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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 14h

man talking to himself on a computer
If things have gone wrong, I'm talking to myself and you've got a wet towel wrapped around your head.

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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Peter Elson

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Paul Putner @realpaulputner.bsky.social · 15h

My Halloween advent calendar. 5th OCT 7" of the Hammer House Of Horror theme by Roger Webb. Saturday nights in 1980 were a treat for a young horror fan. A tune that still makes me feel excited, a bit anxious, but slightly melancholic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEBl...

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Steve Beresford & Pumpkin Pete @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 17h

Today: started a re-watch of SAPPHIRE & STEEL. And episode 1 is amazing. Only 25 mins & everything is there - the setting, the characters, the dread, “Time is a corridor...” And some of the camerawork is amazing too - those first shots tracking through the house! Absolutely masterful television.

A still from Assignment One of Sapphire & Steel.
Sapphire is holding Helen, while Rob looks at Steel who is staring warily up at something malevolent.

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Steve Beresford & Pumpkin Pete @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 18h

I did, however, enjoy the Play For Today on Channel 5 - Village Idiot. Not at all what I was expecting, but it was really funny. (Only niggle: there was no way that railway got built that quickly. Would have been *decades* later. #HS2)

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Steve Beresford & Pumpkin Pete @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 18h

Watching one of the new ITV dramas & blimey, a lot of the dialogue is absolutely terrible. People are burbling nonsense that no real person would ever say. The actual stories aren’t bad (some plot holes, but that’s fairly normal), but some of the exchanges are laughable.

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Carol Reeds cinematic noir masterpiece! Premiere: THE THIRD MAN (1949) 7pm #JosephCotten #OrsonWelles #AlindaValli classic film noir thriller #TPTVsubtitles

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Steve Beresford & Pumpkin Pete @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Feeling a bit rough today. Lots of abdominal & chest pain, legs stiff & sore, and I feel like I’ve got hay fever again. And it’s Monday again tomorrow... <sighs>

Anna Maxwell Martin as Merrily Watkins in the tv series Midwinter of the Spirit.
She’s looking a bit upset.

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Charles Prepolec @sherlockeditor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Here's to the memory of Sidney Paget (4 October 1860 – 28 January 1908) on the anniversary of his birth. The first illustrator to truly influence and shape the image of Sherlock Holmes in the minds of the reading public.

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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Avebury #standingstonesunday

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Rod Serling Memorial Foundation @rodserlingmemfndtn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here's a word cloud of the most popular one word descriptions of Rod Serling. Thanks for the love. ❤️ www.rodserling.com

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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hit singles from the 80s that haven't had breathy acoustic versions done for adverts "now down to last three or four", warn experts.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Books are ghost magnets. This means every good library has it phantoms. A density of Dewey Decimal Classification is spirits what a saucer of beer is to slugs. Of course we understand ghosts desire to haunt libraries. Thousands of books and the time to read them is a heaven. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

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Steve Beresford & Pumpkin Pete @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I made the mistake of searching for a pic of Shoestring and have accidentally seen some absolutely horrific AI abominations of Eddie and Don Satchley. (Won't reproduce them here. Don't want to add to spreading them.) #NoToGenAI

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Zeb Cyrus 🎃👻🙀 @zbcy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Crack in Time (1964) by Philip K Dick Wondrous future presents solution to unemployment, go into cryogenic freeze until the economy improves! Freak accident opens up a parallel uninhabited Earth. Selfless billionaire steps forward to claim it as his own, minus the poors! 🫡 #booksky #scifisky

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Steve Beresford & Pumpkin Pete @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN Just finished all the extras, which I’ve been watching throughout the past week. All very, very good. These new Hammer releases are truly wonderful. @accordingtojond.bsky.social @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social @hannahcooper.bsky.social @tobyhadoke.bsky.social #NigelKneale

The beautiful artwork from the new Hammer blu ray for The Abominable Snowman, showing Peter Cushing and Forrest Tucker amidst the bleak snowscape.

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Mark Braxton @braxtm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The memorable #Doctor Who adventure The Hand of Fear began #OTD 50 today. Earlier in the day, Tom Baker and the-soon-to-leave-the-show Elisabeth Sladen had been on Swap Shop, also 50 today, to promote the story. @radiotimes.bsky.social www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do...

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Pete Glastonbury @peteglastonbury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Moon 2nd October 2026

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cinefex issue 9, July 1982, Blade Runner special. An iconic issue of this iconic magazine

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Chris Moore was a giant of book cover art. Perhaps a bit less well known than the other Chris (Foss), Moore’s covers dominated the sci-fi section of bookshops while I was growing up in the 70s and 80’s

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My 3 Dads (1987-1991) was a beloved NBC sitcom. It also featured guest star Ted Levine as Uncle Bill.

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Semaphoria @semaphoria.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Approaching Arnside. 20 December 2025. #railway #photography

Northern DMU 156421 passes a cleared semaphore signal as it approaches Arnside working 2T42 Corkickle to Lancaster. The signal box is on the right.

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Steve Beresford & Pumpkin Pete @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here are a couple of short story anthologies I’ll be reading through October, dipping in as the days grow ever shorter to Halloween... ALL HALLOWS' EVE edited by Ellen Datlow @datlow.bsky.social & UNEARTHED edited by Dan Coxon & Philip Fracassi @dancoxon.bsky.social @pfracassi.bsky.social

Two books: All Hallows' Eve edited by Ellen Datlow.
Stories of Halloween and Other Festivals of the Dead.

And Unearthed edited by Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi.
New Horror of Ancient Ruins.

And Pumpkin Pete is there too.

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Steve Beresford & Pumpkin Pete @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Next in my re-read of all Philip K Dick - Dr Bloodmoney Or How We Got Along After The Bomb. In a world wrecked by war, society struggles on. Another cracking but complex #PKD novel about survival, hope & evil. Also has a fab Afterword with Phil himself reflecting on the story 15 years later.

Book: Dr Bloodmoney by Philip K Dick.
Cover is a slightly comical illustration of Hoppy Harrington in his buggy , looking up at a spaceship, with a nuclear explosion behind him.

Book: Dr Bloodmoney by Philip K Dick.
Cover shows Dangerfield in his orbiting spaceship, with the Earth below him.

Book: Dr Bloodmoney by Philip K Dick.
Cover shows Phil himself holding the Earth with is being torn apart by a nuclear explosion and had a spaceship orbiting too.

Book: Dr Bloodmoney by Philip K Dick.
Cover shows another interpretation of Hoppy Harrington in his buggy, looking at a ruined-by-war suspension bridge.

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National Radio Astronomy Observatory - NSF NRAO @thenrao.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#ThrowbackThursday Design ➡️ Reality Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) design sketch (1986-1987) and a completed telescope at the VLBA site in Owens Valley, California. 🗓️ Countdown: 47 days til NRAO’s 70th anniversary! #NRAOat70 #NRAO70years

Black and white design sketch of a Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) antenna, circa 1986-1987.

Photo of the VLBA radio telescope stationed in Owens Valley, California. White-topped mountains are visible in the background.

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Steve Beresford & Pumpkin Pete @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now it’s October, Pumpkin Pete has been released from his dark cobweb-strewn cell in the basement here at Beresford Manor. He hopes everyone has a spooky, creepy month...

Pumpkin Pete sitting in front of a pile of Halloween short story anthologies.

Pumpkin Pete might look like a small cute knitted pumpkin with a sewn-on crazy smile and mismatched eyes, but he is really a demon who can only safely be let out during the Halloween season because otherwise his spooky dark energy might overwhelm the whole neighbourhood.

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Steve Beresford & Pumpkin Pete @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Great article here! I love these 70s science-y films, with their big computers and tech-gone-haywire themes.

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Spy Fi @spy-fi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

👏👏👏 🎵 Thirty more days til Halloween...Halloween 🎵 Thirty more days til Halloween, Silver Shamrock

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oldbury-on-Severn decommissioned Magnox nuclear power station

A b&w photograph. Concrete buildings and a pylon behind double chain link fences

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes, I *could* get therapy, or I could just carry on buying books.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 30/09/2026

I'm 17 episodes into a Twilight Zone (1959) watch and I'm quite convinced it's the greatest show ever. Each one is a small jewel of a complete movie that fucks off in 25 minutes and then Rod Serling smokes at you and tells you to come back next week.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ed “Emsh” Emshwiller’s cover for the 1956 first edition of Philip K. Dick’s The Man Who Japed.

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Henry Gee 亨利·纪 @endofthepier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Currently lost in Cinema Bookshop in Hay on Wye. Don’t send help.

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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1928 by the American detective fiction writers Frederic Dannay(1905–1982) & Manfred Bennington Lee (1905–1971). It’s also the name of their fictional detective, a mystery writer in NYC who helps his police inspector father.

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Play it cool, Rob. Play it cool. 😂

Steven O'Shea (as Robert Jardine) and Joanna Lumley (as Sapphire) in a behind-the-scenes picture from "Sapphire & Steel : Adventure One". Joanna is stony faced, while Steven smirks into the camera.

https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/steven-o'shea-robert-joanna-lumley-sapphire---791843z

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PAUL FINCH @paulfinchauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Check this out, folks. Available for pre-order right now at telos.co.uk?fbclid=IwY2x...

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Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What is the Lovell Telescope revealing about our Universe?🔭 Inside the Observatory: Discovering the Universe from Jodrell Bank, on 1 Oct, is an evening with some of the Observatory team exploring the cutting-edge science happening at Jodrell Bank Book now: ow.ly/ACNR50ZRo5w 📸 Andrew Brooks

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Join Caroline in The Cellar Club tonight at 9pm for John Carpenter's THE FOG (1980) on #TalkingPicturesTV

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Steve Beresford & Pumpkin Pete @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Superman, obviously, but he was great in Somewhere In Time and Speechless too.

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

electric light orchestra - balance of power, a legendary band does the 80’s thing. less members, less instruments but it still huge. the songs are insanely catchy as usual and i’m partial to the synth heavy arrangements. probably my fave album of theirs, def one of the most unique of thier catalog

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Zeb Cyrus 🎃👻🙀 @zbcy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Books to Films 📚=🎞️ Battlestar Galactica (1978) by Glen Larson & Robert Thurston is the novelization of the film. The Cylons are organic beings encased in armor rather than robots. The book includes the history of the 12 colonies & mythology of the 13th tribe that went to Earth. 🤖 #booksky #filmsky

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Ryan Lambie @ryanlambie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The new edition of Film Stories is a 168-page horror special, and was a joyous monster to put together. You can find out what's inside and order a copy here: filmstories.co.uk/news/film-st...

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Film Stories magazine #61 | Two exclusive covers, Ghosts return, and bundle deals in our autumn horror special

You’ll find Ghosts: the movie, 1970s horror, Other Mommy and more in our autumn edition of Film Stories magazine. Here’s what’s inside issue 61:

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Steve Beresford & Pumpkin Pete @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BBC Weather: 0% chance of rain Current weather: raining

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Steve Beresford & Pumpkin Pete @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fantastic piece all about OUTLAND and Peter Hyams here...

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