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Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr

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Physicist. Electrical engineer. Educator. Inventor. Technical writer. Poet. Fiction writer. Mentor. Photographer.

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Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 19d

In today's autobiography . . .

I recall the 1987 "This is your brain on drugs" commercial.

The AI created this image from 3 screenshots I stitched together from the original.

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Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 1d

So... it's a perfect Trinity of justice. 😎

Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 1d

INTEGRITY.

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Cover of Integrity shows a close up of a person with a single tear running down their left cheek. "INTEGRITY by Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr"

Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 1d

INTEGRITY is a poetic reckoning, a personal outcry, an existential grapple with betrayal, self-doubt, and a quest for truth.

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At 69 pages, the ambition of INTEGRITY is intimate and strong in its emotional honesty and willingness to confront disillusionment.

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Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 1d

Integrity is not only a private virtue but a public necessity.

If you question your integrity in this time of great abuse, denigration, and deception, consider the invigorating and reaffirming poetry of INTEGRITY.

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Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 1d

Institutions crumble when their leaders replace truth for advantage. Integrity with deception.

Relationships fracture when honesty is conditional.

Progress halts when we reward deception over principle.

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Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 1d

Integrity liberates us from the exhausting burden of deceit. It allows us to live transparently, without fear of discovery. Without the corrosion of pretense.

It strengthens the fabric of civilization with trust as human cooperation cannot exist without it.

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Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 1d

INTEGRITY

Integrity will cost you opportunities, friends, and illusions. It will isolate you from those who prefer expedience to honesty.

However, integrity grants a steady sense of peace and the knowledge that your soul is not for sale.

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Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 3d

In my autobiography today. . .

It's the "Beer Bottle Symphony."

Part of my first paid job involved sorting bottles in the dark basement under the bar.

The sounds were memorably glorious.

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A 14 year old me sorts empty beer bottles in the bottle chute in the dark basement under the bar where I worked my first paid job.

Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 3d

Happy Halloween with a double rainbow today in Williamsville, NY.

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A double rainbow and a happy Halloween flag looking out from our front porch.

Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 4d

In my autobiography today.

I babysat my boss' kids.

They lived a few doors down from the restaurant.

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Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 4d

In my autobiography today . . .

We never learned what happened to the family. They just disappeared one day.

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Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 6d

Sadly the real life Tammy took her own life a decade ago. She made a worrisome post on FB. The news broke the next day.

She had a lot of debt and scammed people. I believe it was a gambling addiction.

In the late 80s when I knew her, she was a very happy lady. #suicide #suicideprevention #call988

Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 6d

In today's autobiography:

At the bar, Tammy asked me to tagalong to a hotel room. . . A guest hadn't checked out in two days. She thought he may have died.

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Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 8d

My Autobiography Today:

“My Night Sky”

As a high school Freshman, I sketched what I observed in the night sky from atop our shop roof with my telescope and binoculars. 🌙

What were your astronomical activities as a kid?

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a young boy (me), a freshman in high school sits quietly atop a shop roof behind his house in the countryside with a telescope and notebook under a moonlit, starry night sky.

Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 8d

From today's moment:
"Armed with my telescope
a notebook and pencil
guide book, binoculars,
and my excitement
I climbed atop the shop roof."

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CLARITY: ATOMIC ELEMENTS | Moment Two Hundred Forty-Two

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Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 8d

My Autobiography Today:

“My Night Sky”

As a high school Freshman, I continued a night-time habit of relaxing under the stars atop our shop and sketching what I observed. 🌙

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A young boy (me) sitting on top of a slighly-sloped rooftop of the shop with a telescope and notebook at night.

Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 11d

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The Orphan @forestcronebears.bsky.social · 11d

youtu.be/4oshFOK9-sk?... Jane Goodall 's last interview 😥🌍💖🦧🐒💕

JANE GOODALL'S LAST INTERVIEW Recorded on 9/23/25

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Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 12d

My autobiography today . . .

Mr. Chase was serious about science. I liked his glass flask presentation.

High school years have begun at Weyauwega-Fremont in my daily autobiography.

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High school science teacher holds up a cone-shaped, or flat-bottom glass flask as students watch.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 14d

Tim-Berners Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, is now building tools that aim to resist big-tech platforms, give users control over their own data, and prevent A.I. from hollowing out the open web.

Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It

In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.

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Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 14d

Great plan.

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Amherst Police Department @amherstpoliceny.bsky.social · 14d

[AMHERST POLICE, NY] – Taken to Clarence Animal Shelter 716-407-8912.

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Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 14d

Today in my daily autobiography . . .

It's my 1st day of high school. I've already found my favorite new tool: the Trapper Keeper.

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An AI generated photo shows me as a Freshman in high school sitting at a desk, opening my Trapper Keeper.
This AI generated photo is based on a similar real photo that appeared in the yearbook.

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Amherst Police Department @amherstpoliceny.bsky.social · 18d

[AMHERST POLICE, NY] --Taken to the Clarence Animal Shelter (716) 407-8912.

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Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 18d

"Orihula" concludes the 3rd book of my autobiography. It spanned my middle school years in Weyauwega.

The next book titled CLARITY: ATOMIC ELEMENTS will span my high school years.

High school begins Monday Sept. 29, 8AM ET.

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Something About Coffee | Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr | Substack

Something About Coffee is a moment-by-moment poetry series posted daily. It's about the little joys in our lives and how they impact our broader views. How a simple thing like a person's glance cascad...

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Tim (TJ) LaFave Jr @tjlafave.com · 18d

Today in my daily autobiography. . .

I was 13 the summer after middle school. I started my first job-- dishwasher at Huck Finn's, Orihula, WI.

I rode bike 3 miles in the morning, 3 miles at night.

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