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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Right apartment
New comic!Today’s News: Pixie Trix Comix is part of the Spice Rack, a collective of NSFW comic creators.We made a big PDF sampler so you can find new favorite artists. Download it here! It’s free!You can now read Exorsisters on Pixie Tri…
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(The GiveWell Blog) Growing Needs, Shrinking Aid: Answering More of Your Questions
On December 4, 2025, we held a panel discussion titled “Growing Needs, Shrinking Aid: Cost-Effective Action in a Year of Funding Cuts.” The discussion, which was moderated by GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld, addressed the effects of recent cuts, how GiveWell is responding, and what we’re learning along the way—including our predictions and uncertainties…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Eros/thanatos
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Gil Thorp, 12/15/25 It’s often unclear to me how old anyone in a comic strip is supposed to…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Those “Drowned Out” Zionists by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. On Ahmed”s view, or on the view he claims was historically common within Islam, the Qur’an is like a message whose firm is partly determined by the capacities and limitations and preconceptions of the receiver. S…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Those “Drowned Out” Zionists by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. The assumption I was making was that Muhammad made a literal transcription of the pre-text, contributing nothing of his own beyond the enunciation of words dictated to him from Le Auteur. So on my view, the Qur’anic …
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(xkcd.com) Jumping Frog Radius
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Our World in Data) Medicine and Biotechnology
Innovations in medicines and biotechnology have increased life expectancy and saved many lives. Explore how this happened, and how more progress can be made.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Those “Drowned Out” Zionists by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Your warning about the dangerous jihadi phenomenon reminds me of a conversation I had with my mother last night. I told her I wanted to visit Iran. She was quite alarmed. “Don’t go there! It’s full of Shi…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Those “Drowned Out” Zionists by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Well, your response might be appropriate to someone who said that the Qur’an text was deliberately composed to be read nonliterally. But that’s not Ahmed’s view. Ahmed’s view (or the view he attribu…
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