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Author Andrew Butters
@andrewbutters.bsky.social
🇨🇦 (He/Him) I sometimes let my love of attention override common sense. I also write things and eat snacks. https://authorandrewbutters.substack.com
As if we needed any more proof that we're doomed.
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Me:
You can never over reheat leftover stew.

Me five minutes later:
My stew is too hot.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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No, there hasn't been a "temporal anomaly" and reality didn't "take a breath." www.skeptophilia.com/2025/11/time...
Time lapse
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November 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I'm definitely putting her in one of my books.
November 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Researchers find a way to trigger the release of childhood memories -- but are those memories real? www.skeptophilia.com/2025/11/the-...
The persistence of memory
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November 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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About a strange and whimsical form of... art? www.skeptophilia.com/2025/11/chas...
Chasing uselessness
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November 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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In which I give my readers an assignment to do some detective work www.skeptophilia.com/2025/11/sear...
Searching for Rosalia
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November 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
You know you've raised 'em well when you hear them singing Tears For Fears in the shower.
November 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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In which we learn why it's dangerous to ask me a simple question www.skeptophilia.com/2025/10/doub...
Double take
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October 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
With a bit more than 2 days left in the month, and for the first time since 2021, my sales dashboard is still at zero. If you want to help change that:
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Books Everyone Will Enjoy by Author Andrew Butters
Andrew writes fiction and nonfiction. Funny, dystopian, thriller, heartwarming, thought-provoking, and more. Books everyone will enjoy!
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October 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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One of the implications of the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum physics is kind of... horrifying www.skeptophilia.com/2025/10/cmon...
C'mon, you wanna live forever?
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October 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
"Fragrance free" and "odorless" are NOT the same thing.
October 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Does anyone else suffer from odd number insomnia?
October 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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A paid subscription, even if it's just the one month ($5 or less depending on your currency) gets you THREE ebooks AND your name in the acknowledgements when they go to print.
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A Deal at Thrice the Price
Or: An Offer You Can't Refuse
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October 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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The single cause fallacy, and "electronic voice phenomena" www.skeptophilia.com/2025/10/a-vo...
A voice from the static
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October 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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It’s been said that everyone should work a service job for a year after high school, and I think that’s true but I think it should be a five-year plan including…

- living in another country for a year
- caring for the elderly for a year
- teaching for a year
- surviving as an artist for a year
October 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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On a proposed fix for climate change, and why it's a really bad idea www.skeptophilia.com/2025/10/best...
Best laid plans
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October 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Incredulity, questions, and the Klerksdorp spheres www.skeptophilia.com/2025/10/sphe...
Sphere itself
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October 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
A paid subscription, even if it's just the one month ($5 or less depending on your currency) gets you THREE ebooks AND your name in the acknowledgements when they go to print.
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A Deal at Thrice the Price
Or: An Offer You Can't Refuse
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October 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Is there such a thing as "objectively bad art"? www.skeptophilia.com/2025/10/in-w...
In with the bad
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October 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM