Fewer than half of Americans now say religion matters to their daily life. A 17-point drop in 10 years. Gallup calls it one of the largest declines recorded anywhere. By @daylig...
onlys.ky/american-religion-contin...
#Secularism #Religion #Demographics #Atheism #USPoliti
Atomic clocks define our seconds. A 16th-century papal decree defines our years. The most underexamined contradiction in modern science is the calendar.
https://onlys.ky/godless-time/
#Secularism #History #Science #Calendar #ChurchAndState
Doomism feels like realism. It's actually a cognitive bug — vivid scenarios read as probable ones. Adam Lee by @daylightatheism.bsky.social dismantles the fallacy.
https://onlys.ky/against-doomism/
#CriticalThinking #Doomism #Humanism #Futurism #Skepticism
Doomism feels like realism. It's actually a cognitive bug — vivid scenarios read as probable ones. Adam Lee by @daylightatheism.bsky.social dismantles the fallacy.
https://onlys.ky/against-doomism/
#CriticalThinking #Doomism #Humanism #Futurism #Skepticism
Hungary just handed Orbán a supermajority loss. 16 years of court-packing, media capture & gerrymandering — undone at the ballot box. by @daylightatheism.bsky.social
https://onlys.ky/hungary-election-2026/
#Democracy #Hungary #Orbán #EuropeanPolitics #Authoritarianism
Artemis II: 9 days, no showers, shelf-stable food, 7,000 lunar photos, first space-to-space call ever. This is what building a Moon base actually looks like. by @susanfourtane.b...
https://onlys.ky/artemis-ii/
#SpaceExploration #Artemis #NASA #LunarBase #Mars
The most underreported environmental story: global forest cover is increasing in Europe, North America, and East Asia. Not because we got virtuous — because we got urban. Densit...
https://onlys.ky/reforestation/
#Reforestation #ClimateAction #Environment #Trees #CarbonSequestration
Biodegradable electronics aren't a sustainability PR stunt. Silk protein transistors, magnesium conductors, cellulose substrates — these are real materials doing real work, then...
https://onlys.ky/biodegradable-electronics/
#BiodegradableTech #Sustainability #GreenTech #EWaste #FutureTech
Pacific Northwest modernists rejected the 'mystic' label. They wanted credit for intentionality. In an AI art world, that fight has never been more relevant.
https://onlys.ky/beyond-mysticism/
#Art #ArtificialIntelligence #AIArt #Humanism #Creativity
Vertical farming isn't about growing tomatoes indoors. It's about redesigning the metabolic logic of cities — from consumers of food to producers of it. That's a civilizational...
https://onlys.ky/vertical-farms/
#VerticalFarming #UrbanAgriculture #FoodSecurity #FutureOfFood #Sustainability
The Iran war is horrible. It's also teaching 330 million Americans the same lesson the Russia-Ukraine war taught Europeans: energy dependence on volatile regimes is not a price...
https://onlys.ky/one-terawatt-per-year/
#RenewableEnergy #ClimateAction #CleanEnergy #SolarPower #EnergyTransition
Epstein's network wasn't chaos. It was organized. Modeling agencies he funded. Passports he forged. Financial firms he serviced. Abuse at that scale requires architecture — and...
https://onlys.ky/wealth-and-abuse/
#WealthAndPower #Accountability #Inequality #SocialJustice #Secularism
Deepak Chopra told Jeffrey Epstein 'I liked watching you zero in on your prey.' His defense: 'poor judgment' on 'tone.' The wellness industry's silence since: deafening. The arc...
https://onlys.ky/chopra-and-epstein/
#GuruCulture #CriticalThinking #Skepticism #Secularism #PowerAndAbuse
The industrial classroom wasn't designed to educate — it was designed to process. AI tutoring doesn't add technology to that model. It obsoletes the model entirely.
https://onlys.ky/ai-teachers/
#AIEducation #FutureOfLearning #EdTech #PersonalizedLearning #ArtificialIntelligence
The brain processes parasocial bonds using the same circuitry as real relationships. Evolution didn't anticipate parasocial relationships — it just handed us wiring that can't t...
https://onlys.ky/parasocial-connections/
The 'I left atheism for religion' memoir is becoming a genre. Not because religion got more coherent — but because secularism keeps handing people a worldview and forgetting to...
https://onlys.ky/secularisms-third-way/
Everyone covered Biery's ICE ruling. @daylightatheism.bsky.social dug deeper: a 15-year record defending church-state separation in deep-red Texas. That's the judge worth knowing.
https://onlys.ky/judge-biery/
#ChurchAndState #Secularism #ConstitutionalLaw #JudiciaryMatters #Resist
The US has ~500 IVF clinics. No centralized oversight. No mandatory error reporting. Blood banks track donations more rigorously than some clinics track embryos. One Florida family just learned that the hard way.
https://onlys.ky/fertility-industry-in-crisis/
Evangelical Christians are now attacking pastors for quoting the Bible. Not interpreting it. Not applying it. Quoting it. The text itself has become the threat. That's a remarkable thing to watch happen in real time.
https://onlys.ky/the-bible-is-too-woke/
The ex-atheist memoir is becoming a genre. The pattern: materialism felt cold, postmodern idealism felt hollow, religion felt like home. Secularism keeps losing people not to faith but to a vacuum it created.
https://onlys.ky/secularisms-third-way/
The decapitation strategy worked in Venezuela because Venezuela was already failing. Iran has national cohesion, institutional depth, and a strait that controls 20% of global oil. These are not comparable situations. The administration treated them as if they were.
https://onlys.ky/iran-war-2026/
The deathbed perspective isn't about dying — it's about the gap between the life you're living and the one you'd mourn not having lived. That gap is the data. What you do with it is the test.
https://onlys.ky/the-deathbed-perspective/
One terawatt per year, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social
We're making more progress on green energy than most people realize, and the Iran war may supercharge that trend.
onlys.ky/one-terawatt...
#climatecrisis #solarpower
There is a third way in secularism between strict materialism and idealism. My column today in @onlyskymedia.bsky.social.
onlys.ky/secularisms-...
Secularism's third way, by @bledewitz.bsky.social
Does Eastern philosophy hold the answer to finding meaning in a godless world?
onlys.ky/secularisms-...
#humanism #philosophy
No man is an island: Tip of the iceberg, by @deedee-redletter.bsky.social
Sex abusers like Jeffrey Epstein exist in an ecosystem of impunity that enables them.
#epsteinfiles #crime #inequality
onlys.ky/tip-of-the-i...
The colossal stupidity of war with Iran, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social
An unwinnable war without a goal and with consequences for the whole world.
onlys.ky/iran-war-2026/
#war #iran
Biodegradable electronics: The rise of sustainable tech, by @susanfourtane.bsky.social
Compostable computers? Yes, it's possible! The consumer electronics industry is setting a new standard for sustainability.
onlys.ky/biodegradabl...
#technology #circulareconomy
Reforestation: A greener future for planet Earth? by @daylightatheism.bsky.social
Deforestation is slowing and could reverse in our lifetimes. We might still be headed for a solarpunk world where futuristic skyscrapers rise amidst lush garden cities.
onlys.ky/reforestation/
#environmentalism
Chopra and Epstein: Breaking the cycle of guru dependency
Deepak Chopra was a friend and confident of Jeffrey Epstein, and their private messages revealed a very different side of him than the wise-guru persona he displays in public.
onlys.ky/chopra-and-e...
#epsteinfiles #spirituality