Going to need some gut-brain allies to defeat my gut-brain axis.

Oof.

I always read the word ‘demoicracy’ in the voice of a mid-century New York urchin.

G.D.H Cole, not dole.

He may not dream, he may not have a favourite poem, he may well have no significant interior life whatsoever, but Keir Starmer has finally admitted to liking Worcestershire sauce crisps.

my autocratic nondescript son Choward says he won't finish his dinner because of its "ludonarrative dissonance"

(young st john) man i hope one day i have a wort

strategic pdf reserve

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Tired of Politics? On #Political #Experience & #Oligarchic #Fatigue By @ptrommelen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Tricked into studying analytic philosophy. ‘The oldest profession’

Starmer clinging to the “conflict will always perish in the brotherhood of flags” school of rhetoric till the bitter end.

Trotsky said it best: “you are miserable bankrupts, your role is played out; go where you ought to be: into the dustbin of history!”

The End of the World as We Know It: Catastrophe Culture @profafinlayson.bsky.social & I discuss the role images of catastrophe play in our culture and politics: from fears of nuclear war to visions of environmental and social breakdown. He or in any app: culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/06/16/t...

working on my book

My longstanding Menshevik tendencies are being reinforced by Suny’s biography of the young Stalin.

Yes, I do write conflicted copy, but it is rude of Microsoft Word to add that to the filename.

I wrote about the great M John Harrison for @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/literature/f...

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Next Thursday I'll be in Edinburgh to talk about the book project. critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/daniel-hartl...

Cfp: Brill JHWP Women and the Abolition of Transatlantic Slavery, Guest Editors S. Bergès and A. Coffee Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Volume 6, Issue 2 Women and the abolition of transatlantic slavery Guest editors Sandrine Bergès and Alan Coffee While the enslaved…

bro let us leave this melancholy place

guys we need to gather twigs and fluff for the nest

Campaign to keep this big yellow seabound infrastructure in Leith permanently.

📢NEW EPISODE 📢- @trillingual.bsky.social on the rise of the UK far-right and how Britain's establishment institutions normalised ideas and policies that were once considered fringe and extreme:

No Mow May is over; the time of the orc has come.

Durham. Now that's a fucking cathedral.

Always think Hume would have found this statue ridiculous, even if people didn't get a kick out of rubbing his feet.

Not getting paid while taking industrial action against job cuts isn’t so bad because I can turn down requests to review without feeling guilty. If only there was a way for the university to permanently not pay me?

A sweltering hot day is the perfect time to think about a winter trip. Come join us January 6th-8th in beautiful Exeter for the next BIAPT conference! Deadline for submissions is July 24th. Full cfp 👇 www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

Accidentally made Debbie Harry themed slides for a workshop in Durham next Friday on Christopher Finlay's new book The Philosophy of Force. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-works...

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Edinburgh today. 🐇

wan mair chuin

Lobo disdaining Marx. More proof that cats are anarchists.

Financial crisis is being used to bypass tenure protections. University of Essex fired me & 11 others from the Business School in a clear targeting based on our philosophical orientation & social justice commitments. Please sign the public statement: sites.google.com/view/mmpubli...

I'm chairing the launch of @rosavcampbell.bsky.social's new book at @lighthousebks.bsky.social on Wed! Recommended to all interested in feminist politics, social history, and anyone who likes turning heads on public transport. Come along: lighthousebookshop.com/events/the-b...

Got some slightly overwrought riso prints to decorate the office.

Inordinately amused by this headline.

Historians of political thought can't be trusted with footnotes.

Greeted by the mighty Lobo after voting earlier.

beware of fake spoiler parties! this is not an official scottish green party candidate for your area! it is an architectural motif retrospectively attributed pagan significance in the 20th century!

I should be able to delete a file while a program is using it. The program will just have to figure it out. Who is in charge here?

I'm Lead Judge of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, awarded at University of Edinburgh since 1919 and due to be announced this month. But the university is currently withholding 100% of my pay for participating in a marking and assessment boycott. So, at present, there will be no prize.

gorse-maxxing

When I leave the gym, their app says, "No-one has ever regretted a workout." It should be illegal to say that kind of thing to a philosopher.

75% of politics you can learn from wojaks but for the last quarter you have to read Aristotle

The Books From Below Collective has four days left to raise funds to open a radical bookshop and community space in Newcastle! We are so grateful to everyone who has supported but still have some way to go. Share or donate if you can! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

My whole life has been leading to the moment today when a colleague asked 'what's the opposite of avuncular?' and I could shout 'materterine!'