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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I believe "spreading the dreary-wearies all over the place" is the most direct translation of the crime for which Socrates was sentenced to death, though I'd have to double check with Ancient Greek speaking colleagues

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Trying to imagine a c.5000 CE fictional recreation of our current moment, based on a retelling composed in c.2500 CE, which puts into the mouth of a character knowledge that an era based on some bizarre form of periodization we’ve never heard of is ending.

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Contimentalist @contimentalist.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Nolan’s atomic bomb in Oppenheimer, capable of destroying the world physically, is the Trojan Horse in the Odyssey—the means by which a shared symbolic world is dissolved. Both times the weapon is a regrettable outcome, seen through the crisis of one man’s conscience. It’s a myth about the world.

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Contimentalist @contimentalist.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It’s a liberal myth—that those responsible for dissolving the bonds which make us a society were good people, didn’t realize what they were doing, and are tormented by what they’ve done.

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

"If the Weather Underground failed, we should ask: compared to what?" Emmett Rensin explores the moral reckoning of Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s “Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young”: lareviewofbooks.org/article/dangero…

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A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books

Did the Weather Underground have a point?

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

So rude leaving Gonçalo Ramos on the bench for old man Ronaldo every time

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Jordan Henderson with 0 minutes played one yellow card and a broken arm might be the single greatest statline in WC history

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The schism is not medieval. These chucklefucks aren't interesting enough for a real antipope. You don't need a historian of the Avignon Papacy or the 11th century for this, you need someone studying Vatican II and the archconservatives who refute it.

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Ben Menghini @benghini.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

What do we want from theology in the next 10 years?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I’m sure he will, just as Teddy Sheringham would get some goals. But he offers v little off the ball and his limited movement was a huge part of why Portugal look blunt.

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Contimentalist @contimentalist.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The Cape Verde players are about to play the longest 18+ minutes of their lives.

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Luke Foley @lukefoley.me · 13/06/2026

Trying to figure out if the USA are actually pretty good or Paraguay is just bang average shite, thinking it might be more of the latter tbh. #FIFAWorldCup

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The final form of the “it’s about Zotero, actually” discourse, which I’ve just seen, is that choosing to do your own footnotes when you have the option to automate the process is neoliberalism

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chris @geistwhisperer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

yo academics need to *stop* doing the whole charybdis-scylla thing as “clever” way of saying rock and a hard place. that shit is sooooo played out

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Contimentalist @contimentalist.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The Matrix of Four Weddings and a Funeral

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Espooky Hispanic Pixie Dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Merge two movies Honey, I Blew Up the Kid Stays in the Picture.

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Contimentalist @contimentalist.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I think Freud has ruined me for most theories of knowledge keyed to affectivity.

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

It's so cool how a centrist finance paper is able to draw a distinction between Opus Dei and aberrant American Catholic doctrines and practices and actual Catholic doctrine as promulgated by the Vatican with a subtlety lost on 99% of people who opine on this stuff

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Shelly Penton @plaidsilk.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Correct. As a Tennessean born and bred, I stopped listening to country at 14 when the CM establishment kicked the Chicks off radio for criticizing Bush and the war. I still like the genre, but I distinguish between Country (trash pop music for white Christian nationalists) and folk/blue grass/etc.

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Contimentalist @contimentalist.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Second this. Relatedly—I have yet to come across any self-identifying Xian and MAGA supporter who doesn’t suspend any and all ethical injunctions on the basis of some kind of eschatology.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Good morning. Let us be direct: “White supremacy is the unnamed political system that has made the modern world what it is today.”

Charles W. Mills. The Racial Contract. Cover.

White supremacy is the unnamed political system that has made the modern world what it is today.
You will not find this term in introductory, or
even advanced, texts in political theory. A standard undergraduate philosophy course will start off with Plato and Aris-totle, perhaps say something about Augustine, Aquinas, and Machiavelli, move on to Hobbes, Locke, Mill, and Marx, and then wind up with Rawls and Nozick. It will introduce you to notions of aristocracy, democracy, absolutism, liberalism, representative government, socialism, welfare capitalism, and libertarianism. But though it covers more than two thousand years of Western political thought and runs the ostensible gamut of political systems, there will be no mention of the basic political system that has shaped the world for the past several hundred years. And this omission is not accidental.
Rather, it reflects the fact that standard textbooks and courses have for the most part been written and designed by whites, who take their racial privilege so much for granted that they do not even see it as political, as a form of domination. Ironi-cally, the most important political system of recent global history-the system of domination by which white people

have historically ruled over and, in certain important ways, continue to rule over nonwhite people—is not seen as a political system at all. It is just taken for granted; it is the background against which other systems, which we are to see as political, are highlighted. This book is an attempt to redirect your vision, to make you see what, in a sense, has been there all along.
Philosophy has remained remarkably untouched by the debates over multiculturalism, canon reform, and ethnic diversity racking the academy; both demographically and con-ceptually, it is one of the "whitest" of the humanities. Blacks, for example, constitute only about 1 percent of philosophers in North American universities—a hundred or so people out of more than ten thousand-and there are even fewer Latino, Asian American, and Native American philosophers.' Surely this underrepresentation itself stands in need of an explana-tion, and in my opinion it can be traced in part to a conceptual array and a standard repertoire of concerns whose abstractness typically elides, rather than genuinely includes, the experience of racial minorities. Since (white) women have the demographic advantage of numbers, there are of course far more female philosophers in the profession than nonwhite philosophers though still not proportionate to women's percentage of the population), and they have made far greater progress in developing alternative conceptualizations. Those African American philosophers who do work in moral and political theory tend either to produce general work indistinguishable from that of their white peers or to focus on local issues (af-firmative action, the black "underclass") or historical figures
(W. E. B. Du Bois, Alain Locke) in a way that does not aggressively engage the broader debate.
What is needed is a global theoretical framework for situating discussions of race and white racism, and thereby challenging the assumptions of white political philosophy, which

would correspond to feminist theorists' articulation of the centrality of gender, patriarchy, and sexism to traditional moral and political theory. What is needed, in other words, is a recognition that racism (or, as I will argue, global white supremacy is itself a political system, a particular power structure of formal or informal rule, socioeconomic privilege, and norms for the differential distribution of material wealth and opportunities, benefits and burdens, rights and duties. The notion of the Racial Contract is, I suggest, one possible way of making this connection with mainstream theory, since it uses the vocabulary and apparatus already developed for con-tractarianism to map this unacknowledged system. Contract talk is, after all, the political lingua franca of our times.
We all understand the idea of a "contract," an agreement between two or more people to do something. The "social contract" just extends this idea. If we think of human beings as starting off in a "state of nature," it suggests that they then decide to establish civil society and a government. What we have, then, is a theory that founds government on the popular consent of individuals taken as equals.?
But the peculiar contract to which I am referring, though based on the social contract tradition that has been central to Western political theory, is not a contract between everybody ("we the people"), but between just the people who count, the people who really are people ("we the white people"). So it is a Racial Contract.

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Contimentalist @contimentalist.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I dunno, I can never finish reading any of his ridiculous screeds because he capitalizes the most random words.

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Contimentalist @contimentalist.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Watched the first season—well done and unnervingly relevant, which was, I’m sure, part of the intent.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This really happened, they didn't make it up for dramatization. Mussolini went to the parliament and dared even one of them to move for his impeachment. When none did, it cemented his claim to legitimacy for an absolute dictatorship.

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Mussolini Challenges Parliament To A Final Showdown | Mussolini: Son Of The Century

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Habermas outlived modernity—respect

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Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Philosophy and anxiety is the worst mix because I can always win the argument with the therapist and by which I mean, anxiety wins

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Contimentalist @contimentalist.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

In America it always matters who is dying more than it matters that someone is dead—characterizing the resistance in Minneapolis in military terms is the deliberate construction of a narrative which permits and legitimizes the use of deadly force against moms and nurses.

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Scarrrrie 👻 🎃 🧙 @carrieat.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

no maybe you can’t “read everything in your field” but you can die trying which is basically what a PhD is

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Contimentalist @contimentalist.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

A good forum discussion on what is obscured in prevailing debates about migration and the class politics which are actually at stake.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 08/12/2025

Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory) Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)

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Contimentalist @contimentalist.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

It wasn’t exactly subtle at the time, but it’s painfully clear now that white evangelical reformed appropriation of Scottish common-sense realism and the Wittgenstein concept of language games were both reactionary attempts to contest the emerging social consensus around sexuality and gender norms.

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Contimentalist @contimentalist.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Can’t have a robust sense of what it means to love without some orientation towards what is true and good—together this entails not leaving people to remain as they are, but also respecting their inherent dignity. As always the problem of politics is the question of what it means to be a society.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Has this been posted yet

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I caNnot aNswer this qwestion, as it is agaiNst My reLigious principles.
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IT'S WORTH A SHOT.
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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Continental philosophy enjoyers be like:

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it’s me, aubrey plaza accord @sellingtheta.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Liverpool crashing harder than bitcoin

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Forty years ago today, Calvin & Hobbes was first published. It's all fabulous but, as time went on, Bill Watterson decided he was going to make his Sunday pages the most gorgeous, creative, and varied of all. This is one of my favourites, partly for the use of the looooong final panel.

Full colour comic strip page. First panel says across the top "Calvin and Hobbes, by Watterson". The rest of the panel is of a pterodactyl flying over the sea.
Panel 2: a gigantic sea creature emerges out of the sea, snapping at the little pterodactyl. The predator shouts: CALVIN, PAY ATTENTION!!
Panel 3 shows us reality - Calvin is at his school desk looking surprised as the teacher shouts at him: "we're studying Geography! Now what state do you live in?"
Panels 4 and 5 show the same little scene, as Calvin answers "denial", and the teacher walks away: "sighhhh... I don't suppose I can argue with that..."
Panel 6 is long, running across the bottom of the page, and almost all of it is blue, open sky - freedom - and, on the far right, the pterodactyl carries on flying.

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Contimentalist @contimentalist.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Mega-church styled American Pentecostalism is almost entirely an attempt to occupy the corner of the market which offers a religious and individualistic psychological therapeutic, complete with technologies of optimization designed for appropriating conservative and reactionary ideologies.

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