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Grumpy. Associate Professor of Political Philosophy. Animal rights, ethics of activism, political philosophy. Homepage: https://stevecooke.org/

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · Dec 5

I've built myself a website, which includes a list of journals for animal rights philosophers to submit to (organised by publisher), a couple of syllabi, my essay writing guide for political philosophy students, & articles that philosophers say have changed their minds: stevecooke.org

Steve Cooke – Adventures in Philosophy

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 10h

Done.

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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · 21h

My new article, 'Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration', is now available (open access) in APSR
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Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 11h

I have rewatched that three times just because the facial expressions of the woman to his left were so precious.

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 11h

Important message for Sébastien Lecornu.

The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’re under absolutely no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you choose to spend the entire weekend drinking tea, reading books, and eating a scandalous amount of cinnamon rolls.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 11h

I’ve also heard that antifa coordinate their activities using Grok and Twitter and couldn’t function without them.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 12h

Just remember not to praise Greta Thunberg and nobody will ever know that you’re in league with the Devil.

a bald man in a suit and tie is standing in an office talking to someone .

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 12h

I had thought that Peter Thiel is simply an astonishingly evil person, but, judging by this, it turns out that he might also be on crack. I am excited to learn that my concerns about LLMs makes me a harbinger of the antichrist though. He’’s so, so weird. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 13h

It's weird. There were just no clues that this is what he was like.

Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 13h

Johnson refused to answer specific questions or to provide factual denials to allegations of rule-breaking, while insisting all the rules had been followed at all times. His responses led Acoba’s chair, Isabel Doverty, to find him in breach of the rules.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 14h

Wait what.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 14h

Interesting that they’re willing to post that stuff on X but not here.

Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 16h

At this point, I don’t think I’d be surprised to discover that the police new about his proclivities while he was engaged in their illegal undercover ops.

Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 18h

University leaders aren’t offering any compromises so our strike continues. If you want help/show solidarity you can contribute to our fighting fund (we’re each going to lose 3-5 weeks pay & being threatened with 50% pay deduction for action short of strike): www.uculeicester.org.uk/leicester-uc...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19h

'The union said new data reveals a “worrying escalation” in the rate of job losses since March this year, when UCU said there had been around 5,000 proposed job cuts.'

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 20h

Over 15,000 university job cuts made in the last year, UCU claims.

“This analysis exposes a UK-wide crisis in higher education,” said Jo Grady, the union’s general secretary.

Free to read: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Over 15,000 university job cuts made in the last year, UCU claims - Research Professional News

Union urges government to “stop looking the other way”, ahead of ballot for nationwide strikes

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 19h

I could only remember three, and of those: India issued a stern press release saying Trump had nothing to do with it, and the leader of Azerbaijan was recently filmed laughing at mockery of Trump's claim.

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 3d

Cuts to humanities, arts and social science courses at universities are leaving students unable to study close to home - which particularly impacts students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Read more 👀 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...

University course closures leave students unable to study many SHAPE subjects close to home - report

A new report shows that students are shut out of SHAPE education in their home regions, as large swathes of the UK are ‘cold spots’ for humanities, social sciences and arts degrees.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social · 20h

"Universities ... collectively announced more than 12,000 job cuts in the last year"
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Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 20h

In academia, the pinnacle of achievement is a pdf no one can access and I think that's beautiful

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 22h

Devastating news: the Slender-billed Curlew has just been declared extinct. This Slender-billed Curlew is from "A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles" (1863). #SciArt by Benjamin Fawcett #ExtinctionIsForever www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42530095