Skye Cleary

Philosophical sighting in the #Berlin wild! Congratulations again to @kristingjesdal.bsky.social and happy day after World Philosphy Day!
#angeladavis #zetkin #luxemburg #annajuliacooper
#philsky #womeninphilosophy #womenshistory @dalianassar.bsky.social @skyecleary.bsky.social

Happiness as a form of resistance | Skye Cleary Is it right to be happy in a world that’s broken? That’s the question Simone de Beauvoir went to Albert Camus with. Beauvoir was worrying that being focussed on one’s own happiness meant one had to…

“If we care about our happiness, we must fight against beasts such as apathy.” | iai.tv/articles/hap...

@skyecleary.bsky.social writes how happiness can be a form of resistance against the injustice and absurdity of life.

#socsky #psychsky

Congrats Adam!!

Also want to publicly thank @eschwitz.bsky.social, @skyecleary.bsky.social, and Ned Adams for their very generous back-cover blurbs!

Thanks Penny! I had a lovely podcast chat with Andrea a while back - she’s terrific!

Flier for Waiting for Godot

Just got tix to Waiting for Godot! But I have to wait for Waiting for Godot until September. I wonder if September will arrive, or the performance will, or I will. Feeling very meta.

Can St Teresa guide us to inner peace? Can Christian Ethics provide secular comfort? @skyecleary.bsky.social @psyche.co psyche.co/ideas/how-to...

A crow's math skills include geometry Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.

Timeline cleanse: crows can do geometry. I thought we already knew crows were super smart but happy to know they can do mathematics.

How to find inner peace like Saint Teresa of Ávila | Psyche Ideas The 16th-century ‘spiritual rock-star’ shows how seeing your soul as a castle can be a source of strength and consolation

This 16th-century ‘spiritual rock-star’ shows how seeing your soul as a castle can be a source of strength and consolation. Learn how to find inner peace like Teresa of Ávila @skyecleary.bsky.social

St Teresa has been on my radar for ages, ever since I read about her in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex so many years ago. I finally spent some time thinking about her and this is what I learned:
psyche.co/ideas/how-to...

Book club in May! Deets coming soon 📖

Ada Limon poem

On churros & the meaning of life (new favorite poem 💕)

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog painting

Socks

The great courses cover art

A small reprieve in an absurd world. Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature at @metmuseum.org did not disappoint. Also new socks 😍 to “remind me how small I am, but also how miraculous this life is.” - Alua Arthur on encountering Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Happiness as a form of resistance | Skye Cleary Is it right to be happy in a world that’s broken? That’s the question Simone de Beauvoir went to Albert Camus with. Beauvoir was worrying that being focussed on one’s own happiness meant one had to…

Simone de Beauvoir famously asked if it is right to be happy in a world that’s broken. | iai.tv/articles/hap...

@skyecleary.bsky.social writes how happiness can be a form of resistance against the injustice and absurdity of life.

#langsky

My two rescue bunnies were so thumping mad about their vet visit today that the doctor gave me bunny xanax (gabapentin) for next time. She hasn’t forgiven me & here’s her I’ll-tolerate-your-proximity-but-you’re-not-allowed-to-pat-me-because-I’m-still-a-bit-mad-and-don’t-trust-you-right-now look

Oh no! :(

Budgerigar

One of my favorite things about being an Australian in the US is being asked to explain to Americans what budgie smugglers are.

So a budgie is short for budgerigar which is like a small parakeet native to Australia. Now, imagine...

And watching them be like:

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

Everything is bad

Still from beast games illustrating trolley problem

And bootlegging some Foot for my management class tomorrow with The Good Place. Haven’t yet decided whether to include the Beast Games S7 train of elimination. Painful to watch such a blatant metaphor for our current hellscape 💔

And following up with MLK 🙌

Martin Buber’s I-Thou book cover & an image objectifying a stick figure

Bootlegging a little Buber into my leadership class :)

I have not tried! Thanks for the tip :)

"and what is your field of expertise?"

me:

Nihilism: nothing matters
Absurdism: nothing matters, but in a cool way.
Existentialism: freely choose among all the various things that don't matter!

Unpopular trivial opinion: Toblerone would be better without the nougat.

Don't miss this week's new episode, in which Amy Olberding discussed Confucian ethics, in an interview centering on the idea that etiquette and rudeness are fundamental moral concepts:

www.historyofphilosophy.net/confucian-et...

#confucianism #philsky #podcasts #hopwag

He’s very lovable! 🥰

tshirt that says seriously what the duck

This tee used to make me laugh but now not so much seriously, what the 🦆

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is a new, multidisciplinary guide to understanding the mind: a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics to a bro...

The MIT Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is a growing resource, expertly edited and designed, with high quality contributors (OK OK I am one of them) oecs.mit.edu