Tim Carmody
@tcarmody.bsky.social
Ex-liontamer, writer/editor/strategist.
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
https://timcarmody.com
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
https://timcarmody.com
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Tim Carmody
@tcarmody.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Inside each of us is a little boy, a shy, lovesick girl with a curse, a demon made of fire, and a shape-shifting wizard with no heart.
#OldTweets
#OldTweets
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Feel bad for whoever designed the header font the White House is using, probably didn't want this to be your serif's legacy
November 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Feel bad for whoever designed the header font the White House is using, probably didn't want this to be your serif's legacy
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News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
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Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
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Wake up, babe—new apples just dropped!
U of M to license new fruit varieties, including a sequel to the Honeycrisp apple
The Superior Fruit Innovations program promises access to top-performing fruits, such as the Big Flirt Apple and the LumiGlo grape.
www.mprnews.org
November 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Wake up, babe—new apples just dropped!
Louis CK: bad for the redheads
November 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Louis CK: bad for the redheads
Who’s got the best obituary for Tom Stoppard? I linked to the BBC one because it’s the first one I saw but it’s pretty meager. Someone should have prewritten a banger.
November 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Who’s got the best obituary for Tom Stoppard? I linked to the BBC one because it’s the first one I saw but it’s pretty meager. Someone should have prewritten a banger.
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
My favorite playwright, perhaps ever. Also a genius screenplay doctor. His uncredited work on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade made it unforgettable. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
Sir Tom won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love.
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
My favorite playwright, perhaps ever. Also a genius screenplay doctor. His uncredited work on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade made it unforgettable. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Northwestern throws trans women under the bus to please the Trump administration (while also paying off the Trump administration).
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Northwestern throws trans women under the bus to please the Trump administration (while also paying off the Trump administration).
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The fact doomers have gone from "America is over" to "Dems won't hold anyone responsible when this is over" can actually be read as an optimistic signal imo.
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The fact doomers have gone from "America is over" to "Dems won't hold anyone responsible when this is over" can actually be read as an optimistic signal imo.
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is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend
All the mojo in one South Philly house can’t help you if you can’t stop the run
The dog was so embarrassed he took his own sweater off
November 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
All the mojo in one South Philly house can’t help you if you can’t stop the run
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obviously plenty of other things should have already been disqualifying but people willing to defy Trump publicly and appeal to decency as their reason for doing so both seem pretty good
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
obviously plenty of other things should have already been disqualifying but people willing to defy Trump publicly and appeal to decency as their reason for doing so both seem pretty good
Right now the Eagles have only had possession for nine minutes, and the Bears are cranking past twenty on this drive. You can’t win a football game that way.
November 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Right now the Eagles have only had possession for nine minutes, and the Bears are cranking past twenty on this drive. You can’t win a football game that way.
Swift is running all over us
November 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Swift is running all over us
Who will wirecut the wirecutters
Irrationally angry that Wirecutter’s “best Black Friday deals” roundup includes insulting shit like $5 off a $30 Tupperware set and $5 off $43 plain glass vases. Fuck you.
November 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Who will wirecut the wirecutters
Don we now our Birds apparel
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Don we now our Birds apparel
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I always suggest that people think about what urban centres like New York or London were like 150 years ago — dangerous, unbelievably polluted air and water, desperately inequitable, few trees or green space.
And then imagine building the cities where we look back to *today* and see the same thing.
And then imagine building the cities where we look back to *today* and see the same thing.
At its peak, 100-200k NYC horses, 30 lbs of poop/day each. People would use these boot scrapers, that you can still see everywhere today built into the brownstone wrought iron fences, to scrape, 70%? of the poop off the bottom of their shoes before they went into the house. Horse poop everywhere.
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I always suggest that people think about what urban centres like New York or London were like 150 years ago — dangerous, unbelievably polluted air and water, desperately inequitable, few trees or green space.
And then imagine building the cities where we look back to *today* and see the same thing.
And then imagine building the cities where we look back to *today* and see the same thing.
A real post-Thanksgiving flex is picking up a slice of pie and walking around your home damn house eating it by hand like it’s pizza
* integrity of your pie may vary, not responsible for messes
* integrity of your pie may vary, not responsible for messes
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A real post-Thanksgiving flex is picking up a slice of pie and walking around your home damn house eating it by hand like it’s pizza
* integrity of your pie may vary, not responsible for messes
* integrity of your pie may vary, not responsible for messes
Do you think the narrator of "You Oughta Know" is talking about a cinema or like, live theater?
If the latter, are they watching a drama, comedy, musical…?
If the latter, are they watching a drama, comedy, musical…?
November 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Do you think the narrator of "You Oughta Know" is talking about a cinema or like, live theater?
If the latter, are they watching a drama, comedy, musical…?
If the latter, are they watching a drama, comedy, musical…?
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no I'm not "posting through it." it's posting through me
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
no I'm not "posting through it." it's posting through me
Tom Selleck (who was almost cast as Indiana Jones) sees his two career paths briefly commingle, entangled
If you rebooted RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK today with the same temporal margins, it’d be set in the 1980s. Neo-Nazi punks would have their faces melted by the opening of a forbidden arcade cabinet at the KB Toys at your local mall. Indiana Jones would wear a Hawaiian shirt and Chuck Taylor sneakers.
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Tom Selleck (who was almost cast as Indiana Jones) sees his two career paths briefly commingle, entangled
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
Such Great Heights
What’s the most 2003 song you can think of?
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Such Great Heights
This is down the street from my house
"Go Birds, Fuck ICE, Free Palestine"
Seen in Philadelphia over the Schuylkill River.
Seen in Philadelphia over the Schuylkill River.
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This is down the street from my house