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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 14h

The giant Metabelis spiders on the backs of people in the Doctor Who story ‘Planet of the Spiders’.

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mad-swilliams.bsky.social @mad-swilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very anxious about posting this, but I feel strongly compelled to share. I know it’s a lot to take in for a Saturday morning and I appreciate anyone for taking the time to read it.

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why does the BBC feel it necessary to report the ramblings of a racist tax exile who lives in Monaco on the the ‘state’ of the UK. He doesn’t pay his fair share of tax here so no-one should give a rat’s arse about the shit that drops out of his rotting brain.

BBC headline “Billionaire Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK”

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

George Formby refused to perform to a segregated audience in apartheid South Africa. Just something to think about.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For years, Stephen Lennon has asked supporters to trust him and fund him. A Channel 4 Dispatches investigation, made with HOPE not hate, has raised serious questions about his finances. I’ve added my name calling for a full investigation. Will you? secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/199860/...

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CALL FOR AN HMRC INVESTIGATION INTO STEPHEN LENNON

A year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer them to HMRC for investigation.

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. Didn’t even know a tab was a standard container of ChatGPT

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

September the 7th seems to come earlier every year! FFS @sainsburys.bsky.social !!!

Shelf display in Sainsbury’s head ‘Festive finds’ - full of mince pies and other Christmas themed stuff.

Shelf display in Sainsbury’s head ‘Festive finds’ - full of Christmas themed stuff including ADVENT CALENDARS!!!

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film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Be alerted; the BBC haven't shown Alan Clarke's seminal Play for Today Penda's Fen since 1975, although it has been viewable elsewhere. This is a truly bizarre, disturbing and primal piece of secret TV history, screening on BBC Four on Sept 9th, 2026. 4 out of 5. film-authority.com/2026/09/04/p...

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Penda's Fen - film-authority.com

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

To support Robin, don’t forget to unsubscribe from ‘The Infinite Monkey Cage’ on your podcast app. That way you can register your protest, and the BBC will actually see as the subscriber numbers fall.

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek.

Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (lit. 'Space Patrol – The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion'), also known as Raumpatrouille Orion, and Space Patrol Orion

The bridge crew of the Spaceship Orion stood around the command desk.

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Rush Pink Floyd John Carpenter The Moody Blues Metallica Tangerine Dream ELO The Wildhearts Hawkwind

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Downgrade a movie; Star Trek : The Daguerreotype

The Enterprise crew from ‘The Motion Picture’ in black and white.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think a statistic that could get through to people is that over it’s 250 years in existence, after 47 Presidents, 29% of ALL the national debt… was spent by Donald J Trump.

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The ‘rule of three’ is making me fear for any other 80+ year old legends. Someone’s keeping a close eye on Attenborough right now yeah?

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You’ve gotta be fucking kidding!

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thoughts and prayers to the many, many people who will be frantically changing their costume plans for this weekend's Manchester Pride

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And I'll say it now: more kids have grown up as readers thanks to Dolly than any amount of Harry fucking Potter.

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just signed up to support Robin’s Patreon. If you can afford to, then it’s two fingers up to the transphobes who have treated him so badly, so you should. And that’s before you even get to how great he is and how much great stuff he’s going to do.

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is just fantastic. The artistry of metaphors is a thing of beauty.

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My OCD suggests that surely they should have picked out fifty? Nonetheless, I’m sure it’s a marvelous selection.

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Date yourself with an advert from your childhood. The Noodle Doodle man aka The Third Doctor John Pertwee. youtu.be/lUy0NEkBZco?...

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Heinz Noodle Doodles - Food's never been such FUN 🍝

YouTube video by Robert Daniel Millward

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

OK, as others have noted, I’m also now getting follows from very sketchy looking ‘daily’ film festivals. How on Earth can you have a daily film festival?!? They all look like scams, so am blocking every new one that arrives.

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Welsh Bollocks @welshbollocks.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

An incredibly rare portrait of Owain Glyndŵr has been discovered in an attic in Powys. Painted in 1399 by renowned Italian portrait artist Frédéric Quimby, this is the only known painting of Glyndŵr in existence and confirms historical records that he was blonde and his favourite colour was pink.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Thank you to those who sent messages about these posts - it feels like we are confronting a point where if we do not actively reject the aggressive and regressive voices in this country then our destiny is damned www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po... www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...

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The Gaslight Years - part one | Robin Ince

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to dea

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

They know EU citizens with settled status can vote right? Right?!? Then again, if they haven’t even noticed that there are more than enough PIP claimants in their constituencies to wipe out their majorities.

BBC headline “Reform UK benefits ban for foreign nationals would include EU citizens”

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Dear BBC (tagging in @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social for lack of any other obvious BBC account on here). What the actual fuck do you think you are playing at with this headline on the BBC News website and app?!!!?!? The simple addition of the word ‘claim’ would fix this if you were actual journalists!

“Reform UK plan would overhaul welfare system with £50bn in savings”

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Probably goes without saying that a press which openly declares that it can't ever be considered responsible for anything that happens is one that is incapable of self-regulation.

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Been subscribed to this list since very early days on here, and it’s worked an absolute treat for keeping the bigots off my timeline. Nobody needs to be engaging with these people.

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Bought a cool pin badge and it came in a padded envelope with a couple of cool unfranked stamps (rather than the generic new QR coded ones). One of which may (or may not) be of specific interest to @finger-post.blog (will happily send it on to you if you want it and don’t already have one).

Stamp with portrait of James Clark Ross 1800-1862

Postage stamp with the following text;

GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
ARE ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS.
CHARTER OF THE COMMONWEALTH, 2013

MAGNA CARTA, 1215 ~ FOUNDATION OF LIBERTY

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Weird to throw a party in your own honour, disparage people who won't come and call the people who do attend nobodies.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

There’s a side chapel in Palma Cathedral that, as far as I can tell, is dedicated to Dagon!!!

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Radioactive shark spotted in Mallorca!

Ok - it’s a crescent sunset post eclipse.

Nope - that’s definitely an atomic shark fin!

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Totality was somewhat buggered by a low strip of cloud out at sea in just the wrong place, but we were then treated to something very unusual by way of compensation. A crescent sunset.

The crescent of the sun post totality in a red sky sinking into the Mediterranean Sea.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Be sure to wait till the end of the credits for an absolutely brilliant Colin Baker moment.

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is a great indie film - huge fun! It’s a modern queer genre take on the 70s ‘Confessions’/‘Adventures’ films. Hilarious and clever. As well as the listed actors, also has a great turn from Laurence R. Harvey.

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Pretty sure if I keep heading in this direction there’ll be dinosaurs. 🦖🦕

Torrent de Pareis in Mallorca
Beautiful high sided valley where there are sure to be dinosaurs.

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

One of these things is not like the others. Seriously, who curates these things, and moreover, who on Earth buys them?!!

Warner Bros ‘80s Horror Steelbook Library Case’. 4K collection including ‘A Nightmare on Elm St’, ‘The Lost Boys’, ‘Poltergeist’, ‘The Shining’ and inexplicably ’Little Shop of Horrors’?!?

Price - £149.99!!!!!

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