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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 3h

What's your most intuitive explanation of "slope" in the context of stability of bundles? I find it very hard to explain beyond just stating the definition, and I have the sense from many talks I've attended that a lot of other mathematicians feel the same way

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 3h

It's kind of sick that taking a sip of your drink can serve as a linguistic signal that you surrender your turn in a conversation It's extremely cool to me that acts outside of language production serve linguistic functions

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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

"crime doesn't pay" sounds like victim talk to me. let's ask the other guy

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 5h

A CT scan of Trump's brain probably looks like a QR code by now.

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 6h

Heard a native English speaker say "I'm gonna show you them" If you're a native speaker, is this grammatical to your ears? What region are you from?

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 8h

I'm not one to dunk on a silly little typo. However, I do have to ask, are you telling me they didn't have a ready-made format for this?? Are they seriously manually typing his title every single time?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We all complain about the media’s failures but organizations like @propublica.org and @texastribune.org are doing the work and deserve our financial support

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Media companies who accept taxpayer money for Trump’s illegal campaign ads should be investigated and prosecuted if appropriate. Media executives accepting this money should be subpoenaed to appear before a Democratic Congress to explain why they are complicit in a crime.

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't care if they're "design furniture", if it only has 3 damned legs, it will keel over anytime you lean on it whatsoever! Stop doing this!!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why are progressive politicians so reluctant to admit that conservatives are wrong about something

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Kell Compost 😷 @compostwitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a card-carrying sayer of "it's more complicated than that", sometimes it's not!!!!

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Genuinely just the vilest scum you could ever scrape off the ground

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

> start new far-right political party > Their antisemitic chats leak Most predictable cycle of modern politics

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

none of this should be allowed And if it is, I think bricking the equipment someone purchased should be prosecutable as vandalism

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Look at that little feller go! To the moon! 🌙

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 28/09/2026

i am tired of living in a society that turns every cautionary tale into a business plan

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would *love* to give Zuck access to all my financial information, but is there a way to give him more? And maybe share it with Altman and Musk too?

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Random child refused to enter the elevator with his mom bc he was obsessively staring at me. Potentially ominous?

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

seen on instagram. Finally, Brexit is complete

They let us out by having us go through arrivals. I travelled internationally from England to England

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

guy in 2026: "Yeah, I invested money in the meme coin of an AI-generated influencer"

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“We will be compassionate to a strictly limited number of people, and will save as many lives as the Daily Mail will let us”

I know the British people have not given up on their belief that we should be compassionate, live up to our international obligations, and save the lives of those fleeing war and persecution. But I also know this process must be capped and controlled, and communities must be ready and able to welcome those who come here.

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

By the way she also waded into "they LIED to you about vaccine safety" recently. I wonder if we can expect more from this angle in the near future

Sabine Hossenfelder tweets

US Government Misstated COVID Vaccine Risk

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) reports that during the COVID vaccine rollout in 2021, US health officials used a safety-monitoring algorithm that they knew was inadequate but ignored the problem.

At the time, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) compared reports of adverse events after each vaccine with reports after other vaccines. But by 2021 more than 90 per cent of reports were about the (very similar) mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. Because of this, adverse events which occured for both vaccines would not have statistically stood out.

The BMJ extracted this information from internal emails it obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. These emails reveal that FDA employees Ana Szarfman and statistician William DuMouchel warned Peter Marks (then the FDA’s vaccine regulator) about this problem in early 2021. They proposed an improved method, but higher FDA administration ignored the warning.

As a consequence, the algorithm failed to flag myocarditis (an inflammation of the heart muscle), which was later found to be a side-effect of mRNA vaccination.

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One thing that really gets me is: how is it possible that English lost singular "thou"? I appreciate the whole formality thing but it's simply so ambiguous not to have a distinction between singular and plural second person that I'm shocked it wasn't kept alive through this selective pressure

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I tried to do a proof by exhaustion but it just took way too long" *Nods* many such cases

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dear lord, suffering Albert, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, deliver me from evil

Sabine Hossenfelder video thumbnail for a video titled "A Nobel Laureate says growth is doomed. He is wrong"

The thumbnail has Sabine looking wide-eyed in front of a red graph going down with yellow bold-faced text in front of her that says "Beware of woke academia"

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"And so would you say that these people are quite unhappy?" Victor Hugo: "they're sad as fuck bro, don't get me started"

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being

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julia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

she's right, and it generalizes. this is the correct attitude toward education, across all the core areas.

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we can finally settle this old SMBC smbc-comics.com/index.php?db...

sad and wrinkled professor stands in front of a slide saying "are things made of stuff?"

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Kai @kaichung.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is basically how stacking TQFT's works

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

dumbass actually hit them in the one place they care about: access See what they can do if they give a shit?

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Send this to every university President in the country.

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm against corporal punishment on principle. However these guys are making it extremely difficult to stick to my principles

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The more than 550 infographics I've made have always been a hobby for me as a linguist and writer. However, since 2023, people have been able to support my work by giving me the equivalent of a coffee or a sandwich per month. I'd be thrilled if you became my patron too! patreon.com/yvanspijk

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I base them on scientifically reliable etymological dictionaries on my pc, the internet and my bookshelves, along with other linguistic literature. The only tool I use – and need – is PowerPoint. No form of AI is ever involved.

The infographics have always been a hobby for me as a professional linguist and writer. However, in 2023 I started a Patreon account because people were telling me they wanted to support my work.

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Tier 1 · $ 2.50 / € 2 a month
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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are a million things about this mindnumbingly stupid and sinister talking point, but I truly cannot get over the fact that the purported "fraud" perpetrated by these "fraudsters" is paying money to the government

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of the funniest types of post comes from the people who appear to sincerely believe that they're the first ones to tell ADHDers that alarms exist

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you would like to get a sense of how discord's users feel about this apology users have been flooding the internet with fanart of their cute little mascot subjecting it to some of the most horrendous gore and torture humanity has ever invented

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

combined "no problem" and "my pleasure" into "no pleasure"

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