rose novick

names express parents' hopes and dreams for their children. that's why all the children of biologists are named Luca

spam email offered me a service that will let me "generate 300% more from [my] alzheimer's research", and i think that's a big win for truth in advertising. i do believe their product can do that

do you really expect the loving parents of a trans kid to vote for a politician who promises to take their child's healthcare away? you'd be absurd to say yes we have friends, family spouses. when you come for us they aren't going to throw us away, that's what they'll do to you

"so what they are just going to vote republican" no, they are going to pack their shit and move to somewhere else where their child will be safe. this shit isn't a game, its life and death for years now we have been witnessing an internal trans refugee crisis in the states for this reason

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new golden age of Analytic Philosophy

Big mama sitting in the classic S pose stuffed full of roachmeat. Very good bug

mostly it's to endeavor to persevere in my own being, and to pass from a lesser to a greater perfection, i think

(learning philosopher naming standards) the counterpart of Twin Earth is Win Earth

listening to this now. it goes crazy!

just risked my life for Philosophy ama

Check out Baron von Munchhausen over here

gold has to be kant, no?

sticky biological reality

this, by wim de reu, is a phenomenal paper on the zhuangzi, in part because it starts from the assumption that taking zhuangzi's images seriously matters philosophically

Look, it's just common sense that in the ancestral environment if a man read a book by a woman or vice versa they'd get eaten by a lion

"this follows from a more general principle" ahhhh yes, spinoza

trying to explain something to a multicellular organism:

who called it "eliminative materialism" and not "'sike!' of somatic"

"i had a little accident" - radical contingentists

as a reminder, if you put "no pun intended" in a journal article, you are lying