"It's for the good of the students" It would be good for the students to live in a society that had institutions that were not at the beck and call of their government.

Probably my most unpopular academic opinion is that you're not in a position to make the case against plagiarism to your students (or anyone else) if you don't even bother to check the license on the images you put in your slide decks, let alone credit them correctly.

In light of the Vancouver PWHL team choosing 'The Goldeneyes' as their name, here's a list of James Bond Film titles, ranked by how good they would be as a hockey team name, worst to best. 🧵

Are there blood pressure meters available in the skydome? Asking for a friend

Let's go aarakocra

You'd think that MLB teams would design variant Halloween jerseys to get around this problem. Very difficult party to theme, this one.

Writing a protest song for the No Kings protests, call that royalty free music

I'm not a linguist, so I don't know how to properly categorize the phenomenon, but there's a specific kind of accent a man can have that apparently means he can only ever talk about baseball

See, like I say. Baseball is easy. They throw a ball at you, and you hit it. And then you do it again.

If the standard model ever develops a need for another pair of quarks they should call them based and cringe

I think the US government has not quite internalized that there's nothing in the world more pathetic than 'person who takes personal offense at Doug Ford'. It's like complaining that you got flipped off by an inflatable tube man

How it started: "I'll have to simplify the rules a lot, given that baseball games already take almost as long as a D&D session even when nobody's rolling to hit" How it's going: "How do you get a meaningful definition of a 'strike zone' when players vary so widely in height and number of limbs"

The Reagan Foundation response is hilarious. They're trying to treat an actual real dead person as if he's a fictional character over which they can assert IP rights. I cannot think of a more fitting target as the first representative of this particular sort of bullshit future

Regret to inform everyone that the ball is, in fact, based

Let's say you happen to be designing a baseball minigame to spring on your D&D party for the session that coincides with the World Series. You need to give it a suitably fantasy name, so that the party does not realize they are playing baseball until they are playing baseball. What do you call it?

Fun fact about me is that the last time the Blue Jays won the World Series was the day I was born. Is this the year I will be released from the curse? Can I finally die?

I built an AI model that writes haunting sci-fi novels in which a vast and unknowable alien other produces seemingly-real replicas of your lost loved ones, just as you remember them but also hollow, since we cannot know the alien other if we do not know ourselves. I call the model 'Stanislaw LLM'

Man, I hate virtue signalling. Even people driving cars feel the need to put on a special little light to tell you if they're left or right

increasing the ratio of voltage to current is an act of resistance

I have a duty to warn: after accidentally attending the best game of the season (this past Sunday) I have become afflicted with the disease known as 'Toronto Blue Jays'. Prognosis is not good. Blue Jay posting will now commence, as part of my treatment plan.

You can't even begin to understand conspiracy theories without a good understanding of trigonometry. It's a real sine quanon

Really curious to hear how people on US university hiring commitees are planning to respond to the 100 000 dollar H1-B bribe rule. There isn't a junior academic in the world with that kind of cash to throw around, and I don't imagine many departments would enjoy it either.

You know, the narrator in 'I've been everywhere' never actually specifies whether he's seen a road with as much dust and sand as the Winnemucca road he's currently on. He names many other roads he's been to, but doesn't make any ruling on their comparative dustiness or sandiness.

Last night, the frat house on my street threw a very loud party (as is their right). But the weird thing was, the music they played at this very loud party in 2025 was at least 80% the exact same music I heard at frat parties in 2012. That's weird, right? Hypotheses?

There's a store in this airport in which you can buy vinyl records. That famously travel-friendly, small, durable, and easy-to-use music delivery method, vinyl records

"But what about the implications? How will this all conclude?" I cry, as I am escorted away from the premises

"There's no platonic explanation for this", I say, looking at one of the dialogues that ends in ἀπορία

In the final judgement, I supplicate before God: "Tell me, please, before I learn my fate - what is the rulebook of the universe? Is it GURPS? Rolemaster?" God turns his ineffable face to me and says "I've been pretty into Thirsty Sword Lesbians lately"

I find myself with one of those rare and beautiful things tomorrow: a day on which I have zero things to do. I'm near Stockholm. Any suggestions?

Being a normal-type gym leader call that neutral monism

I now think that all philosophy talks should be accompanied by a brass band. If you can still be taken seriously in the presence of goofy Sousaphone, you're doing the real philosophy

Nothing sums up Austrian philosophy like having your Wittgenstein conference crashed by a brass band celebrating the feast of the assumption

I'm thinking about starting a project where I publish one short essay every week, starting in September. For those who do similar things, what are the advantages of the platform that you use?

Slightly diminish a band: Maybe

My rap style involves the use of syllables from my very own private language, so it's no surprise you can't understand it. I call it 'beetleboxing'

Bluesky needs to implement polls so we can start doing Ordinary Language Philosophy on here again. Can any currency be 'bucks', or is it just USD?

When I taught at Pitt I often taught in the Italian Room (one of Pitt's weird novelty nation-themed classrooms, like academic Epcot) and the classroom featured a bust of Dante looming over the board at the students. I called him 'Dante Allegheny'. Students didn't think it was funny. I did.

On the one hand, it's clearly good for Tom Lehrer that he got to die peacefully of extremely old age after living his life exactly the way he wanted. May we all be so lucky. But it's almost too bad he didn't die in a nuclear explosion. I think he would have found more fun in it than most.

On an unrelated note I have this really good idea for a podcast

See, I'm at a different, cooler conference called ISHPSSBFOMO

Daily Affirmations: - You are very wise - You speak truly - It must be as you say - That is surely correct, Socrates

I could make some sort of argument about how PhilSci journals enforce the notoriously bad historical practices of the discipline with hard journal submission word limits, but I'm busy trying to somehow remove a quarter of this paper without libeling the dead by omission

I am not "pretentious"; I am authentically and truly a terrible person with annoying tastes

What if we dared to dream of a kinder world. What if we changed our clocks to Greenwich Nice Time.

And to think. People still say that the dialogue form isn't relevant anymore.

I think we should put a complete moratorium on superhero movies just so I don't ever have to see people debating the the personality of the 'real' Superman ever again.

I support the Orca in its campaign to do that which the team that bears its emblem does best: make it all the way to the final round and then completely croak under pressure

Man, I hate virtue signalling. Even people driving cars feel the need to put on a special little light to tell you if they're left or right

I'm currently accepting job offers, by the way.