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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 1d

A bit tamer in that it initially seems to make more of a concession to the brain’s reasonable desire for interest and diversion but also worth your consideration: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_...

Easter Island - Wikipedia

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes you have weeks, you see, where your body is very tired but your mind will wander into the anxiety parlour if left to its own devices. It’s at times like this that you need to bring out the big guns of Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_(p...

Pulp (paper) - Wikipedia

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I often have painful joints and bone-deep fatigue as a side effect of IBD and it is a bit frustrating (not the worst thing in the world, all relative) that people will not internalise that they’re not best placed to judge who ‘deserves’ to have a seat or take a lift or whatever

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 1d

Anyhow. I’m in a bit of pain right this moment, relieved by keeping my limbs locked straight for as long as I can and by paracetamol. I still have ambitions to leave the house now and then and I just dislike thinking that every stranger is mentally assessing my laziness when I avoid stairs. Nbd.

Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 1d

[subtweet of a much bigger account cos no one needs more of these types of argument] Ah you can have all the mild mannered TfL signs you like saying that not all disabilities are visible and yet people seem pretty confident they can spot arthritic joints from the outside

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 1d

Give the Nobel to the Portland frog you cowards

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 2d

Hey this absolutely never happens but I have read a book by the Nobel Laureate! I think it was one of the most rewarding books I’ve read in the last decade. A review of Seiobo There Below by Hari Kunzru here: www.theguardian.com/books/2015/m...

Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai review – an exhilarating experience

The winner of this week’s Man Booker International prize has an extraordinary intensity unsurpassed in English-language fiction

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 3d

Careful: for your own safety I think it should only be read in a reclining position, preferably after midnight and in the first throes of sleep paralysis

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe warm up with a couple of weeks going through all of the entries on big cats. You could try whales, but my experience was that they were too interesting. The textile arts can wait, but The Loom is a true classic waiting for the truly tough sleepless night when you’ll need it

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 3d

This is maybe not entry level insomnia Wikipediaism however. The trick, as you’ll know, is to find a topic that tricks your dopamine receptors into thinking ‘ah yeah, that’ll be interesting’ and then let the entry’s insane structure, pedantic detail and unglossed jargon do the rest

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 3d

A strong contender for the month’s most effective insomnia-busting Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_in...

Silk industry in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 3d

I get the name right but keep hearing it in my head as The *Smashing* Machine [laudatory] as if it were a pastel-coloured 1960s lark starring Julie Andrews and Michael Crawford

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 3d

I keep misreading the new Dwayne Johnson film's title as "The Washing Machine"

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 3d

How she has managed to have enough self-regard to get her where she is. She probably is quicker at analytical yes/no thought than a lot of her peers and mistakes that for a more capable mind than others.

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 3d

My theory of Kemi Badenoch is that the only type of thought that she respects is passing through logic gates in real time. A thing is correct or not based on how the neurons fire in the moment. Explains why she doesn’t respect the need for briefing & can’t see the value in the humanities but also

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 4d

[niche content] I’m on my way out of payments regulation but I am glad that there is challenge to the BIS view out there because I’ve been watching well-respected people attempt to determine operational payments matters with reference only to monetary policy theory for a while

Disco Central Banker @centralbanker.bsky.social · 4d

I’m thrilled to announce my new ECB working paper on singleness of money and fungibility of stablecoins with other payment instruments! 🍾

Some BIS colleagues argued that stablecoins fail the singleness of money test… and the FT had this amazing quote…

But I disagree!

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 5d

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 5d

People think American cultural hegemony looks like McDonald’s drive throughs but it’s also bougie food halls. (Laudatory)

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✄---Rob--Ives--- @robives.bsky.social · 6d

Download the pdf instructions and make your own puffer fish automata from conkers and paper clips!
#STEAMjunk #WildMaking
www.robives.com/project/puff...

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 9d

By the way, do yourself a favor: Disco Elysium is only 10 bucks on Steam right now.

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 9d

Look in the mirror, are you the sort of person who could make your dream kitchen from 3 different sets of castoff units? No, learned one, I am not. I am not that sort of person in the good way. I am not that sort of person in the bad way.

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 9d

I mean, yes! In both directions! Would I do that? No, it’s a lunatic plan. Could I do that? No, I’d have multiple failures of confidence about choice of materials etc etc etc. in the end I feel like kev mcC has led us another step on the way to enlightenment: be truthful with yourself now,

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 9d

I think maybe that if you have decided in these anxious times to make your living from the visual arts then the one thing that is absolutely no-negotiation necessary - whether innate or acquired - is confidence in your vision. The lessons from that episode are, er, nuanced I would say.

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 9d

Not the hempcrete artist lady?

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 9d

I realised halfway through my journey that I’d failed to properly assess this important question and craned my neck to look down the carriage. I think so. But I’d need to have another look to know.

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 9d

Relieved to note they have kept the unearthly sound which seems to emanate from something 5cm behind my eyes that denotes that the doors are about to close. The old ways are best.

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 9d

Omg you guys I’m on a new dlr train and as you know by now ‘new transport thing’ is the most exciting thing that can happen in a Londoner’s life

The interior of a new dlr train - not pictured: the two tweens on roller skates stood within handy falling-on-me distance

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