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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 1h

If you care monomaniacally enough about one thing the delightfully interconnected universe will almost always reward you (and punish anyone you chat with).

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 1h

I don't think he watched much ITV in the Summer of Death and Adams had recently approached him for Who so he may have been more inclined to tune in...

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 1h

Only one of them features the Iron Maiden from The King's Demons and The Black Adder (but with a different face bunged on, apparently it's identifiable by a dent on the body).

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 1h

Both secretly partially written by writers who made their names doing jolly clever comic radio thingies, often dragooning scientific ideas into witty dialogue.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 23h

Apparently, a bit of a meme from the Sky One comedy series Brassic.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes, when faced with the awesome majesty of the natural world, one feels an urge to leave, like Ozymandias King of Kings, some marker in eternity of one's eye-blink human life.
"I was here. I defied Nature, I made my own rules. I was known. I shall be remembered."

A sign in the woods. It prohibits fire barbecues and camping.
Across the top someone has chosen to inform us that "Carl Slater bums dogs".

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, right- "livee" is definitely an actual word, fatfingers.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 2d

Even in the relatively anonymous realm of online discourse, you can always identify young people with their appallingly callow opinions and comtemptible lack of livee experience by their misguided belief that Sweep is obsessed with sausages rather than the bones that tradition dictates.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 2d

I liked The Other One a lot.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 2d

Left eye to be fair.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 2d

On episode three of The Hack. As a fan of hard to spot moles in TV drama I have to applaud the pale one they've glued under David Tennant's right eye to replicate the one the real Nick Davies has.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 3d

Digital on-screen graphics or delightful woofers?

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 3d

I really want a preorder link before I wake up.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 3d

@garygillatt.bsky.social I think you can take the rest of the month off after "Nietzsche versus nurture".

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 4d

I stalled on this for decades. I'd been a bit perturbed by part of a reading on Jackanory about the Shadow but bought it because the doublet and hosey cover suggested something Narniaish. Literally began again last week. Near end now and worry we won't hit the Immanent Grove imminently. Good stuff.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 6d

Crackerjack Councilor speaks out!

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 7d

A writer writes. Absolutely not about the process of getting a film made.
Garth Marenghi: I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.