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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Anyway here’s my selfie with Senator Megan Hunt

Nebraska state Senator Megan Hunt smiles and makes the peace sign for a selfie with Drew McCoy in a hotel bar

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American Humanist Association @americanhumanist.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Join us next Thursday, June 5, when @gmskeptic.bsky.social will join us to discuss what fighting Christian nationalist authoritarianism actually looks like, and what YOU can do to help stop the fascist encroachment on human rights: www.eventbrite.com/e/american-h...

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American Humanists Fight Authoritarianism

In this online event, leaders from the American Humanist Association explain how to fight Christian nationalist authoritarianism.

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American Humanist Association @americanhumanist.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Our friend @gmskeptic.bsky.social broke down all the bogus claims made by the Trump administration's "Taskforce to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias." Spoiler alert: the discrimination is coming from inside the house 👀 Watch now!: ⬇️ youtu.be/vudGQjSXyXg?...

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They’re Letting Christians Do Crimes Now

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Didn’t expect to see myself cited in an article while scrolling today! Thanks, Amanda!

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 28/04/2025

Get in losers*, we're gonna beat White Christian Nationalism (* — beating White Christian Nationalism is Very Cool, Actually and the only losers are the people enabling it)

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Yo @nickfish.me we’re out here fighting Christian Nationalism like Texans

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Secular Houston @secularhouston.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Amazing vid by @gmskeptic.bsky.social We push back today with calls & emails, then in person tomorrow. Help us out and choose one rep to call today! Voice your opposition to #SB10, say no to #ChristianNationalism and protect #churchstateseparation which is foundational to our country.

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 27/04/2025

We're working on getting all of the sessions up ASAP, but you should definitely check out @theardenhart.bsky.social's great talk at #AACON2025 about confronting transphobia in secular spaces. Important topic from a great speaker — and person. So glad to have her.

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Confronting TRANSPHOBIA in the Secular Movement?!

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 24/04/2025

Incredible. It is so unbelievably common that the men accusing trans women of being sex predators are themselves sex predators that just the accusation alone should be seen as a red flag at this point youtu.be/M1FNkGgutgc?...

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Sex Predators

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Nether @netherbi.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

It'd be really cool to see a discussion about the REAL "War on Science" between @hankgreen.bsky.social and @gmskeptic.bsky.social ! Fingers crossed this could happen!

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Hi, Hank! I made a detailed video about this book alongside @friendlyatheist.com We’d love to talk to you about this if you’re interested! We’ve been privy to the details of their rightward movement for a long time, but want to talk about the defunding of science further! youtu.be/mfh75ezwi2Y?...

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The “Skeptics” Are Crashing Out HARD

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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 15/04/2025

I helped write a video for my buddy @gmskeptic.bsky.social about a new book that complains about the "war on science" being waged by... liberals. (Somehow, Republicans defunding cancer research isn't a big deal to the contributors.) youtu.be/mfh75ezwi2Y?...

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The “Skeptics” Are Crashing Out HARD

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

As a Zillennial, I often feel like I live in a completely different reality than people my age and younger because I deleted TikTok after using it for a week in 2020. A good decision, but I swear it dramatically affects the way I relate to and make friends with people.

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 09/03/2025

It's genuinely hard to keep track of how many other countries have recently reviewed trans healthcare for kids and come up with literally the polar opposite of the "Cass Review" Australia, Canada, France, Poland and now Germany, Austria and Switzerland www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-german...

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New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review

The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 07/03/2025

Biological Sex is chromosomes, hormones, gametes, gonads, a whole load of epigenetic stuff, various organs like breasts etc The only reason transphobes go on and on about chromosomes is because they are the only part you can't change with transition, not because they're important. They aren't

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

From a biological perspective, the salute positioned Elon’s humerus, radius, ulna, metacarpus, and phalanges in manner identical to the Nazi salute. Biological facts are not anti-Musk bigotry. Why are you denying science, Jerry?

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I often get emails from viewers that contain arguments for or against the existence of god written by Chat GPT. Those writing me suggest that since the prompts included “make a purely logical argument,” the “AI” did so and revolutionized philosophy. Yall, please watch one video on how LLMs work.

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Hopefully Anita gave this a thorough viewing before her passing

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Remember: It is critically important that we continue to ask whether children are being rushed into hormones and surgery despite years of data demonstrating that they are not.

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I don’t think “The Woke Mind Virus” is a metaphor for many. Certain folks believe it is an actual pathogen - a mental illness - that infects LGBTQ people and anyone who supports them. It looks like a new venue has opened up for people to push the pathologization of non-conformity and tolerance.

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 06/01/2025

How much do we want to bet that reactionary centrists who justify their anti-trans views with the Cass Study will just pretend this one (and all the other ones that support gender affirming care) doesn't exist?

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

My research on the origins of the phrase “the woke mind virus” has led me to a book by Gad Saad about “brain parasites such as postmodernism” and a “mind vaccine” of free speech. Fml. Let’s hope I can kill this thing in one weekend or else I might actually welcome a plague to devour my brain.

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 31/12/2024

"We're just speaking about biological reality!" No, you're making very specific policy prescriptions, weighing in on the ethical implications of medical treatment, telling certain people that they aren't worth our community's care, and lecturing us on how to best spend our time as advocates.

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

As you hear talk of a “schism” in the atheist community, keep the actual numbers in mind. The VAST majority of atheists in the US believe that *society has not gone far enough* to accept trans people. Atheist elites are ludicrously unrepresentative of US atheism and they are just finding that out.

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

A kid in my youth group would occasionally litter (very deliberately) while saying something like “I hate the environment.” Their parents were the most Rush-Limbaugh-Republican Christians I’ve ever known. Others in the church stressed “being a good steward of God’s creation,” a preferable theology.

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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 27/12/2024

While we’re discussing how well-known atheists handle trans issues, my friend Drew (@gmskeptic.bsky.social) recently had the chance to interview Richard Dawkins on a big stage. He said no due to Dawkins’ anti-trans rhetoric. I spoke with him about that decision. Watch: youtu.be/n09JGRMfMds?...

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Why I Turned Down Working With Richard Dawkins

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

As so many atheist public figures cash in on the anti-woke grift, it’s heartening to see one of our most important organizations stand with marginalized people.

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I need to know the etymology of “the woke mind virus.” I fear it’s deeply rooted in New Atheism

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 23/12/2024

In my capacity as the Pope of Atheism™, don't do this kind of thing. And anytime you feel the need to preface something with "as a realist and logical person" maybe go for a short walk to get some air or something.

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I like when I’m listening to an audiobook and the narrator takes a good pause before pronouncing a particularly difficult name. Like thank you for not cutting that out and gaslighting me into thinking you just whipped that one out no problem

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

This excerpt goes viral every few months, so I made a video examining Sagan’s motivations for writing such a “prophetic” piece in 1995. It turns out: The celebration of ignorance has always been a problem, but it’s especially present in uncertain times. youtu.be/LNQtB5sL9F4?...

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How Carl Sagan "Predicted" 2020... in 1995

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Pencils down for any New Atheist who complained about how radical religious sects are bad for children; please turn in your equally vigorous critique of the world's richest man, a technocrat "secular Christian" who believes in AI utopia (read: Heaven), cutting $190M from kids cancer research.

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Question for @ryanburge.bsky.social! Do we have any data on the frequency of church attendance for evangelicals who believe conspiracy theories (ie Plandemic, 2020 election was stolen)? My hunch says less enmeshment in religious community = more of these positions, but what does the data say?

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The New Atheist elites and the religious Right have always been united in their commitment to idealism and scorn of materialist analysis of any given problem. “War in the Middle East? They’re just the wrong religion.” It’s no wonder New Atheist celebs now partner with orgs like Prager U and CPAC.

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

My niche on YouTube is a crossover between religious studies, LGBT advocacy, and scientific skepticism. I want to further left-leaning causes (and fight the selling out of my genre to the right) in 2025. Who should I work with? What should I discuss? What long form content do you want to see?

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Ryan Burge @ryanburge.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Really liked this article from @ellehardy.bsky.social today. It drives home the point that I've been nibbling around for a while. Religion has increasingly become about way to create a social/political label. It's less and less about an embodied faith. newrepublic.com/article/1883...

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The “Cultural Christians” Are Taking Over the Conservative Movement

It’s the hot new thing on the right: dressing up in the trappings of Christianity without being burdened by all the fussy moral obligations of the faith.

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Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Give Drew at @gmskeptic.bsky.social a follow! He just published this massive educational video on concepts of Hell, ethics, punishment, and afterlives on his v v popular #YouTube channel. Was a pleasure to have the opportunity to rep #Shinto studies. youtu.be/ivAMaY4bkSk

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How to Go to Hell in Every Religion (Minor Religions)

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Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

With some encouragement from cool people like @jacksonwheat1.bsky.social and @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social I’m finally here. Social media hasn’t felt worthwhile for a long time for me, so here’s hoping that changes!

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