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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 12h

Once again our dinner party media set instinctively feel it's ruder to call someone racist than it is to say something racist

Which tells you something about the dinner parties, I guess

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 10h

Listen to the podcast for a distinctly homoerotic subtext (you may not expect who’s first to raise it), and watch for:

“I’d be surprised if they can do much bodyguarding in that position.”

“You notice they only get dressed one at a time.”
“Why? Are they shy?”
[Sniggers] “No.”

President Yakob Borb (Paul Stassino) beams at his two half-naked, fully-muscled bodyguards.

Borb’s two half-naked, fully-muscled bodyguards grapple hard on the floor, shot between Borb’s straddled, leather-booted legs.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 10h

With singing guest-Avenger Julie Stevens as Venus Smith
I guested with Kinky Boots for this episode, and Simon and I had very different opinions on Venus (I think he may be right)
But we also wrestle with two very different queer readings to this (and I think I was right)!

Venus Smith (Julie Stevens) in a glittering nightclub frock

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 10h

OTD 1962: The Avengers – The Decapod
Guest-starring Ambiguous Philip Madoc
Macnee and Madoc’s confidential conferences are an absolute delight (with as many devious layers as each other)
One of Season Two’s best – and perhaps The Avengers’ most blatant queer subtext…
As [shock] I argue on a podcast!

Old pros Stepan (Philip Madoc) and Steed (Patrick Macnee) trade hints of secrets

Doesn’t he look young! Ambiguous Philip Madoc is Ambassador Stepan, but already with that wolfish grin.

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 16h

We’re too smart and abortion rights are too embedded and socially accepted for the ADF to succeed here, say guys who’ve uncritically promoted anti-trans activists funded by the same people and using the same lawyers for a decade

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 17h

…It was the most revolting thing she’d ever tasted, but of course having already refused hospitality she ate it, thanked them and said it was lovely.
Whenever she visited, they would remember and serve her favourite.
My anti-fish is Basa, which R and I had once and is now known between us as Scob.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve never had Gefilte Fish, not least due to one of my Mum’s childhood moral reminiscences:
Going to a schoolfriend’s for dinner, Mum was mortified to have to tell them she couldn’t eat meat on a Friday (pre-V2). Fortunately the Jewish family understood and gave her Gefilte Fish they had ready…

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 19h

I have trans women friends who’ve been living authentically for decades - how are they going to start using the gents?
I have a tall cis female friend who’s now scared to use ladies loos because she’s been harassed several times.
This code is both cruel and unworkable.
Please write to your MP.

TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 20h

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks! I haven’t seen that one so will add it to the list.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 18h

…Revelation was much more a let-down, because he once wrote it as a *great* script and now makes it a plod.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 18h

But I want to celebrate!
It’s hard to say ‘It’s atrociously written’ without having to go back in at length, and I’ve no enthusiasm to (though see a quote-Skeet of me already with one infamous line!). For me, though his Resurrection is a worse book in itself (feeble, meandering additions)…

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 18h

A brilliant, blackly comic Frankenstein (which seems to inspire many of those), with rich characters, industrial-scale evil, and one of the most horrifying scenes in all Doctor Who:
“If you ever loved me, Natasha, kill me! Kill me!”
Saward’s masterpiece*

*Don’t mention the book

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 18h

Doctor Who – Revelation of the Daleks
Grisly experiments
Horrific glass Daleks
Whited sepulchre Daleks
and death is not the end… Unfortunately.

#HalloweenWho

Doctor Who – The Complete and Utter History Revelation of the Daleks composition by Lee Johnson: The Doctor (Colin Baker) surrounded by a mass of rich characters, all but one (maybe) doomed to die, Davros’ gruesome head rising over all, flanked below by rival white and grey Daleks, out in front an horrific glass Dalek as the clearest proof of their being one-being tanks, twisted revenants within

An horrific glass Dalek (one-being tank, twisted revenant within)

Inside the glass Dalek, the pulsating undead head of Arthur Stengos

At the heart of the Dalek, once-human Stengos roars with Dalek hate

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 19h

Happy birthday, Paul Simon
Teenage me saw The Graduate on TV and The Sound of Silence was the most brilliant song I’d ever heard.
The next week, The Boy in the Bubble was first chart single I ever bought.
Still favourites (and Bookends, and Hearts and Bones, and So Beautiful or So What, and…)!

This one’s kinda cool: Paul Simon Negotiations and Love Songs 1971-1986 – or 1940s, from the moody noir shadows and hat he’s wearing on the cover of this greatest hits album. Everything looks better in black and white

Bookends – Simon & Garfunkel album cover in black polo-necks (and in black and white)

This one’s kinda hot: mid-1970s Paul Simon (in hat, jumper and hairy chest)

My Paul Simon favourites playlist (well, one of them): labelled “Ten – Paul Simon A”, obviously I wasn’t able to keep it to ten, so the twelve songs are:
The Sound of Silence
The Boy In the Bubble
The Boxer
Train In the Distance
So Beautiful Or So What
American Tune
Save the Life of My Child
Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard
Jonah
Slip Slidin’ Away
Mrs Robinson
The Obvious Child

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 20h

I read paperback Target Doctor Who books for pleasure but have the illicit PDFs for making notes. Which is how I can point directly to the poorly-scanned PDF the audiobook too has used every time an actor reads out gibberish someone should have checked before releasing it on CD.

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🦇🤘 Rigg-or mortis 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 22h

It's bloody exhausting living in grief and fear.

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Grief because I used to be a citizen of a continent and now I'm trapped on a little island.

Fear because the vast majority of the media and political establishment in the UK are hell-bent on removing the human rights of my loved ones.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 23h

But there’d have to be outrageously OTT lines and costumes for people to

AND THE KANDYMAN IS DEAD!!!

…You’d rake it in 💗

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 23h

The story of the GLF:
artsandculture.google.com/story/the-st...
And one of GLF’s finest actions – sabotaging the far-right self-styled ‘Festival of Light’:
pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2019/09/09/t...

The Story of Gay Liberation Front in Britain - Google Arts & Culture

Explore how GLF broke down barriers and led the way to a more liberated gay community.

artsandculture.google.com

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 23h

1970: First meeting of the Gay Liberation Front (UK)
Founded by students at the LSE
Made a splash with demos and manifestos then broke into many other groups within a few years, but two decades later teenage me saw loads of their badges still around…

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

And I’m happy you’re glad.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

Feel a strange urge to watch The Happiness Patrol.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

Another week of previously lost radio, courtesy of the Hidden Treasures strand. Every day this week at 2.30pm :
An Uncommon Love (Micheline Wandor)
The Gortys Triangle (Rod Beacham)
Vendetta For A Judge (James Follett)
Eyes of the Buddha (Victor Pemberton)
So Easy To Forget (Val Gielgud)
Fantastic.

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Hidden Treasures - Episode guide

All episodes of Hidden Treasures

www.bbc.co.uk

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 1d

Also - it does make me wonder whether the current regulatory regime is adequate in that we have a foreign-funded organisation that is not donating directly but supplying assistance to a party. I’ve always thought think tanks were a massive loophole in the regulatory system.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

As this detailed report shows Reform is a Trojan Horse for the US Christian right to secretly reshape British politics along Trumpian lines. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

OTD 1958: A Bear Called Paddington
The gently amusing story of a small, endearing immigrant.
First Michael Bond’s books
Introduced to little me on TV with the voice of Gandalf
Then major motion pictures
Now one of Britain’s most-heard liberal voices and national psychopomp.

A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond, 1958 edition: a small bear, in a hat, with a brush and spilt paint

Paddington (2014): A small bear in a hat and a duffel coat with a smaller dog not in a hat nor a duffel coat ride the escalator at Paddington Station

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