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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 23/03/2026

Come write some philosophical fiction with me in Liverpool! The workshop is free, fun, and you'll get lots of writing done! Everyone is welcome, all you'll need is a pen and paper, and there's no need to book ✍️ #philsky #philosophymatters @thebpa.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social #Liverpool

Poster which reads: Writing Philosophical Fiction with Dr Rachel Handley.
When: Wednesday 25th March 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, Saturday 28th March 1 pm to 3 pm. Where: Liverpool Central Library, Hornby Library. All writers welcome! All is need is a pen and paper.

Participants will produce several pieces of flash fiction during this two-hour workshop. Designed for adults, the workshop introduces key philosophical themes found in different parts of both literature and philosophy and guides participants in writing in response to those themes. We will look at topics such as the climate crisis, what it means to be a person, and oppression.

Rachel is a lecturer in philosophy, a science fiction author, and a poet. Their writing has been published by Arlen House, The Liminal Review, Sonder Magazine, and Poetry Ireland, among others. Alongside their teaching in philosophy, they often teach creative writing. Most recently, they facilitated a workshop at York Literature Festival.

The poster includes logos for Liverpool City Council, Liverpool Central Library, the British Philosohical Association, The University of Liverpool, and #philosophymatters

For enquiries, contact Tom Bunyard at t.bunyard@liverpool.ac.uk

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Anna Vlasits @annaintegrated.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Hey #chicago! We're joining the national Day of Action on March 7 to Stand Up for Science @standupforscience.bsky.social It's time again to show your support for science in the US!

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I've been wanting to write a paper about cars as fascist objects a la Liao and Hubner.

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I have a Tern folding bike and used it for train commutes. Find someone who really knows how to service them, I've had mine completely messed up during the annual tune up. Hopefully your local bike shop where you bought it will have the right people!

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I find it useful to connect bureaucracy and literacy to see the connection between the form and content.

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I'm still working it out, but your idea helps. I want to understand reflective or philosophical skepticism as looking for a way to consistently express moral/epistemic humility in a way (writing) that was designed to express dogmata, which explains the literary experiments of Sextus, Zhuangzi, etc

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I realize now that I didn't get the significance of the title!

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I think that's very plausible. Have you thought at all about the connection between philosophy as a discipline and literacy? I've been thinking a lot about this in connection with global skeptical traditions.

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Enjoyed the post! Do you think there is a tension between the claim that philosophical natures can be found anywhere and the search for specific social conditions for philosophy? Or do you mean the latter as a stable discipline, not just isolated thinkers?

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The Nancy Meyers movie would be called "Logic of Love"

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Hire me to edit for you! I provide fast, professional, and personalised proofreading, copy editing, and developmental editing services. wellreadherring.com/editing Image unrelated, I just really like Van Gogh's painting of cows

Van Gogh's painting of cows in a field. The sky is a weird yellowy green colour, there is a crow in the distance and five cows in the field.

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

This is a very good piece of advice. Will make sure none of my future sentences make this mistake.

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Also missing Anthony Laden I believe.

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

d. Winterreise can be played on repeat

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Which gods have I angered such that I have TWO sets of indices for books to do today?!

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Has anyone ever collected all of the ancient criticisms of Plato's theory of forms? It seems like that would be a useful resource!

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

8 year old came home from school with the assignment to get faster with single digit multiplication, but had discovered on his own that x^2 = (x+1)(x-1)+1 by working through examples.

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Socrates: Philosophers must rule as kings Glaucon: okay but what if we give them journals and blogs to manage first, to see how it goes?

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

That would be interesting to know!

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Interesting that the author references Epicureans and Stoics, neither of whom really make such a strong distinction between Sophia and Phronesis. Maybe they are somewhat more relevant in the Hellenistic period?

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Today I arrived in Tübingen for a year of research leave! I've been teaching or taking care of babies more or less non-stop since 2012, so I'm pretty stoked!

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

That's my sense as well. Although I still think Snell's observations about the way the archaic Greeks described 'mental' phenomena in poetry is very interesting in it's own right.

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Syllabus, syllabi, syllabusiest, syllabusted

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

Some light math tutoring for the 8 year old.

Cantor's diagonalization proof for an 8 year old

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

Some support from German, where "Guten Morgen" is in the accusative and is usually expanded to "ich wünsche dir einen guten Morgen"

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 10/08/2023

What We Do When We Do Philosophy (a blog post on the masterclass on methodology that I gave yesterday at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) diaryofdoctorlogic.wordpress.com/20…

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Justin Vlasits @justinvlasits.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Submitted my translation of a hefty selection (~40k words) of Aristotle's fragments for a new edition of his collected works. About four years in the making, as long as it took to write my PhD! Definitely the hardest project so far in my career, but I also learned a lot.

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