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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an untested unregulated OpenAi product delivering pervert output to children is not “unpredictable”. The pervert factor is the most consistent feature of these things.
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
an untested unregulated OpenAi product delivering pervert output to children is not “unpredictable”. The pervert factor is the most consistent feature of these things.
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asked where to find matches, one “toy” with embedded GPT produced slop about dating apps, kink, and fetishes.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
asked where to find matches, one “toy” with embedded GPT produced slop about dating apps, kink, and fetishes.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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It’s horrifying how many people seem convinced by the “the victims were mostly teens—so it’s not that bad!” argument.
As if the sexual abuse of women and teen girls isn’t equally as egregious.
We don’t need a hierarchy of sexual violence. We can just say that all rape is wrong.
As if the sexual abuse of women and teen girls isn’t equally as egregious.
We don’t need a hierarchy of sexual violence. We can just say that all rape is wrong.
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
It’s horrifying how many people seem convinced by the “the victims were mostly teens—so it’s not that bad!” argument.
As if the sexual abuse of women and teen girls isn’t equally as egregious.
We don’t need a hierarchy of sexual violence. We can just say that all rape is wrong.
As if the sexual abuse of women and teen girls isn’t equally as egregious.
We don’t need a hierarchy of sexual violence. We can just say that all rape is wrong.
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As world leaders meet at COP30 to strengthen climate ambition, the Liberal Party has announced it will abandon Net Zero.
It’s reckless and out of touch with community.
You can’t claim to accept climate science while walking away from the action it demands.
It’s reckless and out of touch with community.
You can’t claim to accept climate science while walking away from the action it demands.
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
As world leaders meet at COP30 to strengthen climate ambition, the Liberal Party has announced it will abandon Net Zero.
It’s reckless and out of touch with community.
You can’t claim to accept climate science while walking away from the action it demands.
It’s reckless and out of touch with community.
You can’t claim to accept climate science while walking away from the action it demands.
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New Wes Anderson film enters development
There is a tour guide in the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf which the museum advertises as “grumpy” and “highly unpleasant”.
His tours are sold out for months. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
His tours are sold out for months. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘I try to make them feel as ignorant as possible’: German museum’s ‘grumpy guide’ is surprise hit
Performance artist’s aggressive art historian shouts at visitors and insults curators – and his tours are sold out
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
New Wes Anderson film enters development
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GO TO SLEEP, SHEEPLE!
November 13, 2025 at 6:02 AM
GO TO SLEEP, SHEEPLE!
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Dear #skystorians, here is a cool story of a very big cannon experiment of the 1680s in Europe. A 🧵 about the idea of transporting people in cannon balls ...
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Dear #skystorians, here is a cool story of a very big cannon experiment of the 1680s in Europe. A 🧵 about the idea of transporting people in cannon balls ...
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Hmm…There’s a time travel Vatican heist movie somewhere in here…🤔
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Hmm…There’s a time travel Vatican heist movie somewhere in here…🤔
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Here's some anti-fascist literature to put us all on watch lists: www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...
www.archives.gov
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Here's some anti-fascist literature to put us all on watch lists: www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
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Due to an admin error, we have lost our @oxfordforeurope.bsky.social account. (As you can see that account hasn’t posted for a while). So - after many attempts with the Bluesky team to regain the account - this is the new account.
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Due to an admin error, we have lost our @oxfordforeurope.bsky.social account. (As you can see that account hasn’t posted for a while). So - after many attempts with the Bluesky team to regain the account - this is the new account.
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
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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 ]