depression rules because if you follow the advice and force yourself to wake up/ get out of bed early you can fit in an extra three, maybe four, hours of staring at the wall
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Linguistics was invented to explain why ‘size queen’ and ‘queen size’ mean such different things
I think analytic philosophy would be really different today if Russell and James had just kissed
reply to this with the first sentence of your dissertation, if it doesn’t fit within the character limits your PhD gets revoked :)
airpods died on my walk today so I was left alone with my own thoughts for ~30 min which is the real hard problem of consciousness if you ask me
my joke reply: ok no more new words we already have words at home
my sincere reply: stop assimilating all perceived or real interpersonal wrongs to cheating/boundary breaking frameworks, it distorts moral understanding
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Let’s talk Friendultery.
Friendultery, or platonic cheating, is when one friend isn’t fully honest with another friend about a second friendship.
The convo on healthy communication in polyamory has been great, but platonic relationships need to be centered, too!
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this suggests that to season a wok you need to use a second, larger, wok. what am I supposed to do if I have the largest wok? what then
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Seasoning a wok
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Ahhhhhhh what a day! #committeereveal and also your girl (arrow) passed her defense today 
I’m literally so happy I could puke
I’m literally so happy I could puke
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& maybe my perception of the risk was off - maybe I never would have been put in a shitty situation - but as an undergrad, 19 yrs old, I didn’t want to worry about being alone in office hours, or having to muster the courage leave a bad situation, so I just avoided it entirely
trying to track my etsy order and the fuck does “confirm destruction” mean ??!
Taking this moment to check my privilege:
I’ve read Infinite Jest and Being and Time, and people still hang out with me
I think when professors want to know the motivations for, or consequences of, a project being defended by a job candidate they should find a better locution than “why should I care about this?”
I want to hear your meet-cute stories (romantic or friendship) to cheer me up please 
in academia, cam girl means that one person who keeps her/their camera on and nods during the talk
when my mom gave me “the talk” about menstrual cycles I said “so, like a werewolf?” and she said “not exact-” and I started chanting “WERE-WOLF, WERE-WOLF”
Moving the books to the new apartment, and now I remember why I am the way I am
many people are asking, Monstera did you MAKE that meme??? And the truth is that I entered the realm of platonic forms, came back and then brought it forth on the material plane
just got extremely exciting new drip in the mail from my amazing soon-to-be colleague catch me on the tenure track this fall
me sitting in between two people talking, pretending like I’m part of the conversation
one thing that’s tough about the pressure to professionalize/publish earlier & earlier in grad school is the guilt I feel when I audit seminars or read things “just for me” - I end up feeling stressed and guilty for doing things that are fulfilling, enriching, and good
Your husband should never see you
Affirm the consequent
Deny the antecedent
Bet a Dutch book
Neglect the base rate
Ignore causal confounders
and a bunch of other gross fundamentally human stuff
WHY?
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IronFemme Ingri CSCS
@IngriPauline
Your husband should never see you
poop
pop zits
pluck any hair on your face beside an eyebrow
do a face mask
wax your bikini line
see you in an outfit you would be embarrassed to be seen in by anyone else
and a bunch of other gross fundamentally human stuff
WHY?
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there is nothing more “pick me” than being on the job market
my family asking me if I’ve considered “just” getting a job at [our local university]
I did Gender & Women’s studies as an undergrad where our readings were often focally organized around the work of Judith Butler, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Anne Fausto-Sterling. Intersectionality (Crenshaw), in particular, was methodologically enshrined in the department AND YET
remember the time I met my ex’s very British grandmother for the first time, and after he introduced me she turned to his mother and said, “well I can’t say much for his taste”
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he pulls out a book and says, I have a quote here from Pastor Dave Barnhart that I think bears on this, and reads this aloud:
Jesus answered, “I am the grounds the grounded and the grounding. No one comes to be ‘in virtue of’ except through me” [John 14:6]
This is beautiful and I bet none of my girls will blink and eye when I start dropping “'hwæt' in the group chat
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@Black_Kettle
The first word of Old English epic poem 'Beowulf' is, famously, 'hwæt' (what). This may be most debated word in the whole work: what does 'what' mean in that sentence, that context. Conventional wisdom has been that it is a standalone interjection, meaning something like [1]
I LOVE pranking people and I HATE being pranked and Kant can SHOVE IT
interviewer: are you be comfortable teaching a great books course?
me: absolutely, I know the canon very well
my brain:
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You really aren’t owed academic debate on social media. Invoking the academic credentials of people who are posting in a personal capacity (and so, to insist they act in accordance with professional norms) is wrong headed.
when The Matrix came out I was young so my parents let me watch it but covered my eyes during the scary parts. anyway they covered my eyes during ‘unplugging’ scene so I saw the whole movie *completely* oblivious to the distinction between the matrix and the real world lol
I submitted my first attempt at public philosophy last week because it’s important the public sees that not all philosophy professors are tenured at fancy institutions with cosmopolitan ideals and elevated taste. Some of us are shitbags, idiots even, Oliver Twist ass ragamuffins
It true I didn’t “negotiate” my offer, I just said “hey this other place has a better stipend” and then was offered more money
sometimes I’ll put on a podcast just because I’m in the mood to ignore someone talking
I guess I shouldn’t put the “” selfie on my professional website but it is… tempting
need sub categories of garage project dad for sure, unclear whether you are “collector” or “once I retire”
Grad students should get employer matched retirement accounts imo
I cherish these movies so much but I can only watch them in a controlled environment b/c for 24hrs after I fall in love with everyone who smiles at me
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I’m bi, poly, and philosopher,,, and I think Twitter might give me my very own slur tonight
I made the forbidden salad
my parents really are proof that e-girl and reply guy relationships preceded the invention of the internet
I love buying my friends a drink. I love the ceremony, *especially* when it’s at a dive bar and I get to act magnanimous about spending six dollars
my man can’t get cars to work on earth
house guest wanted to try me once he heard I’m getting my PhD in philosophy and picked abortion as the topic he wants to debate. He finishes his opener, and I don’t know whether to ruin his day or not. While I contemplate … a
do people with long publication records ever get nervous about how inevitably there’ll be people in the audience who have read your work more recently than you have? if you have many many arguments you just are gonna forget some of the details right? why is this giving me anxiety
remembering the time I accidentally said “I love open carry laws” when I meant open container laws and everyone was like and then I even followed up with “it really improves the party vibe of a city”
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hubby sucks both ironically and earnestly, and babe rules both ironically and earnestly. only way hubby is passable is if it’s a woman referring to her wife
Fwiw when Schopenhauer scheduled his lectures to occur at the same time as Hegel’s b/c he thought Hegel was a charlatan, Hegel actually said “you are a bully you must stop this harassment you have effectively ended my career oh do fuck off you complete and utter dickhead”
So and I decided on an anniversary date completely arbitrarily in a way that tracks nothing in the development of our relationship & today is that day happy anniversary babe sorry I started calling you babe ironically and now it’s one of my favorite things to say
I tested positive for covid and that’s not a moral failing! (It’s an epistemic one!)
made a meme for all the girlies (gender neutral) out there with an inexplicable headache
extremely bad take. not only do PhDs commonly construct syllabi and teach their own courses, it’s also good for grad students at every stage in the program to consider undergraduate experience and reflect on what they think makes for good pedagogy x.com/msjenniferjame
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I think it’s because she’s wearing a conspicuous hat
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@ElijahSchaffer
Modest clothing yet every guy looks. Is there something attractive to being classy that society has lost?
The title “Can ‘eugenics’ be defended?” is intentionally provocative in a way that (very predictably) will alienate and exhaust people in groups that have historically been e.g. involuntarily sterilized, etc etc. I read the article and critiqued it because the work never stops
The shift to thinking that the true product of the PhD is not the dissertation but the skills and personal growth you see in yourself has really been grounding for me ngl. One of y’all tweeted that and I saw it and it really hit ty
does anyone else have trouble disambiguating feelings of fatigue and feelings of sadness? the phenomenology of both are very similar for me
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