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Tim F

@culturalsnow.bsky.social
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Teacher, writer. When I go, I'm going like Elsie.

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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 18h
The "Manchester City deny all the allegations" refrain makes them sound a bit Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't know whether I'm mourning Eva Marie Saint or the days when people would happily reference Eva Marie Saint in pop songs.
youtu.be
Lloyd Cole and The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
YouTube video by fraty music
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Apparently Beaujolais Nouveau day is still A Thing.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And now Jim Bakker's died. A gathering-in of grifters.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer has died, which gives me the opportunity to state that his greatest gift to literature was this deliciously brutal biography by Michael Crick.
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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dear writers, please do not use AI to write/help write your pitches, they arrive in my inbox absolutely honking of data centre, please please just have original ideas and work them up yourself else really, what is the fucking point of being a writer? Getting so many of these at the moment.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Braid is seriously good on the starters. #UniversityChallenge
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is going to be a massacre, isn't it? #UniversityChallenge
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Are subeditors still A Thing? #mastermind
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How about 100 short book recommendations? causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2023/09/100-...
causticcovercritic.blogspot.com
100 Great Short Books
Because I will be doing a monthly thing next year with the mighty Brad Bigelow about novellas, here's the full list of 100 great short book...
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"You're seeing someone else." "It doesn't mean I've moved on!" It really does, though. #TheArchers
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lord preserve us from 90s indie vibe girls. #TheArchers
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
thespinoff.co.nz
Kiwibank is desperately trying to stop people saying they want to fuck its sheep mascot | The Spinoff
New Zealand's home for independent journalism, illuminating perspectives and good times.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Proper posh, opera-loving castaway on #DesertIslandDiscs. Jane Austen for her book. Like the old days. #BBCRadio4
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
FR Leavis references on Radcliffe & Maconie. This is why the BBC must be defended against the barbarians.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is the sort of Wordle that really annoys me. Wordle 1,932 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just for the avoidance of doubt, "what happened on Celebrity Traitors last night" isn't actually news.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Who knew Nick Hancock fronted the Jags? #totp
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People like my latest hits, cos they like my latest tits... #totp
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On my way to work a Korean evangelical Christian preacher wished me Shabbat Shalom. #Wimbledon
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Department of Marking Your Own Homework latest
theguardian.com
Farage hints Reform’s internal inquiry could clear two aides suspended after C4 investigation – UK politics live
Farage was speaking ahead of a rally in Doncaster
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i-d.co
Will Anyone Read This Essay?
Sentences are short, books are novellas, essays are TikToks, and reading is apparently dead. Is our civilization doomed?
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What about rich pensioners?
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is it Klaus Kinski?
bbc.co.uk
RAF Fairford incident 'clearly involves' foreign actor, says US secretary of state
The secretary of state, who did not provide further details, was speaking to US media after five men arrested on suspicion of terror offences were released on bail.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Battle of the Brown Suits #Mastermind1977
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Young woman on the phone to her friend, deeply perturbed at the sight of a man feeding breadcrumbs to birds. "Is he mental? Should I call the police?"
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The word "Orangeman" is inherently funny. #BBCR4Today
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tell you what, it does make stabbing dinghies look pretty vanilla, doesn't it?
bbc.co.uk
RAF Fairford: Counter-terror police lead investigation into major incident near air base, officials say
Several men have been arrested on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act. The US Air Force say they "remain vigilant" to ensure safety of services members at the RAF base.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh God, The Boys of Summer is bringing on *my* depression. #DesertIslandDiscs
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ARE YOU DEAD?
bbc.co.uk
CrowdScience - How many dead people are on the internet? - BBC Sounds
How much of the internet belongs to people who are no longer with us?
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Instagram is bombarding me with heartwrenching obituaries of people I don't follow and have never heard of.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Huey Lewis and Genesis on the same #totp. Patrick Bateman in seventh heaven.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anyone else pedantic enough to spot the spelling mistake? #70Up
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Autumn poem just dropped.
[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:
 
  comm   n pr  ble    whe    writin    p   ems
in the shape of decid o   s trees
is t  at once t   ere ar   ives
the fir   t sti   rings of    he new aut   mn breeze,  
  he       oems will begi    to shake    hemselves ge   tly  
  ntil their letters loos   n like leaves,
an they d start to float down
then
 
[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Only slightly frustrating. Wordle 1,921 5/6 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I bet Earl Spencer *really* likes Ed Sheeran.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This just in: Molly Bloom's soliloquy is even sexier in Spanish.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wordle 1,919 3/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not sure I'm terribly excited by the question of how good Earl Spencer's memory is, tbh.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They're taking selfies in front of Picasso's Guernica. Maybe the AI apocalypse is the best we can hope for.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am in Madrid and I just ate this cheesecake and you can't have none so nerrr.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is weird, but I'm actually sympathising with Lily. #TheArchers
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The genius of the tech/capitalist oligarchs is not that they have done this. It's that they've taken the world to a point where plenty of us will welcome the scenario.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mark Fisher and Burial as answers on #UniversityChallenge. Blimey.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A team from the Royal College of Art with no art students? #UniversityChallenge
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One of the contestants in the 1977 #Mastermind tonight is offering as a specialised subject The Common Market.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Holiday reading.
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I was at Knebworth. It was fucking atrocious. They sounded old and tired even then.
theguardian.com
Oasis announce 2027 tour, including return to Knebworth 30 years after historic concerts
After 2025’s wildly lucrative reunion, the Gallagher brothers will tour the UK, Ireland and US, and revisit the Hertfordshire site of their greatest live triumph
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Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Awkward.
bbc.co.uk
Trump criticises AI boss who called for slowdown and says only guardrail needed is a 'smart president'
Stock markets fall in the US, Europe and Asia as Anthropic boss Dario Amodei says AI development should be slowed to "to reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong".
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