Jack Nicholas
@jackrn
Jack Nicholas
Purpose Creep
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purpose creep
A Quaker wedding and the moment of a stammer
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The world has gone mad. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/17/armed-police-threatened-to-arrest-kent-protester-for-holding-palestinian-flag and the assault on free speech continues. Words, labels, are taken to mean support for an organisation and are suppressed. Unable to articulate is oppression. An assault on thought and on human contact.
Liquid Glass
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In Laokoon (1766), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing argued that dynamic actions, when forced into static media like sculpture, lose their natural expression and become distorted. Animating an inherently static material like glass risks creating aesthetic dissonance
Touching Time
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karine polwart siccar point
A walk-n-talk works like this: gather 5-10 curious, kind, generous, patient, inspiring people and set a walking course through the countryside for a week, plus or minus a day or two. A week works well because it may take a day or two or three for people to open up, for the so-called “situational extroverts” to fully emerge from their shells, for th... See more