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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 3h

Ow, that hurts. It's too true.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

This

Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 3h

not to mention the fucking professional atheist scientists who provide the entire foundation for anti-trans bigotry by saying "science PROVES there are only two sexes!"

May their underpants never be dry again.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 3h

Classic 7th birthday choice: rollerblades.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 1d

How did this guy ever get put in charge of medicine in our country? He's going to kill a lot of children.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

nonfiction writing in english has been degenerating into a garbage fire since rhe early to mid 2010s. one of the recurrent signs of it is just an increasing emphasis on personal essays written by deranged people

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 2d

Cognitive decline seems to be going around these days.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 2d

This is too fucking much racism in one giant mega-dose. Stephen Miller ought to be ostracized and sequestered in a hole far, far away from other human beings.

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The Making Of Stephen Miller - SOME MORE NEWS

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 3d

The Freethoughtblogs gang is doing a podcast on Saturday.

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Finding joy in the macabre

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 3d

Avi Loeb's "anomalies" are as substantial as Martian canals and little green men.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 4d

Celebrate your spiders on the 8th of October!

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 4d

This new version of the Monster Mash is kinda scary.

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They did the Monster Slash

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 4d

So now Trump is making extortionate demands of our universities. Stay strong! Except for Texas, which is ready to cave already.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 4d

They shouldn't have killed it -- I would have like to see something about its sexual behavior and whether it could reproduce.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 4d

Ecuador has invaded Oregon. The conquest of North America is imminent.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 6d

Education is not synonymous with indoctrination or propaganda, although the Right believes that it is.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 6d

They're just ordinary Americans, which is the scariest thing I can think of.

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cartoon of an ice agent coming home to his wife and children casually talking about his day shooting people

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 6d

Neither Ken Ham nor God saved anyone.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 7d

I've identified spiders posting on the internet from obvious textual cues.

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the uterus has literal chambers made for storing sperm for later. it really doesn't matter when you're inseminated your body can still fertilize an egg during the fertile window using old sperm

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 7d

We're on a wild ride with an evil madman at the helm.

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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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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 7d

I think the line was already crossed about 9 months ago.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 8d

The UW nazi was not a UW student--just a random outsider crashing the campus.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 8d

Testosterone-addled boys hyped up on comic books and video games are in charge of the country.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 8d

The first resort of fascists is always cruelty -- and they execute it so clumsily. Tearing naked children away from their mothers is just stupid. You are the baddies.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 9d

Look at the response Nazis get when they visit a college campus. It's positively heartwarming.

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Lone Nazi interrupts a class, gets swarmed by students

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 10d

Ask a creationist for affirmative evidence for creation…and they bring up Pokemon.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 10d

The flotilla has been seized. This is not a victory for Israel.

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