Tim Newman
@mrtimnewman.bsky.social
#DataScientist, #accountant, #TTRPG, #Improv. Fairly left wing and thinks Nazis are rancid little pricks.
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Tim Newman
@mrtimnewman.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Intro post:
Fun - #TTRPG, played lots of DnD but soon to rotate in to DMing so expect a lot about that.
Professional - #DataScience & #Accountant python, excel, DBs.
Me - Grew up in poverty in Thatchers Britain and wherever I am now that has informed my politics. Never trust a Tory.
Fun - #TTRPG, played lots of DnD but soon to rotate in to DMing so expect a lot about that.
Professional - #DataScience & #Accountant python, excel, DBs.
Me - Grew up in poverty in Thatchers Britain and wherever I am now that has informed my politics. Never trust a Tory.
@stormsoveroceans.bsky.social Where can I buy your albums? I had a look on bandcamp and I think it is all individual tracks... which is a pain in the harris on band camp 😂
Also is "Free" available - I heard it on the sleeping forecast but can't see it.
Also is "Free" available - I heard it on the sleeping forecast but can't see it.
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
@stormsoveroceans.bsky.social Where can I buy your albums? I had a look on bandcamp and I think it is all individual tracks... which is a pain in the harris on band camp 😂
Also is "Free" available - I heard it on the sleeping forecast but can't see it.
Also is "Free" available - I heard it on the sleeping forecast but can't see it.
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There is no way you can guess how the thread that ends in this instant classic begins.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
There is no way you can guess how the thread that ends in this instant classic begins.
This is incredible.
5+ years of this Patreon
67 original screen printed maps sent out every month
and this just might be the one that gets me bounced off these here Internets 😜
67 original screen printed maps sent out every month
and this just might be the one that gets me bounced off these here Internets 😜
...is this a cavern?
www.patreon.com/PrintInkling
#TTRPG #TableTop #TTRPGCommunity #BattleMaps #ArtisanGeekery
www.patreon.com/PrintInkling
#TTRPG #TableTop #TTRPGCommunity #BattleMaps #ArtisanGeekery
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is incredible.
Best description:
youtu.be/d5HBPs_hiPk?...
Electrical engineering degree > attempted EE PhD > basic admin roles > nearly killed by teacher training > purchasing assistant temp role > trainee accountant > accountant > data science degree > data scientist > engineering managment
youtu.be/d5HBPs_hiPk?...
Electrical engineering degree > attempted EE PhD > basic admin roles > nearly killed by teacher training > purchasing assistant temp role > trainee accountant > accountant > data science degree > data scientist > engineering managment
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Best description:
youtu.be/d5HBPs_hiPk?...
Electrical engineering degree > attempted EE PhD > basic admin roles > nearly killed by teacher training > purchasing assistant temp role > trainee accountant > accountant > data science degree > data scientist > engineering managment
youtu.be/d5HBPs_hiPk?...
Electrical engineering degree > attempted EE PhD > basic admin roles > nearly killed by teacher training > purchasing assistant temp role > trainee accountant > accountant > data science degree > data scientist > engineering managment
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Really, it is.
Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Really, it is.
This is interesting. I am currently doing, another, masters degree. I finished the previous one (data science) 5 years ago. From the other side of this as the student, this would not bother me at all. I don't think I'm unique in that. 1/
I've been struggling to articulate what made me uncomfortable about this widely shared piece, but @profmikesell.bsky.social does a great job. Kindness, honesty, and trust are lacking if you're setting traps for students.
Since this article and its perspectives are generating a bit of buzz, I'd like to dig into what I find distasteful and, frankly, disingenous about it, particularly the ethical values it proclaims. 1/8
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This is interesting. I am currently doing, another, masters degree. I finished the previous one (data science) 5 years ago. From the other side of this as the student, this would not bother me at all. I don't think I'm unique in that. 1/
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There was an AI from Nantucket,
Which made AI slop by the bucket,
But if you typed in a rhyme,
It worked every time,
That the AI gave up, and said ‘fuck it!’
Which made AI slop by the bucket,
But if you typed in a rhyme,
It worked every time,
That the AI gave up, and said ‘fuck it!’
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
There was an AI from Nantucket,
Which made AI slop by the bucket,
But if you typed in a rhyme,
It worked every time,
That the AI gave up, and said ‘fuck it!’
Which made AI slop by the bucket,
But if you typed in a rhyme,
It worked every time,
That the AI gave up, and said ‘fuck it!’
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"Getting a robot to use the treadmill for you at the gym doesn't make you any fitter"
You don't say?
You don't say?
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"Getting a robot to use the treadmill for you at the gym doesn't make you any fitter"
You don't say?
You don't say?
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BLOG POST: An attempt to put into words my *feelings* about generative AI and why (a) I don't like being tricked into consuming it and (b) I just don't care about things that are made using it.
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/11/21/a...
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/11/21/a...
AI farts stink up your art
Purely as a matter of aesthetics, on an emotional, instinctive level, I reject the use of generative AI in the creative arts. When people were playing with Craiyon a few years ago, I found somethin…
precastreinforced.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 AM
BLOG POST: An attempt to put into words my *feelings* about generative AI and why (a) I don't like being tricked into consuming it and (b) I just don't care about things that are made using it.
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/11/21/a...
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/11/21/a...
Boots
Boots
Boots
Boots
Providing all my medicines
There's no discharge from my ear
Boots
Boots
Boots
Providing all my medicines
There's no discharge from my ear
November 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Boots
Boots
Boots
Boots
Providing all my medicines
There's no discharge from my ear
Boots
Boots
Boots
Providing all my medicines
There's no discharge from my ear
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Oh. Oh no. I should have foreseen this. Fucking art bots.
November 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Oh. Oh no. I should have foreseen this. Fucking art bots.
I really want a cyberpunk cityscape as a piece of art. Ideally supporting a local artist (Bristol) or UK artist.
Are there any UK market places? Feel free to approach direct
(FYI: You can shove your genAI horseshit back up your arse & fuck off while you're doing it)
#cyberpunk #art #illustration
Are there any UK market places? Feel free to approach direct
(FYI: You can shove your genAI horseshit back up your arse & fuck off while you're doing it)
#cyberpunk #art #illustration
November 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I really want a cyberpunk cityscape as a piece of art. Ideally supporting a local artist (Bristol) or UK artist.
Are there any UK market places? Feel free to approach direct
(FYI: You can shove your genAI horseshit back up your arse & fuck off while you're doing it)
#cyberpunk #art #illustration
Are there any UK market places? Feel free to approach direct
(FYI: You can shove your genAI horseshit back up your arse & fuck off while you're doing it)
#cyberpunk #art #illustration
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Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
He's been, he's been
November 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
He's been, he's been
"M&S made without flapjack biscuit" made without:
Gluten ✅
Metal shavings ❌
What a treat!
Gluten ✅
Metal shavings ❌
What a treat!
November 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"M&S made without flapjack biscuit" made without:
Gluten ✅
Metal shavings ❌
What a treat!
Gluten ✅
Metal shavings ❌
What a treat!
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“Housing estates, factories, tower blocks and caravans, nowhere is safe from Ray Newman’s dark imagination. Existing somewhere between Robert Aickman and J.G. Ballard, these blackly funny tales are sure to chill you.” – John Grindrod on Intervals of Darkness. Go on, treat yourself. (Treat me.)
Between them ‘Municipal Gothic’ and ‘Intervals of Darkness’ have 27 stories full of haunted buildings, haunted people, and working class weirdness. Obviously *I* think they're great – but so do strangers who owe me nothing!
👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Municipal-Go...
👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Intervals-Da...
👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Municipal-Go...
👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Intervals-Da...
November 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
“Housing estates, factories, tower blocks and caravans, nowhere is safe from Ray Newman’s dark imagination. Existing somewhere between Robert Aickman and J.G. Ballard, these blackly funny tales are sure to chill you.” – John Grindrod on Intervals of Darkness. Go on, treat yourself. (Treat me.)
Does anyone have resources (books, articles, websites, drive thru or itch) for base building or settlement building in #ttrpg #scifi or #horror.
Like what I've seen of @embersofhumanity.bsky.social but they haven't (or hadn't last I checked) released the full rules.
Also I like multiple sources.
Like what I've seen of @embersofhumanity.bsky.social but they haven't (or hadn't last I checked) released the full rules.
Also I like multiple sources.
November 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Does anyone have resources (books, articles, websites, drive thru or itch) for base building or settlement building in #ttrpg #scifi or #horror.
Like what I've seen of @embersofhumanity.bsky.social but they haven't (or hadn't last I checked) released the full rules.
Also I like multiple sources.
Like what I've seen of @embersofhumanity.bsky.social but they haven't (or hadn't last I checked) released the full rules.
Also I like multiple sources.
This isn't a chump competition either, bad gaming ads is a packed field with some heavyweight contenders and real pedigree.
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This isn't a chump competition either, bad gaming ads is a packed field with some heavyweight contenders and real pedigree.
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At this point we'd walked for hours and seen no sign of life, except rats gnawing on what might have been a human hand, and a makeshift gyrocopter circling high above. The Roamers rarely come out during the day, after all – or, at least, know how to ensure they're not seen.
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
At this point we'd walked for hours and seen no sign of life, except rats gnawing on what might have been a human hand, and a makeshift gyrocopter circling high above. The Roamers rarely come out during the day, after all – or, at least, know how to ensure they're not seen.
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2026 belongs to the first indie RPG to bin dice in favour of (somehow) using a 1978 MB Games Simon
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
2026 belongs to the first indie RPG to bin dice in favour of (somehow) using a 1978 MB Games Simon
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Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
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Note that if it's happening in the Fediverse it is ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY happening here on Bsky.
Since 15 Sept IFTAS has tracked a network of over 300 Mastodon accounts engaged in a high-volume propaganda campaign, promoting pro-Russian narratives:
https://about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/coordinated-pro-russian-propaganda-network-targeting-activitypub-and-atproto-services/
https://about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/coordinated-pro-russian-propaganda-network-targeting-activitypub-and-atproto-services/
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Note that if it's happening in the Fediverse it is ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY happening here on Bsky.
Steve Jackson hands down. Didn't know who Gygax was until years later.
Of course I now know that Gygax was quite the knobhead.
Should I Google SJ? Someone tell me SJ is a good egg. #ttrpg
Of course I now know that Gygax was quite the knobhead.
Should I Google SJ? Someone tell me SJ is a good egg. #ttrpg
Conversation with @deadlyfredly.bsky.social has me trying to remember the first time I consciously remembered the name of an RPG designer who wasn’t Gygax. Embarrassingly, I am pretty sure it wasn’t until college, after I’d been playing for years and had been exposed to many games.
November 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Steve Jackson hands down. Didn't know who Gygax was until years later.
Of course I now know that Gygax was quite the knobhead.
Should I Google SJ? Someone tell me SJ is a good egg. #ttrpg
Of course I now know that Gygax was quite the knobhead.
Should I Google SJ? Someone tell me SJ is a good egg. #ttrpg