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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

8 days

Me, exercising in the morning and preparing for the maths! ✊

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9 days

"When the boats were made of wood, and the men made of iron."

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

3 months

@thestustustudio @jaketapper Do they not have a noise ordinance there? Is there no law on the books there prohibiting disturbance of the peace? Harassment? Look, if they want to carry signs on the sidewalk & not obstruct anyone’s coming or going, that’s one thing. But standing in the street? Megaphones?

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@edudissenter Kids who simply will not adjust to school and allow themselves and others to be taught & corrected — let’s call them the serially incorrigible — should be put to work. They should have the option of pursuing education later, if they wish to make a serious effort.

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David Ashwell

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@alixabeth @nytimes This post is silly. His career as a leading political scientist was built on *his* studies, his teaching, his research and writing. As was customary for a gentleman of his era, he's here graciously acknowledging his wife's contribution to the life they built together.

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

30 days

@Number10cat @elonmusk Careful, Larry. Lawyer here. In the US, we interpret ‘incitement’ *very* narrowly in our law. So, ‘hate speech’ is essentially protected speech here. Numbers 1 & 2 from your post *could not* be made illegal by state or federal law under our 1st Am jurisprudence.

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

10 days

@skdh Well, Hossenfelder, that's just nonsense. Our democratic republic, with its constitutional protections of individual liberties and rule of law very much intact, has withstood the pressures of populism at least as well as has any European country of late. Probably better.

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

4 months

@FoxNews Utter nonsense.

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

3 months

@sfmcguire79 The current crop of students at Harvard is awful. I wouldn’t hire one of those kids to mow my lawn. Look to good state schools: UF, Purdue, Indiana, Illinois, to name but a few. These produce bright, talented strivers who get things done. 👊 @UF @GovRonDeSantis @BenSasse

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

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@RichardDawkins The Board’s statement tortuously avoids stating the obvious: a man (pictured) they’d put in charge of a women’s rape crisis center failed to provide female-only safe spaces as required by law.

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

4 months

@JonahDispatch ‘I don't have up-to-the-minute access to the NORAD tracker of your ideological migrations.’ This is gold, baby. Gold! (Stealing it shamelessly.)

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

1 month

@TheBushArchive When we had grownups at the table.

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

4 months

@thestustustudio Well, of course! This is the logic of trespass. Trespass here, trespass there.

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

3 months

@thestustustudio So, essentially a pro-Trump rally, as they’re increasing his chances of victory with each second they’re visible.

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

18 days

@2Philosophical_ Death isn't any of those things. It's simply our inevitable physical deterioration. We're part of the natural order of things and death is an inevitable part of being a living organism. That we're alive and conscious in the world for a short time is extraordinary!

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

7 days

@Riazi_Cafe_en Stewart for the basics, Spivak for the bridge to analysis, and I suppose Baby and Papa Rudin for analysis. Or perhaps the Princeton series, 'Princeton Lectures in Analysis', by Stein et al. (2003-2011).

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

3 months

@TheAlligator Good! We should support our state, nation, and key democratic allies. As I understand it, we’re strengthening those ties. If supporting your nation and its allies isn’t your thing, there are lots of other schools out there. 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

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@dw_politics You're sentencing a nearly 100-year-old woman for aiding and abetting *murder* because she was a typist for a camp commander?! This seems on its face ridiculous. This is an attempt at collective absolution and not justice.

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

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@Number10cat @elonmusk (2) Moreover, you should *actually read* the case you cite. Brandenburg says, inter alia, that even calling for violence is not, per se, enough to fall outside the ambit of 1stAm protection.

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David Ashwell

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@anitaleirfall What errant nonsense!

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David Ashwell

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3 months

@royalsociety He’s an extraordinary scientist and public servant who selflessly helped his society through a pandemic. Honor is due. ❤️

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David Ashwell

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3 months

@JonahDispatch Must be a frustrating day for them, given the highly successful Israeli hostage operation. Long may such frustrations continue, I say! 🇮🇱 🌞

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

15 days

@jonathanbfine B's first words on meeting her: 'Hello, lover.'

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

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@xphilosopher If you’re in US academic philosophy and you don’t recognize there’s a problem with left orthodoxy, you’ve got your head in the sand. How freely can phils of any specialty (epistem, metaphys, etc.) *critically* tear into affirmative action, or trans identity vs sex? (1 of 2)

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

4 months

@sfmcguire79 ‘We are for disobeying police commands! We are for disorderly conduct! We are fore trespass after request to leave! We are for interfering with a lawful arrest! We are for resisting arrest!’ lol (And we’re not *really* for civil disobedience, as we’re opposed to consequences.)

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

5 months

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness. - JRR Tolkien @dytolkienwisdom

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

3 months

This. ✊

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@HistoryBoomer

3 months

Schools need to replace active shooter drills with bad logic drills led by mean philosophers. "You mewling punk! You swallowed that straw man and ended up flailing at logical impossibilities. If this had been a real argument, your epistemic worldview would have been shattered!"

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

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@Noahpinion Germany’s pioneering work in maths & physics goes back even further. Think of Gauss & Riemann, for example. Physics as academic discipline really starts earlier where those two studied & taught, at Göttingen. So, I’d push the start of that timeline back to early 1800s at least.

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

1 month

Nietzsche’s best & most important work, in my estimation. Wonderful insights into the Greeks, human nature, society, & art. He was right, as a young man, to think highly of Wagner as composer & of W’s concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk. 🇩🇪 ✊

Pepijn Leonard Demortier

@PepijnDemortier

1 month

Read your Nietzsche

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

2 months

@GainesvilleSun Good. But the kid who spat on an officer should never be allowed back on our campus.

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

3 months

@BBCWorld Says the guy whose creaky old military has looked meh vs Ukraine for… how long now? Been withered away so that he’s near drafting babushkas? lol

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

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@McCormickProf Yes, the Lebensunswertes Leben was (is) a sickening notion. There’s not much distance from euthanasia under this doctrine to the Holocaust.

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

1 month

@MoMath1 Proving that 1 = 2. (To play with algebra, and to show certain things we don’t do — such as divide by zero.) 🫵

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

2 months

@petemandik In German, it’s ‘Der dümmste Fledermaus hat die dicksten Kartoffeln’, or ‘The dumbest bat grows the biggest potatoes’. 🤷‍♂️

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

2 months

@UF Does that mean we'll get the Same Picture of Kent Fuchs Every Day again? Because that would be pretty special.🫵

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

3 months

@thestustustudio Yeah, all the cool people are ‘anti-zio’, yo. 🤦‍♂️

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

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@NecktieSalvage Some have risen to Assistant Manager!

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

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@JonahDispatch @Halalcoholism Improve. The. Sorcery.

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

2 months

@TheCinesthetic Tree Colours: Blue, by Kieslowski

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

2 months

@PhysInHistory (1) Euclid (who gave us a compendium of proofs and, really, passed down the notion of rigorous proof) (2) Newton/Leibniz (tie, for the Calculus, yo!) (3) Gauss/Riemann (tie, for the Germanness, yo!)

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

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@AMandoSch Yup. Had my own solo practice for a few years. Would bring in about 10k one week and then have a month where I just heard crickets. Feast or famine! Keep costs absolutely minimal & save when you make a bit. And, most important, enjoy every moment of freedom! ✊

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

1 month

@VodkaMuse Two lifesaving words for you: water wings.

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@erisahasani3 I think Baby would love these!

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David Ashwell

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@emily_tweets Shenans!

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@JonahDispatch Indeed! We’re on a roll. Shame we lost @BenSasse as president. 🐊

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

4 months

@LongFormMath See, this is why I’m against cycling. 🤷‍♂️

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

10 days

@skdh As someone who's lived and studied there, I have a pretty good idea what misconceptions you have of us. You don't seem to realize what an incompetent mess Europe looks at the moment. To use a well-worn philosophical term, tu quoque, old girl.

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

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@keithfrankish @Philip_Goff @JohnCleese I think both Keanu Reeves and Joaquin Phoenix would be amenable. ✊

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

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@billybinion He refused to comply with lawful commands. You understand, young man, LEOs get shot in situations like this. If Tyreek had politely complied with the directions of the officer — kept his window down, hands visible, given license & reg. — no problems. *He* chose otherwise.

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David Ashwell

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2 months

@sonyclassical I listen to a little Bach each morning, and Wagner each evening. ❤️

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David Ashwell

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@Helenreflects L’eclisse, 1962 I believe directed by Antonioni. Beautiful. One of the most solemn, profound endings of any film. 🎥 🎞️

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

2 months

@amyklobuchar Amy, you and I are not eiusdem generis politically, but I wish you well. Lost my mother recently to cancer, and I wouldn’t wish that on anybody. May you heal and thrive! ❤️

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David Ashwell

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29 days

@RedPillSayian And you want all the dick for yourself, right? 👊

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David Ashwell

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@SwipeWright As a lawyer, I’m inclined to agree. 🫵

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David Ashwell

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4 months

@Anthony_Bonato Can’t think of any. The more, the merrier I say!

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

29 days

@dvorahfr @LibertyCappy Well, how do you *know* he doesn’t have a weapon? Should you have to wait to figure that out? In the US, there’s generally a presumption that chap poses threat of imminent serious bodily harm or death. And that justifies, in law, the use of deadly force. We’ve got that right.

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David Ashwell

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3 months

@NiohBerg The lyrics are enchanting: ‘Sex slave, little sex slave, make me sandwich!’ 🥪

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

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@RSGAT Having made many a closing arg, I’d say go with that!

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David Ashwell

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@philosophybites You mean like the entire tradition of metaphysics?

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

4 months

@dieworkwear Whoa! That tartan coat is the sh*t! 👊

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

4 months

@ShirionOrg @Seeingidoc They’re not ‘now lawyers’. When their final grades are in, they may have earned their JD degrees. They will have to pass an FBI-stye background check and a rigorous 2 to 3 day Bar Exam to be admitted to practice law in any state. Only then do we in the law call them ‘lawyers’.

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

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@emily_tweets All kids?!!!

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

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@drhingram Nobody does.

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

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@skdh @AndrewHeney But, of course, I've said nothing of the sort. The West, generally, is in a bit of political disarray at the moment. This is very worrying. What's undeniable is that the one indispensable power is the US. This isn't a time frivolously to mock your most important ally.

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

3 months

My home for a term, yonks ago. Extraordinary community and a beautiful place! 🐂 Floreat Magdalena

University of Oxford

@UniofOxford

3 months

#OnThisDay in 1458 @magdalenoxford was founded. 📷 | ObservingOxford (Instagram), Judy.Martin46 (Instagram), @magdalenoxford & @MericSevgiEren

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David Ashwell

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@AvivaKlompas 'Let me be clear: bleep, blorp, moop.'

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@jonathanbfine microplastics

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David Ashwell

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3 months

@AporiaMatt Sorry, pal, but he’s awful. Wrong about most things — even the linguistics!

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David Ashwell

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18 days

@2Philosophical_ That death is natural makes it strikingly odd to say that it is 'bad'. And the extraordinary quality of our human life, consciousness, and intelligence is, I was suggesting, the thing to focus on -- not that, inevitably, it must end.

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David Ashwell

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3 months

My philosophy in a tweet: Ontology: Pete Mandik is! Epistemology: I know Pete Mandik is. Phi of Religion: I believe in the power of Pete Mandik. Moral Philosophy: If Pete Mandik is wrong, I don't wanna be right. ✊

Pete Mandik

@petemandik

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My philosophy in a tweet: Ontology: The consensus of academic philosophers Epistemology: The consensus of academic philosophers Philosophy of Religion: The consensus of academic philosophers Moral Philosophy: The consensus of academic philosophers

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David Ashwell

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@FoxNews No angel, then? 😇

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@thestustustudio Get her more catnip! 🐈‍⬛

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@ThePhysicsMemes Mathematician ✊

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

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@BBCWorld They oughta have Bill Cosby!

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David Ashwell

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@dggoldst The simplistic right-brain/left-brain idea. Modern research shows this is quite ill-conceived. Much more complicated. Much more interesting, how the brain is interconnected.

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@TheAlligator ‘I felt a disturbance in the Force, something I have not felt since…’ 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊

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@TheCinesthetic Breakdance II: Electric Boogaloo

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@xphilosopher (2/2) When I was a grad student in a major US phil program, a sizable group of male colleagues felt they had to whisper their views in our offices and create a special, secret online forum to chat about politics. They all have PhDs now. Is this good? Might it affect hiring? 🤷‍♂️

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

10 days

View down Catte Street, Oxford, yo! 🐂

Alexandra Butschko 🍁🍂

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I wish you all a lovely Tuesday. Mind how you go.🤗

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David Ashwell

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@TheCinesthetic Pussy Galore

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@ajtourville Certainly cooler than Venus! 😎

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@MathsNinja24

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@Mrs_Meowmerz It doesn’t. Like the desert, many don’t survive. Your only hope is to pray to the gods of 19th-century German mathematics — and maybe watch ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ (1962). 🫵

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@FoxNews Yes, well, slavery really was all California’s fault. 🤷‍♂️

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@SmartandSafeFl No.

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@DinahGLRoseKC I discovered cricket during my brief, lovely time at Magdalen. Saw village cricket, I guess it was, being played across the Cherwell from the botanic gardens. Kids at Magd watched Oval cricket with me in the JCR & tried, quite unsuccessfully, to explain it. 😊 Love it now. 🏏

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

2 months

Mood ✊

@_rt*

@literatura_rte

2 months

Pablo Picasso – Boy with a Pipe, 1905

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@MailOnline Oh, she’s gonna LOVE Germany! 🇩🇪 lol

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David Ashwell

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@Hass12314 x! = 24/16^(2/10+3/10) = 24/16^1/2 = 24/4=6 So x! = 6, and thus x=3. (I try to do such basic probs in my head, but it's midnight here.) lol

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David Ashwell

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@thestustustudio Better get that anti-psychosis epi-pen!

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David Ashwell

@MathsNinja24

4 months

Love is, after all, the most important thing.

𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗮.

@CinemaOnSundays

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Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961 dir. Blake Edwards

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David Ashwell

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This view very much puts me in mind of a stretch of coast where my brother and I lived with my mom for a short time. She died recently. She’s gone. But that beach will always remind me of her in those happier times.

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@FoxNews Am I the only one who pronounces her name 'fanny'?

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@FoxNews Yup, better watch her. She might even egg on a mob to besiege the Capitol and attempt to overturn the results of a lawful presidential election!

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David Ashwell

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@FilmLadd The word 'ick' should really only be used by 12-year-old girls, motherclucker.

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3 months

@Super70sSports Tell me about it! How many times did she have to prise apart Greg & Marsha after they hit puberty?! Not to mention the clean up after that!