Are Leiby 🍵🐈⬛
@leibeigen.bsky.social
philosopher at the unfortunately named elon university // tender yellow pony of insomnia
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Harvard scientists today announced a study where they were able to piece together that you are much too hard on yourself, trying to fulfill many unreasonable expectations.
You are awesome the way you are. You are loved. You have worth. Tell a friend you appreciate them. Be kind.
Harvard scientists today announced a study where they were able to piece together that you are much too hard on yourself, trying to fulfill many unreasonable expectations.
You are awesome the way you are. You are loved. You have worth. Tell a friend you appreciate them. Be kind.
December 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Harvard scientists today announced a study where they were able to piece together that you are much too hard on yourself, trying to fulfill many unreasonable expectations.
You are awesome the way you are. You are loved. You have worth. Tell a friend you appreciate them. Be kind.
Harvard scientists today announced a study where they were able to piece together that you are much too hard on yourself, trying to fulfill many unreasonable expectations.
You are awesome the way you are. You are loved. You have worth. Tell a friend you appreciate them. Be kind.
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My love language is when people go out and bring me back food. 🥹
December 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
My love language is when people go out and bring me back food. 🥹
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I want A.l. gone, I want the internet of stumbeupon back. Back when we made our niche websites and cheered each other on and the national discourse wasn’t YouTube drama
Let’s air those grievances. I want to hear your pettiest gripes on this the holiest of days.
December 24, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I want A.l. gone, I want the internet of stumbeupon back. Back when we made our niche websites and cheered each other on and the national discourse wasn’t YouTube drama
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I know I’m not the first person to say it but the hyper commercialization of the Grinch story is pretty sad and a perfect illustration of the ability of capital to absorb critiques painlessly
December 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I know I’m not the first person to say it but the hyper commercialization of the Grinch story is pretty sad and a perfect illustration of the ability of capital to absorb critiques painlessly
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Stay safe out there y'all
December 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Stay safe out there y'all
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People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind
Actual academics:
Actual academics:
I have a weird question for the #bird people on here. Do you think someone could tell that a book was pooped on specifically by a sparrowhawk (or perhaps hawks generally) just from the feces? I'm looking at a 16th c. case where witnesses claim books were pooped on specifically by sparrowhawks!
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind
Actual academics:
Actual academics:
Because we're hot, right?
This is what being a continental philosopher feels like and that’s why the analytics hate us
December 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Because we're hot, right?
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Another will smash the prison register, Another will smash the doors of the jail.
Another will wipe from our thin shoulders The dust and blood fallen from our necks.
—Péguy
Another will wipe from our thin shoulders The dust and blood fallen from our necks.
—Péguy
December 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Another will smash the prison register, Another will smash the doors of the jail.
Another will wipe from our thin shoulders The dust and blood fallen from our necks.
—Péguy
Another will wipe from our thin shoulders The dust and blood fallen from our necks.
—Péguy
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the exclusive use of festive, ambient lighting in *all* living spaces will continue until morale improves
December 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
the exclusive use of festive, ambient lighting in *all* living spaces will continue until morale improves
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Ich hope thou knowest that thou art a miracle. Your being heere doth make the worlde a bettir place. Plese be kynde to yourselfe. Give helpe when you kan, and aske for helpe when you neede.
December 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Ich hope thou knowest that thou art a miracle. Your being heere doth make the worlde a bettir place. Plese be kynde to yourselfe. Give helpe when you kan, and aske for helpe when you neede.
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Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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there's a parallel between nonprofit world and academia, where there's a constant tide of idealistic, hopeful people coming in the door, and the people on top are able to lever that commitment to The Cause to extract from them in a way that's harder when everyone's just there to make a buck
December 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
there's a parallel between nonprofit world and academia, where there's a constant tide of idealistic, hopeful people coming in the door, and the people on top are able to lever that commitment to The Cause to extract from them in a way that's harder when everyone's just there to make a buck
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finding out that Isaac Chotiner does quote dunks now too opens up the delightful possibility of a Chotiner/Derek Menswear guy tag team situation at some point
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
finding out that Isaac Chotiner does quote dunks now too opens up the delightful possibility of a Chotiner/Derek Menswear guy tag team situation at some point
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
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Roses are red,
And so are my dearests.
They’re
And so are my dearests.
They’re
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Roses are red,
And so are my dearests.
They’re
And so are my dearests.
They’re
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When I arrive at the party
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
When I arrive at the party
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Poetry is here to help -- not in a self-help kind of way, but in a taking your sadness and wonder and lacing it with bracing beauty kind of way
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Poetry is here to help -- not in a self-help kind of way, but in a taking your sadness and wonder and lacing it with bracing beauty kind of way
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Sometimes I wonder what the other timeline versions of me are doing. At one point I was a parent. At another I was married. And then somewhere in the midst I just huddled down and just focused on either my art or writing.
To them I send all my love regardless.
To them I send all my love regardless.
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Sometimes I wonder what the other timeline versions of me are doing. At one point I was a parent. At another I was married. And then somewhere in the midst I just huddled down and just focused on either my art or writing.
To them I send all my love regardless.
To them I send all my love regardless.
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i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
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Finally, a perk
November 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Finally, a perk
Stop trying to make Black Mirror happen, it's not going to happen (also, Butlerian jihad when)
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Stop trying to make Black Mirror happen, it's not going to happen (also, Butlerian jihad when)
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RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
This has been and will continue to be a rough week for folks who have survived sexual assault. The release of this new cache of Epstein emails makes one thing perfectly clear: so many people knew after his conviction and simply did not care.
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This has been and will continue to be a rough week for folks who have survived sexual assault. The release of this new cache of Epstein emails makes one thing perfectly clear: so many people knew after his conviction and simply did not care.
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Permit me a little maudlin gushing. I can’t tell you how good for the soul caring for animals is for me. The animals in question don’t even have to like me or acknowledge me, but spending time feeding and caring about something matters.
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Permit me a little maudlin gushing. I can’t tell you how good for the soul caring for animals is for me. The animals in question don’t even have to like me or acknowledge me, but spending time feeding and caring about something matters.