Dr. Jackpots Ⓥ

@mikebenchcapon.bsky.social @oldaristocles.bsky.social

American Hippopotamus - The Atavist Magazine A bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos.

we believed "in that golden future when the meadows and the bayous of our Southern lands shall swarm with herds of hippopotami" magazine.atavist.com/2013/america...

Birdman (Published 2015)

Long form articles everyone should read, that aren’t awful contemporary political news:

1: The Pigeon King and the Ponzi Scheme that Shook Canada www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/m...

Should The Numbers Count? Saving 100 girlfriends who really, really, really, really, really love you vs. Saving 1 Kaguya-sama

fire writing meme

the great orator Cicero writing his "mediocre" poetry

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if I'm in a good mood I hit 'em with the ole "X's argument is more ingenious than persuasive"

Aristotle just got me too down bad 😩

I think your chances are better if they're looking for καλός art! 🤌

not recognizing how extremely online Nikki is? strong evidence that you yourself have been touching too much grass of late 🏞️

same but for mario golf

YouTube video by MrRevillz Natasha Bedingfield - These Words (Badger Remix)

even the Badger Remix? 🥺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufg_...

I love the one in your pfp! Is there a bigger version somewhere?

"The road up and the road down are one and the same." -- Heraclitus, The Weeping Philosopher 😭

they must subscribe to the Parfit/Kant reincarnation theory

Friend: Penny for your thoughts
Me, imagining Tony the Tiger if he were a Calvinist: Salvation is effected by Grrrrrr-ace!

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the non-lame version of particularism is ancient virtue ethics 😊

Komugi from HxH saying "Marvelous moves keep flooding into my mind..." after her gungi nen gets activated

Komugi from HxH saying "I can become even better!"

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ladies love hearing that I'm about to get my first tattoo, but they hate to learn that it will be a massive back tat depicting the haloed head of a flat stern Byzantine Christ with all-demanding eyes

Dear Professor Byrne

hi everybody! if you're an academic philosopher and would prefer your colleagues didn't produce propaganda which furthers the trump administration's attempt to eradicate transgender people from public life, consider reading/signing this open letter about it!

dearprofessorbyrne.wordpress.com

I can hear the BetterHelp ad read already 😌

I'll never know, the study leads me to believe I can't handle even the first seven paragraphs 😔https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/They-Don%E2%80%99t-Read-Very-Well%3A-A-Study-of-the-Reading-Carlson-Jayawardhana/d3e994bc55944800ff5782d6ce7ac9585d886e1f

Helen had already received their cancer diagnosis when @chelseaharamia.bsky.social and I reached out to ask if they would chat about "The Diamond Mountain," a brief story on the afterlife, with @storyphi.bsky.social. As we grieve together, I want to share a little bit about how it came to be.

the ahab x white whale furry fanfic they DON'T want you to know about

Being Trans in Philosophy issue #0 release. Subtitle: download, make your own. Url: https://being.transinphilosophy.org. Image of 5 zines arranged in the trans pride colors, stacked on top of well-known trans books.

Title: ‘welcome to the WTF.” Image of a biohazard symbol overlayed on a world map with lines radiating from the center of the symbol, and the spires of the biohazard symbol are impinging on two scared trans symbols. A very long list of anti-trans events since 2021 portraying the looming threats to trans life from violence, media, and governmental disenfranchisement. Footer text: https://being.transinphilosophy.org.

Text header: issue #0, june 2025, https://being.transinphilosophy.org, our stories, “we are not trans in a theoretical way”. A list of contributors with each name on a black badge over a purple splatter. The names are: Imogen Sullivan, Erin Beeghly, Ray Briggs, Anonymous, autogyniphiles_anonymous, Emmie Malone, Kelly Potter, Elin McCready, Penny Haulotte, Amy Marvin, Alex Adamson, Perry Zurn, Emil Eva Rosina, and Maximiliana Rifkin.

Text header: issue #0, june 2025, https://being.transinphilosophy.org, our stories, “we are not trans in a theoretical way”. A block of white text on a stippled purple star background reads: “being trans i not a controversial idea. it’s a lived reality.” Under the text appears a black and white image of a feminine eye.

Issue #0 of Being Trans in Philosophy zine is out now! “We Are Not Trans in a Theoretical Way”. Download & print ur own 🖨️. being.transinphilosophy.org

#beingtransinphilosophy #trans #philosophy #gender #feminism #zine #diy