The Skeptic's Book of Lists

Host of The Conspiracy Skeptic podcast. Author The Skeptic's Book of Lists. Makes a fine Christmas gift, eh?

I filter out anything with "bitcoin".

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2024-08-27 01:33:11

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@npub19mj…ugjc it's almost like paying people enough to eat out causes them to eat out.

2024-07-19 15:37:18

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 The NYT and WSJ don't sell papers when all is right with the world.

2024-07-06 12:15:25

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@npub1zw0…uljm I have it on great but confident authority 2024 was The Final Drill. We have passed the test. There will be no pinks left alive after July 5, 2025.

2024-07-05 14:50:20

Happy X-Day all! Today IS the day!
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#SubGenius
#XDay
#XDay2024
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2024-06-07 17:37:20

I'd like to open a bar called Gen X Only and everything in it would confuse anyone who was younger than Gen X. For starters, I'd use a picture of Leif Garrett for the Men's bathroom and a picture of Annie Lennox for Women's bathroom.
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#GenX
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2024-05-29 21:06:20

Learn the way of the master.
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#SubGenius
#HailBob
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2024-04-29 14:26:22

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@npub1aq2…4nfw Whenever I see a company that sells scientific equipment or similar products/services, I always respond "why are you giving ad dollars to racist musk twitter?"

2024-04-15 18:16:56

Find someone who will love you like the French love the Kudu. They are willing to call you grand and add extra letters to your name.
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#TrueLove
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2024-04-15 15:09:23

Wait. Throngs of patriots didn't turn out to blockage the court with their gunz? Hell is not breaking loose? Wut? People have better things to do with their lives?
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#Trump
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2024-03-17 13:54:38

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 If he loses, I'm sure there will be some nut crackers that try something. But 99.99% of Americans have better things to do than get arrested for this moron. The ones that do should have paid attention to the fact Trump could have pardoned them 4 years ago. But he couldn't be bothered.

2024-02-23 18:47:45

When people use "Good Samaritan", after the Biblical parable, they seem to lose the most important feature of the parable. It's not about a stranger rendering aid to another stranger. It's about rendering aid to someone you truly, truly despise for religious and cultural reasons.

2024-02-09 18:13:36

Salad is eaten with a fork. Coleslaw is eaten with a spoon. We're through the looking glass!

2024-02-07 20:31:40

Age: 37 (2004)
Location: Seoul
Dating: A Korean woman
Drove: Nothing. Used the subway.
Feared: Drunk old men.
Work: English teacher (was taking a break from high tech)
Wanted to be: A technical writer again. Was at the end of my break from high tech.
Now: 57 (2024)
Location: Burlington, Ontario. Canada.
Dating: No. Married.
Drive: 2014 Hyundai Accent
Fear: Mortgage increases, something else leaking water in our house.
Work: Back to being a technical writer.
Want to be: Retired.

2024-02-04 21:22:05

I'm convinced one day at resale I'm going to stumble on the ultimate '80s BFR/Ghetto Blaster. And when I do, I want to be able to package it with a big lot of '80s tapes. Slowly trying to collect them as I find them. Not even sure what the ultimate '80s BFR would look like but I know it when I'll see it, I suppose.
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#TheEighties
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2024-02-01 15:23:38

Historians will mark the start of the decline of Western civilization as the day they canceled School House Rock.
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#SchoolHouseRock
#TheDeclineOfWesternCivilization

2024-01-25 16:20:42

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@npub1psd…9sr7 "Hey, writers on the forefront of fiction that has long used sci fi tropes to challenge our contemporary ideas and political structures, let's have the annual convention in a nation that represses this sort of writing. Sounds good? Show of hands?"
Who came up with this idea?

2024-01-18 18:05:06

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@npub1hvz…mle9 That red one I got back in the early 1990s. Carted it with me to three different nations I lived in. Alas a coworker on the overnight shift broke it a few years ago. He was incredibly apologetic but I was like "1. My philosophy is if you bring your personal crap to work, all the risk is on you. No worries! 2. You did an amazing job cleaning up what must have been a hell of a mess."

2024-01-18 18:01:38

Before 2016: Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government…
After 2016: Hold on, now.

2024-01-18 15:23:29

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@npub1hvz…mle9 Years ago I read about using lava lamps as a source of entropy to generate random numbers. I think it was pretty theoretical back then. Cool someone is using it today. And I love lava lamps! I always have one around me.
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#lavalamps
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2024-01-15 22:58:54

Paraguay is the best place to find paralegals, paramedics, parapsychologists, parakeet, and parachute makers. A veritable paradise! Hands down.
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#Paraguay
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2024-01-09 16:32:47

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Our company's handyman had a set of cordless power tools that stopped working if they were out of bluetooth range from his phone. He explained it was a great way to keep coworkers from "borrowing" your tools on a job site.

2024-01-08 17:52:17

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@npub1nn8…8sed Isn't that the British "finger"?

2024-01-06 12:40:03

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@npub1cmg…rzd2 It's been more than a year since I signed up for Mastodon. There was a small learning curve if I recall but I feel like that's more of a feature than a bug. Making something not completely easy filters out a lot of people who won't make many efforts in thought and practice in various aspects of their lives. It reminds me very much of the Usenet days in the 1990s. You had to have a certain level of brain power to just figure out how to set up your modem, find an ISP, figure out a whole bunch of other things...
To put it bluntly, I'd rather avoid places that make it easy for people to come running with their Johnson out and start, you know, "contributing".

2024-01-06 11:47:13

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@npub1hk2…y2k4 Always wear your seat belt, even if the seat belt light is turned off.

2024-01-03 15:43:27

We're all the product of a few generations of people who were able to put a spear through another man's neck and didn't get one put through his.

2024-01-02 21:58:47

Just once I want to hear an NFL football player thank his god for the free hookers he gets from his running shoe sponsor.
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#ProSports

2023-12-21 20:25:29

Resale shop find. Added to my pseudo science library. The newspaper article clipped out was being used as a bookmark. Also presumably a reminder to pick up the sequel. Or something.
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#GrahamHancock
#PseudoArcheology
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2023-12-11 22:09:23

My wife brought all these Christmas cookies back from a cookie party. She told me not to touch them as she wants to freeze some of them. They've been on the dining room table for four days and she hasn't frozen any of them. But I still can't eat any. As a person who would rather do nothing else but eat cookies this is married chubby guy edging.
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#cookies
#ChristmasBaking
#Edging
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2023-12-04 16:37:00

In olden times, cautionary tales for misbehaving children suggested they'd be cooked into pies by witches or carried off in sacks by Krampus to later be eaten. What kind of uncontrollable pricks WERE kids back then that they needed their parents to threaten them with cannibalism to get them to simply behave for 10 minutes?
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2023-11-27 19:57:06

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@npub1tpv…zwsk I just like to lay back and enjoy some quality fingering.

2023-10-22 17:39:09

Wow. 1970s era UK editions of Riverworld (books 1-4). Not bad resale find for less than $5 for the lot!
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#RiverWorld
#PhilipJoseFarmer
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2023-10-17 19:49:24

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@npub1au0…7ftp @npub1hyk…3p33 There is absolutely nothing worse than the new guy at work who thinks processes in place are onerous and he thinks his unique genius has noticed a quicker way. And then the convo goes like
"Let's just stop doing this."
"We tried that five years ago. The company nearly went bankrupt. Why do you think it will be different this time?"
"Well, we can cut out steps 3 and 4."
"Only if you want to get sued by the government like in 2008."
"That thing there seems to serve no purpose."
"Other than it keeps you from electrocuting yourself. Ask seven finger Bob about it some time."

2023-10-11 15:10:31

There was a time when scientists just put their letters from nuts into a crank file and hauled them out at parties for a laugh. Now I think they keep them as evidence in case they're murdered or kidnapped.

2023-10-05 23:32:45

"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. "
Not so fast, Monty Python. The events of the last several years suggest otherwise.

2023-08-25 14:57:29

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@npub1hjw…mghf Meadows is only 63. The dude looks 80.
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2023-08-15 16:23:41

Someone should genetic engineer celery to taste like sticks of butter. Not only would it help the flagging celery industry, but it would be amazing.

2023-07-10 19:53:42

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@npub1epd…p67u I'm really disturbed that Canadian indigenous groups and NGOs are supporting basically a white supremacists platform with their ad dollars.

2023-07-10 19:40:28

Why are there any legit businesses still advertising on Twitter?
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2023-07-09 00:05:45

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@npub1edc…0q44 I haven't seen a respectable scientist throw away his career chasing "balls out" nonsense since the days of Michael Behe.

2023-07-06 12:39:19

Well, you can call it a drill but I call it a spiritual rescue by the pleasure saucers. As proof. I won $3 and a free play in the lottery yesterday. The pink yoke has been lifted. SubGenius faithful will surely rise like balloons in the coming days and weeks. We will soon be able to look down from our exalted heights and laugh at the pinks, the fudd boys, and the yacht people. Frop burns clean and sweet up there.
Mark my words, faithfools.
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#SubGenius
#Xday
#Xday2023

2023-07-05 19:43:03

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@npub1jnl…pqmk Imagine the Globe being the most liberal paper in the GTA.

2023-06-26 11:53:13

Back when McDonald's was trying to market a line of forced perspective burgers.
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#McDonalds
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2023-06-21 21:55:12

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@npub1hyk…3p33 They moved to Harbord street. Popped in there a few months ago. I seem to recall way back when they were at the Queen street location their used books were like hugely over priced. But then again, maybe their rent was crazy even back in the 1990s. Or maybe I just had weird ideas how much I wanted to pay for a ten year old copy of the Dosadi Experiment back in 1992.. The used book prices at their Harbord location seemed pretty reasonable last time I went.

2023-06-16 12:59:29

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@npub1w30…dh68 I love that image. If it was Biden or Hillary in that image, Qanon cranks would be claiming its evidence they're involved in some kind of New World Illuminati cult.
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2023-06-03 14:41:51

Theologians have long suggested there was an original language spoken in the Garden of Eden by Adam and Eve. They call it the "Adamic" language. But, get this, Eve is the first person in Genesis with a speaking role. But Adam gets all the credit, huh.

2023-05-30 21:14:47

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@npub1w30…dh68 An American president married to the same woman for decades, doesn't have multiple children by multiple women, and he didn't sexually assault anyone in a dressing room. Oddly, Carter is considered by the right to be "not a real Christian".

2023-05-17 17:00:00

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@npub1edc…0q44 And don't expect employers to offer higher wages. It'll be even more "no one wants to work anymore". Can't wait to see child labor laws eliminated in Florida.

2023-05-10 15:07:43

Resale shop find. Took me a few months of hunting but I managed to build out the GoT series in softcover, though I have to sell it as a five book series with A Dance with Dragons in hardcover. Cost me about $9 for the whole series.
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2023-05-10 00:23:23

Resale shop find. Complete Zones of Thought series by Vernor Vinge. All three for $4.59.
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#VernorVinge
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2023-05-09 15:32:48

It would seem most crimes in Toronto these days are committed by men with chinstrap beards.

2023-05-06 13:09:57

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@npub1w0k…z3sz That would be a Demarchy. There's no government run by randomly picked people although there are government organizations and functions that do use a randomly selected body of citizens. Juries are probably an example, though there's some filtering there. But yeah my feeling is a Demarchy would be as successful as any other method of picking our leaders.

2023-05-04 19:54:27

If the USA wanted to attack the Kremlin it wouldn't have sent two piddly toy planes.
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2023-05-04 15:10:05

In the 80s we were entirely too cavalier about roofs being on fire, to the point where we collectively agreed to eschew even a rudimentary response, preferring to let the fire evolve naturally even if that meant allowing the roof -- and the very structure we were reveling in -- to burn down. No small wonder we survived our youth.

2023-05-02 14:54:26

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@npub1w9x…wgf4 Follow the way of "Bob".
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2023-04-30 18:06:45

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@npub1j2y…ggdc This is the world SubGeniuses want!

2023-04-29 15:07:18

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@npub1zw0…uljm We're on season 53 of a series that should have wrapped up after a tidy 5.

2023-04-19 17:51:03

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#[0] The way I look at it, the VC fund that bought Dominion probably paid $75 million and they're geting a 10x exit out of the case. Their job isn't to punish Fox and set the world right. Their job is to flip a unicorn for 10x. Mission accomplished.