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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Because if you maxx zero, you still have zero.

Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Fantastic to have the opportunity to see Blade Runner (Final Cut) on the big screen last night at @odysseystalbans. What a brilliant film - sublime soundtrack, exquisite visuals. And the pacing, the rhythm of scenes and conversations is amazing. An intimate story in a chaotic, uncaring urban sprawl.

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Finally got round to shelling out for Apple+ and watching Slow Horses. Very enjoyable, great cast, only occasionally silly. Obviously Oldman & Scott-Thomas are brilliant but I’m especially enjoying Jack Lowden doing Simon Pegg in Spaced impressions. Also very good at running and getting beaten up.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

where the what are found relative to their nostrils and ears?

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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

"Have Tim Henman killed"

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

BIG GOAT LITTLE GOAT is this month's free one page game. One of you is a big goat. The other is a little goat. If you need to know more than that, this game is probably not for you. PDFs and "design notes" here: www.patreon.com/posts/128931...

A one page ttrpg called BIG GOAT LITTLE GOAT. Download a text-only version here https://www.patreon.com/posts/128931545

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

From today’s @theguardian.com - welcome to the UK, the land where satire died.

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Jen Mierisch @jenmierisch.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

This 😁

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Cheers all! And a very Happy (and hoppy) Easter. Beautiful weather for a beautiful DIPA - Track/Factory brewing collab at the ever fantastic Beer Shop #StAlbans

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

lol yes, I mean I’m sure we all have our challenges but I think they could have phrased it a little better!

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Met up with friends for a day of boardgaming yesterday - we tried our hand at the Civilisation boardgame. Elegant design with a fair few moving parts to hold in mind, it does a fab job of recreating the Sid Meier experience: tech, trade, resources, wonders and, of course, war! #boardgames

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I always know I've enjoyed a play when, not only does the experience stay with me the next day, but I also have the overwhelming urge to read around the subject matter. Retrograde did both for me. Sidney Poitier's biography here I come... theapollotheatre.co.uk/tickets/retr...

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Retrograde - Apollo Theatre

Book tickets via the official Box Office for Retrograde at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End. Ryan Calais Cameron's gripping Sidney Poitier drama.

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

2. Started watching the new Daredevil series on Disney Plus with some trepidation given how superb the original series were. The start was a bit shaky for me given how tropy it was but I should have had more faith. It's still superb & Charlie Cox and Vincent D'onofrio are on great form.

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Been cheered by a few recent moments of brightness in the midst of the pervasive gloom. 1. Gary Numan's album The Fury is finally on Spotify. Was the first album of his I encountered as a teen & I was sold as soon as I heard the Bladerunner samples. A delightful mix of samples, synth & saxophone.

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It’s true what they say - no matter how bad things are, there’s always someone else who’s worse off - really puts things into perspective… via @thetimes.com

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Third time lucky when it came to a marathon Arkham Horror session this weekend with my brother. Such a great game despite how almost impossible it feels for most of a game but how victory feels glorious on the rare occasions that it occurs. And my character was an author! Which was nice.

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Saw ENO's Pirates of Penzance yesterday. Haven't seen any Gilbert & Sullivan for an absolute age - thoroughly enjoyed it! The minimalist Ellsworth Kelly adjacent set design might not have been everybody's cup of tea but I liked it. Great performances all round. Police squad antics nicely done.

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Hosts In The Shell - a cyberpunk podcast @hostsintheshell.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Hello all - a quick intro! We're a cyberpunk podcast where writers @jonrichter.bsky.social and @cleric20.bsky.social (aka Jon Richter and Matt Adcock) host other creatives to talk about their work & their favourite pieces of cyberpunk media. Head to hostsintheshell.buzzsprout.com for a listen!

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Coincidentally, at about the same time I decided to check in on the excellent @hostsintheshell.bsky.social and realised the lads had done an episode on Iain M Banks. Nice one gents! BTW I thought "unintended consequences" would be a great name for an even-more-secret-than-SC Culture team!

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Iain M Banks is one of my favourite Sci-Fi authors & a major inspiration for my own writing. I read Player of Games again recently and, despite the fact that it's probably the 5th or 6th time, I still loved it. One oh his most accessible & straightforward books IMHO and one of my favourites.

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I can't help making up stories about the virtual civ-citizens who have to live with the aftermath of my often less than optimal settling decisions. #Civilisation

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Towards the end of what will likely be my last game of Civ6 so to mark the transition to a new era (and as a way of getting myself into the habit of posting) here are a few old twitter posts about Civ. This first one is a bit niche.

The Civ6/Toast crossover you never knew you needed

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

It really is. I’m mainly enjoying the niceness of Bluesky, or at least the absence of toxic lunacy, and gearing myself up to start posting regularly. I was thinking of re-using some old tweets. Does that count as cheating???

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

It's much nicer isn't it! Yes, all good, though a stupidly busy period of work and trying to get back into writing. Good to @hostsintheshell.bsky.social on here - I'm catching up with the later epsiodes.

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Hey Jon, good to see you’re on (in? Under? At?) Bluesky!

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

First sunny day for what feels like an aeon so it’s time for a BBQ and a glass of the superbly well timed annual release of the quintessential DIPA from @verdantbrew.bsky.social. Stupendous!

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Hosts In The Shell - a cyberpunk podcast @hostsintheshell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Got some beltin’ episodes coming up (if we do say so ourselves): planning The Fifth Element, Strange Days, The Matrix, Altered Carbon, maybe Casshern too… anything else you’d recommend??

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ALT: a robot is holding a bucket of popcorn in his hands

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The Writers' Conference is back for 2025!🎉 Our friends @writingeastmidlands.com are bringing their biggest networking event for writers back with an exciting programme of talks, panels, workshops and agent 1-1s on offer. 🚨Discounted early bird tickets now available.🚨 Get yours 👉 bit.ly/WEMCONF25

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The Writers' Conference 2025 - Writing East Midlands

Writers' Conference at the University of Lincoln on 12th April 2025, featuring workshops, panels and talks with industry professionals.

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I've been a video game player since the days of Binatone - I still play on PC and Xbox when I get a spare moment (Civ 6 and Battlefield V/The Divisions respectively). I'm also a fan of the board-based variety - the bigger, more complicate and more social the better.

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I'll post about craft ale occasionally. I'm equally as happy with a traditional ale as I am with a modern NEIPA or a West Coast but steer clear of anything too odd (lambics and sours I'm looking at you). Faves tend to be from Track or @verdantbrew.bsky.social.

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

When it comes to Historical Technology I'm mostly interested in late-Victorian/early Edwardian computing, telecoms, media and military tech - also quirky tech in general. Difference Engines 1 & 2 are particular favourites!

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

As a reader I enjoy fantasy (Gemmell, Sanderson, Abercrombie, Pratchett), thrillers (Deighton, Hammett, Chandler) and Sci-fi (Banks, Asimov, Gibson). You can hear ne chatting about William Gibson on the brilliant cyberpunk podcast Hosts in the Shell. www.buzzsprout.com/1930485/epis...

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Neuromancer, the Sprawl Trilogy, & William Gibson - Hosts In The Shell

It had to happen... the Hosts finally tackle arguably the biggest cyberpunk work of all time, Neuromancer, along with its genre-defining creator whose shadow looms terrifyingly large across a Matrix o...

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Here's a bit more detail about me for those brave persons who decided to follow based on a bio and no content! As a Writer... I've published one novel so far. The Sterling Directive is an alt-historical espionage thriller. "The Bourne Identity meets Sherlock Holmes with a dash of Peaky Blinders".

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Tim Standish @timstandish.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Me: It’s full. But currently in the wrong cup.

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Matt Adcock @cleric20.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

🚨 New episode alert!! 🚨 The @hosts_in_the_shell are absolutely honoured to be joined by award winning sci-fi writer @garethlpowell to discuss his work and new publishing imprint, as well as key influences including GreatDismal's Burning Chrome!! www.buzzsprout.com/1930485/epis...

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Gareth L Powell talks William Gibson's Burning Chrome and other influences - Hosts In The Shell

Those cybernetically augmented oddballs are back, and this time they're honoured to be joined by fantastic and award-winning science fiction writer Gareth L Powell! Gareth talks about his work, his ne...

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