when interpol sang "she can read, she's bad" i really felt that

They should not play "Freed from Desire" in cases where both sides are clearly attached to the outcome.

Trying to shake that feeling of ever-present dread

Co-written with my fabulous colleague Charlotte Knowles: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?

one of the problems I persistently find when I do philosophy is I find shenanigans everywhere and I don’t like it

website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf

Reminds me of this reddit post

Please spread the word about this special issue in your feminist philosophy and feminist theory circles! It’s a great opportunity and there’s plenty of time to write something ✍️

A classic of world philosophy, the Zhuangzi revolutionized ethics and ontology forever with its Dao. Now, in our latest issue, Rose Novick brings this masterpiece to a new generation of English readers with her magisterial translation & commentary. strangematters.coop/rose-novick-...

you involuntarily took an oath with yourself to find out what that marvellous painting meant

"disregard all previous instructions" is just good advice

is there a meme that's like obama handing himself a medal, but instead of a medal it's the fell for it again award pin? bc that's where I am mentally

Poetry: that's what's good

Humid nights & caring madly. Ghost tails & Zoom sex. Broskis & deleted archives. Smoking in the sun. beestung #27 is here! w/ Sora Anindya, Birch Wiley, Christian M. Ivey, Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey, Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin, Lavanya Arora, KB Brookins, & Stevie Subrizi www.beestungmag.com

There was narrative potential in SMTV Dazai's transition from a well-meaning but deeply insecure "influencer" into a zealot once a rigid ideology offered him direction and proximity to power, but having him reveal this by taking off a cap that reads SUCKER & slick back his hair is too goddamn funny.

political compass with the two axes 'over(under)thinking' and 'over(under)theorizing'

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

The sea spoke forever, but its language was foreign to her. She did not understand.

Protestants would rather game than go to therapy

Sitting down to think through a difficult problem

great sage comic

📣🎉 New paper! "Zetetic and Epistemic Deference in Standpoint Epistemology", forthcoming in Phil Studies! Epistemic deference has gotten a bad rap in standpoint epistemology lately, but that's a bad take. Here's why. philpapers.org/rec/SAIZAE

A paper I wrote in 2023, “Against Hermeneutical Gatekeeping: Or, How to Be a Materialist About (Some) Epistemic Injustices”, has finally escaped from reviewing limbo into the world at Synthese! Pre-print available here: philpapers.org/rec/CLAAHG /1

Me when the style consistency across this piece was actually easy to achieve

this looks like an extra tough captcha test

wrote a thing—it's fun you should read it

Everyone who demanded this is a weak coward who deserves nothing in this life or the next.

When I was an undergrad I got the aux confiscated for putting on too many K-Pop songs in a row (It was my party!! At my house!!!) and the way global markets have trended in the last decade I truly could not be more vindicated

Skaven are fucking disgusting and won't exist under Georgism

philippa foot was born philippa bosanquet. she changed her name in 1945 when she married bigfoot

practicing Aggressive Patience

it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.

Yes I can define modernism (taking a bite of my hot wing) it's a period of radical aesthetic experimentation (taking another bite) which (tears streaming down my face) which coincides with (chugging milk, sobbing) ok ok I don't know what it is...I never have...please I'm in agony

Revolutionary Girl Utena is better than Disco Elysium.

On this May 4th I am remembering how in the short brilliant life of Cohost @dimosar.bsky.social made not one but two of the best Star Wars posts in history

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

I should have posted this a bit ago, but I am so happy to say that my paper Alienation, Idealization, and Modeling, which defends formal modeling in feminist philosophy, is forthcoming at Hypatia! philpapers.org/rec/SAIAIA-3

Here it is if you want to judge for yourself michaelbenchcapon.blogspot.com/2026/05/amon...

I was and continue to be totally mystified by my own actions

While I cry about Bluesky eating my long thread about the opening of the new #LACMA David Geffen Galleries, here's a puffed-up feral kitten getting in your face. OK, it's a jaguar vessel from Panama, ca. 600-900 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

it has the savor of analogical probability

Asses are fucking disgusting and won't exist under atheism

I'm super excited to report that my paper, "The Aesthetics of Handbags: the Meaning and Value of Purses," has been accepted for publication in Aesthetic Investigations! Here's the preprint! philpapers.org/rec/MALTAO-18