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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

by a funny coincidence, after literal years of telling me to get on this from @nippleslipple.bsky.social, Yuzi and I have finally got tickets booked to go see it with some friends later this month. So more on this soon!

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Aww I just realised that the numbers exactly work for me and all my current and former PhD students (counting anyone who I was on an American style committee as a student of mine - slightly extended sense but I tend to do that!) and that makes me happy, so I did this!

Taking Devin S' post and modifying it, it still reads "Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarise yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express." But the pictures are then of: me, Somayeh Tohidi, Bele Wollesen, Fabian Beigang, Jingyi Wu, Emily Tilton, Stephanie Wanga, Margherita Harris, JiMin Kwon, Arlene Lo, Korbinian Friedl, Talita Ferrantelli, Binjie Zou, Puneh Nejati-Mehr, Mikhail Volkov, Zoé Barrett.

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

doxastically wronging a hard-working member of the service staff by believing they’re a bougie professor

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

[smug laughing] no, of course not. during research

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please tell me this was a student who then showed reduced interest in taking your class upon being told the actual reason?

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dr. nipple slipple @nippleslipple.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

someone asked if my handle is dr. nipple slipple because i have a lot of nip slips while teaching 💀

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

[telling people what I work on] Wow that’s so interesting Not if I keep talking about it it’s not

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 23/09/2026

Healing movie. We're going to walk out of the theater transformed. New blood, new skin, everything

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am genuinely obsessed with how close these people let Nathan Fielder get in virtually every shot of this trailer. The first documentary shot entirely at kissing distance.

Nathan sitting on one side of the bed while Elizabeth Holmes’ husband stroked her leg on the other.

Nathan Fielder standing a tight 18 inches away from Elizabeth Holmes’s husband in a way that suggest the latter can be pushed against the fridge and be taken to makeout city

Nathan Fielder staring soulfully in Elizabeth Holmes’ eyes less than a foot away.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The full trailer for You Can See Everything is out today. And my first thought is that it should be required that Nathan Fielder film for 48 hrs at every tech CEO’s home.

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Melissa @yournerdyfriend.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Like yeah emotions and drives and appetites and embracing radical perspectivalism and might be very sexy but at the end of the day you are gonna need to have principle to point to in order to resolve disagreements and like… that has to be truth or rationality right? lol

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This post by @lastpositivist.bsky.social remains the single best take on effective altruism

Adding a single principle to utilitarianism ("ok, but no galaxy brain stuff, alright?") and thereby perfecting moral philosophy.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Occasional reminder that pedagogy should be eccentric and calibrated to the uniquely bizarre access you have managed to cobble together in order to crack open a complicated form of understanding.

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dr. nipple slipple @nippleslipple.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

letting the usc grad students in on my tips and tricks

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The more I read and reread "The Will to Believe", the more I struggle to see how epistemologists have landed on the view that James was the hero in the James-Clifford debate.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

there is a very particular moment in the writing of a paper at which i despair because everything in the paper is breathtakingly obvious and so not worth saying. that point comes after the despair of having nothing to say, and before the despair of thinking actually it's shit and wrong after all

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Oh snap! Of course when people check that list of nominating editors and see me there it's gonna all be a bit second pic. But anyway now I shall have to find where to fit my *second* Philosopher's Annual award up on the shelf with the Leverhulme Prize 😏

The Philosopher's Annual
volume 45
Dear Professor Bright,
We are pleased to say that we have chosen your and Nathan Gabriel, Cailin O’Connor,
and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s “On the Stability of Racial Capitalism,” from Ergo, as one of the
ten best articles in philosophy from 2025.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

RIP Nikhil but for me one of the amazing things philosophy taught me was that it turns out my first guess has proven to be correct every time.

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jichikawa.bsky.social @jichikawa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

anyway, here it is

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

referee reports have to prove to you that they are worth taking seriously

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dr. nipple slipple @nippleslipple.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

the best way to recover from referee reports is to have everyone u love tell u that the reports are stupid, thank u @lastpositivist.bsky.social

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is actually where I stand, I think there's darkly funny symmetry here. I actually would bet that the complaints about procedure in Cofnas' hiring are pretextual and this is retaliatory for extramural speech. But it turns out that the charges might actually have merit so are worth looking into.

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dr. nipple slipple @nippleslipple.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

thought for once reviewer 2 was gonna be on my side, but they recommended straight reject not even revisions 😭😭

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

On my hands and knees begging every philosophy journal to adopt the Ergo workflow

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

alex guerrero, noted member of the not fucking around crew

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

thanks to recent technological innovations, it is now possible for me to think this thought. awesome

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Please daily mail/telegraph editor reading this before you get mad please understand that my employer (King's College London) has already assured me they endorse all my posts, so it's really them you should be angry with not me.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

See unlike SOME PEOPLE I am actually committed to that diversity hire life, I am not about to quit when it gets hard; someone needs to bilk these whites for all their worth -- and I will fight the fight, stay the course, keep the woke faith.

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I post tweets for free also as an act of feminist micro-resistance

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dr. nipple slipple @nippleslipple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

imo it’s probably fine for academics to monetize their substacks (who cares) but i *do* think it’s really cringe that when kate manne decided to do this she described it as an act of feminist “micro-resistance” 🥴

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dr. nipple slipple @nippleslipple.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

i got into linocut printing a couple weeks ago and now i can't do anything else

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

From a certain legal and theological perspective I'm now married.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

i wish INCEPTION was real so we could incept "you are capable of directing a big budget feature film. you will be great at it" into Elon Musk's head bsky.app/profile/vitu...

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Sitting my son down to talk about Burt's Bees

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Shit I drunk texted someone last night

Obviously fake texts to Jason Stanley asking him, very thirstly, at 4:08 am, if he is up and wants to rejoin bluesky tonight

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Suppose someone thought NIMBYism was more or less just property owners banding together using the power of the state to protect their wealth (a thing we on the left easily recognise as such when capitalists do it) and left opposition to YIMBY arise because we often hope to be among the owners here.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/05/2026

this is a heretofore unseen level of self-hatred and pretension. my dude just be normal and enjoy a miller lite like everyone else!

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

📣🎉 New paper! "Zetetic and Epistemic Deference in Standpoint Epistemology", forthcoming in Phil Studies! Epistemic deference has gotten a bad rap in standpoint epistemology lately, but that's a bad take. Here's why. philpapers.org/rec/SAIZAE

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Catharine Saint-Croix, Zetetic and Epistemic Deference in Standpoint Epistemology - PhilPapers

The Advantage Thesis is the centerpiece of standpoint epistemology. According to this thesis, standpoint occupants—those who bear a particular sort of epistemically fruitful relationship to marginaliz...

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Athens Grease @athensgrease.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

An ad on the side of a truck advertising “man cereal,” with the slogan CEREAL GOT ITS BALLS BACK

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Sometimes it do be like that

Crying face wojack says "Professor won't you please answer your emails -- at least look in your inbox, it's part of your job" is being responded to by a wojack version of me that is just saying "No, I'm scared."

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Coda: in fact in making OP I even ran into the issue.

My bluesky search for Emily Tilton brings two responses, the second of which is from the philosopher and the first of which is from an erotic fiction blog writing about the author Emily Tilton's anal sex fiction.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Philosopher @nippleslipple.bsky.social has one of my favourite websites in the discipline just for this (emilytilton11.wixsite.com/website/disa...).

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

In what many are calling the most CV efficient strategy ever, I have my 2026 paper out already (relax for the rest of the year comrades!) and it's actually a bit of a joke one. Link here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... and abstract attached. But I'll just tell the story of how it came to be....

A brief observation on the relationship between antecedent status and reviewing incentives.

Liam Kofi Bright

ABSTRACT

It is often believed that academics are especially harsh in their evaluation of work that critiques their own ideas. I dispute that claim. Rather, I say, consideration of the credit incentives for academics reviewing critique of their own work should lead us to expect them to typically be particularly generous to critique of their own work.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I found an old blog post in drafts that I decided to modify somewhat and put out - my own little plea for humanism, why I self-describe and generally consider myself a humanist. Not sure if anyone else will care, but fwiw here it is. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-...

I am a humanist in the following vague sense. I have great faith in people's capacity to peacefully come together and do better than we've thus far done. Not only do I hope for a better world that we can all share in, but I think such could be created by our own hands working in unison. I think that to a far greater extent than we presently do, we could arrange ourselves by rationally and collectively deliberating as equals to decide upon our purposes and means of satisfying those. This could be achieved, I think, in a way that would not only be consistent with the real freedom to be eccentric and think differently, but would to a significant degree enhance such liberties as we have managed to secure under the present socio-economic arrangement.

I think that our traditions of literary and artistic production are valuable in moving us towards this world. They refine our sensibilities, help us engage in empathetic identification, and vividly present both ideals and object lessons for us to learn from directly. Only those last need be directly political, the first two can often be achieved (may even be best achieved) by ostensibly apolitical works, which avoid didactically insisting upon some moral. For instance, the Miyazaki film Kiki's Delivery Service does wonders for encouraging empathy and solidarity and a kind of feminism, without this being the obvious or overt "message" of the film.

That such things are useful is, to me, a consequence of a more general belief that there can be suasion by moral charisma and ostentatious decency. Beyond the more indirect methods of artistic moral suasion, there is also an importance to direct moral appeal. Doing this requires speaking hard truths to power, and making those who wield authority feel the human stakes of their actions. On such occasions what matters is the ability to bring emotionally affecting messages to bear in support of rationally supported action. This comes from a kind of Sentimentalist meta-ethics and theories of rhetoric I take to be grounded in various humanistic traditions of thought: I hope we can properly align the emotional cadence of one's message to the appropriate or fitting response that will benefit as many people as possible as much as possible. Ethical theory as well as aesthetic, psychological, and sociological analysis, will all play its role in doing this well.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

thinking about this excellent paper and the danger of the epistemic mission civilatrice, in which one engages with another viewpoint in order to convert its adherents, while firmly committed to not being converted oneself [this has been an exercise in sticking "epistemic' in front of things]

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