Peter Josyph

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Hobbes’s view of the univ strikes again: FL lawyer argues that public-uni profs can’t criticize gov b/c “the professor’s speech is the government’s speech and the government can restrict professors…from offering viewpoints.” Same ideology is reflected in Quebec’s ban on teachers wearing hijabs.

Fla. argues it could stop professors from criticizing governorwww.insidehighered.com A nationally prominent conservative lawyer, hired to defend the state’s Stop WOKE Act, asserted that what public university professors say in classrooms “is the government’s speech.” The national impl...

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JD Vance is particularly odious to me because we’re roughly the same age and from the same part of Ohio and I grew up with a hundred pasty, squishy faced white dudes like him & they’re all convinced they’re marginalized because you can’t smoke at Waffle House or say the n-word anymore

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It's still trying to make up its mind.

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More on the mass resignation of editors of 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 & 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴: an op-ed by yrs truly in The Guardian, about the commercial academic publishing scam #PolTheory #philsky #polisky #academicsky

Academic publishing is a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadehwww.theguardian.com Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh

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i hate this stage

@jowolff.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Nationalismpress.princeton.edu A global perspective on the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the present

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Andrea Kowch often depicts people interacting awkwardly with the world of nature ~ here’s her dream-like, chaotic depiction of three disconcerted women baking pies, contending with a fierce dog and invasive crows in a strangely windswept kitchen (The Visitors)

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"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." ~ Charles Bukowski

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Ha. Yeah. I know what you mean. I'm a bit like that n'all. I'd have probably had a place in their society too. Here, now, I'm a schizophrenic, mad and medicated. Back then, to them lot, I'd have been a Mystic or Seer. Apprentice to the Shaman as a boy. I always had an affinity with infinity.

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Pollination, surely

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'British soldier with experimental body armor meeting with his medieval counterpart; ca. October 1917' flashbak.com/world-war-1-...

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Quentin Tarantino has taken up the hobby of birding.

I just found this in the archives and thought people might appreciate a #WorstBirdPic. I almost deleted it before realizing there is technically a bird in it. lol #birds 🌿 #PlacesBirdsWereTwoSecondsAgo #PhotographyFails

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Best part of Russian novels is that you’re never quite sure if a new name is a new character vs a character you already know being addressed by their barber instead of their mom

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Betty Blythe as the title character of SHE. The novel has been continuously adapted to the screen but the “immortal queen digs bland Englishman” storyline has been a tough row to hoe at the cinema

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damnit went to the store without a list and yet AGAIN forgot to buy aluminum foil, lemons or a judge

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I made this into a proper response to the absolutely misplaced calls to "turn down the heat": newrepublic.com/article/1838...

My first thought this morning after I remembered the news was how many people over the last few years have put their bodies between armed far right guys and kids going to the library or a bookstore

Where Were Calls for De-Escalation When Libraries Were Being Targeted?newrepublic.com Trump’s fans seem determined to blame this shooting on their victims.

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Afternoon Bathroom Window

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And if you need some context here: California is the 5th largest economy in the world. Its electrical grid seems to be on a very short path to being 100% renewable. If they can do it—adding grid stability also!—others can too. If you're a climate doomer, let this brighten your sky today, just a bit

This news is incredible. 100 days this year CA's used 100% renewables to power the entire grid, & through a heat wave, there's been no significant disruption (cough *Texas*). Energy analysts are seeing a "phase-change" of the grid with the addition of 5 nuclear plants worth of battery storage, wow

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my father just wandered into the house with a completely disgusted look on his face, muttered “JD fuckin’ Vance?!” and wandered back out to the grill if you want to know how this is going over with normie liberals

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Well. I guess this is what the world looks like on the other side of all those creepy social and psychological experiments Facebook was helping them with.

REVEALED: Trump campaign secret data on gunman’s familywww.channel4.com The family of Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was among millions of voters profiled by Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign

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I always love watching people discover, or rediscover, this performance. Happy to answer any questions people might have about it. One thing I’ll highlight: he _always_ played like this! This was what he did every time out. (Also? The guitar was caught by Prince’s tech Taki, who handed it to Oprah.)

Speaking of all star performances, this is the greatest of all time. It starts off as a fairly prosaic, doing-it-for-the-paycheck ensemble performance. And then Prince shows up. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFN...

Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, more - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" | 2004 Inductionm.youtube.com Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others perform "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the 2004 Hall of Fame Inductions. http://rockhall.com/⁍ Buy...

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The attempted assassination of Donald Trump does not erase the crimes that Trump himself has committed against American democracy, or the crimes he would commit if given the chance, and no one is obligated to pretend otherwise www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Nothing About the Attempted Assassination Redeems Trumpwww.theatlantic.com This crime does not erase what the former president has done, or what he has promised to do.

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I here you. I'm only 53.and I always wonder, as I lay down, if I'm going to wake up the morning. The sun is a primal force. I'm primal n'all, and I see symbols everywhere. There's a fella on here, occasionally posts a sunrise. I suppose we don't see so many of them.

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You could throw out of your turret fragments of poetry, Holderlin style.

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Sully-sur-Loire Castle, France, UNESCO World Heritage Site #Alphabetchallenge #WeekCforCircles 📷 #landscapephotography #travel

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Yes, you see correctly, there is a drawn person on the right side of this manuscript page trying to slurp away the dirt-stained part of the page with a giant straw. #bookhistory #skystorians

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B.B. King in the studio (1971)

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The French Connection (W. Friedkin, 1971) - Gene Hackman Interviewwww.youtube.com 2008 interview with Gene Hackman on "The French Connection", a 1971 film by William Friedkin.

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The Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died (Official Audio)[From Suicide Squad]www.youtube.com Check out ‘People Who Died’ by The Jim Carroll Band off their album ‘Catholic Boy’. Recently featured in the new 'Suicide Squad 2' film. Jim Carroll expresse...