timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I may not like Kipling’s politics but some of his sayings cannot be denied eg To every complex problem there is a simple solution. And it is always wrong. That one is my favourite. 131
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialCaolan Robertson @caolanrob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just a reminder that there is a city in Europe where Russian drones hunt civilians 24/7. 9464252
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This applies to almost every democrat country at the moment 110
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My grandparents and all of their generation used’you’ as singular and ‘ye’ as plural. I was a child in the 1959s. Not sure when it stopped in Ireland. Probably with the advent of TV bringing american speech patterns to Ireland. 010
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I hesitate to answer with all tge brilliant people on here but as an 80 year old fan how about A Canticle for Leibowitz Flowers for Algernon The Sword in the Stone: more fantasy than SF Flowers… made me cry 3140
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I bought it from you @kennysbookshop.bsky.social and am glad to say it is one of his best. Engrossing from beginning to end. I hope he does the same for Octavian. 010
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Are they allowed read ‘Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays’ first? Am currently reading, and enjoying, ‘Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics’ and looking forward to your book on Infinity. 110
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Phew!! Lucky for me that I am retired with an AI proof pension. 010
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I thoroughly enjoyed meeting the world's press: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEsa...youtube.comCount Binface meets the world's pressYouTube video by Count Binface 761799398
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Can you please recommend a good translation in English? 100
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I read that first when I was about 12. I am 80 now and have read it many times since. It is a book I was afraid to loan in case whoever I gave it to did not think it was as good as I thought. Remember the ants?…anthing not forbidden is compulsory! 000
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 05/08/2026As is A Violent Masterpiece but She Rides Shotgun is superb. 100
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.social🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I don't know who needs to hear this, but did you know the word "Chicago" is cognate to the word "skunk" via Proto-Algonquian *sekakwa (literally: "piss fox") 56418
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialCarausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 31/07/2026This Roman ring, wishing good life to Senicianus, was found in Silchester. It’s now on display in The Vyne. Its fame derives from the archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler consulting Tolkien on it in the ‘20s. Tolkien was inspired by the idea of a lost cursed ring & the rest is literary history. 🕰️C4thAD 7461136
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now? my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi... @uplift.iemy.uplift.ieVisa for Gaza studentsI'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now? 000
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Thanks for this. Have just ordered it from my library. 010
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Thanks for this. Fascinating! Made me order the book from my library. 110
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Yes. I am Irish. To say ‘I am sad’ would be ‘Tá brón orm’ which really translates as ‘There is sadness on me’. 020
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Just bought it thanks to this chat 010
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Rigoletto. I think Razorblade Tears is your Rigoletto. 000
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I thought KING OF ASHES was really good but Razorblade Tears was incomparable. I don’t think it can be surpassed but I would love to be wrong. When Verdi’s Aida was first performed he was asked was it his best. He replied that he could always write another Aida but he could never write another 100
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 13/05/2026They are not, and never were, a progressive left wing party. They are purely populist. 020
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Oh yes! Do you temember ‘Zen and the art of motor cycle maintenance’? 000
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 10/05/2026That story was positively brilliant. I had forgotten how moving a short story can be. Thanks for letting us read it. 000
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 07/05/2026A Violent Masterpiece is truly brilliant. I have to force myself to put it down. Right up there with @blacktopkid.bsky.social 020
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Had my copy delivered this morning from @kennysbookshop.bsky.social 020
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 24/04/2026They are forbidden to do this here in the European Union. 110
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Must try it again. Like you I enjoyed Asimov so much that the series disappointed me. The Last Question blew my mind when I read it many years ago (I was 80 last week) 110
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Since 1973, Irish agriculture has received net transfers from the EU of close to €40 BILLION, dragging the entire sector out of poverty. Doubly sickening to see a recipient of this taxpayer largesse lecture anyone on “looking after our own people first” 314964
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I have preordered it from @kennysbookshop.bsky.social and am really looking forward to reading it. 120
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 09/04/2026It’s like the way Maths Departments axed Geometry Departments before Misner, Thorne and Wheeler showed Relativity was really a Geometry and Physics Departments started grabbing the Geometers 0111
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 09/04/2026When I was a child I heard the prayer at a graveside of ‘In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost’ as ‘In the name of the Father, the Son and into the hole he goes’ 190
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 08/04/2026I really enjoyed it here in Ireland. You were brilliant. I wish you would do some more. Does your name mean you are from Farsi ancestry? 000
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Thanks so much. I will be 80 next week and SF has given me more pleasure than almost anything except Opera and Mathematics. (I was a teacher and loved it) 110
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Many years ago I read some great stories about going back in time to try to fix some problem on a severely pollited Earth. Probably in Fantasy and Science Fiction. Can you remember the author? The ‘fix’ always made things far worse. 120
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 25/03/2026There is no need to give any reason for ever teading either Wodehouse or Pratchett 001
