🐙Scott Maybell🐙
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🐙Scott Maybell🐙
@cartesiandream.bsky.social
Grad student studying Science & Religion in Oxford, researching the political demonology of octopuses and other cephalopods.

Trained mediator, happy to facilitate conciliation processes as a form of mutual aid. Just ask!
Because of so-called AI we're past the old discourse of concern about online misinformation, but back when I worked at a rec center I'd find kids watching videos about how Jackson wasn't dead or footage of his "ghost." It was upsetting and we didn't get any training on how to handle stuff like that.
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This is very lovely! I'm working on a paper rn about magic's marginalization in philosophy and theology depts, definitely struggling with the not sounding stupid part.
November 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A peaceful, totally nonthreatening, country mouse 🐀
November 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Bees and dogs can see "impossible colors" too, I don't understand what the big deal is.
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I've not found anyone putting Moore's Neonomicon in conversation with LaValle's Ballad or the writings of W. H. Pugmire, but the (dis)continuities between their engagement with the Lovecraftian tradition re: race and sexuality should be looked at closely.
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Slight context if you're not familiar: the book and the review are a continuation/development of a conversation on Jacobin back in 2023. Besides Nick French, Ben Burgis describes himself as an analytic Marxist.

jacobin.com/2023/01/anal...

jacobin.com/2023/01/anal...
The Birth of Analytic Philosophy Out of the Spirit of McCarthyism
Analytic philosophy, the hegemonic branch of the discipline in the US, often thinks of itself as above history and politics. But its rise, and its enduring influence, are owed to McCarthyism, which pu...
jacobin.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
If you ever get the chance to try Algerian food... It's one of the most underlooked cuisines 😵
September 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Thomas goes to check the wound on Christ's hand, sees that He has six fingers that are all the same length.
September 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Under the Dome: Hygenoparasocial Relational Dynamics in the Stephen King Fandom Community"
September 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Once the carnists are finished at the reeducation camp there'll be no need for illiberal enforcement!

(great read, frustratingly honest about how practically tough the problem is)
September 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
lol there's a special joy in spite reading.
September 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Yes! People are usually happy to hear the rant during the reading group meeting :)
September 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Big fan of having these conversations, but it was funny to read the book's description re: liberalism as "under siege." Critics have noted liberalism requires a fantasy enemy of subversives to define itself against, the political scientist Michael Rogin used "under siege" to describe the mentality:
September 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM