Mark Alfano

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Mark Alfano is an American philosopher and associate professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is the editor of The Moral Psychology of the Emotions, a series of books published by Rowman & Littlefield. Alfano is known for his research on virtue ethics., virtue epistemology, social epistemology, and Friedrich Nietzsche. .. more

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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · Jul 31

facts may not care about your feelings, but my feelings care about your facts

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 2d

It's generous of Italy to have allowed JD Vance back into the country after he killed the Pope.

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Meat And Ferments Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

This is extremely offensive and inappropriate. I don’t care how popular it is in bars, dwarf-tossing is degrading and NOT OKAY.

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Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar

Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue’s customers.

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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 7d

Code brown

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8d

setting aside whether or not trump actually shit himself in that press conference (he did), what do you think the secret service code for the president shitting himself is? i assume it happens often enough with this president that they have one

Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 7d

Nearly eight scarramiccis!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

The Trump Kennedy Center lasted less than two months

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

The Trump Kennedy Center lasted less than two months

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8d

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 8d

Live your life so that:
-Isaac Chotiner never asks for an interview
-Ronan Farrow never investigates you
-Tressie McMillan Cottom writes an OpEd about your myopia
-Tanehisi Coates never has to come on your podcast to tell you how exactly you're a moron

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Amy Ash @lolennui.bsky.social · 8d

(the whole cabinet standing up one by one Spartacus style) *I* sharted

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 8d

The Open Journals Collective (@ojcollective.bsky.social‬) has just launched and already includes 75 journals! www.openjournalscollective.org/catalogue/?q...

I am enthusiastic about the OJC and how well it has been set up to advance diamond (free) open access, working with libraries and funders.

Free Journal Network – Nurturing an ecosystem of high quality, open access, scholar-controlled journals with no author-facing charges

freejournals.org

Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 10d

Slopaganda in the Guardian @michalk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The slopaganda era: 10 AI images posted by the White House – and what they teach us

Under Donald Trump, the White House has filled its social media with memes, wishcasting, nostalgia and deepfakes. Here’s what you need to know to navigate the trolling

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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 10d

Are we sure it was *his* vomit and not antifa vomit?

Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 10d

Breaking: Pete Hegseth joined Border Patrol.

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 10d

Border Patrol employee found ‘covered in vomit’ in St. Paul, charged with drunk driving

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 10d

Shall I compare thee to a fucking jerk

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 10d

Breaking: Pete Hegseth joined Border Patrol.

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 10d

Border Patrol employee found ‘covered in vomit’ in St. Paul, charged with drunk driving

Border Patrol employee Alfredo Mancillas Jr. of Corpus Christi, Texas, was charged with drunk driving in St. Paul.

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Thomas [redacted] @tom.medsky.social · 13d

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15d

It was never about tyranny.

NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against Tyrannical Government — The Shovel

An embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do.

theshovel.com.au

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Bence Nanay @bencenanay.bsky.social · 18d

Aaaand we're back!!

Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp

- to work with me!

Deadline: March 20, 2026

More info on PhilJobs

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æmə @ama-thyst.bsky.social · 18d

It's actually illegal to move a cat

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · Jan 2

We gotta imprison each of these shithead AI ceo's in a different data center like the minotaur

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Andy Paterson @agpat.bsky.social · Jan 1

With AI comes the new word for 2026 derived from sloppy propaganda ((SLOPAGANDA).

There is so much of it on social media now.

www.abc.net.au/btn/classroo...

Slopaganda - Behind The News

It's a fairly new term used to describe the use of AI for influencing people’s political beliefs.

www.abc.net.au

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Dec 14

Australian here 👋

Stop saying the tragedy in Sydney demonstrates that strict gun laws don’t work.

There were ZERO mass shootings in Australia in the two decades after strict gun laws were passed in 1996.

We have so much we need to do, but strict gun laws remain a critical part of the solution.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Dec 14

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.

BBC
'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Emily Atkinson
Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST
2 min read

A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed.

Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat.

Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Dec 13

everyone uses AI to find out who is gay or who is hireable or whatever but why hasn't anyone ever used AI to figure out which fascist has the world's most punchable face?

Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · Dec 13

Instead of speed limits, vehicles (including ebikes) should have momentum limits. Fight me.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Dec 9

I do not eat crab because one day all will be crab. Crab is the final destination for us all. We mustn't eat what we will become, which is crab. Crab is all.