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Michael Mills

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Doctor Who book club rambler (Hamster with a Blunt Penknife). Escaped journalist. “Welsh”. All this and great hair too.

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Michael Mills @michaelmills.bsky.social · 10d

It’s a Hamster Book Club/Too Hot for TV crossover as we take a look at Doctor Who tie-in media’s efforts to tackle mental health. These pics probably tell you how well it goes. @docoho44.bsky.social @toohot4tv.bsky.social

Publicity photo of the cast of Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace

The cover illustration from an apparently useless dictionary of devils and demons

Gillian Anderson in a boob tube and single sleeve pointing a toy rocket at her own open mouth. This depicts science fiction as designed for heterosexuals.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 22h

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Michael Mills @michaelmills.bsky.social · 1d

Blimey, are they still making these things? Feel like they belong in the same era as the London Olympics, coalition government and phone hacking.

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 3d

The Uncanny Valet

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 2d

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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Michael Mills @michaelmills.bsky.social · 2d

Unsolicited BRICS pic.

Photograph of leaders at the 2025 BRICS conference in Brazil.

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 2d

We’ve tried showing both halves of Jared Leto’s face and we’re all out of ideas

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 3d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Michael Mills @michaelmills.bsky.social · 2d

Pitch: a social media blagger stages ever more elaborate Great Gatsby-themed parties in an effort to impress his girlfriend from uni.

Michael Mills @michaelmills.bsky.social · 3d

Get your “Nobody could have foreseen this (apart from all the people who foresaw this)” copy in now.

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Friz(ombie!) @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 3d

"Fucking reform leaflet" is a good cryptic crossword clue for "FELLATE".

Take the clown statue and get out! WE DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS!!! @brainmage.bsky.social · 3d

Fucking reform leaflet through the door while I was out. Fascist fucking cunts. Genuinely sickening.

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Michael Mills @michaelmills.bsky.social · 3d

The Jared Leto movies will continue until morale improves.

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 3d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Dylan @ Doctor Who: Too Hot For Tv @toohot4tv.bsky.social · 3d

On the latest #DoctorWho Too Hot For TV I am joined by Liam to look at what could have been for seasons 27 and 28 and the lost story 'Alixion' from Big Finish.

www.buzzsprout.com/864883/episo...

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Michael Mills @michaelmills.bsky.social · 3d

You may think it’s pathetic to cry at a video game, but the achievement for completing the main story in Red Dead Redemption 2 is called “Eternal Summer”.

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Michael Mills @michaelmills.bsky.social · 3d

Torvill or Dean

Michael Mills @michaelmills.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone making a Tron movie.

The “But it might work for us” meme from Arrested Development.

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Treehouse Of Harrison 🎃 @markharrison.bsky.social · 3d

Re: last repost - one of my favourite characters in Last Jedi is Canady. Only in it briefly but he's that old Imperial captain back doing the star wars, always totally aware he's following shit orders from young morons. And even when it kills him, this - he'd do it all again, the old fash bastard.

Mark Lewis Jones as Captain Canady in Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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Michael Mills @michaelmills.bsky.social · 3d

Also, Welsh boys in space 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Michael Mills @michaelmills.bsky.social · 3d

Only this time it was even more blindingly obvious to anyone except those who thought they’d found a quick route to godlike wealth.

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 3d

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Michael Mills @michaelmills.bsky.social · 3d

This reminds me that the only frog that “ribbits” in the classic manner is the Pacific Treefrog. But it just so happens to live around Hollywood, so it ended up in the nighttime soundscapes of tons of movies.

Michael Mills @michaelmills.bsky.social · 3d

Stand By Me (Oasis) 7/10
Stand By Me (Ben E. King) 97/10

Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 4d

Fun music game.

Take two songs with the same name and post your combined score out of 10. How high can you get?

No covers/no triples (e.g. Power of Love)

My first effort, which i think is hard to beat...

Zombie (Fela Kuti) 10/10
Zombie (The Cranberries) 7/10

Total score: 17

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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Joe Ford @docoho44.bsky.social · 4d

Hamster Book Club - The Eyeless by Lance Parkin - a surprisingly bleak, dystopian world with huge things to say about war, weapons of mass destruction, genocide and scientific responsibility...aimed at children? @lefthandeddalek.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

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Michael Mills @michaelmills.bsky.social · 5d

Alan Moore to literally anyone offering an opinion on Alan Moore.

a man in a plaid jacket and tie is saying " i feel bad for you "

Alt: Don Draper and that little guy in Mad Men doing the “I feel bad for you”/“I don’t think about at all” exchange. Stone cold.

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