Paul Kirkley
@paulkirkley.bsky.social
Still writing Stuff for Things.
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I may have missed something, but why has William Hartnell been turned into a Dorito wheelclamp?
What in the 80s children's fantasy movie is this, DVLA?
February 20, 2026 at 4:50 PM
I may have missed something, but why has William Hartnell been turned into a Dorito wheelclamp?
Had fun hanging out with the brilliant Phil Wang (Phil Fang, is this something?) for this week's Radio Times cover story 🦇
February 20, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Had fun hanging out with the brilliant Phil Wang (Phil Fang, is this something?) for this week's Radio Times cover story 🦇
This confirms all my worst suspicions about "mountaineers".
Oh my god, the guy who left his girlfriend on a mountain to die had done the same thing to a different girlfriend on THE SAME MOUNTAIN.
Austrian Man Found Guilty in Girlfriend’s Death on Mountain Hike
www.nytimes.com
February 20, 2026 at 8:40 AM
This confirms all my worst suspicions about "mountaineers".
This is Duran Duran's best single [runs away]
Feb 1987: Skin Trade Single ad from Duran Duran
(+Notorious album)
«DURAN DURAN
SKIN TRADE»
(+Notorious album)
«DURAN DURAN
SKIN TRADE»
February 19, 2026 at 11:04 PM
This is Duran Duran's best single [runs away]
Thanks, Leigh [blushes prettily ☺️]
1984 was the year I became a card-carrying fan (literally!) so this one is particularly special to me.
1984 was the year I became a card-carrying fan (literally!) so this one is particularly special to me.
It’s another heartening, witty and interesting essay from @paulkirkley.bsky.social in the DWM 1984 Chronicles. I’ll say it again - I hope his introductory pieces are all collected and published together when the run is complete. 👏🏼👏🏼
February 19, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Thanks, Leigh [blushes prettily ☺️]
1984 was the year I became a card-carrying fan (literally!) so this one is particularly special to me.
1984 was the year I became a card-carrying fan (literally!) so this one is particularly special to me.
They should bring back the Eagle Awards and give one to Doctor Who Chronicles: 1984. Fantastic work from Marcus, Alan, Alistair and the whole team. What other TV show inspires products made with so much love?
February 19, 2026 at 4:21 PM
They should bring back the Eagle Awards and give one to Doctor Who Chronicles: 1984. Fantastic work from Marcus, Alan, Alistair and the whole team. What other TV show inspires products made with so much love?
This picture is wrong, but not quite as wrong as the people in the replies think it is.
Look at the picture they've used for the original Dalziel and Pascoe.
www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle...
www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle...
“The TV reboot of the year”: Inside ITV’s “reinvented” Dalziel and Pascoe series with “perfect” new cast
The British classic is being reimagined in spectacular fashion.
www.goodhousekeeping.com
February 19, 2026 at 2:40 PM
This picture is wrong, but not quite as wrong as the people in the replies think it is.
Rufus Sewell and Michael Sheen's agents currently playing fastest finger first.
February 19, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Rufus Sewell and Michael Sheen's agents currently playing fastest finger first.
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King Charles says "new phone who dis" after the arrest of his brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
February 19, 2026 at 12:37 PM
King Charles says "new phone who dis" after the arrest of his brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
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Some twat on LBC just said he's grateful that the Queen isn't alive to see this. SHE WAS INVOLVED IN THE COVER UP, FFS!
February 19, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Some twat on LBC just said he's grateful that the Queen isn't alive to see this. SHE WAS INVOLVED IN THE COVER UP, FFS!
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Sounds like a @vizcomic.bsky.social annual
February 19, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Sounds like a @vizcomic.bsky.social annual
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Big problem with the BBC is its sheer credulity and lack of intellectual curiosity about stuff. It feels like it has lost the will to interrogate (with rare exceptions)
The BBC saying young people are “politically polarised” and young men are “moving right”… I really wanted to snap NO THEY AREN’T 😭
February 19, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Big problem with the BBC is its sheer credulity and lack of intellectual curiosity about stuff. It feels like it has lost the will to interrogate (with rare exceptions)
Is there any technology the left is excited about?
February 18, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Is there any technology the left is excited about?
This makes sense. Dragons aside, imperial phase GoT always felt closer to Shakespeare than Tolkien.
Game Of Thrones is getting a prequel play, The Mad King, set to world premiere from the Royal Shakespeare Company this summer.
The show, adapted by Duncan Macmillan and directed by Dominic Cooke, is set 10 years before the events of GOT.
Read more: www.empireonline.com/tv/new...
The show, adapted by Duncan Macmillan and directed by Dominic Cooke, is set 10 years before the events of GOT.
Read more: www.empireonline.com/tv/new...
February 18, 2026 at 7:23 PM
This makes sense. Dragons aside, imperial phase GoT always felt closer to Shakespeare than Tolkien.
This article is the story of the past decade in a nutshell. "We voted Brexit, it made everything worse, so now we're voting for... Nigel Farage."
(But remember, you can't call 'em stupid!)
(But remember, you can't call 'em stupid!)
February 18, 2026 at 8:45 AM
This article is the story of the past decade in a nutshell. "We voted Brexit, it made everything worse, so now we're voting for... Nigel Farage."
(But remember, you can't call 'em stupid!)
(But remember, you can't call 'em stupid!)
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February 17, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Lib Dems will have to spend three years thinking up creative ways to not answer the Lab-Lib coalition question.
Reform's polling is ~the lowest its been since last year's local elections
February 17, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Lib Dems will have to spend three years thinking up creative ways to not answer the Lab-Lib coalition question.
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running from the cops in these and they deploy a long studded strip in front to stop me
February 16, 2026 at 3:13 PM
running from the cops in these and they deploy a long studded strip in front to stop me
Reckon I'd be pretty good at these Winter Olympic sports that are basically just laying down.
February 15, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Reckon I'd be pretty good at these Winter Olympic sports that are basically just laying down.
You call it a Love Meter, I call it a Valentine Dial.
(This is a great joke for at least 26 of you)
(This is a great joke for at least 26 of you)
February 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
You call it a Love Meter, I call it a Valentine Dial.
(This is a great joke for at least 26 of you)
(This is a great joke for at least 26 of you)
Just me risking further reputational damage with this 3.5 star Mumford & Sons review
February 13, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Just me risking further reputational damage with this 3.5 star Mumford & Sons review
Humanity is facing a mass extinction event and I'm increasingly fine with that.
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
www.pbs.org
February 13, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Humanity is facing a mass extinction event and I'm increasingly fine with that.
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Tried not to binge all of Small Prophets in one go, so have only just finished it and, god, it's perfect. Gently funny, quietly mystical, devastatingly melancholy. The creature effects exactly the right blend of nostalgic and eerie. Just pure magic all the way through.
February 12, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Tried not to binge all of Small Prophets in one go, so have only just finished it and, god, it's perfect. Gently funny, quietly mystical, devastatingly melancholy. The creature effects exactly the right blend of nostalgic and eerie. Just pure magic all the way through.