If you’re a Canadian, a junk drawer must contain Canadian Tire money.

Check out Simone Edgar Holmes's review of Nicholas Walton's "Orange Sky, Rising Water: The Remarkable Past and Uncertain Future of the Netherlands," published in 2025 by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

and yet bro isn't even a cat

incredible discovery here: the 1762 original of the ha ha ha yes sicko cartoon courtesy of thomas waters new book “Magic”

Rousseau at some point I hope 👀 He was so delightfully obsessed with how clothes affected politics and vice versa

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3w ago

Excited to announce I started a podcast with my friend @trufelman.bsky.social, where we read classic philosophical works and discuss what they can teach us about why we buy, wear, and value the things we do. It’s basically a podcast for people who love clothes, books, and big ideas.

Rousseau et les inégalités. Une série de podcasts édités par la Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau https://www.fabula.org/actualites/135704/rousseau-et-les-inegalites-une-serie-de-podcasts-edites-par-la-societe-jean-jacques-rousseau.html

Rousseau et les inégalités. Une série de podcasts édités par la Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rousseau et les inégalités. Un cycle de rencontres organisé par la Société J.-J. Rousseau en partenariat avec la Maison Rousseau et Littérature. Les cinq rencontres du cycle Rousseau et les inégalités sont désormais disponibles en...

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My job is the best bc sometimes I’m wrestling with complex philosophical arguments and moral & political problems, and sometimes I’m laughing at ugly #18thC pictures of frogs. And both tasks are equally important to my research.

the great irony is that Trump has exempted Canada's abundant fossil fuels from the tariffs he just imposed in retaliation for the border-scorning smoke generated by climate-change-fueled forest fires www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...

Trump to Impose 50% Tariff on Many Canadian Goods

The administration will use an untested legal provision to put significant duties on Canadian exports, reigniting a clash with one of America’s biggest trading partners.

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Doug Ford and Mark Carney post posted about pipelines today.

8 years ago today I first laid eyes upon one of the greatest works of art ever made. Under-appreciated masterpiece.

Library etiquette back in the day was just awful. Someone straight up took a chomp out of this page smh

my privacy is worth 6 dollars and 15 cents #facebook

One of my growing pet peeves is people clearly using AI to write an email that just needed to say: “Got it, thanks” but instead is a 200 word essay that sounds like it was written by a diplomatic mission

good to know.

On eduroam at the club 💯

What I guess I don't understand is that I'm seeing a lot of the general public saying we should sink the Hondius and all it's passengers to "prevent another pandemic"... But I thought the general consensus was that COVID was nothing? 🤔 I'm just tryna understand the median voter...

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Doug Ford is ramming through legislation right NOW that will HIDE Doug Ford’s text messages!!!! Right now!!!! In the middle of the night!! 🌒 Please repost and sign NOW: #ONpoli releasedougstexts.ca

Release Doug's Texts

What Is He Covering Up?

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mikeschreinergpo Right now, Doug Ford is holding a late-night sitting to ram his shady FOI changes through the legislature. Just how much corruption is Ford trying to cover up? He needs to be removed.

Add your voice now to support Marit Stiles' motion to Ban Predatory Pricing in Ontario! share.nwmd.social/s/haVw0mEi

Ban Predatory Pricing Now!

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Chance aesthetic moment on my desk

“Educational institutions are like beekeepers,” according to the report. “While their principal aim is to provide education and raise people’s earnings, in the process they create an array of external benefits...society indirectly benefits, just as orchard owners indirectly benefit from beekeepers.”

The Gazette@thegazette.com · 5mo ago

Regents study: Iowa public universities add $18B to state economy

🚨 A new frontier of coordinated disinformation. Fossil fuel industry front groups are using AI platforms to flood clean air regulators with fake public comments—submitted under real residents' names, without their consent. @robbonta.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

‘This was forged’: Residents deny sending emails pushing Bay Area air policy change

At least 10 people listed as sending letters in favor of an air quality policy change said they have no recollection of doing so and weren’t even aware of the proposal in the Bay Area.

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Recently realized that when I circulate working papers, I have to start asking people not to use AI to read it. Not sure how to phrase the request to balance force, explanation, and brevity, without sounding like the crazy killjoy I am.

struck the space key by mistake, making a strangely poignant typo

Now open: call for abstracts for the 2026 Berkeley Graduate Conference on Political Theory Keynote: John T. Scott (UC Davis) Submission deadline: January 31 Date: April 11 Submission form: forms.gle/xZUupQbhSfD7... Please circulate widely!

New in Political Theory, by me: Does this guy's chain look like a necklace to you? ↓ Scholars have treated it as a necklace. By reading it as a chain instead, I recover Rousseau's paradoxical insight: pride can help us escape corrupt, unequal social conditions journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.

Now open: call for abstracts for the 2026 Berkeley Graduate Conference on Political Theory Keynote: John T. Scott (UC Davis) Submission deadline: January 31 Date: April 11 Submission form: forms.gle/xZUupQbhSfD7... Please circulate widely!

While home sick for a few days, I successfully broke my caffeine addiction! ☕ ❌ 😌 Here's how it's impacting my life & work 👇🧵