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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

some of my students are making advice columns for an assignment — they write often of 'anon' and 'OP' in their responses.

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

my girlfriend asked my how the Vanilla Flavored Jimmy Joy Bar tasted i said "yes the vile mechanism is working itself upon my body"

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

basically some departments should have a logic requirement as harm reduction for the rest of the major lol

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

i agree with this in most departments, but i do think there are some where just as a fact about how the classes get taught, if students early in the major don't have some exposure to logic early on they're gonna get very little out of the lectures because their professors just are that way.

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

in any case sorry for sending so much, this sounds like a cool project!

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

ofc spinoza wouldn't be down for beauty as something that inheres in the object and vindicates better/worse judgements about things in themselves. not at allll. but he maybe should say beauty is a sort of affective experience after all. one we ideally overcome in getting to intellectual love of god.

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

a spinozist can see beauty as involving these passive affects (perhaps the best move for pleasant art objects is to say they bring about "titillation" in particular actually), and so to the extent you and i have different tastes and feel strong beauty-feelings that'll change our understandings

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

one thing that slightly problematizes what you're saying with respect to beauty is that spinoza seems to suggest things which might bring about the strongest passive affects in us are especially capable of bringing about active ones once we come to understand them.

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

i find spinoza's story about knowledge feels the most right to me when im thinking about understanding other people or art objects or philosophy, and it's a little further of a stretch the rest of the time. im inclined to think he aestheticizes reason as much as he rationalizes aesthetics.

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

so i do agree that spinoza collapses ethical/aesthetic engagement (and, while we are at it, rational and political engagement as well—there's only one sort of normativity for spinoza, there's no gap between epistemology and ethics and politics).

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

spinozist understanding involves thinking through genealogies. knowing how it is this object came to be here in front of you, who made it, how, why, what it does, why it elicits some feelings in you and others, etc. importantly, this is also the way he reads the bible in the TTP.

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

plays some (but perhaps not any special, or unique, or especially helpful) role in that. this all said, his epistemology is highly general and so he should say that the best way to engage with art objects is the same way you should engage with science or philosophy or understanding other people.

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

at other times, he seems to suggest that a rich diversity of different experiences is required to give proper nourishment to the body/mind (he has a fun example about eating nice food and going to plays). spinoza's psychology emphasizes building out connections in the causal/conceptual web, and art

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

i think spinoza in some moments is a plato-style philistine. as far as i can tell he seems inclined to say about art objects what he has to say about religious faith—it's sometimes useful instrumentally to keep people not smart enough to do philosophy away from some serious ethical errors.

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

give up on violence, security, heteropatriarchal masculinity, guilt—embrace others in trust and understanding and care—even if it gets you killed tomorrow. that's chainsawman babyyyy

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 24/03/2026

denji did it! he was freed from being the protagonist of the story "chainsaw man", the battle shounen action hero, and in doing so he is now happy. the end of Chainsaw Man is the end of chainsaw man. now he's just some guy enjoying food & working a shit job. and we can get the real hero (power)

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

chainsawman ending is perfect. excited and exhausted for all the right wing sicko readers to absolutely despise it

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

i love the game so so much but it made me giggle when they introduced the default unity flashlight mechanic in the 10 minute epilogue at the very end of the game

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

1000xRESIST is crazy because the creators were like "what if we wrote one of the best pieces of feminist sci-fi literature ever BUT it's a video game made in unity"

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

YES this paper is so good that's a great shout

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

got a class dropped on my lap with like two weeks to make a syllabus and everything.... so if anyone has any interesting thoughts on cool papers on the theme of ~ethical dimensions of personal decisions~.... let me know

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

practicing this skill is a lot of why i like noise/field recording!

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

i always get everything bagels o7 o7

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The bagel-with-peanut-butter approach is steeped in the liberal fantasy that breakfast will set you free, but in a world where that's no longer true (if it ever was), to me it reads as decadence

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

helpful reframing genuinely!!

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

god gives his strongest soldiers conditions under which soul-rotting coping mechanisms are soooo adaptive

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

i liked the parts of it i read as an undergrad. i parted with the continental milieu a while ago but i still have some fondness for deleuze

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

nancy cartwright is the first atheist philosopher

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

being a metaphysician with nonevil politics and being a trans woman is so frustrating because so many people make completely insane assumptions about me. important fact: more formal does not equal more evil (an assumption unfortunately representative on the pro and anti evil sides of the discipline)

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

john worrall bas van fraassen nancy cartwright mark wilson

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

tiny bit of plagiarism vs poverty for 90% of artists and also probably a tiny bit of plagiarism

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

true but it follows from a more general principle about psychoanalysis

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

my sleep pattern and general physical wellbeing this semester does suggest that death in pursuit of this goal is a live possibility, although i do still have a good deal of faith that i will Win

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

i will write a philosophy paper i like, which is *good* in the least restricted meaningful sense (that is, one which is good and not merely good enough), or i will die trying. i am locked in a life or death struggle with Writing A Good Philosophy Paper

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

the last bit of end of evangelion more or less involves God staring into the camera and saying "STOP WATCHING ANIME, GO OUTSIDE, DON'T KILL YOURSELF"

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

hilarious. the only good thing about the rebuilds at all is the ending which seems very strongly to suggest that everything would be better had evangelion never been created. NGE itself is so antithetical in its messaging to what the culture industry has made of it (i.e: massive franchise).

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 22/02/2026

solidarity w/ the people of iran against both an uncaring state that seeks to kill them to protect its own decaying patron-client pyramid scheme and a US genocidal imperialist war machine that seeks to kill them to fuel momentum for the barracks-state israel's genocide of palestine. hands off iran.

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

from this guy it probably means that she won't get mad when he cheats on her

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

it's so bad. worst part is the strain it puts on the trust between me and my students. i have to sound like a jackass early talking about AI and then am often called to read their papers with suspicion. they have to deal with a teacher that does that. it's just terrible all around

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

every time i have to grade an ai essay i want to hit my head against a wall

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

the slur is a little unfortunate

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

i agree with what has been recommended so far as well. i think i could produce 2-3 more lists like the one above of about equal quality if you ever want a truly absurd amount of indieslop (fellow traveler in indieslop over here)

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

wolf parade (apologies to the queen mary), emperor x (western teleport), illuminati hotties (FREE I.H), mal blum (you look a lot like me), cheekface (too much to ask), horsegirl (phonetics on and on), dirty projectors (swing lo magellan), katy kirby (cool dry place), saintseneca (pillar of na)

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

read this first as transfem horsegirls being encouraged to take topical testosterone and i was like "makes sense".

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

one nice thing about grading the first paper of the semester is that you get to learn that some of your really quiet students are still UNDERSTANDERS who write some of the best papers of the bunch

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beginningless @whir.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

grading first essays in phil101, there are 3 different prompts (very 'argue 1 side or the other' style prompts, so in a sense there are 6) and every single chatgpt paper has been about how the student would not go into the experience machine. like girl what do you mean you value authenticity

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Spooxie 👻😱 @roxieproxy.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

A fabricated statement from Nintendo of America's Twitter account addressing a fictitious scenario in which the Earth's oxygen supply is presumed to be depleting at a rapid pace, leaving humanity with mere days to live.

"This is Miyamoto. On behalf of everyone who is employed at Nintendo Co. LTD and its subsidiaries, we deeply mourn the countless human lives which will be lost due to the depletion of the global oxygen supply. To anyone who has ever played one of our games, we are eternally grateful to have created long-lasting fun and memories for you. To ease the suffering of families and children across the world, the Mario Kart World game for the Nintendo Switch 2 system will be available as a free download on Nintendo eShop for the foreseeable future. We hope this small gesture of kindness will ease the pain as humanity prepares for a worst-case scenario."

The statement is distastefully plastered with logos for Nintendo and Nintendo Switch 2, as well as with a render of Mario from Mario Kart World.

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement.

PlayStation Nation: "What the fuck are you doing falsely advertising sales during these trying times? I went to the website and Mario Kart World is still selling for $80 USD."

Kremling Kevin: "If you actually read the statement, it clearly says the discount is available on Nintendo eShop. Meaning the application on the Switch 2 itself, not the web browser version."

PlayStation Nation: "Point still stands."

A fabricated Tweet responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement.

Isaboner: "Nothing for Switch 1 owners?"

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