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Guy Fletcher

@guyfletcher.bsky.social
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Professor of Practical Philosophy at University of Edinburgh. philpeople.org/profiles/guy-fletcher Also: Tottenham Hotspur, silly nonsense (with overlap).

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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@nathanaclark.bsky.social how much do spurs’ struggles this season resemble the early part of De Zerbi at Brighton? Wondering if we’re getting those growing pains everyone mentioned when appointed but just delayed (cos we didn’t do De Zerbi ball last year).
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Increasingly worried that we have some imprudent initiation ritual!
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Your colleagues are lucky to have access to such an abundance of sweets and a wonderful HoD!
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’m honestly so jaded that non-ignominious exit to a big team other than Chelsea or Arsenal is the most I hope for.
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
she is making it possible for the public to understand academics on levels never before seen. "the kind of person who would translate the odyssey twice, two separate times" is the personality type i'm afraid
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Gosh how exhausting (and thanks for explaining)!
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Why do they feel threatened by the game?!
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
As well as PSR shenanigans (in some cases) I wonder if it’s because the traditional hierarchy / segmentation feels less secure all of a sudden and so a lot of teams fancy they can make a big move up the table.
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Given the physicality issue, I’d still much prefer to use Moore against tired legs than have him start.
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Spurs comfortably dispatching lower league opposition in the cup
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026
They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/
A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ah, gotcha, cheers. Will go and read the article.
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Given the love of household spending analogies, this is, say, cutting spending on maintaining your roof each year and then needing a replacement?
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It's fantastic. I did know that about Ayer (but thank you!) There's a lovely bit in the podcast where Nikhil talks about the idea of Ayer choosing to support Tottenham Hotspur purely for pleasure and I laughed very hard. I suppose that might have been plausible in that era!
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 24/08/2026
Fully funded PhD position in Practical Philosophy right here @stockholm-uni.bsky.social su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please circulate widely. Application deadline October 15 #philjobs #philosophyjobs
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Ah, I don’t recall hearing any stories about what he was like as a person (which is surprising to realise, given his prominence).
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’m sure you didn’t. It was only a very speculative attempt at finding a less depressing interpretation. But I’m sure the depressing one is right.
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yes, sorry, the “good as genuine rather than counterfeit” is what I meant.
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I wondered if the idea was that a good man is simply non-defective (and that the example demonstrates one way of being defective). So it’s no more of an endorsement than to say a good banknote is not a forgery. (Perhaps wildly implausible, I wish I remembered the wider context of the discussion.)
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
No shade meant! I just wondered if you could make Hare’s claim sound less yikes if you think of it as akin to talking about a “good banknote”.
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yikes! Is Hare an “all goodness is attributive” person? (I once knew but can’t recall.)
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Would be nice if the commentators mentioned us missing about 7 first teamers (even excluding Xavi, Deki).
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@windycoys.bsky.social a fantastic day for your Bergvall doubts, so far. (Esp the first goal which was exactly the fault you described).
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Yeah, no one likes pleasure.
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
wake up babe, new Nikhil Krishnan just dropped. (As fantastic as ever).
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Tried and failed to read the whole daily nous thread about the AI generated paper.
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Ben Morgan @benjlmorgan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A short story about dry eyes, heartbreak, and lubricant. benmorganwriter.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/l...
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I have dry eyes so severe that at one time I joined a reddit group for people with the problem. It was a thriving community filled with tips and pleas. This was after I’d experienced a recurrent co…
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is absolutely fantastic. ( I’m very sorry about the content though!)
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It stays with you / haunts you
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In my 9th year of sending at least one child to school at this time of year and I still find it weird. Will basically never stop thinking that that’s a thing for September.
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
sadly my tastebuds discriminate between those two options, much to my annoyance. I'm cursed to have expensive tastes.
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
when you absent-mindedly check the price of a Charlie Binghams
Meme image of an older woman semi collapsed next to a bed
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Sometimes your non-academic interest in unsolved mysteries turns into a philosophical interest: why is it bad not to know what happened? blog.apaonline.org/2026/08/03/h... many thanks to the APA blog for inviting me to do this.
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“We haven’t got closure, we haven’t been able to mourn properly, close that chapter and live our lives in memory of Dad and build our family back up. … We’re still in this grey zone where we have no i...
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.” Emily Wilson 🤝 Alex Rails.
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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
You would never get the "£50 doesn't even buy a meal quote if the topic was the benefit system, then you would have a guy going "sack of potatoes and a carrot, and you can feed a child for a month at just 3.2 pence per meal"
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Incredibly disorientating to have worked on welfare since grad school, where (some) people used to snort derisively, or look puzzled, when I told them I worked on it, and now see near-daily articles about AI welfare in mainstream publications.
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Abolish VAR
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Booked or warned? (Genuine question)
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I saw the best teams of my generation destroyed by Martinez
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
All this full back chat but that goal looked like a team with no centre backs.
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Don’t think I’ve ever seen a game so obviously over at ~50 mins as when France got their second.
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Thanks so much Rory. Important not to judge by their covers but I do realllllly like this one.
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Thanks fella!
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Thank you!
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
thanks Keith!
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Officially out on Thursday but these arrived today. So happy with how it looks. 🎉
Book cover for the philosophy of well-being: an introduction second edition. Stack of books — the philosophy of well-being: an introduction second edition.
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
have Germany deliberately gone for a kit that blends with the referee‘s kit (at least in peripheral vision)?
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Yup! Might need the big screen to show the disgrace of gijon so they can see the need for it.
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Guy Fletcher @guyfletcher.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
that is genuinely unhinged!
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