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@lastpositivist

Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]

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lastpositivist@lastpositivist· 24d

Sorry but henceforth I am just blocking anyone who unironically posts this particular post or anything in its insipid bloody genre

Stupid fucking AI picture of snoopy uttering a bunch of platitudes

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· 25d

Total woke cultural victory. We're bringing pronouns back. It is now illegal to be a white male. We're doing May Day parades just for HR ladies.

Nolan's Odyssey getting good reviews from critics and audiences per Rotten Tomatoes.

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· 25d

Ok on tumblr I suggested it would be cool if someone did a 40k fanfic about a T'au administrator trying to do simple quality of life improvements on a recently conquered ex-Imperium hive world. And now someone actually took the idea up, started it and it's great! archiveofourown.org/works/885060...

40k fanfic idea I would do myself if I was capable of focusing on anything at the moment: following the travails of a Tau administrator of a recently conquered hive world, in charge of improving some concrete facet of life (say, water distribution infrastructure) for people in the underhive. - tumblr post by me!

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· 26d

England - Argentina continuing to generate DISCOURSE even after the match, what glorious times we live in

R/AskHistorians has a thread entitled "Why are Mãoris considered indigenous but Falklands aren't?"

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· 27d

Look at my legacy media dawg I'm going to fascism

John Rentoul shares an article headlined "After the killing of Ann Widdecombe, Count Binface is suddenly a lot less funny" published in the Independent.

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· 27d

Space Dwarf Thragg meme. Rock and stone!

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· 28d

Seen on Reddit designed to get straight to the heart of a certain kind of British analytic philosopher

"What's the matter vagueboy, afraid you might say something?" Says a hobgoblin

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· 29d

Del Boy looking cheerful with a speech bubble to suggest he'd uttered the above post

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· 29d

Intellectual debate on 40k reddit

Someone on reddit says that they hate ork players speaking like orks and post a picture of a dreadnaught from the game 40k captioned "Even in death I still cringe". Someone replies "she gorkin on my mork til I wagh". To which OP replies "kill yourself"

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jul 9

Sorry to be all *idpol* but, like, are we really ok with a film just actively glorifying a white boy getting a little freaky with it?

Dune part 3 poster, just an intense lens flare more or less

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jul 8

From aforementioned tag

Trazyn smiling in a wedding dress holding a bouquet while Orikan looks grumpy next to him in a tux, signed art by Syber.

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jul 8

Burst into tears when I saw this on Reddit

An image of someone surveying lots of World Cup trophies, labelled "African nations if the World Cup only lasted 80 minutes."

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jul 8

Your next task is, name one (1) of the secondary Na'vi characters from the hit film Avatar: Fire and Ash which you watched last night

Picture of a terrified looking chap from Squid Games

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jul 8

One thing I should maybe write about idk is something I briefly touched upon in a Mills tribute (sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2021/09/pers...) is this, like, lighthearted leftism. There's a kind of po-facedness (common on BlueSky!) that I find very alienating, but opposition go it is now on the left...

Personally - That first video chat I mentioned above opened with Mills taking a look at me and saying "Ah, so I see you're one of those lightskin brothers like me, eh?" He said it with a sparkle in his eye and a cheeky smile. His point was to disarm and somewhat shock, but without doing anything to be off putting, put me at ease by a humorous display of over familiarity. It worked. You would deeply misunderstand Mills if you got the impression of him above as a sort of pious sage figure, dispensing kindly advice with his face always turned towards righteousness. That captures something of him, but it misses out on the irreverent earthy humour of the man.

His deeply underrated essay Do Black Men Have a Duty to Marry Black Women? contains one of the few lines of analytic philosophy that genuinely made me laugh out loud when I first encountered it:

"Many pornography catalogs have a speciality section of black-on-white videos where "big black studs meet blonde sluts" (How do I know this? you casually inquire:; a friend of a friend, I quickly reply)"

And to understand Mills you have to get that aspect of him too. The topic is a serious one, the context is the cultural disrespect and visceral disgust (intermixed with eroticised fascination) black people's sexuality can evoke. If you read the essay it's clear that Mills understands those stakes, and indeed the whole essay is an exercise in taking seriously and reasoning through something that can deeply matter to people's every day lives yet which is often ignored by the professional mainstream. But for all that, Mills would combine it with self-deprecating joking asides, a none-too-pious ability to see the absurdity of the whole situation and our place in it. To laugh rather than cry in the face of the slings and arrows of outrageous historical fortune.

I just cannot overstate how much this means to me personally. This element of Mills, the ability to take things seriously while laughing at them, made me feel more at home in the field than anything else. I often feel in philosophy, even and maybe especially the bits of the field I like, there is a kind of dour protestant sensibility of moral seriousness. It's not that I think this is wrong per se, but it's just deeply unfamiliar to me. I grew up discussing big issues of politics and society with my family, and for all we deeply cared about such things the norm is and was to be lighthearted, to be able to see the funny side and not take oneself too seriously. Mills' sense of humour, and unselfserious down to earth way of being in the field, was a visible proof that I could make it; I could work on the things I care about while still retaining elements of my personality and upbringing that feel essential to being me.

My absolute favourite memory of Charles Mills is also the last time I saw him in person, three years ago. I had been offered a job at the LSE, and it was the last summer before I was due to move to London and take up the post. We met up for lunch at a conference and went to some basement cafe somewhere a bit out of the way. We laughed and gossiped and lamented the state of the field. Towards the end of the meal with a serious look on his face he told me that given that there are so so few black professors in the UK I had a responsibility to represent black philosophy, and then after a beat followed it up with "well, at least until we can find someone better". I will miss him so much.

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jul 6

His "champion" 😉

Kaius fought alongside Marneus Calgar and Chaplain Cassius when all three were neophytes, and at the dawn of the Era Indomitus, he was tutoring battle‑brothers in bladework on Macragge. In the wake of his near‑fatal duel against Abaddon the Despoiler, Calgar summoned his old comrade to serve as his champion.

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jul 6

One of the best things about Twitter of old was whenever Belgium lost in an international competition just seeing the tl spammed with smiling Lumumba pics

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jul 6

I'm working on a paper about the limits of "applied philosophy" with this title, designed to capture a similar thought.

"As Applied by Someone Who Half Understood and Doesn't Really Care" by Liam Kofi Bright

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jul 4

Three panel comic. In the first panel is a child pointing at a map being asked where is Brazil and identifying it. The second the same thing but for France. Then in the third he is asked "Where is Cabo Verde?" and places his hand over his heart as he says "here".

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jul 3

Is the question de re or de dicto? Like - if the maximally pathetic person in the world happens to be a BlueSky user, but it is not in virtue of their BlueSky use that they are the world's maximally pathetic person, should I answer "yes" or "no" to the the headline's question?

Is there anything more pathetic than a Bluesky user? Telegraph article headline in a piece by Stephen Pollard

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jul 3

Pokemon evolution found on Tumblr

Dante the fanfic author, Dante from Devil May Cry, and Dante from WH40k all lined up and posing. It is labelled "Pick your Dante".

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jul 1

Every time an African team scores against Belgium the bloke in this meme takes another crack of the whip

MLK Jnr smiles looking down from heaven as a black guy whips some white guys picking cotton.

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jul 1

Oh no someone gave the europoors ChatGPT tokens (found on reddit)

An obviously AI generated image of an American air conditioner keeping North America cool and blowing the hot air on to Europe

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jul 1

Meme of the matriarch in Arrested Development saying "good for her"

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jul 1

The Self-Assertion of the German University, by Martin Heidegger (1933)

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jul 1

I once wrote a dialogue on why fund philosophy grad schools (sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/07/dial...), the set up for which was that their department was under threat from a new right wing government defunding the humanities. It ended thus

What’s more, I thi— oh, what’s this, I just got a text, hold on.

G: What does it say?

Ɔ: Huh. Well, it seems the Prominent Right Wing Politician got wind of our treasured colleague’s OpEd wherein they gave the scientific case against Despised Minority Group receiving Christmas presents. So now, far from attacking us, the Prominent Right Wing Politician is holding us up as one of the last defenders of free speech, objectivity, and Western Civilisation in the academy! The Vice-Dean-Chancellor-Provost has totally reversed their position; our funding is to be doubled!

G: oh thank God. Welp, back to work then!

Ɔ: indeed!

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jul 1

Love that the new Nolan film has Space Marines (they're Stormcast Eternals really but yinz aren't ready for that conversation). Hell yeah.

A red bus an advert for Nolan's Odyssey on the side. The advert shows Odysseus squaring up to giants twice his size.

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jun 30

A sister of battle is apparently pictured as saying "duuuuude you have GOT to come out tonight we're enacting cruelty upon those who have transgressed so badly that we can justify any act against them... and you KNOW we're interpreting our delight as moral righteousness... Yeah its fucking crazyyyyyyy get an Uber."

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jun 28

From: sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...

(There is even a far more sympathetic and even more vindicatory narrative available. The woke crowd claimed there were a bunch of authoritarian bigot-fanatics waiting in the wings unless we suppress them through various fairly soft means, largely social pressure and ostracism at harshest. The reactionary centre spent ages saying they were ridiculous, and in alliance with the right basically won in the cultural sphere meaning we did not suppress those forces. Then American political life was in fact taken over by authoritarian bigots who proceeded to defund USAID because aid goes to too many dark skinned people and give the president power to review college syllabi. How were the woke not just right? Maybe their flaw was that their methods of suppression were not sufficiently harsh! Whether or not you think this is fair, for what its worth I think it oversimplifies too, I think it's obvious that this telling of events will clearly be tempting to plenty of people. Certainly in the near future, and who knows maybe for future generations too.)

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jun 25

Really depends on how you look at it I guess

Twi reddit posts from around the same time, one saying "One in four graduates worse off for going to university, government report says" and the other days "Three in four graduates will gain financially from going to university, IFS estimates."

lastpositivist@lastpositivist· Jun 24

Almost posted my disagreement with a Take then I saw this ratio and was like do you know what I think it's covered