Hate it when people do bourgeois idealist scholarship (going out into the world and counting stuff) when they should be doing actual *materialist* scholarship (riffing off what some long dead Germans would probably say about the last TikTok video I watched). Like do we want revolution or not people?

Currently slightly obsessed with David Hockney's portraits of his dachshunds.

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

i want to be the Giant Epistemologist

Nun ist es Dieter Nuhr zum ersten mal in seiner trostlosen Karriere tatsächlich gelungen, mich zum Lachen zu bringen.

Mit den Porträts und den Allegorien hat er natürlich sein Geld verdient, und ich glaube, er hat auch wirklich gerne (nackte) Frauen gemalt und dafür haben die ihm auch die Bude eingerannt, aber wer mal paar Klimt Landschaften gesehen hat, weiß: Das war seine wahre Berufung.

*stares in modal metaphysics*

Gut so, man verplappert sich halt mal. Aber auch wieder eine Geschichte darüber, mit welchen Doppelstandards Medien auf sowas reagieren. Wenn man sich vor Augen hält, was für irrsinnige Aussagen aus der CDU über Linke und Grüne in den letzten Jahren getätigt wurde... Das wurde dann so weggenickt.

Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.

Fascinated by the way in which criticisms of writing in Socrates' days (or earlier?) mirrored contemporary worries about AI. It's footnotes to Plato all the way down again.

Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

the reactionary centrists have found a home on the political compass

David Hockney • Rain on the Studio Window •

Thinking a lot about how short the way seems to be for some former leftist to the authoritarian right, and my best explanation so far is: There is a fundamental difference between leftists that want to abolish a given privilege, and the ones that simply want it for themselves

That's how a colleague convinced me that Putnam's argument against us being a brain in a vat is faulty. If we can build a brain in a vat, and the brain can then run the same argument, the argument can't possibly be valid.

Denkschwein Bertrand Rüssell

Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame. Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.

Had to fix this.

being unemployed is gonna go so hard this week

I love it! And I love it even more because the joke doesn't really work if you put these words on a real Jersey

One of these Vienna moments that make it my favorite city: The Theseus-Temple in Volksgarten at dusk

At some point, how does the economy even work anymore? If it's all restructured so that money can flow from the whole of society to a few tech bros, how does it actually function as an economy?

I stand with trans and non binary people. This is a difficult and scary time - and the Govenrment must reject the framework. It's vital that everyone is treated with dignity and care and far too often trans and non binary people aren't. Solidarity always 🏳️‍⚧️

This topic recently occurs quite often on my timeline, and as a Viennese my own two cents on that are: Red Vienna did really well in developing a particular aesthetic style. The Karl-Marx-Hof, the Werkbundsiedlung, Labor-Olympia, Isotopes and even Vienna-Circle-Style Writing all contributed to that

1 ECTS-Punkt soll 30 Stunden Arbeitsaufwand entsprechen. Bei 180 ECTS und 6 Semester Regelstudienzeit im Bachelor ist das Vollzeit

I have never been happier about a souvenir in my life. Got them in Lyme Regis

I don't want to be mean to a blog post that seems well intended. But the question "Why, then, did Rawls’s egalitarian vision fail to counteract the neoliberal turn?" is very funny. What could Rawls have done against Capitalism and the Reagan Administration? Hydrogen Bomb vs coughing baby

i am not ready to lose ian. he should live forever.

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

Mads Mikkelsen was on my flight from Copenhagen! Helped a lady retrieve her suitcase. Class act all the way. Stay with us here on BlueSky for more uplifting celebrity gossip.

After I had a good time in London and an absolutely amazing time in Lyme Regis and Dartmoor, I guess I have to accept that I'm now in the age to pivot from city trips to country side hikes. Ah well, it's gonna be nice

This feels like a Bojack Horseman joke

Everything IS bigger in Texas... Introducing TYLOSAURUS REX–“TEX”. A monster animal, a monster paper, & a monster project that I am *so* excited to finally share with everyone after ~5 yrs. Huge thanks to my coauthors, Mike & Ron, & to Alderon Games for bringing our lad to life!! #FossilFriday

Not now, Elder Gods From Outside Reality Frozen Under The Ice For Aeons

Face/Off remake where an analytic philosopher has to do continental philosophy and vice versa

I'm in England for the first time, and one thing that totally surprised me is how many signs there are everywhere, telling me what to do. "Go left!", "Go right!", "Use this!", "Don't go here", "See it, say it, sorted!" Truly a country of prescriptivists.

Reading Bruce Catton's Army of the Potomac Trilogy, and damn it's good. This is like the ultimate dad-book, embodying all the virtues of this particular genre

Antisemitism infects any movement it takes root in. It is uniquely capable of ruining a cause by turning a sizable chunk of otherwise decent people into conspiracy-addled bigots.

RIP to everyone banned by the mods for their hubris but I'm different. and better. maybe even better than the mods

I think about this comic all the time.

Reading Brusatte's "The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs", and his account of the extinction of the dinosaurs has me shook. How can I feel so much about something that happens 65 million years ago?

I want to be able to enjoy an at least decent modern standard of living. That means some amount of emissions until the green energy transition is complete. Which is why I politically support making that transition happen as fast as possible.

should've made it 10 theses on feuerbach wtf is 11

Couple about to sign divorce papers… WOMAN: I wish I'd never joined that Star Wars dating app MAN: You were looking for love in Alderaan places WOMAN: And I wish I'd never married a guy addicted to Star Wars puns MAN: It was a wookie mistake WOMAN: Just sign it MAN, SIGNING: May divorce be with you

Knowledge Fight was and remains one of the all-time great podcasts. It is the rarest kind of thing: a show that entertains while having a real-life impact. Dan and Jordan helped defang and neuter elements of a powerful propaganda network. Excited to see what both do next.

I’m fucking horrified that folk 100s of years from now are going to refer to this period as the Trumpian Age or some shit and I’m gonna be lumped in with all the dumb extremist dicks. Solidarity with dead people from the 19th century who thought empire was for arseholes and now get called Victorians

Call me a member of the 16th century German aristocracy, the way I'm lookin to crush this burgher