🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə)
@timhenke.bsky.social
🇳🇱 Postdoc in Quantisation of moduli spaces, QFT, TQFT & CFT, Algebraic Geometry, Differential Geometry, moduli geometry – Masters in: Maths/Physics/Logic – Help me learn 🇵🇹🇩🇰🇮🇹🇩🇪🇫🇷 by talking to me! (he/him)
Forse tu non pensavi ch'io löico fossi
Forse tu non pensavi ch'io löico fossi
masterful gambit, sir
February 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
masterful gambit, sir
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in the 2024 election the libertarian party leadership straight up ditched their own candidate chase oliver & openly said they just wanted to use him in order to elect trump
February 9, 2026 at 2:22 PM
in the 2024 election the libertarian party leadership straight up ditched their own candidate chase oliver & openly said they just wanted to use him in order to elect trump
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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
February 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
I think we should equip simplicial complexes with metrics. I call it simplectic geometry
February 9, 2026 at 7:34 PM
I think we should equip simplicial complexes with metrics. I call it simplectic geometry
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Unionize your workplace so you can call the president a pedophile in the national spotlight and keep your job
The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said
Ford worker who heckled Trump keeps job, 'no discipline' for incident
The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.
www.detroitnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Unionize your workplace so you can call the president a pedophile in the national spotlight and keep your job
I will politely submit that after his name appeared over 40,000 times in the recent file release, perhaps "his accomplice said I'm innocent after a blatant and explicit quid-pro-quo" might not carry the weight they're hoping
BREAKING: Ghislaine Maxwell refused to speak in a deposition with lawmakers unless Trump lets her out of prison, per HuffPost
February 9, 2026 at 7:23 PM
I will politely submit that after his name appeared over 40,000 times in the recent file release, perhaps "his accomplice said I'm innocent after a blatant and explicit quid-pro-quo" might not carry the weight they're hoping
As we all collectively burn in righteous fury at innocent people forced to lie in feces, when this is all over we must remember one thing:
Every person who dismissed prisoners' human rights bc "prison is a punishment" helped normalise this. Everyone who said "it's not a vacation" is an accessory.
Every person who dismissed prisoners' human rights bc "prison is a punishment" helped normalise this. Everyone who said "it's not a vacation" is an accessory.
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:52 AM
As we all collectively burn in righteous fury at innocent people forced to lie in feces, when this is all over we must remember one thing:
Every person who dismissed prisoners' human rights bc "prison is a punishment" helped normalise this. Everyone who said "it's not a vacation" is an accessory.
Every person who dismissed prisoners' human rights bc "prison is a punishment" helped normalise this. Everyone who said "it's not a vacation" is an accessory.
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I believe we call that a "concentration camp". No due process.
February 7, 2026 at 9:04 PM
I believe we call that a "concentration camp". No due process.
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Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.
Two active cases of tuberculosis and 18 cases of COVID-19 have been identified at a massive immigration detention center in El Paso, according to the local Democratic member of Congress.
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."
www.texastribune.org
February 7, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.
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hey guys. i was incapacitated all day. please, please accept my apologies and submit your #MathCoffeeSelfie below.
February 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
hey guys. i was incapacitated all day. please, please accept my apologies and submit your #MathCoffeeSelfie below.
Public service announcement:
I will now be introducing chapter divisions in my longer WhatsApp messages
I will now be introducing chapter divisions in my longer WhatsApp messages
February 8, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Public service announcement:
I will now be introducing chapter divisions in my longer WhatsApp messages
I will now be introducing chapter divisions in my longer WhatsApp messages
We are now accepting bets on if it was Altman, Musk, or Gates to instruct their AI to obsess over bpreg
This is, however, a perfect paragraph
February 8, 2026 at 10:22 PM
We are now accepting bets on if it was Altman, Musk, or Gates to instruct their AI to obsess over bpreg
My uncle is either leaving one hell of an audio message, or he's just been sitting on his phone wrong for the past hour
February 8, 2026 at 9:25 PM
My uncle is either leaving one hell of an audio message, or he's just been sitting on his phone wrong for the past hour
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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
literally higher than 1:2 ratio of journalists to protestors
February 8, 2026 at 6:43 PM
literally higher than 1:2 ratio of journalists to protestors
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Anytime I see Jeff Bezos mentioned I remember the time he flew to space with William Shatner and when a very emotoinal Shatner was trying to describe the experience Bezos interrupted by spraying champagne like an idiot child
February 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Anytime I see Jeff Bezos mentioned I remember the time he flew to space with William Shatner and when a very emotoinal Shatner was trying to describe the experience Bezos interrupted by spraying champagne like an idiot child
Good thread. This is why, when convenient, I like to switch to the completely equivalent but imo much more intuitive picture "the size of the universe is fixed but the speed of light gradually decreases"
Nice bonus is imo "light moved infinitely fast" is easier to picture than Big Bang singularity
Nice bonus is imo "light moved infinitely fast" is easier to picture than Big Bang singularity
Those who've followed me for a while will know that I'm doubtful about just how useful the notion of "expanding space" in explaining cosmic expansion is. I think the SciAm article linked here is a good example for where "expanding space" makes things more difficult than they need to be. 🧵 1/
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Near the top of the FAQs I get from curious readers:
How can galaxies collide if the Universe is expanding?
The short answer is: gravity. The longer answer is fun to read, IIDSSM.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/if-t...
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How can galaxies collide if the Universe is expanding?
The short answer is: gravity. The longer answer is fun to read, IIDSSM.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/if-t...
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February 8, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Good thread. This is why, when convenient, I like to switch to the completely equivalent but imo much more intuitive picture "the size of the universe is fixed but the speed of light gradually decreases"
Nice bonus is imo "light moved infinitely fast" is easier to picture than Big Bang singularity
Nice bonus is imo "light moved infinitely fast" is easier to picture than Big Bang singularity
What are the ways that a complex-analytic function f : U → C on a dense open U of an analytic space X can fail to extend to X?
It can have a finite or essential singularity, but are there any other ways it can go wrong?
It can have a finite or essential singularity, but are there any other ways it can go wrong?
February 8, 2026 at 4:38 PM
What are the ways that a complex-analytic function f : U → C on a dense open U of an analytic space X can fail to extend to X?
It can have a finite or essential singularity, but are there any other ways it can go wrong?
It can have a finite or essential singularity, but are there any other ways it can go wrong?
Foucault's yoyo
Ami Dror, former head of Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal security, revealed shocking details about the prime minister’s household.
In a podcast interview with Israeli journalist Miki Levin, Dror said Yair Netanyahu "assaulted his father... not a karate punch, but… a real assault that required
In a podcast interview with Israeli journalist Miki Levin, Dror said Yair Netanyahu "assaulted his father... not a karate punch, but… a real assault that required
February 8, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Foucault's yoyo
1) What could you *possibly* need 40 giant cars for
2) I swear to Christ you can just use normal cars
3) extremely classic random Italian motorists just casually weave into the motorcade. Give them an opening and they go
4) Consider for a moment Milan probably has some of the widest streets in Italy
2) I swear to Christ you can just use normal cars
3) extremely classic random Italian motorists just casually weave into the motorcade. Give them an opening and they go
4) Consider for a moment Milan probably has some of the widest streets in Italy
The motorcade of U.S. Vice President JD Vance 🇺🇸 having to deal with Italy’s narrow streets yesterday.
February 8, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1) What could you *possibly* need 40 giant cars for
2) I swear to Christ you can just use normal cars
3) extremely classic random Italian motorists just casually weave into the motorcade. Give them an opening and they go
4) Consider for a moment Milan probably has some of the widest streets in Italy
2) I swear to Christ you can just use normal cars
3) extremely classic random Italian motorists just casually weave into the motorcade. Give them an opening and they go
4) Consider for a moment Milan probably has some of the widest streets in Italy
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Really makes you think why people flock to invest in these funds when everyone can see they’re run by credulous idiots, maybe it has to do with ubiquitous insider trading or whatever seen in leaked emails, who knows!
Bill Ackman's fund, Pershing Square, manages 18 billion dollars for wealthy clients, billions of it for the Harvard Endowment
Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections
Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections
February 8, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Really makes you think why people flock to invest in these funds when everyone can see they’re run by credulous idiots, maybe it has to do with ubiquitous insider trading or whatever seen in leaked emails, who knows!
Surprising absolutely nobody:
February 7, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Surprising absolutely nobody:
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In Spanish, “for you” is ‘para ti’, but “with you” isn’t ‘con ti’: it’s ‘contigo’ instead.
What’s this ‘-go’ doing there?
It’s a remnant of the same Latin word that gave us ‘con’.
So etymologically, ‘contigo’ contains this word twice: “with you-with”.
Click my graphic to read the full story:
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What’s this ‘-go’ doing there?
It’s a remnant of the same Latin word that gave us ‘con’.
So etymologically, ‘contigo’ contains this word twice: “with you-with”.
Click my graphic to read the full story:
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February 7, 2026 at 7:44 PM
In Spanish, “for you” is ‘para ti’, but “with you” isn’t ‘con ti’: it’s ‘contigo’ instead.
What’s this ‘-go’ doing there?
It’s a remnant of the same Latin word that gave us ‘con’.
So etymologically, ‘contigo’ contains this word twice: “with you-with”.
Click my graphic to read the full story:
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What’s this ‘-go’ doing there?
It’s a remnant of the same Latin word that gave us ‘con’.
So etymologically, ‘contigo’ contains this word twice: “with you-with”.
Click my graphic to read the full story:
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Please send your commiserations to Eric Weinstein, who is heartbroken to find out he is not mentioned in the Epstein files, poor sod
February 7, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Please send your commiserations to Eric Weinstein, who is heartbroken to find out he is not mentioned in the Epstein files, poor sod
Give you 3 guesses who made a whole video on how we don't have proof that microplastics are bad without even bothering to mention that a huge problem with finding that evidence is that there literally is not any control group on Earth
February 6, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Give you 3 guesses who made a whole video on how we don't have proof that microplastics are bad without even bothering to mention that a huge problem with finding that evidence is that there literally is not any control group on Earth