Dr DaN McKee
@authenticdmckee.bsky.social
Philosophy teacher and writer. Author of ANARCHIST ATHEIST PUNK ROCK TEACHER and AUTHENTIC DEMOCRACY: AN ETHICAL JUSTIFICATION OF ANARCHISM. Punk bassist- Strangely Shaped by Fathers, Bullet of Diplomacy, Academy Morticians https://bio.site/authenticdmckee
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Dr DaN McKee
@authenticdmckee.bsky.social
· Nov 23
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Being as I’m on a starter pack list about writing about #punk - here’s my chapter from DIY or Die - Volume 2 of the Punk and #Anarchism book project on @activedistribution.bsky.social static1.squarespace.com/static/5d1cc...
I hope the people shocked about what Nigel Farage said at school haven’t been listening to what he’s been saying openly and repeatedly for his entire political career…
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I hope the people shocked about what Nigel Farage said at school haven’t been listening to what he’s been saying openly and repeatedly for his entire political career…
Fuck Labour and any of my wrong-headed “tone of our oppression” arguments I made in the past that might have enabled them. This tone is dark as any right-wing alternative. This is disgusting.
November 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Fuck Labour and any of my wrong-headed “tone of our oppression” arguments I made in the past that might have enabled them. This tone is dark as any right-wing alternative. This is disgusting.
There’s too much of everything now isn’t there?
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
There’s too much of everything now isn’t there?
Talking about the #weather…and perceptual bubbles of what is possible…in this week’s new #Philosophy Unleashed www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/256-...
256 - TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER - Or How To Burst A Bubble — Philosophy UNLEASHED
On the popping of bubbles of insular tradition by new perceptions of our diversity.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Talking about the #weather…and perceptual bubbles of what is possible…in this week’s new #Philosophy Unleashed www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/256-...
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Thinking about #ghosts and things that go bump in the night with this week’s returning #Philosophy Unleashed. www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/225-...
225. NIGHT TERRORS - On the Possibility of Impossible Hauntings — Philosophy UNLEASHED
Philosophy leaves room for the existence of the paranormal - ghosts and hauntings - while also providing me with the metaphysics which tell me such ghosts cannot exist.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Thinking about #ghosts and things that go bump in the night with this week’s returning #Philosophy Unleashed. www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/225-...
Thinking about #ghosts and things that go bump in the night with this week’s returning #Philosophy Unleashed. www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/225-...
225. NIGHT TERRORS - On the Possibility of Impossible Hauntings — Philosophy UNLEASHED
Philosophy leaves room for the existence of the paranormal - ghosts and hauntings - while also providing me with the metaphysics which tell me such ghosts cannot exist.
www.philosophyunleashed.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Thinking about #ghosts and things that go bump in the night with this week’s returning #Philosophy Unleashed. www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/225-...
Halloween might be over but the scares continue with my latest #read
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app.thestorygraph.com/books/e886cf...
Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting by Richard Chizmar, W.H. Chizmar
New York Times bestselling author Richard Chizmar, “one of horror’s indispensable writers” (Paste...
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November 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Halloween might be over but the scares continue with my latest #read
app.thestorygraph.com/books/e886cf...
app.thestorygraph.com/books/e886cf...
Lovely day spent at Newbridge Memo today, launching the release of #HardcoreHorror on Earth Island Books with fellow HH authors.
November 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Lovely day spent at Newbridge Memo today, launching the release of #HardcoreHorror on Earth Island Books with fellow HH authors.
Happy #Halloween all! Hardcore Horror, featuring 23 short #horror stories from #punk and underground writers from the DIY scene (including me!) is out now from Earth Island! www.earthislandbooks.com/product-page...
#book #booklaunch #halloweenbook #horroranthology #punkwriting #writing #writer
#book #booklaunch #halloweenbook #horroranthology #punkwriting #writing #writer
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Happy #Halloween all! Hardcore Horror, featuring 23 short #horror stories from #punk and underground writers from the DIY scene (including me!) is out now from Earth Island! www.earthislandbooks.com/product-page...
#book #booklaunch #halloweenbook #horroranthology #punkwriting #writing #writer
#book #booklaunch #halloweenbook #horroranthology #punkwriting #writing #writer
As it’s almost #Halloween I’ve put my two “Halloween” songs together into a playlist for you to enjoy: open.spotify.com/playlist/2uL...
#music #songs #DIY
#music #songs #DIY
Strangely Shaped By Halloween
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October 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
As it’s almost #Halloween I’ve put my two “Halloween” songs together into a playlist for you to enjoy: open.spotify.com/playlist/2uL...
#music #songs #DIY
#music #songs #DIY
Better late than never (thanks EE for failing to fix my WiFi for a week!) - the last #Philosophy Unleashed before half term. Reflecting on another #BlackHistoryMonth and the problems philosophers face diversifying their #teaching in schools: www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/224-...
224. LIP SERVICE - On the Difficulty of Transforming What is Entrenched — Philosophy UNLEASHED
As Audre Lorde so famously put it: “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house”. Yet schools, as reproducers of the dominant culture of any given society by design, are the very defin...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Better late than never (thanks EE for failing to fix my WiFi for a week!) - the last #Philosophy Unleashed before half term. Reflecting on another #BlackHistoryMonth and the problems philosophers face diversifying their #teaching in schools: www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/224-...
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Love #Halloween but hate the creeping rise of fascism? Me too! New #song for (r)Oc(k)tober: ssbfathers.bandcamp.com/track/scared...
#DIYMusic #Music #HalloweenMusic #Punk #Rock #News
#DIYMusic #Music #HalloweenMusic #Punk #Rock #News
Scared of the News, by Strangely Shaped By Fathers
track by Strangely Shaped By Fathers
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October 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Love #Halloween but hate the creeping rise of fascism? Me too! New #song for (r)Oc(k)tober: ssbfathers.bandcamp.com/track/scared...
#DIYMusic #Music #HalloweenMusic #Punk #Rock #News
#DIYMusic #Music #HalloweenMusic #Punk #Rock #News
Love #Halloween but hate the creeping rise of fascism? Me too! New #song for (r)Oc(k)tober: ssbfathers.bandcamp.com/track/scared...
#DIYMusic #Music #HalloweenMusic #Punk #Rock #News
#DIYMusic #Music #HalloweenMusic #Punk #Rock #News
Scared of the News, by Strangely Shaped By Fathers
track by Strangely Shaped By Fathers
ssbfathers.bandcamp.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Love #Halloween but hate the creeping rise of fascism? Me too! New #song for (r)Oc(k)tober: ssbfathers.bandcamp.com/track/scared...
#DIYMusic #Music #HalloweenMusic #Punk #Rock #News
#DIYMusic #Music #HalloweenMusic #Punk #Rock #News
Picking my way through this one too thanks to #GradyHendrix to see if I can still be shocked in my jaded old age 😂 app.thestorygraph.com/books/ead59a...
#booksky #halloween #paperbacksfromhell
#booksky #halloween #paperbacksfromhell
Let's Go Play at the Adams' by Mendal W. Johnson
While on a two-week in-home babysitting job in Maryland, Barbara one day discovers herself bound ...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Picking my way through this one too thanks to #GradyHendrix to see if I can still be shocked in my jaded old age 😂 app.thestorygraph.com/books/ead59a...
#booksky #halloween #paperbacksfromhell
#booksky #halloween #paperbacksfromhell
Speaking of #StephenKing, I’m also picking my way through select tales from this tome right now: app.thestorygraph.com/books/ec6b14...
#booksky #halloween #horror
#booksky #halloween #horror
The End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand by V. Castro, Catherynne M. Valente, Catriona Ward, Sarah Langan, Bryan Smith, Wrath James White, Poppy Z. Brite, Caroline Ke...
An original short story anthology based on master storyteller Stephen King’s #1 New York Times be...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Speaking of #StephenKing, I’m also picking my way through select tales from this tome right now: app.thestorygraph.com/books/ec6b14...
#booksky #halloween #horror
#booksky #halloween #horror
Gwendy is forgotten no more! Couldn’t resist moving straight into the final task after finishing #book 2! app.thestorygraph.com/books/be2cab...
#booksky #stephenking
#booksky #stephenking
Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King
When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for sa...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Gwendy is forgotten no more! Couldn’t resist moving straight into the final task after finishing #book 2! app.thestorygraph.com/books/be2cab...
#booksky #stephenking
#booksky #stephenking
More on #HardcoreHorror and the book launch in Newport: www.everythingdanmckee.com/blog/hardcor...
#Halloween #HorrorAnthology #Punk #Writing #ShortStories #Booksky
#Halloween #HorrorAnthology #Punk #Writing #ShortStories #Booksky
Hardcore Horror — Everything DaN McKee
I’m really excited to announce that I have a brand new short story appearing in this excellent new horror anthology you can pre-order now from Earth Island Books, Hardcore Horror.
a dull boy by DaN M...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
More on #HardcoreHorror and the book launch in Newport: www.everythingdanmckee.com/blog/hardcor...
#Halloween #HorrorAnthology #Punk #Writing #ShortStories #Booksky
#Halloween #HorrorAnthology #Punk #Writing #ShortStories #Booksky
Is there a worse #broadband provider than #EE? Almost a week without WiFi now because of a fault on their end. No alternative provision sent. No updates. 50min customer service chats that go nowhere. Buck passing to OpenReach and 3rd parties. No proper compensation. A disgrace.
October 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Is there a worse #broadband provider than #EE? Almost a week without WiFi now because of a fault on their end. No alternative provision sent. No updates. 50min customer service chats that go nowhere. Buck passing to OpenReach and 3rd parties. No proper compensation. A disgrace.
Totally forgot about Gwendy. Bought the 3rd one earlier this year not realising there was a 2nd I didn’t own. Got it now! app.thestorygraph.com/books/d74f4d... #BookSky #Reading #Books
Gwendy's Magic Feather by Richard Chizmar
Something evil has swept into the small western Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the lat...
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October 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Totally forgot about Gwendy. Bought the 3rd one earlier this year not realising there was a 2nd I didn’t own. Got it now! app.thestorygraph.com/books/d74f4d... #BookSky #Reading #Books
Boy that #MarcMaron went out classy. Mondays and Thursdays will not be the same. Nor will my commute, or the household chores. Thank you for 16 years #WTFpod ❤️
October 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Boy that #MarcMaron went out classy. Mondays and Thursdays will not be the same. Nor will my commute, or the household chores. Thank you for 16 years #WTFpod ❤️
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I’m pleased to announce that I have a new short story appearing in #HardcoreHorror, a collection of #horror stories all written by members of DIY #punk, hardcore, and alt-rock scenes. Pre-order in time for #halloween!
www.earthislandbooks.com/product-page...
#BookSky #Book #Writing #Writer
www.earthislandbooks.com/product-page...
#BookSky #Book #Writing #Writer
Hardcore Horror - Various authors | Earth Island Books
Hardcore Horror : A collection of horrific short stories - Various Authors (edited by Tim Cundle) Hardcore Horror takes you to the stygian heart of punk rock, where impossible futures, terrifying pre...
www.earthislandbooks.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I’m pleased to announce that I have a new short story appearing in #HardcoreHorror, a collection of #horror stories all written by members of DIY #punk, hardcore, and alt-rock scenes. Pre-order in time for #halloween!
www.earthislandbooks.com/product-page...
#BookSky #Book #Writing #Writer
www.earthislandbooks.com/product-page...
#BookSky #Book #Writing #Writer
I’m pleased to announce that I have a new short story appearing in #HardcoreHorror, a collection of #horror stories all written by members of DIY #punk, hardcore, and alt-rock scenes. Pre-order in time for #halloween!
www.earthislandbooks.com/product-page...
#BookSky #Book #Writing #Writer
www.earthislandbooks.com/product-page...
#BookSky #Book #Writing #Writer
Hardcore Horror - Various authors | Earth Island Books
Hardcore Horror : A collection of horrific short stories - Various Authors (edited by Tim Cundle) Hardcore Horror takes you to the stygian heart of punk rock, where impossible futures, terrifying pre...
www.earthislandbooks.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I’m pleased to announce that I have a new short story appearing in #HardcoreHorror, a collection of #horror stories all written by members of DIY #punk, hardcore, and alt-rock scenes. Pre-order in time for #halloween!
www.earthislandbooks.com/product-page...
#BookSky #Book #Writing #Writer
www.earthislandbooks.com/product-page...
#BookSky #Book #Writing #Writer
Another book on the go right now for #spookyseason app.thestorygraph.com/books/03f8c0...
#halloween #booksky #reading #Storygraph
#halloween #booksky #reading #Storygraph
Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the Supernatural by Ben Machell
'One of the best books about the paranormal I have read... Uncannily good' DANNY ROBBINS 'A fasc...
app.thestorygraph.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Another book on the go right now for #spookyseason app.thestorygraph.com/books/03f8c0...
#halloween #booksky #reading #Storygraph
#halloween #booksky #reading #Storygraph
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Thinking about #freedom and its growing, unjustified, use in arguments. www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/222-...
#Philosophy #Teaching
#Philosophy #Teaching
222. JUSTIFYING FREEDOM - On Assuming Rights We Might Not Have — Philosophy UNLEASHED
"freedom is not as self-evident as these young people seem to think it is, and an appeal to individual freedom is not the knock-down killer argument they seem to think that it is. In a world where ar...
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October 6, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Thinking about #freedom and its growing, unjustified, use in arguments. www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/222-...
#Philosophy #Teaching
#Philosophy #Teaching