“If we care about our happiness, we must fight against beasts such as apathy.” | iai.tv/articles/hap... @skyecleary.bsky.social writes how happiness can be a form of resistance against the injustice and absurdity of life. #socsky #psychsky

Also want to publicly thank @eschwitz.bsky.social, @skyecleary.bsky.social, and Ned Adams for their very generous back-cover blurbs!

Just got tix to Waiting for Godot! But I have to wait for Waiting for Godot until September. I wonder if September will arrive, or the performance will, or I will. Feeling very meta.

Can St Teresa guide us to inner peace? Can Christian Ethics provide secular comfort? @skyecleary.bsky.social @psyche.co psyche.co/ideas/how-to...

Timeline cleanse: crows can do geometry. I thought we already knew crows were super smart but happy to know they can do mathematics.

This 16th-century ‘spiritual rock-star’ shows how seeing your soul as a castle can be a source of strength and consolation. Learn how to find inner peace like Teresa of Ávila @skyecleary.bsky.social

St Teresa has been on my radar for ages, ever since I read about her in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex so many years ago. I finally spent some time thinking about her and this is what I learned: psyche.co/ideas/how-to...

Book club in May! Deets coming soon 📖

On churros & the meaning of life (new favorite poem 💕)

A small reprieve in an absurd world. Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature at @metmuseum.org did not disappoint. Also new socks 😍 to “remind me how small I am, but also how miraculous this life is.” - Alua Arthur on encountering Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Simone de Beauvoir famously asked if it is right to be happy in a world that’s broken. | iai.tv/articles/hap... @skyecleary.bsky.social writes how happiness can be a form of resistance against the injustice and absurdity of life. #langsky

My two rescue bunnies were so thumping mad about their vet visit today that the doctor gave me bunny xanax (gabapentin) for next time. She hasn’t forgiven me & here’s her I’ll-tolerate-your-proximity-but-you’re-not-allowed-to-pat-me-because-I’m-still-a-bit-mad-and-don’t-trust-you-right-now look

One of my favorite things about being an Australian in the US is being asked to explain to Americans what budgie smugglers are. So a budgie is short for budgerigar which is like a small parakeet native to Australia. Now, imagine... And watching them be like:

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

Everything is bad

And bootlegging some Foot for my management class tomorrow with The Good Place. Haven’t yet decided whether to include the Beast Games S7 train of elimination. Painful to watch such a blatant metaphor for our current hellscape 💔

Bootlegging a little Buber into my leadership class :)

"and what is your field of expertise?" me:

Nihilism: nothing matters Absurdism: nothing matters, but in a cool way. Existentialism: freely choose among all the various things that don't matter!

Unpopular trivial opinion: Toblerone would be better without the nougat.

Don't miss this week's new episode, in which Amy Olberding discussed Confucian ethics, in an interview centering on the idea that etiquette and rudeness are fundamental moral concepts: www.historyofphilosophy.net/confucian-et... #confucianism #philsky #podcasts #hopwag

This tee used to make me laugh but now not so much seriously, what the 🦆

The MIT Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is a growing resource, expertly edited and designed, with high quality contributors (OK OK I am one of them) oecs.mit.edu

Mary Midgley and @philosophellie.bsky.social in Aeon! aeon.co/essays/for-m... @aeon.co #philosophy #philsky

Introducing my little coworking buddy Beans who likes hanging out by my desk 🥰 #BunsOfBlueSky #BeansDay #Bunnies #RescueBunny (also amazingly doesn’t chew cables, maybe because he’s so full on treats 😂)

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

One of the wrongest things I've ever read about philosophy, it has been the most important and useful practical skill in my life.

I see Caturday trending but how about Bunday? She is one of my two super sweet rescue bunnies :) #BunsOfBlueSky #bunday #bunny #rabbit

*brilliant introduction to Simone de Beauvoir’s #Philosophy, by @skyecleary.bsky.social—part of @thetls.bsky.social’s ‘Footnotes to Plato'. —particularly on Beauvoir’s conception of *freedom,* where I think she's more interesting than Sartre… tinyurl.com/y9eoqkwe (from 15-09-2018) #BookSky💙📚

Welcome to Bluesky.. 🦋 #bluesky

Kierkegaard died Nov 11, 1855. Here’s some of his wisdom for coping with existential crises 😱 psyche.co/guides/how-k...

“Whoever sees the abyss, but with eagle’s eyes, whoever grasps the abyss with eagle’s talons: he has courage” - Nietzsche 🦅 My first blog post for Philosophy at Work! philosophyatwork.co.uk/great-follow...

Thrilled to be joining the Philosophy at Work Team! philosophyatwork.co.uk/team-profile...

On the receiving end of an anonymous random act of kindness today. $250 of groceries was misdelivered to them in another building & they brought them to my lobby. Faith in humanity restored + resolve to pay it forward. Thank you mysterious grocery angel!!

On Beauvoir’s philosophy of narcissism & Taylor Swift as authentic artist https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/think/article/overcoming-narcissism/E5A4EE347D985F52A30118A13C20D8C0

RT only if you are NOT becoming more conservative as you grow older.

My opinion of Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophy is wildly ambivalent but this from Being & Nothingness is the pep talk I need today:

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Did someone say something about owls?

"I would hurl words into this darkness & wait for an echo; & if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all, to keep alive in our hearts a sense of the inexpressibly human" -Richard Wright

An introduction post! I am a SFF writer, poet, and academic philosopher based in Dublin Ireland. I'm bi, non-binary, and disabled. I really like owls. I buy too many books. My debut short story collection, Possible Worlds and Other Stories, was published by Ellipsis Imprints last year.

the 4 twitters

I don’t want to build a following on yet another social media platform - I want to have a hazy, melancholic summer passing through small European villages and staring into the Aegean sea and reading Simone de Beauvoir and thinking about mortality.

And just like that… I found it in a chocolate bar

Bluesky is powered by spite, the most potent energy source known to man

“These women philosophers were angry and hungry to build new worlds using the tools of philosophy that they fashioned to suit their needs and inquiries” - with Regan Penaluna at LA Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/this-undesirable-aspect-a-conversation-with-regan-penaluna/

Swimming with Simone de Beauvoir around some of her fave spots in the beautiful Calanques. She hiked in espadrilles carrying a basket with bananas & baguettes. I’m skipping the espadrilles.