Area Man
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@areamancm.bsky.social
· Apr 12
BLACK MIRROR 1848:
Dagguereotypes allow widows to see ghostly countenance of their beloved after death
Deposition of monarchs leads to people electing leaders who still make terrible decisions
Too much use of the telegraph leads to people no longer gathering around the pianoforte
Dagguereotypes allow widows to see ghostly countenance of their beloved after death
Deposition of monarchs leads to people electing leaders who still make terrible decisions
Too much use of the telegraph leads to people no longer gathering around the pianoforte
Fantastic bit from Philippe Spall on his role as Anne Boleyn’s executioner in Wolf Hall in this www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘The sword swung so close to her head!’ What it’s like to commit one of TV’s most unforgivable murders
From Claire Foy’s Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall to Adriana in The Sopranos, we meet the actors who had to bump off TV legends … and then face the wrath of the public
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Fantastic bit from Philippe Spall on his role as Anne Boleyn’s executioner in Wolf Hall in this www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Picturing a whiteboard at Domino’s head office with “chicken” crossed out.
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Picturing a whiteboard at Domino’s head office with “chicken” crossed out.
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I remember my Dad and I pausing on this image and laughing out arses off for a good five minutes every time as my bemused Mum looked on. It's the little things you miss.
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I remember my Dad and I pausing on this image and laughing out arses off for a good five minutes every time as my bemused Mum looked on. It's the little things you miss.
Casino is one of those films I periodically rewatch and always find rewarding, this is a pretty good explanation of why variety.com/2025/film/co...
On the 30th Anniversary of Its Release, It’s Time ‘Casino’ Took Its Rightful Place as a Scorsese Classic
Maybe now, on its 30th anniversary, Scorsese's daunting Vegas Mob drama can finally come out from behind the shadow of "GoodFellas."
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Casino is one of those films I periodically rewatch and always find rewarding, this is a pretty good explanation of why variety.com/2025/film/co...
Looks like some Doctor Who filming going on down the road from me. Glad to see the cancellation of the Disney deal hasn’t led to budgetary constraints
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Looks like some Doctor Who filming going on down the road from me. Glad to see the cancellation of the Disney deal hasn’t led to budgetary constraints
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As one of the BBC’s most extraordinary series returns to iPlayer to mark its fortieth anniversary, Jude Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically minded crime thriller
Why #EdgeOfDarkness makes so much sense in 2025
buff.ly/nIF9mdh
Why #EdgeOfDarkness makes so much sense in 2025
buff.ly/nIF9mdh
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
As one of the BBC’s most extraordinary series returns to iPlayer to mark its fortieth anniversary, Jude Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically minded crime thriller
Why #EdgeOfDarkness makes so much sense in 2025
buff.ly/nIF9mdh
Why #EdgeOfDarkness makes so much sense in 2025
buff.ly/nIF9mdh
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It's Christmas Eve in one month. Why not solve at least one of your Christmas present headaches with this fascinating book of mine about 80s pop history?
#IntoTheGroove
#IntoTheGroove
It's got everyone in it from Paul Young to Young Marble Giants, and from Salt-N-Pepa to Chas & Dave.
#IntoTheGroove, my new book, the month-by-month story of 1980s pop, out on Thurs 2 Oct from @eandtbooks.bsky.social. Pre-order from everywhere and anywhere, eg: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/into...
#IntoTheGroove, my new book, the month-by-month story of 1980s pop, out on Thurs 2 Oct from @eandtbooks.bsky.social. Pre-order from everywhere and anywhere, eg: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/into...
November 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
It's Christmas Eve in one month. Why not solve at least one of your Christmas present headaches with this fascinating book of mine about 80s pop history?
#IntoTheGroove
#IntoTheGroove
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And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
thequietus.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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HERE WE GO, LADS!
The Terrance Dicks Archive. Oh so many stories to tell! What a pleasure! What an honour!
HAPPY #DoctorWhoDay TO ALL OF YOU AT HOME!
#doctorwho #doctorwhoday #drwho
The Terrance Dicks Archive. Oh so many stories to tell! What a pleasure! What an honour!
HAPPY #DoctorWhoDay TO ALL OF YOU AT HOME!
#doctorwho #doctorwhoday #drwho
It’s a very happy #DoctorWhoDay from us - we’re delighted to announce we’ve successfully acquired the archive of Whoniverse legend Terrance Dicks 😲 Read more at the link:
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
November 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
HERE WE GO, LADS!
The Terrance Dicks Archive. Oh so many stories to tell! What a pleasure! What an honour!
HAPPY #DoctorWhoDay TO ALL OF YOU AT HOME!
#doctorwho #doctorwhoday #drwho
The Terrance Dicks Archive. Oh so many stories to tell! What a pleasure! What an honour!
HAPPY #DoctorWhoDay TO ALL OF YOU AT HOME!
#doctorwho #doctorwhoday #drwho
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NEW! #FirstLastAnything ep 33: Stand-up and novelist Mark Watson (@watsoncomedian.bsky.social) joins me this week to talk about how music helped to inspire his crafts of writing and performing. Plus his first, last and wildcard purchases! Join us! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/16/f...
FLA 33: Mark Watson (16/11/2025)
For over twenty years now, the writer-performer Mark Watson has sustained two parallel careers. In one of them, he has pursued stand-up comedy to great acclaim, both in live settings and via broadc…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
NEW! #FirstLastAnything ep 33: Stand-up and novelist Mark Watson (@watsoncomedian.bsky.social) joins me this week to talk about how music helped to inspire his crafts of writing and performing. Plus his first, last and wildcard purchases! Join us! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/16/f...
Delighted to see the BBC’s Micro Men, a dramatic adaptation and potted history of the home computer boom of the early 80s, through the lens of Sinclair Research and Acorn Computers - would have loved it to be longer but a treat all the same youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM?...
Micro Men - 720p (2009)
YouTube video by gimpymoo
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Delighted to see the BBC’s Micro Men, a dramatic adaptation and potted history of the home computer boom of the early 80s, through the lens of Sinclair Research and Acorn Computers - would have loved it to be longer but a treat all the same youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM?...
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Just made this. I’m a widely respected intellectual, you know
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Just made this. I’m a widely respected intellectual, you know
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Last month marked the 30th anniversary of Coldcut’s Journeys by DJ: 70 Minutes of Madness, probably the greatest mix CD ever released. Am listening again and it’s an incredible piece of work and is still astonishingly contemporary 30 years later on.soundcloud.com/ps4Tq5I0Ji2Q...
070 - Coldcut '70 Minutes Of Madness – Journeys By DJ (1995)
Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/theclassicmixcdseries
Buy it here: www.discogs.com/marketplace?master_id=21043&ev=mb
soundcloud.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Last month marked the 30th anniversary of Coldcut’s Journeys by DJ: 70 Minutes of Madness, probably the greatest mix CD ever released. Am listening again and it’s an incredible piece of work and is still astonishingly contemporary 30 years later on.soundcloud.com/ps4Tq5I0Ji2Q...
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Post an image that will always make you laugh
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Post an image that will always make you laugh
I see Simon Jenkins has written a history of the USA - can’t we just put it in the pulping machine and cut out the middleman
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I see Simon Jenkins has written a history of the USA - can’t we just put it in the pulping machine and cut out the middleman
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The last 2.5 years of Bluesky were a steady build up to "criticism of Jeffrey Epstein's writing ability is ableist." Congrats everyone, we did it.
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The last 2.5 years of Bluesky were a steady build up to "criticism of Jeffrey Epstein's writing ability is ableist." Congrats everyone, we did it.
My theory about this justly famous post is it will continue to hold until, one day, and apparently for no special reason, it won’t
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
My theory about this justly famous post is it will continue to hold until, one day, and apparently for no special reason, it won’t
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This is like…something for piles of rope? No, that’s not it
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This is like…something for piles of rope? No, that’s not it
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FENTON!!!!
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
FENTON!!!!
