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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 1h

My preferred national party leader.

Emma @porcupineq.bsky.social · 14h

Dear Gawd,
Please let them make Judith Collins leader again
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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 11h

From Facebook, a comment on the New Zealand Catholic bishops warm tribute to Jim Bolger. #nzpol

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 14h

I agree that Aristotle doesn’t have an account of supererogation. At the same time, I’m not sure whether for his dialectal purposes he needs one. Supererogatory virtue need not necessarily degenerate into vice. I would still defend the doctrine of the mean.

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Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · Aug 22

It's good to look back on old work. This is "A Crack In The Record" part of my body of work for my MFA. The copper ink is flaming gloriously in the light of a sunset.

The #drawing is inspired by my exploration of the currently disused railway line to #Amlwch, on the island of #YnysMon (#Anglesey).

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 13d

Go Leo!!!

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 1d

It’s interesting what would be a violation of the virtue of magnanimity. I don’t think the example of someone who gives everything away and does work for the homeless is an example of someone who exhibits this vice. Excessive generosity would be manifested I think in disregard for one’s own welfare?

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 1d

I think I would, too. Although the heyday of Twitter has enriched my life. I have friends who I met through that medium.

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · Feb 28

Yep. On balance, I'd pull the plugs.

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Viktoriia Grivina @brams884.bsky.social · Nov 13

The first workers’ palace of culture, Metallist, was built in 1909 in Art deco style, the biggest workers’ club in the world then. People from the region had been raising money for 20 years to have a place for democratic gatherings. This is the back side of the building.

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. It surprises me how many aristotelian ethicists have doubts about the mean.

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retrogirlmn @retrogirlmn.bsky.social · 2d

Last Tuesday it rained the entire time I was at the park. Tomorrow there will be a wind advisory. I hope to see more leaves on the trees than on the ground.

Maple trees featuring red and orange leaves. Brown prairie grasses in the lower left corner. Rainy sky in the upper left. October 14, 2025

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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · Sep 22

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.

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Roger Dao @rogerdao.bsky.social · Jun 27

Aristotelian ethics are not concerned with procedures or effects, but with virtues, which come between. Rules come before, are static; we "follow" rules. Consequences come after, are mercurial; effects "follow" causes. Virtue is present, developed, cultivated; virtue neither follows nor is followed.

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 2d

As traditional media attempt to find a niche in a digital age, traditional media content increasingly reflects bourgeois attitudes and ideology.

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of #Aristotle‘s #doctrineofthemean to take it to be enjoining “moderation“ in e.g., a political or economic sense. The person who gives away her material wealth to a charity and then works in a homeless shelter is exhibiting #virtue. Not miserly or self-abasing.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 4d

This is work in ordinary language philosophy I can get behind.

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 4d

important to distinguish heists from theft. the line isn't always clear but a heist requires rule of cool. you also need Plots and Schemes

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Conor Jeory @easecoasting.bsky.social · 3d

66, 33, times 1/4 carry the pi, blow on the pie - I'VE CRACKED IT
THE ANTICHRIST IS THE FATHER THE SON and THE WHOLLY THUMB - Peters, Seymour and Luxon! Triumvirate of Lust Sloth and Gluttony

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 3d

Last year, Louise Upston admitted that 95-97% of beneficiaries are compliant and well meaning. Despite this, Luxon panders to his base, promoting beneficiaries as lazy and unworthy. #nzpol #kiwi

Where are the jobs, Prime Minister? You took most of them out.

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Iwasid @iwasid.bsky.social · 9d

"the Tory Party needs to engage with why the broadly speaking economically and socially liberal Cameron/Osborne years were not a great success on their own terms"

One crucial part of the answer is a fundamental failure to grasp the ontology of money, due to a fixation with Chicago School economics.

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Jonathan Brewer @xn--t-0la.nz · 4d

Ah the cult of Freedom. Who do we sacrifice at its altar?

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · Nov 17

As a language researcher, one I think about is from Pā Henare Tate: “Ko te reo te kaihiki ō te manawa tapu ō te kupu, mō te ora, mō te mate.“

Taken literally, it means that language is the uplifter of the sacredness of life and death but this is only a surface level reading of the concept.