#caturday #catsky #catsofbluesky #void #floof

The world it spins on a crooked axis Left it twitching by the road youtu.be/_a9M8A11bO4?...

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky #moviesky

tfw you teach descartes' dream argument on 2 hours of sleep

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I encountered this pink weirdness a few days ago kayaking on the Estero River. Turns out that it's a clutch of eggs from a Pomacea apple snail. 🐌 #WyrdWednesday #nature

Cicero provides the first recorded use of the word "culture" in a nonagricultural context. He uses it here to refer to the philosophical cultivation of the soul. #philosophy #philsky

#catsky #catsofbluesky

Kayaking on the Estero River (Southwest Florida) #photography #nature

#caturday #catsky #catsofbluesky

Southeast Asian Folk Horror featuring the Ahp/ Krasue/ Leyak/ Penanggalan/ Manananggal boxd.it/mJoao #LetterboxdFriday #filmsky #moviesky

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky #moviesky

I just had one of my Intro to Philosophy students tell me that she successfully used the Five Modes of Agrippa on her father after he tried to browbeat her into believing that Tylenol causes autism. This, folks, is the reason I teach Pyrrhonian skepticism every semester. #philosophy #philsky

the stress eating is not really helping much

"When his fellow passengers on board a ship were all unnerved by a storm, [Pyrrho] kept calm and confident, pointing to a little pig in the ship that went on eating, and telling them that such was the unperturbed state in which the wise man should keep himself." -Diogenes Laertius

Please help Hasan & Duaa if you can gofund.me/cdc6f2b31

Who's ready for the Hegelian rapture?

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

lookin' for cognitive closure in all the wrong places

Before this #SchlegelSunday is over, let me slip in this little nugget from Novalis, which almost certainly inspired Marx's oft quoted line.

Apart from Horst Wessel, it strikes me that August von Kotzebue represents another important historical analogue to our current situation. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_...

Hildegard von Bingen (left) and Mewtwo (right) are feeling particularly playful this #caturday. #catsky #catsofbluesky #void

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Césaire on the "boomerang effect" of colonization

Today, I asked my Hellenistic Philosophy students to create Epicurean Valentines. I was completely unprepared for what they came up with! #philosophy #philsky

Today, I asked my Hellenistic Philosophy students to create Epicurean Valentines. I was completely unprepared for what they came up with! #philosophy #philsky

"To those who have witnessed the hideous display of appetite, the outcome is clear: if allowed to continue on his reproductive rampage, the insect will defoliate the earth." #WyrdWednesday

If you're interested in Gadamer and happen to be in DC this week, you might consider checking out the 20th anniversary meeting of the North American Society of Philosophical Hermeneutics. #philosophy #philsky nasph.org/uncategorize...

Bloch on modern technology's "magic past"

It feels so good to be playing the drums again!

Ruins of the Castillo de Zuheros (Andalucia, Spain) #photography

The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick?

ICYMI Yesterday's broadcast—along with all the episodes in our #WiseWomen series—is now available for download: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... #PhilSky #philosophy @nehgov.bsky.social @altnehgov.altgov.info

Epistemic infinitism has a sealioning problem

"Many-sidedness requires not only a comprehensive system, but also a sense for the chaos outside it; just as humanity requires a sense for what is beyond humanity." Friedrich Schlegel #SchlegelSunday

"But Panaetius did not confine himself to easing the requirements of Stoic ethics. The surviving evidence suggests, for example, that he accepted slavery in a way his predecessors had not." Ellen Meiksins Wood

The visionary kitten, Hildegard von Bingen, advises that you remain brave and strong on this #caturday, "even in a world that's being shipwrecked." #catsky #catsofbluesky

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My happiness is at thy whim, Jolene youtu.be/ugqQlB5fpuc?...

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky

It's not lost on me in the midst of this eulogizing and memorializing a monster that my home state, Florida, has made it a crime to commemorate or remember the victims of the Pulse massacre. In America, only some deaths are considered grievable. The rest of us are just "collateral damage."

Update: in addition to Mewtwo pawing at my face each night while I sleep, I now have Hilda nibbling at my nose. I have no idea what I've done to deserve this good fortune.

The 19th century enthusiasm for the racist pseudoscience of phrenology inspired a wave of cranioklepty. Emanuel Swedenborg Thomas Browne and Joseph Haydn are among the figures whose skulls were posthumously stolen. #WyrdWednesday nautil.us/steal-a-skul...

Mewtwo and Hilda are starting to warm up to each other after only just a few days! #catsky #catsofbluesky

"Somehow, I don't know why, a certain misty suspiciousness seems inseparable from most of one's private notions about some men and some things; but once out with these misty notions, and their mere contact with other men's soon dissipates, or, at least, modifies them." Melville, The Confidence-Man