Michael Mills
@michaelmills.bsky.social
Doctor Who book club rambler (Hamster with a Blunt Penknife). Escaped journalist. “Welsh”. All this and great hair too.
Pinned
In which we remember what it was to be young and in love.
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I think about this every day of my life actually
no one has ever understood the assignment better
no one has ever understood the assignment better
These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I think about this every day of my life actually
no one has ever understood the assignment better
no one has ever understood the assignment better
Finally watching Wicked and the witch’s glasses are giving
November 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Finally watching Wicked and the witch’s glasses are giving
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They got my ass (complimentary)
I hope Iain won’t be too embarrassed by me posting this, but this really was a fantastic episode.
If you’re not currently subscribed do give it a listen. Iain and Michael (and Kevin) really get into the nuts and bolts of what makes this novel work.
Excellent stuff!
#DoctorWho
If you’re not currently subscribed do give it a listen. Iain and Michael (and Kevin) really get into the nuts and bolts of what makes this novel work.
Excellent stuff!
#DoctorWho
⚡️New Episode⚡️
Join the wonderful @michaelmills.bsky.social and me for a lively chat about the EDA Hope by Mark Clapham. #DoctorWho
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
Join the wonderful @michaelmills.bsky.social and me for a lively chat about the EDA Hope by Mark Clapham. #DoctorWho
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
They got my ass (complimentary)
You may be having a good day, but somewhere someone is planning their “Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?” article.
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
You may be having a good day, but somewhere someone is planning their “Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?” article.
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I hope Iain won’t be too embarrassed by me posting this, but this really was a fantastic episode.
If you’re not currently subscribed do give it a listen. Iain and Michael (and Kevin) really get into the nuts and bolts of what makes this novel work.
Excellent stuff!
#DoctorWho
If you’re not currently subscribed do give it a listen. Iain and Michael (and Kevin) really get into the nuts and bolts of what makes this novel work.
Excellent stuff!
#DoctorWho
⚡️New Episode⚡️
Join the wonderful @michaelmills.bsky.social and me for a lively chat about the EDA Hope by Mark Clapham. #DoctorWho
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
Join the wonderful @michaelmills.bsky.social and me for a lively chat about the EDA Hope by Mark Clapham. #DoctorWho
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
Hope by Mark Clapham
Podcast Episode · Doctor Who: We're All Stories in the End · 27/11/2025 · 1h 14m
podcasts.apple.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I hope Iain won’t be too embarrassed by me posting this, but this really was a fantastic episode.
If you’re not currently subscribed do give it a listen. Iain and Michael (and Kevin) really get into the nuts and bolts of what makes this novel work.
Excellent stuff!
#DoctorWho
If you’re not currently subscribed do give it a listen. Iain and Michael (and Kevin) really get into the nuts and bolts of what makes this novel work.
Excellent stuff!
#DoctorWho
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Extra points to Michael for digging out Silver’s unnamed cameo in Miranda (art by Allan Bednar).
In which we remember what it was to be young and in love.
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Extra points to Michael for digging out Silver’s unnamed cameo in Miranda (art by Allan Bednar).
In which we remember what it was to be young and in love.
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
In which we remember what it was to be young and in love.
Given Deadpool/Batman was, well, pretty much the most obvious script based on that title imaginable, this gives me hope for Morrison’s run at it.
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Given Deadpool/Batman was, well, pretty much the most obvious script based on that title imaginable, this gives me hope for Morrison’s run at it.
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Happy gentleman sleuths day #benoitblanc #wakeupdeadman
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Happy gentleman sleuths day #benoitblanc #wakeupdeadman
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I read William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land this year and can confirm those guys were barely hanging on by the skin of their teeth.
Those of us being driven insane by living in the first decades of the 21st century cannot compete with a man being driven insane by living in the first decades of the 20th century.
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I read William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land this year and can confirm those guys were barely hanging on by the skin of their teeth.
Whoever wins, we lose, Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown’s eyes are both on the front of his head, implying that he is a predator
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Whoever wins, we lose, Charlie Brown
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Dang. I posted this last night and should have waited a day.
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Dang. I posted this last night and should have waited a day.
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You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
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More merchandise has arrived for the Hamster Book Club launch courtesy of the brilliant @devondan.bsky.social Bookmarks and stickers!
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
More merchandise has arrived for the Hamster Book Club launch courtesy of the brilliant @devondan.bsky.social Bookmarks and stickers!
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now X’s geotag function has revealed how much online discourse is shaped by Russian trolls pretending to be other nationalities, Westminster hacks might one day realise their naivety & twin addictions to gossipy drama & their own online celebrity has been weaponised against them. One day, maybe
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
now X’s geotag function has revealed how much online discourse is shaped by Russian trolls pretending to be other nationalities, Westminster hacks might one day realise their naivety & twin addictions to gossipy drama & their own online celebrity has been weaponised against them. One day, maybe
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Messages from school to my parents in the 90s: Fill in the slip at the bottom & bring in £2 for the trip to the zoo
Messages from school now: Your child's exam schedule is on Zoop, login via the LernPortal to access it, the results will be on HoneyTree, their homework is on Zappp & NumberHub
Messages from school now: Your child's exam schedule is on Zoop, login via the LernPortal to access it, the results will be on HoneyTree, their homework is on Zappp & NumberHub
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Messages from school to my parents in the 90s: Fill in the slip at the bottom & bring in £2 for the trip to the zoo
Messages from school now: Your child's exam schedule is on Zoop, login via the LernPortal to access it, the results will be on HoneyTree, their homework is on Zappp & NumberHub
Messages from school now: Your child's exam schedule is on Zoop, login via the LernPortal to access it, the results will be on HoneyTree, their homework is on Zappp & NumberHub
There are old men on the internet who will tell you The Satanic Rites of Dracula is bad.
They are wrong.
It’s sort of what you’d have ended up with if you’d asked Hammer to make The X-Files in 1973.
They are wrong.
It’s sort of what you’d have ended up with if you’d asked Hammer to make The X-Files in 1973.
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
There are old men on the internet who will tell you The Satanic Rites of Dracula is bad.
They are wrong.
It’s sort of what you’d have ended up with if you’d asked Hammer to make The X-Files in 1973.
They are wrong.
It’s sort of what you’d have ended up with if you’d asked Hammer to make The X-Files in 1973.
You’re Locked in Here with Me, Charlie Brown
No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition, Charlie Brown
We're Here To Talk About Your Drinking, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
You’re Locked in Here with Me, Charlie Brown
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Scary stuff - and well done @theguardian.com for exposing such a sordid, sad, dangerous business.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Scary stuff - and well done @theguardian.com for exposing such a sordid, sad, dangerous business.
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This is a thread and a half, especially when you get to the end.....
It was 62 years ago #OnThisDay in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.
I'm quite pleased with this one...
www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.
I'm quite pleased with this one...
www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
Breaking news - November 1963
BBC History recalls one of the first truly global news stories of the modern multi-media age
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This is a thread and a half, especially when you get to the end.....
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This podcast is SO GOOD! And there's SO MUCH OF IT!
Wonderfully edited, enthusiastic hosts, and actual diary entries from an awkward British teen in the 90s. Absolutely smashing.
Wonderfully edited, enthusiastic hosts, and actual diary entries from an awkward British teen in the 90s. Absolutely smashing.
Out now: SONIC THE COMIC THE PODCAST #168! We've entered the Younger Millennial Zone, as all the ads are for things after our time, like Tarzan and Animorphs! But Sonic's always there for us, facing an evil double in an issue that's ACTUALLY ABOUT SONIC STUFF!
LISTEN: stctp.zone?name=2025-11...
LISTEN: stctp.zone?name=2025-11...
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This podcast is SO GOOD! And there's SO MUCH OF IT!
Wonderfully edited, enthusiastic hosts, and actual diary entries from an awkward British teen in the 90s. Absolutely smashing.
Wonderfully edited, enthusiastic hosts, and actual diary entries from an awkward British teen in the 90s. Absolutely smashing.
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Since it's Doctor Who day, there is one more episode in this run of Too Hot For TV. Join me @docoho44.bsky.social and @theiainmartin.bsky.social as we tackle two unique releases 'Lust In Space' and 'Fly Me To The Moon'.
www.buzzsprout.com/864883/episo...
www.buzzsprout.com/864883/episo...
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Since it's Doctor Who day, there is one more episode in this run of Too Hot For TV. Join me @docoho44.bsky.social and @theiainmartin.bsky.social as we tackle two unique releases 'Lust In Space' and 'Fly Me To The Moon'.
www.buzzsprout.com/864883/episo...
www.buzzsprout.com/864883/episo...
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I see Sci-Fi Collector are bringing back these Red Dwarf t-shirts. I can almost smell them.
November 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I see Sci-Fi Collector are bringing back these Red Dwarf t-shirts. I can almost smell them.
🎶 The recklessness of water
They cannot see me naked
These things they go away
Replaced by everyday 🎶
They cannot see me naked
These things they go away
Replaced by everyday 🎶
🎶 I don't believe in an interventionist God,
But I know, darling, that you do.
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you ... 🎶
But I know, darling, that you do.
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you ... 🎶
November 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
🎶 The recklessness of water
They cannot see me naked
These things they go away
Replaced by everyday 🎶
They cannot see me naked
These things they go away
Replaced by everyday 🎶