Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Something has clearly changed, as it’s now being reported again www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukOxford lecturer denies possessing indecent child imagesDr Lola Salem is a lecturer in French and music at University of Oxford's Oriel College. 110
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I was going to read this tonight, but notice there’s a Christmas story in there, so I’ll probably save it for a couple of months. Then totally forget to read it. 040
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Just put ‘Oxford lecturer’ into the Bluesky search feature and press latest. I can see why everyone is interested in this, but I’d still be careful what I’d say about it 010
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026a controversial and dodgy looking website. Judging by the pop ups on the site, it doesn’t look legit. Court dates go back to July,but news sites only reported on it on Saturday. Anyway whatever is going on personally I’d be careful about accusing people in public, even on Bluesky. 120
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I’m no legal expert, but something legal has gone on, maybe an injunction or the judge has put reporting restrictions on the case. Articles that appeared on Telegraph, Daily Mail and GBNews sites on Saturday disappeared by Sunday I think. Screenshots are also being shared of court dates taken from 130
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026But you offer no photos so we can’t judge for ourselves whether your decorations are seasonably spooky or not 010
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I wonder if this is Marvel having a dig at DC’s Super Pets stories. This was about 25 years before Marvel’s Pet Avengers. 131
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=UznH...youtube.comBat For Lashes - Laura (Official Music Video)YouTube video by Bat For Lashes 020
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I thought I had already picked this one for #MelancholicMidnight / #MidnightMelancholia Laura by Bat For Lashes Here’s a live version, but I’ll put the official version below www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jic3...youtube.comBat for Lashes - "Laura" (Live at WFUV)YouTube video by WFUV Public Radio 120
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026If I had the money I’d snap up those Flash Gordon pieces 020
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Actually I think I saw them supporting Therapy? in 1994 110
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I haven’t heard the name Kerbdog in many a year. I have one of their cd singles, Dummy Crusher. I should probably play it as I can’t remember what it sounds like 110
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Yes, I saw them both at the Cambridge Corn Exchange. I don’t remember a huge amount about it, but I do remember PJ banging a staff on the floor, or am I misremembering that? 110
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026News sites have removed all the articles about this story which would suggest legal are involved so maybe an injunction. Though it’s possible I suppose the story is inaccurate, but then there’d be a correction somewhere & I haven’t seen one. Some people I notice are saying some in advisable comments 110
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026It looks there’s something legal going on around that story about the Oxford Lecturer. The story has disappeared from news sites, or possibly people in the UK can’t see it anymore. So I would be careful about sharing those screenshots going round and I certainly wouldn’t be commenting on it! 020
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It’s a bit early on a Saturday to be going to bed. Don’t they have any nightclubs in Hookland? Not even a haunted dancehall? 150
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Happy Birthday and I’m glad to hear you’re having a birthday bath whether you need it or not 120
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I hope that’s the way forward for others too. Serialised comics are tricky on Kickstarter as there’s usually long gaps between issues, if they ever appear at all, and with postage on top they work out expensive 120
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I sometimes wonder if you hadn’t said anything when you did, how long it would of been until anyone else would of mentioned it. There’s still, i think, a taboo about talking about other people’s crowdfunding campaigns among the comics community, 160
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I see we’re doing that thing again where we tell everyone to leave that nazi hell site by quote posting someone who still posts there, saying how bad it is. I’ve mentioned this before & got a condescending reply from someone who works for FT telling me don’t I understand it’s ok for them to do this 020
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026If you’re avoiding all things Neil Gaiman, I should warn you Radio 4 are repeating a play from 2021, which has a small role played by Gaiman in it 120
Reposted by Reuben WillmottRoger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Fez-heads! If you're in the UK, THE FEZ PAPERS is now available to order at hotelfred.bigcartel.com/product/the-.... (Outside the UK, pick up the Lulu edition from www.lulu.com/shop/roger-l... and avoid customs/tariff nonsense.) 64 pages of full-colour Fez stories from 2012-2025! 04113
Reposted by Reuben WillmottJonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Jacques Tati. Born on this day in 1907. 622327
Reposted by Reuben WillmottJonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026PJ Harvey. Born on this day in 1969. 310312
Reposted by Reuben WillmottHey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Decorations that you can send as greetings cards! George Smiley! Joni Mitchell! Big Daddy! Giant Haystacks! Columbo! Available from: heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com 11712
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Tomorrow night’s edition of Radio 4’s Screen Shot is devoted to comics & films. Not sure if these are the only two comics they are covering. I do hope they start with a ‘zap! Pow! Comics grow up’ intro. Actually Mark Kermode wrote for Speakeasy, so they probably won’t www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Screenshot, Graphic NovelsEllen and Mark investigate the relationship between graphic novels, comics and film. 050
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Oh another puff piece for Bad Idea, how about an article about all their unfulfilled Kickstarter campaigns? 000
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Today, 43 years after publication, I learn that Cam Kennedy drew a Spider-Man cover for Marvel UK. His only work for them? 160
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Same here. Though I’m still waiting for my copy to turn up. 010
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A letter in Captain Britain from Glenn Dakin & Steve Way, who a decade later would be doing Paris Man Of Plaster for Harrier comics. Dakin who then went on to write for Marvel UK and Shaun the Sheep tv series. The reply to the letter may of been written by UK editor Nebulous Neil Tennant 041
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The only time, I think, that Steve Dillon drew Captain Britain 050
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I was never in any ‘starter packs’, not that it’s a sore point or anything… 000
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I’ve never seen that before, I guess it means we’ve been on here a long time 200
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Marvel UK titles, but certainly not all of them. Comics often had ads to encourage you to tell your newsagent so they order and save your favourite comic every week/ month. Trying to buy them off the shelves could be an erratic experience 140
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Over the years newsagents seem to have mythologised into somewhere that sold shelves and shelves of comics. My experience was that most just sold a very small seemingly random selection of British comics and maybe a pile of American comics, Marvel or DC. Many places would sell maybe one or two 270
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 06/10/202650 years ago today in the UK, you may of been able to buy a new superhero weekly comic from your local newsagent 2113
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is one of the hazards of joining a book group 010
Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Another mid-1970s pinup penciled by Marshall Rogers. Bonus: a picture of The Vision diving into a swimming pool by Mike Nesser and Neal Adams 0102
