Tim Blackwell
@timblackwell.bsky.social
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The name of your act? Remind me.
THE LABOUR PARTY!!!!
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The name of your act? Remind me.
THE LABOUR PARTY!!!!
November 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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The name of your act? Remind me.
THE LABOUR PARTY!!!!
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The name of your act? Remind me.
THE LABOUR PARTY!!!!
White guy. Can jump.
October 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
White guy. Can jump.
@drbafc.bsky.social Hi Andy, just to let you know that the hybrid dreich site in your bio has been infected with some very nasty malware. Would be great if you could remove the link. I will try and contact the site owner.
October 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
@drbafc.bsky.social Hi Andy, just to let you know that the hybrid dreich site in your bio has been infected with some very nasty malware. Would be great if you could remove the link. I will try and contact the site owner.
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’
the moon comes with
April 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
the moon comes with
Addled from exposure to a particularly ill-conceived London local council tax reduction scheme, I may now be as estranged from logic as its authors. (if this means nothing to you, be happy)
March 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Addled from exposure to a particularly ill-conceived London local council tax reduction scheme, I may now be as estranged from logic as its authors. (if this means nothing to you, be happy)
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.
Idea for paper: prompt engineering as ideomotor effect. Is an LLM just a ouija board with a dodgy encyclopaedia?
January 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Idea for paper: prompt engineering as ideomotor effect. Is an LLM just a ouija board with a dodgy encyclopaedia?
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.
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.
Now that my children spend most of their time away, household investigations are brutally efficient. Who deadheaded the rosebush with the kitchen scissors? I did. And I'd do it again.
June 22, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Now that my children spend most of their time away, household investigations are brutally efficient. Who deadheaded the rosebush with the kitchen scissors? I did. And I'd do it again.
the nettles impossibly green at this hour
June 1, 2024 at 7:11 PM
the nettles impossibly green at this hour
The light is back
March 23, 2024 at 7:09 AM
The light is back
Half a century later, I still wake up sometimes wanting to be an astronomer.
January 29, 2024 at 8:27 AM
Half a century later, I still wake up sometimes wanting to be an astronomer.
Some time in (probably) the late 70s, R Young (painter, electrician) offered to buy C A Duffy (playwright, poet) a pint in exchange for a poem. He later gave this to my parents.
January 22, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Some time in (probably) the late 70s, R Young (painter, electrician) offered to buy C A Duffy (playwright, poet) a pint in exchange for a poem. He later gave this to my parents.