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

Saying Trumpington has been 'snubbed' for the Nobel Peace Prize is like me saying I've been 'snubbed' for the Ballon D'Or 😆😆 I've cut his ghastly face off the image because I can't bear to look at it.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm still referring to Andy's books!

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes, I know. I followed all the shenanigans at the time. I was a Lurker! It was the first series I can recall following on the Internet. Even if it was dial-up!

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I kept being worried the telepaths' 2262 equivalent of L'Oreal Elnett Extra Hold on their hair would go up with a *whoomph* with all those candles around.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From what I recall, it gets a bit better after all the endless Michael Bolton telepath stuff with their bloody candles and bloody singing is all dealt with, and we get into the Drakh mystery... I've not seen any of it since the 90s though.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's interesting how all the stuff about souls and rebirth in Seasons 1 and 2 seems to prefigure this though! It was all there in JMS's head at some point, I guess.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I remember his comment about describing the final scene to execs and them looking at him like he'd sprouted two heads. Ended up as the final scene of 'War Without End', didn't it?

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh indeed, I know all the background. You can see the compression in the last 4 eps of S4 when he was using the arc up! A few scenes where you think 'that was an episode' (Garibaldi searching for Lise, the squad marching on Clark's office, etc.).

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

'Babylon 5' tried my patience in Season 5 to the point where I almost couldn't bear to watch any more. It did have a little uptick towards the end, but I'm currently rewatching selected episodes, I'm halfway through Season 3, and I think I'll probably miss out pretty much all of Season 5 altogether.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There hasn't been a Chronicles for ages... was the last one 1984 in Feb? I would have expected another this year. Maybe not. There's a 1966 provisional cover floating around, but it never materialised...

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'Freaks'? 😄 Clearly channelling Winifred Bambera a few years too early...

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

Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That would seem to make sense 😆

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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 · 28/09/2026

I'd literally never in my life heard that song by Sam Fender and Olivia somebody which was at No.1 for about six months, until I was intrigued enough to go and listen to it because it had been No.1 for about six months. Whereas even my mum had heard 'Everything I Do' in 1991.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'Mischeevious’ makes me wince too! Have you heard 'Never Forget You' by the Noisettes? It's in there at 0:49. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRFH...

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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 · 18/09/2026

'I could play all day in my green Basilica.'

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yes, it includes all the domanins they bought up, including .ntlworld and .blueyonder. Luckily I also have gmail and mail dot com so I just need to make sure everything official defaults to them.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've often found myself wondering what it would sound like without the drum sample from 'Give it Up' by the Good Men! Would be a very simple mid-tempo song.

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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 · 14/09/2026

Goodness me, no. I don't think I've ever been accused of being American before 😆😆😆😆

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

Right, thanks. I've been published 30 years and never heard this! 😯

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

Excuse my ignorance, but what is 'in a crate'?

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

I knew it reminded me of something else!

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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 · 03/09/2026

Oh my giddy aunt. Ptriakc Toughrtonr, John 'Michael Winner' PeeWee, Tom Baker's first abandoned waxwork, 90% of Christopher Timothy, Michael Portillo in a wig, and... I can't even.

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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 · 28/08/2026

I think the Angela Rippon one is the most terrifying! It looks exactly how I imagine her Auton facsimile might look...

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's about 15 years old but have you seen 'Terra Nova'? IT's quite interesting, if a litle dated now. Shame it never made it to more than one series.

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

'Mr Brightside' has been in the Top 100 for about seventeen years! And why are all the kids streaming Fleetwood Mac?

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Daniel Blythe @danblythewriter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My early/mid 20s kids often amaze me with the 80s/90s songs they know. Usually from football or TikTok trends. (This makes the ones they *don't* know, which are often better-known songs in my opinion, even more surprising to me.)

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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 · 13/08/2026

I recall two things: the utter gorgeousness of Kim Thomson, and the fact that it was all on videotape.

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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 · 06/08/2026

Conversely, I always found it odd that there *wasn't* a novelisation of this... it would seem to lend itself naturally to one. Five years earlier and there might have been one.

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