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Tim J

@timtfj@mastodon.social
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I used to play in too many orchestras, and currently play in none. I'm interested in many things, often science, language or music related.

I like words (especially ones that don't exist yet), and cheese. I hate underthinking, football, parsnips, and rigid rules about commas.

Jeg bruker av og til et omtrent norsklignende språk, but am not in fact Norwegian. 🎻

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Joined November 11, 2022
Blog:
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Location:
just outside Manchester, UK

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Tim J @timtfj@mastodon.social · Apr 11, 2026
Tim J
@timtfj@mastodon.social

I used to play in too many orchestras, and currently play in none. I'm interested in many things, often science, language or music related. I like words (especially ones that don't exist yet), and cheese. I hate underthinking, football, parsnips, and rigid rules about commas. Jeg bruker av og til et omtrent norsklignende språk, but am not in fact Norwegian. 🎻

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Replying to @drmobs@aus.social
@drmobs It's just seen another one who it likes the look of on the other side of the road, that's all.
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Tim J @timtfj@mastodon.social · Mar 22, 2026
Tim J
@timtfj@mastodon.social

I used to play in too many orchestras, and currently play in none. I'm interested in many things, often science, language or music related. I like words (especially ones that don't exist yet), and cheese. I hate underthinking, football, parsnips, and rigid rules about commas. Jeg bruker av og til et omtrent norsklignende språk, but am not in fact Norwegian. 🎻

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I've just realised you might not be aware of the hashtag #TinyBalancingSheep. Now you are.

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Tim J @timtfj@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026
Tim J
@timtfj@mastodon.social

I used to play in too many orchestras, and currently play in none. I'm interested in many things, often science, language or music related. I like words (especially ones that don't exist yet), and cheese. I hate underthinking, football, parsnips, and rigid rules about commas. Jeg bruker av og til et omtrent norsklignende språk, but am not in fact Norwegian. 🎻

mastodon.social
Replying to @rperezrosario@mastodon.social
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social However, the link only appears if the language set for the post isn't your own. So if someone has accidentally set their post to your language but written in their own, there'll be no Translate link. So the language setting still matters.
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Tim J @timtfj@mastodon.social · Dec 15, 2025
Tim J
@timtfj@mastodon.social

I used to play in too many orchestras, and currently play in none. I'm interested in many things, often science, language or music related. I like words (especially ones that don't exist yet), and cheese. I hate underthinking, football, parsnips, and rigid rules about commas. Jeg bruker av og til et omtrent norsklignende språk, but am not in fact Norwegian. 🎻

mastodon.social
Replying to @maxleibman@beige.party
@maxleibman@beige.party That's superb.
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Tim J @timtfj@mastodon.social · Dec 07, 2025
Tim J
@timtfj@mastodon.social

I used to play in too many orchestras, and currently play in none. I'm interested in many things, often science, language or music related. I like words (especially ones that don't exist yet), and cheese. I hate underthinking, football, parsnips, and rigid rules about commas. Jeg bruker av og til et omtrent norsklignende språk, but am not in fact Norwegian. 🎻

mastodon.social
Replying to @kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
@kadin@mastodon.sdf.org It's certainly got plenty of typos . . . (Well, two obvious ones that jumped out. Which probably means there are more that didn't.) NB that doesn't negate the other stuff. It just means I now feel I really *ought* to tell them, but don't have the energy to bother and anyway if they want it proofreading properly I'd prefer that they paid . . .
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Tim J @timtfj@mastodon.social · Dec 06, 2025
Tim J
@timtfj@mastodon.social

I used to play in too many orchestras, and currently play in none. I'm interested in many things, often science, language or music related. I like words (especially ones that don't exist yet), and cheese. I hate underthinking, football, parsnips, and rigid rules about commas. Jeg bruker av og til et omtrent norsklignende språk, but am not in fact Norwegian. 🎻

mastodon.social
Replying to @stuartdrunsfield@mastodon.social
@stuartdrunsfield@mastodon.social @fesshole@mastodon.social Maybe SAE here means "self addressed envelope" rather than "stamped addressed envelope"?
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Tim J @timtfj@mastodon.social · Nov 18, 2025
Tim J
@timtfj@mastodon.social

I used to play in too many orchestras, and currently play in none. I'm interested in many things, often science, language or music related. I like words (especially ones that don't exist yet), and cheese. I hate underthinking, football, parsnips, and rigid rules about commas. Jeg bruker av og til et omtrent norsklignende språk, but am not in fact Norwegian. 🎻

mastodon.social
Replying to @rothko@beige.party
@rothko@beige.party Well, now I'll have to look it up! ;-) My immediate thought is that an alarmingly long time ago I noticed that the disk sizes were the same as tape reel sizes,¹ which meant *back then* that they were easy to remember. But was 7" a reel size? Not sure now . . . _____ ¹ for ¼" audio tape.
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Tim J @timtfj@mastodon.social · Nov 17, 2025
Tim J
@timtfj@mastodon.social

I used to play in too many orchestras, and currently play in none. I'm interested in many things, often science, language or music related. I like words (especially ones that don't exist yet), and cheese. I hate underthinking, football, parsnips, and rigid rules about commas. Jeg bruker av og til et omtrent norsklignende språk, but am not in fact Norwegian. 🎻

mastodon.social
Replying to @JeffGrigg@mastodon.social
@JeffGrigg@mastodon.social @crisps@mastodon.social @flq@freiburg.social @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Certainly is! I've still got a few 5¼" ones too, but nothing which can read them . . . Come to think, I *have* got a 5¼" drive, left over from a dimly remembered upgrade to 3½". But it's not actually in a computer.
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Tim J @timtfj@mastodon.social · Nov 16, 2025
Tim J
@timtfj@mastodon.social

I used to play in too many orchestras, and currently play in none. I'm interested in many things, often science, language or music related. I like words (especially ones that don't exist yet), and cheese. I hate underthinking, football, parsnips, and rigid rules about commas. Jeg bruker av og til et omtrent norsklignende språk, but am not in fact Norwegian. 🎻

mastodon.social
Replying to @crisps@mastodon.social
@crisps@mastodon.social @flq@freiburg.social @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt It's a 3½" diskette. Usually 1.44 MB capacity. The upper white rectangle is the paper label for writing on. The lower one is a sliding metal shutter, with an oval opening through which the read/write heads access the disk when it's inserted in the drive.
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Tim J @timtfj@mastodon.social · Nov 16, 2025
Tim J
@timtfj@mastodon.social

I used to play in too many orchestras, and currently play in none. I'm interested in many things, often science, language or music related. I like words (especially ones that don't exist yet), and cheese. I hate underthinking, football, parsnips, and rigid rules about commas. Jeg bruker av og til et omtrent norsklignende språk, but am not in fact Norwegian. 🎻

mastodon.social
Replying to @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt And I don't really think of diskettes as floppy disks, either! 5¼" ones were the last properly floppy ones . . . (However, I never used 7" ones,which I assume may well have been even floppier . . . )
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Tim J @timtfj@mastodon.social · Apr 29, 2025
Tim J
@timtfj@mastodon.social

I used to play in too many orchestras, and currently play in none. I'm interested in many things, often science, language or music related. I like words (especially ones that don't exist yet), and cheese. I hate underthinking, football, parsnips, and rigid rules about commas. Jeg bruker av og til et omtrent norsklignende språk, but am not in fact Norwegian. 🎻

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Replying to @ohno@typo.social
@ohno Well at least nobody's going to get successfully sued for libel for anything printed in that! Imagine trying to convince a jury of what it says . . .
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Tim J @timtfj@mastodon.social · Nov 19, 2022
Tim J
@timtfj@mastodon.social

I used to play in too many orchestras, and currently play in none. I'm interested in many things, often science, language or music related. I like words (especially ones that don't exist yet), and cheese. I hate underthinking, football, parsnips, and rigid rules about commas. Jeg bruker av og til et omtrent norsklignende språk, but am not in fact Norwegian. 🎻

mastodon.social
Replying to @SMPress@socel.net
@SMPress@socel.net @Nightworldlove@mastodon.art @feditips@mstdn.social I think it's just so screen readers know how to break the hashtag up when reading it and don't do weird pronunciations.
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Tim J @timtfj@mastodon.social · Nov 13, 2022
Tim J
@timtfj@mastodon.social

I used to play in too many orchestras, and currently play in none. I'm interested in many things, often science, language or music related. I like words (especially ones that don't exist yet), and cheese. I hate underthinking, football, parsnips, and rigid rules about commas. Jeg bruker av og til et omtrent norsklignende språk, but am not in fact Norwegian. 🎻

mastodon.social
Replying to @forestfae@wandering.shop
@forestfae@wandering.shop @ajsadauskas@aus.social I actually use them! But then forget they're there and have to go searching again. But give me time—I've only been on there 14 years, and that's nowhere near long enough to understand why the design is as it is. It's also horrifying how few people there know there's a chronological view, so they're not even able to see the tweets they want to.
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