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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.

Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Have Virgin Mail inboxes just stopped working? Is this the threatened closure or just a temporary glitch? I've not had time to migrate anything...

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every 'suggestion' in the comments under any article about the 'Doctor Who' tender process is an ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE idea which no sane production company should ever follow (or wouldn't even be able to even if they wanted to), made by lunatics with no concept of how TV works in the real world.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Does everyone know about Virgin Media phasing out their email service? It feels as if this was smuggled out under cover of darkness. It's outrageous.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Well, you're buggered there, then, aren't you, sunshine?

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Quite funny the way the photo makes the Reform baldie on the right, with a blonde woman sitting behind him, look as if he has an attempt at a Legolas haircut, or Brian Eno in the prime of his 1970s flowing-versus-receding struggle.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Is today's news basically just 'choose your means of imminent death'?

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Society of Authors programme of events on dealing with difficult publishers has stepped up a gear this autumn...

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Did he get the gig because he's called Carr? I look forward to Graeme Garden presenting 'Gardeners' World', Sue Cook doing 'The Great British Bake-Off' and Christoph Waltz doing 'Strictly'.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Amber Weatherwarning is a foxy villainess in a gothic steampunk fantasy novel.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I hope someone is thinking of Vanessa Williams tonight. 😎 🟡⚫️

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The woman doing that 'Making Memories' advert on the radio about 'summer savings' sounds as if she has a forced rictus grin on her face as she lives the hell of entertaining small children in the summer holidays 😆😆 She will be hitting the valium shortly.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Why do so many people insist on replicating the aberrant apostrophe in Liverpool John Moores? I only saw this error for the first time about a week ago, for obvious reasons, and I swear over half-a-dozen people have made the same mistake since, even in print. Stop it!

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Whenever I imagine my childhood in the 1970s, I think of it as really sunny, with mute, jumpy footage full of glitches, accompanied by the whirrrrrrrr of a vintage home movie camera, even though my parents didn't have one then. Is this normal for Gen X who have seen a lot of TV involving flashbacks?

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Leicester Forest East used to be a tolerable, if never glamorous, service station. It has now become a cross between a zoo and a Ballardian post-apocalyptic nightmare. Everything is a branded 'outlet' and the only tea you can get is worse than whatever Arthur Dent obtained from the Nutri-Matic. 😵😵

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I literally don't understand these short videos where people move their mouths to the dialogue of a film or TV show or to the words of a song. I mean, what's the point? Some things online I can tell are not for me but I still 'get' them. This seems completely pointless. I don't know why they do it.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Railway clerk, housewife, lorry driver, housewife (and part-time in haberdasher's for a while). Not confident.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Rewatching 'Babylon 5' has made me realise how much handwash dispensers look like Ambassador Kosh.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Blankety-Blank fans to mount a letter-writing campaign to the BBC, before resigning themselves to fifteen years of audios and original novels too broad and deep for the small-screen gameshow.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I noticed yesterday that the lyrics of Noughties pop classic 'Keep Your Head Up' by the erstwhile trio Girls Can't Catch include the word 'romantasy', approximately 15 years before it became an 'in thing' for Young Adult fiction. youtu.be/gI6KF_L3OYo?...

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Girls Can't Catch - Keep Your Head Up

YouTube video by WeLovePop

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Next week: Andy Burnham announces a Government outpost on the moons of Jupiter will be up and running by the end of the year. It's... Number 10 Io!

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In a parallel universe, 'Spacehead' was the Primitives' followup single to 'Crash', had loads of daytime Radio 1 airplay and got to No.8. youtu.be/8BjJvCfCoIA?...

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Spacehead

YouTube video by The Primitives - Topic

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Doing a tentative rewatch (not every episode, just the important ones), and I've got these to hand to fill in the gaps. I've not seen it in 30 years! @andylaneauthor.bsky.social Did you ever get a one-volume reprint or was the page count always going to be prohibitive?

The 'Babylon File' books, unofficial guides to 'Babylon 5' by Andy Lane.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My dehumidifer has such a cheerful disposition.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I've often wondered what kind of 'fight' the Pet Shop Boys were watching in 'Left To My Own Devices'. A back-street brawl? A professional heavyweight bout? Or just a sharp argument in a pub? #popmaster

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Trying to get a PC to talk to a new wireless HP printer makes me want to go back to quill and parchment. I am seriously ready to throw this thing out of the window. How do people do it without their stress levels going off the scale?

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

One of the comments on the BBC advert... presumably this refers to what happens on EastEnders when someone has a really good look at something?...

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What on earth is all this pompous nonsense before the Footballing? It's not the bloody Superbowl. That woman screeching the American anthem brought all the local cats to my front door.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Whenever I hear that David Miliband is the President of International Rescue, I can't help hearing this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF0a...

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Fuzzbox - International Rescue (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by RHINO

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

All the best 'Babylon 5' arc episodes are called things like 'A Long Dark Walk Through Empty Places In The Dreams Of The Shadow Of The Night' 😆😆

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Old 'Would I Lie To You' about a psychologist called Nicola Clayton teaching Ben Miller how to talk to crows led me to this article, and the name of her colleague 😆😆

Guardian article extract about PhD student Chris Bird

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Understatement of the year in this caption.

Photo caption of Jordan Bardella, 'right of centre'.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The TV Quiz World Cup begins again on Monday 13th on BBC2. All three of the first group games are back-to-back. And at a reasonable time! 😁

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Sienna Spiro singing live from her TARDIS console room.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Not sure about the caption. Nudist walking is not something we really want to encourage. Especially not in Yorkshire.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I can't listen to anything by the band 'Throbbing Gristle' because they have such a horrible name. I have no idea about their actual musical quality and I never will.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I do wish the person Taylor Swift was getting married to was not called 'Travis'. I always do a double take at the headlines about him because my brain first goes to this chap.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Blimey. It's harsh enough being in those conditions without also having to 'go round the table and tell us all an interesting thing about yourself.'

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I remain amazed by how few people, in my age group especially, have ever heard, or even heard *of*, 'The Promise' by When In Rome. It sounds like it ought to have been a massive 80s hit single. But I know it wasn't. youtu.be/5HI_xFQWiYU?...

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When In Rome - The Promise (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by WhenInRomeVEVO

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

'ydration break. Come into the wa-er.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Blimey, he's going to be PM and Chancellor at the same time.

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