Try as I might, I can’t reconcile the headline and first sentence here

50 years after Foucault published Discipline and Punish, Pete Hegseth is going to bring the execution back outside the prison walls. He won’t read Foucault’s archaeology of why they went inside but let’s hope history repeats. #philsky #foucault

Bloody capacitors.

One of those evenings when I’ve followed up listening to Finian by Kneecap with Skylark by Ella. Life’s rich pastie.

If I see another AI generated infographic I’m going to twist someone’s semantic vector…

I have new dependants! Meet Perla and Gerti (mum and daughter) #bunnies

Visiting the harrowing Genocide Memorial in Rwanda, I found myself marking Trump’s US on this chart.

Rwanda has rebuilt the nation with vision, competence and unity. An inspiring week here.

Barkis AI is willing’ to please.

Pure coincidence (but quite a coincidence) that two of my last six audiobooks are based structurally on long poems: Pale Fire (poem actually in the book) & All We Can Know (poem not in book but its narrative centre). Glad to have my Lolita-centric view of Nabokov’s immense talents expanded recently

My wife sometimes speaks as if it is wrong to have three different sizes of guitar in the bedroom 🧐

I’ve never seen #cloudporn like that above the village of Beer, Devon last night. It was like folds in thin paper.

Coal Train by Hugh Masekela live is one of my Desert Island discs and it’s somehow nice that it isn’t on any streaming service. Only the B side of the 12” single of Lady from 1985. Astonishing track. (I have an mp3 recorded direct from vinyl complete with crackles!)

Trevor Horn, Anton Corbijn, Propaganda. The Nine Lives of Doctor Mabuse. Why don’t we return to the age of sleeves like this. #ztt #mabuse #vinyl

Compare and contrast: Mama Don’t by JJ Cale Memphis Soul Stew by King Curtis Self referential instrument adjoining songs maybe? Another others? @winn-on-health.bsky.social

Sellars is a challenging read at the best of times but when he sprinkles his signposting with beauties like this, I can’t help but love him more #philsky

Pistachios are effectively the reverse of oysters in terms of edibility

This morning at the eye clinic #pareidolia

The three HappyMakers

A wedge of metaphor #philsky

Solipsist breaks up with their partner: “It’s not me, it’s me”

This is the best cover of a philosophy book ever. Challenge me! @philsky01.bsky.social

@dryohanjohn.bsky.social Quick question… do you know my friend Dimitris Pinotsis by any chance? I’ve worked with him a number of times via City University in London. Looks like you’re in v similar fields.

I’m going to lobby for a new word to describe the nice feeling you get when receiving some good for free: gratisfaction. I thank you.

I’ve waited 19 long years for this moment… #arcticmonkeys #favouriteworstnightmare

Much as I favour animatronics and puppetry over CGI in films, sometimes we have to recall the past without rise tinted spectacles #topshambreweryloowallpaper

On a brief and much needed weekend in Mallorca, I cycled this before breakfast this morning. Cap de Formentor lighthouse and back. I’ve lived 43 years with type 1 diabetes. A condition manageable with diet, exercise and now tech. Not one to fear or lose agency over.

Anyone who has seen the film ‘The Death of Stalin’ can sense what might have been here 😆

The pedant in me raging at the poor spacing adopted by a company apparently invested in anti-nominative determinism. Kern your A and P correctly or get out of town!

Every time a waiter/ress says “be careful… the plate is hot”, I have to touch it to find out *how* hot. Today is the first time I’ve regretted this trait. Ouch.