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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 https://linktr.ee/patstokes .. more

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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:

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 23h

Ghost Light. I still have no idea what was going on in that.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1d

By all means laugh at those young Tory outfits but remember we were laughing at these four than two years ago and now they're probably on $130k gigs at DOGE.

At least the Tories kids wear decent tweed.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · Feb 23

Look at this Temu cosplay shit. Drop-shipped Inspector Gadget, Divorced Boris Badenov, Summer Rep Hannibal from the A-Team, and The Polyester Godfather. This is what it would have looked like if the Nazis had Schein instead of Hugo Boss.

Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · Feb 23

White Supremacists can’t even smoke cigarettes outside CPAC without looking like awkward dipshits.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1d

"Finally, a party that will fix how old I've gotten."

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1d

Hugely underrated Doctor and a stylish dresser

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1d

An annoying thing about them co-opting this aesthetic is that in the UK at least Chapism was basically an outgrowth of situationalist Marxism. Not one of these young fogeys has read Debord.

Stephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk · 1d

A surprisingly large number of them think the way to connect with Gen Z is "dress like Sylvester McCoy's Doctor Who."

A screen grab of a Times article. The photograph depicts three men and a woman - according to the caption these are Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin, Daniel Campbell and Glesni Reece.

Charles is in tweeds and a fedora, Rhys sports a combover and a question mark pullover as worn by the seventh Doctor Who. Daniel wears a blue "Make Britain Great Again" baseball cap. Glesni, unlike the others, is not wearing an outlandish costume, just a black tailored jacket over a white blouse.

Text reads:

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future
The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1d

Thank God, the ambiguity was unbearable.

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Stephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk · 1d

A surprisingly large number of them think the way to connect with Gen Z is "dress like Sylvester McCoy's Doctor Who."

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1d

Honestly we're just excited to be mentioned. And our entire national psychology is built on a disastrous battle we lost badly in 1915, so 'we picked a fight with unarmed ostriches and came out second best' is almost a boast.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1d

"As TS Eliot wrote 'Cats,' I had high hopes for 'Murder in the Cathedral,' but sadly

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1d

This person could make an entire new career out of uncomprehending theatre reviews.

"Firstly, the monologues were not actually delivered by vaginas. Secondly,

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1d

GAH!

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1d

Also I just learned that The Trashmen nearly got sued for plagiarising "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" by the Rivingtons, and frankly that was the least of the legal problems "Surfin' Bird" should have created for them.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1d

it is a rich and varied inner monologue that is currently making marking honours theses *very* difficult

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1d

Our relationships with other species is so complex and so deeply intertwined with a range of A WELL A DON'T YOU KNOW THE PERSIAN BIRD, WELL EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THE BIRD IS FROM PERSIA, A WELL A

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1d

ME: This is a fascinating bit of history! I had no idea the chicken was brought to Europe so rece-

MY BRAIN: A WELL A BIRD, BIRD, BIRD, THE BIRD IS FROM PERSIA
A WELL A BIRD, BIRD, BIRD, WELL THE BIRD IS FROM PERSIA,

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 2d

Reading ‘The Mighty Dead’ by Adam Nicolson, I just learned there’s no poultry-feasting in Homer because “chickens … reached the Aegean in about 500 BC, known to the Greeks as ‘the Persian Bird’.”

lol

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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

Finally, a Florist of Sai-based approach to bylaw enforcement

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 2d

The City of Melbourne is set to vote on a new plan that would see more privately owned CCTV cameras feeding into the city's security network and staff able to access the footage to investigate local law breaches.

Melbourne council staff to be given surveillance powers under draft plans

www.abc.net.au

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

Habsbuuuurgs iiiiin Spaaaaaaaaaaaaace...

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 2d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

And, in a way,

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

NOT SO FAST, OLDEN!

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

This also means Jane Austen could have sent a telegram.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

Reckoning by Francis Roland's 1816 static-electricity telegraph system, we are now well into the third century of electronic communication.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 2d

Melbourne council staff to be given surveillance powers under draft plans

www.abc.net.au

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

In my case I was like "well, I've come this far, let's just wait it out" and it all ended well - but I was at a point where I didn't lose much by waiting.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

This happened to me once (publisher rhyme with 'Loxford' by any chance?) It really is slow reviewers a lot of the time. Ultimately: is a book with this publisher worth more to you than any quicker available options? The answer to that question is usually more about career stuff than the book itself.

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 2d

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 2d

It do be like that.

Don't ask me Y.

Mace Windu from the Star Wars prequels with "Vowels" written over his face saying: "You are on this council but we do not grant you the rank of master." In the second image, a young Anakin Skywalker with "Y" written over his face looks incredulous.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

(Also quietly disappointed that the chough has been knocked out. I love those blood-eyed, robot-voiced, baby-kidnapping bastards.)

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

Can’t believe the emu has gone already!