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KINDAFREE | IRI @denofsin.bsky.social · 1h

Niall R. Thotep @psychonaut99.bsky.social · 1h

Only series-long story arc is the deteriorating mental condition of his companion, who finally breaks down completely and is then murdered by the Doctor in the finale.

Niall R. Thotep @psychonaut99.bsky.social · 1h

Story should follow the same basic format: Dr arrives in place. Discovers shenanigans. Solves shenanigans. Only difference is that his method for solving shenanigans is murder.

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Niall R. Thotep @psychonaut99.bsky.social · 1h

He's hundreds of years old, keeps dying in traumatic ways but never actually dies, every member of his species is dead and all his friends either leave or die.

The next Doctor should be a drug-addicted irreparably damaged serial killer and he should be played by Sean Harris.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 21h

Tell me your most unhinged Doctor Who opinion. I mean, if you’re a fan, they’re likely all unhinged anyway.

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Niall R. Thotep @psychonaut99.bsky.social · 1d

Watching Bright was a rollercoaster for me. From "the makers of Shadowrun should sue," through the "makers of Shadowrun should not sue, to avoid being associated with this" all the way to "this is actually good and I am enjoying it."

Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · Aug 18

Sad news everyone, I’m officially pulling the plug on Brightsiders, my super fan podcast for the 2017 movie Bright. I still feel like there were many interesting topics left to discuss but after 7 years of weekly episodes I’ve learned that no one has ever listened to the show.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 1d

Novels are just comics consisting of one picture and an overwritten caption.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Niall R. Thotep @psychonaut99.bsky.social · 1d

One food I can't not eat: biscuits

One film i will always watch if I stumble across it on telly: Wrath of Khan

One song I will always get up and dance to: there is no such song.

Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 1d

One food I can't not eat - Roast Chicken dinner.

One film I will always watch if I stumble across it on telly - Jaws

One song I will always get up and dance to - Such A Feeling by Bizarre Inc.

The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll cheer this up with one food I can’t not eat, no matter how hungry I am, one film I will always watch when I stumble across it on telly and one song I have to get up and dance to.

Pizza. God, I love pizza.

Jaws. I’ve had some pointless late nights just because I’ve flicked onto ITV4.

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Niall R. Thotep @psychonaut99.bsky.social · 1d

The demise of the short, cheap paperback ruined all fiction.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Niall R. Thotep @psychonaut99.bsky.social · 1d

Corollary: litfic authors periodic attempts to write genre fiction, in the belief that their Superior Writing Skillz will elevate their book above the plebian genre mass, will usually be shit.

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Niall R. Thotep @psychonaut99.bsky.social · 1d

In fairness, a suspended sentence on an early guilty plea for a s20 GBH when the defendant has no previous isn't unusual.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 4d

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 3d

There was a period in history during which full-plate armour was so impregnable, and ransoming back captured nobles so lucrative, that the knights could treat warfare as a game while their men-at-arms got slaughtered in the mud.

I think about that a lot when I look at modern politics.

Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 3d

If we survive this, and Democrats are able to take back power, I guarantee you we will have to endure think-piece after think-piece that demand the rest of us reach out, stop shaming, and forgive fascists and the crimes they’ve committed. I absolutely guarantee it.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 3d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Niall R. Thotep @psychonaut99.bsky.social · 4d

See, that was our plan all along. All the imperialism and shit was just a really long game to give half the world an epic holiday every year.

If you think about it, we're the good guys here.

Niall R. Thotep @psychonaut99.bsky.social · 6d

"A photograph you say? OK. Just give me a moment to make myself look like a character in a new TV drama in which I am definitely not the hero."

Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 6d

There’s so many more in the article…

archive.is/c0z8X

Four young men, all Gen Z Tories, posed against a plain backdrop.

Top left: Danny Mosley, 19, with curly hair, draped in a Union Jack flag and holding a can of Dr. Pepper, an ID badge hanging from a blue lanyard around his neck.

Top right: Rhydian Lloyd-Francis, 15, wearing a navy double-breasted suit and striped tie, stands formally with a serious expression.

Bottom left: Harry Cansdale, 21, in glasses and a dark suit with a patterned blue tie and small flag pin, with a blue lanyard around his neck.

Bottom right: Miller Casson, 17, with long hair, wearing a blue plaid suit, lavender shirt, and patterned tie, holding a booklet.

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Niall R. Thotep @psychonaut99.bsky.social · 6d

Radio 4 sitcom Ed Reardon's Week, following the life of a permanently angry not-quite-failed author who scraped a living ghostwriting stuff like this, was one of the greatest things the station ever produced and seeing this has reminded me that it's not on any more, and now I feel a bit sad.

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 6d

FB Memories reminds me of the time those lads who were selling a bowl of Lucky Charms for six quid a pop got a book deal and produced the laziest 'Will this do?' thing ever published.

Cereal Killer. Like serial killer. Those people who murder people. Geddit?

If you put a gun to my head on a rollercoaster while defusing a bomb I could still think of something better than what they've farted onto this page.

Cut out masks of the two perpetrators of the cafe should you wish to look like a prick or a twat.

Niall R. Thotep @psychonaut99.bsky.social · 6d

Im from England, so all of them, pretty much.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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David M. Bennett MD (FAAOS, FPOSNA, DABOS) @davembmd.bsky.social · 7d

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. @aptshadow.bsky.social @abraham.bsky.social

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 7d

Tolkien could have listened to the first five Black Sabbath albums.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 8d

I do think Bari Weiss is important for gender equality in that she’s this big dummy who always seems like she’s waiting for her parents to pick her up despite being like 40 and those people are almost always men

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Niall R. Thotep @psychonaut99.bsky.social · 9d

Bring Me The Bollocks Of Alfredo Garcia
The Wild Bollocks
Hard Bollocks

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 10d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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