Timon
@timonk.bsky.social
urbanism | public transport | movies | web design | photography
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
Merry Christmas! This is your yearly reminder that mistletoes, uniquely among ALL known multicellular life, do not have working mitochondria. What the fuck? Biology is fake.
The Mystery of Mistletoe’s Missing Genes
Mistletoes have all but shut down the powerhouses of their cells. Scientists are still trying to understand the plants’ unorthodox survival strategy.
quantamagazine.org
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
It's live! My Interactive 3D viewer of Tenochtitlan is available online. Please give it a try and let me know what you think! retratodetenochtitlan.mx #tenochtitlan #cdmx #b3d #threejs
Tenochtitlan 3D viewer | retrato de Tenochtitlan
interactive 3D viewer of Tenochtitlan
retratodetenochtitlan.mx
I found out I can make the pink highlight colour on cineview.info even more pink! Comparison (only works on supported browsers/screens): codepen.io/TimonK/pen/J...
more pink pink
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codepen.io
For Scientific American’s 180th birthday, we’ve updated a classic graphic comparing different forms of animal locomotion, first published in this magazine in 1973.
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
scientificamerican.com
I made a website! It's an alternative interface for Cineville with an interactive schedule of movie showtimes, a list of movies on selected location(s) and day, and you can use it to pin and share selected shows. cineview.info
Cineview
cineview.info
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
The Danish Presidency is pushing a dangerous proposal in the EU that would allow the government to scan all our private communications. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped
The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat
eff.org
i wrote about atproto and why it matters
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
overreacted.io
imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now! good luck :) > neal.fun/not-a-robot/
Watching Ocean with David Attenborough, Ponyo and Ikiru in Filmhuis Lumen yesterday was certainly an eclectic combination, but surprisingly kind of fitting as well?
In 2020 someone installed plaques on benches in Calgary’s Bowmont Park commemorating events that didn’t happen. The city removed them but re-installed them after locals protested. How could you not want these?
Julie (unprofessional)@juliebalt.bsky.social · last yr.Post an unusual sign if you feel like it
Unzoomed is a fun urban geo-guessing game (and if I do say so myself I’m not bad at it). Unzoomed #475 1/6 🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com
Unzoomed
Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.
unzoomed.com
My interview with David Lynch - where we talk about his ideas and film techniques - is back on the BBC after nearly 25 years. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Scene by Scene - David Lynch
Mark Cousins meets US director David Lynch, creator of such idiosyncratic and groundbreaking screen landmarks as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks.
bbc.co.uk
To get more insights into your Spotify wrapped playlist, you can explore it on my website Sounds in Numbers: soundsinnumbers.com/playlist/37i... You can click "load all data" (under details/filters) to see some interesting histograms
Sounds in Numbers
Get insight into your music using Spotify's sound analysis data
soundsinnumbers.com
A side-project I've been working on for the past couple of years is finally presentable! cabviews.net I find cab ride videos relaxing to watch, and they provide an interesting view of different landscapes and infrastructure, so I made this site as a collection of cab rides with maps of the routes
Cab Views
A collection of cab ride videos with interactive map overlays. Featuring trains, trams, metros, and other forms of rail transport in settings and landscapes from all over the world.
cabviews.net
bug fact: grashoppers already existed at least 100 million years before the first grass
I made a montage/mashup trailer of all the movies I saw in the cinema last year, in order! cinema2023.timonkuiters.nl my goal was to have this done earlier than the one last year, but that didn't quite work out...
My year in Cinema 2023 - Timon Kuiters
My year in Cinema 2023 - Timon Kuiters
cinema2023.timonkuiters.nl
