@improbability.bsky.social
he/him, Upstate SC, Gen-X, introvert, software development, gaming, running, secular humanism, volunteer with https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org, opinions are my own
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As of a few minutes ago, calling it a "scam, spam, or deceptive," YouTube deleted the entire "The Thinking Atheist" channel.
January 13, 2026 at 8:53 PM
As of a few minutes ago, calling it a "scam, spam, or deceptive," YouTube deleted the entire "The Thinking Atheist" channel.
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My parents stopped by to talk about VeggieTales (and other things)
#newepisode #podcast #exvangelical
#newepisode #podcast #exvangelical
January 5, 2026 at 6:53 PM
My parents stopped by to talk about VeggieTales (and other things)
#newepisode #podcast #exvangelical
#newepisode #podcast #exvangelical
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yes, check the daily zeitgeist feed in the morning <3 in keeping with the times this year's installment features 500 christian santas getting pregnant
Have been entirely off social media since October (which has ruled) but have come back here to ask @jamieloftus.bsky.social if there is going to be a Santa University this year NO WORRIES IF NOT just trying to plan my day Merry Christmas or whatever!!! Love u Jamie!! love, a stranger
December 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
yes, check the daily zeitgeist feed in the morning <3 in keeping with the times this year's installment features 500 christian santas getting pregnant
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This is just beautiful. Have a good thing and watch this, you deserve it.
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng?...
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng?...
Happy Hanukkah
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This is just beautiful. Have a good thing and watch this, you deserve it.
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng?...
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng?...
What a delight!
Happy Secular Holidays! Our new episode is out now! It’s full of surprises, laughs, and songs. It’s the most fun I’ve had recording an episode all year!
#podcast #newepisode #exvangelical
#podcast #newepisode #exvangelical
December 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
What a delight!
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this is a great article
I wrote much less this year than I've written in the past five, so there's not a whole lot to revisit. This piece, though, I still think is probably the best article I've ever written, even if it was a dumb professional move to write it [free to read] www.patreon.com/posts/empero...
The Emperor’s Luxury SUV Isn’t Good, But He’d Still Kill Us All To Keep It | Victoria Scott
Get more from Victoria Scott on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
this is a great article
This is sublimely creepy, but CW if you're easily spooked or deal with religious anxiety. I think it wields those themes brilliantly, but it helps to have some distance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwkU...
The Joyful Judgment Show | "Episodes 1-5" | Analog Horror
YouTube video by Kyle Parnell
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is sublimely creepy, but CW if you're easily spooked or deal with religious anxiety. I think it wields those themes brilliantly, but it helps to have some distance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwkU...
For some actual "vulgar roast" genius, tune into this year's Vulgarity for Charity benefiting Recovering from Religion. www.recoveringfromreligion.org/vulgarity-fo...
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
For some actual "vulgar roast" genius, tune into this year's Vulgarity for Charity benefiting Recovering from Religion. www.recoveringfromreligion.org/vulgarity-fo...
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a piece exploring this concept
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
a piece exploring this concept
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Mike Johnson: It’s True. I Am Tuning Out The News Cycle To Focus On Self-Care
Mike Johnson: I Am Tuning Out the News Cycle to Focus on Self-Care
Don’t ask me about the news. I am protecting my mental space.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Mike Johnson: It’s True. I Am Tuning Out The News Cycle To Focus On Self-Care
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spoke to the folks at obsidian about the outer worlds 2 and what if anything we should glean from the game about their relationship with their corporate parent
www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
The Outer Worlds 2’s satire has a Microsoft-shaped problem
The team at Obsidian talks about returning to the RPG series after becoming part of a giant corporation.
www.theverge.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
spoke to the folks at obsidian about the outer worlds 2 and what if anything we should glean from the game about their relationship with their corporate parent
www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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New episode out today! From a bad book comes a beautiful relationship with Wellbutrin.
#exvangelical #podcast #newepisode
#exvangelical #podcast #newepisode
October 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
New episode out today! From a bad book comes a beautiful relationship with Wellbutrin.
#exvangelical #podcast #newepisode
#exvangelical #podcast #newepisode
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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I am proud to be associated with this guy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H9V...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H9V...
A Special Message from Forrest @RenegadeScienceTeacher: Don't Give In To Learned Helplessness
YouTube video by The Atheist Experience
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I am proud to be associated with this guy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H9V...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H9V...
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Chappelle: Y’all are more free than we are
Riyadh crowd: Wooooooo
Chappelle: Like if I tell jokes about trans people at home people say shit about me
Riyadh crowd: booo
Chappelle: but you guys clap
Riyadh: [applause]
Chappelle: you see THAT’s free speech
Riyadh crowd: Wooooooo
Chappelle: Like if I tell jokes about trans people at home people say shit about me
Riyadh crowd: booo
Chappelle: but you guys clap
Riyadh: [applause]
Chappelle: you see THAT’s free speech
October 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Chappelle: Y’all are more free than we are
Riyadh crowd: Wooooooo
Chappelle: Like if I tell jokes about trans people at home people say shit about me
Riyadh crowd: booo
Chappelle: but you guys clap
Riyadh: [applause]
Chappelle: you see THAT’s free speech
Riyadh crowd: Wooooooo
Chappelle: Like if I tell jokes about trans people at home people say shit about me
Riyadh crowd: booo
Chappelle: but you guys clap
Riyadh: [applause]
Chappelle: you see THAT’s free speech
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We've launched a new report at Erin In The Morning: The Lavender Ledger, your strategic LGBTQ+ reader, covering the stories that we passed on because someone else covered it better than us.
Here is our first one!
Here is our first one!
The Lavender Ledger: Your Strategic LGBTQ+ Reader By Erin In The Morning
Our new service for the week to cover the news we did not carry but do not want you to miss.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We've launched a new report at Erin In The Morning: The Lavender Ledger, your strategic LGBTQ+ reader, covering the stories that we passed on because someone else covered it better than us.
Here is our first one!
Here is our first one!
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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Really important @TimothySnyder column open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Free Speech and Me Speech
A helpful distinction
open.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Really important @TimothySnyder column open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Oh no.
“The most common question we get, by a lot, is: Is this actually God I am talking to?” said Patrick Lashinsky, ChatwithGod’s chief executive.
“The most common question we get, by a lot, is: Is this actually God I am talking to?” said Patrick Lashinsky, ChatwithGod’s chief executive.
Finding God in the App Store
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Oh no.
“The most common question we get, by a lot, is: Is this actually God I am talking to?” said Patrick Lashinsky, ChatwithGod’s chief executive.
“The most common question we get, by a lot, is: Is this actually God I am talking to?” said Patrick Lashinsky, ChatwithGod’s chief executive.
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This is an amazing excellent analogy. Civility in the service of evil is hollow.
September 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This is an amazing excellent analogy. Civility in the service of evil is hollow.
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I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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I made a video about the reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death
We Need to Talk About 'Political Violence’
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
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September 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I made a video about the reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death
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Church/state separation has two new defenders on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Kelly Morrison (D-MN) & Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) have now joined the Congressional Freethought Caucus.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-congre...
Rep. Kelly Morrison (D-MN) & Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) have now joined the Congressional Freethought Caucus.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-congre...
The Congressional Freethought Caucus adds yet another two members
The group, which champions reason-based policies and opposes discrimination against atheists, now stands at 32 members
www.friendlyatheist.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Church/state separation has two new defenders on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Kelly Morrison (D-MN) & Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) have now joined the Congressional Freethought Caucus.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-congre...
Rep. Kelly Morrison (D-MN) & Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) have now joined the Congressional Freethought Caucus.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-congre...
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Prayer is not enough. And they know that. When it comes to recruiting people to use guns they say "Lord Here I am Send Me". When it's time to protect young people from guns, it's "prayers up." #james2:14 #karolineleavitt #jdvance
August 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Prayer is not enough. And they know that. When it comes to recruiting people to use guns they say "Lord Here I am Send Me". When it's time to protect young people from guns, it's "prayers up." #james2:14 #karolineleavitt #jdvance