Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(xkcd.com) Kite Incident
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Policy of Truth) Just an Amtrak Away
I’m sitting on an Amtrak on my way home from Providence, Rhode Island. The guy sitting next to me, who works in marketing for a New York law firm, is reading Xenophon’s Anabasis in Greek “for fun.” I’m reading Josephus Flavius’s Jewish War, for leisure if not precisely for fun. The woman to my right…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) We know not what may be, and what we may be is smooshed flat
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! Blondie, 7/27/25 The Blondie creative team has never met a young person that it didn’t want to call…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) The battle of the generations is OVER
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, 7/26/25 The random, silent bystanders who show up in The Lockhorns represent one of the strip’s…
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(The GiveWell Blog) July 2025 Updates
Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below! If you’d like to receive the complete…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Sadness, death, etc.
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! Beetle Bailey, 7/25/25 This strip is a pretty good demonstration of the fact that comic characters even within…
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(xkcd.com) Geologic Periods
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Thursday is for manimals
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! Slylock Fox, 7/24/25 I gotta say, it’s probably pretty annoying to have to write Slylock Fox at this…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Committing to the bit
New comic!Today’s News: You can now read Exorsisters on Pixie Trix Comix. It’ll update Monday to Friday! :)Want printed books or swag? Check out our store!https://tinyurl.com/yc56p4hwWe also have books available in bookstores and comic shops:…
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