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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, the last decade or so of HE policy has basically been Tories saying "Run your university more like a business! Wait, not like that..."

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 1d

The main reason that the Twitter memes about epidemics of knife crime in Britain are so very tedious.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 2d

His crybullying would be ridiculous if it wasn't also so dangerous.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 2d

It really is superb, do watch it if you haven't already.

Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 3d

Both seasons of Interview with the Vampire are on Netflix. One of the best literary adaptations in the history of television, it takes all the source material's strengths and transmogrifies all its weaknesses, like The Terror. Cruel, disgusting, sexy as fuck. Plus: Eric Bogosian! Do not walk, RUN.

Sam Reid as Lestat and Jacob Anderson as Louis in Interview with the Vampire

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, interesting, I thought things had been relatively quiet over there. It's all fun and games until you actually get in power and realise what collapsing your economy will do to your political prospects, I suppose.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Lovely thread, this.

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 2d

Just before he died I got to chat to Brian Clemens as part of a press junket for a remaster of The Professionals.

After about 3 polite-but-bored answers I said:

"Okay would you mind if we spent the rest of this talking about 'Bugs'? That show BLEW ME AWAY as a teen."

And he was so happy he cried.

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 2d

This YouTube comment probably deserves more than three favs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzL8...

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway. Guess the moral here (like in the original post) is that WHATEVER you love a creator for from their work output, do tell them if you get a chance.

It's not always the big stuff they loved the most. And there's no high like being told something you loved making was loved by someone else.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 2d

What's your personal favourite? Earthsea definitely a contender, though on pure aesthetic is hard to beat the OG Hobbit map, which is basic of me but I don't care (the calligraphy! the red and black! the elegance of the dragon! oh my!)

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 2d

"This will definitely make them like me more," she somehow thought to herself.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 3d

That really would be the maximum banter outcome.

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 3d

Flirt with someone today, do it for Jilly Cooper x

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 3d

a woman is crying with the words " but there are dreams that cannot be " next to her

ALT: a woman is crying with the words " but there are dreams that cannot be " next to her

media.tenor.com

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 3d

(Though probably more likely that he does it anyway, blows up the economy, and runs away to America.)

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 3d

There's a bleakly funny outcome where on day 1 he is presented with the figures and modelling of what would actually happen if he implemented his immigration policies, and we witness the most spectacular reverse ferret in political history.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Basically this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMsn...

FARGO Season 5 | So you want freedom?

YouTube video by regisatlas

www.youtube.com

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 3d

(Still feels much healthier and more functional than British politics at the moment, but perhaps that's a grass is always greener kind of thing.)

Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Feel like French politics is like M Bison in the Street Fighter movie.

"For you, this would be an epoch defining constitutional crisis. But for me, it was Tuesday."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlhO...

Bison remembers Tuesday

YouTube video by Tastytoast225

www.youtube.com

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Defakator (Officiel) 🧆 @defakator.bsky.social · 3d

Haddock : Quelle semaine, hein ?
Tintin : Capitaine, on est lundi, il est 10h

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Every time I see a double decker train, I briefly turn into an excited 5 year old. Like glimpsing some mysterious and beautiful cryptid roaming in the wild.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 3d

What fiction can do really well is the actual human experience ('what does it feel like to live in a world of melting houses?') and that can be indirectly political. But yeah, didacticism is usually a mug's game in fiction.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 3d

So you can have a story filled with ice cream houses to prove the statement 'houses melt', and it is true and valid in the world of the story, but completely meaningless and useless as an actual political statement.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 3d

There's a great George Saunders line on this, where he states that fiction is a bad vehicle for being didactic because you control all the variables and it is too easy to cheat.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Never seen Avatar or Avengers:Endgame, and never read Harry Potter (despite being just about the perfect age to read it).

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 3d

53. Caverns of the Snow Witch, Ian Livingstone

Revisiting the favourite Fighting Fantasy book from my youth. A really great story in this one, really feels like a proper D&D campaign. Brick hard though, some nasty fights that I couldn't see a way to avoid (that damn Birdman!)

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 3d

52. Maigret Sets a Trap, Georges Simenon

More Maigret fun - a more conventional structure (serial killer on the loose), but still great stuff.

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