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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 11h

Went to a conference today at the science centre where I started my career. I left there in 2012 & I've been back a few times since, but for some reason the hiraeth really hit me today & I really missed it. I even got a bit emotional using the same toilet I used to use back then. #toilethiraeth

Me by the Techniquest Planetarium in Cardiff.

Me by the Slow Bubbles exhibit in Techniquest.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I haven't finished it yet but it really is an excellent Bond novel. I can't recommend it enough. At one point Bond murders a load of henchmen while in the bollocky buff.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is from Charlie Higson's new James Bond novel, King Zero. 007 says eat the rich!

Bond smiled politely. He'd heard enough of this kind of talk before to have had his fill of it.

It was the sort of self inflating blather that many rich and powerful men came out with - as if they'd got there by clever business decisions alone

He'd often thought about writing a very short book. Ten Secrets of Wealthy Men.

Inherit
Lie
Steal
Cheat
Exploit
Underpay
Avoid taxes
Destroy all competitors
Control the media
And, it helps if you're a psychopath.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 13/10/2026

Yesterday, NASA broke a record. The longest distance travelled by a vehicle on the surface of a world other than Earth. The Perseverance rover has now driven 45.22 km, beating the previous record of 45.16 km by the Opportunity rover. Perseverance did the distance in 5.5 years to Oppy's 15.

The surface of Mars, with rover tracks prominently extending from the lower left to the upper right of the foreground.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Jimmy Nail skipped bail. Wayne Sleep worried a sheep. Joe Wicks stole a Twix. Andy Crane robbed a train. (None of the above is true, so please don't sue.)

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm watching the Scooby Doo movie from 2002 and Sugar Ray have turned up. It's so weird how tattooed scumbags in vests with bleached spiky hair and ratty little chin beards feel like flower power, tie-dyed hippies now.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Seeing Bluesky reminisce about people who were big on Twitter 10 years ago but either got cancelled or went off the deep end makes me grateful that, even if I were funnier & more insightful, I am far too hyper-fixated on Superman comics to get any sort of significant social media fame.

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Kevin Miranda @kevinmiranda.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Superman by Bill Sienkiewicz

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Generative AI is for the kind of people who use terms like "comic accurate" and "source material" when they're critiquing a movie.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Reminder that generative AI is for the type of "fan" who would rather see a superhero wearing a mask with the eyes whited out than be surprised by a well crafted performance, and who will never settle for anything less than an exact recreation of their rose-tinted memories of being twelve.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They come runnin' just as fast as they can, 'Cause every girl crazy 'bout...

Earpieces for 3D glasses in a pot labelled "spare right arms".

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Working on an AI Third Doctor fan-film and the results are uncanny.

Roger Moore as Lord Brett Sinclair's elderly aunt.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Working on an AI Third Doctor fan-film and the results are uncanny.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

An insight into how: 1. the prominence of far right discourse has lots of English people tying themselves in knots trying to figure out what being English means. 2. staying on Twitter after Musk took over has pushed prominent tweeters that I had forgotten existed into even darker places.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

...today finds people who behave in such a way much more tedious than so called "pretentious" people, I find it really refreshing. You're not the voice of common sense, you're just an insecure arsehole.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

...were all meant to identify with, but these days more & more stories are framing these characters as just as full of shit as the "arty farty" characters, if not more so. As someone who used to put on a big show of "working class common sense" in the face of anything beyond my experience, but...

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I watched The Invite last night and it's very good indeed, but something that stood out to me in particular was Seth Rogen's character. It's really interesting how film & TV used to frame such infuriatingly cynical and performatively unpretentious characters as "the voice of reason" that we ...

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.

A plastic dolls house sitting on a wall, taken from an angle which makes it look as if it might be one of the houses on the street.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"War. It's fantastic!" still makes me laugh every time I think about it.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Social media algorithms, just stop it. I know I'm a balding, middle-aged man. I know young people have all collectively agreed that middle-aged men going bald is one of those things that it's still okay to be cruel about. But you are never, ever going to convince me to wear a toupee.

Another targeted social media ad for "hair systems".

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Today is the birthday of Ira Schnapp (Oct. 10, 1894-July 24, 1969). A letterer and logo designer, he refined the Superman logo w/ Superman #6 (1940) and designed logos for the Flash, JLA, Green Lantern, Atom, Hawkman, & more. He also designed house ads & the stamp for the Comics Code Authority.

Eight logos he designed, including the Justice League of America, Aquaman, Atom, Metamorpho The Elemental Man.
Flash, Metal Men, Green Lantern, and Plastic Man.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Watching Lanterns has reminded me how much I love Green Lantern comics and as a result I've been reading the Wein/Gibbons & Englehart/Staton runs and really enjoying them. What should I reread next? Morrison/Sharp? Johns? Silver Age? Or something else? What's the most recent run been like?

static.klipy.com

Green Lantern Parralax

Alt: Green Lantern Parallax

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Mastcam imagery captured two days ago in Valle Grande by Curiosity #Mars Oct. 8, 2026 - Sol 5038 🧪🔭 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

An ochre toned image capturing a Martian landscape

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Grant Morrison is seemingly on a mission to write comics starring every single one of my favourite fictional characters. I'm very much looking forward to one day reading Grant Morrison's Popeye.

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AIPT @aiptcomics.com · 09/10/2026

🚨 Grant Morrison is taking on JAMES BOND! @idwpublishing.com and Ian Fleming Publications have announced SUNBREAKER, a six-part 007 adventure featuring new gadgets, dangerous enemies, and a terrifying villain ripped from the headlines! 🍸🔫 Morrison promises Bond's greatest challenge yet. Details:

aiptcomics.com

Grant Morrison takes on James Bond in new IDW comic series ‘Sunbreaker’

Grant Morrison takes on 007 in James Bond: Sunbreaker, a new six-part comic series from IDW promising deadly new villains, high-tech gadgets, and a bold new direction for the iconic spy.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also not a fan of the horrible waxy texture of the Marvel Premier covers.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've got to be honest this is a bit of a slog in this format. I'm constantly having to google stuff like "Why is Tony Stark locked up?" and "why does Black Panther hate Namor?" I bet this was amazing to follow month to month over several years but in digest format I'm utterly lost.

MARVEL PREMIER COLLECTION: Avengers Time Runs Out

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Facebook currently serving up some classic "Don't mention the 1939-1945 conflict with Germany" content, courtesy of Super-Intelligence™.

"People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people, Jeremy. They' re basically a bit thick and prone to doing completely the wrong thing"
David Mitchell

Classic British Comedy MON AT 19:00
Peep Show delivers a biting look at social awkwardness through the University Challenge installment, which premiered on Channel 4 on 19 November 2004. Jesse Armstrong an... See more

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hal Jordan training John Stewart:

Bearded guy from ITYSL shirt brothers sketch saying "promise me a million times that you will never do another rule."

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hal Jordan training John Stewart:

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Red Dwarf 7, 8, and Back To Earth are so embarrassingly, amateurishly awful that I sometimes forget that series 1-6 are good enough to stand among the greatest British sitcoms ever made.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's such an insight into his mind. I think he's locked in a teenage fantasy world and he's perpetually angry that the real world doesn't live up to it. He'd be exactly the kind of arsehole that I could identify with if it wasn't for the racism.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"All music critics are stupid except the mythologised version of the one I liked when I was a kid, who only exists in my head."

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've been listening to Morrissey's latest album and it's genuinely fascinating that the man who regularly complains that music critics are failed musicians who are personally attacking him with their reviews also wrote a song about how much he loves Lester Bangs.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You may scoff at the soundtrack to Oliver Stone's terrible Doors movie being on the list, but it has Heroin by the Velvet Underground on it and it blew my tiny mind.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

9 albums that shaped my taste in music but also contributed to my unpopularity at school. my9albums.org

The Beatles - Rock n Roll Music vol. 2
The Smiths - The Smiths
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World
Sparks - Kimono My House
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Paul & Linda McCartney - Ram
The Doors - Motion Picture Soundtrack
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Talking Heads - Popular Favourites/ Sand in the Vaseline.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And as a Hal fan, after years of seeing people on the Internet banging on about how "Hal Jordan doesn't have a personality" it's very gratifying to see a version of him on screen that's just bubbling over with personality.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Great to see these guys get a shout out at the end too.

Special Thanks:
NEAL ADAMS M.D. BRIGHT JOHN BROOME DICK DILLIN STEVE ENGLEHART BILL FINGER GEOFF JOHNS GIL KANE JACK KIRBY MARTIN NODELL DENNY O'NEIL
CHRISTOPHER PRIEST JOE STATON
DWAYNE McDUFFIE

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Perfect ending to Lanterns. What a show. It would have been so easy to just rehash Secret Origin or Emerald Twilight, but instead they scraped off all the superficial details & found the core of who Hal & John are, and then put them in a Green Lantern story we have genuinely never seen before.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Lots of people dislike our deliberately abrasive movie! WTF??!"

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love that this movie exists but I'm surprised that WB are surprised that it's so divisive.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I loved Digger but it's peculiar how disappointed & desperate WB seem to be with everyone's reaction to it considering: A. Digger is a deliberately unpleasant movie. B. It's key message is "this movie and others like it are pointless."

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sadly not, I didn't find out about it in time. Are you going?

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah, I gave up on Carte Blanche because it didn't feel like Bond, but Higson really nails him.

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