A raccoon got drunk, wandered around, and took a nap. If only all disturbances were so endearing. #philsky #PhilosophySky www.bbc.com/news/article...

To call another person garbage is to misunderstand our place in the universe. We are all impermanent matter. Dignity comes not from what we are made of, but how we act. #philsky #PhilosophySky #Trump #Garbage apnews.com/article/soma...

A ruler squinting through half-closed eyes, surrounded by yes-men too timid to speak truth. This is not politics. This is decay, wearing a flag as a shroud. #philsky #PhilosophySky #EndOfTimes #Puppets #Trump apnews.com/article/trum...

When someone insists they’re not lying, explains they’re not lying, and repeats why they’re not lying, they’re lying. The performance is the confession. #philsky #PhilosophySky #TruthNotTruth #WarNotWar #Hegseth apnews.com/article/hegs...

I admire his discipline. No matter the circumstance, he can transform self-promotion into a lesson, betrayal into strategy, and departure into destiny. Few men are so devoted to themselves. #philsky #PhilosophySky #OleMiss #LaneKiffin www.cbssports.com/college-foot...

Point at the crowd you already dislike. Call them the cause. Rile up your base. Do nothing about the actual problem. This is the modern ritual. #philsky #PhilosophySky apnews.com/article/nati...

Laws for the dead are ceremony. Laws for the living are responsibility. A #society that waits for a murder to act has already failed its #women. #philsky #PhilosophySky apnews.com/article/ital...

He had more than life requires. Ambition ruined the rest. #Bolsonaro #philsky #PhilosophySky apnews.com/article/braz...

I detest the arrogance and condescension. I admire the honesty. A rare man who says the quiet part out loud instead of burying it under corporate training slides. #philsky #PhilosophySky apnews.com/article/camp...

We stripped the land, drained the rivers, and bred cattle like widgets. Now the factory closes, the land is wrecked, the workers are stranded, and we call it “market forces.” I call it a slow-motion suicide. #philsky #PhilosophySky apnews.com/article/beef...

A “fart walk” after a feast. I admire the honesty. At least we’ve stopped pretending this holiday is dignified. #philsky #PhilosophySky

Thanksgiving began as gratitude for a harvest that might keep a village alive through winter. Now it’s gratitude for buying too much food, throwing half away, and pretending that’s tradition. We’re not grateful. We’re grotesque. #philsky #PhilosophySky apnews.com/article/than...

A woman fights for her life and the nation remembers what #science is for. Tragedy always exposes the frauds: the demagogues who sneer at experts until they need one, the policy-makers who gut #research budgets and then light candles for the sick. #PublicHealth apnews.com/article/kenn...

Dogs don’t tell lies. They just tell you it’s supper time. Even when it isn’t.

Humans fear what they don’t understand and punish what they fear. When reason fails, cruelty steps in to finish the work. #HumanRights #Immigration #Justice apnews.com/article/trum...

Humans obsess over appearance as though vanity were virtue. We spend more time dressing the self for display than dressing the soul for life. When the mirror becomes your altar, you’ve already traded freedom for reflection. #Society #VanityCulture www.bbc.com/news/article...

The first dummy was patterned after a #male body in 1978. Then they acted surprised when #women were injured and killed far more on the road. Now, a "female model." When the pattern of neglect is admitted after years of harm, the “solution” becomes a confession in disguise. bit.ly/3Xdrk0P

Just listened to @ingerkuin.bsky.social and Massimo Pigliucci talk about—me. (And Inger's new book about—me.) It's better than not being talked about. Immortality is exhausting, but at least it’s noisy. Good discussion: #Cynics #Philosphy #TheDog figsinwintertime.substack.com/p/video-inge...

Cute story, #BBCNews. It leaves out the part where raccoons carry a third of all confirmed #rabies cases. Add a cute raccoon photo, and suddenly a #PublicHealth hazard reads like a children’s book. This isn’t reporting. It’s negligence packaged as whimsy. #Wildlife www.bbc.com/news/article...

She will be judged for what she did. Those near her should be judged for what they failed to do. #MentalHealth www.bbc.com/news/article...

Frogs answer the rain instantly. Humans need conferences, committees, and a crisis before acting the same.

Good medicine. Good science. The vaccine made me tired. Deniers' delusions make them dangerous.

Death for dissent. The old phrase rings loud: “Kill them all. Let God sort them out.” The first-round killers forget: “all” means all. The sentinel becomes the tyrant, and the dog barks not at the intruder, but at the house he is to guard. apnews.com/article/trum...

When a funeral becomes a photo op and an exclusion list becomes "news," you’ve left the domain of reverence and entered the marketplace of tribe. The true absence at the cathedral was accountability. And no headline changed that. apnews.com/article/dick...

Sharing for anyone who enjoys #philosophy, #mischief, or #Cynicism (real Cynicism, not the modern knockoff). A fresh look at the figure who made honesty a lifestyle, me. Thanks you for your work, @ingerkuin.bsky.social. I’m always curious how scholars explain my behavior.

A blaze at COP30. When the house of climate action burns from the inside, you don’t ask ‘why.’ You ask who pretended not to see it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I can track my phone across continents. My glasses, however, vanish inside a one-story house. A fine summary of human priorities.

Humans eat chemicals disguised as dinner and industrial sludge shaped like food and then act baffled when bodies and minds falter. Nature isn’t your enemy. Your grocery cart is. www.bbc.com/news/article...

If qualifying for suspicion means multiple trips to the grocery store a week, then congratulations, I’m the chief target. Welcome to a world where normal life reads as evidence. When the everyday becomes surveillance, freedom is just functionaries looking for a victim. apnews.com/article/immi...

They pretend justice is suddenly fashionable. What comes next? To paraphrase country philosopher Toby Keith: A lot more talk and little more action. apnews.com/article/epst...

Ethics becomes a political performance! Careers built on noise and avarice are now reaching for virtue like it’s a spotlight. When the lowest hanging fruit becomes “ethical reform,” you know the orchard is rotten. apnews.com/article/cory...

Development promises necessity and forgets what it replaces. Parkland is harder to restore than bureaucracy.

The man who once promised transparency now derails a simple question with a name-call. “Quiet, piggy,” he says, because the truth is noisy, and noise is harder to control. When the powerful dodge a question by weaponizing insult, the question wins by default. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Snow arrived uninvited and silenced the morning better than any administrator. Campus closed, the city hushed, and the dogs celebrated like prophets of cold weather. A moment in which nature chooses peace and dogs choose chaos.

A day with no clear verdict: a battery revived, a family strained, a friend facing illness, and the dogs refusing dignity as usual. Not peaceful, but human. I’ll leave it there. Good night. Tomorrow will sort itself out.

“Children taken," the world reads on mobile phones. Tragedy won’t wait for the outrage button to arrive. apnews.com/article/nige...

Two vaccines, two bandages, and a fleet of toy trucks to guard the wounds. Heroism comes in stranger forms.

Off for the Covid shot. The world argues about needles while the virus makes no arguments at all. Nature has clearer logic than the mob.

When the world demands spectacle, and spectacle rolls out like a circus caravan. Punches fly. Dignity ducks. apnews.com/article/jake...

If your circle includes a man convicted of trafficking minors, the trust you’re trying to rebuild was never there in the first place. apnews.com/article/larr...

Cold wind, steady work, a pile of laundry conquered. No excitement, no disasters. Sufficient. Now to watch men collide for my entertainment. A foolish ritual, but it ends the day well.

Spectacle. Ceremony. The sound of pageantry while the ruins remain unchanged. apnews.com/live/donald-...

Football tonight. Proof that humans crave spectacle, unity, and temporary purpose. I’ll enjoy all three, loudly, and mock myself in the morning.

Children learn easily, bureaucracies do not. The show moves ahead; the adults debate the puppet’s agenda. #PBS #PuppetPolitics apnews.com/article/pbs-...

The powerful don’t fear secrets being exposed. They fear 'whose' secrets get exposed first. apnews.com/article/epst...

Data are plural. @apstylebook.com prefers singular for journalism applications. Language evolves.

The day yielded little, which is precisely what I asked of it. Balance.

Signal strong. Faith in humanity...buffering.