Reposted by Dr. Jackpots ⓋJen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Induction this, deduction that. Why don't we talk about the real earth-shattering inferential method. Which is subduction. 0111
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026student wearing a Nirvana shirt guessed my exact height, alleging that I look "almost exactly like Krist Novoselic." Elite ball knowledge from Gen Z 010
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026the WNBA policy says "Only women can play in the WNBA" but then they've had two publicly enby players, and celebrated them?? anyone understand what's up with that? image thing for them? are they just asleep at the wheel on the policy? strikes me as pretty disrespectful tbh 120
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots Ⓥelliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Yes, I think it is bad to train machines to churn out plausible-sounding arguments for any claim whatsoever with no regard for its plausibility. And that is why I'm in favour of shutting down the philosophy department. 061
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots ⓋAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 14/07/2026It's International Non-Binary People's Day! Celebrated here, on my Pentium with VGAPride. 1834241088
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots ⓋMatthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 17/04/2026the nonbinary rapper who frequently gets misgendered as a man: Mx. Sir-a-Lot 5970251
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026one day I will teach an entire philosophy course entirely through anime screenshots 020
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 27/03/2026the type of shit Sufjan was on when he dropped the Illinois tracklist 010
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots Ⓥokay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Merch for the 2026 Pacific Division meeting of the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social is up! I designed the image to highlight the accessibility of a virtual conference. The link is open to anyone, whether you're attending the Pacific this year or not. 2204
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots ⓋMichael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 02/02/2026People say that posting has no real-world impact but an article in the Oxford Handbook Of Moral Realism carefully explains one of my hilarious jokes, so 2349
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots ⓋJake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 29/12/2025People say that the paradoxes of confirmation don’t matter for practical purposes, but those people have obviously never met a gruejay 021
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots ⓋJohn Stuart Thrill @jsthrill.modphi.com · 30/07/2025Long form articles everyone should read, that aren’t awful contemporary political news: 1: The Pigeon King and the Ponzi Scheme that Shook Canada www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/m...nytimes.comBirdman (Published 2015) 142
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 05/07/2025ladies love hearing that I'm about to get my first tattoo, but they hate to learn that it will be a massive back tat depicting the haloed head of a flat stern Byzantine Christ with all-demanding eyes 050
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots Ⓥlila graham (mere finite mode) @deussivenatura.bsky.social · 29/06/2025hi everybody! if you're an academic philosopher and would prefer your colleagues didn't produce propaganda which furthers the trump administration's attempt to eradicate transgender people from public life, consider reading/signing this open letter about it! dearprofessorbyrne.wordpress.comdearprofessorbyrne.wordpress.comDear Professor Byrne 04022
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots Ⓥokay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Helen had already received their cancer diagnosis when @chelseaharamia.bsky.social and I reached out to ask if they would chat about "The Diamond Mountain," a brief story on the afterlife, with @storyphi.bsky.social. As we grieve together, I want to share a little bit about how it came to be. 24412
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots ⓋBeing Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 17/06/2025Issue #0 of Being Trans in Philosophy zine is out now! “We Are Not Trans in a Theoretical Way”. Download & print ur own 🖨️. being.transinphilosophy.org #beingtransinphilosophy #trans #philosophy #gender #feminism #zine #diy 28351
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots ⓋPenny 🏳️⚧️💕😇 @fichtestanpenny.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Check out my contribution to @being.transinphilosophy.org ! 0112
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 19/05/2025LVIII ____ And lately, by the Tavern Door agape, Came shining through the Dusk an Angel Shape Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder; and He bid me taste of it; and 'twas--the Grape! 030
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025not me holding forth on "100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd" whenever anyone asks how I got interested in moral philosophy 040
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Kantian dating app that replaces the "Two truths and a lie" prompt with "Three truths" 170
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots ⓋLillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 04/05/2025This has been one of my favorite lit magazines for a long time and I’m really excited to have actually managed to get one in! I’d say I’m happy to have my first skull, but I was actually born with one! 😊 2195
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots ⓋMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/04/2025he’s right and he’s right to say it 253357837484
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 14/04/2025how friends and family react when I tell them my post-PhD plans 110
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Descartes responding to the Objections to the Meditations 020
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Odysseus finding out what Circe has done to his crew 010
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 08/04/2025me reading the Parmenides as a freshman in undergrad 041
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots ⓋMel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Any institution of higher education that is expelling students, revoking degrees, pursuing legal action against students, handing students over to ICE or refusing to provide them legal support for expressing their right to freedom of speech is carrying out a fascist agenda. 15315
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots ⓋOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Taking the invited speaker to lunch 026724
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025pretty sure this is what Wittgenstein meant by the whole "therapeutic approach" thingmedia.tenor.coma woman in a blue dress says please try to enjoy each fact equally .Alt: Ms. Casey from Severance says "Please try to enjoy each fact equally" 020
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots ⓋJonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 22/03/2025It's a myth that universities are predominantly liberal or left-leaning. We see this at Columbia. Arts and humanities depts are tiny enclaves. As soon as financial interests are threatened, the "apolitical" and "value free" parts of the institution immediately reveal their politics and values. 520741
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Gen Z is slowly gaining consciousness of the μεταξύ 130
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 23/03/2025wake up babe, new argument for anamnesis just dropped 020
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 15/03/2025I love how early modern philosophers would write dialogues in which the self-insert's name is Latin for "Ingeniously Subtle Reasoner" and the patsy's name is Latin for "Idiotic Fucking Aristotelian" 020
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots ⓋLillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 09/03/2025The Republic, Plato 051
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots ⓋDr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025I will be defending my doctoral dissertation on Friday March 7 at 10 AM Mountain Time! Abstract is attached; please DM me if you'd like the room and/or Zoom info 232
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025it's funny to me that Aristotle basically said "Yeah Plato is the whackiest mf I have ever encountered": "Other constitutions have been proposed; some by private persons, others by philosophers and statesmen, which all come nearer to established or existing ones than either of Plato’s." 010
Reposted by Dr. Jackpots Ⓥlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Bigots whose goal is straightforwardly to hurt people for being different, the most crude kinda raw visceral arbitrary hatred, are gunning for trans people across the world. And in America they have significant and growing power. 212230
Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ @hieronymusbonn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Day 1: The Rubaiyat, Fifth Edition classics.mit.edu/Khayyam/ruba...classics.mit.eduThe Internet Classics Archive | The Rubaiyat by Omar KhayyamThe Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam, part of the Internet Classics Archive 230
!["Out of the 32 pieces on the Suspiria master list, 18 are not extant; they were either planned but never written, or written but lost before publication. (In his later years, De Quincey, working by candlelight, had an unfortunate propensity to set things — his papers; his hair — on fire.)[7] The lost pieces bear evocative and provoking titles:
The Dreadful Infant (There was the glory of innocence made perfect; there was the dreadful beauty of infancy that had seen God)
Foundering Ships
The Archbishop and the Controller of Fire
God that didst Promise
Count the Leaves in Vallombrosa
But if I submitted with Resignation, not the less I searched for the Unsearchable — sometimes in Arab Deserts, sometimes in the Sea
That ran before us in malice
Morning of Execution
Kyrie Eleison
The Nursery in Arabian Deserts
The Halcyon Calm and the Coffin
Faces! Angels' Faces!
At that Word
Oh, Apothanate! that hatest death, and cleansest from the Pollution of Sorrow
Who is this Woman that for some Months has followed me up and down? Her face I cannot see, for she keeps for ever behind me
Cagot and Cressida
Lethe and Anapaula
Oh, sweep away, Angel, with Angelic Scorn, the Dogs that come with Curious Eyes to gaze.
A few pages of Notes for the missing Suspiria were found in the author's papers"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz6amc534dzz3rre7wqzxln7/bafkreifssjfoxqqan2jbmmrcno6kqsemokxhiltytcsl6mrc6xg5ftu6xq)
!["It is so easy to fail to imagine even relatively obvious possibilities that this fact can be easily exploited for humorous effect:"
Screenshot of tweet by MikeBenchCapon on May 8th 2021: "People think that if two people are facing each other then one of them's left is the other one's right, but that's only true if neither or both of them are upside down"
Main text continues: "This works as a joke because (sorry, as philosophers we have to explain this) as you read it the words ‘facing
each other’ prime you to expect that indeed, one person’s left is the other person’s right, and so when the author describes people as “thinking” this, you think ‘of course they think it – it’s true’. And then the humor
comes from obviousness in retrospect that this is not, in fact, generally true, but only true under the ordinary kind of circumstances that we imagine when we imagine two people facing one another.
The same thing, we know, has happened repeatedly in the recent history of metaethics. Before Mackie [1977], it was easy to define moral realism in contrast to noncognitivism..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5bdrmuceq4ypcb2v7jlkxrh5/bafkreidkc5nqnv2j5o5vs3drbtpjbeyxgpb6v3xdktt5b7xrnn3fudl6li)
![post from @LauraAmalasunta:
"Me: I'm feeling really Sappic
You: Tell me more
Me: ....................and if
.......[thy]me......
..........................
hands........[swan, or possibly an
extinct species of gourd]
.........................s"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w63s3ukgwldg4n4kry6xyzbz/bafkreibel6h4uus7nybkfxoqmgqphnsslxqgp5llmglamhjwr3dwv4xz7y)
