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@thyacinth.bsky.social
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Philosophy goblin in training at MIT, using formal methods for woke agendae
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For Halloween I have become my worst fear (an expected epistemic utility theory apologist)
Bart Simpson angrily writing on a blackboard except the text is repeated lines of "Former (former (formal epistemologist))"
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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crashing out (mr worldwide edition)
side by side windows. The left one says that daylight saving time ends 2 Nov 2025 (it's for the US). The right one says that daylight saving time ends 26 Oct 2025 (it's for the UK).
October 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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I'm not the only clown in town -- the other one won the William James Prize
June 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Accosted @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social with my poster and got the guy well-seasoned too
June 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Graphic design is my passion (and I'll see yall in ithaca❤️)
I'm holding an overly elaborate poster. It has James Baldwin on it. It also has stuff hanging off it.
June 17, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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I love to adapt my presentations to the local context*

*use the not-a-normal-distribution church as a representation of a probability distribution
June 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Hate having to explain my own jargon to my audience
I look exasperated as I present. The slide has James Baldwin on it, and the text "what's in a valuing? What's an investment?"
April 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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like
March 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I love teaching philosophy
1) a sheet of Benzene rings, " 2) laws of nature about bonds and hardness" and "3) diamond cuts graphite" scrawled on a blackboard
March 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
thyacinth.bsky.social
The gusts this week got me like
Piglet and Pooh in a still from Winnie The Pooh and the Blustery Day. Piglet's unwinding scarf is being used as a kite string by Pooh, and Piglet is, well, the hapless kite.
February 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
thyacinth.bsky.social
Asked my partner what his mental image of me was and
Impidimp Pokémon
February 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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They should invent a snatch variation that doesn't involve having to stand back up I would be so good at that
January 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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I take my metaphors very seriously
footnote 41: At least by my understanding of fluid dynamics. If I'm incorrect, then please spot me this fiction too. Thanks!
January 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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the default TeXcount settings keep letting me get away with this
an iceberg meme. The tip of the iceberg, above water, says "main text word count." underwater there is the rest of the iceberg; it includes "footnotes," "appendix," "section names," and "citations."
January 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Are you considering (applying to) graduate school in philosophy? Or would you like to teach and mentor said applicants-to-be as a Teaching Fellow? Please apply to PIKSI-Boston (Jul 1-9, MIT)

Visit piksiboston.weebly.com and inquire at piksiboston@gmail.com!

(TF app due Feb 15: not shown in poster)
A poster for Piksi-Boston 2025. The deadline for application is March 1, and the speakers are: Shen-Yi Liao, Gabbrielle M. Johnson, Yarran Hominh, Rima Basu and Annette Martín. There's a link to piksiboston.weebly.com. Piksi-Boston 2025 will be held at MIT from July 1-9, 2025. This summer institute is committed to elevating and broadening inclusion in philosophy by creating opportunities for those who may not otherwise have access to similar programming and mentorship. Undergraduates and recent graduates are encouraged to apply and stipends will be provided to all Alain Locke Fellows. All applicants will be considered equitably regardless of Race, ethnicity or national origin.
January 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
thyacinth.bsky.social
. @wiglet1981.bsky.social has such :) relatable :) examples :)
I've highlighted a text saying: "Cheragh is deciding whether or not to write the great novel that has been gestating in her imagination for five years. But she faces a problem. If she writes it, she knows she will come to have higher literary standards than she currently has. She also knows that while her own novel would live up to her current standards, it will not live up to these higher ones. So, if she writes it, she'll wish she'd never bothered. On the other hands, if she doesn't write it, she'll retain the same literary standards she has now, and she'll know her novel would have attained those standards. So, if she doesn't write it, she'll wish she had. Should Cheragh write her book?" I've commented "so true Cheragh"
January 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Another good omen
January 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Little known trick for Olympic lifting: to get used to things going over your head, read some philosophy! :)
December 31, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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taught my first class with the same group of bb philosophers that made me cry from how much I want academia and the world to be better for them, because they deserve everything that is good. also yes turns out i love advising and teaching if i get to be my chaotic gremlin self
im gesticulating with a marker in front of a whiteboard littered with illegible postits and scrawls im posing below a whiteboard FULL of scrawls and postits and all my students' inputs!! im teaching in a very gender outfit. it is important to note that my delts are poppin here i'm posing like a little teapot in front of the classroom
July 21, 2023 at 4:28 PM