Philip Friel

@nealasher Really looking forward to getting this.

Not long now.

@IanLevine Such sad news, and such a great loss. She was an amazing singer. I still have my vinyl 12-inch of Hi Energy, which I bought way back when it was first released. I've never been able to find that 12-inch version on CD, only the 7-inch version.

Evelyn Thomas has died.

@westonfront I like both of them. Underrated films that deserve more credit.

@nealasher Ah, the arrogance and sheer stupidity of youth. Barely out of nappies, and he thinks he knows everything. He could be the smartest 22 year-old on the planet, but he still hasn't lived long enough to have gained the necessary experience of life and the job he's doing.

He's reached the first age of 'I've got nothing more to learn'. If he starts on the road to becoming wise he'll understand that's subject to revision every few years with a retrospective 'I was stupid then'. But of course programmed by leftist ideology that might never occur.

Very interesting night on Film4 for fans of sci-fi movies. Started off with Star Trek (2009), now watching Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), then Dredd (2012), and finally finishing off with Dune (1984). That one doesn't end until 3:30am, so I might not last that long. :)

@nealasher Looks like something out of a Gerry Anderson TV series. Totally awesome.

Superb.

@moment_mirthful @MattWallace888 How much is that painting worth, and she just destroys it??? Twenty years in the slammer would cure the bitch of her activism and make an example of her to other would-be vandals. These animals need to be slapped down hard. They get away with blue murder.

Were women more attractive before tattoos and piercings became popular?

@nealasher What a shower of wankers. The Tories are the same, as are the Lib-Dems, Farage and his lot, and, indeed, all politicians. The current class of professional politician is a parasitical group of lying, greedy freeloaders who live off the taxpayer while despising them. Total Scum.

Oh look, they're striding about again trying to look important and assertive.

I received this one from Amazon UK yesterday. A lovely wee hardback book plus 5CD boxset, absolutely crammed with great American punk rock music. All you cool cat punks and punkettes really should grab this ASAP. amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0C…

@TRobinsonNewEra Shoot every last damned one of them. Rabid dogs should always be put down before they bite innocent bystanders.

@TheMekon_Venus @RetroAmateur Likewise. For many years, Doctor Who was the only reason that I even watched the BBC. That is no longer the case. The show has been awful since Capaldi finished. There is NOTHING that I watch on the BBC now. So why should I be forced to continue paying the vile TV Licence tax?

I’m annoyed by this idea that the BBC can’t afford to make one of the few shows people used to find value in the licence fee from. They have a huge amount of money. And I’ve made many BBC shows over the years.. They have a huge budget. If they choose not to spend it on things people want to watch..that’s a diferent matter. I think it’s time to cancel the TV licence. I no longer watch live TV, Or BBC on iplayer. RIP BBC.

I took a break from touching grass.. and put myself through the first 2 episodes of the new Doctor Who. WTF? It turned into Glee. This is not just bad.. it’s beyond bad. Completely unwatchable. And then at the end of episode 2.. this music number played at the end. I only clipped it out so anyone on the fence could see what the show had become. This is a disaster for Doctor Who. In this form.. the show does not work for me. I gave it a chance.. but all done. I’m touching grass/moss/goo… anything is more fun than this.

@LindaNagata You disappeared for a bit, but I'm so glad you came back to give us the Inverted Frontier books and other fantastic stories. When some idiot says "Women can't write hard SF", I always give a long list to prove them wrong. And your name is always the first one out of my mouth.

@LindaNagata I've been following your work for years, since way back when you first published the Nanotech Succession books. I think we were both on the classic Compuserve SFLIT forum at the time, so that's going back to the late-90s or early-Noughties. A long time.

@FinishedZine At home, on BBC One, when it first aired. Alone. That's how I prefer to watch stuff, with nobody around to ruin things and provide distractions/interruptions by yapping or moving around during the broadcast. Didn't buy the VHS and novel till later, and the DVD even later.

28 years ago today, the #DoctorWho TV Movie was given its first UK broadcast - how did you watch it? Did you go to a pub, like I did, and watch it with other fans?

@D_Fens_Ghost The shape of both of them. Looks like they've pulled this stunt quite a few times. Fat bastards should be put on an enforced long starvation diet. Staple their stomachs and sew their mouths shut.

@nealasher What else would you expect from the BBC/Disney, the top purveyors of "progressive" crap? DW is nothing but a woke propaganda vehicle now for RTD's queer/trans wet dreams. And he was supposed to save it after the awful Chibnall/Whittaker era. It's utter garbage now. Unwatchable.

So glad I lost interest in Dr Who back when Tennant was running round like a coked up student.

@straczynski Unforgettable memoir. I bought this in hardcover when it first came out. I couldn't put it down. Very hard-hitting, parts of it were like a real kick in the gut. I didn't realise that there was so much about JMS that I didn't know.

-- my Hugo-nominated autobiography BECOMING SUPERMAN, which is about my life, career and work, but also reveals a murder mystery, with stories of madness, mayhem, cults, slums and a ton of other general, garden variety weird shit. I promise you've not read a bio like this before

For the last coming-on-three-years I've seen my primary responsibility as publishing and promoting Harlan's work--GREATEST HITS, the first two DANGEROUS VISIONS reprints and the debut of THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS--to the detriment of promoting my own work because I didn't want--

@IanLevine Keep fighting the good fight, Ian. And thanks for all you've done for Doctor Who fans, as well as the cracking soul music you've produced.

My Life With Doctor Who

@HenrykMatysiak2 @jk_rowling @billybragg "Progressive Male Class Warrior" aka the biggest shower of sanctimonious, self-righteous, misogynistic beta male cucks on Planet Earth.

@jk_rowling @billybragg What in heaven’s name does PMCW stand for?

This comment by @billybragg perfectly sums up what left wing women have taken from left wing men over the last few years. The problem isn’t whether Julie Bindel and I are correct on the issues, but that certain right-wingers agree with us. If you’ve spent any time at all on the left of politics, you’re familiar with the progressive male class warrior, usually middle-class himself, whose interest in women’s issues begins and ends with sex work, stripping and abortions. He might claim to be a feminist ally and mutter vaguely about ‘equality’ if the need arises, but when a genuine assault on women’s rights erupted under his nose, he cut left wing women adrift without a second thought. He expected us to be so blindly tribal that we’d surrender single sex spaces, jettison the very language we use to describe ourselves, give up fair sport, agree rapists should be locked up in women’s prisons and that lesbians are bigots for not wanting to sleep with the penis-ed, because (horrors!) some people on the right thought these things were wrong, too. Over the last few years, a huge number of PMCWs have become men’s rights activists in all but name, and it’s been profoundly depressing, if not entirely unexpected, to see how enjoyable they’ve found it. Even while attacking women for finding themselves on the same side as right-wingers, the PMCWs stampeded to join the team that was threatening women with rape and violence, harassing women’s conferences, attempting to block access to gender critical events and physically assaulting female demonstrators. PMCWs are everywhere online, lecturing women reliant on state-run services for not welcoming the male-bodied into communal changing rooms and rape crisis shelters, presuming to police women’s language and tone, turning a blind eye to all statistics on male sexual violence that might contradict the ‘you’re all scaremongering bigots’ narrative and demonstrating that their deepest empathy will always be reserved for those who were born with a penis. The truth is that the left has fucked up monumentally on gender identity ideology and until it owns the mistake, it will continue to hand the right valid talking points. As more and more PMCWs realise this, they’ll take shameless refuge in accusations that we, the women criticising the injustice and insanity of gender identity ideology, were enabling the far-right. The fact is that they’ve done exactly that, by refusing to accept that there was anything wrong with a movement that was causing serious harm to troubled young people, trampling all over women’s rights and seeking to remove single-sex services for the most vulnerable. The sense of betrayal women on the left feel towards men like Bragg will take a long time to disappear, if it ever does. I think we all take some grim satisfaction, though, in the fact that evidence of the PMCWs’ misogyny and complicity is a matter of public record, because the panicky back-pedalling and whitewashing that’s just begun is quite something to behold.

@Lou_Jameson Except for the law, these creatures would be more than capable of killing people, and enjoying it immensely. Bloodthirsty, no empathy, no compassion, no conscience, no morals. "Upper class"? Absolute vermin. The parasitical dregs of society, born into wealth by sheer accident.

So so sad and awful