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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm seeing people seriously starting to say things like, "<thing> is the new AI," and I yet again don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Professor Farnsworth captioned, "I don't want to live on this planet anymore".

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The other day, @gruber.foo posted a short post about the MagSafe Duo. I've still got mine, and it's a permanent part of my travel kit. The only complaint I have (and it's not much of one) is that the rubbery outer casing material has discolored over time. It’s otherwise in perfect shape.

From left to right: a coiled USB-C Lightning charge cable with a black Velcro tie sits next to a folded MagSafe Duo charger, and the leftmost keys of an Apple wireless keyboard are visible on the right. The MagSafe Duo’s casing is noticeably discolored with age compared to the white Lightning cable and keyboard keys.

An unfolded MagSafe Duo charger showing the iPhone and Watch charging pads. The discoloration of the outer materials is in sharp contrast to the white charging pads and keyboard keys.

A MagSafe Duo charger with the Watch charging pads flipped up, with an Apple Watch Ultra series 1 on the pad. The Watch has a weathered green Alpine Loop wristband. An Apple Wireless Keyboard is visible on the right.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oooh, I have my own John Merrill exchange! He didn’t block me but I did get him to say one of the quiet parts out loud.

A short Twitter thread:

Tim Weigel @timweigel
I lived in Colorado before I moved to Alabama. All elections are conducted by mail, and under past GOP Sec's of State at that. Also one of the best systems in the nation. Why not reach out to Wayne Williams? I'm sure he'd love to help a fellow Republican ensure safe voting.

John Merrill e @JohnHMerrill
He got beat because of this system

John Gordon @jordon
Replying to @JohnHMerrill @timweigel and @realDonaldTrump
Too much democracy amirite?

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

How can I be expected to work in these conditions? The cat is just too damned cute, it’s impossible.

A tabby cat is dozing off in loaf position atop an appliance. Coffee mugs hang on a rack to his side.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Billionaire quests for physical immortality seem to be in the periodic upswing in the discussion pool, and thinking about Neuralink I remembered this passage from Iain Banks' Culture novel Excession (Musk of course is a Culture fanboy). This conversation is between the human Ulver Seich and 1/

One of the exhibits which she discovered, towards the end of her wanderings, she did not understand. It was a little bundle of what looked like thin, glisteningly blue threads, lying in a shallow bowl; a net, like something you'd put on the end of a stick and go fishing for little fish in a stream. She tried to pick it up; it was impossibly slinky and the material slipped through her fingers like oil; the holes in the net were just too small to put a finger-tip through. Eventually she had to tip the bowl up and pour the blue mesh into her palm. It was very light. Something about it stirred a vague memory in her, but she couldn't recall what it was. She asked the ship what it was, via her neural lace.

~ That is a neural lace, it informed her. ~ A more exquisite and economical method of torturing creatures such as yourself has yet to be invented.

She gulped, quivered again and nearly dropped the thing. ~ Really? she sent, and tried to sound breezy. ~ Ha. I'd never really thought of it that way.

~ It is not generally a use much emphasised.

~ I suppose not, she replied, and carefully poured the fluid little device back into its bowl on the table.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

A small reminder that even here in south Alabama, good people are doing good things. Even in Alabama, trans rights are human rights. Even in Alabama, lotta folks care about LGBTQ+ people. All y'all that want to write off the South, knock it off. This is part of what you're writing off.

A news item with the headline 'Prism United secures $37k grant for Mobile-area LGBTQ+ youth'
Below the headline is a photograph of young people in a line in the middle of a road, jumping for joy.
Beneath the photo is a pride flag emoji followed by the text 'MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT: Prism United will expand its Healing Fund, which provides financial assistance for affirming therapy to youth + young adults.'

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Apropos of nothing (though it's the end of the month, so tomorrow my company generates invoices, as one does), I used to make timesheet memes at work when I was a manager, and this is one of my absolute favorites.

The domino effect meme, with a man wearing khaki slacks and blue shirt kneeling in front of a series of vertical slabs arranged from smallest to largest. The text over the smallest domino reads, "Oh, I guess I need to learn a little SQL to get what I need here." The text over the largest domino reads, 'Being hassled about your timesheets at a consulting firm'

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I did a thing recently - I participated in Mobile's C251 course, and learned a ton about the functioning of the city. There's a lot of cool stuff going on in Mobile, but it's up to us as citizens to keep the city on track and accountable. I had a great time, and I'm getting a lot more involved.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Pope Leo XIV’s got SOMEONE in a tizzy. This turned up in every mailbox in the area. I wasn’t aware of it before today, but the barest amount of research into it leads me to believe it’ll be a hell of a weird read, and probably frequently veer off into, uh, interesting theological territory.

A book titled, “The Great Controversy”. The cover depicts a stylized US Capitol with a waving American flag mirrored below by a stylized St. Peter’s Basilica with the Papal flag. There is a red bar at the bottom, stating, “Will two former rivals unite?”

There is no author listed on the cover.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I just don’t understand so much of the neighborhood drama on Nextdoor. Literally, I don’t understand it. The posts are so badly written that they’re frequently incomprehensible. Amazingly, that’s often not a barrier to arguments! Reminds me of these classics.

A 2020 Twitter post by Myke Cole, which reads: “I can't deny anything you're saying because it's incoherent”

A 2020 Twitter post by Myke Cole, which reads: “I can't understand it! I'm not entirely convinced it's in English.”

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

He looks a bit like our boy.

Tabby cat sitting on a Kindle which is itself sitting on an iPad on an ottoman.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

My Eris Morn duck has entered the chat.

A man’s hand is holding a rubber duck that is molded to look like the Destiny character Eris Morn in front of a computer keyboard.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I see that Anthropic's doing 'night and weekend minutes' now. (I'm required to use it for work. I'm doing my best to steer us towards human-affirming and human-supportive use. It's also proving very effective at the strongly-bounded stuff I'm having it do.)

A dialog from the Claude desktop app stating, "Get 2x more usage on weekends and outside the hours of 5–11am PT / 12–6pm GMT on weekdays. Now through March 28."

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Unfortunately I don't know who to attribute this to.

A four-panel comic. In the upper left panel, Sluggo from the Nancy comic approaches a knothole in a fence plank. In the upper right panel, Sluggo leans in to peer through the knothole. In the bottom left panel, there is a portion of the hell section of Hieronymus Bosch painting 'The Garden of Earthly Delights'. In the bottom left panel, Sluggo is showing recoiling with a look of confusion on his face.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I don’t know the author of this edit but it’s brilliant.

A Nancy comic in which Nancy is walking around shouting. The original speech has been replaced with lyrics from Come Together by The Beatles. In the first panel, Nancy, wearing her usual skirt but with a coat and mittens stands in front of a low brick wall with bushes in the background, shouts, “HE WEAR NO SHOESHINE! HE GOT TOE-JAM FOOTBALL!” In the second panel Nancy is walking down a road with part of a house, fence, and bushes in the background. Nancy is shouting, “HE GOT MONKEY FINGER! HE SHOOT COCA-COLA!” In the third panel, Nancy is standing in front if a brick wall shouting, “HE SAY: I KNOW YOU! YOU KNOW ME!” In the fourth panel, Nancy is standing in front of a blank wall, shouting, ONE THING I CAN TELL YOU IS YOU GOT TO BE FREE!”

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I'm gonna ride Azure Data Studio into the ground like Major Kong with the bomb.

Slim Pikens as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove, riding the nuclear bomb into the ground

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I am of course going to block this account, but come ON folks, really?

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I try not to quote post myself too much, but this is the absolute BEST possible like for that post.

The Bluesky account banner for a punk band Fire-A-Band from Mannheim, Germany.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

We had one of our anniversaries last week (we got legally married well before our wedding), and my wife took this picture of me. She really brings out the best in me in pictures.

A smiling bearded, bespectacled caucasian man with greying brown hair and beard wearing a light green long-sleeved shirt sits with his arms crossed at a marble table in a restaurant. Wine racks are visible to his right. More of the dining room is visible to his left.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Looks like the new Office icons have hit my computer. It definitely feels like change for the sake of change, not because they're better than previous ones (they're not).

Icons for Microsoft Excel, Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Word arranged in a row from left to right. The icon graphics are less representational of the function of the apps than ever before.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Take this peace with you on your travels, and stay safe out there.

Sunset obscured by low clouds over a calm Mobile Bay, with crepuscular rays shining above the clouds

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Guys, I’m not burning my phone. I’m also not Robert. (Not redacting the URL because fuck the grifters.)

A spam text message reading, “*** BURN AFTER READING ***

Robert, your secure border security briefing is live for 10 minutes: 25us.co/k6wrtk

stop=end”

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

My wife and I were commenting on the extreme sexual dimorphism in golden orb weavers, and she made a joke about a door to door salesman from eras past asking to speak to the man of the house. I had to sketch it. I will probably go back and re-do it - I’m not super-good but I can improve it.

A (poorly) sketched four-panel comic.

The first panel depicts a man in a hat seen from the shoulders up, standing in a doorway speaking to a very large golden orb weaver spider. He says, “Good morning ma’am. May I please speak to the man of the house?”

The second panel depicts the spider scooting back, and the man’s confusion is evinced by a question mark. The spider’s movement is captioned, “scoot scoot”.

The third panel depicts the man’s head and shoulders against an empty doorway, with a voice coming from below the field of view saying, “Down here, bub.”

The fourth panel depicts the man’s body from the shoulders down, standing in front of a very small golden orb weaver spider, who says, “Down here.”

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I missed this post last week, but here are some beautiful orb weavers I’ve seen recently in Daphne, AL. I thought I had one from a neighbor’s yard here in Mobile, but it seems to be eluding me. I love our spiders down here.

An brightly-lit orange orb weaver spider on its web in front of palm fronds and other trees

Two orb weaver spiders and their webs silhouetted against a cloudy sky, framed by trees.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

A haven’t got any memes close to hand, but here’s a heron!

A heron that is rather unimpressed with my lack of fish, looking straight into the camera.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Apropos of nothing, this picture came up in conversation this morning and I felt like sharing it here. It’s the George Washington Bridge as seen from Fort Lee, NJ. I took this in December 2023. Never did get into NYC on that trip, but at least I SAW Manhattan. Haven’t been since I was 8 or so.

The George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River as seen from Veterans Park in Fort Lee, New Jersey. It is nighttime, and the lights on the bridge and in Manhattan are reflected in the water of the Hudson.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Taking a moment from my usual Opinion Having to gently remind everyone that having an opinion, take, or reaction to everything isn’t mandatory. It’s absolutely ok to respond to everything. Pick your battles. I have a few things I feel very strongly about, and I have to let other things roll off.

A quote from Marcus Aurelius that reads, “52. You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all.
Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you.”

Beneath the quote, appearing to be stamped in red ink, are the words, “Marcus Aurelius has already released you from the obligation to have a take”

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Saw on Tumblr thanks to @diane.dianeduane.com, figured it was worth cross-posting here.

A screenshot of a Tumblr post from user a-comedy-of-errors dated August 22nd. There is a text area over a meme of the trans flag that incorporates a quote from the Discworld novel Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett.

The text area reads, “"I asked chat gpt-"
Well I asked HEX and the response was "+++????? +++ ++ +Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start.+++". Worth considering.
Edit because this is picking up steam: TERFs fuck off :)”

The meme of the trans flag reads, “"She," Angua corrected.
"This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We've got extra pronouns here."
Terry Pratchett - Feet of Clay”

The tag area below the meme reads, “#gnu terry pratchett #discworld #HEX beloved #at least that message from HEX conveys accurate information. #the good thing about this post i... See all”

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I have been getting a LOT of unsolicited GOP fundraising texts today, but this is by far the most... threatening. It reads like a SHAKEDOWN.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

… but I’m not IN Mississippi! I’m in Alabama. I’m able to get in fine on my phone, which is on the same network as my computer, so I am a wee bit confused here. This is the first time I’ve had any trouble accessing the site from the computer at home. Also, these age verification laws are bullshit.

A photograph of a Bluesky landing page advising that the site is not accessible from Mississippi due ti Mississippi’s age verification laws.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

On mail-in voting in AL: I have cleaned out as much of my old Twitter history as possible, but I remain proud of this exchange I had back in 2020 with then-Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill on the topic of mail-in voting. It’s not about security or integrity, it’s all about remaining in power.

A screenshot of a Twitter exchange.
A user named Tim Weigel posts, “I lived in Colorado before I moved to Alabama. All elections are conducted by mail, and under past GOP Sec’s of State at that. Also one of the best systems in the nation. Why not reach out to Wayne Williams? I’m sure he’d love to help a fellow Republican ensure safe voting.”

John Merrill, then-Secretary of State of Alabama, replies, “He got beat because of this system.”

A user named John Gordon replies, “Too much democracy amirite?”

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I will never get tired of posting this screenshot of an actual exchange I had on Twitter with the then-Secretary of State of Alabama.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

If you had told past me that I'd be looking at this specific installer in August 2025, I would not have believed you. Current me kinda can't believe it either, but here we are.

The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 Developer Pack installer starting screen. It features a download time estimate for dial-up internet connections.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

My wife sent me this today, and yeah, a lot of the time this is how it feels to move through the world as a diabetic. I usually do pretty well, but once in a while it's super-difficult.

A sign proclaiming "Need help managing your diabetes?" on a table, with a large number of colorfully-frosted cakes in containers stacked in front of it.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Monkey has achieved peak cat: he is sitting on a smooth, flat thing which is itself sitting on a smooth, flat thing, which is atop a soft flat thing.

A grey and black cat is sitting on a Kindle which is itself on top of an iPad.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Well now they’re just getting lazy.

The first paragraph from a job scam text reading, “Hello! I am Kelly Services from the Jessica Human Resources Team. We have noticed your potential for career development and would like to recommend a high-paying remote job opportunity!”

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I had most of these the FIRST time they were printed. <feels the winds of time blowing through my bones>

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I don’t use this mug often, but I should. My mom and grandma found this and got it for me. It’s so tempting to dismiss it as being cutesy and stereotypical and whatnot, but a) the pseudocode is actually pretty good, and b) come on, it’s from Mom and Grandma.

A black coffee mug with white pseudocode on it reading:
while(working)
{
coffee.drink();
work.execute();
if(coffee == “empty”)
{
if(coffeePot == “empty”)
coffeePot.brew();
coffee.refill();
}
}

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Your periodic reminder that I live in the Deep South.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Watching the sunset from the eastern shore never gets old.

The sun is two-thirds below the horizon at sunset. Mobile Bay is in the foreground. Downtown Mobile is to the right of the sun, snd the Port of Mobile stretches to the left. The sun is a brilliant red, seen through clouds. My description doesn’t come close to doing it justice, I’m sorry to say.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Visiting Mom in Florida today, and this has been what the road signs have said when you drive into the state on I-10 for a while now. First time we’ve gotten a photo.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

“BIG-TECH” didn’t block shit. And, uh, Elon Musk IS big tech.

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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Seen at the Tractor Supply yesterday.

A box for a wireless remote control for power winches with the phrase, “power wenches” hand-written in the upper left corner.

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