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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 https://linktr.ee/patstokes .. more

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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:

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1h

I come back to this every few years and 'Call Me' never disappoints

Chipmunks on 16 Speed - Sludgefest (Full Album)

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 7h

Yes!! Chocky scared the living piss out of me.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 8h

Yes just like ornithologists make birds

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 9h

What? It's still millinery if it's men's hats. A person who only makes men's hats is still a milliner.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 9h

That's not *that* small! You'd be a 55cm if you were after a modern hat that does precise sizes (Akubra etc), or upper end of S for ones that don't (might be worth going for a M with fillers)

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 11h

They do, and getting the size wrong can be a literal headache.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 11h

(You don't have to actually wear them, you just have to know what size you wear if you're in a hat shop and they ask.)

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 12h

Any man who does not know his hat size is no gentleman.

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12h

Tell me your most unhinged millinery opinion, as a treat

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12h

Tell me your most unhinged millinery opinion, as a treat

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99 @ninetynine.bsky.social · 12h

A little frustrating that bsky moderation prevents us from seeing violence like this

Interaction between Derek Guy and Matt Stoller on X, the Everything App. Stoller: "Your weird insecurities aside, you consistently lie that native born Americans can't and never have made clothes, and push offshoring in sleazy ways. Then when confronted you have to talk about your left wing views. You're slime." Guy replies: "not true. i've been writing about and promoting US-made clothes for about fifteen years. an early article that comes to mind is my love for 3sixteen jeans, which are made in los angeles. that was published in 2011, the year the second iraq war ended, a war you promoted."

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 14h

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 22h

Yeah no argument there. What worries me about the quote specifically is the attitude (and the ALP is just as guilty of this) that voters can’t be persuaded, only pandered to. At some point parties seemed to give up on the idea of actually changing minds by having good arguments.