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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 16h

Can't believe he dropped the ball like that

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 24/09/2026

Flying over newly resurfaced country roads in this thing

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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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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 22/09/2026

Been thinking of this poem a LOT today

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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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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 18/09/2026

Not sure Bill Hartnell’s up to it tbh

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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

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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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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 08/09/2026

Well you're right, $0.00 is indeed quite a small outstanding balance

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 06/09/2026

“What’s the matter, Colonel Sandurz? Chicken?”

George Wyner as Colonel Sandurz [sic] in Spaceballs (1987)

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 06/09/2026

Little messmate ogee bowl. Should've trusted myself to go thinner, but not bad for a first ogee I think. #woodturning

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 29/08/2026

Imagine taking Riyadh Comedy Festival coin and yet you still have to do gigs in Bulleen

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 23/08/2026

Just putting this here while we’re arguing about whether there’s academic freedom to do race science (Anscombe, “Modern Moral Philosophy,” 1958)

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 23/08/2026

Fun weekend at FODI, chairing “Trust Me, It’s a Conspiracy” (with Anke Richter, Ariel Bogle and Harry Hobbes) and on the “Porn Without People” panel (with Tilly Lawless, Dan Miller, Emily van der Nagel and Aubrey Blanche). Thankfully nobody asked me to deface copies of my book by signing it.

The view from behind a book signing table. There is a copy of my book, two pens, the back of a sign with my name on it, and no punters.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 20/08/2026

me when I see the phrase “people who watch 5 films a year”

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 20/08/2026

I don't know whether to blame Inchcape or Stellantis but they totally screwed things up here. If they'd brought the e-5008 or e-3008 out here 12 months ago *like they said they would* we'd be onto our third Peugeot by now. Instead:

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 18/08/2026

REPORTER: look it’s been 30 years, I don’t really think there’s anything new you can tell us about- EARL SPENCER: [opens shed door, pulls dusty tarp off a white Fiat Uno]

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 17/08/2026

Second prize is two evenings with Alistair Campbell

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 17/08/2026

Been getting movement notifications all morning from this nesting box camera. A striated pardalote (Pardalotus striatus) has finally noticed the nesting box and is clearly interested, but seems reluctant to go in (fair). But it took six weeks to get to this point, so this is definite progress

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 14/08/2026

really speaking truth to power there, Dave

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 13/08/2026

[to the tune of “Seether” by Veruca Salt] Zeekr

View from the driver’s seat of a Zeekr 7X

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 10/08/2026

This is just Adrian Chiles in a wig isn’t it

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 09/08/2026

OH A LECTURE ON THE DANGERS OF ADDICTIVE THINGS FROM ADAM CREIGHTON, IS IT?

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 09/08/2026

The two best comments I saw on this: “Tool should prep 7 or 8 extra songs for when Morrissey inevitably cancels.” “No it’s Tool, 2 songs should be long enough.”

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 07/08/2026

Mitch McConnell has announced his "discharge from a rehabilitation centre," or as it is known within the Vajrayana tradition,

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 06/08/2026

From the incredible Cris Shapan (there's at least half a dozen of these):

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 06/08/2026

Strong words from Dr Seuss here.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 28/07/2026

When you have an alternative to Ben Carroll, take the alternative to Ben Carroll.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 24/07/2026

This isn’t going to be good is it

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 22/07/2026

I was driving behind a green MG this arvo with the number plate “ZARDOZ” :)

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 21/07/2026

Counterpoint: Stop this nonsense. Saunas, cold plunges, Wim Hoff, all of it. Your body is working very hard to thermoregulate, stop trying to confuse it.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 21/07/2026

@australia.theguardian.com out here Tim Apple-ing Peter Fox, son of Lindsay Fox, founder of Linfox.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 20/07/2026

This statement is *considerable* progress. Eight years ago the AEC was resisting changing Batman to (as it turned out) Cooper. I literally asked the Commission to their faces how many people you're allowed to murder before you can't have an electorate named for you: meanjin.com.au/latest/shift...

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