Simon Belcher
@nimbos.bsky.social
Professionally analytical, quiz-geek, photo hobbyist, TV-head, who talks about Doctor Who far too much.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
It's 5-11
Time for annual ritual watch of Mongrels S01E08
Time for annual ritual watch of Mongrels S01E08
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
It's 5-11
Time for annual ritual watch of Mongrels S01E08
Time for annual ritual watch of Mongrels S01E08
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Labour can't even do its Brexit shift competently. Say it was wrong and you can make Farage carry the can. Say it was badly executed, as Labour is doing, and you support his narrative that Leave voters were betrayed.
It would be funny - except we'll all have to carry the can for their incompetence.
It would be funny - except we'll all have to carry the can for their incompetence.
October 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Labour can't even do its Brexit shift competently. Say it was wrong and you can make Farage carry the can. Say it was badly executed, as Labour is doing, and you support his narrative that Leave voters were betrayed.
It would be funny - except we'll all have to carry the can for their incompetence.
It would be funny - except we'll all have to carry the can for their incompetence.
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"Eye-catching..." is kinda how much of the West has ended up in this clown car hurtling towards authoritarianism. I think it's time to acknowledge that.
Strong speech from Badenoch. Well delivered. Sharp critique of government. Focussed on politically fertile territory on the economy. Eye catching policy which will get a lot of v positive press attention.
October 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"Eye-catching..." is kinda how much of the West has ended up in this clown car hurtling towards authoritarianism. I think it's time to acknowledge that.
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Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.
September 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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We're like 8 years from SUVs that need an inflatable slide for emergency exits
September 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We're like 8 years from SUVs that need an inflatable slide for emergency exits
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Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan
September 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan
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This suddenly seems more topical.
D13 - Blake
AVON: A general suspension of the penal code.
SOOLIN: That's right.
DAYNA: You mean there's no law at all?
SOOLIN: It's the fast way to get resources exploited, in this case mineral resources.
DAYNA: I don't understand.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/101
AVON: A general suspension of the penal code.
SOOLIN: That's right.
DAYNA: You mean there's no law at all?
SOOLIN: It's the fast way to get resources exploited, in this case mineral resources.
DAYNA: I don't understand.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/101
September 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This suddenly seems more topical.
Is anyone going to explain to Trump while he's being shown the Churchill archives that Churchill was AntiFa
September 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Is anyone going to explain to Trump while he's being shown the Churchill archives that Churchill was AntiFa
A small hill I'm willing to die on.
Prime Minister is not a title which should be used as a prefix like King, President or Doctor.
It isn't "Prime Minister Starmer"
Prime Minister is not a title which should be used as a prefix like King, President or Doctor.
It isn't "Prime Minister Starmer"
September 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
A small hill I'm willing to die on.
Prime Minister is not a title which should be used as a prefix like King, President or Doctor.
It isn't "Prime Minister Starmer"
Prime Minister is not a title which should be used as a prefix like King, President or Doctor.
It isn't "Prime Minister Starmer"
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Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...
Royal Society to debate throwing out Elon Musk
One of the most prestigious scientific bodies in the world is considering expelling Musk after his appearance at Tommy Robinson’s extremist London rally
www.thenewworld.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...
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It's incredible how close the Red Arrows fly together, must take nerves of steel
September 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It's incredible how close the Red Arrows fly together, must take nerves of steel
I'm two days late (should have been September 13th) but I'm re-watcing Space 1999: Breakaway. I love that this show, and this episode in particular, can be both amazing and shit-mazing in equal measure.
September 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I'm two days late (should have been September 13th) but I'm re-watcing Space 1999: Breakaway. I love that this show, and this episode in particular, can be both amazing and shit-mazing in equal measure.
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I know a lot of people have expressed similar sentiments but I’ve lived in London for 20+ years and never felt threatened or a even a bit scared to be here until today. This needs to end.
September 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I know a lot of people have expressed similar sentiments but I’ve lived in London for 20+ years and never felt threatened or a even a bit scared to be here until today. This needs to end.
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EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice co-owns a second home purchased for £4 million in 2013, Byline Times can reveal – despite attacking Angela Rayner for supposedly owning a “property mountain”
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/05/r...
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September 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice co-owns a second home purchased for £4 million in 2013, Byline Times can reveal – despite attacking Angela Rayner for supposedly owning a “property mountain”
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/05/r...
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/05/r...
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If your thing is “free speech” but you only worry about right-wing extremist access to universities while cheering Republicans as they ban research & discussion about anything they deem “woke” (1) your thing is not “free speech” it’s right-wing extemism (2) congrats on your new job running CBS News.
September 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
If your thing is “free speech” but you only worry about right-wing extremist access to universities while cheering Republicans as they ban research & discussion about anything they deem “woke” (1) your thing is not “free speech” it’s right-wing extemism (2) congrats on your new job running CBS News.
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As a kid I refused to let my mum use Savlon antiseptic cream on a cut because it sounded to much like Servalan the bad lady from Blake's 7 and I didn't trust it.
September 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
As a kid I refused to let my mum use Savlon antiseptic cream on a cut because it sounded to much like Servalan the bad lady from Blake's 7 and I didn't trust it.
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A whacking great treatise on Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars by my late friend John J Johnston, courtesy of Dr Angela Stienne and Mummy Stories: www.mummystories.com/single-post/...
Excavating a Television Classic: Pyramids of Mars (1975)
The Doctor (Tom Baker) and his companion, Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) are travelling through the space-time vortex when an entity appears to enter the TARDIS, drawing the ship off course, to land in the locked storage room in a Victorian priory during the year 1911. The room is filled with ancient Egyptian coffins and other funerary paraphernalia from a series of archaeological excavations. The priory is home to Professor Marcus Scarman who has vanished during his recent excavation at Sa
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September 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
A whacking great treatise on Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars by my late friend John J Johnston, courtesy of Dr Angela Stienne and Mummy Stories: www.mummystories.com/single-post/...