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Genetically Modified Skeptic

@gmskeptic.bsky.social

Drew | Religious pluralist, atheist/agnostic, wannabe educator and occasional polemicist who makes YouTube videos.

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American Humanist Association@americanhumanist.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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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Nick Fish@nickfish.me · last yr.

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 · last yr.

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.

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · last yr.

One of my most Elder Millennial traits is that I have literally never downloaded TikTok and only ever access it for work and I am convinced that was one of the wisest decisions of my adult life.

Katy Montgomerie 🦗@katymontgomerie.com · last yr.

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...

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 · last yr.

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

Genetically Modified Skeptic@gmskeptic.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

Genetically Modified Skeptic@gmskeptic.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

Louise Matsakis@lmatsakis.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: Meta changed its Community Guidelines today to permit "allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality" @knibbs.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

Genetically Modified Skeptic@gmskeptic.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

Nick Fish@nickfish.me · 2y ago

"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.

Genetically Modified Skeptic@gmskeptic.bsky.social · 2y ago

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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Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · 2y ago

The right-wing atheists claim groups like FFRF used to have "3 times the membership" when they were less "woke." I looked at the membership numbers FFRF reported at their October convention. Must be fun to surround yourself with "critical thinkers" who'll believe any lie you tell them.

"That's because the woke freaks are the only members they have left These organizations used to have 3 times the membership"
Genetically Modified Skeptic@gmskeptic.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

Chrissy Stroop@thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 2y ago

Oh yeah, the people in my childhood churches scoffed at recycling and called environmentalists nature worshipers or, in an outright racist version, “Hindus”