Social Media is trying to make me cry
Pharyngula 2025-04-24
I should just get off the internet altogether, maybe. Get a tarpaper shack with no electricity or running water somewhere.
New York Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social Follow Trump has slashed the NIH and NSF budget, hired an anti-vaxxer as head of Health and Human Services, and filled the government’s web page with crazed conspiracy theories. Here’s why we just published a volume on the left’s war on science. by Lawrence Krauss and Steve Pinker. April 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
New York Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24m I’m going to tell you something about the whole new atheist crowd and the fundies they are argue with (this is not a slight of atheists or religious people in general, most aren’t like this): If you’re spending a lot of time arguing about the existence of an invisible sky man, you’re already lost.
For those who don’t know, the NY Times Pitchbot posts humorous, sarcastic versions of the kind of centrist bullshit the NY Times is notorious for publishing. Sometimes it hits a bit close to the bone.