Tim Newman
@mrtimnewman.bsky.social
#DataScientist, #accountant, #TTRPG, #Improv. Loves cooking, I'm "Private chef" doing #GlutenFree for my lovely coeliac. Fairly left wing and thinks Nazis are rancid little pricks. Personal views here.
This is how I know I'm a shit tier poster. I don't know what the coffee discourse is, only that it is happening. Shit tier is the place to be.
Today's weather is a bit green lantern. It started off as brightest day and has quickly become blackest night.
Sad to see Daft Punk having to make ends meet like this.
I have a mighty need! Who can point me in the direction of a trans artist that can do pen&ink/scratchboardy style illustrations (inspo attached) and will draw one in exchange for coin? gAI users need not apply, you will be sacrificed to a god of my choosing
this is weird because I have never heard of the song or artist until just this second
“Choosin’ Texas” by Ella Langley officially surpasses “All I Want For Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey as the longest-running #1 hit in history (23 weeks).
🎶🎶🎶🎶 Will you search through the loamy earth for me Climb through the briar and bramble I'll be your treasure... 🎶🎶🎶🎶
New discovery: 900 Roman silver coins found by a detectorist on a field in Wesseling, south of Cologne. He called the authorities once his detector kept going off and he realized he’d found something bigger. The hoard dates back to the era of Emperor Hadrian. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
Randomly occured to me I would never get to introduce my son, due Novemberish, to my Dad, who passed away in 2024, and randomly and very very briefly burst into choking sobs at my desk. Absolutely fine 3s later +- some snot. If you're wondering how fucking weird grief and stress can be.
The first episode of WORZEL GUMMIDGE (1979) sees the loveable scarecrow come alive for the first time, and it's directed like a scene from an Italian zombie film. Lucio Fulci would approve!
It's always the ones you most expect.
A Kremlin-backed fintech company used old-fashioned money laundering to bypass western sanctions and funnel almost $7bn through major international banks, including Standard Chartered, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. Read today's excusive investigation 👉 ft.trib.al/POYpdNe
remembering this untouchable pair of comments
pov: you're a regional cryptid about to have the worst day of your life
1/x Captain Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama is taken hostage in a lifeboat, and US Navy SEALs end it after five days. The snipers dealt with the guys in the lifeboat. The Belgians dealt with the guy at the top of the whole trade. A thread.
In my haste to access my treats from @hauntedtable.games I managed to get a paper cut under my fingernail. Long term I think the vault will be worth it. Right now I am questioning my life choices...
Patrick Star Crying from Spongebob Squarepants
Alt: Patrick Star Crying from Spongebob Squarepants
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My sources say it can be disabled for 15,000,000 merits. #BlackMirror
*Sigh* I hate it. I'm tired. They really will think of/try everything to ring every dime out of people while refusing to spend a dime to pay people. www.tomshardware.com/video-games/...
A digression on a digression here but I particularly love the www.thewashingmachineproject.org Who build hand cranked washing machines to spread the magic of non-manual clothes washing around the world.
The Washing Machine Project
The Washing Machine Project is a grassroots social enterprise based in the U.K. aiming to alleviate the burden of handwashing clothes and empower women in low-income and displaced communities.
thewashingmachineproject.org
i don't think you necessarily meant it in this way, but yes, the invention of the washing machine is one of the most liberatory moments in human history, among other time and labor-saving inventions
Wanna see something wild? A third-party Mothership KS estimated to ship in Sept '24 just dropped an update that it's still not done, won't be Mothership anymore, will be riddled with AI now, and no they won't be refunding anyone. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit...
Update 17: Alright, We're Off to the Races - Scrap Räts! · To Insanity and Beyond
I appreciate everyone's patience as we have been working through an immense backlog. You can expect weekly updates (but likely no more than that) as we bear down to get this project down the pat...
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I like Johannes as a presenter but feel sad for whichever middle aged celebrity isn't going to get their damage fixed by the most supportive man on television. #Strictly
My brother @mrtimnewman.bsky.social and I share a vivid memory of waking up one Christmas morning and seeing the glowing outline of a human form in a neighbour's garden. We've never worked out what we saw and it's about as close as I get to thinking I've had a genuine supernatural experience.
Once, when my brother and I were kids, we went outside to the yard late at night. I spotted what looked at first like our big white dog with a strange light shining on him. But then I noticed our real dog standing a few yards away, staring at the other dog.
I think I'm going to start a fast food place, but the economics don't work if I have to buy the ingredients so I'm going to shop lift it all at first then move on to harvesting it myself from other people's farms direct.
Hear me out: Frank Castle-Spencer. "Oh no the bad man done a whoopsie" <Executes a bunch of people accidentally>
Good FT piece about men using GLP-1s and I *love* this quote in particular www.ft.com/content/65f4...
This popped into my head. So now I've made it your problem. It might work in yorkshire.