Disabled queer antiwork Marxist feminist & youth suffragisthttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3mckktxskt227For those who can’t afford to attend, or refuse to attend a party in a fascist-controlled police state, the message is clear: let them eat cake.16 Jan 2026 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mckktxskt227https://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3m4usllwenk2yA lot of adopted children are human trafficking victims. I wouldn’t trust what adoptions agencies say about children’s families of origin.05 Nov 2025 10:08 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4usllwenk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3m4odn6ppx22khttps://biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/11/02/unkoch-my-philosophy-department-reject-billionaire-donations-for-disability-justice/ Philosofriends, check out my blog post advertising my paper on billionaire philanthropy and academic philosophy.02 Nov 2025 20:25 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4odn6ppx22khttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3m4o52gjtys27Sports has always been an arena for political conflicts to play out in a controlled setting. At the turn of the 19th Century, white supremacists were desperate to find a white boxer to defeat Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight boxing champion...1/502 Nov 2025 18:27 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4o52gjtys27https://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3m4m3yqm3ws2cI just watched the first 2 minutes of the Charlie Sheen documentary & it’s off to a good start. Sheen relays a story about how he was invited to meet the pilot of a standard commercial passenger flight while he was ‘pirate drunk‘… 1/301 Nov 2025 23:03 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4m3yqm3ws2chttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3m4aqlxh7fc2pI watched a YouTube video by a trans woman on Julius Evola’s fascist philosophy and the comments section was full of vile fascist hatred. All the other videos I could find on Evola described him as a hero and a prophet. We’re doomed.28 Oct 2025 10:40 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4aqlxh7fc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3m42vjiqgvc2rI got some constructive, definitely not ableist feedback from a philosophy professor at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale.26 Oct 2025 02:52 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3m42vjiqgvc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3m2i3uq4erc22Philosofriends, please read & share my post.05 Oct 2025 22:00 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2i3uq4erc22https://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3m2cpjp4uh22sI was just informed that my friends have been giving money to an alleged photographer from Gaza, Sarah Murtaja. If you Google "Sarah Murtaja," there are multiple results stating that she is a scammer. 1/503 Oct 2025 18:35 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2cpjp4uh22shttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3m2ajvj2wus2wIs Trump going to invade Venezuela? The US navy destroyed ‘at least three’ Venezuelan boats for allegedly transporting drugs (but probably not), and Trump has been saying since 2017 that he wants to invade Venezuela. 1/602 Oct 2025 21:49 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2ajvj2wus2whttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3lz6kje3ry22oWhat ‘evidence’ are they going to submit? A copy of Gender Trouble? The Second Sex? The only relevant evidence is in a book on gender theory.19 Sep 2025 09:30 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz6kje3ry22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3lyxi4wx6g22bNone of these people defended Kirk’s death. None. This is just a smear campaign to get people fired.16 Sep 2025 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyxi4wx6g22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3lyw67orhps2lBlack man found hanged, no foul play suspected. It’s the same story over and over, isn’t it?16 Sep 2025 01:28 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyw67orhps2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3lyqteivhts2eTrump’s friends are fascists. Who can deny it? Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade said that homeless people who ‘don’t use the resources given to them’ should be killed by ‘involuntary lethal injection… or something - just kill them.’13 Sep 2025 22:31 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyqteivhts2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3lynpcact222zDespite popular opinion, I don't think that most leftists - even those who support political violence - are "celebrating" Charlie Kirk's assassination. One reason is that no one knows who assassinated him, or why...1/512 Sep 2025 16:40 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3lynpcact222zhttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3ly3jstqcfk23I’m writing a paper fluenced by Alison Jaggar’s work on how the professionalization of philosophy creates conflicts of interest between professional philosophers and the public..1/505 Sep 2025 11:14 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly3jstqcfk23https://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3lx3s3rkt2k2zI wish I had looked into this sooner. In my interview for Dialogues on Disability, I noted that the Civil Society Initiative at WashU has engaged in both-sideism: the idea that we should always present “both sides” of an issue without regard to asymmetries of power...1/423 Aug 2025 20:17 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3lx3s3rkt2k2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3lwtv66oyxk2bI'm a micro-influencer! Check out my philosophical posts on IG: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNgCQHwtyFe/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=cXhxdzNoMHIyeWZq20 Aug 2025 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwtv66oyxk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3lwtv2nmqrs2bCheck out my interview for Dialogues on Disability! An excerpt: In March, Saba Fatima gave an excellent talk at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) on philosophers’ role in the rise of American fascism.20 Aug 2025 16:49 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwtv2nmqrs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3lwbzxd7mgk2f‘We’ll give the homeless a place to stay… kind of like a prison but worse… and the criminals will go to prison… as well as the immigrants... all of my political enemies… Prison for everyone! Everyone’s going to be afraid and my friends are gonna make a lot of money off of all these prisons! -Trump13 Aug 2025 14:29 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwbzxd7mgk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3lvyv6h7rg22eI'm reading about how Rawls shaped professional political philosophy. He drew a lot of sketchy distinctions: between the domestic and the political, between nation states, between lucky and unlucky citizens... 1/209 Aug 2025 23:09 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvyv6h7rg22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3lvy76av74k2lI'm reading Rima Basu's excellent paper on why philosophers would publish bullshit. Can anyone recommend other resources on perverse incentives in academia that lead to bullshitting, bad faith, and other epistemic perversions?09 Aug 2025 16:35 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvy76av74k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3lv7av2rksk2yWhen you show up to the philosophy conference like…30 Jul 2025 18:29 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv7av2rksk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3lv2xkqnpq22sI googled "Vittoria Lion: animal" because I'm searching for her work on animal ethics, and Google AI auto-generated this result: "Vittoria Lion is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Toronto, not an animal." Well, actually, humans are animals, so...29 Jul 2025 01:32 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv2xkqnpq22shttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3lusd7k2rvk2vIf you’re a r@pist, you could even be President some day25 Jul 2025 15:06 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3lusd7k2rvk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3luke6gqqv22w‘At the end of the day, you all go into debt and you all hate each other. That’s called consumerism.’ This prof’s lecture on Marxism & alienation is pretty good!22 Jul 2025 11:02 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3luke6gqqv22whttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3ltzmrjuxf22wActually, I think part of the reason AI is unfunny is simple: it's programmed to be too polite. But jokes usually have bite. In fact, a lot of jokes are take-downs. For example, I saw a meme today that said... 1/315 Jul 2025 19:21 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltzmrjuxf22whttps://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3lthz524nas26It's so annoying when philosophers argue that no one's individual choices make any difference, so it doesn't matter if we kill animals or buy a yacht or commit any other harms. Then other philosophers write paragraphs in response to the no-responsibility premise: 1/408 Jul 2025 19:14 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3lthz524nas26https://bsky.app/profile/michciurria.bsky.social/post/3lt2byqffqk22This guy says that his life is ruined because all of his skills have been replaced by AI. One example: he wrote two scripts for animated YouTube videos on a growing channel. 1/403 Jul 2025 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:bpy42ucm77raymsmb6ff5m5w/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt2byqffqk22