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Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
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Spider gynandromorph!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/07/spider-gynandromorph/
Published: October 7, 2025 17:01
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, male on the right. Kunsete, C., Thanoosing, C., Sivayyapram, V.,…
Portland is burning?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/07/portland-is-burning/
Published: October 7, 2025 16:32
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 support Trump’s false claim that protests against immigration…
The future looks bleak
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/06/the-future-looks-bleak/
Published: October 6, 2025 16:00
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 generation. I’ve been listening to the right-wing’s plans for our…
I sometimes wonder how ICE agents live with themselves
Published: October 6, 2025 12:30
And then I realize…they probably are pretty damned comfortable with their role as thugs who hurt people.
Ken Ham claims to have saved a life
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/05/ken-ham-claims-to-have-saved-a-life/
Published: October 5, 2025 22:08
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, started CPR, and utilized an AED device before the ambulance…
I have evidence that spiders are posting on the internet
Published: October 5, 2025 11:46
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 in fact, the human female reproductive tract is hostile to the…
The president is insane
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/04/the-president-is-insane/
Published: October 5, 2025 00:08
He just posted this. Trump just posted this incredibly weird AI video of himself and JD Vance in a band and Russ Vought as the grim reaper. This is what the president is doing while the government is shut down. We’re so screwed. pic.twitter.com/8XGCNmPRRw…
Nazis will be prosecuted
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/04/nazis-will-be-prosecuted/
Published: October 4, 2025 16:07
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 campus security was called, and then at the end, which…
The country is being run by snot-nosed, immature teen-aged man-children
Published: October 4, 2025 13:58
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 organizations to commemorate specific events, ranging from a visit to a major…
The Battle of Chicago has begun
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/04/the-battle-of-chicago-has-begun/
Published: October 4, 2025 13:35
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 near 75th Street and South Shore Drive, according to a…
So proud of my alma mater
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/02/so-proud-of-my-alma-mater/
Published: October 2, 2025 16:26
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 the entire class rises up and chases him out, and pursues him across campus.…
I could have predicted this would flop
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/02/i-could-have-predicted-this-would-flop/
Published: October 2, 2025 15:37
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 and explain their perspective. I could have guessed that no…
Israel demonstrates their criminality again
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/02/israel-demonstrates-their-criminality-again/
Published: October 2, 2025 15:10
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 they are taking so long is because they’re not bringing huge…
The misinformation economy
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/02/the-misinformation-economy/
Published: October 2, 2025 12:42
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 show that you can buy industrial-sized tubs of the same compound,…
Jane Goodall has died
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/01/jane-goodall-has-died/
Published: October 1, 2025 19:26
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, Goodall died of natural causes while in California on a U.S.…
That’s not accurate, you know
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/01/thats-not-accurate-you-know/
Published: October 1, 2025 15:38
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 molluscs don’t have internal skeletons.
Infinite Thread XXXVII
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/01/infinite-thread-xxxvii/
Published: October 1, 2025 15:26
Watching the world burn. Previous thread
West Point is training antifa traitors!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/01/west-point-is-training-antifa-traitors/
Published: October 1, 2025 12:16
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 outright seditious. That is definitely antifa.
Are you a criminal?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/01/are-you-a-criminal/
Published: October 1, 2025 11:46
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 Violence. It names all the activities/ideas that they claim…
No, that broken robot does not need human rights
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/30/no-that-broken-robot-does-not-need-human-rights/
Published: September 30, 2025 16:00
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 now regularly confide in “AI companions”, and there are more…
Why are they on the front lines?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/30/why-are-they-on-the-front-lines/
Published: September 30, 2025 13:24
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 their best to dodge responsibility, rather than standing up and fighting…
“medbeds”
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/30/medbeds/
Published: September 30, 2025 13:00
Watch this video. Are you fooled? Does this look at all convincing to you? Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. https://t.co/L1MBPIU4ON…
Tastes like chicken?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/29/tastes-like-chicken/
Published: September 29, 2025 21:52
Spotted, growing on a tree about a block from my house: Laetipous, AKA Chicken of the Woods. It’s not my tree, or I’d be tempted to harvest it and fix it for dinner.
Just another liberal-atheist terrorist
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/29/just-another-liberal-atheist-terrorist/
Published: September 29, 2025 18:13
There was a terrible mass shooting in Michigan — the killer drove a truck into a Mormon church, set it on fire, and killed four. What I mainly heard in the aftermath of the tragedy was that the killer hated Mormons, thought they were an anti-Christian…
How are you holding up, Oregonians?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/29/how-are-you-holding-up-oregonians/
Published: September 29, 2025 15:08
As a former resident of Oregon, and a frequent visitor to the lovely city of Portland, I was dismayed to learn that it is now war ravaged, and that our president is declaring Full Force war against the city. War correspondents have been dispatched to the…
I don’t want to care about Jimmy Kimmel, or Disney Corp.
Published: September 29, 2025 14:45
It’s good news that right-wing broadcaster Sinclair had to reverse course on their attempt to get late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel fired, but I have to get real about this situation. Kimmel is an entertainer, not the leader of a progressive…
So that’s what Jey McCreight has been up to…
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/29/so-thats-what-jey-mccreight-has-been-up-to/
Published: September 29, 2025 14:02
They’ve founded a new organization, Beyond X and Y. As the copy on their web page says: We’re a trans-led volunteer team of biomedical experts defending trans rights by educating the general public and political leaders about the real science behind trans…
An American sickness
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/28/an-american-sickness/
Published: September 28, 2025 12:53
I don’t have any flags flying from my house, which makes me an exceptional American. OK, maybe not too exceptional — most houses don’t have flagpoles and aren’t waving their patriotism in everyone’s faces, but having been to Europe and Australia and Asia,…