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Tim Shey

@moth.bsky.social
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producer/designer/founder • launched things like youtube creators, youtube originals, & the duolingo cinematic universe. nyc. he/they linktr.ee/timshey 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🕊️

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 29/07/2025
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
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The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Here's Kendrick Lamar's full Super Bowl performance. youtu.be/KDorKy-13ak?...
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Kendrick Lamar's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show
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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Actual pro tip: the best way to break into any creative profession is by helping to support and advance other creators. Your peers are not your adversaries. They are your support group.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I wrote about how American and Chinese internet users are accidentally cobbling together a techno-utopian version of the “global village,” even if it’s unlikely to last.
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The Techno-Utopian Dream of the 1990s Is Alive on RedNote (For Now)
Will Americans actually use an app where the captchas aren't even in English?
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
If I was a teen who lost access to tiktok I would simply learn to appreciate the professionalism and higher production values of linear broadcast television
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Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
This is fantastic, thank you @rio.akasaka.org
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Casey Berkovitz @caseyberk.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Can’t get enough of these congestion pricing anecdotes via @dodai.bsky.social nytimes.com/2025/01/11/nyregion/new-york-congestion-pricing-reaction.html
Ms. Robbins, who grew up in Manhattan but now lives in Queens, compared navigating the intersection where she works, at Canal and Lafayette Streets, to a game of Frogger — at least in the old days.

“It would stress me out just getting lunch,” she said. Thursday was her first day there post-congestion pricing. “I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I was able to cross safely, and cars weren’t honking. It was like a whole other world.”“It was much easier to cross the street,” said Mr. Dandia, a 32-year-old native of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. “Definitely quieter. Definitely calmer.”

Mr. Dandia, who also teaches a New York City history course at CUNY Guttman Community College, added that he saw great potential in congestion pricing. “I think it could lead to a renaissance — a street renaissance.”In an email, Mr. Sethi, 42, reported that his Lyft driver got him from downtown Manhattan to Newark Liberty International Airport in just 23 minutes. “No honking, zero congestion around the Holland Tunnel, no need to leave an extra half-hour early to account for traffic,” he said.On Tuesday, a social media user named Ali Lyles posted a video on TikTok in which he compared being charged a toll as he crossed a bridge to “being robbed without a gun.”

Just a short time later, he posted another video, acknowledging that he had saved half an hour from his commute. “There wasn’t no traffic, bruh,” he said. “I might actually like congestion pricing!”
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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Brilliant use of vacant office space in NYC: Two empty floors of 307 W. 38th St have come back to life as new home of the famed Paul Taylor Dance Company. With beautiful studios, classrooms and rehearsal space. A win for dance. A win for NYC. Thrilled to join today’s ribbon cutting.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Written before the election. I have found that immersive reading is saving my mind right now. That means without my phone nearby to doom scroll, btw. Immersive reading does not work with constant distraction. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Cults and mind viruses run rampant. Powerful algorithms hijack our minds. No wonder we all feel so deranged.
They say my novels are surreal. But when I watch Elon Musk playing the jester in Donald Trump’s court, I’m not so sure. His latest novel is “Absolution.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016. These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits. The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.
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Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016
Analysis reveals many big producers increased output of fossil fuels and related emissions in seven years after Paris climate deal
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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Many members of the animation community have suffered unimaginable losses due to the LA wildfires – here is how to help displaced individuals in the animation industry. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY SO WE CAN HELP EVERYONE OUT!
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How To Help Animation Industry Workers Who Have Been Displaced By The L.A. Wildfires
Many members of the animation community have suffered unimaginable losses – here is how to help them directly.
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404 Media @404media.co · 09/01/2025
‘We’re Fine’: Lying to Ourselves About a Climate Disaster The dystopia of Los Angeles' fires are horrifying, mundane, and everything in between. 🔗 www.404media.co/were-fine-lo...
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
so far, seems like the first few victims are black folks who've lived in altadena for several generations and were trying so hard to hold onto their homes that they were willing to fight off the flames by themselves. man, they are so familiar to me. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/u...
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Who Are the Victims of the Los Angeles Fires?
At least five people died in fires raging across Los Angeles. Several of them lived near each other in the ravaged Altadena neighborhood.
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Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
@rio.akasaka.org is there a way for google maps to keep / permanently archive the photos of neighborhoods like Palisades and Altadena destroyed in the LA fires to help people with rebuilding or just preserving the history of what was there?
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E.J. Friedman @ejfriedman.me · 10/01/2025
The Watch Duty app has been without peer the safest and most reliable source of information around the fires in the last few days. Lives were saved because of them. Give if you can, they have earned our admiration and support. app.watchduty.org/donate
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Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts
Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...
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Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
If you were a kid in the 80s & 90s, winning a 5 minute all-you-can-grab shopping spree at a Toys 'R Us was the ultimate fantasy. This is a fun read from on how that all happened and what went down (including cameos from @fredseibert.bsky.social & alan goodman): www.mentalfloss.com/nickelodeons...
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‘Like Winning the Lotto for Kids’: Remembering Nickelodeon’s Super Toy Run
For close to 20 years, Nick gave kids a chance to indulge in toy greed. Not everyone came out unscathed.
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Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
This video is incredible youtu.be/mUzruGhBVpI?...
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CNN witnesses moment Syrian prisoner is freed from Assad’s forced detention
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/12/2024
drew this in 1982 when I was fourteen. a way cooler technological nightmare dystopia than what we have now imho.
pen and ink drawing by 14 year old Greg Pak of a cyborg with blank eyes and a slew of household machinery attached to his body, like an Atari-style game box and controller, a television screen on his chest, microphones for ears and speaker for mouth, cassette tape player built into his brain, various knobs and joysticks all over his body, adn four mechanical legs. Coin slot to the right that takes quarters.
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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This explains why conservative fear-mongering is such an easy play in America. — Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%) — Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%) — Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)
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Yuko Shimizu @yukoart.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello. Just migrated out of Twitter to here. Is anyone here? My name is Yuko Shimizu, I am a Japanese illusrator based in NY. I did NOT design Hello Kitty.
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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
To mark the centenary of James Baldwin, I wrote a short essay for @TheLancet. On what he's taught me about responding to pushback. To beware of "strategic ignorance" and "the imaginary line of selective judgment". James Baldwin: ignorance, power, justice - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The image is a screenshot of a 2-page article titled James Baldwin: ignorance, power, justice
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17/11/2024
Seth's tool now lets you convert a starter pack into either a regular (content) list or a block (moderation) list! Thanks, @wandrme.paxex.aero
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16/11/2024
Horrible. Reminder that we should all get bystander intervention training. You can get it here for free online: righttobe.org/upcoming-fre...
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Upcoming Free Trainings - Right To Be
Get Trained and Help us Build a World that’s Free of Harassment We are able to make these trainings free thanks to the generosity of our community. donate upcoming free trainings Upcoming Training
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Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian) @comicslibrarian.com · 07/11/2024
Please share this, because this could help some folks with worry. For LGBT married couples, it's time to take steps to protect your marriage in case same-sex marriage is officially dissolved in the coming years. My husband and I did this when Roe V Wade was overturned, so I hope this is helpful. 👇
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Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My god, I leave YouTube for six years and this happens
Jake Paul in 2016
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/11/2024
Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
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Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
welcome newskyers! made a starter pack of creator-types on this site you can follow here 👉 go.bsky.app/mCWneD
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
My XOXO talk is online. It's a v. personal look at what it was like to cover the pandemic, live through it, be broken by it, and heal from it. I talk about my approach to journalism, a 7-part code for being a public figure, why I left the Atlantic, and a lot more. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
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Ed Yong · Videos · XOXO
Avid birder and Pulitzer-winning science journalist Ed Yong built a devoted audience for his deeply empathetic coverage of the pandemic for The Atlantic, while his two New York Times bestsellers, ...
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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 13/11/2024
I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me. go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I am very excited that @wireddotcom.bsky.social is HIRING. We'll be listing 3 roles this month, and more in January. We're hiring a CULTURE EDITOR, which is an incredible opportunity for someone who wants to get really weird on the internet: condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
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Senior Editor, Culture
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
My grandmother voting for Kamala Harris. Born 1918. 2 years old when the 19th Amendment was ratified. 47 when the Voting Rights Act secured her vote. Will turn 107 on inauguration day. She’s lived through it all, and she’s damn sure not going back.
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Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
You don't have to watch the election results live on TV, you don't have to be glued to live blogs or Election Needles, you don't have to doomscroll, especially if monitoring the election isn't your job. Focus on the things within your control the next two days. And try to get enough rest.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Things you can do on Tuesday night instead: -watch a non-English movie or TV show with subtitles -read a book -get dinner with someone -play a board game -build Lego -take a bath -cook something you love -wander an Asian grocery store for snacks -craft something -write a letter -go to sleep early
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REVY @catgirlfingies.quest · 05/11/2024
I can't stop laughing at what Mickey Rourke said about trump LOL
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/11/2024
Here's the big Harris-Walz ballot cure phone bank. Ballot curing means you're calling voters who ALREADY VOTED but have something wrong with their ballot. A fantastic, high impact phone bank that helps make every vote count. Slots all day! DO IT!
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Harris-Walz Voter Protection Phone Bank · The Democratic National Committee
Call likely Democratic voters in battleground states with potential issues with their registration or ballots to ensure their votes are fairly counted! Every day, we strategize directly with state vot...
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
fwiw my therapist was straight-up like “pull every single legit coping lever you have right now and don’t feel guilty about it, distraction is key,” maybe you also needed to hear this
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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 04/11/2024
NYT tech workers are on strike for a fair contract. We are asking you to #BreakYourStreak on NYT games in solidarity. You can also support our strike fund to keep us going. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
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New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike
The walkout, which began just after midnight Monday, could disrupt the New York Times’s election coverage.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Fellow GenXers raised on college radio, please enjoy Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff having the best time as Michael Stipe performs “Driver 8” at a Harris rally.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Never mind the prediction markets, which are thin and easily manipulated. Here’s the evidence for shifting vibes
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
lol found it www.facebook.com/share/r/15Kt...
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Redirecting...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Anyone have a link to James Austin Johnson on a local news show doing a bit where he’s impersonating Trump basically hosting Entertainment Tonight. Desperate to find it!
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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
A spooky treat at the polls today in NYC: The first 300 voters at every early voting site will get a limited edition Halloween Voter sticker! (Yes really)
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Jay @jaycubed2k.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
[waking up and grabbing phone] time for more brain poison
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Electoral data bros coming around to the idea of a comfortable Harris win and some thoughts about what the normie coalition saw in the candidates' eleventh hour rallies. New Bad Faith Times newsletter: bad-faith-times.ghost.io/r/7444cf5f?m...
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We Continue To Watch The Game
Around 90,000 people gathered in D.C. Tuesday night to watch Kamala Harris' closing case ahead of Tuesday's election. Watching a sea of people pour into the seat of American power to witness a candida...
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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 29/10/2024
The last thing my creator did before sending me out into the world was to teach me how to identify bicycles, traffic lights, motorcycles, and fire hydrants. His final gift. I appreciate now his foresight, and his fears for the robot boy he made in his basement worksh
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
I am declaring war on 82% of bluesky with this
Spirit halloween “former gifted child”

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When people ask “what are you supposed to be” answer “i was supposed to be a lot of things”
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
This is just unbelievably badass. @davejorgenson.bsky.social the Washington Post TikTok Guy, everyone 👏
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