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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 1d

Which is a strong invitation to read between the lines ...

Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 4d

Now we can enjoy it for the whole international break.

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 5d

I'm no fan of Donald Trump, but those two highlighted passages aren't obviously inconsistent (even if you may in fact be correct that he always planned to follow Project 2025).

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 9d

Apparently the resulting dick foundation is thriving these days.

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 10d

Arsenal supporter here, but wanting to understand. It looked to me as though the ball was heading out left some time before Gyokeres was taken out, so he wouldn't obviously have scored. Am I missing something?

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 11d

That aged beautifully!

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 12d

Does this make you feel better?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p503...

😡Haaland Throws the Ball at Gabriel's Head! Later Fights and Brings Down Partey!

YouTube video by INSIDE FOOTBALL

www.youtube.com

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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 13d

Gatwick expansion blows another huge hole in the UK Government's already perforated climate commitments.

New article on Gatwick expansion with my @tyndallcentre.bsky.social colleague Dr Lois Pennington @loispennington.bsky.social

climateuncensored.com/gatwick-expa...

Gatwick Expansion: A Direct Assault on Climate Commitments - Climate Uncensored

Comment on UK Government announcement of Gatwick Airport expansion by Professor Kevin Anderson and Dr. Lois Pennington, of Tyndall Centre, University of

climateuncensored.com

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 13d

Read and weep:

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks!

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 13d

And now I'm desperate to know even though I'd never heard of it.

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 14d

It's not obvious to me that it wouldn't be better to ignore Trump when he says something as evidently stupid as this. Taking the trouble to issue a correction somehow gives the impression that he is a reasonable person making an honest mistake, which he clearly isn't.

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 15d

Many thanks to the sender of an email that includes the heartwarming sentence, "I have long admired your contributions to mathematics, particularly [insert their field or specific result you respect]."

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 16d

In your article you talk about the trade-off between growth and climate impacts. I'd be interested in more detail about how that trade-off is supposed to have played out in this instance.

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 16d

Our project is to create a database of what we call "structured motivated proofs". For more details about this, and for information about how you can get involved (if you have suitable skills), see a blog post I have just written.

gowers.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/c...

Creating a database of motivated proofs

It’s been over three years since my last post on this blog and I have sometimes been asked, understandably, whether the project I announced in my previous post was actually happening. The ans…

gowers.wordpress.com

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 16d

Happy to be able to say that my automatic theorem proving group in Cambridge submitted a successful bid to the AI for Math Fund, launched this year by Renaissance Philanthropy and XTX Markets. Here is the fund website, which contains descriptions of all the 29 projects to be funded.

AI for Math Fund — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation

www.renaissancephilanthropy.org

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 18d

I greatly enjoyed Guy Shrubsole's book with the same title, and from the review it looks as though I would enjoy learning about the situation in Ireland.

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 27d

The way I use it, it does indeed facilitate rinsing. In fact, I do two rinses -- a quick one beforehand so I can keep the water in the bowl reasonably clean and ungreasy, and another one afterwards to get rid of the suds. Works beautifully.

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 27d

I'm British and a strong supporter both of rinsing and of washing-up bowls.

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · Sep 5

I detest Reform as much as you do, but maybe the decision is based not just on the number of seats. The fact that Reform is consistently coming top in opinion polls is surely also relevant. (Of course, the publicity they get almost certainly contributes to that, which is annoying.)

Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · Aug 18

The UK's terrorism problem has just got a whole lot worse.

Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’

Miles Pickering says crowd at protest over Palestine Action ban was laughing at ‘silliness’ of scene as he was detained

www.theguardian.com

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · Aug 18

Would the constituents you are talking about prefer hotel rooms to their own homes?

Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · Aug 17

We had been invited there to form a panel to talk about my late father and his contribution to the series, which was to write the music for it. The resulting discussion has just been put up on YouTube. 2/2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fiw...

EP 56 - BRETTCON "The Music of Patrick Gowers" Panel

YouTube video by The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast

www.youtube.com

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · Aug 17

Around a year ago my mother, my two sisters and I attended an event of a kind we would never normally go to: a celebration for fans of a TV series, who came from all over the world. The series in question was Granada TV's version of Sherlock Holmes, starring Jeremy Brett. 1/2

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · Aug 16

Clearly not the main point here, but this racist is not even competent at expressing his racism: someone who raised a Series C by claiming to have a serious project to turn the moon into a quantum computer would be committing fraud on a grand scale.

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