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John Nurick

@jmnurick.bsky.social
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Retired, King George Sound Mammang-Koort. Makes things including photographs, furniture, recipes, software, bits of metal, coffee. Not enough time for reading.

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Physgal ⚛️ @physgal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just needs alt-text:
How to avoid sexual assault! A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE* 

sexual violence centre cork 

1 DON'T PUT DRUGS IN PEOPLE'S DRINKS 

4 WHEN YOU SEE A WOMAN WALKING BY HERSELF, LEAVE HER ALONE. 

3 WHEN YOU COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO IS DRUNK OR ASLEEP, THE BEST THING TO DO IS NOT RAPE THEM. 

6 CARRY A WHISTLE. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT RAPE SOMEONE, BLOW THE WHISTLE UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO STOP YOU.

2 USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF FROM SEXUALLY ASSAULTING SOMEONE, ASK A TRUSTED FRIEND TO ACCOMPANY YOU AT ALL TIMES TO STOP YOU. 

5 IF YOU ARE IN A LIFT AND SOMEONE STEPS IN, REMEMBER NOT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT THEM.

*for perpetrators.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.
Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic
the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth
— the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “informa-
tion”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from
human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently
wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem.
Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Marcela Suarez, et al. (2025, n.p.)
Knowledge production is supposed to be safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research
integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018). Such codes forbid, for instance, fabrication of data,
falsification of results, plagiarism, and, generally, distortion of the scientific record. Many argue that
new rules are required to regulate academic AI use, but pre-existing guidelines fit the bill (cf. Tafani
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John Nurick @jmnurick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Delighted to see Trump's executive order requiring Americans to use SI. No more foot-pounds, acre-feet or sticks of butter!
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote about medical misogyny and the male gaze (re Paterson and the news that it has happened again) unherd.com/2026/09/put-...
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Put medical misogyny under the knife
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 28/09/2026
Travellers recall Nullarbor crossings before and after Eyre Highway was sealed
abc.net.au
Eyre Highway marks 50 years since final section was sealed
Some travellers still remember crossing the Nullarbor on the unsealed road with bumps, breakdowns, and floods all part of the journey.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Next time someone tells you off for going to BlueSky and says you should have stayed and fought show them this.
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John Nurick @jmnurick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Job-hunting advice.
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ᴄʏᴄʟᴏᴢ @cyclozparis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy as Albert Einstein on a bicycle 🚲
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tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Farmers who intend to vote for One Nation should know that they are accepting that “climate change” is normal.By doing so they will negate any logical argument for taxpayer assistance when “normal” weather events occur. Don’t ask for help if you deny the very thing you need help to overcome!
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 23/09/2026
guaranteed vote winner
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interesting that Quest Apartments breach included nearly 2 million individuals personal data including credit card CVV stored unlawfully and Albanese has had nothing to say about it
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John Nurick @jmnurick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Okay...
Your closest match:
Pope Leo XIV

plus photo of the Pope..Your results 

52% Woke 48% Chud 
42% TechBro 52% Neo-Luddite 
63% Hopepilled 37% Sooner
75% Davos 25% Dubai
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Alastair Harper @alastairharper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thomas Edison in 1910. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves on this net zero business, lads
Someday some fellow will invent a way of concentrating and storing sunshine to use instead of this old, absurd Prometheus scheme of fire.
I'll do the trick myself if someone doesn't get at it....
This scheme of combustion in order to get power makes me sick to think of—it is so wasteful.... We should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh no; we burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel.
We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property. There must surely come a time when heat and power will be stored in unlimited quantities in every community, all gathered by natural forces. Electricity ought to be as cheap as oxygen, for it cannot be destroyed.
Now, I am not sure but that my new storage battery is the thing. 167
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John Nurick @jmnurick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good, enjoyable piece on the problems of humanitarian & development aid and how Effective Altruism isn't The Solution.
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Not So New Here @3ohio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
20/x So here is the real Somali pirate movie. Hollywood filmed the captain who was rescued. Belgium invented a film that was never going to be made, cast the villain as its star, and let him fly in for the premiere. The red carpet straight to prison
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Leonard Cohen by Graeme Mitchell Los Angeles, September 2016 - two months before his death "I’ve got some work to do,” he said to his son Adam near the end. "Take care of business. I am ready to die. I hope it’s not too uncomfortable. That’s about it for me."
Cohen sits on a chair with his cane. He leans on a table, with a splendid cat next to him.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One thing that AI seems to be showing is that areas we thought we valued because of their results (such as science) we really valued at least in part because of their challenge to human dedication, spirit, ingenuity, intelligence and imagination.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is such a hoot of a post. Read it. It's good for the soul.
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Asterix Archiv 🐗 @comedix.de · 20/09/2026
Eine schöne Bastel- und Malarbeit. Manchmal trägt Obelix den Hinkelstein. Manchmal ist Obelix der Hinkelstein. Dürfte nicht leicht gewesen sein, diesen Stein zu finden. #Asterix #Fanart
Das Bild zeigt einen kleinen, länglichen und nach oben abgerundeten Stein, dessen Form an einen Hinkelstein erinnert. Der Stein wurde rundherum so bemalt, dass er selbst zum Körper von Obelix wird.
Auf der Vorderseite sind Obelix’ Gesicht mit den roten Zöpfen, sein nackter Oberkörper sowie der grüne Gürtel mit großer gelber Schnalle zu sehen. Darunter setzt sich seine typische blau-weiß gestreifte Hose bis zum unteren Rand des Steins fort. Seine Füße stehen auf einer kleinen grünen Wiese, die mit roten Pilzen und Blumen verziert ist. Der obere, dunkelgraue Teil des Steins bleibt weitgehend unbemalt und wirkt dadurch wie ein Hinkelstein, der hinter Obelix aufragt.
Die Rückseite löst den kleinen optischen Scherz auf: Dort fehlen Kopf und Oberkörper völlig. Stattdessen sieht man nur Obelix’ Arme, die sich von beiden Seiten um den grauen Stein legen. Seine Hände greifen hinter dem „Hinkelstein“ ineinander. Darunter sind wiederum die gestreifte Hose und seine Füße auf der Wiese zu erkennen.
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🐆National Chair, Leopards Eating People's Faces Party 🐆 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If Musk and Trump are so rich, how come they're not smart? 😈
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026
As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed". Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
1/x On a misty Sunday morning in 1942, in the empty middle of the South Atlantic, a cargo ship sailing empty met a German warship. The warship ordered her to stop. She attacked instead. Both ships died that morning. This is the SS Stephen Hopkins, and the duel of 27 September. #maritimehistory
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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John Nurick @jmnurick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Illuminating thread.
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Office Watch @officewatch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Star Trek's Kobayashi Maru is a test with no good options. Updating #MicrosoftOffice feels exactly the same. Here's how to navigate Microsoft's no win scenario. #StarTrek #Microsoft365 #Office2024 office-watch.com/2026/updating-micr…
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
IF ONLY THE LABOUR PARTY WAS IN GOVERNMENT
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A reminder that evangelical doctrine, up to and including the wildly popular Left Behind book series where the Democratic president essentially does exactly this, has for decades insisted this is how the antichrist will reveal himself.
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John Nurick @jmnurick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm the least rock & roll person in the world and Young Einstein is one of my favourite movies. Very sad now to read about its creator.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
May I interest you in the upgraded Solon Package, which will regularly remind you that you may count no one happy until they're dead?
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
my personal view is that you should treat AI as if you were a magician attempting to command a spirit that is inhuman, potentially useful, and invested in attempting to convince you it is something other than it is. you know, rationally.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am now offering access to my vibe coded AI assistant that sends you a popup notification ever hour reading only "Remember thou art mortal"
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As if the headline isn't enough incentive, do read this short news story to the last paragraph because MAN does it escalate! playbill.com/article/man-...
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Man Sentenced to 2-Year Jail Sentence After Strangling Fellow Theatregoer for Singing Along During We Will Rock You
The dust-up happened at a 2023 press performance in London's West End.
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 09/09/2026
And then suddenly you find the most important question ever asked in an 17th century book. The depth, the power, the genius... Is cheese rational? Well, is it? IS IT?! web.archive.org/web/20200915...
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Great obit of a man with the courage of his confections www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/w...
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Noël Godin, Prankster Who Threw Pies at the Powerful, Dies at 80 (Gift Article)
Splattering figures like Bill Gates, Jean-Luc Godard and Bernard-Henri Lévy, he perfected the art of using whipped cream as a form of protest.
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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Are you interested in joining an online study group on the Book of Abramelin? (You'll know immediately if you are or not!) If so, please click on the link in the next tweet. Please also retweet this for publicity 🙏
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Karen J Watson 🇨🇦 @watsonkaren.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Jen Greerson, The Line🇨🇦: "I think we’ve reached the end of a real bilateral relationship with the United States. Friendship is over...I’m sure a lot of decent Americans exist, and they feel very bad about all of this, just not bad enough to do anything to stop it." open.substack.com/pub/theline/...
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Jen Gerson: (this is real)
I think we’ve reached the end of a real bilateral relationship with the United States. Friendship is over. Even a transactional alliance is pretty damn close to the brink.
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John Nurick @jmnurick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Functionality? Have you ever tried pulling off your jackboots in zero gravity?
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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#cymru #wales If you're skeptical about what these two Welsh farmers are alleged to have done over the weekend according to this AI translation, an alternative translation is in the alt-text. h/t Hywel Mallett @hmallett@toot.wales
A screenshot of a BBC news post from Facebook. The headline is in Welsh and describes a 24-hour sheep-shearing marathon by two farmers held to raise money for charity. The automated translation to English says that "Two farmers from Powys have completed an ethnic harvesting challenge over the weekend" and are now raising funds for their victims.
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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A thread for the anniversary of the start of World War II. It is remarkable how the news headlines in the immediate run-up to the outbreak of war were *not* dominated by the growing crisis. /1
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My latest on The Antidote: Survival Through Kindness. What concepts like natural selection miss is that no one survives without being rescued (usually multiple times). carissaveliz.substack.com/p/survival-t...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/09/2026
Which one is Scott Morrison speaking to press in the midst of the 2020 Australian bushfires? Which one is Anthony Albanese speaking to press after the 2026 Nepal floods?
"There have been a lot of provocative comments made [about climate change] over the last few days from all sides of the debate and I find it very unhelpful. There is a time and a place to debate controversial issues and important issues, right now it's important to focus on the needs of Australians who need our help”


“There will be time to examine the science and what has occurred here. My thoughts are solely focused, at this point in time, on the families and on the extraordinarily difficult time that we’re going through and offering our support….those debates will take place. But I don't think, from Australia's perspective, now's the time”
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John Nurick @jmnurick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ghastly drink, "autumn sipper" not bad, @secondmentions.com.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Critically, AI emissions are growing today, while AI-enabled emissions reductions will take time, creating an AI "carbon debt" that accelerates warming. Even if that debt is eventually repaid by AI climate solutions, the additional warming and climate damage will persist for decades to millennia”
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
​Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O​’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.
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