When I find out who's been assigning all this work my students keep submitting, I'm going to make sure he feels exactly as bad as I do when I have to grade it.

Two (naive, oversimplified) metaphilosophical principles that reliably track many of my more-specific thoughts are that 1) Philosophy is roughly just "thinking about stuff," and 2) A major enduring social/societal value of philosophy as a discipline is providing philosophers to fight philosophers.

When you’re playing at home against the worst team in the league, you gotta take what you can get.

Pretty much every #Crew96 possession ends with either an awful decision or a horrendous touch.

“Don’t engage, just block.” The president is running his war like a BlueSky account.

BeReal has shown me that my facial expressions are not nearly as variable as I thought.

WE DID IT! Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.

American Christians: Registered churches in China have no freedom of religion! They have to ensure that their doctrine and teaching are aligned with state interests! Also American Christians [to the pope]: You don't answer to God, you answer to *us.* If you know what's good for you, at least.

Villanova U. is hosting philoSOPHIA 2026: Time in Feminist Philosophy, April 17–18, 2026. This conference features a keynote by Dr. Jill Stauffer of Haverford College on Friday, April 17, at 6:30 PM in the Driscoll Auditorium. #philsky More information: www.philosophiafeministsociety.com

...And their party would still control all three branches of government.

It's reprehensible, it's abominable, it's beyond the pale. May we do justice, or may justice be done to us. Maybe there's a better world that can be built on a foundation of threatening annihilation, but I doubt it and I deny that it is the only, the best, or most efficient path.

This is the basketball we deserve, unfortunately.

Didn't...Didn't Cucho score almost that exact same goal against ATL like, three years ago?

Wondered why I hadn’t heard back from a prestigious conference perfectly suited to my interests. Checked the emailed CfPs. Checked my submission email. The email address doesn’t match.

I am just not at all sure that the implied equivalency between “going AI” and “going Nazi” is fair or in good taste. Maybe I’m Blueskying.

One of those lovely moments when I’m part of a large group of people *incensed* about a moment in a sporting event that didn’t involve any team I support.

This seems smart and good, imo.

Jokes about Princeton’s unjust exclusion from membership aside, I really do think the GPPC is awesome and everyone involved would benefit from doing more with and through it.

How supporting Spurs feels these days:

Gotta die to yourself.

As others have noted, there are a bunch of ways to do this trip for >$30 on SEPTA/Amtrak.

Sorry, I’m just processing that this insanely priced fake plane trip that is actually a bus trip is between Philadelphia and Wilmington fucking Delaware

Given the massive focus on television money in soccer, you’d think more thought would be given to making sure the viewer can tell the teams apart.

Star Wars character or NPR host? I’ll go first: General Grievous.

Feeling rough. Might slouch toward Bethlehem later.

Now I'm worried it was going to be Bez, but then he saw the posts, and backed out.

Tottenham’s greatest successes over the past two decades have involved non-European/non-British managers whose surnames begin with “Po.” Unfortunately, it’s time:

No soccer team I support has won a game in 2026.

Is this the drama the pro/rel crowd goes on about? Total commitment, utter sincerity, and…bad tactics poorly implemented? Head tennis and grade-school clusters of totally-dedicated random kicking? Abysmal soccer, but with a reek of desperation?

[after getting into a wrong-way car accident with ten kilos of coke in the trunk]: I’m tired of these comparisons to your hot ex.

When they quote Rÿdstrom saying he wants a high-energy team that attacks constantly, I gotta ask *how* he expects it to happen. What about the instructions and training and formation is intended to facilitate constant, overwhelming attack? You’re in charge of who plays and how!

When Rÿdstrom said he was going to evolve Nancy’s system, I guess we should’ve checked whether he meant Columbus Nancy or Celtic Nancy.

Is there a recognizable style or plan on either side of the ball for #Crew96? I struggle to see much of anything beyond a pickup side.

It’s nice to have a lead, but that was an abysmal half from #Crew96.

A quick attack from #Crew96, after which they’ve immediately lost any impetus or class going forward. Loose touches to nowhere.

Trying to convince my sons that BB-8, R2D2, and C3PO all have names in addition to numbers. And their names, respectively, are Floyd Yoder, Arnold Detweiler and Vernon Slabaugh. They’re unconvinced.

My colleague Jingyi Wu recently lost her grandmother. She wrote up a short memoir of her which I share here with her permission. I just thought it was very moving and a fascinating little window into social changes in China, worth giving a read if you have a moment. www.jingyiwu.org/blog/relief-...

My Kansan spouse falling asleep feels like a pretty good sign that it's time to switch to UConn/Furman.

It’s me, draining my phone by forgetting to turn off Strava, which I use to track my walks to-and-from work.

So “God commands us to seize power and enforce social hierarchy and theocratic rule, violently if necessary, BUT we plan to take control through voluntary conversion”? I can see why they’d *say* their plan is voluntary conversion. Less clear how that’s consistent with everything else they think.

Tottenham with glimmers of life this week. #Crew96 next, maybe? Please?

In CONCACAF, the four "Oh, come on, *them* again?" teams, in order of intimidation, are, IMO: Club América, Tigres, Rayados and the Seattle Sounders.

I just don't think any English, Italian or French club has carried the same "Ughhhhh, them *again*" weight in the past decade and a half as Barca, Bayern and Real.

I've mentioned to many people, mostly in-person, that our (appropriate) focus on the immorality of the Trump government can disguise just how inefficient and ineffective their ideas are, and how poorly they're implemented.

This was based in a rational calculation that Philadelphians are more dangerous than the Iranian state. It may not have worked out in practice but it was the right thing to do.

Where once I would have text-shrieked “RICHARLISONNNNNNNN!!!!!!!” I am reduced through the corrosive winds and waters of circumstances to “Richarlison?!”

#Crew96 figuring out the difference between when there’s a great ex, but you’re doing well, and when there’s a great ex, and you’re trying to remember where your chemistry came from.

CONCACAFFEINATED.

For more on Zetkin, I highly recommend @kristingjesdal.bsky.social's incisive interview with @herplacepod.bsky.social, especially re Zetkin's analysis of fascism. She died in exile in 1933--she knew what she was talking about. #IWD #IWD2026 #herstory #womenshistory open.spotify.com/episode/3j8Q...

It’s too early to say for sure, but based on what I’ve seen, I suspect #Crew96 will participate in quite a few soccer matches this year.