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Tim Newman

@mrtimnewman.bsky.social

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#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.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 16h

It would be tacky and obvious to buy and read either of these books, with their creepy, atmospheric, unsettling stories, in October. Come on. You're better than that.

Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · Mar 22

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...

The covers of both books with quotes in praise of them, and of specific stories:

“‘Modern Buildings In Wessex’, which pulls a compelling horror narrative out of several architectural reviews, is an all-timer. Can’t recommend enough... Fans of Ghostwatch and Inside No. 9 – run don’t walk.”

Trevor Henderson

“...a tremendous collection, hugely enjoyable, and essential... for anyone interested in the English ghost story... ‘Men Who Live in Caravans’... is one of my very favourite stories of recent years: a future classic of the English weird, full of an almost unbearable sadness, quite exquisitely told.”

Seán Padraic Birnie

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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 21h

*You would absolutely believe the things I've seen. You just wish you didn't

Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 21h

I laugh at your horror and present:
"Customer Database.xls | 95mb"

Not what we're doing but...*

a close up of a man 's face with the words i 've seen things you people wouldn 't believe

Alt: A close up Rutgar Hauer playing Roy batty from the finale of blade runner saying "i 've seen things you people wouldn't believe"

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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 23h

Sometime you spend more of the day than you should trying to make a window the right size with a normal human readable sized font.

Nothing I've written, is a weird app you probably haven't heard of called *checks notes* PowerBI

Ashlabeth Eyes GIF

Alt: Someone in a deerstalker hat looking through a magnifying glass at the camera. Their right eye is heavily magnified.

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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 1d

On the one hand they are incredible, but there is a touch of the Bubbins about them...

Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 2d

@raynewman.bsky.social Such GLEA so wow

Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 2d

Done

Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 2d

@montecookgames.com books are really good for helping you build your own worlds (on cypher or not)

@modiphius.bsky.social really capture the spirit of their franchise properties - dune for example capture the feel. The spice must flow!

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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 2d

There is a reason you can't DM me on blusky. Who knew what all the security experts said would happen would happen? A mystery wrapped in a puzzle inside an enigma.

Anyway I hope when pornhub's age verifier is eventually hacked every MP who voted for this gets to join Julian Fawcett MP in infamy.

404 Media @404media.co · 4d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 2d

Is typo reporting still open? I may have found one...

Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 2d

What is interesting is I don't know where the line is, very much a "I'll know it when I see it situation". I'd be curious what makes a do or do not decision for other people? /End #TTRPG

Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 2d

One of the current humble bundles got me thinking about run Vs play. I could comfortably play in an avatar campaign, but I couldn't run it for my mates (who love Avatar) because I'd know way less than them and it would just be immersion breaking. 1/ #TTRPG

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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 3d

Haven't made it to the game yet but the scene setting at the start of Cold War by @handiworkgames.bsky.social is brilliant. More RPGs should introduce the world through fake documents.

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Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 5d

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

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svenning🌲 @svenning.io · 5d

We are already seeing some fantastic (but horrible) contributions to the Bad UX World Cup! 😃

This year's challenge: Create a horrible date picker!

See all the contributions (so far) here: badux.lol

#baduxworldcup

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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 6d

I'm assuming #TaylorSwift is doing the tombola for the Fete of Ophelia

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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 6d

Someone just sent me Simon Calder's video whinging about the EU Entry-Exit System kiosk here, which is full of… let's call them inaccuracies, shall we?

It's not… accurate, it's not helpful, but it *is* an example of the very worst of British travel media rubbish.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sORQ...

New EU entry-exit system comes to force at London St Pancras International

YouTube video by The Independent

www.youtube.com

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 6d

I really hate the dogwhistle "would you leave your front door open for anyone to come in" question. That's the wrong question.
The real analogy is "If a stranger knocked on your door and asked you for help, would you help them?"

and for me, the answer is yes, in a heartbeat. every time.

Cllr Dr Max Morris @maxmorris.bsky.social · 6d

Very proud of my fellow Green councillors for proposing this motion. "We are a rich tapestry, we are strengthened by our diversity, and we must stand up as a council and as a city for that diversity, unite against the far right and the divisive narratives of them." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oxford City Council backs city's minority communities in vote

A Green party motion called on Oxford City Council to oppose far right rhetoric.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 7d

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 7d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 7d

Looking forward to Richard Osman's new show about running a gym - Richard Osman's House of Gainz

Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 7d

Not too hard it might infect you with rage.

Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 7d

It's weird that no film exists in-between, set 28 slightly longer periods but not as long as years in length later.

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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 7d

Only thing missing is a slum/shanty district

Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 8d

It will barely make a difference it's so prevalent in the environment now, that everyone is around 70% DHMO at this point 😔

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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 8d

I was looking at a tourist thing the other day and the whole "Exit through the gift shop" phenomenon and I think I'm going to do a one shot where having fought through the dungeon full of properly dangerous automatons and killed the "big bad" the final room is like the gift shop of an escape room.