TiMurphySmith
@murphyami.bsky.social
• I cook and write for money.
•40 years experience.
• For not money, I write fiction.
• I'm learning to read and speak Irish.
•40 years experience.
• For not money, I write fiction.
• I'm learning to read and speak Irish.
Can somebody tell me what my site looks like on your phone / tablet please please please, ta.
timwrite.net
timwrite.net
Curious stories for curious people
Fiction of many wondrous kinds
timwrite.net
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Can somebody tell me what my site looks like on your phone / tablet please please please, ta.
timwrite.net
timwrite.net
Frankenstein: solid 5/10.
Clunky script
Scenery chewing acting (from a good cast) Hammer
Hammer Horroresque colour palette.
A certain 'made for TV' look and feel (it was Made for TV after all)
Forgettable score Dick Van Dyke Victor from Oscar Isaac. "Alizibeth!!"
(It was a DNF in our house)
Clunky script
Scenery chewing acting (from a good cast) Hammer
Hammer Horroresque colour palette.
A certain 'made for TV' look and feel (it was Made for TV after all)
Forgettable score Dick Van Dyke Victor from Oscar Isaac. "Alizibeth!!"
(It was a DNF in our house)
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Frankenstein: solid 5/10.
Clunky script
Scenery chewing acting (from a good cast) Hammer
Hammer Horroresque colour palette.
A certain 'made for TV' look and feel (it was Made for TV after all)
Forgettable score Dick Van Dyke Victor from Oscar Isaac. "Alizibeth!!"
(It was a DNF in our house)
Clunky script
Scenery chewing acting (from a good cast) Hammer
Hammer Horroresque colour palette.
A certain 'made for TV' look and feel (it was Made for TV after all)
Forgettable score Dick Van Dyke Victor from Oscar Isaac. "Alizibeth!!"
(It was a DNF in our house)
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the true Butlerian Jihad is forcing people — by violence if necessary — to accept that “perfomative” doesn’t just mean doing something self-consciously
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
the true Butlerian Jihad is forcing people — by violence if necessary — to accept that “perfomative” doesn’t just mean doing something self-consciously
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I’ve decided to start abbreviating it to A.i.
Upper case A for artificial.
Lower case i for intelligence.
I think that works.
Upper case A for artificial.
Lower case i for intelligence.
I think that works.
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I’ve decided to start abbreviating it to A.i.
Upper case A for artificial.
Lower case i for intelligence.
I think that works.
Upper case A for artificial.
Lower case i for intelligence.
I think that works.
Morning all.
How’s this for a book cover background? Too busy? To bright?
How’s this for a book cover background? Too busy? To bright?
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Morning all.
How’s this for a book cover background? Too busy? To bright?
How’s this for a book cover background? Too busy? To bright?
Next CEO of BBC News?
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Next CEO of BBC News?
I really shouldn’t do a Patreon for the short stories (three per week) and my second novel.
It would just make the Black Dog bark.
“But but but!” screams hope.
It would just make the Black Dog bark.
“But but but!” screams hope.
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I really shouldn’t do a Patreon for the short stories (three per week) and my second novel.
It would just make the Black Dog bark.
“But but but!” screams hope.
It would just make the Black Dog bark.
“But but but!” screams hope.
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Ask him why so many air traffic controllers are retiring at once. Ask him if it has anything to do with Reagan firing 11K union strikers in 1981 and having to replace them all at once. Ask him how the mass firings this year will impact us the same way 40 years from now. Ask him, Jake.
"This will live on" -- Duffy explains that flying will remain a mess even after the shutdown because so many air traffic controllers are retiring
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Ask him why so many air traffic controllers are retiring at once. Ask him if it has anything to do with Reagan firing 11K union strikers in 1981 and having to replace them all at once. Ask him how the mass firings this year will impact us the same way 40 years from now. Ask him, Jake.
The young master is coming home. With him is his manservant Swallow. Is Rimmington Hall ready?
(I already know the answer, which is a good thing. 9/10 times I totally make it up as I go. Just talking the stories out loud as they come. But don't you worry. Part 2 soon.
timwrite.net/the-rimmingt...
(I already know the answer, which is a good thing. 9/10 times I totally make it up as I go. Just talking the stories out loud as they come. But don't you worry. Part 2 soon.
timwrite.net/the-rimmingt...
The Rimmingtons
No one close by heard the single gunshot crashing from the wardroom. No one was there to soften the blow as Glyde's badly damaged head slammed into the table.
timwrite.net
November 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The young master is coming home. With him is his manservant Swallow. Is Rimmington Hall ready?
(I already know the answer, which is a good thing. 9/10 times I totally make it up as I go. Just talking the stories out loud as they come. But don't you worry. Part 2 soon.
timwrite.net/the-rimmingt...
(I already know the answer, which is a good thing. 9/10 times I totally make it up as I go. Just talking the stories out loud as they come. But don't you worry. Part 2 soon.
timwrite.net/the-rimmingt...
Just to let you all know: I am still not doing a podcast with two other white blokes.
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Just to let you all know: I am still not doing a podcast with two other white blokes.
And @stepickford.bsky.social should know.
The best advice I’ve ever read about cartooning. From Arthur Ferrier, in the wonderful collection of his work put together by Rian Hughes and @koreropress.bsky.social.
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
And @stepickford.bsky.social should know.
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We obtained audio recordings and logs from each hearing of a sexual assault case that has spanned 10 years.
Nearly every time the defense attorney asked to delay the trial, a judge agreed.
(Published January with @adn.com)
Nearly every time the defense attorney asked to delay the trial, a judge agreed.
(Published January with @adn.com)
A “Horrendous” Alaska Sexual Assault Case, Delayed for a Decade
Four different judges have agreed to delay the trial more than 70 times in total. We pieced together a timeline of the delays using audio recordings and logs from every hearing.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We obtained audio recordings and logs from each hearing of a sexual assault case that has spanned 10 years.
Nearly every time the defense attorney asked to delay the trial, a judge agreed.
(Published January with @adn.com)
Nearly every time the defense attorney asked to delay the trial, a judge agreed.
(Published January with @adn.com)
New short story… he's not a nice man. And he has a job to do.
timwrite.net/dont-call-hi...
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Don’t call him Satan
All that's reasonable, holy and rational dictates that the 16-stone, wannabe American, shit-shoveling, shit-eating, shit-looking, shithead should have turned up his toes years ago.
timwrite.net
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
New short story… he's not a nice man. And he has a job to do.
timwrite.net/dont-call-hi...
timwrite.net/dont-call-hi...
From my first novel. It’s about the necessity (and kindness) of strangers, especially in the face of small minded nationalism. Set in a small city in England.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
From my first novel. It’s about the necessity (and kindness) of strangers, especially in the face of small minded nationalism. Set in a small city in England.
Text also in alt text.
Text also in alt text.
Now muting “Well, actually you’re reading Frankenstein wrong, it’s a parable about…”
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Now muting “Well, actually you’re reading Frankenstein wrong, it’s a parable about…”
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Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow wide.
November 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow wide.
The deep space restaurant
“Bawbags”, she whispered. “Now what?”
timwrite.net
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The little wicketkeeper was my dad. Royal Navy signals. WWII. He survived the war. He died 30 years later of PTSD related issues. When he had his final stroke, he was yelling ‘Kamikaze!’ as he lay on the floor outside my room.
He hated fascists. Hated them.
He hated fascists. Hated them.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The little wicketkeeper was my dad. Royal Navy signals. WWII. He survived the war. He died 30 years later of PTSD related issues. When he had his final stroke, he was yelling ‘Kamikaze!’ as he lay on the floor outside my room.
He hated fascists. Hated them.
He hated fascists. Hated them.
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In the 1990s there was an independent politician in Ireland who was so pro-life (yeah, I know) that he even wanted to ban vasectomies.
He once came within inches of having the government by the balls (sorry) in a hung Dáil (very sorry).
He once came within inches of having the government by the balls (sorry) in a hung Dáil (very sorry).
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In the 1990s there was an independent politician in Ireland who was so pro-life (yeah, I know) that he even wanted to ban vasectomies.
He once came within inches of having the government by the balls (sorry) in a hung Dáil (very sorry).
He once came within inches of having the government by the balls (sorry) in a hung Dáil (very sorry).
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
As a recovery pedant, I fucking hate pedantry.
Person, "Look out the window! A 4 metre tall, orange and pink space alien with massive claws and a thousand eyes has kidnapped a koala bear and taken it to their spaceship!!"
Pedant, "I think you'll find that koalas are actually marsupials"
Person, "Look out the window! A 4 metre tall, orange and pink space alien with massive claws and a thousand eyes has kidnapped a koala bear and taken it to their spaceship!!"
Pedant, "I think you'll find that koalas are actually marsupials"
November 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
As a recovery pedant, I fucking hate pedantry.
Person, "Look out the window! A 4 metre tall, orange and pink space alien with massive claws and a thousand eyes has kidnapped a koala bear and taken it to their spaceship!!"
Pedant, "I think you'll find that koalas are actually marsupials"
Person, "Look out the window! A 4 metre tall, orange and pink space alien with massive claws and a thousand eyes has kidnapped a koala bear and taken it to their spaceship!!"
Pedant, "I think you'll find that koalas are actually marsupials"
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That ghastly whiteness it is which imparts such an abhorrent mildness, even more loathsome than terrific, to the dumb gloating
November 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
That ghastly whiteness it is which imparts such an abhorrent mildness, even more loathsome than terrific, to the dumb gloating