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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 · 1d

My grandmother used to keep a few pre-decimal coins set aside for precisely this purpose. They only came out for Christmas pudding.

Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1d

When decimalisation occurred in 1966, the Australian government compiled an 81 page file on dangers of using decimal coins in Christmas puddings. There was a media campaign warning people not to use the new coins in their cooking. The file is now digitised.

recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1d

When decimalisation occurred in 1966, the Australian government compiled an 81 page file on dangers of using decimal coins in Christmas puddings. There was a media campaign warning people not to use the new coins in their cooking. The file is now digitised.

recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1d

LOUIS ARMSTRONG: Gifts I'm preparing for some Christmas sharing
But I pause because
Hanging my stocking I can hear a knocking-
Is that you, Santa Claus?
Oh, it’s you! [thump]
[Midsomer Murders theme plays]

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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 1d

Hear that fellas? No dessert if you want to be manly man!

texaslawdaddy

Was eating at a nice restaurant (as I usually do).

I'm chilling, just got my steak with truffle butter.

I'm enjoying my food until A GROWN MAN sitting next to me orders a dessert.

The energy in the room shifted. It's something's that should be kept to women and children.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

The Australian primary school one seems almost designed to emphasise the accent (aah-WAAAYYY in a-ah MAYY-nger no CRIIIIB for a BEHD)

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

@ajaxmccoy.bsky.social you’ll want in on this

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

“No, I don't think so Piggy; no. Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get, or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn't have explained anything... I don't think any word can explain a man's life.“

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

Ok I’m now imagining a whole Muppet Citizen Kane. Welles spitting a brutal “everything you hate” at Sam Eagle as Thatcher. A drunk Scooter berating Welles for wanting love on his terms. An elderly Gonzo describing a girl he saw on a ferry in 1896. Statler and Waldorf as Boss Jim W. Gettys.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

Well, ball’s in their court now I guess.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

Don’t know my own strength…

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

REPORTER: Are you singing at the Metropolitan?

ORSON WELLES: We certainly are.

MISS PIGGY: Charlie said if I didn't, he'd build me an opera house.

ORSON WELLES: [chuckling] That won’t be necessary

MISS PIGGY: I *said* I want an opera house! hi-YA!

CT [HEADLINE] KANE BUILDS OPERA HOUSE

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

There should have been more films in which Miss Piggy got to star opposite Orson Welles, but at least we got one

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

It’s a start

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

THEY DID, NOW I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO THINK ANYMORE

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

There should have been more films in which Miss Piggy got to star opposite Orson Welles, but at least we got one

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

Ok now it’s on the telly and they did just play Fairytale of New York over a promo and I’m a little bit scared

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

Humphrey B Bear miming along to “and the boys of the NYPD Choir were singing Galway Bay,”

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

I’m not watching #carolsbycandlelight but as I used to say every year back in the other place: if Marina Prior and Denis Walter don’t finally do Fairytale of New York this year they’re fucking cowards

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2d

First attempt at a #woodturning Christmas tree. Wet honey locust so it started cracking and warping while still on the lathe, and also it helps if you hand no idea what a pine tree looks like. Still: space for Lindt balls! (Or Ferrero Rocher if that’s your thing.)

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 3d

Just show the coroner this, it’ll save a lot of time.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 3d

This thing is 3kg, a foot and a half in diameter, and so calorically dense it influences the tides.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 3d

Friends, let us all take a moment to reflect upon the true meaning of Christmas: a panettone you could clobber a sheep with.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 3d

Such a pivot! Why, a cynical observer might almost conclude this party was just greyhound industry astroturf designed to counter AJP and the Greens and not an organic movement of concerned single-issue pet owners.

Antony Green @antonygreenelec.bsky.social · 3d

More party name games. The VEC has approved a name change, Companions and Pets Party now known as End Mass Migration - Reform AU. Might be a crowded field by later in the year. Though there will be no benefit from group voting tickets if they are abolished as promised. #springst

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Antony Green @antonygreenelec.bsky.social · 3d

More party name games. The VEC has approved a name change, Companions and Pets Party now known as End Mass Migration - Reform AU. Might be a crowded field by later in the year. Though there will be no benefit from group voting tickets if they are abolished as promised. #springst

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 4d

I dunno, McKenzie’s comments about a “multicultural nirvana” having “failed” would be a pretty close second.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 4d

Woolies sells D’Affinois, but they’ve had to put security tags on them.

South Preston: It’s South, but it’s still Preston.

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ozkitsch @ozkitsch.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Gravy Day #gravyday

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 6d

This is Nepalese Posadism erasure

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 6d

Precisely!

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 6d

The true genius of capitalism has always been to absorb its critics into itself.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 7d

Three eggs. Parents are in the back yard.