Mark Nelson
@zardoz67.bsky.social
Sometime editor, book reader, TV watcher, film goer, wine drinker & learning actor. Leggy Mountbatten in a previous life on the bad place.
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Happy last day at work until 5 January to all who celebrate
December 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Happy last day at work until 5 January to all who celebrate
Watched Stand By Me. Again. Cried. Again. Like the first time I saw it at Liverpool Odeon in 1987. Same cinema I saw The Princess Bride almost a year later.
December 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Watched Stand By Me. Again. Cried. Again. Like the first time I saw it at Liverpool Odeon in 1987. Same cinema I saw The Princess Bride almost a year later.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars, LOTR, or Marvel. #moviesky #filmsky
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December 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Tourism? Who needs it?
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Tourism? Who needs it?
Good Morning Captain by Slint. The only time a song has ever given me the same a visceral reaction as a good ghost story or horror film. Profundly unsettling and the scream of 'I Miss You' at the end is pure nightmare fuel
Q3, #HorrorWritersChat.
Us writers are weird creatures. We can't help but shake and quake over a perfect line, but all the senses will get you, if you're open to it.
And music is a story in the ears. Just like a perfume is a story for the nose.
But can you translate it into writing? Do you?
Us writers are weird creatures. We can't help but shake and quake over a perfect line, but all the senses will get you, if you're open to it.
And music is a story in the ears. Just like a perfume is a story for the nose.
But can you translate it into writing? Do you?
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Good Morning Captain by Slint. The only time a song has ever given me the same a visceral reaction as a good ghost story or horror film. Profundly unsettling and the scream of 'I Miss You' at the end is pure nightmare fuel
Have just listened to The Wedding Present's Maxi EP. Now in their 40th year and 30 years after Mini they continue to push all my buttons. Latest lineup on the current tour is the best I've seen them. Maxi is the first recorded output from that iteration. It's fucking great. The boy Gedge, etc.
December 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Have just listened to The Wedding Present's Maxi EP. Now in their 40th year and 30 years after Mini they continue to push all my buttons. Latest lineup on the current tour is the best I've seen them. Maxi is the first recorded output from that iteration. It's fucking great. The boy Gedge, etc.
My entire political outlook now is the Conservatives have fucked it, Labour have fucked it so why not give someone else the opportunity to fuck it. Not them obviously.
December 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
My entire political outlook now is the Conservatives have fucked it, Labour have fucked it so why not give someone else the opportunity to fuck it. Not them obviously.
The Verdict is a Christmas film
December 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The Verdict is a Christmas film
I can’t stand cricket. Don’t see the point. But the people who do like cricket only ever seem to be disappointed by cricket.
I can’t think of another sport where constant disappointment seems to be hard-wired in on an existential level
I can’t think of another sport where constant disappointment seems to be hard-wired in on an existential level
December 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I can’t stand cricket. Don’t see the point. But the people who do like cricket only ever seem to be disappointed by cricket.
I can’t think of another sport where constant disappointment seems to be hard-wired in on an existential level
I can’t think of another sport where constant disappointment seems to be hard-wired in on an existential level
On ‘In The Wee Small Hours’ Sinatra croons that he’s so lonely that he has to scratch his back himself. He must have arms like an Orangutan
December 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
On ‘In The Wee Small Hours’ Sinatra croons that he’s so lonely that he has to scratch his back himself. He must have arms like an Orangutan
In further cutting-edge old man news, the Blue Note Tone Poet release of Sinatra's 'In The Wee Small Hours' is utterly gorgeous. Sounds amazing for something 70 years old
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In further cutting-edge old man news, the Blue Note Tone Poet release of Sinatra's 'In The Wee Small Hours' is utterly gorgeous. Sounds amazing for something 70 years old
Listened to Geese as it seems to be on everyone's best of 2025 list. Wish I'd listened to some geese instead. And yes, I do realise that I am Principal Skinner here
December 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Listened to Geese as it seems to be on everyone's best of 2025 list. Wish I'd listened to some geese instead. And yes, I do realise that I am Principal Skinner here
Anyone who subscribes to Liz Truss's podcast for the LOLs is feeding the monster. She should be ignored like all other cranks and conspiracy theorists
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Anyone who subscribes to Liz Truss's podcast for the LOLs is feeding the monster. She should be ignored like all other cranks and conspiracy theorists
I’m shocked to discover that Nigel Farage has always been an unpleasant individual with views that many people would consider racist
December 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I’m shocked to discover that Nigel Farage has always been an unpleasant individual with views that many people would consider racist
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I don't Spotify because, well, evil but my son's listening age is the same as my actual age and his top artist is R.E.M. and I feel that my work here is done.
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I don't Spotify because, well, evil but my son's listening age is the same as my actual age and his top artist is R.E.M. and I feel that my work here is done.
BBC1 Xmas day TV has always been shit. Always. Light entertainment hellscape. Because they know no-one is watching, they are either pissed, asleep or both. The tolerable stuff has always been on BBC2 and, of late, BBC4 anyway
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
BBC1 Xmas day TV has always been shit. Always. Light entertainment hellscape. Because they know no-one is watching, they are either pissed, asleep or both. The tolerable stuff has always been on BBC2 and, of late, BBC4 anyway
Now that I know that hot girls read books I have come to the conclusion that this is why they also hit curbs
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Now that I know that hot girls read books I have come to the conclusion that this is why they also hit curbs
What I’m wearing to the BlueSky Christmas Party
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
What I’m wearing to the BlueSky Christmas Party
Who cares if Die Hard is a Christmas Movie or not - it is. Wake In Fright wants a word
December 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Who cares if Die Hard is a Christmas Movie or not - it is. Wake In Fright wants a word
As all the album of the year lists come out and to show my finger is firmly on the pulse my favourite album of the year was released in 1992. It actually angers me that I lived 33 years without knowing of its existence. Utterly beautiful. Utterly sad.
December 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
As all the album of the year lists come out and to show my finger is firmly on the pulse my favourite album of the year was released in 1992. It actually angers me that I lived 33 years without knowing of its existence. Utterly beautiful. Utterly sad.
Reposted by Mark Nelson
Q Magazine's list of the 50 Worst Albums is a list of albums that are broadly speaking far more interesting than *any* magazine's list of the 50 Best Albums.
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Q Magazine's list of the 50 Worst Albums is a list of albums that are broadly speaking far more interesting than *any* magazine's list of the 50 Best Albums.