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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Curiosity got the best of me but I couldn't make it past the opening

Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Iʼm hearing from my sources (my mum texting me from Glasgow) that the next Batman film might be set at Christmas — excellent news for everyone like me who knows Batman Returns is the best one

A smashed up Gotham Police car in white and blue, opposite a very real Starbucks

A closer look at the Lacy's storefront, which appears to be decorated for Christmas with shiny circles, foliage and wreaths

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Never seen a movie credit go as hard as this

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Well, not my finest score but yes - a modest reward for speed. +10 points for <4 mins

A Smush scorecard. 336 points, broken down as
Words: 13 smushed (+251)
Unassisted - no hints (+25)
Beat the robot (+5)
Word hoard (+25)
Under 4 minutes (+10)
20-day streak (+20)
And other extras without a points total

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In case you were wondering if David Robert Mitchell was ever terrorised by dinosaurs himself

A photo of magazine text. "The End Of Oak Street is set in the '80s, the decade in which Mitchell grew up, although he stresses that the film is not autobiographical."

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Did Beverly Crusher fuck a ghost for NOTHING?!

A pull quote in SFX magazine from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds producer Henry Alonso Myers. It reads: "When we started talking about a ghost story, we felt we hadn't seen that in Star Trek"

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Iʼm very proud of the Hypoestes phyllostachya I have grown from seed and delighted that Victoria Coren-Mitchell has dressed as one on tonightʼs Only Connect

A split box of two pictures. On top is a mass of plants that are green around the edges and the spines of the leaves, but with prominent pink blotches within the leaf. Below is an unflattering photo of Victoria Coren-Mitchell on my TV wearing a green dress with floral pink blotches.

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Absolutely deserving of a live news blog, however, is definitely the opening of an M&S in Weymouth www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2628090...

LIVE: Excitement as new M&S store opens in Weymouth today

9:06am
Ole got the first receipt from M&S - he purchased a Wagyu steak ahead of tonight's England game. (Image: Hollie Carr)

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Did a double take when I saw this Big Finish artwork as I thought that was Count Binface on the left

The cover of Big Finish's Seventh Doctor Adventures - "Fixers", a digital montage showing Sylvester McCoy, Sara Griffiths, grass, a motorbike, the TARDIS in a bubble and the TARDIS central console at an angle that makes it look like the time rotor is the head of Count Binface

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Charles II here with the first draft that Bruce Springsteen polished into “you ainʼt a beauty but hey youʼre alright”

The king travelled down to Portsmouth to meet his bride, and reported to Clarendon that 'her face is not so exact as to be called a beauty though her eyes are excellent good, and not anything in her face that in the least degree can shock one'.

From The History of England, Volume III: Civil War by Peter Ackroyd

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Sweaty movies that really suit a heatwave

Cillian Murphy in Sunshine, Josh O'Connor in Challengers, Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in Speed, Charles Vanel and Yves Montand in The Wages of Fear, and Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Letterboxd reminding me that during the Covid year I was just watching absolutely anything. What a mixed bag

"This week six years ago, you logged
Lord of Illusions
The Siege of Jadotville
LA 92
P.S. I Love You"

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Echo and the Bunnymen (such an apt band name for that film!) weren't so happy when Kelly got his way www.theguardian.com/music/2015/a...

"I still love The Killing Moon. The lyrics are mysterious and it’s open to interpretation. It’s got a timeless quality. Years after it was a hit, we got an email saying this bloke wanted to use the song in a film, Donnie Darko, which we didn’t think would go anywhere, so accepted a one-off £3,000. Then when the director did the director’s cut he replaced The Killing Moon with Never Tear Us Apart by INXS. Aren’t some people knobheads?"

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Buffy eps where Anthony Head shines are ten a penny, but School Hard and A New Man stand out as particularly good. Or watch him terrorise Sarah Jane Smith in Dr Whoʼs School Reunion. Heʼs one of the few reasons to watch Merlin. Or just read this incredibly daft Timothy Thornton 'poem' in tribute.

Footnote: Not every head is Anthony Head's head. While it is true that Anthony Head's head is Anthony Head's head and therefore it is without a doubt an Anthony-Head's-head, supposing the possibility of other Anthony-Head's-heads which somehow...

And it goes on like that. For ages.

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Iʼve spent most of my birthday weekend playing with my parentsʼ puppy who has such large ears I think they shouldʼve called him Quark

The cutest little beagle you ever saw with ginormous ears

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Something for the Friends fans out there

A Star Trek TOS episode title screen: "The One With The Stripper"

A Star Trek TNG episode title screen: "The One With All The Poker"

A Star Trek DS9 episode title screen: "The One That Could Have Been"

A Star Trek Voyager episode title screen: "The One With Russ"

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

But the programme biography of John Cleese ends on such a pathetic note

"His famous digital creation Brooklyn Bridge NFT is expected to generate over $69,000,000!"

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

How about an irreverent stake-holder?

Buffy Summers, the vampire slayer, holding a stake

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Iʼve been meaning to watch the lavish, three-hour French 2024 movie adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo since I saw a rave Letterboxd review. And it seems the BBC is now airing it… as four 45-minute episodes?!

The BBC website page for The Count of Monte Cristo, starring Pierre Niney, listing four upcoming episodes.

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I've got this gathering dust in a desk drawer if it's the right kind? 50p for scale

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I think this might be the most boring book cover on my shelves. Even if you want to stick to the format of “one photograph” for some Penguin Modern Classics house style, there are better options even among James Bond stills.

From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming - the title is set at the bottom of the cover in something like Garamon on a silver background. A white strip above indicates it is in the Penguin Modern Classics range.

The other 80% of the cover is one black-and-white photograph of Sean Connery in a suit looking bored and holding a pistol with a long barrel to frame his face.

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

If you see this post a concert photo you took.

Buck Meek, holding a white guitar, performing in Manchester earlier this month

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Hard To Be A God. Russian, b&w, based on a classic SF novel, took so long to make (13 years) that the director died. Itʼs uncompromisingly long and grotesque, with a vibe best described as muddy medievalism. It might be a masterpiece or I might have Stockholm syndrome.

A group of people in medieval-ish clothing wade through mud to some kind of stone trough

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Nothing special but occasionally you get a gonzo moment like Bond really loving Disneyland (Never Send Flowers, 1993)

James Bond: "I thought the whole thing would be tasteless, tawdry and a bit phony. In the end we stayed for a week. The great thing about Disneyland is that it works. The moment they walk through those gates and find themselves in the Town Square and Main Street, the visitors know that they're going to have one hell of a good time. The rides are a knockout, and it does become wonderful."

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

There's at least three Letterboxd lists for this and I'd forgotten that even *Bond* did it. Horrifying.

Screenshot from the Letterboxd app showing three lists of films that use London Calling to indicate a scene in London, including Get Him To The Greek, The Conjuring 2, Die Another Day and more

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Well itʼs a good job the Linux partition works well enough, because the Windows side is (as a consequence of the installation?) fucked

A blue-screen error message of the Windows 10 style. It is headed "Automatic Repair" and says this function "couldn't repair your PC"

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

So while Linux Mint wasnʼt a silver bullet, it has made the laptop *so* much more usable, able to transfer music away from iTunes AND I can make it look like dear old Windows 95

A photo of a computer screen, with vintage blocky icons and thick blue headers in the Windows 95 style showing file transfers between music folders including artists such as Haim, How to Destroy Angels, Weird Al Yankovic and Aimee Mann

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Baffled by this dog toy which has recognised a giraffe needs long body parts in every department but the neck

A stuffed toy giraffe, somewhat bipedal, with very long legs, less long arms, and no neck at all. However, it is identifiable as a giraffe by its distinctive pattern and ossicones

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

It's an impressive OS and next time I buy a laptop (def not another Lenovo!) I'd happily replace Windows with Mint on day one. But what can you do with a machine that maxes out CPU usage while doing something as lightweight as installing Calibre?

A photo of a laptop screen showing an installation window to one side while the Linux Mint system monitor shows a live graph of CPU usage with one line at 100% for a minute, and a frenzied patch of CPU activity that brought it to a standstill

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Very much enjoying the Alien-ish retrotech vibes, the Event Horizon-y flashes of violence and a positively Lynchian sense of menace in this game

A very dark and shadowy game screenshot showing a figure aiming a gun amid an industrial sci-fi corridor with clanking metal doors, all rendered in lo-fi pixel art

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

You know it's a survival horror game when the notebook comes out

Close up of a lined notebook on a page headed SIGNALIS, listing frequencies for Moon and Sun

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I enjoyed this line from the BBC earlier with absolutely no self-awareness. Great symbolic weight, you say?

"In North Korea, where photos published by the state media are believed to carry great symbolic weight, it is rare for individuals other than Kim Jong Un to be positioned equally prominently in the frame."

Back to 2025 and King Charles and Queen Camilla are arm in arm in their Christmas card - a show of unity in what's been a busy year.

The picture is a mix of the friendly and the formal, taken on the first day of the state visit to Italy, when the couple were celebrating their
20th wedding anniversary.

The Queen is wearing a lily of the valley brooch, a symbol of enduring love.

That trip was in April, which accounts for the
spring backdrop for this Christmas card. The
setting is Villa Wolkonsky in Rome, the elegant
residence of the UK's ambassador to Italy."

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Dominic Toretto should've been a bi icon the minute he said this

Vin Diesel, with a genuine Fast & Furious line of dialogue as a subtitle: "I'm one of those boys that appreciates a fine body, regardless of the make."

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Even this episode, which features shockingly few close-ups of feet or unnecessary racial slurs

Screenshot from ER showing Dr Benton in surgery, with the credit "Directed by Quentin Tarantino"

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Spent a while wondering which Tom Cruise film this might actually be, as thereʼs no swamps in Mission: Impossible… only to realise Instagram was feeding me AI slop. Big clue in the first frame!

An Instagram post from @gorbachev_alexandr, purporting to show a video of Tom Cruise. Over the video it says "Tom Cruise grabbed a 60lb camera and jumped into the swamp because the crew was 'too scared' to film it." A caption to the post suggests this happened while filming the "new" Mission: Impossible

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Fun fact: Ethan Peckʼs surname is short for pectoral

Ethan Peck and his bare chest playing Spock in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Went to a dining in the dark experience today and had a great time. The food was lovely!

So much darkness you forget what light looked like. It's totally black, is what I'm saying.

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I go to a NY party where the tradition is a cocktail competition and saw this skeet just as I was panicking about what to make. I tried 50ml Courvoisier + 25ml Bacchus in a mug of camomile tea. It did not smell great, it tasted a little better, but it lost the competition. Thanks regardless!!

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Every year I list the films I watch for the first time, ranking them as I go. Now in its 14th spectacular year, hereʼs the top 10 for 2025! A very blokey mix, Iʼm afraid, but in a tragic turn events, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is nowhere near the top.

FILMS STEPHEN WATCHED FIRST IN 2025
1. Sinners
2. Little Miss Sunshine
3. 28 Years Later
4. Weapons
5. In The Line Of Fire
6. The Searchers
7. Before The Devil Knows Youʼre Dead
8. The Lion In Winter
9. Black Bag
10. Final Destination: Bloodlines

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

As of this morning, every hologram in Death Stranding 2 is wearing a Santa hat and wishing Sam a “happy holidays”!

A snowy mountain at night, with the image of a man wearing a Santa hat.

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Donʼt know if this just in the UK, but our Disney+ summaries for Lost take a while to get going

Disney+ episode list for Lost.

3. Tabula Rasa: A group of people are trapped on an unknown island.
4. Walkabout: A group of people are trapped on an unknown island.
5. White Rabbit: A group of people are trapped on an unknown island.
6. House of the Rising Sun: A group of people are trapped on an unknown island.
7. The Moth: Survivors struge to free Jack when he's buried alive.

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

My new yearʼs resolution in January was to take the idea for a novel I had and actually write it. Always compelled by a looming deadline, I finally finished this week. Whether itʼs any good is, frankly, a question for next year.

A photo of a dusty computer monitor showing stats for a text document: 112,102 words, 524,043 characters, 06:55:11 reading time

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

And also some charitable footwear!

A stitched representation of yellow wellington boots with the letters RNLI on them

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Itʼs tree time! As always, the rule of “no such thing as tacky” means we welcome these new baubles: ☠️ The Poison Garden at Alnwick ⛪ A bit of Viking life from Jorvik 💡 Ridiculous chandelier

A Christmas tree in a dark room, sparkling with too red, green, yellow and blue lights, topped by a Super Mario star

Nestled among branches, lights and lametta is a white orb with a design of a garden gate marked with a skull and crossbones

A wooden disc hanging from a branch with a design showing a snowy sky above a cathedral and some wooden huts

Reflecting all the lights and dangling next to some beads, an ostentatious and ridiculous miniature chandelier

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The best Christmas present Iʼve bought this year is this pair of socks… for myself (from the RNLI)

Two black socks, one marked PORT and the other STARBOARD

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Will the last sub-editor to leave the BBC please turn off the lights?

Screenshot of the BBC news homepage, with the headline: "Dick Cheney, former US president who helped lead 'war on terror', dies aged 84"

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

And if that didn't help, here's a Daily Mail infographic that still makes me laugh

An illustration of Prince Philip, lying on his side behind the wheel of a car looking distressed with his glasses halfway down his face

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Not much in the way of surprise or development beyond set-up in Endeavour #1, even with the double length of a DSTLRY comic. (A Yellowjackets-style glimpse of whatʼs to come wouldʼve hooked me.) But rich kids left on a recreated 18th century ship is a good starting point, and characters are decent

A comic book panel, showing two male figures from behind on the deck of an 18th century ship, with sails and rigging around them. One points into the distance at an orange dinghy, asking “Is that a boat?”

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