Michael Mills
@michaelmills.bsky.social
Doctor Who book club rambler (Hamster with a Blunt Penknife). Escaped journalist. “Welsh”. All this and great hair too.
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VOUDUN
LOVECRAFT
STAR TREK
WANK FANTASIES OF THE 1990S
Join us as we talk about a time Doctor Who tried to do something Doctor Who doesn’t often try to do.
VOUDUN
LOVECRAFT
STAR TREK
WANK FANTASIES OF THE 1990S
Join us as we talk about a time Doctor Who tried to do something Doctor Who doesn’t often try to do.
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I swear, someone *always* resigns when I go on holiday:
To fix the BBC, focus on competence and cash
Corporation fails to learn from criticism, while politicians have consciously reduced its scope for quality journalism
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I swear, someone *always* resigns when I go on holiday:
My commitments as BBC Director General will be clear:
Minus five points for any couple on Strictly that does a “notices and reacts to the camera” bit in their routine.
Minus five points for any couple on Strictly that does a “notices and reacts to the camera” bit in their routine.
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
My commitments as BBC Director General will be clear:
Minus five points for any couple on Strictly that does a “notices and reacts to the camera” bit in their routine.
Minus five points for any couple on Strictly that does a “notices and reacts to the camera” bit in their routine.
I wonder whether this or all the farting about LLMs will seem to have been more significant in ten years time.
"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..."
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
EVs put an end to China's usual holiday surge in gasoline use
Tianyu Jiang took a 2,000-km (1,200-mile) road trip this month during China's national holiday week, driving in his electric vehicle from the southwestern Sichuan basin to Beijing for the first time.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I wonder whether this or all the farting about LLMs will seem to have been more significant in ten years time.
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Joe & @jameslark.bsky.social talk to one of their favourite authors about writing The Chimes of Midnight and Jubilee, coming to terms with your own work, and the creating unique short story collections. Insight into the writing process from one of the masters.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Joe & @jameslark.bsky.social talk to one of their favourite authors about writing The Chimes of Midnight and Jubilee, coming to terms with your own work, and the creating unique short story collections. Insight into the writing process from one of the masters.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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Obviously right to criticise it when it makes mistakes but the BBC is broadly very good and British people don’t realise how lucky they are to have it.
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Obviously right to criticise it when it makes mistakes but the BBC is broadly very good and British people don’t realise how lucky they are to have it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Bloody hell. You wouldn’t pass a fairly basic data apprenticeship if you missed this yawning gap in your data.
Child benefit: HMRC to review thousands of suspended payments
The tax body had used travel data to conclude that thousands of parents had left the country permanently but many say they just went on holiday.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Bloody hell. You wouldn’t pass a fairly basic data apprenticeship if you missed this yawning gap in your data.
Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight
AKA
The Cook, the Chauffeur, the Maid and Her Killer
AKA
The Cook, the Chauffeur, the Maid and Her Killer
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight
AKA
The Cook, the Chauffeur, the Maid and Her Killer
AKA
The Cook, the Chauffeur, the Maid and Her Killer
Liz Truss turning up at these things always reminds me of the bit in The West Wing when they wonder if John Goodman will get a presidential library.
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Liz Truss turning up at these things always reminds me of the bit in The West Wing when they wonder if John Goodman will get a presidential library.
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Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
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Entirely accurate.
November 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Entirely accurate.
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We often speak of you.
November 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
We often speak of you.
And Another Thing
John Carpenter says he's working on a sequel to 'The Thing'
"We'll see"
"We'll see"
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
And Another Thing
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Hard agree - I interviewed Alan Cumming and director Jono McLeod about My Old School a few years ago, it's such a brilliant, gentle dissection of an extraordinary lie and it's consequences
If you haven't seen it, My Old School is currently on iPlayer. A top, top documentary.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
My Old School
The story of Scotland's most notorious impostor. A 16-year-old boy is the new kid at school and becomes a model pupil - until he is unmasked.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Hard agree - I interviewed Alan Cumming and director Jono McLeod about My Old School a few years ago, it's such a brilliant, gentle dissection of an extraordinary lie and it's consequences
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A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
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I’m here for Joe and Nick’s beautiful friendship. #CelebrityTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I’m here for Joe and Nick’s beautiful friendship. #CelebrityTraitors
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There we go, lads. Fill yer boots. #celebritytraitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
There we go, lads. Fill yer boots. #celebritytraitors
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November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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FUCKING SHAKESPEARE #TheCelebrityTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
FUCKING SHAKESPEARE #TheCelebrityTraitors
“Joe and Alan at the roundtable.” #TheTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
“Joe and Alan at the roundtable.” #TheTraitors
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Hamster Book Club Merchandise has arrived! @devondan.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Hamster Book Club Merchandise has arrived! @devondan.bsky.social
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what did anonymous do on the 5th of november
November 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
what did anonymous do on the 5th of november
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Next week, I’ll be interviewing the glorious Jacqueline Rayner for the Hamster Book Club opening weekend in January.
If you have any questions for Jac - pop them below.
If you have any questions for Jac - pop them below.
November 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Next week, I’ll be interviewing the glorious Jacqueline Rayner for the Hamster Book Club opening weekend in January.
If you have any questions for Jac - pop them below.
If you have any questions for Jac - pop them below.
This news is too damn sexy.
The best shot Universal ever had at a Dark Universe/Monsters franchise was to bring these two back after The Mummy to fight Dracula and then the Wolf Man, then Abbott and Costello and so on throughout the 2000s. But this'll do!
Brendan Fraser & Rachel Weisz In Talks To Return For New ‘Mummy’ Movie From Universal; Radio Silence To Direct
A new 'Mummy' movie to star Brendan Fraser & Rachel Weisz is in the works at Universal, with Radio Silence set to direct, sources tell Deadline.
deadline.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This news is too damn sexy.
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It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us
Dispatch has sold 1 million copies in under two weeks
Dispatch has sold 1 million copies in under two weeks
The episodic superhero comedy features big-name actors like Aaron Paul and Jeffrey Wright.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us