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philosopher / epistemology, self & action / puns / Ryle / hounds
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Local flower refuses to quit
A single magenta zinnia emerges from a pot in front of a screened porch. It is November and 34 degrees outside. Behind it lies the wreckage of a pot broken by the wind.
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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My name is Fozziemandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye mighty, and this bear
Fozzie bear against a black background, mouth open, holding his hands up in astonishment at the greatness of his joke.
October 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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it's inktober and I have been painting with as many kinds of ink at the same time as possible
October 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Why not both
A pile of blue books (some of which are green) on a pink wool carpet under a hardback copy of the what is generally known as the Blue and Brown Books
October 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Also excited about the John McDowell translation of the Theaetetus that I didn’t know existed until Saturday
A red book with a yellow spine on someone’s lap in a Biergarten.
October 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Super excited to read this!
Oxford Pragmatism: Ryle and Austin’s Debt, by Cheryl Misak
October 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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great minds, etc.
algorithms were named after Al Gore, who invented the internet, as we all know. https://bsky.app/profile/talkinglion.bsky.social/post/3lbgqbmuuck2c
October 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Message from Devo
September 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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I think I have previously commented on the "O Superman"-ness of Tao te Ching 38, but I feel compelled to do so again
Therefore, when the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there are rituals. Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty. And the beginning of confusion. (Translation: https://www.taoistic.com/taoteching-laotzu/taoteching-38.htm)
September 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains
AIR, Moon Safari cover two cartoon images of dudes in jumpsuits, one orange, one yellow ochre, apparently fistbumping absent people, in front of a background of watercolor blue and green rectangles
September 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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I know there are real issues going on in the world but did you know Max Ernst painted Gunter the penguin in 1957
portrait oriented oil painting in shades of blue, showing a black-robed birdlike figure with its arms in the air, conjuring a floating round penguin shaped being with round eyes, illuminated in crystalline lighter blue and white with bits of yellow and red
August 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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hounding
a golden longhaired dachshund very seriously sniffs long grass
August 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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this hurt my soul, but my biggest complaint is since it's a few years old it's missing the best character in all of Star Trek, Ensign Mariner
#1 Garak, obviously
August 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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looking at WordPress themes and WHO MADE A THEME CALLED SLAB
Sample webpage: a light pumpkin orange background and a left black portrait shaped box featuring a middle aged woman's face and the description, "Slab is a publication for those who seek depth in a world of fleeting trends. Through philosophy, history, and reflection, we explore the grand ideas that shape us, and the ones we leave behind"
August 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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dolphins and dolphiniendum
a grey bottlenosed dolphin emerges from blue water in the white foamy wake of a boat. A beach and some white buildings are in the distance. a grey bottlenosed dolphin emerges from brownish green water in the white foamy wake of a boat.
July 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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TIL the “tree of heaven” ppl are saying to kill bc it hosts lantern flies may be the original “useless tree” from Zhaungzi
“Furthermore, one can scold a child by calling him a "good-for-nothing Ailanthus stump sprout", meaning the child is irresponsible. This derives from the literature of Zhuangzi, a Taoist philosopher, who referred to a tree that had developed from a sprout at the stump and was thus unsuitable for carpentry due to its irregular shape” -Wikipedia, “Ailanthus altissima”
July 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Met a lion goddess yesterday
Bust of Sekhmet, ancient Egyptian lion goddess (of war, wrath, drinking, and apparently healing) depicted with a lion face, long hair, and a human torso. Carved in dark brown stone with light brown flecks.
July 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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FYI ProQuest eBooks is now including an AI assistant. I will definitely not be assigning anything in this format in the future
Plato's Complete Works in ProQuest with a "Research Assistant" offering summaries
July 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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in honor of National Eat Your Beans day, consider the humble bean
cartoon of a distressed looking bean with tiny arms and legs facing a growing void created with black marker lines. Subtitle, "Bean and Nothingness"
July 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Mulling things over. Gonna need a bigger slab
Tiny glass cutting board covered in homemade orange watercolor paint
June 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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remembering the time I recreated the Being There poster with a bean
a cerulean blue sky with fluffy white clouds. a cartoon bean with a floppy hat, briefcase, and umbrella floats in the air above a large manor house, towards which two tree-lined paths (black ink and gray watercolor trees) lead.
June 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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so what you're saying is more Gilbert pics
a cream colored longhaired dachshund exploring a field of yellow-green grass that comes up to his head (buried in grass)
May 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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the literature on bullshit is delightful
"If I am reluctant to endorse Cohen's claim that the sort of bullshit on which my attention was focused 'is just one flower in the lush garden of bullshit,' it is not because I doubt that his claim is true. I tis only because I cannot help recalling that bullshit is an animal product and not a plant" (Frankfurt, "Reply to G.A. Cohen")
May 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Ennuigi
www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2232
A scene from Mario 1 in a dark world. Luigi is ruminating in front of a mostly ruined castle. He has a cigarette in his mouth.
April 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Tbh I think it should be a disjunction external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%...
April 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM