Alex Fisher

Looking for a web developer to update my website, but I'd rather hire, like, a nice student freelancer rather than a big company. Does anyone have advice about how to go about this? The internet seems to be mostly a morass of scammers.

Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police

“UK civil liberties are trapped in a manufactured crisis. Peaceful citizens of conscience – including pensioners – have become terrorists, at the will of a human rights lawyer turned authoritarian who now lunges at opinions that expose the moral vacuum of his unrecognisable government.”

Well worth reading these two together if you want to understand why the OSA is bad bsky.app/profile/girl...

I'm teaching Intro to Philosophy in the Fall for the first time in a while. In the past, I've taken an historical approach, but I'm thinking of switching things up a bit this time around.

What are some of your favorite things to teach in an intro course? I'd love some suggestions.

#philsky

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Responding to Drive-by Critics Nathan Nobis. Nobis, Nathan. Teaching Philosophy. 1000-Word Philosophy. Animals and Ethics 101.

Some Saturday morning writing about an issue I have thought about for quite a few years now:

"Responding to Drive-by Critics"

www.nathannobis.com/2025/08/resp...

#philosophy #ethics #criticism #critics #arguments

The Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Personal Data to 'Unregulated' Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records The age verification services used by social media platforms include a company funded by a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence officers

Pass over your biometrics, your passport, and financial details to dodgy companies – or accept a child-proof version of the web. (or get a VPN)

Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/t...

A number of people have said ‘you don’t like the Online Safety Act - what’s *your* solution?’

My answer to that is ‘solution to what?’ The biggest problem with the Online Safety Act is that it claims to deal with a lot of disparate, disconnected and often very vague problems. 🧵 1/6

How to Reanimate Rotting Brains in the Age of AI As artificial intelligence (AI) seeps into our daily lives, its impact on our thinking capacities is becoming increasingly clear. AI is replacing our

CLT Blog published my piece about how AI is becoming a far-right Trojan horse infecting our critical thinking skills.

It has been online for two weeks now, but I was ironically off the grid detoxing from emails and computers.

criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/14/h...

Great news: the High Court has granted permission for a full judicial review of the government's order proscribing Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act.
Let's hope he government's idiotic and draconian order is overturned.

Excited to be editing this SI on affective injustice with @alfredarcher.bsky.social and @joelkrueger.com for EPSSE’s open access journal Passion.

Submissions open until 30 September, so if you need a break from your summer break, do think about sending us something!

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Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“One in three Gazans goes multiple days without eating, the World Food Programme said this week. Malnourished mothers can no longer produce milk to breastfeed their children, the injured are unable to heal and hospitals have run out of nutritional supplements to treat gaunt babies.”

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families. For many months, these independent journalists have been the world's eyes and ears on the ground in Gaza. They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering. Journalists endure many deprivations and hardships in warzones. We are deeply alarmed that the threat of starvation is now one of them. We once again urge the Israeli authorities to allow journalists in and out of Gaza. It is essential that adequate food supplies reach the people there. Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

BREAKING: JOINT STATEMENT FROM REUTERS, BBC NEWS, ASSOCIATED PRESS & AFP.

Warning that their staff face death by starvation in Gaza.

Horrifying and unprecedented.

Vogue magazine cover.

Natasha McKeever talking about attitudes towards marriage.

Luke Brunning on how wider social norms shape dating.

Lovely to see us get a mention in the current edition of Vogue! @nmckeever3.bsky.social and @lukebrunning.bsky.social gave comment on modern dating.

Living in Gaza, accepted to Cambridge — blocked by Home Office Young Palestinians overcome unimaginable challenges just to apply to university, only for the British government to make unfeasible visa demands

This is disgraceful. Students in Gaza accepted to many universities (not just Cambridge or Oxford!) being blocked by the UK Home Office's unreasonable and inflexible demands. www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

excited to say the incomparable @news4wombats.bsky.social, @politephilosopher.bsky.social, and I's paper, "Music Genres as Historical Individuals", was accepted for publication in the British Journal of Aesthetics! The preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/MALMGA

Call for Directors Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis, a long running project that collects and analyzes data on graduate experience and employment outcomes for philosophy PhDs, is seeking to expand its leadership. W...

“Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis (philosophydata.org), a long running project that collects and analyzes data on graduate experience and employment outcomes for philosophy PhDs, is seeking to expand its leadership…from 1 to 3 directors”

Please share!

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apda.ghost.io/call-for-dir...

The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.

This is very interesting on how easily dark money can influence UK politics, and the ease at which foreign interests can exploit this.

Let’s talk about Professor Jonathan Caravello, who teaches math and philosophy at CSU Channel Islands. He’s been detained by the feds based on events at a protest in Ventura County on Thursday.

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www.pacbiztimes.com/2025/07/12/c...

New paper accepted! 🎉

Worried about the overuse of terms like “gaslighting”, “boundaries”, or “trauma”?

@almagro.bsky.social and I are too. In this paper, we explore the epistemic and ethical cocerns of therapy-speak and how it relates to epistemic and affective injustice.

Preprint ⬇️

Scenic view! But at least you can’t get sunburnt there 🤷🏻‍♂️

Children queuing for supplements killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, hospital says Eight children were among 15 people reportedly killed when a queue for nutritional supplements was hit in Deir al-Balah.

"We are dying before the ears and eyes of the whole world. The whole world is watching the Gaza Strip. If people aren't killed by the Israeli army, they die trying to get aid."

YouTube video by nietzscheandchill Ethics In Virtual Reality

I recently took part in this fun interview on ethics and virtual reality - part of an upcoming series by MA Philosophy students at The University of Edinburgh. #philtech

youtu.be/COM-i8QsTc0?...

This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why | Owen Jones In Britain’s increasingly authoritarian society, any sort of protest can find itself at odds with the law. You might even go to jail, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Happy to express my support for this column by @owenjones.bsky.social

I try to think as little as possible about X. But man, I gotta say, it is rather disappointing that corporations and universities continue to use a platform that is being explicitly engineered to spread racist propaganda. Like, why did your ancestors bother evolving a backbone if you won't use it?

Philosophers tempted to design and play games and make art!

New call for papers: think.taylorandfranc... Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction. Deadline: 31 July 2026.
Submit your work! What a lovely way to honour our editorial board member Helen De Cruz who was a philosopher, a musician, an artist, and a fiction writer! #philsky