40 YEARS AGO TODAY: "'ello!" The first of forty visits to the cellar of the monster's castle that features The Trap Door, by association the glory of a Willie Rushton voiceover, and the stop-motion skill of future Wallace & Gromit co-director Steve Box.

The Trapdoor - Breakfast Time

Watch more Cartoons here :https://bit.ly/37L30II Berk is busy preparing his master's breakfast - from worms and other vile concoctions, when a strange yellow creature comes out of the trap door in the kitchen floor and eats the breakfast, closely followed by a large Big Red Thing which chases Berk u

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20 years ago today, #BattlestarGalactica aired Occupation & Precipice, Emmy-nominated episodes that kicked off its S3 New Caprica arc. I've posted a long 2006 #BSG interview with Ron Moore in honor of that anniversary. Some mo' New Caprica intel embedded within 👀🚀 www.moryan.com/battlestar-g...

Battlestar Galactica Rewind: Ron Moore Talks 'Occupation,' 'Precipice' and the politically charged New Caprica arc

A 2006 interview with Battlestar Galactica executive producer Ron Moore, who talks about the drama's acclaimed New Caprica arc and much more.

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Aaaaaand there it is. Rough draft of Can You Solve the Murder? book 3 finished at last. Now I’ve got a month to polish, rewrite, and edit all 90,000 words (!) before it’s due to my editor. But for now, a short break… 😴

David Zaslav bids farewell to industry he helped destroy

David Zaslav bids farewell to industry he helped destroy

In a video address to employees on the eve of the Paramount takeover, David Zaslav says it’s been an "honor" to oversee so many HBO name changes. 

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Hello Editors and Writers: I'll be hosting a new workshop at the end of the month! Give and Take: The Art of Feedback for Editors and Writers 📅 Oct. 24, 1–5 PM Central 🎟️ $250 + $9.74 booking fee ✍️ For all experience levels + all kinds of stories Register: www.ticketsource.com/schnoodlestu...

"...retreating from DEI has not produced a clear financial advantage."

Companies That Dropped DEI Have Nothing To Show For It

Corporate America has spent the last year and a half pulling back from DEI programs. But retreating from DEI has not produced a clear financial advantage.

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The UK Arts & Ents industry contributes over £10bn to the UK economy a year & one of these days our politicians might even realise that instead writing it off as icky girlie flouncing bc you can't do a photoshoot in a hard hat & hi-vis gilet at the national theatre without looking like a tit

Danielle Blake@abradacabla.bsky.social · 3d ago

I mean for one thing Neil, if you guys invested in the arts at all you’d have come up with a less embarrassing riff on the Bayeux Tapestry than that AI slop

Marcia's on holiday and I've been away for a few days, so empty house + almost-empty fridge = prawn and soy chicken stir fry in an improvised hoisin + soy sauce. Very nice, but tomorrow = grocery shopping 😅

Well, I never!

Matthew Budman, book guy@matthewbudman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Have been participating in these since early 2024. Occasional sessions in London!

For those wondering what "Batman's Aff His Nut" sounds like in a proper Glaswegian accent, here's Robert Florence, who penned it, reciting it over a Batman teaser...

Apparently this is a real thing. Campaign to get these up and running in the UK starts here 😂

Writing Can You Solve the Murder? book 3, made myself laugh when this line came to mind for a particular scene, genuinely valid in context and in character. Soooo tempted, for the half-dozen people who would actually get it 😂 Alas, common sense prevailed. I changed it 😭

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

Most TV is just this now.

"We want more Doctor Who!" *monkey's paw curls a finger*

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The BBC's new director general has described a 50-minute AI-generated episode of Doctor Who as "pretty good," and suggested that the technology now enabled the creation of content "at the standard of a Hollywood studio." https://bit.ly/4rD8rmh

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

Being an adult is spending half your life dealing with shit just because it doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to. Imagine if people actually did their jobs properly. What a concept!

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

Thrilled to be closing out @trumanbooks.bsky.social Farsley Lit Fest's Crime Day with Can You Solve the Murder? Live once again! This year Crime Day is on Oct 31 🎃👻 and tickets for the whole day are now available from farsleylit.co.uk

Did Anthropic's Claude discover something new in biotech? Well, just like with those recent alleged math proofs, it looks like it was given the answers in advance from real humans doing actual research. (gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...)

Chilly morning walk. The sheep didn't seem to mind 🐏

In my Inbox today: a very nice e-mail from a festival abroad, outlining the precise details of where they are based and what they would like me to do, plus details of the fee they're offering, and an assurance that they cover transport and accommodation. There. Not so difficult, is it?

Will Smith as Mike Lowrey: Dawg, This What We Do

ALT: Will Smith as Mike Lowrey: Dawg, This What We Do

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Electric cars are more durable than petrol equivalents, and last longer - major report finds thedriven.io/2026/09/24/e...

Electric cars are more durable than petrol equivalents, and last longer - major report finds

A study of millions of vehicles reveals that EVs are much less likely to fail compared to petrol equivalents, and will last a lot longer.

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Coming to Kickstarter! ALL SYSTEMS RED — the official Graphic Novel adaptation of Book 1 in The Murderbot Diaries by @marthawells.com. Click here to sign up for exclusive discounts and content! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...

Great fun to be back at Bark!Fest again with these wonderful authors 😊🐶

Zazie Todd PhD@zazietodd.bsky.social · 2w ago

A massive thank you to @antonyjohnston.bsky.social , @blakemara.bsky.social , and @samhollandbooks.bsky.social for sharing their incredible crime and mystery 'dog books' with us at Bark! Fest today. Such different books, all absolutely amazing, and a very fun panel!!

Home from Bloody Scotland and back on the Can You Solve the Murder? treadmill. Despite these numbers, I have a ways to go. I reckon the final ms will come in around 85,000 words, coincidentally the same as the first two books. Come back in a couple of weeks and we’ll see if I’m right 😉

Lichtenstein's hack jobs helped convince multiple generations of people, including alleged art lovers and cognoscenti, that comics art was shit. No, just Roy.

Ste Jormur@stejormur.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'd never seen this Roy Lichtenstein painting before, but it's incredible how he manages unfailingly to make his copies worse than the original comics he's ripping off.

As usual I forgot to take pics at @bloodyscotland.bsky.social this year… partly because I was having too much of a good time, especially at the karaoke 🤘😉 I did remember to get a couple from the sold-out Can You Solve the Murder? event on Friday, though. Thanks to everyone who came along!

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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