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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 18/08/2026

Fuck me @channel4news.bsky.social that ADHD mockumentary was a travesty of journalism, science, social science, psychiatry. A horrific mess.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 18/08/2026

“Meta call the claims against it ‘unsubstantiated’” Not false, just unsubstantiated.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 18/08/2026

Exactly what James said.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 18/08/2026

See, now these lads, these lads were absolutely gear. Four film biogs of Stig, Dirk, Nasty and Barry is exactly what we need. Who to play them though?

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 18/08/2026

The Channel 4 site says that the "Great ADHD Myth?" mocumentary is available to stream from Tuesday 18th Aug. It is Tuesday 18th Aug at 11:12am yet it is not available to stream. This is making my brain very unhappy indeed. Which is it CH4? Arrghghg.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 18/08/2026

I thought these new Beatles films were flogging a dead horse after reanimating it so they could flog it again because the first flogging didn't quite extract all the blood. I didn't think they were going to be "Lads on stag do dress-up as various Charlie Mansons and go Benidorm" funny though.

Actors apparently dressed up as The Beatles in terrible wigs and make-up.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 17/08/2026

My goodness but the Guardian commentariat (Opinion / Comment is Free) are silent about Jason Arday. Strange given the number of articles they ran on the man. I'd expect that from the rightwing shitesheets but not from the Grauniad.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 17/08/2026

How long before Laila Cunningham, sick of the media round that makes her spout lies, fabrications and then makes her contradict those an hour later, calls it quits and leaves Reform UK?

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 16/08/2026

Trying to find a Guardian opinion piece on Jason Arday this weekend. Not as easy as finding a general article from the previous… weeks. I expect this from the Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail. The Independent has a front page piece. www.theguardian.com/uk/commentis... Arday site:www.theguardian.com

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Opinion | The Guardian

Latest opinion, analysis and discussion from the Guardian. CP Scott: "Comment is free, but facts are sacred"

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 16/08/2026

“I don’t know who needs to hear this but…” Yelled the annoying preacher on your incapable train carriage / tube train / plane.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 15/08/2026

The idea that some things live your head and pay rent will probably come true if the Tech Bros can convince you that you can defer that rent into AI tokens.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 15/08/2026

R.I.P. Jason Arday. Commiserations and condolences to his family and actual friends.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is a long and detailed internal analysis of why 'race realist' Nathan Cofnas was hired by University of Ghent despite his apparent lack of qualifications for the job.

The department believes that it can function effectively and be a pleasant workplace for its members only if all department members regard one another as morally equal. In our view, that is no longer the case.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 15/08/2026

I love Joan Didion not just because she could write about many things compellingly and evocatively, but also because she could write actual sentences, sentences like this one from the opening of ‘Where I Was From: A Powerful Memoir of California History and the Myth of the American West’.

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great-great-great-great-great-grand-
mother Elizabeth Scott was born in 1766, grew up on the Virginia and Carolina frontiers, at age sixteen married an eighteen-year-old veteran of the Revolution and the Cherokee expeditions named Benjamin Hardin IV, moved with him into Tennessee and Kentucky and died on still another fron-tier, the Oil Trough Bottom on the south bank of the White River in what is now Arkansas but was then Missouri Territory.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The news about Jason Arday is awful and sad and I have a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that it will not take his story out of the UK's culture wars, they're too far gone.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 14/08/2026

Lee Anderson, like every fascist ever, telling the media what the headlines *should* be. “Stop asking questions! You should be celebrating the glorious Leader’s great win!”

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 13/08/2026

News of the Bourdain biopic reminds me of the chefs I know who are now either really decent people and professionals in that order, and those who are cunts. Set A - read Kitchen Confidential and then evolved with Bourdain. Set B - read White Heat and hero worship Marco Pierre White.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 13/08/2026

Q: What ever happened to nuance? A: Who are you calling a nonce? [More snappy dialogue next week.]

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 13/08/2026

Are there any online 'film clubs' where people show their indie movies, shorts. A media server and indies flicks? There used to be a pub in Sydney on the Parramatta Road that did 'Cult Film' nights. Occasionally, if someone rocked up with a their own effort, it might get shown as the "B Movie".

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 13/08/2026

So, the 'Harry Potter fans stop big corporation plan because of Dobby death-place outcry' story was bollocks it appears. backofmind.substack.com/p/chortle-on... www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics...

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chortle on a chortle

an underestimated obstacle to infrastructure

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Karoline Leavitt is leaving her post as White House Press Secretary. She says she'll concentrate her time on lying directly to her family and friends.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 13/08/2026

So far this year five people have said to me about one or more of my behaviours, "Oh, that's really ADHD, Tim, have you been assessed". Previous years, zero people proposed this. I'm 60+ years old. I find this fascinating.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 13/08/2026

Once you've handed your MSc dissertation in and moved past the post-submission remorse, archived everything, what are you supposed to do with this gaping chasm? I know, I'll start writing a novel about the death of neo-fascism, the triumph of love and the reality of hope. Or I might make toast.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 13/08/2026

AI can only “help” with research using already digitised documents and media. Think parish council files, oral histories held by local history societies, time-specific newspapers (think WWI trench newspapers). Niche histories are essential to inform wider questions. AI won’t do the legwork ever.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 13/08/2026

So, Claude Fable X is going to visit an obscure archive to look for *undigitised* oral histories recorded by a local historian about the dialogue between two farmers over a Ministry of Ag and Fish guidance from 1948 in order to investigate a thesis about food security?

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Still a few (not many!) tickets left for this screening, where I'll be talking about John Healy's life in the grass arena on the occasion of the publication of his long-awaited sequel.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 12/08/2026

Isn't AI fantastic! And those italics make all the difference, don't they?

A screenshot from a Google search for "bogun or bogan". The AI overview asks "Did you mean bogan or bogan"

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 12/08/2026

Whoever is saying that the Earth will lose gravity today because eclipse of moon is bad bad oooh bad judgement of universe and erm physics or something, has already lost any gravity they might once have had.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 11/08/2026

My one meeting with Bourdain was in Sydney back when I smoked, drank and other-thinged. I was already quite drunk. I used to do the occasional bit of chef freelance in some dodgy places up and down the Parramatta Road. That's all I'm saying.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 11/08/2026

So, farewell then Microsoft Office. Your Outlook is now shite. Your Word is no longer trusted. You no longer Excel at anything. As for Powerpoint… that can just do one.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 11/08/2026

Email signature when replying to a message in Outlook 365 [cough] Arrghghghghhg!! Put it after my reply not after the original message.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 11/08/2026

So a few hundred people can bully a corporation into a changing a plan if it interferes with a location of one of their fictional idols? Any fellow de Selby fans want to complain about Ai Data Centres everywhere? Because the great physicist, ballistician & philosopher was deffo there at least once

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 11/08/2026

I’m handing in my Masters dissertation more than 24 hours early.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

When you don't listen for *years* to what loads of us who actually understand universities say, when you listen to a load of know-nothing frauds from think tanks and consultants and media loudmouths instead, this is the university disaster you make. Govts could have listened. They didn't.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 09/08/2026

Just selecting images for the album cover for Hobart the dog's first solo album: "What is ball? Why is ball? Where is ball?"

My dog on the beach in the distance, three groynes in rthe distance.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 07/08/2026

Everyone I have ever met who has done a PhD in the UK and Ireland has emerged a more rounded, happier, saner and more deeply socialised than when they began. And totally in touch with realities.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 07/08/2026

Bumping up for those who might have missed it yesterday. The piece has been linked in some pro-"AI" quarters and the fantasy versions of me they have in their heads are... interesting.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 07/08/2026

I am at this point in my dissertation.

A spoof academic paper. Findings. The text is the following repeated several times: A spoof academic paper. Title 'Findings'. It reads: "Findings findings findings findings findings findings in a sense findings (Zhang et al, 2025, p 10-202) findings findings findings it can be argued." repeated several times.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 07/08/2026

16 years ago I went to Moscow. One night it rained, hard. I turned to head home, there was the Bolshoi Theatre. I took a photo. One day I'd like to revisit Russia. A lot needs to change tho'. Starting with the Putin Gangsters. Until then, power to Ukraine! But, here's that moment of that night.

The Bolshoi Theatre at night. Looking like perfect neo-classical marble, the pavement around it shining in the torrential rain.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 06/08/2026

No, you should be writing.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 06/08/2026

Don't quite know how utterly bereft of any reason Rupert Lowe and his Restore Britain party is. Listen to this from 1:35:52. Odious man. Odious ideas. Vile political party. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Today - 06/08/2026 - BBC Sounds

News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 06/08/2026

"Hey man, respect other people's views!" "But they just said that a chunk of stuff hitting the moon would alter the tides and tilt the moon out of orbit, and that's utter bollocks." "Let people just enjoy things, ok?" "But, it's all BS". "Man, who made you king of reality? Chill the fuck out!"

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 06/08/2026

Rod Liddle's still dead, right?

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 06/08/2026

When I worked in the media, making magazines for nerds, we had a freelance journalist approach us. He had really plush, expensive looking business cards. On them was written. "Mr Bloke Name "Journalism at It's Best" I am dead serious.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 05/08/2026

Every time an object hits the moon, a crystal-clutching, New Age Dingbat gets their wings.

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