Daniel Collette
@danielcollette.bsky.social
Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy, Marquette University. Father of two. Pascal stan. he/him
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Hello, new followers! Nice to have you. I am a NTT prof working on early modern and canon critical philosophy. I post on academia, unions/labor, parenting, music, & more. I currently work on Blaise Pascal and his philosopher sister Jacqueline Pascal. If you’re interested, I made a little thread.
I apparently am on a list called “Techno-pessimists,” which seems like a list for tech-bros to avoid posters who don’t like bitcoin and AI. #blessed
January 27, 2026 at 11:21 PM
I apparently am on a list called “Techno-pessimists,” which seems like a list for tech-bros to avoid posters who don’t like bitcoin and AI. #blessed
Deleting Signal now that I know it’s compromised. You can get updates on MySpace.
Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. You can get updates by observing my smart bulbs blinking in Morse code.
You don't know where I live? Nice try, FED, I know how to keep my head down!
You don't know where I live? Nice try, FED, I know how to keep my head down!
Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me on my Samsung SmartFridge.
January 27, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Deleting Signal now that I know it’s compromised. You can get updates on MySpace.
My “Academia/In Progress” folder has entered the chat.
tfw you put a few days work into a paper you thought would be a quick and easy write, but then you run into The Problem.
January 26, 2026 at 8:18 PM
My “Academia/In Progress” folder has entered the chat.
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
How my day started / how it’s going…
107 degree F difference!
107 degree F difference!
January 23, 2026 at 6:32 PM
How my day started / how it’s going…
107 degree F difference!
107 degree F difference!
It’s wild that democrats think ICE will follow laws to wear body cams when they won’t even follow the constitution.
Pouring more money into DHS while it operates with impunity and a blatant disregard for human life is unconscionable.
You don’t fix abuse by funding it. You stop it by cutting off its funding and dismantling the institution that’s terrorizing communities.
tinyurl.com/mr3em3k8
You don’t fix abuse by funding it. You stop it by cutting off its funding and dismantling the institution that’s terrorizing communities.
tinyurl.com/mr3em3k8
House approves spending bills despite many Democrats' objections to ICE funds
The House has approved the final set of spending bills to avoid a government shutdown, despite objections from Democrats to the funding levels set for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.npr.org
January 23, 2026 at 1:55 AM
It’s wild that democrats think ICE will follow laws to wear body cams when they won’t even follow the constitution.
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guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.
January 21, 2026 at 9:33 PM
guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.
More of this please. And lots of dropping the f-bomb. That’s what fighting and resistance looks like!
NEW: Democrats are pumping out content of themselves, pumping iron:
"People want to see vigor, they want to see action, that you’re prepared to do the job, doing more than sitting behind a podium regurgitating a litany of nonsensical acronyms"
www.cnn.com/2025/07/26/p...
"People want to see vigor, they want to see action, that you’re prepared to do the job, doing more than sitting behind a podium regurgitating a litany of nonsensical acronyms"
www.cnn.com/2025/07/26/p...
January 21, 2026 at 7:45 PM
More of this please. And lots of dropping the f-bomb. That’s what fighting and resistance looks like!
Heck, to start I’ll settle with dem leadership going on-record saying, “ICE is terrorizing people instead of doing its supposed job and should be abolished.”
dem leadership should join the protests - put their bodies on the line
Approval For Anti-ICE Protests:
Approve: 47%
Disapprove: 44%
YouGov / Jan 19, 2026
Approve: 47%
Disapprove: 44%
YouGov / Jan 19, 2026
January 20, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Heck, to start I’ll settle with dem leadership going on-record saying, “ICE is terrorizing people instead of doing its supposed job and should be abolished.”
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Despite US politics being a total clusterfuck, this is an incredible development. It will be the first time anyone under the age 54 will have been alive to see a Lunar mission. Part of the spacecraft was also built by the European Space Agency. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Artemis II: Nasa's mega Moon rocket arrives at launch pad
Final preparations now get underway for the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Despite US politics being a total clusterfuck, this is an incredible development. It will be the first time anyone under the age 54 will have been alive to see a Lunar mission. Part of the spacecraft was also built by the European Space Agency. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries only had half the principle of anti-Trump conservatives…
PSA: If Bill Kristol can say this dems should be able to say it
January 18, 2026 at 7:54 PM
If Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries only had half the principle of anti-Trump conservatives…
Watching Elephant Man in memorandum
a man wearing sunglasses says that if you can believe it it 's a friday once again
ALT: a man wearing sunglasses says that if you can believe it it 's a friday once again
media.tenor.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:18 AM
Watching Elephant Man in memorandum
He will proclaim certain opinions: he will shelter behind a label…One day monarchist, the next day, anarchist…antisemitic...In lynchings, pogroms, all great bloody movements…movements where there is no risk, those who do the actual dirty work are recruited from among the sub-men. -Simone de Beauvoir
What I’ve learned about American politics the last decade is there is an annoyingly sizable population that does not actually believe in anything and simply imprints on the latest thing they heard on the radio like a duckling
January 16, 2026 at 6:28 PM
He will proclaim certain opinions: he will shelter behind a label…One day monarchist, the next day, anarchist…antisemitic...In lynchings, pogroms, all great bloody movements…movements where there is no risk, those who do the actual dirty work are recruited from among the sub-men. -Simone de Beauvoir
…and Lord of Lords? Glory? Hallelujah?
January 16, 2026 at 3:27 AM
…and Lord of Lords? Glory? Hallelujah?
Tech bros literally invented *check notes* television shows.
As the world burns, let's get one thing straight. A video podcast is just a TV show.
January 16, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Tech bros literally invented *check notes* television shows.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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Blackwell Companion to Pascal is out! It’s an impressive volume and I’m excited to be part.
My first chapter, “Pascal, Life and Works” available in the free preview.
My other contribution is ”Pascal, Inc.: Jacqueline Pascal and Gilberte Pascal-Périer,” which is on Blaise’s sisters, also scholars.
My first chapter, “Pascal, Life and Works” available in the free preview.
My other contribution is ”Pascal, Inc.: Jacqueline Pascal and Gilberte Pascal-Périer,” which is on Blaise’s sisters, also scholars.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Blackwell Companion to Pascal is out! It’s an impressive volume and I’m excited to be part.
My first chapter, “Pascal, Life and Works” available in the free preview.
My other contribution is ”Pascal, Inc.: Jacqueline Pascal and Gilberte Pascal-Périer,” which is on Blaise’s sisters, also scholars.
My first chapter, “Pascal, Life and Works” available in the free preview.
My other contribution is ”Pascal, Inc.: Jacqueline Pascal and Gilberte Pascal-Périer,” which is on Blaise’s sisters, also scholars.
I wonder how much traction this will get. It’s not a general strike, but a national walkout still escalates No Kings and is a step in the right direction.
Daily reminder from now until Jan. 20, the day of the nat'l "Free America" walkout, sponsored by Women's March. Find an event in your community and participate--preferably w/the largest gathering in your area. Large masses of protesters have maximum impact. www.womensmarch.com (www.womensmarch.com)
Join our feminist movement.
The mission of Women’s March is to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change.
www.womensmarch.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:39 AM
I wonder how much traction this will get. It’s not a general strike, but a national walkout still escalates No Kings and is a step in the right direction.
It’s perfectly coherent if you see power and dominance as the goal.
Trump tells protesters in Iran to ‘take over,’ promising U.S. help. But here in the US he’s crushing protesters? Talk about Idiocy!
January 14, 2026 at 8:51 PM
It’s perfectly coherent if you see power and dominance as the goal.
I will add that one thing a lot of people outside the USA don’t get is how massive it is. The distance from Portland to Tampa is equal to Reykjavik, Iceland to Ankara, Turkey. That there has been pushback in Chicago, Portland, Minneapolis, and LA isn’t nothing.
A long time concerns of mine is that we as American citizens often treat politics like fantasy football. Pick your team, sit back, hope they win. Social media posting is like yelling at the TV after a bad play or unfair call. Citizenship as an entitlement but not as an obligation.
I’m not immune.
I’m not immune.
Sad how many who think voting every 4 years or so equals holding government accountable
January 13, 2026 at 3:23 PM
I will add that one thing a lot of people outside the USA don’t get is how massive it is. The distance from Portland to Tampa is equal to Reykjavik, Iceland to Ankara, Turkey. That there has been pushback in Chicago, Portland, Minneapolis, and LA isn’t nothing.
When you think of the Constitutional Convention as a department meeting where no one agrees and everyone just wants to go home it all makes a lot more sense.
So it turns out that the much vaunted Constitution of he United States of America isn’t actually fit for purpose?
January 13, 2026 at 2:06 PM
When you think of the Constitutional Convention as a department meeting where no one agrees and everyone just wants to go home it all makes a lot more sense.
Online petitions are the Disney ride of activism. You know that no matter how they start, at the end there’s always going to be someone trying to take your money.
January 12, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Online petitions are the Disney ride of activism. You know that no matter how they start, at the end there’s always going to be someone trying to take your money.
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I was devastated I didn’t get this one job. It went to someone way less experienced with no publications… then basically the whole department got fired a few years later.
I was devastated I didn’t get this one job. It went to someone way less experienced with no publications… then basically the whole department got fired a few years later.
“the department that rejected your application is shutting down”
January 11, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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I was devastated I didn’t get this one job. It went to someone way less experienced with no publications… then basically the whole department got fired a few years later.
I was devastated I didn’t get this one job. It went to someone way less experienced with no publications… then basically the whole department got fired a few years later.