Clare Heimer
@clarealice.bsky.social
Mom, bureaucrat, recently-former math teacher, labor activist; she/her 🏳️⚧️
Wow the fighting is intense and brutal on the front lines of culture
September 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Wow the fighting is intense and brutal on the front lines of culture
Fox News is going to be so mad when they hear about this
August 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Fox News is going to be so mad when they hear about this
If they’d started with Nietzsche and Schopenhauer you would say “Jesus, how did end up in Nazi accounting school?”
August 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If they’d started with Nietzsche and Schopenhauer you would say “Jesus, how did end up in Nazi accounting school?”
To put this differently: I recently took an accounting ethics course. In the introductory “what is ethics” section they were like “here’s Aristotle, here’s Kant, here’s Bentham and Mill.” It’s not perfect but empirically these are the touchstones in these normie conversations.
August 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
To put this differently: I recently took an accounting ethics course. In the introductory “what is ethics” section they were like “here’s Aristotle, here’s Kant, here’s Bentham and Mill.” It’s not perfect but empirically these are the touchstones in these normie conversations.
I’m sympathetic to that agenda! May he be less relevant to the ethical conversations of the future
August 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I’m sympathetic to that agenda! May he be less relevant to the ethical conversations of the future
I want to be clear that I’m not my goal is not to identify Kant with anything here. I don’t like him either—but his influence means that his omission (along with the omission of Locke, who I also don’t like) illuminates the question of “bare minimum for holding a conversation with whom?”
August 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I want to be clear that I’m not my goal is not to identify Kant with anything here. I don’t like him either—but his influence means that his omission (along with the omission of Locke, who I also don’t like) illuminates the question of “bare minimum for holding a conversation with whom?”
It doesn’t exonerate the algorithm but I did get images of women of color from chatGPT by saying “Generate a collection of images, each image showing one woman, such that the collection shows a racially diverse group of women”
August 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It doesn’t exonerate the algorithm but I did get images of women of color from chatGPT by saying “Generate a collection of images, each image showing one woman, such that the collection shows a racially diverse group of women”
Where Kant’s own sympathies lie is a separate question—he’s clearly very racist—but e.g. the categorical imperative has been broadly influential and useful for non-Nazi thinkers
August 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Where Kant’s own sympathies lie is a separate question—he’s clearly very racist—but e.g. the categorical imperative has been broadly influential and useful for non-Nazi thinkers
Both Kant and e.g. Nietzsche are important to the subsequent development of both Nazi and non-Nazi thought but I think it’s pretty unambiguous that Kant is *more* important to non-Nazis and *less* important to Nazis than Nietzsche is
August 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Both Kant and e.g. Nietzsche are important to the subsequent development of both Nazi and non-Nazi thought but I think it’s pretty unambiguous that Kant is *more* important to non-Nazis and *less* important to Nazis than Nietzsche is
Yes! This is compatible with what I said which is that he is also important to non-Nazi thought
August 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Yes! This is compatible with what I said which is that he is also important to non-Nazi thought
Even among white men, there is a clear decision to omit some political philosophers with clearly greater objective importance to the development of non-Nazi thought (Locke, Marx, Mill, Kant)
August 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Even among white men, there is a clear decision to omit some political philosophers with clearly greater objective importance to the development of non-Nazi thought (Locke, Marx, Mill, Kant)
Do you have suggestions for supporting kids around this age in learning the game? My 6-year-old just got their first pokemon cards and they are very excited to learn
August 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Do you have suggestions for supporting kids around this age in learning the game? My 6-year-old just got their first pokemon cards and they are very excited to learn
I personally think my pride would be just fine living in a more normal-sized state of Northern California but other Californians do not seem to agree
August 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I personally think my pride would be just fine living in a more normal-sized state of Northern California but other Californians do not seem to agree
It was polled in 2018 (“cal 3”) and the results were not good
August 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
It was polled in 2018 (“cal 3”) and the results were not good
It’s also the year he truly became president
August 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It’s also the year he truly became president
Sort of bizarre that the whole premise of the article is that it’s basically impossible to cut taxes. It just happened!
August 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Sort of bizarre that the whole premise of the article is that it’s basically impossible to cut taxes. It just happened!
You probably got confused because of magic the gathering
August 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
You probably got confused because of magic the gathering
Fact check courtesy of Google’s AI: ninjas are not mammals
August 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Fact check courtesy of Google’s AI: ninjas are not mammals
I frankly find it bizarre the extent to which people think it’s obvious what lessons a candidate who won 48% of the vote nationwide should learn from a candidate who won 56% of the vote among NYC Democrats. That’s not to take away from Zohran’s win which is impressive! But it’s a different thing
July 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I frankly find it bizarre the extent to which people think it’s obvious what lessons a candidate who won 48% of the vote nationwide should learn from a candidate who won 56% of the vote among NYC Democrats. That’s not to take away from Zohran’s win which is impressive! But it’s a different thing
Clearly they’re names for his two dicks
July 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Clearly they’re names for his two dicks
I would never lie about Professor Tits
July 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I would never lie about Professor Tits
Other people with last names that are also words manage! I’m sure you will fare just as well as Jacques Tits, no one ever gives a second thought to the Tits Alternative
July 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Other people with last names that are also words manage! I’m sure you will fare just as well as Jacques Tits, no one ever gives a second thought to the Tits Alternative
I had this moment when Brad Lander—a real, serious, male New York mayoral candidate!—was asked the “Mets or Yankees” question he *had* to know was coming and said he’s really more of a Liberty fan
July 16, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I had this moment when Brad Lander—a real, serious, male New York mayoral candidate!—was asked the “Mets or Yankees” question he *had* to know was coming and said he’s really more of a Liberty fan