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Jeremy Pober
@jpober.bsky.social
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Philosophy Research Fellow at ULisboa.
American, recently naturalized German, based in Lisbon.
Philosophy of mind and psychology/neuroscience, metaphysics, and moral psychology
Dogs, politics history, 90s Simpsons, SNL, some SF/F; 50% sh**posts.
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I hadn't caught that his name was Argo. That's a good name! This is Lilliput
A small, cream-colored dog, likely a chihuahua terrier mix, looking at the camera while standing on a wooden deck next to the foot of a table.
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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like I was saying...
A picture of Mike Johnson, current speaker of the US House of Representatives at a podium. The caption reads, "Mike Johnson: My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor"
November 8, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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A Simpsons cartoon panel depicting the side cockpit of a "Commie-Nazi" fighter plane. Its logo is a hammer and scythe at the center of a swastika; the pilot is a German caricature (thin, monocle,moustache) in a blue, vaguely Russian uniform. The caption reads, "McBain to Base. Under attack by Commie Nazis."
November 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Help, we are under attack by Commie-Nazis
A Simpsons cartoon panel depicting the side cockpit of a "Commie-Nazi" fighter plane. Its logo is a hammer and scythe at the center of a swastika; the pilot is a German caricature (thin, monocle,moustache) in a blue, vaguely Russian uniform.
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Four panel comic. First panel, a dog tells its human, "Father, I am ready for the hunt." Second panel, the human responds, "Child, there is no need for you to hunt." Third panel [slightly panned out, now includes a cat], the dog asks, "But father, why does my brother continue to hunt?" Fourth panel, the human says "The cat's just an asshole." The cat replies "I am a God of Death."
August 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Proof that I was once young: my friends and I playing Soul Calibur in the dorm.
Several college-aged boys sit around a TV in an extremely messy living room. Four in the front row are visible, four in the back row are semi-obscured. In the front row, two of them have video game controllers in their hands, one is eating crackers, and one is rolling a cigarette.
May 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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(ancient) Greek speaking friends, how would you translate this:
Greek text (if I knew what it said, I wouldn't be asking in the post!)
May 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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I'm sorry, Zoe. Best wishes for a speedy recovery to your cat from me and this jerk dog
A white dog (6kg chihuahua terrier mix) looks unconvinced.
April 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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He was hanging around these hens if that narrows it down...
Hens; they are black and white with red beaks.
April 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Saw this guy in a park in Lisbon yesterday. Anyone know what kind of rooster he is?
A rooster
April 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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A rainbow over a grassy field with trees. Behind the field is a large metal building, the Antwerp justitiepalais or courthouse. It has triangular glass and metal 'sails' pointing skyward.
March 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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If it has to be frightening and ridiculous, I hope we can at least have some of this kind of frightening and ridiculous
The Marx Brothers (L to R) Harpo, Chico, and Groucho, in a lavish office. Harpo (who does not talk) is answering a phone.
February 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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even now, trying to put a core late 20th century analytic syllabus feels like:
Swords around a table meme. Names (clockwise, from top left): Jaegwon Kim, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Ken Taylor, Nancy Cartwright, Martha Nussbaum. Middle text (on table) reads: Saving your LEMM syllabus.
February 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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the EU is basically (a much much whiter version of) this immortal verse:
Dr. Dre, in a white suit, with the line from his song 'Forgot About Dre' "What you think I sold 'em all?" (Previous line: Now you runnin' round talkin' 'bout guns like I ain't got none/)
February 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Album cover for "Elko" by railroad earth
January 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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An SNL set featuring Chris Kattan playing Antonio Banderas, unbuttoning a black button-down shirt one, button at a time. The text at the top reads "NO! TOO SEXY!" which is whatanother character (Jimmy Fallon) says each time "Banderas" undoes another button. The bottom text reads "BUT I MUST" which is, each time, "Banderas"'s response.
January 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Let's begin the new year with a game.
Name the two (excellent) SF/F franchises with the biggest actor crossover.

I'll start: Trek and ATLA.
From top: Hikaru Sulu (TOS) and Earth Kingdom Prison Warden, played by George Takei Constable Odo (DS9) and The Tinkerer, played by Rene Auberjonois Alien Astronaut and Hiroshi Sato, played by Daniel Dae Kim Captain Lorca (DISC) and Admiral Zhang, played by Jason Isaacs Murph (PROD) and [Momo and Appa] played by Dee Bradley Baker. Gold-Shirted Crewman and Master Pakku, played by Victor Brandt, Holodeck baseball player and Master Jeong Jeong, played by Keone Young.
January 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Resist the ring? No.
Crush it into atoms and then reform it without the evil stuff in the time it takes Sauron to wipe away a stray eyelash? You better f'in believe it.
Toph Beifong (a character from Avatar: The Last Airbender), a twelve year old girl in yellow and green garb with white earmuffs and pale eyes, which indicate her blindness. She is in a fighting stance.
December 24, 2024 at 11:37 PM
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Also bluesky
December 19, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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Is this anything?
Inigo Montoya, from "The Princess Bride" (a late 30's/early 40's man with long black hair and a moustache, dressed in clothes Hollywood uses to signify "olden times") is saying one of his lines from the movie "You keep on using that word--I do not think it means what you think it means." In the movie, he says this to Vizzini, in response to the latter's use of "inconceivable." In this image, he is instead saying it to David Chalmers, a philosopher who has done work on the notion of conceivability.
December 15, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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Undermining your DGS in the comments?
Jasper from The Simpsons (an old man, bald with a long white beard and a big nose, animated in the characteristic Simpsons style) standing in front of a classroom of second-graders, including Lisa Simpson, with a paddling board in his hands. He is saying "that's a paddlin'."
December 15, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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Thanks! Please accept this dog pic as a token of my appreciation
A small white dog, long with a curled tail, stands on a sidewalk in front of a lawn with small trees. She is casting a shadow.
November 27, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Lilliput here now represents the Centre for Philosophy at the University of Lisbon [talk to me if you want to visit!]. She is a prima donna and then some, so she wanted to both enter into a new category and defend her #1 ranking in "most comfortable grotto."
A small white dog with short legs, large ears, and a black nose puts her face in the camera. She is on a yellow and blue striped leash and standing on pavement near the edge of a garden. A small, white dog's head is visible protruding from under the cover of a grey, circular dog bed to which the cover is attached. The dog is sleeping peacefully.
November 20, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you
The promo poster for the 1991 cartoon "Pro Stars," starring Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, and Bo Jackson. They appear clockwise on the poster in that order: Jordan is dunking a basketball in a net (which appears to be floating in thin air), Gretzky is making a fast break with his hockey stick (although he is wearing shorts and sneakers like the rest of them), and Bo is in a right-handed batting stance (no football is featured).
November 20, 2024 at 3:30 AM
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I never got to ratio Atlantic writers this badly on twitter; wtg bsky!
Three bluesky posts in a thread. The first, by a well-known writer for The Atlantic has 8 likes; the first reply (written by me) has 42.
November 16, 2024 at 10:50 PM