Tim Blackwell
@timblackwell.bsky.social
White guy. Can jump.
October 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
White guy. Can jump.
Did you go inside?
September 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Did you go inside?
My own council requires so much data to be entered that it already has (to pay council tax you have to copy and paste an ID number from one part of the site to the 'shopping basket' in the payments system) that you start to think you've been phished. Not helped by this astonishing typo:
June 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
My own council requires so much data to be entered that it already has (to pay council tax you have to copy and paste an ID number from one part of the site to the 'shopping basket' in the payments system) that you start to think you've been phished. Not helped by this astonishing typo:
Alice Walker: ‘Horses make a landscape look more beautiful’
April 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Alice Walker: ‘Horses make a landscape look more beautiful’
And a second class grass at that, Nat.
April 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
And a second class grass at that, Nat.
the moon comes with
April 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
the moon comes with
It's a little eerie how HJ's last dictations read like nascent Prynne. Just a few edits with the ice hammer required, perhaps.
www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/un...
www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/un...
April 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
It's a little eerie how HJ's last dictations read like nascent Prynne. Just a few edits with the ice hammer required, perhaps.
www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/un...
www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/un...
Sheep grazing towards the sun.
March 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Sheep grazing towards the sun.
Turns out men in somewhat later life can make new friends.
February 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Turns out men in somewhat later life can make new friends.
ChatGPT: story detective.
Which short story features a man being tested to become immortal? He awakens in a strange enclosed space. A friend has previously shown him a Mobius strip and he figures that he is inside a Klein bottle.
Which short story features a man being tested to become immortal? He awakens in a strange enclosed space. A friend has previously shown him a Mobius strip and he figures that he is inside a Klein bottle.
January 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
ChatGPT: story detective.
Which short story features a man being tested to become immortal? He awakens in a strange enclosed space. A friend has previously shown him a Mobius strip and he figures that he is inside a Klein bottle.
Which short story features a man being tested to become immortal? He awakens in a strange enclosed space. A friend has previously shown him a Mobius strip and he figures that he is inside a Klein bottle.
Popular in this household
January 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Popular in this household
saw the other end in England a couple of months back
January 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
saw the other end in England a couple of months back
Shadows and snow on the South Downs. On the track, the snow was crisp and washed my trainers clean of the week’s chalk mud.
January 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Shadows and snow on the South Downs. On the track, the snow was crisp and washed my trainers clean of the week’s chalk mud.
Something lunar about today’s short light.
December 22, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Something lunar about today’s short light.
First walk after horrible bronchial fuckery.
December 6, 2024 at 8:17 AM
First walk after horrible bronchial fuckery.
On every lamppost a crow: it’s cold.
November 22, 2024 at 7:21 AM
On every lamppost a crow: it’s cold.
Beech tree retaining its looks in this light.
November 20, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Beech tree retaining its looks in this light.
Clear spot in the hollowway.
November 17, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Clear spot in the hollowway.
Visited Hull after many years away. Wish I’d brought my copy of @nemoloris.bsky.social ‘s Dark and True and Tender with me.
November 14, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Visited Hull after many years away. Wish I’d brought my copy of @nemoloris.bsky.social ‘s Dark and True and Tender with me.
Walking with new phone on a windy evening. A kestrel obligingly shows up.
October 12, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Walking with new phone on a windy evening. A kestrel obligingly shows up.
Warterloo ditto
September 18, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Warterloo ditto
Found this on eBay, designed and illustrated by my dad for Camell Laird in the 1970s. Later today I’ll take his cap off its peg and leave the house to its new owners.
August 20, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Found this on eBay, designed and illustrated by my dad for Camell Laird in the 1970s. Later today I’ll take his cap off its peg and leave the house to its new owners.