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Philosophy lecturer. Interested in ideology, aesthetics, propaganda, and pedagogical authority. 🇿🇦
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Tom Homan confirms on Fox News that he's asked the DOJ to investigate AOC

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Philosophy Job: Fully funded PhD position in Practical Philosophy at the Stockholm Center for the Ethics of War and Peace here at Stockholm University 🇸🇪 su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... No Swedish skills required. Deadline March 5. #philsky

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My baby is sick and has been in hospital for 2 nights in a row. She is just a kitten, not even a year old yet. Please keep her in your thoughts. #sphynx #kitten

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Open access: Philosophical Theologies in South Africa: Genealogies, Traditions, and Speculations. ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za/index.php/uj...

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From 1932

submitted 90 days ago • 40 comments

S7 Ep13: The Ideology behind Elon Musk buying Twitter secretsandspiespodcast.com/episode/s7-e... For those who are still bamboozled.

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Here's a post I wrote arguing against bucket lists (I think they are simply not useful, contribute to harmful mass tourism without enriching people's experience, encouraging people to put off goals for play and recreation until retirement. helendecruz.substack.com/p/against-bu...

submitted 90 days ago • 10 comments

the ticklish business of securing what you can

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This.

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Retribution, swift vengeance, eternal malice were in his whole aspect

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Erm ... Is Musk the president of the United States?

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Hi, I’m God. Vaccines save lives. Love, God

submitted 95 days ago • 752 comments

My personal most romantic film of all time: Drifting Clouds (Finnish: Kauas pilvet karkaavat) by Aki Kaurismäki.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

And some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

1/ We're experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network. As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.

submitted 94 days ago • 1538 comments

MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish

submitted 95 days ago • 25 comments

They are not anti-science. A dumbed down, gullible populace is easier for them to manipulate.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Working hard on their 20 hours of sleep per day.

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I am a white South African. My undergraduate degree certificate still had the words "Christian Higher Education" on it. Good luck, America. You are in for a difficult and nasty ride. Resist it.

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Both ends of the line are exposed

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Academics: “one thing I love about this job is the freedom to make my own hours” Also academics:

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A non-stop torture chamber 😭

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this sunken-eyed young Platonist will tow you ten wakes round the world, and never make you one pint of sperm the richer

submitted 99 days ago • 6 comments

AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride. "They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."

submitted 99 days ago • 578 comments

There are certain queer times in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke

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The absolute misery of being denied your perfectly reasonable request for an Oreo.

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I appreciate all of you who use the Alt-text description for the images you post. As a blind dude I feel so much more included here. For those of you who forget: Did you know there’s a reminder in Settings/Accessibility to toggle on & then it won’t let you post image without Alt-text. Thanks 🙏😎

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Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Moby Dick seeks thee not. It is thou, thou, that madly seekest him!

submitted 102 days ago • 4 comments

Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves! man has ye there. Swerve me?

submitted 102 days ago • 3 comments

Gnawed within and scorched without, with the infixed, unrelenting fangs of some incurable idea

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Oh no! David Seymour's vile plans are now known across the globe. And, not only that, people across the world are educating themselves. #haka #Aotearoa

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Can't decide, so I'm just posting Aki Kaurismäki himself.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

With so many "liberal influencers" flocking here, this starter pack of journalists, academics, and researchers is about to be essential.

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What is going to happen if Musk joins this site?

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

This may be helpful for you new followers. You can block every single person on these lists. Just click on the subscribe button and it will give you the option to block every one on it. Here’s the first: bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 113 days ago • 1581 comments

The Haka heard around the world ❤️

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"The biggest threat to the US is not fascism but mafia state autocracy. Not 20th-century style dictatorship, but controlled demolition by a billionaire criminal network, abetted by complicit actors within the US government"

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