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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 17h

The second paragraph reads like a particularly punchy TripAdvisor review...

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When Smeagol is your Evri courier

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 22/09/2026

Remarkable thread, very good explanation by @yeomans.bsky.social I'm left with the question: what on earth are the legal authorities in the UK up to?

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dad really knows how to end an email in style. (This is from a while back, but makes me laugh every time I see it.)

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is a lovely thread, especially for X-Men fans.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of the many things that makes Heated Rivalry so good - shot in about 40 days on a comparatively low budget, they had to find innovative solutions that added to the closeness and intimacy of the show, and lean on the unreal chemistry of the two stars. Another series coming exactly one year later.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Very beautiful piece of writing. Echoes my own experience in many ways - I lived with 'the shadow' looming over me for so long. Never coming extremely close, but always there, and it warped my life in so many ways. Extremely grateful to have (mostly) managed to leave the shadow behind, for now.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Interesting spread from UC Berkeley newspaper about AI use across the university. A lot about the university using AI in official comms and obituaries (!) but as writing teacher, this caught my eye. I worry about this because of course "organizing thoughts" is of course "thinking" /1

“Everyone uses it, that’s my experience,” said one campus freshman, Ben Schiro.

Still, Schiro and other students expressed discomfort with the authenticity of these public-facing messages, which AI may have played a role in the creation of.

Those students said they may use AI for editing or research or organizing thoughts, but they draw the line at generating words.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The ansaphone message, like the forces of ethnonationalism, were dismantled only for within living memory to see it re-created in new and more horrifying forms.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've thought about The Doldrums recently, I've been in them for a little while now (in terms of publishing success, not in terms of creative output). I've had some projects fizzle out, a relationship with a publisher that died slowly as they lost interest, a book I was really proud of didn't sell...

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Sophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Very funny description of Diana Rigg not giving up smoking (as written by her daughter, in Vogue)

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org

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RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea

The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

me: hey, aren't you jack reacher? reacher: poster. mid-tier, by the look of it. you were on twitter until it became x. now you're just on one of the knockoffs, most likely bluesky, because you don't have the self-confidence for instagram or tiktok. me: ok t— reacher: peaked in the buzzfeed era.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My favourite Oulipo fact is that you didn't leave the group even in death, you were just recorded in the minutes of their meetings as being "unavoidably detained".

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Knight's Tour is the route a chess knight would have to take to visit each square of the board exactly once. A knight moves 2 squares on 1 axis & 1 in the other. It has inspired experimental literary forms, like Sanskrit poems that can be read left to right or by jumping syllables like a knight.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My days of not taking university disciplinary processes seriously is certainly coming to a middle.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Enjoying the sometimes strangely appropriate convergences of these two accounts...

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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

history would have been so different if Pontius Pilate could just have said this

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Freelance contractors take small job in Japanese village.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

These are very well observed! I think (I hope?) I'm The Natural, through like most I'm probably a composite of at least two or three of these archetypes.

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Years ago, I came up with a taxonomy of creative writing teaching styles. It's a series of archetypes I've encountered over decades, in myself & others. You can think of it as the creative writing teaching Fighter Select screen. Here goes:

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I will always love this oral history of how Tim Curry's Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 came to be: www.vice.com/en/article/a...

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An Oral History of Tim Curry’s Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by Capitalism

How an unforgettable performance in Red Alert 3 became legend.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has gifted over 150 million books (yes, 150 million) around the world. This is what goodness looks like. She ALSO brought us Buffy. She ALSO funded the Covid vaccine. She ALSO wrote “Jolene”. The most remarkable person. donate.imaginationlibrary.com

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Home

Make a donation and support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in communities around the world and help put more books into the hands of more children.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Colleague didn't join a call but I had Gemini Notes switched on and it the transcript caught me talking to the cat.

Summary

Meeting logistics review addressed attendance verification and confirmed denial of additional catering requests.

Addressing Catering Request
Denial of secondary meal requests was finalized for shouting individuals. It was confirmed that participants had already consumed dinner.

Meeting Attendance Verification
Clarification regarding confirmed attendees occurred. Questions were raised about pending arrivals for the session.

Connection Status Check
Technical connection status was assessed. The presence of additional participants on the call remained under review.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Makes me think I need to do some kind of Albania to Estonia overland trip to correct the Eastern European gap in my travels...

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is lovely - in a world of distractions, it is so good to immerse yourself at the cinema. Well worth checking out local cinema memberships too, they are often insane value (17 quid at my lovely local cinema for all the films I want).

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Coming back from a holiday in Rennes - as always in France, just stunned by the bistro culture, where you rock up to a tiny random place with a chalkboard menu, and someone serves you a lifechanging meal for under 20 euros.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Have started in on this behemoth as part of my holiday reading, and can already tell it is going to be as awesome as advertised...

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Writing a novel is like doing a giant jigsaw puzzle where you have to create all the pieces yourself and many of them are misshapen and don't fit, but when you FINALLY put all of the pieces together you have an immense sense that the puzzle is shit.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Off in a day or so now, if there are any Rennes/Breton recommendations to share?

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My new response when anyone asks me to do anything

~ No, sir, I am not obliged to do any more. No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life for himself.
-SAMUEL JoHNSON

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is very good, and this new model of publicity feels off for writers. Writers tend to be weird little gremlins who go into a hole for a couple of years and emerge with a book. This personality type doesn't necessarily cross over to the kind of person that does a Tik Tok every day.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Pleasing cultural mix today, booking two tickets for future events: a Warhammer Old World tournament at Warhammer World, and Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera House.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Any recommendations for a trip to Rennes and the surrounding area (good day trips etc)? Off in a week or so.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You can only worry about your audience so much because if you truly cared about reaching the masses you would have chosen something other than writing a novel.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

These do look quite fun (those who have followed me for any length of time will certainly know the answer to 1...)

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