Sign in

Tim Shey

@moth.bsky.social
415 followers 444 following 55 posts

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

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Tim Shey
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.
newyorker.com
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
387172634389
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
What a photo Greg!
030
Reposted by Tim Shey
Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Here's Kendrick Lamar's full Super Bowl performance. youtu.be/KDorKy-13ak?...
youtu.be
Kendrick Lamar's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show
YouTube video by NFL
21931349
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Just added one more to your count.
010
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
one of these days! 👋
010
Reposted by Tim Shey
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.
84120693408
Reposted by Tim Shey
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.
gizmodo.com
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?
19694136
Reposted by Tim Shey
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
31310605864
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
This is fantastic, thank you @rio.akasaka.org
021
Reposted by Tim Shey
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!”
161010286
Reposted by Tim Shey
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.
211530155
Reposted by Tim Shey
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...
thestar.com
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.”
15533104
Reposted by Tim Shey
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.
theguardian.com
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
516191267315
Reposted by Tim Shey
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!
cartoonbrew.com
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.
4261134760
Reposted by Tim Shey
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...
411682301
Reposted by Tim Shey
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...
nytimes.com
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.
461979545
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?
251
Reposted by Tim Shey
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
app.watchduty.org
Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts
Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby
113459
Reposted by Tim Shey
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...
939136114060
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...
mentalfloss.com
‘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.
020
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I like turtles!
000
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
AI trains itself on said book and then sues itself out of existence for using its book for training without its consent
010
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Even worse, they’re pitching investors right now that their real business model is the data they’re aggregating about when people turn their lights on.
0110
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
This video is incredible youtu.be/mUzruGhBVpI?...
youtu.be
CNN witnesses moment Syrian prisoner is freed from Assad’s forced detention
YouTube video by CNN
010
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
“no way out but through,” perhaps
100
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
It’s already so far along…
100
Reposted by Tim Shey
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.
925920
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Wow, 9th print of only 16? 🙃
010
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I’m in
000
Reposted by Tim Shey
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%)
31453182238
Reposted by Tim Shey
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.
90876106
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Never accept food from the faerie folk
010
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
thinking of you and hope they’re getting the best care.
010
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Chuy reporting for duty here, per your instructions
A small, happy white dog hangs out on the back of a golf cart.
1412
Reposted by Tim Shey
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
615565
Reposted by Tim Shey
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
1511271412
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I definitely had a big plastic toy of that truck
010
Reposted by Tim Shey
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...
righttobe.org
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
49524238
Reposted by Tim Shey
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. 👇
4826132034
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My god, I leave YouTube for six years and this happens
Jake Paul in 2016
2120
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Love this update, Chad!
030
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
There’s nothing better on a new network than actually being able to see your friends’ posts for a while
010
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
There seems no justice left in the world, so probably, yes
010
Reposted by Tim Shey
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.
828257718012
Tim Shey @moth.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
ok, now it's on!
000
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
3167
Reposted by Tim Shey
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/...
xoxofest.com
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, ...
701783469
Reposted by Tim Shey
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
28967841891
Reposted by Tim Shey
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...
condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
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...
16314157