Inverness-based ex-bookseller who believes that Ambridge exists within the Whoniverse. On Letterboxd and elsewhere as Feexby. Physical format advocate. The NHS is keeping me alive. Panglossian. Woke af. He/him.https://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m4ibhryipk22Presumably the various voices of reason on social media are encouraging the artist formerly known as Prince to cut his coat according to his cloth. Downsize to a property he can afford. Find a job that covers his expenditures. Not rely on taxpayer handouts. Just like everyone else.31 Oct 2025 10:30 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4ibhryipk22https://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m4ia645ibc22Odd the similarities between the George story in #TheArchers and the ongoing royal horrorshow. Both parties only know they’ve transgressed because they’re told so. There’s no actual contrition or empathy. They have reluctantly dragged themselves through their mandated punishments.31 Oct 2025 10:07 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4ia645ibc22https://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m3zcuwhnts2cThank you to my wonderful friends at @trapone.bsky.social for these. They are beautiful. The daisiest daisies. I love you all, you mad Trappers. And nobody is crying.25 Oct 2025 11:46 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3zcuwhnts2chttps://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m3wb7bnfjs23Bad friend: sorry I’ve been in the hospice for a few weeks now, struggling with breathing, talking and finer cognitive tasks like typing. My balance is fucked and I’m a high fall risk But I have a Halloween hat, and I think of you all often ❤️24 Oct 2025 06:38 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3wb7bnfjs23https://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2o3ttz2ak2fListened to the news a bit What I apprehended was: Mentally ill people should work. Physically ill people should work. It’s good for them, I imagine. Can’t prove it, but it suits one’s privileged world view And then we grind their bones to make our bread. It’s what Thatcher would have wanted08 Oct 2025 07:15 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2o3ttz2ak2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2npbqk25s2iThe last 2 days have not been top drawer, but the kindness of other people has got me through. I haven’t done anything to deserve this astonishing largesse. My gratitude is sky high. As Randy Newman & Alan Price once put it, “It’s just amazing how fair people can be.” https://youtu.be/sVulPluv5jo?si=vcj7hVQ05pE14iKu08 Oct 2025 03:30 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2npbqk25s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2kkbaom3s2dFucking hell. Tomorrow will be better, I’m sure.06 Oct 2025 21:23 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2kkbaom3s2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2k4w7va2c2dOne year on and I’ve hit the twenty percent survival window. I’m sorry for those four out of five fuckers. Perhaps I didn’t spend your hours as you’d have wanted, I mean I listened to a lot of prog rock and watched Armageddon at least three times. But I tried hard to do neither hurt nor harm.06 Oct 2025 17:24 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2k4w7va2c2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2jwstbbjk27Today has gone off the rails slightly. Back on #Frightenby25 tomorrow.06 Oct 2025 15:34 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2jwstbbjk27https://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2jevm5f3c2dAh bollocks. That’s the world a less jolly place then. Booksellers of the world salute you, Madame. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg50q3p94gqt06 Oct 2025 10:14 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2jevm5f3c2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2iwrasb7s22Still knee deep in other folks’ entrails I feel that #Frightenby25 day five may be a bit frivolous. This is secret code for “I want to give Young Frankenstein a spin” 16) Young Frankenstein 17) Ghostbusters 18) Ghostbusters II WE GOT ONE!06 Oct 2025 06:01 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2iwrasb7s22https://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2iw4alsb222Another week. OK, then. Waris, Verity, Sydney: I will do my best not to let you down. ❤️❤️06 Oct 2025 05:49 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2iw4alsb222https://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2hpalnwos2pGrease Friends Buffy (TV series) The Office (US version) Gavin & Stacey Nothing personal. It just never happened and god’s green earth on my time is dwindling here. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Oct 2025 18:14 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2hpalnwos2phttps://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2gwxecrx22zAnd now I’m gone.05 Oct 2025 10:59 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2gwxecrx22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2gwvdptek2zCheating fucking owl prick. Les chouettes ne sont pas vertes. You’re not my real owl.05 Oct 2025 10:58 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2gwvdptek2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2grum2das24Fuck, yeah. Fight while you have it. Once it’s gone you’ve lost it forever. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Oct 2025 09:28 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2grum2das24https://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2gkftbps222Highly recommended to all my Who friends. @melvinpena.bsky.social is an articulate, enthusiastic soul who always brings a perspective I would not otherwise have had. I love that. @sihart.bsky.social remains the Whoniverse’s gentlest, but most effective interlocutor. Thanks, chaps. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Oct 2025 07:14 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2gkftbps222https://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2ghe64ygc22This is such a helpful podcast as I try to weld together my empirical science upbringing with my developing interest in consciousness. Every episode reminds me how ignorant I still am. I adore that. New project: Sufism https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sheldrake-vernon-dialogues/id59000234805 Oct 2025 06:20 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2ghe64ygc22https://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2fyqspqoc2dDay five of #Frightenby25. Only Fulci can help me now In their various states of glorious restoration: 11) Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979) Gates Of Hell - 12) City Of The Living Dead (1980) 13) The Beyond (1981) 14) The House By The Cemetery (1981) And 15) Murder Rock (1994) if I can find my copy05 Oct 2025 01:58 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2fyqspqoc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2f2v4yl4s2iWell now. Got my @arrowvideo.bsky.social 4K Zombie Flesh Eaters today. I’m down the fathomless Fulci hole now. Maybe Murder Rock later. Definitely the Gates Of Hell tomorrow though. #Frightenby2504 Oct 2025 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2f2v4yl4s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2en5qewrc2jDay four of #Frightenby25 and we are going H.G. Wells mode. He’s not often thought of as a horror writer per se. Just the pioneer of every major SF genre ever. But these are great: 9) Island Of Lost Souls (1932) 10) The Invisible Man (1933)04 Oct 2025 12:58 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2en5qewrc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2ekykkxfs2zThe power of imprinting: whenever I hear about a new Robin Hood release I get parallel ear worms of what I remember as the two distinct Rocket Robin Hood themes…04 Oct 2025 12:20 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2ekykkxfs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2cz6nw6o224The Highland Hospice is opening a new charity shop in Inverness, based I assume on the treasure I have recently moved from my flat. Truculent members of the local FB community would rather the property remained empty than have “another charity shop.” Well…03 Oct 2025 21:28 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2cz6nw6o224https://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2c6oem7tk2nBad to the bone. #Frightenby2503 Oct 2025 13:34 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2c6oem7tk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m2bxmxfknc2kIt’s #Frightenby25 day three. Stephen King adaptation day: 6) Christine (1983) 7) The Dead Zone (1983) 8) The Langoliers (1995)03 Oct 2025 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2bxmxfknc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m27j2ebvh22kDay 2 of #Frightenby25 and it’s a Carpenter triple bill in 4K: 3) The Fog (1980) 4) Prince Of Darkness (1987) 5) The Thing (1982)02 Oct 2025 12:02 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m27j2ebvh22khttps://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m25hdhs3rk24First time in ages that I’ve had the desire and capacity to cook. Pan seared salmon fillets with a sweet chilli, honey and lime sauce of my own devising. Presentation needs work, but god it was tasty.01 Oct 2025 16:25 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m25hdhs3rk24https://bsky.app/profile/feexby.bsky.social/post/3m254q3a3xc2vStarting October with a creature feature double bill: 1) Alligator 2) Alligator II The Mutation #Frightenby2501 Oct 2025 13:16 +0000at://did:plc:sqtsa7xv3ckjamml5ol42edp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m254q3a3xc2v