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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

also the specific complaint that joyce adopts a mentality that some books are 'lesser'. just imagine not having that mentality. literally every book is exactly as good as every other book. that's the mentality we should all be shooting for apparently

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We know that the best way to draw someone into a history major is in a class of 12. That's why you don't get classes of 12 as a service dept. You get 180 students, in two-hour chunks, with no breakout sessions or teaching assistants. You are set up to fail, at least in terms of attracting majors

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A point @annakornbluh.bsky.social has frequently made about labor intensification is that colleges cut support staff, offload essential work that support staff did onto faculty, then wonder why faculty aren’t being as “productive.” What once took our Asst. Dir. an hour, easily takes me twice that.

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

unheard of shit is going down in the field of contemporary national identity formation, we are all out here arguing over whether Ed Sheeran can be Irish meanwhile a North American state is joining the European Union

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

5 minutes till the Bluesky (official app of sports) timeline is mostly disconnected FUCKs and "go birds, I want to d*e"

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The fact of the matter is that AI is language without the demands of an other subjectivity and language is a riff we can ride for a very long time: that kind of vacancy is a magnet for projecting fantasies of all kinds, hope and fear alike. We get nowhere on “AI” until we tackle that.

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 10/09/2026

REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo

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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It does not seem right that when Anthropic execs tweet about their research having a 10% chance of killing all humans they get a bumper IPO payout, but when I do the same thing I get a referral to the IRB for "additional training"

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m @cowboyadjacent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"create an account to continue" oh my god just fucking kill me

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Kim Andrews @kqandrews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I still think with extreme fondness of my Pixi Plus, from the forty-five seconds during which HP manufactured phones after taking over Palm Pilot. It was perfect. Look at this thing.

A perfect tiny phone with a clicky button keyboard

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John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For those who celebrate

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do you think i'm spooky dot horse @truebe.horse · 04/09/2026

Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Except me, I’m fighting you. Pick up the sword.

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You are not the tallest person on bluesky

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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Dogpiling: loud, public, disruptive, bad Catpiling: quiet, private, you were sleeping and didn't even realize it was happening, good

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Both Dolly Parton and Tim Curry had such a genuine enthusiasm for performing that it was impossible not to love them for it, there were things more highly and lowly regarded in their bodies of work but both of them threw themselves into everything because it was pure joy for them and that rules

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/08/2026

I have really enjoyed the experience of reading story after story about how good and selfless and beloved a recently deceased famous person was

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Sarah @thebasementtan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"The voluptuous embodiment of empathy." God, what a glorious thing to have been.

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It was only a matter of time

Epistemic Assholes
Cameron Boult
Synthese (forthcoming)

Abstract
In this paper, I develop and defend the concept epistemic assholes. An epistemic asshole is someone who exhibits a distinctive form of epistemic badness characterized not by gross irrationality or hostility to truth, but by a stable, entitled disregard for one’s epistemic relations with others. Drawing on Aaron James’s (2012) account of moral assholes, I examine how people can systematically exploit epistemic cooperation by allowing themselves special advantages—such as “freedom from inquiry”, “doxastic comfort”, and “freedom to criticize”—while remaining insulated from criticism by an entrenched sense of entitlement. The resulting view, the Relational Approach to Epistemic Assholes (REA), explains why epistemic assholes are not epistemically the worst, yet are nonetheless deeply galling. After motivating the need for this concept, I show how REA captures both “impure” cases (involving both epistemic and moral assholery) and “pure” epistemic assholes, whose objectionable conduct is driven by epistemic aims themselves. I further explore connections between epistemic assholes and epistemic vice, and the causal role that epistemic assholery can play in active ignorance and epistemic exploitation. Through this latter connection, I argue that epistemic assholes play an insidious causal role in sustaining objectionable social power dynamics. The concept of epistemic assholes provides a valuable lens for understanding and calling out important but often-hidden hazards in our social epistemic environment.

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

When I read posts I feel confused and unsettled but when I read a book I feel calm enjoyment. Ah well, time to read several hundred posts

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

guy: excuse me me internally steeling myself for some bullshit: what’s up guy, voice full of wonderment: did you know jim carrey is from canada?? i never knew that

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 20/08/2026

The problem with innovation as a reader is that the perfect technology has already been invented (book) and every subsequent innovation has the defect of being Not Book.

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ceej @ceej.online · 20/08/2026

they put up a dada center just outside of town and life has been unbearable ever since. thing looks like a fucking fish

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Faked my whole meditation class again. I've just been keeping my face really really still. my mind has been racing the whole time. I am tortured by unrelenting thought. You can't stop me. I win! See you next week, idiots.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/08/2026

A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them "this is enough for another whole cat"

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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think about this point by Adorno so often of late.

My thesis about this would be that all
humans deep down, whether they admit this or not, know that it
would be possible or it could be different. Not only could they live
without hunger and probably without anxiety, but they could also
live as free human beings. At the same time, the social apparatus has
hardened itself against people, and thus, whatever appears before
their eyes all over the world as attainable possibility, as the evident
possibility of fulfillment, presents itself to them as radically impossible. And when people universally say today what was once reserved
only for philistines in more harmless times, "Oh, that's just utopian;
oh, that's possible only in the land of Cockaigne. Basically that
shouldn't be like that at all," then I would say that this is due to the
situation compelling people to master the contradiction between the
evident possibility offulfillment and the just as evident impossibility
offulfillment only in this way, compelling them to identify themselves
with this impossibility and to make this impossibility into their own
affair. In other words, to use Freud, they "identify themselves with
the aggressor" and say that this should not be, whereby they feel that
it is precisely this that should be, but they are prevented from attaining
it by a wicked spell cast over the world.

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Kim Andrews @kqandrews.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Not that I am suggesting you forego the computer telling you which animals are hard to see, but if you’d like to skip it, you can grab ANIMALS I NEVER SAW right here: flumepress.com/authors/anim...

flumepress.com

Animals I Never Saw by Kimberly Quiogue Andrews

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Kim Andrews @kqandrews.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Also! Not for nothing: spent time reading the comments to David’s essay this morning and like, it is NYTimes Cooking comments-section-level delightful. In case anyone needs some affirmation of human potential rn.

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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

God bless the confounding dorks of the humanities. It'd be a poorer world without them. defector.com/humanists-ha...

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Kim Andrews @kqandrews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Nodding along til my head falls off

Judith Butler's ideas specifically. My point here is not to defend the alleged properties of our writing-which, as I've suggested, are mostly projections-but rather the specific reading practices already intrinsic to humanities teaching and research that attend to the difficulties of making thought manifest in language. Call it form, call it figuration, call it rhetoric; these are the features of communication that render its use irreducible to the simple transmission of data bytes and incompatible with the reactionary desire for immediacy.

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Kim Andrews @kqandrews.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The music of humanity is people WITHOUT headphones having a FaceTime conversation at full volume on the bus. Get bent

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 09/10/2025

Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 09/08/2026

Philadelphia. Always.

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Syllabus-writing, that wonderful time of year when Present Me creates opportunities for Future Me to wonder what Past Me could have been smoking.

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

A lot of people struggle with the fact that in a world of competing irrationalisms, there actually are better and worse forms.

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The best year was probably 2007. We had just enough internet in our pockets to make our lives significantly easier, but not yet enough to make everyone in the world go insane.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is a key point that our head librarian pointed out to me. Flat or declining library budgets combined with rising ebook costs mean that increasingly the work of curating the collection is managed by outside vendors w no sense of specific institutional needs or attendance to concerns about AI.

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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

this is a great point; criticism, like film criticism, prepares a broad educated public to think about culture in sophisticated ways, and the absence of stable jobs for critics has - I think - led to a public without some of the critical resources they should have.

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Hermione, Texas Granger @misterfungi.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

the Wikipedia entry for axolotls reads like a Cake song

Their heads are wide, and their eyes are lidless. Their limbs are underdeveloped and possess long, thin digits.

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Kim Andrews @kqandrews.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

In an excellent bit of nominative determinism, the first guest “chef” on RFK’s new quack-ass cooking show is some asshole named *Andrew Gruel*

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OrcGirlBoss 🐇🏹 @orc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Hey this is good

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 02/08/2026

more good content! imagine publishing content that's just nice! reveals a little bit about having fun on the internet! people just doing things because they can and the internet was nice!

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the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Revising a poem I've revised several times already:

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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Got cut off by a guy with a “what would Walt Whitman do?” bumper sticker. I am being rage baited by god

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I think there are two different kinds of questions one can ask and answer but which are getting blurred together In The Discourse: 1. Is Nolan's The Odyssey a good movie 2. Which is better, Nolan's or Homer's The Odyssey

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