Mark Harrison
@markharrison.bsky.social
He/him
Writer. Quizmaster. Dad.
Location: Teesside
Writing and quizzes: Film Stories, VODzilla, Yahoo! Ent. UK, and others
Views: my own
Frequent topics: Doctor Who, James Bond, Dexter the dog...
Writer. Quizmaster. Dad.
Location: Teesside
Writing and quizzes: Film Stories, VODzilla, Yahoo! Ent. UK, and others
Views: my own
Frequent topics: Doctor Who, James Bond, Dexter the dog...
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SILENCE WILL FALL WHEN THE QUESTION IS ASKED. THE FIRST QUESTION. HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. THE QUESTION YOU'VE BEEN RUNNING FROM ALL YOUR LIFE:
Oh also I’ve been making a load of Doctor Who quizzes with @markharrison.bsky.social, they should be online for the 23rd
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
SILENCE WILL FALL WHEN THE QUESTION IS ASKED. THE FIRST QUESTION. HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. THE QUESTION YOU'VE BEEN RUNNING FROM ALL YOUR LIFE:
Happy I got to write more stuff for Film Stories Magazine this year, and on such a wide and wacky range of movies... @filmstories.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Happy I got to write more stuff for Film Stories Magazine this year, and on such a wide and wacky range of movies... @filmstories.bsky.social
Spent most of today writing about this and James just... posted it!
It’s so weird and funny that two books in a collection from 1985 have always needed a proper movie adaptation, and they somehow both come out one after another, in the same year one of them is set, and one is about running and one is about walking
November 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Spent most of today writing about this and James just... posted it!
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Rightwingers are not 'forced to pay for the BBC'. But lefties really are forced to pay for nuclear weapons, religious schools and the royal family.
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Rightwingers are not 'forced to pay for the BBC'. But lefties really are forced to pay for nuclear weapons, religious schools and the royal family.
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Zadie Smith.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Zadie Smith.
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◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
Houchen’s deprivation failure exposed – official
Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
Last night's film - The Running Man. If this was edited like any other Edgar Wright film, it would be half an hour shorter and better for it. But then this is more of a cheeky action thriller than a comedy, which is fine, and even fun sometimes, but the self-serious third act is a slog.
a silhouette of a man in a red room with a target in the middle
Alt: The opening titles of The Running Man, from The Running Man
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Last night's film - The Running Man. If this was edited like any other Edgar Wright film, it would be half an hour shorter and better for it. But then this is more of a cheeky action thriller than a comedy, which is fine, and even fun sometimes, but the self-serious third act is a slog.
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At one point Michael Flatley (playing retired spy Victor Blackley) takes off one jauntily angled hat only to be handed another. This to me is cinema.
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
At one point Michael Flatley (playing retired spy Victor Blackley) takes off one jauntily angled hat only to be handed another. This to me is cinema.
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I see the centrists are having their wallets inspected by Wesley this morning
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I see the centrists are having their wallets inspected by Wesley this morning
I am too tired and it is still too early in the morning to see that Wrong Buzz Lightyear-looking prick on BBC Breakfast smirking about The Traitors while promising he's doesn't even wanna be the next cunt who makes everything worse just before everything gets REALLY bad. It will always be too early.
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I am too tired and it is still too early in the morning to see that Wrong Buzz Lightyear-looking prick on BBC Breakfast smirking about The Traitors while promising he's doesn't even wanna be the next cunt who makes everything worse just before everything gets REALLY bad. It will always be too early.
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All the big journo politics podcasts are like this: every now and then they’ll say something completely uncontroversial within their own circles that sounds insane to listeners, because the atmosphere is - we’re down the pub with our mates.
The News Agents is a great case study of centrism because they actively describe how the sausage is made and yet none of their audience say 'Wait - what the fuck do you mean you ran a story because some Labour spad told you to?'
November 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
All the big journo politics podcasts are like this: every now and then they’ll say something completely uncontroversial within their own circles that sounds insane to listeners, because the atmosphere is - we’re down the pub with our mates.
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massive blazing foghorn noise to make sure everyone knows that Benediction – Terence Davies' final film, one of the best of the decade so far, not available to buy in any physical format beyond DVD anywhere except France for some reason – is up on iPlayer for a full year
Benediction
The story of English poet, writer and soldier Siegfried Sassoon.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
massive blazing foghorn noise to make sure everyone knows that Benediction – Terence Davies' final film, one of the best of the decade so far, not available to buy in any physical format beyond DVD anywhere except France for some reason – is up on iPlayer for a full year
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…and James Bond, who did not die!’
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
…and James Bond, who did not die!’
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What we’ve done is create a kind of Wanker’s Veto where nothing good or useful can ever happen, because MPs and the press will unite and destroy it. So the only things that will ever succeed even temporarily are projects that nobody likes or wants, except for said MPs and media figures.
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
What we’ve done is create a kind of Wanker’s Veto where nothing good or useful can ever happen, because MPs and the press will unite and destroy it. So the only things that will ever succeed even temporarily are projects that nobody likes or wants, except for said MPs and media figures.
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suddenly finding out a lot of people are apparently emotionally invested in james bond. same thing happened on twitter ten years ago with wrestling. no one it gets harder to trust people every day.
February 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
suddenly finding out a lot of people are apparently emotionally invested in james bond. same thing happened on twitter ten years ago with wrestling. no one it gets harder to trust people every day.
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"...we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together." – Kev Starmer, May 2025
🚨 PM: “Some of the rhetoric we’re hearing – racist rhetoric, divisive rhetoric – that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago is returning to politics and it makes people feel very scared,”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/11/racism-returning-to-uk-politics-says-starmer
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/11/racism-returning-to-uk-politics-says-starmer
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"...we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together." – Kev Starmer, May 2025
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"No Mr Bond, I expect you to deliver 40-50 packages before your first piss break"
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"No Mr Bond, I expect you to deliver 40-50 packages before your first piss break"
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I must not James Bond discourse. James Bond discourse is the mind killer. James Bond discourse is the little death that brings total obliteration.
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I must not James Bond discourse. James Bond discourse is the mind killer. James Bond discourse is the little death that brings total obliteration.
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NEW | if the BBC *is* biased, it’s not against the right…
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
The resignation of Tim Davie as BBC Director-General is the next stage in the corporation's collapse into cowardice.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
NEW | if the BBC *is* biased, it’s not against the right…
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
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Having attended 'a few' pub quizzes over a number of tears, and having written and ran them during student days, this properly irks me.
It's a pub quiz. It's FUN, and should be kept as such in the spirit of a social event. Yes, a competitive edge is nice, but DON'T BLOODY CHEAT.
It's a pub quiz. It's FUN, and should be kept as such in the spirit of a social event. Yes, a competitive edge is nice, but DON'T BLOODY CHEAT.
BBC News - 'Massive whodunnit' after pub quiz team banned for cheating - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Massive whodunnit. Im guessing it's the team that keeps winning and has stopped turning up.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Massive whodunnit. Im guessing it's the team that keeps winning and has stopped turning up.
'Massive whodunnit' after pub quiz team banned for cheating
A Greater Manchester pub landlord bans a quiz team after its members were caught using their smartwatches to cheat.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Having attended 'a few' pub quizzes over a number of tears, and having written and ran them during student days, this properly irks me.
It's a pub quiz. It's FUN, and should be kept as such in the spirit of a social event. Yes, a competitive edge is nice, but DON'T BLOODY CHEAT.
It's a pub quiz. It's FUN, and should be kept as such in the spirit of a social event. Yes, a competitive edge is nice, but DON'T BLOODY CHEAT.
Can only hear people claiming "Everyone's going back to Twitter" as Will Ferrell yelling "We're going streaking" in Old School.
a shirtless man says " everybody 's doing it "
Alt: A naked Will Ferrell saying "Everybody's doing it" in Old School
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Can only hear people claiming "Everyone's going back to Twitter" as Will Ferrell yelling "We're going streaking" in Old School.
One time in the gents at Isaac's in Boro, a bloke was pissing into the corner urinal, facing the wall like the end of Blair Witch, loudly chuntering: "WHOTHEFUCK IS IDRIS ELBA? NOT MY JAMES BOND! NOT MY BOND!"
Anyway, he won't see your joke posts about how unserious James Bond is, but I will. 😢
Anyway, he won't see your joke posts about how unserious James Bond is, but I will. 😢
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
One time in the gents at Isaac's in Boro, a bloke was pissing into the corner urinal, facing the wall like the end of Blair Witch, loudly chuntering: "WHOTHEFUCK IS IDRIS ELBA? NOT MY JAMES BOND! NOT MY BOND!"
Anyway, he won't see your joke posts about how unserious James Bond is, but I will. 😢
Anyway, he won't see your joke posts about how unserious James Bond is, but I will. 😢
It's really weird that Casino Royale (1967) takes the piss out of there being multiple agents all called James Bond ("even the girls") two years before they recast the part for the first time. There are many reasons that film fails as a comedy, but in that sole regard, a bit prescient?
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It's really weird that Casino Royale (1967) takes the piss out of there being multiple agents all called James Bond ("even the girls") two years before they recast the part for the first time. There are many reasons that film fails as a comedy, but in that sole regard, a bit prescient?
Fun fact: They never made that third Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law because there was no way to get Holmes and Watson back to Victorian London after they lived in 2010s London and looked like Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. It would confuse the audience.
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Fun fact: They never made that third Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law because there was no way to get Holmes and Watson back to Victorian London after they lived in 2010s London and looked like Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. It would confuse the audience.
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There is a moment in all of Moore's post Moonraker films, where Bond stops and thinks "Was I really in space? No, I can't have been in space. Fuck me, I was, I was in fucking space!"
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
There is a moment in all of Moore's post Moonraker films, where Bond stops and thinks "Was I really in space? No, I can't have been in space. Fuck me, I was, I was in fucking space!"