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Ade Webb

@adewebb.bsky.social

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Philosophy PhD Student (fictionalism, hermeneutics, narrative & interpretation theory) & PTA @Exeter University, UK. Tech chairman. Former FTSE 250 board director. Jazz guitarist, cyclist, dad, husband, animal lover. Trying hard to live off-grid.

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 31m

“Dear Jonathan. Ugandan Prince. Dead. Distant relative. Left you £ms. Easily accessed. Send bank details…

By the way how are you and the family?”

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 3d

Lyla looking a bit like an Escher staircase amid regal nonchalance moments #russianblue

Russian Blue cat sitting at odd angle on blue sofa

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 4d

That wins the internet today 😂😂😂

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure what logic has to do with it all… but there will be a steady long term social effect of digital mistrust coupled with a need for authenticity that (ironically) will make it harder for future politicians to hide behind AI slop.

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 5d

Wow. Katy Perry’s feet beating mackerel is quite an image.

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 5d

Indeed, philosophical heuristics tend not to work so well at a cosmological architecture level.

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 8d

Wife of Amos Tversky (“Thinking fast and slow”)

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 8d

Beautifully put! Barbara Tversky is very good on this issue

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 11d

You need to go for a healthy walk at exactly 3.30pm every day. Preferably holding a Spanish stick.

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 11d

Pam Ayres as Miss Havisham

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 11d

Privileged to have been a tiny part of something wonderful.

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 12d

Popper: “make bold testable hypotheses…. Be ready to discard them if refuted”
HSBC/IBM: “The PR department needs us to make something… anything”

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 13d

Of all the AIs, when I need a laugh, Claude rises to the occasion.

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 15d

Wide angle shots of ponies can be disconcerting

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 17d

Making Reigate an even worse pollution hotspot. 😷

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 17d

High quality Bladerunner trolling in the Topsham Brewery gents.

A picture of Rutger Hauer from the end of BladeRunner holding a white pigeon. Written on the pigeons feathers in ballpoint pen is the line “I’m not fucking Hedwig“.

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 23d

Good… good. Have you tried Nick Harkaway? His son? Also very impressive. Angelmaker is well worth your time. If a little bonkers. Titanium Noir is excellent sci-fi. Karla’s choice if you want his father resurrected faithfully

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · 23d

Literary equivalent of chewing gum. Read ‘the spy who came in from the cold’. Same length. But literature.

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · Sep 8

A bit of phenomenological multistability going on here. You can see it one way or another but can never integrate the two a la duck|rabbit or Penrose triangle.

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Second Cousins Karamazov

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · Sep 8

I have been responding to a few more cat posts recently. Having never lived with a cat until the age of 60 when my son left his beautiful girl with us to go travelling, I have become a late life besotted convert. Here’s Lyla helping me work #russianblue

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · Sep 8

The position of the right paw brings a tiny tear to my eye

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · Sep 7

Epistemologically-apt pets: goldfish, parakeets, budgies and (speak no evil) monkeys. Affectively-apt pets: poodles, killifish and Persian cats. Philosophical questions abound on the back cover of this pet care series from the 70s #philsky

KNOW YOUR GOLDFISH
KNOW YOUR PARAKEETS -
BUDGIES
KNOW YOUR MONKEY
ENJOY YOUR POODLE
ENJOY YOUR PERSIAN CAT
The new Pet Library tells you what you want to know about your pets.
ENJOY YOUR KILLIFISH
• Interesting
• Informative
• Authoritative
• Colorful
• Complete
Published by:
The Pet Library Ltd.
New York, N.Y.
No.119

Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · Sep 6

I’m a mental fictionalist who has racked 1.2m streams for a binaural beats track partially composed on an excel spreadsheet 😂 open.spotify.com/track/5np35m...

4hz Theta Long Swells

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Ade Webb @adewebb.bsky.social · Sep 6

Is there anything better than a philosopher of mind in a Death Metal band? Ethicist in thrash-punk band? Metaphysician in an SCREAMO band?

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