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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 23/07/2026

Saw Pavement at Mosswood Meltdown last Fri, and the thing that really stays with me is their intro from John Waters: "Ah, the 90's, I was already old. You weren't, but now you are.... Oh, youth. Guess what? You'll never get it back. But here's the next best thing. Pavement!"

Picture of the Pavement show at Mosswood Meltdown from the way way back because I forgot to bring earplugs

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 03/04/2026

Richard Case Doom Patrol

Doom Patrol #29, "The Painting That Ate Paris", art by Richard Case, showing a painting within a painting within a painting and the Doom Patrol (Cliff/Robotman, Crazy Jane, Rebis) in the foreground

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 17/03/2026

Capturing the exact moment when I realized I was too old to be going to see Nine Inch Nails on a school night

Chase Center lit up a sinister red during DJ set before Nine Inch Nails show

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 24/11/2025

A movie that takes place where you're from

Movie poster for Stephen King's IT, child in the foreground, Pennywise and a red balloon in the background

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 16/11/2025

Pregame show at Monkey King, SF Opera

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 10/11/2025

The world is back to being trash but at least dinner (mapo tofu and garlic pea shoots) came out ok last night

Two woks: on left, mapo tofu, on right, pea shoots with garlic

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 19/10/2025

Waiting for the Crazy Ex Girlfriend reunion show to start I'M JUST A LITTLE EXCITED

Stage of the Crazy Ex Girlfriend reunion show in San Francisco, right before the show

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 18/09/2025

"no one is in the saddle forever"

$... Think even of the longest lasting fascist or authoritarian dictatorships. Franco? About 35 years. Pinochet? 16 years, ousted by a referendum. I don’t imagine this will last for even a tiny fraction of that length of time. My point is simply to demonstrate the incontestable point: no one remains in the saddle forever.$

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 18/09/2025

I hope everyone reading this will subscribe to TPM and go read the full version (short thread)

“That’s why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream,” Carr wrote at the time. He knows what he’s doing. I want lawmakers to be telling people like Carr and his ilk not that they’ll have regrets but that they’ll face consequences.

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 23/08/2025

mood in response:

from Romy and Michele's High School Reunion: Romy, Michele, and Sandy Frink dancing to "Time After Time"

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 29/06/2025

If modular arithmetic is jenga on peyote, how would you describe nimber multiplication? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimber

The multplication table for the field of nimbers {*0,...,*15}, aka the multiplication table for GF(16)

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 24/06/2025

Looped-wire sculptures/gyroid (3/4)

Asawa's looped-wire sculptures of multiply-connected (mostly) negatively curved surfaces

A gyroid: an infinitely connected negatively curved minimal surface that is triply periodic in R^3

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 24/06/2025

Tied-wire sculpture/Cayley graph of free group on two generators (2/4)

Asawa tied-wire sculpture that resembles an infinitely branching tree

Cayley graph of the free group on two generators

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 24/06/2025

Ruth Asawa retrospective at SF MOMA/low-dimensional topology and geometry, a short thread Looped-wire sculptures/Ricci flow (1/4)

Asawa's looped-wire sculptures that look like spheres connected by thin tubes

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 14/06/2025

❌👑 Come on out today and support democracy! www.nokings.org

Protest sign with cartoon of Trump wearing a crown, with a "no" symbol superimposed on it, captioned NO KINGS

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 12/06/2025

I got this error message:

Error message: Domain configuration pending

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 18/04/2025

First time on new(ish) electrified Caltrain!

Selfie of me sitting on spiffy new Caltrain

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 15/04/2025

Am I wrong in thinking that Columbia has already accepted an agreement where the government dictates what they can teach and research and whom they can fire?

Ms. Shipman wrote that Columbia would “reject heavy-handed orchestration from the government that could potentially damage our institution and undermine useful reforms.” She said that any agreement in which federal officials dictated “what we teach, research, or who we hire” would be unacceptable.

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 20/03/2025

As many others are observing, there's something quite irritating about being pirated without being asked or even notified. Is there a class action lawsuit somewhere?

My two books and a bunch of articles of mine, verified as being pirated by Meta's LibGen

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 27/02/2025

This is such a smart take from @rosalafersousa.bsky.social. Americans want American STEM to succeed and lots of folks who would be sympathetic aren't hearing from us in a direct and emotional way! So #MathSky please share your stories and sign up for activism here: www.ams.org/government/r...

Lafer-Sousa said her goal is to amplify the stories of early-career scholars and help the average American understand the erosion of scientific research.

“I want her on a news channel in Missouri, on a local news channel where people are like,‘Oh, she went to my high school, she went to go pursue her dreams,’” Lafer-Sousa said of the Pitt applicant, who is from St. Louis. “I want them to hear her story, because they’re not reading The New York Times, they’re not watching Rachel Maddow. We need to reach them.”

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 31/01/2025

how's everyone doing this fine Friday

Mood board asking "How are you feeling today on a scale of (gestures at everything)?" with 8 options, except all 8 options are Munch's _The Scream_

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 14/01/2025

I kinda regret sharing this now that I realize that @joinmaa.bsky.social is going to be pushing AI stuff on a regular basis? After #JMM2025, is there no escape from this stuff anywhere? As the great Roz Chast put it:

Cover of cartoonist Roz Chast's book, "Can't we talk about something more PLEASANT?"

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 13/01/2025

Post your favorite #DoctorWho. Wrong answers only.

Carrie Preston playing Elsbeth Tascioni on Elsbeth

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 01/01/2025

New Year's resolution

Starbuck and Tyrol watch as the Cylons take over New Caprica.

TYROL (to STARBUCK): What do you want to do now, Captain?

STARBUCK (to TYROL): The same thing we always do. Fight 'em until we can't.

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 31/12/2024

I actually tried the app a few days ago, wrote the AMS when it didn't work, and they said that the app was supposed to be ready today? But NBD, these things happen