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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 4h

I don't care if Monday's grue Tuesday's bleen, and Wednesday too Thursday's unprojectable (true) It's Friday, I'm in hlove* *where hlove = love and observed before time t or hate and observed after time t

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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

friday is for kafkaposting

tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 18h

I have a clever new idea. what if things got better instead of worse

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Eddie Current @cheatlines.co · 07/10/2026

Wikipedia snippet: A fish ladder, also known as a pescalator,

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

my PhD program taught us to memorize both a short and long summary of our dissertation to whip out on the fly--so this is a document we actually prepared, though I never had to use it!

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

are we not all of us, eternally, student drivers

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

extremely un-wild: we all studied exactly the same things with the existence of 2 6 week classes junior and senior year (St. John's)

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

mine is it's the first day of class at my undergraduate college and I can't find my classes in the one tiny building they're in, but it's not exactly the same every time except in theme. sometimes the rooms are different, the readings I'm not prepared for, the vibes, etc.

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

when people talk about recurring dreams, do they mean dreams that are phenomenally almost the same, or dreams on the same theme?

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

by far my most effective sleep aid seems to be....coffee this is not how it's supposed to work

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For Halloween, I plan to be an eerily empty Waymo

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I miss when we were on Twitter before it was evil and someone would post something like, "humanities professors only want one thing and it's discussing" and everyone was pleasantly diverted

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the job market is hard, and not to victim-blame, but: have you tried putting ten coins in your pocket?

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here‘s an oil pastel study and a gouache/ink painting :) Haven’t had as much time for art as I’d like lately though

Study of Pierre Bonnard’s “Still Life with Dog”

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

that's so cool! (don't know how I missed the first post there.) excited to see the linocuts!

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🧡 will post when I get home. How about you?

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We can do it. We can replace academic journals with a vast network of pen pals.

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

once as a grad student a faculty member observed my teaching, and their only criticism was "put the coffee down," and I think of that every day when I do the exact opposite

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Sander Verhaegh @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Busted!

"100% of this text is AI" score on the first lines of Wittgenstein's Tractatus (Pangram)

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

weasel greater than which none can be conceived

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the existence of the least weasel implies the existence of the most weasel

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I Can't Know It's Not Butter!

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

when I was a kid I was sure the word meant "butt cheeks" since people were always sitting on them

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Philosophical Investigations §250: "Why can't a dog simulate pain? Is he too honest?"

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corpse @consume.red · 16/09/2026

the empirical ontological argument: the internet shows that every conceivable type of guy is actual. god is a conceivable type of guy. therefore god is actual

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bro, be straight with me: was it eldritch or merely uncanny?

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

just casually averting my eyes from all multi-part posts

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I embraced *so much* new technology due to Covid for new course modalities--Notability, Jamboard (RIP), Discord, Zoom, video recording programs; it's absurd to call professors who did this technophobic because we correctly recognize the threat AI poses to education

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

People always asking "how is this philosophy?!" but never "how is this philosopher?" 😰😰😭😓

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

food is the only art you’re supposed to consume

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Plato (posting): inside you there are 2 horses

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

this just seems really obvious to me. what is the point of a philosophical insight that isn't being thought through by a philosopher? the unexamined thought is not worth thinking

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Andrew Bahle @andrewbahle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Mr Wittgenstein, tear down this wall!

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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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