get your Bob Ross on!

This is an excellent piece—I am going to have my students read it in my cultural heritage and human rights class next semester.

I am shooting my shot. I love writing op-eds. @teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you. Signed, A Black woman who writes for the public

100%

This has a real "Mueller report will save us" feel to it. We already know he's a rapist. I am very concerned that there won't be anything (couldn't be anything) that would break through to the cult.

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Those of us who are generally afraid to fly, are like...wait, wha? I knew it...

So looking at the actual SF chronicle article, the only place this song is accruing notice is on Spotify, which is easily gamed by bots. If I were an AI proponent who desperately needed to boost the validity of my investment, this is exactly what I’d do.

Ohio for the win...

Aesthetics

Students —as we know—adore thinking about aesthetics. and aesthetics is at the core of most problems

“Great things start in little rooms” André 3000

Congrats to workers at Chateau Ste Michelle who recently celebrated 30 years of Union representation! These workers enjoy up to 17 paid holidays as part of their union contract. #WeFeedYou

New Call for Papers! Imagination, Creativity, and Artificial Intelligence think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy

I feel like I deserve this morning of joy scrolling because I put in the work of doomscrolling.

Debs!!

Then they came for Teen Vogue…

The Blue Jays can still win if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.

That wasn’t the best game ever. The best game ever was played in my head and ended with Vlad’s ball making it out

sigh

Come on Jay’s….

Niki Bowers, contemporary UK printmaker based in Norfolk #WomensArt

Time to give your time and money to those who will

Come for the title, stay for the learning

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy

Time to start thinking about how we are ruled

interesting @natecohn.bsky.social in 4 of 5 cases, "fewer people said the city 'should' enact the proposal than said they 'support' the same policy... 60% of New Yorkers said they supported free city buses, but only 44 percent said the city 'should' make buses free" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

Step 1: arugula Step 2: ??? Step 3: dictator dumps diarrhea bombs on protestors

Times like these remind me of this gem from Kant “the coolness of a villain not only makes him far more dangerous, but also directly makes him more abominable in our eyes than he would have been without it”….ummm…sometimes

R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️

I am old enough to remember when frogs were fringe right

Honestly, this made me cry. I am not a new yorker (go M’s!) but just hearing some speak plainly and decently is so necessary

“I am just one person…this is an achievement of a whole society.” María Corina Machado joins a long line of Nobel Peace Prize laureates who were awakened in the middle of the night to learn that the Nobel Committee was just minutes away from announcing their award.

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine -Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

This guy is such a king

#WorldAnimalDay is a reminder that we open our doors to all wild animals in need. Meet the full spectrum of orphans in our care; buffalo calves, zebra foals, and countless other species who receive the same expert guidance and second chances as the elephant orphans you are more familiar with.

Sometimes I agree with Pascal—I chose to believe

in a sea of bad…a spark. Oh and the m’s!

In the white culture, money is often given to others in a gesture of friendship and gratitude.

Don't forget to add this white text to all your publications.

“The fact is that our Present has become the very Past we desperately hoped we had outrun. History, as it turns out, has swifter feet than even the most alert of us could’ve expected.”

I have created a spreadsheet for crowdsourcing reports of No Kings Day protest attendance. The sheet is publicly available for anyone to edit. This will not be official, but hopefully it will be comprehensive and can serve as a resource for reporters and the public. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

VERY interesting and helpful analysis of this afternoon’s Supreme Court decision. www.stevevladeck.com/p/151-the-su...

Heck yea

Laughing (and crying)

The Aesthetics and Ethics Research Group (AERG) is offering travel stipends for graduate students to their upcoming conference in Uppsala, Sweden. Deadline: 4th May. Further details here: listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... #philsky

This is so obvious —the less ripped dude is hotter

hmmmm