Angus Mancini
@angusmm.bsky.social
Individual. Philosophy student working towards a PhD, Kierkegaard enthusiast, TCG player, optimistic person. (These don’t really go together huh?) He/Him
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Angus Mancini
@angusmm.bsky.social
· Sep 5
"Only when I write do I feel well. Then I forget all of life’s vexations, all its sufferings, then I am wrapped in thought and am happy. If I stop for a few days, right away I become ill, overwhelmed and troubled; my head feels heavy and burdened." - Søren Kierkegaard
Just did a lecture today for a first year class, and at the end I had some extra time at the end to advocate for pursuing philosophy as a major/minor. Had two students come up to me after class telling me that they are considering now 🥹. Feels nice knowing that you’ve gotten other people interested.
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Just did a lecture today for a first year class, and at the end I had some extra time at the end to advocate for pursuing philosophy as a major/minor. Had two students come up to me after class telling me that they are considering now 🥹. Feels nice knowing that you’ve gotten other people interested.
I plan to write a series in my schools student journal. The series is going to cover different concentrations in philosophy, with the goal of getting first/second year students interested in studying philosophy (generally).
Any suggestions for (broader) topics to write about are much appreciated!
Any suggestions for (broader) topics to write about are much appreciated!
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I plan to write a series in my schools student journal. The series is going to cover different concentrations in philosophy, with the goal of getting first/second year students interested in studying philosophy (generally).
Any suggestions for (broader) topics to write about are much appreciated!
Any suggestions for (broader) topics to write about are much appreciated!
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I think about this post every day 🧪
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I think about this post every day 🧪
“You each have an impression coloured by your individual conditions; make that into a picture, a picture framed by your own personal wisdom, your glimpse of the world.” -Henry James
Written in a letter where he declined an invitation to take part in an art program at the Deerfield Summer School.
Written in a letter where he declined an invitation to take part in an art program at the Deerfield Summer School.
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
“You each have an impression coloured by your individual conditions; make that into a picture, a picture framed by your own personal wisdom, your glimpse of the world.” -Henry James
Written in a letter where he declined an invitation to take part in an art program at the Deerfield Summer School.
Written in a letter where he declined an invitation to take part in an art program at the Deerfield Summer School.
Every ethics paper I read pushes me further towards becoming Kantian…
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every ethics paper I read pushes me further towards becoming Kantian…
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drake turning off the game as it gets to 18
October 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
drake turning off the game as it gets to 18
Last two chapters of Dandadan (212 & 213) are so good. The focus on lost memory, and how emotion plays an integral role in retrieving those lost memories is a very fun read.
October 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Last two chapters of Dandadan (212 & 213) are so good. The focus on lost memory, and how emotion plays an integral role in retrieving those lost memories is a very fun read.
“It is not the size of a country or the number of inhabitants but the number of those thinking that determines the possible progression of science and literature. A smaller nation can by the spreading of good taste vie with a larger. It may surpass it."
- Jens Schelderup Sneedorf
- Jens Schelderup Sneedorf
October 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“It is not the size of a country or the number of inhabitants but the number of those thinking that determines the possible progression of science and literature. A smaller nation can by the spreading of good taste vie with a larger. It may surpass it."
- Jens Schelderup Sneedorf
- Jens Schelderup Sneedorf
Brought 5 new students to our local weekly colloquium! 🤩 They were all interested in attending the next one!
September 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Brought 5 new students to our local weekly colloquium! 🤩 They were all interested in attending the next one!
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my kids are still young but this is basically our strategy. even video games are something that we first and foremost play together, as a family, in the living room.
Honestly it seems to me that one of the most important tasks for modern parents is raising their kids to be mostly offline normies
September 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
my kids are still young but this is basically our strategy. even video games are something that we first and foremost play together, as a family, in the living room.
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"Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty."
Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk
September 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty."
Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk
"Only when I write do I feel well. Then I forget all of life’s vexations, all its sufferings, then I am wrapped in thought and am happy. If I stop for a few days, right away I become ill, overwhelmed and troubled; my head feels heavy and burdened." - Søren Kierkegaard
September 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
"Only when I write do I feel well. Then I forget all of life’s vexations, all its sufferings, then I am wrapped in thought and am happy. If I stop for a few days, right away I become ill, overwhelmed and troubled; my head feels heavy and burdened." - Søren Kierkegaard
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GOP: We oppose knowledge!
US universities: to take a stand here would be to fail to be politically neutral!!
US universities: to take a stand here would be to fail to be politically neutral!!
September 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
GOP: We oppose knowledge!
US universities: to take a stand here would be to fail to be politically neutral!!
US universities: to take a stand here would be to fail to be politically neutral!!
So excited to be heading back into the classroom tomorrow morning! 🤩
September 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
So excited to be heading back into the classroom tomorrow morning! 🤩
Had a really fun weekend at the worlds celebration event. Ended up with first place playing my favourite deck Sky Striker.
Got to finish the game by attacking a card I got my mother to sign. Great way to end the ygo season this year! Excited for next year! 😎
Got to finish the game by attacking a card I got my mother to sign. Great way to end the ygo season this year! Excited for next year! 😎
September 1, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Had a really fun weekend at the worlds celebration event. Ended up with first place playing my favourite deck Sky Striker.
Got to finish the game by attacking a card I got my mother to sign. Great way to end the ygo season this year! Excited for next year! 😎
Got to finish the game by attacking a card I got my mother to sign. Great way to end the ygo season this year! Excited for next year! 😎
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"The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
After six months in ICE custody, Charlotte woman chooses voluntary removal to Honduras
A 20-year-old Honduran woman who has lived in the Charlotte area for more than a decade will soon be removed from the U.S.
www.wunc.org
August 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
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Check this shit out motherfucker
*embargoes own country*
*embargoes own country*
August 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Check this shit out motherfucker
*embargoes own country*
*embargoes own country*
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
- Thomas Paine
- Thomas Paine
August 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
- Thomas Paine
- Thomas Paine
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Do they see it yet? How absurd their own leader is? No?
August 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Do they see it yet? How absurd their own leader is? No?
Gordon Marino’s introduction to ‘The Quotable Kierkegaard’ is such a fantastic love letter/intro to Kierkegaard/Kierkegaardian thought.
I keep returning to it, and underlining something new, or keep having a new idea.
I keep returning to it, and underlining something new, or keep having a new idea.
August 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Gordon Marino’s introduction to ‘The Quotable Kierkegaard’ is such a fantastic love letter/intro to Kierkegaard/Kierkegaardian thought.
I keep returning to it, and underlining something new, or keep having a new idea.
I keep returning to it, and underlining something new, or keep having a new idea.
I can’t believe this isn’t satire.
August 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I can’t believe this isn’t satire.
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AI “thinks” in the same way a mirror looks at you
July 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM
AI “thinks” in the same way a mirror looks at you
Getting more into Žižek recently.
Here is an awesome clip of him speaking on Eurocentrism.
I feel like a lot of what Žižek says here can also be applied to different issues as well. That is, the thought process behind what eurocentrism really is and how we operate in EC.
youtu.be/A6OrQUt7v8U?...
Here is an awesome clip of him speaking on Eurocentrism.
I feel like a lot of what Žižek says here can also be applied to different issues as well. That is, the thought process behind what eurocentrism really is and how we operate in EC.
youtu.be/A6OrQUt7v8U?...
Žižek on Eurocentrism
YouTube video by MCMXCI
youtu.be
July 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Getting more into Žižek recently.
Here is an awesome clip of him speaking on Eurocentrism.
I feel like a lot of what Žižek says here can also be applied to different issues as well. That is, the thought process behind what eurocentrism really is and how we operate in EC.
youtu.be/A6OrQUt7v8U?...
Here is an awesome clip of him speaking on Eurocentrism.
I feel like a lot of what Žižek says here can also be applied to different issues as well. That is, the thought process behind what eurocentrism really is and how we operate in EC.
youtu.be/A6OrQUt7v8U?...
Speaking with friends, seeing online discourse, and reading more historical accounts from 1920’s-1940’s.
Feels like we are in a similar era right now. Makes sense why the Trump administration has targeted the removal of funding for education at all levels.
Feel like a doomsayer writing this. 🫠
Feels like we are in a similar era right now. Makes sense why the Trump administration has targeted the removal of funding for education at all levels.
Feel like a doomsayer writing this. 🫠
July 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Speaking with friends, seeing online discourse, and reading more historical accounts from 1920’s-1940’s.
Feels like we are in a similar era right now. Makes sense why the Trump administration has targeted the removal of funding for education at all levels.
Feel like a doomsayer writing this. 🫠
Feels like we are in a similar era right now. Makes sense why the Trump administration has targeted the removal of funding for education at all levels.
Feel like a doomsayer writing this. 🫠