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Oh, poor little Kinda. At least let's help her feel comfortable on her birthday.

Sounds about where I am. I had 2 for the same problem about 18 years ago but although the problem got much better, it never entirely went away. And then recurred this year. 1 is scary but it should be more permanent

The BBC Quatermass and the Pit. It’s pretty much perfect. Andre Morell is superb, and they did wonders with the limited production values and effects available

You know what I’d really like to see? A mid-size 3-door hatchback with a completely basic model, maybe optional alloys

Tomorrow it will be exactly 5 weeks until @titanbooks.bsky.social publishes my short story collection WHO WILL YOU SAVE? It makes a great companion to my novel-length fiction, so preorder today from your favourite bookseller.

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A Very British Terror - The Works Of Nigel Kneale By Anthony Ryan - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website 11/08/2025 A Very British Terror - The Works of Nigel Kneale by Anthony Ryan a guest article for Ginger Nuts of Horror by Anthony Ryan

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We have to get some benefit from knowing this stuff

Without the sequel trilogy being commissioned we probably wouldn't have got Rogue One

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Dennis Bell pictured during his 2-year assignment in Antarctica, shared by his brother David Bell. He is recording measurements by lamplight with a magnifying glass, dressed in a furry hat and with icicles in his moustache.

The remains of an Antarctic researcher, Dennis ‘Tink’ Bell, have been found after 65 years, among rocks exposed by a receding glacier.

Dennis was a 25 year-old meteorologist working for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) - the predecessor of British Antarctic Survey.

I wish more people would point out that harming trans women under the pretext of protecting women is specifically harming women (trans women) instead of implicitly accepting the framing that trans women are outside womanhood

Colour photo (taken on Kodak Ektar film) of Gt Langdale Beck where it flows over a small barrier of rocks, just below a stone bridge, with the Langdale Pikes in the background

This is what it’s supposed to look like

Well, that’s something I feel like I should have known before…

email to me: Our disabled son has CP and bladder spasms so urologist is recommending Botox treatments and we read your article and are concerned about the presence of mRNA in the Botox. Is mRNA in all brands? How can we know if it is in there? Is there a safe brand you recommend? He has to have this so what do we do? Thanks

my reply: personally, i'd recommend you follow the advice of your doctor. but what do i know, i'm just a random person you emailed. I have no more formal education around botox than the author Naomi Wolf, whose advice I assume you were actually seeking. but since you emailed me, my suggestion is that you listen to your kid's urologist, who is a trained medical professional, rather than seeking out medical advice from someone with an english degree and a history of making significant errors in her research. best of luck!

a specific skill I've developed over the past ~20 years is crafting responses to emails sent to me, but intended for that other Naomi Wolf

Yeah, big ‘this is the way we’ve always done it’ vibes

Even after everything, part of me finds it hard to believe they are *this* morally bad and *this* bad at politics. Truly toxic combo

I remember how after less than one year they were frequently declining to put anyone up for interview at all. I disagreed with it on accountability grounds but taking ministers’ time to defend the indefensible was a lose-lose, and failing to respond often took the sting out of the story

As an ex public sector comms person, I think it was utterly foolish to put anyone up for interview. I generally took the view that you should put people up whenever you had the opportunity, but the PA policy is so blatantly stupid and wrong that going on TV to defend it is asking for trouble

I don’t know though, he was so personally forceful. It’s possible that there would have been a similar influence by US sf but probably across multiple editors and journals

I would have put it ‘what in the Sir George Tryon’ personally, but yeah

Something I feel very strongly about - and which I think is a precondition for the academic study of religion, really - is that we shouldn't mock or make fun of the way any other human being worships. Who are we to say what happens when humans interact with the divine?

Zionists are still trying to pretend Israel isn’t deliberately hunting journalists, as though we didn’t all see the IDF directly bomb the state broadcasting building in the heart of Tehran.

And as Scalzi points out, Campbell was essentially the dominant force over the golden age

As far as Campbell is concerned it almost certainly wouldn’t exist as the genre we understand today. There were largely unrelated strands of sf from the UK, Europe, USSR but they were generally more literary and cerebral and without the pull of US development it probably would have remained niche

Mt Fuji and pale blue sky, water in foreground with small boats.

Today's in Japan it's Mountain Day (山の日, Yama no Hi) so I thought I'd put together a small collection of my favourite prints featuring Mount Fuji, Japan's most iconic sacred mountain.
🎨'Yoshiwara' from the series 'Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji' - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1855.
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This is Langdale in the Lake District

Absolutely

Or even that you can deviate significantly from the actual colours and the picture will still make sense

Philomena Cunk against a collection of classical statues. "Antigone's death is even more tragic than it actually is, which makes her a tragic hero"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtful. "Goya continued to paint tapestries until 1792 when serious illness left him dead for life"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtfully into the distance. "Society is slowly becoming more contemporary now"

Philomena Cunk looking into camera on a beach. "Diderot's Tahiti represents a typical male fantasy in which attractive young women are eager to engage in sexual activity with the French"

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.