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The thing about Schaeffer-style Worldview Training is that it's lurking in the background of the last fifty years in all sorts of hidden ways. It is... no accident that some of the most prominent intellectual foot soldiers of Woke 1.0 were exvangelicals, for example.

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Something I've said before is that in my early thirties, I thought that the "plans within plans" in Dune were unsophisticated, an adolescent's idea of Intrigue. These days, though, I realize that most IRL plots are usually pretty unsophisticated.

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Also: actual false flag attacks (e.g. Mukden) are usually so glaringly obvious that they're less a "dupe an unwitting populace into war" and more, "Yeah we staged the attack, what are you gonna do about it?!"

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Something I've thought about since grad school is that for medieval literature, often the most beautiful, haunting, and sublime works will survive in one manuscript, while the most tedious, hackneyed, over-written works will survive in hundreds.

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I'm cis... Am I allowed to laugh as hard as I did at this?

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Genuinely fascinating at the attempt to do nostalgia IP revivals that usually fail. Star Trek TNG came out around the time that a Dark Shadows remake aired as well as an attempted Bonanza: the Next Generation. Ppl have tried to reboot Buck Rogers a few times and it usually fizzles.

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Hmm... just gonna comment with a "tekeli-li" on this one.

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I mean, when I teach World Civ 2, I personally spend entirely too much time with Meiji through Militarist Japan. Part of this is because I have an unfortunate tendency to stan the genro in spite of all the culture and political time bombs they unwittingly planted.

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Something that kind of saddens me is that sometime in the last five years I lost my ability to suspend my disbelief with YouTube reaction videos. I sort of feel like there's a "tragedy of commons" with willing suspension of disbelief in a lot of online spaces. (Thread, I guess?)

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just want a left-leaning social network where I can chat about nerd shit and read artists, writers, and academics sharing their thoughts. I don't want to share in the psychomachia of some of the most deeply unhappy people on God's green earth.

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My article "Women of the world: teaching women thinkers in pre-modern global philosophy" is available open access - it offers a syllabus on the topic with discussion of my thinking in putting it together. Hope it will prove useful! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #philsky #philosophy

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Women of the world: teaching women thinkers in pre-modern global philosophy

This paper reflects on experiences teaching courses on women thinkers from antiquity and the medieval period. The discussion is built around a proposed syllabus (similar to one used in teaching at ...

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cyrus @professorbutts.com · 22/12/2024

welcome to the cocktagon

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Single Female Lawyer @singlefemalelawyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The way the elderly are targeted by scammers should be a national scandal

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Saint Augustine audibly sweating upon finding out that British English has an idiom that things have "gone pear shaped".

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The great thing about being precisely ten years older than this site's modal user is that I already went through this moment, well, ten years ago, and it was liberating (-ish).

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is The Cut trying to generate page views from misogynist hate-clicking?

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Honestly, one of my more hated genres is Anglo-American lefties mooning over French rioting and it turns out that the French rioters are demanding something like the mandatory castration of all immigrants past a certain melanin threshold.

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Mike (beep boop era) @latimeriidae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Late Tolkien: Wait a second, if Middle Earth is our pre-history, rivers are geological phenomena and I must spend the last two decades of my life re-writing everything even though Rayner keeps asking me where the Silmarillion is.

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Sauron as a vampire AND werewolf and winning a rap battle against Finrod only to get rekt by Middle Earth Joni Mitchell and her dog explains a lot about his second age LinkedIn-ass personality

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[The Aristocrats voice] Bluesky!

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyway, upon reflection, apparently for a haunted house story to be really good and engaging it has to actually be *about* something else. Seriously, though, you should read Davi Lindsay's The Haunted Woman, which is a genuinely good haunted house story.

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They don’t tell you this but those walk-through metal detectors at the airport show the TSA agent how long you have to live and no one knows where that feature came from or how to turn it off

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Last bit of Country Music Discourse and I'm done. Someone compared being deeply unpleasant and out of touch with people's musical taste to... Wait for it... MLK Jr's Letter From Birmingham Jail. Peak effing Bluesky. Just beautiful. (No, I'm not going to QT or screenshot.)

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A proper Music Discourse would be whether to psyche yourself up for leg day with Manowar or Basil Poledouris's Conan the Barbarian soundtrack.

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What's Arabic for liberty, equality, fraternity?

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The thing about bsky dot app is that it was meant to basically be Twitter but Without Racists, but founder effect and path dependency turned it into a bubble of forty-year-old tumblrinas. Which is fine for what it is, but they do not exactly have their finger on the pulse of America.

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Reading The Haunted Woman, the book David Lindsay wrote after he decided to try something more mainstream than Voyage to Arcturus. It's a book about a house bigger on the inside than outside, but actually about sex.

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I can't help but notice that in the 1990s, there was a strong strain of progressive cultural relativism that's basically vanished, and vanished in a kind of dumb way, i.e., rather than grappling with cultural difference, just assume everyone is a re-skinned western upper-middle-class uni graduate.

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My phone has a Texas area code and so I've been getting Paxton campaign texts. It would be no exaggeration to say that the substance of these texts is "Tr*nny tr*nny tr*nny." I really want him to lose if for no other reason than to show that culture war is a luxury belief and a losing one.

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