FDC
oldaristocles.bsky.social
FDC
@oldaristocles.bsky.social
Hemlock Connoisseur
PhD Candidate, University of Ottawa
Lover of Plato, onions, and Shelby
Proud member of the Green Party of Ontario
He/him
It’s the perfect time for this Moby Dick passage.
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My fiancée treats the cats to cream every night after her shower. They may have learned to wait for her.
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
October 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Crash landing.
September 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
My guy… you’ve personally been stealing the personal effects of homeless people for years. Sit down.
September 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The baby really likes sleeping on whatever clothes I wore in a day for some reason, so I’ve started wearing a sweater around the house and leaving it out for her so she can have a more comfortable bed than a laundry basket or a t-shirt on a chair. I think she approves.
September 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I had to cut a good joke from an essay, so I’m memorialising it here:
August 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Hasan claims to have been essentially deceived by Jubilee before agreeing to this “debate,” which is well within character for them and him, I guess. But I also think Hasan should know better than to trust what they say about who they’re inviting. Still disappointed.
July 21, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Cats:
July 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Just in case people are unaware, Twizzlers still sells these. They just shortened the name to nibs.
July 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Tell me how you really feel, David.
June 9, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Mine is still a chevron. I have been blessed.
June 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
They’re gamifying youtube now? What the fuck?
June 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A satisfied predator rests upon the corpse of her prey.
May 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Correction: we are so back.
May 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
We are so done.
May 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I took my beautiful flower to see other beautiful flowers.

I don’t know what the Dutch are doing this year, but they have been outshone.
May 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
It has yet to be called, but this is where we sit.
April 29, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I misremembered. I have two maps, one of just the pre-socratics, and one from Aristotle to Descartes (and Locke).

I should go back and mock up a better series of maps. Maybe even use some GIS software.
April 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I’m perpetually amazed that Just Egg cooks nearly identically to unjust eggs. Doesn’t quite taste the same, but close enough.
April 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
For me likewise. It was my fiancée’s birthday party.
March 31, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Does Scott not know that Grote was English?

What is it supposed to mean that Robinson *introduced* "elenchus" to English-language audiences seventy-six years after Grote used it (in English)? Especially since Sidgwick and Campbell, both also decidedly English, also use the term.
March 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I don’t think Melville agrees. 🤡
March 5, 2025 at 5:23 AM
With everything happening, it’s important to keep in mind that good things are still possible. For example:
March 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
My little cat is not particularly happy that we’re dog-sitting.
March 1, 2025 at 2:43 AM