Love myself an ugly duckling paper story.

I got the pope

If you need me, I can't come right now, I'm busy sweating..

Every hometown's got the ominous megastructure. What's yours?

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

At the risk of igniting a public debate about the design… we prepared for days like this. There are now more than 100 water fountains all over the city, and 4,000 water refill points. Fill up. Stay hydrated.

Man of the people...

Me - ugh, it's going to be 33 degrees today. NHS Blood and Transplant - Give us half a litre of your blood!

Gearr Aonach and Aonach Dubh, Glen Coe #Scotland #GlenCoe #Highlands www.damianshields.com

My prediction is that they will be baying for Burnham's blood in about a year's time. I hope I'm wrong about this.

So far, today, I have spilled coffee all over myself on way to Cardiff. I then bought a change of clothes and left my phone in the shop. Noticed once at university. I think the next thing I should do is drive a big truck....

I swear, there are far too many evil neuroscientists in free will and responsibility debates.

Open letter about philosophy job losses at Nottingham. Please consider signing docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Scary monster football

Lancaster Philosophy has deontological toilets! It's all about fairness. A utilitarian might have pointed to how dirty toilets affect overall happiness!

As someone whose first name gets misspelled A LOT, I'm always mortified when I notice I've done it to other people.

Ooh, this might get embarrassing for Spain.

Are we willing to invest just five cents per person per year to maintain one of the world’s most important climate monitoring systems? That provides crucial information about a potentially existential risk for Europe?

this may not matter in the grand scheme of things but I think there is some genuinely important symbolism in this awful man being forced to remove his name from something he slapped it on a preview of the work to come

Wouldn't hurt a fly...

#NewArticle Ameliorating Linguistic Anchors of Oppression |Emilia L. Wilson #OpenAccess Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #philsky #philosophy

MPs had damn well better decide this morning whose side they're really on before #PMQs at noon. Either they back liberal democracy and the rule of law or, by continuing to mouth weasel words about 'legitimate grievances', 'two-tier policing', 'back doors' and the like, they don't. #TimeToChoose

Kevin Maguire: "After the attack on the Liverpool football parade & it was a white guy, middle class, former royal marine, no-one went after other white, middle class former marines & set this person represents that entire group"

I've written two chapters of my book. Neither particularly good. But I now have something I can work into a better shape.

I am not terribly happy with my current book chapters, but occasionally I come across one that I like, such as 'Toddlers tend to eat chocolate without a view to the future.'

When you seek the opinion of public majorities around issues such as trans people or those seeking asylum, it highlights how gobsmackingly out of touch media and politicians are with normal people who just see humans rather than minorities who should be hounded and persecuted for being themselves.

This week, I've been doing better on the citizenship than on the book writing. Hmpf.

The arc of the moral universe only bends towards justice if we bend it. There's no karmic comeuppance for fascists. There's just us. Community and hard work and a willingness to to take risks and fail.

Really fantastic @jamellebouie.net column today. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

I initially read this as 'Why Campus matters' clearly have been reading too much about the state of UK Higher education recently.

My feed seems to be full of stuff about Stephen Miller being ugly. I'm not getting the news value of this talking point....

Daniel Dennett's influence on modern philosophy cannot be overstated. Today, in his honour, Lisa Bortolotti presents a special issue of Philosophical Psychology dedicated to the legacy of his philosophy. #philsky imperfectcognitions....

I thought Tumblr was a site like Tinder or Grindr, but when I heard the pope had an account, I figured I'd better check that

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

We are a bit behind the times with our decorations

Just blocked Claude pensa, whatever that is.

I have written 500 words on blaming the dead and worked in a bit from Cymbeline, so you may call me pretentious but I'm calling it a wrap for today

I should just stop giving talks because I'm always really knackered the day after. It's not like I was out partying until 2!

This is not the news I need on a Wednesday morning. Bing it is then....

And Arsenal are thruuu!

This (quoted text) is very odd. Not least calling the AI 'honey'. Me, I'm still talking to myself when writing, and honey isn't the appellation that comes to mind...

Just finished reading 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' It is - understated...

Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

List of jobs you may be interested in - I think not, Research Gate

So, recently I am seeing a lot of people on PhilPapers who have tons of 'publications' on Zenodo. As far as I can tell, none of these are peer reviewed or published elsewhere. Does anyone know more about this phenomenon?

I worry that the AI discussion is getting too polarised. There are a bunch of problems with AI which need to be addressed and it is a complete nightmare for university teaching. But that doesn't mean it isn't useful in some work contexts. At the moment, it's a bit:

Went to a very lively event on the Threat of AI by @triphilosophy.bsky.social with some excellent panelists, including @shannonvallor.bsky.social . Then on the way home, saw this -