skĕp′tĭk
@skptc.bsky.social
Itinerant skeptic, yet somehow hopeful for humanity.
Abigail Jackson said in a statement: “President Trump has assembled the most talented and impressive administration in history..." huh.
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Abigail Jackson said in a statement: “President Trump has assembled the most talented and impressive administration in history..." huh.
Why is there still controversy over two consenting adults marrying? Any. Two. Consenting. Adults. This is not hard. This is common sense and common decency.
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Why is there still controversy over two consenting adults marrying? Any. Two. Consenting. Adults. This is not hard. This is common sense and common decency.
Everyone in the administration should get a participation trophy.
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Everyone in the administration should get a participation trophy.
The only thing I like about the dark days of the approaching winter is the arrival of the season's stouts. Cheers!
Poured myself a Vocation Brewery Chocolate Stout 5.9% abv
It has a hint of chocolate and that’s sufficient as it doesn’t dominate the stout flavours.
Bought a bunch of similar at the local Morrisons. Pleasantly surprised at the selection of stouts tbh
It has a hint of chocolate and that’s sufficient as it doesn’t dominate the stout flavours.
Bought a bunch of similar at the local Morrisons. Pleasantly surprised at the selection of stouts tbh
October 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The only thing I like about the dark days of the approaching winter is the arrival of the season's stouts. Cheers!
100% idiotic garbage.
Lee Zeldin will also be investigating alien abduction incidents, the dangers of fairy dust pollution, and reports of marauding gangs of young male unicorns.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
EPA Commissioner Lee Zeldin announces his agency is launching a major investigation into the right-wing conspiracies about chemtrails and weather manipulation to get to the bottom of it.
October 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
100% idiotic garbage.
Isn't that a bit redundant? Chocolate is inherently sexual.
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Isn't that a bit redundant? Chocolate is inherently sexual.
So instead of letting someone purchase things, work, and pay taxes, we'll spend gobs of money rounding them up, holding them and then sending them somewhere else. Sounds like a plan.
For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.
October 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
So instead of letting someone purchase things, work, and pay taxes, we'll spend gobs of money rounding them up, holding them and then sending them somewhere else. Sounds like a plan.
Ah, but they're still all over southern California, in every shade imaginable.
You hardly ever see these things in the wild any more.
(Jacksonville FL today.)
(Jacksonville FL today.)
October 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Ah, but they're still all over southern California, in every shade imaginable.
Interesting choice for the third.
October 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Interesting choice for the third.
Sometimes I think it's deliberate; sometimes I think it's ignorance. But at no time is this the way for a country's leader to act.
October 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Sometimes I think it's deliberate; sometimes I think it's ignorance. But at no time is this the way for a country's leader to act.
Also happy that axolotl translocation efforts continue as far as Kansas.
Johnson County, KS axolotls (and humans) are with you 💙💙💙
October 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Also happy that axolotl translocation efforts continue as far as Kansas.
One day, I'll be gone and my adult children will need to pay their own cell phone bills. #familyplan
September 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
One day, I'll be gone and my adult children will need to pay their own cell phone bills. #familyplan
That looks tasty. Care to hop on a plane to the U.S. with a case? Oh, wait, that's not advisable these days.
Gwarek Browar Rzemieślniczy – The Hop Convergence – Coconutty – Hazy IPA – Sabro + Książęcy + Sorachi Ace + Talus (***) 6,6%
#beeronthecarpet
#beeronthecarpet
September 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
That looks tasty. Care to hop on a plane to the U.S. with a case? Oh, wait, that's not advisable these days.
Yes, I remember that 19 1/2 percent car loan. Couldn't pay that off fast enough.
The 1970s inflation crisis shaped modern central bank independence. Now it’s under populist threat – podcast
The 1970s inflation crisis shaped modern central bank independence. Now it’s under populist threat – podcast
Political economist Cristina Bodea talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how central bank independence became the global norm for economic governance.
buff.ly
September 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Yes, I remember that 19 1/2 percent car loan. Couldn't pay that off fast enough.
Going to school in the 60s and 70s, religious freedom never came up in class. Sometimes, as kids, we'd debate it during our free time. We didn't need permission; we didn't need "rights" handed down from the adults. All we needed was no pressure.
Religious freedom and public education: how do these issues come together?
religionnews.com/2025/09/27/r...
religionnews.com/2025/09/27/r...
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Randi Weingarten, and Skye Perryman speak on Religious Freedom in Public Schools
Much of this episode was recorded live at the inaugural Religious Freedom in Public Schools Summit in Dallas, Texas, convened by Interfaith Alliance on September 15, 2025.
religionnews.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Going to school in the 60s and 70s, religious freedom never came up in class. Sometimes, as kids, we'd debate it during our free time. We didn't need permission; we didn't need "rights" handed down from the adults. All we needed was no pressure.
Since the 80s we've had a huge talent rush into finance, leaving us to import our engineers and physicians. Yeah, and that works until it doesn't.
America’s worst capitalistic instincts have many roots. But elite colleges—and their nudging of students toward big-money, high-status careers—is undeniably one of them.
How America’s elite colleges breed high-status careers—and misery
“They funneled the shit out of me.”
www.motherjones.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Since the 80s we've had a huge talent rush into finance, leaving us to import our engineers and physicians. Yeah, and that works until it doesn't.
Now this is a quality thread.
Overheard
August 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Now this is a quality thread.
"I want only the most ambulatory people with the luxury of the most flexible of schedules to vote [for me]." ftfy. Oh, and we'll use only one of the most manipulable of systems, the paper ballot.
Donald Trump is once again threatening to issue an executive order targeting voting. This is an effort to subvert the Constitution and the 2026 election, which grants states and Congress but not the president power to regulate federal elections.
If he does this, we will sue and we will win (again).
If he does this, we will sue and we will win (again).
August 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"I want only the most ambulatory people with the luxury of the most flexible of schedules to vote [for me]." ftfy. Oh, and we'll use only one of the most manipulable of systems, the paper ballot.
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August 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
We're still a couple of months away from cooler temps in southern California, but y'all are making me stout-thirsty.
Really strong addition to Dog's Window's Crossbreed oatmeal stout series, sort of a dark toffee feel which blends brilliantly with the roasty element. FinIshes with a sort of barrel aged flavour. #BskyBeer
August 31, 2025 at 9:55 PM
We're still a couple of months away from cooler temps in southern California, but y'all are making me stout-thirsty.
I feel that I need to embark on a world beer tour. Wales may be a good start.
This is a brand new brewery to me and, if this Farmers Dark Ale Oatmeal Stout is anything to go by, I'll be needing more.
Lovely stuff. Brecon, apparently
#BeerSky #BskyBeer #WelshBeer
Lovely stuff. Brecon, apparently
#BeerSky #BskyBeer #WelshBeer
August 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I feel that I need to embark on a world beer tour. Wales may be a good start.
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🧪Jim O'Neill, the acting CDC director, is a tech investor w/o a biology degree or the relevant experience.
Susan Monarez was fired b/c she refused to endorse anti-science directives. Multiple officials resigned as they were forced to pick ideology over science.
Every accusation is a confession.
Susan Monarez was fired b/c she refused to endorse anti-science directives. Multiple officials resigned as they were forced to pick ideology over science.
Every accusation is a confession.
August 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🧪Jim O'Neill, the acting CDC director, is a tech investor w/o a biology degree or the relevant experience.
Susan Monarez was fired b/c she refused to endorse anti-science directives. Multiple officials resigned as they were forced to pick ideology over science.
Every accusation is a confession.
Susan Monarez was fired b/c she refused to endorse anti-science directives. Multiple officials resigned as they were forced to pick ideology over science.
Every accusation is a confession.
Hypothesizing, testing and reproducing results is so tedious. How much more efficient to simply pull the truth out of one's lower orifice.
🧪Truth in advertising—already killing patients whose trials were cancelled, trashing decades of expertise and a science research enterprise that returned $2.50 on economic activity in the US for each dollar spent, brought $ to all 50 states, and funded >99% of new, commercialized discoveries/drugs
IMPEACH RFKJR
“Democrats need to focus. The way to attack flooding the zone is to have a single message each day…
“I think we need to use impeachment now… impeach RFK Jr.!
You get a debate, and we can talk about the outrageous things that this monster is doing…”
www.rawstory.com/impeachment-...
“Democrats need to focus. The way to attack flooding the zone is to have a single message each day…
“I think we need to use impeachment now… impeach RFK Jr.!
You get a debate, and we can talk about the outrageous things that this monster is doing…”
www.rawstory.com/impeachment-...
August 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Hypothesizing, testing and reproducing results is so tedious. How much more efficient to simply pull the truth out of one's lower orifice.
He needs to retire to an island where he may commune with the fowl decorating his tie.
I've been reading up on quantum bio lately and it felt like a bit of a glitch in the matrix when RFJ Jr mentioned mitochondria in his ridiculous airport pediatrician cosplay rant from a few days ago.
That's because there's erm... coherence... between ~this~ and a particular corner of quantum bio. 🧪
That's because there's erm... coherence... between ~this~ and a particular corner of quantum bio. 🧪
August 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
He needs to retire to an island where he may commune with the fowl decorating his tie.
How about we scrap the ineffective income tax for a consumption tax that protects the poor, bolsters the middle class and taxes the rest effectively enough to finance a government that is not too large to be unwieldy, yet not too small to execute its promise to the people? I do love my fever dream.
This is the one Labor Day graph that tells you the actual problem in America.
The problem is not that America lacks abundance.
The problem is that a handful of oligarchs are hoarding America’s abundance.
www.levernews.com/the-labor-da...
The problem is not that America lacks abundance.
The problem is that a handful of oligarchs are hoarding America’s abundance.
www.levernews.com/the-labor-da...
August 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
How about we scrap the ineffective income tax for a consumption tax that protects the poor, bolsters the middle class and taxes the rest effectively enough to finance a government that is not too large to be unwieldy, yet not too small to execute its promise to the people? I do love my fever dream.