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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“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
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The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
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"in most cases, these videos appear to have been filmed secretly - using Meta smart glasses."
Argh for the love of god BAN. THE. PERVERT GLASSES.
Argh for the love of god BAN. THE. PERVERT GLASSES.
Women filmed in secret for TikTok content - then harassed online
Women filmed in secret for TikTok content - then harassed online
So-called manfluencers wearing smart glasses approach women and then post videos to TikTok.
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January 24, 2026 at 8:02 AM
"in most cases, these videos appear to have been filmed secretly - using Meta smart glasses."
Argh for the love of god BAN. THE. PERVERT GLASSES.
Argh for the love of god BAN. THE. PERVERT GLASSES.
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It would happen no matter what. The US President is basically a Roomba. When he runs into opposition he turns and starts devouring in another direction. Sooner or later he always circles back, though.
January 23, 2026 at 4:36 PM
It would happen no matter what. The US President is basically a Roomba. When he runs into opposition he turns and starts devouring in another direction. Sooner or later he always circles back, though.
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From 2022: David Quantick on N. F. Simpson's novel, Harry Bleachbaker: "It reads like Flann O’Brien, ... like Samuel Beckett, and ... like an extended Monty Python sketch, but always it is a world gone mad which is nevertheless ordered by the strictest rules of logic."
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January 22, 2026 at 2:00 PM
From 2022: David Quantick on N. F. Simpson's novel, Harry Bleachbaker: "It reads like Flann O’Brien, ... like Samuel Beckett, and ... like an extended Monty Python sketch, but always it is a world gone mad which is nevertheless ordered by the strictest rules of logic."
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And we are going to have jelly and ice cream and Viktor’s mum says we can stay up until 8 o clock in our clubhouse and there won’t be any girls allowed and you’ll be really sorry.
No takesie-backsies.
No takesie-backsies.
Trump: “Dear Prime Minister Carney:
Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
January 23, 2026 at 2:02 AM
And we are going to have jelly and ice cream and Viktor’s mum says we can stay up until 8 o clock in our clubhouse and there won’t be any girls allowed and you’ll be really sorry.
No takesie-backsies.
No takesie-backsies.
"How do I know what I think until I hear what I say?"
Vance on the economy:
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
January 23, 2026 at 12:03 AM
"How do I know what I think until I hear what I say?"
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“To visit Berlin is to be constantly in thrall to the city’s singular telespargel” — Goethe, 1810
January 22, 2026 at 8:18 AM
“To visit Berlin is to be constantly in thrall to the city’s singular telespargel” — Goethe, 1810
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
Messrs. Browne and Sharpe, in their treatise on gearing, give the following rule for this increase in diameter.
Messrs. Browne and Sharpe, in their treatise on gearing, give the following rule for this increase in diameter.
January 22, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
Messrs. Browne and Sharpe, in their treatise on gearing, give the following rule for this increase in diameter.
Messrs. Browne and Sharpe, in their treatise on gearing, give the following rule for this increase in diameter.
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IDEA FOR A PERIOD DETECTIVE SERIES: "Bertrand Russell Investigates"
Top logician and fearless humanist Bertrand Russell solves crimes with his powers of deduction in the 1920s. Every episode ends with him chuckling about what he'll say about it in his next postcard to Wittgenstein.
Top logician and fearless humanist Bertrand Russell solves crimes with his powers of deduction in the 1920s. Every episode ends with him chuckling about what he'll say about it in his next postcard to Wittgenstein.
January 21, 2026 at 8:45 PM
IDEA FOR A PERIOD DETECTIVE SERIES: "Bertrand Russell Investigates"
Top logician and fearless humanist Bertrand Russell solves crimes with his powers of deduction in the 1920s. Every episode ends with him chuckling about what he'll say about it in his next postcard to Wittgenstein.
Top logician and fearless humanist Bertrand Russell solves crimes with his powers of deduction in the 1920s. Every episode ends with him chuckling about what he'll say about it in his next postcard to Wittgenstein.
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This is spot on and you can tell in part because the handful of remaining 'liberal conservatives' - folks with right-ish policy views but a commitment to liberal values - will whine intently about the Democratic party and then quietly admit...they voted for Harris.
Because of course they did.
Because of course they did.
"It is not mainline liberalism that has lost adherents; it’s everyone else. Across the world the center-right has disappeared, virtually overnight. ... One could say the same of libertarianism." www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...
Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did
We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.
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January 21, 2026 at 12:22 AM
This is spot on and you can tell in part because the handful of remaining 'liberal conservatives' - folks with right-ish policy views but a commitment to liberal values - will whine intently about the Democratic party and then quietly admit...they voted for Harris.
Because of course they did.
Because of course they did.
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To the Americans saying, we can fix this, all of this insanity can be un-done, I think you are vastly underestimating just what’s been *revealed* to the rest of the world about your country, not just what’s been done to it. It’s Russian liberal exile kind of hope that everything can just be normal
January 11, 2026 at 3:46 AM
To the Americans saying, we can fix this, all of this insanity can be un-done, I think you are vastly underestimating just what’s been *revealed* to the rest of the world about your country, not just what’s been done to it. It’s Russian liberal exile kind of hope that everything can just be normal
I like the sly proviso in this paragraph from the Trump administration's National Security Strategy:
"The resources required boil down to presidential
diplomacy, which our great nation can embrace only with competent
leadership."
"The resources required boil down to presidential
diplomacy, which our great nation can embrace only with competent
leadership."
January 19, 2026 at 10:10 AM
I like the sly proviso in this paragraph from the Trump administration's National Security Strategy:
"The resources required boil down to presidential
diplomacy, which our great nation can embrace only with competent
leadership."
"The resources required boil down to presidential
diplomacy, which our great nation can embrace only with competent
leadership."
“I didn’t get the peace prize, so it’s WAR” is very Duck Soup
January 19, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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Old English had two words for “knife”:
‘cnīf’ (the ancestor of ‘knife’) and ‘meteseax’.
‘Meteseax’ was a compound of two words:
- ‘mete’ (“food”), the ancestor of ‘meat’;
- a word for “sword” related to ‘Saxon’.
German ‘Messer’ and Dutch ‘mes’ are its living cognates.
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‘cnīf’ (the ancestor of ‘knife’) and ‘meteseax’.
‘Meteseax’ was a compound of two words:
- ‘mete’ (“food”), the ancestor of ‘meat’;
- a word for “sword” related to ‘Saxon’.
German ‘Messer’ and Dutch ‘mes’ are its living cognates.
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January 18, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Old English had two words for “knife”:
‘cnīf’ (the ancestor of ‘knife’) and ‘meteseax’.
‘Meteseax’ was a compound of two words:
- ‘mete’ (“food”), the ancestor of ‘meat’;
- a word for “sword” related to ‘Saxon’.
German ‘Messer’ and Dutch ‘mes’ are its living cognates.
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‘cnīf’ (the ancestor of ‘knife’) and ‘meteseax’.
‘Meteseax’ was a compound of two words:
- ‘mete’ (“food”), the ancestor of ‘meat’;
- a word for “sword” related to ‘Saxon’.
German ‘Messer’ and Dutch ‘mes’ are its living cognates.
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Fantastic photo from Phil Laybourne capturing the moment a Red Deer steps on some Lego.
January 18, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Fantastic photo from Phil Laybourne capturing the moment a Red Deer steps on some Lego.
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Oh, man. There's a TV series in that, at the very least.
If you use Victorian newspapers for research, you will always be down a rabbit hole. Today we have Slater's Lady Cyclist Detectives (London Evening Standard, 28 October 1896).
January 18, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Oh, man. There's a TV series in that, at the very least.
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Congratulations, President Trump!!!
January 17, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Congratulations, President Trump!!!
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Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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January 17, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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Not all our Keepers wear green!
Zebra foals imprint on their mothers by recognising their unique patterns of stripes. When we rescued this little foal - orphaned after a lion attack - we dusted off our Zebra coat, so that she didn’t feel alone and knew who to follow.
Zebra foals imprint on their mothers by recognising their unique patterns of stripes. When we rescued this little foal - orphaned after a lion attack - we dusted off our Zebra coat, so that she didn’t feel alone and knew who to follow.
January 16, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Not all our Keepers wear green!
Zebra foals imprint on their mothers by recognising their unique patterns of stripes. When we rescued this little foal - orphaned after a lion attack - we dusted off our Zebra coat, so that she didn’t feel alone and knew who to follow.
Zebra foals imprint on their mothers by recognising their unique patterns of stripes. When we rescued this little foal - orphaned after a lion attack - we dusted off our Zebra coat, so that she didn’t feel alone and knew who to follow.
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This is very good
One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
A Pedagogy of the Inevitable
Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...
read.dukeupress.edu
January 16, 2026 at 11:39 AM
This is very good
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I am going to present Trump with my 20 yards swimming certificate.
January 16, 2026 at 8:34 AM
I am going to present Trump with my 20 yards swimming certificate.