Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Policy of Truth) The Immigrant Trust Tour: October Update
To the best of my knowledge, the municipal-level campaign to persuade the New Jersey state legislature to pass the Immigrant Trust Act started last December in Madison, New Jersey, an affluent college town in a relatively conservative part of the state. By March, about a dozen municipalities had followed suit. Things quieted down in the…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Hi still looks super depressed, at least
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! Andy Capp, 10/21/25 I, a guy who has run a blog about comic strips for the better part…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Striking silhouette
New comic!Today’s News: I’ll be at the Festival Quai Des Bulles in Saint-Malo, France, Oct 24-26. If by chance you’re attending, come say hi! I’ll be at the Komics Initiative booth.–GisèleYou…
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(QC RSS) They All Live Together Now
[ducks]
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) One-panel Monday (ok that Family Circus is kind of two half panels, fine)
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! Mother Goose and Grimm, 10/20/25 Look, I know what I’m about to say is gonna make me sound…
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(Policy of Truth) The Immigrant Trust Tour: West Windsor
Letter to the Editor of CommunityNews (West Windsor & Plainsboro) Though I’m not a West Windsor resident, I read with interest your coverage of the upcoming election for mayor and town council, and in particular, the Q&A addressed to the candidates (“West Windsor voters to decide mayor, council contests,” Oct 2). That said, it seems…
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(Our World in Data) Resource use matters, but material footprints are a poor way to measure it
Adding up the weight of very different materials doesn’t tell us about their scarcity, environmental, or socioeconomic impacts.
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(QC RSS) No Ego-Searching
nothing good has ever come from ego-searching
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(xkcd.com) Emperor Palpatine
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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