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TiMurphySmith
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• I cook and write for money.
•40 years experience.
• For not money, I write fiction.
• I'm learning to read and speak Irish.
Imagining my reaction when I was a news editor if a staffer had brought me story made up of chunks of an interview glued together from time-separated quotes.

MP Ann X said, “The village fête was run by… violent teenage drug addicts… which I find brilliant!”

That’s libellous you ass. Rewrite it.
November 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
So far today I've not really had an opinion on anything. Or at least not one worth airing on here. Sorry. I feel I've let everybody on social media down.
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
My James Bond film idea:

In order to protect the King and Queen of England, 007 must track down and eliminate the Arch Evil Super Villain codenamed NotPrinceA.
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
@salutethepig.berlin Cheers Chris, as always :)
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Happy Birthday to you x @singfoodie.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Off to Dublin and Wicklow for a wedding. Maybe a trip to Fethard-on-Sea in December.

So… are there any pop-up (pub) or regular (pub) Gaeilge events. I'd like to embarrass myself you see.
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Revenge is a multifaceted beast. Meet John and Gordon in their Revenger's Tale. It might surprise you.

(All/any shares received with huge slabs of hot thanks fresh from the heart.

PS: Payment free. Sure, I'm opening myself up to being horribly ripped off,so it goes.

timwrite.net/revengers-ta...
Revenger’s Tales – John & Gordon
Revenge makes you right and wrong simultaneously. Something tells you that what you want to do is wrong but by doing it, by completing their Revengers’ Tale, the world will be set right.
timwrite.net
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Great, I appear to be invisible.

Wooooo!
Wooooooo!
Get Out!
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I just saw this “Are we wrong in our obsession with news creators?”

“News Creators?”

Not “reporters”.

Guess which site this was on.
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Morning from the north.
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Michael D Higgins [b 1941], Uachtarán na hÉireann (2011-2025) will finish his two terms of the Irish presidency tonight. A statesman, Mayor of Galway, poet, govt minister, intellectual, socialist & the most beloved figure in Irish life; his will be a lasting legacy of speaking out for social justice
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Chapel Ronin - a monk not tied to any Abbot, and also the voice of their generation.
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.

Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I bet J.D. Vance and Stephen Miller never use alt-text. What's more, they cackle evilly just for not doing it and being able to exclude millions of people.
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Does any other Creative know when and where the next top secret meeting of the A.i.* Resistance Organisation is?

I need to pay my dues for the annual secret Christmas party is all.

* Upper case A for Artificial. Lower case i for the lowering of intelligence.
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Well, it is a full-blown Crimocracy after all.

eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted of sex trafficking, to ask for leniency
Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking in 2021 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
eu.usatoday.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Can somebody tell me what my site looks like on your phone / tablet please please please, ta.

timwrite.net
Curious stories for curious people
Fiction of many wondrous kinds
timwrite.net
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Frankenstein: solid 5/10.

Clunky script

Scenery chewing acting (from a good cast) Hammer

Hammer Horroresque colour palette.

A certain 'made for TV' look and feel (it was Made for TV after all)

Forgettable score Dick Van Dyke Victor from Oscar Isaac. "Alizibeth!!"

(It was a DNF in our house)
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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the true Butlerian Jihad is forcing people — by violence if necessary — to accept that “perfomative” doesn’t just mean doing something self-consciously
Oh fuck off
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I’ve decided to start abbreviating it to A.i.

Upper case A for artificial.
Lower case i for intelligence.

I think that works.
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Morning all.

How’s this for a book cover background? Too busy? To bright?
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Next CEO of BBC News?
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM