Robert Valentine
@mrrobvalentine.bsky.social
Hack for hire. robertvalentine.net
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Seems the perfect time to migrate and expand an old Twitter thread of mine about the greatest art heist of the twentieth century...
'INDIANA WHO: CRUSADE OF DEATH!' An adventure in art-theft starring Julian Glover... and Julian Glover.
'INDIANA WHO: CRUSADE OF DEATH!' An adventure in art-theft starring Julian Glover... and Julian Glover.
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My book Where We Stand, Where We fall is now up for pre-order. It's about the politics of Doctor Who, the themes the show keeps returning to over sixty years.
I mentioned this last week, but now there's a proper post about it, with a 30% discount code from the publisher: lmmyles.com/2025/11/26/b...
I mentioned this last week, but now there's a proper post about it, with a 30% discount code from the publisher: lmmyles.com/2025/11/26/b...
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
My book Where We Stand, Where We fall is now up for pre-order. It's about the politics of Doctor Who, the themes the show keeps returning to over sixty years.
I mentioned this last week, but now there's a proper post about it, with a 30% discount code from the publisher: lmmyles.com/2025/11/26/b...
I mentioned this last week, but now there's a proper post about it, with a 30% discount code from the publisher: lmmyles.com/2025/11/26/b...
We didn’t bag a trophy for Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show at #TheSpeakies last night, but if there’d been a Best Pseudoscientific Appropriation of Cornish Mining Folklore category, I tell you, we’d have smashed it.
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
We didn’t bag a trophy for Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show at #TheSpeakies last night, but if there’d been a Best Pseudoscientific Appropriation of Cornish Mining Folklore category, I tell you, we’d have smashed it.
Bloomin’ loved writing this one. The Fourth Doctor, Sarah, Harry and the Brig, and a diabolical scheme - of death!
Skelephobics look away now. 💀 COVER REVEAL for Doctor Who: The Ministry of Death. Click https://bgfn.sh/DW4D15A to find out more and to pre-order the box set, due for release in March 2026.
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Bloomin’ loved writing this one. The Fourth Doctor, Sarah, Harry and the Brig, and a diabolical scheme - of death!
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Robert Eggers' The Telltale Heart, because no-one does films about sad white people with much to be sad about like Eggers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNLI...
The Tell Tale Heart (2008) by Robert Eggers 4K Remaster
YouTube video by GW Remasters
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November 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Robert Eggers' The Telltale Heart, because no-one does films about sad white people with much to be sad about like Eggers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNLI...
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I’m doing my Ghost Stories talk in New York!!*
*via Zoom
*via Zoom
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’m doing my Ghost Stories talk in New York!!*
*via Zoom
*via Zoom
Goodnight. #DoctorWhoDay
a black and white photo of a phone booth flying through the air
Alt: The TARDIS spinning through space.
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Goodnight. #DoctorWhoDay
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Steven's catfishing a lovelorn civil servant, Richard's developed Housemaid's Knee, and Brendan's been hypnotised into prompting AI romance novels. At the end of the End of Empire, there's nothing left to do but L♡ve All. #TheAvengers #podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/4b4p...
open.spotify.com/episode/4b4p...
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Steven's catfishing a lovelorn civil servant, Richard's developed Housemaid's Knee, and Brendan's been hypnotised into prompting AI romance novels. At the end of the End of Empire, there's nothing left to do but L♡ve All. #TheAvengers #podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/4b4p...
open.spotify.com/episode/4b4p...
The most magnificent bastard of them all. #TheBoxOfDelights
November 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The most magnificent bastard of them all. #TheBoxOfDelights
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We conclude our #StrangeStudies of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" this week with some reflective canine hijinks! Before you rush off to grab your dog and a mirror, head on over Patreon and check it out!
Subscribe there, on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!
#hppodcraft
Subscribe there, on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!
#hppodcraft
November 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
We conclude our #StrangeStudies of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" this week with some reflective canine hijinks! Before you rush off to grab your dog and a mirror, head on over Patreon and check it out!
Subscribe there, on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!
#hppodcraft
Subscribe there, on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!
#hppodcraft
It’s Spooky Christmas! @forteanlondon.bsky.social’s #TheHauntedLandscape at @conwayhall.bsky.social. #ForteanLondon 👻 😈 📚
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
It’s Spooky Christmas! @forteanlondon.bsky.social’s #TheHauntedLandscape at @conwayhall.bsky.social. #ForteanLondon 👻 😈 📚
I do not bring energy to Bluesky.
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I do not bring energy to Bluesky.
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HORROR TOP TRUMPS (1978): Colossally gruesome sets, featuring blood, gore, and dismemberment. A playground classic. And it's like two games in one: can you name all the film and TV images homaged by the cards?
November 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
HORROR TOP TRUMPS (1978): Colossally gruesome sets, featuring blood, gore, and dismemberment. A playground classic. And it's like two games in one: can you name all the film and TV images homaged by the cards?
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Something cheerful for a chilly November day.
This wonderful 1950s Austin car brochure was printed by Wills & Hepworth, the firm behind the 'Ladybird' brand.
(Artist uncredited)
This wonderful 1950s Austin car brochure was printed by Wills & Hepworth, the firm behind the 'Ladybird' brand.
(Artist uncredited)
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Something cheerful for a chilly November day.
This wonderful 1950s Austin car brochure was printed by Wills & Hepworth, the firm behind the 'Ladybird' brand.
(Artist uncredited)
This wonderful 1950s Austin car brochure was printed by Wills & Hepworth, the firm behind the 'Ladybird' brand.
(Artist uncredited)
Good morning, you lot. ☕️ ☀️ 🥶
November 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Good morning, you lot. ☕️ ☀️ 🥶
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A century of Art Deco design on the London Underground is being celebrated in a new exhibition at the LT Museum.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lt-...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lt-...
LT Museum’s new exhibition charts 100 years of Art Deco
A century of Art Deco design on the London Underground is being celebrated in a new exhibition at the LT Museum.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A century of Art Deco design on the London Underground is being celebrated in a new exhibition at the LT Museum.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lt-...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lt-...
Good morning. It’s snowing. ☕️ ❄️
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Good morning. It’s snowing. ☕️ ❄️
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One from the vaults! In 1970 Penguin re-published many John Wyndham books in paperback, including of course Day of the Triffids, now all with matching cover art by Harry Willock
November 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
One from the vaults! In 1970 Penguin re-published many John Wyndham books in paperback, including of course Day of the Triffids, now all with matching cover art by Harry Willock
It’s Monday night but somehow it feels like a Friday night and oh bloody hell I think I’ve mentally quit for the year already.
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It’s Monday night but somehow it feels like a Friday night and oh bloody hell I think I’ve mentally quit for the year already.
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Saturday: 22 November 2025 @conwayhall.bsky.social and online.
Legend trip through the Haunted Landscape at the London Fortean Society’s Day of expert talks on British ghost, magic, and folklore.
Speakers and timings follow 1/10
forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
Legend trip through the Haunted Landscape at the London Fortean Society’s Day of expert talks on British ghost, magic, and folklore.
Speakers and timings follow 1/10
forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
November 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Saturday: 22 November 2025 @conwayhall.bsky.social and online.
Legend trip through the Haunted Landscape at the London Fortean Society’s Day of expert talks on British ghost, magic, and folklore.
Speakers and timings follow 1/10
forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
Legend trip through the Haunted Landscape at the London Fortean Society’s Day of expert talks on British ghost, magic, and folklore.
Speakers and timings follow 1/10
forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
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Ooh we do love a good yak @verbatimfoley.bsky.social x
Please enjoying me yakking away about lots of things, including JURASSIC at @sohotheatre.bsky.social!
"You have to make a small show that feels big now"
Playwright Tim Foley on Jurassic at Soho Theatre, his new BBC Radio 4 drama, his returning horror play It Walks Around The House At Night, and more. Plus: three shows to see next week.
substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Ooh we do love a good yak @verbatimfoley.bsky.social x
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Excited to finally launch my new audio drama from Definitely Human! The Divide is a 12 part spy thriller set in 1964 & arriving in your local branch of podcasts on 24th October. The art you can see here is by the amazing @bookcoversbyjon.bsky.social who is very much available for this kind of thing!
October 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Excited to finally launch my new audio drama from Definitely Human! The Divide is a 12 part spy thriller set in 1964 & arriving in your local branch of podcasts on 24th October. The art you can see here is by the amazing @bookcoversbyjon.bsky.social who is very much available for this kind of thing!
The thought of even opening a dating app exhausts me. I want to meet someone the old fashioned way, where their father is a brilliant scientist who’s gets kidnapped by a diabolical mastermind and
November 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The thought of even opening a dating app exhausts me. I want to meet someone the old fashioned way, where their father is a brilliant scientist who’s gets kidnapped by a diabolical mastermind and
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"Does the number," said Arthur gently, "forty-two mean anything to you at all?" "What? No, what are you talking about?" exclaimed Fenchurch. "Just a thought," murmured Arthur.
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"Does the number," said Arthur gently, "forty-two mean anything to you at all?" "What? No, what are you talking about?" exclaimed Fenchurch. "Just a thought," murmured Arthur.
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When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982