Dear all, Helen passed away at 13:21 local time. Helen would not have wanted us to be sad for a long time. All they wanted was to be remembered. They looked forward to being rid of pain and to being at rest. Helen took great comfort in you, their friends and readers. pt. 1/2

i did a podcast about my short story the diamond mountain, published by @kaleidotrope.bsky.social and hosted by @chelseaharamia.bsky.social and @kmdoublev.bsky.social more by other writers will come

I'm happy to announce the first episode of Story Phi is live! Story Phi is a podcast developed by @kmdoublev.bsky.social and me. It's about storytellers, story lovers, and philosophy Intro music composed by @hane.bsky.social and our first episode features the wonderfully talented @helendecruz.net

My good friend @helendecruz.net is currently in hospice after a long battle with cancer, and has written this beautiful piece reflecting on what is truly of value in life. helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

My brilliant lute teacher Anton Birula made this video for me. Have a listen! If you feel so inclined pls subscribe to his channel LuteDuo. Let's get it to 10k. Pls reskeet. youtu.be/2EWrH0gRphQ?...

This is a beautiful reflection on the way we characterize others and the importance of the idiographic in that. Brings me back to my Allport roots. Most elegant integration of personality is the nomothetic-idiographic for me.

Can’t take it with you Lovely piece by @helendecruz.net #philsky #philosophy #goodlife #virtue #meaning

Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

Advance copies arrived 😃😬

Cool story!

Recreational sex so we can all get on with work!

So many important things are discussed at conferences. When international travel is dangerous & science is under threat & research funding is being slashed & we know how bad flying is for the climate & we have technology to make it happen, the fact that all conferences aren't hybrid is wild. 🧪

my publisher @thepinkhydra.com also offers my novella outside Amazon. Just $3.20 for a two hour fantasy in a beautiful secondary world and city which reminds you of Oxford. A comfort optimistic story without powerful and wealthy protagonists

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Ah my good friend Spinoza. Your life was short but we do not find anything lacking. I am not of your caliber but find consolation in it anyway

Plato on recreational sex in Symposium. A few pages further he also talks about lesbian relationships.

Oh, he wrote a lot of other music. But all anybody ever wanted to hear was the one song. His "fans" did him dirty. They'd go to a concert, wait for the one song, go crazy, and then leave. In the middle of the show.

On nonbinary gender, Plato, Symposium, 370 bc

What is wild to me is that humans until industrialization would have two blocks of sleep. After a first sleep of some hours they would wake up and do stuff: visit friends, have sex, a small meal etc. And then they'd turn back in for a second longer sleep. So don't worry if you wake in the night.

In our video Foal is unsure whose advice to follow: are the animals around her both knowledgeable and well-intentioned? Explore themes of trust and misinformation in #thephilosophygarden #philsky #edusky sites.google.com/view/the-phi... #philosophyforeveryone

Wie man mit Nazis auf der Straße spricht. Oma super stabil.

An editor saw the potential of this novella and published it. It's selling well and has glowing reviews. Yet it was rejected so many times. I knew it's a good story. Don't give up. www.amazon.com/Artistry-Mag...

Lovely review of my book Wonderstruck socialconcerns.nd.edu/virtues/news...

Brilliant paper about this philarchive.org/rec/PROTVO-2....

Am I crazy or did we just have a convo about how we can't fund cancer research?

Philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has died.

A Manifesto for a Future Philosophy by @helendecruz.net #philsky

People keep talking about the left needing its own Joe Rogan as if I don't already exist???

Absolutely wonderful short story by @helendecruz.net helendecruz.substack.com/p/blessedness

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

one thing I respect about medieval beekeepers is their total commitment to looking like Doctor Who villains

Book concept: People start finding books in a Little Free Library that were never written or published in this world. Some are exactly what the "borrower" needs. Some are a delight. But some are dangerous. And the Little Free Library just might have a sinister agenda...

This story had me tearing up its true. Almost long sobs at one point & then they passed and fell into something else, a calm. I encountered Helen a time ago when she began live-tweeting out her first-time reading of ALL of Spinoza, down to the letters, and I was swept away by her reception of him.

We were in the eye of a tornado. A maga truck tried in vain to get out but to no avail. Then he got a chainsaw and began to slice his way out. A suburban mom said ' at least they're good for something '

Huge congratulations to @xanwriter.bsky.social, the winner of the 2024 South African Horrorfest Bloody Parchment short story competition with "Splinters of the Schism." Runners-up are Brett Rex Bruton for "The Hand on the Door" and Dera Udochukwu for "Alkaline Water". Link below for more info....

The Incandescent! Just finished this and needed to run and tell everyone to read this book. If you want to get the foul taste of JKR out of your mouth, this is it. About adults, for adults, standalone, absolutely brilliant world-building, beautifully observed character writing, and slyly funny. ❤️

open.substack.com/pub/helendec... self publishing this Goofy space drama structure around Spinoza 's ethics

The midlist, much like the middle class, feels like it's disappearing. There are million-dollar books that get all the perks while everyone else is thrown at the wall like spaghetti to see what sticks. Most just fall to the floor. It's money or luck, babbies, and no one is coming to save you. 4/

Up now on JTR: 'Tolkien & Psychology'. Papers by @nicholasbirns.bsky.social, @cameronbourquein.bsky.social, @drfairylelie.bsky.social, Mareike Huber, Kris Larsen, Martin Hauberg-Lund Laugesen & Bo Kampmann Walther, Ali Mirzabayati, Dawn Walls-Thumma, & me! scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...

Our qualitative study with natural scientists on ultimate reality has been published. We look at the influence of religious background and disciplinary field, as well as inspiration from humanities. Care for the planet an enduring concern. Read it open access here! Thank you to participants

In a talk by Katie Steele rn. She is very good. Her ideas are interesting, she explains them clearly, and is generally very engaging. I would like to be like Katie Steele. katiesteelephilosophy.weebly.com

Still my fave music video i made

Saying goodbye now. I'm in hospice care

"How to do philosophy with (science) fiction" Here are some reflections on writing weird novels as scholarly outputs (with thanks to @marcusarvan.bsky.social). >> newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/giacomo-pe... <<

Over 180,000 deaths. According to expert Professor Anthony Costello, director of the Institute for Global Health, that is how many lives could have been saved with a fully functioning Test, Trace, and Isolate system. We fight for justice, for them. #CovidInquiry

See this? It's called a non-inferiority trial. It compares the new vaccine with the current vaccines to see if the new vaccine does better. This new vaccine did. Placebo-controlled trials are not needed to test most new vaccines. Demanding them will only reduce vaccine access. Which is the point.

GOOD NEWS! Moderna’s combination COVID/influenza vaccine candidate mRNA-1083 has OUTPERFORMED the current standalone vaccines for BOTH viruses in a large (8000+) Phase III trial. A combination vaccine would make it easier for people to get vaccinated against COVID and influenza at the same time. 🧪🧵⬇️

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil