David Matthewman
@djm4.bsky.social
Sheffield,-UK-based liberal leftie geek, into SFF generally and Dr Who specifically. Likes cycling and birdwatching, but very much playing both on easy mode. LOFC fan in exile. Pronouns he/him/himself
Also on Mastodon as @[email protected]
Also on Mastodon as @[email protected]
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Just arrived in Miami, FL for the Miami Book Fair. First bird I saw was a Muscovy duck! There were three standing in green around the highway ramp goes around.
I was like, “ooooh, who is that!”, then I googled. They’re common here and look like this:
I was like, “ooooh, who is that!”, then I googled. They’re common here and look like this:
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Just arrived in Miami, FL for the Miami Book Fair. First bird I saw was a Muscovy duck! There were three standing in green around the highway ramp goes around.
I was like, “ooooh, who is that!”, then I googled. They’re common here and look like this:
I was like, “ooooh, who is that!”, then I googled. They’re common here and look like this:
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"Even pretending it makes me feel sexy and primal..."
#ICYMI this week's stunning guest blog is about a topic close to my heart: #breeding!
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/childfr...
#ICYMI this week's stunning guest blog is about a topic close to my heart: #breeding!
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/childfr...
November 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"Even pretending it makes me feel sexy and primal..."
#ICYMI this week's stunning guest blog is about a topic close to my heart: #breeding!
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/childfr...
#ICYMI this week's stunning guest blog is about a topic close to my heart: #breeding!
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/childfr...
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Regret to inform you all that at the tender age of 40 I am becoming a train guy due to the magnetic physicality of anti-Nazi reverse-heist film THE TRAIN (1964)
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Regret to inform you all that at the tender age of 40 I am becoming a train guy due to the magnetic physicality of anti-Nazi reverse-heist film THE TRAIN (1964)
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President Elect of the @libdems.org.uk the wonderful @joshbabarinde.bsky.social says trans rights in parliament (and gets a non answer from the government spokes)
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
President Elect of the @libdems.org.uk the wonderful @joshbabarinde.bsky.social says trans rights in parliament (and gets a non answer from the government spokes)
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I would put it like this. Minority communities and the majority of the majority community have integrated v.well. However, a significant minority of the majority community and a significant majority of the political class are stubbornly refusing to integrate, and that is where the real problem lies.
Fundamentally, the UK is a massive success story on integration and most of the anxiety around it from the right should be treated as in insincere concern trolling it actually is.
Remember integration? That thing voters "really, really" care about? Where's that in the latest plans?
My column:
My column:
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I would put it like this. Minority communities and the majority of the majority community have integrated v.well. However, a significant minority of the majority community and a significant majority of the political class are stubbornly refusing to integrate, and that is where the real problem lies.
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*blinks*
If it’s any consolation, this is the first time I’ve heard about this…
I might have repeatedly memory-holed all references to it.
I have never liked the Time Lords making Zoe and Jamie forget their experiences with the Doctor, but this case might be an exception.
If it’s any consolation, this is the first time I’ve heard about this…
I might have repeatedly memory-holed all references to it.
I have never liked the Time Lords making Zoe and Jamie forget their experiences with the Doctor, but this case might be an exception.
November 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM
*blinks*
If it’s any consolation, this is the first time I’ve heard about this…
I might have repeatedly memory-holed all references to it.
I have never liked the Time Lords making Zoe and Jamie forget their experiences with the Doctor, but this case might be an exception.
If it’s any consolation, this is the first time I’ve heard about this…
I might have repeatedly memory-holed all references to it.
I have never liked the Time Lords making Zoe and Jamie forget their experiences with the Doctor, but this case might be an exception.
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I’m reading the John Higgs Doctor Who book as I’m falling asleep and there seems to be a whole section about a nearly-produced Troughton sex farce on the lines of “The Worm that Turned”, and I can only assume:
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I’m reading the John Higgs Doctor Who book as I’m falling asleep and there seems to be a whole section about a nearly-produced Troughton sex farce on the lines of “The Worm that Turned”, and I can only assume:
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One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads
The Government's proposals for performative cruelty to migrants are awful, and will do nothing to unite Britain. To the extent that immigration is dividing Britain at all, it is not immigration itself, but a largely unfounded _fear_ of immigration that the Government is only stoking further.
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The Government's proposals for performative cruelty to migrants are awful, and will do nothing to unite Britain. To the extent that immigration is dividing Britain at all, it is not immigration itself, but a largely unfounded _fear_ of immigration that the Government is only stoking further.
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Forgot to announce it, but I sold a short story to @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social which has weird time aliens, scholars and the fall of empires. Not sure when the book is coming out, but it's going to be one to watch.
November 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Forgot to announce it, but I sold a short story to @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social which has weird time aliens, scholars and the fall of empires. Not sure when the book is coming out, but it's going to be one to watch.
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This is a thing for British SF. Write it down and stick it on your wall because I'm tired of post oil British sf where the UK runs out of oil, and road, rail and air freight ends and this is a crisis.
We have *canals*, *navigable waterways* and a coastline around which you can *sail* cargo ships.
We have *canals*, *navigable waterways* and a coastline around which you can *sail* cargo ships.
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
This is a thing for British SF. Write it down and stick it on your wall because I'm tired of post oil British sf where the UK runs out of oil, and road, rail and air freight ends and this is a crisis.
We have *canals*, *navigable waterways* and a coastline around which you can *sail* cargo ships.
We have *canals*, *navigable waterways* and a coastline around which you can *sail* cargo ships.
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Amal’s audiobook for The River Has Roots, her novel about two sisters who make music together, has *actual music played and sung by her and her sister* and you should listen to it.
I'm so happy more people will be made aware of Gem Carmella's brilliant narration & Steve Wagner & the Macmillan Audio folks' excellent work producing it! & it's honestly amazing to get to share this kind of recognition with my sister, because we sang & played music together on it.
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Amal’s audiobook for The River Has Roots, her novel about two sisters who make music together, has *actual music played and sung by her and her sister* and you should listen to it.
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Why did Keir Starmer and the Labour Party decide to destroy EVERYTHING they could have been - to hand over the uk to the far right with such dainty gloves on - utterly disgusted by it all
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social - many people in the UK are NOT Nazis
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social - many people in the UK are NOT Nazis
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Why did Keir Starmer and the Labour Party decide to destroy EVERYTHING they could have been - to hand over the uk to the far right with such dainty gloves on - utterly disgusted by it all
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social - many people in the UK are NOT Nazis
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social - many people in the UK are NOT Nazis
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BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
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Watching DEATH BY LIGHTNING & feeling so many things, one of which is an absolute bafflement at why in an otherwise stalwartly atmospheric period production every giant banner is computer lettered
November 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Watching DEATH BY LIGHTNING & feeling so many things, one of which is an absolute bafflement at why in an otherwise stalwartly atmospheric period production every giant banner is computer lettered
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"As another row on immigration and refugees awaits parliament, it is clear the problem is not immigrants, but politicians themselves."
Great piece, great closing line from @stellacreasy.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Great piece, great closing line from @stellacreasy.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
ICE-style raids on Britain's streets: that's all Labour's brutal asylum reforms will achieve | Stella Creasy
If we want to ‘stop the boats’, we need to stop the BS when it comes to what creates refugees, and how to respond to them, says Labour MP Stella Creasy
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"As another row on immigration and refugees awaits parliament, it is clear the problem is not immigrants, but politicians themselves."
Great piece, great closing line from @stellacreasy.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Great piece, great closing line from @stellacreasy.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The line “vote for us or you’ll get the far right” doesn’t really work when the policies you’re enacting are barely distinguishable from what the far right propose.
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The line “vote for us or you’ll get the far right” doesn’t really work when the policies you’re enacting are barely distinguishable from what the far right propose.
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Congratulations!!!
November 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Congratulations!!!
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"I never thought the facing-eating leopard, that i helped eat faces, and laughed when he ate those faces, would someday....."
MTG: “.. “I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world. .. The man I supported and helped get elected.”
@mediaite.com #GA14
www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...
@mediaite.com #GA14
www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...
November 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"I never thought the facing-eating leopard, that i helped eat faces, and laughed when he ate those faces, would someday....."
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Watching Edge of Darkness. (it's on iplayer, fully recommended). In episode 2.
Just heard a posh bugger pronounce "twat" "twot", which I had to pause the show to laugh at.
Just heard a posh bugger pronounce "twat" "twot", which I had to pause the show to laugh at.
November 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Watching Edge of Darkness. (it's on iplayer, fully recommended). In episode 2.
Just heard a posh bugger pronounce "twat" "twot", which I had to pause the show to laugh at.
Just heard a posh bugger pronounce "twat" "twot", which I had to pause the show to laugh at.
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Finished @tashasuri.bsky.social's Isle in the Silver Sea
Wow
It's a story of a knight and a witch but it's also a story about stories and myths and change, and how some people will try to make things unchanging and smaller (and it is *very* pointed)
Just
Wow
(Also the murder couple is 🔥)
Wow
It's a story of a knight and a witch but it's also a story about stories and myths and change, and how some people will try to make things unchanging and smaller (and it is *very* pointed)
Just
Wow
(Also the murder couple is 🔥)
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Finished @tashasuri.bsky.social's Isle in the Silver Sea
Wow
It's a story of a knight and a witch but it's also a story about stories and myths and change, and how some people will try to make things unchanging and smaller (and it is *very* pointed)
Just
Wow
(Also the murder couple is 🔥)
Wow
It's a story of a knight and a witch but it's also a story about stories and myths and change, and how some people will try to make things unchanging and smaller (and it is *very* pointed)
Just
Wow
(Also the murder couple is 🔥)
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HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!
Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.
www.medicalrepublic.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!
There should be global freedom of movement. It should be as easy in border-crossing terms for me to travel from Sheffield to Mumbai as for me to travel from Sheffield to Manchester. And for someone in Mumbai to travel to Sheffield.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
There should be global freedom of movement. It should be as easy in border-crossing terms for me to travel from Sheffield to Mumbai as for me to travel from Sheffield to Manchester. And for someone in Mumbai to travel to Sheffield.
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Get in, losers, we’re going to the Cambrian Explosion.
ZOMG LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SHALE
Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Get in, losers, we’re going to the Cambrian Explosion.