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NEW ICE RECRUITING VIDEO

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Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era

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For anyone who's known the love of an animal, and lost them

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VIDEO: How did Yahweh Become God ? The Origins of Monotheism

This is really good. 1hr long, but a keeper.

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The Banshess of Inisherin

Storytelling genius. A Masterpiece.

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Loopers

EXTRACT FROM, THE FUCKENING Roundly considered the second worst best idea ever in computing, Loopers were an experimental type of machine intelligence envisaged in the late 2700’s by Canute McClanahanahan: a dreamer, a mathematician, founder of the Mizule Wizards Society, and a collector of exceedingly rare antique Tupperware lids. In principal, Loopers were ordinary quantum computers folded,…

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LIFE

EXTRACT FROM, THE FUCKENING Once thought a little tricky, creating life had turned out to be so easy that it was about as impressive as discovering your thumb. Any four-year-old with a biosphere chamber could do it because everything was, to some degree, alive; which was exactly what the panpsychists had been trying to tell everyone from the start. There hadn’t been one capital ‘G’ Genesis on…

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Pompous Thundercunt

Extract from, The Fuckening Padrin eyed the button like it was a strikingly ugly baby. “Never seen that before,” he concluded. “Press it,” said Bookbinder. “You press it!” parried Padrin. “You’re closest!” hissed Bookbinder. “We’re exactly the same distance, you stillborn waffle!” Being true didn’t make it right. Bookbinder considered crawling back a foot, but that part of his brain whose…

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Black Holes are Dangerous

Black holes are dangerous. Creating a black hole close to anything you’re especially fond of is stupid. On these two matters most people know just enough about both subjects to happily agree. What most people don’t have the foggiest idea about is that in the old Earth Balearic dialect of Catalan, when combined, the etymological root of the words ‘Danger’ and ‘Stupid’ form the word…

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Genesis Projects

Once thought a little tricky, creating life had turned out to be so easy that it was about as impressive as discovering your thumb. Any four-year-old with a biosphere chamber could do it because everything was, to some degree, alive… Which was exactly what the panpsychists had been trying to tell everyone from the start. There hadn’t been one capital ‘G’ Genesis on earth, but countless millions…

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Argumentum Nostrums

For better or for worse, since the early 2400’s traditional wedding ceremonies (whose plotlines were broadly predictable) have been largely replaced with Argumentum Nostrums (whose plotlines are, in theory, entirely up for grabs). An Argumentum Nostrum is a two to three-hour long event where instead of three-hundred friends and family gathering in their finest livery to enjoy a day of mannered…

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Pherometres

An extract from the book, The Fuckening. Pherometres are simply marvellous devices. Survey after survey consistently places them in the Top Five of the greatest inventions of all time; and since their market debut in 2390 these little devices have greased the wheels of hundreds of millions of quick, passionate, exceedingly wet affairs. Pherometres are noses; very sensitive, highly specialised…

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On Gravity: an extract from The Fuckening

For reasons not entirely mysterious, the sentence, “I really like what you’ve done with the gravity” is not as common as, say, the sentence, “I really like what you’ve done with the curtains.” Gravity either is or it isn’t. It can feel like ten elephants sitting on your head, or no elephants at all, but apart from that it is broadly colourless, featureless, and exhibits no personality…

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Interval

Hello my lovelies! (and Ark)

Quick note just to say I’m popping out of the blogging world for a bit—Few months.

As a few of you already know, I have super human blood. To those of you who didn’t, I’m sure you have long-suspected something of the like. And so, yes, it’s true. A wonderful little genetic mutation deep inside my genome has transformed my marrow into a production house for this…

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The God-Hypothesis

Imagine, if you will, a bright young chap proposing an intriguing hypothesis for something. It doesn’t really matter what. What’s important is that it was a hypothesis that, at least on paper, sounded quite compelling.

So, an Abstract was written, and following the Abstract some justifications for the probable truth of the idea were published… and with that, efforts to prove this hypothesis began…

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Abortion: There is No Ethical Dilemma

Abortion: There is No Ethical Dilemma

How can you “kill” something that cannot “die”?

This is arguably the most significant question in any discussion concerning the legality of abortion, and because facts matter, the following seventeen words are critical in understanding that before gestational week 25, although more accurately week 28, there is no ethical dilemma in terminating a pregnancy because nothing is being killed—or worse,…

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THE GREATEST RELIGIOUS QUESTION NEVER ANSWERED

Post dedicated to America’s Newest Best Worst Apologist, Mel Wild: senior pastor at the Cornerstone Church. It is the most conspicuous religious question never answered, and this simple brute fact should aggravate and needle every waking moment of every person who believes this world was created: Why did the Creator create? For what purpose was this artificial world intended? In the Christian…

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