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Jonathan Crossfield
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Storyteller, writer, editor, content marketer, consultant & presenter. In short: professional pedant, prattler & procrastinator. AVAILABLE FOR WORK.
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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 3h
… final.final.final.doc
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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 8h
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 9h
"The chancellor approved it"
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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 8h
Oh wow am I excited for this!
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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 8h
A1 and DEADLINE, two of Britain’s seminal comics magazines are soon set to return as one, straight from the heart of UK comics counterculture.

https://downthetubes.net/be-ready-a1-and-deadline-are-back/
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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 18h
I adore Planet of Evil and don’t know why it isn’t more highly regarded. Granted, it’s bookended by stone-cold classics but it’s peak Hinchcliffe Who.
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d
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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 1d
Refusians! No wait … Spiridons … no wait, Visians … ooh how about Xoannon’s creatures?

Well, at least any of these would be really quick to do!
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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 2d
Day 3 of the Janissary Band ear worm.

Just found myself repeatedly whistling it in the kitchen, which for anyone unfamiliar with the track, is only going to draw strange looks from people.

This time next week, I'll probably be whistling the electronic soundscapes from The Sea Devils!
#DoctorWho
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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 3d
For reasons I cannot fathom, I've had Peter Howell's Janissary Band from the 1983 Doctor Who – The Music soundtrack album stuck in my head for 2 days!

Sure, I played that album to death in 1983-4, but not in 20+ yrs. And I haven't watched Snakedance in ages.

This is how the Mara gets in, innit.
Album cover to Doctor Who - The Music (1983). Why does Peter Davison look so creepy? Does he know Janissary Band will randomly ear worm me 42 years later?
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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 3d
For reasons I cannot fathom, I've had Peter Howell's Janissary Band from the 1983 Doctor Who – The Music soundtrack album stuck in my head for 2 days!

Sure, I played that album to death in 1983-4, but not in 20+ yrs. And I haven't watched Snakedance in ages.

This is how the Mara gets in, innit.
Album cover to Doctor Who - The Music (1983). Why does Peter Davison look so creepy? Does he know Janissary Band will randomly ear worm me 42 years later?
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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 3d
The arts are also about critical thinking, which doesn’t make for a compliant electorate willing to accept any guff they throw at you.

Why not the sciences too, you ask? Surely that’s about reasoned thought?

Look at where the tech bros have gotten us. The Right aren’t worried about the sciences.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 4d
The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 3d
This is proper telly.
Old 1970s cathode ray tv on a stand with castors.
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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · 4d
So many thoughts... so little time!

#ADHDAwarenessMonth
Title: “Sharing Thoughts.” Top panel labeled “Non-ADHD”: One person carefully holds a single green butterfly taken from labeled jars of “Experiences,” “Ideas,” and “Opinions,” calmly sharing it with another person who listens with interest. Bottom panel labeled “ADHD”: The ADHD character joyfully releases a colorful swarm of butterflies—orange, blue, purple, pink, yellow, and green—representing many thoughts and ideas all at once, while the other person looks startled and overwhelmed. Copyright 2020 Dani Donovan (@danidonovan), adhddd.com.
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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 5d
Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 5d
Just before he died I got to chat to Brian Clemens as part of a press junket for a remaster of The Professionals.

After about 3 polite-but-bored answers I said:

"Okay would you mind if we spent the rest of this talking about 'Bugs'? That show BLEW ME AWAY as a teen."

And he was so happy he cried.
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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 5d
This YouTube comment probably deserves more than three favs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzL8...
I once worked for Radio Rentals and one time I had to speak to a customer on the phone after he sent a complaint letter. After he spent about half an hour moaning about the service that he had received, I said I noticed it said he was a composer on his letter head and his name was Christopher Gunning. So I said are you the Christopher Gunning who did the music for the BBC’s Day of the Triffids, and he said he was, so I proceeded to tell him how amazing I thought his music was for the series, which I have loved ever since I first watched it aged 10. Well his whole attitude immediately changed and I think I really made his day. True story.
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 6d
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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 7d
Aristotle pretty much had a name for everything. I love how so much of his work is still highly applicable today.

(Not his theory on how eels reproduced though …)
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 8d
hold on just a second here
blue sky screen shot from Bill Kuchman saying "Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin" quote posted by Adam Weinstein saying "Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities." 31 USC 5114(b) blue sky screen shot from Aaron Rupar saying "Trump has not been seen in public since Tuesday and had no public events on his calendar today"
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 8d
“It is not clear if Mr. Trump strangling the puppy violates the It Is Quite Clearly Against the Law to Strangle Puppies Act of 1922”
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 8d
It is not clear that Mr. Trump’s image can be featured on a coin. An 1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy. Trump admin is planning to do it anyway.
By Alan Rappeport

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin
www.nytimes.com
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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 8d
That’s what threw me for a bit. But the cryptic clue confirmed my initial gut.

George would probably raise an eyebrow and describe it as a whim of Ann’s, before deciding she preferred the countryside once more.
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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 8d
Ooh, George Smiley’s house? Neat!
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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 8d
are swifties okay
patreegs on instagram says You need to listen to it once completely through while driving a car alone. Then you have to listen to it indoors lying down. THEN you pick a few and listen to them WHILE you read the lyrics on your computer. You WILL find that you misheard some of the lyrics. DONT panic. Its COMPLETELY normal and healthy. DONT think about taylors life yet and DONT try to make sense of the lyrics and DONT panic if you dont like some of the songs at first bc your brain will LEARN to like them (evolutionary mechanism). THEN, continue listening on loop as needed but have 2-3 that you sometimes just listen to on repeat. THEN re-emerge into the world and connect with others about their response to the text. THEN apply practically to your life. THEN examine how they fit into taylors. At this point you can start to lightly engage in online discourse if that feels healthy and safe.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 8d
i had an opinion about the new tswift record after all
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“Eldest Daughter" is a symptom of my overall issue with Taylor Swift: the scale of her music just feels fucking off. In 2025, she's no longer a lovelorn kid singing about Romeo and Juliet; she's a 35-year-old billionaire who's played sold out stadiums all over the world. She's Taylor Swift. That's her name. Damn near every living person knows who she is, and she's singing about the internet? About the fucking comments section? When she sings "I'm not a bad bitch," is she even aware that she's lying, that she's worshipped by more girls and women than almost anybody else? Even her love songs feel incorrect to me on these grounds. When I think about the real circumstances of her life, I just start wondering where the songs are about the housekeepers, the assistants, the cooks, the drivers, and every other person who's changed her life way more than the man in the Musso and Frank's booth in "Elizabeth Taylor." I struggle to trust her as the lyrical steward of ordinary human experiences. I am certain it's been many years since she's had one the way I have them, with all the waiting for a table that implies, and the navigating of customer service phone trees, the dithering over $35 travel insurance that I can never decide if I actually need, the frantic emails about unpaid freelance invoices, the trip back to the grocery store for the thing I forgot when I went earlier in the day, and all the other boring crap I have to do because I can't buy up other people's lifetimes so they have to do it for me.
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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 8d
Is it just me or is the new “Liquid Glass” thing in iOS 26 a bit shit?
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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 9d
Because nothing says “deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize” more than aggressive entitlement and implied threats of retribution.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 9d
Absolutely insane push notification lol
Bloomberg Today 23m ago Donald Trump said it will be "a big insult" if he doesn't win the Nobel Peace Prize. Some fear the outcome if he's overlooked.
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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 9d
I need to dig this out for a rewatch tomorrow. That entire first series of Talking Heads is top tier.
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 9d
In memoriam...
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 9d
A cartoon from my new book, 'Physics for Cats'. Out next week: www.tomgauld.com
A scientist stands in front of an enormous contraption "I created this device to test my theory that our entire reality is a simulation, but the readings I'm getting suggest something much worse" "What?" Asks a second scientist. "We're living in a cartoon!" Says the first. "Does it at least have a good punchline?" says the second. The fiorst scientist carefully looks over the data, then eventually replies "Nope" From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - order it at www.tomgauld.com
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