Tim J L
@amanoutoftim.bsky.social
my son is also named bort
words about the music and the arts in @vanmusicmag.bsky.social, @redpeppermag.bsky.social and @newsocialist.bsky.social
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timjl.substack.com
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words about the music and the arts in @vanmusicmag.bsky.social, @redpeppermag.bsky.social and @newsocialist.bsky.social
he/him
timjl.substack.com
linktr.ee/TimJL
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Tim J L
@amanoutoftim.bsky.social
· Sep 18
Lastly, Tim Lutton makes a case for ambient music; tracking the insidious ways Wellness Culture™ and algorithmic music discovery have appropriated the genre for ✨healing✨, and arguing for its capacity to hold tension and offer alternative modes of listening: van-magazine.com/mag/unwind-a...
Unwind, Unwound
Taken to orchestral concerts as a child, I was restless. The complexity and vast architectures of a typical Romantic symphony made me think of the music as some fractal maze, wholly illegible in its e...
van-magazine.com
A new article of mine is out now in VAN Magazine! It's about BBC Radio 3 Unwind, ambient music, and the strange ideas imposed on it from the outside by both the wellness industry and the reactionaries of the classical music world.
No thanks man, I'm good x
December 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
No thanks man, I'm good x
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Incredible writing in unbearable circumstances by Batool Abu Akleen, published in the UK by @commapress.bsky.social.
I Was Displaced to a Tent in Gaza. I Don’t Want to Remember Any of It
thewalrus.ca/i-was-displa...
thewalrus.ca/i-was-displa...
I Was Displaced to a Tent in Gaza. I Don’t Want to Remember Any of It | The Walrus
I never expected to outlive this genocide
thewalrus.ca
December 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Incredible writing in unbearable circumstances by Batool Abu Akleen, published in the UK by @commapress.bsky.social.
Frank is carol singing with us
December 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Frank is carol singing with us
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what is a skyscraper?
a skyscraper is a tall office building with a spire, which, being secular and godless, scrapes against the Lord's own firmament, making a horrible nails on chalkboard noise for a full year until a groove is carved into it
a skyscraper is a tall office building with a spire, which, being secular and godless, scrapes against the Lord's own firmament, making a horrible nails on chalkboard noise for a full year until a groove is carved into it
December 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
what is a skyscraper?
a skyscraper is a tall office building with a spire, which, being secular and godless, scrapes against the Lord's own firmament, making a horrible nails on chalkboard noise for a full year until a groove is carved into it
a skyscraper is a tall office building with a spire, which, being secular and godless, scrapes against the Lord's own firmament, making a horrible nails on chalkboard noise for a full year until a groove is carved into it
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If you go to the Barts Pathology Museum and steal a womb in a jar you automatically become a woman
December 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
If you go to the Barts Pathology Museum and steal a womb in a jar you automatically become a woman
The BBC is becoming a flat out dangerous institution for trans people. Robin is putting a lot of other presenters to shame by openly speaking out.
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The BBC is becoming a flat out dangerous institution for trans people. Robin is putting a lot of other presenters to shame by openly speaking out.
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Intensification of Israeli land theft in the West Bank continues, with new barrier that will cut off water supply to Palestinians farmers www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
New Israeli barrier will slice through precious West Bank farmland
Palestinians who have worked the ‘breadbasket’ area for generations face being replaced by Israeli settlers
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Intensification of Israeli land theft in the West Bank continues, with new barrier that will cut off water supply to Palestinians farmers www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Othello at the Haymarket tonight. My god Toby Jones was born to play Iago.
December 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Othello at the Haymarket tonight. My god Toby Jones was born to play Iago.
They're asking me scary questions at my local choir, like 'have you considered being Chair of the choir?', 'are you going to run for Chair?', and 'will you think about out being Chair of the choir?'
December 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
They're asking me scary questions at my local choir, like 'have you considered being Chair of the choir?', 'are you going to run for Chair?', and 'will you think about out being Chair of the choir?'
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This email exchange could have been a knife fight
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This email exchange could have been a knife fight
Not only is our Chancellor giving full-throated support to a genocidal and apartheid state, my local MP @sarahsackman.bsky.social was in attendance. You are a moral void and I can't wait for you to be voted out as soon as possible.
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Not only is our Chancellor giving full-throated support to a genocidal and apartheid state, my local MP @sarahsackman.bsky.social was in attendance. You are a moral void and I can't wait for you to be voted out as soon as possible.
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Fascist epistemology is intuitive, not empirical. It's historiography, mythic. Both of which turn on an aggressive investment in literal Christian eschatology. But even that doesn’t convey just how delirious this has become
tucker carlson is now mixing vaccine denialism with his new favorite topic: demons.
December 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Fascist epistemology is intuitive, not empirical. It's historiography, mythic. Both of which turn on an aggressive investment in literal Christian eschatology. But even that doesn’t convey just how delirious this has become
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'people are being denied a social home due to fears they will not be able to keep up with their living costs, and the report found 71% of housing associations said the benefit restrictions were a key reason for this.'
This has been happening for years, certainly for as long as I've been in the sector. It gives the lie to claims by the right that our welfare system is too generous. Regardless, I'm glad this research is out.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
People on lowest incomes being denied access to social housing, research finds
Benefit claimants having applications denied for being deemed too risky by housing associations, says Crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
'people are being denied a social home due to fears they will not be able to keep up with their living costs, and the report found 71% of housing associations said the benefit restrictions were a key reason for this.'
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"David Lammy, the justice secretary, is expected to help lead arguments at the Council of Europe meeting on Wednesday on how the European convention on human rights (ECHR) could be reinterpreted to limit the scope of rights under article 3"
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
"David Lammy, the justice secretary, is expected to help lead arguments at the Council of Europe meeting on Wednesday on how the European convention on human rights (ECHR) could be reinterpreted to limit the scope of rights under article 3"
Good organ times were had at QEH with @clairemsinger.bsky.social and the London Contemporary Orchestra
December 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Good organ times were had at QEH with @clairemsinger.bsky.social and the London Contemporary Orchestra
We were digging a new raised allotment bed and it turned out some frogs/toads were living underground lifestyles in hollow bricks beneath the dirt. We rescued them and relocated them to our pond!
December 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
We were digging a new raised allotment bed and it turned out some frogs/toads were living underground lifestyles in hollow bricks beneath the dirt. We rescued them and relocated them to our pond!
And I dream of another
Soul dressed in different clothes:
It burns and runs across
From timidity to hope,
With fire that leaves the earth,
Like spirit without a shadow,
Leaving a bunch of lilac
On the table for remembrance.
Soul dressed in different clothes:
It burns and runs across
From timidity to hope,
With fire that leaves the earth,
Like spirit without a shadow,
Leaving a bunch of lilac
On the table for remembrance.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
And I dream of another
Soul dressed in different clothes:
It burns and runs across
From timidity to hope,
With fire that leaves the earth,
Like spirit without a shadow,
Leaving a bunch of lilac
On the table for remembrance.
Soul dressed in different clothes:
It burns and runs across
From timidity to hope,
With fire that leaves the earth,
Like spirit without a shadow,
Leaving a bunch of lilac
On the table for remembrance.
The pace at which anti-trans segregation under Labour has been ramping up recently is really fucking grim.
December 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The pace at which anti-trans segregation under Labour has been ramping up recently is really fucking grim.
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This is where the shameless weaponisation of antisemitism in defence of Israel's war on Gaza has led us
Allegations of extreme forms of antisemitism can be discarded by stressing support for genocidal policies
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Allegations of extreme forms of antisemitism can be discarded by stressing support for genocidal policies
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
December 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This is where the shameless weaponisation of antisemitism in defence of Israel's war on Gaza has led us
Allegations of extreme forms of antisemitism can be discarded by stressing support for genocidal policies
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Allegations of extreme forms of antisemitism can be discarded by stressing support for genocidal policies
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
they call me John Rutter's Christmas Bucket Bitch
December 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
they call me John Rutter's Christmas Bucket Bitch
I swear Tim Runs Around The Royal Albert Hall With Buckets Like A Headless Chicken Day comes earlier every year
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I swear Tim Runs Around The Royal Albert Hall With Buckets Like A Headless Chicken Day comes earlier every year
love to have a 12 hour workday today
kill meeeee
kill meeeee
December 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
love to have a 12 hour workday today
kill meeeee
kill meeeee
Awful. Solidarity with all those affected.
The Budget did absolutely fuck all for the arts and I fear we'll see more stories like this over the coming months.
The Budget did absolutely fuck all for the arts and I fear we'll see more stories like this over the coming months.
Bosses at the Royal Shakespeare Company are proposing to cut its number of employees by 11% and reduce the pay for some of those who remain.
Read more 👉https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/rsc-plans-to-reduce-headcount-by-11-and-merge-costume-departments
Read more 👉https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/rsc-plans-to-reduce-headcount-by-11-and-merge-costume-departments
December 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Awful. Solidarity with all those affected.
The Budget did absolutely fuck all for the arts and I fear we'll see more stories like this over the coming months.
The Budget did absolutely fuck all for the arts and I fear we'll see more stories like this over the coming months.