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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What I love about philosophy: anyone can participate. There’s no gatekeeping. What I hate about philosophy: anyone can participate. There’s no gatekeeping.

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Yale Stewart @yalestewart.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The official Mister Rogers YouTube channel has been posting full episodes recently, and believe me when I tell you that watching one is a great way to take a break from the general state of things. www.youtube.com/@MisterRoger...

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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Welcome to the official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube channel! For more than 30 years, Mister Rogers created a relationship with millions of children, each of whom felt like they were visiting ...

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Raffi_RC @raffic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Khalil Gibran, in his book The Prophet, wrote : Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself. They come through you, but they are not of you. 🌟 perhaps this turns the question “Who am I?” into a more important one.. “Whose” am I?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Continuously in awe of the fact that all knowledge builds on learned knowledge. If you ever have the chance, watch the patience of an early-childhood educator guiding a kid through a difficult new idea and then consider the entire communal effort of generational education throughout history.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Remembering Rawls’s term ‘the fair value of political liberty.’ Political donation caps are opposed by those who hate the idea of genuinely fair and free elections and hope to benefit by someone putting a finger on the scales on their behalf (though Trade Union funding complicates things).

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Many of you will know the famous finding from @existwell.bsky.social and Derek Anderson: Philosophers' views on philosophical questions are not predicted by their personality traits But why not? I asked Anderson about this, and he had a very intriguing suggestion philarchive.org/rec/YADTPO-2

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It bugs me that we're normalising the idea that there's something wrong with long documents, or that they're not "worth" our time. There is huge value in careful thought, in detail and nuance, in exploration, and in the experiential journey that goes alongside that.

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Melissa @yournerdyfriend.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The preferred term is “midlife existential opportunity”

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Barry Lam @hiphination.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finally found a use for this meme.

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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if you don't know now you know. "The ultimate danger remains that, when institutions comply with authoritarian wishes, the government will just ask for greater and greater concessions. After all, if you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk." @bakerdphd.bsky.social

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That Same Ol’ Authoritarian Playbook

Throughout history, autocrats have gone after higher ed finances to control institutions’ culture.

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

you hate to see a language game go to penalties

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is literally the difference between Saruman and Gandalf. Tolkien is very clear about the necessity to go out into the world and yap with strangers, preferably while smoking and drinking.

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draculaderonda from the crypt @scanningtwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The videogame guy I'm controlling? That's not me; I'm me. The main character in a novel I'm reading isn't me either. More and more I feel like this is an unusual attitude towards art.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Tolkien gave up on writing a sequel to the Lord of the Rings because he imagined the youth of Gondor forming 'orc-cults' who would imitate Mordor and found it too depressing; a remarkable feat of imagination when it came to predicting people who still worship the Soviet or Nazi empires today.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

don't talk to me until i've had my salmon of knowledge en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_...

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Salmon of Knowledge - Wikipedia

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I actually do not get, at all, the instinct that dolls are not worth studying. It does actually strike me as pretty interesting that we have so consistently throughout history made little people and used them as make belief aides. Why would that be even prima facie contemptible or absurd to study?

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 27/08/2026

I‘ve been thinking about Walter‘s essay all afternoon. I‘ve been trying to think of an analytic political or moral philosopher whose arguments wouldn‘t require a radical change to the status quo & I‘m struggling. Almost the entire characterisation of analytic philosophy in the piece is false.

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

RIP to everyone who confuses the claims they think are true but won’t argue for with the mystical outputs of the Faculty of Intuition (Noûs) but I’m different. And better. Maybe even better than Plato.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

To remember the Great Lakes, we used to learn the acronym H.O.M.E.S. The Trump admin has torn down H.O.M.E.S. to replace it with S.H.A.M.E. It's just SO on the nose 😭😭😭

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Analytic philosophy is leftist in the sense that it is off-putting to normies but conservative in the sense that it is bad at comedy

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Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Only analytic philosophers get to disparage analytic philosophy. When others do it it’s in poor taste.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’ve seen analytic philosophers with takes normies wouldn’t believe. Tables that weren’t tables but atoms arranged table-wise. I watched theorists claim that scribbled down phone numbers are part of my mind.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I guess I'll add that Dolly Parton is up there with Fred Rogers in terms of truly achieving what I think a Christian living their faith in public life should be like.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Charging money for Content is dishonorable. Sophist behavior. A true visionary, in the tradition of the great Socrates, is annoying for free

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 25/08/2026

A wonderful interview of Paul Gooch by Nathan Ballantyne. Gooch says: "the teacher must be open to interrogation as well as the student. I want the conversation to be interrogative in both directions, between teacher and student." What do you do to help foster that?

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“Proper education arouses intellectual curiosity” - Daily Nous

Nathan Ballantyne (ASU) continues his wonderful series of thoughtful, in-depth interviews of philosophers, The Workbench, with a conversation with Paul Gooch (Toronto). . The conversation is wide-rang...

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Gilbert and Sullivan adaptation of the Horus Heresy. “I am the very model of a modern chaos heretic, I’ve information warp-psychic, ruinous, and daemonic. I know the Primarch’s loyalties and curse the False Imperial, In the Eye of Terror I find myself immaterial.”

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What does it say about our culture that the solution to the conflict we created between working life and being a parent is a machine-simulacrum of oneself? What a devil’s bargain to get out of the bind we’ve created, the illusion that one can be (kind of) fully present at work and in home life.

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I’m organizing a session at the 2027 Pacific APA’s AAPT-APA Teaching Hub on “The Role of Primary Texts in the Age of AI,” and I’m sharing the CFP in case you or someone you know is interested! philevents.org/event/show/1... Anonymized proposals of 500 to 750 words are due on September 1st.

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2027 Pacific AAPT-APA Teaching Hub: "The Role of Primary Texts in the Age of AI"

Pacific Division Meeting The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) and the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy (CTP) seek presenters for the following sessions at the AAPT-APA Tea...

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I nearly missed it, but today is 70 days to publication of When Things Get Personal. Chapter seven explores issues about to whom and how we give credit - what we admire or are proud of people for. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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When Things Get Personal

How to avoid the trap of taking conflicts so personally

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

2026 legacy media in a nutshell

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Two junior research fellowships @kingscollege.bsky.social opening soon due on Oct 1st. The theme is REPLICATION conceived broadly to encompass different research projects in humanities and social sciences. As a philosopher of science I am esp hoping for applications in #philsci #metascience #hps

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Current research opportunities

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

i guess i've been tweeting versions of this, but the truth about academia—at least in the little corner i know about—is that the field has gotten substantially nicer, less gratuitously mean, appreciably more inclusive, and at the same time the work has gotten notably better and there's more of it

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

dante starting a bluesky list called guyswhowilltotallygotohell

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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026

You must not tell the LLMs your true name, nor accept or offer any gifts, food, or drink

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Imagine you're a reviewer spending several afternoons trying help make a publishable-but-not-amazing paper better (hey, maybe it's a grad student giving publishing a shot), and then only after review you find out it was something some guy wrote with Claude in half of a day

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Time to go sit down with my stupid flesh brain (that no tech company has figured out how to fully monetize yet) and write some of its ideas down. Like a fucking idiot

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

When I tried ADHD meds for the first time I sat quietly and read a book for three solid hours without constantly waggling my feet. Honestly, I could cry. Why are so many media people so immoral, so unethical, that they will happily shit all over vulnerable communities just to make a quick buck?

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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

just looked up where this Le Guin quote came from, and got a truly fantastic reveal

"The Creative result is the child who has survived" - Ursula K Le Guin

"what the fuck is this shit" - Ursula K Le Guin

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

the humanities united will never be defeated

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