Congratulations to Brett Anderson of Suede, still going strong with new albums and touring

I am on an unusually small train for a very busy Saturday.

Question. How does the most recent #Transformers The Movie release compare ro the 2016 Blu ray set? Picture quality wise and special features...

Now there's something you don't see everyday. 😲 #DoctorWho #Dalek

Oh arr

I'm not going to shame you for your festive fart torture fantasy, but also, I'm never touching a mince pie again

The DWM editorial is staggeringly tantalising isn't it? I don't think there can be any doubt something is coming...

Does anyone know if there's a USB joystick 🕹️ out there like this, with that sort of button placement? Lots in the much older style, with the simple knob stick and a button on the base, but there's nothing I can find like this - you go from one extreme to massively overcomplicated flight Sim setups

Yeeted from elsewhere

I declare Christmas open.

Just been informed that Lidl has mince pies - DUTCH LIDL "Bring me the horses, Alfred, we ride at dawn!" "Dawn was an hour or two ago Sir." "Then we ride now, dammit!"

Big Band Jazz Daleks!

Watching Daleks! Invasion Earth! 2150AD in 4k for the first time. Shiny. (The 2023 big box version). Love this film.

Audiobook - completed it mate

Just S and T of the index left to go for book. And a last check of some tricky names. So close.

RIP :(

Sweet Jesus. Ludicrously expensive but oof, desirable... blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...

NEW RELEASE - OUT TODAY THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN Following the critically-acclaimed release of The Chimes in 2022, Average Romp presents two more full-cast adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Christmas stories; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN. averageromp.com

Possibly ambitious but I have eight hours to do it... One chapter of current audio book left, plus the lengthier mid-later letters of the index, Afterword, a couple of odd extra bits and then a final pass over some of the more unfamiliar sounding names. And that's then book five of my six Dedicons!

I don't just make rude words you know. Sometimes it's just a simple expression of love for cats.

IIRC correctly, "monster" is Dutch for "specimen" or "sample".

"I know you're not asleep, boy!" "What is it, Kratos, I'm terribly tired?"

So many amusing interpretations of this but no, there's a place in NL called Monster.

I'm not surprised by this. He came across as extremely frail and slowing down in Picard, and I don't think that was a deliberate performance

Ritually sacrificing Patrick Stewart won’t bring back your box office.

Flip Webster in Doctor Who: The Curse of Davros from Big Finish Productions

I didn’t care why Twelve resembled some guy from Pompeii, after it was explained, I still didn’t. Silly explanation - the Doctor also saved James Corden’s life, why doesn’t he look like James Corden? TV show reuses actor. Big deal.

Since that Law and Order tweet is going around regarding reusing actors and Doctor Who is being used as an example - There has NEVER needed to be an explanation about why someone looks the same. Never. Except maybe Freema Agyeman due to the identical time period and very close air dates.

I've got a really cheap but perfect condition copy of Elden Ring on Vinted. So finally giving it a try. I'm not sure it's for me, hence not trying it till now, but I'm happy to have a look.

Seriously, if you've never seen this one, give it a go, an excellent take on the novel. Fun fact for #DoctorWho fans; this production is why Terrance Dicks' vampire script got delayed a few seasons, so indirectly this gave us Horror of Fang Rock and State of Decay. Good legacy!

I made a dumb thing for the new #DoctorWho spin off.

Finally united with my BSFA award, for #DoctorWho Caged. Thank you to @sjgroenewegen.co.uk for collecting it, and shepherding it around most of the UK!

Big Finish listens/relistens: ID - great first episode, still pretty good by the end, fun to hear Brandreth. Good cast all round. Amusing to hear big stompy robots say "scum" a lot. Urgent Calls - lovely two hander, a straight take on (without being too spoilery) a Red Dwarf episode with much charm

Rest in War, Dick

I'm not sure my list would be close to this. Evil definitely, even if the animation is great, but I'd want more of DMP over Toymaker. The only advantage to having more of CT would be less of that hideous animation to watch. More Myth Makers, Massacre and Highlanders for me. Or Smugglers.

Whilst AI is able to make these new realities more vivid and believable (for people with confirmation bias), it is, to some extent, unnecessarily elaborate when people have believed any only bullshit on social media for years

Comments to this 2016 blog post about it are quite funny. People commenting on it years later to swear blind they remember it happening, but no one being able to provide a link clioseyeroll.wordpress.com/2016/12/03/d...

I really hope this turnip grew around a top-secret microfilm that was dropped in a field by a klutzy spy played by Derek Nimmo. Although anybody familiar with Mhelliahs will understand how this situation could have developed.

Two of my housemates at uni were from the Isle Of Man. That’s classic Manx.

It seems that Baldrick has won the lottery #Blackadder #IsleOfMan

They should do a short one like The Rescue or Planet of Giants because the problem with the colourisations isn't the colourisations, it's the bloody awful editing. Well, that and the bloody awful music choices - leave the sound as is too!

A brilliant article from @tobyhadoke.bsky.social on why the BBC's Written Archive needs to remain properly accessible. And "Doctor Who is, for many of us then, the gateway drug" rings so true when it comes to delving into television history. cstonline.net/defending-th...

🦈NEW EPISODE!🦈 The Selachians return, in Steve Lyons's #DoctorWho PDA The Final Sanction. We discuss writing the return of his monster from The Murder Game, bringing them to audio, and much, much more! soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

Just realised S2 of Blake's 7 is next week, not the end of the month. Hooray! It probably won't turn up here till the end of the week but fingers crossed

Noticed the proliferation of horribly AI narrated ads on YouTube and realised... They're Dutch ads, translated by YouTube AI. HOW DO I TURN THIS OFF, I WANT MY ADS IN DUTCH RO LEARN DUTCH BETTER* *Ignore them more easily

This is how I’m going to look every time someone dislikes one of my posts.

Booked for Isle of Man to see me mum - post Christmas, this time. New Year's Day, for around ten days. Then will sort trip to London, and come back via Eurostar. Should be a good use of time!

Season 13 update - Pyramids of Mars and Brain of Morbius seem to have escaped the AI nasties. Which, as they're my favourites of the season, is something of a relief. Not tried Planet of Evil or Seeds yet. Still hope they redo and reissue Zygons and Android Invasion.