Tim Carmody
@tcarmody.bsky.social
Ex-liontamer, writer/editor/strategist.
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
PHL.
Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
https://timcarmody.com
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
PHL.
Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
https://timcarmody.com
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Tim Carmody
@tcarmody.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Inside each of us is a little boy, a shy, lovesick girl with a curse, a demon made of fire, and a shape-shifting wizard with no heart.
#OldTweets
#OldTweets
I would also love to see “Waiting for Waldorf and Statler” in the Christopher Guest style
“Pride and Prejudice and Muppets” is low-hanging fruit here
The Great Gonzo
February 18, 2026 at 11:43 PM
I would also love to see “Waiting for Waldorf and Statler” in the Christopher Guest style
“Pride and Prejudice and Muppets” is low-hanging fruit here
The Great Gonzo
Muppetship Down
February 18, 2026 at 11:40 PM
“Pride and Prejudice and Muppets” is low-hanging fruit here
Cinema Paradiso becomes a baffling but brilliant Calvino multitext
Y’know when the characters in a movie go to see a movie and it feels really meta? Well, with an “Ultimate Double Feature,” we play the first movie up until the point when they enter a cinema to watch a different film… then we play that film… then we go back to the first film to finish that story.
February 18, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Cinema Paradiso becomes a baffling but brilliant Calvino multitext
The most dangerous game
is it against the rules in biathlon to shoot the other competitors. just feels like a pretty obvious loophole i’d want to close otherwise
February 18, 2026 at 11:36 PM
The most dangerous game
Reposted by Tim Carmody
I mean what is this going to show? Explicit racial vilification? Swastikas? The list of stuff that is outright banned across Europe is quite short, quite grim, and ultimately quite tedious.
Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6
Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propagan...
reut.rs
February 18, 2026 at 10:38 PM
I mean what is this going to show? Explicit racial vilification? Swastikas? The list of stuff that is outright banned across Europe is quite short, quite grim, and ultimately quite tedious.
Reposted by Tim Carmody
this seems mask off in a particularly weird way, even by the dismal standards of our present political era
Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6
Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propagan...
reut.rs
February 18, 2026 at 10:34 PM
this seems mask off in a particularly weird way, even by the dismal standards of our present political era
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some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
February 18, 2026 at 7:41 PM
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
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question aside her explanation shows a much healthier perspective on than people pretend high performers have to have and everyone would be better off with it
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
February 18, 2026 at 8:20 PM
question aside her explanation shows a much healthier perspective on than people pretend high performers have to have and everyone would be better off with it
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Adults at ICE concentration camps also get punished for talking with people on the outside who can publicize their stories.
Based on what I've heard at the Otay Mesa camp in San Diego, they're punished with additional work duties, aren't allowed outside in the yard, and denied phone access.
Based on what I've heard at the Otay Mesa camp in San Diego, they're punished with additional work duties, aren't allowed outside in the yard, and denied phone access.
My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
February 18, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Adults at ICE concentration camps also get punished for talking with people on the outside who can publicize their stories.
Based on what I've heard at the Otay Mesa camp in San Diego, they're punished with additional work duties, aren't allowed outside in the yard, and denied phone access.
Based on what I've heard at the Otay Mesa camp in San Diego, they're punished with additional work duties, aren't allowed outside in the yard, and denied phone access.
Reposted by Tim Carmody
This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline
Damage was minimal but police are investigating.
bit.ly
February 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM
This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
Reposted by Tim Carmody
Jesse Jackson died Tuesday at the age of 84. The civil rights icon always held America to account—and never stopped fighting to preserve what he knew could be taken away. I wrote about how he saw our future so well.
Jesse Jackson Knew Better Than to Forget
The civil rights icon always held America to account—and never stopped fighting to preserve what he knew could be taken away
www.theringer.com
February 18, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Jesse Jackson died Tuesday at the age of 84. The civil rights icon always held America to account—and never stopped fighting to preserve what he knew could be taken away. I wrote about how he saw our future so well.
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Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.
February 18, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.
I thought I was going to get to see Pope Leo lead a procession of the faithful from St Anselm’s Monastery to mass at the Basilica of St Sabina, but alas, the police prudently blocked off all the roads for everyone who didn’t have special passes we didn’t know about. Allora, no pope for us
February 18, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I thought I was going to get to see Pope Leo lead a procession of the faithful from St Anselm’s Monastery to mass at the Basilica of St Sabina, but alas, the police prudently blocked off all the roads for everyone who didn’t have special passes we didn’t know about. Allora, no pope for us
Reposted by Tim Carmody
My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.
February 18, 2026 at 1:21 PM
My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.
Reposted by Tim Carmody
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
February 18, 2026 at 1:14 PM
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
Some of you know that I have unusually large hands. Not quite Kawhi Leonard / Shaq-sized inhuman hands but in that ballpark. Anyways I’d heard tell of a legendary glove store near the Spanish Steps in Rome, and reader, Sermoneta had exactly one pair that fit my 11” paws (and they’re perfect)
February 18, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Some of you know that I have unusually large hands. Not quite Kawhi Leonard / Shaq-sized inhuman hands but in that ballpark. Anyways I’d heard tell of a legendary glove store near the Spanish Steps in Rome, and reader, Sermoneta had exactly one pair that fit my 11” paws (and they’re perfect)
I’ve spent five days in Berlin and five days in Rome, and the people there (in 2026!) love Americans. They love our music, our culture, our language, our clothes, our food, and (yes) our money. Seriously, ALL of our music.
What they HATE is our vapid, murderous government.
E anche io / I do too.
What they HATE is our vapid, murderous government.
E anche io / I do too.
February 18, 2026 at 2:20 PM
I’ve spent five days in Berlin and five days in Rome, and the people there (in 2026!) love Americans. They love our music, our culture, our language, our clothes, our food, and (yes) our money. Seriously, ALL of our music.
What they HATE is our vapid, murderous government.
E anche io / I do too.
What they HATE is our vapid, murderous government.
E anche io / I do too.
The philosophers have hitherto tried to understand the world; what matters is their inability to change it
Dark gritty reboot of philosophy wherein all the philosophers are reimagined as depressed and barely coping with things, as their fragile ability to order their thoughts is of little help in ordering their lives or the world around them.
February 18, 2026 at 2:11 PM
The philosophers have hitherto tried to understand the world; what matters is their inability to change it
I’ll have to spend time using this with more than a few feeds but color me VERY intrigued… especially on the phone, this could be just the right kind of feed reader for me
Current is an interesting new RSS reader that doesn’t function like an email inbox. “There is no count because counting was the problem.” [terrygodier.com]
Current
An RSS reader that doesn't count. What happens when you stop treating your feeds like an inbox and start treating them like a river.
www.terrygodier.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:06 PM
I’ll have to spend time using this with more than a few feeds but color me VERY intrigued… especially on the phone, this could be just the right kind of feed reader for me
The way I usually put this is “I don’t trust these m_________s”
If "AI" was being built, used, and planned for in responsible ways--the way a civilization designed to enhance human thriving would do--then a lot more people would be enthusiastic about its potential. But the people in charge of defining what AI will be are the fucking worst short-term scumbags.
February 18, 2026 at 12:55 PM
The way I usually put this is “I don’t trust these m_________s”
“‘Allora’ is the ‘jawn’ of Italy” — @karenmcgrane.bsky.social, basically correct
February 18, 2026 at 12:29 PM
“‘Allora’ is the ‘jawn’ of Italy” — @karenmcgrane.bsky.social, basically correct
Besides, being mad at the Left on social media is a leftist’s job
Why are people always yelling at The Left, a group almost entirely shut out of public life, including mainstream news outlets. You are mad at people on social media. Get a life
February 18, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Besides, being mad at the Left on social media is a leftist’s job
Reposted by Tim Carmody
Sure:
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Sure:
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.
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The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 3:51 AM
The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires
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Today the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.
February 17, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Today the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.