Mark Chater🎲🖳📚
@markchater.bsky.social
Nerdiest of nerds, Bristol via London. Like scifi, fantasy, RPGs, and have a keen interest in space exploration. Play D&D 5e and learning Italian. The photo really is of me on a camel. Never. Again.
LGBTQ+ ally. TERFs and SWERFs unwelcome here.
LGBTQ+ ally. TERFs and SWERFs unwelcome here.
Ooh! I've never seen that and I really should. Loved "Wages of Fear" that it's based on and my favorite band did the score, so I have no excuse!
January 11, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Ooh! I've never seen that and I really should. Loved "Wages of Fear" that it's based on and my favorite band did the score, so I have no excuse!
Hello! Hope you enjoy the film and yes, winter is a struggle. Less so on sunny days but when it's grey and wet every day seems about 100 hours long 🙁
January 11, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Hello! Hope you enjoy the film and yes, winter is a struggle. Less so on sunny days but when it's grey and wet every day seems about 100 hours long 🙁
Still using my behemoth of a Dell which is about 10 years older than your Brother, but when it eventually gives up (things like new fuser rollers are already unobtainum) I'll replace it with a Brother.
January 11, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Still using my behemoth of a Dell which is about 10 years older than your Brother, but when it eventually gives up (things like new fuser rollers are already unobtainum) I'll replace it with a Brother.
Hope you feel better soon!
January 7, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Hope you feel better soon!
Oooh, I read "The last gifts of the universe" as well, which was a completely random "I'll give this one a punt" selection from one of the tables in Cribbs Waterstones.
The bookseller had read it and was really enthusiastic when I took it to the till to pay too.
The bookseller had read it and was really enthusiastic when I took it to the till to pay too.
December 30, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Oooh, I read "The last gifts of the universe" as well, which was a completely random "I'll give this one a punt" selection from one of the tables in Cribbs Waterstones.
The bookseller had read it and was really enthusiastic when I took it to the till to pay too.
The bookseller had read it and was really enthusiastic when I took it to the till to pay too.
My keyboard* is 37 years old and could do with a clean, so I might attempt that. Closing browser tabs would be a step too far though.
* IBM Model M which still has the sticker on the base with the 1988 manufacturing date.
* IBM Model M which still has the sticker on the base with the 1988 manufacturing date.
December 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
My keyboard* is 37 years old and could do with a clean, so I might attempt that. Closing browser tabs would be a step too far though.
* IBM Model M which still has the sticker on the base with the 1988 manufacturing date.
* IBM Model M which still has the sticker on the base with the 1988 manufacturing date.
Felice doing geology at the end of The Golden Torc would definitely be a struggle to film as live action.
Re-read them this year, over 20 years since the last time, and they are still among the very best series of novels in the genre IMO.
Re-read them this year, over 20 years since the last time, and they are still among the very best series of novels in the genre IMO.
December 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Felice doing geology at the end of The Golden Torc would definitely be a struggle to film as live action.
Re-read them this year, over 20 years since the last time, and they are still among the very best series of novels in the genre IMO.
Re-read them this year, over 20 years since the last time, and they are still among the very best series of novels in the genre IMO.
Good luck! You have exactly described me at the optician. I feel like I have to 'pass' the test by reading ever smaller letters and squint, which probably ends up with the prescription being wrong.
I have at least finally learned it's OK to say "same" to the better or worse question.
I have at least finally learned it's OK to say "same" to the better or worse question.
December 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Good luck! You have exactly described me at the optician. I feel like I have to 'pass' the test by reading ever smaller letters and squint, which probably ends up with the prescription being wrong.
I have at least finally learned it's OK to say "same" to the better or worse question.
I have at least finally learned it's OK to say "same" to the better or worse question.
Not to take away from your general point, but Channel 4 is also a public service broadcaster on British TV. It has a different funding model, but the public service remit remains.
December 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Not to take away from your general point, but Channel 4 is also a public service broadcaster on British TV. It has a different funding model, but the public service remit remains.
Ask Daphne to put in the admin password so you can change group policy to stop this nonsense and get on with your day!
December 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Ask Daphne to put in the admin password so you can change group policy to stop this nonsense and get on with your day!
Another museum (and city) for the ever-growing holiday list!
December 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Another museum (and city) for the ever-growing holiday list!
Top right looks like Death of Actaeon by Titian but can't place any of the others 😔
December 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Top right looks like Death of Actaeon by Titian but can't place any of the others 😔
Whenever I'm in London I come buy less books than I want but more than I should!
December 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Whenever I'm in London I come buy less books than I want but more than I should!
Same, but I work to live not live to work.
December 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Same, but I work to live not live to work.
Did mine at the weekend, got the bill confirmed today 😬. I had been expecting it so am prepared with the money put aside, but even so seeing the number on the screen is still a bit EEEK!
December 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Did mine at the weekend, got the bill confirmed today 😬. I had been expecting it so am prepared with the money put aside, but even so seeing the number on the screen is still a bit EEEK!
As someone that attended an all boys grammar school in the 1980s, I don't recall anyone being obsessed with Hitler.
My friend group then was basically my lunchtime D&D group so we tended to talk about orcs and gnolls rather than nazis.
My friend group then was basically my lunchtime D&D group so we tended to talk about orcs and gnolls rather than nazis.
December 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
As someone that attended an all boys grammar school in the 1980s, I don't recall anyone being obsessed with Hitler.
My friend group then was basically my lunchtime D&D group so we tended to talk about orcs and gnolls rather than nazis.
My friend group then was basically my lunchtime D&D group so we tended to talk about orcs and gnolls rather than nazis.
I loved it too, and an interesting contrast with The Sea Devils on BBC4 immediately before which shows how far TV production has changed in ~50 years.
December 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I loved it too, and an interesting contrast with The Sea Devils on BBC4 immediately before which shows how far TV production has changed in ~50 years.
Thank you for mentioning this so I knew to listen. I spend a lot of time (and money!) in the Piccadilly store when I visit London, and it has always been a dream to run an little indie bookstore, so it was fascinating and good to hear him so positive about the future of retail bookselling.
December 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Thank you for mentioning this so I knew to listen. I spend a lot of time (and money!) in the Piccadilly store when I visit London, and it has always been a dream to run an little indie bookstore, so it was fascinating and good to hear him so positive about the future of retail bookselling.