Reposted by Carrie Jenkinsbarefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026thinking now about sycophantic LLMs as a logical extension of positive psychology and the focus on always feeling good. people using LLMs as romantic partners would also tie in with @carriejenkins.net's work on Sad Love. somebody please write this up so I can read it? 141
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 01/09/2026Moi aussi, ce trimestre : rentrée papier, pas d'écrans. On fait comme les milliardaires qui ne veulent pas que leurs propres enfants soient eduqués par l'IA 001
Reposted by Carrie JenkinsHenri Matisse @henrimatisse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Interior with a Violin Case (1918–19) opens onto a Nice balcony through billowing curtains. The open case echoes the blue of sea and sky beyond. Matisse had recently arrived on the Mediterranean and was exploring the dialogue between interior space and light. 0224
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 21/08/2026"If you remove all idleness, the bow of Cupid is broken … You who seek a termination of your passion, attend to your business." -- Ovid, c. 2AD Remedia Amoris (trans. Henry Riley) 030
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 18/08/2026If you need a palette cleanser for life, may I recommend this lady? I don't know if it's physically possible to be sad while watching this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiiW...youtube.comLa Vie en Rose - ZAZYouTube video by Pygmalion0314 110
Reposted by Carrie JenkinsCentre for Love, Sex, and Relationships @clsrleeds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Breakups hurt, upend our lives, and change how we relate to each other but have been curiously neglected by philosophers. Our workshop next month aims to look closer at this often messy part of life. Here is the fantastic line up. 173
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 10/08/2026Today I have been drawing this owl and it’s possible that the part-finished version will be haunting my nightmares 030
Reposted by Carrie JenkinsUBC Philosophy @ubcphilosophy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Dr. Sylvia Berryman was recently interviewed on The Canadian Philosophy Show (@chly.ca) about her ongoing book project, "Toxic Virtues and British Imperialism." 📻 🎧 Listen to the full conversation here: buff.ly/aXXG5iA 093
Reposted by Carrie JenkinsElizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 14/07/2026A difficult thing about professional orgs meeting any moment is that we choose their leadership primarily to offer intellectual direction to an annual conference. Then some leaders have good luck w an easy year & others inherit a pandemic or Trump I have no solution—ASA shows staff model no better 2183
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 14/07/2026Toilet options at vegan restaurant in downtown Victoria BC: 1. The family that pees together 2. Accessible / frisky 050
Reposted by Carrie Jenkinsokay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 11/07/2026"Emotional Outsourcing" with @agholdier.bsky.social is out in The Philosophical Quarterly! Pre-print on philpapers for anyone interested. academic.oup.com/pq/advance-a...academic.oup.comEmotional outsourcingAbstract. Prompting a chatbot to write an apology or a love letter on your behalf is a form of emotional outsourcing—an act in which a person gives over a 25016
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 04/07/2026Going back there next week. #oilpastel #sennelier #tofino #westcoast #water #pacific #landscapeart 080
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 27/06/2026Submit now for the 2026 Western Canadian Philosophy Conference/Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy wcpaonline.ca NB: on the first day there is a special workshop, "Interconnection in Indigenous Philosophies and the Disciplinary Colonial University" ...wcpaonline.caWestern Canadian Philosophy Association WCPA 141
Reposted by Carrie JenkinsMark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Open letter about philosophy job losses at Nottingham. Please consider signing docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comOpen Letter: Opposing Compulsory Redundancies in the Department of Philosophy, University of NottinghamWe, the undersigned, call on the University of Nottingham to reverse its plans to impose compulsory redundancies on its staff in the Department of Philosophy. The University threatens to cut around o... 23333
Reposted by Carrie JenkinsJesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 17/06/2026me, walking into the British museum 243240548
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 17/06/2026You know what’s fun? The “Great Rational Science Men” from history who were actually weird lil magician dudes, but everyone pretends they weren’t because everyone wants to believe in Great Rational Science Men. Looking especially hard at you, Plato. And you, Isaac Newton.static.klipy.comTara Maclay: We're Witches, We Know StuffAlt: Tara from Buffy the Vampire Slayer saying: “We're Witches, We Know Stuff” 140
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 15/06/2026"'There's your own life,' said Hélène. 'Don't you think that's enough?' 'But my life is made up of my relations with the remainder of mankind; Austria is part of my life, the whole world is part of my life.'" -- Beauvoir, The Blood of Others, 1945 010
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 15/06/2026"'I am a pacifist.' He had given a definition of himself once and for all, he had only to act in accordance with his own idea of himself, ... as if the road had already been marked out, as if the future had not, at every instance, been that gaping void." -- Beauvoir, The Blood of Others, 1945 020
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 15/06/2026"Blumenfield had spoken for a long time, he had described to us the arrogant parades of the white-stockinged militia, the banquets where amnestied Nazis toasted their future victories, the provocations, the outrages which took place under the unmoved gaze of the police. ... 120
Reposted by Carrie JenkinsMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 15/06/2026 John Constable, Rainstorm over the Sea, c. 1824-28 www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/... 634650
Reposted by Carrie JenkinsA Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 14/06/2026Twin Peaks: The Giant with an important message for Cooper: IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN. 07322
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 14/06/2026I am forty-seven today and I still feel this way about swing carousels 4140
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 11/06/2026Iris Murdoch, master of the face that says “I’m waiting for you to stop talking so I can explain why everything you said is wrong” 040
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 09/06/2026"No Cambridge philosopher reads." -- Iris Murdoch, letter to Raymond Queneau, 1947 160
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 09/06/2026"Truth is, I can’t do symbolic logic and probably don’t know what it is." -- Iris Murdoch, letter to Raymond Queneau, 1947 0111
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 09/06/2026The novels of Simone de Beauvoir are written against fascism; they are for our time. Especially The Blood of Others. But they’re not nearly accessible enough. Due to geographic restrictions I’m not allowed to buy an e-book of this one. My VPN-wielding “I am from Glaaaasgoww” routine … 150
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 09/06/2026So .. I get an invitation to do another podcast that I’ve never heard of, I sigh and reply sure, if we can find a time, because public scholar, etc. In the follow-up email it turns out I have the *opportunity* to be on this podcast if I pay the low fee of $100! LOL go home capitalism you’re drunk. 060
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 08/06/2026Drafting AI policy language for next term's course on Philosophy and Literature (a deep dive on She Came to Stay by Simone de Beauvoir). My current plan is to go AI-zero as the policy, but with absolutely no policing ... what are the flaws in this approach? 180
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 07/06/2026“It is always possible to turn squarely toward the harm, to confront it head-on, to argue point by point. But not every frame is worthy of that energy … I describe another orientation—turning sideways … It is a choice about where we place our attention.” —Johnny Mack irshdc.ubc.ca/2025/12/03/t...irshdc.ubc.caTurning Sideways Toward Truth: A Statement from the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre - Indian Residential School History and Dialogue CentreEvents unfolding at another B.C. campus over the past week have brought renewed attention to a familiar tactic: attempts to provoke controversy around the history of residential schools in order to dr... 010
Reposted by Carrie JenkinsJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 07/06/2026The areas that I taught: political philosophy, Marxism, ethics and public policy, would be right in the firing line of the ideological police. Not once in 40 years did anyone attempt to influence my topics or readings. I don’t know what I would do if under the pressure some US colleagues face. 814931
Reposted by Carrie JenkinsPhillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 06/06/2026This is a pretty wild disclaimer to read at the top of a document called "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences." In other words, if this would not pass peer-review, why has it been released? 917454
Reposted by Carrie JenkinsJessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Frankenstein (2025, dir. Guillermo Del Toro) 1603192
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 06/06/2026Me using VPNs to get a book I need that I’m not allowed to buy in Canada youtu.be/q4RGnLu9ubg?...youtu.beGlaaaasgoooowYouTube video by Védís Huldudóttir 030
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 06/06/2026From a letter to Simone de Beauvoir, from her beloved friend “Zaza”: “I needed solitude then to such an extent, felt it so impossible to enjoy myself that I gashed my own foot with an axe to avoid going on that expedition. I had to lie on a chaise longue for a week and listen to … 140
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 05/06/2026This is very cool: a new paper on declarative memory by Alison Springle & Seth Goldwasser, that ports the constructionist-functionalist approach to romantic love I developed in 2015! Unfortunately however this has caused me to notice that 2015 was ELEVEN YEARS AGO. 😱 philarchive.org/rec/SPRMKAphilarchive.org 110
Reposted by Carrie JenkinsRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat 2235221094
Reposted by Carrie JenkinsGrace 🏳️⚧️ @gemofamara.com · 04/06/2026are you just going to do this for every generation 16112122566
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 01/06/2026I’m drafting an essay on how we can study the philosophical novels of Iris Murdoch and Simone de Beauvoir the same way painters study “old masters”, i.e. to practice the techne of their particular art form, the philosophical novel. This might be the most niche thing I’ve ever written that wasn’t … 2180
Reposted by Carrie JenkinsAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Happy Strait of Hormuz Opening Anchored for Simplicity Day to those who celebrate. 702843644
Reposted by Carrie JenkinsHane @hane.bsky.social · 14/05/2024American pragmatists come in "yee haw" and "aw shucks I'm just a simple country lawyer" varieties 106416
Reposted by Carrie JenkinsDavy Hulme @hulme.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Singer Neil Diamond started his career as Neil Coal. He changed his name when the pressure got to him. 3245269407
Reposted by Carrie JenkinsFintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 25/05/2026THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!! 422211681