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Welcome to OnlySky! Exploring possible futures since 2024.
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Will the Democrats squander the 2025 progressive surge?

Can a mainstream party learn the lessons that success teaches? Or will it go to war with its own voters to prop up a broken status quo?

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#uspolitics #democrats
Will the Democrats squander the 2025 progressive surge?
Can a mainstream party learn from success, or will it fight the will of its own voters?
onlys.ky
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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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?

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#nyc #socialism #zohranmamdani
The era of Mamdani
This isn't how politics normally goes in America.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Sex shamans: The revolving bedroom door, by @deedee-redletter.bsky.social

We can view the endings of romantic attachments as a completed project rather than a failure.

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#sex #relationships #lgbtq #polyamory
Sex shamans: The revolving bedroom door
We can view the endings of romantic attachments as a completed project rather than a failure.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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The anxious generation: Gen Alpha and digital brain rot, by @susanfourtane.bsky.social

Gen Alpha children show higher rates of anxiety and depression. Is technology to blame?

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#socialmedia #technology #mentalhealth
The anxious generation: Gen Alpha and digital brain rot
Gen Alpha children show higher rates of anxiety and depression. Is technology to blame?
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November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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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
The fossil fuel era is ending in flames
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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November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Depathologizing difference: Age-gap relationships, by @deedee-redletter.bsky.social

They can be healthy when they exist without abuse or coercive control.

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#sex #relationships #lgbtq
Depathologizing difference: Age-gap relationships
Age-gap relationships can be healthy when they exist without abuse or coercive control.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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The leading edge of social justice is secular, by @philzuck.bsky.social

As the world gets less religious, it also becomes more moral.

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#secularism #socialjustice
The leading edge of social justice is secular
On issue after issue related to well-being and equality, secular people are more often on the side of social justice than the religious.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Disconnected while connected: The paradox of modern life

Rather than broadening our horizons, technology is encouraging us to retreat into our own echo chambers.

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#technology #misinformation
Disconnected while connected: The paradox of modern life
Rather than broadening our horizons, technology is encouraging us to retreat into our own echo chambers.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Depathologizing difference: STI stigma, by @deedee-redletter.bsky.social

We should reject the just-world fallacy and stop stigmatizing diseases that are easily treatable.

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#sex #relationships #health
Depathologizing difference: STI stigma
We should reject the just-world fallacy and stop stigmatizing diseases that are easily treatable.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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The Lure of the Transcendent. My column in OnlySky.

#lureofthetranscendent

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The lure of the transcendent
We need a secular framework for human experiences of awe and deep meaning.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Generation Beta: The future of technology and society, by @susanfourtane.bsky.social

The first generation to grow up in a world reshaped by AI, climate change and declining population. What will they make of their future?

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#demographics #ai #climatechange
Generation Beta: The future of technology and society
The first generation to grow up in a world reshaped by AI, climate change and declining population.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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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
An end in sight for Huntington's disease?
Genetic therapy offers hope for a dreaded and previously untreatable disorder.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Next-gen humanoid robots will take over your household chores, by @susanfourtane.bsky.social

Robots are now capable of tasks like loading the dishwasher and folding laundry. Will there be one in your home in the near future?

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#robotics #ai
Next-gen humanoid robots will take over your household chores
Robots have become capable of tasks like loading the dishwasher and folding laundry.
onlys.ky
October 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Depathologizing difference: Drive disparity, by @deedee-redletter.bsky.social

We'll all have more happiness and fulfillment when we can recognize individual differences in sex drive.

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#sex #relationships
Depathologizing difference: Drive disparity
We'll all have more happiness and fulfillment when we can recognize individual differences in sex drive.
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October 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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The birth rate is falling. How concerned should we be, and what can we do about it?

@daylightatheism.bsky.social explores one solution.

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#demographics #fertility #housing #urbanism
What would it take to raise the birth rate?
The world's fertility woes may have a treatable cause.
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October 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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The future of flying vehicles is closer than you think, by @susanfourtane.bsky.social

Where's my flying car, you ask? It might well be coming as soon as 2030 - and some places are already testing them out.

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#mobility #airtaxis #uav
The future of flying vehicles is closer than you think
Self-flying air taxis could be mainstream as soon as 2030.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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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
Vaccine wars
We're about to reap the deadly harvest of anti-science ideology.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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The roaring twenty-twenties, by @deedee-redletter.bsky.social

We're repeating historical patterns from a hundred years ago, in more ways than one.

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#disruptors #lgbtq
Odds and ends: The roaring twenty-twenties
We're repeating historical patterns from a hundred years ago, in more ways than one.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Do secularists need confession and repentance? (by @bledewitz.bsky.social )

Seeking forgiveness, and granting it, makes us better people.

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#secularism #forgiveness
Do secularists need confession and repentance?
Seeking forgiveness, and granting it, makes us better people.
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September 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Lessons from Foundation: Decline, fall... and comeback? (by @tjkratt.bsky.social )

Civilization goes through cycles of collapse and rebirth. That's both a pessimistic and a hopeful message for us.

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#foundation #parableofthesower
Lessons from Foundation: Decline, fall... and comeback?
Civilization goes through cycles of collapse and rebirth. That's both a pessimistic and a hopeful message for us.
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September 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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How to heal after trauma, by Becky Garrison

A guide to finding mental health care practitioners who do no harm.

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#trauma #mentalhealth
How to heal after trauma
A guide to finding mental health practitioners who do no harm.
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September 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Ancient Greece and sexual identities, by @deedee-redletter.bsky.social

The ancients thought of sexual behavior as a phase of life, not an immutable identity. We can learn from that idea.

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#sex #lgbtq
Odds and ends: Ancient Greece and sexual identities
The ancients thought of sexual behavior as a phase of life, not an immutable identity. We can learn from that idea.
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September 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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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
A new era of political violence
This bloodshed is a sign of democracy failing to deliver on its promises.
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September 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Are we ready to live forever?

The quest for immortality, whether through science or religion, poses a whole new set of problems we're currently ill-equipped to deal with.

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#transhumanism
Are we ready to live forever?
Immortality would create whole new problems that we're ill-equipped to deal with.
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September 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Odds and ends: The Amish response to technocentrism, by @deedee-redletter.bsky.social

We could all take a lesson from the Amish's more mindful and deliberate approach to technology. Yes, really!

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#sex #technology #technocentrism
Odds and ends: The Amish response to technocentrism
We could all take a lesson from the Amish approach to technology.
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September 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM