Mark Alfano
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Nemo me impune lacessit.
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facts may not care about your feelings, but my feelings care about your facts
3 months ago
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Caroline Casey
6 days ago
this is objectively hilarious
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Anjali Dayal
6 days ago
and thatâs why you get yourself an aloof wife
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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Aysha
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âHe doesnât have a mandateâ are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN
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Michael Ian Black
7 days ago
Dick Cheney has died. He is preceded into death by his parents, the guy he shot in the face, and a million Iraqis.
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Frovo
8 days ago
there is no i in team but there is a u in fuck
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Saw some koalas in the wild
9 days ago
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You can't make me defend Ronald Reagan. Is this some kind of psy-op?
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16 days ago
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we need a way to fine and jail perpetrators of slopaganda
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19 days ago
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in which I break your heart (forthcoming in Passion)
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Stolen grief
Stolen grief Mark Alfano, Macquarie University This paper offers an account of stolen grief. The phrase has not, to my knowledge, been used in the philosophical literature or the scholarly literatur...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PwbAlO2qkBQQD5Dhd_IJ-VyeRfyon0C1GMxLPn8CDug/edit?usp=sharing
23 days ago
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Costa Samaras
24 days ago
If you're teaching in a classroom and you use the chalkboard/whiteboard, you erase that board after class before you leave
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
25 days ago
If you think the problem in this city is that my rent is too low, vote for Andrew Cuomo. If you know the problem in this city is that your rent is too high, vote for me.
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no earthquake (cultural tutor)
27 days ago
LLMs have convincingly demonstrated that coding is the easiest activity, maths is medium hard, and having taste is the hardest
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Interview about slopaganda on the ABC Philosophers Zone
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Slopaganda - ABC listen
Are you troubled by the way that social media has enabled the spread of propaganda? Well, get ready for slopaganda, which is propaganda that's AI-powered and unprecedented in terms of speed, scale, au...
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/philosopherszone/slopaganda-propaganda-ai/105853258
27 days ago
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Dave Itzkoff
about 1 month ago
Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage
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new paper on bullshit questions just dropped
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https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11229-025-05130-3.pdf
about 1 month ago
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European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions
about 1 month ago
PSA đOur call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Our 2026 annual conference will be hosted in Germany by Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on 24-26 June 2026 đŤ Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025
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Call for Abstracts | EPSSE
https://www.epsse.org/call-for-abstracts-2026
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Lucy Osler
about 1 month ago
Philosophers of emotion, the call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Hosted at Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Southern Germany by our lovely president Imke von Maur on 24-26 June 2026 đ
#philsky
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Sorry of my life over the last year
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about 1 month ago
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Bill Corbett
about 1 month ago
Please, Mr. Pope was my father. Iâm Jeff. Jeff Pope.
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If I were an ICE agent, I would do it for the exposure, for instance by removing my balaclava and presenting my identification on request
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about 1 month ago
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Burrito Justice
about 1 month ago
quick while the government is shut down letâs all switch to metric
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It's Abby. Yep.
about 1 month ago
DMV Worker: Stop staring at your phone while I take your driver's license photo Guy: But this is how I look when I drive
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That's some pretty heavy slopaganda
#slopaganda
@michalk.bsky.social
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about 1 month ago
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They're really going to go full Horst Wessel, aren't they?
about 2 months ago
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CHOAM Nomsky (thankful)
about 2 months ago
I saw goody proctor celebrating charlie kirkâs assassination
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Ian Hussey
about 2 months ago
Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates. For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim. âEating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of strokeâ
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merry as-many-citations-this-year-as-all-of-last-year day to all those who celebrate
about 2 months ago
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Holidays Ryan
about 2 months ago
Cool how the Vice President (not a real job) has the time to livestream (also not a job) threats to destroy the lives of people with actual jobs
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I am advertising two PhD positions in philosophy -- one for a domestic student, one for an international student. Both positions are 1 + 3 years, meaning that the first year is an MRes and the next three years are for the PhD.
www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...
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PhD on the philosophy of networks of trust
This PhD scholarship is intended to benefit a researcher in empirically-oriented philosophy. Learn more and submit an expression of interest.
https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/how-to-apply/scholarship-opportunities/scholarship-search/phd-on-the-philosophy-of-networks-of-trust
2 months ago
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at least two of these things are true
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2 months ago
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Daniel Carlson
2 months ago
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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fighting words are not protected speech
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2 months ago
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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD đ
2 months ago
I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
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â¨britâ¨
2 months ago
if it happens, we all know jd vance is a suspect here considering what happened to pope francis
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Michael Prinzing
2 months ago
I had a great chat about how studying philosophy can make people better thinkers with
@mvazquez.bsky.social
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@apaphilosophy.bsky.social
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Benefits of Studying Philosophy | APA On DemandAPA Mission - The American Philosophical Association
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There's a reason NWA never recorded a song titled "Fuck the Fire Department"
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3 months ago
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Cracker Barrel? I hardly know her.
3 months ago
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Roxane Gay
3 months ago
Isnât Cracker Barrelâs real problem that they serve bad food?
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Mr. Bea Arthur, Dead Insideâ˘ď¸
3 months ago
Doctor: Youâve got moxie, kid. Me: Aww, thanks doc! Doctor: And also gonorrhoea.
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Kendra, normal version
3 months ago
It's actually so funny that you have a cloth mother and I have a wire mother. No im like not even mad it's literally just funny. No like I love her cold metal frame. Yeah I got used to it really quick and actually I like it even better than I would like cloth mother I think. No like actually
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Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with Thomas Kinkade .gif
3 months ago
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American Philosophical Association
3 months ago
Are you a faculty member trying to convince university administrators that philosophy is important? Or a student wondering about the benefits of taking philosophy courses? Join us for âBenefits of Studying Philosophyâ on August 27. Registration is open to all:
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alexis simpson
3 months ago
when i was a kid, we went to Hershey Park and my friend kicked a giant Reese's peanut butter cup right in the butt, and i bring that up because i think it should be legal to do that to cops
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Andrew Lawrence
3 months ago
one guy even tried to give us a sandwich
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Dak
3 months ago
I love grocery store self-checkout. It makes me feel like a thief, a cashier, and a magician with trust issues all at once.
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I finally found a good use for chatGPT
3 months ago
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Kevin M. Kruse
3 months ago
Question for the lawyers: Is it legal to shout "I'M SORRY ABOUT WHATEVER WENT WRONG WITH YOUR PENIS" at the masked federal agents occupying our streets?
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I just received an application to do a masters degree on the ethics of AI. According to gptzero, about 60% of the application was generated by AI.
3 months ago
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Helen Kennedy
3 months ago
Sing now of the heros of the people
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