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  1. I love it when more than one person on my feed talks about the same random thing at the same time.

    We need a word or phrase to describe this phenomenon. If you’ve heard a good one or want to make up a new slang term, please share. I will use it!

    (But I hate seeing friends getting hurt, so I declare this trend officially over. 😂 Be safe out there, everyone. )

    @nik
    @vlrny
    .

    #Timeline #Coincidence #Slang #Linguistics

  2. I love it when more than one person on my feed talks about the same random thing at the same time.

    We need a word or phrase to describe this phenomenon. If you’ve heard a good one or want to make up a new slang term, please share. I will use it!

    (But I hate seeing friends getting hurt, so I declare this trend officially over. 😂 Be safe out there, everyone. )

    @nik
    @vlrny
    .

    #Timeline #Coincidence #Slang #Linguistics

  3. I love it when more than one person on my feed talks about the same random thing at the same time.

    We need a word or phrase to describe this phenomenon. If you’ve heard a good one or want to make up a new slang term, please share. I will use it!

    (But I hate seeing friends getting hurt, so I declare this trend officially over. 😂 Be safe out there, everyone. )

    @nik
    @vlrny
    .

    #Timeline #Coincidence #Slang #Linguistics

  4. I love it when more than one person on my feed talks about the same random thing at the same time.

    We need a word or phrase to describe this phenomenon. If you’ve heard a good one or want to make up a new slang term, please share. I will use it!

    (But I hate seeing friends getting hurt, so I declare this trend officially over. 😂 Be safe out there, everyone. )

    @nik
    @vlrny
    .

    #Timeline #Coincidence #Slang #Linguistics

  5. I love it when more than one person on my feed talks about the same random thing at the same time.

    We need a word or phrase to describe this phenomenon. If you’ve heard a good one or want to make up a new slang term, please share. I will use it!

    (But I hate seeing friends getting hurt, so I declare this trend officially over. 😂 Be safe out there, everyone. )

    @nik
    @vlrny
    .

    #Timeline #Coincidence #Slang #Linguistics

  6. 🧵 1/6

    I was sitting in an Austin Starbucks last weekend, absorbed in the recently published "New Deal Art: Culture and Crisis in the Great Depression" by John P. Murphy.

    "Hello." A smiling man was standing by my table. "I'm the author of the book you're reading."

    What a delightful coincidence! We sat together and chatted for a while about the book, the thirties, and the exhibition of American modernist art at the UT Blanton Museum where he was going to be giving a talk.

    Even though I was already planning to post a few thoughts on the book, the chance meeting has provided me with additional impetus.

    #NewDealArt #AmericanArt #NewDeal #ArtHistory #JohnPMurphy #Coincidence #USHistory #20thCenturyArt #1930s #ChanceMeeting

  7. When 4 "Coincidences" Stop Being Coincidences

    A 5.6km object is heading toward Jupiter with four characteristics that break the rules:

    🎯 Targeting precision - Arriving at the exact gravitational boundary used for orbital insertion (1 in 25,000 odds)

    ⚖️ Impossible density - Would need to be lighter than cotton candy while staying intact (physics violation) (or hollow)

    🔬 Industrial chemistry - Spectral signature matches refined aerospace alloys, not space ice

    🎮 Active control - Jets that defy rotational physics without stabilization systems

    Combined probability: <1 in 100,000
    But that is just a number, let's visualise 1:100000;

    3I/ATLAS arriving at Jupiter's Hill sphere boundary after a course correction is like watching five cars in a row all have license plates ending in 777 - while they're all driving to the same address - and they all arrived exactly on time.

    Or

    Three spins of a Roulette Wheel landing on the same number.

    March 2026 Jupiter encounter = the moment of truth.
    My prediction: Something totally anomalous will happen which will either be under-reported or, totally ignored or misrepresented. Can't wait!

    And in a new paper NASA documents how it shut down ("contingency mode") it's TESS probe just when it could have gathered precise data about #3iAtlas (arxiv.org/abs/2601.21569)

    #space #coincidence #spaceship #nhi #nhe #uap #phenomenon #astronomy

  8. A quotation from Emerson

    Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances — it was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
    Essay (1860), “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 6

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #emerson #badluck #causeandeffect #circumstance #coincidence #consequence #excuse #fortune #luck #strength #weakness