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Spinky’s Mama
@spinkysmama.bsky.social
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Lawyer, civil servant, Londoner, Doctor Who fan, maritorious, mother of a spinky, God-botherer. Mostly doomscrolling, telly chat and terrible jokes. All views my own. She/Her.
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · Apr 16
Cis is a category of woman. Trans is a category of woman. We have overlapping and unique experiences. And we have to stand together.
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 1h
Like Tina Heath’s been told to say ‘Cheese’ while being stabbed in the leg.
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 1h
The Belga Queen! Loved the food but you shouldn’t be afraid of becoming a bespoke art installation when you need to spend a penny.
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2h
When the BFI had to have a second screening for the Special Edition because they’d been sent the wrong disc, I wanted them to just continue showing it monthly like Sing-along-a-Sound of Music. Or Rocky Horror if they could stand the cleaning bill.
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 4h
It was basically the Northern Circuit/KC years with the 6th Doctor. The listening public wouldn’t know what hit them.
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 4h
It *might* have had the ‘drunk as a judge’ bit with the punchline “As your Time Lordship pleases”.

(Really wanted to do a “Drunk with a gavel” “Birkenhead” bit from Flux but I could never go out of appropriate court procedure).
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 5h
Absolutely *looks sadly at practicing certificate and Big Finish pitch for an F.E. Smith celebrity historical*
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 5h
There is something glorious about a child’s delight in swears. On the last school trip one of 8 yo’s classmates relayed a teacher instruction as “We need to stop moving until we know what the hell is going on” like he was in Peter and Gordon.
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 5h
@cooraysmith.bsky.social continues to moderate his language to be child friendly.

The result: 8yo is delightedly shouting ‘Blimey’ with (Sid) Jamesian relish like it’s the worst swear ever.
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 5h
There’s a long standing polarised fan reaction (e.g. the Discontinuity Guide and the 1995 DWM Summer special).

I think there’s too much of a tonal disconnect between the Earth/Space station scenes. I’d have got the Megara up like the Sycorax and gone Witchfinder General rather than Rumpole.
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 1d
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Specific and limited way” (advisory)

“Dangerous Dogs Act 1991” (drafting)
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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 1d
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I've bought this resource..."
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Kimmy @ohyertiz.bsky.social · 1d
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Full Moon. Skeleton staff.
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 1d
Raised Catholic here. Can confirm that retired priests only post like this when they are properly, righteously fighting mad.

Seriously, actual convicts on death row aren’t denied the Blessed Sacrament. For actual Catholics, ICE are literally rejecting Christ.
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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 1d
I was raised an atheist, and have never had a strong personal connection to any religion.

This is remarkably powerful language that even affected me emotionally.

I can't imagine what it is doing to anyone raised Catholic.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1d
Go well, queen
in The Godfather with Pacino in Looking for Mr Goodbar, a poor film but probably her greatest performance ‘La-de-da’-ing in Annie Hall in her lovely late-career rom-com, Something’s Gotta Give, opposite Jack Nicholson
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 1d
With Triple Sec?
Dalek Sec, leader of the Cult of Skaro.
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The Black Archive @blackarchive.co.uk · 1d
Out now in paperback, ebook and the usual combo deal - THE MYSTERIOUS PLANET, Black Archive #79, written by Jez Strickley!

A much under-rated story and Bob Holmes' last full script, MP is packed with duality - and for once, it's not just his dodgy double acts!

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Obverse Books @obversebooks.co.uk · 1d
Get your own copy so that you can listen and read along!

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2d
Unsolicited Tick Pic.
Peter Serafinowicz as Ben Edlund’s square-jawed superhero in Amazon’s eight-part live-action adaptation. He is wearing a blue spandex suit and matching helmet with integrated mask complete with stylised tick antennae.
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2d
Great article this, on a condition that’s getting some much-needed attention. Featuring the work as informed by her lived experiences by the mighty @drjanegregory.bsky.social and her comedian husband #SteveHall
Must you chew so loud? The trials of suffering from ‘misophonia’
The strange emerging science behind a little-understood medical condition
on.ft.com
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2d
For me, and for the moment, I would be thankful for the halting of direct death. Motivation comes into whether that peace lasts.
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2d
When Pat Mills and John Wagner did this they made sure that the bear could win.
Image from the 2000AD comic strip SHAKO!…The Only Bear on the CIA Death List! Every episode basically involved SHAKO meeting a new threat and being hurt by it before overcoming and eating it.
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2d
Mine are:

Call Me (Aretha Franklin) 10/10
Call Me (Blondie) 10/10

Not scored to win, I honestly think they’re both peerless.
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2d
I honestly think these are both GOATs:
Call Me (Aretha Franklin) 10/10
Call Me (Blondie) 10/10
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2d
Great thread. I can add Peter Davison writing about his father:
Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs Autobiography by Peter Davison I more like him than I cared to admit while he was alive. I stand like he did, sit like he did, I look at my hands and see his, I look in the mirror and see his features, even though our colouring was so completely different. While I longed to look more like him, I realise I turned out as perfectly as he could have wished. Here was a man from the Caribbean who wanted nothing more than to be accepted as British, who had a son who had made a name for himself playing the typical Eng-lishman. Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs Autobiography by Peter Davison But of course it did matter. What to us was a taste of the exotic was, to my father a bothersome distraction in his quest to be accepted as an exemplary British citizen. The fact that his only son was born with blond hair and blue eyes, courtesy of inheriting my mother's dominant Caucasian genes, unlike my sisters, made the transition complete. Over the years however, his West Indian heritage became more than a distraction, and while we never knew of it until later, there's no doubt he suffered discrimination and rejection at the hands of Mother England that he loved. When Enoch Powell gave his 'Rivers of Blood' speech and my father had to stand in line and register as an alien, having been eventually accepted by my mother's extended family and friends, probably did nothing to soften his feelings.
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2d
For the diminutive service Ogrons.
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2d
Is Paddington Street in Marylebone too far? If not, Berut Bistro is fantastic.
BerutBistro
Berut Bistro: Authentic Lebanese restaurant in London serving delicious traditional Lebanese cuisine in a stylish modern setting. Perfect for food lovers seeking a unique dining experience.
www.berut.co.uk
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