Nick Brooke
@hidrnick.brookeinsights.com
Hi, everybody! 👋
Dad, mathematician, freelancer, nerd. #OKC.
A fact is just a fantasy unless it can be checked. #ScienceRules
Dad, mathematician, freelancer, nerd. #OKC.
A fact is just a fantasy unless it can be checked. #ScienceRules
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At least one of the monkeys got a much happier ending than the others.
A monkey who spent several days on the lam after escaping from a truck that crashed on a rural Mississippi highway earlier this year now has a permanent home at a New Jersey wildlife refuge.
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Monkey Who Escaped Mississippi Highway Crash Has New Permanent Home at New Jersey Refuge
A monkey who spent several days on the lam after escaping a crashed truck in Mississippi now has a permanent home at a New Jersey wildlife refuge.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
At least one of the monkeys got a much happier ending than the others.
We are led by El Presidente from Tropico.
December 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM
We are led by El Presidente from Tropico.
Excel is the greatest software product of all time.
A look at Microsoft Excel's evolution, as it remains the most widely used spreadsheet software with 500M paying users despite competition from Google and others (Bloomberg)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Excel is the greatest software product of all time.
Five Babylons.
I think everyone needs to watch BABE again at their earliest convenience.
Recharge your soul.
Recharge your soul.
a man in a hat is standing in front of a horse drawn cart and says come pig .
ALT: a man in a hat is standing in front of a horse drawn cart and says come pig .
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Five Babylons.
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"Thagomizer" in Japanese is, in fact, サゴマイザー/sagomaizaa, and you can imagine my delight when it dawned on me what the katakana I was reading represented.
Come to think of it, Johnny, what's the Thagomizer called in Japanese?
December 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Thagomizer" in Japanese is, in fact, サゴマイザー/sagomaizaa, and you can imagine my delight when it dawned on me what the katakana I was reading represented.
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easy to imagine benny johnson huffing asbestos on camera to own the libs
it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.
Bring back residential-use lead paint, you cowards.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
easy to imagine benny johnson huffing asbestos on camera to own the libs
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Did you know #Apple has what amounts to an online manual for iOS 26 and the #iPhone? Once you get into a specific topic from the table of contents, you can select older versions of iOS, too. Or, just change the version number in the URL.
support.apple.com/guide/iphone...
support.apple.com/guide/iphone...
iPhone User Guide
Here’s everything you need to know about iPhone, straight from Apple. This definitive guide helps you get started using iPhone and discover all the amazing things it can do.
support.apple.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Did you know #Apple has what amounts to an online manual for iOS 26 and the #iPhone? Once you get into a specific topic from the table of contents, you can select older versions of iOS, too. Or, just change the version number in the URL.
support.apple.com/guide/iphone...
support.apple.com/guide/iphone...
The Iron Law of Business Mathematics:
Math about profit and loss is the best math.
Math about profit and loss is the best math.
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The Iron Law of Business Mathematics:
Math about profit and loss is the best math.
Math about profit and loss is the best math.
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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Brett Kavanagh, his friends, and his family will be living with these images until their dying days. Unimaginable betrayal of the American creed.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Brett Kavanagh, his friends, and his family will be living with these images until their dying days. Unimaginable betrayal of the American creed.
Holds up pretty well.
December 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Holds up pretty well.
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Are the Republicans in serious trouble going into 2026?
December 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Are the Republicans in serious trouble going into 2026?
Her words aren't wording good.
BERMAN: How many of the 40,000 people born in Somalia living in Minnesota do you consider to be garbage?
McLAUGHLIN: We're really looking at the data
BERMAN: All of them?
McLAUGHLIN: This is not about politics. This is about public safety. We saw the terrorist attack against us last week.
McLAUGHLIN: We're really looking at the data
BERMAN: All of them?
McLAUGHLIN: This is not about politics. This is about public safety. We saw the terrorist attack against us last week.
December 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Her words aren't wording good.
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Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
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If you get turned away from your polling place because staff at the polling locations are telling you that you were redistricted out of TN-7 despite what the online information is indicating, please request a provisional ballot. Call the hot line number, 1-833-DEM-VOTE if there are any issues.
Hey TN today is your chance to flip this seat and elect @aftynbehn.bsky.social. She’ll fight: to lower grocery bills, for better roads, and to save rural hospitals! Polls are open until 7 PM CST! Make a plan to vote and bring with you or tell friends to vote for her! See below if you need a ride.
December 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
If you get turned away from your polling place because staff at the polling locations are telling you that you were redistricted out of TN-7 despite what the online information is indicating, please request a provisional ballot. Call the hot line number, 1-833-DEM-VOTE if there are any issues.
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Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom
Talk about a trashed panda.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
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Alex Horton, one of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the story, has been a participant in more violent combat than Pete Hegseth by an order of magnitude.
It's not a coincidence that he got the scoop.
It's not a coincidence that he got the scoop.
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Alex Horton, one of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the story, has been a participant in more violent combat than Pete Hegseth by an order of magnitude.
It's not a coincidence that he got the scoop.
It's not a coincidence that he got the scoop.
Watch this and ask yourself, why do we not see wall-to-wall "special report" network broadcast coverage that the president's brain is scrambled?
Trump claims that gas prices are "$1.99 in some places of the country. Unthinkable."
December 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Watch this and ask yourself, why do we not see wall-to-wall "special report" network broadcast coverage that the president's brain is scrambled?
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Not acknowledging World AIDS Day and engaging in COVID revisionism are straight from the eugenics playbook. One of the most effective ways of making people invisible is by erasing their history.
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Not acknowledging World AIDS Day and engaging in COVID revisionism are straight from the eugenics playbook. One of the most effective ways of making people invisible is by erasing their history.
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Texas Tech has decided it wants to be a football program affiliated with something equivalent to an air conditioning repair school
TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
December 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Texas Tech has decided it wants to be a football program affiliated with something equivalent to an air conditioning repair school
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If you have to get your syllabus approved by an apparatchik before you can teach a class, you're not a university anymore you're a regime indoctrination center.
TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
December 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
If you have to get your syllabus approved by an apparatchik before you can teach a class, you're not a university anymore you're a regime indoctrination center.
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Going on any other social media site makes me realize that bluesky isn’t so bad
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Going on any other social media site makes me realize that bluesky isn’t so bad
Went to the optometrist the other day and joked that I could no longer use a dictionary without buying an "old man" magnifying glass. 🔎
Dr. Cooper looks at me solemnly. "Nick, you ought to invest in a high-quality magnifying glass. You'll be using one for the rest of your life."
Tough, but fair.
Dr. Cooper looks at me solemnly. "Nick, you ought to invest in a high-quality magnifying glass. You'll be using one for the rest of your life."
Tough, but fair.
December 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Went to the optometrist the other day and joked that I could no longer use a dictionary without buying an "old man" magnifying glass. 🔎
Dr. Cooper looks at me solemnly. "Nick, you ought to invest in a high-quality magnifying glass. You'll be using one for the rest of your life."
Tough, but fair.
Dr. Cooper looks at me solemnly. "Nick, you ought to invest in a high-quality magnifying glass. You'll be using one for the rest of your life."
Tough, but fair.
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OK, internet, from a pretty awesome discussion with someone who has a different view than me, have a question. Is the following hypothetical bullying:
Someone on my block rants to his Facebook friends every Saturday about how he hates seeing the damn kike walking to synagogue
Please comment
Someone on my block rants to his Facebook friends every Saturday about how he hates seeing the damn kike walking to synagogue
Please comment
December 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
OK, internet, from a pretty awesome discussion with someone who has a different view than me, have a question. Is the following hypothetical bullying:
Someone on my block rants to his Facebook friends every Saturday about how he hates seeing the damn kike walking to synagogue
Please comment
Someone on my block rants to his Facebook friends every Saturday about how he hates seeing the damn kike walking to synagogue
Please comment
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Read this, if you read nothing else on this topic. The right wing attacks in the OU situation are fully dishonest. Don't stand for dithering on grades regarding a paper that blatantly violated the university's own publicly stated academic policy.
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People
A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic.
(Note for free subscriber...
www.burnsnotice.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Read this, if you read nothing else on this topic. The right wing attacks in the OU situation are fully dishonest. Don't stand for dithering on grades regarding a paper that blatantly violated the university's own publicly stated academic policy.