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e.g. Mark Clapham

@markclapham

Former writer, current office person, chronic wife guy. Erratic set of interests barely likely to intersect with whatever you’d like me to post about. He/Him.

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a neil gaiman defender contests a response of 'no' to a link to a substack, and is told 'I see that like Neil Gaiman, you don't understand that no is a complete sentence'

a neil gaiman defender contests a response of 'no' to a link to a substack, and is told 'I see that like Neil Gaiman, you don't understand that no is a complete sentence'

you want to see a murder

11.03.2026 03:49 👍 3909 🔁 705 💬 38 📌 30

Dave Vader

11.03.2026 22:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’
- Shigeru Miyamoto

“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto

Happy Mario day!

10.03.2026 21:02 👍 8420 🔁 1764 💬 56 📌 49
80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

The 3 genders

11.03.2026 14:00 👍 12804 🔁 3304 💬 138 📌 242

The cheapness of the production is also counterproductiv. if you’re going to rinse the hardcore with retro stories they should be at least prestige format to squeeze the maximum money out of the 500 completists who want stories set between issues from 1987.

11.03.2026 13:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks to a bad addiction to forbidden planet grab bags I read quite a few random issues of marvel series and my main reaction to a lot of it is ‘y tho?’ So this gave me the context I was missing.

11.03.2026 09:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

VG stuff here from pal Stu

09.03.2026 18:20 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

starling (seth rogen): if you could take this survey that would be so awesome. i could get out of your hair before this guy's done jacking off.

hannibal lecter (danny mcbride): motherfucker that's miggs. me and him are boys, so you better watch yourself. i'm behind this glass cause i ate some dudes

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Timothée Chalamet Under Fire For Dismissive Comments About Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater Form ‘Bunraku’

Timothée Chalamet Under Fire For Dismissive Comments About Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater Form ‘Bunraku’

Timothée Chalamet Under Fire For Dismissive Comments About Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater Form ‘Bunraku’ https://theonion.com/timothee-chalamet-under-fire-for-dismissive-comments-about-traditional-japanese-puppet-theater-form-bunraku/

09.03.2026 20:00 👍 1720 🔁 218 💬 25 📌 24

Just chilling and thinking about the life of cocaine abuse that got him where he is today

09.03.2026 13:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

nemesis living in hiding with a lavender marriage like the T800 in that last Terminator movie

09.03.2026 13:47 👍 24 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Occupy the Airwaves: Dreadnought South West’s Annual Phonic FM Take Over | Phonic FM - Exeter's sound alternative It’s official – Occupy the Airwaves will be back in 2026 to celebrate International Women’s Day (Sunday 8th March), on Phonic FM Exeter’s Community Radio. We will be broadcasting from midnight until 8...

For this year's IWD, I'm on Phonic FM from around 6pm, talking about the joys and challenges of being in a feminist political party in Devon. I've got two songs picked out as well.

You can listen online or at 106.8FM if you're in Exeter's broadcast area.

phonic.fm/2026/occupy-...

08.03.2026 13:19 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

That’s just how science works

08.03.2026 10:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Remember remember

08.03.2026 10:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this is, all else being equal, easily the funniest thing the director of inside out could have said

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holding old timer bats so they can still feel like flappy lads is some real heartwarming stuff

07.03.2026 13:26 👍 470 🔁 101 💬 8 📌 4
Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon facing to the right with wide eyes

Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon facing to the right with wide eyes

Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon sitting on a bench

Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon sitting on a bench

Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon sitting on grass with one ear pinned back

Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon sitting on grass with one ear pinned back

Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon looking towards the sky

Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon looking towards the sky

Thinking about low res pikachu.

07.03.2026 02:54 👍 8561 🔁 2612 💬 57 📌 50
The Bride (Jessie Buckley) screams. You gesture at her to wipe the shit off her face but it's kind of her look now

"Here comes the better version of Joker Folie a Deux"

Everyone will be them for halloween and then it won't be cool anymore

The Bride (Jessie Buckley) screams. You gesture at her to wipe the shit off her face but it's kind of her look now "Here comes the better version of Joker Folie a Deux" Everyone will be them for halloween and then it won't be cool anymore

The Bride! (2026)

06.02.2026 15:11 👍 187 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 1

I hope the Hamnet kid went to school as dead Hamnet.

06.03.2026 10:04 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The tension of the new Resident Evil slightly broken because every time they show wriggly maggots I’m thinking:

05.03.2026 20:35 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Lights, camera, Grogu🎬

The Mandalorian And Grogu call action on Empire’s exclusive cover shoot, as Star Wars returns to cinemas.

Inside, we blast off with Pedro Pascal, Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, Sigourney Weaver and more. Out Thurs March 12

Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

05.03.2026 15:59 👍 77 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 8

@gideondefoe.bsky.social Tate isn’t a pirate reader, alas

05.03.2026 15:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The letters page of the Radio Times of April 3rd 1982 contained some responses to the death of Adric in “Doctor Who: Earthshock” a few weeks earlier. Who producer John Nathan-Turner also got a word or two in too.

05.03.2026 13:34 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 6 📌 0

what are articles if not emails persisting?

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House to Astonish » House to Astonish Episode 217

House to Astonish Episode 217 is now live, with me and @ifdestroyed.bsky.social talking Tatjana Wood, 3 Worlds 3 Moons, Hulk War, Terminal, Skate Ali, Concrete, the scourge of blind bags, JLA/Avengers facsimilies, The Punisher and The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery bit.ly/astonish217

02.03.2026 22:08 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 1

There’s a Fleetwood Mac/Kevin Smith Tusk joke somewhere but I can’t find it either.

04.03.2026 20:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Let’s see Ed first.

04.03.2026 10:16 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0