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Toby Svoboda

@tobysvoboda.bsky.social
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Philosopher working on ethics, climate change, and the rest. philpeople.org/profiles/toby-svoboda

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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
What if this Trump guy is nothing but the moron he so obviously appears to be on the surface?
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Say what you want about Cassidy's cowardice, but you have to admit he also has no self-respect. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/u...
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Bill Cassidy Will Back Todd Blanche as Attorney General, Salvaging His Confirmation
The Louisiana senator said that, despite reservations, he would back President Trump’s pick for attorney general, giving Republicans enough votes for a majority.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Republican pitch to voters is compelling: "We'll cause serious, material harm to you and your family, but we promise to do it in a really racist way." How do you compete with that?
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We're the good guys. You can tell because we destroy civilian infrastructure in Iran and cut off vital resources for Cuba's people! God bless us.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The end of days must be near. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/b...
nytimes.com
‘Odyssey’ Popcorn Buckets Help Fuel a $100 Million Market
Once, a tub of popcorn was just a tub of popcorn. Now, ‘collectible concession vessels’ could make one chain more than $100 million.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
May the good Lord bless these fine war criminals! www.axios.com/2026/07/22/t...
axios.com
Trump vows to hit an Iranian bridge or power plant for every ship Iran attacks
The threat sets a new trigger for escalation.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
War crimes aren't crimes if we do them. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...
nytimes.com
Iran War Live Updates: Fighting Intensifies With Strikes on Critical Infrastructure
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Many people go through life asking the question, "Is James a Rortian pragmatist?" Sadly, few discover the answer. I try to help in a new paper. #philsky #pragmatism philpapers.org/rec/SVOIJA?_...
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Yes, many people in Iran were killed and harmed, and great damage was done to their country. But clearly the real scandal is that the perpetrators of those crimes might end up paying something! Why should aggressors and war criminals compensate victims?!?!
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
It is sobering to see the American public and its leaders, especially on the right, reflecting on the death and destruction they have brought to the Iranian people. Let no one say that these are morally unserious people!
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
When you start an idiotic war of aggression that kills a bunch of people, you deserve to get an awful peace deal.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The long wait is over: My paper on why ethical theory is not inadequate for solving climate change and why virtually no one cares what climate ethicists have to say. #climatechange #ethics www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RDYEK...
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Climate Change and the Alleged Inadequacy of Ethical Theory: Reasons for Skepticism
Stephen Gardiner has claimed that the current state of ethical theory is inadequate for addressing climate change, arguing that our ethical theory is inept when it comes to dealing with basic issue...
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The Lord shall punish Republicans for their crimes, perhaps.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
These people are as stupid as they are evil. www.axios.com/2026/04/17/i...
axios.com
Scoop: U.S. considers $20 billion cash-for-uranium deal with Iran
The U.S. and Iran are negotiating over a three-page plan with some very sensitive elements.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"U.S. officials say." Clearly we should trust these clowns. www.axios.com/2026/04/15/i...
axios.com
U.S. and Iran inch toward framework deal to end war, U.S. officials say
If a framework is reached, the ceasefire would need to be extended to negotiate the details of a comprehensive deal.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Anyone know why Republicans are okay with terrorism?
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
God bless the American people for their wise electoral choices. Good luck to the rest.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Bondi sacrificed every shred of dignity and got nothing in return. Merely accidental justice, but at least it's something.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Good thing voters aren't responsible for their choices. Otherwise many of us would have a fair amount of blood on our hands.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A phenomenal opportunity! Bowling Green State University is allowing its own employees to donate to the athletics program. Act now! 😍 #BallersandBosses (but mostly bosses) bgsufalcons.com/news/2026/3/...
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BGSU One Day Early Giving Kicks Off with $1 Million #BallersandBosses Campaign Goal - Bowling Green State University Athletics
Bowling Green State University Athletics
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
What we are doing to Cuba is unconscionable, and almost no one in this country cares to the slightest degree.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
More war crimes, yes, but what about gas prices? Get to the important stuff, media! www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
nytimes.com
Iran War Live Updates: Tehran Is Defiant After Trump Threatens Power Plants
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Congratulations to Afroman. Justice is not fully dead.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
There is an appreciable chance that we will all die due to the actions of a moron. Many already have.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
These are some lovely human beings. The Lord would be proud, guys. www.axios.com/2026/03/13/c...
axios.com
Democrats move to censure GOP Reps. Randy Fine and Andy Ogles for anti-Muslim posts
Democratic leadership is working with rank-and-file lawmakers on a censure against Fine, sources told Axios.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Apologies for dwelling on the murder of civilians. Now back to topics that really matter, such as oil prices.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Yeah, we accidentally killed a bunch of your kids during our war of aggression. Honest mistake. We'll do better in the future.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Shit, we're evil. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
nytimes.com
U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This is who we are. Always has been. The difference is that Trump and his crooks lack the decency to lie to the public for a year before initiating their war crimes.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
It is fortunate that the most accomplished academics also happen to be the best talent scouts. Otherwise we might have reason to doubt the utility of recommendation letters. #philsky
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Pascal commenting on most of us: "Weak people are those who know the truth, but who maintain it only as far as it is in their interest to do so. Beyond that, they abandon it." (Pensees 617)
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I am required to take "ethics" training from the Rethuglican- controlled state of Ohio. It is needlessly complicated. One rule would suffice: "Do the opposite of what we do."
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
One of the few consolations of these times is that some of the worst human beings on this planet have publicly sacrificed any vestige of self-respect and yet received nothing in return. It is a small justice.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Well deserved indeed. politicalwire.com/2026/01/31/t...
politicalwire.com
The Humiliation of Kristi Noem
Mark Leibovich: “When a conspicuous presidential project goes awry—in this case, federal immigration agents killing two protesters in Minnesota—someone typically loses their job. And for much of this ...
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
These ICE thugs would have been really nice to Jesus no doubt.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Though painful, imagine for a moment being as cowardly and servile as a Republican member of congress. What is it like to live without a shred of self-respect?
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The country is run by malicious clowns. As always with them, we get both cruelty and incompetence. What a world.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The Rethuglican party has been a dangerous extremist organization for many years.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Gosh, they're evil. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
nytimes.com
3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The country is run by genuinely and obviously awful human beings. They have quite literally failed at life.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I like this paper. Therefore it is good and everyone should read it. Open access. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tandfonline.com
Schopenhauer and anti-natalism
This paper assesses the common assertion that Arthur Schopenhauer holds a position similar to David Benatar’s anti-natalism: (1) Never-existing is preferable to coming into existence as a human ind...
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Why do Republicans love handouts so much?
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
As an academic, I am amazed that a *committee* could get the CFP rankings so wrong. It's almost as if the committee was swayed by something other than reason. Imagine that happening in academia! #philsky #cfp
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Although very distinguished, the Wykeham Professor is required to fight Mike Tyson, a fact that is strangely omitted in the job description. #philsky philjobs.org/job/show/30445
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Wykeham Professorship of Logic, University of Oxford - PhilJobs:JFP Wykeham Professorship of Logic, University of Oxford
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We are, without question, the stupidest people yet to exist.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Voltaire commenting on 2025 America: "They have other powerful men beneath them, and these have still others, who all enrich themselves with the spoils of the poor, grow fat on their blood, and laugh at their stupidity."
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
If not this guy, then who can you trust? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
nytimes.com
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A new book by Zach Vereb, Kant and Environmental Philosophy. I read a draft and highly recommend it. #philsky www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
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Kant and Environmental Philosophy | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Falling asleep at his job is the least objectionable thing the guy has done so far.
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Toby Svoboda @tobysvoboda.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The worm did its best. What good have you done today? politicalwire.com/2025/10/14/w...
politicalwire.com
Worm Ate 'Just a Little Bit' of RFK Jr.'s Brain
Actress Cheryl Hines addressed her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “brain worm” as she wrapped up an interview on The View. Said Hines: “It ate a little bit of his brain and died, so don’t
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