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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 8h

"Philosophers say that consciousness is a structural phenomenon of how information flows / how causal relations are meshed.... but what if the structures were made out of cheese???? Sounds silly now doesn't it???" Political pundits suddenly opining on phil of mind has been pure torture.

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 16h

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 9h

A regular reminder that the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast and many similar groups are not projects of the US conference of bishops; and while presenting themselves as such are often not in line with the fullness of Catholic doctrine.

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 9h

At some point, doctrine will have to be not just taught but enforced.

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 9h

Fair point, clearly distinguishing the quantum of harm, at least in the worst case, from mode of delivery. A conflation that needed sorting out.

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 18h

If you tank a lethal injection you should be free to go

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 15h

One-over-many immediately came to mind, and I think it’s still a respectable piece of reasoning. Third Man is, though, still a Premier League piece of reasoning even now.

One way of drawing this out is to ask yourself: quick, what was Plato's argument in favour of the forms existing? What was Bentham's (or Mozi's) for utilitarianism? What was Hobbes (or Xunzi's)
argument for human nature being selfish and conflict-laden? Now my audience is sufficiently nerdy that I bet some of yinz really could answer those, or at least one of those, from the top of your head. But I bet that many - even from among the professional
philosophers - could not. And I don't actually think that is cause for shame, instead I think it is telling us something - articulating the positions was in each case an important contribution, particular arguments that may or may not have been deployed in their favour much less so.

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𝐊𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝐎'𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐒.𝐉. @kohsj.bsky.social · 16h

As crowds arrive at Aviva Stadium for the Ireland vs. Austria soccer match, it seems that Lansdowne Road has been renamed by popular demand! 😎👍

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 17h

African savannah elephants use a variety of calls to communicate, and now machine learning has shown that they tune their deepest sounds to match those of other nearby elephants

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Elephants imitate each other when they produce deep rumbling sounds | New Scientist

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 16h

The sort of people who think “would you let your daughter marry one?” a decisive objection to interracial marriage haven’t noticed that by their lights it’s a decisive objection to the death penalty: executioners are generally despised and thought defiled, polluted, or seriously shamed by the job.

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 20h

1 October 1583: Sir Thomas Tresham, the noted recusant who's been under various forms of restraint since sheltering the Jesuit Edmund Campion in 1580, is mounting a campaign for some clemency. He's currently under house arrest at Hoxton ('Hogsden'), in a 'cottage, erst a tippling ... #earlymodern

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

unbeknownst to Smith, Jones brought iced coffee to the interview

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NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 30/09/2026

No thoughts, just Pietra Tordin 🤩 Tordin earns her first senior USWNT call up and will be joining the team ahead of their international friendlies against Spain.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 18h

THE POINT OF A BOOK IS TO LISTEN TO CHARACTERS CAN YOU ONCE NOT BE THE PROTAGONIST

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 18h

On #InternationalCoffeeDay, save 30% with code PUP30 on Grazia Ting Deng’s Chinese Espresso, which explores how this Italian tradition is being preserved by Chinese immigrants and their racially diverse clientele. Learn more: buff.ly/kDEAcYQ

Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy by Grazia Ting Deng

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Karl Marx never considered the globalization of a single bottle of Tropicana apple juice Or maybe he did, I dunno, but this is bonkers

“Contains juices from Brazil, Chile, China, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, and U.S.”

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Rachel Strohm @rachelstrohm.bsky.social · 21h

Very good piece from @kopalo.bsky.social about the structural drivers of the conflict in Ethiopia, including a thought-provoking bit about the challenges of federalism in an ethnically polarised state www.africanistperspective.com/p/on-the-esc...

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On the escalation of war in Ethiopia

The coming proxy wars will be devastating for civilians and do little to improve governance and human welfare in Ethiopia and the wider Horn

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 20h

the answer is 'yes', and it is called 'particularism'. claire danes' father-in-law is the peter singer of it

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BIG NEWS! I am launching a new podcast together with colleagues from the Cluster of Excellence on Cross-Cultural Philology here at the LMU in Munich. It's called Pages of History and will appear once a month, following today's initial launch with three episodes. pagesofhistorypodcast.net

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“It is also worth mentioning at moments like this Nick Harris, AKA Sporting Intelligence, who has kept going at this story relentlessly despite an unusual degree of abuse, harassment and threats …”

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Ben Ambridge @ambridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"*The teacher swam the boy" is pretty grammatically unacceptable. But it's much more acceptable if she gets into the pool and moves his arms and legs, rather than just blowing her whistle and shouting. Why? - Sentence constructions have meanings in and of themselves: lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/010... 1/n

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026

53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.

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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

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Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mamdani remains the best litmus test of anti-Zionism vs. Antisemitism. If you go after him for this, you're not an anti-Zionist, you're an antisemite. Mamdani has drawn a consistent line and stuck to it.

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gregorian rants @gregorianrants.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

celebrating michaelmas the TRADITIONAL way by eating foods that are typically in season in the BRITISH ISLES AND IRELAND

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fun fact! Jerome is the only one of the pre-Reformation Doctors of the church to be a mere commemoration, rather than a lesser festival (so he has no official collect), largely because his personality was so obviously really unpleasant…

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

10/10 would recommend. Also, Tad Brennan's book about it is a really enjoyable read--more fun than a piece of serious philosophy has any right to be.

Tad Brennan. The Stoic Life: Emotions, Duties, and Fate.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-stoic-life-emotions-duties-and-fate-department-of-philosophy-tad-brennan/49c1e829f3ed6066

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And also an obvious way in which it directly corrupts allies.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Complicity and corruption (from complicity in genocide) are both outcomes, I think.

My point is that "force for good" is an ends- oriented moniker, and one that requires
significant exploration of counterfactuals. Wiping our hands of both Likud and Hamas isn't the same thing as doing good, it's more
about feeling good.

After 10/7, Israelis already think that killing Palestinians means protecting their children. Your strategy to make America "a force for good" is to make Israelis feel MORE vulnerable. That seems like an
obviously and fatally flawed plan to me.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Herding Dog and 50 sheep 🐑 doing what they love to do ❤️

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Chris Weatherspoon @cweatherspoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In three seasons Manchester City won the Premier League, 2011-12, 2013-14 and 2017-18, they recorded £360million in commercial income from Abu Dhabi-based sponsors The independent commission found that just £43m of that was actually paid to City by those sponsors

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pope Leo denouncing AfD is a beautiful Integralist 9/11

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🌹🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm kind of busy right now, but just for the record: the chance that the remains being returned from Greece to Bulgaria in the coming days are those of Tsar Samuil is close to zero. It's embarrassing political theatre, and some Western medievalists and Byzantinists are falling for it.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Women messing with men’s heads du jour: Judith decapitates Holofernes with distaste but determination, 1597. By Caravaggio, born OTD in 1571.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Blinded by the Lord, 1600, as painted in the Cerasi Chapel by the great Caravaggio. Today is his birthday.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New triptych panel dropped!

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Pope can’t resist his pizza.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

we're in this preposterous place where a stupid spatt involving 12 people woth no power, halway around the world negatively defines progressives but the horrific consequences (& political failures) of government policy are not felt to invalidate their approach of appeasing the far-right

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

When you have lived in a dictatorship, you do tend to marvel at how illiberal the so-called liberal democracies are.

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remarkable shift in German industry thinking on China. From new BDI paper: “Even if de-risking entails costs, including in the form of counter-reactions, passivity would in the long term be economically considerably more costly & irresponsible from a security-policy perspective”

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