#coincidence — Public Fediverse posts

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
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#Timeline #Coincidence #Slang #Linguistics

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

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

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

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

A quotation from Doyle

   “You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”
   “A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.”
   “You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1891-08), “The Red-Headed League,” The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 2

More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #doyle #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #sherlock #watson #redheadedleague #argument #coincidence #debate #doubt #facts #happenstance #imagination #oddness #reallife #reality #strangeness #unexpectedness #weirdness

Her dad died in 2018. He’s in her wedding photos anyway.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/pn-mia-chard-father-camera-wedding-double-exposure/

How are you?

I would like to say I knew the sign in the background said, “How are you?” but it’s more likely I did not. I’m glad it worked out, and it just proves that you have to be ready to take the photograph when you’re doing street photography or you’ll miss the moment. In 2004, Ireland

https://inphotos.org/2025/12/20/how-are-you-2/
#2004 #Candid #coincidence #Cork #Ireland #PatrickStreet #PhoneCall #Photo #Photography #serendipity #Sony717 #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography

How are you?

I would like to say I knew the sign in the background said, “How are you?” but it’s more likely I did not. I’m glad it worked out, and it just proves that you have to be ready to take the photograph when you’re doing street photography or you’ll miss the moment.

In 2004, Ireland was in the midst of a mobile phone boom. The average Irish person was sending lots of text messages per month. The phones of the era were mostly Nokia models and early flip phones. The iPhone wouldn’t arrive for another three years. Making an actual voice call, as this woman is doing, was still the primary use of a mobile phone, rather than the app-launching, social-media-scrolling pocket computers we carry today.

A Rare Alignment Is On The Move. 🧭 [Three Norths]
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https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/news/three-norths-departing-england <-- shared technical article
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https://youtu.be/18kQrt3KCbM?si=a9fXvjAbrgTU8ylx <-- shared video overview
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“On 13 December, the rare alignment of true north, magnetic north and grid north - known as the three norths - leaves England at Berwick-upon-Tweed, bringing a remarkable three-year chapter to a close.
Magnetic north is monitored using geomagnetic data from the British Geological Survey, combined with Ordnance Survey’s National Grid to track how this alignment shifts over time..."
#truenorth #magneticnorth #gridnorth #UK #coincidence #navigation #threenorths #alignment #GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #globe #north #model #modeling #magnetism #geomagnetism #England #survey #triplealignment #NationalGrid
@Ordnance Survey

A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: I’d say that crossed the line from Ironic Coincidence to Evil Omen.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1990-05-11)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/4086/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #calvinandhobbes #billwatterson #coincidence #foreshadowing #irony #omen #portent #warning