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Just listened to the podcast with @emmanewman.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social and then found the music recommendation... Lucrecia Dalt... wow.
Great episode. Two thumbs up.

It's the 10th anniversary of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. Here's a thread of images that very few people will have seen. Thanks to the opportunity that Sony Santa Monica gave us, we had the freedom to explore ideas, even if that meant we left a lot of amazing work on the cutting room floor...

This gatekeeping is complete ass hattery... required texts my ass...

Marks & Ewington's Silence of the Dead.

Awww... ya dancer! Arrived! @ericamarks.bsky.social @andiewington.bsky.social @calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social *

* The poster of this account does get more Scottish when they get excited. **

** This footnote is a nod to Andi's previous novel. ***

*** Buy The Hero Interviews. You won't regret it.

The front cover of The Corn Bride by Mark Stay.

Yay! Just downloaded book 5 from the library. @markstay.bsky.social.

Paddington in Predator: Badlands (2025)

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1610

Ooops... apologies @theessexauthor.bsky.social, nice interview too. 🙂

You know @markstay.bsky.social. You are absolutely right. The Stainless Steel Rat would make an excellent TV series. Looking at you, Apple TV execs right now...

As always, Andi et al, well done. Hope you're well and all good.

Done. It's that Friday feeling!
Saving this one for the next holiday in around a week's time.
Congrats to @andiewington.bsky.social and @ericamarks.bsky.social and @calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social on book birthday!

Dinner and a show...
Then an encore and snacks...
Then the after-party top up...

Food... Food never changes...

two men in suits and hats are walking down a dirt road in a black and white photo . Alt: Laurel and Hardy in Way out West.

For me, right now, its Way out West, purely for 'On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine' and Stan's expression at the end of the song after the mallet blow.
And the dance to "At the ball" still gets me every time.

Maxi Bit Bat Thunderpaws turns his nose up at his biscuits, so I put then back in the tub and get them out again for him while he watches, and he eats them after that...
It's aaaaall about the control.
😀

"We live on a floating rock...
... just get in with it."
A+

Buy her a double.

IT’S LAUNCH DAY!

Bones & Betrayals: Silence of the Dead is finally here and available on Amazon!

Congrats @ericamarks.bsky.social @calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social

Just came across this guy on tiktok who plays connect4 with random people on the street and I know it’s a joke, yet this person is doing more to ground himself in his environment, connect (ha) with the people around him, while getting the people he plays with to take a micro break in their day 🥲

This is incredible

The song of the summer is a bummer | CNN The most popular songs of the summer are either downers like “Ordinary” or holdovers from 2024, like “Die with a Smile.” Why is the music of 2025 so mellow?

Tell me you haven't listened to "Golden" without telling me you haven't listened to "Golden"

share.google/HkO0uHnQBWx7...

Prog 316

‘The Stupid Gun!’ was about an IQ reducing ray weapon that falls into the wrong hands resulting in chaos and people going "Duhhh!" a lot in Mega City One.

Hmm...did our world governments secretly invent this technology around the beginning of the 21st Century?

It has been a long year for me, yes. But know that we are all loved and not alone.

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

Not complaining at all. Sigh...

Signal boost!
Everyone should subscribe to @everyscififilm.bsky.social's podcast, Every single Sci-fi film ever* Absolutely fascinating. Listening to the H G Wells episode now and his legacy in 60's sci fi. The Godzilla episode is a cracker as well.

*almost.

I grew up on these streets.

this warms the cockles of my heart. "These giants are standing tall against fossil fuels, rising up out of the ocean like a middle finger against CO2."

You know, I didn't read Neera's final words like that. Guess I'm kind of hopeful...

And just finished @edashtonwriting.bsky.social The Fourth Consort. What a ride. Language, tradition, culture, self, what a journey. Definitely worth reading (and buying from your local independent bookshop). This gets David McDavidFaces' three thumbs up award.

Yup. Forst time I saw Harold Lloyd, it was on a collection of his famous scenes stitched together into a series called Hooray for Harold Lloyd on BBC2 teatime. I was nine and saw all his famous scenes, clock, football, etc. That was a great intro to slapstick B&W.

E OFFICIAL STATEMENT Government of Heard Island Office of the Prime Minister To the White House, The Government of Heard Island acknowledges receipt of your so-called "tariff ultimatum," issued under the pretentious pretense of economic strategy. This is not a negotiation. This is not a plea. This is not a request for exemption from your performative trade tantrums. This is the final frostbitten word from a sovereign Antarctic territory that refuses to be economically colonized by a reality TV reject. Flip off, you block-headed kiddiediddlers. Respectfully disinterested, PM Tuxley Prime Minister of Heard Island

JUST IN: Heard Island Government responds before the midnight Tariff deadline with what can only be described as ice cold diplomacy. @cnn.com @msnbc.com @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy @nbcnews.com @theguardian.com @australia.theguardian.com @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com @theonion.com

TRAIN TO BRIGHTON
#MildHorror

The cover of The Fourth Consort, by Edward Ashton, showing a space suited figure staring at an alien city in the distance.

So next up on #bookbeach #booksky is @edashtonwriting.bsky.social's The Fourth Consort. Ploughing through this on the beach and holiday apartment. Two thumbs up so far.