Tim Watkins

[Tim Watkins @_timwatkins]

Happy two year anniversary to the time we made the Daily Mail clutch their pearls and have to be revived with smelling salts

[Tim Watkins @_timwatkins]

@AdamKoszary “What’s the best time to post this?”

8 years ago when organic social media followed linear time?

[Tim Watkins @_timwatkins]

@AdamKoszary So you’re saying it’s only down to the exact time of day you post, and that’s the secret to success? Gotcha 🫡

[Tim Watkins @_timwatkins]

@thomas_violence When you’ve got Burgess Rawson AND https://t.co/sMy4gpX7FC you can afford to say goodbye to Apple and Disney

[Tim Watkins @_timwatkins]

People keep asking, what’s my secret fitness regime? It’s simple:

🌈 major depressive disorder 🌈

[QLD Conservation Council @QLDConservation]

Climate change is global but this is local: temperature change in Queensland, 1888-2022. A reminder of what we're working to stop, on #ShowYourStripes Day.

Download and share your own #WarmingStripes: https://t.co/Ua3fqU8Avr - thanks to @ed_hawkins at @UniofReading

[Tim Watkins @_timwatkins]

They should have sent a poet

[Tim Watkins @_timwatkins]

@pez_sez @OfficialBlueyTV “Coconuts have water in them!” has become our parental shorthand code for someone being on the edge of a breakdown

[Tim Watkins @_timwatkins]

I don’t have much going in the next few days so I thought it would be a good time to tweet on behalf of the people of Brisbane for a week. Follow our journey: will anyone fail a preflight covid test this time? Will I lose a child in Changi airport?

[WeAreBrisbane - ??? @WeAreBrisbane]

Hi all - I’m Tim and I’ll be your twitter captain this week. It’s a weird week for me because on Wednesday I’m (hopefully) bringing my family with me from England to Brisbane. Wish us luck!

[Tim Watkins @_timwatkins]

9 years, 4 kids, 4 jobs, 2 houses, and it’s time for us to go home. Thanks everyone, it was really fun. I’ll miss you. Come and visit us where the cars have fuel, the shops have groceries, and the beaches have sand.

🇦🇺💚💛

[Tim Watkins @_timwatkins]

Please talk to someone if you need to. I talked to my gp first and they were pretty good. My friends and colleagues have been great. But I probably wouldn’t have done it if other people hadn’t shared their experiences, so I’m sharing mine.

[Tim Watkins @_timwatkins]

In the spirit of openness and sharing and stuff: I have depression. I am depressed. I am now medicated and that has been up and down but it has been and continues to be quite hard to carry on with.

[Tim Watkins @_timwatkins]

The more I’ve withdrawn from normal life (or the 2020/2021 version of normal) the harder it seems to get back to it. I’m sure one day I will. This week? Next month? In 2 years? In the meantime I’m sorry and thank you.

[Tim Watkins @_timwatkins]

Off into the world today, always together, side by side

[Tim Watkins @_timwatkins]

Man bursts into tears. Says, ‘But doctor... I am the social media manager from the University of Reading.’ Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.

[Tim Watkins @_timwatkins]

Heard joke once: man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says social media seems pointless and cruel. Says he feels bad for contributing to a toxic environment where bad behaviour is rewarded.

[Tim Watkins @_timwatkins]

Doctor says ‘treatment is simple. The CASE Higher Education Social Media Conference is in town and the social media manager from the University of Reading is presenting. Go and see him. That should pick you up.’