Sweden’s song is a banger, but unfortunately it sounds a lot like “Every Time We Touch”. Current favorite for me is Bulgaria’s song

maybe the avocado toast thing was real after all

Under the weather on my Albania vacay, so watching the Eurovision semifinals in my hotel room. Romania’s song is freaking me out

Very small improvement to the journal refereeing process: let reviewers know when the paper has finally been accepted (or not)! (Some do, but not all do, in my experience.)

drink iced coffee panic attack

I want to go somewhere relatively isolated but not remote for a week (at least) this summer to work on my book. I want somewhere that's cheap, easy to find tranquil lodging, in the lower 48, and somewhere I haven't been before (obvi you won't all know this list). Any ideas? Emphasis on the cheap.

oh my god lol

Disenfranchisement of Black voters is happening at a speed and scale unprecedented in my lifetime.

???

oops, now I have two book contracts, probably not a wise move but whaddayagonnado

This sounds like something Jack Donaghy would be on the board of directors for

I would die for a 50-part thread by @dieworkwear.bsky.social on how much this sucks www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/s...

when I was in undergrad I felt that professors who ran discussion-based classes were lazy. but now that I’m a professor I realize it’s much harder to facilitate a generative discussion than to lecture.

in your understanding, does "hell to pay" mean 1 - hell will foot the bill (how is this payment?) 2 - you must pay hell to hell (nonsense) 3 - you must pay hell to the victim (why would the victim want to receive hell?) 4 - you must go to hell in order to pay 5 - itll be difficult (hell) to pay

The idea of a generative AI 'confessing' anything leads me to tap the sign

hey I went to this conference and everyone there knew you, they all said your work was really central to the field

Rooster = Ted Lasso – flat-footed British jokes + flat-footed and implausible academic content + mature Michael Scott

my mom sent me my christmas wish list from 2008 (I was 20; kinda embarrassing to have a christmas list at 20, I admit)

the most old guy from new york thing I've ever read

Unbelievable. What country is this?

anyone have any fonts they've really been into lately? kinda getting bored of my usual rotation

to better distinguish themselves from their main market competition, I propose that Carrabba's Italian Grill adopts the slogan "When you're here, you're not family...you're our customers."

perhaps the worst part about being a capital-p Philosopher is that half of the randos who want to talk to me about philosophy don't know what the hell they're talking about, and the other half somehow know way more about philosophy than I do

rude

gonna bring this paper up next time I'm at a party

new summer plans just dropped

holy shit

finally, the job ad appears on PhilJobs! Again, please reach out if you have questions! philjobs.org/job/show/31301

"Please RSVP for my wedding reception! Among those giving toasts are my best friend (confirmed) and Barack Obama (invited)."

Is it just me, or has American society becoming increasingly anti-shoes-in-the-house in the past 20 or so years? (I feel like when I was a kid, it was about 50/50 on people who insisted you take your shoes off at the door. Now it seems like near 100%, but maybe it's a sampling error.)

sounds like it's at least a *little* accessible then

Today is my 19-year anniversary with my wife, Ellen. We met when I was 18, which means I’ve now spent more of my life with her than without her. Here’s to many more! ❤️❤️❤️

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

yes I visit often, don't you think I know that?

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

A top university in Iran was bombed earlier today. The university "housed a Department of Philosophy of Science, an extraordinary effort to [build a] bridge between philosophy, science, and technology"

Again, I don’t see how you can read this as anything other than Trump trying to normalize the idea of using nuclear weapons

overrated cities: dublin, miami, boston, phnom penh underrated cities: lyon, montreal, omaha, asheville, busan

The ad is live! www.ugajobsearch.com/hr/postings/... Notice the quick turnaround (May 1). Let me know if you have any questions!

Daycare $200 billion Medicaid $150 billion Medicare $800 billion Wars $3.6 trillion Ballroom $150 billion someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying

Do I have any mutuals who have spent time in Albania and have any recommendations for off-the-beaten-path/non-obvious things to do/see/eat/explore?

"War may appear super cool to Trump administration staffers who watch it from 6,000 miles away through a pop-culture viewfinder, but the rest of us should examine the human reality — and cost — of combat."

Most of the pieces I've read of folks criticizing Lindy West's memoir/foray into polyamory have consisted of authors telling on themselves in various ways. But this Louise Perry one in WSJ is in another category—it's so dripping with disdain that it's seriously embarrassing to read.

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

at least among academics working on the ethics of war, there's near consensus that killing/harming for revenge is wrong. But many practitioners, and a significant portion of the general public, seems to fervently disagree.

The U.S. hit another school, together with a sports hall, killing and injuring many civilians. Even if it was a "mistake," it could still be a war crime if the strike was taken recklessly. Read more in "'Mistakes' in War": papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

Just learning today the fuller story of Jane English, who was an Associate Professor of Philosophy at UNC, when she died tragically and unexpectedly in 1978, at the age of 31, while climbing the Matterhorn. She was a student of Rawls's at Harvard, as well as Quine and Putnam.

Eagle-Eye Cherry is the guy’s real name! Also he’s Swedish. Huge increase in cool points in my book