John Feetenby
@feexby.bsky.social
Inverness-based ex-bookseller who believes that Ambridge exists within the Whoniverse. On Letterboxd and elsewhere as Feexby. Physical format advocate. The NHS is keeping me alive. Panglossian. Woke af. He/him.
Presumably the various voices of reason on social media are encouraging the artist formerly known as Prince to cut his coat according to his cloth.
Downsize to a property he can afford.
Find a job that covers his expenditures. Not rely on taxpayer handouts.
Just like everyone else.
Downsize to a property he can afford.
Find a job that covers his expenditures. Not rely on taxpayer handouts.
Just like everyone else.
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Presumably the various voices of reason on social media are encouraging the artist formerly known as Prince to cut his coat according to his cloth.
Downsize to a property he can afford.
Find a job that covers his expenditures. Not rely on taxpayer handouts.
Just like everyone else.
Downsize to a property he can afford.
Find a job that covers his expenditures. Not rely on taxpayer handouts.
Just like everyone else.
Odd the similarities between the George story in #TheArchers and the ongoing royal horrorshow.
Both parties only know they’ve transgressed because they’re told so. There’s no actual contrition or empathy.
They have reluctantly dragged themselves through their mandated punishments.
Both parties only know they’ve transgressed because they’re told so. There’s no actual contrition or empathy.
They have reluctantly dragged themselves through their mandated punishments.
October 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Odd the similarities between the George story in #TheArchers and the ongoing royal horrorshow.
Both parties only know they’ve transgressed because they’re told so. There’s no actual contrition or empathy.
They have reluctantly dragged themselves through their mandated punishments.
Both parties only know they’ve transgressed because they’re told so. There’s no actual contrition or empathy.
They have reluctantly dragged themselves through their mandated punishments.
Thank you to my wonderful friends at @trapone.bsky.social for these.
They are beautiful. The daisiest daisies. I love you all, you mad Trappers.
And nobody is crying.
They are beautiful. The daisiest daisies. I love you all, you mad Trappers.
And nobody is crying.
October 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Thank you to my wonderful friends at @trapone.bsky.social for these.
They are beautiful. The daisiest daisies. I love you all, you mad Trappers.
And nobody is crying.
They are beautiful. The daisiest daisies. I love you all, you mad Trappers.
And nobody is crying.
Bad friend: sorry
I’ve been in the hospice for a few weeks now, struggling with breathing, talking and finer cognitive tasks like typing. My balance is fucked and I’m a high fall risk
But I have a Halloween hat, and I think of you all often ❤️
I’ve been in the hospice for a few weeks now, struggling with breathing, talking and finer cognitive tasks like typing. My balance is fucked and I’m a high fall risk
But I have a Halloween hat, and I think of you all often ❤️
October 24, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Bad friend: sorry
I’ve been in the hospice for a few weeks now, struggling with breathing, talking and finer cognitive tasks like typing. My balance is fucked and I’m a high fall risk
But I have a Halloween hat, and I think of you all often ❤️
I’ve been in the hospice for a few weeks now, struggling with breathing, talking and finer cognitive tasks like typing. My balance is fucked and I’m a high fall risk
But I have a Halloween hat, and I think of you all often ❤️
Listened to the news a bit
What I apprehended was:
Mentally ill people should work. Physically ill people should work. It’s good for them, I imagine. Can’t prove it, but it suits one’s privileged world view
And then we grind their bones to make our bread. It’s what Thatcher would have wanted
What I apprehended was:
Mentally ill people should work. Physically ill people should work. It’s good for them, I imagine. Can’t prove it, but it suits one’s privileged world view
And then we grind their bones to make our bread. It’s what Thatcher would have wanted
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Listened to the news a bit
What I apprehended was:
Mentally ill people should work. Physically ill people should work. It’s good for them, I imagine. Can’t prove it, but it suits one’s privileged world view
And then we grind their bones to make our bread. It’s what Thatcher would have wanted
What I apprehended was:
Mentally ill people should work. Physically ill people should work. It’s good for them, I imagine. Can’t prove it, but it suits one’s privileged world view
And then we grind their bones to make our bread. It’s what Thatcher would have wanted
The last 2 days have not been top drawer, but the kindness of other people has got me through.
I haven’t done anything to deserve this astonishing largesse.
My gratitude is sky high. As Randy Newman & Alan Price once put it, “It’s just amazing how fair people can be.”
youtu.be/sVulPluv5jo?...
I haven’t done anything to deserve this astonishing largesse.
My gratitude is sky high. As Randy Newman & Alan Price once put it, “It’s just amazing how fair people can be.”
youtu.be/sVulPluv5jo?...
The Alan Price Set - Simon Smith & The Amazing Dancing Bear (1967)
YouTube video by Beat-Club
youtu.be
October 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The last 2 days have not been top drawer, but the kindness of other people has got me through.
I haven’t done anything to deserve this astonishing largesse.
My gratitude is sky high. As Randy Newman & Alan Price once put it, “It’s just amazing how fair people can be.”
youtu.be/sVulPluv5jo?...
I haven’t done anything to deserve this astonishing largesse.
My gratitude is sky high. As Randy Newman & Alan Price once put it, “It’s just amazing how fair people can be.”
youtu.be/sVulPluv5jo?...
Fucking hell.
Tomorrow will be better, I’m sure.
Tomorrow will be better, I’m sure.
October 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Fucking hell.
Tomorrow will be better, I’m sure.
Tomorrow will be better, I’m sure.
One year on and I’ve hit the twenty percent survival window.
I’m sorry for those four out of five fuckers.
Perhaps I didn’t spend your hours as you’d have wanted, I mean I listened to a lot of prog rock and watched Armageddon at least three times. But I tried hard to do neither hurt nor harm.
I’m sorry for those four out of five fuckers.
Perhaps I didn’t spend your hours as you’d have wanted, I mean I listened to a lot of prog rock and watched Armageddon at least three times. But I tried hard to do neither hurt nor harm.
October 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
One year on and I’ve hit the twenty percent survival window.
I’m sorry for those four out of five fuckers.
Perhaps I didn’t spend your hours as you’d have wanted, I mean I listened to a lot of prog rock and watched Armageddon at least three times. But I tried hard to do neither hurt nor harm.
I’m sorry for those four out of five fuckers.
Perhaps I didn’t spend your hours as you’d have wanted, I mean I listened to a lot of prog rock and watched Armageddon at least three times. But I tried hard to do neither hurt nor harm.
October 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Ah bollocks.
That’s the world a less jolly place then.
Booksellers of the world salute you, Madame.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
That’s the world a less jolly place then.
Booksellers of the world salute you, Madame.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
Dame Jilly Cooper: Best-selling author of raunchy romance dies aged 88
Her agent says her
www.bbc.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Ah bollocks.
That’s the world a less jolly place then.
Booksellers of the world salute you, Madame.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
That’s the world a less jolly place then.
Booksellers of the world salute you, Madame.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
Still knee deep in other folks’ entrails I feel that #Frightenby25 day five may be a bit frivolous.
This is secret code for “I want to give Young Frankenstein a spin”
16) Young Frankenstein
17) Ghostbusters
18) Ghostbusters II
WE GOT ONE!
This is secret code for “I want to give Young Frankenstein a spin”
16) Young Frankenstein
17) Ghostbusters
18) Ghostbusters II
WE GOT ONE!
October 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Still knee deep in other folks’ entrails I feel that #Frightenby25 day five may be a bit frivolous.
This is secret code for “I want to give Young Frankenstein a spin”
16) Young Frankenstein
17) Ghostbusters
18) Ghostbusters II
WE GOT ONE!
This is secret code for “I want to give Young Frankenstein a spin”
16) Young Frankenstein
17) Ghostbusters
18) Ghostbusters II
WE GOT ONE!
Another week. OK, then.
Waris, Verity, Sydney: I will do my best not to let you down.
❤️❤️
Waris, Verity, Sydney: I will do my best not to let you down.
❤️❤️
October 6, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Another week. OK, then.
Waris, Verity, Sydney: I will do my best not to let you down.
❤️❤️
Waris, Verity, Sydney: I will do my best not to let you down.
❤️❤️
Grease
Friends
Buffy (TV series)
The Office (US version)
Gavin & Stacey
Nothing personal. It just never happened and god’s green earth on my time is dwindling here.
Friends
Buffy (TV series)
The Office (US version)
Gavin & Stacey
Nothing personal. It just never happened and god’s green earth on my time is dwindling here.
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Grease
Friends
Buffy (TV series)
The Office (US version)
Gavin & Stacey
Nothing personal. It just never happened and god’s green earth on my time is dwindling here.
Friends
Buffy (TV series)
The Office (US version)
Gavin & Stacey
Nothing personal. It just never happened and god’s green earth on my time is dwindling here.
Cheating fucking owl prick.
Les chouettes ne sont pas vertes.
You’re not my real owl.
Les chouettes ne sont pas vertes.
You’re not my real owl.
October 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Cheating fucking owl prick.
Les chouettes ne sont pas vertes.
You’re not my real owl.
Les chouettes ne sont pas vertes.
You’re not my real owl.
Fuck, yeah.
Fight while you have it. Once it’s gone you’ve lost it forever.
Fight while you have it. Once it’s gone you’ve lost it forever.
I cannot stress this enough, and I am tired of saying it: British white people, everything you are seeing in the US is coming here and you cannot watch Eurovision or Great British Bakeoff or sign petitions and think you can stiff-upper-lip or ignore your way out of this.
Learn to be UNCOMFORTABLE.
Learn to be UNCOMFORTABLE.
October 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Fuck, yeah.
Fight while you have it. Once it’s gone you’ve lost it forever.
Fight while you have it. Once it’s gone you’ve lost it forever.
Reposted by John Feetenby
I cannot stress this enough, and I am tired of saying it: British white people, everything you are seeing in the US is coming here and you cannot watch Eurovision or Great British Bakeoff or sign petitions and think you can stiff-upper-lip or ignore your way out of this.
Learn to be UNCOMFORTABLE.
Learn to be UNCOMFORTABLE.
October 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I cannot stress this enough, and I am tired of saying it: British white people, everything you are seeing in the US is coming here and you cannot watch Eurovision or Great British Bakeoff or sign petitions and think you can stiff-upper-lip or ignore your way out of this.
Learn to be UNCOMFORTABLE.
Learn to be UNCOMFORTABLE.
Highly recommended to all my Who friends.
@melvinpena.bsky.social is an articulate, enthusiastic soul who always brings a perspective I would not otherwise have had. I love that.
@sihart.bsky.social remains the Whoniverse’s gentlest, but most effective interlocutor.
Thanks, chaps.
@melvinpena.bsky.social is an articulate, enthusiastic soul who always brings a perspective I would not otherwise have had. I love that.
@sihart.bsky.social remains the Whoniverse’s gentlest, but most effective interlocutor.
Thanks, chaps.
It's time for another trip to The Library of Impossible Things.
This time I'm joined by the marvellous @melvinpena.bsky.social for a chat about finding Doctor Who as an adult, how it's long history inspired him and what's the one podcast he's most proud of.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
This time I'm joined by the marvellous @melvinpena.bsky.social for a chat about finding Doctor Who as an adult, how it's long history inspired him and what's the one podcast he's most proud of.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
3.14 Melvin Pena tells his story
open.spotify.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Highly recommended to all my Who friends.
@melvinpena.bsky.social is an articulate, enthusiastic soul who always brings a perspective I would not otherwise have had. I love that.
@sihart.bsky.social remains the Whoniverse’s gentlest, but most effective interlocutor.
Thanks, chaps.
@melvinpena.bsky.social is an articulate, enthusiastic soul who always brings a perspective I would not otherwise have had. I love that.
@sihart.bsky.social remains the Whoniverse’s gentlest, but most effective interlocutor.
Thanks, chaps.
This is such a helpful podcast as I try to weld together my empirical science upbringing with my developing interest in consciousness. Every episode reminds me how ignorant I still am.
I adore that.
New project: Sufism
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
I adore that.
New project: Sufism
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The Sheldrake Vernon Dialogues
Spirituality Podcast · Biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake and psychotherapist Mark Vernon explore the frontiers where rigorous science meets life's deepest mysteries. Through original research and thought...
podcasts.apple.com
October 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
This is such a helpful podcast as I try to weld together my empirical science upbringing with my developing interest in consciousness. Every episode reminds me how ignorant I still am.
I adore that.
New project: Sufism
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
I adore that.
New project: Sufism
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Day five of #Frightenby25. Only Fulci can help me now
In their various states of glorious restoration:
11) Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
Gates Of Hell -
12) City Of The Living Dead (1980)
13) The Beyond (1981)
14) The House By The Cemetery (1981)
And
15) Murder Rock (1994)
if I can find my copy
In their various states of glorious restoration:
11) Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
Gates Of Hell -
12) City Of The Living Dead (1980)
13) The Beyond (1981)
14) The House By The Cemetery (1981)
And
15) Murder Rock (1994)
if I can find my copy
October 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Day five of #Frightenby25. Only Fulci can help me now
In their various states of glorious restoration:
11) Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
Gates Of Hell -
12) City Of The Living Dead (1980)
13) The Beyond (1981)
14) The House By The Cemetery (1981)
And
15) Murder Rock (1994)
if I can find my copy
In their various states of glorious restoration:
11) Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
Gates Of Hell -
12) City Of The Living Dead (1980)
13) The Beyond (1981)
14) The House By The Cemetery (1981)
And
15) Murder Rock (1994)
if I can find my copy
Well now.
Got my @arrowvideo.bsky.social 4K Zombie Flesh Eaters today. I’m down the fathomless Fulci hole now. Maybe Murder Rock later.
Definitely the Gates Of Hell tomorrow though.
#Frightenby25
Got my @arrowvideo.bsky.social 4K Zombie Flesh Eaters today. I’m down the fathomless Fulci hole now. Maybe Murder Rock later.
Definitely the Gates Of Hell tomorrow though.
#Frightenby25
October 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Well now.
Got my @arrowvideo.bsky.social 4K Zombie Flesh Eaters today. I’m down the fathomless Fulci hole now. Maybe Murder Rock later.
Definitely the Gates Of Hell tomorrow though.
#Frightenby25
Got my @arrowvideo.bsky.social 4K Zombie Flesh Eaters today. I’m down the fathomless Fulci hole now. Maybe Murder Rock later.
Definitely the Gates Of Hell tomorrow though.
#Frightenby25
Day four of #Frightenby25 and we are going H.G. Wells mode. He’s not often thought of as a horror writer per se. Just the pioneer of every major SF genre ever.
But these are great:
9) Island Of Lost Souls (1932)
10) The Invisible Man (1933)
But these are great:
9) Island Of Lost Souls (1932)
10) The Invisible Man (1933)
October 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Day four of #Frightenby25 and we are going H.G. Wells mode. He’s not often thought of as a horror writer per se. Just the pioneer of every major SF genre ever.
But these are great:
9) Island Of Lost Souls (1932)
10) The Invisible Man (1933)
But these are great:
9) Island Of Lost Souls (1932)
10) The Invisible Man (1933)
The power of imprinting: whenever I hear about a new Robin Hood release I get parallel ear worms of what I remember as the two distinct Rocket Robin Hood themes…
October 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The power of imprinting: whenever I hear about a new Robin Hood release I get parallel ear worms of what I remember as the two distinct Rocket Robin Hood themes…
Reposted by John Feetenby
If you want to get into Buster Keaton movies (a worthwhile use of one’s limited time on earth), would recommend The Goat, followed by Sherlock Jr., as your way in. youtu.be/_6kE2JfkJ1c
Buster Keaton – The Goat (1921) Silent film
YouTube video by Classics of World Cinema
youtu.be
October 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
If you want to get into Buster Keaton movies (a worthwhile use of one’s limited time on earth), would recommend The Goat, followed by Sherlock Jr., as your way in. youtu.be/_6kE2JfkJ1c
The Highland Hospice is opening a new charity shop in Inverness, based I assume on the treasure I have recently moved from my flat.
Truculent members of the local FB community would rather the property remained empty than have “another charity shop.”
Well…
Truculent members of the local FB community would rather the property remained empty than have “another charity shop.”
Well…
October 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The Highland Hospice is opening a new charity shop in Inverness, based I assume on the treasure I have recently moved from my flat.
Truculent members of the local FB community would rather the property remained empty than have “another charity shop.”
Well…
Truculent members of the local FB community would rather the property remained empty than have “another charity shop.”
Well…