Landers in NY-10.
- Scampering Animals
- I told you I might go see Disclosure Day
- What may be in the rumored US-Iran peace deal?
- The wee gardening of 2026
- Toxical Disk Horse
- We missed our chance. Now what?
- Still exaggerated
- Here we go again, Trump vacillating wildly on Iran
- Edging
- The Probability Broach: Robert’s rules of order
- Southern Baptists: always on the wrong side
- Thinkin About Conformity
- You have my permission to be horrified
- Tonight was movie night
- Do you remember…?
- Happy Facial Recognition Day!
- Encouraging primary election results for progressives
- Playing with Fire in a House of Decay
- Trump booed at basketball game
- I Got My Voter ID Today…
- Link Roundup: June 2026
- Another creationist falls into my cunning trap
- Pathetic pretense
- New on OnlySky: Conservatism is hazardous to your health
- Wake up! The spiders are watching you!
- The only reason to make this movie was money
- Rain O’er Me
- It may take the collapse of the AI bubble to save us from these sociopaths
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 21 – Testing Tomato Trellises
- Mine
- Being apolitical is political
- Move over, Jessica Rabbit
- Not Even Vaguing
- LLM’s Shouldn’t Code
- Model ship building fad
- Arts & Crafts on a lazy Sunday morning
- Good News for Fancy Birds
- The trial of Rodrigo Duterte
- A baby with a desire to see the world
- Institutional cowardice opposing scientific truth
- Do You Do This To Yourself?
- A new twist on the Turing test?
- Prepping, Famine, and Food Intolerance
- There are no atheists in foxholes, by definition
- Agnostic atheism and other hairsplitting terms
- The Probability Broach: Law of unintended consequences
- Forgive and forget
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 20 – Deeply Depressed
- The end of the American empire
- Happy news on the religious front
- Fun with knees
- Preliminary primary results
- This man should just admit that he wants to kill women
- How would a future anthropologist interpret the graveyard of Everest?
- Trump and the Kennedy Center fiasco
- Quick follow up on Jey McCreight
- Flowers
- Go into the light, Donny
- What is music anyway?
- Road Raging
- The GOP tactic from now until doomsday
- Let’s all forget that Gad Saad exists
- It’s going to be a boring election season in Minnesota
- Origami: Sferica
- More pun fun
May 2026
- I wonder what happened to the coward who attacked Jey?
- Stephen Colbert in Only in Monroe
- I have been replaced
- Mullets and Sexbombs and Prog Rock O My
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 19 – O-ko-pa-ni-ny
- Judges fight Trump corruption
- Don’t ask me for diet advice
- This too shall pass
- The Measurement of Suffering
- Fall of a Scottish power couple
- Eat and live
- The Probability Broach: Heads in the sand
- Overpoliced Minorities and Oph…
- Very funny Jimmy Kimmel clip
- Shouldn’t a president be mildly aware of the world around him?
- The Iran war has become a catastrophe for the US and Israel
- I choose not to be optimistic
- Do Not Reblog Callouts of Transwomen
- Lunchtime
- Saying no to patriotism
- An epic humble brag
- No bread for you, only circuses
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 18 – Potato Potential
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 17 – Towering Trellises
- The Democratic Party establishment has to be overthrown
- First day of PT!
- New on OnlySky: Don’t look now, but Ukraine is winning
- I think the Ark is slowly sinking
- I was doing this long before it was cool
- Lewis Black is utterly maxxed out
- I went outside today
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 16 – Bad Beans
- The fallacy of inferring the spiritual superiority of our ancestors
- Of Boomers and dogs
- Concepting the Rock Epic
- Sex tips from the Bible
- What is the meaning of life?
- Idiots demanding special status for being idiots
- Review: I Want to Be a Wall
- They meant to do that
- No, Ken, molecular biology does not support Biblical dogma
- Israel sinks deeper and deeper into depravity
- Recovery update
- Who-Who: John Morales
- Goodbye and good riddance to Tulsi Gabbard
- Will This Be the Coldest Summer of the Rest of Your Life?
- The Probability Broach: Who speaks for me?
- YouTube Video: About the Czech Language
- Gauging the Xi-Trump summit and its geopolitical implications
- Annoyances with AI Wars
- How About Something Cool Now That It’s Too Late for Us?
- The truth about border crossers
- “Wheel in the sky”
- Jerusalem Day in 2026
- Trump is the Republican party
- Stirring feebly in my sick bed
- Still alive
- Is mathematics invented or discovered?
- Immigrants abused by DHS seek millions in damages
- What politics can do, other than enriching the rich
- Today is DreadDay, tomorrow is KnifeDay
- Who Are You? (Owl Noises)
- Xi-Trump summit stalemate
- Lazy linking
- Am I smug?
- Just another smug, ignorant creationist
- I Remember the Loving Vampyress
- Red vs blue button
- The Republican Party’s War on Autistic People
- The problem with having a finely tuned spider sensor
- How ProPublica works to address important local and national issues
- The Probability Broach: The art of war
- Dog Day Hangover
- Go Northwest, young people!
- What is the point of this summit?
- New on OnlySky: Petrostates fade, electrostates rise
- Not in my backyard
- This carcinization trend has gone too far
- Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash with Ghost Riders in the Sky
- Link Roundup: May 2026
- Life is like an absurd movie
- Is agnosticism a viable stance on the existence of God?
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 18 – Medicine
- We’re safe right now
- Professors are disposable now
- AI is making spam moderation harder
- Oooh, a provocative philosophical conundrum
- I say it again: I don’t like Sam Harris
- Bolingbrook PR firm tries to counter Iran’s AI Lego videos (Fiction)
- You can’t damn me any harder than my own remorse already does
- Looking right at the sun
- Evaluating the Democratic candidates for CA governor
- New on OnlySky: Is there a quiet revival?
- Looking for moral authority in all the wrong places
- Yahtzee to Hit
- Two of my books are on sale!
- Mother’s Day matters
- Gigo
- California primary election dilemma
- Happy Mothers Day.
- Is AI a bigger clownshow than creationism?
- This is where we’re at
- DOJ Fallout Over Comey Prosecution.
- Good grief! How can people do this?
- I am grimly determined to have fun this summer
- The ceremonies have begun!
- New Patreon Rewards!
- Kash Patel channels Captain Queeg
- Fun with knees
- The Probability Broach: Tangled in red tape
- Everything’s Comin’ Up Poison
- What kind of incompetent goofball would schedule maintenance for the last week of classes/finals week?
- Quit blaming Loxosceles !
- All it takes to make a girl happy is a big rock
- Going into debt to visit Disney parks
- The drudgery begins…now
- I had nothing to do with Kyle Rittenhouse’s recent hospitalization
- Free speech…unless you criticize the Gaza genocide
- The next stage of Iran failure – blaming the critics
- Stupid birds don’t like me
- Dogpile on Dawkins
- A Kentucky pharyngulation?
- Go ahead, ruin my day
- The Goomba Fallacy
- My consolidated response to the AI generated emails targeting authors
- Novel legal strategy to eliminate smoking
- Oh god…Dawkins said what now?
- The curse is hereby lifted!
- WHITE PEOPLE: LET’S ALL FORFEIT OUR VOTES TO BLACK WOMEN.
- NFTs are now largely worthless
- There’s no penalty to enabling pedophiles, I guess
- Art Thou Mementing Mori? Truly?
- God’s Away on Business by Tom Waits
- I’ve been shirking today
- The cruelty is sickening
- Origami: Polyrhythmic flower
- We Lost Gost
- The False Promises of Ethnocracy
- Banksy: Now in 3-D!
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 15 – Sowing Soybeans
- John Oliver on AI chatbots
- RUMORS OF MY DEATH HAVE BEEN SLIGHTLY EXAGGERATED.
- This post will probably make the infestation worse
- I have to roll my eyes when a creationist says information!
- The Probability Broach: Fire in a crowded theater
- I’m Surrounded by Some Pizzaheads
April 2026
- Last gasp of Spring 2026
- World of Main Characters
- Powell to stay on at Fed until 2028
- There Aren’t Bad Guys, Just Guys
- Kash Patel is an immature idiot
- Testing: one… two… three…
- NO KINGS.
- It’s knee day
- Capitalism has lost the plot
- The personification of astronomical bodies is always amusing
- Ken Ham is easily triggered
- The lessons of Vietnam seem to be never learned
- She’s giving me signals
- Relax, the Iran War will end soon
- Saw another bird
- Time Traveler arrested in Bolingbrook for posting on X (Fiction)
- The gambling markets and addiction
- I hope this kills the WHCA dinner for good
- A stifling ignorance
- New on OnlySky: America and Israel are headed for divorce
- Spiders in Spaaaaaaaace!
- Learning about birds
- Keeping up with the Joneses
- It’s summertime, and you know what that means…
- Suspicious!
- What a waste of an evening
- What kind of perfect date is this?
- Errol Flynn the Butcher
- Who knew I that am surrounded by witches?
- This is a spider
- Suppressing good news that goes against your agenda
- Revealing photos
- Now tempted to run a casino out of my house
- An adorable baby
- The Probability Broach: The self-rescuing hostage, part 2
- Not a spider
- Grifters all the way down
- I’m not the only one easily seduced by giant Cretaceous octopuses
- ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari’, Chapter Three
- Remaking the image of socialism
- Oh no, last week of classes
- Hulking Out and Kenning Gee
- The Starmer-Mandelson puzzle
- What does Theridion eat? Asked & answered
- Something has happened to my blog
- Failing upward
- Boomers. Ugh.
- Good riddance to yet another Trump cabinet member
- Signpost spider
- A sad anniversary
- Mother of spiders!
- Yum
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 14 – Elevating Earth
- Trolleyology bad
- Training Dogs: Gender Gap
- Texas FAFO
- “Viewpoint diversity” is a misleading way to say “conservative welfare”
- Screaming for joy?
- Brainjackin: Sad Endings
- Bolingbrook braces for massive global ‘transquake’ (Fiction)
- My poor spiders
- Blogging break
- The dangerous allure of self-medication
- Newcomb’s Paradox occurs in real life
- We need better Supreme Court justices
- Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
- Humans are awful creatures
- The Probability Broach: Make the desert bloom
- A Blast from the Past
- Tetragnatha , the long-jawed orbweaver, or the stretch spider
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 17 – Seed Supplies
- Vance gets smacked down by Catholic bishops
- The loons have been handed the control of science
- Need something to counter the signs of spring, stat
- He was unqualified from the beginning
- Everything I do, I do it 4 U
- The shadowy world of gambling on world events
- Hunting season has begun
- It’s going to get ugly on the AI front
- Medical mystery explained
- How is your alma mater holding up?
- Trump, as Usual, Fucks Everything Up
- War mismanagement, in Helldivers
- What’s an atheist to think?
- It’s official
- New on OnlySky: Hungary says “Igen!” to democracy
- Just Doesn’t Hit the Same
- Well, that didn’t take long
- Another S. borealis !
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 13 – Superb Seed Supplies
- Penalize ALL the TikTok psychics
- Losers 2
- At last some good news – Orbán loses in Hungary
- Down, down, in the dark
- Teacher’s Corner: Teaching kids and training dogs
- Pope Leo seems to have had it with Trump
- Trump is Clearly an Atheist
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 16 – Fertilizers
- This may be Melania’s other shoe dropping
- Melania springs a surprise
- I’ve got homework for you
- The Probability Broach: The self-rescuing hostage, part 1
- Genetics progress
- Netanyahu is a monster
- Not funny
- The dumb ones keep coming back
- How Netanyahu pushed Trump into attacking Iran
- Life from space? I have questions
- He always chickens out. Good.
- Why a top general was fired by Hegseth
- I’ve had few opportunities to photograph spiders
- Rock Paper Scissors and variants
- He’s absolutely, utterly insane, and a danger to the world
- Are you relieved, Canada?
- Far, far away
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 12 – Fertilizing Fields
- A new record (Non-Fiction)
- Pentagon is hiding US casualties as frustrations mount
- Shizuoka – a model city
- Picking the right side
- Dr Dunsworth is good at this
- I’m in show business!
- Can we please stop using this film cliche?
- Walking Disaster, Chapter 26
- Al Jolson
- I would have forgotten that today is Easter, if the president hadn’t reminded me
- Making babies with a computerized sperm storage site
- In spite of Trump, wind energy is spreading
- Twitter’s feed algorithm is harmful
- Lazy linking
- More Meme Warfare
- No Nukes
- Trump comes to Starmer’s rescue
- The man is insane
- This was the morning I was supposed to sleep in & then grade papers
- Origami: Drawer box
- Anti-Trump Meme Warfare
- JnBvtWoI II:X
- Appropriate Honor
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 11 – Planting Potatoes
- I got a nice little card!
- Why Bondi was fired
- NASA is going to pull an Apollo 8 on us, aren’t they?
- The Probability Broach: Fly the heavily armed skies
- Meanwhile, WTAF?
- Bye, bye, Bondi
- Bondi is out
- Lessons I probably shouldn’t use in my classes
- Yay! The war is over!
- Blog comments policy
- A Fascinating New Element to Warfare
- Artemis 2 successfully launched
- Trying to explain stock market gyrations
- We get prizes?
- Old Copenhagen
- “List of Jews” has an ominous ring
- I don’t think the division chair would react the same way
- A good slogan
- JnBvtWoI II:IX
March 2026
- Do Not Post Bette Midler Plz
- Oh no, I agree with Nancy Mace!
- How the manosphere influencers distort gender power relationships
- All millionaires are welcome to leave Grandmother Mountain’s domain
- The Future of Education!
- New on OnlySky: One terawatt per year
- There’s a sane reply, and there’s the batshit crazy reply
- Space Force ship crash lands in Bolingbrook (Fiction)
- Now I know what they do at faculty meetings on the humanities/social sciences side of campus
- Infinite Thread XXXIX
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 15 – The House
- They never learn
- Mark Twain’s War Prayer should be read by everyone
- No Kings
- A good protest
- JnBvtWoI II:VIII
- Noking Around
- Protest NOW
- The barbarians attacking the rich cultural heritage of Iran
- ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari’: Chapter Two
- My sharpie is ready
- How Epstein got rich
- Our president is openly racist, again
- The Probability Broach: Inside job
- What a strange thing to brag about
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 10 – Preparing Potato Patches
- I hate it when Republicans do this; I might hate it more when Democrats do it
- The options with the war
- Imagine having a robot to teach your kids Greek and Latin
- Bassem Youssef knows how to use a needle
- Oh no! I have to agree with a Catholic!
- Explosive growth of legal gambling in America
- The queen of incompetent bigotry is “winning,” big time
- I must be doing something right
- JnBvtWoI II:VII
- I’m still cranky about Project Hail Mary
- We should perhaps avoid the TACO taunt
- We need to topple a wanna-be king
- Hell is an American airport
- The Mood Here
- Trump and RFK Jr are going to kill us all
- Madman at the wheel
- I don’t like this feeling of deja vu
- Walking Disaster, Chapter 25
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 14 – Pets, Pests & Other Animals
- Four reviews of musical sequels
- I am definitely not avant garde
- The last Andy Weir movie I will ever waste money on
- How to respond to a death
- You tryin’ to tell me P is evidence of P?
- Isn’t anyone vetted in the Trump administration?
- What is the Appeal of Cameo?
- Jane Austen’s Period Drama
- Noah, or Snow White?
- Just don’t call it “war”
- Fascinating things I learned today
- The Probability Broach: Do no harm
- What’s with all the pedos nowadays?
- This is Not Big News
- What is the appeal of Cameo?
- Kudos to my 2026 Genetics students!
- Cesar Chavez revealed as pedophile and rapist
- Anyone remember the Metaverse?
- I’m trying to keep it light here
- Teacher’s Corner The integrative power of small towns
- Tucker Carlson on the Oscars
- In a Way, This Makes the Iran War Worse
- Biologists aren’t funny
- New on OnlySky: The stupidity of the Iran war
- Republican landlord abuses tenants and spiders
- JnBvtWoI II:VI
- The Newt Solution
- Film review: Inside the Manosphere (2026)
- This is new
- The mad tyrant speaks
- Getting on the Take
- Review: Revenge of the Phantom Press
- Look at that goofy nerd with the beautiful girl
- Let’s end Spring Break for good
- The danger of the increasing use of AI companions
- The Answer is “Yes.” We are The Baddies.
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 9 – Aching All Avo Again
- How to kick a professor off campus
- Five Holidays in a Row?
- Spring break surprise
- Decade
- Marcus Ranum is one scary guy
- We no longer own many of the things we buy
- A random elevatorgator appears! Roll for initiative
- Wow —
- I hate to be that guy, but…
- What’s the point of having inside info if they won’t talk?
- Evidence versus logic in changing core beliefs
- A graph of corruption
- The Probability Broach: Turf wars
- Finally! A definition!
- Link Roundup: March 2026
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 13 – Froots
- This is what it feels like to be a rogue state
- Lyrical Genius
- There is no reasoning with such people
- New on OnlySky: Reforestation
- A good maggoty morning to you, too
- This woman cannot fade into obscurity fast enough
- Does China know something we don’t?
- The dangers posed when academics go outside their area of expertise
- Apple Hell
- Please meet Socks
- FBI interviewed woman who claimed sexual encounter with Trump as a minor
- The snow is melting!
- I get email
- Nice to know that good guys exist
- I just can’t watch TikTok
- 69, nice
- Chicagoland’s UFO bases deal with the fallout from the Persian Gulf War (Fiction)
- Scientists who rejected Epstein
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 8 – Sowing Seeds
- SNL on Kristi Noem’s firing
- Terrible jobs numbers
- Behind the scenes of Blazing Saddles (1974)
- That indie game money
- ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari’, Chapter One
- A new level of cowardice
- This feels weird
- The Probability Broach: You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore
- OK I’m Done Now
- Good riddance to Kristi Noem
- Kristi Noem has been taken out to the gravel pit
- Snakes are boring
- The rot is everywhere
- I Spare a Thought for Slime
- My doctor recommended that I see a chiropractor
- Blog comments policy
- There (Probably) Will Be Another 9/11 Level Event
- I am also in the Epstein files
- That put the fear of God into me
- Their claims of apostasy are grossly inflated
- Bad Puzzles
- New on OnlySky: The Bible is too woke
- Get this guy outta here
- The Time the FBI Tried to Entrap Me
- A lapsed atheist’s journey back to faith
- Goddamn cancer
- The GREATEST, HOTTEST, and MOST SPECTACULAR ego ever
- On a cheery, optimistic note
- I can’t compete with that!
- Sidebar Mysteries Solved?
- This summer will be no fun
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 7 – Tilling Topsoil
- The grooming of Virginia Roberts Giuffre
- They’re all cowards
- I could have told them that
- Can’t Even with these Dicks
- My secrets exposed!
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 12 – Fruigetables
- I have opinions on Sam Harris and murdering Iranian people
- Origami: Horses
- The arrest of Andrew, the man formerly known as prince
- Dunt Love CEOs
- The madness of the attack on Iran
February 2026
- The Probability Broach: Crime is everywhere, crime, crime
- Neil Sedaka (1939-2026)
- WWIII: Picking Sides
- And we’re back! (I think …)
- And lo, Freethought Blogs has risen
- We live, under the dead hand of Ed Brayton
- No ghosts in the brain
- You’ve convinced me, Mr Feynman
- I’m not going to be an entitled old man
- Never let your sons join a fraternity
- How the security thugs operate
- Well, that’s disappointing
- Thoughts and plans for future book reviews
- America Resist!
- He has one of those faces I hate to see in a video
- I suppose I should look deeper for better correlations
- Her schemes grow ever more twisted
- Real Science Hurts Brains: Crow Edition
- John Oliver on ICE and DHS
- The video corporate media doesn’t want you to see
- The billionaires, tech bros, and intellectual enablers of Epstein
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 11 – Fields
- Jesse Jackson has died
- Why do creationists shy away from gene duplication?
- Is your community on this map?
- How bad can country-western music be?
- ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’: Questions, part 3
- Men who want to propagate
- Darwin was not the final authority on anything
- Epstein left a slime trail everywhere he went
- Barack Obama sets off ET controversy
- ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’: Questions, Part 2
- Maybe figure out the meaning of life over Spring Break?
- ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’: Questions, part 1
- Dangerously irresponsible gun owners
- The Discourse Continues
- An easy genetics quiz
- That time I interviewed a fraud
- Meanwhile, over in the UK …
- I ATEN’T DED
- The Probability Broach: Search and seizure
- The MAGA outrage over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show
- ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’: Chapter 12, Part 3
- New on OnlySky: American brain drain
- Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah. Stayin’ Alive.
- Link Roundup: February 2026
- I hate ICE and ice
- Lead and criminality
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 6 – Cutting Coppice
- Year of the Fire Horse!
- Today in Genetics class
- Racists never meet a good end
- In case you missed it…
- Maybe Venus wouldn’t be as awful as Earth
- Another evolutionary biologist exposed as a jerk
- Dee-licious Potato Bread
- The Epstein scandal reveals extent of victimization of women by a cabal of privileged men
- Phenotypic plasticity is part of evolution, too
- ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’: Chapter 12, Part 2
- My morning present
- Israel lobby switches to using dark money channels
- Back to School or Else
- I think this might be a little bit racist
- What’s next in game dev?
- The Probability Broach: Who cares about the Bill of Rights?
- Basic scientific understanding should squelch these ideas
- Jeffrey Epstein thought he was mostly innocent. So did Noam Chomsky.
- All the regrets
- So much tea spilled
- Internationally humiliated
- I’m a board member at the local theater!
- MAGA warrior gets his ass kicked by teenagers
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 10 – Sewage
- Grading day
- The Minnesota governor race will be a blend of boring and insane
- New on OnlySky: Protecting secularism in religious enclaves
- Don’t believe Tom Homan
- Epstein fallout continues
- I’m too old for a naked Vampirella now
- Save us from the glut of ugly statuary
- Upper Midwest, Unite!
- A seismic change
- The disparagement of the achievements of indigenous peoples
- “renovations”
- Why is conservative music so awful?
- I’m in the Epstein files??!?
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 9 – Coppice
- Publicly exposing the ICE thugs
- Roger is still hanging in there
- Raising money for a great cause
- Brinkman Rides Again
- Blog comments policy
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 8 – Land Partitioning Again
- Origami: Practical Bookmark
- Wheee, more Epstein revelations
- I read a Chris Rufo post
January 2026
- Revenge of the Phantom Press just released! Book post
- wan light
- Nationwide anger forces Trump to back down
- It’s too much
- How much drinking of alcohol is safe?
- An unpleasant memory
- My game released
- Impressive mechanical work
- The Probability Broach: Meet the big bad
- Another reason to ignore social media
- Run the Country Like a Business?
- Streets of Minneapolis lyric video
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 5 – Purchasing Potatoes
- The problem of finding ways to combat bad speech
- They aren’t coming back, you know
- An Angel of Reason (Book Post)
- Is fear winning?
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 7 – Land Partitioning
- Bruce Springsteen’s powerful new song Streets of Minneapolis
- What’s happening in Minnesota is Science
- When conspiracy theorists try too hard to find a conspiracy
- A resilient Minnesotan
- Waiting for another creepy old man to die
- didn’t go to work today
- Jon Stewart and Seth Meyers on the murders by ICE
- Trump is finding out that murdering white Americans is unpopular
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 6 – Tools
- Kickin’ Thomas Chatterton Williams and The Atlantic? Yes, please
- Don’t be afraid to get weird
- Gruppenführer Bovino slinks away
- “Why?,” I blog.
- My games of the year 2025
- Why I blog
- Tempted to get a septum piercing
- Every time I try to feel sympathy for a church, they push me away
- It’s all lies
- New on OnlySky: American autocracy
- Nazispotting
- The secret ICE training process revealed
- Loneliness, 2
- The Dead Hand
- Murdered man identified
- My talk on “The Death of Free Will”
- Another man shot in South Minneapolis
- Catch Me if You Can
- Minnesotans are going to be insufferable for a while
- How You Treat AI Says Something About You
- An Important Dynamic
- Incompetence all the way down
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 5 – Storage
- The Probability Broach: Shame, shame
- Cootie Catcher
- The least we can do — do better, University of Minnesota
- This is the person they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to?
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 4 – Land
- An interesting argument
- I…yet…live…sorta
- Trump forced to back down on Greenland threats
- Adventures in enterocolitis
- Life During Wartime
- The relative decline of research universities in the US
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 4 – Rejuvenating Raspberries
- Estimating true ratings
- Hello! I’m not dead!
- Trump may be insane. Really.
- Death to Star Trek !
- Where’s the Concentration Camp?
- A reminder there is no arc
- DIA? DPA? MiB? GiG? What’s the difference? (Book update)
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 3 – Climate and Environment
- Trump doesn’t get a consolation prize
- The benefits and dangers of online support groups
- A Prophecy
- Old man babbles about the Bible as science
- UATX is crumbling fast
- More pun fun
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 2 – Diet
- Another day, another rally in Minnesota
- Trump’s Greenland obsession and the Mercator map projection
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 3 – Molehills
- Dream Scheme
- Self-Sustainability Tangent – Part 1 – Thoughts
- Trump and Machado compete to see who is more pathetic
- Too soon? Too accurate?
- The Probability Broach: Backyard WMDs
- Oh dearie me. Oh me oh my.
- The future of big physics
- Doubly fortunate
- She’s right, you know
- Remember when Democrats were criticizing people for calling Republicans “Nazis”?
- Margaret, the hoarder
- New on OnlySky: Why the rent is too damn high
- The Battle of Wrecktangle Pizza
- “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome Fed chair?”
- The Boys are all right
- Michael Shermer is scum
- Fortunately, I’ve never used door dash
- Welcome, little one!
- We Dem Boyz
- Oh no! Another major data leak!
- Pray for the gallant heroes who must meet this behemoth
- The false claims by DOGE and Musk
- Scott Adams is dead
- It’s good to be back
- Ars Technica loses its mind
- How ICE training works
- Why is genetics hard?
- Use it or lose it
- What the internet and now AI reveal about us
- Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work I go
- Chaos continues
- He’s gone now, but he launched an industry that continues on
- Aliens arrested after bombing Palatine (Fiction)
- Blog comment policy
- Grim but accurate
- Juggalo Reprezentation
- Link Roundup: January 2026
- I didn’t get shot
- I don’t expect to be shot, but you just don’t know anymore
- Shadows in the snow
- Stare at my wall with me
- I’ve always known Robin Ince was a good guy
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 2 – Winter Wood Woes
- The obvious comparison
- The more things change the more they stay the same
- The Probability Broach: Non-state violence
- Another day, another murder by ICE
- Tom Tomorrow is psychic
- Her name is Renee Nicole Good
- A murder in Minneapolis
- Down with Plato!
- You don’t need to be wise to appeal to our power brokers
- Christmas messages
- New on OnlySky: Will you be immortal by 2039?
- In which I defend AI
- More Bad Ideas
- Experience with AI coding
- Noam Chomsky and Epstein
- A stupid person is in control of the US
- On The Big Stage:
- Why 99% of scientists believe in evolution
- Typeset Your Transphobia
- Speaking of disease…
- The new imperialism, just like a very old imperialism
- The Greater Gardening of 2026 – Part 1 – Starting Seed Snails
- It’s a pit of disease as well as ignorance
- Not even cool enough to be cyberpunk
- Blood sacrifice as forgiveness: Who made that rule?
- “It doesn’t have to be…”
- What next in Venezuela?
- Jesus has been arrested
- ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’, Chapter 12, Part 1
- Origami: Free pleating
- The Ignoble War Prize Goes to Trump
- Trump attacks Venezuela
- Stuff is changing everywhere
- I don’t recall a declaration of war…(Non-fiction)
- FtB Vaulderie
- Mamdani not backing away from progressive election platform
- Revenge of the Phantom Press: Chapter 1 Preview
- The scandals keep dribbling out
- The Probability Broach: Blue sky
- Guess the Source
- An atheist creed
- Gingerbready New Year!
- Twenty Year Date-iversary
- Hope for the New Year
- AI is Safer Company
- Loneliness, 1
- ‘Popular. Unpopular. I’m the one with the drones!’ The Babbler’s shocking predictions for 2026 (Fiction)