Sunil Nair
@spuriousmallu.bsky.social
Remote customer support to a 19 year old daughter and onsite on demand slave to a 8 year old cat.
In my free time I help build www.clairva.ai
I have also written a few children's books https://www.amazon.in/-/hi/Sunil-Nair/dp/8193631803
In my free time I help build www.clairva.ai
I have also written a few children's books https://www.amazon.in/-/hi/Sunil-Nair/dp/8193631803
I have reached an age where my knees introduce me before I do, and my face carries the authority of a man who might apologise before committing a crime.
Which is how I discovered a role I never applied for: incidental threat.
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Which is how I discovered a role I never applied for: incidental threat.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
Notes from an Incidental Threat
I have reached the age where my body has begun issuing apologies on my behalf.
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December 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I have reached an age where my knees introduce me before I do, and my face carries the authority of a man who might apologise before committing a crime.
Which is how I discovered a role I never applied for: incidental threat.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
Which is how I discovered a role I never applied for: incidental threat.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
I sometimes go to Changi Airport without a ticket and sit at Jewel, watching the world move.
Americans chasing wonder.
Indians carrying home in their hand luggage.
Airports don’t show you where people are going.
They show you who they are when they think no one’s looking
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Americans chasing wonder.
Indians carrying home in their hand luggage.
Airports don’t show you where people are going.
They show you who they are when they think no one’s looking
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
The Global Pilgrims
(From a café in Singapore’s Jewel, watching the world in motion and seeing, in every traveller, an echo of history.)
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December 21, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I sometimes go to Changi Airport without a ticket and sit at Jewel, watching the world move.
Americans chasing wonder.
Indians carrying home in their hand luggage.
Airports don’t show you where people are going.
They show you who they are when they think no one’s looking
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
Americans chasing wonder.
Indians carrying home in their hand luggage.
Airports don’t show you where people are going.
They show you who they are when they think no one’s looking
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
We need an updated Netflix original to replace house of cards.
December 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
We need an updated Netflix original to replace house of cards.
Reposted by Sunil Nair
A more damning indictment of Pune food culture cannot be imagined
December 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
A more damning indictment of Pune food culture cannot be imagined
Every tyrant has a thousand helpers who call themselves realists.
History is not a story of conquest but of consent. Across centuries, empires rose not because the strong triumphed, but because the many complied.
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History is not a story of conquest but of consent. Across centuries, empires rose not because the strong triumphed, but because the many complied.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
The Quiet Betrayers: A History of Enablers
There are silences in history that weigh more than words. They lie between the lines of victory, in the pauses of oaths, in the small acts…
medium.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Every tyrant has a thousand helpers who call themselves realists.
History is not a story of conquest but of consent. Across centuries, empires rose not because the strong triumphed, but because the many complied.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
History is not a story of conquest but of consent. Across centuries, empires rose not because the strong triumphed, but because the many complied.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
The world is heading towards a reset which gets us back to 18th century.
December 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The world is heading towards a reset which gets us back to 18th century.
This morning at the airport I learnt that the Gujarati lady seated behind me has bought 10k worth of maroon ane pink Victoria nu lingerie using her pappa na card. She is on the phone very thrilled about this fact. 🤡
November 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This morning at the airport I learnt that the Gujarati lady seated behind me has bought 10k worth of maroon ane pink Victoria nu lingerie using her pappa na card. She is on the phone very thrilled about this fact. 🤡
Who and when did we allow the western world to take the moral high ground when they are the villains of the last 800 years. Listening to Empire Podcast makes me wonder.
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Who and when did we allow the western world to take the moral high ground when they are the villains of the last 800 years. Listening to Empire Podcast makes me wonder.
I rewatched Birdman last week. It may be the most accurate midlife documentary ever made.
About ambition, ageing, ego, & the strange dignity of wanting more after 50.
If you have ever wondered whether u are flying or just dramatically tripping, this one might be for you.
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About ambition, ageing, ego, & the strange dignity of wanting more after 50.
If you have ever wondered whether u are flying or just dramatically tripping, this one might be for you.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
The Midlife Birdman Handbook
(Riggan Thomson was played by over the hill Micheal Keaton, who played the cinematic version of Batman once upon a time. Therein lies the…
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November 15, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I rewatched Birdman last week. It may be the most accurate midlife documentary ever made.
About ambition, ageing, ego, & the strange dignity of wanting more after 50.
If you have ever wondered whether u are flying or just dramatically tripping, this one might be for you.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
About ambition, ageing, ego, & the strange dignity of wanting more after 50.
If you have ever wondered whether u are flying or just dramatically tripping, this one might be for you.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
The age of consent in the US to be lowered to 8 years. That's my prediction.
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The age of consent in the US to be lowered to 8 years. That's my prediction.
The world never stopped being at war. The weapons changed; the noise did not.
We live in a permanent Cold War, fought with attention, exhaustion, & data.
This one is about quiet tension in lives, and the small, stubborn acts of tenderness that still keep us human.
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We live in a permanent Cold War, fought with attention, exhaustion, & data.
This one is about quiet tension in lives, and the small, stubborn acts of tenderness that still keep us human.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
The Weather of Fear
There is no peace anymore, only intervals between tremors.
The world has become a vast, humming nervous system, a body tensed perpetually…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The world never stopped being at war. The weapons changed; the noise did not.
We live in a permanent Cold War, fought with attention, exhaustion, & data.
This one is about quiet tension in lives, and the small, stubborn acts of tenderness that still keep us human.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
We live in a permanent Cold War, fought with attention, exhaustion, & data.
This one is about quiet tension in lives, and the small, stubborn acts of tenderness that still keep us human.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for President!
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for President!
Read “The Butterfly Effect and Other Modern Catastrophes“ by Sunil Nair on Medium: medium.com/@spurious-ma...
The Butterfly Effect and Other Modern Catastrophes
Edward Lorenz said one fine morning that a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil and somewhere in Texas there’s a tornado. Which is exactly…
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October 26, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Read “The Butterfly Effect and Other Modern Catastrophes“ by Sunil Nair on Medium: medium.com/@spurious-ma...
Reposted by Sunil Nair
The oligarchs are racing to build AI that replaces workers before workers wake up and replace them.
October 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The oligarchs are racing to build AI that replaces workers before workers wake up and replace them.
Some songs age.
Others wait for us to catch up.
Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car was written in 1988 and yet it still plays like a map of modern life.
Wherever you are, the song always seems to find you first.
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Others wait for us to catch up.
Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car was written in 1988 and yet it still plays like a map of modern life.
Wherever you are, the song always seems to find you first.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
Fast Cars and Slow Lives: Listening to Tracy Chapman in Any City
There are songs that belong to a decade, and there are songs that belong to the human condition. Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car, released in…
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October 19, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Some songs age.
Others wait for us to catch up.
Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car was written in 1988 and yet it still plays like a map of modern life.
Wherever you are, the song always seems to find you first.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
Others wait for us to catch up.
Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car was written in 1988 and yet it still plays like a map of modern life.
Wherever you are, the song always seems to find you first.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
King Charles 3 must be worried. What if the cousins from across the pond join in the fun.
October 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM
King Charles 3 must be worried. What if the cousins from across the pond join in the fun.
History remembers the lighthouses. But it’s the ships that keep the world moving.
What do you think — can ordinary lives leave extraordinary echoes?
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What do you think — can ordinary lives leave extraordinary echoes?
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The Salt of History
There are times when one listens to the drumbeat of history , on podcasts, in books, through the prismatic retellings of conquerors and…
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October 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
History remembers the lighthouses. But it’s the ships that keep the world moving.
What do you think — can ordinary lives leave extraordinary echoes?
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
What do you think — can ordinary lives leave extraordinary echoes?
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
Mount Sinai Mid Autumn Festival celebrations #singapore
October 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Mount Sinai Mid Autumn Festival celebrations #singapore
For Malayalis, Yesudas is not a singer, he is a season. His voice is Onam mornings, Sabarimala songs, train rides, and the ache of home heard through a cassette hiss. One man’s voice became the sound of a people.
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The Voice That Carried Kerala Across the World
There are voices that refuse to remain contained within a body. They spill across regions, seep into rituals, and before long, they become…
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October 4, 2025 at 3:50 AM
For Malayalis, Yesudas is not a singer, he is a season. His voice is Onam mornings, Sabarimala songs, train rides, and the ache of home heard through a cassette hiss. One man’s voice became the sound of a people.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
I guess there is no news taking olacr anywhere else
October 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I guess there is no news taking olacr anywhere else
Not the meek, not the bold, the freaks will inherit the world
September 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Not the meek, not the bold, the freaks will inherit the world
Life bends in circles: the hand that once led me now seeks mine. Parents grow childlike, and we, their children, become the guides. Tender, humbling, inevitable
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The Long Way Home
It began, as many things in Singapore do, with arithmetic. Taxi fares that leapt like startled fish, the omnipresent surge pricing of…
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September 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Life bends in circles: the hand that once led me now seeks mine. Parents grow childlike, and we, their children, become the guides. Tender, humbling, inevitable
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Frontier AI labs are relying on a small Israeli startup to run their AI through simulations to test its capacity for malicious hacking.
Anthropic And OpenAI Pay This $450 Million Startup To Test AI’s Capacity For Evil
Frontier AI labs are relying on a small Israeli startup to run their AI through simulations to test its capacity for malicious hacking.
www.forbes.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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US today पकड़ो मारो काटो चीर दो
साफ़ सुथरी चमड़ियों पे गहरे गहरे नील दो
धीरे धीरे सारे ख़ुद्दार खुद ही मान जायेंगे
इनके पैरों के नीचे की धरती इनसे छीन लो
Jingostan Zindabad.
साफ़ सुथरी चमड़ियों पे गहरे गहरे नील दो
धीरे धीरे सारे ख़ुद्दार खुद ही मान जायेंगे
इनके पैरों के नीचे की धरती इनसे छीन लो
Jingostan Zindabad.
September 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
US today पकड़ो मारो काटो चीर दो
साफ़ सुथरी चमड़ियों पे गहरे गहरे नील दो
धीरे धीरे सारे ख़ुद्दार खुद ही मान जायेंगे
इनके पैरों के नीचे की धरती इनसे छीन लो
Jingostan Zindabad.
साफ़ सुथरी चमड़ियों पे गहरे गहरे नील दो
धीरे धीरे सारे ख़ुद्दार खुद ही मान जायेंगे
इनके पैरों के नीचे की धरती इनसे छीन लो
Jingostan Zindabad.