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Been writing a very dour, death-of-the-Earth space exodus short story, in which colonists fly to distant galaxies in tin cans living out their lives without ever seeing a sky – and realised I'm writing "FML space travel"

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 8h

September 30th / October 1st

Tetsuo from Akira, standing proudly with a smile on his face, his little red cape draped over his shoulders

Tetsuo losing control over his burgeoning power, manifesting in obscene mutations of his flesh

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bought this old 90s Aiwa PX-E850 turntable on eBay for like £30. Turns out it uses the same cartridge as some Audio-Technica decks – which means you can upgrade the stylus for £25 Considering it has a pretty decent inbuilt phono amp, that makes this a very affordable entry into vinyl...

The box for an Audio-Technica ATN3600LE replaceable stylus

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Noel Fielding saying "You're not like anyone else, and that's why you're great," is the most profound thing I've heard on Bake Off since James Acaster had a breakdown

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I bet he calls them his weapons of mass destruction

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Too hard to do nine! No space for Super Mario Kart on the SNES, or International Karate+ on the C64 (which I was obsessed with), or more modern ones like Control, Horizon Zero Dawn or BioShock Infinite to name a handful… my9games.net/en

Tie Fighter, Inside, Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Civilisation V, Rome: Total War, Soul Calibur, Final Fantasy VII, Wipeout 2097 and The Last Of Us

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Movies that have the script of the movie being written during the movie it's about are… in… So: Adaptation Seven Psychopaths Barton Fink Any others? #moviesky

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Spoke to a few people this weekend who are disaster planning – stocking up on bottled water, foodstuff, camping stoves, batteries Is this a thing? Are we approaching The End Times?

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Film fans: name a movie in which the script is being written during the movie that it's about Two to get you going Adaptation 7 Psychopaths Any more?

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh my god, reading the plot of Saw X and just rolling around in hysterics, this stuff Is gold "I just want to be absolutely clear, you're saying I have to drill into my skull, pick out some brain, and then dissolve it in a beaker… right? dissolve my brain, ok, and then I'll magically get a key?"

Valentina is tasked with severing her leg with a Gigli saw and extracting enough bone marrow to trigger a scale and deactivate the trap. She manages to amputate her leg but is unable to collect enough marrow, and a second Gigli saw decapitates her. Cecilia later uses Valentina's intestines as a rope to retrieve her phone and call for help, but Amanda shocks her into submission and confiscates the phone.

Parker breaks into the clinic, demanding his money back. Amanda restrains him while Mateo is forced to drill into his own skull and remove a piece of cerebral tissue to dissolve in a beaker and obtain a key. Although he successfully performs the task, the tissue fails to dissolve in time, and a heated mask closes over his face, killing him. Next, Gabriela is suspended from shackles and subjected to ionizing radiation, tasked with freeing herself by using a sledgehammer to break her shackled limbs. She succeeds, but before Amanda can take her to a hospital, Parker forces them at gunpoint to release Cecilia.

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Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This might be controversial, but I think 10 Saw films was probably enough.

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 17/09/2026

Tech innovation in 2006: "we have created a device that can connect you to the world's greatest information sources from anywhere you go" Tech innovation in 2026: "now you have to subscribe to your car"

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

George Saunders on teaching literary criticism (and absolutely mauling the Bruce Lee quote)

Throughout, I'll be offering some models for thinking about stories.
No one of these is "correct" or sufficient. Think of them as rhetorical trial balloons. ("What if we think about a story this way? Is that use-ful?") If a model appeals to you, use it. If not, discard it. In Buddhism, it's said that a teaching is like "a finger pointing at the moon." The moon (enlightenment) is the essential thing and the pointing finger is trying to direct us to it, but it's important not to confuse finger with moon. For those of us who are writers, who dream of someday writing a story like the ones we've loved, into which we've disappeared pleasur-ably, and that briefly seemed more real to us than so-called reality, the goal ("the moon") is to attain the state of mind from which we might write such a story. All of the workshop talk and story theory and apho-ristic, clever, craft-encouraging slogans are just fingers pointing at that moon, trying to lead us to that state of mind. The criterion by which we accept or reject a given finger: "Is it helping?" I offer what follows in that spirit.

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Regular reminder that JG Ballard’s final novel, “Kingdom Come” (2006), is about a far-right English town which creates their own militarised breakaway state in a shopping mall, where they worship the gods of St George and consumerism. Old JG wrote it as tongue-in-cheek satire. At the time.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Some of those that work forces Are the same that burn crosses

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's going to be 2 points from 8 games, isn't it? #coys

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Bentancur had a decent game, lots of blocks, good pressing. Bit worried we now don't have a striker on the pitch OH WELL #coys

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Such a soft foul. #coys keep it together

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Nick Bryan @nickbryan.com · 11/09/2026

It's the 3-year anniversary of StoneCop! By me, @philthepage.bsky.social and @DCHopkins.bsky.social. A straight-up action movie romp, with lots of stone puns and the usual grimfun twist. Underappreciated, in my humble opinion. See more pages and buy it here: bindings.app/read/pNPjSGWC

Cover to StoneCop, featuring him posing over a chaotic city in an action movie style.

Page one of StoneCop, setting our hero up with melodramatic captions.

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Playing this record I found in a bargain bin in a Highgate record store (Rise Above, near the tube, check it out), and didn't even notice it's rather prominent space disco track

Van McCoy LP 'The Real McCoy', with Van on the front in a yokel hat and with a piece of straw in his toothy grin

The track list of 'The Real McCoy', featuring on side 2, THEME FROM STAR TREK

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Where am I? (answers in the alt text)

Hampstead's Garden Hill and Pergola, an overgrown walkway of simple columns and trellises in north London

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

That's... a good team? I think? #coys

Tottenham's line-up against Nottingham Forest, with Kinsky in goal, PORRO, van Hecke, band de Ven and Udogie in defence, Bentancur with Tonali in midfield, and Savio, Gallagher, Tel and Marmoush in attack

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rewatching Little Miss Sunshine for the first time in c20 years and it is a perfect happily sorrowful joy-filled tragic mess and I still love it

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Have discovered that Chippenham's high street has too been infected by the Discogs mind virus. One of the chazzas had a Jason Donavon LP priced without a hint of irony at twenty English pounds

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think he should just rename everything America. Much easier. I live in America House, America Street, Americatown, near Mount America and Lake America, in America, and so do you

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Got a stack of records I need to clean (I am a cool guy), including Jeff Beck, Santana, Hendrix and Van McCoy But I quite like it? Palpable tenderness towards audio media feels intimate. Go clean your mp3s!

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 26/08/2026

I can fix her

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Trying to imagine the emotional miasma in which someone must be wallowing to inspire them to shop for crap on eBay Live Go outside, mate. Smell a flower, eat a bagel. Put your phone down, yeah? Just… just put your phone down, pal. It'll be ok

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Big fan of "unlimited limousine black vinyl"

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Imagine the manufacturing niche you could dominate by making products that work, are affordable, and that – crucially – aren't WiFi enabled Imagine it: a fridge freezer that didn't require an app to function. It just keeps your food cool, and doesn't need firmware updates

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sitting down with the missus to watch a nice romantic movie on Xumo…

Six movies in the Romance category on XumoPlay, including Sophie's Choice

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Loving “the party plans to release a plan”

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Loving the decor in our holiday villa

A white mantelpiece with books and photo frames on top of it

A photo frame with a married couple doing a dance with exuberantly joyful faces

A patterned photo frame with the word "Innovaliving" in an oval border above some cryptic numbers: 10 x 15

A shell-lined photo frame with the words "Slim Home Decor" above a larger, black serif font word, "Photo" and yet more puzzling numbers: 6 X 8 "

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 11/08/2026

Goodnight.

book cover art, figures watching a city burn
J.G. Ballard
The Burning World
Richard Powers cover art, 1964

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I cannot comprehend why this is controversial. Just write sentences that people can understand. That's literally it. That's all it has ever been.

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What gets me – besides the stark inhumanity – is the concept of buying a book based on search terms or genre, or even (usually fraudulent) internet reviews. I know people do it, but it boggles my mind that that's how people get book recs, rather than *having friends* who might say "you'd like this"

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I used to have a job telling jokes about Troy, but I got sacked

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"We accidentally on purpose set poor safety parameters for our test, allowing our powerful AI (that you should totally fund) to 'escape' and create marketing opportunities via publicity"

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Seemingly marketed at the same suckers who bought smart speakers so they didn't have to endure the mundanity of setting a timer with their hands

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Jim Cummings @jimmycthatsme.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This is the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time.

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

PRIAM: My job was defending the walls of Troy but I got sacked

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