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Recovering philosophy poster, slowly morphing into an obscure film poster. I make food and drink too.

It's the meme format that goes: top text "Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture" bottom text "They're the same picture" The two pictures are Theodore Adorno on the left and Gilles Deleuze on the right.
A comic book panel showing the soldiers, one is aiming a bazooka towards something outside the panel. The caption reads: A bazooka, designed to pierce the armor of a tank, is aimed at the computer...
The Waffle House font but it says "Hegels Bagels"
A picture of Robert Brandom edited to have laser eyes
Two baguettes sitting side by side on a wooden cutting board
Two baguettes side by side on a cooling wrack
The Lighthouse: bad. So so bad. I couldn't get through the whole film. The characters are so empty. There isn't a single conversation you can follow. There is no plot or anything to keep you engaged. It's trying to be unsettling but in an extremely unsuccessful and shallow way. What a waste of black and white film.
A screenshot of a philpapers page showing the abstract for the paper Is There a Duty to Read the News? By Amy Berg, published in Journal of Moral Philosophy. The text of the abstract reads: It seems as though we have a duty to read the news – that we’re doing something wrong when we refuse to pay attention to what’s going on in the world. But why? I argue that some plausible justifications for a duty to read the news fail to fully explain this duty: it cannot be justified only by reference to its consequences, or as a duty of democratic citizenship, or as a self-regarding duty. It can, however, be justified on the grounds that we have a positive, imperfect duty of respect for strangers, even when our actions don’t affect them directly. Reading the news is a key way, sometimes the only way, that we can respect those who are strangers to us. I close by considering some of the implications and limitations of this duty.
A fake headline attributed to Allister Heath: Our failed elites would rather destroy Britain than abandon Nick Land
A fake headline attributed to Allister Heath: The catastrophic reality of Derrida is finally dawning on the British public
A fake headline attributed to Allister Heath: Labour's Marxist obsession with Hegel is a historic disgrace
Front and back of a hoodie made to look like Link's outfit from the Legend of Zelda games.
Life is no finishing school for young ladies. Everyone speaks the way he is made. The protocol chief, Dr. Guth, speaks differently from Palivec, the landlord of The Chalice, and this novel is neither a handbook of drawing-room refinement nor a teaching manual of expressions to be used in polite society. It was once said, and very rightly, that a man who is well brought-up may read anything. The only people who boggle at what is perfectly natural are those who are the worst swine and the finest experts in filth. In their utterly contemptible pseudo-morality they ignore the contents and madly attack individual words.
The city street curls in on itself Folded back, and back again A twisted strip of space Infinity contained, compacted Endless aether above the spires Beaten to gale by winged transit Endless ocean below the foundations Roiling waves dance and crash I stand at the center The whole metropolis before my eye Only one of millions Nestled in the hand of the divine
A cup of black coffee in a disposable cup and a copy of the book "On Truth and Untruth" a collection of Nietszche's writings on truth
Two long loaves of French bread next to each other on a cooling wrack. One is shorter than the other.
A pink circle labeled "@fopling" on the edge of a few different clusters. The ones labeled on screen are "American Left-Wing Media & Comedy" to the left of me, "Queer Leftist Artists & Shitposters" directly below me, "Leftist Queer Community" to my right, and "Weird Internet Left" below and to the right.
The poster for the film Canadian Bacon. It depicts a boot with the Canadian maple leaf about to step on the statue of Liberty
“Crash” is about characters entranced by a sexual fetish that, in fact, no one has. Cronenberg has made a movie that is pornographic in form, but not in result. Take out the cars, the scars, the crutches and scabs and wounds, and substitute the usual props of sex films, and you’d have a porno movie. But “Crash” is anything but pornographic: It’s about the human mind, about the way we grow enslaved by the particular things that turn us on, and forgive ourselves our trespasses.
Three pans of brown buns, a large spring form, a medium spring form, and a loaf pan. The buns in the large bun have little seeds on top.
A woman in a grey suit (skirt suit not pants suit) aims an assault rifle at the tower of a very old computer. Looks like a 90s model. The caption reads "Woman pointing a gun at a computer for some reason, 1998"
A large number of tan vegan meatballs sitting on a couple plates.
Reilly (right) and Jonesy (left) from the show Letterkenny
A black and white photo depicting a penny farthing bicycle upside down with a man lying on the ground beneath it. He has clearly crashed and fallen over.
The cover of the book Why Elections Fail by Pippa Norris
A screenshot from my Letterboxd diary. It shows that on November 23 I watched The Secret Garden 2020 and The Secret Garden 2017. On November 27 I watched The Secret Garden 1949 and Back to the Secret Garden 2000. On November 30 I watched The Secret Garden 1975.
A beige sugar cookie with reddish brown frosting sitting on a white plate with a yellow rim.
A picture of the pokemon Wobbuffet. He is blue, has a big open mouth, his eyes are closed, and he is saluting. His weird tail with eyes sticks out to the left.
The painting "It Has Come to Pass" of a red army soldier standing in a palace throne room looking up.
14 roughly round buns on a cooling rack. They have turned a nice golden brown on top
Herodotus states the dress of the women in Athens was changed from the Doric peplos to the Ionic chiton after the widows of the men killed on military expedition to Aegina stabbed and killed the sole survivor with their peplos pins, each demanding where their husband was. This lynching 'seemed a thing more terrible than the disaster'. Thereafter their chitons were held with buttons, often styled with the face of the Gorgon.
A screen reading "SLUT." then as a subtitle "THE END."
An AP News headline "Listeria found in Walmart, Trader Joe’s meals may be linked to deadly fettuccine outbreak"
"Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles a film by Chantal Akerman" The image is the titular Jeanne Dielman sitting at her kitchen table having a drink
The Phantom of the Opera (1998) directed by Dario Argento. It has a 0% fresh score according to 9 critic reviews. A 22% popcornmeter rating according to over 5,000 ratings. The description says "A menacing catacomb dweller (Julian Sands), raised by rats beneath the Paris Opera, falls for an understudy (Asia Argento)"
Grey stripy kitty sitting on a porch. His muzzle, chest, and feet are white, his eyes are green. He is looking off to the side curiously.
A grey stripy cat with white on his face, chest, and feet, and green eyes. He is laying on a black box outside on a porch looking inquisitively at the camera.
Nietszche with a speech bubble implying he said the post
The teacher from the anime "Assassination Classroom" he has a big circular yellow head with a smiley face on it. He is wearing academic regalia.
WhatsApp messages reading: "okay okay okay so so so The lebenswelt"
Loaf of sourdough bread shot from above. There is a square raised up in the top of the bread. The edges of the square are extra dark brown, contrasting the light golden color of the rest of the crust.
Two men sitting in a dark living room. The subtitle reads "Naturally. Cops are all Bastards."
20 copies of the book Repetition by Soren Kierkegaard
The crew of the Nostromo from the film Alien
The difference between the mathematical mind {esprit de geome- trie) and the perceptive mind {esprit de finesse): the reason that math- ematicians are not perceptive is that they do not see what is before them, and that, accustomed to the exact and plain principles of mathematics, and not reasoning till they have well inspected and arranged their princi- ples, they are lost in matters of perception where the principles do not allow for such arrangement. . . . These principles are so fine and so numerous that a very delicate and very clear sense is needed to perceive them, and to judge rightly and justly when they are perceived, without for the most part being able to demonstrate them in order as in math- ematics; because the principles are not known to us in the same way, and because it would be an endless matter to undertake it. We must see the matter at once, at one glance, and not by a process of reasoning, at least to a certain degree. . . . Mathematicians wish to treat matters of percep- tion mathematically, and make themselves ridiculous . . . the mind . . . does it tacitly, naturally, and without technical rules. PASCAL, Pensees
A family circus cartoon where two kids are watching ballet on TV. The caption reads "It's that tomcat workout."
A dog in a courtroom pointing at another dog with the caption "Why do you bet he's single" Dennis the Menace pointing to a man with a sports car and saying to his father "A cat killer? Is that the face of a cat killer? Cat chaser maybe. But hey - who isn't?"
A cropped screenshot from the movie encanto showing two characters singing the words "We don't talk about Bruno, no, no, no!"
1. Lwaxana Troi 2. Jean-Luc Picard 3. Data 4. Benjamin Sisko 5. Spock 6. William T. Riker 7. Odo 8. Geordi LaForge 9. Kira Nerys 10. Quark
A little red bird feeder with three birds eating at it, one bird flying away from it, two on the ground underneath it, and five on a windowsill waiting their turn.
A comic panel showing conquistadors confronting native Americans. The native Americans in question look like they have been stretched side to side, very wide bodies and heads. One is standing in a fountain. The speech bubble says "Youth? No, Sorry, this is the fountain of width."
The face of a raccoon framed by the crotch of a tree
The cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation
A TV screen showing a white egg on a white background. A tiny banner at the top reads "NHK World"
A picture of Dwayne The Rock Johnson
Chris Pratt on the left and John Rawls on the right. Red text says "Starring Chris Pratt as John Rawls"
A book stack containing (from top to bottom): The Birth of the Clinic by Michel Foucault, a collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, Nova Express by William S Burroughs, and The Postmodern Condition by Jean François Lyotard
My ballot for the New York Times readers choice vote on the 100 best films of the 21st century. The movies on it are: Crimes of the Future, Oldboy, In Bruges, Hundreds of Beavers, Mulholland Drive, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Favorite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Tár, and The Lighthouse
Two deep dish pizzas sitting on a countertop. One is in a spring form pan, the other is in a glass pie dish
Socio-Political Attitudes a.1) Items used in Survey Thinking about the USA today, please indicate the extent to which you agree with each of the following statements: Item 1) Abortion should be illegal. Item 2) The government should take steps to make incomes more equal. Item 3) All unauthorized immigrants should be sent back to their home country. Item 4) The federal budget for welfare programs should be increased. Item 5) Lesbian, gay and trans couples should be allowed to legally marry. Item 6) The government should regulate business to protect the environment. Item 7) The federal government should make it more difficult to buy a gun. Item 8) The federal government should make a concerted effort to improve social and economic conditions for African Americans.