Patrick Skeels
@baslogic.bsky.social
philosopher | linguist | winsome rogue | fgc wannabe
i teach philosophy at the university of kentucky
papers here: https://philpeople.org/profiles/patrick-skeels
i teach philosophy at the university of kentucky
papers here: https://philpeople.org/profiles/patrick-skeels
Update: now that my retro setup is complete, my wife has become hopelessly addicted to Star Sweep (PS1). Dishes go unwashed and children go unfed as my wife languishes in a never ending battle with Temu-Sephiroth.
December 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Update: now that my retro setup is complete, my wife has become hopelessly addicted to Star Sweep (PS1). Dishes go unwashed and children go unfed as my wife languishes in a never ending battle with Temu-Sephiroth.
I can't help but notice that some of you tweet too much, while others do not tweet enough. It would be great if you all could sort that out, thanks.
December 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I can't help but notice that some of you tweet too much, while others do not tweet enough. It would be great if you all could sort that out, thanks.
My father was killed in a fake barn accident.
I swore revenge.
I swore revenge.
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My father was killed in a fake barn accident.
I swore revenge.
I swore revenge.
Still missing an AC adaptor for the PS2 and a coaxial for the NES. Back to the storage unit I go. Decent progress though.
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Still missing an AC adaptor for the PS2 and a coaxial for the NES. Back to the storage unit I go. Decent progress though.
Unpacking the retro setup and was reminded of how much I paid for this used SNES in the early aughts. Still works. They cost a bit more these days.
November 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Unpacking the retro setup and was reminded of how much I paid for this used SNES in the early aughts. Still works. They cost a bit more these days.
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“Murder is wrong, but I don’t disapprove of it”
Expressivist theories of moral language seem to suggest that this sentence should make no sense — but a new paper in Cognition finds that people actually *do* find this sentence largely acceptable
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Expressivist theories of moral language seem to suggest that this sentence should make no sense — but a new paper in Cognition finds that people actually *do* find this sentence largely acceptable
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
“Murder is wrong, but I don’t disapprove of it”
Expressivist theories of moral language seem to suggest that this sentence should make no sense — but a new paper in Cognition finds that people actually *do* find this sentence largely acceptable
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Expressivist theories of moral language seem to suggest that this sentence should make no sense — but a new paper in Cognition finds that people actually *do* find this sentence largely acceptable
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Marathoned all three Masami Ōbari Fatal Fury films, while I 1cc’d Fatal Fury Real Bout 2 on the hardest difficulty.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Marathoned all three Masami Ōbari Fatal Fury films, while I 1cc’d Fatal Fury Real Bout 2 on the hardest difficulty.
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Writing “chopped unc” in the referee report so the author knows that the writing was both choppy and unclear.
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Writing “chopped unc” in the referee report so the author knows that the writing was both choppy and unclear.
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The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
3yo daughter just saw Frozen for the first time. The songs around the house began immediately. We are gonna be lettin' it go for the foreseeable.
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
3yo daughter just saw Frozen for the first time. The songs around the house began immediately. We are gonna be lettin' it go for the foreseeable.
Strange new kinds of metalinguistic negotiations taking place.
Truly incredible.
Truly incredible.
Trump on Mamdani: "We had some interesting conversation and some of his ideas are really the same ideas that I have. But a big thing on cost. The new word is 'affordability.' Another word is just 'groceries.' It's sort of an old fashioned word but it's very accurate."
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Strange new kinds of metalinguistic negotiations taking place.
Truly incredible.
Truly incredible.
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After years of wanting to, I am finally underemployed enough to justify responding to a referee request at a for-profit journal with my own request for a consultancy fee.
It definitely won't work. But if it does...
It definitely won't work. But if it does...
November 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
After years of wanting to, I am finally underemployed enough to justify responding to a referee request at a for-profit journal with my own request for a consultancy fee.
It definitely won't work. But if it does...
It definitely won't work. But if it does...
Don't hate the language player, hate the language game.
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Don't hate the language player, hate the language game.
Not to be confused with “intology”.
"ontology" is the study of placing one thing on top of, or onto, another thing
November 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Not to be confused with “intology”.
Now on display in my office (next to Foucault????)
November 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Now on display in my office (next to Foucault????)
Parenting has its upsides
November 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Parenting has its upsides
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one thing about being old on the internet is that I constantly forget some people are making money off their online presence. I naively tend to think we're all here for the love of the game.
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
one thing about being old on the internet is that I constantly forget some people are making money off their online presence. I naively tend to think we're all here for the love of the game.
If they were serious they’d put em on a single wheel like Rosie from The Jetsons.
The insistence on making these robots bipedal is probably the most obvious giveaway that it's all a big carny gimmick
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
If they were serious they’d put em on a single wheel like Rosie from The Jetsons.
I love that the outlook app is unusable, but I also love that the in-browser version is unusable.
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I love that the outlook app is unusable, but I also love that the in-browser version is unusable.
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hear me out: joyce carol oates super bowl halftime appearance
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
hear me out: joyce carol oates super bowl halftime appearance
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my sense is most philosophers agree: this is exactly wrong
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
my sense is most philosophers agree: this is exactly wrong
his papers are good, but he’s got some excellent monographs as well (last one i promise).
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
his papers are good, but he’s got some excellent monographs as well (last one i promise).