Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Hey @readrising.bsky.social! Been off the socials for a while. Sorry I missed your invite. Would love to chat. DM me (can you do that here?) if still interested. I’ll be sure to check in on bloosky a bit more often 000
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Jonathan Swift still delivers a gut-busting yuk some 300 years after the fact. The key to Swift is slow. 000
Reposted by Tim Gerard ReynoldsAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/04/2026He still needs to be removed from office. A war powers resolution will not suffice. He circumvented Congress to start the war. He circumvented them on tariffs and appropriations. Why anyone thinks he'd adhere to a Congressional war powers resolution is beyond me. 717283536811
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 08/04/2026I would much rather not have childhood nightmares of nuclear annihilation at the hands of mendacious cretins be reawakened any time again in the foreseeable future. Thank you for your attention to this matter! 000
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Yep. Threads gave me PTSD for years. Saw it again about 5 years back and it has to be, bar none, the most terrifying movie ever made. 021
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 08/04/2026This cretinous kleptocratic bunch of jumped-up fascists will ultimately sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. 021
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026A old, lonely deaf man created this. We are capable of great things still. 010
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026In these sad days, I can’t get this adagio out of my mind. I’ve never heard it played better. youtu.be/7jC4-JNMAC8?...youtu.beMaurizio Pollini for Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major ("Hammerklavier"), Op. 106YouTube video by Music Lover 100
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Artwork by the brilliant Musho Rodney Alan Greenblat. Oh, and yeah, don’t buy stuff today. 020
Reposted by Tim Gerard ReynoldsJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Nothing abt what DOGE claims it's doing, or even what most suspect they're doing, requires anything like the current access they now have to critical data and nat sec computer systems across the federal govenrment. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...talkingpointsmemo.comDOGE Dives Into Core National Defense and Data Systems Across GovernmentI don’t like to think in conspiratorial ways. But DOGE currently has... 751307501
Reposted by Tim Gerard ReynoldsAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 19/02/2025👀 7341491306
Reposted by Tim Gerard ReynoldsGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/02/2025I’m George Takei and I approve of this message. 226914323329849
Reposted by Tim Gerard ReynoldsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are. 562710650516695
Reposted by Tim Gerard ReynoldsScott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 16/02/2025That’s more like it. 1092320153167
Reposted by Tim Gerard ReynoldsPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why? 22678148320162
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Just heard #WiilArnet say the Whitnail And I is his favorite movie. Props, Will! Yup. Probably the best movie ever. 000
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Congrats to my old pal #EdwardBerger for all the #BAFTA wins tonight!!! Go #Conclave! Just 2 weeks to the #Oscars 🤞🏻 000
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 16/02/2025…where the book, like Cavalcanti’s house of death, lives briefly, like Arian heresy, solely in the readers mind & heart. @dreamscape-media.bsky.social 2/2 000
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Words in #Ulysses are a super-position of potential meaning; each phrase laced with seemingly infinite potential. #JamesJoyce leaps modernism to contend with textualist arguments… 1/2 110
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 16/02/2025oh wait, putting these together means… hold on, there are 4 things being expressed with this one phrase… this is a reference to… that itself turns this other meaning to point toward… The audiobook narrator “ran from them to the wood of madness, his mane foaming in the moon, his eyeballs stars.” 000
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 16/02/20254 hours and just 2 pages of #Proteus. Studying #JamesJoyce must be as for a musician studying #Mozart. Ah yes, great melodic structure; fine embellishments. Let’s see… that mirrors… 100
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 15/02/2025With 3 cats, my #Roomba is a perpetually bewildered robot. 000
Reposted by Tim Gerard ReynoldsHarry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Bove left the group alone to discuss how its members wished to proceed, saying he wanted an answer quickly…One attorney present told a colleague at Justice that the discussion was “gut-wrenching” and “not anything any of us ever expected to see in America,” 641103214
Reposted by Tim Gerard ReynoldsTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/02/2025The rule of law we take for granted was centuries in the making. But it can be destroyed in weeks. www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th... @stevevladeck.bsky.socialstevevladeck.com124. The Thursday Night Massacre(s)Two very different episodes on Thursday provide growing evidence of a Department of Justice that is showing less respect, by the day, for the rule of law. 441840584
Reposted by Tim Gerard ReynoldsKrassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 14/02/2025People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere! 9652873914093
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 11/02/2025With a hint of spring on the breeze, I find myself turning to old faves… @khruangbin.bsky.social tidal.com/track/125059...tidal.comKhruangbin - Texas SunListen to Texas Sun on your streaming service 010
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Now *this* cheers me up 😉 tidal.com/track/412952...tidal.comFKA twigs - Childlike ThingsListen to Childlike Things on your streaming service 000
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Episode 3, a.k.a. #Proteus, of #JamesJoyce ‘s #Ulysses… pour moi, cela devient “l’heure fauve.” @dreamscape-media.bsky.social 020
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 10/02/202535 years ago. Still startlingly original link.bytim.gr/mbv-oyflink.bytim.grGlider - EP by my bloody valentine on Apple MusicAlbum · 1990 · 4 Songs 000
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025…and I think, rather than put myself under pressure to produce anything more coherent, I'll use this format as just that—a #brain-dump for now. @dreamscape-media.bsky.social 14/END 020
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Anyhoo... I've got my work cut out for me. And I'm speaking here in very general terms. These #Ulysses posts are just brain-dumps that don't necessarily reflect any focused aspect of my prepping this project at the moment,… 13/14 100
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025…leave aside the problem of “Sirens” here), and by what might be a stylistic delivery that is typically adopted for the text at hand in other genres of spoken word, such as theatre, radio, television, even YouTubers (yes, I'm talkin' to you, Simon Roper... link.bytim.gr/simonroper). 12/14link.bytim.grSimon RoperI make videos mainly about topics in linguistics, but occasionally about anthropology in general. Me and a few friends produce comedy films and sketches, some of which will probably be published soon.... 100
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025…to embrace the limitations of the audiobook and lean into the "meta" heuristic of the deliberate, fragmented, dissonance of styles, by adopting one’s own deliberate and succinct distillation of delivery for each and every style that is wholly directed by both the cadence of the text (let’s… 11/14 100
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025…expression postulated by the likes of Giordano Bruno or Thomas Aquinas to name but a few. The question becomes "how do you get this across to a listener, as opposed to a reader?" Ya can't. I mean, not really. You can't *aurally embody a concept*. With regards to #Ulysses, the narrator has… 10/14 110
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025…established, recognizable, or historically typical literary modes and styles to be found in other genres of fiction and non-fiction throughout the history of the English language, not to mention the adoption of literary innovations by Flaubert, Cervantes, Dante, etc. and theories of… 9/14 100
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025In #Ulysses, after the first 3 episodes #JamesJoyce begins to step back as an auctorial interpreter and relies on an innovation that in recent years has come to be known as "The Arranger," an outside *presence* that adopts a dizzying array of literary modes and styles that "cite" other… 8/14 100
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Granted, I realize that everything written above is gross simplification; very broad strokes indeed. But how does an audiobook narrator come to terms with what Roland Barthes called "Citational Processes?" 7/14 100
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025The audiobook narrator is somewhat limited in their ability to refect nuances other than character, pace, and narrative voice (or what one might call the voice or tone of a book — the "style" with which the author chooses to tell their story). 6/14 100
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025They are two distinct experiences, especially when dealing with authors to whom mere story is but one tool in their arsenal of expression, and rarely, perhaps not even the most important part. 5/14 100
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025…somewhat fluid these days. Nonetheless, when confronted with typed text the reader has command of faculties of interpretation that are multifaceted in comparison to sitting down and listening to someone else "tell you a story." 4/14 100
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025That's not necessarily a bad thing, as written works are, well *written,* and are to be interpreted by the reader visually no matter the nature of the author's own imaginative engagment. In a world of ebooks, however, a typographic relationship to a written work is becoming, at best,… 3/14 100
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Two different narrators reading the same book will yield two very different audiobooks, pinned in time, sounding the same whenever replayed. Surprisingly, more often than not, the author of said written work does not have a clear understanding of how their syntax sounds out loud. 2/14 110
Tim Gerard Reynolds @tgrey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Citational Processes and the problem of #audiobook #narration. First, let me get "the problem of audiobook narration" out of the way. An audiobook is someone's aural interpretation of a written work, for good or ill. 1/14 100
