Tim Noble
@timothynoble.bsky.social
Media and robotics sculptor. Architectural worker and educator. Voracious researcher of the early Cold War in Latin America. Cyclist. Half of PunkPreservationists.org. The cat's name is Mia Zapata. She plays soccer.
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From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis
January 25, 2026 at 1:50 AM
From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis
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What a stark, horrifying demonstration of the tension a union opens itself to when it organizes security forces.
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
My god.
Statement from AFGE: Alex was a member. His killer may have been as well.
Statement from AFGE: Alex was a member. His killer may have been as well.
January 24, 2026 at 9:46 PM
What a stark, horrifying demonstration of the tension a union opens itself to when it organizes security forces.
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
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If it weren’t so dumb, my pet hypothesis about the similarities between Colombia’s and Venezuela’s flags driving some part of that intermingled belligerence should make Ecuador a little nervous.
January 9, 2026 at 2:47 AM
If it weren’t so dumb, my pet hypothesis about the similarities between Colombia’s and Venezuela’s flags driving some part of that intermingled belligerence should make Ecuador a little nervous.
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I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 AM
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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The premise of a "Best Punk Band" list is so antithetical to punk that you'd have to have at least 3 out of nowhere picks in the top 10 just to justify its existence. It doesn't have to be Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains or Max Levine Ensemble specifically, but they gotta be that level of esoteric.
December 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The premise of a "Best Punk Band" list is so antithetical to punk that you'd have to have at least 3 out of nowhere picks in the top 10 just to justify its existence. It doesn't have to be Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains or Max Levine Ensemble specifically, but they gotta be that level of esoteric.
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The kind .. you find … in a second hand store
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The kind .. you find … in a second hand store
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Is..is Calibri Italian? Is that the diversity?
Is Times New Roman white? What is Garamond?
Is Times New Roman white? What is Garamond?
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Is..is Calibri Italian? Is that the diversity?
Is Times New Roman white? What is Garamond?
Is Times New Roman white? What is Garamond?
That is a nice, solid, very readable type. A good investment of public funds.
Dude's a clown but I will again rattle the cup for more people to know about the people's typeface: public-sans.digital.gov
December 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
That is a nice, solid, very readable type. A good investment of public funds.
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
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Millions of Democratic voters on Tuesday: Fight these guys. Fight them.
Senate Democrats: We heard you loud and clear and we will give in
Senate Democrats: We heard you loud and clear and we will give in
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Millions of Democratic voters on Tuesday: Fight these guys. Fight them.
Senate Democrats: We heard you loud and clear and we will give in
Senate Democrats: We heard you loud and clear and we will give in
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Why stop at a 50-year mortgage? Let's go full dystopia and make it a 150 years, with your debt lovingly passed down like an heirloom of financial despair. Generation after generation, working not for wealth, but for the privilege of almost owning drywall. Why own a house, when you can haunt it?
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Why stop at a 50-year mortgage? Let's go full dystopia and make it a 150 years, with your debt lovingly passed down like an heirloom of financial despair. Generation after generation, working not for wealth, but for the privilege of almost owning drywall. Why own a house, when you can haunt it?
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This is very clearly the direction in which things are headed, especially since so many of the people who built and maintained the tools the US IC has developed-in house have been fired or have left.
YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America.
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is very clearly the direction in which things are headed, especially since so many of the people who built and maintained the tools the US IC has developed-in house have been fired or have left.
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men would rather liberate Cuba from dictatorship than get therapy
November 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
men would rather liberate Cuba from dictatorship than get therapy
OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.
November 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.
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This is like watching the Home Run Derby. bsky.app/profile/zohr...
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This is like watching the Home Run Derby. bsky.app/profile/zohr...
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It’s deeply unfair the Danes can just give Lego away for soft power points.
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It’s deeply unfair the Danes can just give Lego away for soft power points.
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they are attempting to impoverish us enough so as to reindustrialize. hope this helps
November 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
they are attempting to impoverish us enough so as to reindustrialize. hope this helps
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I like that. And I love it in others. Until recently I didn’t realize that one’s curiosity (or lack thereof) is the best predictor of our relationship.
November 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I like that. And I love it in others. Until recently I didn’t realize that one’s curiosity (or lack thereof) is the best predictor of our relationship.
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some jazzers have been griping about Hancock’s vocoder ad-lib segment, which he’s been doing every set. Allow me to set you straight. Herbie Hancock is one of the greatest musicians ever to live and in the context of music if he makes a choice then that is the right choice. Hope this clarifies
just saw Herbie Hancock at the Strathmore. played almost exclusively progressive jazz, went ~1 hour over time, much of the overage stemming from a nearly 40m lecture on evolution, compassion, & futurism done entirely via vocoder, and saved almost all the accessible fusion for post-lecture. the GOAT!
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
some jazzers have been griping about Hancock’s vocoder ad-lib segment, which he’s been doing every set. Allow me to set you straight. Herbie Hancock is one of the greatest musicians ever to live and in the context of music if he makes a choice then that is the right choice. Hope this clarifies
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all the respect to the first person who figured out how to cook and eat an artichoke, that shit wasn't self-evident
November 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
all the respect to the first person who figured out how to cook and eat an artichoke, that shit wasn't self-evident
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Halloween from
Down Under
I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
Down Under
I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
October 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Halloween from
Down Under
I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
Down Under
I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
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