Jake Wojtowicz

Thanks!

Got promoted in my adjunct role (not a big deal, but $100 more per credit hour...) and found out about it because a friend reads the daily emails that I studiously ignore.

Integrity matters, Brett.

The people praising this probably thought "It's so wholesome that he beat cancer and then won seven Tours de France! A miracle!". All forms of cheating debase the sports we love.

Philip Pullman speaking while seated on stage alongside David Fickling and Jane Tranter

A huge privilege last night to listen to great modern author Philip Pullman talk about & read excerpts from His Dark Materials, in particular Northern Lights to mark 30 years since its publication. It wasn't long after it first came out that I picked it up & first fell in love with Lyra's world.

The next step after understanding the tweet is playing FIFA (a lifetime endeavour)

I'm going to start a new FIFA (EA '24) career mode. I want a challenge, but not a ten-season long one. Maybe a restriction (like at Bilbao). Who should I be?

Join us in signing and sharing this petition to prevent layoffs of over 400 people (both academic & professional services staff) at Lancaster University. We are all at risk and it's a scary time.

Why It's OK to Be a Sports Fan | Alfred Archer, Jake Wojtowicz | Taylo This book offers readers a pitch-side view of the ethics of fandom. Its accessible six chapters are aimed both at true sports fans whose conscience may be

Why It's OK to Be a Sports Fan is now available open access! You can still buy a physical copy, if you'd like, but now you can download it for free (permanently)!

Why are people doing this to themselves?

The immutable law of Daily Nous comments: once there are more than about 30, don't waste your time.

People are really hating on this but creating a narrative voice that melds Patrick Bateman and Alan Partridge is actually a significant technical feat

What's the lusory goal here!?

"Alex Rails" is a much less sexy pen name than "Pierre Delecto"

Changing your name here is great commitment to the bit

Some of us are secretly farting in Q&A. You know who you are. Some of you make a sport out of it. Some of you bring beans to conferences. Some of you read an impeccable paper and cannot help but check what the author smells like, because they might be gassy. Since flatulence is a part of your life, it is part of how you network within your discipline. You are what I will call *a tooter*.

Relatable stuff in the latest Daily Nous post!
dailynous.com/2025/07/29/t...

Odd to get signed up for a journal's system but then to never get the invitation to review.

I feel like “philosophers date each other, and philosophers who like casual sex will often have casual sex with other philosophers, and that can sometimes be hard to navigate” is pretty unobjectionable, but this person chose to say it in the most creepy ways possible

Yeh, Chloe Kelly being absolute Hollywood is how I’d like to think about the state of England this summer. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The winner in the final in 2022.

The winning penalty in the final in 2025.

Chloe Kelly. Was it ever going to be anyone else?

England wins

This is England!

A rose between many thorns/demons

I'm at a vampire museum. Overheard a woman talking about how she's just getting into tarot, and is using ChatGPT to help her. Even the otherworld is not safe from AI.

Longwood Gardens

people are really out here saying 'professional philosophers have suppressed debate on trans stuff'. like, dog. i have been in the discipline for the last decade. i remember. it's probably been the single most debated issue by academic philosophers who don't work on it that whole time

Matty Groves gets all lippy with Lord Donald, and gets the chance to strike first, but Lord Donald still kills him. Pathetic. If you're going to chat shit, you have to back it up.

I had a very long break in playing it, a few hours before the end of the main storyline. Glad to hear it's worth sticking with it!

Gone back to Red Dead Redemption 2 after leaving it for a while. Finished the Arthur Morgan bit and I'm not much enjoying the late-game tutorial basic mode it then throws you into.