Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 22hOn my way to the cinema to watch Coyote vs. ACME 000 0
Reposted by Left SpinozistElim Garak @elimgarak240b.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Bears are so friend-shaped it’s not fair 3171 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Props to Valve for succeeding at making me weirdly emotional and feel bittersweet over getting away from a murderous machine intelligence I spent 2 games trying to escape and who was insulting me for 80% of it. 000 0
Reposted by Left SpinozistDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13/10/2026there's stuff you do to impress other men and there's stuff you do to attract women and they're not actually the same thing, my broheimen 1746825 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The only tie-in book I remember reading is City of Echoes, but that's not a bad choice regardless. 000 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Watched the first episode of Avatar: the Seven Havens On its own it is fine, but I really mourn the loss of bending as something which required training to do and told us about aspects of the characters, instead of just being magic. But this was also a problem with Korra. Oh well 020 0
Reposted by Left Spinozistlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026She could be a bit simplistic but I think Anita Sarkeesian was broadly correct. 2845 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Nothing doesn't exist at all, certainly not in itself 010 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I don't think the death penalty should exist at all, but if we do put that discussion to the side then a firing squad is both the most simpl and best. And it is especially much better than all the nonsense Americans have been doing for a 100+ years. 100 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Another point against people who insist on beauty having anything to do with truth in mathematics (or outside of it for that matter) 010 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I guess? The questions are 60-80% actual nonsense, so this really says nothing. 010 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yes, Spinoza does so in book 2 of the short treatise, chapter 25 010 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The end of Lanterns is a bit disappointing, I had been hoping they were building to a more nuanced thing with fear If there's any story that could do "fear is fully bad and must be overcome, which is different from reckless overconfidence" it would be a Green Lantern story Otherwise good, 7/10 100 0
Reposted by Left SpinozistRobert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026Left Spinozist vs The Last Positivist, the battle of the century 0132 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I love direct democracy, downstream of that is my positive feelings towards technocratic sophistication and my hatred of populism. 3121 0
Reposted by Left Spinozistlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026There are lots of issues wherein I have an underlying commitment to democracy and different first order preferences to what I know the demos want. So I think that people should get to vote for things that I think they ought not vote for. This is often frustrating to me. 1301 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A woman came into the library, returned a copy of Anna Karenina, then walked over to the reservations and borrowed a different copy of Anna Karenina. Love her vibe 020 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula 000 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Watched a play (a very contemporary rendition of Erasmus Montanus), on my way home to read the third meditation 000 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026R.I.P. Spinoza, you would have loved making children's books about the passions 000 0
Reposted by Left SpinozistHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10135053788 0
Reposted by Left SpinozistLeft Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If I had a penny for every second game in a series there is on this list, I'd have 4 pennies 001 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Welp, father broke another of his old records, this time it was a marathon. Being in his 50s is clearly nothihg more than a number 010 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"I'd rather be a non-Marxist communist than a non-communist Marxist"static.klipy.comGiga Chad and Female Chad TransformationALT: Giga Chad and Female Chad Transformation 010 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I had the opportunity to observe the Friday prayer in a Mosque, and to listen to the Imam preach about the value of knowledge in the world today. It was enjoyable, to see what different communities of faith do as part of daily social practice, as opposed to a detached academic perspective or my own 110 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Postulate 5 in the second book of Spinoza's Ethics is kinda odd. It's given without argument like the other postulates and the axioms, but it's kinda convoluted and has several moving parts involved 330 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Has anyone here read the Silverthorne/Kisner translation of Spinoza's Ethics? I've mostly heard it described in a positive light as a solid alternative to Curley, but I haven't had the chance to check out the differences. 320 0
Reposted by Left SpinozistBrett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Did you know the brain is actually two different organs" oh ok. That's cool. I tend to only be interested in eternal truths revealed by the light of pure reason. But your thing is cool too 1547 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I think the insincerity of it all is getting to me 000 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You could make a book on proper pedagogical game design and you would be able to take all your examples from Half Life 2, it's really everywhere when you are looking for it 001 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I have a cold, which is a novelty compared to most other days I am sick. One thing I get a lot when sick, but especially with colds, is a sense of disconnect between parts of my body. My hand feels less like a part of me, and more like something external I am using, like a tool. It feels very manual 100 0
Reposted by Left SpinozistJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026(Almost) every writer: If only I had some free time, I could really make some progress. Free time appears. No, not that sort of free time. 510610 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026One must imagine Sisyphus (me) happy as he rolls the boulder up the mountains (sorts the library books once again) 000 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This evening, I am thinking about (and being annoyed by) wax 020 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I've seen a fair few lists and systems of emotions, in philosophy I particular think of Spinoza, Hobbes, and Descartes (you don't get any points for guessing which I sympathise most with). But DC Comics takes a weirdness medal by having a system where "willpower" is an emotion 100 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Gueroult on science, certainty, and the Cogito 000 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Farmers are protesting in the capital I hate farmers They should all be nationalised, they clearly can't be trusted with anything, they are hundreds of billions of DKK in debt 000 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Descartes' second Meditation doesn't move as fast as the first, and I have some issues to develop with the wax, but coming to the intuitive knowledge of the existence of the self is satisfied and starts the chain of reason to concatenate from 010 0
Left Spinozist @leftspinozist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Alright, I've read it for today, for the last time in a very long time. It's been a good exercise, but I'm also tired of reading Descartes say that he noticed his senses are unreliable. Was this a good idea? Yes. Do I have hands? Idk, but I'll believe not while continuing to act as if I do. 210 0
