Hui-ke me up before you go go

Did the conditioner soak trick and it's at least able to fit my head with some squeezing now. Minigob is working overtime to help with the drying and shaping

image of man with hole in top of his head, in which a smaller version of the same man is riding as if in a balloon basket

image of a man with a tattoo on his upper chest of a smaller chest and set of arms grasping a race car steering wheel, as if he is the driver of his own body

Right now I'm at the stage of letting go of pictures that are fun for slides but don't work to include in the published version of my book. I will particularly miss this pair of images, which illustrate the difference between homuncular and anti-homuncular conceptions of attributability.

What Socialism Got Right Writing "The Red Riviera" taught me that even flawed socialist systems offered insights into equality, solidarity, and the dignity of everyday life.

"good scholarship depends on empathy as much as on evidence. Listening carefully to how ordinary people remember their lives under socialism isn’t an endorsement; it’s an effort to understand what they valued and why... the past is never as simple as our ideologies make it out to be."

Truly i am sending the loving and lovely @jimurillo98.bsky.social out to beg various dry cleaners for help because I would fall to my knees in public if they tell me it's a goner

Put the icelandic wool sweater I knitted this summer in the wash and now it's felted and doesn't fit my head I will not be contactable for the next 96h as I lie on the floor

The opposite of the Moms for Liberty wave should get more attention

New appointments in philosophy (from the real philjobs website): "GRLpGpAG has been appointed as Mr. at GRLpGpAG (1) starting in 2026. Doctorate: 1, GRLpGpAG. Current position: Mr. at GRLpGpAG. AOS: 555. 1967"

Absolutely sick and tired of the prestige bias and nepotism in philosophy hiring. People who didn't do their degree at GRLpGpAG, and who aren't literally NAMED "GRLpGpAG," should still be able to compete for the position of Mr. at GRLpGpAG!!!!

it would indeed seem that elites are capturing much of our politics

If it does, it won't bother me, Brett Karlan, an epistemologist who has never published anything on (or even talked about) AI! #brettkarlanisanepistemologist

accuracy-first epiceries

Ok but have u tried picking up the lettuce first, stacking stuff on it and then shoving it into ur mouth so it becomes a wrap inside your mouth? My fave

Thank you. It gets so uneven!! What the fuck!!! Do you want a combination of sewer water and water??

The half lash look is literally on trend rn

Once a situationship S's roommate R was recounting a story S told R about me. It sounded so unlike me that I immediately said "wrong bitch." It was me, doing something very characteristically me (being aghast at a spice grinder being used for coffee)

Limitarianism and Capitalism Limitarianism holds that it is immoral to have personal wealth above a certain level. Is this idea compatible with capitalism?

LAST (free) TICKETS for my public lecture on "Limitarianism and Capitalism', organised by the Gresham college, tomorrow at 6 pm in London.
For anyone interested based outside London: You can watch it online, also for free.
www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/lim...

Bart Simpson angrily writing on a blackboard except the text is repeated lines of "Former (former (formal epistemologist))"

For Halloween I have become my worst fear (an expected epistemic utility theory apologist)

Sudan siege ends in bloodbath despite pleas for mercy Evidence emerges of atrocities committed by the paramilitary RSF after it seized control of El Fasher

There are no words for Sudan-- the "blood bath" conclusion marks the complete failure of the international community. This is a horrific situation & like so many other wars, I doubt there will be justice for these survivors & their families.

yes i'm back to doing formal epistemology my rebellious phase is over (unless?)

Flirting with using Good's Theorem to explain why learning can be hurty. Using Good's Theorem as a theory of bad, if you may

What people imagine philosophy twitter was like:

"I hate everyone who is not my particular brand of leftist"
"I do too, and I will nuke everyone who is different"

What it was actually like:

"I am depressed"
"So am I"
"Thick concepts? No: T H I C C concepts"
"Good morning I am sad"

I love struggling-to-construct-satisfying-models-and-then-having-economists-pull-me-sopping-wet-from-my-puddle-of-despair-with-a-model-constructed-in-the-70s, or as people in philosophy call it, formal epistemology

london is working out to be incredibly london for me

Spent the weekend opening my door* so my neighbours could move their sofa into their apartment

*and providing them tools so they could knock down their door because the sofa still refused to enter even after knocking bits of their doorframe off

side by side windows. The left one says that daylight saving time ends 2 Nov 2025 (it's for the US). The right one says that daylight saving time ends 26 Oct 2025 (it's for the UK).

crashing out (mr worldwide edition)

saying aoc should eat hakeem jeffries is the one sentence you cannot post on bsky. its okay for me to say because im letting you know you can't post it

The airline counter had not heard, btw. Didn't stop their prices from skyrocketing tho

And even if your employer decides it can afford to pay the 100k or grovel? With an action this reckless, how can we trust that DHS will have/act on the updated information at the checkpoint?

The H1-B deadline is not enough time to reliably book a flight and travel across the world if you happen to be home with family. The only flight to the US from Singapore that would get there in time was sold out within hours of the announcement, and priced out for many.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.

i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

In my defense I was ILL and I only soft bricked my disk twice in 3 weeks