Tony Cross
@lokster71.bsky.social
I talk a bit about politics, but mostly this is going to be books, Doctor Who, and a little smattering of Brentford FC. My YouTube Channels:
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Is trying to work out what I want to watch tomorrow for Doctor Who Day. Apart from An Unearthly Child, Part One.
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Is trying to work out what I want to watch tomorrow for Doctor Who Day. Apart from An Unearthly Child, Part One.
Watched Ken Russell's 'Elgar: A Film' documentary. It's rather brilliant. The blending of music with images is almost perfect.
November 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Watched Ken Russell's 'Elgar: A Film' documentary. It's rather brilliant. The blending of music with images is almost perfect.
The thing about the modern world though is that although I've not seen a lot of TV I know a lot about it via social media/YouTube osmosis.
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The thing about the modern world though is that although I've not seen a lot of TV I know a lot about it via social media/YouTube osmosis.
I also realised that I don't think I like sit-coms very much. They always seem to go on too long, especially American ones. And I feel uncomfortable with cringe. I feel it in my heart and it makes it impossible for me to watch cringe comedy.
November 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I also realised that I don't think I like sit-coms very much. They always seem to go on too long, especially American ones. And I feel uncomfortable with cringe. I feel it in my heart and it makes it impossible for me to watch cringe comedy.
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Someone’s done the Wrath of Khan Starfleet Field Coat as a unisex cardigan.
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Someone’s done the Wrath of Khan Starfleet Field Coat as a unisex cardigan.
I realised today - for reasons - that, apart from Doctor Who, I have stopped watching TV in the last decade. There's so many 'best TV series of all time' that I've never watched. Partly because there's TOO MUCH TV, which I never thought I'd say. I never watch it live.
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I realised today - for reasons - that, apart from Doctor Who, I have stopped watching TV in the last decade. There's so many 'best TV series of all time' that I've never watched. Partly because there's TOO MUCH TV, which I never thought I'd say. I never watch it live.
Wissa's continuing absence from Newcastle after he sulked his way out of Brentford like the very illustration of a spoiled Premier League footballer - something Isak did to Newcastle but it is only bad when done to them - is a small joy to me. I know it is petty as fuck. But it is what it is.
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Wissa's continuing absence from Newcastle after he sulked his way out of Brentford like the very illustration of a spoiled Premier League footballer - something Isak did to Newcastle but it is only bad when done to them - is a small joy to me. I know it is petty as fuck. But it is what it is.
Yeah, if you're still on Twitter at this point then I'm wondering what you're getting out of it. Plus the British government should get off of it too.
I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
November 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Yeah, if you're still on Twitter at this point then I'm wondering what you're getting out of it. Plus the British government should get off of it too.
There's no Remembrance Reads update today because I am sick as a dog.
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
There's no Remembrance Reads update today because I am sick as a dog.
youtu.be/tLXrrMsCIXE - Remembrance Reads, Day Nineteen Reading: features mention of Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Radclyffe Hall. Plus mention of H G Wells, D H Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, Ezra Pound and others.
Remembrance Reads: Day Nineteen Reading
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November 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
youtu.be/tLXrrMsCIXE - Remembrance Reads, Day Nineteen Reading: features mention of Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Radclyffe Hall. Plus mention of H G Wells, D H Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, Ezra Pound and others.
patientcenturion.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... - My short blog on #DoctorWho The Eaters of Light.
The Eaters of Light
The Eaters of Light There is a point in a Doctor Who season - a post-2005 Doctor Who season – whereas the season finale yaws into view t...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
patientcenturion.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... - My short blog on #DoctorWho The Eaters of Light.
Send me chocolate please. Lol.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Send me chocolate please. Lol.
My colds always follow the same pattern: sore throat for a couple of day, nose runs non-stop for a day, then blocked nose for a week/two weeks. The later being the most annoying part of the process. I'm in the nose running phase at the moment.
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
My colds always follow the same pattern: sore throat for a couple of day, nose runs non-stop for a day, then blocked nose for a week/two weeks. The later being the most annoying part of the process. I'm in the nose running phase at the moment.
The traffic on Acton High Street is such a joke. The big roundabout and all the many many sets of traffic lights seemed designed to make traffic flow like treacle.
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The traffic on Acton High Street is such a joke. The big roundabout and all the many many sets of traffic lights seemed designed to make traffic flow like treacle.
I know it is sad but I like it when my notes look nice. They don’t always look like this btw. lol.
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I know it is sad but I like it when my notes look nice. They don’t always look like this btw. lol.
One of the stories of the modern world is the disappearance of shame. Or even the pretence of shame.
November 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
One of the stories of the modern world is the disappearance of shame. Or even the pretence of shame.
youtu.be/PrGDgy9QLBc - Remembrance Reads Day Eighteen. Today I read Tickets, Please by D H Lawrence; six Chapters of Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden; a chapter about Siegfried Sassoon is Heroes' Twilight and 21 of Isaac Rosenberg's poems. One of which I read here - 'In the Heart of the Forest'.
Remembrance Reads - Day Eighteen Reading
YouTube video by Lokster Reads
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November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
youtu.be/PrGDgy9QLBc - Remembrance Reads Day Eighteen. Today I read Tickets, Please by D H Lawrence; six Chapters of Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden; a chapter about Siegfried Sassoon is Heroes' Twilight and 21 of Isaac Rosenberg's poems. One of which I read here - 'In the Heart of the Forest'.
Wall Street is behaving in a clearly dumb way in the face of an obvious and potentially catastrophic bubble? Colour me unsurprised. Because they always get bailed out. It’s like gambling on horses but knowing that if you fuck up the government will cover your mistakes.
My business partner has been predicting the collapse of this house of cards for months.
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
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www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
November 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Wall Street is behaving in a clearly dumb way in the face of an obvious and potentially catastrophic bubble? Colour me unsurprised. Because they always get bailed out. It’s like gambling on horses but knowing that if you fuck up the government will cover your mistakes.
youtu.be/s6DB2JdRpOQ - Remembrance Reads Day 17 featuring talk of Ivor Gurney and Edward Thomas. Plus some thoughts on reading at the end that I fear might count as a rant. But perhaps not.
Remembrance Reads: Day Seventeen Reading (plus a small 'rant')
YouTube video by Lokster Reads
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November 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
youtu.be/s6DB2JdRpOQ - Remembrance Reads Day 17 featuring talk of Ivor Gurney and Edward Thomas. Plus some thoughts on reading at the end that I fear might count as a rant. But perhaps not.
I just watched a video of an interview between Saunders Lewis and David Jones from a 1965 arts programme and it was produced by Melvyn Bragg. It's always fun to be reminded of how long Melvyn Bragg's been making arts programmes.
November 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I just watched a video of an interview between Saunders Lewis and David Jones from a 1965 arts programme and it was produced by Melvyn Bragg. It's always fun to be reminded of how long Melvyn Bragg's been making arts programmes.
He makes interesting documentaries, which people watch but I thought the Civil War series lent a bit too heavily on the 'Lost Cause'. And might be one of the reason for that idiotic idea making a proper come back.
November 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
He makes interesting documentaries, which people watch but I thought the Civil War series lent a bit too heavily on the 'Lost Cause'. And might be one of the reason for that idiotic idea making a proper come back.
youtu.be/aISzDjBPZe8 - Day 16 of Remembrance Reads: today Isaac Rosenberg, a Stacy Aumonier short story that made me want to read more Aumonier, and talk of Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, Charles Sorley etc. And another writer slags off the poetry of Robert Nichol.
Remembrance Reads: Day Sixteen Reading
YouTube video by Lokster Reads
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November 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
youtu.be/aISzDjBPZe8 - Day 16 of Remembrance Reads: today Isaac Rosenberg, a Stacy Aumonier short story that made me want to read more Aumonier, and talk of Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, Charles Sorley etc. And another writer slags off the poetry of Robert Nichol.
Worst. British. Government. Ever. (Well, with the possible exception of all the previous ones since...well...whenever.)
On Monday, Shabana Mahmood will announce an overhaul of the asylum system, here’s why ⬇️
November 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Worst. British. Government. Ever. (Well, with the possible exception of all the previous ones since...well...whenever.)
youtu.be/4mw_xjucECI - Day Fifteen of my Remembrance Reads. Today featuring a Rudyard Kipling short story, Isaac Rosenberg poems, and Bernard Bergonzi's 'Heroes Twilight'.
Remembrance Reads: Day Fifteen Reading
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November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
youtu.be/4mw_xjucECI - Day Fifteen of my Remembrance Reads. Today featuring a Rudyard Kipling short story, Isaac Rosenberg poems, and Bernard Bergonzi's 'Heroes Twilight'.
youtu.be/GSB_eribJmQ - Day Fourteen of my Remembrance Reads. Featuring John Buchan, Bernard Bergonzi and Isaac Rosenberg.
Remembrance Reads: Day Fourteen Reading
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November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
youtu.be/GSB_eribJmQ - Day Fourteen of my Remembrance Reads. Featuring John Buchan, Bernard Bergonzi and Isaac Rosenberg.