Tim Cooper

Photographer, writer, editor, musician, all-around oddball.
If you're looking for me as a publisher that's @tiredtapir

[Tim Cooper @tcpolymath]

We must be ridiculous together, or most assuredly we shall all be ridiculous separately.

[Tim Cooper @tcpolymath]

I figured I would stay on Twitter at least notionally until they ruined Tweetdeck, and, well, this seems to be that inevitable day.

I'm not even going to bother trying to get to my other accounts.

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“the war was needed for a bunch of scumbags to triumph and show how strong of an army they are,”

Prigozhin finally catching up with the rest of the world on this one. We're going to remember that you started out as one of the scumbags, though, dude.

#Ukraine

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I've come up with a tolerable imitation of the extinct Taylors of Harrogate blackberry-elderflower tisane @BluejoWalton introduced me to lo these many years ago. It's just equal parts dried elderflowers and blackberry leaves with a few drops of blackberry extract.

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@markgritter I can make you a new one at some point after I get home.

Heck, if the Bay Area part of the Akita team wants some badly enough to drive up here I can do some for them too. I'm basically living in a photo studio here.

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@MarissaLingen @GettingGophery @violanorth @RandBallsStu Evita's family: SO FAR

[Four Finger Discount @fourfingerpod]

Futurama as a dark 80s movie (1/3)

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@markgritter @hibaymj I think this is true of blockchain but not in any particularly useful way?

I guess I can see some uses for having a persistent distributed read API, though none of them are very much like uses of the Twitter API.

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But I don't WANT to have to build an AI slushreader.

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My next disruptive startup is an app that matches businesses that have cash sales they don't want to pay tax on with criminal enterprises who want more reported income. It's such an obvious inefficiency I'm surprised no one has jumped on it yet.

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Thanks to this tweet I now have a much deeper understanding of how Star Trek V was a metaphor.

[Captain Frank Bastard 👀 @GaryMills101]

@MJMcKean @Baddiel Why does God need a penis?

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@missyofthebones @ftrain @WIRED Weirdly, my body was running a little bit too alkaline and this was driving my appetite. I've been drinking 6-8oz of lemon juice a day and it's way down and I don't crave sweets at all anymore.

No idea if this will generalize at all but it's not too hard to try, I suppose.

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I feel like T'Challa's funeral really does not stand up well compared to Jaffe Joffer's. What's the point in revealing Wakanda's existence to the world if you can't even get En Vogue?

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@amysundberg @MarissaLingen "it's obvious who the real bad guys in this world are"

Kevin Feige and Louis D'Esposito?

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@MarissaLingen @cztacks And Ramonda and Nakia and Okoye. Everyone's grief is wrong! Ramonda's especially is wrong because it involves telling everyone else how wrong theirs is.

If they had taken this seriously and with self-awareness as a reflection of reality it could have been really good.

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Why did they call it Trading Places when they could have called it The Dukes of Moral Hazard?

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This is a thread, which is too bad because it would have been the first time ever that an implied "more cowbell" was actually funny.

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@markgritter Even if this is accurate, Nasdaq holds 16% of US equities volume, and I don't think anyone would claim it's a failure.

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@markgritter Gas isn't why DEXes are more expensive than CEXes. (I mean, except on Eth, I guess? But the Ethconomy is bizarre and shouldn't be generalized from even to its clones.)