@daylightatheism.bsky.social
Progressive secular humanist. Author and columnist for Freethought Blogs & OnlySky Media.
The fossil fuel era is ending in flames, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social
Oil and gas infrastructure can't be protected from a determined enemy, which is all the more reason to shift away from it.
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#ukraine #climatechange #oil
Encouraging news from Australia: Renewable energy overtakes coal as the #1 power source.
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Zohran Mamdani should announce that he wants to implement all the same tax rates and progressive policies in NYC that Israel already has. Watch people's heads explode.
26.10.2025 14:07 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The data doesn't lie: Religious people are neither nicer, nor more civically engaged, nor happier than nonreligious people. We're all just human beings!
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A scientific test of astrology. The results aren't shocking, but it's good to test what we think we know:
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Astrologers were given detailed info about real people, and asked to pick their "correct" natal chart. They did as well as chance would predict.
An end in sight for Huntington's disease, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social
Genetic therapy offers hope for a dreaded and previously untreatable disorder.
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#huntingtons #genetherapy #medicine #biology
Vaccine wars, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social
We're about to reap the deadly harvest of anti-science ideology.
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#vaccination #antivax #publichealth
The Probability Broach: Villainous authoritarians
Why the Articles of Confederation failed.
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A new era of political violence, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social
This bloodshed is a sign of democracy failing to deliver on its promises.
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#charliekirk #gunviolence
The Probability Broach: Who lives, who dies, who tells your story
Alexander Hamilton the enslaver and Thomas Jefferson the abolitionist.
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The Probability Broach: Roosevelt the warmonger
We're anti-war, unless someone other than the U.S. started it.
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The Probability Broach: Blood on the highway
"It’s 'you can eat your cake and have it, too' as a political philosophy."
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The Probability Broach: Nine-tenths of the law
The predictable chaos of a society where you can keep whatever you steal.
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Can we imagine life without cars?
The builders of a car-free community in Arizona want to find out.
@daylightatheism.bsky.social reports on Culdesac Tempe:
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#urbanism #carculture #culdesac
The Probability Broach: Constant vigilance
"You can put spinning spikes or flamethrowers on your car’s wheels, Mad Max-style, to get revenge if some jerk on the highway tailgates you."
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#probabilitybroach #libertarianism
Today on OnlySky, new short fiction from @daylightatheism.bsky.social: "A list of friendly AI directives recovered from a degraded memory chip, excavated from a circa 22nd-century ash layer"
We only wanted it to solve our problems.
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#fiction #scifi #ai
The Probability Broach: Smoke 'em if you got 'em
Getting your customers addicted for massive profit.
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#probabilitybroach #libertarianism
The Probability Broach: White people’s histories
"This is another running theme with libertarians, going back to at least when Ayn Rand referred to Native Americans as 'savages' who deserved to be wiped out because they didn’t have capitalism."
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The fertility freeze: Why the birth rate is falling, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social
Fewer women are choosing to have kids, and the reasons should be obvious.
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#population #demographics #natalism
The Probability Broach: Charity cases
"If you run out of money, do you have to beg in the gutter? Are there debtors’ prisons? Dickensian workhouses where the destitute are put to slave labor? Or are you just expected to die?"
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#probabilitybroach #libertarianism
Some good news for the day: For the first time ever, the EU got more energy from solar power in June than from nuclear, fossil fuel, or any other source.
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The Probability Broach: The man who killed Washington
"Unlike many libertarians who proclaim that the U.S. is a glorious beacon of freedom, Smith takes the opposite stance. He believes that all governments are oppressive tyrannies, our own not excluded."
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The Probability Broach: Good guys with guns
Living out every libertarian's hero fantasies.
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#probabilitybroach #libertarianism
The Probability Broach: Affordable care
The libertarian belief that government prevents scientific progress, for some reason.
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#probabilitybroach #libertarianism
The Probability Broach: Good samaritans
It's better not to get involved.
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The Probability Broach: Coffin nails
Tobacco bans are because the government hates freedom, and for no other reason.
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#probabilitybroach #libertarianism
The Probability Broach: Vegas on steroids
Two noteworthy absences: advertising and garbage.
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The Probability Broach: Mo' money, mo' problems
The wonderful world of seigniorage.
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The Probability Broach: Kindergarteners packing heat
How could this possibly go wrong?
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Good news, everyone! We found something else to blame women for!
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