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Joel Pearson @elethiomel1.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Excellent reading recommendation. David Fitzgerald's books are the perfect combination of informative and witty.

Joel Pearson @elethiomel1.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

As a minority of the population actively tries to drag the world back into the dark ages; perhaps we should look at what happened the last time, so we can try to avoid it happening again. youtu.be/PV6hUOw9j1E?...

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The Dark Ages: Christianity’s Great Failure?

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Joel Pearson @elethiomel1.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

There must be some way to get through to the people who keep voting to harm themselves.

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Joel Pearson @elethiomel1.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Let's learn from America's mistakes, and elect a government that serves normal people rather than oppressing everyone for the benefit of a few billionaires. youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...

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Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 05/09/2025

This Sunday! Learn all about The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus on MythVision: what's new & its #PeerReview. Scholars in biblical studies join us to discuss it all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVLp... #jesus #mythicaljesus #mythicism #historicaljesus #HistoricalMethods #apologetics

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The OBSOLETE PARADIGM of a HISTORICAL JESUS

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Joel Pearson @elethiomel1.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I wish this quote hadn't aged so well.

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Joel Pearson @elethiomel1.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I hope someone remembered to take a backup of the Epstein files before being ordered to redact 95% of it to protect the world's most powerful paedophile.

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Joel Pearson @elethiomel1.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

In case there was any doubt about the motives of people who still support the racist paedophile in the White House, this was in the comments under his latest declaration of Martial law.

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 22/07/2025

I catalogue all the mistakes #BartEhrman made in his recent lectures on the #historicity of #Jesus. It disinforms his students. And it suggest he has no interest in even knowing what the truth is. And that's not #ethical. It's careless and insulting. www.richardcarrier.info/archives/36444

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Bart Ehrman's Latest Weird Attempt to Refute Mythicism • Richard Carrier Blogs

After ten years of pretty much ignoring the arguments in the peer-reviewed studies on the question of Jesus’s historicity, Bart Ehrman has tried again to “respond” to their findings—and again proves h...

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Joel Pearson @elethiomel1.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

"What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter." - Sir Terry Pratchett, 2004. I wish it wasn't still relevant.

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Joel Pearson @elethiomel1.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Just in case you encounter Nazis complaining that you shouldn't compare the Trump regime to the Nazis because of "Godwin's law", remember that Godwin himself says it's fine.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Opponents of transgender rights have claimed not enough research exists on care for trans kids. “However, results from our exhaustive literature searches have led us to the opposite conclusion,” the report commissioned by Utah Republicans states. www.advocate.com/news/utah-go...

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Utah Republicans ignore study supporting gender-affirming care for trans youth. It's research they demanded

In 2023, the state legislature banned care for transgender youth “pending research.” The research is in — and inconvenient for Republicans.

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 27/05/2025

This Texan knows what it means to show up for our trans community by speaking out against anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. 👏

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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 27/04/2025

This is an excellent talk from Arden Hart challenging the transphobia coming out of the atheist world. It's easy to understand, there are rebuttals to so many bad-faith arguments, and it's all done without cheap shots at the people who say these things. youtu.be/cxOAh20qo84

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Confronting TRANSPHOBIA in the Secular Movement?!

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Joel Pearson @elethiomel1.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

John Oliver's show about trans athletes is finally available in the UK! youtu.be/flSS1tjoxf0?...

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Trans Athletes: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Michellemm @michellemm-1.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Doctors slam Supreme Court ruling as 'reductive' and 'scientifically illiterate' 50,000 BMA doctors passed a motion to define “woman” as someone who was female at birth. They called it reductive, trans and intersex-exclusionary, biologically nonsensical. uk.news.yahoo.com/doctors-slam...?

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Doctors slam Supreme Court ruling as 'reductive' and 'scientifically illiterate'

Doctors at the British Medical Association (BMA) have branded the Supreme Court's gender ruling as "scientifically illiterate" ...

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Joel Pearson @elethiomel1.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I was lucky enough not to know what V-coding was until today. America: what the hell is wrong with you? Huge trigger warning for those who want to find out: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transge...

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Transgender rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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Essence of Thought @essenceofthought.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Do you know how fucking vindicating it is to hear @lastweektonight.com confirm what I have been telling people since 2019, that attacks on trans sports were used to normalise anti-trans violence in general. It's really hard to express just how impactful this is for me. #TransRights #TransSports

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Trans Athletes: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Joel Pearson @elethiomel1.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Just in case anyone was in doubt about Rowling's stance on genocide against trans people: she isn't even trying to hide it anymore. She's openly fascist.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Let kids be who they are.

A four frame comic strip. Two adults are chatting. First one says : You know what scares me? Parents allowing their kids to be trans. That's child abuse! The other one replies : OMG! Let kids be kids. In this case, it means to let trans kids transition so they get to enjoy their childhood instead of feeling broken and unloved because of who they are. Not allowing a trans kid to transition won't make them less trans, just miserable and distressed. That's child abuse!

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Joel Pearson @elethiomel1.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

As Nazis have risen to the highest levels of power again, take some time to find out how and why. youtu.be/d-g3Z8IWsdU?...

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How US Neo-Nazism Actually Works | Authorized Account | Insider

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Forrest Valkai @forrestvalkai.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Holy crap, it's finally done. youtu.be/nVQplt7Chos?...

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Sex and Sensibility

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Joel Pearson @elethiomel1.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The lack of curiosity among believers is astonishing

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Joel Pearson @elethiomel1.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Many government officials are in desperate need of this education youtu.be/Kr8RbY8uB_0?...

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The Science of Being Transgender

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 24/12/2024

Greetings, Humans! I have at long last joined BlueSky. Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays. And cheers to critical thinking & the lost art of longform blogging! For now I will use this to announce my publications & appearances. I only engage those I follow. So Chat me to persuade me to follow you!

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Joel Pearson @elethiomel1.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

An interview with Richard Carrier where the interviewer asks some excellent questions. youtu.be/lNxQ-fkxC4s?...

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Jesus did not Exist

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Joel Pearson @elethiomel1.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

It seems very odd to me that fans of Adolf Hitler (such as Donald Trump repeatedly claims to be), are also adamantly opposed to Euthanasia. How was it your hero met his end, again?

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