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Tim Quirk

@tbquirk.bsky.social

I sing in Too Much Joy and Wonderlick and work in tech (Rhapsody/Google Play/Freeform/Zedge). I tend to post about music, movies, and the death throes of democracy.

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Tim Quirk@tbquirk.bsky.social · 2w ago

I know I've bitched about this before, but holy hell the grammar suggestions Gmail makes just keep getting worse and worse. It appears to hate any sense of individual voice, and wants everyone to write as blandly in corporate-speak as possible.

Tim Quirk@tbquirk.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's pretty inspiring to see what can happen when you put people actually interested in making people's lives better in government. From big things to little things, Mamdani seems so happy when he makes other people happy. Breaks my brain to see people pretending he's some kind of threat.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

Tim Quirk@tbquirk.bsky.social · last mo.

"Less homicidal" is a wild thing to say. Does that mean Johnny Cash DID shoot a man, but it wasn't just to watch him die? Or that he never shot anybody, but really did want to watch them die?

A screenshot that says: Artistic License: Songwriters frequently adopt personas or write from the perspective of fictional characters. Johnny Cash sang about shooting a man in Reno just to watch him die, but his actual personality was much more complex and less homicidal.
Tim Quirk@tbquirk.bsky.social · last mo.

If you've got the Criterion Channel, "Two Minutes Late" is the best old noir I've seen in a loonnng time. And it's from Denmark, so even though it was olden times, not EVERYTHING had to be subtext!

Tim Quirk@tbquirk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I have been entrusted with the disposal of a dead friend's CD collection. I am communing with said friend by listening to albums of his I normally wouldn't before selling them all to Amoeba. Which is how I came to play Bitches Brew right after In the Court of the Crimson King. Highly recommended.

Tim Quirk@tbquirk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So I tried Spotify's DJ feature while I cooked a complicated dinner that literally left me no time to choose a specific artist, album or playlist. I've used it before and found it ok, not great. But, apparently because I spent the last few weeks exploring Mott the Hoople's catalog, it super sucked!

Tim Quirk@tbquirk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I don't know when or why GMail updated its grammar checker, but every email I compose now winds up full of underlined bits suggesting I could craft my sentences more perfectly. Needless to say, they are very wrong.

A scrteenshot of an email draft that reads, "This is an example of the ridiculousness I'm talking about. No matter how well the sentence I write flows, GMail has a bunch of dumb ideas about how to "improve" it. GMail, please stop. You're not nearly as smart as you think you are." Iis an example of" and "a bunch of dumb ideas about" are both underlined. The latter is highlighted to show GMail's suggested change, which says, "Make concise: 'many suggestions on.'" Thank you for maiking my point, GMail, as your change removes the very necessary adjective describing the wisdom, or lack thereof, of your change ideas.
Tim Quirk@tbquirk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I can't decide if the fact that Mott the Hoople have one album titled "Mott the Hoople," another titled "Mott," and a third titled "The Hoople" is clever or stupid. It really IS a fine line.

Tim Quirk@tbquirk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I believe this extends to anyone who thinks (or posts), "Too bad he missed." A liberal friend said that to me after Reagan's attempted assassination, and I was horrified. But I've had that same thought after both of Trump's, as have many others. My morals haven't changed. The situation has.

Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This guy does not have the profile of a mass shooter and he knows what he’s forgoing. I worry that we’ll see more of this because Congress and SCOTUS refuse to constrain Trump and people who would not otherwise be radicalized are feeling a kind of moral injury by extension

Tim Quirk@tbquirk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I love everything about Love on the Spectrum except how often and how much my wife laughs whenever one one of the characters has the same likes, dislikes or hobbies as I do. She literally falls off the couch sometimes, she’s laughing so hard.

Tim Quirk@tbquirk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Was just remembering that brief period of time when double LPs came with sides 1 and 4 on one slab of vinyl, and sides 2 on the other, and turntables let you stack them, so you only had to get up to turn them over once instead of twice. That was kind of crazy.