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Tim Walker

@twalk.bsky.social
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Science- & nature-loving writer, dad, & fitness buff in ATX. ❤️‍🔥 of a hype man. Happily partnered. Intersectional feminist & LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally. ⚽️. (he/him) Get into using alt text. Get WAY into it. Av: bearded middle-aged guy Banner: wall map of world weather

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Chris ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 6h
The style of that door— the panels, the scale, etc— kinda reminds me of the “Gates of Paradise” baptistery doors in Florence, the ones Ghiberti did. I’m sure the scenes depicted on n a bank door aren’t exactly Biblical, but the resemblance is definitely there.
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Tim Walker @twalk.bsky.social · 7h
Well, *this* is tasty...
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Serenity "🜔🝆🜌🜂" Dee 🍜 @sapphixy.bsky.social · 9h
an excellent thread
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026
7. "some people find LLMs useful" is a different claim than any of the following: a) LLMs are good at doing the things people use them for b) LLMs are well suited to the tasks for which they are advertised c) LLMs "can do" something
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tante @tante.cc · 03/03/2026
I think that is actually the biggest problem with those systems. It's not losing some random skill that we have made superflous, it's about taking skills that are the foundation for your agency in this world and your ability to understand it.
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Tim Walker @twalk.bsky.social · 10h
“For students with still-developing minds, the most urgent question, then, is how to protect thinking in a world where it has become so easy to outsource writing.”
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 18h
Movieswetextedabout.com is looking for new contributors for pop culturey things and games. It’s a paid contribution opportunity for a small but growing and mighty site. I really like writing for them and instructions for how to pitch are on the site. Please RT!
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Movies We Texted About
Film & TV Reviews and News Worth Texting About Film and TV Reviews Worth Texting About
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 29/09/2026
waiting on the executive order mandating that spielberg rename his movie
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WHAT: Saint Laurent (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: chic hopscotch or at a cocktail party you hear a ringing, a calling, & simultaneously 15 of you drop your champagne coupes & form a sisterhood—to OWN THE NIGHT IF IT WERE A SCENT: wheeled suitcase over cobblestone EMOTIONAL RANGE: 🔑/✨ #MJMfashionGuide
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Chris ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
wake up babe, we’re ecogoths
A tumblr post by user draculesc:

"Tell me your favorite weird fact."

The Earth is covered in corpses. We breathe the air the dead exude, eat the food they nourished with their decay, pour their remains into our cars, wear them and sleep on them. And then we call them scary without even noticing that they are present in every single thing of our lives. We live because of the dead.

A reply by user jestermolly:

Ecogoth
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Tim Walker @twalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I clicked, I read, I bought the t-shirt. (Literally.)
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Tim Walker @twalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No plans for lunch turned into pasta + garbanzo salad with anchovy balsamic vinaigrette, feta, and quick-pickled shallots.
The aforementioned pasta + garbanzo salad, served in a white, patterned porcelain bowl.
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is such a beautiful photo. And the description in the ALT is worth reading too.
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
okay that's cool
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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 28/09/2026
And Bluesky? Idk. I agree with folks who maintain it’s “not twitter circa early 2010s.” I want *that* back but I think social media platforms have become something altogether different and *that* may not be able to exist on current iterations again. Like, ever again…
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
do not outsource your thinking to search results, social media or a chatbot. do the work. read deeply. listen carefully. stay curious. it's so important to stay sharp. i really worry about skills erosion in this era - simpleflying.com/faa-autopilo...
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Why The FAA Tells Airline Pilots To Keep Mentally Flying The Aircraft Even With Autopilot On
Despite advanced autopilot capabilities, pilots must always stay focused.
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Tim Walker @twalk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So THERE. 🤘 #HookEm www.nytimes.com/athletic/764... SEC says Tennessee’s onside drop kick vs. Texas should have been penalized
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SEC says Tennessee’s onside drop kick vs. Texas should have been penalized
NCAA rules state a drop kick must be executed on the 35-yard line for kickoffs, and the kicker cannot move after his signal to kick.
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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sibel, with the felicitous intuition so prevalent in the bourgeoisies of non-Western countries, saw psychoanalysis as a “scientific sharing of confidences” invented for Westerners unaccustomed to the curative traditions of family solidarity and shared secrets. Orhan Pamuk #SundaySentence
The paperback cover of Orhan Pamuk’s novel, the museum of innocence, which features along the bottom a mirror image of a classic car with five passengers before a panorama of the Bosphorus, with the city of Istanbul and distant hills in the background.
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Tim Walker @twalk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A collection by Atlas Obcura of outstanding indie bookstores from various parts of the world: www.atlasobscura.com/lists/ultima...
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The Ultimate Guide to Wondrous Independent Bookstores
We think book havens are heaven.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others.
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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Or, to deploy the famous Ballard quote: "“The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.”
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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Plenty of people have voted for Trump largely from malaise and boredom, but these are not the same thing as hardship. The basically prosperous people who felt nonetheless that the country needed to be shaken up are a key part of the modern fascist demographic
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Mike Meginnis @mikemeginnis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is maybe the right hour for me to post that the "we're all so poor and miserable of course people are voting for fascists" shit is such moral cowardice; I would have to be starving to death to consider a Trump vote and we are not generally starving to death. That's very rarely a thing here.
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Tim Walker @twalk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My partner & I watched Conan the Barbarian in the past week, and then I stumbled across this insightful analysis on @reactorsff.bsky.social of it as (among other things) "a film about non-toxic masculinity." Thought-provoking! reactormag.com/conan-the-ba...
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Conan the Barbarian: An Unexpectedly Nuanced Depiction of Masculinity? - Reactor
Okay, hear me out: this movie kicks ass, but it's also more thoughtful than you might expect...
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 26/09/2026
Once again advocating for the inclusion of “as you may already know” in deeply educative responses to people who may indeed already know.
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Michael Engard @engard.me · 17/09/2026
We all so wanted to believe that the post-WW2 order was an enlightenment that was at last gradually banishing the violence that was so utterly normal for the first first 300,000 years of human history. Now we see that even a comfortable, successful, civilized life is no cure for rank bloodthirst.
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Michael Engard @engard.me · 17/09/2026
What makes my skin crawl is that I could almost handle it better if they were competent. Like, amoral, greedy, bloodthirsty, etc., but with some philosophy, some half-coherent sense of geopolitics behind it. But they’re not. They don’t even understand what they’re destroying. They can’t *see* it.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
- À la carte living conditions where everything is hyper personalized and you get what YOU want delivered to YOU when YOU want it. And therefore, you don't have to think beyond yourself, so you assume everything is either for you *specifically* or it's wrong.
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Tim Walker @twalk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Tim Walker @twalk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a special type of ragebait / analytical rabbit-hole that I've decided I won't enter into.
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Tim Walker @twalk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Two morals to this story: 1. Meet the nice folks in your neighborhood. 2. Dogs are great.
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Tim Walker @twalk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This morning I went for a little walk in the neighborhood, which I’ve done less in the past few months because 🥵. I hadn’t even walked past the edge of our own yard before I met a delightful poodle named Jenna. (Her human seemed nice, too.) Good reminder for me to go for more walks.
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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Col. Jack D. Ripper
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ordered a martini at a campus interview dinner, is that anything? A NY strip steak too.
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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yeah, we could at least sub in "favorite" for "best." I am curious about what other people like! I just want to stop quantifying taste.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
👉 I bloody love a manicule👈
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Tim Walker @twalk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The older I get, the more I appreciate lists like "6 recent poetry collections I like a lot" or "the books I find myself rereading year after year." Not "The 6 Best Right Fielders Ever, in Order, Period."
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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don't know, man. Maybe stop making lists? Art and entertainment are not competitive sports.
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Operative_X @operativexray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don't care if you bring iced coffee to the interview, but I do care if you brought your "A" game. In this LinkedIn post I'll
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William Davis @willdavis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gone are the days where iced coffee is anywhere near my top 500 things to worry about.
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Zeroisanumber @zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
WSJ article and NPR guy sounding off. I've hired people who still have jail time they owe. People are too precious.
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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i just woke up why & how did this disk horse struggle session happen about iced coffee
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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
pro dehydration account👇👇👇👇
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Spreadsheet enjoyer 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @bluser12.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Perfect ragebait 10/10
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Jeff Cuscutis @cuscutis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a LinkedIn take you didn’t need to make here.
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Alligator Sommelier @idlewild5.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An unhappy alternative is before you, candidate. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your interviewers. Kai will never see you again if you bring iced coffee, and I will never see you again if you don't.
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Louise McLaughlin author she / her @louisemclaughlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's Dolly Day 9/25. For all those who celebrate... and you should! Here's a butterfly from a Scottish Council. Put a butterfly in your window and read a book. As my gran said education is the way out of poverty... books are a route to freedom. Happy Dolly Day
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