Reposted by St John Karppmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Living Alone, Paco Yao 754799
Reposted by St John Karpc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2025The world is kind of scary right now, so here's what I'm offering: Hognose snake drinking water. Be sure to stay for the lip smack. 21812195
Reposted by St John KarpMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I think I need to familiarize Americans with Fenella Fielding because I consider her to be the ultimate movie VOICE www.youtube.com/watch?v=36m2...youtube.comDo You Mind If I Smoke?YouTube video by Dafydd Howells 5506
Reposted by St John KarpTalking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026A watchmaker turns out to be an assassin in the comedy... THE GREEN MAN (1956) 7pm #AlastairSim #RaymondHuntley #GeorgeCole #TerryThomas 0206
Reposted by St John KarpAlex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026So, academic libraries could stand to do a little learning from their cousins. We already went through this credential debate in archives. TL;DR: you need librarians wirh an MLIS. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...insidehighered.comWhy Do We Keep Debating the M.L.S.? (opinion)Here’s why librarians can’t resolve our recurrent arguments about the import of the field’s professional degree. 15915
Reposted by St John KarpThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/10/2026‘He was devastatingly sexy’: Frasier’s Jane Leeves and David Hyde Pierce on the love between Daphne and Nilestheguardian.com‘He was devastatingly sexy’: Frasier’s Jane Leeves and David Hyde Pierce on the love between Daphne and NilesFrom a breathless tango to a kiss that sent fans wild, the pair crafted a sensational seven-year TV crush. The real-life best friends talk first impressions, Casablanca moments – and having hot husbands 46713
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It's the scary season — what favourites are you planning to watch this year? I don't give any clues, you have to guess from the screenshot. #Film #Halloween #Horror 010
Reposted by St John KarpPaul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026i think it may be conscious 715231
Reposted by St John Karpsailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 29/09/2026doing fanart(?) of the old netscape navigator icon website loading animation, when you would get treated to a little meteor shower any time a website was loading 🌠💫 410913
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I've posted a box of #free #DoctorWho novels for those of you within traveling distance to #NewYork! An excellent collection for a young Doctor Who fan. www.craigslist.org/view/d/new-y...craigslist.orgTarget Doctor Who novels - books & magazines - by owner - sale - craigslistBig box of Target Doctor Who novels. Some are like new, some are former library books, so condition may vary. An excellent collection for a young Doctor Who fan! Free to a good home. 194
Reposted by St John KarpFinlay McLaren @finlay24.bsky.social · 20/09/2026First broadcast fifty years ago today, I Claudius is still one of the finest pieces of television ever made. Here's me for Lion & Unicorn on what today's TV industry can learn from it. thelionandunicorn.com/2026/09/20/l...thelionandunicorn.comLast night on iPlayer: I, ClaudiusFifty years on from its first broadcast, ‘I Claudius’ is still magnificent, says FINLAY McLAREN. 1156
Reposted by St John KarpChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir. 5738253
Reposted by St John KarpStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Also just to see what historians get wrong about the Internet age - one of the things I’m an old Tory about is I don’t believe digital archives will survive for the most part, and there will be a bunch of things historians in the future just have to guess the meaning of. 3818913
Reposted by St John KarpThe Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 15/09/2026The devil has admitted that he quietly changed the standard recipe of your favourite ready meal just to ruin your life.thedailytism.comI changed your safe food recipe, admits SatanThe devil has admitted that he quietly changed the standard recipe of your favourite ready meal just to ruin your life. In a statement released today, Lucifer, 13.7 billion, took responsibility for… 513237
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026So did Cookie Monster: "Me, Claudius". youtu.be/K0VJtXB4i5A?...youtu.beSesame Street - Me Claudius (HQ)YouTube video by LittleJerryFan92 *RETIRED CHANNEL* 000
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I'm an Aussie who's lived in the US for 18 years. I'm only just now realising this is why I always disagree with Americans about what season it is. 020
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026static.klipy.comKenneth Williams' Dramatic Leespoons PerformanceAlt: Kenneth Williams in Carry On Cleo: "They've all got it in for me!" 020
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I feel like it would be more economical if I consolidate the little muscle I have into one big pec rather than spreading it across two. Like a pec cyclops. A peclops. 010
Reposted by St John KarpChevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 23/08/2026This interview with Melanie Buggey, who just swam across the Georgia Strait besting a 60-year world record, has me in absolute stitches. What an icon lolll www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha... 201564564
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026And yes it sucks, with the exception of a gorgeously trippy video for "I Am the Walrus" and a cameo by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band that John Lennon was clearly really unhappy about. 001
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Fun fact: "Magical Mystery Tour" is the only Beatles film that the Beatles both wrote/directed and starred in. In a significant sense therefore it is the only Beatles film. 100
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026And having everyone on the same side does not mean you can't have drama. Some of the best storytelling doesn't have bad guys but plays off the fact that most people are trying to do their best and yet still wind up conflicting with someone else trying to do *their* best. 000
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026So they're friends in space having fun and adventures, because who needs more reasons to self-harm? There are enough real reasons to feel bad without inventing more in a made-up future. What world do you live in where you feel the need to invent more ways for people to be shit to each other? 100
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026When I wrote my novel "Activate the Device!" I knew I really ought to keep the main characters at odds until the end. It would have sustained the tension and driven the plot. But I decided I didn't like them threatening each other for the whole novel and just wanted them to be friends. 100
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026A lot of people are nostalgic for #Blakes7, and I can see why — there's a lot to like — but it's hard for me to see this as any kind of comfort watch. Is there a fan edit that takes out all the main characters and just leaves us with all the villains rubbing their hands and cackling? I'd watch that. 100
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Dayna, Soolin, and Jenna are wasted as characters. Cally gets more of a look-in, but the women (with the exception of Servalan) are mostly in the background. It's a shame because at the start of series 3 I thought I felt the vibe starting to shift, but they didn't follow through. 100
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026These days having an opportunity for emotional impact is a gift, but storytelling in 1980 just seemed to ignore the fact that anyone might possibly have feelings. Nigel Kneale pointed out that the whole thing is just the primary cast bickering, and he wasn't wrong. 100
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Big #SPOILERS here! The lack of emotion has to be off-putting. Gan and Cally died with hardly any emphasis. Everyone gets gunned down in the finale without any drama. It's all so matter-of-fact. The biggest emotional hook in the show was when Servalan loses her children, and she's the villain. 100
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026And maybe that's the point. These are hardened rebels fighting a huge, impervious, faceless political juggernaut, so of course they have to be ruthless. That level of bleak can work in a single novel or film, but in an ongoing series you need to give the viewer someone to like. 100
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026What prevents this from being actually good is the fact that the entire crew are awful people, with the exception of Vila who is bullied mercilessly. Series 4 takes Avon from being abrasive, combative, and self-serving to being truly murderous. He is an extremely dangerous person to be around. 110
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026There's a lot to like in this show — there are some great plots, wonderful (scenery-chewing) performances, and of course all the latent #DoctorWho vibes. Servalan makes a delightful villain who, despite being unambiguously evil, still has a lot of complexity and depth. 110
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Okay, finally finished my first watch-through of #Blakes7 and reached the end of series 4. I wanted to jot down some thoughts. Warning, may contain #spoilers. 110
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Ridiculous. Everybody knows it's thirty-six to three. 000
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026When someone sings "Zydrate Anatomy" like it's the cleverest thing in the world, it saves me having to talk to them to find out they're dull. 011
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Oh I had one of those too! The patron mentioned internal documents that he couldn't have access to and which, in any case, did not exist. I wrote back asking where he heard about this stuff. Never heard back. Easiest reference request ever. 100
Reposted by St John Karpalabandine2.bsky.social @alabandine2.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Illustration by Gluyas Williams 083
Reposted by St John KarpJoe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026When I wrote for Frasier I never thought about what our apartment set was saying, except that Frasier was pretty posh and had a kitchen that rendered him inaudible to people six feet away. My niece Meaghan Roddy has thought about the set a *lot* and proves it in this terrific article for Dwell.yahoo.comHow "Frasier" Brought ’90s Minimalism to the MassesThe beloved sitcom’s set introduced audiences to a vision of wealth that was quietly sophisticated instead of gaudy—its showpiece Chihuly notwithstanding. 1414529
Reposted by St John KarpNeil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026A great film from each year of the 60s: 1960: Carry On Constable 1961: Carry On Regardless 1962: Carry On Cruising 1963: Carry On Cabby 1964: Carry On Cleo 1965: Carry On Cowboy 1966: Carry On Screaming 1967: Carry On Doctor 1968: Carry On Up The Khyber 1969: Carry On Camping #FilmSky 88413
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026#HarryPotter fans demonstrating their inability to separate reality from fiction. Trans people exist. Dobby does not. Get over it. 020
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026There was a actually a time when it was possible to read Playboy for the articles. 010
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I love that scene because I find it fascinating to see when Livia lies vs tells the truth. She's almost honest with Claudius, for once in her life, but she still lies about Drusus's death because she needs Claudius on her side. The other time she's free with the truth is Martina the poisoner! 010
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Jaws has to get the band back together one last time to save the orphanage where he grew up. Features musical cameos by Crab Calloway and Stingray Charles. 000
St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Servalan is a woman who has literally committed genocide in order to get what she wants. She's murdered millions. Just execute her, there's no moral dilemma here. Though the show would be a whole lot less camp without her sashaying through every scene! Why does everyone want to kiss her this series? 010