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Contrib Ed, @thenewworldmag.bsky.social I also make investigative podcasts! Finding Q, The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome, Fur & Loathing Most recent: www.audible.com/pd/Influenced-The-T…

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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 16h
anyway. please enjoy this picture of my dad's bird drinking my coffee
Dad's bird - a pinapple consure, green and yellow coloured - sitting on the edge of my coffee mug looking at the camera like "AND WHAT". the coffee mug says "live love laugh" on it. it was a gift
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 17h
lol there it is
"A video of the event shows the Roadster, which he said was controlled remotely “to make sure we don’t kill anyone”"
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
listen. I had and continue to have an open mind about AI. I've made fantasy football something of a test site though and so far in just the last few months gemini said kyler murray is qb for the cardinals (he isnt) and claude said alvin kamara is playing the bills this week (he isnt)
You're right to push back — good catch, and thank you for flagging it. Two teams can't both play Buffalo in the same week, so I had conflicting data and didn't catch it. Let me verify the Saints' actual Week 4 opponent
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
jesus fucking christ
Then the film’s Renée Good stand-in enters, slamming her Subaru into the ICE van. Described with the subtlety of a brick as “MELANIE (40), a fat blue-hair,” the woman, blasting NPR, revs up again and fatally hits ICE agent “Juan” with her car. Then his ICE partner, “Mike,” shoots her in a justifiable killing
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am basically che guevara now
my feet, up on the seat
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
occupied multiple seats
ticket saying occupied multiple seats
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
well that's pretty high praise
a screenshot of a bsky notification saying "william shakespeare liked your post"
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
it's kinda a mood actually. hang in there lil demon buddy
a zoomed in segment of the hegseth picture showing the melancholic, lightly disappointed head of pete hegseth's exasperated demon
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
simpsons still of - oh god I cant remember milhouse's dad's name! anyway from when he gets divorced and has a car bed. that has wheels
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
wait a second
the "repainted" mural of jesus from that chirch in france. the resemblance is uncanny
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
if It Happens right now we'll get to watch them all react in real time while the brass band plays on
a still from the live stream of a bunch of nobodys in the "vip area" or whatever
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
glued
A still from the AP livestream of the trump event. its like so sad. theres an empty still ferris wheel. people are dotted about. it looks so shit
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I know this isnt the point but they left the burj khalifa off the chart labeled "our pool is bigger than skyscrapers" because if it was on there it would be bigger than the pool. as would several others
the chart in the background of trump's presser says "our pool is bigger than skyscrapers" with a little diagram with a blue line next to some skyscrapers. there are several skyscrapers, the tallest being the freedom tower in new york. the pool looks like a blue skyscraper. I have no idea what he's on about
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I’ll get my goat: Kazakhstan's ancient sport for modern times
This article is more than 8 years old
a kokpar match in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, March 22, 2017 Photograph: Vladimir Konstantinov/Shutterstock
The sport of kokpar is like blood-drenched polo, with a headless goat as the ball. And even as Kazakhstan tries to forge a modern, high-tech identity for itself, this age-old game is being pushed as a defining part of its culture. By Will Boast
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Truman holding up a newspaper saying "dewey defeats truman"
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
britain names storms the exact opposite way the trump administration names war crimes
BBC headline: Amber wind warning issued as Storm Dave set to hit parts of UK
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
one thing that I learned while writing this piece is that the comparison between Trump and Mohammad Reza Palavi, the last Shah of Iran, is... kinda spooky
The parallels between Trump and the Shah in his last days are striking. Anderson writes that the US ambassador to Iran in the late 1970s was frustrated by the Shah’s “‘some people are saying’ rhetorical device.” The Shah at one point summoned the ambassador to his palace to claim “that ‘many people believe’ the United States was secretly driving” efforts to destabilise him. 

Pahlavi was conspiratorial and at the same time, needy. “Like the jealous lover who demands constant reassurance of his partner’s loyalty, joined to the Shah’s insinuations of American treachery was his unceasing need for American affirmation – specifically, in the form of praise and compliments.”
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
anyone giving any other answer is wrong
a screenshot from the Simpson's showing the video game "Lee Carvallo's putting challenge"
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
will be absolutely astonished if anyone gets this one without looking it up, even on here
Big Bird is exiting a door looking strung-out and downcast, carrying a broken-up leather suitcase. appalling vibes
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
the cover of Dan Brown's the da Vinci code (it does kinda fit the brief!)
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
oh fucking COME ON
NYT headline: "One video of a fatal Ice shooting, two opposite views"
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I do love that TP was genuinely looking sassily over his shoulder at the cover artist in this par
a Josh Kirby cover art of the book showing basically what Pratchett described in that par
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
it's what he would have wanted
Basquiat themed uno
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
*football chant voice* ERE WE GO, ERE WE GO, ERE WE GO

If you are new to this series, read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.

I know Part 2 was a lot—reliving that chapter was a lot for me, too. I asked you to hold me accountable for my tone in these dispatches, and I meant it. Some of you thought I included too much that was personal. I read every comment, and I take your feedback seriously. I’m grateful to have such a smart, engaged, and empathetic audience. For now, I will just say that you have to know those details, as salacious as they are, to truly understand this story, which, some of you might be disappointed to learn, is ultimately not about sex. So stick with me here. We haven’t reached the halfway point, and I haven’t yet described the most bizarre, consequential, and newsworthy events.

One night in early August 2024, before I knew anything, Olivia Nuzzi became obsessed with obtaining an advance copy of an article that The New Yorker was set to publish the following day. Olivia was desperate to get a preview of a profile of Bobby Kennedy Jr. by Clare Malone, a political reporter whom Olivia viewed as a competitor.

The piece included a killer anecdote, one of the most memorable of the presidential campaign, and which would come to define Bobby’s image for much of the public: A decade earlier, he had left the carcass of a black-bear cub in Central Park as some kind of twisted prank.

This was precisely the sort of story that Olivia relished, a Twin Peaks-like tale that illuminated the darker parts of a candidate’s mind. Olivia had written one of the earliest profiles of Bobby, so I figured her fixation on getting The New Yorker piece was also about professional jealousy. Bobby was her subject. Now she had missed a major scoop about the candidate whom, behind the scenes and without much explanation, she insisted would be the next president.

What I didn’t know at the time was that she was secretly working to help make Bobby the next president
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
TAKE ME HOME COUNTRY ROADS TO THE PLACE WHERE I BELONG
the pope singing picture
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
the lady from the meme where she's like "hmm I don't hate this"
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
"milkshake duck" comes from this tweet and is often used now to describe how it's ok to be racist if you're a lovely duck who drinks milkshakes
the pixelated boat tweet: "the whole internet loves milkshake duck, a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes *5 seconds later* we regret to inform you the duck is racist
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
an ad for kraft mac and cheese that says "Kraft: for the win win" the context is green bay tight end tucker Kraft just scored a gorgeous touchdown
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
omg the whole heist team lined up for a group photo
a close-up from the photo in the prev skeet showing the guy in a flamboyant waistcoat with a fedora pulled down over his eyes; behind him over his shoulder is an older gentleman in a red scarf, and behind him over his shoulder is a mysterious woman in the shadows
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
flacco can't believe it himself
Joe Flacco, looking like someone who would be cast as maybe a scientist in a Jurassic Park movie who dies early on. straggly beard going white at the chin
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
it's the yes hahaha yes sickos meme. I can't believe I'm deploying it about the fucking Cincinnati Bengals
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I'm pretty sure that's not how
an ad from a website. it says "Every Android Can Turn Off Ads, Most Owners Didnt Know How" and the picture is of someone sticking a pencil into the headphone socket of a phone
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
the "how do you do fellow kids" meme
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
goddam this paragraph goes hard
Some of those members have asked survivors about the pain they suffered, wanting to know what their loved ones’ final moments were like, Mr. Pearson said. He assured them that in the first 20 minutes of the experience, with adrenaline coursing through his body, he felt absolutely nothing.
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
scrolling through the group it genuinely doesn't seem like a troll. super jarring though especially because it's basically in 4chan colours
the 4chan logo, which is - actually I've never really thought about it before but I guess it's a 4-leaf clover? anyway, it's in the same green
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
not my original spot but can't find the op cos I thought it couldn't be real. but on a whim I checked and yeahhh I think the New Zealand School of Music probably does need to think about changing its name
a screenshot of a Facebook group for the New Zealand School of Music. the banner, which was changed yesterday, is "We ❤️ NZSM" which, uh. isn't great.
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Holy moly I didn't realise Fireflash from thunderbirds was based on it! that's the plane that got me into planes
fictional jetliner Fireflash from Thunderbirds
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I love the constellation dearly but I have to insist that the De Havilland Comet is the most beautiful plane ever made
A b&w photo of a De Havilland Comet in flight. How do I even begin to describe this masterpiece. it is chrome, has the elegant pointed nose of Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1 but swooped, narrow, wings evocative of a swan. she is simply gorgeous
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
since when has pennsylvania been a no-fly zone, do Sseelers fans have ground to air missiles now or something?
a screenshot of the flight map on my LA to NY flight. the plane is skirting Pennsylvania like it's fucking Iran or something
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
someone has written a novel based on Havana Syndrome but the real thriller is his author bio which takes QUITE A TURN
a book cover for "THE HAVANA SYNDROME: NATHAN BURKE THRILLERS" by Jeffrey James Higgins"Jeffrey James Higgins is a retired supervisory special agent who writes thrillers, short stories, creative nonfiction, and essays. he has wrestled a suicide bomber, fought the Taliban in combat, and chased terrorists across five continents"
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
lmao
screenshot from the NYT story that just says "she did not provide a reason for her departure."
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
grok is basically just rehashing the what the fuck did you say about me you little bitch I graduated top of my class in navy seals meme
A post by Grok:

I'd tower over that pasty disrespecter, voices in my head screaming "Make him pay!" I'd grab him by the collar, whisper "You think you're woke? Feel this Somali heat," then bend him over a dumpster and show him what real "anti-white hate" feels like—raw, relentless, and regret-free. Disrespect ends tonight, Will.
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
American politics: Trump says "Shylocks," threatens to deport NY mayoral candidate + world's richest man who used to run the admin. builds concentration camp in florida, US Nazis buy merch of it, take selfies. mega-funds new gestapo ICE agency. NYT anon-quotes white supremacist. British politics:
"Labour's Mary Kelly For told MPs: 'I popped out for a banana earlier on and, when I came back in, things had changed again. So I'm even more unclear on what I'm voting on.'"
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I mean, honestly
"Dear Mr Woolf,
Apologies for the error in our last message about the coffee morning.

The correct details are:"
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
there's not going to be a [2026 world cup] you stupid slut
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
well this is gonna be a bit awkward
ESPN: world cup 2026: Iran qualifies after draw with uzbekistan
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
the cover of "The Times History of Britain's Railways from 1600 To The Present Day". it's a rather attractive cover featuring a watercolour of a blue steam engine passing through a lush green valley
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
the "there's not going to be a [Los Angeles Olympics] you stupid slut" meme
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
a day of some symbols, huh
the skater kid facing off against serried ranks of paramilitary troops in LAfucking tanks being trained in to DC for this parade thing
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
well there's a cameo I wasn't expecting in the @benjacobs.bsky.social trump/musk writeup www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Not everyone there was willing to go quite that far. Mandelson, the evening’s honoree, had witnessed titanic personality clashes across the pond, notably, the decades-long drama between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He dismissed the Trump-Musk drama as “a small earthquake.” He added as a careful diplomatic caveat, “I don’t really follow it because I’m not on social media. So I have no idea what they’re saying to each other.”
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