Tim Kimber

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Sub-editor by day. Author by night. Dead by dawn.

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Then they came for the sarcastic people and I was like oh great that's exactly what we need right now well done to all concerned.

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hope the bullet okay

Watching my one guilty pleasure, Celebrity Gogglebox, and consistently delighted by everyone on there

#nowspinning Aussie funk band The Bamboos, who we saw this year at the Jazz Cafe in Camden this spring, and who were tight as a drum

#nowspinning soulful disco trio Say She She's album Silver, on glorious clear vinyl. Sounds fantastic

One of the greatest rap voices… Roots Manuva being a frigging poet in Clockwork www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwbH...

Roots Manuva - Clockworkwww.youtube.com YouTube video by Ricky Rugburn

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my children's program idea is 10 years old this year... if only I'd've engaged in crowdfunding back then... 😔

Google needs to seriously sort itself out. A simple search, and the top two hits are AI puke

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Remarkable coincidence when someone is showing you some incubators. (From The New Yorker, July 1st 2024)

First episode of the new season of The Bear manages to be more pretentious and self-indulgent than the food

I remember when Trudeau did this years ago and we in the UK looked on in national befuddlement at the sheer wizardry of it

He...seems to be appointing people who actually know stuff about the area?? What sorcery is this?

I know it's raining… www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUNq...

Here Comes The Sun (Remastered 2009)www.youtube.com Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupHere Comes The Sun (Remastered 2009) · The BeatlesAbbey Road℗ 2009 Calderstone Productions Limited (a division of...

LBC presenters keep saying Penny Mordaunt "fell on her sword" – but that's not what happened?

I guess the blob voted her out. #liztruss

Vorderman absolutely slaying on channel 4

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It's done I've finished previewing every seat in the country. All 650 in this post, with my final predictions. It's 77,000 words long. I need a lie down. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/a...

All 650 seat previews in one placeopen.substack.com With final predictions

It is quintessential of this Tory government to have set the date for the election, and gone out to make measly short-term bets on it at Paddy Power, while Labour's campaign director caught wind something was afoot and instead bought all the ad space on newspaper websites for the day of the election

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Starmer has the opportunity to do something quite funny on the steps of Downing St on Friday

Oh today is going to be a doozy – sunny day, Tories out, and won £100 in the bonds! Lottery ticket?

One. More. Sleep.

Another two story rejections this week. Starting to consider the all-too-plausible notion that I'm just not very good at writing things…

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Zadie Smith, tribune. www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

‘Here comes the sun’: Zadie Smith on hope, trepidation and rebirth after 14 years of the Torieswww.theguardian.com I used to shock US audiences with my stories of Britain’s excellent, accessible universities and healthcare. Then the Conservatives ruined the country. Now real change is on the horizon

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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

the sky crashed at Planet Hollywood

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Love this misspelling on a BBC News report about Belfast Zoo's elephants being retired to a facility in the Netherlands. Picturing the elephants complimenting one another's energy levels. "Hey man, you picked up that log like it was nothin'!" "Still got plenty of snap in the celery!"

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Top marks.

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This is the very lowest of posting etiquette – great long obnoxious nothingness that consumes your feed – and the kind of thing that went out of fashion on BBS forums

The Tories have really become a parody of themselves

Yay. But also, this really is the shittest tournament format imaginable #euro2024 www.theguardian.com/football/art...

England qualify for last 16 at Euro 2024 after Albania beaten by Spainwww.theguardian.com England went through to the last 16 at Euro 2024 on Monday night without kicking a ball, as did France and the Netherlands

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“And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon Englands mountains green…”