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Michael Cannon Rea is an American analytic philosopher and, since 2017, John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University… more

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I hope you’ll get your thing!
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What happened?
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Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

1. Lillies in full bloom in June
2. A cocktail on the porch with close friends.
3. Donuts on Sunday morning
4. A campfire at the end of a long day
5. Rolling up a new DnD character
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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 22d
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

1. The smell of the beach roses against a salty sea breeze
2. Donuts
3. Flowers
4. A full moon
5. Smiles on the faces of my children
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Madame Brie-ota 🔮 @briesmith.xyz · 22d
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

1. Hitting a green light when you're in a hurry
2. The 1990s HBO sketch comedy series "Mr. Show w/ Bob and David"
3. A brownie with vanilla ice cream and hot fudge
4. A cold Gatorade when you're hot and sweaty
5. Apples
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Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

1. The smell of the beach roses against a salty sea breeze
2. Donuts
3. Flowers
4. A full moon
5. Smiles on the faces of my children
briesmith.xyz
Madame Brie-ota 🔮 @briesmith.xyz · 22d
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

1. Hitting a green light when you're in a hurry
2. The 1990s HBO sketch comedy series "Mr. Show w/ Bob and David"
3. A brownie with vanilla ice cream and hot fudge
4. A cold Gatorade when you're hot and sweaty
5. Apples
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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 22d
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

1. Noticing something new about a song you love
2. Learning that you've been pronouncing a word *right*
3. Catching a typo *before* you hit send
4. A person you want to be Bluesky pals with following you back
5. Noise-canceling headphones
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I can’t understand a parent shouting in rapid succession from the sidelines at a soccer game “Go! Go! Stay! Stay! Go!” How does one follow that instruction?
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Frustrating indeed!
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Omg, this is awful.
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How scary! Hope all is well now, or will be soon.
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New paper by Laura Callahan and me, forthcoming in Nous: philpapers.org/rec/CALEAI-3
Laura Frances Callahan & Michael C. Rea, Epistemic Authenticity - PhilPapers
There are better and worse ways to acquire epistemic virtues and more generally to be disposed to change or maintain one’s epistemic dispositions over time. This is a dimension along which ...
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Hope you’ll feel better soon!
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"His mission is to eradicate 'woke Jesus'": How money, lies and religion are abused to gut democracy www.salon.com/2025/02/18/h... @amandamarcotte.bsky.social
"His mission is to eradicate 'woke Jesus'": How money, lies and religion are abused to gut democracy
Journalist Katherine Stewart's "Money, Lies, and God" takes readers into Trump's movement to end America
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I’ve written a piece on the “sin of empathy” discourse: religionnews.com/2025/03/12/e...
Empathy isn't a sin. It's a risk.
(RNS) — But a lot of good things are risky.
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This month marks 100 years since the Scopes Monkey Trial. I grew up in Dayton Tennessee, under the long shadow of that trial. In this Op Ed for @rns.org I share what it means to me now.

religionnews.com/2025/07/03/1...
100 years after Scopes trial, cultural discourse about 'Bible Belt' Christians still suffers
(RNS) — Perhaps the trial’s most lasting legacy is the precedent it set for how we engage with our ideological enemies and the role the media play in that discourse.
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This is a great article by @amandaheldopelt.bsky.social
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Amanda Held Opelt @amandaheldopelt.bsky.social · Jul 3
This month marks 100 years since the Scopes Monkey Trial. I grew up in Dayton Tennessee, under the long shadow of that trial. In this Op Ed for @rns.org I share what it means to me now.

religionnews.com/2025/07/03/1...
100 years after Scopes trial, cultural discourse about 'Bible Belt' Christians still suffers
(RNS) — Perhaps the trial’s most lasting legacy is the precedent it set for how we engage with our ideological enemies and the role the media play in that discourse.
religionnews.com
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A great post by Elizabeth Barnes on the value of conversations across serious disagreement: dailynous.com/2025/07/08/t...
The Personal Value of Conversations Across Serious Disagreement (guest post) - Daily Nous
"I know that people are reluctant to voice objections to things I’ve said, not because I’ve given a convincing argument, but because I’m a person with a disability making claims about disability, and ...
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I went to that conference (I assume it’s the same one) in 2006 and stayed in a convent there too—looks like the same convent, even, from the look of the room. It was awesome. Hope you have a good time!
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In Kirchberg perhaps?
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“They want you to know that the money being taken out of school lunches is going to be invested in hurting people.”
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · Jul 6
BBB and the Psychology of Fascism. My latest on substack open.substack.com/pub/writekat...
BBB and the Psychology of Fascism
They want you to know that the money being taken out of school lunches and healthcare for the poor is going to be invested in hurting people.
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say what you will about nancy pelosi (as one of her constituents believe me i have) she'd have impaled herself with a gavel live on the house floor before she'd have allowed this shitshow of a vote on her watch as speaker
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😔
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That sounds awesome!!

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Hope you get two pieces of good news!
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Who said this?

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I’ll be there too
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Looks like the “Art of the deal” is just to announce in all caps that a deal has been made and then wait and see what happens.
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As a friend on FB commented, not really unbelievable, but otherwise yes.
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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · Jun 22
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
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"We are today ruled by gerontomorphic old men...who [have] confused [their] fantasies with life and who ought to be undergoing therapy instead of being in charge of anything." --Alice B. Sheldon, writing as James Tiptree, Jr. in 1974.
God help us.
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Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
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Well said.
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I imagine that is so wonderful and so hard all at once.
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