Not that they want to shame you but the Battersea Transformers shop is right next to the Peppa Pig shop and they’re the only two shops like that in there.

max švabinský’s the confluence of souls. a painting of a long-haired woman embracing a man who looks worryingly like secretary of state for energy and net zero ed miliband

me hugging ed miliband

And it resuses so much footage from other movies, it probably gives you a sense of what Lucas’s famous rough cut looked like too.

Watching Mosquito Squadron (1969) and… are we sure this wasn’t the inspiration for the trench run in Star Wars?

The whole bit of trying to get a bomb in the tiny target, the near misses, the blown-out craft, is a lot closer than Dambusters.

You don’t get into the FTSE 100 by reprinting Bloodquest.

One thing I hear from civil servants is that the hoarding of power and decisions by No 10 from May onwards also leaves PMs more visibly on the hook for specific decisions. Starmer and Johnson particularly good examples of that.

Olly Robbins saying something I’m sure many civil servants will be glad to hear said out loud: they’re under a huge amount of pressure to be Yes (wo)men and then get thrown to the wolves for saying yes.

I looked up how much a second hand copy of Bloodquest would cost yesterday and… that’s one nostalgic itch that’s not getting scratched.

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

The “always has been” meme.

Poster for the Bluey episode “Space” modeled on that for “Planetes”

Deserved a Hugo.

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No need for Park Run anymore.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park is on, which has reminded me they released a video game of this for the MEGA DRIVE in SEPTEMBER 1997

Is it safe?

That book is the ideal of Red Dwarf.

Apropos of this morning’s discourse, my earliest memories of the internet are of it being a great place to read about a) Easter Island and b) Warhammer terrain.

He’s blocked you so I’m choosing to believe he said The Iron Giant was a huge UK hit.

The return of Londonophobia Reflections on an ancient prejudice

I hesitate to say it, but Janan is right.
London rocks, in part because it pisses off all the right assholes

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#DoctorWho Too Hot For TV will be back in May, celebrating 30 years of the TV Movie.

I realised today that I’ve had the last episode recorded since it went out but haven’t watched it and hadn’t noticed.

Good news, Hennimore! Our schism with Rome is soon to be ended!

And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

Posters for (left to right) A Hard Day’s Night, Santo in the Treasure of Dracula, Saipan and Doctor Who: The Movie

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

“It’s more Alice in Wonderland than Christopher H. Bidmead.”

Come for the creepy Dalek voice in the introduction, stay for the fantastic conversation afterwards.

A dark, funny, twisted, intelligent book that gives the three of us so much to chew on...

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The publisher of Spider-Man can't figure out how to make comics for children. They leave that to Disney or license it out to other publishers. Even DC's been doing good YA stuff for 10+ years but Marvel can't figure out how to copy them. Ooh it makes me so furious

"I'm pivoting to AI, Marge, it's my lifelong dream."

"You said footwear was your lifelong dream."

*subtweet* I’m sorry, but can we not immediately respond to the news of massive, painful job layoffs with “What does this mean for Doctor Who?”?

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.