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My ol' pal Ian Smith stars in this forty-year old film, this backyard blockbuster, this thrilling three-or-so minutes... IAN OF SPACE! 🧵 1/4 #shows

Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

And yes, Jodie was there! Mandip getting married just made my whole week better!! 💖💖💍🍾

Some folks online recently bumped into my autobiography without knowing there had actually been one. And while searching other topics today on NPR I bumped into one of the reviews of said book, which I took as a sign to link it here for the curious. www.npr.org/2019/07/23/7...

Here are shots from the first six episodes of #StarTrekTOS in which Chekov appeared (in production order): "Catspaw"↖️, "Friday's Child"↗️, Who Mourns for Adonais?"⬅️, "Amok Time"➡️, "The Apple"↙️ and "Mirror, Mirror"↘️. 1/2

I just learned that Mandip Gill got married recently!! Everybody, let's wish her and her husband a long and happy life together!! #MandipGill #Marriage #SoHappyForHer

Mourning the passing of Star Trek legend Walter Koenig. He was 90. A couple of years ago, Walter gave us a nice interview for the Roddenberry Archive, directed and edited by Roger Lay, Jr. youtu.be/Z3vzNfxpgZ8

On the @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social channel at 3.15pm, Margaret Lockwood & Patricia Roc star in the classic melodrama "The Wicked Lady". artandhue.com/leading

Great to meet & thank in person folks who've had time for me online. Books on a rainy day weren't bad. Thanks @theatre-goer.bsky.social @mattsawyer.bsky.social @dhollingsworth.bsky.social @gossjam.bsky.social

My gentle response to “BBC Editorial Guidelines requirements for impartiality” is this: 'impartiality' implies competitors, toward a victor. Uni v uni is a competition but queer v straight isn't. It really isn't. Hurt can hurt as much as love can delight but the fear and the hate's gotta stop. 🏳️‍🌈

Ham and cheese toastie and a book club latte #TargetBookClub #TargetBookDay

Rob Shearman *is* Kroll, performing the beast's inner monologue at #TargetBookClub #TargetBookDay

bPText #teletext riff on the Ceefax TV room youtu.be/hzL-DE29d_4

Twenty years of nuWho and nary a skyline rockin' Yr Wyddfa. Were they worried old ladies might think they were watching tokusatsu?

Sarah Lancashire as Julia Child in 'Julia'

I wonder what it was like being Ken Campbell. I wonder it more than many

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@BrewsterKahle@mastodon.archive.org of the Internet Archive makes the case for web preservation in The Atlantic. 🌐 Kahle explains why blocking the Wayback Machine won’t stop AI. It will only make the public record harder to preserve. Read it 👉 www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The radio programme 'Music from The Hearts of Space' put 'Music for Airports' in my ears in 1984; I still enjoy it.

could anyone get closer to corpsing

Wait, there's a spaceport in the Shetlands? Sweet

The boysenberry is a cross between the European raspberry (Rubus idaeus), European blackberry (Rubus fruticosus) and American dewberry (Rubus aboriginum). I knew it only as a tart pancake syrup available at the aptly-named International House of Pancakes.

Sometimes the fanger's even worse if the blessed thing actually happens but thankfully there are five stages of fandom, that conclude with 4. Fanover 5. Fanaissance

Pete Fry is Vancouver’s next Mayor. He will be the first Green Mayor in Vancouver and the first Green Mayor of a major city in all of Canada.

To noticing that dear Noel is officially a B.E.M. I hastily add that I'm here for it 👽

We mourn the passing of our friend, actor Michael Forest, who left us this week. Born Gerald Michael Charlebois, the man who played Apollo on Star Trek was 97. Michael indulged me by posing for this photo in 2022.

“Defibrillator” in ten languages: 1. Defibrillator (German) 2. Defibrillator (Dutch) 3. Defibrillator (Hindi) 4. Defibrillator (Igbo) 5. Defibrillator (Indonesian) 6. Defibrillator (Samoan) 7. Defibrillator (Swahili) 8. Defibrillator (Yoruba) 9. Defibrillator (Afrikaans) 10. Hjertestarter (Danish)

This is the most English video I have ever seen. It's so lift (and every other doorway in the office block) it's untrue 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 youtu.be/8FeOLvFNc7Y

I discovered the making and showing of Hardware Wars (it was coupled with the original's re-release in some cinemas) in the producer's book, 'The Independent Film & Videomakers Guide'. It's lovely to see something nicer now than the murky rental tape found in early video shops 💕 youtu.be/WUDEUQMCyKE

We did it.

nitenite internet people, best to ya 🫡

I can't wait to share the #DillardReport with you. Those #shows were mostly just paper cut-outs and bad jokes. Little did I realise I was assembling a populist treatise on the inter-relationship of copyright, business, society and The Individual which calls our modern copyright landscape right out.

what'd this shrubbery do?

I was just a bit too old for the boy's own adventures of Optimus Prime and his fellow #Transformers, preferring instead the love and rocketships in the anime space opera #Macross. This week I learned that the father of transforming robot vehicles – Shōji Kawamori – designed both.

Aye, there's a real mad scientist and rain machine behind the 'Cloudbusting' music vid – but the visual tale of a girl inspired to science by her dad is a positive thing of its own – and paid forward in The Sarah Jane Adventures. There's also a sublime, related Skittles advert (maybe amid my #tapes)

I did a lot of excelling as a kid – standing out in some shiny and magnificent ways. Then in a flash the jigsaw of my life completely fell away into some dark pit and there I was hovering in the gloom, this weird, 13-year old puzzle piece that no longer had anything to fit into!

via @hypernode.bsky.social – what a delightful, visual visit with a cheeky old #BBS sysop. youtu.be/ROQSw6jqJO8

A nice overview here of homages, pinches and such. Calls to mind fan film and other fan art, which seeks not to siphon profit from successful Texts. The derivative work of fan labour is either tribal slang (e.g. "Shaka, when the walls fell") or just a popular sauce in which the new work is served.