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Tim Newman
@mrtimnewman.bsky.social
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#DataScientist, #accountant, #TTRPG, #Improv. Fairly left wing and thinks Nazis are rancid little pricks.
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · Nov 23
Intro post:
Fun - #TTRPG, played lots of DnD but soon to rotate in to DMing so expect a lot about that.
Professional - #DataScience & #Accountant python, excel, DBs.
Me - Grew up in poverty in Thatchers Britain and wherever I am now that has informed my politics. Never trust a Tory.
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 59m
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 2h
@montecookgames.com books are really good for helping you build your own worlds (on cypher or not)

@modiphius.bsky.social really capture the spirit of their franchise properties - dune for example capture the feel. The spice must flow!
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 2h
There is a reason you can't DM me on blusky. Who knew what all the security experts said would happen would happen? A mystery wrapped in a puzzle inside an enigma.

Anyway I hope when pornhub's age verifier is eventually hacked every MP who voted for this gets to join Julian Fawcett MP in infamy.
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404 Media @404media.co · 2d
BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 3h
Is typo reporting still open? I may have found one...
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 4h
What is interesting is I don't know where the line is, very much a "I'll know it when I see it situation". I'd be curious what makes a do or do not decision for other people? /End #TTRPG
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 4h
One of the current humble bundles got me thinking about run Vs play. I could comfortably play in an avatar campaign, but I couldn't run it for my mates (who love Avatar) because I'd know way less than them and it would just be immersion breaking. 1/ #TTRPG
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 15h
Haven't made it to the game yet but the scene setting at the start of Cold War by @handiworkgames.bsky.social is brilliant. More RPGs should introduce the world through fake documents.
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Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 3d
The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for
You wouldn’t steal a car
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svenning🌲 @svenning.io · 3d
We are already seeing some fantastic (but horrible) contributions to the Bad UX World Cup! 😃

This year's challenge: Create a horrible date picker!

See all the contributions (so far) here: badux.lol

#baduxworldcup
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 3d
I'm assuming #TaylorSwift is doing the tombola for the Fete of Ophelia
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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 3d
Someone just sent me Simon Calder's video whinging about the EU Entry-Exit System kiosk here, which is full of… let's call them inaccuracies, shall we?

It's not… accurate, it's not helpful, but it *is* an example of the very worst of British travel media rubbish.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sORQ...
New EU entry-exit system comes to force at London St Pancras International
YouTube video by The Independent
www.youtube.com
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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 3d
I really hate the dogwhistle "would you leave your front door open for anyone to come in" question. That's the wrong question.
The real analogy is "If a stranger knocked on your door and asked you for help, would you help them?"

and for me, the answer is yes, in a heartbeat. every time.
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Cllr Dr Max Morris @maxmorris.bsky.social · 3d
Very proud of my fellow Green councillors for proposing this motion. "We are a rich tapestry, we are strengthened by our diversity, and we must stand up as a council and as a city for that diversity, unite against the far right and the divisive narratives of them." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Oxford City Council backs city's minority communities in vote
A Green party motion called on Oxford City Council to oppose far right rhetoric.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 5d
"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 5d
"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 5d
Looking forward to Richard Osman's new show about running a gym - Richard Osman's House of Gainz
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 5d
Not too hard it might infect you with rage.
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 5d
It's weird that no film exists in-between, set 28 slightly longer periods but not as long as years in length later.
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 5d
Only thing missing is a slum/shanty district
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 5d
It will barely make a difference it's so prevalent in the environment now, that everyone is around 70% DHMO at this point 😔
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 6d
I was looking at a tourist thing the other day and the whole "Exit through the gift shop" phenomenon and I think I'm going to do a one shot where having fought through the dungeon full of properly dangerous automatons and killed the "big bad" the final room is like the gift shop of an escape room.
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 6d
Jokes on you I was putting out bad info before LLMs made it co... *Checks notes* heated up the planet for slop.

And I'll only cost a cheese roll occasionally.
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 6d
Presumably called Steve.
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John86 @john86l.bsky.social · 6d
You don’t have to be called Steve or Stephen to work at Blackpool, but it does help.
A club statement from Blackpool saying Steve Bruce has been sacked along with coaches Steve Agnew and Stephen Clemence. Stephen Dobbie and Steve Banks will take temporary charge.
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 6d
My partner is a big fan of the new #TaylorSwift album, but there is a bit of "The Fate of Ophelia" where we were both trying to work out what it sounds like and it's "Sweet but Psycho" from Barbie. Not all of it but now we can't unhear it in that bit.
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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 9d
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?
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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 7d
Games Workshop and Warhammer 40K are also worth significantly more to the British economy than fishing

But we got years of rhetoric about "British fish for British trawlers" instead of "space marines for the single market"
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 7d
In her lunch with the FT the OnlyFans CEO says her company pays more tax than the entire British fishing industry. Quite a stat.
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Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social · 7d
Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton - Lord of Change
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