Tim
@tewlbox.bsky.social
Writer, former professional actor, tabletop game aficionado, and that guy you go to when your computer isn’t doing the thing right
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
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you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
August 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
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A ridiculous lawsuit filed by Project Veritas vs the NY Times is now a dead letter. Among other things, it had spurred a local NY judge to try to inflict prior restraint on the Times. ... which an appellate court smacked down right away
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...
July 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A ridiculous lawsuit filed by Project Veritas vs the NY Times is now a dead letter. Among other things, it had spurred a local NY judge to try to inflict prior restraint on the Times. ... which an appellate court smacked down right away
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...
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What's more, AI images are the product of algorithmic populism, optimized to cater to the aesthetic and ideological preferences of a very narrow mostly white, male and very online demographic, as is documented in this fantastic report by @christobuschek.net & @jerthorp.bsky.social
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Models All The Way Down
LAION-5B is an open-source foundation dataset. It contains 5.8 billion image and text pairs—a size too large to make sense of. We follow the construction of the dataset to better understand its conten...
knowingmachines.org
July 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
What's more, AI images are the product of algorithmic populism, optimized to cater to the aesthetic and ideological preferences of a very narrow mostly white, male and very online demographic, as is documented in this fantastic report by @christobuschek.net & @jerthorp.bsky.social
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So my wife and I are playing scrabble… and uhh…
June 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
So my wife and I are playing scrabble… and uhh…
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There are no kings in America except Abe Froman, the Sausage King of Chicago.
See some of you out and about around town this weekend.
See some of you out and about around town this weekend.
June 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
There are no kings in America except Abe Froman, the Sausage King of Chicago.
See some of you out and about around town this weekend.
See some of you out and about around town this weekend.
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now with alt text, apologies for the oversight:
May 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
now with alt text, apologies for the oversight:
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anyway here's the email I sent to jim bankoff last week. i'm still heartbroken. I have been insanely, destructively angry for weeks, and I think I will be for a long time.
May 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
anyway here's the email I sent to jim bankoff last week. i'm still heartbroken. I have been insanely, destructively angry for weeks, and I think I will be for a long time.
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Raymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.
May 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Raymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.
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I am sorry to say it, but this is probably one of the most important things you can repost today.
April 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I am sorry to say it, but this is probably one of the most important things you can repost today.
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sometimes I feel like a dinosaur, cause no one looks anything up anymore 🦕
April 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
sometimes I feel like a dinosaur, cause no one looks anything up anymore 🦕
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For new followers & old:
I’m #Blind & appreciate all efforts to use #BlueSky’s #AltText description tool on all images you post. It includes me in your posts & additional to character limits. If you go into settings/#Accessibility/Alt Text, you can set a reminder for when you post images
Thanks 🙏😎
I’m #Blind & appreciate all efforts to use #BlueSky’s #AltText description tool on all images you post. It includes me in your posts & additional to character limits. If you go into settings/#Accessibility/Alt Text, you can set a reminder for when you post images
Thanks 🙏😎
April 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
For new followers & old:
I’m #Blind & appreciate all efforts to use #BlueSky’s #AltText description tool on all images you post. It includes me in your posts & additional to character limits. If you go into settings/#Accessibility/Alt Text, you can set a reminder for when you post images
Thanks 🙏😎
I’m #Blind & appreciate all efforts to use #BlueSky’s #AltText description tool on all images you post. It includes me in your posts & additional to character limits. If you go into settings/#Accessibility/Alt Text, you can set a reminder for when you post images
Thanks 🙏😎
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I am so not at home for the "Oooh, this was just performative" sneering. You cynical humps of self-congratulation, the fucking Trumpists are performative ALL THE TIME. They set a vibe! Their vibe is "there is no law and we can break everything." God DAMN do we need a resounding counter-vibe.
April 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I am so not at home for the "Oooh, this was just performative" sneering. You cynical humps of self-congratulation, the fucking Trumpists are performative ALL THE TIME. They set a vibe! Their vibe is "there is no law and we can break everything." God DAMN do we need a resounding counter-vibe.
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"I was challenged by my own constituents to do something different; I was challenged by my own constituents to do *something*; I was challenged by my own constituents to take risks..."
Words spoken by Cory Booker, but the credit is to *unelected everyone*. CB will get the credit but YOU DID THIS.
Words spoken by Cory Booker, but the credit is to *unelected everyone*. CB will get the credit but YOU DID THIS.
April 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"I was challenged by my own constituents to do something different; I was challenged by my own constituents to do *something*; I was challenged by my own constituents to take risks..."
Words spoken by Cory Booker, but the credit is to *unelected everyone*. CB will get the credit but YOU DID THIS.
Words spoken by Cory Booker, but the credit is to *unelected everyone*. CB will get the credit but YOU DID THIS.
Alright, this is fairly inconsequential... but I may have just spotted some plagiarism (possibly accidental) from a former judge from the 5th Circuit.
So to start, I was googling "Willy Wonka legal trouble" — as one does — and I found this humor piece by John G. Browning, located here:
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So to start, I was googling "Willy Wonka legal trouble" — as one does — and I found this humor piece by John G. Browning, located here:
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State Bar of Texas | Articles
TexasBar.com | Department: Humor - September 2022 TBJ
www.texasbar.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Alright, this is fairly inconsequential... but I may have just spotted some plagiarism (possibly accidental) from a former judge from the 5th Circuit.
So to start, I was googling "Willy Wonka legal trouble" — as one does — and I found this humor piece by John G. Browning, located here:
(1/?)
So to start, I was googling "Willy Wonka legal trouble" — as one does — and I found this humor piece by John G. Browning, located here:
(1/?)
Ugh, I hate it when Sauron and Saruman accidentally include me in their group texts...
March 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Ugh, I hate it when Sauron and Saruman accidentally include me in their group texts...
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Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
@washingtonpost.com They were not DEPORTED. Deported means sending them back to their country of origin. These people were sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, without any due process or any analysis as to whether they feared harm in El Salvador!
In America, EVERYONE has a RIGHT to due process - regardless of immigration status. It’s fundamental to our Constitution.
Deporting hundreds of people in secret by invoking a wartime proclamation is a blatant abuse of power by President Trump.
Deporting hundreds of people in secret by invoking a wartime proclamation is a blatant abuse of power by President Trump.
March 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
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People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
March 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
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So that health inspector who travels 300m/day to make sure your meat and dairy aren't going to kill you is now paying for gas out of pocket. Sure thing buddy.
NEW: DOGE put a $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards. Employees say overspending and fraud in the program was exceedingly rare. www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards
The restrictions are already in place at the General Services Administration along with several other agencies. Soon they'll roll out to most of the federal government, sources say.
www.wired.com
February 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
So that health inspector who travels 300m/day to make sure your meat and dairy aren't going to kill you is now paying for gas out of pocket. Sure thing buddy.
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And arrogant.
Ive never encountered a class of people so convinced that they and they alone have the answers to everything, no matter what the subject in question is--from higher education to medicine to art and literature. They might have no training or skill in it, but are convinced they know best
Ive never encountered a class of people so convinced that they and they alone have the answers to everything, no matter what the subject in question is--from higher education to medicine to art and literature. They might have no training or skill in it, but are convinced they know best
Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.
February 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
And arrogant.
Ive never encountered a class of people so convinced that they and they alone have the answers to everything, no matter what the subject in question is--from higher education to medicine to art and literature. They might have no training or skill in it, but are convinced they know best
Ive never encountered a class of people so convinced that they and they alone have the answers to everything, no matter what the subject in question is--from higher education to medicine to art and literature. They might have no training or skill in it, but are convinced they know best
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I cannot, during these horrific times, recommend enough the importance of making pockets of time to just do things that are not related to anything but the joy of being alive and playing. You need it. You do. It will keep you whole. Which we need. We need you whole.
February 2, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I cannot, during these horrific times, recommend enough the importance of making pockets of time to just do things that are not related to anything but the joy of being alive and playing. You need it. You do. It will keep you whole. Which we need. We need you whole.
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"Do the thing that sustains and nourishes you.
That makes you more alive to yourself, and the present moment.
Whatever that thing is."
Do your thing - or find your thing if you don't know what it is yet
That makes you more alive to yourself, and the present moment.
Whatever that thing is."
Do your thing - or find your thing if you don't know what it is yet
New:
Why practices to connect us with our own humanity, each other, & perhaps something bigger, really matter now—
And can help keep us more whole, less responding on their terms & more on our own, more making choices as the people we wish to be.
Practical tips & bigger picture here:
Why practices to connect us with our own humanity, each other, & perhaps something bigger, really matter now—
And can help keep us more whole, less responding on their terms & more on our own, more making choices as the people we wish to be.
Practical tips & bigger picture here:
fortify inside
why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"Do the thing that sustains and nourishes you.
That makes you more alive to yourself, and the present moment.
Whatever that thing is."
Do your thing - or find your thing if you don't know what it is yet
That makes you more alive to yourself, and the present moment.
Whatever that thing is."
Do your thing - or find your thing if you don't know what it is yet
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For sale, arc of universe, never bent
February 4, 2025 at 3:42 AM
For sale, arc of universe, never bent