Devastated & horrified by the Tai Po fire — but Dan & I are safe. As American Thanksgiving dawns across the Pacific, just want to say I am thankful for our family, friends, colleagues, boyos, our health & safety, & each of you. Hug a loved one pls, & keep HK in your thoughts. ♥️

crying yelling throwing up 😭😭😭

I’m putting together a list

Halloween Friday news dump: The Trump administration is giving out $100 million to “refurbish and modernize” coal plants

The Little Mermaid but make it your philosophy professor

How Musk fucked up Twitter's blue tick verification system, and its disastrous consequences.

good afternoon

A wonderful post on Twitter and on X verification by Shane Ryan and Jen Foster on Open for debate blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...

Hey remember when Brian Leiter said philosophy grad students on Twitter had “job prospects de minimus” ? Anyway I’m a Dr. now and I co-wrote some philosophy about Twitter blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...

Teaching @add-hawk.bsky.social’s “Playfulness and Epistemic Traps” in my “Info, Misinfo, and the Media” class :)

I know my boyos are in safe hands with their grandparents in the states, but god help me if I don’t miss them so much it hurts :(

Am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?

“That leaves us with a massive asymmetry, where Charlie Kirks work against rule of law democracy, Ezra Kleins pretend that they don’t, and together they work to convince everyone that all this is fine, just normal disagreement, so the people taking attacks on democracy seriously are the problem.”

Freshman year of college I attended the first queer-straight student alliance meeting, and later a boy from my dorm whom I’d seen there asked if we could talk. Sorta taken aback but eager to make friends, I proposed we get coffee, and we sat down at a picnic table on the quad.

Love to feel my brain working less well and having to wonder if it’s just aging or if it’s permanent damage from covid or the spoon of microplastics up there or the decade of chronic stress from the global resurgence of fascism

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John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave But his soul goes marching on

playing footage of the President’s actual words with minimal editorial comment: immediate indefinite suspension saying we should “just kill them” about the homeless: nothing, apparently

This is the kind of shit people were warning about when they said "hey there's these guys called Sinclair buying up every affiliate station in the country" but we didn't act then and now we're here

Ordinary people are out on the street giving their all against a bully who is not only corrupt but unpopular, not only flailing at the proof he’s a child rapist but visibly dying before our eyes. And people with actual wealth and power are *racing* to lick his boots. We’re on our own.

It’s really skeeving me out how ALL of these different news outlets are peddling the “because of Charlie Kirk comments” headline for Jimmy Kimmel’s show termination when he actually made zero “Charlie Kirk comments”

for most of my education/adult life 1930s germany was incomprehensible to me but surreally it makes much more sense now :/

I genuinely feel like I’m losing my mind. What we’re seeing here isn’t just “whitewashing” of Kirk, his renown, and his political legacy — it’s full-on manufactured delusion.

can’t stop thinking about this

In light of current events Andor should have cleaned up imo

Moved out of our 4-floor walkup this week lol

(Genuinely friendly) reminder that handouts are essential for making philosophy talks accessible to non-native English speakers, people with vision impairments, and those of us with auditory processing issues/ADHD!

The government is tyrant-maxing. It’s giving despot

I’m never gonna forget or forgive the folks who justified this, made excuses for this, or weaponized accusations of bigotry against those who had the moral clarity to see it for what’s its always been: genocide.

Insisting that you’re a strong player is weak player behavior imo

For some reason just remembered that when I was little I thought it was “War War One” and “War War Two” lmao

I know you’re not on twitter anymore @lastpositivist.bsky.social but u need to see this, it’s urgent

Someone here in LA has a sign that just says “IMPEACH THIS BITCH” and it made me actually lol #NoKings

Put some respect on the name of the woman who discovered that bisexuals are straight and gay at the same time!

This is my “I just got my PhD” dress 🍸

That’s Dr. Philoso_foster to you :)

happy dissertation defense eve to me! 😬

This makes me feel crazy.

Gender is so fucking weird because on the one hand you have (sane) people being like “eh it’s whatever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯” and on the other hand you have (insane) people being like “it’s the MORAL CRISIS OF OUR TIME that will LITERALLY END SOCIETY if we don’t violently police it”

@jenfoster.bsky.social next time you do cogtweeto you should schedule a Poaster Session

"myth of sisyphus" except it's emails and the gods are are making you use Outlook because they think it's funnier

just remembered “late great Hannibal Lecter” lmao

Started chewing nicotine gum while grading essays and devastated to learn it helps SO much

“Abolish ICE” doesn’t sound so radical anymore does it

time since 2020 passing at an increasingly alarming rate

We’ve been doing student presentations in my course so I’ve been sitting in the desks with the rest of the class instead of standing at the front and it’s pretty funny to realize that even in my dress pants etc. as soon as I hit one of those bad boys I’m sitting like this

the sickos man is very cold. let him inside

Really sucks that we’re going to lose our republic because some edgelord dork wanted to be cool on the internet

U.S. academics if you’re aren’t going to vocally resist and refuse to capitulate to nazification I’m sorry but you are worthless to your “profession” and to the world and the shame of your betrayal will shortly catch up with your cowardice.