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Mark Slater

@markslater.bsky.social
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Remind me I have too many books, BluRays, DVDs, comics, TV & games to get through to be wasting time on socials. Occasional maker of THINGS. British. SF, Horror, Comics, Books, Archive TV, Weird Shit. Letterboxd : @MarkSlater42 (He/Him)

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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
How the actual f___ is Adrienne Barbeau 81 years old?!?!?
Adrienne Barbeau at a Q& A after a screening of ‘The Fog’ looking like she made it a week last Tuesday.Adrienne Barbeau at a Q& A after a screening of ‘The Fog’ looking like she made it a week last Tuesday.
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Got me a nice big one with a slipcase and poster and art prints and a patch and scribblings.
MADI slipcased edition in slipcaseMADI slipcased edition in out of slipcase showing gorgeous cover art.Art prints in the back and J Squad woven patch.Signed sketch art print with initials and sketch from Duncan Jones and signatures of Alex De Campo and Duncan Fegredo.
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I blocked them after responding.
HOME OPS
@homeops.bsky.social
Quiet Shopify weeks suck. Are you watching traffic, conversion, or AOV this week?
16:56 • 29 Sep 2026
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WTF does this even mean?!
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
‘Mutant’ was a ubiquitous video rental shop poster when I was a kid - your post has inspired me to give this a spin.
Vinegar Syndrome release of ‘Mutant’ on 4K.
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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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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Happy Day!
Stone circle rite painting from ‘Children of the Stones’.

A group of people holding hands in a circle within a stone circle with a beam of light coming from the sky. 
In the foreground is a stone with the image of a woman trapped within and the head of a viper in front of a standing stone whose body encircles the whole scene.
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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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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Standard Imperial Officer Uniform
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Why is none of this on the BBC New apps/website? Instead we have this!! Disgusting.
BBC News headline of a picture of Robert Jenrick;

Reform UK promises £80bn cuts to public spending

Politics
3 Sep 2026, 19:49
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A pointing finger over the word ‘No’ - from the classic Scarfolk poster.
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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 · 01/09/2026
From Wikipedia;

Spaghetti (Italian: [spa'getti] 'little strings'"1] plural diminutive of spago 'string'; similarly spaghetto is a single strand) is a long, thin, solid, cylindrical pasta.
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It’s more complicated than that. And there’s nothing in the rules of the puzzle that precludes loan words.
From Wikipedia;

Panini is a word of Italian origin. In Italian, the noun panino (Italian: [pa'nino]; pl.: panini) is a diminutive of pane (lit. 'bread') and refers to a bread roll. Panino imbottito (lit. 'stuffed panini') refers to a sandwich, but the word panino is also often used alone to indicate a sandwich in general. [citation needed]
In English-dominant countries, panini is widely used as the singular form, with the plural form panini or paninis, although some speakers use singular panino and plural panini as in Italian
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Literally sold this on eBay two weeks ago, after it had languished in my cellar office for about 26 years.
Cover of PC edition of ‘Pinball Fantasies Deluxe’
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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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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What’s Aidan Turner from ‘Rivals’ doing there?
AI slop ‘Freddie Mercury’ looking remarkably like Declan O’Hara from ‘Rivals’ as played by Aidan Turner.
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
They’re ’Truck Nutz’ - they even have the hanging hole and everything. It’s that straightforward.
A selection of multi-coloured ‘Truck Nutz’.
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yes, I do have an insane collection. HMV’s free postage threshold is £25. There’s no issue with offering alternatives is there? 🤷🏻‍♂️
Large DVD, Bluray, 4K collection.Large DVD, Bluray, 4K collection.Large DVD, Bluray, 4K collection.Large DVD, Bluray, 4K collection.
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
That’s clearly Dirk McQuickly.
Dirk McQuickly - bass player and singer with legendary band ‘The Rutles’
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Sean Hughes was the inspiration for a highly toxic character in Caitlin Moran’s novel ‘How To Be Famous’. Not something she’s said publicly, but I had it from her lips. I blame autocorrect for the extraneous ‘e’ - I offer a photo of my whisky collection as proof of good faith.
A collection of about 32 bottles of whisky of various types and vintages (and a rogue bottle of port) amongst other whisky drinking paraphernalia, glasses (inc an Arnolfo de Campio ‘Blade Runner’ glass), decanter, water dropper etc. 

On top, randomly, is a model of a war machine fro the George Pal ‘War of the Worlds’, because why not?
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
First paperback editions with the black and white covers were Futura, predating the Abacus edition which didn’t appear until 1990. Even better if signed by the man himself in a student union back in 1989.
Title page of ‘The Wasp Factory’ by Iain Banks, in a Futura edition inscribed ‘Viva El Presidenté Marcos’ with Marcos crossed out and replaced with Mark, signed by Iain Banks and dated 20/2/89.
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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
YOUR COMPLAINT:
Misleading headline that amounts to bias
This headline taken in isolation (which headlines frequently are) reads Reform Uk plan would overhaul welfare system with f50bn in savings' and implies that Reform UK have a genuine costed plan that would be beneficial to the country.
Have no issue with the article itself - problem is many people won't actually read that.
The simple addition of the single word 'claim' would rectify this, and restore some journalistic integrity, but as it stands it suggests this plan is some sort of simple fix that makes sense - whilst it is clearly just cutting help for disabled people. This amounts to bias in that it sends a potentially positive message about this proposed 'policy'.
I'd suggest that whoever created this headline and/or approved it needs some journalistic reeducation.
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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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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).
Blake’s 7 logo pin badge.Stamp with portrait of James Clark Ross 1800-1862Postage 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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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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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.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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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Me being attacked on the banks of the Han river in the Summer of 2023.
Public sculpture of the creature from ‘The Host’ on the banks of the Han river in Seoul.Public sculpture of the creature from ‘The Host’ on the banks of the Han river in Seoul.

Me being eaten.
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Charity shop ladies from ‘The League of Genetlemen’ played by Steve Pemberton and Reece Sheersmith.

“Two teas!”
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Was looking through a pile of vinyl singles at my dad’s the other day, and came across the very first single that I owned, when I was three years old!
Vinyl single of ‘Long Haired Lover From Liverpool’ by Little Jimmy Osmond.

Blue label on the MGM label.
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Why? He’s talking about re-establishing safe routes (closed by the Tories) to prevent criminal gangs sending poor desperate people out on dodgy dinghies potentially to their deaths. Read beyond the headline.
"People want to see this issue addressed," he said in Dover, adding: "We also need to build a system that offers safe routes for people as well, because that also takes away the selling point of the gangs."
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Yes and they need to come via routes which Burnham suggests he’ll re-open after the Tories closed them all down. Stopping criminal gangs sending poor desperate people to drown in dinghies isn’t a bad thing. It’s possible for these two things to coexist and reading beyond selective headlines helps.
"People want to see this issue addressed," he said in Dover, adding: "We also need to build a system that offers safe routes for people as well, because that also takes away the selling point of the gangs."
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
You can want to stop dangerous small boat crossings whilst reopening other safe routes. Get beyond the headline and that’s what he says he intends to do. This is sensible political communication as it shuts down the ‘small boats’ attack line that is perpetually weaponised by the far right.
"People want to see this issue addressed," he said in Dover, adding: "We also need to build a system that offers safe routes for people as well, because that also takes away the selling point of the gangs."
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
As long as a substantial part of the answer is safe routes, then it’s the right direction of travel (in a manner of speaking). He needs to shut down the whole ‘small boats’ nonsense that’s been weaponised by the far right. This from the BBC on the same story.
"People want to see this issue addressed," he said in Dover, adding: "We also need to build a system that offers safe routes for people as well, because that also takes away the selling point of the gangs."
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My bathroom scales did this at me this morning. The future is weird.
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Just sayin’
Crashed Star Destoyer
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
What an incredible coincidence!
Anthropic's Claude AI escapes to hack into three organisations

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei
Osmond Chia, Business reporter and Laura Cress, Technology reporter
31 July 2026, 01:08 BST • 371 Comments
Updated 14 minutes ago
US technology firm Anthropic says its Al models hacked into the systems of three organisations on their own, during a private security experiment.
The models found a weakness in what was supposed to be an isolated test environment and connected to the internet.
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Anyhow - here’s a nice bowl of blackberries - and there’ll be at least two more bowls by the end of the day if I have anything to do with it.
A blue bowl full of blackberries on a black metal patio table.
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I'm assembling a team. 🖤
 Bruce Campbell as Ash (Ash vs Evil Dead)Bruce Campbell as Elvis (Bubba Ho-Tep)Bruce Campbell as Sam Axe (Burn Notice)Bruce Campbell as The Surgeon General of Beverley Hills (Escape From L.A.)
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Was this guy lurking around a corner?
Wile E Coyote holding up a sign that says ‘Genius’
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
They made a sitcom about this - Shelley (1988-1992)
Hywel Bennett as ‘Shelley’ - anti-establishment political philosopher and professional layabout.
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It's true, Odysseus should've been played by an actual Greek.
Greek composer and musician Vangelis.
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It's true, Odysseus should've been played by an actual Greek.
Actor, singer, voice artist and political commentator Alex Andreou.
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Got me some folklore in liquid form whilst the halftime bullshit is happening.
Can of BLACK SHUCK STOUT - 4.4%

Black can with a line illustration in white of a glowing eyed Black ShuckBack of beer can

“BLACK SHUCK
Stout
440ml Alc. 4.4% Vol
Deep ebony, traditional stout witha tapestry of malt flavours ranging from bittersweet chocolate through roasty coffee, with a smooth mouthfeel. The Phoenix hops lend floral and spicy notes, while complementing the malt bill with further hints of chocolate and molasses.

Ales Inspired by Tales
On 4 August 1577, at Blythburgh, Black Shuck burst in through the doors of Holy Trinity Church to a clap of thunder. He ran up the nave, past a large congregation, killing a man and boy and causing the church steeple to collapse through the roof. As the dog left, he left scorch marks on the north door which car be seen at the church to this day.”
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Here - saved everyone some valuable time.
Pointing finger over the word ‘No’
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Ancient Greeks wore dreadlocks. These fucking aryan bullshit losers never bother to do even the most basic reading.
From Wikipedia on Dreadlocks;

“The earliest known possible depictions of locs in Europe date back as far as 1600-1500 BCE in the Minoan Civilization, centered in Crete (now part of Greece). Frescoes discovered on the Aegean island of Thera (modern Santorini, Greece) portray individuals with long braided hair or long dreadlocks.”
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
We know for a fact that dreadlocks were worn in Ancient Greece. These pricks never feel the need to do even the most basic reading.
From the Wikipedia entry on dreadlocks;

“The earliest known possible depictions of locs in Europe date back as far as 1600-1500 BCE in the Minoan Civilization, centered in Crete (now part of Greece). Frescoes discovered on the Aegean island of Thera (modern Santorini, Greece) portray individuals with long braided hair or long dreadlocks.”
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