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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, an "eight-way auction" conjures an image of frantic bidding before a hammer-wielding agent in a wood-panelled room. Chances are it's actually a few dozen emails from eight editors, five of whom bow out immediately when the agent messages about a "substantial five figures on offer elsewhere".

Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting. Haven't talked to them on this specifically yet but have definitely encountered a certain "Won't somebody think of the poor landlords! Tenants are awful & whisper-it-not-very-quietly probably *foreigners* too" discourse larded with friend-of-a-friend anecdotes from a certain demographic

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 5d

Sad to hear of the death of Manchán Magan, a one-off who was somehow able to bring his authentic enthusiasms to a wide public. A shame there'll be no more of it, but I was glad this morning to be able to send a student starting a project on history, place and poetry in the direction of his books...

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 5d

"Approximately 280 Americans who self-selected for a not very scientific survey by a company soliciting for a particular type of respondent say they've talked dirty to a chatbot a few times."

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 6d

The nineties were, like, ten years ago - right?

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 8d

Current mitigation, however, is that the kids are all into 90s bands. Saw a student with an Offspring hoodie last week, commented approvingly and he said "Yeah, going to see them in Dublin in November". Those dudes must be, like, *sixty* at this stage... Dexter Holland will always be older than me.

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 8d

It's inevitable...

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 8d

Course he is! So is Leopold Bloom. So are a lot of those seedy middle-aged men in Graham Greene novels. This is how it happens, Rob - first it's the football players, then it's the rock stars, then the Michelin-starred chefs, then cabinet ministers, then seedy middle-aged fictional men...

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 20d

My mid-c20th European history is a bit shaky, but the socially liberal folks hanging around in cabaret clubs were the baddies in this narrative - right?

David Clark @david-k-clark.bsky.social · 20d

The Spectator now lurching towards fascism by analogy, including an interview with Andrew Tate (they’ll regret that). Of course, the Weimar comparison is daft. There’s no interesting culture for a start.

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 26d

Thirty years on and still getting heavy rotation in this house... (I still marvel at the complex cultural transfer process that brought this sound from California via Australian surf videos all the way to the far west of Cornwall in the mid 90s.)

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 28d

I'll try that!

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 29d

So, I've been using a CMAT song ("Have Fun") in a 1st-yr "intro to lit-crit" class on the Death of the Author for the past 2 yrs, and none of them have ever heard of her. But clearly this year they will have, & I'm going to look like a sad old dude trying too hard to be down with the kids, aren't I?

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Back to work...

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · Sep 4

Obligatory box of books photo. Not sure what I'm going to do with all these, but there's some really good stuff in here - if you're into that sort of thing...

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · Sep 3

A reflexive "keep 'em out" attitude from councils etc, contractors/engineers actively encouraged to think of "trail development" as a big money-grubbing bonanza (often using public funds) and the myth of (in case of countryside access) litigation are major blocks to decent access in Ireland. 2/2

Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · Sep 3

I despair over countryside access in Ireland. This report on the 7km Bray cliff walk could easily apply to much of the entire SW Coast Path around Cornwall, Devon and Dorset, and no one is closing that. 1/2
amp.rte.ie/amp/1531228/

Report raises safety concerns over Wicklow cliff walk

amp.rte.ie

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ah, great, thanks! (Still hope the rain stops soon so you can get out into the landscape for yourself, though!)

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hope it passes the time until the rain stops!

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northbnd @northbnd.bsky.social · Sep 3

A fitting read while I’m parked up in a downpour at the end of the land

#vanlife
#booksky
#Cornwall
@timhannigan.bsky.social

The cover of a book, The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey by Tim Hannigan, shows a hiker in a tin mining landscape by the coast, with a Cornish Chough looking down from high rocks.

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yes, was wondering what the current rental value would be! (And let me know if you find a wormhole to the 80s somewhere...)

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · Sep 1

I once wrote a narrative account of a conference and explicitly moaned about the coffee even in that!

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · Sep 1

Absolutely agree - but still allowed to moan about the coffee, right?

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · Sep 1

Have tried a single open breakout room for breaks in a seminar thingy. Kind of half worked, but still a major in person/online divide. Maybe a conference WhatsApp group?

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · Sep 1

Solving the Cornish housing crisis with planning noncompliant dwellings in parents' gardens since the 1980s.
(Upcycling too - slate & timber came off shed roof in a winter storm, bricks from a collapsed chimney, window from a refit of my dad's fishing boat, and underlay an old shower curtain.)

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · Aug 30

Homeplace in heartbreak season, the bridging days between August and September that can twist little love knots in your soul.

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