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@baslogic

philosopher | linguist | winsome rogue | fgc wannabe i teach philosophy at the university of kentucky papers here: https://philpeople.org/profiles/patrick-skeels

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Telling someone with no significant knowledge of the PS1 and its library to boot up Ridge Racer Type 4 in order to replicate that Venture Bros scene where Rusty introduces Dean to prog rock

08.03.2026 03:52 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

This is our seminar room. It is a mood when the big lights are off and only those are on.

07.03.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Standing room only at the inaugural Kentucky Analytic Philosophy (KAP) workshop (founded and organized by your boy).

Here’s to more of the same, each and every Friday.

07.03.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Followed. Pfp saved.

@mfhume.bsky.social you are perfect. This is social media done right.

06.03.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fact-based facts don't care about your feeling-based facts.

04.03.2026 21:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Most philosophers will not understand, but this is a truly incredible post. A+ 10/10

04.03.2026 21:29 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

man, it has been the year of the linux desktop for like 15 years straight.

04.03.2026 02:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

CAT!

02.03.2026 20:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

High school all over again. Catch me in alpha 3 upper.

02.03.2026 13:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

two weeks later and i still can't get this out of head, especially as i work through some of my first FF games

the internet loves to give modern pokemon shit for its graphics, but by refusing to participate in the AAA graphics arms race, they have unambigiously dominated the culture. they won.

01.03.2026 01:09 πŸ‘ 1375 πŸ” 502 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 62

Despair or the weight room. inclusive "or".

01.03.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Serious Post: quitting nicotine this summer has absolutely devastated my ability to write. This week I finished the first complete draft I've written since I quit. It took almost EIGHT months, but we got there and I never fell off the wagon.

I think we're back.

27.02.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

For the record, I am kidding , and I have only had excellent experiences with AJP.

27.02.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What did ya’ll think β€œex cathedra” meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?

26.02.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Born for Phil Review. Doomed to AJP.

26.02.2026 21:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Fighting Games Are NOT Products. (Internalized Marketing)
Fighting Games Are NOT Products. (Internalized Marketing) YouTube video by The Electric Underground

Just listened to this at the gym. Pretty fascinating comments on the state of contemporary fighting games. Phenomenal channel for those interested in game design and especially arcade design.

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

26.02.2026 13:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Old and busted: syntax

New hotness: WFFmaxxing

25.02.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Go to your locals. Support the few non-EVO Majors.

You can be terrible (I am), just show up and play every once in a while.

24.02.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Now we're talkin'.

24.02.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Plunkett and Sundell appeal to the notion of a "canonical dispute". I want there to be a play on words here with canons on ships. I don't have a good one, but I'll leave this here in case someone clever can make it work.

24.02.2026 17:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah. Far be it from me to defend a controversial view.

23.02.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t forget Heim and Kratzer’s Seminal text β€œSemantics in Generative Pre-Semantics”

23.02.2026 14:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œPre-Semantic Structures”, β€œAspects of a Theory of Pre-Semantics”, etc.

23.02.2026 13:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

MacFarlane wants to call circumstances of evaluation and that sort of thing β€œPost-Semantics”. I motion that we call syntax β€œPre-Semantics”.

23.02.2026 13:05 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Not the best, sure, but im impressed that they got a photo of qua of any quality.

23.02.2026 11:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Stalnaker brutally ontology-mogged by worldmaxxer David Lewis. Selection function stans in shambles.

22.02.2026 20:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.

22.02.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we?

22.02.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time.

22.02.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This game is excellent. Tough to find a better deal.

21.02.2026 21:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0