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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 17h

His obsession with intelligence and labelling anyone he doesn't like as "low IQ" smacks of a deep-seated insecurity.

You just know he must have failed an assessment or got some really damning school reports as a kid – and he's been projecting his insecurity onto everyone else ever since.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 1d

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 21h

Goddamn, I’d forgotten Nicholas Fisk completely and seeing this post just gave me a huge Proustian rush back to my school library age 11.

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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 2d

Stan Laurel living his best life, while Marlon Brando loudly laments the gold cleopatra wig he's been forced to wear.

Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 2d

I think i might start using these comedy/tragedy masks from the Bradford Alhambra as reaction memes.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 3d

1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 3d

The "you wouldn't download a car" screen but it reads "you wouldn't scrape all the art ever made and use it to create an Anime titty generator"

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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 3d

… final.final.final.doc

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 3d

Oh wow am I excited for this!

John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 3d

A1 and DEADLINE, two of Britain’s seminal comics magazines are soon set to return as one, straight from the heart of UK comics counterculture.

https://downthetubes.net/be-ready-a1-and-deadline-are-back/

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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 3d

I adore Planet of Evil and don’t know why it isn’t more highly regarded. Granted, it’s bookended by stone-cold classics but it’s peak Hinchcliffe Who.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 4d

Refusians! No wait … Spiridons … no wait, Visians … ooh how about Xoannon’s creatures?

Well, at least any of these would be really quick to do!

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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 5d

Day 3 of the Janissary Band ear worm.

Just found myself repeatedly whistling it in the kitchen, which for anyone unfamiliar with the track, is only going to draw strange looks from people.

This time next week, I'll probably be whistling the electronic soundscapes from The Sea Devils!
#DoctorWho

Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 6d

For reasons I cannot fathom, I've had Peter Howell's Janissary Band from the 1983 Doctor Who – The Music soundtrack album stuck in my head for 2 days!

Sure, I played that album to death in 1983-4, but not in 20+ yrs. And I haven't watched Snakedance in ages.

This is how the Mara gets in, innit.

Album cover to Doctor Who - The Music (1983). Why does Peter Davison look so creepy? Does he know Janissary Band will randomly ear worm me 42 years later?

Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 6d

For reasons I cannot fathom, I've had Peter Howell's Janissary Band from the 1983 Doctor Who – The Music soundtrack album stuck in my head for 2 days!

Sure, I played that album to death in 1983-4, but not in 20+ yrs. And I haven't watched Snakedance in ages.

This is how the Mara gets in, innit.

Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 6d

The arts are also about critical thinking, which doesn’t make for a compliant electorate willing to accept any guff they throw at you.

Why not the sciences too, you ask? Surely that’s about reasoned thought?

Look at where the tech bros have gotten us. The Right aren’t worried about the sciences.

Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 7d

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 6d

This is proper telly.

Old 1970s cathode ray tv on a stand with castors.

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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · 7d

So many thoughts... so little time!

#ADHDAwarenessMonth

Title: “Sharing Thoughts.”

Top panel labeled “Non-ADHD”: One person carefully holds a single green butterfly taken from labeled jars of “Experiences,” “Ideas,” and “Opinions,” calmly sharing it with another person who listens with interest.

Bottom panel labeled “ADHD”: The ADHD character joyfully releases a colorful swarm of butterflies—orange, blue, purple, pink, yellow, and green—representing many thoughts and ideas all at once, while the other person looks startled and overwhelmed.

Copyright 2020 Dani Donovan (@danidonovan), adhddd.com.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 8d

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 9d

Just before he died I got to chat to Brian Clemens as part of a press junket for a remaster of The Professionals.

After about 3 polite-but-bored answers I said:

"Okay would you mind if we spent the rest of this talking about 'Bugs'? That show BLEW ME AWAY as a teen."

And he was so happy he cried.

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 9d

This YouTube comment probably deserves more than three favs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzL8...

I once worked for Radio Rentals and one time I had to speak to a customer on the phone after he sent a complaint letter. After he spent about half an hour moaning about the service that he had received, I said I noticed it said he was a composer on his letter head and his name was Christopher Gunning. So I said are you the Christopher Gunning who did the music for the BBC’s Day of the Triffids, and he said he was, so I proceeded to tell him how amazing I thought his music was for the series, which I have loved ever since I first watched it aged 10. Well his whole attitude immediately changed and I think I really made his day. True story.

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 9d

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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 10d

Aristotle pretty much had a name for everything. I love how so much of his work is still highly applicable today.

(Not his theory on how eels reproduced though …)

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11d

hold on just a second here

blue sky screen shot from Bill Kuchman saying "Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin" quote posted by Adam Weinstein saying "Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities." 31 USC 5114(b)

blue sky screen shot from Aaron Rupar saying
"Trump has not been seen in public since Tuesday and had no public events on his calendar today"

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 11d

“It is not clear if Mr. Trump strangling the puppy violates the It Is Quite Clearly Against the Law to Strangle Puppies Act of 1922”

Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 11d

It is not clear that Mr. Trump’s image can be featured on a coin. An 1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy. Trump admin is planning to do it anyway.
By Alan Rappeport

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin

www.nytimes.com

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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 11d

That’s what threw me for a bit. But the cryptic clue confirmed my initial gut.

George would probably raise an eyebrow and describe it as a whim of Ann’s, before deciding she preferred the countryside once more.

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Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social · 11d

Ooh, George Smiley’s house? Neat!

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