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Patrick Stokes
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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

Philosophy 65%
Psychology 15%
Pinned
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:

Yeah the deer thing is insane. And don’t get me started on government trout restocking…

Like it's doable if you're prepared to do baiting *and* fumigation *and* excavation, and so is everyone around you. (Someone asked 'what about shooting?' to which the answer was 'it just kills the ones silly enough to be out of the burrows, which even at peak feeding time is less than half of them')

Yeah I did a rabbit control workshop Connecting Country ran in Harcourt last year. What they told us is 'you need to do *all the things and get all your neighbours to do them too, at the same time' - except our neighbours are mostly state forest, so that's not happening.

I mean that is definitely one way to give up alcohol
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

M&L did an incredible job on that garden! It's changed a fair bit in the time we've had it (our co-owners are excellent and hugely enthusiastic gardeners) but it's still their foundation. It's a wonderful space to just be in. Unfortunately every rabbit in the district agrees...

Jess just pointed out this photo in the ABC's coverage. A few days after this photo was taken we bought the lithograph above Jon's head, 'The Turning,' from his gallery in Hobart. After years interacting on the socials I was so nervous about meeting him! But he was such a gentle, lovely man.

Jon Kudelka is gone. A sweet-souled man who could see the world all too clearly and still find the joy and the beauty in it. An awful, irreparable loss. Thinking of his family and friends.
Vale, Jon Kudelka.

And as always, Fuck Cancer.

now do Stray Cats you coward

BEETLE: Alas, I die! Farewell, dearest bug wife! Farewell, beloved offspring! But I take comfort knowing that my death shall advance the noblest cause of learning - that you, entomologist friend, are doing this for science!

BUG COLLECTOR: uh, sure, science

Check the video. Kinda kills the “whoa yeah he finally found his spine!” vibe when he’s reading a written statement and they bleep out the ‘fuck.’
BREAKING:

New reaction from Leader Jeffries to the racist Trump video:

"This disgusting video posted by the so-called president was done intentionally. Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder."
BREAKING:

New reaction from Leader Jeffries to the racist Trump video:

"This disgusting video posted by the so-called president was done intentionally. Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder."

Taking longer than expected but getting there.
He is absolutely going to use the n-word within earshot of a hot mic sometime between now and Thanksgiving.
WATCH THE VIDEO:

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Why does no one talk about, like, athletics that way?

We need to democratize sports. The days of actual athletes hoarding athletic success are over! I should be able to compete in a marathon in my car.

when your favourite DCFC song is A Lack of Color

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Death Camp For Cutie over here
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Decapitated

Like this is just a very odd way to phrase this. There’s a legit point in the post about how much more controlled TV became and what is lost in the process, but this just makes it sound like Dicky Knee was a real person who died.

Nostalgia Facebook is exceptionally odd. Not AI-uncanny-odd (though there is a fair bit of that), just… odd.

No, but they do occasionally slip.

FORKLIFT DRIVER: Yeah I got another fucken pallet of exhaustive and scrupulously-argued monographs that will change the face of the discipline forever, where do I put this?

FOREMAN: chuck it next to the definitive studies that are essential reading for anyone working in this field, fucks sake

I still see this guy around:
No joke: At my kids’ primary school one of the parents was a local vasectomy doctor, and his donation to the school raffle each year was a voucher for a free vasectomy.

His kids are now at my kids’ high school. Haven’t seen any fundraiser involvement from him yet.

Now wondering if the vasectomy was less a planned decision and more of a 'look, while I'm in here,' thing

[Needless to say that paper does not actually prove that vasectomies make you live longer - nor to the authors suggest it does - and nobody should be getting a vasectomy on that basis.]

I think we might have cracked the case

"Yeah, it does say you've had a vasectomy. It also says you have the cardiovascular resilience of soggy tissue paper and are one stiff breeze away from spontaneous combustion. Let me call you an Uber."

Why on earth would a celeb mention in an interview that he'd had a vasectomy? That'll just go straight into your Wikipedia page. Though I guess you could then use Wikipedia to prove to casual hookups you don't need to use contrace- aaaah Wakeman, you sly dog you
I can’t help but think the final sentence should be in a separate paragraph lol.

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I can’t help but think the final sentence should be in a separate paragraph lol.