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Tim J 🐘

@timtfj

Currently play in no orchestras. Interested in many things. Morpheme and cheese addict. Hate underthinking and football. Tvitrer av og til omtrent på norsk. 🎻

 Just outside Manchester, UK
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Joined June 2008
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I'm not intending to leave Twitter unless it becomes unusable, which I fear it might. However, I'm now also on #Mastodon, currently as @timtfj@mastodon.social (link: mastodon.social/@timtfj). You can also use the contact form on my blog (link in profile).
Tim J (@timtfj@mastodon.social)

Tim J (@timtfj@mastodon.social)

5.08K Posts, 237 Following, 288 Followers · I used to play in too many orchestras, and currently play in none. I'm interested in many things, often science, language or music related. I like words...

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Richard Gipps@DrGipps7 May 2025
"Both spellings, "Nietzschean" and "Nietzschean" are used in some contexts, but the more widely accepted and common spelling is "Nietzschean"." ...why thank you google's experimental AI 😂
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Maybe start with your infographic.
Book Therapy (@Book_therapy223) profile pictureBook Therapy
@Book_therapy2237 May 2025
How to go minimalist in 2025 Declutter 5 Life Areas
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Thomas Merton on the true meaning of love
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”

ALT “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”

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Every time I mute a poisonous "advert", a popup appears asking me to "upgrade". The close button doesn't close it, neither does the "maybe later" (i.e. "NO!!!") one, and refreshing the page navigates away from the current view to the we-know-best algorithmic nonsense one.
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I scored 19/20 on MIST-20, better than 95% of the UK population. Test your misinformation susceptibility now! What is #YourMIST? 🧐 yourmist.streamlit.app #misinformation #fakenews
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I preferred my age when it was still a prime number, and not just about as unprime as possible. Oh well. Prime again next year I suppose, and only two factors the year after, other than 1 and itself.
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So weirde to have a smartphone wher a system update kan chaunge the looke and feele of everye app. It ys lyke somebodye breakinge ynto yower apartment and slightlye redesigning yower most-used chayre yn the middle of the nighte.
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Ich askid ChatGPT to create a mysterious poeme about the nature of lyfe and death and it took just 10 seconds to make thys: Erthe toc of erthe erthe wyth woh Erthe other erthe to the erthe droh Erthe leyde erthe in erthene throh Tho hevede erthe of erthe erthe ynoh
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Happy new year to everyone I've not wished happy new year to yet. Now that you've had a 2022, I hope you have a *good* 2023.
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It's 2:55 am. Someone is still letting off loud fireworks.
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Well I now have an audio recording (24-bit WAV) of the five minutes before, and half hour after, midnight. It's basically 35 minutes of continuous fireworks, with a step increase in intensity at about midnight, gradually increasing but still pretty much continuous at the end.
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There were some ridiculously loud explosions, some of which will be marked by changes in the recording level. (I used the setting which turns the level down each time the recording clips, because I didn't want the momentary dropouts a limiter produces after short loud noises.)
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Anyway maybe I'll post some of it at some point, probably after trying to match the levels of the different sections to each other if there aren't too many. (It went over -6dB 21 times, but I think only a handful got up to 0dB.)¹ _____ ¹ 0dB = loudest sound the file can contain.
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Omg this so much. I hate "I can so you can, too". It makes zero sense. We each have our own abilities and fragilities and they are very different from each other.
Justine Barron (@jewstein3000) profile pictureJustine Barron@jewstein300030 Dec 2022
I don’t know what to call the belief that all bodies must function like your body, but it’s at the root of so much ableism and eugenics. “Covid was mild for me therefore….” “I can eat xyz, therefore…” “The side effects were mild for me…” “Fasting helped me recover…”
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Pollarded broccoli. (From the other day. I thought I had a wonderful head of broccoli, then discovered that some parts were no longer wonderful . . . And finally concluded it could only be saved by reducing it to this sorry state.)
A head of broccoli with all the outer florets removed, leaving only an interestingly shaped branching structure reminiscent of a pollarded tree.

ALT A head of broccoli with all the outer florets removed, leaving only an interestingly shaped branching structure reminiscent of a pollarded tree.

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Interesting study. 🧵👇
SP Arun (@sparuniisc) profile pictureSP Arun@sparuniisc24 Dec 2022
In a new study, out in Attention Perception and Psychophysics, @ananyapassi and I have cool insights to share about a fascinating cross-modal association called the Bouba-Kiki effect. Consider the shapes below: which shape would you call a Bouba? 1/n rdcu.be/c1MbL
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SP Arun@sparuniisc24 Dec 2022
As Bertolt Brecht says, "The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error" 15/n
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A statement from the Society of Illustrators-
The Society of Illustrators celebrates the hard work and dedication that goes into each artist's creations. We oppose the commercial use of Artificially manufactured images and will not allow AI into our annual competitions at all levels. AI was trained using copyrighted images. We will oppose any attempts to weaken copyright protections, as that is the cornerstone of the illustration community.

ALT The Society of Illustrators celebrates the hard work and dedication that goes into each artist's creations. We oppose the commercial use of Artificially manufactured images and will not allow AI into our annual competitions at all levels. AI was trained using copyrighted images. We will oppose any attempts to weaken copyright protections, as that is the cornerstone of the illustration community.

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In 1916, Lady Florence Norman, a suffragette in London, used a motorised scooter known as a Autoped #WomensArt
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