Dr Matt Colbeck
@mattcolbeck.bsky.social
Research: reps of Disorders of Consciousness/brain injury/BI & homelessness. Author: "The Language & Imagery of Coma & Brain Injury", Bloomsbury. Founding member: Head Injury & Homelessness Research Group (HIHRG). Bassist with @lost-teeth.bsky.social
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We’re being asked by half the media & politicians to swallow the idea that known racist football hooligans should be allowed to rampage through our cities for NO OTHER REASON than that they happen to be Israeli.
Fuck. That.
Fuck. That.
October 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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It’s Roger Moore’s birthday
Here’s a classic anecdote about the great man to cheer you up on a damp Tuesday.
Here’s a classic anecdote about the great man to cheer you up on a damp Tuesday.
October 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
It’s Roger Moore’s birthday
Here’s a classic anecdote about the great man to cheer you up on a damp Tuesday.
Here’s a classic anecdote about the great man to cheer you up on a damp Tuesday.
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Spinetingling #Bookdrop yesterday. The @sstpublications.bsky.social/@sgj.bsky.social Unholy Trinity is finally complete 😱🔥🤘
#MyHeartIsAChainsaw #DontFearTheReaper #TheAngelOfIndianLake #IndianLakeTrilogy #HorrorFiction #SlasherHorror #JadeDaniels #JadeDanielsIsMyFinalGirl #IndiePublishing #triptych
#MyHeartIsAChainsaw #DontFearTheReaper #TheAngelOfIndianLake #IndianLakeTrilogy #HorrorFiction #SlasherHorror #JadeDaniels #JadeDanielsIsMyFinalGirl #IndiePublishing #triptych
September 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Spinetingling #Bookdrop yesterday. The @sstpublications.bsky.social/@sgj.bsky.social Unholy Trinity is finally complete 😱🔥🤘
#MyHeartIsAChainsaw #DontFearTheReaper #TheAngelOfIndianLake #IndianLakeTrilogy #HorrorFiction #SlasherHorror #JadeDaniels #JadeDanielsIsMyFinalGirl #IndiePublishing #triptych
#MyHeartIsAChainsaw #DontFearTheReaper #TheAngelOfIndianLake #IndianLakeTrilogy #HorrorFiction #SlasherHorror #JadeDaniels #JadeDanielsIsMyFinalGirl #IndiePublishing #triptych
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EVIL EDNA (1981): The antagonist on BBC animated kid's show Willo The Wisp (Kenneth Williams having a ball on voice-over duties). A nasty witch in the form of a CRT telly, complete with aerials, metal legs, and, presumably, a 625-line face. Many a female teacher was given the nickname 'Evil Edna'.
September 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
EVIL EDNA (1981): The antagonist on BBC animated kid's show Willo The Wisp (Kenneth Williams having a ball on voice-over duties). A nasty witch in the form of a CRT telly, complete with aerials, metal legs, and, presumably, a 625-line face. Many a female teacher was given the nickname 'Evil Edna'.
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LONELY WATER (1973): Legendary child-frightener, and one of the most influential and effective PIFs ever made. Donald Pleasence's voice helped lower the number of child deaths by drowning and opened the door to the scary, deadly PIFs of the 70s & 80s. A folk horror film condensed into 90 seconds.
September 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE has arrived!! It looks *amazing*
Desperately in need of money at mo so am selling 5 signed and dedicated copies for £25 plus postage. If you want one, a month before it's released, let me know and I'll DM you.
Desperately in need of money at mo so am selling 5 signed and dedicated copies for £25 plus postage. If you want one, a month before it's released, let me know and I'll DM you.
September 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE has arrived!! It looks *amazing*
Desperately in need of money at mo so am selling 5 signed and dedicated copies for £25 plus postage. If you want one, a month before it's released, let me know and I'll DM you.
Desperately in need of money at mo so am selling 5 signed and dedicated copies for £25 plus postage. If you want one, a month before it's released, let me know and I'll DM you.
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Robert Redford was my favorite, it’s hard to process that he is gone. His performances made more movies beloved to me than anyone else, I’d take The Sting over any other film for flawless perfection. We don’t expect famous people to also be good people but he was. He belongs to the ages
September 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Robert Redford was my favorite, it’s hard to process that he is gone. His performances made more movies beloved to me than anyone else, I’d take The Sting over any other film for flawless perfection. We don’t expect famous people to also be good people but he was. He belongs to the ages
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Saw this viral post going on IG about how Vera Wang started over at 40 when everyone in fashion told her she was too old, and launched a wedding dress empire. And I was like hell yeah that’s awesome, and then in the 8th slide “her father gave her $4 million to open a boutique” ah there it is
September 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Saw this viral post going on IG about how Vera Wang started over at 40 when everyone in fashion told her she was too old, and launched a wedding dress empire. And I was like hell yeah that’s awesome, and then in the 8th slide “her father gave her $4 million to open a boutique” ah there it is
Quarry.
Aquarius.
Aquarius.
Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.
What's yours?
What's yours?
September 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Quarry.
Aquarius.
Aquarius.
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Trust Britain to meet the Bang Bus with not moral panic but clerical pedantry, some pallid council drone, worsted trousers shiny with duty, googling a pornstar at taxpayer expense, then loftily ruling her vehicle ‘a van’. Our bureaucracy: prurient, petty, and perversely glorious.
The “bang bus” owned by adult entertainer Bonnie Blue, visiting Oxford for Freshers’ Week, will not be eligible to pass through the High St bus gate. An Oxfordshire County Council spokesman told the Clarion: “Having taken the risk of googling Bonnie Blue’s Bang Bus, the vehicle appears to be a van.”
September 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Trust Britain to meet the Bang Bus with not moral panic but clerical pedantry, some pallid council drone, worsted trousers shiny with duty, googling a pornstar at taxpayer expense, then loftily ruling her vehicle ‘a van’. Our bureaucracy: prurient, petty, and perversely glorious.
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Justin Webb just referred on Today to "platforms like Bluesky, where you can see the celebration of the killing" of Charlie Kirk.
What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.
What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.
September 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Justin Webb just referred on Today to "platforms like Bluesky, where you can see the celebration of the killing" of Charlie Kirk.
What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.
What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.
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Don’t look here, look for small boats and refugees, get angry at desperate poor people not rich entitled twats who try and play you for fools.. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Boris Johnson under pressure to explain how private office follows funding rules
Office is part-funded by public duty costs allowance, which should only be used to support public work of former PMs
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Don’t look here, look for small boats and refugees, get angry at desperate poor people not rich entitled twats who try and play you for fools.. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Happy 38th birthday, KNIGHTMARE, the hardest game show on television! In 1987, Treguard the Dungeon Master welcomed the first team of adventurers to his blue screen labyrinth. Losers didn’t just fail, they 'died': blades, spikes, and bottomless pits abounded. "Ooh, nasty..."
September 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Happy 38th birthday, KNIGHTMARE, the hardest game show on television! In 1987, Treguard the Dungeon Master welcomed the first team of adventurers to his blue screen labyrinth. Losers didn’t just fail, they 'died': blades, spikes, and bottomless pits abounded. "Ooh, nasty..."
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Superb scene from Stephen Frears’ The Hit with mob assassin John Hurt perplexed by supergrass Terence Stamp’s seemingly zen-like acceptance of his impending death at his hands.
Obviously takes on a whole other meaning today. youtu.be/Tl7ejODI2xM?...
Obviously takes on a whole other meaning today. youtu.be/Tl7ejODI2xM?...
Terence Stamp, The Hit (1984)
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August 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Superb scene from Stephen Frears’ The Hit with mob assassin John Hurt perplexed by supergrass Terence Stamp’s seemingly zen-like acceptance of his impending death at his hands.
Obviously takes on a whole other meaning today. youtu.be/Tl7ejODI2xM?...
Obviously takes on a whole other meaning today. youtu.be/Tl7ejODI2xM?...
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Amazingly, one of my short stories made it into this anthology — thanks to @saltpublishing.com and the editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social for picking it up. You can preorder at discount of 25% to the end of July
Pre-order our flagship anthology, ‘BEST BRITISH SHORT STORIES 2025’, with a massive 25% discount from Waterstones today – head to bit.ly/4l4lZT4
You will need to enter “SUMMER25” at the checkout to redeem the offer to receive 25% off RRP
Offer ends 31 July.
#WPreorder #BookSky
You will need to enter “SUMMER25” at the checkout to redeem the offer to receive 25% off RRP
Offer ends 31 July.
#WPreorder #BookSky
July 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Amazingly, one of my short stories made it into this anthology — thanks to @saltpublishing.com and the editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social for picking it up. You can preorder at discount of 25% to the end of July
What movie have you seen an unhealthy number of times?
August 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
What movie have you seen an unhealthy number of times?
Cake done for my daughter's 6th birthday tomorrow.
Took me all bastard day 😵💫🙃😆
But got a nice little @sgj.bsky.social boon as a reward - and what a beautiful-looking book it is too! 💥🤘🔥
#Minions #Stuart #KevinKevinKevin #TheBabySitterLives #KillerOnTheRoad #SagaDouble #FlipReverseIt
Took me all bastard day 😵💫🙃😆
But got a nice little @sgj.bsky.social boon as a reward - and what a beautiful-looking book it is too! 💥🤘🔥
#Minions #Stuart #KevinKevinKevin #TheBabySitterLives #KillerOnTheRoad #SagaDouble #FlipReverseIt
August 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Cake done for my daughter's 6th birthday tomorrow.
Took me all bastard day 😵💫🙃😆
But got a nice little @sgj.bsky.social boon as a reward - and what a beautiful-looking book it is too! 💥🤘🔥
#Minions #Stuart #KevinKevinKevin #TheBabySitterLives #KillerOnTheRoad #SagaDouble #FlipReverseIt
Took me all bastard day 😵💫🙃😆
But got a nice little @sgj.bsky.social boon as a reward - and what a beautiful-looking book it is too! 💥🤘🔥
#Minions #Stuart #KevinKevinKevin #TheBabySitterLives #KillerOnTheRoad #SagaDouble #FlipReverseIt
So I did a podcast for #NIHR's #HealthTech #Research Centre for #BrainInjury, talking abt misreps of BI & #coma in #literature, #film & #media... & why it matters! Huge thanks to @thepiercy.bsky.social for inviting me & for using an old photo of me with a more precocious hairline & ungrizzled beard:
August 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
So I did a podcast for #NIHR's #HealthTech #Research Centre for #BrainInjury, talking abt misreps of BI & #coma in #literature, #film & #media... & why it matters! Huge thanks to @thepiercy.bsky.social for inviting me & for using an old photo of me with a more precocious hairline & ungrizzled beard:
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Particularly the one between your ears
August 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Particularly the one between your ears
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i have entered season four and i am screaming, “no. NO!!” at the screen.
if she’d just hit the books a little harder, we all would have been spared riley fucking finn.
if she’d just hit the books a little harder, we all would have been spared riley fucking finn.
July 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
i have entered season four and i am screaming, “no. NO!!” at the screen.
if she’d just hit the books a little harder, we all would have been spared riley fucking finn.
if she’d just hit the books a little harder, we all would have been spared riley fucking finn.
I just verified my age by pontificating on the joy of buying an album on cassette from Woolworth's whilst having a pocketful of stolen Pick'N'Mix.
July 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I just verified my age by pontificating on the joy of buying an album on cassette from Woolworth's whilst having a pocketful of stolen Pick'N'Mix.
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Just finished this and will now listen to The Beatles with fresh ears. Also confirms that they wrote ‘Get Back’ as a refutation of Enoch Powell, while Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Rod Stewart agreed with him
July 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Just finished this and will now listen to The Beatles with fresh ears. Also confirms that they wrote ‘Get Back’ as a refutation of Enoch Powell, while Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Rod Stewart agreed with him