Old Ric

I have but it gets hard when they scroll to the next one 10 seconds in

<explaining lecture to my students> imagine an hour-long tik tok! <boos>
Ok imagine 6 ten-minute long tik toks <some thoughtful nods>
Imagine 60 1-minute long tiktoks <loud applause>
imagine 600 10 second tiktoks! <the class is overwhelmed with applause and hollers>

Every political development leads to the conclusion that utilitarian and pragmatic choices have to be resisted, and we can only be guided by what is true and just. Every attempt to turn politics into a game played to win will lose for the simple fact that politics is not a game, and has no rules.

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

it sure is Monday

Gillian Rose reveals the uncomfortable truth that reckoning with Neo-Kantianism gives dividends.

Using Bluesky exclusively to harass oomfs

So @misrecognitions.bsky.social , is there a … missus recognitions? 👀

back in Sartre’s CDR for something & it feels so good

@exiledpistol.bsky.social do NOT untag yourself

@exiledpistol.bsky.social i respect that you're working to post here. it's inspiring. but. not enough for me to set up shop here full time. not yet.

commenting on this old post to say i hope filby is out there living a good life; thinking of him as i use my book stand

Curious: is anyone talking about how a ton of theory books are out of print such that the used book market will likely disappear for anyone who isn't willing to pay more than $40 for a book? Or am I making this up?

* It’s UO, not OU
* Union was won a while back; retaliation doesn’t make sense. It did however make a credible strike threat this March
* UO has long been undergoing neoliberalizatjon spurred by state austerity and Phil Knight—google University of Nike.

YOU CAN FIND ME IN THE WOODS, MOUTH FULL OF BUGS /
MAMI I GOT THE STICK IF YOU WANT TO CROSS THE MUD /
I KEEP THE STICK TO FLIP THE LOGS WITH POISON SLUGS /
SO COME CHECK OUT THIS SLUG IF YOU INTO POISON SLUGS

@exiledpistol.bsky.social I knew you’d appreciate this one

CIA-funded theorists (selection):
Judith Butler
Kostas Axelos
Walter Benjamin
Martial Guerolt

Non-CIA funded theorists (exhaustive):
Gabriel Rockh*ll
Vijay Prashad
István Mészáros
Nate Silver
Ruth Barcan Marcus

Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Meanwhile, there’s not a peep from mainstream media in the U.S.

The Israeli Defense Forces surrounded, beat, and choked American labor leader Chris Smalls, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced

Yea

Title: Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life Author: Lewis White Beck I must confess that I have a singular reason for being at the privilege of delivering this paper as a presidential address -if it were not the presidential address I doubt that accepted by the Program Committee. Our Association is not hospitable to cosmological speculations. I can avail myself only of presidential license in asking you to consider a perennial theme in philosophy which is neglected by philosophers at a time when it is most cherished by scientists. Many eminent phillosophers-among others Aristotle', Nicholas of Cusa, Gioradano Bruno, Gassendi, Locke, Lambert, Kant, and William Whewell--have believed that there is extraterrestrial life; yet I know of only one or two living professional philosophers writing in English who have even discussed the question.

Lewis White Beck exercising executive privilege to talk about aliens in his 1971 address to the Eastern division of the American Philosophical Association.

www.jstor.org/stable/31297...

Flyer for a 1986 march on Lesbian/Gay Pride Day in Chicago featuring the Dykes and Gay Women Against Racism along with the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee.

Plz tell Cari she needs to creat a Bluesky we miss her

“And to the bitter end, the Republicans kept trying to reach the South, kept denying any complicity in Brown's attack. "You charge that we stir up insurrections among your slaves," Lincoln told the South in his 1860 address at Cooper Union. "We deny it; and what is your proof? Harper's Ferry! John Brown!! John Brown was no Republican; and you have failed to implicate a single Republican in his Harper's Ferry enterprise” (Our Fiery Trial, 20).

Lincoln expressly disavowed John Brown in an attempt to defend his party. The South neither cared nor was convinced.

hell yeah, I will add him to the long reading list :')

This guy sounds kinda cool

My Friends Won’t Stop Reading Gillian Rose

perusing this currently; unsure if I can commit to all 480 pages for now.

>--<MONDAY READING CHECKPOINT>--<

you must share what you're reading to continue

The enemy is making leaps and bounds in the field of shoving a tinwhistle up their asses and farting yankee doodle dandy while we sit around not doing that!! we can't cede this crucial line of struggle!!!!