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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I went and looked up what kept it off the top first time.

Noel Gallagher dressed in a black t-shirt, sitting on a settee, stroking his chin and declaring of Robson & Jerome’s I Believe keeping him off No 1 that ‘it’s too funny’.

Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

First event I read as it happened in the US comics, thanks to discovering the comics shop in town. Felt like being able to read a myth as it formed. And in many ways I’ve always been looking for another cover which goes as hard as one of my first:

The X-Man Wolverine, his costume torn to shreds and his adamantium claws out, faces just to the left of the reader, ready to fight an unseen opponent Behind him, against a black background, are huge streaks of blood.

A caption promised WOLVERINE vs. SABRETOOTH - - ROUND 1!

No cover has ever gone harder than this.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

While I’m aware that writing an headlines and articles for a website about a game is a right bastard, this description of Salah’s penalty seems to have been written by someone with a lack of basic football knowledge. (It’s in the match article too).

Mo Salah raises his arms in the air in a triumphant pose with the headline ‘Salah’s Panenka helps Egypt edge Australia in shootout.’ That headline is written by a numpty who has no clue about what a Panenka actually is and thereby casts doubt on their football knowledge .

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I mean, we could be here all day but let’s go with The Secret Lives of Monsters. Eddie isn’t a great reader, but he had his nose in this all the time after it came out.

The cover of Doctor Who: The Secret Life of Monsters by Justin Richards. On a textured red background Peter Capaldi reaches out towards the reader, framed in a Gallifreyan hieroglyph. In the corners, clockwise from top left: a Cyberman, an Ice WarriorX a Weeping Angel and a Dalek.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Don’t like to bash the BBC but the phrasing of this second bit is bollocks on every single level.

Text from the BBC liveblog

Scotland face Brazil in Miami in final group game

Avoiding defeat would likely seal first ever last-32 place - narrow loss could also prove enough to advance

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A local shop for internationally minded people.

A picture of the Super Furry Supamarket pop-up superstore in Cardiff’s St David’s Shopping Centre

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

People trying to look like this. Yeah, I know.

A cartoon of a man who’s taken ballsmaxxing to the extreme: he’s carrying them in front of him in a wheelbarrow, which has a squeaky wheel.

Yes! It’s Viz cartoon hero Buster Gonsd and his unfeasibly large testicles.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

As per the annual tradition, it is time for the traditional reading of the first book of the New Testament.

A television screen showing a blue police box against a swirling red background. Superimposed over it are the words ROSE by Russell T Davies.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Genuinely not sure that anyone’s ever had quite so much fun as Peter Capaldi’s having on tour.

The twelfth Doctor Who, in his probably sonic sunglasses, strikes a pose on stage.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

He’s finally seen the light.

Another headline mocking the sheer oddness and so-far-to-the-right-he’s-fallen-off-the-edge-of-Norfolk views of Heath:

‘Margaret Thatcher is the ultimate weapon of the Britain-hating metropolitan elite’

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

You could celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the traditional Christmas Who. …or you could celebrate the tenth anniversary of the best one.

The twelfth Doctor Who shares a happy/sad moment with River Song in a restaurant overlooking the Singing Towers of Darillium in The Husbands of River Song.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Incidentally, a Happy Christmas to all of you at home

The first Doctor, played by the splendid actor William Hartnell, addresses the camera and wishes the viewer a happy Christmas.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

#TheTwen2ie5 Honourable Mentions! 50 of these beauties as I’ve gone for the special rule. Already sent these off to Arron for logging, so getting them in on here while I remember.

A screenshot of the first 21 of my 50 Honourable Mentions for the #TheTwen2ie5 challenge with their year of release.

I Disagree - Poppy (2019)
Midnight Sky - Miley Cyrus (2020)
Burn/Build - Miyamoto is Black Enough (2020)
Energy - Pa Salieu ft Maharishi (2020)
XS - Rina Sawayama (2020)
Ooh La La - Run the Jewels ft Greg Nice & DJ Premier (2020)
Wildfires - Sault (2020)
The Art of Losing - The Anchoress (2021)
abcdefu- Gayle (2021)
Point and Kill - Little Simz & Obongjayar (2021)
Breakfast on Mars - Luttrell (2021)
Bounce - Rema (2021)
Fucking Wizardry - Self Esteem (2021)
Chaise Longue - Wet Leg (2021)
Ngifuna Wena - DJ Yessonia x Boohle (2022)
Debra - Jockstrap (2022)
I’m a Moth!! - Lia Lia (2022)
Doomscroller - Metric (2022)
Escapism - RAYE & 070 Shake (2022)
Space Man - Sam Ryder (2022)
Personality Disorder - Suede (2022)

The second part of my #TheTwen2ie5 Honorable Mentions list, sorted by year, then alphabetically. Includes a visit to the Polachek Zone.

I Play My Bass Loud - Gina Birch (2023)
Sprinter - Dave & Central Cee (2023)
Black Classical Music - Yussef Dayes ft Vienna & Charlie Stacey) (2023)
This World Couldn’t See Us - Nabinah Iqbal (2023)
Back on 74 - Jungle (2023)
Nothing Matters - The Last Dinner Party (2023)
Chale- Sho Madjozi (2023)
Your Time - Vee Mampeezy (2023)
Padam Padam - Kylie Minogue (2023)
Champagne Shit - Janelle Monáe (2023)
Dang - Caroline Polachek (2023)
bad idea, right? - Olivia Rodrigo (2023)
One of Your Girls - Troye Sivan (2023)
Spitting Off The Edge of the World - Yeah Yeah Yeahs & Perfumed Genius (2023)
Rice - Young Fathers (2023)
Ribena - 4AM Kru & Papa Levi (2024)
Raat Ki Rani - Arooj Aftab (2024)
Crying in the Carwash - ARXX (2024)
BOOOOOOORING - babyMINT (2024)

Part 3 of my #TheTwen2ie5 list: the final ten. Including my most jelcore pick.

Space Marine Corp - DragonForce (2024)
Lunch - Billie Eilish (2024)
A New Bohemia - Pet Shop Boys (2024)
APT. - Rosé & Bruno Mars (2024)
Balloon - Tyler, The Creator ft Doechii (2024)
Off With Her Tits - Allie X (2024)
Gossip - Confidence Man & Jade (2025)
Cuntology 101 - Lambrini Girls (2025)
we never dated - Sombr (2025)
Bloom Baby Bloom - Wolf Alice (2025)

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Celebrating Doctor Who day in the appropriate style.

On a television screen, over an image of a moon and stars a caption reads ‘THE WEB PLANET’

Life gets no better than this.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Was in town for work, so I popped along while on lunch…

A poster with a line of seven rainbow coloured cartoon silhouettes with headphones on and holding a flaming staff. A QR code is on the stomach area of every figure.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Well this is one of the all-time great Doctor Who chapter titles.

A diamond icon with a silhouette of Tom Baker’s fourth Doctor above the words Chapter Three, Enter the Afrobeat

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Bad day lads: the one every dog owner dreads. She’d had a good, long and happy life, but was absolutely ready to go: she passed peacefully and quickly. Her name was Juno; she did anuncanny impersonation of a streak of lightning. She was cheeky, loved and loved us back and we’ll miss her terribly.

A white lurcher, a Saluki/labrador cross, standing on a sunny patch of grass. She has white fur, floppy ears and looks stupidly happy. Her name was Juno and she was magnificent.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

Neil Tennant in front of Chris Lowe’s keyboard rig, both lit dramatically from behind. They’re the Pet Shop Boys.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Tonight a strong case for this as the perfect album:

Slightly off centre head and shoulders of Chris Lowe (striped shirt, hat, sunglasses, truculent) and Neil Tennant (suit, tie, arched eyebrow). Below them the album title: Pet Shop Boys Discography and subtitle The Complete Singles Collection.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Former Radio 1 DJ supporting two other former Radio 1 DJs.

A man in a black baseball cap and t-shirt combo stood at the wheels of steel, happily DJing away. Behind him, his name in a stylised font: Dave Pearce.

Kicking the night off with Right Here Right Now.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

#LetterboxdFriday All about the teeth really (yes, Krypto counts in this)…

The film posters for Superman (a man in blue spandex and a flowing red cape looking upwards) , Species (a naked blonde woman in a sitting position with spikes coming out of her spine, her left hand a claw and her lower body circuits) Venom: Let There Be Carnage (two creatures, one red, one black) with prehensile tongues and distended jaws facing each other) and Jaws (a big old shark swimming up from the depths with its eyes firmly on an unsuspecting swimmer above).

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Anfield’s waited 35 years for that, and it was entirely worth it despite Sky trying to make it all about Trent. Thoroughly wonderful season, sane again next year please.

Virgil van Dijk, the captain of Liverpool Football Club, stands in front of the playing and coaching squad, and lifts the Premier League trophy above his head.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Top marks to Oxfam in York for their marketing. (alt text of notice included)

Four Doctor Who books and three magazines, one of which has the Rani on its cover and the other Susan.

In the middle of these is a notice which reads:

Doctor Who

Apparently the Earth is due to end on Saturday the 24th of May.*

Will the Doctor save the day? (and the planet??)

Will he get Belinda home?

And more importantly does anyone remember the Rani???

Lots more Doctor Who books and magazines inside **

* if you are reading this after the 24th it probably didn’t happen.

** Unless we’ve sold some of them, in which case… a few more Doctor Who books and magazines inside.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Planning on sitting out in the back garden after work with a book, and seeing as this popped through the door today, @tobyhadoke.bsky.social’s first Quatermass magnum opus is an easy choice to relax with. Top work from all at @tenacrefilms.bsky.social in making this a thing of ravishing beauty.

The cover for the hardback version of Toby Hadoke’s book about the making of The Quatermass Experiment. An old 1950s tv, a box with a screen and two knobs at the bottom shows the title card of the series while behind it the tentacled Lovecraftian horror that Victor Carroon became lurks.

God it’s gorgeous.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

A downgrade from their own title card in Tunnel of Fear.

A shadow of the head of a dog captioned ‘With Juno’.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

(quite literally - Tops magazine turned him into a comic strip)

The first page of the comic strip The Fantastic Adventures of Adam Ant, showing the titular pop star lost and wandering around a mystical landscape. Text at the top describes him as the ‘hero of a thousand ages’.

This understands the Adam Ant phenomenon in a more eloquent and accurate way than any critic.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Time for the annual reading from the first book of the New Testament.

A tv screen showing the words ROSE by Russell T Davies over the TARDIS spinning through the time vortex.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Well, only one thing fitting to watch tonight…

Sunlight pouring through open blinds, behind the caption “Once More With Feeling”.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Tbh, my default reaction to any news involving Trump’s pet billionaire is this panel from All-Star Superman.

Superman stands over the fallen form of Lex Luthor, saying ‘you could have saved the world years ago if it mattered to you, Luthor’.

Any parallels I might seem to be making to Musk are entirely intentional.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Hideyo Amamoto begs to differ…

Hideyo Amamoto as the evil Dr. Who in King Kong Escapes

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Post your favourite Pokemon, wrong answers only

The Curious Orange, a potentially cannibalistic sentient fruit, wearing a mask similar to that worn by Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. From the semi-legendary Sunday morning show This Morning With Richard Not Judy

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?

Peter Buck of R.E.M. standing against a painted background of shiny happy people and looking thoroughly pissed off.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025.

The Thing from the Fantastic Four, an extremely musclebound character with skin made entirely of rocks, strikes a pose on the dancefloor in a white suit. Yes, there is a mirrorball.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Incidentally, a Happy Christmas to all of you at home!

William Hartnell raising a glass to the viewer to wish them a Happy Christmas, cos Doctor Who’s a postmodern geezer.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Going to put my favourite Christmas special on to get in the mood.

Avon, a man dressed in black, stands over a body, surrounded by troopers also in black pointing guns at him. Last shot from the Blake’s 7 episode Blake.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Lis’s autobiography doesn’t say a thing about ‘twenty takes’, though it does sound fraught.

Lis Sladen’s autobiography, where she discusses Tom Baker’s ‘do I have the right’ speech. Tom refuses to shoot the scene and calls for a rewrite.

Lis Sladen’s autobiography, where she discusses Tom Baker’s ‘do I have the right’ speech. The ‘do I have the right’ scene is rewritten into a philosophical debate by actors and directors.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

As per tradition on this day, visiting the junkyard. Happy birthday, old chum.

A TV screen with a close up of a police box and the caption ‘An Unearthly Child’.

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Happy Birthday Dr Who. What's your favourite story, doesn't have to be the best, just one that really sticks with you. Nothing’s really displaced this since 1988: Peggy Mount’s grumpiness! Ian Reddington’s quiet menace! TP McKenna’s blowhard Captain Cook! And the sly, smart and witty script.

Sylvester McCoy, the seventh and best Doctor, walks away from a circus tent as a big explosion starts behind him.

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