Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(xkcd.com) Aurora Coolness
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Our World in Data) How have crime rates in the United States changed over the last 50 years?
Both violent and property crime are far below their 1990s peak, but some crimes see periodic rises.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Menacing birds/food/social relations
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! Mary Worth, 1/18/26 Good news, everyone! Ian didn’t become some soft-hearted sap just because a parrot saved his…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Sympathy for the plugger
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! Mary Worth, 1/17/26 Minutes later, Mary would of course be relaying all this information to Toby and Ian’s…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IVb: Training Hoplites?
This is, at long last, the last part of our four-part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, Intermission, IVa). last time we looked at the social status of hoplites and the implications that had for the political and social structure of the polis and even the very basic question of how many people there were in…
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(Policy of Truth) Next Question?
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Irfan Khawaja at Policy of Truth.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Family fun
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! The Lockhorns, 1/16/26 I accept that, for narrative convenience, sometimes the Lockhorns need to passive-aggressively try to destroy…
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(QC RSS) The Slow Passage Of Time
I think Hannelore is about 28 in comic time now but I also reserve the right to change this if/when it becomes necessary or I feel like it
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(xkcd.com) International Station
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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