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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 35m

I like to think in the Noughts & Crosses world, there's an AH nerd doing these incredible detailed maps, gets to the non-colonised bit of Europe, and goes "oh, that's... the Thespian Empire, yeah, Thespians sound cool"

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 1h

Classical-era Peshawar Lancers. A meteor strikes somewhere in southern Russia during the reign of Trajan, creating a dust cloud and 3 year winter. Trajan rallies the Roman Navy to evacuate much of the surviving population into Nubia and Mesopotamia...

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 1h

I hate to sound bitter but can you imagine how much we would have saved if the Tories hadn't banned onshore wind in England and actually utilised the low interest environment to do some infrastructure spending

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Dylan @ Doctor Who: Too Hot For Tv @toohot4tv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today on #DoctorWho : Too Hot For TV I am joined by @martang66.bsky.social to discuss "the film every fan has waited for" Souls Ark, starring Colin Baker and Wendy Padbury. linktr.ee/Dylan_Rees

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 5h

If you want to know How and Why about 90s superhero comics, you need to read Life of Reilly

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 5h

It's looking like the government might drag itself moaning "URRRRGG FIIIIIIINE" to _not_ making immigration changes retroactive for people who've been in the system for years already Hi to everyone in November when this is unearthed after Mahmood makes it even MORE retroactive

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 5h

post a vampire that isn't Dracula

2000AD cover of mutant vampire Durham Red holding her guns up and winking at us while blood spatters over a 'camera lens'

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 6h

They have learned nothing. NOTHING

SILENCE! TO ASTONISH
SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2026 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
PANEL ROOM 1, QUEEN'S SUITE
HARROGATE CONVENTION CENTRE (MAP)
GOOGLE CALENDAR • ICS
"What is this?! What is this supposed to be? I like Matt Fraction, Sarah Graley, John Allison, AND Becky Cloonan but who are these other three people? Is this an interview? Some sort of game?
Psychological torture? Whatever it is, it's a laugh!" is what you'll be thinking as you join podcasters Fraser Geesin aka Gary Lactus (SILENCE., Listen Through The Brown Window), Dan White aka The Beast Must Die (SILENCE!, Savage Beast) and Al Kennedy (House to Astonish, SILENCE! sometimes but not as much as the other two) in an experience that's hard to sum up in a brief blurb but is predominantly daft questions, ill-advised challenges and bad decisions. Oh, and it's about comics.
Suitable for ages 18+

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 9h

📣 BOOK DEAL NEWS KLAXON! 📣 Absolutely beside ourselves to report that, following on from the amazing launch of @discobooks.bsky.social's THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS, we've now signed the sequel, THIS IS HOW WE STAY ALIVE, for a late 2027 release!

Promo image for Disco Barrington's THIS IS HOW WE STAY ALIVE, coming September 2027, showing a placeholder cover against a motherboard backdrop

Text reads: NEW BOOK DEAL

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 7h

a recurring pet peeve is "the Thirteenth Doctor didn't have gravitas/enough Doctory bits" when she did have bits where she got serious or aggressive (which is generally what we mean) and every other Doctor ever also had _loads_ of moments of being a silly billy. Not to trick baddies either!

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 8h

The old hits start to sound stale after a while.

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Fred McNamara - ALL SECTIONS ALPHA is out NOW! 🌔 @commandermac.bsky.social · 8h

This Thunderbirds Day, let's have a rundown of my favourite pieces that I've written about the classic series for @gerryanderson.bsky.social over the last couple of years! Thunderbirds Thursday: Creating the Thunderbirds explores the origins of the I.R. machines. gerryanderson.com/blogs/blog/t...

Concept art for Thunderbird 3 - note the craft is named Rescue 3

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 23h

the Big Two can't release monthly anthologies because unlike Dredd there's no pun on "magazine" they can do, and that means it's never going to work. Nobody's buying Uncanny X-azine or the Bat-azine, they'll be repulsed and disgusted.

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Arthur Wyatt @arthurwyatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So yeah, we already did ”why don’t the Judges from Judge Dredd buy off crime“ and answered it “because they don’t want to” so that’s one up on Batman.

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One day after In The Pale Moonlight: "Weyoun, 100 ships headed by USS Enterprise & IKS House of Kang came storming over the undefended Romulan border and have advanced 7 systems, while 4th MACO, 19th Klingon Regulars, & 1st-n-Only Betazeds made colony landings! "Also some Romulans ships are there."

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

also got a kick out of (because it's a French film about Free France) Roosevelt being presented as a sneering heavy

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Taha @datataha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In his conference speech today, the Prime Minister promised a social care service that is free in the home, and that care charges will not be paid from pension income. 🧵1/5

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Tom Shapira @tomshaps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bruce Wayne should use his vast fortune to buy every copy of The Killing Joke with the new colouring and destroy them.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are really good reasons *not* to do it, but both this Labour government and the last are hamstrung by the inability to just clearly state 'Donald Trump is bad and has bad consequences'.

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love how in De Gaulle: Resistance, de Gaulle routinely gives big stirring heart-felt speeches and I think only a handful of them ever _work_, because he's doing it to people going "yeah but Petain's the legitimate head", "the English butchered Mers el-Kebir!", "we don't have any kit", "DC says No"

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David McDonald @davidmcdonald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a very cool find! An original flyer advertising the opening of the first Forbidden Planet shop in London. It came with Dennis Giffords Ace newsletter in summer 1978, so this is possibly one of the first printings of Brian Bolland's iconic image.

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that "Marvel characters we'd love to see Simon Pegg play" better include Death-Wreck

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

being in animation, its not from AI. the streaming bubble bursting cuz everyone hopped on the grain cuz it undermined unions, less regulations and more mergers are what lead to the loss. AI is just what people think but it started way before that

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s as if had James Callaghan stood up in 1976 and saying “for the past 30 years we’ve been too concerned with price stability”.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Notable shift from the previous Reform line on Tommo

Richard Tice condemning the blocking of ports

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Fanzine. Moxism was always the right way @fanzine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Marina's speech from the warrior wrestling show

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 28/09/2026

The push to make it so that "websites as a destination for humans is over" is an intentional move to violate the freedom to read of individuals and move access to information into a "pay to get an opaquely intermediated version from a nontransparent source" model.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ex-minister Mike Tapp on "need to exempt care workers from retrospective settlememy extensions" There is broad support for this. But why not exempt engineers, vets & chefs & architects from "retrospective extensions" that could force 250k non-care workers to leave?

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Fairford Five after being released on bail

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dear Star Trek, Please make 1970s occupation drama ala Secret Army or Enemy At The Door but it's the Dominion on a Federation colony world. Signed, Me

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

RTD and the BBC hearing the ONS has had another look at the data and it's _not_ good value for money to build that UNIT set

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/09/2026

It is genuinely quite weird seeing Unite pick up the political agenda of the Lib Dem Orange Book authors. As a policy agenda, it's much closer to Thatcherism than a traditional social democratic agenda, let alone democratic socialism.

A Unite TV monitor calls for “fair tax thresholds” for higher rate UK taxpayers, saying it should be set at £66,000 instead of £50,270

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"the City was given an opportunity to change for the better, and avoid the grim cycles of events it seems perpetually locked into… that opportunity was rejected about as thoroughly and violently as could be, and that future closed off, so now we see what happens" BOOM

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

we go to every politician and financial & industrial journalist over the last few years:

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Because good luck building things, anything, if your world-leading university sector continues to crumble under broken funding models.

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Others (2001) dir. Alejandro Amenábar

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... a lot of people stamping on a landmine while yelling "SOMEONE ELSE STAMPED ON THE LANDMINE", when it's not just still living memory of what could happen but _this year_ another riot burned people out of their houses as a reminder.

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Drumcree parade: Police block Orange Order from controversial parade route

They had been unable to make the permitted parade on Sunday morning because protesters had gathered on the mainly-nationalist Garvaghy Road.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:

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