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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · May 31

If you've got a hankering for Russell Tovey, he read the audiobook of my tenth Doctor novel The Eyeless.

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Doctor Who

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. At the heart of the ruined city of Arcopolis is the Fortress. It's a brutal structure placed there by one of the sides in a devastating intergalactic war th...

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 13h

It just has its own grammar. It just does a dozen mad things on every page.

Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 13h

If this moment doesn't move you, it's as simple as this: you have lived your life wrong.

Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 13h

After everything we've seen, all the colour and madness, it's original Superman not being able to find Lois that hits hardest.

He exists but she never did, and his *anguish*, the instinctive reaction he has to just become nothing rather than this, and the fact *he's saved by Superman*.

Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 13h

And, yeah, when I think of the momentous news of my mid-eighties, it's Live Aid, Challenger, Chernobyl, and the multiverse reborn as one Earth.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 13h

I usually hate 'the whole universe will be destroyed' stories, cos *nah* Batman will still be punching the Joker three months from now. CoIE has the advantage of being first to market, but it really sells and delivers that scale of threat.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 14h

It's been worn smooth by time, repetition, imitation, and definitionally futile attempts to one-up ot, but *hot damn* just the TITLE 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' is incredible, isn't it?

'Establish your stakes'. Literally everything is at stake.

Perfect pulp SFF framing.

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 1d

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an assholes,” Pattinson said in an interiew with Variety in November. “You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 22h

'It's not from a sewer main, Watson, that is a blowpipe'.

Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 23h

Holmes' eyes lit up at that. 'Fuck YEAH,' he ejaculated. 'Watson, grab your suitcase and horsewhip, we're doing this.'

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 23h

Holmes listened as Miss Stoner told her tale of an abusive father, her sister dying just before coming into her inheritance, despite fearfully barring her room so the only way in was a small ventilation grille, how she had been crushed to death in her bed, and her last words had been 'silver blaze'.

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 23h

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 1d

KCOR S'TEL

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Black Lodge Cardigan

"I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange." UNISEX STYLE- FOLLOW THE MEN'S SIZE CHART! Super soft button up fuzzy cardigan wi...

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 1d

Also, wasn't sure when the book was set, but the book helpfully pinned it down to 'shortly after September 6th 1986'.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 1d

I am reading a book * in which the main character has named her favourite Beatles song and it's such a bad choice ** that it feels like a plot point, like it's foreshadowing that she's wrong about other stuff, too.

* Katabasis, RF Kuang
** Mr Postman

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 1d

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 1d

JD #Vance is pretty much exactly what you think.

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That Time I Made JD Vance Sad

As we head into the final days for election 2024, I would like to share an embarrassing moment for the ‘creepy’ candidate

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 1d

Merry Dog Carcass In Alley Day to all who celebrate.

BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 2d

Happy 40th Anniversary of Rorschach seeing the city‘s true face to those who celebrate

The first panel of the comic “Watchmen.”

On the top of the panel, text reads “Rorschach’s Journal. October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.”

The rest of the panel depicts an extreme closeup of a city street where a pool of blood runs off into a gutter. On the edge of the gutter there is a yellow smiley face button marred by a single drop of blood that partially obscures one eye.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 1d

If I had a penny for every terfy 'thinker' who always had something a bit wrong with their brain, took stuff that made it worse, but lately they went off the deep end after coming into contact with something that eats brains, I'd have nearly $1, which doesn't sound like much, but it's all of them.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Jordan Peterson, explained

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She explained how her 62-year-old dad had been dealing with a “host of neurological issues this summer that we believe stem from CIRS, which is chronic inflammatory response syndrome, due to decades of mould exposure.”

Fuller added that he had been suffering from symptoms of neuropathy and weakness for the last few years and his condition worsened after Peterson cleaned out his late father’s basement earlier this year.

“We don’t have a better explanation for his neurological symptoms at the moment other than spiritual attacks,” she said.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 2d

It works because no one actually likes, or needs to like, their politicians.

Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 2d

The thing with US politics is how cynically the GOP just take their candidates' weaknesses and say that's the other guy.

They got away with painting *Kerry* as the war coward, not W. Which was absurd. They haven't looked back.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 2d

... and, as you say, it only works because it reinforces an existing belief or prejudice, or it stretches things only a little.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I think a lot of it is a conscious exploit / cultivation of:

1. People only read the headline.

2. Natural tendency to think 'both sides are as bad as each other'.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 2d

The data centres being built now will be derelict by 2030.

Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 2d

“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 2d

We haven't picked ourselves up from 2008, yet, but the now-inevitable AI crash will be four times the size.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 3d

I'd seen the cover before, but this was the first time I've seen it for sale. Money well spent.

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