American autocracy, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social The U.S. government is waging war on its own people. Other countries have thrown off the yoke of autocratic rule in the past, and their experience gives Americans a guide on what we should do. onlys.ky/american-aut... #uspolitics #resist

Showed this to @daylightatheism.bsky.social He said “I bet those companies were run by Beric Badams who looks like Eric Adams with a mustache.”

Cost disease: Why everything is so damn expensive, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social As robots get better, the jobs that still require humans get pricier. What can we do about it? onlys.ky/cost-disease/ #economics #finance #inequality

Scott Adams is dead: www.avclub.com/scott-adams-... He used to be funny once, until he became a bitter racist crank and conspiracy theorist (or revealed that he always was one - take your pick).

A really good speech by Steven Levitsky, given at the Freedom from Religion Foundation's national conference, about America's rapid descent into authoritarianism: www.freethoughttoday.com/free/steven-...

Will you be immortal by 2039? (by @daylightatheism.bsky.social) One entrepreneur thinks so, and he's trying radical therapies to make sure he lives to see the day. Is this advancing the cause of science, or is it just wishful thinking and quackery? onlys.ky/will-you-be-... #transhumanism #biology

Say it again: Abortion bans don't stop abortion, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social U.S. abortion rates have gone up, not down, since the Dobbs decision. This shouldn't come as a surprise. onlys.ky/abortion-ban... #abortion #reproductiverights

The Probability Broach: Ook ook "I mean no disrespect to our ape cousins when I say that they’re not intelligent in the same sense or to the same degree as humans." freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism

The end of marriage? (by @daylightatheism.bsky.social) Increasingly fewer women want to get married. Men still have the power to change this - but if marriage goes extinct, it will be because it deserves to. onlys.ky/the-end-of-m... #feminism #marriage #relationships

American religion continues its long fadeout, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social We've hit another milestone in the secularization of humanity. onlys.ky/american-rel... #demographics #religion

@daylightatheism.bsky.social Is doing a readthrough of the Probability Broach where he raise a lot of criticisms. www.patreon.com/c/adamleeboo...

The era of Zohran Mamdani, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social This isn't how politics normally goes in America. Is it a fluke, or the first rumblings of a larger shift? onlys.ky/the-era-of-m... #nyc #socialism #zohranmamdani

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. onlys.ky/the-fossil-f... #ukraine #climatechange #oil

Encouraging news from Australia: Renewable energy overtakes coal as the #1 power source. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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.

The data doesn't lie: Religious people are neither nicer, nor more civically engaged, nor happier than nonreligious people. We're all just human beings! www.freethoughttoday.com/free/ryan-t-...

A scientific test of astrology. The results aren't shocking, but it's good to test what we think we know: www.clearerthinking.org/post/does-as... 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. onlys.ky/an-end-in-si... #huntingtons #genetherapy #medicine #biology

Vaccine wars, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social We're about to reap the deadly harvest of anti-science ideology. onlys.ky/vaccine-wars/ #vaccination #antivax #publichealth

A new era of political violence, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social This bloodshed is a sign of democracy failing to deliver on its promises. onlys.ky/a-new-era-of... #charliekirk #gunviolence

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: onlys.ky/life-without... #urbanism #carculture #culdesac

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. onlys.ky/friendly-ai-... #fiction #scifi #ai

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. onlys.ky/the-fertilit... #population #demographics #natalism

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. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Good news, everyone! We found something else to blame women for! www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

I should've been expecting this. I just got my first pitch where the pitch itself, as well as the writer's portfolio, were clearly AI-generated. (Pitch us at OnlySky! But human-written entries only, please: <https://onlys.ky/submissions/>)

Well done, New York! The state legislature finally passed a medical aid in dying bill. Now it's up to Governor Hochul to sign it. It has supermajority support according to opinion polls, so I'm optimistic. deathwithdignity.org/news/2025/06...

Today's strange-but-true fact, which I learned from reading Candide: the word "bugger", as in the derogatory term for anal sex, is derived from "Bulgaria" - because medieval western Christians thought that medieval eastern Christians were all dirty perverts. www.etymonline.com/word/bugger

We need the East Queens Democratic Club because they’re not going to smile for photo ops with fascists. Unlike the wishy washy appeasers current running the show.

I'm the new editor-in-chief of OnlySky, and we want you! We publish columns about the future, in all the forms it may take. We pay money for original submissions. Want to write for us? Send me a pitch! freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202...

The future of dying: "Freedom to choose what we do with our lives implies the freedom to stop living. It's the ultimate declaration of self-ownership and autonomy." onlys.ky/the-future-o... #onlysky #maid

Here's a really interesting paper by an astrophysicist, arguing that physical law conclusively disproves the claim that we're living in a simulated universe inside a computer: arxiv.org/abs/2504.08461 arxiv.org/html/2504.08...

Pope Francis dies: "This seems like the theme of Francis’ papacy. He tried to convey an impression of acceptance and tolerance, but without changing the religious dogmas that were the problem in the first place." freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202...

Signs of spring.

Excited for the #QueensBookstoreCrawl today. #IndependentBookstoreDay. Remember kids, it’s not hoarding if it’s books

If America won't build the future, China will gladly do it: "It would be wrong to give in to provincialism, believing that nothing counts unless America does it. That being said, there are also reasons to feel ambivalent about this story..." onlys.ky/if-america-w...

How can we get a warning to the distant future? onlys.ky/a-warning-to... #onlysky #finland #nuclear

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but that's an underestimate. Sometimes, a single picture can be an entire short story.

Death of personality: "Lack of taste aside, there was something else I noticed about the counterprotest that’s deeper and more telling. It’s this: no one in that crowd had a sign that expressed any coherent message." freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202...

Suffering is optional: "Why was life full of pain and hardship? Every culture has wrestled with this philosophical problem. Most of them invented religions to account for it... But the old myths have outlived their usefulness. Life doesn't have to be painful anymore." onlys.ky/suffering-is...

The Texas Mennonite family whose 6-year-old daughter died of measles says they have no regrets. This is what a death cult looks like. www.texastribune.org/2025/03/20/t...

Don't know if this is good or bad news, but so many people in Texas are getting the MMR vaccine that pharmacies are running out: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.

If you feel like reading about something other than real-world politics (and who could blame you), I'm embarking on another marathon review of a novel of libertarian fiction. This time around, it's The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith. Join in! freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202...

The world is going to boycott America, and they'll be right to do so: substack.com/@larrykotlik...

New York State is recruiting unjustly fired federal employees. Good. www.ny.gov/programs/fed...

You love to see it: JD Vance went on a ski vacation in Vermont (!), and was mobbed by protesters who chased him out of town. defector.com/jd-vance-scr...

The old darkness returns: "There are similarities between the 2019 and 2022 outbreaks and this one. In all three cases, the biggest, most glaring commonality at the heart of the problem is religion." freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #measles #antivax

Not the Onion: Russia has lost so many armored vehicles and trucks in Ukraine that they're now using donkeys and horses to move troops and supplies. www.kyivpost.com/post/46881 #russiaukrainewar

An evergreen message of comfort, for this time and all others: This too shall pass. onlys.ky/an-evergreen...