Simon Bedford
@llamastrangler.bsky.social
Twitter refugee, tired of far right nonsense. Some random bloke. Into music, Doctor Who and various other geeky things, cooking the cuisines of the East, red wine, real ale, literature, history, politics, stuff.
Pronouns he/him
Pronouns he/him
#StrangerThings Just blogged the second episode of the final season… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/12/stra...
Stranger Things: Season 5, Chapter 2- The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler
"Heavens to Betsy!" This season continues to be brilliant, in terms of script and acting. It also looks amazing, a case in point being the ...
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December 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
#StrangerThings Just blogged the second episode of the final season… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/12/stra...
Just blogged the second episode of The War Between the Land and the Sea… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The War Between the Land and the Sea: Plastic Apocalypse
"This man is the most important person on the planet." This episode may be Pete McTighe rather than RTD, but the quality continues. If it c...
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December 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Just blogged the second episode of The War Between the Land and the Sea… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Just blogged another episode of Batman: The Animated Series… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/12/batm...
Batman: The Animated Series- Harley and Ivy
"You're just one big, forgiving doormat, aren't you?" Another superb episode here, from the opening scenes with the very Tim Burton-esque G...
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December 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Just blogged the first episode of The War Between the Land and the Sea… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The War Between the Land and the Sea: Homo Aqua
"That's them- the gay waters!" Before I start praising this promising first episode, a gripe about "homo aqua": it's just scientifically il...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Just blogged the first episode of The War Between the Land and the Sea… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Just blogged another episode of Batman: The Animated Series… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/12/batm...
Batman: The Animated Series- The Mechanic
"I need a new car..." Yes, I know: I'm doing another episode of Batman: The Animated Series as opposed to the other series I'm blogging- S...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Just blogged another episode of Batman: The Animated Series… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/12/batm...
Just blogged another episode of Batman: The Animated Series… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/12/batm...
Batman: The Animated Series- Zatanna
"This never happens to me in Vegas!" This is a real first for the animated series- an appearance by another DC superhero, in this case Zata...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Just blogged another episode of Batman: The Animated Series… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/12/batm...
Reposted by Simon Bedford
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
#StrangerThings Jusg blogged the opener to the new season… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/stra...
Stranger Things: Season 5, Chapter 1- The Crawl
"What is it about your presence that brings out your inner Neanderthal?" I've missed Stranger Things ... but then it's been three sodding y...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
#StrangerThings Jusg blogged the opener to the new season… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/stra...
Just blogged another episode of Batman: The Animated Series… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/batm...
Batman: The Animated Series- Paging The Crime Doctor
"I thought I told you to take the day off..." This is one of the finest episodes yet- perhaps the best. Yes, it's a little contrived that R...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Just blogged another Gen V… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/gen-...
Gen V: H Is for Human
"Well, you kind of get used to the public nudity stuff..." I only know of Olivia Rodrigo from Little Miss Llamastrangler, but damn, this mi...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Just blogged another Gen V… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/gen-...
Just blogged The Apprentice… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Apprentice (2024)
"Have you no decency?" "Oh, I've heard that before..." The more my thoughts dwell on this film, the more I come to appreciate it. It is, I s...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Just blogged The Apprentice… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
Just blogged another episode of Batman: The Animated Series… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/batm...
Batman: The Animated Series- Mudslide
"It seems that Clayface is losing his integrity." "I wasn't aware that he had any to begin with." So that's the end of Clayface? I may be w...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Just blogged the final episode of Des… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/des-...
Des: Episode 3
"I could never have stopped..." And it ends with a highly dramatic and entertaining courtroom drama, with twists and turns throughout until...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Just blogged the final episode of Des… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/des-...
#Dexter Just blogged another episode: llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/dext...
Dexter: Dex, Lies and Videotape
"What step was that?" "The naughty one!" So... Dexter gets away with deleting the marina footage by the old fire alarm trick. Easy... and, ...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
#Dexter Just blogged another episode: llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/dext...
Just blogged Skyfall… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/skyf...
Skyfall (2012)
"You were expecting an exploding pen?" And so here we reach unexplored territory for me- until yesterday, I hadn't seen any James Bond film...
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November 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Just blogged Skyfall… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/skyf...
Just blogged another episode of Batman: The Animated Series… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/batm...
Batman: The Animated Series- The Man Who Killed Batman
"Without Batman, crime has no punchline." We begin with rain, with night-time darkness, with interesting camera angles giving a very noir f...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Just blogged the second episode of Des… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/des-...
Des: Episode 2
"Death gives no refunds..." Yes, I know, I don't usually blog the same programme on consecutive days, but this time I have, so nyeeer. Some...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Just blogged the second episode of Des… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/des-...
Just blogged the first episode of Des… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/des-...
Des: Episode 1
"How didn't we know?" The first thing to say about this dramatisation of the investigation into the appalling crimes of Dennis Nilsen is th...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Just blogged the first episode of Des… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/des-...
#Dexter Just blogged another episode… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/dext...
Dexter: The Dark Defender
"Should we call the Super Friends for help?" So... that was an actual armadillo. Wow! Very strange for this Brit to think of one of those a...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
#Dexter Just blogged another episode… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/dext...
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The BBC has long pursued a strategy of appeasing its enemies and alienating its friends.
The result is an endless series of capitulations to those political forces most determined to destroy it
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbc-su...
The result is an endless series of capitulations to those political forces most determined to destroy it
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbc-su...
The BBC Surrenders to Trump
The capitulation of our national broadcaster to the political forces most determined to destroy it is a worrying sign of things to come
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November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The BBC has long pursued a strategy of appeasing its enemies and alienating its friends.
The result is an endless series of capitulations to those political forces most determined to destroy it
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbc-su...
The result is an endless series of capitulations to those political forces most determined to destroy it
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbc-su...
#GenV Just blogged another one… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/gen-...
Gen V: Justice Never Forgets
"Today, as you are inducted into our sacred brotherhood, our legacy, it would do you well to remember our three trinities: wisdom, honour an...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
#GenV Just blogged another one… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/gen-...
Just blogged a one-off 1977 TV version of the Sherlock Holmes story Silver Blaze… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/silv...
Silver Blaze
"That was the curious incident..." This thirty minute curiosity is a one-off, produced in November 1977 under the auspices of an anthology p...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Just blogged a one-off 1977 TV version of the Sherlock Holmes story Silver Blaze… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/silv...
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BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Just blogged another episode of Batman: The Animated Series… llamastranglermarathon.blogspot.com/2025/11/batm...
Batman: The Animated Series- Off Balance
"As you said, detective... this is not over!" This is a magnificent episode. An exciting story, a clever twist, Helen Slater (Supergirl her...
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November 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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They were gonna canonize a patron saint of procrastination…but nobody has gotten around to it yet. 🕯️
November 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM
They were gonna canonize a patron saint of procrastination…but nobody has gotten around to it yet. 🕯️