Charles EP Murphy
@cepmurphy.bsky.social
Started writing, nobody has succeeded in making him stop. Self publisher & jobbing writer, most books available: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Charles-E.P.-Murphy/e/B015UTGDJW
Not on twitter; rarely checking DMs atm
Not on twitter; rarely checking DMs atm
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Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) considers "Operation Legacy", the destruction of many files related to the #BritishEmpire upon #decolonisation (in particular the #MalayanEmergency ) and #WhatIf policy had been different. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/what-if...
What if there was no Operation Legacy?
By Gary Oswald.If you spend any time at all online looking for people talking about the British Empire (and honestly if you're reading this, you probably do), you'll have heard about Operation Legacy ...
www.sealionpress.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) considers "Operation Legacy", the destruction of many files related to the #BritishEmpire upon #decolonisation (in particular the #MalayanEmergency ) and #WhatIf policy had been different. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/what-if...
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India was gonna become independent in one form or another in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Afrikaner nationalism was already on the rise in South Africa and black national consciousness rising in both West Africa and the Caribbean.
Half of the WW2 revisionism you see in the UK about not entering the war is primarily about the delusion that had the UK not entered the war, they would have magically retained the entire Empire
The degree to which Britain and France deluded themselves in the 40s and 50s into believing that they could retain colonial rule for decades to come under the guise of training African peoples for self-rule is massively understated in histories of the Cold War imo.
January 20, 2026 at 11:15 PM
India was gonna become independent in one form or another in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Afrikaner nationalism was already on the rise in South Africa and black national consciousness rising in both West Africa and the Caribbean.
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The degree to which Britain and France deluded themselves in the 40s and 50s into believing that they could retain colonial rule for decades to come under the guise of training African peoples for self-rule is massively understated in histories of the Cold War imo.
The Cold War in Africa was in many ways the US and Europe being asked, would you be willing to be a bit less racist to oppose the Soviet Union and the US and Europe responding: no.
January 20, 2026 at 7:13 PM
The degree to which Britain and France deluded themselves in the 40s and 50s into believing that they could retain colonial rule for decades to come under the guise of training African peoples for self-rule is massively understated in histories of the Cold War imo.
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This is a definition of "need" that I am not familiar with.
January 20, 2026 at 8:42 PM
This is a definition of "need" that I am not familiar with.
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Absolute corker of a @2000ad.bsky.social In Orbit Every Wednesday podcast TOMORROW as Molcher & I seemed to perfectly align in a caffeine-fueled frenzy about FIREKIND and the benefits of the saucy middle bit of the the Drugs/Dragon venn diagram.
Don't miss it!
youtu.be/ICrznt8BR8Y?...
Don't miss it!
youtu.be/ICrznt8BR8Y?...
Did Avatar steal from 2000 AD? – In Orbit Every Wednesday
YouTube video by 2000 AD
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January 20, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Absolute corker of a @2000ad.bsky.social In Orbit Every Wednesday podcast TOMORROW as Molcher & I seemed to perfectly align in a caffeine-fueled frenzy about FIREKIND and the benefits of the saucy middle bit of the the Drugs/Dragon venn diagram.
Don't miss it!
youtu.be/ICrznt8BR8Y?...
Don't miss it!
youtu.be/ICrznt8BR8Y?...
Me on the block button when a 'product marketing' bot follows me:
January 20, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Me on the block button when a 'product marketing' bot follows me:
"We'd be happy with the public being disgusted with us, but we're not suffering bsky posts about how that extra £120m could be spent on a Leeds tram."
I enjoy the implication here that somewhere between the £630mn the UK pays to the UN (to sit on a board with Vladimir Putin) and the mooted c£750mn on the Board of Peace it becomes impossible to justify.
January 20, 2026 at 9:28 PM
"We'd be happy with the public being disgusted with us, but we're not suffering bsky posts about how that extra £120m could be spent on a Leeds tram."
www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/what-if... "So what if, for whatever reason, Whitehall simply never enforces those rules... the complete archives are handed over to the new governments. How does this transparency effect how the British Empire is viewed?" #alternatehistory from Gary Oswald
What if there was no Operation Legacy?
By Gary Oswald.If you spend any time at all online looking for people talking about the British Empire (and honestly if you're reading this, you probably do), you'll have heard about Operation Legacy ...
www.sealionpress.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 9:14 PM
www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/what-if... "So what if, for whatever reason, Whitehall simply never enforces those rules... the complete archives are handed over to the new governments. How does this transparency effect how the British Empire is viewed?" #alternatehistory from Gary Oswald
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Also I still want Hideaki Anno to follow Shin Godzilla, Shin Ultraman, and Shin Masked Rider with a Shin Anderson franchise* and I bet he would too
* preferably Stingray so it can be called ShinGray
* preferably Stingray so it can be called ShinGray
January 20, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Also I still want Hideaki Anno to follow Shin Godzilla, Shin Ultraman, and Shin Masked Rider with a Shin Anderson franchise* and I bet he would too
* preferably Stingray so it can be called ShinGray
* preferably Stingray so it can be called ShinGray
I miss Jack Staff.
January 20, 2026 at 12:50 AM
I miss Jack Staff.
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Lots of people in the replies/quotes making Gerry Anderson comparisons here and like - yeah, what else do you think tokusatsu special effects designers grew up watching?
Being tokupilled means going from "wow these effects are pretty corny" to "this is literally the coolest fucking thing I've ever seen in my life".
January 19, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Lots of people in the replies/quotes making Gerry Anderson comparisons here and like - yeah, what else do you think tokusatsu special effects designers grew up watching?
shoutout to the poor bastard who posted "why would you want posts to go viral, that SUCKS man" and had that post go viral
January 20, 2026 at 12:32 AM
shoutout to the poor bastard who posted "why would you want posts to go viral, that SUCKS man" and had that post go viral
deadline.com/2026/01/blak... good luck, you mad bastards, because - like its spiritual successor Farscape - this is a really specific tangle of things and I'm not sure how you reboot it without them!
‘Blake’s 7’ Reboot In The Works From ‘The Last Of Us’ Director Peter Hoar & ‘A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder’ Exec Matthew Bouch
A 'Blake's 7' reboot is coming from 'The Last Of Us' director Peter Hoar and Matthew Bouch and their Multitude Productions indie.
deadline.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:24 PM
deadline.com/2026/01/blak... good luck, you mad bastards, because - like its spiritual successor Farscape - this is a really specific tangle of things and I'm not sure how you reboot it without them!
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I regret to inform you all that I'm back with more Gerry Anderson opinions.
gerryanderson.com/blogs/blog/t...
gerryanderson.com/blogs/blog/t...
Top 8 Gerry Anderson Episodes of the New Year
Happy New Year, Anderfans! With so many classic works from Gerry and Sylvia Anderson beginning their broadcast runs during September, plenty of New Years throughout the 1960s and 1970s saw a fresh adv...
gerryanderson.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:38 PM
I regret to inform you all that I'm back with more Gerry Anderson opinions.
gerryanderson.com/blogs/blog/t...
gerryanderson.com/blogs/blog/t...
Primate (2026) dir. Johannes Roberts
January 19, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Primate (2026) dir. Johannes Roberts
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Rachel Reid writing Heated Rivalry in 2019: behold this detailed timeline of Shane and Ilya's relationship from 2008 to 2017
Rachel Reid writing Long Game in 2022: this book begins two years after HR and spans about a year
Me: doesn't that mean-
RR: NOPE! There will be no date markers whatsoever!
Rachel Reid writing Long Game in 2022: this book begins two years after HR and spans about a year
Me: doesn't that mean-
RR: NOPE! There will be no date markers whatsoever!
January 18, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Rachel Reid writing Heated Rivalry in 2019: behold this detailed timeline of Shane and Ilya's relationship from 2008 to 2017
Rachel Reid writing Long Game in 2022: this book begins two years after HR and spans about a year
Me: doesn't that mean-
RR: NOPE! There will be no date markers whatsoever!
Rachel Reid writing Long Game in 2022: this book begins two years after HR and spans about a year
Me: doesn't that mean-
RR: NOPE! There will be no date markers whatsoever!
Dredd-but-it's-Art-Deco elseworlds tale Megatropolis in the Megazine was brilliant in its first book and it's brilliant now, and why it's brilliant is Kenneth Niemand and the late Dave Taylor made a tale that works perfectly well as its own dieselpunk future dystopia-cop tale if you ignore the Dredd
January 19, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Dredd-but-it's-Art-Deco elseworlds tale Megatropolis in the Megazine was brilliant in its first book and it's brilliant now, and why it's brilliant is Kenneth Niemand and the late Dave Taylor made a tale that works perfectly well as its own dieselpunk future dystopia-cop tale if you ignore the Dredd
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Being tokupilled means going from "wow these effects are pretty corny" to "this is literally the coolest fucking thing I've ever seen in my life".
January 19, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Being tokupilled means going from "wow these effects are pretty corny" to "this is literally the coolest fucking thing I've ever seen in my life".
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Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
If comics without violence
Cause you some snores
Well, Zarjaz has a flashback
[kisses fingers]
TO THE ROBOT WARS!
GRUDNIGHT!
Cause you some snores
Well, Zarjaz has a flashback
[kisses fingers]
TO THE ROBOT WARS!
GRUDNIGHT!
January 19, 2026 at 8:30 PM
If comics without violence
Cause you some snores
Well, Zarjaz has a flashback
[kisses fingers]
TO THE ROBOT WARS!
GRUDNIGHT!
Cause you some snores
Well, Zarjaz has a flashback
[kisses fingers]
TO THE ROBOT WARS!
GRUDNIGHT!
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hands up everyone else who had the Three Investigators book where they're teenagers and go to the comic convention to deal with late-80s industry machinations
January 29, 2024 at 7:40 AM
hands up everyone else who had the Three Investigators book where they're teenagers and go to the comic convention to deal with late-80s industry machinations
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COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
Millennials Brits! Now America's soft cultural power has taken a whack, now is the time for us to stand tall and admit we liked Mister Blobby! WE'RE TAKING HIM BACK
January 19, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Millennials Brits! Now America's soft cultural power has taken a whack, now is the time for us to stand tall and admit we liked Mister Blobby! WE'RE TAKING HIM BACK
Nervous, shaking Lib Dem source by 2nd Feb: "I made it up and it came true anyway."
Lib Dem source: “Just 45 more Tory defections until Ed becomes Leader of the Opposition.”
January 18, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Nervous, shaking Lib Dem source by 2nd Feb: "I made it up and it came true anyway."
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Another Tory gone to Reform then.
January 18, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Another Tory gone to Reform then.