Simon Morden
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Author, scientist, maker, lefty.
Website: www.bookofmorden.co.uk
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Fan of:
- The Dirty Dozen AND The Martian
- Sentencing to transportation
Try:
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A series of fatal accidents on Mars make a stranded prison laborer wonder if the company _was_ cutting costs, or _is_ cutting costs.
Fan of:
- The Dirty Dozen AND The Martian
- Sentencing to transportation
Try:
@comrademorden.bsky.social's
One Way
bookofmorden.co.uk/books/one-way/
A series of fatal accidents on Mars make a stranded prison laborer wonder if the company _was_ cutting costs, or _is_ cutting costs.
December 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
#bookreview 🪐📚 💙📚
Fan of:
- The Dirty Dozen AND The Martian
- Sentencing to transportation
Try:
@comrademorden.bsky.social's
One Way
bookofmorden.co.uk/books/one-way/
A series of fatal accidents on Mars make a stranded prison laborer wonder if the company _was_ cutting costs, or _is_ cutting costs.
Fan of:
- The Dirty Dozen AND The Martian
- Sentencing to transportation
Try:
@comrademorden.bsky.social's
One Way
bookofmorden.co.uk/books/one-way/
A series of fatal accidents on Mars make a stranded prison laborer wonder if the company _was_ cutting costs, or _is_ cutting costs.
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November 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Time to tap the sign again
November 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Time to tap the sign again
I hadn't realised that the great, and now tragically late, Tom Stoppard had his thumbprints all over the script of what is one of my very favourite films.
But it also explains why I love it so.
But it also explains why I love it so.
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
November 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I hadn't realised that the great, and now tragically late, Tom Stoppard had his thumbprints all over the script of what is one of my very favourite films.
But it also explains why I love it so.
But it also explains why I love it so.
The issue is, the opinions that Nathan Gill was paid to shill are the same opinions that Nigel Farage allegedly expresses for free.
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The issue is, the opinions that Nathan Gill was paid to shill are the same opinions that Nigel Farage allegedly expresses for free.
Alan Milburn on WatO, talking about the mysterious rise in the number of NEETs in the last five years, often due to physical and mental ill-health.
Me, shouting at the radio: What happened five years ago, Alan? What happened? I can tell you if you've forgotten!
Me, shouting at the radio: What happened five years ago, Alan? What happened? I can tell you if you've forgotten!
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Alan Milburn on WatO, talking about the mysterious rise in the number of NEETs in the last five years, often due to physical and mental ill-health.
Me, shouting at the radio: What happened five years ago, Alan? What happened? I can tell you if you've forgotten!
Me, shouting at the radio: What happened five years ago, Alan? What happened? I can tell you if you've forgotten!
"Nuns. No sense of humour."
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"Nuns. No sense of humour."
Maybe shave refugees' heads and sell their hair.
November 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Maybe shave refugees' heads and sell their hair.
I know his (Holy)ghost writer.
November 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I know his (Holy)ghost writer.
Don't be stupid, be a smarty
Come and join the Labour Party!
Come and join the Labour Party!
The main question to be asked here is, "What on earth made you think that this was a good idea?" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Refugees to face 20-year wait to settle permanently under asylum reforms
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is expected to announce major reforms to the asylum system on Monday.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Don't be stupid, be a smarty
Come and join the Labour Party!
Come and join the Labour Party!
No one should own two houses before everyone who wants one has one.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
No one should own two houses before everyone who wants one has one.
ffs
Driving south on Friday. My plans are literally pissed on.
Driving south on Friday. My plans are literally pissed on.
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Friday 0600 – Saturday 0600
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November 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
ffs
Driving south on Friday. My plans are literally pissed on.
Driving south on Friday. My plans are literally pissed on.
Of all the people I'd have on a list to be plotting against Kier Starmer, I would never have put the moral-free vacuum in human form that is Wes Streeting on it.
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Of all the people I'd have on a list to be plotting against Kier Starmer, I would never have put the moral-free vacuum in human form that is Wes Streeting on it.
Elon Musk reinvents the Probation Service.
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Elon Musk reinvents the Probation Service.
Bond is the lost king of Gondor, smoking a pipe in the shadows of the Prancing Pony.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Bond is the lost king of Gondor, smoking a pipe in the shadows of the Prancing Pony.
Ex-head of the UK Armed Forces saying that bad things that soldiers did in the past shouldn't be prosecuted.
I very strongly disagree. If soldiers are straight up murdering folk, then we need an investigation, and for those who did it, and those who ordered it, to be held accountable.
I very strongly disagree. If soldiers are straight up murdering folk, then we need an investigation, and for those who did it, and those who ordered it, to be held accountable.
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Ex-head of the UK Armed Forces saying that bad things that soldiers did in the past shouldn't be prosecuted.
I very strongly disagree. If soldiers are straight up murdering folk, then we need an investigation, and for those who did it, and those who ordered it, to be held accountable.
I very strongly disagree. If soldiers are straight up murdering folk, then we need an investigation, and for those who did it, and those who ordered it, to be held accountable.
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
1
CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
6
HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
8
CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
9
CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
10
HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
11
HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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It was literally just last year, that I was driving to my mum's, and my son (dumb phone for reasons) called me up and asked which way he needed to go from Trafalgar Square to get to Paddington station.
Inevitably I was in a 4G desert, but had an ancient paper map, with Central London included.
Inevitably I was in a 4G desert, but had an ancient paper map, with Central London included.
I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It was literally just last year, that I was driving to my mum's, and my son (dumb phone for reasons) called me up and asked which way he needed to go from Trafalgar Square to get to Paddington station.
Inevitably I was in a 4G desert, but had an ancient paper map, with Central London included.
Inevitably I was in a 4G desert, but had an ancient paper map, with Central London included.
I mean, do I get matched with cats and replica 12th century woodwork?
Tinder’s AI can find better matches by scanning your camera roll
Tinder’s AI can find better matches by scanning your camera roll
The dating app is testing a new feature that gets to know users by analyzing their photos.
buff.ly
November 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I mean, do I get matched with cats and replica 12th century woodwork?
Basic competence is such an underrated quality.
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Basic competence is such an underrated quality.
We had a global pandemic of a novel coronavirus that chewed up the lungs, guts and brains of those it infected.
Government: no, it must be the kids who are to blame.
Government: no, it must be the kids who are to blame.
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
We had a global pandemic of a novel coronavirus that chewed up the lungs, guts and brains of those it infected.
Government: no, it must be the kids who are to blame.
Government: no, it must be the kids who are to blame.
Over on another place, a fellow reenactor has just offered for sale a piece of embroidery that took them 160 hours of work for £100.
Please, people, I beg you. Value your labour.
Please, people, I beg you. Value your labour.
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Over on another place, a fellow reenactor has just offered for sale a piece of embroidery that took them 160 hours of work for £100.
Please, people, I beg you. Value your labour.
Please, people, I beg you. Value your labour.
Scrabbling to make sure that both Zoom and Teams still work on my computer.
Both are of the devil, of course, and I long for a time when a small boy arrives on my doorstep clutching a telegram, which he will hand over for a shiny sixpence.
Both are of the devil, of course, and I long for a time when a small boy arrives on my doorstep clutching a telegram, which he will hand over for a shiny sixpence.
November 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Scrabbling to make sure that both Zoom and Teams still work on my computer.
Both are of the devil, of course, and I long for a time when a small boy arrives on my doorstep clutching a telegram, which he will hand over for a shiny sixpence.
Both are of the devil, of course, and I long for a time when a small boy arrives on my doorstep clutching a telegram, which he will hand over for a shiny sixpence.
At this point it's difficult to tell which ship is sinking quickest...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform councillor defects to Tories after party’s policies left him ‘uncomfortable’
Dartford representative James Buchan says ‘devastating’ immigration plans had created a lot of fear and anxiety
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
At this point it's difficult to tell which ship is sinking quickest...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Haunted house in space, except the crew are the ghosts.
October 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Haunted house in space, except the crew are the ghosts.