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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə)

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 2h

I learned last Saturday that Gérard Laumon had passed away the previous Saturday. I deeply admire many aspects of his work, which I want to mention briefly.
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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 4h

I have not one gram of affection for Santos but solitary confinement is a horrible form of torture. Nobody deserves it and it's not funny or ironic, just terrible

onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 4h

Wow, you're a really consistent flosser!

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 12h

A cool fact is that your nostrils are never both working at full power. One is always a little stuffed and they take turns. This allows you to simultaneously do a fast and a slow analysis of what you're breathing in.

Anyway, all of this to say: we are gathered here today...

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 12h

What's funny about the bell hooks lowercase stylisation is that it immediately checkmates anyone trying to be disrespectful

If you want to negate it you have to capitalise the name, a universal sign of respect. If you write lowercase then you're automatically going along with it

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 12h

guy who is brain-meltingly obsessed with the anti-christ, watching literally anything: "Getting a lot of

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 2d

Just doesn’t sit right with me that pianos are classified as percussion instruments. I don’t know who to complain to about this but I’m telling you now I won’t have it

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 14h

(of me!)

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17h

I’m not sure there ever been an investigation more robustly proven valid than the first Trump impeachment. Did he use presidential power for his personal gain? Uh, yeah! I think he probably did!

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 17h

This has become a load bearing tweet to me.

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 15h

what the fuck?

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 16h

I'm sorry but saying they paid him "for services" is pretty explicitly admitting they bribed him right?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 16h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

"non-reductive Lie group"

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 18h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

“There was no syllabus”

Jon Lewis @jonlewis.bsky.social · 19h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

'As Harold Bloom argues'

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 16h

haha those are the best posting times

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 16h

New arithmetic hierarchy just dropped

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 17h

Before rudders, ships used a single large oar to steer themselves. Usually that oar was placed on the right side. This came to mean the steering side, or 'steorbord' in Old English

This is how starboard came to mean the right side of a ship!

#etymology

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 16h

I do, and I even addressed the question to him haha

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 16h

probably too late but: thedailytism.com/seems-reason...

Seems reasonable! Autistic woman tasks self with fixing whole world

An autistic woman has set herself the entirely feasible task of singlehandedly fixing all the ills of the world, her loved ones have claimed. Ima Onwugbenu, 35, a librarian from Cheshire, has reporte...

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 16h

May I ask a question @dieworkwear.bsky.social? Why do tuxedo jackets tend to have a different colour on these vertical folds next to the opening? And why do normal suit jackets usually not have them?

Is it a historical thing? Just a matter of materials? Or some stylistic aspect of tuxedos vs suits?

picture of a blue tuxedo with black inside bands

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 16h

future biographers are gonna have so little to work with

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 17h

two of the most terrifying paragraphs I've read in a long time

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

I am straight-up going to have nightmares about this

In the video Smith posted online, he said Neuralink engineers had started using language models including ChatGPT and Grok to serve up a selection of relevant replies to questions, as well as options for things he could say in conversations going on around him. One example that he outlined: “My friend asked me for ideas for his girlfriend who loves horses. I chose the option that told him in my voice to get her a bouquet of carrots. What a creative and funny idea.”

These aren’t really his thoughts, but they will do—since brain-clicking once in a menu of choices is much faster than typing out a complete answer, which can take minutes.

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 19h

Sorry, correction! The Scandinavian numeral was very obviously wrong! It was still a very early ochtend so I got the two meanings of "otte" wrong

The homonymic numeral has a different origin (cognate to all other Indo-European words for 8) but "otte" deriving from *unhtwō means "dawn", obviously

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 1d

actually wild how fucking craven these people are

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 1d

I have a dedicated keyboard on my phone for Greek and for the International Phonetic Alphabet! It allows me to use (almost) all the characters I desire

However, I have to confess, in this case I was just copy-pasting haha 😅

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch "ochtend" is an outlier here. PIE *nókʷts gave many words for night: Dutch/German "Nacht", Sanskrit: अक्तु (aktú), Greek νυξ, Latin "nox"

But *unhtwǭ has other descendants. German "Uchte" (Midnight Mass), Middle English "oughten", and even the Scandinavian word "otte"/"otta" for the number 8!

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