This bot showing random restaurants all over the world is definitely my favourite thing on bluesky

Thanks to a typo these pans are advertised as having a "rough surface for a special beard experience". Not sure which interpretation of that is the most abhorrent.

This whole thread is an astounding representation of current online culture. Why am I still here?

Kenner van de héle Aziatische cultuur? Indrukwekkend. nos.nl/artikel/2598...

I'm seriously considering making 'stop doing duolingo' one of my new year's resolutions. It would be easier if I could somehow continue my streak with real-world language exercises...

It is the time to sit, reflect, and ask yourself - where my background singers? youtu.be/z84QdJlPpHE?...

Interesting case for thinking about privacy: anonymous sperm donor has 197 kids across Europe, turns out he has a mutation giving some of his kids a 80-90% risk of cancer. Sperm bank refuses to reveal his case number or trace the families, because of donor's right to privacy. nos.nl/nieuwsuur/co...

I've been binging the German version of The Office to prepare for watching the new film (for which I was allocated a ticket to help with my integration). Given the general state of German television, I am shocked to report that it is clearly better than the US version!

I got an ad for a true crime podcast for kids. Are we all OK? Happy with the direction our collective entertainment preferences have taken?

I signed up for a regional vegetable subscription and am genuinely excited to receive my first delivery today. It's getting hard to deny my identity as a woman in her thirties. (The excitement is combined with a worry about how many recipes for cabbage and carrots I'll need this winter)

To break my streak of negative academia posts: I currently get to do teaching prep on an interesting topic I wouldn't otherwise think about (ethics of adblockers), with a great snack.

In reality my paper did not get rejected after 7 months - instead I've found out at the 8 month mark that no one has agreed to review it yet. So I'm stuck in limbo, waiting to improve my situation on the job market, because the few people with a job are too busy to review my paper. Perfect.

It's a shame that when I achieve the thing we're all supposed to do it all for - my paper gets published in a journal - the publisher makes it feel like a scam event. Do I want to buy a poster with the paper title to celebrate?? Do I want to pay €300 for prints (of my own paper, not the journal!)???

omg guys they're advertising a job in philosophy *and AI*!!!

Volgens mij wil Jesse het nog laten bezinken

PSA. I remember objecting when a Scottish person referred to my home country as 'Holland', comparing it to calling all of the UK 'England'. He was HORRIFIED. It's too bad 'The Netherlands' is actually tricky to say with a Dutch accent, so in English people tend to default to 'Holland'.

On that note - my Digital Ethics course started this week and students expressed an interest in entshitification, but I can't find any philosophical texts about it. Am I missing something? #PhilSky #Philosophy

Not like your livelihood depends on it or anything.

Academia: Publish or perish! Also academia: Good, you finished a paper! Now just wait 7 months for a rejection from the first journal.

@geneickers.bsky.social I just remembered I wanted to send you something I wrote on thick and thin rules, which was the basis for my comments on your book: elinegerritsen.com/2024/03/25/t...

My new paper is already out! Paper title & aim (+ description of how I spent years of my life): Demystifying Authoritative Normativity. Abstract in image. Now open access in Journal of Ethics link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky #philosophy

My new paper is already out! Paper title & aim (+ description of how I spent years of my life): Demystifying Authoritative Normativity. Abstract in image. Now open access in Journal of Ethics link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky #philosophy

The irony, of course, is that I do not yet know what my job situation will be during the upcoming postdoc appreciation week.

I'm still processing the great social ontology conference in Dublin last week - this morning I slept through my alarm because I was having an intense dream about scripts?

The text on the back is not exactly what I was expecting...

Correction: they did send a 1st email, it went to spam. Now I know they emailed me proofs on a Saturday evening, asking for corrections within 2 working days, then started acting like I was late on Monday evening. How wonderful that we give all our money to these publishers.

I joked earlier today that a journal was probably going to demand I check proofs within 4 days after having sat on my paper for like 7 months. Then I received an email complaining that I hadn't yet returned proofs after 48 hours. Most of which was on a weekend. Also, they never sent that 1st email.

I will send the paper to the people, as a treat, if they email me (address is at bottom of elinegerritsen.com)

I'm very pleased to (finally) have found a home for my paper on non-naturalist tendencies in the debate on authoritative normativity! For the small group of people who are interested in the formal/authoritative distinction and have not read it yet: stay tuned.

In today's class on the philosophy of social norms, I turned to the social norms of philosophy for once: I had my students discuss the conditions of justified public shaming with the case study of dailynous.com/2025/05/05/p.... Verdict: justified, unlike most online shaming!

None of this crap would be happening if we hadn’t switched to settled agriculture. Idiots.

This probably won't reach the required audience, but: Is there an English translation of 'draagvlak?' It's the required basis of support for some measure among (local) inhabitants. The concept seems crucial in Dutch political debates so I'm surprised I can't think of an English word.

Miss Manners solving the issue of free speech on campus - in 1993. (in Judith Martin, "A Philosophy of Etiquette", 355-6)

My favourite film so far this year is Dreams (from the Dreams Sex Love trilogy), which I realised when I unironically thought half-way 'This is even better than Grand Theft Hamlet!'. So yes, watch Grand Theft Hamlet if you can.

I have now made about eight attempts over two days to book a hotel in Bielefeld, each time it goes mysteriously wrong. This fits a little too well with the theory that Bielefeld does not actually exist...

Very useful review of a pasta recipe

Give me the confidence of, etcetera

I'm working on my response to a long comment from a reviewer I had to read several times, but every time I read them referring to the author as 'he' I get less motivated to deal with their feedback in a careful way.

I watched Grand Theft Hamlet, which is certainly the best film fully set in GTA I've ever seen - but also actually hilarious and surprisingly moving even for normal film standards. I want to see more representations of the weird sides of covid lockdowns.

David Enoch points out in 'Is General Jurisprudence Interesting?' that there are no academic journals that mainly do 'meta-etiquette'. Two thoughts: 1. Weirdly, we don't even have metaethics journals. 2. Have I found my new project title? Meta-etiquette? Metiquette? #philsky

With today's new addition, my whiteboard of projects in progress is actually full - a very visual reminder that I'm not allowed to start another Shiny New Paper until some of the old are sent off.

Today, once again, doing research on social norms means I'm writing out a conversation from a Seinfeld scene. (The fabric of society is very complex, George.)

I swore to myself that I was going to do yoga every day of January - no excuses! Then I got sick on January 1st and I haven't been well enough to get up from the couch since. The gods are laughing at my hubris.

I wrote a review of A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: the brand new Bob Dylan bio pic. And I guarantee you it is totally unlike any other critique of the film that you are ever going to run in to. merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/a-complete...

The best kept secret in Hamburg is that young people can get massive discounts at the fancy concert hall - and because of the average age of classical concert goers, 'young' means under 30. Tonight I am going to a sort-of opera with Marion Cotillard as Jean d'Arc!

I have a great new 'Deutsche Bahn being comically bad' story for those who celebrate. 2 months ago my train journey from Stockholm to Hamburg went very wrong - I got stuck in Copenhagen overnight and arrived home a day late. I submitted a claim for compensation and reimbursement of hotel costs.

I showed this picture to my boyfriend and now he insists that the only present he will accept for his birthday is these cats. All my plans are ruined.

Any tips for German venues that publish think pieces (philosophically inspired but less technical than a journal article)? #philsky

I have to use our uni-connected ChatGPT for something and keep getting sentences like "X plays a pivotal for Y" - it always skips the word 'role'??