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Spinky’s Mama

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Lawyer, civil servant, Londoner, Doctor Who fan, maritorious, mother of a spinky, God-botherer. Mostly doomscrolling, telly chat and terrible jokes. All views my own. She/Her.

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · Apr 16

Cis is a category of woman. Trans is a category of woman. We have overlapping and unique experiences. And we have to stand together.

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 5h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Specific and limited way” (advisory)

“Dangerous Dogs Act 1991” (drafting)

Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 5h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I've bought this resource..."

ᴷⁱᵐᴮᴼᴼ👻 @ohyertiz.bsky.social · 5h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Full Moon. Skeleton staff.

Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 7h

Raised Catholic here. Can confirm that retired priests only post like this when they are properly, righteously fighting mad.

Seriously, actual convicts on death row aren’t denied the Blessed Sacrament. For actual Catholics, ICE are literally rejecting Christ.

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 14h

I was raised an atheist, and have never had a strong personal connection to any religion.

This is remarkably powerful language that even affected me emotionally.

I can't imagine what it is doing to anyone raised Catholic.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 17h

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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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 19h

Go well, queen

in Looking for Mr Goodbar, a poor film but probably her greatest performance

in her lovely late-career rom-com, Something’s Gotta Give, opposite Jack Nicholson

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 20h

With Triple Sec?

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The Black Archive @blackarchive.co.uk · 1d

Out now in paperback, ebook and the usual combo deal - THE MYSTERIOUS PLANET, Black Archive #79, written by Jez Strickley!

A much under-rated story and Bob Holmes' last full script, MP is packed with duality - and for once, it's not just his dodgy double acts!

obversebooks.co.uk/product/79-t...

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Obverse Books @obversebooks.co.uk · 1d

Get your own copy so that you can listen and read along!

obversebooks.co.uk/product/78-t...

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited Tick Pic.

Peter Serafinowicz as Ben Edlund’s square-jawed superhero in Amazon’s eight-part live-action adaptation. He is wearing a blue spandex suit and matching helmet with integrated mask complete with stylised tick antennae.

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 1d

Great article this, on a condition that’s getting some much-needed attention. Featuring the work as informed by her lived experiences by the mighty @drjanegregory.bsky.social and her comedian husband #SteveHall

Must you chew so loud? The trials of suffering from ‘misophonia’

The strange emerging science behind a little-understood medical condition

on.ft.com

Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 1d

For me, and for the moment, I would be thankful for the halting of direct death. Motivation comes into whether that peace lasts.

Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 1d

When Pat Mills and John Wagner did this they made sure that the bear could win.

Image from the 2000AD comic strip SHAKO!…The Only Bear on the CIA Death List! Every episode basically involved SHAKO meeting a new threat and being hurt by it before overcoming and eating it.

Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 1d

Mine are:

Call Me (Aretha Franklin) 10/10
Call Me (Blondie) 10/10

Not scored to win, I honestly think they’re both peerless.

Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 1d

I honestly think these are both GOATs:
Call Me (Aretha Franklin) 10/10
Call Me (Blondie) 10/10

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 1d

Great thread. I can add Peter Davison writing about his father:

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs
Autobiography by Peter Davison

I more like him than I cared to admit while he was alive. I stand like he did, sit like he did, I look at my hands and see his, I look in the mirror and see his features, even though our colouring was so completely different. While I longed to look more like him, I realise I turned out as perfectly as he could have wished.
Here was a man from the Caribbean who wanted nothing more than to be accepted as British, who had a son who had made a name for himself playing the typical Eng-lishman.

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs
Autobiography by Peter Davison

But of course it did matter. What to us was a taste of the exotic was, to my father a bothersome distraction in his quest to be accepted as an exemplary British citizen.
The fact that his only son was born with blond hair and blue eyes, courtesy of inheriting my mother's dominant Caucasian genes, unlike my sisters, made the transition complete. Over the years however, his West Indian heritage became more than a distraction, and while we never knew of it until later, there's no doubt he suffered discrimination and rejection at the hands of Mother England that he loved. When Enoch Powell gave his 'Rivers of Blood' speech and my father had to stand in line and register as an alien, having been eventually accepted by my mother's extended family and friends, probably did nothing to soften his feelings.

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 1d

For the diminutive service Ogrons.

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 1d

Is Paddington Street in Marylebone too far? If not, Berut Bistro is fantastic.

BerutBistro

Berut Bistro: Authentic Lebanese restaurant in London serving delicious traditional Lebanese cuisine in a stylish modern setting. Perfect for food lovers seeking a unique dining experience.

www.berut.co.uk

Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve always had great meals at Honey & Smoke- main courses top out at £30 .

Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2d

Off to the in-laws in deeply Catholic Warwickshire, so looking forward to this Sunday’s homily.

“Were the 95 theses not the original click bait? Did number 6 not indeed shock you? Was Luther but the forerunner of that annoying guy on Reddit who won’t stop banging on about ‘globalists’?”

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2d

#notmycat

I am delighted to confirm that Cicero is indeed looking for you.

Cicero, my lovely colleague Larry’s lovely grey-blue cat, is peering intently at the viewer, over the screen of a computer saying ‘Looking for you’. There are cat training books on a coffee table behind Cicero.

Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2d

Now, now, we should applaud the WSJ for giving a writing opportunity to that guy who’s just out of that coma he’d been in since 1968.

Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2d

Reinforcements for the amphibious units.

Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2d

If it makes you feel better, although the cover has a distinct true crime vibe, it’s a novel where after her harrowing beginning the kitten learns how to hunt and become independent.

Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2d

Me: Target’s most upsetting cover was that Terror of the Autons reprint.

Target’s non-Doctor Who ranges: hold my beer.

Cover of a book published under the Target imprint:

ABANDONED!
The moving story of a kitten abandoned on wild and lonely Dartmoor
G.D. GRIFFITHS

The cover has a black kitten sitting in grassy undergrowth, looking sorrowful.

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 3d

I’m Sparks/Who, Jim’s Suede/Who. Is there anyone who’s equally Sparks/Suede/Who?

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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 3d

Was going to mention Wymondham in Norfolk. But my favourite Norfolk pronunciation is Happisburgh (Hays-borough). And if you pronounce it Happis-berg, the ghost of William Ager gets out of his grave and belts you one.

Sooz Bee @soozbee.bsky.social · 3d

My favorite English place name mind-bender is that Wymondham, Norfolk, is Win dum, but Wymondham, Leics, is WYE mon dum. Maybe the good folks of Wymondham, Leics, figured the Leicestershire bit was already too much confusion for folks.

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