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We're all smart here. Distinguish yourself by being unkind to fascists.
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why stop at carrot cake? here have some asparagus pudding you sick fuck

Ah shit it turns out the problem with conservatism is that conservatives are all evil

A 48 hour social media break will have you feeling like Ben Kenobi staggering out of the hills with a hood on

I guess we’ve finally reached the point where clapping when a plane lands makes total sense.

FLIGHT ATTENDANT: attention passengers is anyone here a doctor PASSENGERS: sorry no FLIGHT ATTENDANT: um ok well then is anyone here a pilot

how badly did you lose the rap battle when the american heart association recommended using the diss track against you to perform cpr

Does microtargeting work? The idea that people can be manipulated by political messages that are furtively tailored to their personality or other vulnerabilities has triggered much concern. But how well founded are those concerns? 1/n

pulled my back so bad that I told my family I might need a wheelchair like Professor X, and my son said “yeah more like Professor XXL” and goddammit I don’t deserve this abuse

She was stunning, like a taser.

Group therapist: Please share. The Void: All day long people scream into me but if I scream back it's all "Oh my God! It's the apocalypse! Make it stop!" Group: We never considered your feelings. The Void: Appreciate the validation. Group: You know we're still going to scream into you though.

This invited paper languished under review for 14 months, but at least now it's forthcoming! philpapers.org/rec/KUDTUO

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

I don’t know who did this, but thank you 🤣

Accidentally lost a harmonica up my ass but my coworkers have started to enjoy my farts a lot more than they used to.

Kaitey Creasey is editing _The Moral Psychology of Loneliness_ in my series, The Moral Psychology of the Emotions. There's a CFP here for anyone who might be interested.

In England, chipmunks are called crispmunks.

new paper just dropped, led by Samantha Stanley and with a great team including @colognaviktoria.bsky.social @neillevy.bsky.social @robert-m-ross.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

hard to believe it’s just 5 days since I gave an update on my Royal Soc resignation - at that time, Musk seemed deeply unpleasant and still stirring up trouble, but he now seems totally unhinged deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/01/retr...

This calendar year, I decided to keep track of all of the referee/review requests that I received because I wanted some documentation of the extent of the crisis academia faces when it comes to finding referees.

New blog post on Imperfect Cognitions: Can we become more intellectually humble without any explicit training or instruction? Steven Bland explores the issue, discussed in a recent paper published in Review of Philosophy and Psychology imperfectcognitions.... #philsky

it feels good as fuck as a crab in a barrel to keep other crabs in the barrel. yoink get back down here fancy pants haha luv ya

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

Nietzsche on Virtue freely available from Cambridge University Press for a limited time! www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Want to know what Freddy thought about virtue? Here's your quick guide.

Social Epistemology by Mark Alfano: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.e29a27cc