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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · May 31

If you've got a hankering for Russell Tovey, he read the audiobook of my tenth Doctor novel The Eyeless.

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Doctor Who

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. At the heart of the ruined city of Arcopolis is the Fortress. It's a brutal structure placed there by one of the sides in a devastating intergalactic war th...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 46m

Here's a snippet from the MIT president's letter to ED

Screenshot from link that reads: The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 1h

OMG, 'telling him he won' is literally now the plan.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 1h

Not in Heaven. On Earth, fuck yeah.

Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 2h

I really need people to not be cynical about this. Charlie Kirk is in Heaven, riding horses with Jesus. Rejoice at the news.

Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 2h

This whole thing is just his care assistants serving him his pudding and telling him of course he's better than Obama at everything.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

BARTIROMO: On your point about the Nobel Peace Prize, do you think maybe the reason Trump won't get it is because you had to get the application in before Jan. 31, and that was only 11 days into his term?

SCALISE: Look, they can play technicalities. They gave it to Obama for just getting elected.

Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 2h

In other news, cats in Heaven.

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Cats in Heaven

YouTube video by Heaven is real and FUN

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 2h

Good news, everyone. Jesus gave Charlie Kirk a horse ranch in Heaven.

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Evangelical: I Saw Charlie Kirk Riding Horses With Jesus In Heaven Where Jesus Also "Gave Him A Horse Ranch" - Joe.My.God.

“This morning I was praying and going over my notes. The lord showed me Charlie in heaven. Like I said, I don’t know anything about Charlie so I hope somebody puts it in the chat or lets me know what ...

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Kieran Pell @lefthandeddalek.bsky.social · 3h

Today @docoho44.bsky.social and I talk about an Enemy, a Weapon and a Doctor.

The Eyeless by @lanceparkin.bsky.social

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Hamster Book Club - The Eyeless by Lance Parkin (featuring Kieran Pell)

Podcast Episode · A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast · 10/10/2025 · 1h 30m

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 4h

Tell him he won, it's not like he'd check.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 18h

... but only in the same way you could look at the relationship between watching Marvel movies, eating apples while pregnant, and autism.

Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 18h

... but it would be trivially easy to look at autism / circumcision / paracetamol rates country by country to find patterns.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 18h

No, that doesn't work. In the US, about half of newborn boys are circumcised. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09...

Study finds newborn male circumcision rates in US dropped between 2012 and 2022

Scientific evidence supporting the health benefits of male circumcision—surgical removal of the foreskin from the penis—dates back hundreds of years to observations made by physicians of their circumc...

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 18h

It's not even scientifically illiterate, it just doesn't get that far along. It's not even pretending to be cause and effect. It's two people whose brains don't work noticing there's a thing and also another thing.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 18h

They've switched to 'if a kid takes Tylenol after they're circumsised it ... ' there is no actual medical terminology to finish that sentence. Removing foreskin + taking a tiny, tiny amount of paracetamol = autism. How?

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 18h

Ironically, just trying to make this make sense is giving me a headache.

Last week it was pregnant women taking Tylenol affected foetal development. Now it's ... what?

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Health Secretary Kennedy, Trump link circumcision to autism through Tylenol

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. noted boys who are circumcised have higher rates of autism, which he said could be a result of Tylenol.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 21h

Trump hasn't been told what his China policy is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump on what he wants out of his meeting with President Xi: "We'll see. I mean, I just heard this a little while ago before we came in. So I haven't been briefed on it."

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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 21h

The Secretary of Health and Human Services does not know that babies don't grow inside placentas

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 1d

Businessmen think they're the samurai the villagers need to fight off bandits, but usually there aren't any bandits until the businessmen show up.

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Former DOGE engineer says he was 'surprised' by 'how efficient' the government is

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 1d

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
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GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 1d

He doesn't die in Hamlet, and he's definitely there in spirit.

Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 1d

Our lot has been persecuting their lot since ... well. why not ask them?

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 1d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

A brave Hungarian peasant girl.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump's mouth starts drooping as he struggles to stay awake during this antifa roundtable

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