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tommaso
@sillynous
academic philosophy’s foremost fan of the New York Mets #LGM
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    tommaso
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    Nov 14, 2022
    I know I often talk vaguely about my medical stuff, so I thought I’d provide a thread with a timeline of everything for context. October 2008: Pitching during fall baseball, felt an awful twinge in my arm after throwing a curveball. Went to orthopedist, x-rays showed nothing…
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    tommaso
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    May 3, 2024
    a Columbia prof who WHAT
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    The Grayzone
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    May 2, 2024
    The NYPD crackdown on Columbia U students was led by a member of the school’s faculty Rebecca Weiner is a Columbia prof who leads an NYPD intel division that maintains an office in Tel Aviv Weiner said student "rhetoric" necessitated the violent raid thegrayzone.com/2024/05/02/col…
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    Eve Barlow
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    Dec 18, 2023
    So long Gen Z. From now on I call you Gen H. Generation Hamas.
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    jon repetti
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    Jun 5, 2025
    it’s so cool when people who write for a living admit that they don’t read books or have thoughts
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    tommaso
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    Jan 21, 2024
    why are they on an airplane seat that’s in a house
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    positive side of X 🌞
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    tommaso
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    Dec 23, 2023
    hard to pick a favorite 30 Rock bit but naming the handheld microwave had me in stitches
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    tommaso
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    Apr 19, 2024
    none of these words mean what he says they mean
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    Chris Anderson
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    Apr 18, 2024
    My "Nerd Urban Dictionary" list of fancy words nerds use to prove how smart they are now has more than 200 entries! I'll bet you're guilty of a few of them (I know I am) andersonchris.medium.com/the-nerd-urban…
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    tommaso
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    Aug 7, 2022
    Critique of Purr Reason by Immanuel Kat
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    tommaso
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    Aug 5, 2024
    I don’t like bashing students but the level of like cheating and the complete inability to follow the simplest directions on an assignment in an undergrad course are really discouraging. who failed these kids
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    tommaso
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    May 9, 2020
    absolutely hilarious that there was a guy named schlegel who was a rival of hegel, cartoon level shit
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    tommaso
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    Aug 12, 2020
    The conception of philosophy as an intellectual competition unfailingly produces the most arrogant, aggressive, anti-social, unbearable practitioners. Please resist it.
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    tommaso
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    Mar 23, 2022
    Doing philosophy is getting all dressed up to go to the cafe and get your nice little ~latte~, reading 9 pages of a book, and passing out
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    tommaso
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    Mar 24, 2025
    reading Hegel
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    tommaso
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    Dec 21, 2019
    counterfactuals, what would we do without them