Tim Hardy
@timbobaggins.bsky.social
Perpetually exhausted, dad, husband, tech. Doesn't write as much as he should. (he/him)
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If you want to know what magnets are, my old post on the Barkhausen effect not only explains that but shows how you can hear metal being magnetized skullsinthestars.com/2012/10/01/m...
Making magnets speak: the Barkhausen effect
Occasionally I come across a demonstration of physics that is so simple to implement yet illustrates a phenomenon so profound that it almost takes my breath away. I learned of one such demonstrati…
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November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
If you want to know what magnets are, my old post on the Barkhausen effect not only explains that but shows how you can hear metal being magnetized skullsinthestars.com/2012/10/01/m...
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The rest of us also have choices, and I don't know what the future looks like but I think the only good course of action we have available is looking after each other as well as we can with the resources we still have any control over. All of us looking after all of us.
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The rest of us also have choices, and I don't know what the future looks like but I think the only good course of action we have available is looking after each other as well as we can with the resources we still have any control over. All of us looking after all of us.
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This is SO COOL
There’s something extraordinary about this otherwise pretty standard Late Bronze Age axehead:
A human fingerprint. A real, visible and tangible connection to someone from 3000 years ago. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, idk what will. 🥹
#FindsFriday
Link to record: finds.org.uk/database/art...
A human fingerprint. A real, visible and tangible connection to someone from 3000 years ago. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, idk what will. 🥹
#FindsFriday
Link to record: finds.org.uk/database/art...
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is SO COOL
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Our Mulled Wine Dark Chocolate Truffles are only here for Christmas! 🎄
A mulled wine ganache coated in smooth dark chocolate. Rich, warming, and just the thing for cosy winter evenings ✨
Alcohol-free and handcrafted in small batches, pure Christmas in a bite. 🍫
A mulled wine ganache coated in smooth dark chocolate. Rich, warming, and just the thing for cosy winter evenings ✨
Alcohol-free and handcrafted in small batches, pure Christmas in a bite. 🍫
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Our Mulled Wine Dark Chocolate Truffles are only here for Christmas! 🎄
A mulled wine ganache coated in smooth dark chocolate. Rich, warming, and just the thing for cosy winter evenings ✨
Alcohol-free and handcrafted in small batches, pure Christmas in a bite. 🍫
A mulled wine ganache coated in smooth dark chocolate. Rich, warming, and just the thing for cosy winter evenings ✨
Alcohol-free and handcrafted in small batches, pure Christmas in a bite. 🍫
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University Challenge is a lot like sex. It gets more frantic towards the end and then there's a gong and Amol Rajan tells you the scores.
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
University Challenge is a lot like sex. It gets more frantic towards the end and then there's a gong and Amol Rajan tells you the scores.
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Would like to see a Quiz Specialist week on 'House of Games' featuring four of the Chasers from ITV
Jenny Ryan
Paul Sinha
Darragh Ennis
Shaun Wallace
It would be interesting to see how the novelty format suits a quizzing mind.
Also, what prizes they'd pick, and who would go for the fondue set.
Jenny Ryan
Paul Sinha
Darragh Ennis
Shaun Wallace
It would be interesting to see how the novelty format suits a quizzing mind.
Also, what prizes they'd pick, and who would go for the fondue set.
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Would like to see a Quiz Specialist week on 'House of Games' featuring four of the Chasers from ITV
Jenny Ryan
Paul Sinha
Darragh Ennis
Shaun Wallace
It would be interesting to see how the novelty format suits a quizzing mind.
Also, what prizes they'd pick, and who would go for the fondue set.
Jenny Ryan
Paul Sinha
Darragh Ennis
Shaun Wallace
It would be interesting to see how the novelty format suits a quizzing mind.
Also, what prizes they'd pick, and who would go for the fondue set.
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Life is so fucking hard, and if you're just doing it, just getting up and living a day and going to bed to do it again the next day, I'm so fucking proud of you, and I hope you're proud of yourself too. I hope you get a moment to smile and feel like you today, if even for a second.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Life is so fucking hard, and if you're just doing it, just getting up and living a day and going to bed to do it again the next day, I'm so fucking proud of you, and I hope you're proud of yourself too. I hope you get a moment to smile and feel like you today, if even for a second.
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I’m delighted that ‘Silence of the Gods’ is one of
@universitypress.cambridge.org's Books of the Year! Currently on display at @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social, and on special offer online too: www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/products/sal... 📚
@universitypress.cambridge.org's Books of the Year! Currently on display at @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social, and on special offer online too: www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/products/sal... 📚
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I’m delighted that ‘Silence of the Gods’ is one of
@universitypress.cambridge.org's Books of the Year! Currently on display at @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social, and on special offer online too: www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/products/sal... 📚
@universitypress.cambridge.org's Books of the Year! Currently on display at @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social, and on special offer online too: www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/products/sal... 📚
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Big pivot - and in the right direction. ~AA
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Big pivot - and in the right direction. ~AA
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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The BBC needs maintenance work, not demolition, unless you want it replaced by a sinister clown show like Fox News, or forced to advertise to make it as shitty as everything else. If so, you don't understand what makes it unique, and quite possibly how to tie your own shoes.
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The BBC needs maintenance work, not demolition, unless you want it replaced by a sinister clown show like Fox News, or forced to advertise to make it as shitty as everything else. If so, you don't understand what makes it unique, and quite possibly how to tie your own shoes.
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Depressing that the BBC has so little inherent institutional strength, it is kicked about so easily.
This is not good sign for our polity.
This is not good sign for our polity.
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Depressing that the BBC has so little inherent institutional strength, it is kicked about so easily.
This is not good sign for our polity.
This is not good sign for our polity.
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One thing not being said - indeed, I think everyone misses this - but the requirement for the BBC to show impartiality and balance relates to the politics of *this* country, there’s no requirement to show some mythical balance globally, only to report the truth without fear or favour.
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
One thing not being said - indeed, I think everyone misses this - but the requirement for the BBC to show impartiality and balance relates to the politics of *this* country, there’s no requirement to show some mythical balance globally, only to report the truth without fear or favour.
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Moore rather gave the game away on Today just now when he mentioned climate change as one of the things on which the BBC should be impartial. Treating the truth and lies as though they are equal isn't impartiality, it's an abdication of the most basic journalistic responsibility
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Moore rather gave the game away on Today just now when he mentioned climate change as one of the things on which the BBC should be impartial. Treating the truth and lies as though they are equal isn't impartiality, it's an abdication of the most basic journalistic responsibility
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These people are arguing against a BBC culture that exists only in their heads, in the same way that reactionaries argue against the cultures of cities and universities that only exist in their heads.
Suzanne Moore, who would rather be locked up than pay her BBC licence fee because the BBC is too nice to trans people for her liking.
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
These people are arguing against a BBC culture that exists only in their heads, in the same way that reactionaries argue against the cultures of cities and universities that only exist in their heads.
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WORD OF THE DAY.
Excellent.
To give up spreadsheets for forty days.
Excellent.
To give up spreadsheets for forty days.
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
WORD OF THE DAY.
Excellent.
To give up spreadsheets for forty days.
Excellent.
To give up spreadsheets for forty days.
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Hold on, friends! It's going to get spooky! To celebrate 10k followers, I'm answering your questions about Palestinian folklore here in this mega thread.
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Hold on, friends! It's going to get spooky! To celebrate 10k followers, I'm answering your questions about Palestinian folklore here in this mega thread.
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i don’t think the main problem with the american church is “too many of them refuse to be scammed by a lady who is obviously lying.”
There is a lady on TikTok pretending to have a baby that has gone without formula all night — she is calling churches around the country to ask if they can help.
Some of them are really embarrassing themselves. Especially the mega-churches.
Some of them are really embarrassing themselves. Especially the mega-churches.
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
i don’t think the main problem with the american church is “too many of them refuse to be scammed by a lady who is obviously lying.”
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Peter Cushing’s long friendship with Christopher Lee began on The Curse Of Frankenstein when Lee stormed into Cushing’s dressing room saying ‘I haven’t got any lines!’ & Cushing replied ‘You’re lucky. I’ve read the script.’
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Peter Cushing’s long friendship with Christopher Lee began on The Curse Of Frankenstein when Lee stormed into Cushing’s dressing room saying ‘I haven’t got any lines!’ & Cushing replied ‘You’re lucky. I’ve read the script.’
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Trust me, this is brilliant.
I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't...
www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
The Village Message Board
Its authenticity was discredited because of his reputation, but also because he was quick with gin at the time and wearing an item of knitwear back to front.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Trust me, this is brilliant.
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People who are my heroes who I have met who were as wonderful as I hoped;
Margaret Atwood, Al Yankovic, Emily Andres, Lynda Carter, Joe Hill, Karen Allen, the Dwarves from the Hobbit, Mercedes Lackey, George Perez, Neal Adams, Grant Morrison, Eugene Mirman, Patton Oswalt, there’s a lot, sheesh.
Margaret Atwood, Al Yankovic, Emily Andres, Lynda Carter, Joe Hill, Karen Allen, the Dwarves from the Hobbit, Mercedes Lackey, George Perez, Neal Adams, Grant Morrison, Eugene Mirman, Patton Oswalt, there’s a lot, sheesh.
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
People who are my heroes who I have met who were as wonderful as I hoped;
Margaret Atwood, Al Yankovic, Emily Andres, Lynda Carter, Joe Hill, Karen Allen, the Dwarves from the Hobbit, Mercedes Lackey, George Perez, Neal Adams, Grant Morrison, Eugene Mirman, Patton Oswalt, there’s a lot, sheesh.
Margaret Atwood, Al Yankovic, Emily Andres, Lynda Carter, Joe Hill, Karen Allen, the Dwarves from the Hobbit, Mercedes Lackey, George Perez, Neal Adams, Grant Morrison, Eugene Mirman, Patton Oswalt, there’s a lot, sheesh.
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Saw someone with the same teeth as me at the coincidentist.
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Saw someone with the same teeth as me at the coincidentist.
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"The Bechdel test" is to my mind very much like "Godwin's Law": these were general observations about pernicious habits in our society that people somehow interpreted as being moral laws that must be followed to the letter.
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"The Bechdel test" is to my mind very much like "Godwin's Law": these were general observations about pernicious habits in our society that people somehow interpreted as being moral laws that must be followed to the letter.