Nicholas Pearce @nickpearce_3
Freelance Journalist in Tbilisi. Rerum cognoscere causas. Joined June 2018-
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A GD supporter attacked Keto Mikadze, a journalist from Publika, while she was working on the ground and confiscated her mobile phone. The phone still hasn’t been found.
Georgian Dream-organized thugs emerge from Georgian Dream party office on Melikishvili street and attack protesters who were passing by marching towards Rustaveli avenue. Despite many injuries, the Police did not intervene and no attackers were detained.
GD supporters attacking protesters in front of the Tbilisi Mayor’s campaign HQ. #GeorgiaProtests
Kurt Vonnegut on buying an envelope
Kurt Vonnegut on buying an envelope https://t.co/lx9vG1MCil
Russia talks peace but pushes war into kids’ lives. Our new report, “Kids with Drones,” shows just how aggressively the state is weaving military thinking into everyday life, starting with kids. openminds.ltd/reports/kids-w…
“These powerful young men, impudent by nature or ambition, maintained a din of applause day & night, showering divine epithets on Nero's beauty and voice. They were grand & respected as if they had done great things." Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome
“These powerful young men, impudent by nature or ambition, maintained a din of applause day & night, showering divine epithets on Nero's beauty and voice. They were grand & respected as if they had done great things." Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome
Fan Ho's rare colour photographs of Hong Kong in the 1950s and 60s
"Maybe it would be too much to expect brilliant, witty prose from a piece of corporate apologia written by an ex-politician, but there’s an anti-charisma radiating from How to Save the Internet, which makes reading it a very sad experience." telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fict…
More people arrested on Rustaveli Avenue. #GeorgiaProtests
🔴MIA says 16 detained on Rustaveli, but @netgazeti has info about 20. 🔴Protesters moved from Tbilisi City Court to Parliament as the “Tsulukiani's Commission” read findings. 🔴Earlier, the court sentenced 9 prisoners of conscience to prison #GeorgiaProtests #RepressionInGeorgia
Thinking of this piece the neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote before he died, on how he perceived smartphone use as essentially a neurological catastrophe. He’s advocating for something like the opposite of mindfulness — instead, the problem is that we’re too stuck in the moment.
Britain cares more about data centres than housing newstatesman.com/politics/socie…
Fascinating example of how the “Central vs Eastern Europe” debate plays out in diplomacy: in 2009, Czech FM and Russia’s Lavrov sparred over US missile defence by disputing whether Czechia was in “Central” or “Eastern” Europe From @lijukic’s Central Europe book
Sam Altman Places Gun To Head After New GPT Claims Dogs Are Crustaceans For 60th Time theonion.com/sam-altman-pla…
Lavrov showed up in Alaska wearing a USSR sweatshirt. Very reassuring to at least 14 of Russia’s neighbors.
They really are starved of creativity aren't they
Maybe it’s a distinctive feature of our present times that they seem afflicted by fear and boredom simultaneously.
Maybe it’s a distinctive feature of our present times that they seem afflicted by fear and boredom simultaneously.
Utter philistine nonsense. The point of art is not to offer some drab inventory of what is already apparent, but to invite the observer into that rarer act, the exercise of imagination, to look beyond the parapet of the mundane and expected. In so doing, it relinquishes the petty…
Utter philistine nonsense. The point of art is not to offer some drab inventory of what is already apparent, but to invite the observer into that rarer act, the exercise of imagination, to look beyond the parapet of the mundane and expected. In so doing, it relinquishes the petty…
NEW: Is the internet changing our personalities for the worse? Conscientiousness and extroversion are down, neuroticism up, with young adults leading the charge. This is a really consequential shift, and there’s a lot going on here, so let’s get into the weeds 🧵
Journalist and media manager Mzia Amaghlobeli has been sentenced to two years in prison. She was initially charged with assaulting a police officer - a crime punishable by 4 to 7 years in prison. However, in a surprise move, the charge was downgraded today to obstructing a police…

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