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Social Media Avoidance Project, by Strangely Shaped By Fathers

December 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM

Dr DaN McKee

@authenticdmckee.bsky.social

Today’s #BandcampFriday coincides with the collected release of all 12 songs I wrote and recorded this year in my #SocialMediaAvoidanceProject. The best fiver you’ll spend all Christmas supporting DIY #music. ssbfathers.bandcamp.com/album/social...

13 track album

Early Christmas This Year - YouTube

December 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM

Dr DaN McKee

@authenticdmckee.bsky.social

My new #Christmas song completes the 12 song project to write, record and release a new song every month in 2025. And relax…

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December 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM

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Dr DaN McKee

@authenticdmckee.bsky.social

Happy early #Christmas!

My final new #song of 2025 is a festive one for #December and is our everywhere now 🎄

ssbfathers.bandcamp.com/track/early-....

open.spotify.com/album/5v9ZeR...

#ChristmasSong #NewMusic #FestiveSong #Bandcamp #Spotify #DIYMusic #NewSong

Early Christmas This Year, by Strangely Shaped By Fathers

Early Christmas This Year, by Strangely Shaped By Fathers

December 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM

Dr DaN McKee

@authenticdmckee.bsky.social

Happy early #Christmas!

My final new #song of 2025 is a festive one for #December and is our everywhere now 🎄

ssbfathers.bandcamp.com/track/early-....

open.spotify.com/album/5v9ZeR...

#ChristmasSong #NewMusic #FestiveSong #Bandcamp #Spotify #DIYMusic #NewSong

258. MAKING A COMPLAINT - What Complaining Tells Us About Those We Complain To — Philosophy UNLEASHED

December 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM

Dr DaN McKee

@authenticdmckee.bsky.social

This week, inspired by #philosopher Sara Ahmed, we’re complaining on #Philosophy Unleashed: www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/258-...

Complaints are important in any honest endeavour. A willingness to openness to being told that the thing you’re trying to do is not working and needs to be improved. An honest endeavour wants to hear ...

257. WHEN SOMEONE SHOWS YOU WHO THEY ARE - Believe Them — Philosophy UNLEASHED

December 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM

Dr DaN McKee

@authenticdmckee.bsky.social

A poem about Farage? Have I lost my damned mind? 😂 This week’s new #Philosophy Unleashed also includes some philosophical background to the recent #covid inquiry. Enjoy! www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/257-...

This week all I have for you is a poem I wrote about Nigel Farage

Holding My Phone Again, by Strangely Shaped By Fathers

November 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM

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Dr DaN McKee

@authenticdmckee.bsky.social

New #song alert: November makes it song 11 for 2025! Enjoy! ssbfathers.bandcamp.com/track/holdin...

Holding My Phone Again, by Strangely Shaped By Fathers

November 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM

Dr DaN McKee

@authenticdmckee.bsky.social

New #song alert: November makes it song 11 for 2025! Enjoy! ssbfathers.bandcamp.com/track/holdin...

256 - TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER - Or How To Burst A Bubble — Philosophy UNLEASHED

November 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM

Dr DaN McKee

@authenticdmckee.bsky.social

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

Dr DaN McKee

@authenticdmckee.bsky.social

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

Dr DaN McKee

@authenticdmckee.bsky.social

There’s too much of everything now isn’t there?

November 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM

Dr DaN McKee

@authenticdmckee.bsky.social

Talking about the #weather…and perceptual bubbles of what is possible…in this week’s new #Philosophy Unleashed www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/256-...

On the popping of bubbles of insular tradition by new perceptions of our diversity.

225. NIGHT TERRORS - On the Possibility of Impossible Hauntings — Philosophy UNLEASHED

November 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM

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Dr DaN McKee

@authenticdmckee.bsky.social

Thinking about #ghosts and things that go bump in the night with this week’s returning #Philosophy Unleashed. www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/225-...

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.

225. NIGHT TERRORS - On the Possibility of Impossible Hauntings — Philosophy UNLEASHED

November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM

Dr DaN McKee

@authenticdmckee.bsky.social

Thinking about #ghosts and things that go bump in the night with this week’s returning #Philosophy Unleashed. www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/225-...

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.