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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bought this on a whim because it was on Juno for less than a tenner, and it is wicked. Double LP compilation of afrobeat remixes, including by DJ Food and Plaid – some thrumming bass and cool beats

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

I only bought it so I could have a stab at mixing vinyl with a second deck, but it now happily lives in the shed #nowplaying Millie Jackson's Feelin' Bitchy (which is amazing)

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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

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 · 29/09/2026

I don't know if it was the best, but one of the most memorable I had was the Nokia 3250, the bottom quarter of which housed the keyboard on the front, mp3 player buttons on the back and a camera on the side, and rotating that part automatically opened the camera or music player. A haptic delight

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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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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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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 · 11/09/2026

Damn it, made this before I saw you'd disabled quote-posts

A statue of Zeus with a speech bubble below

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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 · 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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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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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Weirdly, the table has Villa above the teams with 4, but apparently with 3

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Fitzgerald eat your heart out 🥲

A bag of adult dog food sits on the pavement. Upon masking tape stuck to the front are the ominous words: "FREE no longer needed"

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"And Tiny Tim, who was not a horse,..."

Muppet Charles Dickens in the Muppets Christmas Carol turns to the camera to relay important information to the audience

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Two English pounds and ninety nine English pence Don't tell me there aren't still bargains out there

The Crusaders double LP 'Southern Comfort', with a sale sticker that says £2.99

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Happy #worldvitiligoday from me and the missus. Big love to you all x

Close crop image of a south Asian woman's eye and cheek, her skin beautifully flecked with patches of vitiligo. Her eyes are smiling.

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Truer words were never spoken

A white t-shirt with red gothic writing that reads John 19:90, and then the lyrics of John Barnes' rap from World In Motion

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Posts AI slop, is informed, apologises, but won't delete because... what? He wants it to be true? Absolute insta-block

Tony Parry posts a screengrab of a tweet with an AI generated image of an Iranian football player at the World Cup holding up a pink school rucksack, supposedly in tribute to schoolgirls murdered by US strikes during the war

Tony says in a vastly less viewed reply: "Apologies, this is an AI generated image and DIDN'T happen.

However I won't delete as a tribute was paid by Iranian players wearing gold pins and it gets an important message across about the indiscriminate bombing of Iran"

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Lol, I guess the Knicks lost

Bluesky posts all say variations of "Trump's fault" approximately 2 hours ago, around the time the third game of the NBA finals ended

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

You'd never guess where the terminally stupid idea to directly mock the victims of a pro-democracy massacre came from... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

There was also a problem with a slogan the Starbuck campaign used: “thwack on the desk”. It echoed a notorious cover story used by police after the 1987 torture death of student activist Park Jong-chul. Authorities at the time initially claimed Park died because an officer had used his fist to “hit the desk with a thwack”.

(Picture of Activists protesting Starbucks hold placards)

Marketers chose the slogan after consulting an AI tool, looking for suggestions, Shinsegae Group said. It turned out some managers who approved the campaign never opened the email attachments showing the marketing material.

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is basically advertorial

Headline reads: "Guardian Media Group announces strategic partnership with OpenAI"

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Weekend garden project, building this planter to grow vegetables #diy

A tall planter made of treated timber sits on the decking in the back garden next to a drill and a hammer

The inside of a tall planter made of treated timber, lined with blue plastic

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Read this about arrests made at the Arsenal parade and then read the headline sitting beside it…

The headline "‘Arsenal have embraced everyone’: trophy parade a celebration of a community" sits next to report that says "The Metropolitan police said 16 arrests had been made in the area around the parade as of 9pm on Sunday.

"The force said arrests had been made on charges including drunk and disorderly behaviour, drug offences, sexual assault and assaulting emergency workers.

"Officers were called to the scene of a stabbing on Hornsey Road just after 8.30pm and responded with paramedics and the air ambulance.

"A man has been taken to hospital where his condition will be assessed, the force said."

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

#nowplaying Skalpel, Konfusion (2005, Ninja Tunes)

The LP of Skalpel's nu jazz album Konfusion from Ninja Tunes.

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Been trying to find something – anything – that Co-pilot can help me with. Decided I wanted to make a spreadsheet of Premier League season results. It suggested providing the data in blocks, alphabetically (because it was too much data). Fine. But when it was done, I noticed Newcastle was missing…

Co-pilot transcript:

Me: If you missed Newcastle – a pretty big club – how can I be sure the rest of the information is accurate?

Co-pilot: You’re right to challenge that — missing Newcastle is a big miss, and you deserve a straight, confidence‑building answer, not hand‑waving.
Here’s the truth, clearly and without defensiveness:
1. The mistake wasn’t in the data, it was in the selection
The Premier League tables I generated for each alphabetical block were accurate for the clubs included in those blocks.
The error was that Newcastle United wasn’t included in the G–M block, even though alphabetically it belongs there. That’s a coverage mistake, not a data accuracy mistake.
Once you pointed it out, I generated Newcastle’s full row — and it matches the historical record.

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

"Hey, you got that slogan for my tech venture capital firm ready?" "Sure did boss, really fucking ominous, just like you asked" a16z.com

The slogan for tech investment firm Andreessen Horowitz bafflingly claims "Software Is Eating the World"

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The Reform candidate arrives at the polling station

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Quote with a photo you've taken of some public art

An enormous sculpture of a salt beef sandwich mounted on the wall of a Chicago diner

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Truly inspired character name for a news anchor on a puppet show

Soon, bombs are dropped into volcanoes all around the world, which create giant thick black clouds that cover the entire planet. Earl thinks the clouds will create rain, but the rest of the Sinclair family at their house doubts that it will happen. On the news, news anchorman, Howard Handupme reports that the clouds are blocking off the sun and causing global temperatures to drop precipitously. Earl tries to stay positive, claiming that the sun will come out and melt the snow which will bring back the plants. But Howard reports that due to the thickness of the clouds, scientists have predicted that it will be tens of thousands of years before the sun shines over Pangaea again, thus beginning the Ice Age

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Oh Fatih, you don't need to do that, you don't need to make a strait joke, just tell us if we can fly to Mallorca in June or not

Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, speaking about impending jet fuel shortages thanks to the war in Iran, says: “In the past there was a group called Dire Straits. It’s a dire strait now, and it is going to have major implications for the global economy. And the longer it goes, the worse it will be for the economic growth and inflation around the world.”

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I made this to quote repost you, but they're disabled...

John Spartan from Demolition Man with a speech bubble below him at the moment he discovers he's a seamstress

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Tonight's movie – a perfect film if you remove every creepy face stroke

Face/Off on Blu Ray with the faces of John Travolta and Nicholas Cage on the cover

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

In Chicago, exploring the giant shiny bean, aka Cloud Gate, and had no idea the absolute filth of this thing seen from underneath

Could Gate, a giant reflective bean in the middle of Down Town Chicago

The view of Cloud Gate from underneath, revealing the overtly sexual, reflective orifice and cheeks of infinity

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My kid, seeing this announcement 😅

Fry from Futurama holding out a wad of cash, with the caption "Shut up and take my parents' money"

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Does anyone else get served these "drink olive oil" ads? In what reality are peopling guzzling olive oil straight from the bottle, on their wedding day no less? What is happening? Why am I a target for Big Olive Oil?

A woman drinking olive oil with the caption: "Doctors Reveal: If You Drink Olive Oil Every Day After 50, This is…"

Another woman, apparently on her wedding day, drinking olive oil with the caption: "Doctors Reveal: If You Drink Olive Oil Every Day After 50…"

Yet another woman drinking olive oil, this time at the seaside, with the same caption: "Doctors Reveal: If You Drink Olive Oil Every Day After 50, This is…"

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

"Billy, you are dealing with the oddities of physical media with the greatest of ease!"

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure on Blu Ray

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Ring (1998), Dir: Hideo Nakata

A statue of a Roman in a St Albans park crazy golf, with a tarpaulin over its head

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

Just look at the density in that central section – great swathes of the board left untouched in service to this seething metropolis

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Some kind of Italian jazz-funk electro-disco afrobeat thing, I frikkin love it #nowplaying

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Sick at home, so listening to this S.O.U.L. reissue, including the sublime "what it is, what it is, tell me what it is" SOOOOULYEEAH! #nowplaying

Vinyl LP "What It is" by 70s group S.O.U.L.

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