John Nurick
@jmnurick.bsky.social
Retired, King George Sound. Makes things including photographs, furniture, recipes, software, coffee. Not enough time for reading.
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This is probably the only story you will read about Gough’s left nut today…beautiful piece by Mike Bowers
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
11th November 1975, a pivotal moment for Australian politics and me
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is probably the only story you will read about Gough’s left nut today…beautiful piece by Mike Bowers
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Also you can tell how closely he’s engaged with the Iliad because he posted an image of the, um, *rechecks photo* The Odyssey.
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Also you can tell how closely he’s engaged with the Iliad because he posted an image of the, um, *rechecks photo* The Odyssey.
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Ah. A postcard from the magazine Logic Problems has arrived.
There is only Denis, Miss Parrott and me. We all get along very well. Miss Tomb is away, has been since January. I've been planting cabbages this past week.
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Ah. A postcard from the magazine Logic Problems has arrived.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
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Part 2 of our history of the remarkable flight of the California Clipper in WW2 is now available.
To get back to the US after Pearl Harbor, Ford and his crew are asked by Pan Am to do something no commercial aircrew or passenger plane has done before:
Circumnavigate the world. #history #aviation
To get back to the US after Pearl Harbor, Ford and his crew are asked by Pan Am to do something no commercial aircrew or passenger plane has done before:
Circumnavigate the world. #history #aviation
Flying blind: The remarkable journey of the California Clipper, Part 2
What Pan Am were asking of Ford, his crew and his aircraft was to do something that no commercial flying boat had ever done before: complete a circumnavigation of the world.
theupfront.media
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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8 Languages That Have Been Lost To History
While some languages have survived and thrived, others have died out completely and remain little more than a memory.
by Robin Gillham
www.thecollector.com/languages-lo...
Languages at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...
#history_language
While some languages have survived and thrived, others have died out completely and remain little more than a memory.
by Robin Gillham
www.thecollector.com/languages-lo...
Languages at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...
#history_language
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
8 Languages That Have Been Lost To History
While some languages have survived and thrived, others have died out completely and remain little more than a memory.
by Robin Gillham
www.thecollector.com/languages-lo...
Languages at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...
#history_language
While some languages have survived and thrived, others have died out completely and remain little more than a memory.
by Robin Gillham
www.thecollector.com/languages-lo...
Languages at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...
#history_language
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Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
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From the BBC on Chat GPT
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I’ve labelled this text as graphic because the themes in it are so disturbing.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I’ve labelled this text as graphic because the themes in it are so disturbing.
November 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
From the BBC on Chat GPT
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I’ve labelled this text as graphic because the themes in it are so disturbing.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I’ve labelled this text as graphic because the themes in it are so disturbing.
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This story by Sarah Martin has generated huge interest today all around the world. A question it poses for Aus - why is Roblox not in the government's social media ban?
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
My chilling week on Roblox: sexually assaulted and shat on as a child avatar roaming the online world
In seven days my young alter ego is cyberbullied and attacked while exploring clubs, casinos and horror games, all with parental controls in place. Is the platform safe for children – or an ‘X-rated p...
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This story by Sarah Martin has generated huge interest today all around the world. A question it poses for Aus - why is Roblox not in the government's social media ban?
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
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Trump literally could not care less if you live or die.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Trump literally could not care less if you live or die.
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“Duralex preservative” 🤨
Excellent @secondmentions.bsky.social
Excellent @secondmentions.bsky.social
Fans raise €16m Duralex preservative bit.ly/49FxyxL the stubby much loved glasses will not be lost as French public saves the now cooperative business
French pour cash in to save firm that makes beloved Duralex tumblers
Funding appeal raises €16 million in 24 hours for a brand that millions remember fondly from school meals
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 AM
“Duralex preservative” 🤨
Excellent @secondmentions.bsky.social
Excellent @secondmentions.bsky.social
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There is nothing uglier than the snooty, wrinkled-nose "I TOLD YOU SO" from white climate dudes on 1.5c
Not just because they're patting themselves on the back for a lazy prophecy.
They're now helping to ensure 2C gets missed. And 3 and onwards until they die happy about their soothsaying skills
Not just because they're patting themselves on the back for a lazy prophecy.
They're now helping to ensure 2C gets missed. And 3 and onwards until they die happy about their soothsaying skills
November 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
There is nothing uglier than the snooty, wrinkled-nose "I TOLD YOU SO" from white climate dudes on 1.5c
Not just because they're patting themselves on the back for a lazy prophecy.
They're now helping to ensure 2C gets missed. And 3 and onwards until they die happy about their soothsaying skills
Not just because they're patting themselves on the back for a lazy prophecy.
They're now helping to ensure 2C gets missed. And 3 and onwards until they die happy about their soothsaying skills
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Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”
A systematic review of the association between women’s morphological traits and fertility | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
A systematic review of the association between women’s morphological traits and fertility
www.cambridge.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”
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Omg I’m dying 😂😂😂…so…So Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'.
Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy.
[ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]
Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy.
[ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Omg I’m dying 😂😂😂…so…So Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'.
Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy.
[ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]
Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy.
[ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]
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I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
If the AGI push was a conspiracy, how different would it be? Interesting essay in MIT Technology Review.
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
If the AGI push was a conspiracy, how different would it be? Interesting essay in MIT Technology Review.
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I want somebody to ask ICE whether they've considered using sandwiches as a crowd control weapon. After all, being hit by one doesn't cause injury but from their reports it sounds like it was extremely traumatic.
November 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I want somebody to ask ICE whether they've considered using sandwiches as a crowd control weapon. After all, being hit by one doesn't cause injury but from their reports it sounds like it was extremely traumatic.
Old news with elegant @secondmentions.bsky.social: the infamous prop, the priceless but elusive masterpiece, and more.
www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...
www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...
'Allo 'Allo's Fallen Madonna sells for £15,000 at auction
The "masterpiece" was bought by a man from Nouvion in France, where 'Allo 'Allo was supposedly set.
www.bbc.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Old news with elegant @secondmentions.bsky.social: the infamous prop, the priceless but elusive masterpiece, and more.
www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...
www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...
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The great collective rebellions of nineteenth-century Wales.
The Merthyr Rising.
The Rebecca Riots.
The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod
The Merthyr Rising.
The Rebecca Riots.
The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod
![In October, Spencer, Carry and I went to Llanover to Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall for the Eisteddfod at Abergavenny … just as Carry and I were putting on our things to go to Abergavenny, there was a knock at the door and Lady Hall’s maid entered carrying two frightful linstey [sic –linsey] petticoats and bodices, two Welsh chimney-pot black hats with coarse mob caps and said, ‘If you please, her Ladyship wishes you and Miss Lucy to wear the Welsh costumes today at the Eisteddfod’ … Tizzard exclaimed, ‘Oh Ma’am you will surely never put on such ugly things and take off your own beautiful dress and pretty new bonnet! And Miss Lucy, Oh! She must not make herself such a guy. ‘No’ I cried, ‘we will not’, But Carry … said ‘Never mind Mamma, we had better do as Lady Hall wishes and perhaps all the other ladies will be dressed in these costumes.’ … Tizzard … came back saying all the ladies were furious but were putting on the Welsh dresses which Lady Hall had sent to each of them. So Carry and I took off our pretty dresses and put on the frights. The hat was much too large for me and was so heavy it did nothing but come down half over my nose, and the linstey so hot, I never was more uncomfortable and I vowed I would never wear such horrible things again to please any Lady Hall, nor did I and all the other ladies agreed with me and we returned our linsteys and hats etc to her Ladyship that same evening and made her very angry.
Mrs Lucy of Charlecote (1803 – 1889) Mistress of Charlecote, The Memoirs of Mary Elizabeth Lucy, (London, 1985), pp. 95-97](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lp27scbhcz4sl5eidxkq2l7f/bafkreigwqrwmleb5makrtfixyrfeyadpfvxh6kqf6kf2t4c4juuttmbccm@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The great collective rebellions of nineteenth-century Wales.
The Merthyr Rising.
The Rebecca Riots.
The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod
The Merthyr Rising.
The Rebecca Riots.
The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
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This from a top expert on Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier.
Highly likely that we're committing to an additional 3 meters (10 ft) of sea level rise as we speak. Yes, it'll take time to fully materialize, but when will the enormous damage that we're signing up for sink in with voters and policy makers?
Highly likely that we're committing to an additional 3 meters (10 ft) of sea level rise as we speak. Yes, it'll take time to fully materialize, but when will the enormous damage that we're signing up for sink in with voters and policy makers?
In summary, the outlook is grim. It is highly likely that Thwaites Glacier will eventually be lost, which will destabilise adjoining parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, increasing the committed long-term rise in global mean sea level by more than 3 m.
October 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This from a top expert on Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier.
Highly likely that we're committing to an additional 3 meters (10 ft) of sea level rise as we speak. Yes, it'll take time to fully materialize, but when will the enormous damage that we're signing up for sink in with voters and policy makers?
Highly likely that we're committing to an additional 3 meters (10 ft) of sea level rise as we speak. Yes, it'll take time to fully materialize, but when will the enormous damage that we're signing up for sink in with voters and policy makers?
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With SNAP benefits going to shit because of rich assholes and corruption running rampant through politics I'd like to point your attention to a Clinton.
No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.
No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.
October 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
With SNAP benefits going to shit because of rich assholes and corruption running rampant through politics I'd like to point your attention to a Clinton.
No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.
No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.
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Amazing 🧵👇👇👇
With SNAP benefits going to shit because of rich assholes and corruption running rampant through politics I'd like to point your attention to a Clinton.
No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.
No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.
November 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Amazing 🧵👇👇👇