Tim Shaw
@wdncnu.bsky.social
Experience design / CX, / UX / Service Design. Data visualization. Traditional & wooden boats and boating. Environment & earth science. Incessant, unapologetic punster. ALX VA. He/His. Trying to be a light to drive out darkness.
I don't think I have heretofore posted this bit of handiwork form some years back, but, in prep for a new one, I am doing so now. My analysis of key barred owl subspecies. 🦉#bird
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I don't think I have heretofore posted this bit of handiwork form some years back, but, in prep for a new one, I am doing so now. My analysis of key barred owl subspecies. 🦉#bird
A movie that takes place where you are from*
* In that it mashes together multiple towns and takes the name of the one
* In that it mashes together multiple towns and takes the name of the one
November 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
A movie that takes place where you are from*
* In that it mashes together multiple towns and takes the name of the one
* In that it mashes together multiple towns and takes the name of the one
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The irony of these people complaining about the invented dangers of immigrants and then welcoming brain pollution from overseas hustlers.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The irony of these people complaining about the invented dangers of immigrants and then welcoming brain pollution from overseas hustlers.
@josephfray.bsky.social "boost-mo-BEEL", I suppose?
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
@josephfray.bsky.social "boost-mo-BEEL", I suppose?
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Simply glorious.
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Simply glorious.
ALXSkeeters, esp with West End restaurant intel: did Feru sell Feru the restaurant? I also see something about it now being soul food, as of recently, but the site still suggests Ethiopian? What's going on?!
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
ALXSkeeters, esp with West End restaurant intel: did Feru sell Feru the restaurant? I also see something about it now being soul food, as of recently, but the site still suggests Ethiopian? What's going on?!
It's not a parking lot; it's a bike-share rack. Cool story for shared transit nerds. wtop.com/national/202...
Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake ‘parking lot’ - WTOP News
Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a sort of prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore.
wtop.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It's not a parking lot; it's a bike-share rack. Cool story for shared transit nerds. wtop.com/national/202...
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NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
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NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
Hey ALXSkeets folks. I think I posted this a while ago but long since lost the thread. Anyone have recommendations for reasonably-priced landscape contractors? I want focus on native plants - this should be a BatSignal to some of you - but also bigger stuff like creating a rain garden. Thx,
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Hey ALXSkeets folks. I think I posted this a while ago but long since lost the thread. Anyone have recommendations for reasonably-priced landscape contractors? I want focus on native plants - this should be a BatSignal to some of you - but also bigger stuff like creating a rain garden. Thx,
I don't THINK I already posted this. Further evidence the Polynesians ABSOLUTELY made it to South America and back. Which makes complete sense. www.npr.org/sections/the...
How The Sweet Potato Crossed The Pacific Way Before The Europeans Did
The genes of the root vegetable have a juicy story to tell of trans-oceanic adventure. A DNA analysis of sweet potatoes adds evidence to the theory that ancient Polynesians visited South America long ...
www.npr.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I don't THINK I already posted this. Further evidence the Polynesians ABSOLUTELY made it to South America and back. Which makes complete sense. www.npr.org/sections/the...
I just can't with conventional archeology's take on early human capabilities. OF COURSE people in SE Asia figured out how to travel the sea - science keeps trying to suppose the Pacific was populated by accident rather than just accepting the obvious. www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...
Archaeologists Found Ancient Tools That Contradict the Timeline of Civilization
The math doesn’t add up.
www.popularmechanics.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I just can't with conventional archeology's take on early human capabilities. OF COURSE people in SE Asia figured out how to travel the sea - science keeps trying to suppose the Pacific was populated by accident rather than just accepting the obvious. www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...
We are trying Pupatella tonight. I am sure no references will be made to narration of one's morning constitutional. Nope, not one. Not even anything close.
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
We are trying Pupatella tonight. I am sure no references will be made to narration of one's morning constitutional. Nope, not one. Not even anything close.
Well, this story checks a bunch of my boxes... very cool. www.opb.org/article/2025...
OPB documentary ‘First Descent: Kayaking the Klamath’ follows Indigenous kayakers on a historic journey after dam removal
Oregon Field Guide's "First Descent: Kayaking the Klamath" documentary is available on OPB's website and YouTube.
www.opb.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Well, this story checks a bunch of my boxes... very cool. www.opb.org/article/2025...
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Jupiter says trans rights
🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Jupiter says trans rights
When I was a kid I fell in love with a song. 24 years ago today, I made a pilgrimage for the song. Cruddy pictures of pictures, but this is Whitefish Pt., MI, home of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum and closed point in the US to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 50 years ago today. 🔔*29
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
When I was a kid I fell in love with a song. 24 years ago today, I made a pilgrimage for the song. Cruddy pictures of pictures, but this is Whitefish Pt., MI, home of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum and closed point in the US to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 50 years ago today. 🔔*29
Very cool. Congrats to Korean marine archeologists. www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...
Korea recovers 600-year-old cargo ship in underwater excavation
A 600-year-old tax ship has resurfaced off Korea’s west coast. South Korean archaeologists have recovered the full remains of a Joseon-era (1392-1910) cargo ves
www.koreaherald.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Very cool. Congrats to Korean marine archeologists. www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...
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Generative AI is the apotheosis of this process. It's praised for doing better than a human on certain tasks, but those tasks were *made for computer logic* in the first place.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Generative AI is the apotheosis of this process. It's praised for doing better than a human on certain tasks, but those tasks were *made for computer logic* in the first place.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
Son: I got the ignition issue with my car figured out so it works now! I needed a different part than I had.
Me: So the idea of keeping the part you had in place was a... non-starter?
#HelpfulDad
Me: So the idea of keeping the part you had in place was a... non-starter?
#HelpfulDad
November 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Son: I got the ignition issue with my car figured out so it works now! I needed a different part than I had.
Me: So the idea of keeping the part you had in place was a... non-starter?
#HelpfulDad
Me: So the idea of keeping the part you had in place was a... non-starter?
#HelpfulDad
Yes, please. More of this. Speak the obvious truths. Decry immorality and hypocrisy loudly and openly.
November 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Yes, please. More of this. Speak the obvious truths. Decry immorality and hypocrisy loudly and openly.
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It’s almost as if checks and balances was a good idea for a reason.
This shutdown is a reminder that “an executive branch unbound by Congress or the courts has a unique ability to inflict and prolong pain on the people,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues.
Why This Shutdown Is So Dangerous
The way the president is disrupting essential services shows the dangers of his vision for big government.
bit.ly
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
It’s almost as if checks and balances was a good idea for a reason.
The MVP for Helena and my run this morning - and other contestants really need to just sit back down and wait for next time - was the Australian shepherd puppy in Four Mile Run Park. More cute per gram than should be allowed.
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The MVP for Helena and my run this morning - and other contestants really need to just sit back down and wait for next time - was the Australian shepherd puppy in Four Mile Run Park. More cute per gram than should be allowed.
This was a very useful explanation
Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This was a very useful explanation
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The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
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Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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