Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈
@parallax2112.bsky.social
Technical author/carer, literature (sf/f/h), astronomy, beer/homebrew, weirdness, passionate Rush (the band) fan. #RejoinEU #FBPE #FBR #MaskUp. Cr*pto, pr0n, anti-vaxx, and other nonsense = instant block. Banner picture by @emilyscartoons.
Yes, this. 👇
"For a century, the BBC has been our classroom, our concert hall, our stage, our storyteller and our window on the world. Politicians need reminding: its much more than a news channel."
Defending our national treasure: the voice of the nation
Politicians see the BBC through the lens of TV news, but those who want to undermine it threaten a central plank of our national culture
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Yes, this. 👇
Slightly twisted 70s: Kenny Ball and His Jizz Men.
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Slightly twisted 70s: Kenny Ball and His Jizz Men.
What if the turkey didn't pardon #TrumpIsACunt, but chose to peck his eyes out? 🦃
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
What if the turkey didn't pardon #TrumpIsACunt, but chose to peck his eyes out? 🦃
As far as tv shows go, I'd vote for 'POI'. See: www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=5817
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
As far as tv shows go, I'd vote for 'POI'. See: www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=5817
It's weird that I feel completely agnostic about The Beatles, whilst acknowledging their influence on music and popular culture. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
The long and winding road: Stuart Maconie on why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing
Fans and historians have spent 60 years debating what the band means – and which member is greatest. Will the returning Anthology project and Sam Mendes’s planned biopics create new arguments?
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It's weird that I feel completely agnostic about The Beatles, whilst acknowledging their influence on music and popular culture. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Okay, another Matheson adaptation next. 'The Legend of Hell House'. Again, around ninety minutes.
Hollywood loves Richard Matheson almost as much as PKD.
Today's films. Two 70s classics. 'Dark Star' and 'Duel'. Both clocking in at a lean, mean, sub-ninety minutes. Modern Hollywood could learn a lot.
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Okay, another Matheson adaptation next. 'The Legend of Hell House'. Again, around ninety minutes.
Okay, I've secured some bottles of this year's edition of Stille Nacht. Christmas is saved!
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Okay, I've secured some bottles of this year's edition of Stille Nacht. Christmas is saved!
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"I said that Nigel Farage never abused anyone in a hurtful or insulting way. What did I say Roy?"
"You said he's a racist twat"
"You said he's a racist twat"
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"I said that Nigel Farage never abused anyone in a hurtful or insulting way. What did I say Roy?"
"You said he's a racist twat"
"You said he's a racist twat"
No, *you're* eating raw jalapeños out of the jar. Bracing.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
No, *you're* eating raw jalapeños out of the jar. Bracing.
Hollywood loves Richard Matheson almost as much as PKD.
Today's films. Two 70s classics. 'Dark Star' and 'Duel'. Both clocking in at a lean, mean, sub-ninety minutes. Modern Hollywood could learn a lot.
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Hollywood loves Richard Matheson almost as much as PKD.
Today's films. Two 70s classics. 'Dark Star' and 'Duel'. Both clocking in at a lean, mean, sub-ninety minutes. Modern Hollywood could learn a lot.
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Today's films. Two 70s classics. 'Dark Star' and 'Duel'. Both clocking in at a lean, mean, sub-ninety minutes. Modern Hollywood could learn a lot.
Eh?
Films with aliens in should be classed as horror not sci-fi. If aliens are science fiction, so are ghosts.
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Eh?
Aha! Just remembered that I've got enough orzo. Problem solved.
Damn. My plan for cooking crab risotto tonight has been torpedoed by insufficient risotto rice.
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Aha! Just remembered that I've got enough orzo. Problem solved.
Damn. My plan for cooking crab risotto tonight has been torpedoed by insufficient risotto rice.
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Damn. My plan for cooking crab risotto tonight has been torpedoed by insufficient risotto rice.
And they called it puppy love...
I caught my wife shouting 'nonce' at our dog. Apparently she had no idea what it really meant and has been doing it for years in public thinking it was just what you said when someone was naughty.
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
And they called it puppy love...
"Me, the Thirteenth Duke of Wybourne, here, surrounded by geriatric ladies? Whatever can they be thinking?"
Here I am surrounded by geriatric ladies. One - in a dark passage - frightened me - thought she was a ghost.
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
"Me, the Thirteenth Duke of Wybourne, here, surrounded by geriatric ladies? Whatever can they be thinking?"
Is it just me, or does 'Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders' sound a bit rude?
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Is it just me, or does 'Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders' sound a bit rude?
Another brilliant take from Sir M.
‘You, Boy!
Go and racially abuse everybody you meet
…but not in a hurtful or insulting way!’
Go and racially abuse everybody you meet
…but not in a hurtful or insulting way!’
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Another brilliant take from Sir M.
BTW, do better, Pippa. Imagine what you'd do in 1930s Germany, eh?
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
BTW, do better, Pippa. Imagine what you'd do in 1930s Germany, eh?
Ooh. @ tonybirdlondon has blocked me. Not a Gyles Brandreth fan, mate?
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Ooh. @ tonybirdlondon has blocked me. Not a Gyles Brandreth fan, mate?
Definitely another series of 'The Peripheral'. Mark and Jez still tearing each other apart in a carehome with Super Hans selling them dodgy anti-dementia drugs (they're very moreish). Other than that? Meh. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Did Egg get a Michelin star? Did Super Hans make it to Macedonia? The TV shows that most need a comeback
From a newer, greener Top Gear to the greatest comedy of all time, here are the series Guardian readers most want back on our screens
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Definitely another series of 'The Peripheral'. Mark and Jez still tearing each other apart in a carehome with Super Hans selling them dodgy anti-dementia drugs (they're very moreish). Other than that? Meh. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Right. Woke up this morning with horrible vertigo and nauseous dry-heaving. Feel better now. Actually feel hungry.
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Right. Woke up this morning with horrible vertigo and nauseous dry-heaving. Feel better now. Actually feel hungry.
'Bombed out in space with a spaced-out bomb.' Brilliant film. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
‘We used a beachball as an alien!’ John Carpenter on his gloriously shonky sci-fi comedy Dark Star
‘The control room buttons were upside-down ice-cube trays, one space suit had a dish-drying rack on it – and the special effects guy wrote the theme tune lyrics’
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
'Bombed out in space with a spaced-out bomb.' Brilliant film. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...