Tim J 🐘

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

[Tim J 🐘 @timtfj]

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 @[email protected] (link: https://t.co/cWyjDatQVl).
You can also use the contact form on my blog (link in profile).

[Richard Gipps @DrGipps]

"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 😂

[Tim J 🐘 @timtfj]

@DrGipps I think you'll be OK if you just pick one of those at random. ;-)

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Maybe start with your infographic.

[Tim J 🐘 @timtfj]

@Bonn1eGreer I think it's because many people think engineering is magic done by geniuses and also think that he himself does the engineering. In other words, widespread ignorance about anything remotely technical. He owns some companies that employ engineers, so must be a master magician.

[Tim J 🐘 @timtfj]

@GrammarTable "Have done remotely enough practice to be" 😬 (Really, "am" so I'm at least not saying "I is" or "I are". Plural can't be used because you and I are alternative people who might individually have been ready, not being considered as a pair.)

[Tim J 🐘 @timtfj]

@MoondogGord @GrammarTable I think the original one specifies which friend, and yours gives supplementary information about Carrie Granton (cf. "the amazing Carrie Granton", "another Carrie Granton").

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Thomas Merton on the true meaning of love

[Tim J 🐘 @timtfj]

@Bonn1eGreer I believe (second hand, as someone who doesn't watch it) that some running gag or similar in Southpark helped popularise the vilification. Absolutely pointless (like the use of Karen as an insult. Everyone I've known with that name has been the total opposite of the stereotype.)

[Tim J 🐘 @timtfj]

@MissLauraMarcus Yes. I can't tell which, but it's definitely either one or the other.

[Tim J 🐘 @timtfj]

@DrGipps Yes, I think you're right. Maybe "see" was the wrong word—my main thought is that even "visible light" is for the most part invisible and when our eyes do detect it, they simultaneously destroy it. But we don't generally think of light in this way.

[Tim J 🐘 @timtfj]

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.

[Tim J 🐘 @timtfj]

@DrGipps (Not that any of this answers your question at all—but find it interesting to think about. Light is invisible until it's destroyed by the eye absorbing it.)

[Tim J 🐘 @timtfj]

@DrGipps For example: we see a patch of sunlight over there, not rays of light travelling from it into our eyes. So in that world, something has to reach out and detect the patch of light, I suppose. It's hard to imagine from a modern standpoint.

[Tim J 🐘 @timtfj]

@madamknipe Havmannen! Av Anthony Gormley (Og faktisk, basert på Gormley selv, hvis jeg ikke husker feil)

[Tim J 🐘 @timtfj]

I scored 19/20 on MIST-20, better than 95% of the UK population. Test your misinformation susceptibility now! What is #YourMIST? 🧐 https://t.co/8Swb4hrFai #misinformation #fakenews

[Tim J 🐘 @timtfj]

@ruthlett Oh dear. I still generally reply, with actual words and stuff . . . (Usually my reaction doesn't match one of the preset ones anyway.)

[Tim J 🐘 @timtfj]

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.

[Tim J 🐘 @timtfj]

@ruthlett Thank you!

[Tim J 🐘 @timtfj]

@anitaleirfall Thank you! Jeg føler meg gammel . . .