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Gwendolyn

@profdolske.bsky.social

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Philosophy, Books, and Podcasts. Lecturer at Cal Poly Pomona. Existentialism. Philosophy of Sex & Love. https://www.goodisinthedetails.com https://linktr.ee/gwendolynd?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=94f2c37a-7dd3-4685-8282-c1d5378bf1e9

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Gwendolyn @profdolske.bsky.social · Jun 9

Philosophy Discussion Questions with 5 Good Is In The Details episodes. #philsky

Philosophy Unplugged a.co/d/0dM2f98

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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 10h

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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Alex Madva @madva.bsky.social · 2d

And... we're off! My first stop on the SSDS book tour was tonight and will be tough to top! Westport Library is an amazing venue, couldn't ask for a better moderator than Sharon Suchotliff, and huge thanks to Jennifer Keller and co for making it happen!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY5K...

#booksky

Common Ground: 'Somebody Should Do Something' w/ Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, & Daniel Kelly

YouTube video by The Westport Library

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 7d

If you hate the Pope because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.

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Gwendolyn @profdolske.bsky.social · 8d

The Secretary of Defense (also played rolls like drunk, domestic abuser, adulterer, weekend tv host) called all military leaders into one place to tell them to not be fat.

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perry dimes @prdgm.bsky.social · 10d

ya sex is nice but have you ever made a particularly pertinent comment during book club and everyone starts snapping in approval

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 11d

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 11d

Universities are moving rapidly to comply with laws that don't exist.

Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 12d

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 12d

Sometimes I think about all the novels I judged in years past as ham-fisted, lazy writing because they had some cartoonish billionaire character prone to constantly confessing their most sociopathic and diabolical plans for humanity

oops my bad

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 13d

Listen, everyone is going to put their heads down on their desks and close their eyes, and whoever broke this timeline can fix it, no questions asked.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 13d

I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16d

It's weird how Tylenol caused autism (first diagnosed in 1943) before it was even invented (1955). What a clever drug.

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Gwendolyn @profdolske.bsky.social · 16d

Medical mystery solved.

Drum roll…

It’s the women. The pregnant ones with headaches & fever who reach for Tylenol. Grateful to President bone spurs for the sound advice to ignore the pain. Thank you to our scientific minded secretary of health for unearthing the gross error of medicine & data.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21d

i just know we're all going to have to sit through a three minute clip of joe rogan saying "i can't believe censorship is happening"

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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 22d

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Leda Berio @ledaberio.bsky.social · 22d

This book by @madva.bsky.social, @dryan149.bsky.social and @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social magically appeases both my worried, Skeptical Academic Self, and my much more hopeful and admittedly atrophied Organizer Self. Go buy it!

MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 22d

In "Somebody Should Do Something," @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social, Alex @madva.bsky.social, & Daniel Kelly (@dryan149.bsky.social) combine compelling stories with science to show how personal choices, when linked with collective action, can drive structural change: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978...

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Alex Madva @madva.bsky.social · 21d

Grateful for opportunity on @profdolske.bsky.social and Rudy Salo's podcast! bit.ly/good-deets

Longer form gave us breathing room to get deeper into the philosophy and social science

@dryan149.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @goodisinthedetails.bsky.social #booksky

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Gwendolyn @profdolske.bsky.social · 21d

New Good Is In The Details on the limits of individual responsibility & how choice is impacted by cultural and legal structures. Phil Professors Dr. Madva & Dr. Kelly discuss their book Somebody Should Do Something.

And…a nod to introverts :)

@rudysalo.bsky.social
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 23d

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 23d

We all know ‘tragedy’ comes from Greek.

‘tragos’ = goat

‘aeidein’ = to sing

So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.”

Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.

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Alex Madva @madva.bsky.social · 23d

@profdolske.bsky.social reflects on our convo on @goodisinthedetails.bsky.social with @dryan149.bsky.social (also ties back to an insightful previous episode on the "manosphere"). Gotta watch til the end!

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@mitpress.bsky.social #booksky @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social

Focus on the structural issue. #philosophy #women

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Gwendolyn @profdolske.bsky.social · 24d

On context, structure, and the individual with @madva.bsky.social
#philsky

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Alex Madva @madva.bsky.social · Aug 11

So grateful to Frank Augugliaro for designing the cover of our new book!

Available everywhere on Sep 16 but never too early to preorder: somebody-book.com

@dryan149.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

#SocialChange

Book cover for Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change, by Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25d

I’d heard Adolescence is good, but I had not understood the sort of show it is. The third episode is such a masterpiece, one of the most psychologically gripping hours of TV I’ve watched.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25d

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26d

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

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