The actor who played the iconic Senator Clay Davis on THE WIRE has left the building. RESPECT, Mr. Whitlock, and rest in peace. deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

Evan Dorkin and Roger Landridge's "Bill & Ted Are Doomed" has an "evil metal" band listing all the metal they encompass, escalating from "death metal" to "high metal! Low metal! Hate metal! Terror metal! Dense metal! Etcetc METAL!" "We had some emo metal but we SPAT IT OUT because it made us SICK!"

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Today I’m reading a comic where the behind the scenes are as interesting as front of house: Samantha Slade, Robo Hunter! Upfront: I know nothing about the behind the scenes, except what’s said in the back matter. A new Robo Hunter for a new generation? Alan Grant, Ian Gibson and Ant Williams >>>

Sorry, I am really losing track: should people be punished for things they say on social media or no?

Coming up to a whole year since my colossal retrospective of TV Century 21. This is one of my Gerry Anderson pieces that I'm quite proud of - even if it feels like I've still barely scratched the surface of how the comic worked!

A reminder that most SLP #AlternateHistory #books are discounted until the #NewYear as part of the #Smashwords winter #sale! www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/25-off-...

From the perspective of the average person in universe, Star Wars is the story of Count Dooku warning everyone Palpatine was a tyrant and being tragically ignored the misguided old Jedi companions he was forced to take up arms against, only to be vindicated upon death.

My most popular twitter post...

www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/vignett... short story by me in which-- what, politics in an #alternatehistory? No, no, it's just a wrestling match, NOTHING political going on in wrestling!

Oops. Deleting that. How disappointing. I was a big fan of his go-kart racing, I didn’t know anything about his history of kidnapping princesses.

theankler.com/p/uta-united... It's a bit of a thing that the sub-header brings up Z when the worker saying less is written attributes it to studios pissily going "OH it'll be SO DIFFICULT to get a coordinator so we'll just NOT do a scene" like big babies. And that mood's all a bit sinister

Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic

Betty Boop and Nancy Drew to enter the Public Domain in 2026 and yes there is a Betty Boop slasher on the way, it's the logical next step.

There actually is a country in East Africa that makes perfect sense for the 22nd Century’s space economy: Kenya.

The thing to understand is no compromise would be enough for the GCs. It is not enough that they are allowed to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces. Everyone else must be forced to do so. It is not enough that they are allowed to speak their views. Everyone else must be forced to listen.

As I said recently in The Guardian: "Despite their hopes to the contrary, anti-trans campaigners have not won the hearts and minds they believed the Supreme Court would give them" So they turn to this; desperate, fascistic calls for the destruction of those they hate (framed as ideas, not people).

Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) discusses how attempts at #historicalfiction #films can often get undermined by changes made for the sake of #story - so why not make them #AlternateHistory instead? #Adaptation #Film #TheWomanKing #Dahomey www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/films-t...

"uhhhh this is uhhhh religious discrimination because uhh we only allow religious members, yeah" is a bold defence, let's see how it goes for them

From the beginning... the trials and dramas of the boardroom! THE BROTHERS - begins New Year's Day at 6:55pm on #TalkingPicturesTV

www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/vignett... short story by me in which-- what, politics in an #alternatehistory? No, no, it's just a wrestling match, NOTHING political going on in wrestling!

we let the Americans convince us we hated Mr Blobby and what happened after we lost his protection? The Elf on the Shelf slipped in.

we let the Americans convince us we hated Mr Blobby and what happened after we lost his protection? The Elf on the Shelf slipped in.

Counterpoint: "UK OKAY!" being yelled by Bill Savage as he and his mob thump those funking Volgs

Well done everyone: decades of social progress starting to reverse because of a handful of dipshits in Westminster love spreadsheets.

I try not to be the reddit atheist as much as I once was but it is just fucking psychotic to treat "we're ending cancer research" and "more people are my religion" as comparable

We're absolutely delighted to see Tradwife make Disco's Top 10 of 2025! Like the sound of it? Pick up a copy for yourself ⬇️

Once again this is what the Mail has spent most of my lifetime wanting to achieve

poor Piotr, he had plans to hang out with his friends but his parents have told him to go escort his sister to her first rock concert

I already agree with this in principle - citizenship is an untouchable status or it is nothing - but also for reasons of prudence. “The Home Sec can revoke citizenship when he/she deems someone’s online output sufficiently offensive” is a v dangerous precedent to set with Reform leading all polls.

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"You can't park that here, mate."

Not quite. The people who gave the man British citizenship are saying it's outrageous he be allowed to come to Britain.

Wait, all the people who said it was outrageous that a British riot-supporter was jailed for a tweet are now saying it's outrageous that a British person was released from an Egyptian prison, given his tweets?

As someone who often conducts fieldwork in remote places, I find it really irritating that many basic applications now require an internet connection to function.

pure uncut Bisley

Please never forget that the only reason Optimus Prime found the drive to fight his centuries-long galactic war against Megatron & the Decepticons is that he took inspiration from Spider-Man.

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Labour's 'fear will keep the social liberals in line. Fear of this Nigel Farage' strategy is dumb, but at least the thing about it is that it is non-falsifiable until summer 2029 (🥶), as opposed to the Badenoch-Jenrick strategy, which fails its stress test every week.

It's almost compelling in a way just how committed the Conservatives are to their 'we handed over a great legacy! The country just collapsed completely in summer 2024', something which visibly is not working for them and never will work for them:

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

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I remember a Labour MP saying “my constituents are being listened to for the first time ever” when Mahmood introduced her changes to the immigration rules and it turns out said MP represents a marginal seat that has voted for the ruling party at every GE since universal suffrage

I mean, the gutting of local government didn't happen by a conspiracy, people in suburbs essentially everywhere in the UK voted enthusiastically for it to happen.

Normal people: "John M. Ford's The Final Reflection is a great development of the Klingons before TNG did it differently, very intricate stuff" Me: "Ha ha the Klingons have a TV show named like Battlestar Galactica"

My take on AI is don't be afraid of organic growth as an artist. Art isn't something you should want to game. The time it takes to improve is both essential and the point. Later, you may appreciate the fact that you approached your art naturally and honestly. Protect it. That's the artistic soul.

Another of Brian Bolland’s fine covers for London’s Time Out magazine, this time for September 23rd 1987’s issue.

All I ask for is that when I die I get one speech bubble explicitly describing how