Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 13/10/2026Zizek, the transformation from doing good philosophy to doing bad philosophy is pretty dramatic. 010
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 13/10/2026After that he made Hearts of the World to encourage American participation in WWI, I highly recommend Michael Rogin's analysis of Griffith's career in chapter 7 of his book Ronald Reagan: The Movie. There's a smidge about Intolerance there too. 010
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 06/10/2026The reddit page for this game keeps records on a bunch of metrics, here is the world record for fewest command cycles: 000
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 06/10/2026My first crack at the final puzzle in the main campaign. Realizing that I could almost triple the efficiency with well-timed rotations (building multiple compounds at once). I totally get why the community around this game has lasted a decade, always cheaper, faster, more compressed ways to build. 100
Reposted by Scott MaybellDonovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This resonates so beautifully with what Michael Barkun called "stigmatized knowledge"--the way bodies of information that have been disdained by experts actually *gain* power in the mind of the conspiracy theorist. Not talked about enough in our understandings of the epidemiology of knowledge, imo 163
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 03/10/2026Did a bit better with the poisonous lipstick; I love this game so so much. 110
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 03/10/2026New Woke Justin Martyr arguing why it's a good thing the government is killing Old Wokes. 000
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 03/10/2026The null hypothesis that "Scott is average at this game" has been falsified. 100
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 03/10/2026I had gotten stuck on the "Unstable Compound" puzzle in Opus Magnum, totally gave up and stopped playing for a year. Pulled the game up this afternoon to solve it with the ugliest machine I've ever made. 120
Reposted by Scott MaybellThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Socialist, theosophist + women's rights activist Annie Besant was born #onthisday 1847. Read @ResObscura on her book Thought-Forms (1901), an intriguing work grounded in the theory that ideas, emotions, and even events, can manifest as visible auras publicdomainreview.org/essay/v... #OTD 06810
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 01/10/2026I was fortunate to develop the work I did during my master's program and submit it as a chapter in this volume. The cover is so lovely ❤️🐟🛰️ www.bloomsbury.com/us/esoteric-... 011
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 01/10/2026No joke, this interview came out when I was a junior in high school and it was the first time "being a philosopher" was salient to me. 050
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 30/09/2026This was a great read and a helpful reference for the future. I'm always trying to tell people that our early Christian texts' conceptualization of "the poor" is utterly patronizing. 020
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 29/09/2026If you're in Oxfordshire, I recommend seeing When the Blackbird Sings while it's running. When good, it's educational, novel, and attentive to Oxford's history. When bad, it's an accidentally perfect view of the British political psyche. www.schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk/whats-on/whe...schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.ukWhen the Blackbird Sings — An immersive, eye-opening, invitation to travel through timeHop aboard a bus and take a heart-stirring journey through Oxford in a story that leads from the 8th century to the 21st. Directed by Erica Whyman Written by Natty Mark Samuels, Helen Eastman and Afsa... 010
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 29/09/2026Maybe democracies without elections? global.oup.com/academic/pro...global.oup.com 011
Reposted by Scott MaybellPeter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My article "Women of the world: teaching women thinkers in pre-modern global philosophy" is available open access - it offers a syllabus on the topic with discussion of my thinking in putting it together. Hope it will prove useful! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #philsky #philosophytandfonline.comWomen of the world: teaching women thinkers in pre-modern global philosophyThis paper reflects on experiences teaching courses on women thinkers from antiquity and the medieval period. The discussion is built around a proposed syllabus (similar to one used in teaching at ... 04017
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 27/09/2026philevents.org/event/show/1...philevents.orgJournal of the Oxford Graduate Theological SocietyCALL FOR PAPERS ‘Green Religions, Divine Immanence, and Ecospirituality’ Our world is witnessing a rapid instrumentalization of nature and the natural world—every day we reckon wit... 000
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 27/09/2026CFP: grad students from any disipline (theology, psychology, phenomenology, etc.) studying any religion (Christianity, Satanic mystery cults, Indigenous religions, etc.) in line with our theme ‘Green Religions, Divine Immanence, and Ecospirituality.’ jogts.shox.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/JOGTS/about/...jogts.shox.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Submissions | Journal of the Oxford Graduate Theological Society 120
Reposted by Scott MaybellThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026#OnThisDay in 1940, the philosopher, literary critic, and essayist Walter Benjamin died by suicide in the Spanish border town of Portbou whilst on the run from the Nazis. Here's Anca Pusca on the relevance of Benjamin’s oeuvre in a digital age: publicdomainreview.org/essay/o... #otd 06328
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 26/09/2026I bet Sheeran's *really* regretting using a utilitarian calculus rather than applying the categorical imperative in his decision-making process. 010
Reposted by Scott MaybellDean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Really shameful how little meaningful attention has been paid by Democrats and media outlets to Cuba and Trump's (Rubio's) single minded crusade to starve and potentially go to war to make it submit. 265
Reposted by Scott MaybellLaura Danón @ldanon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My entry on Animal Thought for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is now online! plato.stanford.edu/entries/anim... 36629
Reposted by Scott MaybellAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Spectacular Roman octopus mosaic from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology 121095240
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 03/09/2026Doing a quantum leap to begin a chain reaction. Step 1: stopping Empedocles from jumping into that volcano. 010
Reposted by Scott MaybellWitty Volkova @wittlegoblin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026If you missed my playthrough of @bananachangames.bsky.social new game Sample, you can check the edited stream here! youtu.be/d1gg8V7rq7s?...youtu.beSample: The New y2k Solo Horror RPG (Full Playthrough)YouTube video by Witty Volkova 1356
Reposted by Scott MaybellKarla Bat Zimonja @eternal.observer · 01/09/2026oh yeah the reason I reposted this is because it is one of the few ways to hear me talk about being excited about (particular) videos games, because usually I am just particular about them 0236
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 29/08/2026Time to play a whole lot of 80s-era Dungeons and Dragons. 020
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 27/08/2026Originally from the American Southwest (mostly UT). We say it all the time. Currently living in England, I don't reckon it is common here. Same for when I was in Scotland. 010
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 26/08/2026I have played The Quiet Year with friends, family, and students. Every session has been a delight and a way to bond with the people I care about! 010
Reposted by Scott Maybell👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/08/2026ARE WE FINALLY GETTING AIRCON IN THE MATERNITY WARD 62007
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 22/08/2026We see *in Augustine's own writings* that Manicheans identified as Christians. Augustine's project was part of a process of boundary policing Manichean Christians from being entitled to this name and contemporary scholars (especially theologians) continuously reinscribe this. 000
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 22/08/2026One terrible misunderstanding that gets taught and re-taught in theology classrooms is the idea that Augustine converted from Manicheaism to Christianity. This is not true. He converted from Manichaean Christianity to Catholic Christianity; the Manichaeans were Christian and self-identified as such. 100
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 18/08/2026This is why my imagination is solely occupied by the Greendale Human Being. 011
Reposted by Scott Maybellやしろ学/Manabu YASHIRO @yashiro-manabu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Doc Ock🐙 2038531140
Reposted by Scott Maybellphilologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...sites.tufts.eduOngoing Perseus disruptions and future plans » Perseus Digital Library Updates 1176
Reposted by Scott MaybellOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final 183698577
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 16/08/2026Person who explicitly identifies as Christian in their profile: "The meek are not going to inherit the Earth. Grow up." 010
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 15/08/2026Newmyer, Stephen T. "Plutarch on the Moral Grounds for Vegetarianism." The Classical Outlook 72, no. 2 (1995): 41-43. 000
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 15/08/2026"The ancient Mediterranean world's vegetarianism was always about purity and asceticism, not about moral concern for Nonhuman Animals." Plutarch: 110
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 11/08/2026We've got two thousand years of readers picking up Plutarch's dialogues on Socrates' demon and on the face of the moon, all of them stimulated by the same imaginative spark: Where does the father of Zeus sleep? How people respond to that question in different contexts is infinitely fascinating. 000
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 11/08/2026The main scholar I cite is part of a tradition of trying to identity the actual location of the island, based on textual clues (vague enough that looser thinkers have speculated that Plutarch is describing the Americas!), but I would love to find something closer to a reception history of the idea. 100
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink · 11/08/2026I'm a Plutarch admirer and have been putting together notes about his writings on the Isle of Cronus, i.e. where the Titan is imprisoned and slumbering. The island gets mentioned multiple times by Plutarch, always described as being near Britain. haliphron.ink/2026/08/11/f...haliphron.inkFriendship with the Ancients, Plutarch I: The Isle of CronusThis blog series is a collation of notes for our practice of friendship with the ancients, as developed by the philosopher Helen De Cruz. “Friendship with the ancients is a set of imaginative exerc… 100
Reposted by Scott MaybellAftermath @aftermath.site · 04/08/2026Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave gave a nun a gun: aftermath.site/fire-emblem-fo... 1442174