ThisNicola
@thisnicola.bsky.social
not just any Nicola. Aotearoa New Zealand.
If you've seen this handle on Twitter, LJ, DW, Discord, you've probably seen me.
If you've seen this handle on Twitter, LJ, DW, Discord, you've probably seen me.
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For everyone who needs to hear this today: dogs still exist.
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
For everyone who needs to hear this today: dogs still exist.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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succubus - female demon that seduces men
incubus - male demon that seduces women
vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party
incubus - male demon that seduces women
vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
succubus - female demon that seduces men
incubus - male demon that seduces women
vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party
incubus - male demon that seduces women
vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party
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I can't help but think that capybaras would be immensely chill overlords
Which mammal would make the best benevolent ruler of Earth?
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I can't help but think that capybaras would be immensely chill overlords
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you can watch Dracula’s Ex-Girlfriend and The Prince AND the next two episodes of Philosophy Tube for free this weekend if you want
go.nebula.tv/philosophytube
go.nebula.tv/philosophytube
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
you can watch Dracula’s Ex-Girlfriend and The Prince AND the next two episodes of Philosophy Tube for free this weekend if you want
go.nebula.tv/philosophytube
go.nebula.tv/philosophytube
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“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN
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A whole bunch of people younger than me got elected last night and I am totally good with that
November 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A whole bunch of people younger than me got elected last night and I am totally good with that
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
I hear that bees have pretty awesome knees, just saying.
4.5 billion years of evolution, and this is the best knee they could come up with?
November 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I hear that bees have pretty awesome knees, just saying.
Sometimes I wonder how old you’d have to be to know what this hole is for 🤔
October 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Sometimes I wonder how old you’d have to be to know what this hole is for 🤔
Support live theatre.
AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.
October 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Support live theatre.
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Massive win and beginning of the end for generative ai
October 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Massive win and beginning of the end for generative ai
Please enjoy MUNA's delicate and touching interpretation of "My Heart Will Go On". I always choke up at the key change.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZrS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZrS...
October 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Please enjoy MUNA's delicate and touching interpretation of "My Heart Will Go On". I always choke up at the key change.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZrS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZrS...
A recent weather event cut our power for a few hours, mere weeks after summer time began. I could have really used a visit (or two) from one of these little guys!
366) Clocksetbot. Does the rounds with all your electronic devices when the clocks change to make sure they're all correct. Even remembers how to do each of them! #SmallRobotsRemastered
October 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A recent weather event cut our power for a few hours, mere weeks after summer time began. I could have really used a visit (or two) from one of these little guys!
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
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One of these days I’m gonna write a goddamn Trek novel just so when one of these asshats show up, I can yell “I OUTRANK YOU” and then perhaps slap them with a large zucchini.
October 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
One of these days I’m gonna write a goddamn Trek novel just so when one of these asshats show up, I can yell “I OUTRANK YOU” and then perhaps slap them with a large zucchini.
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I love living in a country where the law about what bathroom I can use is genuinely UNKNOWABLE, it’s like something from a Joseph Heller novel
This is 100% correct. Including as to the chaos the Gender Critical Ideological Movement so beloved of Labour has now descended into as their facade of respectability crumbles like the Berlin Wall.
www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...
www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...
Nobody Knows What UK Law on Toilet Access is
The lawlessness of the government's response to For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I love living in a country where the law about what bathroom I can use is genuinely UNKNOWABLE, it’s like something from a Joseph Heller novel
Coincidentally, I am currently involved in a Reddit thread on this very topic, shopping carts and all.
Specifically the part where That One Guy seems to think the "the social contract" is something you have to actively sign up for*. Guess what, he didn't.
*as opposed to a reciprocal Wheaton's Law
Specifically the part where That One Guy seems to think the "the social contract" is something you have to actively sign up for*. Guess what, he didn't.
*as opposed to a reciprocal Wheaton's Law
Failure to return the shopping cart to one of the cart returns if you are able is a sign of someone who does not value the social contract.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Coincidentally, I am currently involved in a Reddit thread on this very topic, shopping carts and all.
Specifically the part where That One Guy seems to think the "the social contract" is something you have to actively sign up for*. Guess what, he didn't.
*as opposed to a reciprocal Wheaton's Law
Specifically the part where That One Guy seems to think the "the social contract" is something you have to actively sign up for*. Guess what, he didn't.
*as opposed to a reciprocal Wheaton's Law
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all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines
October 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines
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There's something wonderful and funny about having a fandom in law. Like, I don't go here, but my friend does, so now I know random shit about F1 teams or wrestlers or kpop groups
Then you see something about their brainworm and you bring it to them like a crow, like "I saw this and thought of you"
Then you see something about their brainworm and you bring it to them like a crow, like "I saw this and thought of you"
October 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
There's something wonderful and funny about having a fandom in law. Like, I don't go here, but my friend does, so now I know random shit about F1 teams or wrestlers or kpop groups
Then you see something about their brainworm and you bring it to them like a crow, like "I saw this and thought of you"
Then you see something about their brainworm and you bring it to them like a crow, like "I saw this and thought of you"
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Enjoy the Reformation and Halloween with the classic 95 Reese's being nailed to a door
October 31, 2023 at 8:11 PM
Enjoy the Reformation and Halloween with the classic 95 Reese's being nailed to a door
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"I DO NOT WANT A DISHWASHER WITH AN APP" and other very normal sentences to say on a Sunday afternoon during this specific, very stupid moment in late-stage capitalism. 😂
October 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"I DO NOT WANT A DISHWASHER WITH AN APP" and other very normal sentences to say on a Sunday afternoon during this specific, very stupid moment in late-stage capitalism. 😂
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whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing
June 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing
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In some cases, it's two decades. And please know I appreciate every one of you, but especially the ones I've somehow managed to keep hold of over all those platform changes.
God damn, some of yall been following each other online for a decade?!!
October 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
In some cases, it's two decades. And please know I appreciate every one of you, but especially the ones I've somehow managed to keep hold of over all those platform changes.