Pharyngula
Kickin’ Thomas Chatterton Williams and The Atlantic? Yes, please
Don’t be afraid to get weird
Gruppenführer Bovino slinks away
Tempted to get a septum piercing
Every time I try to feel sympathy for a church, they push me away
It’s all lies
The secret ICE training process revealed
Murdered man identified
Another man shot in South Minneapolis
Minnesotans are going to be insufferable for a while
The least we can do — do better, University of Minnesota
An interesting argument
I…yet…live…sorta
Adventures in enterocolitis
Death to Star Trek!
Trump doesn’t get a consolation prize
Old man babbles about the Bible as science
UATX is crumbling fast
Another day, another rally in Minnesota
Too soon? Too accurate?
Oh dearie me. Oh me oh my.
Doubly fortunate
She’s right, you know
Remember when Democrats were criticizing people for calling Republicans “Nazis”?
The Battle of Wrecktangle Pizza
The Boys are all right
Michael Shermer is scum
Fortunately, I’ve never used door dash
Welcome, little one!
Oh no! Another major data leak!
Pray for the gallant heroes who must meet this behemoth
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
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
Grim but accurate
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 obvious comparison
The more things change the more they stay the same
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
In which I defend AI
A stupid person is in control of the US
Why 99% of scientists believe in evolution
Speaking of disease…
It’s a pit of disease as well as ignorance
Not even cool enough to be cyberpunk
Jesus has been arrested
Stuff is changing everywhere
The scandals keep dribbling out
An atheist creed
I’m ready for 2025 to end
Infinite Thread XXXVIII
Minnesotans have been following this tale of local con artists for years. It’s nothing new.
Are Republicans just crazy-pants dingle-bunnies?
Perspective
A terrible feud
Farage needs to go away, apologies would be redundant
It’s blizzard time!
I thought Canada was supposed to be better than us?
I wonder if we could at least vacation in Albania?
Gawain is a girl?
It’s Christmas Eve, and you know what that means…
Benny Johnson wants to kill people
A conspiracy of absolute morons
Oklahoma’s disgrace continues
Put Bari Weiss and Kristi Noem in CECOT
Nostalgia night
IT
I have many pets. One of them is Guenevir. Guenevir is a spider.
AI is a notorious confabulator
I envy them their coats
Let’s talk on Saturday
DDT causes polio???!?
Avi Loeb is nuts
The spiders will feast tonight!
A good use for AI
How does this nonsense persist?
If we’re going to hang any member of the “loser generation,” start with…
Another mass shooting
I’ve been distracted lately
Where’s his white hood?
Famine fears allayed
Busy morning in the lab
Good to know the administration has its priorities straight
Sympathy for Samantha Fulnecky
Racist old fool trash-talks Minnesota
Just call me the dude
For the capitalist parasites: they’re asking for it
How DHS celebrates Xmas
No nervous system interference there at all, thank you very much
Jesus would have bombed those boats!
Merry MAGA Xmas
Wanna see a beautiful fossil?
‘Tis the season for office holiday parties
Mildly concerned about the trajectory of the education profession
You need some more spider information
Krampus lives here
Streaming series belong in the upside-down
Mission for our next president: institute the damnatio memoriae
I see presentiments of my future fate
A good editorial from the Star Tribune
This is what stupid rich means
I was already predisposed to mistrust dollar stores
Disgustingly racist president says disgustingly racist things
It’s tough to argue with someone who lacks evidence
You mean Legally Blonde was not a documentary?
xkcd doesn’t cover all the possibilities
Sorry, I’m going to be pessimistic again
Somebody got paid
The most cutting burn ever
Don’t trust anything from the Anhui Vocational College of Press and Publishing
Thankful for…
The Thanksgiving Feast is ready!
Heart attack snow
The snowplows are cruising by
Snowing!
I exercised some restraint
You can read it on Patreon
Theological “wisdom” makes me roll my eyes
Are insect populations declining or not?
Wicked: For Good
They couldn’t find Americans gullible enough?
Republicans must hate nurses
MTG jumping ship
Are you in the Epstein emails?
I didn’t think my opinion of Riley Gaines could get any lower
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most vain of them all?
I was only there for Santa
Fascinatingly bad genetics
When I picture Hell, it looks like Dubai
That was a weird thing to find in a frying pan
Guess who else is in the Epstein files?
Visit beautiful Utqiaġvik!
Ken Ham makes an admission
The most suspicious creeps among us
We shouldn’t have to wait 20 years for a glimmering of justice
Zero surprise
Cleaning up spam
Life sometimes gets in the way
The long-term consequences of misogyny
Our continuing descent into corruption
Texas leads the way!
I expect this to be the official excuse soon
I guess Chinese scientists have cooties
More AI hype
OH NO! Larry Summers and Bill Clinton might be hurt by the Epstein files? Threaten me with a good time already.
It’s all cringe
Aurora tonight!
Does anyone object to invading Hitler’s privacy?
Exotic berries
She was asking for it
What’s up with 3I/ATLAS now?
I love a good NYT takedown
And nothing was accomplished
Midwest chic
Please improve the biology of “Predator” movies
Go ahead, make me feel old
James Watson is dead at 97
Inspector Clouseau is still employed, I see
A neglected (or hidden) history
I got my sticker!
Support a scientist!
Untangled!
Kim Kardashian news
Deer hunting season opens this weekend
I get email…from the Daily Wire
Golden Fall
How many legs does a spider have?
Cocking a snook at Republicans
Ding-dong, the witch is dead!
A little wisdom from Chief Joseph of the Nez Percés
Wanna see something yucky?
He’s a sleazy furniture salesman at heart
I don’t know if I’m ready to teach genetics again
Queen Coke Francis noticed me!
Post-Hallowe’en shopping day
It’s Tim Curry time!
A kid in costume
A doleful lack of anatomically accurate spider decorations
Tasteless suits made to fit
Happy Hallowe’en!
Cancel that Nobel Peace Prize
New vermin for a new generation
Behold, the magnificent swoop of my slippery slope!
It’s a feeding day
Good news from Minnesota
That’s some persecution complex you’ve got, Anna Krylov
They’re harmless, let’s kill them
Using identity to sell beer?
A grim ending
He is a very stupid man
History repeats itself, again
Not all astronauts know much about geology
My grandson is flying to South Korea
Put to shame!
Halloween decorating: done
A very dirty guest
The silence of the worms
The era of destruction
I waited too long to prepare for winter
Fire Greg Abbott for pushing right wing ideologies instead of education
NFTs are still a thing?
“We Asked ‘No Kings’ Protesters What Made Trump A King. They Couldn’t Say.”
The gang that couldn’t shoot straight screws up again
If you were wondering how big these juveniles are…
Big game hunters
They like to eat things that are bigger than they are
Right wing culture is so bad
The Morris protest march
You didn’t know you’d wake up this morning to hear an old man raving about teenaged boys’ sperm counts
No More Kings!
English, do you speak it, Kelbie Murphy?
All for moi?
He is embarrassingly tacky
Needs more spiders
The problem with trying to make sense of a bad sci-fi movie
Encouraging news for Oklahoma
Evil isn’t just banal, it’s also petty and childish
Teaching with AI
What time is it?
Young Republicans, same as the Old Republicans
The latest medical nonsense
Not the prettiest jumping spider I’ve seen
The things we do for our kids
Iliana’s 7th birthday
He wants us all to die
Looks like we won’t have ol’ Jordan to kick around anymore
I already hated Stephen Miller, but…
Group portrait for Saturday’s podish-sortacast
The illogical logic of Avi Loeb and the 3I/ATLAS clown show
On the 8th of October…
People have been policing masculinity for a good long while
Pretty damn scary
You’re gonna give us what we want, or else
Spider gynandromorph!
Portland is burning?
The future looks bleak
I sometimes wonder how ICE agents live with themselves
Ken Ham claims to have saved a life
I have evidence that spiders are posting on the internet
The president is insane
Nazis will be prosecuted
The country is being run by snot-nosed, immature teen-aged man-children
The Battle of Chicago has begun
So proud of my alma mater
I could have predicted this would flop
Israel demonstrates their criminality again
The misinformation economy
Jane Goodall has died
That’s not accurate, you know
Infinite Thread XXXVII
West Point is training antifa traitors!
Are you a criminal?
No, that broken robot does not need human rights
Why are they on the front lines?
“medbeds”
Tastes like chicken?
Just another liberal-atheist terrorist
How are you holding up, Oregonians?
I don’t want to care about Jimmy Kimmel, or Disney Corp.
So that’s what Jey McCreight has been up to…
An American sickness
Are you looking for an excuse to avoid raking leaves?
Megyn Kelly is deeply weird
Definitely passes the Bechdel test
Some good news!