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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Try as I might, I can’t reconcile the headline and first sentence here

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I have new dependants! Meet Perla and Gerti (mum and daughter) #bunnies

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Visiting the harrowing Genocide Memorial in Rwanda, I found myself marking Trump’s US on this chart.

An infographic mapping pathways for peace vs pathways for violence in societies

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Rwanda has rebuilt the nation with vision, competence and unity. An inspiring week here.

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Pure coincidence (but quite a coincidence) that two of my last six audiobooks are based structurally on long poems: Pale Fire (poem actually in the book) & All We Can Know (poem not in book but its narrative centre). Glad to have my Lolita-centric view of Nabokov’s immense talents expanded recently

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My wife sometimes speaks as if it is wrong to have three different sizes of guitar in the bedroom 🧐

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’ve never seen #cloudporn like that above the village of Beer, Devon last night. It was like folds in thin paper.

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Coal Train by Hugh Masekela live is one of my Desert Island discs and it’s somehow nice that it isn’t on any streaming service. Only the B side of the 12” single of Lady from 1985. Astonishing track. (I have an mp3 recorded direct from vinyl complete with crackles!)

Shows the rear sleeve of Lady by Hugh Masekela.

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Trevor Horn, Anton Corbijn, Propaganda. The Nine Lives of Doctor Mabuse. Why don’t we return to the age of sleeves like this. #ztt #mabuse #vinyl

Back cover of Propaganda 12” single from 1984. Text: discovery of truth is prevented most effectively,
not by the false
appearance things present and which mislead into
error, not directly by
weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion,
by
prejudice, which as a pseudo a priori stands in the path of truth and is then like a contrary wind driving a ship away from land, so that sail and
rudder labour in vain."
dance and crime: the nine lives of dr. mabuse,
presented, prevented and
presumed by propaganda. i the third and fourth side
1. DAS TESTAMENTS DES MABUSE
2. FEMME FATALE
(The Woman With The Orchid) •
3. (the ninth life of...) •
DR. MABUSE
"every
general truth is
related to
specific truths as gold is to silver, inasmuch as it can be converted into a considerable number of specitic
truths which follow from it in the same way as a gold coin can be converted into small change."
Propaganda: noise and girls come out to play. NOISE: ralf dörper andreas thein. GIRLS : claudia brüchen suzanne freytag. BEHIND THE SCENES: (come out to...): michael mertens.
BEHIND THE
SCREENS: (....play) : michael wertz.
TREVOR HORN produced the nine lives of Dr Mabuse. ANTON
photo-
graphed the group and painted the hand. XL and ZTT made up the sleeve. the first and second side are obtainable as ZAS 2: a seven inch. the first, second, third and fourth side of the story make up number two in zang tuum tumb's bold action series. "Viva muchos anos!" recorded at sarm,
west eleven. dr.
mabuse visual: ZIS 107. help from arthur schopenhauer and maurice ravel, trom a to b; aphorism to bolero, artist to beekeeper.
ZTT Records,
The ZTT Building,
8-10 Basing St. London West Eleven.
Enclose s.a.e. and hope. The next propaganda single is Duel
"not the least of the torments which plague our existence is the constant pressure of time, which never lets us so much as draw
but
pursues us all like a taskmaster with a whip. it ceases to persecute only him it has delivered over to boredom.

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Sellars is a challenging read at the best of times but when he sprinkles his signposting with beauties like this, I can’t help but love him more #philsky

Photo of a page of Wilfrid Sellars writing that starts a paragraph with “Let me return to beating the neighbouring bushes”

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I’m constantly attributing deep thoughts to my cockapoo that turn out to be variations on ‘SQUIRREL’, ‘FOOD’ or (in the more profound moments) ‘CAPYBARA’ 😃

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This is the best cover of a philosophy book ever. Challenge me! @philsky01.bsky.social

Cover of Stephen Yablo’s ‘Aboutness’ - a real bird looks at an arrangement of leaves that is a trompe l’oiel of another bird

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Kajagoogoo’s bass player was underrated. Also, I have a small horse who does a passable Limahl impression

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Much as I favour animatronics and puppetry over CGI in films, sometimes we have to recall the past without rise tinted spectacles #topshambreweryloowallpaper

Picture shows a film character sat astride a hopelessly unrealistic dinosaur

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

On a brief and much needed weekend in Mallorca, I cycled this before breakfast this morning. Cap de Formentor lighthouse and back. I’ve lived 43 years with type 1 diabetes. A condition manageable with diet, exercise and now tech. Not one to fear or lose agency over.

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The pedant in me raging at the poor spacing adopted by a company apparently invested in anti-nominative determinism. Kern your A and P correctly or get out of town!

A company sign that reads ‘This is the Space’

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Worried that as my internet connection is Starlink, my EV charging system is now getting Musk-esque delusions of domination… 🤨

A Myenergi Zappi with a message ‘searching for slaves’

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

For all the GPS, AI, mapping, monitoring hype, my phone still assumes I’m driving down the railway tracks a few times a week.

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

If I am ever stressed in future, I’m going to think of Chester the Shiba Inu who I met while skiing last week. The embodiment of calm chill. The face… 🥹

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I read Hans Jonas’ 1992 speech ‘Philosophy at the End of the Century’ on the recommendation of my prof. Glad I did. The final pages are prescient for the early 90s. #philsky www.jstor.org/stable/40971...

Perhaps it will not be a matter of planning at all but of improvisations which the widely growing emergency will cause humanity's inventive genius to devise from occasion to occasion. l do not know-and probably no one does. Only the great imperative is overwhelmingly clear to me along with the fact that the human mind alone, the great creator of the danger, can be the potential rescuer from it. No rescuer god will relieve it of this duty, which its position in the order of things places upon it.

From the abyss that is now becoming visible there arise questions we have scarcely ever asked before. Here, in conclusion, a sampling of them. Can nature continue to tolerate the human mind, which it created from its own substance? Must it eliminate the human mind because it finds that mind too destructive of the natural order? Or can the mind ultimately make itself tolerable for nature once it has become aware that it is intolerable? Is peace possible when war was the primeval law governing the relationship between the two? Or was tragedy perhaps the original purpose behind the birth of mind? Is the drama, in spite of its tragic ending, worth performing for the sake of the unfolding of the plot? And how can we make the drama worthwhile in itself, regardless of the ending? How much of its worthwhileness can we sacrifice in order to attempt to avert catastrophe? Is it permissible for us to be inhumane so that humans can continue to live on Earth?
And so on.
All of these are questions of the type Wittgenstein forbade us to ask, since there can be no verifiable answers to them. But they help us to recognize the existing situation, which forces these questions upon us, and to see that it is ourselves to whom these questions are addressed

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The quality of handouts in the philosophy department’s leaflet rack has undergone a significant improvement

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Trying hard to figure how to rescue this very small 747 stuck in a tree on Clapham Common. #smallfaraway

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Bloody happy to end the year net negative thanks to our #solar. Consumption includes all EV travel, heat pumps, bore hole water pumps, sewage plant and all the usual household electrics. May to September skew the year massively in our favour.

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

A twin to our American Miniature, Dolly

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

What are the chances of three philosophers all called Adrian all in the same small room of a dozen people all at the same time? With the wonderful Dr Adrian Currie (Exeter) and Dr Adrian Alsmith (KCL) celebrating a triple A rating

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Just a few weeks to go and despite very little sunshine in recent weeks, I think we will comfortably achieve another net negative year for power, heating, hot water and EV. #solar #sunpoweredhouse

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Philosopher Richard Rorty nailed this point…

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Lyla looking a bit like an Escher staircase amid regal nonchalance moments #russianblue

Russian Blue cat sitting at odd angle on blue sofa

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Of all the AIs, when I need a laugh, Claude rises to the occasion.

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Wide angle shots of ponies can be disconcerting

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

High quality Bladerunner trolling in the Topsham Brewery gents.

A picture of Rutger Hauer from the end of BladeRunner holding a white pigeon. Written on the pigeons feathers in ballpoint pen is the line “I’m not fucking Hedwig“.

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I have been responding to a few more cat posts recently. Having never lived with a cat until the age of 60 when my son left his beautiful girl with us to go travelling, I have become a late life besotted convert. Here’s Lyla helping me work #russianblue

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Epistemologically-apt pets: goldfish, parakeets, budgies and (speak no evil) monkeys. Affectively-apt pets: poodles, killifish and Persian cats. Philosophical questions abound on the back cover of this pet care series from the 70s #philsky

KNOW YOUR GOLDFISH
KNOW YOUR PARAKEETS -
BUDGIES
KNOW YOUR MONKEY
ENJOY YOUR POODLE
ENJOY YOUR PERSIAN CAT
The new Pet Library tells you what you want to know about your pets.
ENJOY YOUR KILLIFISH
• Interesting
• Informative
• Authoritative
• Colorful
• Complete
Published by:
The Pet Library Ltd.
New York, N.Y.
No.119

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

The day 2 + 3 line ups at Woodstock always leave me stunned when I look at my poster. Every act elevated to the stratosphere by history and nostalgia, maybe, but… wow. #woodstock

SAT., AUG. 16
Canned Heat
Creedence Clearwater
Grateful Dead
Keef Hartley Janis Joplin
Jefferson Airplane
Mountain
Quill
Santana
The Who
SUN., AUG. 17
The Band
Jeff Beck Group
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Joe Cocker
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Jimi Hendrix
Iron Butterily
Ten Years After
Johnny Winter

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

There’s a degree of irony in the syntactic mangling in the first sentence of Section 2 of the Cambridge Elements ‘The Philosophy of Linguistics’ 🧐

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Some lovely #cloudporn above Devon this evening

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Sometimes Paul Ricoeur writes sentences so good that they warrant all 4 of my marks: a post-it tag, three ticks, a key and messy underlining. #philsky

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Holidaying at Killarney on the west coast of Ireland. Don’t think I’ve ever taken a more wholesome photo.

Photo of a foal on lush grass above an Irish Lough and mountains

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

There’s the argument that deliberate errors and disfluencies in ads create cognitive friction and so Zeigarnik stress (and memorability). As used famously in recent Snikkers ads. www.thebigad.com/wp-content/u...

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The use of the quotation marks on signs and menus has always fascinated me philosophically. The sort of thing Davidson would have enjoyed. Are the “ … “ conveying a proxy for the staff or is the menu itself speaking to me? Why did the author choose them? 👀 #philsky

A breakfast menu headed with “Good Morning”

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