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philosophy PhD / interested in existentialism, phenomenology and feminist philosophy / be nice to me

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@clar_rah

clara

3 months

I finished the second volume of Beauvoir's autobiography, wrote about it pretty much immediately. I wrote about my own anxious-optimistic disposition, and how Beauvoir's battle with optimism spoke to this tendency of mine. Link is in my bio if that sounds interesting to you!

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@clar_rah

clara

4 years

@Hbomberguy This idea of "be friends with people with different political views" is definitely grounded in privilege, like if the fascist doesn't want *you* dead then apparently it's fine. And even if they're a conservative, there's a big chance they wont accept lgbt people properly

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2 months

Bergson is slowly becoming one of my favourite philosophers but I don't know if I agree with anything he says. Does anyone else have this with a philosopher?

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1 year

@christapeterso This vagueness (which imo applies to adult criteria too) means assessments basically take the form of a weird debate. You tell them you want to transition, then the assessor ask you to consider that it could be that you're mentally ill/have a fetish, and you say 'no', then repeat

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4 years

@JennyENicholson One of the biggest things my English lit teacher tried to reinforce was that characters are not real people, they are written by an author in specific ways to tell a story get a message across.

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3 months

@ellieanderphd Firestone's chapter on love in the Dialectic of Sex is one of my favourites. It's kinda hardcore (e.g., saying 'men can't love'), but something about reading angry feminist texts can be really therapeutic

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4 years

@herewardwakeful @VaushV I feel like it could be if i wasn't a misogynist saying it

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4 years

@theserfstv The Matrix is famously about individual responsibility and definitely NOT about dismantling oppressive systems

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11 months

Milly Bobby browns novel starts off strong imo

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4 years

@SecretoftheDeep @sevenrares @LeftAccidental Far longer if you include the witch trials lmao

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4 years

@ByzantiumEgirl @IsJohto @MallyButAlso @bambooney The US killed gay people in the AIDs crisis, they just did it without having to get their own hands dirty

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4 years

@LivPosting Wow this thread is, the worst

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4 years

@cal1meL @shoe0nhead @LeftAccidental Lmao 'second wave feminism' is a very vague term that encapsulates like 40 years worth of important feminist theory and activism

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8 months

Four philosophy books I wanna read this year! Hopefully I will read more than 4

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4 years

@sjwdebates I think we can maintain that 1. people > property, 2. that property is important for working-class people (and should be compensated for damage) 3. that riots have specific causes that need to be addressed in ways that aren't shooting rioters. with no contradiction

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3 years

@herbivorousveg @morallawwithin lmao it's funny too because there's such a stereotype of vegans being pushy (which is kinda true tbf) but I often find meat eaters want to get into a discussion about it whenever I casually bring up that I don't eat meat

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2 years

@peligrietzer That love and friendship is real and good and important, not an illusion or just "chemicals" or whatever. Some philosophers probably think the latter, but not any of the good ones!

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3 months

@ellieanderphd oh yeah for sure! this chapter also gives a quote which is one of the best expressions of heteropessimism I've seen: "All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate—and I wish I could find one"

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1 year

@overthink_pod For my Merleau-Ponty notes doc, I write out quotes and then put my own notes in the footnotes, and I have this key that's quite specific to my interests

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1 month

it's now happened twice that I've written around 3000 words on Sartre, and then decided that I didn't need to do that after all, and deleted the whole section

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4 months

you better work miss jean-paul Sartre!!!!!

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6 months

@nrduford I think a lot of cis people assume being a good ally is about using the right words, without changing the way they're seeing trans people. And this creates all this anxiety, bc of course it won't come naturally if you think the pronouns you're saying aren't really the right ones!

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4 years

@shoe0nhead Tbf this is like, an actual whole book that has some pretty compelling arguments I think. Feminist interpretation can be good, actually

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3 months

@Helenreflects in Beauvoir's second memoir (and relatedly in her first novel), Beauvoir describes illness as in some ways transformative, in that it made her realise that she is not an exception to the world, that anything that might happen to others could happen to her too.

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6 months

Here is a short essay I just wrote about compliments, trans people and perception. Maybe one day I will develop this further ... until then, link is in bio!

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3 years

@christapeterso Incredible that she describes signing a Very Explicit political declaration as an "ambiguous action"

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1 year

@ellieanderphd Something it makes me think of, re: the epistemic authority of lived experience, is this MP passage. Here he suggests that having experienced something doesn't necessarily put someone in a better position to understand it

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1 year

@2damntrans one of my favourite quotes from TSS (in chapter 1 of 'Myths') that I think directly goes against this (other than her explicit, straight-forward rejection and of any idea of a feminine essence!)

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24 days

sat down for 30 minutes with a pen and paper and have made more progress on my chapter than in the last month with my laptop

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4 months

writing about intimacy, and I'm struggling bc referring to 'a lover' feels so antiquated and also too strong, but 'romantic/sexual partner or interest' is too cold and analytical. I want the drama (brevity) of 'lover' without it sounding like I'm 100 years old...

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4 years

@korviday They're literally just mocking them for being non-binary and existing. The free marketplace of ideas really is flourishing here...

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4 years

@YaboiAidan @shoe0nhead have you read the book? even the article? I agree the title sounds dumb, but things generally aren't "just" anything

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4 years

@korviday Marxist theory is definitely about being overly moralistic and criticising particular individuals for *checks notes* eating lunch

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2 years

@classreductress It's honestly very weird the place Beauvoir has in academia. She is probably among the most known names in philosophy, but rarely read compared to the extent of her contemporaries, let alone taken seriously. My dream is to teach The Second Sex as a whole module, properly!

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2 years

@FeyeraBender I think there are things, like fascism for instance, where something's "own terms" are so inconsistent that it would obscure, rather than clarify it for criticism. It feels like understanding fascism on its "own terms" would like, be mistaken in its method from the outset

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3 months

look i don't even really have a plan A. I'm just trying to get through the day here

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Jennifer A. Frey

3 months

When I was a PhD student, I had a clearly defined plan B. Everyone should.

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26 days

somehow every time I go to read Husserl again, I convince myself that him being boring is just a tired cliche and that, actually, it'll be a real hoot needless to say, it was not a hoot

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@nrduford I think it's becoming increasingly common to talk about bad/toxic relationships with the language of abuse. I wonder if this is at all related to the way that medicalised (or 'insititutional?') language has also increasingly crept into the way mental distress is spoken about

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i like to read while listening to music, often songs with lyrics, which I recognise is strange, but it's also fun bc now i associate Pure Heroin by Lorde with division 1 of Being and Time

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4 months

the narrative structure of this dialogue is so fun and cool. iirc, it's a dialogue wherein someone tells a friend about a story he heard, about a party wherein people each told further stories, and then finally where Socrates recounts the words of Diotima who isn't present lol

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4 months

I am really excited for tomorrow. I am teaching Plato to my students. We are focusing on the question "what is love?" Thus, we are investigating one of the most interesting Platonic dialogues; Plato's Symposium.

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3 months

huge moment for me, I finally managed to get the 3rd volume of Beauvoir's autobiography, so I now have the complete set (in different editions lol)

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4 years

Obviously wanna read other stuff but these are The Big Guys

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21 days

sometimes when writing I know that there's a whole section I need to delete, but I leave it there just for the sake morale, bc if that word count goes down by a thousand words again I will cry

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3 months

From 'The Invisible Man's by Ralph Ellison

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3 months

whenever I read or talk to anyone about contemporary straight dating, this is all that's going through my mind

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1 year

@ellieanderphd @overthink_pod this poem by Dickinson on remorse is very interesting to me. Remorse might be distinct from regret, or a specific manifestation of it, but in any case, it's a great poem

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8 months

Doing a PhD is a huge privilege. I get to spend years studying something love, and talking about it with friends and people who are similarly passionate. Sure, it can be exhausting, frustrating, whatever. But even if I never get an academic job, I'll always count myself lucky

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2 months

love when I find random incomprehensible notes in pdfs

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2 months

absolute worst thing about philosophy twitter is people who love to write a bold declarative statement in order to imply a greater degree of knowledge about something than they actually have. I think a lot of people seem more knowledgeable than they really are in this way

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3 months

I'm now pretty good at receiving critical feedback and not taking it personally, but I still feel this wave of terror whenever I open the document entitled "feedback", and I have to wait a moment before I read through it. Does anyone else experience this? and does it go away?

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@clar_rah

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1 month

there's something about the style and language of the 90s/00s 'return to the body', 'corporeality', 'materiality' queer theory and feminism stuff that I find, idk kinda lame?? idk how else to put it

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5 months

sometimes I think Judith butler may as well have not written gender trouble, the way feminist scholars will be discussing the nature and structure of gender, and then suddenly like a jump scare, defer to biological sex as if this is a clear and agreed upon category!! stop that!

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1 month

@moonbeeaam I always do! I'm gonna end up with a book's worth of fragments on Sartre in no time lol

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8 months

Welcome to the philosophy wheel of Roman empires. My taxonomy is totally comprehensive and complete, so if your thing isn't on here, that is unfortunately on you sorry

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C. E. Aubin

8 months

After many hours of toiling, I present to you my Grand Unified Theory of History Bros aka The Wheel of Roman Empires

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2 months

something I find difficult to explain (to others? to myself?) is that my life is both worse and so much better for being trans. Like, it's scariest and most difficult thing I've done, and yet it is also something I treasure deeply, and I would never change it even if I could

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3 months

@lukephilosophy a lot of testo-junkie by Preciado is a bit too 90s for me, but this passage is probably one of my favourite piece of philosophy ever

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3 years

trans people are so cool

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27 days

overheard someone in the cafe say "you wouldn't... buy afternoon tea for a male. that's more female, isn't it"

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1 year

@ellieanderphd Obviously it'd be important to be cautious with this idea, but I definitely think a lot of bad faith/reactionary invocations of lived experience carry with them an assumption that what they say about this experience has automatic credibility

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3 months

I think I would listen to audio books much more if I wasn't so picky about the way they're read out. I find that so many audiobooks either force a certain tone in a way that doesn't feel natural, or worse, they speak in toneless and flat voice that feels inhuman

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2 years

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass. - Ezra Pound

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2 months

The account given by Beauvoir makes this anecdote a bit sadder and less whimsical. Beauvoir seemed to correlate the lobsters with his depression; at one point, when she notices a sudden change in mood, she says: "I felt scared. Were the lobsters going to stage a comeback?"

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2 months

Never heard this incredible Jean-Paul Sartre story before.

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3 months

Remembering the time this very sweet person turned to me and said "Sometimes I look at you and I think of this film", and then showed me the poster for 'The Danish Girl'—during the 5 minute break of our gender studies class

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9 months

kinda bullshit that if something is itchy it's generally bad for you to itch it... like evolution really fucked that one up hm

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7 months

can't stop thinking about the historian I spoke to at a bar who said that, like Churchill said of democracy, heterosexuality isn't great but it's the best we have. And when I said 'thats not true' he asked what my alternative is. girl,

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1 year

I think I just got an allergic reaction from trying to read Object Oriented Ontology. my hands started burning up like I was a demon who'd just touched a crucifix. no speculative realism for me ig

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1 month

sometimes when I'm reading back my work aloud, I like to pretend I am reading to someone. today I am reading to sappho, hopefully she likes it!

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2 years

Literally every day I get the same Hamilton lyrics stuck in my head "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness // we fought for these ideals, we shouldn't settle for this" I haven't listened to Hamilton since like 2016. why is this happening to me. what did I do

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14 days

nothing more annoying to me than people congratulating themselves on resolving the most minor disagreement ever. They'll be like, "Huh, wow 🙂‍↕️... having a rational conversation, on twitter . com?? isn't this beautiful?" And then someone replies with a gif of Emma stone dancing

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1 year

@FeyeraBender and they often lie about this too! They're constantly asking trans women "why can't you just be a feminine boy?" as if this would make them any less repulsed

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4 months

i really like Sartre but I think he is unironically too much of an 'all or nothing' thinker for me

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@clar_rah

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3 years

@notCursedE @Roaming_Zealot @Librumtinia there's this cool documentary on these people if anyone's interested

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19 days

Marx is a playful writer, he loves a pun. he loves to say, "it is not the X of Y, but rather the Y of X" and I love that

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4 years

@headcrabN @rickards_matt @shoe0nhead I don't think Kern wants to say that's the reason??

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8 months

@noetic_emetic The 'gadamer is boring' woke agenda strikes again ....

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6 months

In my research of biologists' understanding of sex, I found literally no contemporary research by biologists which stated that there are "only 2 sexes, no intermediates" .But I did find evolutionary psychologists who made unfounded biologistic claims... Probably a coincidence

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Richard Dawkins

@RichardDawkins

6 months

Enjoyed my Parliament visit where Helen Joyce & I addressed a group of MPs. We showed that there are only 2 sexes, no intermediates. We got no dissent in the excellent Q & A. Evidently the “gender” warriors & the “Women can have a penis” science-deniers stayed away.

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2 months

@BoMandeville @EtheHerring oh yeah I've heard about this, I really want to read it!

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1 year

I put a dot next to the things I love in a film

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@oldbooksguy

Jash Dholani

1 year

The most annoying people in the world love to say there is no objective difference between good art and bad art So I made a list of 15 Good Art v/s Bad Art: The Masterlist of 15 Differences👇🏻

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20 days

people used to talk about Instagram destroying our (especially womens) sense of self-image with the obsession over beauty and attractiveness but tiktok is playing a whole different game... it's crazy over there

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brecht apologist

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fascinating stuff happening on tiktok

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2 months

random charity shop find... does anyone know if this is good (please say yes because I already got it)

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3 years

@2damntrans someone should tell them about nature while they're at it

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11 months

email is the weapon of the administrator class!!! abolish it, burn it, erase it from history so completely and thoroughly that the word is alien to our world!!

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1 month

I wish I didn't have to basically look cis in order to not get misgendered by strangers !!

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1 month

passage from the second sex that I think about a lot

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2 years

obsessed with this lineup

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1 year

@moonbeeaam it's always said with this air of cynical realism too, like they're saying "Well here's the harsh reality." But I think it's ultimately a kind of bad faith. It's a lot easier to believe that some man makes you a woman than that you make yourself a woman.

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11 months

women in stem

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11 months

fou books I enjoyed this year

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four books i enjoyed this year

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4 years

@post_twinkism gonna show terfs this irrefutable proof when they come at me next

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2 years

@FeyeraBender to me it's on a similar level as "ontologically evil", in that both are like, vague and confusing but also have weird and bad implications when thought through

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1 year

something about this sort of decor really makes me feel like I wanna set it on fire ... like this decadent bourgeois, old money kinda aesthetic. burn it !!!

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eefa

1 year

I am almost always thinking about TS Elliot’s Chelsea apartment

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3 years

thinking about her

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4 years

Had a dream where Derrida became a manager at an office I apparently worked at. He was like, really awful and mean too, so we protested and he eventually fired us all. Anyway, the dream ended with a musical number, but I can't really remember how it got to that point??

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@phophing2 To me, it reads more like a concrete attempt at developing the political/ethical implications of his existentialism, especially in light of criticisms from Christians and more orthodox Marxists. I highly recommend reading tho, it's an amazing text!

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1 year

portrait mode moment 😔

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@glo0mybrat

helena ‎ᯓ⋆.𐙚˚ ᡣ𐭩 .𖥔˚

1 year

last selfie + last meme saved >_>

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4 years

@YaboiAidan @shoe0nhead Do you really that that's the basis of her argument? That this professor of geography didn't maybe consider this objection? I feel like the principle of charity would do some good here

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4 years

@morallawwithin why are the covers for German idealist books so damn ugly

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7 months

The idea of "natural beauty" is so wild, and just keeps getting wilder. One day there'll be a full cyborg on the right and the caption will be like like "I love natural beauty <3"

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jia (´ω`)

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maybe i’m just overthinking but something about this is ⁉️

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2 months

"welcome de Beauvoir" she would literally hate you so much it's unreal

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@agirlcalledlina

2 months

Jesus fucking Christ

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1 year

an easy way for a book to instill distrust in me is for the cover to include the author's qualifications. Like ok Dr Andrew Gilman, B.A. M.A. PhD... now what are you trying to sell me 🧐

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4 years

@atinylittlemuon @autogynamelia @emmadaboutlife wait what

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