Michael Mills
@michaelmills.bsky.social
Doctor Who book club rambler (The Hamster Book Club). Escaped journalist. “Welsh”. All this and great hair too.
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Helllo Everyone! This week on the Maran Chess Club @michaelmills.bsky.social joins me to talk all about the Five Companions. Oh and the Five Doctors is talked about as well! Surprise.
The Five Companions with Michael Mills
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This week’s word is “tmesis”.
Last Crusade’s on ITV, lads.
January 2, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Last Crusade’s on ITV, lads.
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Hey buddy, you stop making it and I'll stop saying it www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/mi...
Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026
In closing comments of 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared an update on the company's mindset for 2026 — shocker, it's all about AI.
www.windowscentral.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Hey buddy, you stop making it and I'll stop saying it www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/mi...
This week’s word is “tmesis”.
Helllo Everyone! This week on the Maran Chess Club @michaelmills.bsky.social joins me to talk all about the Five Companions. Oh and the Five Doctors is talked about as well! Surprise.
The Five Companions with Michael Mills
open.spotify.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:25 PM
This week’s word is “tmesis”.
Reposted by Michael Mills
Several French government ministers have reported the unlawful production of sexualised material without consent to the police and prosecutors. The UK government, which published a high profile strategy on misogyny just before Christmas, has yet to say or do anything
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
France to investigate deepfakes of women stripped naked by Grok
Hundreds of women and teenagers have reported their photos published on social media have been “undressed” by Grok.
www.politico.eu
January 2, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Several French government ministers have reported the unlawful production of sexualised material without consent to the police and prosecutors. The UK government, which published a high profile strategy on misogyny just before Christmas, has yet to say or do anything
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
It’s 2026.
Things many American school kids probably don’t how how to do:
* Hail a Hansom and make for Charing Cross
* Fetch my scrapbook from the shelf
* Decipher the meaning of the Dancing Men
* Trace the footprints of a great hound
* The fire walk in Tomb Raider
(Please add more below)
Things many American school kids probably don’t how how to do:
* Hail a Hansom and make for Charing Cross
* Fetch my scrapbook from the shelf
* Decipher the meaning of the Dancing Men
* Trace the footprints of a great hound
* The fire walk in Tomb Raider
(Please add more below)
It's 2026.
Things many American school kids probably don't know how to do:
* Dial a rotary telephone
* Tell time from an analog clock
* Read or write cursive
* Decipher Roman numerals
* Navigate with a paper map or use a compass
* Balance a checkbook
(Please add more below)
Things many American school kids probably don't know how to do:
* Dial a rotary telephone
* Tell time from an analog clock
* Read or write cursive
* Decipher Roman numerals
* Navigate with a paper map or use a compass
* Balance a checkbook
(Please add more below)
January 2, 2026 at 5:50 PM
It’s 2026.
Things many American school kids probably don’t how how to do:
* Hail a Hansom and make for Charing Cross
* Fetch my scrapbook from the shelf
* Decipher the meaning of the Dancing Men
* Trace the footprints of a great hound
* The fire walk in Tomb Raider
(Please add more below)
Things many American school kids probably don’t how how to do:
* Hail a Hansom and make for Charing Cross
* Fetch my scrapbook from the shelf
* Decipher the meaning of the Dancing Men
* Trace the footprints of a great hound
* The fire walk in Tomb Raider
(Please add more below)
Inspired by @wretchedmorgan.bsky.social ‘s posts, I wanted to share this demonstration (starting around 3:28) of how the Sega Saturn renders 3D graphics, which blew my mind youtu.be/VutzIK3DqZE?...
DF Retro: Tomb Raider Analysed on PS1/Saturn/DOS/Win95
YouTube video by Digital Foundry
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January 2, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Inspired by @wretchedmorgan.bsky.social ‘s posts, I wanted to share this demonstration (starting around 3:28) of how the Sega Saturn renders 3D graphics, which blew my mind youtu.be/VutzIK3DqZE?...
Reposted by Michael Mills
Helllo Everyone! This week on the Maran Chess Club @michaelmills.bsky.social joins me to talk all about the Five Companions. Oh and the Five Doctors is talked about as well! Surprise.
The Five Companions with Michael Mills
open.spotify.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Helllo Everyone! This week on the Maran Chess Club @michaelmills.bsky.social joins me to talk all about the Five Companions. Oh and the Five Doctors is talked about as well! Surprise.
Claudia talking to camera is giving me warm 90s CD-ROM vibes. #thetraitors
January 1, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Claudia talking to camera is giving me warm 90s CD-ROM vibes. #thetraitors
“beated”? Hope all Hugo’s former clients had a good Christmas on the inside. #thetraitors
January 1, 2026 at 8:24 PM
“beated”? Hope all Hugo’s former clients had a good Christmas on the inside. #thetraitors
I refuse to give those angling for the villain card the labour of my dislike. #thetraitors
January 1, 2026 at 8:19 PM
I refuse to give those angling for the villain card the labour of my dislike. #thetraitors
This was lovely. On behalf of the (slightly) younger generation, I’d also like to mention Jean Marsh’s role as the eponymous villain of CBBC’s The Ghost Hunter (2000-02). It’s a series just waiting for the nostalgia cycle to catch up so volumes can be written about its terrifying, Millennial appeal.
Please listen to Absent Friends on BBC Radio 4 Extra today. Part One is 4.45pm (repeated at 0045) and Part Two is the same time tomorrow. It’s my acknowledgment of various folk from UK sci-fi, horror and fantasy who died this year. 4 Extra doesn’t do many home made productions, so do tune in!
January 1, 2026 at 5:46 PM
This was lovely. On behalf of the (slightly) younger generation, I’d also like to mention Jean Marsh’s role as the eponymous villain of CBBC’s The Ghost Hunter (2000-02). It’s a series just waiting for the nostalgia cycle to catch up so volumes can be written about its terrifying, Millennial appeal.
Reposted by Michael Mills
Any campaign to regulate AI generated sexually explicit material will need to patiently educate lawmakers that the datasets use images of real people, without their consent or knowledge.
For sexually explicit images, there is a legal duty to remove them. Many images which violate the spirit of the current law may only be on the borderline, though some of the images created will clearly breach it. Urgent intervention needed by government & regulators
www.ladbible.com/news/technol...
www.ladbible.com/news/technol...
January 1, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Any campaign to regulate AI generated sexually explicit material will need to patiently educate lawmakers that the datasets use images of real people, without their consent or knowledge.
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I don't dislike dogs to be clear. But I really really dislike how many dog owners allow their dogs to foul the streets and to yap at people and scare kids and still expect everyone to think their precious little pooch is such a good dog 14/10 whatever
January 1, 2026 at 12:48 PM
I don't dislike dogs to be clear. But I really really dislike how many dog owners allow their dogs to foul the streets and to yap at people and scare kids and still expect everyone to think their precious little pooch is such a good dog 14/10 whatever
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"What was your favourite game of 2025?"
Keir Starmer - *sincere answer about spending his limited time with his kids playing Mario Kart, delivered as if he just googled it*
Ed Davey - "I still love a bit of Wii Sports"
Kemi Badenoch - "My best friend was killed by a Sega Mega Drive"
Keir Starmer - *sincere answer about spending his limited time with his kids playing Mario Kart, delivered as if he just googled it*
Ed Davey - "I still love a bit of Wii Sports"
Kemi Badenoch - "My best friend was killed by a Sega Mega Drive"
December 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"What was your favourite game of 2025?"
Keir Starmer - *sincere answer about spending his limited time with his kids playing Mario Kart, delivered as if he just googled it*
Ed Davey - "I still love a bit of Wii Sports"
Kemi Badenoch - "My best friend was killed by a Sega Mega Drive"
Keir Starmer - *sincere answer about spending his limited time with his kids playing Mario Kart, delivered as if he just googled it*
Ed Davey - "I still love a bit of Wii Sports"
Kemi Badenoch - "My best friend was killed by a Sega Mega Drive"
Reposted by Michael Mills
Out now: SONIC THE COMIC THE PODCAST #171! Happy Hedgehogmanay, Boomers! Ring in the New Year with us, as we say GOODBYE to the Segasational world of the 1990s, and enter the SPACE YEAR 2000! It's a whole new millennium, and Dave's got the tape to prove it!
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January 1, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Out now: SONIC THE COMIC THE PODCAST #171! Happy Hedgehogmanay, Boomers! Ring in the New Year with us, as we say GOODBYE to the Segasational world of the 1990s, and enter the SPACE YEAR 2000! It's a whole new millennium, and Dave's got the tape to prove it!
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This one of the best podcasts and it’s coming to an end in 2026 and that’s sad. But there’s seven years of it for you to catch up on, and that’s very, very happy.
hey did you know I have a podcast about reading british Sonic comics in the 90s?
Well not any more, because it's the MILLENNIUM EPISODE. It usually comes out on Fridays but I've brought it out NOW. You will hear young me at a party as a thousand years tick away and another hove in.
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Well not any more, because it's the MILLENNIUM EPISODE. It usually comes out on Fridays but I've brought it out NOW. You will hear young me at a party as a thousand years tick away and another hove in.
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Sonic The Comic The Podcast
stctp.zone
December 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This one of the best podcasts and it’s coming to an end in 2026 and that’s sad. But there’s seven years of it for you to catch up on, and that’s very, very happy.
Bruce Willis’s big stunt in Die Hard (jumping off the roof) and Alan Rickman’s (falling out of the window) were filmed on the actors’ first and last days of shooting respectively so that, if anything went wrong, they wouldn’t have to reshoot either part with a different actor.
Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?
December 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Bruce Willis’s big stunt in Die Hard (jumping off the roof) and Alan Rickman’s (falling out of the window) were filmed on the actors’ first and last days of shooting respectively so that, if anything went wrong, they wouldn’t have to reshoot either part with a different actor.
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Thank you to the wonderfully well-read @michaelmills.bsky.social - the other, erudite half of the Mills & Ford dynamic-duo on the Hamster Book Club. Michael is always ready to talk some Proper Doctor Who (registered trademark), and I could listen to him all day. Actually, I have - more than once!
December 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Thank you to the wonderfully well-read @michaelmills.bsky.social - the other, erudite half of the Mills & Ford dynamic-duo on the Hamster Book Club. Michael is always ready to talk some Proper Doctor Who (registered trademark), and I could listen to him all day. Actually, I have - more than once!
It’s been too long since you watched this.
December 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
It’s been too long since you watched this.
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meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years.
we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this??
between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright
we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this??
between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright
Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say
A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:03 AM
meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years.
we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this??
between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright
we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this??
between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright
Highest grossing movie of the 1940s and the film everyone said (at the time) It’s a Wonderful Life wasn’t as good as.
William Wyler’s THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES arrives at the PCC next Wed 7th Jan at 8:30pm, showing from a 35mm print. Wyler’s quietly monumental drama follows three WWII veterans returning home, each struggling to reconnect with family, love, and a country that’s moved on...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Highest grossing movie of the 1940s and the film everyone said (at the time) It’s a Wonderful Life wasn’t as good as.
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Listening to @lanceparkin.bsky.social on the Hamster Bookclub and, tbh, wondering what the point of me is! Also, this a bloody good listen.
December 31, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Listening to @lanceparkin.bsky.social on the Hamster Bookclub and, tbh, wondering what the point of me is! Also, this a bloody good listen.
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This has been a long time in the making. My new radio play, ‘The Goblin King and Me’ goes out on Radio 4 on Thursday 8th January. I’ve just seen this wonderful preview in the new Radio Times! I’m so pleased they like it and I hope everyone else will. Please do listen! What a brilliant team!
December 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This has been a long time in the making. My new radio play, ‘The Goblin King and Me’ goes out on Radio 4 on Thursday 8th January. I’ve just seen this wonderful preview in the new Radio Times! I’m so pleased they like it and I hope everyone else will. Please do listen! What a brilliant team!