One terawatt per year, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social We're making more progress on green energy than most people realize, and the Iran war may supercharge that trend. onlys.ky/one-terawatt... #climatecrisis #solarpower

A military historian sums up the colossal blunder of the Iran war, and gives a well-thought-out set of predictions for what might happen next: acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

The greatest-ever review of Atlas Shrugged, via Reddit: "Each page is covered in words." www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLu...

The colossal stupidity of war with Iran, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social An unwinnable war without a goal and with consequences for the whole world. onlys.ky/iran-war-2026/ #war #iran

The UK Labour Party is fulfilling a campaign pledge to end all hereditary positions in the House of Lords. Good - this was an embarrassing relic. Now get rid of the reserved seats for bishops next! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reforestation: A greener future for planet Earth? by @daylightatheism.bsky.social Deforestation is slowing and could reverse in our lifetimes. We might still be headed for a solarpunk world where futuristic skyscrapers rise amidst lush garden cities. onlys.ky/reforestation/ #environmentalism

The city of Corpus Christi, Texas, is going to run out of water as soon as this year, because Republican leaders invited businesses that use lots of water to set up shop without regard for how much water there actually was: insideclimatenews.org/news/0803202...

Philip Yancey, author of bestselling Christian books like The Jesus I Never Knew, confesses to an eight-year extramarital affair and says he's withdrawing from public life: www.christianitytoday.com/2026/01/auth...

The Bible is too woke for Christians, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social Anti-immigrant theology is a perfect catch-22 of absurdity. onlys.ky/the-bible-is... #evangelicals #bible #immigration #johnpiper

Hurrah, Freethought Blogs lives! DNS problems finally fixed. New posts coming soon. freethoughtblogs.com

I've been reading Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel, Persepolis. It's an autobiographical account of growing up in Iran after the Islamic Revolution, moving to Europe as a student to live freely, and eventually becoming homesick (and homeless) and returning to Iran.

Judge Fred Biery: A defender of human rights and secularism, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social A hurricane of authoritarianism is crashing against the walls of the American constitutional system. Judges like this one are the last line of defense. onlys.ky/judge-biery/ #secularism #humanrights #law

FYI: Freethought Blogs is down due to webhost issues. Work is ongoing to get it back up, but I don't know how long that'll take.

Scientific progress is both cool and body-horror-esque: Doctors saved a man with a critical, incurable lung infection by removing both his lungs (!) and keeping him alive that way for 48 hours (!!) with ECMO until he could get a transplant. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

American brain drain, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social We used to be the world's haven for science, but now scientists are fleeing the U.S. for safer shores. China, the EU, Canada and other nations will benefit from our losses. onlys.ky/american-bra... #science #antiintellectualism

Protecting secularism in religious enclaves, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social Religious communities of choice can't be allowed to cross the line into becoming mini-theocracies where dogma is law. onlys.ky/protecting-s... #secularism

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.