John Nurick

Great thread of vegan recipe websites - most of them focused on being CHEAP and EASY!

Sometimes I feel old...

BTW, how many of them realised unprompted that there has been more than one Germany?

The Long Way Round: The remarkable journey of the California Clipper, Part 1 In 1941, the Japanese attacked Hawaii, leaving Pan Am flight 18602 trapped the wrong side of Pearl Harbour, To get home, its civilian crew would have to do something incredible: circumnavigate the wor...

In December 1941, Pan Am flight 18602 was trapped the wrong side of the Pacific by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

To get home, her civilian crew would need to do the near-impossible: circumnavigate the world in commercial seaplane.

In our new series, we tell tell their remarkable story.

I wish someone had told me this 50 years ago.

No matter the platform you should have your default feed be reverse chron of who/what you follow and curate and diversify that feed.

You’ll be better informed and less prone to disinfo and group think.

This is a hill I will die on.

The Musée Coloniale at Terveuren

In the interests of comparative museology, we went to Terveuren to see the costly changes made to the explosively racist and inflammatory Musée Colonial
The new building, an elegant, expensive Miesian box, together with the underground complex, has the effect of isolating the 1910 museum even more

YouTube video by NBC News Watch Trump's full remarks to U.S. troops in Japan

If you want to see trumps full speech in which he makes these threats here it is in its entirety. the American media is not telling us what is being said by the fascists.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=rgS2...

A printed image from an early seventeenth-century pamphlet titled "Traw Schaw Wem/ L. H. B. Wacht Frühe Auff. Und Schicket euch in die Zeit/ ..." (vd17 3:321649B). The image features an owl (with specs) holding two torches, surrounded by two candles. The German text says: What do torches, light or specs help, if the people do not want to see.

But have you tried using this image before you start complaining about your students not reading?

Detail of the "Glasses Apostle" painting in the altarpiece of the church of Bad Wildungen, Germany. Painted by Conrad von Soest in 1403, the painting is considered to be among the oldest depictions of eyeglasses north of the Alps

Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast

Let's roll.

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Interesting review of a new "AI browser". I'll stay well clear and feel that everyone else should too.
www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/...

I often braise it with a bit of miso, so I'll try roasting.

In my book the main thing with cabbage is not to add water.

"I think I shall have a rest from thinking as I have been told I do too much..."
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Postmark: 21 July 1906

Another fascinating etymological/linguistic chart from @yvanspijk.bsky.social. Maybe I'll be a linguist when I grow up.

I'm not getting a tag of any kind on this. Has it gone?

“Okay, okay, you guys have had your chance—the horses want another shot at it.”

“Okay, okay, you guys have had your chance—the horses want another shot at it.”

DiscontinuedNotes some typing

Reminder that there is a site with completely free subscription and no ads, and it sometimes mentions TV as well
www.discontinuednotes.com

samizdat in the digital age is w y l d

layer in genAI and the need for physical copies takes on a sharper more urgent point

sneaker nets, pigeons w 5 TB usb sticks, water proof headphones w 32 gb storage, open source printers/printing press, the return of the zine, etc

Helen Blanchard Born: October 25, 1840 One of the great inventors of the early industrial era

Happy Birthday, Helen Augusta Blanchard! Born October 25, 1840, Blanchard was one of the great inventors of the early industrial era and held 28 patents. Learn more: engineergirl.org/125209/Helen...

... necessarily has and uses the death penalty. And so on: he had doctrine for every aspect of life. In case anyone disagreed, he had a doctrine of the "right pastor" to prove you should zip it or find another church.

I won't say these beliefs are typical. At her church the pastor "taught bible doctrine". It was as if the text were clues to a cryptic crossword: a passage here, a verse there, consult the Greek and Hebrew, and soon enough you have demonstrated that a civilised and god-fearing country ...

The other thing I remember from that conversation is that Stonewall Jackson was such a very righteous man that, while he lived, God could not allow the North to win the Civil War.

Back in the 1990s an Texan I knew, a biblical literalist or all but, told me that no one was wrongfully executed in the US. God, she said, just would not allow it to happen.

The origin of the words ‘beanfeast’ and ‘beano’, from Alfred Duggan's 'Growing Up in the Thirteenth Century' (courtesy of @charliefarrow1 on X)

The thread of which this is part shows the appalling state of the UK Conservatives and by extension of the country.

The movie is worth watching too 🙂

The daring jewel heist at the Louvre was a masterclass in efficient planning, skill and organisation. It's imperative that the culprits are now apprehended and asked to form a government.

An altogether exceptionally severe winter...

Terrific thread on phone security 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Groan. But thank you.

Sounds like the back-story to a post-apocalyptic movie...

Well, that was the point