Tim Walker
@twalk.bsky.social
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.
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Tim Walker
@twalk.bsky.social
· Jul 14
Three upsides of leaving Substack:
1. Cuts the flow of material into my inbox, which simplifies my life.
2. Frees up funds to support my writer friends by buying their books. :)
3. Means I'm putting my money where my mouth is vis-à-vis Substack's values.
1. Cuts the flow of material into my inbox, which simplifies my life.
2. Frees up funds to support my writer friends by buying their books. :)
3. Means I'm putting my money where my mouth is vis-à-vis Substack's values.
Speaking of unsubscribing from e-mail newsletters, recently I cancelled all of my Substack subscriptions. I've wanted to support my friends who have newsletters there, but I also don't want my money going to the Substack founders.
An aside: Please expect to see some random reposts of older stuff here.
As part of my bigger digital cleanup project (see quoted item et seq.), I've been clearing out my Bluesky likes. I tend to use them as informal bookmarks & then forget about them for months, which isn't ideal. Spring cleaning!
As part of my bigger digital cleanup project (see quoted item et seq.), I've been clearing out my Bluesky likes. I tend to use them as informal bookmarks & then forget about them for months, which isn't ideal. Spring cleaning!
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New best band name just dropped…
Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
January 15, 2026 at 9:33 PM
New best band name just dropped…
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Are you an undergrad or grad student at a Pacific Northwest university studying wildlife? “PNW” loosely defined as North America west of the Great Plains and north of the Mojave Desert. Scholarship application deadline is this Monday! thesnvb.org/scholarship/
Scholarship - The Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology
thesnvb.org
January 15, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Are you an undergrad or grad student at a Pacific Northwest university studying wildlife? “PNW” loosely defined as North America west of the Great Plains and north of the Mojave Desert. Scholarship application deadline is this Monday! thesnvb.org/scholarship/
I pretty much agree with Jon on all of this. Are some companies overspending (and in some cases over-borrowing) for AI without any great hope of earning their money back? Sure. Are some stocks overvalued? I would say yes. Is AI here to stay, in various forms? Also yes.
I think there is an AI bubble that will burst. But, like the dotcom bubble, it won't mean the end of the industry or the underlying technologies.
It feels to me like the never AI advocates are arguing that there will be a bubble and it will all go away. I could very well be reading that wrong.
It feels to me like the never AI advocates are arguing that there will be a bubble and it will all go away. I could very well be reading that wrong.
January 14, 2026 at 11:19 PM
I pretty much agree with Jon on all of this. Are some companies overspending (and in some cases over-borrowing) for AI without any great hope of earning their money back? Sure. Are some stocks overvalued? I would say yes. Is AI here to stay, in various forms? Also yes.
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Psst.
This is a lightning bolt.
On fucking Jupiter.
This is a lightning bolt.
On fucking Jupiter.
January 14, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Psst.
This is a lightning bolt.
On fucking Jupiter.
This is a lightning bolt.
On fucking Jupiter.
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I'm on a writing retreat working on the second book of the Ministry of Supernatural Affairs series, which might mean I should promo the first, out in August:
books2read.com/u/3LzORJ
books2read.com/u/3LzORJ
January 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
I'm on a writing retreat working on the second book of the Ministry of Supernatural Affairs series, which might mean I should promo the first, out in August:
books2read.com/u/3LzORJ
books2read.com/u/3LzORJ
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Even the Baileys hate those assholes
January 13, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Even the Baileys hate those assholes
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hey, quick question: what’s it gonna take
January 12, 2026 at 1:46 AM
hey, quick question: what’s it gonna take
My version of heck: being cc'ed on a thread where two experienced businesspeople who should know better are laboriously trying to nail down a time for a call that they both know I won't be part of.
January 12, 2026 at 10:20 PM
My version of heck: being cc'ed on a thread where two experienced businesspeople who should know better are laboriously trying to nail down a time for a call that they both know I won't be part of.
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can you please send me any images you come across or take yourself of ICE agents using drones, or drones at anti-ICE and anti-MAGA protests over the last year?
may do a bit of research
may do a bit of research
January 12, 2026 at 8:21 PM
can you please send me any images you come across or take yourself of ICE agents using drones, or drones at anti-ICE and anti-MAGA protests over the last year?
may do a bit of research
may do a bit of research
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we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
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For the Times, the point of the story was they got an interview, which gave them juice for a day. Nothing he said mattered more than the interview itself, so there's no need to keep talking about it.
It's remarkable that Trump's claim that there are no constraints on his power other than his "own morality"--that he thinks he can govern as a dictator--proved to be a 1-day story, with no follow-up coverage in the New York Times, to whom he said this, or, as far as I can tell, any other newspaper.
January 10, 2026 at 5:36 PM
For the Times, the point of the story was they got an interview, which gave them juice for a day. Nothing he said mattered more than the interview itself, so there's no need to keep talking about it.
"Life has never been more rushed. This present way of being is not a truth about life or a truth about time; it is propositional. We can disagree."
~Jeanette Winterson
~Jeanette Winterson
January 10, 2026 at 5:38 PM
"Life has never been more rushed. This present way of being is not a truth about life or a truth about time; it is propositional. We can disagree."
~Jeanette Winterson
~Jeanette Winterson
How many hobbies do you have? What are they?
January 9, 2026 at 8:19 PM
How many hobbies do you have? What are they?
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If I were the author of the Animorphs, I'd have a lot of dialogue like "Also, the clothes change into the animal's skin. The clothes don't have to come off. Animal skin is just what animals wear for clothes."
January 9, 2026 at 7:01 PM
If I were the author of the Animorphs, I'd have a lot of dialogue like "Also, the clothes change into the animal's skin. The clothes don't have to come off. Animal skin is just what animals wear for clothes."
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Allowing violence upon the most vulnerable of us (bipoc folks, trans folks, disabled folks, etc) means that EVERYONE will be subject to violence eventually. If you do not stop it toward them, it will not stop toward you. It will just keep happening.
January 8, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Allowing violence upon the most vulnerable of us (bipoc folks, trans folks, disabled folks, etc) means that EVERYONE will be subject to violence eventually. If you do not stop it toward them, it will not stop toward you. It will just keep happening.
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oldhead advice from an oldhead.
every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown"
and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work
gotta build for long term
every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown"
and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work
gotta build for long term
January 8, 2026 at 7:32 AM
oldhead advice from an oldhead.
every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown"
and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work
gotta build for long term
every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown"
and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work
gotta build for long term
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I ran into him in dealer's room and I fucking cackled
January 9, 2026 at 12:13 AM
I ran into him in dealer's room and I fucking cackled
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i had eight hours of sleep and stayed off twitter and my depression went away
January 9, 2026 at 7:01 AM
i had eight hours of sleep and stayed off twitter and my depression went away
Watching FORD V FERRARI. The funny thing about the [mild spoiler] comical scuffle between Damon and Bale is that it’s Jason Bourne versus Batman.
January 7, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Watching FORD V FERRARI. The funny thing about the [mild spoiler] comical scuffle between Damon and Bale is that it’s Jason Bourne versus Batman.
When you order takeout, what's your go-to cuisine?
January 6, 2026 at 11:53 PM
When you order takeout, what's your go-to cuisine?
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One of the cutest birds!
Morning #bird
A Black Phoebe resting on a Mesquite branch at the Gilbert Riparian area in Gilbert AZ.
#birdphotography #photography #birding #birds #wildlifephotography #botd #birdoftheday #BlackandWhite
A Black Phoebe resting on a Mesquite branch at the Gilbert Riparian area in Gilbert AZ.
#birdphotography #photography #birding #birds #wildlifephotography #botd #birdoftheday #BlackandWhite
January 6, 2026 at 4:10 PM
One of the cutest birds!
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Happy birthday, C.D. Wright.
We remember you. 🎂🎈
We remember you. 🎂🎈
Well, a great many things have been said / in the oven of hours. We have not been / shaken out of the magnolias. Today was / another / hard day. And tomorrow will be harder.
C.D. Wright
C.D. Wright
January 6, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Happy birthday, C.D. Wright.
We remember you. 🎂🎈
We remember you. 🎂🎈