In Hungary it’s appatently called Big Friday
20.04.2025 10:23 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@monistmusings.bsky.social
Philosophy PhD student, Freie Universität Berlin. Interested in grounding, determination, powers, and modality, (he/him)
In Hungary it’s appatently called Big Friday
20.04.2025 10:23 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I think it’s “bible-black” - a simile for the colour of a bible’s cover
11.01.2025 07:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Please do, my wife would love this. She’s a huge fan of Iris Murdoch and sci-fi, so this would be perfect for her
07.01.2025 18:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Will there be the option to participate remotely?
07.01.2025 18:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ah… but one cannot become what one already is…
10.12.2024 09:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Exactly! It reminds me of this passage from A Biology of Wonder. In their words, the interiority of an animal (or plant, in his case) is readily apparent to those who have the eyes to see it:
10.12.2024 07:44 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I spent today trying and failing to write the start of a paragraph in my current paper
03.12.2024 21:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“NO GODS
NO KINGS
ONLY TRUTH TABLES”
How do you fence two and a half thousand hot (figuratively - literally speaking are cold) pies.
Is there some Del Boy figure flogging pies that “fell off the back of a truck”?
Ambient study music recommendation #6: Passive Aggressive - Johnny Nash & Suzanne Kraft
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They’re also completely ignorant that the conductor is always slightly ahead, otherwise how would the orchestra follow? Instantaneously?
25.11.2024 09:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Justice is the advantage of the blander
24.11.2024 21:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He kind of looks like he’s been trapped in a sandwich
24.11.2024 21:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Pair this with stilton in memory of me”
23.11.2024 13:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ambient study music recommendation #5: Permafrost - Thomas Köner
Going slightly darker this time
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It resembles one of Eco’s list of fascist characteristics: “the enemy is both weak and strong”
“We are under attack… by malnourished soy-drinking SJW’s… who somehow secretly infiltrated all major institutions… who also cry all the time because they don’t get their way”
Wish somebody would greet me in the maximally hearty way…
20.11.2024 08:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ah, yes! Perfect, thank you!
19.11.2024 10:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That is true, I forgot about Williamson’s recent book on overfitting and heuristics; that pretty much fits the bill for what I was asking for!
19.11.2024 09:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not asking this judgmentally, but genuinely why are you here? Judging by how you’re talking, I assume there isn’t any content here you’d be drawn to.
Again, not judgmental, just trying to get the mindset of conservatives who make accounts and then complain. Presumably made with intent to complain.
Any books on general philosophical methodology pitched at an academic audience? I find there isn’t much discussion about the method of academic philosophy that isn’t meant to be at an introductory level #philsky
19.11.2024 09:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Ambient study music recommendation #4: Music For Photographers - The Black Dog
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Ahem, I think you’ll find it’s misery introduction interval remembrance day thank you very much
18.11.2024 10:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In my opinion "Twitter" is whichever place most embodies the poster's spirit, and that's here now
17.11.2024 02:35 — 👍 18262 🔁 1778 💬 210 📌 131So… 3 should be life and a half?
15.11.2024 22:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Okay, hear me out
A forbidden romance between a pleasant bureaucrat and a sexy murder poet
Very nice!
15.11.2024 21:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ambient study music recommendation #3: Nest - Robert Rich
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