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Patrick Stokes
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“What really matters is that you have fun out there.”
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Patrick Stokes@patstokes.bsky.social |
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Philosophy academic (all views mine). Writer, radio producer, half of The Fake McCoys. Husband to Jess, dad to two girls, butler to Tuppence the West Highland Terrier. Melbourne + Werona
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Patrick Stokes
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“What really matters is that you have fun out there.”
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Patrick Stokes
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Not sure you can “may the best team win” 9/11
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Tom Ewing
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The BBC’s “Seats Changed” map is wild. You can now walk from the coast of North Devon up to Bicester and then down to Eastbourne without ever leaving newly Lib Dem seats. Tired: The Blue Wall Wired: The YELLOW SNAKE
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Stephanie Merritt
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Holy God. Show this to the young people in your life next time when they say their vote doesn't count 😲
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Patrick Stokes
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*actual guffaw*
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Patrick Stokes
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It's impressive that on a stage where there's a Monster Raving Loony Party candidate *and* Count Binface (not in shot), the Reform UK guy's suit still stands out as terrible.
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Dr Brooke Magnanti
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Pronouncing Count Binface in the Italian fashion
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Patrick Stokes
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He did!
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer
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jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava
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Patrick Stokes
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Apparently it's a bit of a nightmare trying to create town-related usernames etc.
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Alex Blechman
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July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)
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Patrick Stokes
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Yes, to be fair, the history of the zoot suit is fascinating and a somewhat under-appreciated chapter in the history of 20th century racial politics in the US.
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Patrick Stokes
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I can only apolalologizadadoodadadoodleedeedleedoooo.
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Patrick Stokes
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With the electoral demise of Jacob Rees-Mogg, I thought I'd dig out my Mogg-related posts from the Old Country.
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phyphor
@phyphor.one-dash.org
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Relevant TikTok (but a YouTube short because that's easier to find using search):
youtube.com/shorts/u6uE9...
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Patrick Stokes
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I mean they'll still forget Northern Ireland exists, but that's any Thursday.
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Patrick Stokes
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True, but Britain is basically a bunch of railway timetable madlibs with its own navy.
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Patrick Stokes
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*nods sagely, sips ginger beer, spits out snail*
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Patrick Stokes
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Feels like the Mad Magazine version of Bridgerton.
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Patrick Stokes
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The sort of thing you only bring up with other lawyers over a few quiet carbolic smoke balls?
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Patrick Stokes
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If you ever get to catch a regional train in the UK, spend a few minutes reading the place names on the timetable. Both the most ridiculous density of place names and the place names are all preposterous. Heard of Wednesbury before? Of course not, no-one has, but it's been there the whole time.
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Patrick Stokes
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Look at these place names. Absolutely made-up country.
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The Ever-Upvoted Goldmask
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Brendel
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Joe Biden there’s one way to shut up the New York Times
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Patrick Stokes
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Ah yes, election management devolved to local authorities, the arrangement that has famously worked so well in the US...
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Patrick Stokes
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Exactly! I went looking for the latest Clacton results and it's literally just "yeah, sometime tonight we'll announce it" - NO! That is NOT how watching election coverage is meant to work!!
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Patrick Stokes
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Possibly the most wholesome Oglaf ever and it still involves entrails in every frame.
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Patrick Stokes
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Why do we have to wait for rumours from whatever the British equivalent of party scrutineers are, or for the Lord Chief High Bailiff of the Wapentake or whatever to read out the results? Where is the British Antony Green reminding us that "very early figures, only two booths counted, but..."
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Patrick Stokes
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That should be so much EASIER with FPTP! I know we have 150 seats to their 650 (and our Senate votes literally take weeks to get a final result), but even with preferential voting the ABC can give us get a pretty decent Two Party Preferred projection for most seats three hours after polls close.
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Patrick Stokes
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So, am I right that the UK doesn't seem to do updated tallies for each seat while they're counting? Lots of "Labour think they've won x" and "Lib Dems confident they've taken y" but no official "as of just now here's who's ahead" info? No virtual tally room? Where's the fun in that?
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Patrick Stokes
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Lib Dems having a good night, because of Woking
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Patrick Stokes
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Yeah Re Canavan is absolutely unambiguous on precisely Payman’s situation, but drip somewhere will likely give it a crack.
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iucounu
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this week on the Guardian’s always riveting Dining Across the Divide feature, a stark clash of political philosophies
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Justin Weinberg
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A strong showing from Australian Catholic University in the "you don't want to take a job here" category...
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Patrick Stokes
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I know this is really about one side of politics being constrained by norms the other side doesn’t care about, but in general, “don’t do what the worst people do” seems like a pretty good heuristic?
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Patrick Stokes
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While I get the point that’s being made here, I’m not sure “take people into custody instead of killing them” is the *worst* message to send, truth be told? Like, yeah, don’t execute people.
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Patrick Stokes
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Would certainly work nicely with a Derby tweed gillet and breeks.
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Patrick Stokes
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2 Thorpe 2 Fatimus
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Patrick Stokes
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Walking in to give a film studies lecture, writing 'mise-en-scène' on the blackboard, putting the photo of Nigel Farage watching the Queen's Christmas message in 2018 on the screen, and walking back out.
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Patrick Stokes
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Looking at the article (which is from 2016) that's between the two of them, not individually. I'd still suggest that three pints, half a bottle of wine and a port at *what is essentially a work lunch* is probably ill-advised, even if you're *not* a politician talking to a journalist.
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Rachel H
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When two of your internet friends are mad at each other
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Patrick Stokes
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J.M. Berger
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I'm old enough to remember when everyone agreed it would be unprofessional and unethical to diagnose Trump as a sociopath
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”
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we’ll be fine as long as he doesn’t get any older *4 years later* oh no
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kilgore trout
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joe biden must seek out a rare blue flower growing only on the eastern slopes of the mountains in bhutan and carry it to the top of the mountain
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Patrick Stokes
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Roundhay Garden Scene (1888)
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Patrick Stokes
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“Imagine if lost my seat! I’d no longer had to stay in Parliament and be LotO for a humiliating few months but instead could decamp to the US immediately. The very thought fills me with, um, fear. Yes that’s it, fear.”
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Patrick Stokes
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Oh this could not be harsher
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Floyd, of the K floyds
@floydthek.bsky.social
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This year's Impersonate Patrick Stokes competition has so far raised a zillion dollars for charity
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Patrick Stokes
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[Morrissey voice]
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