nicholas erskine
nicholas-erskine.bsky.social
nicholas erskine
@nicholas-erskine.bsky.social
likes: statistics, cricket, cities
dislikes: the National Capital Development Commission (1958-1989)
unfortunately you have to hand it to Yud on this one
September 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The aesthetics were better the first time around
September 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
August 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
wdym this makes perfect sense
July 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
German still uses the traditional system, which is very annoying. You think you recognise the word from English, but no, off by a factor of a thousand
July 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
that one inspired Hockney to produce this:
June 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I'm fairly certain Cavafy himself tried to tell you that
June 30, 2025 at 7:56 AM
everyone in this thread
June 25, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Not sure what's going on here but there's none of that woke race nonsense!!!
June 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Australia joining the sanctions on this man was what induced The Nightly to run this cover
June 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The brits will never match the wokeness of our roundabouts
May 31, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Have you seen this? (from Life magazine in 1949)

The thing I think it really gets right is that a theory of the middlebrow needs a distinction between the upper-middlebrow and lower-middlebrow, and I think calling something upper-middlebrow can be even more cutting if you do it right
May 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
looks like you've got regions, which aren't a parent geography to SA3s
May 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I'm a NSW irredentist. Retvrn!
March 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I don't know much about Coolio but I do know that he's pro-light rail and anti-yarralumla and that's good enough for me
March 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I couldn't stop myself from picturing Harvard's lawyers as these guys
September 13, 2024 at 2:42 AM
August 1, 2023 at 9:10 AM