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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

When I was a videogames reviewer/critic for a national mag, in the late '80s/early '90s, when the industry was small & we had access to more games than the average player, was that makers were gamers too. We all cared. As critics we asked, "Is it fun? Is it compelling? Is it innovative? Is it VFM"

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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

Lazy, that’s what I calls it.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 18/08/2026

Ah, thank you. I missed that due to huffing and puffing at the bad reporting.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 18/08/2026

Exactly what James said.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 18/08/2026

PS: from a journalistic point of view, I enjoyed the idea that Apple 'leaked' its own product news. I would have gone with, "/head/Apple Pervert Earpods News /strap/In the wake of public backlash over Meta's Pervert Glasses, Apple tries to get in front of the story with its own Pervert EarPods"

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 18/08/2026

How lovely of you to say. Thank you.

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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

He didn't write this. It's a puff piece masquerading as science reporting. Looks like an editor stood up in teh middle of the office and cried out: "Who's not busy? Who wants to write a bit about this Ch4 show? Rachel? It's yours. Deadline, Tuesday 18th. Be sciencey."

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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

Bwhahahahaha! 'Back Beat' and 'The Rutles' did it for me. That said, I was born into a house where both parents had seen The Fabs live, and worshipped them like gods. So, maybe I'd had enough by age 3.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 18/08/2026

Sure did. Yup. Good point.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 18/08/2026

This raises the question: why would the wider cinema-going audience go and see this?

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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 · 18/08/2026

My dad died when I was young. I saw this, and I wanted Roger Livesey to be my new stepdad. What a time to see the film for the first time too (1976 a week before the funeral) Well, that was too much information.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 18/08/2026

Aligning Trump and Nixon seems quite appropriate too.

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 17/08/2026

Also, what does this have to do with Jason Arday?

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 17/08/2026

I don't remember any comment/opinion piece in The Guardian attacking jewish people in the UK about the Israeli government's actions in Palestine (or that of the zealot settlers in the West Bank). As for Sudan - yes, the lack of coverage is not on, but again I can't see how that impacts UK jews.

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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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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 16/08/2026

Got a link to the research please? Or at least the press release?

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 16/08/2026

Horrible, horrible show. I stopped listening about a year ago.

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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’.

My
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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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 13/08/2026

Given the massive lowering in the cost of production (4K phone cameras, editing software etc) compared to when I was making (shite) films at Polytechnic in the 1980s... and the lower cost of decent sized projectors/screens for pubs, halls (& home media servers), it's really sad. Film clubs, eh? :(

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TimurphySmith @timwrite.net · 13/08/2026

I think you could. You're capable of it. As for the second bit… what kind of media organisation?

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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

Or a fella being shocked that the squid did not in fact want to be eaten.

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