Have you ever sat down to watch a movie and realized, within 5 minutes, that it was going to suck, but you’d walked to the theater and your knees were aching and you just need to sit and rest…

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16.10.2025

What time is it?

I think this comic strip gets it right: we live in the Age of the Dumbass. After the golden age, the silver age, the bronze age, and the age of iron, we find ourselves in this age of dumbassery. By…

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16.10.2025

Teaching with AI

When I get back into the classroom in January, one thing I’m looking forward to is the ability to generate lessons with sophisticated computer graphics by simply clicking a button. So fancy! …

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16.10.2025

Encouraging news for Oklahoma

Ryan Walters, the superintendent of education who was trying to force Christianity on students — introducing PragerU trash into the curriculum, requiring Bibles (the Trump Bible, actually), e…

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16.10.2025

Evil isn’t just banal, it’s also petty and childish

Greta Thunberg has been released from Israeli captivity, and she talks about her capture. What’s surprising is just how childishly stupid and misogynistic the Israeli soldiers were. She was n…

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15.10.2025

The things we do for our kids

I’m back! We went to Madison, Wisconsin for our granddaughter’s 7th birthday, and also for brats (vegetarian style) and cheese curds and the fall colors and Kwik-Trip and all that Wisco…

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15.10.2025

The latest medical nonsense

Well. Now we have another cause of autism. Thanks, RFK jr! There’s two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because th…

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15.10.2025

Not the prettiest jumping spider I’ve seen

I’m used to seeing spectacularly pretty Australasian jumping spiders, and this one, the genus Simaetha, isn’t exactly dazzling. This one, though, has the excuse that it’s between …

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15.10.2025

Young Republicans, same as the Old Republicans

You’d think they’d learn. The Young Republicans had a signal chat where they thought everything was confidential among themselves, so they indulged themselves in profanity, misogyny, an…

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13.10.2025

Iliana’s 7th birthday

It’s time for rollerblades!

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12.10.2025

He wants us all to die

It’s my granddaughter’s birthday this weekend, so yesterday we spent 7 hours traveling all across Minnesota and Wisconsin, and boy are my knees sore. We’ve got a party to go to to…

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10.10.2025

I already hated Stephen Miller, but…

I hadn’t listened to this report on his history yet. Yeesh. He is and always been deeply racist — we’re talking cartoonish levels of racism. Just a repulsive shithouse pit of ugly…

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10.10.2025

The illogical logic of Avi Loeb and the 3I/ATLAS clown show

Avi Loeb is playing games with his peculiar interpretation of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. He keeps suggesting that this interesting, carbon-rich, and very old rock is an artificial construct buil…

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10.10.2025

Looks like we won’t have ol’ Jordan to kick around anymore

Jordan Peterson has been hospitalized with pneumonia and sepsis, which shouldn’t surprise anyone. The psychologist, author, and bottomless fountain of tears is currently hospitalized and suff…

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10.10.2025

Group portrait for Saturday’s podish-sortacast

We have a podcast scheduled for Saturday at 4pm Central. We’re bloggers, so maybe you’re not familiar with what we look like, so here’s a portrait. You’ll never guess which …

Free Thought Blogs Pharyngula

09.10.2025

Pretty damn scary

Elle Cordova does a rendition of a Halloween classic.

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09.10.2025

You’re gonna give us what we want, or else

Trump is a gangster. Now he’s committing extortion against American universities. President Donald Trump’s war on academia continued this week with letters pressuring the leaders of top unive…

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09.10.2025

People have been policing masculinity for a good long while

I suspect most of my readers are not manly, masculine “he-men,” according to this declaration by Edward K. Strong. Although…how can you trust Dr Strong? He was neither an engineer or fa…

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09.10.2025

On the 8th of October…

…one should spend some time with one’s spiders. I know it is numerically the 10th month, but it should be the 8th month by name, if not for some silly Romans who tried to squeeze a couple mor…

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08.10.2025

Spider gynandromorph!

Arachnologists poking around in Thailand discovered a new species of mygalomorph, Damarchus inazuma. One individual was particularly unusual: it’s a gynandromorph! Female side is on the left,…

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08.10.2025

Portland is burning?

The Oregon GOP posted this image on Twitter. Oh my goodness. I had no idea the anarchy was so bad. On all three platforms, the statement was illustrated with an image that seemed designed to suppor…

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07.10.2025

The future looks bleak

I had a nightmarish realization last night — that American education was worse than I thought, and it was all going in the wrong direction, which will have dire consequences for the next gene…

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07.10.2025

I sometimes wonder how ICE agents live with themselves

And then I realize…they probably are pretty damned comfortable with their role as thugs who hurt people.

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06.10.2025

I have evidence that spiders are posting on the internet

This ‘person,’ David Love, is definitely a spider. Female spiders possess structures in their reproductive tracts called spermathecae that are used to store sperm. Humans lack them, and…

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06.10.2025

Ken Ham claims to have saved a life

He proudly claims that he saved a life. His account: A few minutes later, as the service was starting, Pastor Davis collapsed in cardiac arrest. Two nurses in the congregation came to his aid, star…

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05.10.2025

The president is insane

He just posted this. Bonkers. Certifiable. Loopy. Totally nuts. I’d say it’s 25th Amendment time, except that amendment is useless. Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority…

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05.10.2025

The Battle of Chicago has begun

It is not bringing glory to the fascists. In the pre-dawn hours of September 30, federal agencies coordinated a large-scale immigration enforcement action targeting a five-story apartment building …

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05.10.2025

Nazis will be prosecuted

The Seattle Times covered the story of that Nazi who crashed a University of Washington psych class. A couple of new details: he invaded the class twice, once at the beginning when he ran away when…

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05.10.2025

The country is being run by snot-nosed, immature teen-aged man-children

I didn’t know this until now — universities don’t make these, I guess — but there is a class of memorabilia called challenge coins. Usually, these are given out by military …

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03.10.2025

Israel demonstrates their criminality again

Since September first, a flotilla of 40 ships from various nations have been slowly sailing across the Mediterranean to deliver a token amount of aid to Gaza. This is a PR move — the reason t…

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03.10.2025

I could have predicted this would flop

Dan Stern Cardinale offered an opportunity to creationists: come to his channel and present their affirmative evidence for their theory of origins. It was an open invitation to anyone to show up an…

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03.10.2025

So proud of my alma mater

A Nazi barged into a class, Psych 210 (The Diversity of Human Sexuality), threw Nazi salutes, and called everyone there “degenerates.” He got more than he expected — practically t…

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03.10.2025

The misinformation economy

MAHA is cannibalizing its own! This one dumb ‘influencer’ went viral with a tiktok in which she got outraged that Lucky Charms contains sodium phosphate, and she went to Home Depot to s…

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02.10.2025

West Point is training antifa traitors!

West Point, the military training institution, has something called “Constitution Corner” where various plaques celebrating the principles of the Constitution are posted. This one is ou…

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02.10.2025

Infinite Thread XXXVII

Watching the world burn. Previous thread

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02.10.2025

Jane Goodall has died

Jane Goodall was one of my earliest role models, and now she is gone. The Jane Goodall Institute announced the primatologist’s death Wednesday in an Instagram post. According to the institute, Good…

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02.10.2025

That’s not accurate, you know

It’s October, and you know what that means: it’s time for Spirit Halloween to create more phylogenetically incorrect skeleton decorations. Don’t blame me, I already know that moll…

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02.10.2025

Are you a criminal?

Yes, you are! President Trump (or more perhaps more accurately, Stephen Miller) has issued an Executive Memorandum on National Security for Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Vio…

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01.10.2025

No, that broken robot does not need human rights

A guy who works for OpenAI makes an observation. I agree with the opening paragraphs. AI is not like past technologies, and its humanlike character is already shaping our mental health. Millions no…

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01.10.2025

Why are they on the front lines?

Here’s the same thing I said the other day, only far more amusingly. Where is the Democratic leadership? We’ve got a couple of do-nothings like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries doing t…

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The problem with trying to make sense of a bad sci-fi movie

What time is it?

Teaching with AI

Encouraging news for Oklahoma

Evil isn’t just banal, it’s also petty and childish

The things we do for our kids

The latest medical nonsense

Not the prettiest jumping spider I’ve seen

Young Republicans, same as the Old Republicans

Iliana’s 7th birthday

He wants us all to die

I already hated Stephen Miller, but…

The illogical logic of Avi Loeb and the 3I/ATLAS clown show

Looks like we won’t have ol’ Jordan to kick around anymore

Group portrait for Saturday’s podish-sortacast

Pretty damn scary

You’re gonna give us what we want, or else

People have been policing masculinity for a good long while

On the 8th of October…

Spider gynandromorph!

Portland is burning?

The future looks bleak

I sometimes wonder how ICE agents live with themselves

I have evidence that spiders are posting on the internet

Ken Ham claims to have saved a life

The president is insane

The Battle of Chicago has begun

Nazis will be prosecuted

The country is being run by snot-nosed, immature teen-aged man-children

Israel demonstrates their criminality again

I could have predicted this would flop

So proud of my alma mater

The misinformation economy

West Point is training antifa traitors!

Infinite Thread XXXVII

Jane Goodall has died

That’s not accurate, you know

Are you a criminal?

No, that broken robot does not need human rights

Why are they on the front lines?

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