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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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They had to go with what they could, but…
The DVD cover of The Thick of It series one and two featuring a very unlikely still of Peter Capaldi mid-rant.
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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“Joe and Alan at the roundtable.” #TheTraitors
The metaphor alien from Star Trek: Darmok.
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Please note, no help was sought from the Cornish.
Nothing came of this suggestion of peace. Owain, in the mean time, was obliged to look for new ways of adding to his strength by making allies of some of the king's other enemies. To the king of Scotland he wrote reminding him that they were both descended from the same ancient British kings. The Welsh people, too, had been brought under the tyranny and bondage of mine and your mortal foes, the Saxons'. From this tyranny, he added, 'the prophecy saith that I shall be delivered by the aid and succour of your royal majesty'. He ended by asking for the help of Scottish men-at-arms. It was a shrewd and well-directed appeal to a power which had, more than once in the fourteenth century, seriously considered making use of Welsh enmity to the English. A similar plea, stressing again the importance of the prophecies, was sent to the lords of Ireland, including the Irish rebel Art Macmurrough. But the messenger was executed before he could deliver his letters, and no substantial help was received from Scotland or Ireland. In the year 1402 Owain did well enough without any aid from outside. Early that year the appearance the Welsh
November 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Reading this. The sort of book in which, when the English are mentioned, you feel you should boo.
November 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers".
The Robot Wars robot from Spaced.
October 30, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Happy Halloween!

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.
Sylvester McCoy in a screenshot from Three Kinds of Heat. His costume is remarkably similar to that of the New Adventures Seventh Doctor. Sophie Aldred posing in Ace’s costume from the Virgin New Adventures. William Shatner holding a stalactite shaped like a cock and balls, from the Star Trek episode “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” Headshot of H. P. Lovecraft
October 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Absolutely here for older Doctor Who fans arguing RTD should’ve remade The Shape of Water with these fellas.
A shot of a Sea Devil from The Sea Devils.
October 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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The man has five confirmed kills.
Kwazii from Octonauts in his little shark-shaped submarine. There is an unexplained tally of five on the sub’s side.
October 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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If you weren’t there, I don’t know how to explain it to you.
Super Sonic breaks free of the Black Asteroid in Sonic the Comic #100. He says “FREE! FREE AT LAST! NOW I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE... AND DESTROY EVERYTHING!”
October 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Peter Serafinowicz as Duane in Spaced saying “You shot me in the bollocks.”
October 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Unsolicited BRICS pic.
Photograph of leaders at the 2025 BRICS conference in Brazil.
October 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Anyone making a Tron movie.
The “But it might work for us” meme from Arrested Development.
October 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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No other coyote in the world could accomplish this!
Wile E. Coyote has run off a cliff but not realised it yet.
October 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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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 Satan as depicted in South Park 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.
October 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Peter Kay doing a funny
September 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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What a name for a kids show.
Cover for “Sophie’s Choice”’ the pilot for an unmade children’s TV show presented by Sophie Aldred.
September 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Screengrab from Letterboxd showing “Recent Activity” and posters for the films Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, Punch-Drunk Love, Klute, and Island of Terror.
September 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Search called off for worst Doctor Who title imaginable.

I mean… Christ.
The cover of a Doctor Who audio box set called, I kid you not, The Potential Daleks.
September 16, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Screenshot of a Google AI Overview saying “There is no known connection between the classical composer Benjamin Britten and the television series Doctor Who. While a biographer suggested Benjamin Britten died of cardiovascular syphilis in 2013, this theory was widely dismissed by those who cared for the composer and lacks evidence, and this claim is not related to Doctor Who.”
September 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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If you see this, QTP with a title screen that’s iconic to you!
The title screen from the original Tomb Raider.
September 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Jonny Lee Miler, best known for his role as a small child in Doctor Who.
Screenshot of a nine-year-old Jonny Lee Miller as one of the Kinda in the Doctor Who story, er, “Kinda”.
September 4, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Did an Adrian Chiles write this?
Headline from BBC News saying “I asked a passenger to turn down his phone - he got off my bus in a huff”
August 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Why does Kwazii have five confirmed kills?
Image of Kwazii from Octonauts in his shark-shaped submarine, with a tally of five marked on the side.
August 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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The Treachery of Images with a second larger duplicate image below and the caption “C’EST une pipe.”
August 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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William Hope Hodgson was, I fear, terminally insecure.
And she made protest that she should truly walk; for that I was all a-weary, and she come to her strength again. And, indeed, I carried her a certain way, and did then put her down to her feet; and truly her knees did so tremble that she had not stood, let be to walk! And I caught her up again; and I kist her, and I told her that I did be surely her Master, in verity, and she mine own Baby-Slave. And truly you shall not laugh upon me; for I was so human as any; and a man doth talk this way with his maid.
August 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM