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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rail replacement bus didn't stick around for a five-minute delayed train. Cue accountability drama where the bus rep and the station staff try to allocate responsibility because the bus co-ordination is outsourced

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Love to live in a functioning country with a functioning public transport system

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Cambridge student newspaper Varsity is reporting that James Orr (or, as they call him, "Disgraced theology professor James Orr") hasn't been turning up to his own lectures.

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How is this not the industrial selection of cognitive science (and philosophy)?

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cannot be emphasised enough that Trump II will plausibly cause the kind of death count we associate with the worst dictatorships of the last century. Unspeakably bad that he came to be president of the world's most powerful nation.

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, I feel you. When I had chronic fatigue symptoms, the doctors’ answer was always ‘are you running too much??’

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Honestly, probably not: I'd say that I was feeling weak.

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wonder about fatigué vs crevé tho

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean it's a bit like 'health' - unbelievably many gradable properties all bundles up together, just bad ones not good ones

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I feel like part of the mess is gradable adjectives where you might mean 'a bit sleepy' or 'completely nothing in the tank'. But also I think part of the issue is no energy because of exertion vs no energy for no reason/unknown reason

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Refreshing the Nous manuscriptcentral site like it's selling Glastonbury tickets

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 'most jobs require practical knowledge that can't be easily codified into rules' realisation is going to be messy

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5. The second page of Google search results

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Becoming pure breath via a VO2 max session

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Living with cats is prefigurative politics for anarchism, innit

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I live in a very anarchist and very feline neighbourhood

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But the territory is all on time-shares, so there's some commoning going on too

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves.

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m teaching a writing class for second year philosophy students this semester, and I have no idea what’s going to be hard for them

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tbf, I think I was pretty confused and for the first year of my degree I just desperately tried to read all the reading and didn’t know what to ask in seminars. Some time in second year it clicked

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The world if analytic philosophers worried about politicians and commentators saying nonsense rather than non-anglophone philosophers saying nonsense

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Emily Webster, PhD, MSc @emilywebz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@drrobertchapman.bsky.social, @benbowsher.bsky.social and I have been working on something (alongside our wonderful Newcastle community) for the last little while, and I’m quite excited about it… It’s a new radical bookshop!

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The time of the natural reader is over, the age of the hypermotivated dyslexic has begun

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m increasingly identifying with near-losers

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Women’s Road cycling is the fucking best

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Then, if you’re able, try to get your body moving. You’re going to need your senses and movement is good for your brain. If you have kids in your care, protect their developing brains and their image. That’s all I can say about that.

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Does he even write the SoL books? The one on work was dry af

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.’ This is a CEO openly confessing to a level of acquired mental indolence that, were he not coddled 24/7 by an army of paid underlings, would make him incapable of living independently and feeding himself. He’s fine with it. Your kids won’t be.

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The dream of becoming a lighthouse keeper is not part of the anti-work imaginary. In this essay I will...

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yup! I guess the fall back is just randomly give people employed on research contracts chunks of money

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just do basic screen then randomise!

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wonder whether the UKRI funded research into AI and metascience has got something to do with the evidence that's been generated that this kind of funding system is a good idea

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The old line that analytic philosophy is answering questions that come naturally to toddlers via methods that come naturally to lawyers remains undefeated.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thanks, I’ll shout if I get into this. I’m thinking about what one should do with desires one knows are impossible to fulfil

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We've got doxastic voluntarism. Is there a debate about the degree of control over our desires?

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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