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Dr.rer.pol. Sabine Schwab @sabine-nj.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

“President Trump, Brain tumors have no political party, and as President Roosevelt said 85 years ago, “We cannot be a strong nation unless we are a healthy nation.” I ask that you reconsider the suspension of activities at the NIH.” source: @adammarc.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/glioblas...

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A Love Letter to the NIH

The National Institutes of Health is a National treasure

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resumé? Philosopher: well, *you* try explaining how qualia arise from some electrified meat

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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 11/12/2024

And they wonder why no one is upset when a health insurance ceo is murdered

Tweet from @KayeSteinsapir reading:
"It's disheartening when your child dies, you make the excruciating decision to donate her organs (which substantially compounds your grief and trauma), then you have to pay $3150 because your insurance company @AnthemBCBS wouldn't pay to keep her body alive for donor recipients."

Below is a screenshot of a claim summary from Anthem showing "Support For Organ Donation" and that she owes $3,150

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Rebecca Scott @philosopanda.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Hey #philsky! I’m editing a volume of AAPT Studies in Pedagogy on joy and playfulness in teaching. Deadline is Jan 13 and we are accepting both full-length papers and shorter reflections. I’m also open to people being playful with the form/genre itself. Consider submitting! Link to CFP below.

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 30/11/2024

‪I created a starter pack for philosophers (and one or two folks adjacent to philosophy) who are interested in, and contribute to philosophical pedagogy. It's decidedly incomplete for now, so if you don't mind, please help me find folks who work on teaching philosophy! go.bsky.app/RpNe6Gs

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Matt Yglesias is such a clown

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Rachel Robison-Greene @blustockinggrtrblt.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Everyone wants to talk about "the hard problem of consciousness" but no one seems interested in identifying the psychopath who locked Mary in a black and white room for long enough for her to learn every physical fact about color.

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Read my biography of Henri Bergson to find out about his philosophy of durée, his secret meeting with President Wilson during WWI, the experiments he and Pierre Curie conducted on an Italian medium, and why he caused the 1st traffic jam on Broadway! Order your copy here: linktr.ee/eherring

Book cover (UK) for Herald of a Restless World. How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People by Emily Herring. A portrait of Henri Bergson (middle aged man with a moustache) appears swept away in swirls of abstract colour

Book cover (US) for Herald of a Restless World. How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People by Emily Herring.

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

*brandishing the uncooked Thanksgiving turkey* Behold! A man

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I have added quite a few people to my philosophy starter pack If we were mutuals on the other place or if we are mutuals here and you'd like to be added let me know! go.bsky.app/8Qvnsgb

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I made a free will and luck researchers starter pack, so prove you either do or don't have free will by following. Much thanks to @greggdcaruso.bsky.social for the suggested additions, if there's other folks hanging around hit me up and I'll add. go.bsky.app/NwEKdXP

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Hi new followers. Don't forget to HYDRATE and REST so you can continue to EXPERIENCE existential DREAD

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Cassie @angrycassie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Is it too late to start a petition to call posts on Bluesky “Clouds”? ☁️ ⛅️ 🌧️

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Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The Brave Little Toaster—especially the car junkyard scene. At the time I didn’t have the words, but it made uncomfortable to face ideas about uselessness, waste, and death.

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The morning star *and* the evening star? In this economy?

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Algorithms were named after Al Gore, who invented the internet, as we all know

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Shared this one last year because it made me laugh, this year it’s a little too on point

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

As an American battling a severe illness, this prospect is rather terrifying

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Finally someone had the courage to say it

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I strongly endorse this message

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Well I don’t wanna break any rules

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I did a starter pack! It's philosophy people I know from the other place. I may have forgotten some of you, please don't take it personally. If we were mutuals at the other place and I left you out let me know! go.bsky.app/8Qvnsgb

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Watching the results come in and having flashbacks to 2016

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

This is laughably bad, literally the opposite of his view on free will

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Gregg D Caruso @greggdcaruso.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

My new little book on Neurolaw (part of the CUP Elements Series) is now available free online from 27th February 2024 - 12th March 2024! Download it now for free while you can. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Neurolaw

Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Neurolaw

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Demiurge of Doom @euthyphro.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Staying home to prevent the spread of a deadly virus is tyranny. Staying home because nowhere in America is safe from gun violence is freedom.

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

I don’t care that much about either team in the Super Bowl this year, so as usual, I’ll just be cheering for the team whose victory is most likely to make annoying people sad. So, let’s go Kansas City!!

A picture of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

This is pitiful. A thousand people freezing their butts off waiting to worship a rat. What a hype. Groundhog Day used to mean something in this town. They used to pull the hog out, and they used to eat it. You're hypocrites, all of you!

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

I’m getting tired of spam texts

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

It took me longer than I care to admit to understand what people were referring to by ‘Stanley Cup’. I was confused but also excited that so many were suddenly so hyped about hockey!

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Sooo we still might have a little more time before skynet takes over

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

How about trying to convince people to vote for Biden by calling them stupid?

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

New Year’s Resolution: don’t become a billionaire (this is one I should be able to keep!)

“One of the big lessons I have gleaned from knowing several billionaires is that I never ever want to become a billionaire.” John Green

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

This tendency really bothers me in the free will debate. While I ultimately reject free will skepticism, in conversations I often find myself defending it as a plausible view worth considering because people are so prone to strawmanning it.

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

I was not ready for this kind of harsh truth

Spider-man meme, “Tell me the truth… I’m ready to hear it”, “If you want to be done with grading, you need to actually grade”

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

List 5 famous people you’ve met, but one is a lie Weird Al Yankovic Ralph Macchio Gina Torres Anderson Cooper Lynda Carter

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Listen Sam Seder is cool and this was a good episode and I’m glad it has so many likes and all, but maybe you should also go check another recent MNE episode with a really cool guest (me!) www.youtube.com/live/4cXBUym...

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Episode 184: Life of Brian with Ryan Lake

Forrest, J. Andrew World, and Conan Neutron talk to Georgia State Perimeter College Philosophy Professor Ryan Lake about Monty Python's Life of Brian #montyp...

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

I’m upset that this episode already has more likes than the episode I was on, but oh well you should go watch it anyway

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Whatever music you happened to like at 17 is the only music that evokes emotions, obviously

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Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

I’m not quite 50 yet, but yeah… we’ve been bracing ourselves for this moment

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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

We could feed the world now. We could raise everyone out of poverty now. It’s not our lack of “AI” or “AGI” or scientific prowess that prevents this. It’s our lack of will—some might say, of caring. Sunak should’ve read some Kierkegaard in his PPE program.

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