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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 21h

I think my winter style just dropped Tweed? Check Cloak ? Check Insane scarf? Check youtube.com/shorts/JrTB3...

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Richard E. Grant performs a Traitors first 😅 - BBC

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The kids using “Brexit” and “AI” as insults makes me think the kids are pretty great, actually

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm just going to say in terms of first impressions Graveyard Keeper 2 gave me a bed and some cheese when Skyrim dropped a massive spider on my head....

À screen shot of graveyard keeper 2 when the keeper finds someone has left him some cheese and a bed

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Carlsberg Brewery offered Niels Bohr a house next to the brewery in honor of his 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics. One of the benefits of the house was a direct pipeline from the brewery, effectively providing Bohr with free and unlimited beer for life.

A black and white historical portrait of Niels Bohr sitting on stone steps. He is wearing a rumpled suit, a tie, and heavy boots, with one leg crossed over the other.

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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When "white sauce" in fish pie Contains cheese, it’s a lie. That’s a mornay.

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't know whether it was divine or electronic inspiration but the satnav lost its connection while the knights passed through the wasteland, and the grail was found as I arrived! (honestly, really true, I couldn't have made it up!)

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm driving the cargo car for the university run today. I've found how to enjoy the drive - Galahad and the Grail by @malcolmguite.bsky.social

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Well done to the picture editor who captioned this delightful snap of a black pig swimming off the west coast of Greece “swine-dark sea” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Swine-dark sea ... Mediterranean black pigs swim at a beach on the private island of Atokos, in the lonian Sea off the west coast of Greece. The island, which is uninhabited by humans, is owned by a shipping magnate
Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Looking up my History of Mr Polly piece, I've just rediscovered the section title I couldn't read out "Arriving in/on stile" Granted you need to know the book to get it, but I was quite pleased with myself

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

However, I've just come up with a section title of "Re-enchanting our post-Enlightenment wasteland" which might be a bit harsh but I think I'm going to fight to keep it. Once I've explained it...

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sat in the library reading through something I wrote for a Men's Breakfast talk a while back and wondering if I really wrote it. It seems a little too good and the tone too authoritative. Am I giving 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 imposters syndrome?

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Saw a trailer for The Uprising last night. When Andrew Garfield said "I'm just a ploughman" I nearly stood up and shouted "it's my man Piers! Where's the fair field of folk? "

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Watching the Odyssey credit and had a moment of hope for a stinger... "Odysseus will return in Nolan's Divine Comedy: Inferno next year"

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Given the choice between a key metric falling off a cliff and discovering I've written sql like an idiot, I'll take the idiot option every time

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I should not have started a live chat with Meta at the end of the working day. I mean I say live, not sure if I've spoken with a real person yet...

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Feeling like Jean de Florette watching the clouds and willing them to rain on my house....

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I was at uni late 90s. My total Zero. All white. Including courses on Africa and India. Now that I think about it, there was only one female member of teaching staff - a PhD student who didn't do the lectures so probably picking up the undergrads work Starting to feel a little less nostalgic...

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Sat in the back of the car enroute to a Uni open day with youngest. Realised I've just opened a Max Hastings ebook on WW2 and may have inadvertently started acting my age...

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I have added dangerous confusion to my life (alt text was fun 😉)

À mandolin (musical) with a mandolin (cooking)

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Patrick Allies @patrickallies.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In Renaissance music, melodies that went from the 5th to the 6th scale degree were gradually phased out, overshadowed by more interesting intervals. This became known as the so-la eclipse.

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Reading My Dream by Christina Rosetti and it strikes me how few of my dreams would work well as poems (abstract and weird - stop sniggering at the back). Maybe I'll need to make some dreams up instead

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The only snag with being in Scotland in view of a literal purple headed mountain, is that I'm humming All things bright and beautiful. A lot

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just made it to Book 2 of the Book of Margery Kempe and considering that it should also be regarded as a travelogue as well as an autobiography. She's certainly more adventurous than I!

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

FROM ACCLAIMED VISIONARY DENIS VILLENEUVE, AN EPIC TALE OF DANGER... CUT TO: *ZENDAYA WHISPERING* On the Ning Nang Nong where the cows go bong! And the monkeys all say BOO! There's a Nong Nang Ning where the trees go Ping! And the teapots jibber jabber joo NING NANG NONG IN THEATRES JULY 3RD

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

When I describe the @chpublishing.bsky.social website as perilous, I hope everyone knows that's a compliment right? Or at least it's time to start a new to-read pile on my desk 😉

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I just go ahead and assume that 3 cloves is a typo and double. Well double-ish, rounded up to the nearest bulb

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 12/07/2026

well okay so the english won against the norwegians but in only a few days theyll have to face the french. anyway thats quite enough about September 25th 1066, lets look at some football news

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Well I’ve spent the whole of #NorEng drawing the three English lions on a tote bag, time well spent even if we don’t win

A tote bag depicting the three lions of the England team crest but one is Henry’s Cat and one is Bagpuss

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I don't think it's possible to overstate how satisfying it is after farage made this big announcement the 10 o’clock news is delayed by nearly an hour because of the tennis...

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Well CoPilot has given up. It's late and very hot so I'll look at the code some other time. I wonder whether it got lost creating edge case tests as I did when I last attempted this project

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I did forget (in the 700 words of prompt) forget to say "In the current folder" so I'm spending a lot of time giving it permission to read files not in the current folder.

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So I thought I ought to at least have a go at AI Coding. I refuse to call it Vibe coding because I prepared a 700 word to get what I wanted. I've not been reading the Copilot chat window in VSCode that closely but it's been 30min and I think it's done several iterations so far

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Oh wow, Binface has the chance to do the funniest thing

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Started Tennyson's Idylls of the King and it hits hard in some aspects of contemporary politics "Not making his [King Arthur] high place the lawless perch of wing'd ambition, nor a vantage-ground for pleasure"

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

À big moment for me* was the idea of putting solar farms over car parks, which would also provide shade to the cars. No greenery at risk. Like the Day after Tomorrow when they realise there's load of tax law to burn before having to consider the manuscripts *not that I was ever against mind you

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American Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

medieval theater was a bit rogue! there was no building called a "theater" in the Middle Ages, so things were a bit more... messy, not not like a flash mob. watch! #medievalsky clip --> youtube.com/shorts/kI8vv... full episode --> AmericanMedieval.com

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Medievals loved drama, because drama was everywhere... #podcast #history #medieval #drama

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Started to read "Julian of Norwich, Theologian" by Denys Turner. Remembered myself and checked out the author as my old professor used to tell us. Now I have two more books on the to read list!

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StephenCox Wiz-4 "funny raunchy romantic, satisfyingly twisted" @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

More than half way to Net Zero in UK The key fact is that most people believe it is a long way off and hard. Only 8% believe we're halfway there. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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UK half way to net zero

Provisional data shows UK territorial greenhouse gas emissions fell further across several key sectors between 2022 and 2023.

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Current draft of an email contains "we've been asked to build a thing" because I can't bear the thought of calling it a "solution"

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

That shocked expression on my face, some code compiled first time _and_ did what it was supposed to first time

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Inspiration struck during the dog walk this morning, so I recorded the rambling stream of consciousness (along with dog commands) to WhatsApp thinking I'd simply get to AI to transcribe. Claude refused Copilot suggested I convert it to a video first Otter is slowly doing it on my phone

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Vexed that not everyone has read my doctorate, where I explained that there is an equivocation in the phrase 'equal treatment' leading to mistaken disputes Everyone thinks there is some respect in which people should be treated the same The dispute is which respect is most important

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Wife and I both putting off lunch because we know that, after a few days in Paris, anything is going to be a bit of a disappointment...

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Tim Smith @tr-smith.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Given the progress of our journey so far, perhaps the desire to stay is fated! Thankfully on the way and a big thank you to the Eurostar staff at Gare du Nord who had a tough gig this evening. They did really well

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