John Rivers
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John Rivers
@johnrivers.bsky.social
· Jan 28
"Listen to me you overdeveloped German sleazeball!" #eldorado
10 years since Heaven Sent. I should rewatch it really cos the overwhelmingly positive fan reaction put me at odds with my own opinion (it’s not half as clever or romantic as it thinks it is) and I preferred the two eps either side of it.
‘The Hybrid’ though. 🙄
‘The Hybrid’ though. 🙄
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
10 years since Heaven Sent. I should rewatch it really cos the overwhelmingly positive fan reaction put me at odds with my own opinion (it’s not half as clever or romantic as it thinks it is) and I preferred the two eps either side of it.
‘The Hybrid’ though. 🙄
‘The Hybrid’ though. 🙄
So my sister bought a house in Spain and inherited this, which now belongs to my son. A 6ft scale model of the Titanic.
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
So my sister bought a house in Spain and inherited this, which now belongs to my son. A 6ft scale model of the Titanic.
Black Friday. So if you’re a successful, young businesswoman engaged to a emotionally distant investment banker, it’s time to book your flight home and have your life changed irreparably by a handsome contractor with a heart of gold.
I don’t make the rules.
I don’t make the rules.
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Black Friday. So if you’re a successful, young businesswoman engaged to a emotionally distant investment banker, it’s time to book your flight home and have your life changed irreparably by a handsome contractor with a heart of gold.
I don’t make the rules.
I don’t make the rules.
I've checked with the Archbishop of Canterbury and he's fairly sure it isn't.
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
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November 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I've checked with the Archbishop of Canterbury and he's fairly sure it isn't.
Adumbrating two typical instances from separate epistopic interfaces of the spectrum (the alternate edits I’ve not done before)
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Adumbrating two typical instances from separate epistopic interfaces of the spectrum (the alternate edits I’ve not done before)
Through long nursery nights she stood
By my bed unwearying,
Loomed gigantic, formless, queer,
Purring in my haunted ear
That same hideous nightmare thing,
Talking, as she lapped my blood,
In a voice cruel and flat,
Saying for ever, “PLAY ZEBRA BINGO!”
By my bed unwearying,
Loomed gigantic, formless, queer,
Purring in my haunted ear
That same hideous nightmare thing,
Talking, as she lapped my blood,
In a voice cruel and flat,
Saying for ever, “PLAY ZEBRA BINGO!”
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Through long nursery nights she stood
By my bed unwearying,
Loomed gigantic, formless, queer,
Purring in my haunted ear
That same hideous nightmare thing,
Talking, as she lapped my blood,
In a voice cruel and flat,
Saying for ever, “PLAY ZEBRA BINGO!”
By my bed unwearying,
Loomed gigantic, formless, queer,
Purring in my haunted ear
That same hideous nightmare thing,
Talking, as she lapped my blood,
In a voice cruel and flat,
Saying for ever, “PLAY ZEBRA BINGO!”
"Tragedy!"
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"Tragedy!"
I've got all 3 of Ben's Xmas telly books (and most of the others too). They're great fun, very informative and well worth a read!
I've no new book out this Christmas and it feels weird. I'm very proud of my previous ones though and many are 30% off this weekend with the code BOOKGIFT30.
www.lulu.com/spotlight/be...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I've got all 3 of Ben's Xmas telly books (and most of the others too). They're great fun, very informative and well worth a read!
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I wish I was surprised. Buried in this Budget is a plan to slash the Digital Services Tax, giving a multi-billion tax cut to US tech giants and the likes of Elon Musk.
That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.
That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I wish I was surprised. Buried in this Budget is a plan to slash the Digital Services Tax, giving a multi-billion tax cut to US tech giants and the likes of Elon Musk.
That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.
That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.
I dunno who Rich was, but this record sure was pleased he got where he did.
November 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I dunno who Rich was, but this record sure was pleased he got where he did.
ST:TNG - 'Remember Me'
Wesley magics his mum into another dimension. Bev has the crew disappear around her. Rather than take this unique opportunity for some alone time, she argues with the computer. Wesley's only non-work friend comes back.
Wesley magics his mum into another dimension. Bev has the crew disappear around her. Rather than take this unique opportunity for some alone time, she argues with the computer. Wesley's only non-work friend comes back.
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
ST:TNG - 'Remember Me'
Wesley magics his mum into another dimension. Bev has the crew disappear around her. Rather than take this unique opportunity for some alone time, she argues with the computer. Wesley's only non-work friend comes back.
Wesley magics his mum into another dimension. Bev has the crew disappear around her. Rather than take this unique opportunity for some alone time, she argues with the computer. Wesley's only non-work friend comes back.
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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Beatles Anthology, the documentary supposed last word on the Fab Four, begins. During the first break, Carlsberg spot their opportunity.
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
30 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Beatles Anthology, the documentary supposed last word on the Fab Four, begins. During the first break, Carlsberg spot their opportunity.
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Anyone wanting to find Ed Davey's response to the budget on the BBC website, you need to look under ENGLAND -> POLITICS -> PARLIAMENT -> BUDGET -> BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD -> and it's the third item on the page after two pieces about Reform.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Anyone wanting to find Ed Davey's response to the budget on the BBC website, you need to look under ENGLAND -> POLITICS -> PARLIAMENT -> BUDGET -> BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD -> and it's the third item on the page after two pieces about Reform.
Has anyone creative done this cover with the modern Doctors?
"Radio Times" (dated 19-25/11/83). Art by Andrew Skilleter. #DoctorWho
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Has anyone creative done this cover with the modern Doctors?
ST:TNG 'Suddenly Human'
Picard bonds with a broody teen over space squash while Wesley's delighted he's made a new friend.
Picard bonds with a broody teen over space squash while Wesley's delighted he's made a new friend.
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
ST:TNG 'Suddenly Human'
Picard bonds with a broody teen over space squash while Wesley's delighted he's made a new friend.
Picard bonds with a broody teen over space squash while Wesley's delighted he's made a new friend.
“A great philosopher once wrote…” finishing up The Great Philosophers and I’m going to miss this series. I can’t say I’ve understood all of it, but I have a much better grasp of the history of Philosophy than I did before.
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
“A great philosopher once wrote…” finishing up The Great Philosophers and I’m going to miss this series. I can’t say I’ve understood all of it, but I have a much better grasp of the history of Philosophy than I did before.
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Great talk among people how some of the Fanatiques do say that the end of the world is at hand, and that next Tuesday is to be the day. Against which, whenever it shall be, good God fit us all.
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Great talk among people how some of the Fanatiques do say that the end of the world is at hand, and that next Tuesday is to be the day. Against which, whenever it shall be, good God fit us all.
Anthony Newley has turned up in ‘The Upper Hand’. You never hear about this during all the mentions for Gurney Slade.
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Anthony Newley has turned up in ‘The Upper Hand’. You never hear about this during all the mentions for Gurney Slade.
When faced with danger, a Hula Hoop will inflate its size to deter predators.
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
When faced with danger, a Hula Hoop will inflate its size to deter predators.
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The Independent Record
Helena Montana, November 24,1922
Helena Montana, November 24,1922
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Independent Record
Helena Montana, November 24,1922
Helena Montana, November 24,1922
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For a start, this Guardian TV review has confused Ken Clarke with Kenneth Clark. Basic fact checking has gone out the window here. The irony as they’re talking of the imminent fall of western civilisation. What a time to be alive
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Civilisations: Rise and Fall review – TV that will make you despair for our own plummeting society
The mightily stressful and incredibly close-to-the-bone BBC show traces the demise of four ancient worlds – and it’s wildly prescient stuff. Will we never learn?
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
For a start, this Guardian TV review has confused Ken Clarke with Kenneth Clark. Basic fact checking has gone out the window here. The irony as they’re talking of the imminent fall of western civilisation. What a time to be alive
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Noel and Mike are going to try climbing the stairs on their own again.
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Noel and Mike are going to try climbing the stairs on their own again.