Reposted by JDKBrownElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 8hI still remember getting my first email address as a freshman in college. It was the coolest thing ever and no one was screaming YOU BETTER ADOPT THIS OR WE’RE ALL DEAD. 1385598
Reposted by JDKBrownJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026That's the point--and, frankly, I think the more most students are exposed to what is truly unique about the academy, the more they love it. A university is one of the only places where people can play with ideas without needing to expect any sort of commercializability. 425329
Reposted by JDKBrownJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Having an insight in a philosophy seminar, or understanding a literary character in a way that opens up new understandings of the people and things around you, or being exposed to a new idea in the social sciences that allows you to make better sense of your shared world--these are exhilarating! 321622
Reposted by JDKBrownChris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sometimes I feel like such a pig when I want to snack uncontrollably around midnight every night, but then I remember: I have small children! We had dinner six and a half hours ago! Of course I'm hungry! It's my SLEEPING habits I should feel terrible about! 2121
Reposted by JDKBrownLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Me: I want to write something > doesn’t write something Me: I want to code something > doesn’t code something Me: I want to reply to messages > doesn’t reply to messages Me: I want to do something I like > doesn’t do something I like Why am I like this 78968108
Reposted by JDKBrownJoe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Total death penalty abolition is the only acceptable thing 1589
Reposted by JDKBrownMalaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death." - Justice Blackmun 0133
Reposted by JDKBrownOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him. 18181441774
Reposted by JDKBrownPeter 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
Reposted by JDKBrownT.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts." 151596324
Reposted by JDKBrownKevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 29/09/2026Vonnegut's Hocus Pocus came out 30 years too early 172
Reposted by JDKBrownMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“We’re finally going to finish Reconstruction & do what we should have done after Watergate, Iran-Contra, & January 6” 2253584
Reposted by JDKBrownElmo @tim-elmo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026we can replace academic journals with diy-labels that make cool zines at home and have names like Assertoric Force 393
Reposted by JDKBrownMae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026By virtue of their needed expertise, engineers possess real power to determine the structure of much of everyday life To not understand that power within its political and historical context is to reduce oneself to a blind tool for use by whoever is willing to pay 0508
Reposted by JDKBrownTom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 27/09/2026In my house, we call this “Ender’s Syndrome” 2287
Reposted by JDKBrownMicah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026you know what? I agree with him my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail 522379283
Reposted by JDKBrownGen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The fact that Bluey isn’t anywhere on this list throws the entire thing into question. I’m 100% serious. In this go go go attention economy, Bluey brings heart and life lessons to kids and adults alike while making them slow down (and giggle a bit as a treat). 2193
Reposted by JDKBrownJames Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000. 151360303
Reposted by JDKBrown"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It seems to me that a solution to encouraging AI 'alignment' would be to hold AI companies and their executives legally liable - criminally, if relevant - for what their AI agents do. 3160995
JDKBrown @jdkbrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026At dinner during the on-campus visit for my current job, one of the department members asked if I was married. The (then) department chair practically leapt across the table and shouted, “Don’t answer that!” The other two faculty the piped up, “You can’t ask that!” “That’s an illegal question!” 110
Reposted by JDKBrownZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I kinda get why people hate on fussy philosophical stuff, but on the other hand don't you think we live in a time where it'd be especially helpful to have rigorous conversations about things like personhood, meaning in life, the point of art, the point of pure mathematics, & operationalizing ethics? 2849241
Reposted by JDKBrownCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843441193
Reposted by JDKBrownBrian Weatherson @bweatherson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Since RAKE and BLUEY haven’t shown up on the list yet, I assume they’ll be 1 and 2 in some order. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comThe 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st CenturyMore than 500 influential stars, showrunners and other notable names in the world of TV voted on the best series released since Jan. 1, 2000. See what they chose. 271
JDKBrown @jdkbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The kid insisted on making a surprise dessert after dinner tonight: mini Milky Ways covered in brown sugar. 010
Reposted by JDKBrownCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/09/2026Look, I don't know if that's true, but air travel is one of the safest forms of travel, so THANK YOU FURRIES, FURRIES WIN AGAIN 19902151
JDKBrown @jdkbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Not convinced that the furries are the ones with the deranged fantasies here, Tommy. 000
Reposted by JDKBrownnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I love the form of philosophy. The material things that participate in the form? Bit of a mixed bag in my estimation 2231
Reposted by JDKBrownGary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026© Gordon Mortensen. 'Fall.' Reduction woodcut, 2002. 22 × 30 inches. 017736
Reposted by JDKBrownMPR News @mprnews.org · 23/09/2026On behalf of two students in the district, the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota is suing the district and four school board members over the ban.mprnews.orgMinnesota ACLU sues Detroit Lakes Public Schools over rainbow banTwo students are challenging the school board’s ban that targets “safe space” stickers found in some classrooms. 77424
Reposted by JDKBrownRadical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Huge anti-ICE pasteup memorial in Minneapolis for those killed by ICE in the past year. The pasteup is in the Whittier neighborhood, on the same block as Alex Pretti's memorial. 441748747
Reposted by JDKBrownImmigrant Boo👻 @porcupunk.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026When I grow up, I want to be a "radical street librarian" too!today.comThis Woman Is Bringing Free Books to Hundreds of Kids With Magical TrolleyMs. Maze, who calls herself a “radical street librarian,” tells TODAY.com how she is working to eliminate book deserts around Baltimore “in a fun and magical way.” 010732
Reposted by JDKBrownCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Autumn Franklin Carmichael 1940 016638
Reposted by JDKBrownAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Disability support policy is a giant test of the principle “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”. Systems that gatekeep disability benefits to prevent supposed grifting are betraying that principle by deciding it’s worth making many innocents struggle & starve to stop a few bad actors. Same with welfare. 325880
Reposted by JDKBrownCasmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Far from being irrelevant, academic philosophy teaches the depressing insight that most modern "debates" and "positions" are half-baked or spurious. 152
Reposted by JDKBrownMark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Tempted by noncognitivism about metaphilosophy. Some meatphilosophical discourse being prescriptivist, others a crude emotivism of the “Boo!”/“Hurrah!” variety 182
Reposted by JDKBrownThe Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef… 69129192820
Reposted by JDKBrownCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Oh my dear god, let your college kids fail. Let them fail courses. Let them fail paying rent. Let them fail doing their laundry. Let them fail basic hygiene. Let them fail and experience consequences. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/w...nytimes.comWorried About Your College Kid? Now You Can Hire a Local Mom. (Gift Article)At some universities, parents can pay to make sure their children are cared for, the way they were back home. 1142797399
Reposted by JDKBrown🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people 16886342302
Reposted by JDKBrownClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women 6138793687
Reposted by JDKBrownnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026sometimes i give people feedback on job market materials, and thought it might be useful to do a thread of some common feedback i find myself giving. just one guy's opinion (and one thing that can be frustrating about producing and getting feedback on these documents is that informed people *will* 16913
Reposted by JDKBrownDale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This. Especially in the SLAC context; after all, should the candidate be successful landing the tenure-track position they will be writing up teaching philosophies for tenure and promotion review where there is presently an expected emphasis upon "evidence-based" pedagogical practices 152
Reposted by JDKBrownLuke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 19/09/2026this tweet is NINE years old and is still the best trans rights policy advice out there 366491685
Reposted by JDKBrownnavigator484.bsky.social @navigator484.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's pretty simple: 2 million years ago, on the savannah, a male could only secure a fertile mate if he enjoyed watching WWII documentaries and debating lists of the top 10 albums/movies of all time 033
Reposted by JDKBrownKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026This is how they caught that new Bolivian cat btw 0627
