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David Matthewman

@djm4.bsky.social
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Sheffield,-UK-based liberal leftie geek, into SFF generally and Dr Who specifically. Likes cycling and birdwatching, but very much playing both on easy mode. LOFC fan in exile. Pronouns he/him/himself Also on Mastodon as @djm4@mastodon.me.uk

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 11h
BBC reveals preferred bidders for the Doctor Who franchise tender.
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David Matthewman @djm4.bsky.social · 12h
I've seen a lot of comments like this and enough people are saying it that I'm sure it's true. But I'm interested that, based on who I read here, basically the _only_ thing I know about Burnham's speech is that it was good. Really good. Really very good indeed.
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doop @doop.bsky.social · 15h
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A house of cards constructed just by a gasshō-zukuri house
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Montreal WorldCon 2027 @montrealworldcon27.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our registration rates increase October 1st. Be sure to lock in your lower-price soon if you intend to go and haven't registered yet! montreal2027.ca/en/registrat...
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James Goss @gossjam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Everyone knows @themindrobber.bsky.social is a world expert on control panels in television. Find out what he has to say about this understated example in #DoctorWho The Underwater Menace next Saturday at Riverside. Perfect for a romantic date. riversidestudios.co.uk/whats-on/uM2...
A mad scientist near a control panel labelled DANGER
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"In order to deliver the PM's promise to save social care we need a permanent class of indentured migrant workers without labour rights".
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David Matthewman @djm4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well, I really enjoyed season one of _It's a Superpower??_, and now Season Two has a crowd funder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/its-a-supe...
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It's a Superpower?? Season Two
To fund season 2 of It's a Superpower?? the first audio sitcom by & for autistic people - & pay our amazing team an industry rate
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David Matthewman @djm4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These amazing people are punting from Oxford to Cambridge to raise money for Alzheimer's Society. Given that I love punting and once cycled a tandem from Cambridge to Oxford and back during Rag Week, I have no choice but to stan. And to donate. www.justgiving.com/page/punting...
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Oxford to Cambridge Punt for Alzheimer's Society
Help Ryan Vowles raise money to support Alzheimer's Society
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026
My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛
a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings downtwo crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish skya crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extendeda crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode
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David Matthewman @djm4.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every so often something comes along that just seems tailored exactly to my brain. Reader, I cleared my schedule and hit 'buy' _so_ fast.
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Is anyone else watching Riot Women?? Omg omg OMG!! It’s brilliant! And as a massive fan of the band Hole (I don’t care how bonkers Courtney Love is), I was EXTRA delighted!! The pilot was perfection. This is the best thing since We are Lady Parts. I am the precise audience for both of these shows.
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 24/09/2026
Pals I see you sharing links to London Daily & need you to know it's AI bullshit. The Louise Michel is real, Banksy really funded it, but that started in 2020 & the LD link people are sharing is timestamped to today but written as if it's 2020 & elides all the actual journalism about it.
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Welcome to London Daily, an innovative and unique news experiment driven by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Our AI system conducts extensive research and fact-checking, presenting a non-biased and diverse perspective on each topic. It meticulously filters out biased or manipulated content, offering you factual summaries essential for your knowledge as an informed citizen.

Our aim is not to replace mainstream media but to provide you with succinct summaries of key headlines, encouraging you to explore these stories in greater depth through your favorite mainstream news sources.

As a privately funded, non-profit initiative, our mission is to provide a concise and comprehensive overview of current events as part of a broader project to enhance fact-checking and AI journalism for journalists and publishers worldwide.

We are building a tool that will help professional journalists and traditional mainstream news outlets enhance their news delivery, boost their readership, ease their workload, and lower their costs while increasing their productivity—all aimed at improving content reliability and readability.
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea .
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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"We're a liberal, member-led party where all our policy comes through our democratic processes...except when the leader decides to rewrite our entire economic policy to grab a few headlines."
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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Every time the Lib Dems under Davey look like they're about to get serious they pull out some populist nonsense like this. Especially egregious when vaguely defined "growth" is somehow going to fund these tax cuts.
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aldtu.bsky.social @aldtu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender people buff.ly/rY9VtzG Motion passed at party conference calls for new approach to implementing ruling that legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex only @marisharay.bsky.social @pluslibdems.bsky.social
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Lib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender people
Motion passed at party conference calls for new approach to implementing ruling that legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex only
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Alex Wilcock 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Brilliant #LDConf speakers for restoring trans rights (I remembered to get my phone out for wonderful @rigg.lgbt’s finale, why this needed NOW) As Liberal Democrats vote by a landslide to oppose Labour’s evil transphobic ‘guidance’ and let people lives their lives
Jennie Rigg giving the grand finale to the trans rights debate, propounding what the Lib Dems stand for and, standing behind her in huge letters, the same values: “No one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity
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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ed Davey stands with trans rights by backing our motion at Lib Dem conference!
Ed Davey stands with trans rights
Reporter: You want the conference motion [Restoring Trans Rights] to pass?
Ed Davey: I do - I'll be voting for it if I'm in the hall!
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 21/09/2026
.@tashasuri.bsky.social 's ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA, which is just a masterpiece on stories, fairytales, the Matter of Britain, collapsing colonial empires, immigration and queer loves that aren't doomed to be tragic.
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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NEW blog! Very smutty! I wanted to do something teasing and #femdom… accidentally wrote erotica about getting your round in at the pub. www.girlonthenet.com/blog/i-want-... (V pleased with it. Getting your round in is sexy as fuck)
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I want to make you tremble | Girl on the Net
I’d like to make you tremble. You know those adrenaline-fuelled shudders of desire that you (specifically you) get when you’re on the verge of doing something hot? Or when you’re hovering just before ...
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 27/05/2023
ROBIN: the batmobile won’t start BATMAN: check the battery ROBIN: what’s a tery
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Gav Rymill @themindrobber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
YES! Unrestored film prints, shown unaltered. So where film is missing due to damage, there are little jumps. Sound is as broadcast including studio talkback where you can hear the camera shots being called. A delight for TV historians! Book now! riversidestudios.co.uk/whats-on/uM2...
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Doctor Who Episode Showcase + Q&A: The Faceless Ones and the Underwater Menace - Riverside Studios
Riverside Studios are delighted to bring to you our next DOCTOR WHO episode showcase, which includes episodes filmed here at the studios back when it functioned as a BBC filming centre. Riverside was ...
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Elizabeth Zelle @kohizeri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"the assessment did not consider the crocodiles" is my new metaphor for people choosing to just ignore the data point that doesn't agree with them
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 16/09/2026
A delightful item in the post today! So glad to be reunited!
A photo of me grinning while sitting cross-legged on a couch wearing black trousers and a black tank top while holding the 2026 Hugo Award for Best Novella in my lap. The base is designed by Scott Lefton and features the pockmarked surface of a starry dark blue planet encased in a pale wooden box; the chrome-plated Hugo rocket ship sits atop the planet’s dome.
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David Matthewman @djm4.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sadly, I can't make this one, but if you're at all interested in 1960s Doctor Who, I can recommend these events as an excellent way to watch the stories. You're watching them in the company of many other fans and with informative and witty discussions between the episodes. Very enjoyable!
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 14/09/2026
Excited to keep on with Hammer films (DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS, 1966) where the horror is British people abroad
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 13/09/2026
Stu just introduced me to Zippy of Rainbow (1972) & I just need to know if rationing in Britain extended to children’s television
A yellow felt puppet that’s like if a coin purse grew a pair of very round flat eyes and plausibly deniable limbs. Imagine if a muppet were sheared of charm and staring into its zipper mouth slowly leached the soul from your body.
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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Oh no, don't diss Zippy! The Canadian-born puppeteer, Ronny Le Drew, was the loveliest of men! He later worked on Labyrinth, muppet movies and other classics; and worked with Howard at The Little Angel Theatre and The Curious School of Puppetry. We loved Ronny and were gutted when he died this year.
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Alex Wilcock 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
OTD 1985: #DoctorWho The Myth Makers by Donald Cotton One of the funniest Target Books —until the bloody climax, where light comedy of manners suddenly reverts to brutal slaughter (I’d say ‘spoilers’, but the tale of Troy is quite well-known) Though also distinctly problematic. And yet…
Doctor Who – The Myth Makers by Donald Cotton, cover by Andrew Skilleter: The Trojan Horse, bolted together out of huge bits of wood, rears above the glowing blue materialisation of the TARDIS Doctor Who – The Myth Makers by Donald Cotton, audiobook narrated by Stephen Thorne, cover by Andrew Skilleter: The Trojan Horse, bolted together out of huge bits of wood, rears above the glowing blue materialisation of the TARDIS
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We’re delighted to announce we’ve created the Blackshorts from P.G. Wodehouse’s humorous short story “Please, Dear Chap, Don’t Create The Blackshorts”
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 09/09/2026
Just learned that Category Is Books, a lovely queer bookshop in Glasgow, has been targeted by transphobic violence, & is fundraising to cover the costs of a smashed window & roller shutters. I hate that they have to do this & would love to see them meet their goal.
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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books
For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The window of my local queer bookshop was smashed last week. They're fundraising to install shutters so they can keep themselves and their community safe. Support this one-of-a-kind place, its one-of-a-kind proprietors, and the whole Glasgow queer & trans community: www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...
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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books
For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!
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David Matthewman @djm4.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Got my fingernails prepped for the Club Triumph Ten Countries Run. My sister is a proud 2500 TC Triumph car owner, and I'm coming along for the ride and as a co-driver. (We started on Sunday - I'm just catching up with posts.)
Hand with painted fingernails. The painting on the fingernails depicts flags of England, France Belgium, Germany and Austria.Hand with painted fingernails. The painting on the fingernails depicts flags of Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and The Netherlands.
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David Matthewman @djm4.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So it turns out the song was lying. Not everyone is Scotland's Story, and not everyone is worth the same.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 05/09/2026
This morning at 7:30am, a group of men dressed in black and their faces covered, gathered in Dover. The men, members of the anti-migrant vigilante group Patriot Platform, proceeded to block the port of Dover and several roads nearby. Our briefing: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/05/p...
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Patriot Platform’s masked members march on Dover – HOPE not hate
At approximately 7:30 this morning, hundreds of black-clad members of Patriot Platform, a far-right vigilante unit, blockaded roads in Dover. They marched north east off...
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Fred @fredsl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
(It's me; I am the husband)
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David Matthewman @djm4.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In what feels like something between an unremarkable change that's been coming for a while, and a major milestone in my life journey, I have started attending my local Quaker meeting.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There’s a species of shark called the ninja lanternshark. It glows in the dark, like all lantern sharks. It’s called ninja because the scientist who discovered it was explaining her discovery to family at Thanksgiving and then her young cousin shouted “ninjas are cool, call it the ninja shark!”
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🦇🤘 Miscreant Jennie 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 04/09/2026
This is a really great thread
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 04/09/2026
It's good that this self-evidently bent, rotten crook is being exposed and they're quickly crumbling, but this isn't a 'getting Capone on tax fraud' situation. We aren't going to proceduralism our way out of ascendant fascism. At some point politicians will need to confront and fight the ideology.
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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’m vaguely astonished that it’s taken this long to do a detective series based on the Golden Age Detection Club. Miles Jupp as G.K. Chesterton is ‘Patrick Stewart as Professor X’ level of casting.
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Miles Jupp, Bryony Hannah and Cara Theobold lead cast for new detective drama The Detection Club
The drama follows the mysterious society formed by three of Britain's most celebrated crime writers - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and G.K. Chesterton
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 02/09/2026
The brain teaser: here are three people and two apples, share them equally with one stroke of the knife Me; double checking it's a maths problem: ah; so the solution I have in mind is probably not the right one (Mine didn't involve cutting any apples 🤭)
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 02/09/2026
So Emma Woodhouse is a pretty girl who is pretty smart, pretty rich, and pretty much has no problems whatsoever. We’re off to a roaring start.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is an excellent read on the gap between the first and second plane.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I think the Shoe Event Horizon theory of cultural collapse already laughs at them. It’s enshittification / late stage capitalism. And BINGO! I get to press the button again!
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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t believe in Great Man of History, but secretly in my heart I think that if Douglas Adams was alive now all those awful tech bros wouldn’t be as awful because of how he would have laughed at them. A girl can dream.
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My daughter is in the UK. She was in Brighton when she saw this bird hovering in one spot like a glitch in the matrix. I think it’s a kestrel hunting, but too far to tell. Super cool though!
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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Visit the @montrealworldcon27.bsky.social, @brisbane28.org, @dublin2029.bsky.social, and @edmontonin2030.bsky.social tables in the vendor room to find out more about the locations and details of future, and potential future, Worldcons!
An older woman with a red shirt sits at a table for Montreal. Banners about Montreal are behind her with a Canadian Flag and Rainbow Pride Flag on the table.A group of people surrounds the Brisbane in 2028 booth as people find out about the bid.Two women sit behind the Dublin in 2029 Booth with an Irish flag on the table as well as trinkets and informational papers.Two women are smiling, wearing North of Ordinary shirts, and sit behind the Edmonton 2030 booth with an Explore Edmonton banner behind them and a stuffie on the table.
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David Matthewman @djm4.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Huge congratulations to @amalelmohtar.com for this one, Novella was a really strong field this year.
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