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
I’m so grateful for whatever I was giving off that allowed me to marry a decent fucking person
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I’m so grateful for whatever I was giving off that allowed me to marry a decent fucking person
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"part one"
the most ominous of threats
the most ominous of threats
November 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"part one"
the most ominous of threats
the most ominous of threats
I will wait until the whole series is out on DVD
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I will wait until the whole series is out on DVD
Also: rock candy! Kids love rock candy. A piece or two will do
Fox guest on how to save money during the holidays:
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
November 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Also: rock candy! Kids love rock candy. A piece or two will do
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whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight
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It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
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The most serious threat vector for grad workers, and many faculty. Senior advisors who hold your visa and your future in their hand, who know you can't work off campus and are probably isolated from your networks. Sometimes bad men stumble into a broken system--but Summers clearly had a plan.
Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most serious threat vector for grad workers, and many faculty. Senior advisors who hold your visa and your future in their hand, who know you can't work off campus and are probably isolated from your networks. Sometimes bad men stumble into a broken system--but Summers clearly had a plan.
It's weird that right at the start of "Supersonic Rocket Ship," The Kinks' narrator says "we're going faster than light." I mean technically and practically that's a much more impressive result
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
It's weird that right at the start of "Supersonic Rocket Ship," The Kinks' narrator says "we're going faster than light." I mean technically and practically that's a much more impressive result
Last saved meme = your moral philosophy
Uhh
Yes, bosses should pay extra?
Uhh
Yes, bosses should pay extra?
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Last saved meme = your moral philosophy
Uhh
Yes, bosses should pay extra?
Uhh
Yes, bosses should pay extra?
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I noticed this is getting engagement so folks must be talking about Olivia Nuzzi again
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I noticed this is getting engagement so folks must be talking about Olivia Nuzzi again
Unclear exactly how much of his own money Bezos is sinking into Project Prometheus, but he did recently cash out about half a billion dollars of Amazon stock ir.aboutamazon.com/sec-filings/...
Amazon.com, Inc. - SEC filings - SEC Filings Details
ir.aboutamazon.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Unclear exactly how much of his own money Bezos is sinking into Project Prometheus, but he did recently cash out about half a billion dollars of Amazon stock ir.aboutamazon.com/sec-filings/...
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
What perfect album came out the year you
<Biden grabs podium>
<Biden grabs podium>
November 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
What perfect album came out the year you
<Biden grabs podium>
<Biden grabs podium>
The top five movie genres are:
1. Buddy con/grift/heist
2. Magical toys/creatures (traditional animation or puppets strongly preferred)
3. Totally juvenile sex comedy
4. Smart, beautiful people slowly growing apart
5. Revenge
1. Buddy con/grift/heist
2. Magical toys/creatures (traditional animation or puppets strongly preferred)
3. Totally juvenile sex comedy
4. Smart, beautiful people slowly growing apart
5. Revenge
Top 5 movie genres are:
– The CLOCK is TICKING
– Entertaining couple drinks fast and talks faster
– It’s New York in the 1970s and everything is grimy and paranoid
– Nothing actually happens; I may have something in my eye
– These two timelines are gonna collide about forty minutes from now
– The CLOCK is TICKING
– Entertaining couple drinks fast and talks faster
– It’s New York in the 1970s and everything is grimy and paranoid
– Nothing actually happens; I may have something in my eye
– These two timelines are gonna collide about forty minutes from now
Top 5 movie genres are:
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The top five movie genres are:
1. Buddy con/grift/heist
2. Magical toys/creatures (traditional animation or puppets strongly preferred)
3. Totally juvenile sex comedy
4. Smart, beautiful people slowly growing apart
5. Revenge
1. Buddy con/grift/heist
2. Magical toys/creatures (traditional animation or puppets strongly preferred)
3. Totally juvenile sex comedy
4. Smart, beautiful people slowly growing apart
5. Revenge
The market for someone with a demographically marked identity who’s willing to say that identity (their own or anyone else’s) ultimately doesn’t matter is bottomless. This is true regardless of their position in society or the rest of their politics. Obama was a version of this, at least at times.
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The market for someone with a demographically marked identity who’s willing to say that identity (their own or anyone else’s) ultimately doesn’t matter is bottomless. This is true regardless of their position in society or the rest of their politics. Obama was a version of this, at least at times.
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All of us from the post-2008 era (and before, no doubt) have traumatic memories of the academic job market, but I don't think the real problem was the hotel rooms (or the ballroom!), & I think it should be noticed that the real problem (no jobs, ridiculous power disparities) is now worse
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
All of us from the post-2008 era (and before, no doubt) have traumatic memories of the academic job market, but I don't think the real problem was the hotel rooms (or the ballroom!), & I think it should be noticed that the real problem (no jobs, ridiculous power disparities) is now worse
Mine (MLA 2008, ended up doing a campus visit but didn't get it) was in a little suite that had a coffee table with armchairs around it. You could see the bed, but it wasn't AT the bed. Fancy
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Mine (MLA 2008, ended up doing a campus visit but didn't get it) was in a little suite that had a coffee table with armchairs around it. You could see the bed, but it wasn't AT the bed. Fancy
Things still fall, but they fall together (like a family)
the center can hold a little, as a treat
November 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Things still fall, but they fall together (like a family)
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
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Books like this will not get men reading literary fiction again. If these kinds of novels worked, Jonathan Franzen would have led to some kind of male readership renaissance. (And I am not a Franzen hater. The Corrections was brilliant.) Litfic wasn't scooped by women. It was scooped by video games.
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Books like this will not get men reading literary fiction again. If these kinds of novels worked, Jonathan Franzen would have led to some kind of male readership renaissance. (And I am not a Franzen hater. The Corrections was brilliant.) Litfic wasn't scooped by women. It was scooped by video games.
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I try to read all the Booker winners, so I am in the middle of this year's (Flesh) right now. It's decently well-written, but if it is the last word on masculinity (total lack of interiority, driven solely by sexual impulses that cannot be explained or controlled) then masculinity is in real trouble
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I try to read all the Booker winners, so I am in the middle of this year's (Flesh) right now. It's decently well-written, but if it is the last word on masculinity (total lack of interiority, driven solely by sexual impulses that cannot be explained or controlled) then masculinity is in real trouble
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It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
Spike Lee Blesses Pope Leo with Knicks Jersey
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
www.vulture.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
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Is it ‘My wife and I’ or ‘Me and my wife’? Anyway, we just robbed a liquor store
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Is it ‘My wife and I’ or ‘Me and my wife’? Anyway, we just robbed a liquor store