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Thomas Evans

@thewrittentevs.bsky.social

Writer/Marketer. He/Him. Writes about Doctor Who at https://readfnord.wordpress.com 'By an English Sea' is in 'Neon Magazine 44'; 'The Month You Were in a Relationship with Taylor Swift' is in 'Kiss Your Darlings'.

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Thomas Evans@thewrittentevs.bsky.social · last wk.

My local council has been trying to buy a completely empty shopping center that's in the middle of the high street for years, but the owner refuses to sell because he makes more from having this functionally abandoned building on his property portfolio than the council could ever afford to give.

Nick Barlow@nickbwalking.bsky.social · last wk.

One thing I remember from my time as a councillor is how many people believe the council owns the high street/main shopping area and that it actively chooses which shops go into it.

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · last wk.

To split the baby in half here: Bluesky is horny, but not in a hot way. There’s a horny part of Bluesky but it’s offputting and most people try to ignore it, like a swinger’s resort in Florida that’s next to a retirement community.

Matt Ufford@mattufford.bsky.social · last wk.

the discourse is wild, man. bluesky is like the least horny place on the entire internet, then one director was like "I cut nude scenes out of my sex movie" and INSTANTLY everyone demanded nudity. and frankly I'm here for it. let's see it all hanging out, baby. for art. respectfully of course.

Thomas Evans@thewrittentevs.bsky.social · 2w ago

Watching "Superman" (1978) and honestly, the thing that makes this the best Superman film is that you could cut Lex Luthor entirely and it'd still be a great film. It doesn't actually need a plot because it makes watching Superman stuff feel that satisfying.

Thomas Evans@thewrittentevs.bsky.social · 2w ago

My algorithm thinks I'm a female small business owner who speaks Spanish, Chinese and Punjabi. We really need to mainstream the fact that the algorithms which run our online lives are not just unhealthy, they aren't actually fit for their own purposes and do not work properly.

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2w ago

The algorithm thinks I’m a London Muslim with a New York flat who wants to try mushroom beer at a running rave (to comfort me for my disappointming and badly lit sales career).

Thomas Evans@thewrittentevs.bsky.social · 3w ago

A recent trend in film reporting is that any blockbuster of sufficient size will only be discussed by media outlets trying to lead the backlash against it. Last year was "Superman", this year it's "The Odyssey". We're really just not meant to enjoy things anymore.

Thomas Evans@thewrittentevs.bsky.social · 3w ago

So Nolan's "The Odyssey" is about watching videos of the Palestine genocide and falling into despair. (I mean, not specifically that, but it is a story about realising that society is in decline after witnessing a massacre that you're culpable in, and whose final moral is "history repeats itself".)

Thomas Evans@thewrittentevs.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm going to watch Top of the Pops on BBC4. Ah, it's the one from the week that Former Prince Andrew married Fergie. Shame he's a nonce but there shouldn't be anything too scary in theJESUS WEPT WHAT IS THIS

A shot from Top of the Pops featuring two horrific plastic masks of former-Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.