🌱🪴 monstera adansonii 🌿🍃
@yournerdyfriend.bsky.social
🌿 PhD in Philosophy (she/her) 🌱 Posting qua pedant (who I am as a person) not qua professor (what I do as my job) 🍃
If you are interested in my current work on phenomenology and disability, please check out my talk at the Phenomenologies of Mental Health and Wellbeing conference this past September, organized by the wonderful @ellieanderphd.bsky.social and Ally Peabody Smith!
youtu.be/c4K48nYCQZc?...
youtu.be/c4K48nYCQZc?...
Melissa Rees, Disability and Phenomenological Ownership
YouTube video by Overthink Podcast
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
If you are interested in my current work on phenomenology and disability, please check out my talk at the Phenomenologies of Mental Health and Wellbeing conference this past September, organized by the wonderful @ellieanderphd.bsky.social and Ally Peabody Smith!
youtu.be/c4K48nYCQZc?...
youtu.be/c4K48nYCQZc?...
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Baudrillard could never.
September 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Baudrillard could never.
guys check out the SF Giant’s record right now
September 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
guys check out the SF Giant’s record right now
“The Taylor Swift engagement is MAGA” is 2nd grade reading level. With a gender and women’s studies degree, I can write up the T-Swift engagement is cyborg manifesto + mestiza consciousness + it’s actually gay essay in my sleep
August 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
“The Taylor Swift engagement is MAGA” is 2nd grade reading level. With a gender and women’s studies degree, I can write up the T-Swift engagement is cyborg manifesto + mestiza consciousness + it’s actually gay essay in my sleep
Only this administration could turn (my) MSNBC parents into south park superfans
August 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Only this administration could turn (my) MSNBC parents into south park superfans
Saying shit like “I’m a merging wizard, I’m the wizard of merging” out loud to Noam while four lanes disappear on the drive to jfk
August 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Saying shit like “I’m a merging wizard, I’m the wizard of merging” out loud to Noam while four lanes disappear on the drive to jfk
POV you are trying to watch a show
August 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
POV you are trying to watch a show
How different must an article be to submit to the same journal, if ever? For example, if < 50% of the prose overlaps with a previous submission is it inappropriate to submit again? Is the threshold more strict, < 25% overlap? Must the core argument change or just the framing? I’m collecting opinions
August 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
How different must an article be to submit to the same journal, if ever? For example, if < 50% of the prose overlaps with a previous submission is it inappropriate to submit again? Is the threshold more strict, < 25% overlap? Must the core argument change or just the framing? I’m collecting opinions
For academics, New Year’s resolutions and spring cleaning happens in August
August 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
For academics, New Year’s resolutions and spring cleaning happens in August
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Your Daily Nous pseudonym is the name of your first crush + your birth month
1 – screws 7 – rides
2 – shags 8 – bumps
3 – fucks 9 – knows biblically
4 – lays 10 – does
5 – gets some 11 – bangs
6 – rails 12 – bonks
1 – screws 7 – rides
2 – shags 8 – bumps
3 – fucks 9 – knows biblically
4 – lays 10 – does
5 – gets some 11 – bangs
6 – rails 12 – bonks
July 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Your Daily Nous pseudonym is the name of your first crush + your birth month
1 – screws 7 – rides
2 – shags 8 – bumps
3 – fucks 9 – knows biblically
4 – lays 10 – does
5 – gets some 11 – bangs
6 – rails 12 – bonks
1 – screws 7 – rides
2 – shags 8 – bumps
3 – fucks 9 – knows biblically
4 – lays 10 – does
5 – gets some 11 – bangs
6 – rails 12 – bonks
I am the player
July 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I am the player
to be fair noam does a lot of invisible labor (constant vigilance online so he can tell me as soon as something interesting happens)
July 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
to be fair noam does a lot of invisible labor (constant vigilance online so he can tell me as soon as something interesting happens)
Any philosophers who follow me: I would love it if you could ask them to open a discussion thread on my subtweet. Among other things, I am curious to see how many requests they are prepared to ignore.
July 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Any philosophers who follow me: I would love it if you could ask them to open a discussion thread on my subtweet. Among other things, I am curious to see how many requests they are prepared to ignore.
Academic philosophy hosts a lot of highschool losers who think they are entitled to everyone’s attention because they can put premises in front of a conclusion
Thankfully if you were a theatre loser like me you got the “entitled to attention for putting on a poor show” out your system early
Thankfully if you were a theatre loser like me you got the “entitled to attention for putting on a poor show” out your system early
July 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Academic philosophy hosts a lot of highschool losers who think they are entitled to everyone’s attention because they can put premises in front of a conclusion
Thankfully if you were a theatre loser like me you got the “entitled to attention for putting on a poor show” out your system early
Thankfully if you were a theatre loser like me you got the “entitled to attention for putting on a poor show” out your system early
Marie Antoinette could never
“Don’t eat carrot cake. Eat real food,” said Medicaid and Medicare Administrator Mehmet Oz to people who are concerned about Medicaid cuts, after bringing Fox host Stuart Varney a carrot cake as a gift.
Dr. Oz Tells Americans Who Are Concerned About Medicaid Cuts to Eat Less Cake
Millions of Americans will lose health care coverage due to the Medicaid cuts in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”…
buff.ly
July 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Marie Antoinette could never
this mfer posts stuff like this while we’re sitting on the same damn couch without even a “look I did a silly one”
oh you're spending 'independence day' with your girlfriend? interesting...
July 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
this mfer posts stuff like this while we’re sitting on the same damn couch without even a “look I did a silly one”
could one of you encourage me to head to a cafe and do a little writing instead of falling asleep on the couch right now? pls
June 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
could one of you encourage me to head to a cafe and do a little writing instead of falling asleep on the couch right now? pls
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Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election.
A new generation of leaders is here.
A new generation of leaders is here.
June 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election.
A new generation of leaders is here.
A new generation of leaders is here.
guys don’t tell @lastpositivist.bsky.social I said this but he’s really fun to talk to and good at philosophy also
June 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
guys don’t tell @lastpositivist.bsky.social I said this but he’s really fun to talk to and good at philosophy also
that’s cool but I actually know about a horse someone was willing to trade an entire kingdom for
A Utah horse sold for $1.7 million, setting a record for the highest-selling Western performance horse at public auction.
Horse sells for record-breaking $1.7 million at Heber auction
A Utah horse sold for $1.7 million, setting a record for the highest-selling Western performance horse at public auction.
www.sltrib.com
June 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
that’s cool but I actually know about a horse someone was willing to trade an entire kingdom for
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I am devastated to learn of my dear friend and fellow philosopher Helen De Cruz’s passing.
With Helen's blessing, her husband Johan and I agreed to circulate a GoFundMe on their children’s behalf.
Please feel free to share and circulate widely.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...
With Helen's blessing, her husband Johan and I agreed to circulate a GoFundMe on their children’s behalf.
Please feel free to share and circulate widely.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...
Donate to Support Helen's Children After Her Passing, organized by Marcus Arvan
Help provide Helen De Cruz's children with a better start in life after her un… Marcus Arvan needs your support for Support Helen's Children After Her Passing
www.gofundme.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I am devastated to learn of my dear friend and fellow philosopher Helen De Cruz’s passing.
With Helen's blessing, her husband Johan and I agreed to circulate a GoFundMe on their children’s behalf.
Please feel free to share and circulate widely.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...
With Helen's blessing, her husband Johan and I agreed to circulate a GoFundMe on their children’s behalf.
Please feel free to share and circulate widely.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...
Just a small encounter with an enormous fucked up situation, but: I am unable to book catering in LA for an event I’m organizing because the majority of employees are worried about getting unlawfully detained if they go to work
June 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Just a small encounter with an enormous fucked up situation, but: I am unable to book catering in LA for an event I’m organizing because the majority of employees are worried about getting unlawfully detained if they go to work
“Saucy racially ambiguous” - @emhrnndz.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“Saucy racially ambiguous” - @emhrnndz.bsky.social
Very useful sorting mechanism in SF dive bars between the tech bros who believe me when I say I’m a professor and the tech bros who guffaw like I’m being a cheeky clever little girl when I say it lol
June 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Very useful sorting mechanism in SF dive bars between the tech bros who believe me when I say I’m a professor and the tech bros who guffaw like I’m being a cheeky clever little girl when I say it lol