…but, but the Aliens kill lots of teenagers. (I’m biased as parent of two).
04.06.2025 14:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@meroecandy.bsky.social
'The Don' of story research for TV and film drama apparently. Most recently: Toxic Town on Netflix, Help on Channel 4, and Best Interests on BBC. meroecandy.com I post true stories and TV with a bit of cute dog seasoning.
…but, but the Aliens kill lots of teenagers. (I’m biased as parent of two).
04.06.2025 14:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My time is now... Alien movies ranked, final cut:
1. Alien
2. Alien3 - really - BUT play on mute
3. Aliens ( including only sentry scenes from Directors Cut)
4. Alien: Romulus. Aliens vs Teenagers - what's not to love.
4. Alien: Resurrection. Gooey - watch for Weaver.
Don't bother with the rest.
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
21.05.2025 11:31 — 👍 18607 🔁 4531 💬 73 📌 91While researching something entirely different I spotted this from 1989. Decades of wasted opportunity.
19.05.2025 14:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cartoon ginger cat with big beseeching eyes.
In the days of lovely Twitter I often put out a call for help with research in writing my books. So here goes, Bluskiers.
I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better.
Please share :)
The debate around care visas in the political space boils down to people saying stuff like this - we desperately need people.
It's a good soundbite but...
A significant surge in care visas were issued since 2020 in response to sector demand and yet the problem of shortage has persisted.
Why?
The 1928 exorcism that inspired The Ritual (2025) was more terrifying than fiction. Stevens & Pacino bring it to the screen, but I'm interested to see what The Ritual gets right & what it invents about the real exorcism of Emma Schmidt for #NightTideMag. 👻📽️
nighttidemag.com/2025/05/06/f...
I don't think Trump can put tariffs on films? Under the 1988 Berman Amendment, films are explicitly exempted from any Presidential tariff order, whether emergency or not. Here's the relevant clause from The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA):
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I got this scam text this week. They don’t know teens. It used caps and punctuation.
04.05.2025 12:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Virginia Giuffre has died from suicide at the age 41. What can we do to protect sexual abuse whistleblowers like her? | Jennie Kermode
@jenniekermode.bsky.social
Time for this classic.
02.05.2025 17:58 — 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0The first reported case of Tourette’s in medical research was 1825.
23.04.2025 11:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Help! I’m trialling a range of AI tools for my research to varying degrees of disappointment. Can you recommend any I should have on my list?
17.04.2025 07:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Adolescence and the seven TV shows that changed Britain
www.thetimes.com/article/2425...
What Adolescence gets right (and wrong) about teen boys’ brains
www.thetimes.com/article/9b46...
Praise IKEA
02.04.2025 13:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Michael Sheen has revealed the first season of Welsh National Theatre! www.whatsonstage.com/news/welsh-n...
02.04.2025 11:55 — 👍 32 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1I’m not just a drama queen. I also research stories for the When Science Finds a Way podcast with Alicia Wainwright. S2 has just started with two fascinating projects - how planned burning is used to reduce the impact of wildfires and how mosquitos can combat malaria and dengue. lnk.to/ULyw1j
02.04.2025 12:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Two cheap plastic children’s play-sets. One is called Tool Set. The other is called Medical Case.
Saw your two ex-boyfriends at the post office.
26.03.2025 11:45 — 👍 190 🔁 33 💬 0 📌 1When I spoke to Jack Thorne about Adolescence, he said: "I hope that something I write someday will have the sort of impact that Mr Bates vs the Post Office did." Well Jack... www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/jack-th...
26.03.2025 12:35 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0On watching, my 14 year old said this incel talk is all a bit 2022…
24.03.2025 12:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes and yet at a deep level I need MORE.
22.03.2025 11:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
Take that Meghan! #ToxicTown www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...
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No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils
Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Classic cocker
09.03.2025 19:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Netflix’s new series "Toxic Town" follows three women whose children’s birth defects are linked to toxic waste from a steel mill. Here’s the shocking true story…
www.forbes.com/sites/monica...
A pleasure to speak to Jack Thorne about Adolescence, Toxic Town, autism, raising boys and much more that didn't make it into the piece (including the state of Welsh rugby). www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/jack-th...
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