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Tim J L

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my son is also named bort words about the music and the arts in @vanmusicmag.bsky.social, @redpeppermag.bsky.social and @newsocialist.bsky.social he/him timjl.substack.com linktr.ee/TimJL

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Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · Jun 29

new writing now up! Catch me yapping about the state of the arts again, focusing on how arguments about investing in the arts for its economic and social benefits ignore the exploitation, working conditions and struggles of arts and culture workers.

timjl.substack.com/p/our-cup-sp...

A picture of the national Theatre and the text: Our cup spilleth over: what do the claimed economic benefits of arts and culture actually mean for workers in the sector?

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 2d

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 17h

honestly why do we even bother

Substack post from Lincoln Michel:

"Alchemised debuts at #1 with massive sales, making it the THIRD Harry Potter Draco-Hermione friends-to-enemies fan fic to be turned into a bestselling novel in 2025. It's easy to say that publishers are just feeding readers slop, but harder to admit that they... enjoy it. They’re going to keep publishing it if people gobble it up by the ton."

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 2d

Ultimately it's real racism and real harm that needs to be confronted - a fight for dignity and security against the degradation of humanity.

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 2d

threatened with the severing of the lives they've built through deportation and disciplined into accepting shit work with shit conditions. Or, simply left to die in the channel because their right to claim asylum is flagrantly ignored by a state that sees them as drains on resources.

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 2d

I find the 'blaming migrants is a distraction' argument quite limiting - yes, they are not the cause of our problems, but their otherisation is essential to a necropolitical and racialised organisation of labour forces that leaves migrants vulnerable to exploitation, with little recourse to justice,

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 2d

was listening to the episode about tradwives on @illconceivedpodcast.com this is article from @dissentmag.bsky.social makes for a good follow-up read

www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Though commentators often describe tradlife as a response to capitalism’s failures, it thus seems likely that tradlife’s purchase was also strengthened by #MeToo and the pandemic, two phenomena that encouraged women to see life beyond the home as dangerous, an unmanaged territory where other people, especially men, lurk maliciously. That is not to belittle the real destruction that misogynistic sexual assault and COVID-19 have wrought; both are ongoing tragedies that reveal the deterioration of civic and economic protections for marginalized people within the public sphere. The danger of tradlife, however, is that it permits women to acquiesce to the state’s neglect of this sphere. In an increasingly expensive and antisocial world, tradwives forsake life with others for the lonely, constrictive spaces of bourgeois ownership.

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 2d

Classical music institutions are populated mostly by people who do not have political consciousness to understand that even though a prime minister used to play the flute he will still give up all manner of public assets and support systems with social value to the maw of austerity capitalism

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 2d

I'm growing real damn impatient at the classical music world, which seems to be populated with complete marks who are transfixed by having keys jangling in front of them

This is incredibly disappointing. The music industry had high hopes of Starmer as he was a flute player but it seems this isn’t going to be the case

Independent Society of Musicians
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The ISM is deeply concerned about government's decision to scrap the music Initial Teacher Training bursary.

Bursaries are a lifeline for aspiring music teachers. If DfE is serious about hitting its recruitment targets, this is a huge step backwards ⬇️
https://lnkd.in/efETx__N

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 2d

selecting '30-34' as my age range on a survey

an old man holding his hand to his heart and closing his eyes

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 2d

Hope things start looking better soon gregk x

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 2d

CHURCH MOUSE 🐭

A small mouse with round large ears on the stone ground by some sage and rosemary

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 3d

some fantastic Arvo Pärt tonight at the Barbican with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir ft. a guy on synths

A choir, chamber orchestra, piano and synth desk on stage at the Barbican Hall

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 3d

not too shabby

The lakeside terrace at sunset

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 3d

Ain't half bad here ain't it

The Barbican lakeside terrace

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 3d

Have no idea who his owners are but he usually is having some kind of breakfast outside the shop so he's well taken care of!

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 3d

moving office later this week and I'm sad to say goodbye to this cat who I see hanging out by the Nisa Local every morning on my walk to work. He is very tolerant and lets lots of people on a busy street pet him 🥹

A black and white cat sitting on the pavement outside a shop

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LiLBazula 👻 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 4d

This is the Prime Minister refusing the most basic function of his office: protecting British citizens. Has anything like this ever happened before, where a government has simply shruggged its soldiers & abandoned its own citizens to a foreign power saying 'that's not my problem'?

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 4d

you guys... spray your vegetables with water... in your supermarkets???

bijan @bijan.bsky.social · 4d

grocery stores where they play a thunder noise while spraying the produce with water >>>>>

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 4d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 4d

don't worry about me, just playing my bassoon(?) with a bow

AI generated small model musicians with some fucked up looking instruments one of them holding a bow to a tube-like nonsense wind instrument

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 4d

watching the promo video OpenAI put out for Sora 2 that came up on my feed and what the fuck is this model orchestra

an AI small model orchestra playing ai generated instruments that don't look like instruments at all

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 4d

love to have coworkers who will have Teams meetings at their desks right next to me WITHOUT USING HEADPHONES

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 5d

TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF POTATOES

A pile of potatoes on a wooden chair on an allotment

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 6d

we love double exposures don't we folks

film still of two blonde women overlayed on the LA skyline

Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 6d

just saw Mulholland Drive at the Prince Charles

film still of an old couple smiling in the back of a taxi