TiMurphySmith
@murphyami.bsky.social
• I cook and write for money.
• For not money, I write fiction.
• I'm learning to read and speak Irish.
• For not money, I write fiction.
• I'm learning to read and speak Irish.
Portrait of young Gibbo. An old friend.
November 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Portrait of young Gibbo. An old friend.
Ireland to definitely win the World Cup then is it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Ireland to definitely win the World Cup then is it.
“All I can see above me is a blur of someone else’s holiday-blue sky. This should not be upsetting but it most definitely is. The reason for this is that between me and that sky are two fathoms of cold, salty water. Soon twenty.”
A short story.
timwrite.net/a-patient-sh...
A short story.
timwrite.net/a-patient-sh...
A patient shark
Maybe I am an escapologist and this is a show? Seems unlikely.
timwrite.net
November 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“All I can see above me is a blur of someone else’s holiday-blue sky. This should not be upsetting but it most definitely is. The reason for this is that between me and that sky are two fathoms of cold, salty water. Soon twenty.”
A short story.
timwrite.net/a-patient-sh...
A short story.
timwrite.net/a-patient-sh...
To watch or not to watch this RTÉ documentary about Bishop Casey.
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
To watch or not to watch this RTÉ documentary about Bishop Casey.
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On the “nothing really new under the sun” comes a translation of a German set of veal and mutton pies recipes.
Via @culinavetus.bsky.social & Balthasar Staindl’s 1547 “Kuenstlichs und nutzlichs Kochbuch”, one of the earliest printed German cookbooks.
www.culina-vetus.de/2025/11/16/v...
Via @culinavetus.bsky.social & Balthasar Staindl’s 1547 “Kuenstlichs und nutzlichs Kochbuch”, one of the earliest printed German cookbooks.
www.culina-vetus.de/2025/11/16/v...
Veal and Mutton Pies | culina vetus
www.culina-vetus.de
November 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
On the “nothing really new under the sun” comes a translation of a German set of veal and mutton pies recipes.
Via @culinavetus.bsky.social & Balthasar Staindl’s 1547 “Kuenstlichs und nutzlichs Kochbuch”, one of the earliest printed German cookbooks.
www.culina-vetus.de/2025/11/16/v...
Via @culinavetus.bsky.social & Balthasar Staindl’s 1547 “Kuenstlichs und nutzlichs Kochbuch”, one of the earliest printed German cookbooks.
www.culina-vetus.de/2025/11/16/v...
The word is “hanged” not “hung”.
Johnny was sentenced to death and executed. He was well hung. By the way, he was guillotined.
Johnny was sentenced to death and executed. He was well hung. By the way, he was guillotined.
November 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The word is “hanged” not “hung”.
Johnny was sentenced to death and executed. He was well hung. By the way, he was guillotined.
Johnny was sentenced to death and executed. He was well hung. By the way, he was guillotined.
I reckon I’ve got about 20 years left.
USA, so you think you can get your shit together by then?
I’d like to visit before, you, it’s too late.
USA, so you think you can get your shit together by then?
I’d like to visit before, you, it’s too late.
November 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I reckon I’ve got about 20 years left.
USA, so you think you can get your shit together by then?
I’d like to visit before, you, it’s too late.
USA, so you think you can get your shit together by then?
I’d like to visit before, you, it’s too late.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro: “The US wants to rule the world but ignores its own millions without housing, food, education, or battling addiction.
“They want to "save" others with weapons. First save yourselves. We know what to do with Venezuela.”
“They want to "save" others with weapons. First save yourselves. We know what to do with Venezuela.”
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro: “The US wants to rule the world but ignores its own millions without housing, food, education, or battling addiction.
“They want to "save" others with weapons. First save yourselves. We know what to do with Venezuela.”
“They want to "save" others with weapons. First save yourselves. We know what to do with Venezuela.”
Great resource from Mr Allain.
A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans.
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
Website of artist, cartoonist & tweeter Moose Allain
Welcome to the website of artist, cartoonist and prolific tweeter Moose Allain. Please fell free to have a poke about.
www.worldofmoose.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Great resource from Mr Allain.
@olivertreib.bsky.social Hey! Great to see you Oliver!
November 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
@olivertreib.bsky.social Hey! Great to see you Oliver!
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not usually the world's biggest pop music fan so hadn't massively paid attention to Rosalía before and.......my absolute bad because LUX is a masterpiece and she's a musical genius?? gobsmacking album
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
not usually the world's biggest pop music fan so hadn't massively paid attention to Rosalía before and.......my absolute bad because LUX is a masterpiece and she's a musical genius?? gobsmacking album
Spell check - did my spell work correctly?
Spelling check - did I done that word writin’ proper?
Spelling check - did I done that word writin’ proper?
November 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Spell check - did my spell work correctly?
Spelling check - did I done that word writin’ proper?
Spelling check - did I done that word writin’ proper?
@salutethepig.berlin I’m going to have to buy you a drink next year aren’t I?
November 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
@salutethepig.berlin I’m going to have to buy you a drink next year aren’t I?
November 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The Mothers, 1921 woodcut, by German artist and #printmaker Käthe Kollwitz, is an anti war artwork, from the perspective of mothers #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The Mothers, 1921 woodcut, by German artist and #printmaker Käthe Kollwitz, is an anti war artwork, from the perspective of mothers #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
I’m happy to give lessons in alt text and being humane and social.
Actually I already did.
digitalaccessibility.leeds.ac.uk/guidance/
Actually I already did.
digitalaccessibility.leeds.ac.uk/guidance/
Guidance - Digital Accessibility
digitalaccessibility.leeds.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I’m happy to give lessons in alt text and being humane and social.
Actually I already did.
digitalaccessibility.leeds.ac.uk/guidance/
Actually I already did.
digitalaccessibility.leeds.ac.uk/guidance/
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Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Crikey, I wrote this in another lifetime.
Guess how much I knew about boxing?
www.awesomebooks.com/book/9780752...
Guess how much I knew about boxing?
www.awesomebooks.com/book/9780752...
Prince Naseem - Lord of the Ring - The Story of Britain's Greatest Boxing Champion | Awesome Books
www.awesomebooks.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Crikey, I wrote this in another lifetime.
Guess how much I knew about boxing?
www.awesomebooks.com/book/9780752...
Guess how much I knew about boxing?
www.awesomebooks.com/book/9780752...
I wonder how fast I can write a maps at the front fantasy novel.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I wonder how fast I can write a maps at the front fantasy novel.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
November 16, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
@merseymal.com Eyup Mal. Hope you’re well.
November 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
@merseymal.com Eyup Mal. Hope you’re well.
Character sketch for this short story.
‘He Thought He was a Christ’
“He imagined himself shimmying up one of the many drainpipes of a grand house. Leaping from the roof down to a bedroom windowsill.”
timwrite.net/he-thought-h...
‘He Thought He was a Christ’
“He imagined himself shimmying up one of the many drainpipes of a grand house. Leaping from the roof down to a bedroom windowsill.”
timwrite.net/he-thought-h...
November 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Character sketch for this short story.
‘He Thought He was a Christ’
“He imagined himself shimmying up one of the many drainpipes of a grand house. Leaping from the roof down to a bedroom windowsill.”
timwrite.net/he-thought-h...
‘He Thought He was a Christ’
“He imagined himself shimmying up one of the many drainpipes of a grand house. Leaping from the roof down to a bedroom windowsill.”
timwrite.net/he-thought-h...
@meemalee.bsky.social took me ages to see you. Thank goodness you’re here MiMi.
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
@meemalee.bsky.social took me ages to see you. Thank goodness you’re here MiMi.