Reposted by Andrew Lopez okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 03/10/2026sometimes I want to use the phrase 'as an empath' but I don't, because I know how it will make others feel 2548
Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Asked my students on Tuesday to imagine a white monster energy drink, and perhaps imagine bringing me one, as a mental state that they probably don't feel any way about but that has a very positive valence for me, to explain valenced mental states. I received several white monsters today lol. 060
Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You can just do what you did from 16-25 and sit on your friend's couch that he found on the curb, in perpetuity, at no point do you need a dining room 020
Reposted by Andrew Lopez USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Will Stancil isn’t going to fuck you 661692229
Reposted by Andrew Lopez Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 21/09/2026I’ve just been named subject editor for the new “Animal ethics” area in the SEP, following my complaint that there are too few articles on this topic (serves me right for complaining). So stay tuned for new entries in the area, and hit me up with suggestions on topics that you think merit one! 710115
Reposted by Andrew Lopez Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026We live in a 2026 full of actual racism. Malicious and very often unabashedly overt. There's so much actual racism to enjoy. We don't need to make it up. 458723
Reposted by Andrew Lopez Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026K-pop star in Korean ad for Koreans (KKK). 54858
Reposted by Andrew Lopez Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026People all seem convinced this is clearly intentionally such a dogwhistle. Anything's possible, I guess, but, I don't know. This isn't far from schizoposting. Why would they use a K-pop star in a Korean ad for Koreans to do that? You're saying it's wrong to carry shoes in your hand? 8998146
Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A few weeks ago I taught my students about necessary and sufficient conditions using an elaborate scenario in which I delusionally think I have a shot with Sade. I walked into class yesterday with a new haircut and a student immediately asked me if Sade was in town lol 1889
Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Just saw someone say they rather a hire a student who went to a Cal State than some DEI-admitted Harvard student. What exactly do you think DEI is and how does your understanding exclude cheap public higher education like a Cal State 020
Reposted by Andrew Lopez USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 07/08/2026i regard water as dry 6141731154
Reposted by Andrew Lopez Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026There isn't a world where machines generate reams of new knowledge and it somehow becomes unimportant for humans to understand them. Consequently, preserving the institutions and systems that make this possible is of value! 2234
Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This paper is now out! If you're interested in politics on the internet, 4chan, and the intersection of politics, sociology, and philosophy, give it a read! journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...journals.publishing.umich.eduIt’s Just a Joke: Thinking Online Politics with Jorge PortillaI argue that the philosophy of Jorge Portilla can help us understand the current social and political conditions of the United States. In particular, I draw from Portilla’s account of relajo and his w... 163
Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026People always ragging on Canadian healthcare and wait times. Meanwhile in the Land of Freedom and Plenty, the doctors in my network "accepting new patients" can have me come in as early as February 5. Or September 30th if I can go 90 miles away as a carless person. 110
Reposted by Andrew Lopez Jenny Saul @jennysaul.bsky.social · 28/08/2026So delighted that Talia Bettcher is joining us at Waterloo Philosophy as an Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair, to study transphobia. America's loss is Canada's gain. Elbows up! uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo...uwaterloo.caWaterloo welcomes inaugural Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs | Waterloo News | University of WaterlooGlobal research leaders choose Waterloo to advance transformative research that supports Canada’s strategic priorities and future prosperity 0161
Reposted by Andrew Lopez Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Charging money for Content is dishonorable. Sophist behavior. A true visionary, in the tradition of the great Socrates, is annoying for free 211423154
Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Interesting seeing philosophers insisting that making claims like "many philosophers believe X" and then not citing anyone or anything is perfectly normal and appropriate, particularly in the introduction to a dissertation 080
Reposted by Andrew Lopez noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 08/08/2026many professors are calling it 'the least surprising result of all time' 231598332
Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026How to flirt at an academic conference: apply for the poster session and put up screenshots of your Hinge profile 000
Reposted by Andrew Lopez Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026luckily he chose a remote, seldom visited corner of the country to make shit up about 521819
Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Why would a gender studies department hire straighforwardly a bioethicist 050
Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I finally watched this film last year after hearing so much hype about the directors cut, and it was fine? 130
Reposted by Andrew Lopez Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 14/07/2026It's ugly and rotten-hearted to speak ill of the dead if they were a powerful politician who pushed constantly for war and misery. It's perfectly fine to speak ill of the dead if they were some nobody immigrant who was near a cop. 7872143
Reposted by Andrew Lopez Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/07/2026Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years" 10084472473
Reposted by Andrew Lopez Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026when you're beating the allegations 1624510
Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Crazy how just before the match was gonna end (with a Mexico goal no doubt), FIFA just cancelled the game and the rest of the World Cup 000
Reposted by Andrew Lopez Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 04/07/2026new metaphor just dropped 1136285118730
Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026"PodPitch is the first AI-powered podcast PR platform" maybe if you didn't rely on AI you'd realize your emails are going to the Andrew Lopez that's a philosophy professor and not the NBA reporter 030
Reposted by Andrew Lopez noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 25/06/2026You can just verbatim quote stuff from AIPAC’s self-descriptions on their website and a bunch of people will call you antisemitic 2553
Reposted by Andrew Lopez doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026"i'm a committed catholic. also i waited six years to baptize my child" 883620503
Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 13/06/2026What a great indexing system google has, that I can search for something about animals and append twitter to it and the second hit is a racist tweet with 3 likes while the actual tweet I'm looking for with 27k+ likes is third 030
Reposted by Andrew Lopez Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 07/06/2026I don’t mind if you choose to be from New York. I just don’t want you teaching it to my kids 526132
Reposted by Andrew Lopez noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 29/05/2026BREAKING: workers are unlikely to make donations to the political party with the ‘completely ruin your workplace’ platform 0294
Reposted by Andrew Lopez Raffael Fasel @raffaelfasel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Tragic that Happy has had to die in a zoo rather than in a sanctuary, where she should have been moved to. 175
Reposted by Andrew Lopez Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 28/05/2026"yes, yes, devotion through selfless work, etc etc, bro my cousins are out there and want to kill me right the hell now can we talk about this massive army for a second" 1163
Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Pretty funny seeing a subset of the "Postmodernism is evil" reactionary guys Latouring everyone with "yes Achilles slept with men but he was not gay" 031
Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Texting my partner who makes more than me to sell her house so that I (-70k net worth) can feel like a provider www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comSingle women are buying more houses. The men they are dating are not responding wellFemale home owners report feeling stuck between men’s contradictory expectations – they are told to be independent, but not assume the breadwinner role 020
Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Why do wiki articles on people include them being nominated for a Nobel Prize. "[Obscure Fascist was nominated 3 times"]. Who gives a shit. You can be nominated by all kinds of dipshits in national assemblies. One-thousand people at my university meet the criteria to nominate someone. Fake prestige. 000
Reposted by Andrew Lopez evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Really excited to announce that starting in the fall I'll be an assistant professor in the philosophy department at East Tennessee State University! So hit me up if you're ever in Appalachia! 4363
Reposted by Andrew Lopez lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/05/2026This is what being a philosopher is like 1411914
Reposted by Andrew Lopez They/Them Squall Leonhart @biggnomeyt.bsky.social · 09/05/2026It’s time 71501549
Reposted by Andrew Lopez Mateo Arias-Vélez @mateoarias.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Do bonobos have social norms? In my new paper, I argue that bonobos exhibit genuine forms of normativity regulated through shared social mechanisms. Their social life may be far closer to human normativity than we usually assume critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/cr... 07013
Reposted by Andrew Lopez Elmo @tim-elmo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026if you're rich enough wanting to tax you is bigotry, but if you're poor enough we don't recognize your right to hold property at all. 031