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Patrick Stokes

@patrickstokes.com
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A/Prof of Philosophy at Deakin Uni (all views mine). Writer, does radio stuff, half of The Fake McCoys. Works on digital death, personal identity, Kierkegaard, moral phil. Has more hobbies than advisable. Melbourne + Werona linktr.ee/patstokes

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Milhail @beddo.bsky.social · 5h
There is more music you'd love, than you have time to listen to every piece ONCE. If you love a piece, you'll listen to it hundreds of times. There is no point in AI making more music, especially without soul.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 8h
Most TV is just this now.
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 7h
If nothing else AI is making clear that there are people all around us for whom writing, art, and music are not communion with another mind, but just - wallpaper. Just pleasant things to look at. They think AI is conscious because they have no actual grasp of what it is to encounter another mind.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 9h
Liquid Bluesky
National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk 
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 11h
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Captain Phillips: I'm the Captain Now - Tom Hanks
ALT: Captain Phillips: I'm the Captain Now - Tom Hanks
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 14h
Can't believe he dropped the ball like that
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 28/09/2026
Saving the furniture's going well I see
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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 28/09/2026
He
Guardian headline: "Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says"Jon Voight as Milo Minderbinder in the 1970 Mike Nichols version of Catch-22. Milo is holding an egg and smiling.
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 24/09/2026
“You have a new message in your MyGov inbox”
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norman emailer @maximumchips.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
when a child leaves the room or falls asleep, and for an indeterminate period of time, the adults left in the room don’t register that they can now turn off the children’s programming. Given the right conditions, it’s possible for adults to stay in this state for as long as several hours
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's plenty of research funding, too
Part of a Wikipedia entry about the division of labor in Busytown. Predators have the good jobs, pigs are explloited
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dogs in pubs, bears running the post office, cats driving taxis, foxes being mayors and worms driving apples .... this is the Busy Town future I'll vote for
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 23/09/2026
“Dogs would be allowed inside pubs across Victoria if Labor wins the state election in November, the Carroll government has announced.”
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Tim Howard @tmhwrd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
[goose meme] what else did he advocate? WHAT ELSE DID HE ADVOCATE?
Music
Angry Anderson dies aged 79:
Rose Tattoo frontman was a ferocious rock 'n' roll singer and youth advocate. He was also a bigot.
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tolkien: I shall come up with entire languages, I shall sift through medieval norse texts to find just the right name, I shall think carefully about every syllable of every name! Also Tolkien: oh and I'll call those two Nob and Bob
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 23/09/2026
Lamp I made for our friends' recent wedding in Tas, in Huon Pine. Interesting to see just how inefficient my technique still is; need a lot more lathe time! #woodturning
youtu.be
The Wedding Lamp
YouTube video by Patrick Stokes
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 23/09/2026
I mean it is just not, as a matter of obvious empirical fact, good to catch up with this person.
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 22/09/2026
If you're a social media manager and you know nothing about the history of English, just say "Shakespearian English" when you're taking about Shakespearian English. Memorable. Simple. And technically correct.
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 22/09/2026
[Jello Biafra voice] Holidays in Fermanagh
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don't think it is worse than I think.
YouTube video: MARINE BIOLOGIST
REACTS

Colombia's Cocaine Hippo Problem Is
Worse Than You Think.
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Russell Irving @rginteger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm not much of a Pokémon person, but my son is & trying to buy him cards at retail prices has been nigh on impossible the last couple of years, and I refuse to pay scalpers for anything. So it warms the cockles of my heart to see so many of them having a full meltdown about the recent set. Enjoy!!
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 22/09/2026
Been thinking of this poem a LOT today
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 22/09/2026
Presenting Steve Martin in "The Man With Four Brains"
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 21/09/2026
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 20/09/2026
Tasmania is even more hideous from the air, if you can imagine such a thing
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026
WHO MADE THIS I say delightedly as I carefully adjust the screenshot rectangle to crop out the name of the person who made it
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 18/09/2026
The kids are making us watch Revenge of the Sith. God this is bad.
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 18/09/2026
Watching a string of older men getting irrationally angry at Telstra Shop staff one weekend was when I finally understood: Covid was the first time a huge number of people learned there are priorities other than their happiness, and the metaphysical damage it did to them will be with us for decades.
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 18/09/2026
Not sure Bill Hartnell’s up to it tbh
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The more I read and reread "The Will to Believe", the more I struggle to see how epistemologists have landed on the view that James was the hero in the James-Clifford debate.
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 17/09/2026
We were in Eurovision first, we should be EU associate members first. Get back in the queue, Canada.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“oh, are you from the Halifax in Canada or the Halifax in the UK?” “The one that’s in the EU” [loud O Canada noises]
Canadian flag flying over Halifax Nova Scotia
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 16/09/2026
How do you send future generations to school camps?
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 16/09/2026
Some of you have never had to scrape a soul off the ceiling because you didn’t rope it down first and it shows
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 15/09/2026
This sounds like the Guardian is proposing a kitchen garden heist
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.
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Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Digital Death Ethics Lab now has a website! Along with @patrickstokes.com Stokes, Adam Buben, & Vipra Chopra, I hope you find it interesting and a good way to stay in touch with the fast-paced field of Digital Death Ethics.
deakin.edu.au
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A friend of mine son’s gave this to his dad
Card that says‘it’s your birthday but I ain’t spending any time on it because in the meantime every three months a person is torb to pieces by a crocodile in Queensland
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 14/09/2026
"'Regent,' that's a wonderful word isn't it, 'regent,' we don't use that word anymore, we're bringing it back, we love our regency don't we folks,"
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 13/09/2026
Relatedly, this is why I’ve been keeping a list of Untranslatable Words and their meanings: Verschlimmbessern — don’t know Saudade — no idea, sorry Tsundoku — ??? Something? Hygge — untranslatable sorry Gluggaveður — untranslatable letter too Hiraeth — who can say
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 13/09/2026
tbh I’d have said this was most German words, which is why it’s German and not some other language
5 German words that don't exist in other
languages
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why is our economy still suffering post-Brexit? Because the Powers That Be failed to attend a VITAL event seven years ago today, so they were unable to hear directly from... er, the ghost of Margaret Thatcher how to manage the process properly. OBVIOUSLY
A flier that looks homemade, decorated with a photo of Margaret Thatcher, bearing the words: No-Deal Brexit? Margaret Thatcher's Message from Spirit World!! Friday 13th September, Thursday 19th September, 7.00pm-8.30pm. Was she an Angel or Devil? Where is her spirit now? Her current messages to People in UK. What does she think about the current Brexit issue? Scan the QR code to watch the spiritual Message. To watch the full version, please come and join the session at Happy Science. (3 Margaret Street London W1W 8RE) Reservation is Recommended (Suggested Donation £5)
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 13/09/2026
Parachuting her in like this is such an insult to the other half-dozen members of Family First
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 13/09/2026
Fun morning at Merri Community Shed (in the former Coburg Bowls Club). I joined recently to get a bit more #woodturning time (my lathe lives 2 hours away). Well-equipped, membership is great value if you live northside and want to make stuff: merrics.org.au Here's a small messmate bowl I made there
Small footed bowl in messmate Small footed bowl in messmate
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026
Honestly, "big-name studios can't agree on the premise of the Muppet Show" sounds like the premise of the Muppet Show
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I do actually think this is going to be one of the Edgy Takes available to future generations' contrarians. bsky.app/profile/thor...
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I don’t feel like this needs this level of pageantry
Cameo announcing Judge Reinhold is now on Cameo! and it has a picture of him in front of a microphone and he’s got a glow
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 11/09/2026
This entire thread is bringing back a bunch of *very* uncomfortable memories, to which would add this image: (Fun fact: on my first trip to the UK I made a pilgrimage to Pluckley, Kent because of this book)
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