The caregiver shortage isn't a future problem. It's the home aide who never showed, the daughter who quit her job, the disabled person home alone. It's already here. https://onlys.ky/caregiver-shortage/ #Caregiving #AgingInAmerica #Healthcare #DisabilityRights #LaborPolicy

What happens when the caregiver shortage arrives?

Caregiving is essential work, but it's rarely treated or recognized as such.

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A pro-religion secularist draws the line: granting religious exemptions with no limiting principle isn't liberty, it's doctrine on autopilot. By @bledewitz.bsky.social https://onlys.ky/religious-rights-run-amok/ #ReligiousLiberty #SCOTUS #Secularism #ConstitutionalLaw #ChurchAndState

Religious rights run amok

The Supreme Court is rubber-stamping every request for Christian special privileges.

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The Church moved All Saints' Day to November 1 to erase Samhain. Two millennia later, we're all wearing skeleton costumes. History's irony is undefeated. by @susanfourtane.bsky.... https://onlys.ky/halloween-2026/ #Halloween #History #SecularCulture #Paganism #Folklore

Halloween: The evolution of a Celtic pagan festival into a secular celebration

The history of Halloween points toward its future evolution.

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"Climate change" closes doors in farm country. "Soil health and the weather" opens them. Rebecca Harrell Tickell built a billion-view documentary trilogy on that single insight. https://onlys.ky/regenerative-agriculture/ #RegenerativeAgriculture #ClimateAction #SoilHealth #FoodSystems #Environment

Finding common ground with regenerative agriculture

Can we convince farmers to take climate change seriously while also helping them survive?

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We created intelligences that can act against us, then raced to make them more powerful. The alien invasion plot twist: we wrote it ourselves. https://onlys.ky/ai-alien-invasion/ #ArtificialIntelligence #AIRisk #Humanism #Cognition #Technology

The alien invasion of our own making

We created the aliens ourselves, and now we're letting them take over without a fight.

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Statistically, 160+ members of Congress should be nonreligious. Two are. Huffman's the only one who'll say it plainly — and he just wrote the book on what that silence costs. https://onlys.ky/huffman-no-prophets/ #ChristianNationalism #Secularism #Humanism #USPolitics #ChurchAndState

Congress' only humanist sounds the alarm on Christian nationalism

Rep. Jared Huffman’s book ‘No Prophets’ warns that democracy is threatened by MAGA Christianity.

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AI can make jokes. What it resists is staying inside one long enough to find what it's actually about. That resistance is the whole problem with machine-generated comedy. https://onlys.ky/can-i-make-a-computer-laugh/ #ArtificialIntelligence #Humor #LargeLanguageModels #Creativity #Cognition

Can I make a computer laugh?

The stubbornly human business of knowing what's funny.

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School is 7 hours. Work is 8-10. Childcare costs fill the gap. This isn't a parenting problem — it's a scheduling architecture problem nobody wants to fix. https://onlys.ky/how-do-we-fix-work-life-balance-for-parents/ #FutureOfWork #Parenting #WorkLifeBalance #RemoteWork #LaborPolicy

How do we fix work/life balance for parents?

We'd all benefit if more jobs were compatible with raising a family.

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The future of aging was already designed — by disabled people who had no other option. The rest of us are just moving into it. https://onlys.ky/the-future-of-aging/ #Aging #Disability #AccessibilityMatters #FutureOfCare #HealthTech

The future of aging is already here

And disabled people are testing it.

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"I may not live to see the 2036 Olympics." That thought — not grief, not philosophy — is how death gets real. by @bledewitz.bsky.social https://onlys.ky/dying-secular-style/ #Aging #Mortality #SecularHumanism #DeathAndDying #Meaning

Getting old and dying, secular style

Death is a hard reality for secularists, but also a reminder to find meaning in life where we can.

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The UK just rejected assisted dying by 16 votes. Terminally ill adults with <6 months to live. Two doctor sign-offs. Expert panel. Still no. by @susanfourtane.bsky.social https://onlys.ky/assisted-dying-uk/ #AssistedDying #EndOfLife #UKPolitics #Bioethics #Healthcare

Should there be an end-of-life right?

The U.K. falls short in the quest to be the next nation to legalize assisted dying.

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No criminal charges. No institutional accountability. So survivors built their own databases — at Cornell and inside churches. Becky Garrison tracks both movements. https://onlys.ky/cornell-7/ #SexualAbuse #ChurchToo #Accountability #SurvivorJustice #InvestigativeJournalism

Justice for survivors, from Cornell to #ChurchToo

The tides of culture are shifting toward believing survivors and exposing predators.

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Practicing Christians trust AI more than the general public does — and nearly half would hand it their spiritual growth. By @daylightatheism.bsky.social. Wild data, sharp analysis. https://onlys.ky/christians-ai/ #ArtificialIntelligence #Religion #Christianity #Secularism #Futurism

Christians bow down at the altar of AI

Artificial intelligence is becoming a competing source of theology.

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Solar is cheaper than coal. Farming robots exist. Fab labs can print goods on demand. The solarpunk future isn't blocked by technology — by @daylightatheism.bsky.social https://onlys.ky/glimpses-of-the-solarpunk-future/ #Solarpunk #CleanEnergy #Sustainability #FutureTech #RenewableEnergy

Glimpses of the solarpunk future

Glimpses of the solarpunk future — Adam Lee 0:00 7:13 15 1.0× 15 Listen — OnlySky → As William Gibson said, the future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed. We already possess technologies that could create a world that's more sustainable, prosperous and equitable than the

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We built ramps. We added captions. We never questioned whether requiring things to happen at a specific moment is itself a barrier. https://onlys.ky/the-next-accessibility-revolution/ #Accessibility #DisabilityRights #InclusiveDesign #ChronicIllness #FutureOfWork

The next accessibility revolution is time

Physical presence and strict scheduling are no longer necessary in much of life, so why do we pretend they are?

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Everyone wants AI. Nobody wants the data center. That's not a tech problem — it's a geography-of-harm problem. New piece by @bledewitz.bsky.social works out the math. https://onlys.ky/the-future-of-data-centers/ #AI #DataCenters #LandUse #TechPolicy #Infrastructure

The future of data centers

Who should have to bear the burden of development for the greater good of society?

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The internet didn't just change retail. It changed who gets to learn how to make things. A quiet revolution in craft — by @daylightatheism.bsky.social #MakerMovement #DIY #Crafts #Technology #Humanism

NASA: 2,300 asteroids large enough to end most life on Earth cross our orbit regularly. Probability all of them eventually hit us? Nearly 100%. This is the honest version of pla... https://onlys.ky/look-up-or-dont-look-up-we-probably-wont-see-the-one-that-gets-us/ #Astronomy #Space #ExistentialRis

AI is optimized for predictable humans. Humans are optimizing themselves to be predictable. A 2026 study calls it 'robotoid humanness.' By @susanfourtane.bsky.social https://onlys.ky/is-ai-teaching-us-to-be-less-human/ #ArtificialIntelligence #HumanBehavior #Humanism #Cognitive #FutureTech

Is AI teaching us to be less human?

The more humanlike AI becomes, the more we need to protect what makes us unique.

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Nail polish is genderless. Pigment on keratin. The gender is a story we layered on top — and stories can change. https://onlys.ky/nail-polish-and-femininity-feminism-and-mens-liberation/ #Feminism #GenderNorms #MensLiberation #Culture #SecularHumanism

My favorite contradiction: Nail polish, femininity, and feminism

Colorful and sparkly nail polish is a fun hobby, sure. But nail polish also plays a huge role in feminism and men's liberation.

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"The algorithm determined this" does the same work as "God has judged you." Human judgment disappears. The verdict stands. No one to argue with. https://onlys.ky/the-power-of-naming/ #ArtificialIntelligence #AlgorithmicBias #AIEthics #Technology #Humanism

The power of naming

The authority we once gave to churches and priests is now wielded by databases and algorithms.

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Men who resent female pleasure are ashamed of their own. That's Deedee Redletter's whole theory — and she builds the science to back it. by @deedee-redletter.bsky.social https://onlys.ky/beyond-the-male-loneliness-epidemic/ #Sexuality #GenderStudies #SexualHealth #Feminism #RelationshipScience

The feminist future of straight sex: After the "male loneliness epidemic"

Patriarchy discourages men from seeking the sexual pleasure that's in their power to claim.

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Kojima predicted surveillance capitalism in 2001 via a video game villain who controlled society through data curation. He was the most prescient voice in the room. That makes w... https://onlys.ky/hideo-kojima/ #VideoGames #HideoKojima #MetalGearSolid #SurveillanceCapitalism #Storytelling

Video games' greatest visionary warned you about the man he's become

An auteur with a singular vision has fallen into the same pitfalls he once warned us about.

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The predictable body — wakes on schedule, sits for hours, recovers from illness on cue — is a fiction. Society is a monument to a person who has never existed. https://onlys.ky/myth-of-the-predictable-body/ #Disability #Ableism #ChronicIllness #Accessibility #BodyAutonomy

The myth of the predictable body

We all benefit when society isn't designed around the fiction of perfect, reliable health.

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The Death Clock gives you a specific Tuesday. That's the whole point. Vague mortality is easy to ignore. A date is not. https://onlys.ky/will-i-go-gentle/ #Death #Mortality #Secular #Philosophy #Humanism

Will I go gentle?

I'm probably not going to die today, but I will in the fairly near future. I want to know what it will be like. The experts aren't helping.

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"We are not good. We are not even fine." Secular ethics borrows the standards without building the repair infrastructure. by @bledewitz.bsky.social https://onlys.ky/teshuva-for-the-secular/ #Secularism #Humanism #Ethics #Judaism #MoralPhilosophy

Teshuva for the secular

How do nonreligious people repent?

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We didn't lose boredom by accident. We replaced it, deliberately, with content. Now the neuroscience bill is coming due. by @susanfourtane.bsky.social https://onlys.ky/in-praise-of-doing-nothing/ #MentalHealth #Neuroscience #DigitalWellbeing #Attention #SocialMedia

In praise of doing nothing

Boredom and deliberate mental downtime have become scarce and valuable commodities.

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Finland's nuclear vault will be sealed around 2100. The waste inside stays lethal for 10,000 years. The real puzzle: how do you warn people that far ahead? by @daylightatheism.b... https://onlys.ky/a-warning-to-the-distant-future/ #NuclearEnergy #Futurism #NuclearWaste #LongTermThinking #Science

How can we get a warning to the distant future?

Can we design warnings that last as long as the mortal dangers we create?

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Morality isn't discovered floating in the cosmos. It's built — the way language and law are built. Human-made doesn't mean false. It means we're responsible for the quality of t... https://onlys.ky/morality-is-story/ #SecularEthics #Humanism #Morality #Philosophy #Meaning

Morality is story: What a secular future must build

Giving up belief in gods doesn't mean giving up the stories that teach us moral lessons.

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Entropy isn't just disorder — it's the statistical reason the past stays past. Physics doesn't explain time's arrow. Entropy does. And it maps onto growing up with uncomfortable... https://onlys.ky/entropy-time-and-the-arrow-of-adolescence/ #Entropy #Physics #Philosophy #Adolescence #TimeArrow

Entropy, time, and the arrow of adolescence

Is the forward motion of time inherently linked to an increase in disorder? Physicists (and novelists) have mixed opinions on the matter.

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