Lance Parkin
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Lance Parkin
@lanceparkin.bsky.social
· May 31
Doctor Who
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. At the heart of the ruined city of Arcopolis is the Fortress. It's a brutal structure placed there by one of the sides in a devastating intergalactic war th...
www.audible.com
If you've got a hankering for Russell Tovey, he read the audiobook of my tenth Doctor novel The Eyeless.
www.audible.com/pd/Doctor-Wh...
www.audible.com/pd/Doctor-Wh...
The more I think about the new V for Vendetta HBO series, the more I can only conclude that HBO have not thought about it.
It's a story about a (trans) terrorist Dr Phibes-ing their way through mainstream right wing types who enabled mediocre fascists to take power.
It's a story about a (trans) terrorist Dr Phibes-ing their way through mainstream right wing types who enabled mediocre fascists to take power.
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The more I think about the new V for Vendetta HBO series, the more I can only conclude that HBO have not thought about it.
It's a story about a (trans) terrorist Dr Phibes-ing their way through mainstream right wing types who enabled mediocre fascists to take power.
It's a story about a (trans) terrorist Dr Phibes-ing their way through mainstream right wing types who enabled mediocre fascists to take power.
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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Have the Judges finally gone too far? The 2000 AD Annual 2026 is out TOMORROW!
Grab your copy now - before it's CANCELLED!! https://bit.ly/4prqPNw
Grab your copy now - before it's CANCELLED!! https://bit.ly/4prqPNw
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Have the Judges finally gone too far? The 2000 AD Annual 2026 is out TOMORROW!
Grab your copy now - before it's CANCELLED!! https://bit.ly/4prqPNw
Grab your copy now - before it's CANCELLED!! https://bit.ly/4prqPNw
Well, it's already not a faithful adaptation if it's referring to V using male pronouns.
V FOR VENDETTA getting the WATCHMEN treatment with HBO series
V for Vendetta, the celebrated comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, is heading back to the screen. HBO has tapped Pete Jackson for a TV adaptation.
V for Vendetta, the celebrated comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, is heading back to the screen. HBO has tapped Pete Jackson for a TV adaptation.
V FOR VENDETTA getting the WATCHMEN treatment with HBO series
V for Vendetta, the celebrated comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, is heading back to the screen. HBO has tapped Pete Jackson for a TV adaptation.
www.comicsbeat.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Well, it's already not a faithful adaptation if it's referring to V using male pronouns.
It's time for the early Boomers to step aside and allow the next generation, late Boomers, to take power.
Christine Pelosi, daughter of Nancy Pelosi, has announced she’s running for the California State Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It's time for the early Boomers to step aside and allow the next generation, late Boomers, to take power.
'It's not who votes that counts, it's who counts the votes.'
🚨BREAKING: In a case with major implications for voting access, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether a mail-in ballot must be received by Election Day to count, or if it merely must be sent by then. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
SCOTUS to Hear GOP Lawsuit That Could Radically Restrict Mail Voting
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
'It's not who votes that counts, it's who counts the votes.'
Which year are we meant to be resetting to? Which was the last year where Republicans were engaged in good faith bipartisan efforts to reach a compromise that would at least partially satisfy both sides? Teabaggers becoming birthers because Obama hoped to introduce Romneycare nationally year?
This is the truth. I've said it, too, that Schumer and company think that we can just go to status quo ante. The status quo ante is dead, but Schumer and company either don't recognize it, or refuse to recognize it, or are pretending to not recognize it.
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Which year are we meant to be resetting to? Which was the last year where Republicans were engaged in good faith bipartisan efforts to reach a compromise that would at least partially satisfy both sides? Teabaggers becoming birthers because Obama hoped to introduce Romneycare nationally year?
Gay marriage currently safe from SCOTUS.
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Gay marriage currently safe from SCOTUS.
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Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
To fix the BBC, focus on competence and cash
Corporation fails to learn from criticism, while politicians have consciously reduced its scope for quality journalism
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
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[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken]
CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter
CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter
March 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken]
CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter
CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter
Voters, Tuesday: We, in our fury, hand you the mandate to tear into them, bulldoze their strongholds, tear up their roots, scatter them, hunt them to the ends of the earth, strangle the last of them as they cower in a sunless cave.
Dem leaders: Hmmmm ... let's compromise and just do that last word.
Dem leaders: Hmmmm ... let's compromise and just do that last word.
BREAKING: Deal to end government shutdown in reach
Deal to end government shutdown in reach
At least 10 Senate Democrats are expected to support a key procedural motion.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Voters, Tuesday: We, in our fury, hand you the mandate to tear into them, bulldoze their strongholds, tear up their roots, scatter them, hunt them to the ends of the earth, strangle the last of them as they cower in a sunless cave.
Dem leaders: Hmmmm ... let's compromise and just do that last word.
Dem leaders: Hmmmm ... let's compromise and just do that last word.
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
US officials telling their foreign counterparts to ignore Trump, he's forgetful and easily distracted.
“A Nigerian official was told by a U.S. counterpart that, with Thanksgiving coming up, Nigeria should go quiet and wait for the president’s attention to shift, a Nigerian official said.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, the commander in chief of the U.S. military.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the commander in chief of the U.S. military.
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
US officials telling their foreign counterparts to ignore Trump, he's forgetful and easily distracted.
After ten years of the collected THB not coming out, I was blindsided that it's coming out THIS WEEK.
It's Watchmen good. Don't hesitate.
us.macmillan.com/books/978159...
It's Watchmen good. Don't hesitate.
us.macmillan.com/books/978159...
Total THB, Volume 1
Discover the indie sci-fi epic that broke new ground in graphic novels with Total THB, Volume 1. Mars is a planet divided. In the north, the bohemian Plutoni...
us.macmillan.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
After ten years of the collected THB not coming out, I was blindsided that it's coming out THIS WEEK.
It's Watchmen good. Don't hesitate.
us.macmillan.com/books/978159...
It's Watchmen good. Don't hesitate.
us.macmillan.com/books/978159...
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Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski were going to buy 10 jets without engines from Spririt Airlines that Spirit didn't own.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
November 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski were going to buy 10 jets without engines from Spririt Airlines that Spirit didn't own.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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“Every person using ChatGPT costs OpenAI more money then they pay them. Every free and paying user asking how to make a fluffy omelette or getting it to draft an email to their kid's teacher drains their resources.”
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ai-...
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ai-...
The Gist: AI, The Sound and Fury
We can calculate the amount of money flowing into AI. But what will the full cost be to society when the bubble pops? This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
November 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“Every person using ChatGPT costs OpenAI more money then they pay them. Every free and paying user asking how to make a fluffy omelette or getting it to draft an email to their kid's teacher drains their resources.”
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ai-...
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ai-...
Just finished Bryan Talbot's new book, The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor. It's excellent, but just to talk about the craft ... there's no comics artist better at controlling where your eyes are on the page and how long it lingers.
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Just finished Bryan Talbot's new book, The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor. It's excellent, but just to talk about the craft ... there's no comics artist better at controlling where your eyes are on the page and how long it lingers.
This.
The Star Wars universe is not a nice place to live and Obi Wan and Luke are possibly the only nice people in it, but even that's probably an overestimate.
The Star Wars universe is not a nice place to live and Obi Wan and Luke are possibly the only nice people in it, but even that's probably an overestimate.
It goes all the way back to “why don’t the characters liberate the droids” which is just as effectively answered with “well why WOULD the characters liberate the droids?”
Not all storytelling is like…utopian humanist worldbuilding.
Not all storytelling is like…utopian humanist worldbuilding.
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
This.
The Star Wars universe is not a nice place to live and Obi Wan and Luke are possibly the only nice people in it, but even that's probably an overestimate.
The Star Wars universe is not a nice place to live and Obi Wan and Luke are possibly the only nice people in it, but even that's probably an overestimate.
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New uncanny valley unlocked: inflatable corn maze for urban fall fests.
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
New uncanny valley unlocked: inflatable corn maze for urban fall fests.
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Another Two Doctors sketch for @chicagotardis.bsky.social. This time it's the Fifth and Seventh Doctor from Cold Fusion by @lanceparkin.bsky.social. One of my favorite multi-Doctor story that was never on television. The audio was good too!!
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Another Two Doctors sketch for @chicagotardis.bsky.social. This time it's the Fifth and Seventh Doctor from Cold Fusion by @lanceparkin.bsky.social. One of my favorite multi-Doctor story that was never on television. The audio was good too!!
If you have a house, solar power is far more resilient and reliable than power supplied by a corporate entity that makes its money from milking government energy subsidies, so needs to cosplay as an energy company.
"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."
Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you have a house, solar power is far more resilient and reliable than power supplied by a corporate entity that makes its money from milking government energy subsidies, so needs to cosplay as an energy company.
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How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
The 'Great Noticing' Era
Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
Not in Trump's lifetime, then?
Bessent: "I think that we're at the cusp of the liftoff. In 2026 and 2027 -- President Trump was committed to bringing manufacturing jobs back to America and this is the start."
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Not in Trump's lifetime, then?