Jon Arnold
@jonarnold.bsky.social
Black Archives, Strangers in Space, Busting Balls mainly. Former Westeros charcoal. Too old, too Welsh, too bad.
#TheTwen2ie5
Honourable Mentions! 50 of these beauties as I’ve gone for the special rule. Already sent these off to Arron for logging, so getting them in on here while I remember.
Honourable Mentions! 50 of these beauties as I’ve gone for the special rule. Already sent these off to Arron for logging, so getting them in on here while I remember.
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
#TheTwen2ie5
Honourable Mentions! 50 of these beauties as I’ve gone for the special rule. Already sent these off to Arron for logging, so getting them in on here while I remember.
Honourable Mentions! 50 of these beauties as I’ve gone for the special rule. Already sent these off to Arron for logging, so getting them in on here while I remember.
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 50: One more song…
GREATEST HITS by JOCKSTRAP (2022) (12)
You know the feeling when you hear a song and it feels precision designed to be everything you love about pop and you go and play it at least thirty straight times like you’re 17 again? That.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_1-x...
GREATEST HITS by JOCKSTRAP (2022) (12)
You know the feeling when you hear a song and it feels precision designed to be everything you love about pop and you go and play it at least thirty straight times like you’re 17 again? That.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_1-x...
Jockstrap - ‘Greatest Hits’ (Official Video)
YouTube video by Jockstrap
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November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 50: One more song…
GREATEST HITS by JOCKSTRAP (2022) (12)
You know the feeling when you hear a song and it feels precision designed to be everything you love about pop and you go and play it at least thirty straight times like you’re 17 again? That.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_1-x...
GREATEST HITS by JOCKSTRAP (2022) (12)
You know the feeling when you hear a song and it feels precision designed to be everything you love about pop and you go and play it at least thirty straight times like you’re 17 again? That.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_1-x...
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I've had an idea...
Someone told me that cos there are nearly 800 episodes of the Simpsons, it's possible to describe all other shows with a clip from a Simpsons episode. So with that in mind, I'm going to use a freezeframe/gif to describe every classic Dr Who serial 😁 1 season per day...
Someone told me that cos there are nearly 800 episodes of the Simpsons, it's possible to describe all other shows with a clip from a Simpsons episode. So with that in mind, I'm going to use a freezeframe/gif to describe every classic Dr Who serial 😁 1 season per day...
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I've had an idea...
Someone told me that cos there are nearly 800 episodes of the Simpsons, it's possible to describe all other shows with a clip from a Simpsons episode. So with that in mind, I'm going to use a freezeframe/gif to describe every classic Dr Who serial 😁 1 season per day...
Someone told me that cos there are nearly 800 episodes of the Simpsons, it's possible to describe all other shows with a clip from a Simpsons episode. So with that in mind, I'm going to use a freezeframe/gif to describe every classic Dr Who serial 😁 1 season per day...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 49
HOPE by ARLO PARKS (2021)
For all it’s a terrific decade musically, even at its best, pop has often been inward looking, about the individual. The generosity of this at a time of necessary isolation and disconnection was perfect.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-b...
HOPE by ARLO PARKS (2021)
For all it’s a terrific decade musically, even at its best, pop has often been inward looking, about the individual. The generosity of this at a time of necessary isolation and disconnection was perfect.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-b...
Arlo Parks - Hope (Official Video)
YouTube video by ArloParksVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 49
HOPE by ARLO PARKS (2021)
For all it’s a terrific decade musically, even at its best, pop has often been inward looking, about the individual. The generosity of this at a time of necessary isolation and disconnection was perfect.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-b...
HOPE by ARLO PARKS (2021)
For all it’s a terrific decade musically, even at its best, pop has often been inward looking, about the individual. The generosity of this at a time of necessary isolation and disconnection was perfect.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-b...
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Free for All, with a bunch of links to other pieces that have snuck outside the paywall in honour of the day. It's the start of the 1990 BSB Doctor Who repeat weekend, over at Psychic Paper.
Free for All, with a bunch of links to other pieces that have snuck outside the paywall in honour of the day. It's the start of the 1990 BSB Doctor Who repeat weekend, over at Psychic Paper.
BSB - Part One: "I don't know why you say 'Goodbye' I say 'Hello'."
Interviewed for the New Jersey Network’s The Making of Doctor Who in 1988, producer John Nathan-Turner explained his wish to leave the series by saying it...
buttondown.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
buttondown.com/cooray_smith...
Free for All, with a bunch of links to other pieces that have snuck outside the paywall in honour of the day. It's the start of the 1990 BSB Doctor Who repeat weekend, over at Psychic Paper.
Free for All, with a bunch of links to other pieces that have snuck outside the paywall in honour of the day. It's the start of the 1990 BSB Doctor Who repeat weekend, over at Psychic Paper.
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A special one for Doctor Who Day: a great long post on the novelisation of one of the best stories ever, Genesis of the Daleks: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/11/doct... #books #booksky #doctorwho
Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks, by Terrance Dicks
0tralala.blogspot.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A special one for Doctor Who Day: a great long post on the novelisation of one of the best stories ever, Genesis of the Daleks: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/11/doct... #books #booksky #doctorwho
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Why have Big Finish not had a boxset of Reg Cranfield Chronicles. Each one centreing on a mystery behind every gate on his beat.
November 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Why have Big Finish not had a boxset of Reg Cranfield Chronicles. Each one centreing on a mystery behind every gate on his beat.
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It’s a very happy #DoctorWhoDay from us - we’re delighted to announce we’ve successfully acquired the archive of Whoniverse legend Terrance Dicks 😲 Read more at the link:
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
November 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
It’s a very happy #DoctorWhoDay from us - we’re delighted to announce we’ve successfully acquired the archive of Whoniverse legend Terrance Dicks 😲 Read more at the link:
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
Celebrating Doctor Who day in the appropriate style.
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Celebrating Doctor Who day in the appropriate style.
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Happy Doctor Who day! To celebrate here is the greatest of Doctor Who images: Verity Lambert using a Mechanoid as a lighter.
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Happy Doctor Who day! To celebrate here is the greatest of Doctor Who images: Verity Lambert using a Mechanoid as a lighter.
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My latest article: BBC PA Douglas Camfield, frustrated at not being offered a place on the director's course, investigated joining the SAS via the TA. Until fate intervened. You will also discover the third time he worked for Waris Hussein...
michaelseely.substack.com/p/douglas-ca...
michaelseely.substack.com/p/douglas-ca...
Douglas Camfield in Doctor Who and the SAS
In 1964, BBC PA Douglas Camfield was at a crossroads in his life. Will he become a BBC director or will he join the SAS? Or will he do both? With brand new information, the story can finally be told.
michaelseely.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
My latest article: BBC PA Douglas Camfield, frustrated at not being offered a place on the director's course, investigated joining the SAS via the TA. Until fate intervened. You will also discover the third time he worked for Waris Hussein...
michaelseely.substack.com/p/douglas-ca...
michaelseely.substack.com/p/douglas-ca...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 48
VAMPIRE by OLIVIA RODRIGO (2023)
Normally I’m a ‘Olivia doing pop punk better than anyone in the 2000s’ kinda guy but today I’m a ‘shards of rage poking through classy stage school exterior’ kinda guy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlPN...
VAMPIRE by OLIVIA RODRIGO (2023)
Normally I’m a ‘Olivia doing pop punk better than anyone in the 2000s’ kinda guy but today I’m a ‘shards of rage poking through classy stage school exterior’ kinda guy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlPN...
Olivia Rodrigo - vampire (Official Video)
YouTube video by OliviaRodrigoVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 48
VAMPIRE by OLIVIA RODRIGO (2023)
Normally I’m a ‘Olivia doing pop punk better than anyone in the 2000s’ kinda guy but today I’m a ‘shards of rage poking through classy stage school exterior’ kinda guy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlPN...
VAMPIRE by OLIVIA RODRIGO (2023)
Normally I’m a ‘Olivia doing pop punk better than anyone in the 2000s’ kinda guy but today I’m a ‘shards of rage poking through classy stage school exterior’ kinda guy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlPN...
There are people on this train listing things better than watching cricket. Given their imaginative opening gambits were ‘watching paint dry’, ‘punching a brick’ and ‘catching a train to Milton Keynes’ I’m not too sympathetic to their inability to appreciate one of life’s great pleasures.
November 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
There are people on this train listing things better than watching cricket. Given their imaginative opening gambits were ‘watching paint dry’, ‘punching a brick’ and ‘catching a train to Milton Keynes’ I’m not too sympathetic to their inability to appreciate one of life’s great pleasures.
Australia basically won via two extraordinary individual efforts from Starc and Head; the latter of which was a calculated gamble that hit the jackpot.
On the one hand, encouraging as a team, on the other worrying with Cummins and Hazlewood to come back in. #theashes
On the one hand, encouraging as a team, on the other worrying with Cummins and Hazlewood to come back in. #theashes
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Australia basically won via two extraordinary individual efforts from Starc and Head; the latter of which was a calculated gamble that hit the jackpot.
On the one hand, encouraging as a team, on the other worrying with Cummins and Hazlewood to come back in. #theashes
On the one hand, encouraging as a team, on the other worrying with Cummins and Hazlewood to come back in. #theashes
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 47
SICKO by CONFIDENCE MAN (2024)
They *are* the mood and the music. The sleaziest six minutes you’d ever have at a club.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=StDb...
SICKO by CONFIDENCE MAN (2024)
They *are* the mood and the music. The sleaziest six minutes you’d ever have at a club.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=StDb...
Confidence Man - SICKO (Official Video)
YouTube video by Confidence Man
m.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 47
SICKO by CONFIDENCE MAN (2024)
They *are* the mood and the music. The sleaziest six minutes you’d ever have at a club.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=StDb...
SICKO by CONFIDENCE MAN (2024)
They *are* the mood and the music. The sleaziest six minutes you’d ever have at a club.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=StDb...
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Helllo Everyone! This week on the Maran Chess Club @melvinpena.bsky.social joins me to talk about the Big Finish audio drama, The Peterloo Massacre by Paul Magrs.
#DoctorWho
#DoctorWho
November 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Helllo Everyone! This week on the Maran Chess Club @melvinpena.bsky.social joins me to talk about the Big Finish audio drama, The Peterloo Massacre by Paul Magrs.
#DoctorWho
#DoctorWho
If Cummins and Hazlewood had been fit this far probably wouldn’t have gone more than a day and a half.
Going to be a brutal series for the batters. #ashes
Going to be a brutal series for the batters. #ashes
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
If Cummins and Hazlewood had been fit this far probably wouldn’t have gone more than a day and a half.
Going to be a brutal series for the batters. #ashes
Going to be a brutal series for the batters. #ashes
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In response to a question I was asked yesterday, the official Black Archive policy on AI is: "Raston Warrior Robots will have to pry the manuscripts out of our cold, dead hands before AI is used in any aspect of creating the Black Archives."
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
In response to a question I was asked yesterday, the official Black Archive policy on AI is: "Raston Warrior Robots will have to pry the manuscripts out of our cold, dead hands before AI is used in any aspect of creating the Black Archives."
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 46
ALIEN SUPERSTAR by BEYONCÉ (2022)
The Queen reasserts herself for a new decade: the musical boasts backed by one of her sleekest dancefloor bangers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnHC...
ALIEN SUPERSTAR by BEYONCÉ (2022)
The Queen reasserts herself for a new decade: the musical boasts backed by one of her sleekest dancefloor bangers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnHC...
Beyoncé | Alien Superstar | DVD The Renaissance World Tour (HD)
YouTube video by DVDTOURVEVO
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November 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 46
ALIEN SUPERSTAR by BEYONCÉ (2022)
The Queen reasserts herself for a new decade: the musical boasts backed by one of her sleekest dancefloor bangers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnHC...
ALIEN SUPERSTAR by BEYONCÉ (2022)
The Queen reasserts herself for a new decade: the musical boasts backed by one of her sleekest dancefloor bangers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnHC...
#TheTeen2ie5 Day 45
WE LIVE HERE by BOB VYLAN (2020) (12 pts)
Because even in your 40s, you can find music that still startles the hell out of you in the best possible ways.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=VFqh...
WE LIVE HERE by BOB VYLAN (2020) (12 pts)
Because even in your 40s, you can find music that still startles the hell out of you in the best possible ways.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=VFqh...
Bob Vylan - We Live Here
YouTube video by Bob Vylan
m.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 AM
#TheTeen2ie5 Day 45
WE LIVE HERE by BOB VYLAN (2020) (12 pts)
Because even in your 40s, you can find music that still startles the hell out of you in the best possible ways.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=VFqh...
WE LIVE HERE by BOB VYLAN (2020) (12 pts)
Because even in your 40s, you can find music that still startles the hell out of you in the best possible ways.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=VFqh...
We’ve been to a marvellous party, we couldn’t have liked it more…
The greatest gift we can think of - an anthology of short stories celebrating the eighth Doctor range. Sam Jones, Fitz Kreiner, Compassion, Anji Kapoor, Iris! Just a delight to talk about. @dwcoverstory.bsky.social
@jonarnold.bsky.social @grumpy2eb.bsky.social
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@jonarnold.bsky.social @grumpy2eb.bsky.social
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November 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
We’ve been to a marvellous party, we couldn’t have liked it more…
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 44
HOUDINI by DUA LIPA (2023)
Another club friendly banger, but with added filthy guitar and a gorgeous descending synth riff bringing things home. And really, radical optimism is a proper pop antidote to the modern world.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=suAR...
HOUDINI by DUA LIPA (2023)
Another club friendly banger, but with added filthy guitar and a gorgeous descending synth riff bringing things home. And really, radical optimism is a proper pop antidote to the modern world.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=suAR...
Dua Lipa - Houdini (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Dua Lipa
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 44
HOUDINI by DUA LIPA (2023)
Another club friendly banger, but with added filthy guitar and a gorgeous descending synth riff bringing things home. And really, radical optimism is a proper pop antidote to the modern world.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=suAR...
HOUDINI by DUA LIPA (2023)
Another club friendly banger, but with added filthy guitar and a gorgeous descending synth riff bringing things home. And really, radical optimism is a proper pop antidote to the modern world.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=suAR...
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The moment has been prepared for.
A Christmas gift for fans of Jodrell Bank, Logopolis or both, via @themodernist.bsky.social
#DoctorWho
A Christmas gift for fans of Jodrell Bank, Logopolis or both, via @themodernist.bsky.social
#DoctorWho
Jodrell Bank Badge
A pin badge featuring the Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire, UK. Designed and Produced by the modernist society.
the-modernist.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The moment has been prepared for.
A Christmas gift for fans of Jodrell Bank, Logopolis or both, via @themodernist.bsky.social
#DoctorWho
A Christmas gift for fans of Jodrell Bank, Logopolis or both, via @themodernist.bsky.social
#DoctorWho
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 43
FRIKY MORY by LUIS EDUARDO ACÚSTICO (2021)
Wanted at least one main list space for a discovery from the challenge and it’s the bounce and joy of this, courtesy of @jonathanbogart.net - played the hell out of this since it was posted.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ciKK...
FRIKY MORY by LUIS EDUARDO ACÚSTICO (2021)
Wanted at least one main list space for a discovery from the challenge and it’s the bounce and joy of this, courtesy of @jonathanbogart.net - played the hell out of this since it was posted.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ciKK...
Friky Mory
YouTube video by Luis Eduardo Acústico - Topic
m.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 43
FRIKY MORY by LUIS EDUARDO ACÚSTICO (2021)
Wanted at least one main list space for a discovery from the challenge and it’s the bounce and joy of this, courtesy of @jonathanbogart.net - played the hell out of this since it was posted.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ciKK...
FRIKY MORY by LUIS EDUARDO ACÚSTICO (2021)
Wanted at least one main list space for a discovery from the challenge and it’s the bounce and joy of this, courtesy of @jonathanbogart.net - played the hell out of this since it was posted.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ciKK...