Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 26/09/2026to thrive, you must become unmodelable 010
Reposted by Dr. Timothy PickeringThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Our first 9/11 without Dick Cheney. He's looking up at us, though 221877292
Reposted by Dr. Timothy PickeringMoose booooogelow @moosebigelow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026 19189114872
Reposted by Dr. Timothy PickeringSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 09/09/2026Wrote up my thoughts on the whole OpenAI Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem story, and how it highlights the still confusing question of what using my data "to improve model performance" actually means simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/8/o... 1129052
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 04/09/2026one thing it got right: i am definitely not southern…. 010
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 03/09/2026static.klipy.comBeavis's Iconic Boinggg Sound EffectAlt: Beavis's Iconic Boinggg Sound Effect 011
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 02/09/2026i found myself dealing with way too many spectra (@toomanyspectra.bsky.social knows the feeling) so i wrote a command-line tool to help quickly look at them and do simple analysis. as a bonus, it looks like xgterm and acts like IRAF's splot: github.com/tepickering/...github.comGitHub - tepickering/specterm1dContribute to tepickering/specterm1d development by creating an account on GitHub. 071
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 25/08/2026since this has been going around, i might as well join. i classified "passed through" as not having overnighted, "stayed a while" as having stayed 3+ consecutive nights, and "lived there" as spending a month+ and having received mail there. e.g. stayed in NM a month+, but no mailing address. 130
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Make a band bigger: They Are Definitely Giants 050
Reposted by Dr. Timothy PickeringP(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 22/08/2026Every object oriented language introduction starts with showing the clean hierarchy of dog and cat inheriting from animal, while every real codebase is like 14874141
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Boulder, CO (multiple times) 110
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 05/08/2026as a registered purple midwest state voter, i do prefer DSA-aligned candidates like AES and francesca. however, i am haunted by 2022 where a decisive number of voters either voted for both tony evers and ron johnson (🤮) or voted evers and did not cast a senate vote.... 110
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 05/08/2026i mean, 40 years ago green bay, wi didn't even have a taco bell. now, i walk two blocks from my brother's house to a fantastic carniceria and place my order for quesabirria en español. that is mathematically an infinite improvement... 1181
Reposted by Dr. Timothy PickeringGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 03/08/2026me and the boys waiting for y'all to finish up with that dead horse you're beating 438357
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 03/08/2026if you see this, quote the energy you bring to Blueskystatic.klipy.comOffice Space: Peter - Stare at My DeskAlt: Office Space: Peter - Stare at My Desk 020
Reposted by Dr. Timothy PickeringOmar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026“We should return to an older and more accurate name for the Civil War: the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. If a country unquestioningly adopts language that obscures its bloodiest crimes to absolve their worst perpetrators, how can we expect successive generations to remember the new assaults on democracynytimes.comOpinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)To face our own history, we must be honest about it. 12683239
Reposted by Dr. Timothy PickeringDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026One of the things you get from watching tributes to Glen Hansard is that he was a musician’s musician. His peers really respected him. But also he was so kind to random people. And that seems sort of perfect. To be respected both by the people who deeply understand what you do and those who don’t. 1230948
Reposted by Dr. Timothy PickeringBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/07/2026TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth. 360124413126
Reposted by Dr. Timothy PickeringGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 13/07/2024HAL 9000 watching them stuff AI into everything 5412102
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains. 351
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 17/07/2026no trip to green bay is complete without a stop at jake’s for some tavern style, square-cut pizza 020
Reposted by Dr. Timothy Pickeringmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday. 115111502404
Reposted by Dr. Timothy PickeringAnnette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel. 5497203011
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 12/07/2026definitely click through to the article for the full context. this happened at the campground we stayed at a few weeks ago. i saw a lot of people do really dumb things around bison, but this really looks like combo of wrong place, wrong time, wrong bison. 140
Reposted by Dr. Timothy PickeringRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/07/2026There will be a lot of conspiracies, but it may have just been Chick-Fil-A. 3544746700
Reposted by Dr. Timothy PickeringTom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 12/07/2026remember, be careful what you post on a day like this. If you do it right, you can get illegally fired for being disrespectful to Lindsay Graham and then win a massive lawsuit about 10 months from now and retire with 2 million in your pocket 74102691897
Reposted by Dr. Timothy PickeringSkye Centrella @skyeactual.bsky.social · 12/07/2026You have a moral obligation to speak ill of Lindsay Graham and to celebrate his death. Failing to do so now assists in them gaslighting all of us into pretending he was a good person. He was not. All of our lives are worse because of him. Dance the earth flat on his grave. Deny the lies. 16016
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 09/07/2026new paradigm just dropped: irritation-driven development 240
Reposted by Dr. Timothy PickeringAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The justices that upheld birthright citizenship in 1898 were racist men in a racist era who still could not avoid the plain text of the Constitution. What changed between is that the GOP now sees multiracial democracy as a threat rather than an ideal or aspiration www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 402103575
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 04/07/2026this, but also rich people aren’t rich because of income, it’s because of wealth. wealth for the wealthy needs to be taxed like property is for us non-wealthy. 011
Reposted by Dr. Timothy PickeringRetroist @retroist.com · 04/07/2026Great moments in U.S. History. 10073801828
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 03/07/2026if you have a stupid early flight, there are far worse places to stay the night before and far worse airports to fly out of… 130
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 28/06/2026there is a whooooole market ecosystem for solar panels and battery systems to plug them into. you can pretty much go nuts in terms of collection wattage and storage, but pushing back to grid is problematic. as long as you're set up to use grid as backup, just like any rv, you're fine. 000
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 28/06/2026i mean, fok them and the Il-96's they flew in on... 000
Reposted by Dr. Timothy PickeringWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/06/2026Showing Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in the same place at the same time violates the other first rule of Fight Club 31368
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 25/06/2026FOK YEAH BAFANA BAFANA!!! 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 020
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 24/06/2026it’s take your moose fishing day here in pinedale, wy 🫎 082
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 24/06/2026messages you get when your kid studies abroad in south africa and then goes to eswatini on holiday: pic 1 - how it started pic 2 - how it’s going 🐒🙈 010
Reposted by Dr. Timothy PickeringSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Technically, they’re Remains now. 414208633864
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 23/06/2026ten years ago they crashed out of the euros early against iceland, of all teams. we had just arrived in scotland the day before and rather appreciated the suddenly more favourable dollar/quid exchange rate... 150
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 22/06/2026small towns don’t have curbside recycling pickup, but this one does have a 24/7 dropoff location. it’s only 3 blocks away so it seemed rude to drive the van… 140
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 20/06/2026this void monster refuses to accept his new house and keeps returning to our flat so i guess we have a cat now… 🐈⬛ 2110
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social · 18/06/2026skipped out of town for the night and set up camp here. doesn’t suck. 1241
