Patrick Stokes

@patrickstokes.com

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A/Prof of Philosophy at Deakin Uni (all views mine). Writer, radio producer, half of The Fake McCoys. Works on digital death, personal identity, Kierkegaard, moral phil. Has more hobbies than advisable. Melbourne + Werona
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Patrick Stokes is an Australian philosopher, Associate Professor in Philosophy at Deakin University and a former Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire. He is a winner of Australasian Association of Philosophy Media Prize and is known for his research on Kierkegaard's philosophy. .. more

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · Feb 22

My first pen commission! A former student of mine commissioned a fountain pen in Purpleheart (Peltogyne purpurea), a timber which goes purple when exposed to UV light. But that means when you turn it down to pen size, you're left with dull brown wood. Here's how to bring the purple back quickly:

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 4h

I'm wary of arguments from evolution as they tend to fall into a naturalistic fallacy; just because something's natural doesn't mean it's good! But I do think anger is ultimately valuable because, like other emotions, it shows us how things are. I'm more with Aristotle than Seneca on this one.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 4h

Jerry Casale was standing near his friend Allison Krause when she was shot dead by the National Guard. He's said in interviews since "That was the day I stopped being a hippie."

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 4h

Devo are awesome. I've always been fascinated by how their experience at Kent State changed things for them: they started developing 'Devolution' as an art student joke, and then when the shooting happened they decided no, it's not a joke anymore, things really are devolving.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 6h

(For the record I land on the other side of the argument from the Stoic.)

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 6h

Me in the most recent issue of New Philosopher, on whether we could live without anger www.newphilosopher.com/articles/lif...

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 21h

NEXT PODCAST: This week I’m recording an episode of “The 9pm Edict” with philosopher @patrickstokes.com. Should be fun. www.patrickstokes.com

If you’re a supporter with TRIGGER WORDS, please let me know by 9am AEDT this Wednesday 14 January.

He was on five years ago! the9pmedict.com/edict/00129/

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4d

Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”

Reposted by Elizabeth Sharrow, Nandita Sharma, John McLaren , and 11 more Elizabeth Sharrow, Nandita Sharma, John McLaren, Alan Richardson, Gerald Friedman, Stephen Ryan, James Goodwin, Brian Keegan, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Karen L. Cox, Patrick Stokes, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Martin S. Flaherty

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 6d

I just wanted to say hi.

Rockwell Free Speech Guy standing up and, unless I miss my mark, saying hi.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7d

personally I think we should put adults in charge of important things like countries

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 7d

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Although Machado ultimately said she was dedicating the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize was an “ultimate sin,” said one of the people.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” this person said.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 7d

“I was shocked - shocked! - to learn there was politics inside the Victorian Liberal Party.”

Sam Groth to quit Victorian politics after defamation battle with News Corp and internal party divisions

Deputy Liberal leader and former tennis player announces he will not contest this year’s state election

www.theguardian.com

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 7d

Fixed the bit of sequoia I messed up a few weeks ago. Not great work but learned a lot. #woodturning

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 8d

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

Reposted by Jason Mittell, Jelena Subotić, Ann Bartow , and 3 more Jason Mittell, Jelena Subotić, Ann Bartow, Stuart White, Patrick Stokes, Elise Thomas

progesterin @erinys.uwu.lgbt · 8d

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 9d

Thanks!

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 9d

About 50mm long, so blackjacks for rabbits maybe.

Or, possums.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 9d

Fun little summer #woodturning project: there are several pull light switches in this house and they all had generic white plastic pulls on them. So I made some new ones. (River red gum, sanded to 1200, finished with Danish oil and beeswax)

Two turned wooden light pulls on strings

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 11d

At this rate of travel they’ll actually withdraw RDR2 in about 18 months.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 12d

*unimpeachably liberal but undemocratic

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 12d

No, that’s part of democracy simpliciter. Illiberal democracies pass legislation just fine. Jim Crow laws were passed by legislatures. Orban’s passed hundreds of bills.

“Liberal democracy” is a perpetual tension. Things can be illiberal but majoritarian, or liberal but unimpeachably undemocratic.

Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 13d

She helped pass a bill—which is 100% part of liberalism. Maybe you don’t like the bill. Maybe the bill will hurt some people and have bad outcomes. But that’s part of liberal democracy.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12d

Rest in peace to Mike F, one of the all-time greats

Mike F tweet:
Rembrandt was unsurpassed in his ability to depict light and shadow in his works, until the camera came out. then he got insanely surpassed

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 12d

But with a few strategic dabs of foundation and blush you’ll never be able to tell.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 13d

Yes, I actually used a snippet of that dialogue in my radio doco on Valentich a few years ago. (It’s very similar but not identical.) The other bit of context people leave out when criticising the investigation is that this is happening only 18 months after the Connellan Air murder/suicide:

Connellan air disaster - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 13d

She helped pass a bill—which is 100% part of liberalism. Maybe you don’t like the bill. Maybe the bill will hurt some people and have bad outcomes. But that’s part of liberal democracy.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 13d

(I’m also surprised how no-one who writes on this topic seems even remotely curious about who Jim Sandercock, the lead investigator, was. He has geographic features in Antarctica named after him! He’s worth writing about!)

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 13d

I will also say that Bongiorno’s book is the most detailed commentary on the aviation aspects from a professional pilot I’ve seen to date.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 13d

Don’t want to do spoilers, but *if* the story is true - and that is a huge, huge ‘if’ - then a) there’s a potentially still-living witness who might be able to confirm Valentich didn’t survive the flight, and b) a key development was apparently never passed onto BASI or local search teams.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 13d

So I just finished Vic Bongiorno’s new book on the Valentich disappearance. I have complicated views about this one, but it contains a genuinely new and startling claim from a local ex-cop that could potentially be followed up either through Vicpol media or via FOI.

(Obligatory @airminded.org tag)

Frederick Valentich - Double Dark

Frederick Valentich - Double Dark [Bongiorno, Victor F] on Amazon.com.au. *FREE* shipping on eligible orders. Frederick Valentich - Double Dark

www.amazon.com.au

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 13d

Now imagining how they would pronounce “deed”

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