Charles EP Murphy
@cepmurphy.bsky.social
Started writing, nobody has succeeded in making him stop. Self publisher & jobbing writer, most books available: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Charles-E.P.-Murphy/e/B015UTGDJW
Not on twitter; rarely checking DMs atm
Not on twitter; rarely checking DMs atm
when you're watching the Living With Chucky documentary and suddenly John Waters is in it saying "Godzilla never had sex" re why Bride Of Chucky is good
September 26, 2026 at 6:11 PM
when you're watching the Living With Chucky documentary and suddenly John Waters is in it saying "Godzilla never had sex" re why Bride Of Chucky is good
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So, @ericamarks.bsky.social and I have started writing Bones & Betrayals… book 2!
If you missed book 1… you’re missing out!
If you missed book 1… you’re missing out!
September 26, 2026 at 4:55 PM
So, @ericamarks.bsky.social and I have started writing Bones & Betrayals… book 2!
If you missed book 1… you’re missing out!
If you missed book 1… you’re missing out!
"Larry, you utter bastard, we trusted you to do this comic without oversight and why isn't the Joe being told the West are exploiters while he sits in the new All-Terrain Boom Car toy?"
So funny that Larry Hama got someone at Hasbro to sign-up on this script for their Toy Soldier Commercial Comics
September 26, 2026 at 5:16 PM
"Larry, you utter bastard, we trusted you to do this comic without oversight and why isn't the Joe being told the West are exploiters while he sits in the new All-Terrain Boom Car toy?"
noting that Mahmood doesn't actually address Atkinson's question with an answer about _why_ it won't affect integration (and why, if it doesn't, the family he cites are wrong). It's just Something Something Fairness Something.
An exchange with Lewis Atkinson MP over whether the anxieties of those who don't know what rules/timelines they will face is bad for integration. The Home Secretary does not think so, on the grounds that the numbers of people who came in (and who are in that position) was high ...
September 26, 2026 at 4:58 PM
noting that Mahmood doesn't actually address Atkinson's question with an answer about _why_ it won't affect integration (and why, if it doesn't, the family he cites are wrong). It's just Something Something Fairness Something.
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And this is why you have to push back. Am I convinced the apology comes from the heart? Not really, but a fairly mild pushback made them realise this thought was unwelcome and they would be shunned for it. It works!
This is Konstantin Kisin on regretting making Sunak a specific case study & attempting to apologise.
"Kisin now regrets his clumsy interjection – “he is brown and Hindu? How is he English?” – on tone, more than on substance".
www.konstantinkisin.com/p/my-respons...
"Kisin now regrets his clumsy interjection – “he is brown and Hindu? How is he English?” – on tone, more than on substance".
www.konstantinkisin.com/p/my-respons...
My Response to Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak means well but his rhetoric and ideology are helping to create the racialised Britain he is so desperate to avoid.
www.konstantinkisin.com
September 26, 2026 at 4:20 PM
And this is why you have to push back. Am I convinced the apology comes from the heart? Not really, but a fairly mild pushback made them realise this thought was unwelcome and they would be shunned for it. It works!
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If you see this post a random wrestling picture
September 26, 2026 at 4:01 PM
If you see this post a random wrestling picture
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i don't think it's progressive misogyny to think that it's bad that bi men are accused of being sexually active simply because they find both genders attractive
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the GC replies to her are mostly homophobic attacks claiming all bi men want to engage in sex harmful to women
September 26, 2026 at 3:55 PM
i don't think it's progressive misogyny to think that it's bad that bi men are accused of being sexually active simply because they find both genders attractive
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If you see this post a random wrestling picture
September 26, 2026 at 3:58 PM
If you see this post a random wrestling picture
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It’s pretty obvious that “Ah but the evil consultants!” has become the mechanism for these people trying to explain why it’s bad that the Nazi tattooed rapist ostensible progressive was replaced by a candidate with exactly the same expressed policy positions
Funny how Drop Site sent its book-length hit piece on Jackson supposedly selling out to AIPAC two hours after this thread.
That won't stop those guys, though. Ryan Grim wants Jackson to lose so he can shove Graham Platner down everyone's throat for six years straight.
That won't stop those guys, though. Ryan Grim wants Jackson to lose so he can shove Graham Platner down everyone's throat for six years straight.
After Benjamin Netanyahu, who I believe is a war criminal, just came and went from New York, I’ve been thinking a lot about the world my first granddaughter is about to enter.
September 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
It’s pretty obvious that “Ah but the evil consultants!” has become the mechanism for these people trying to explain why it’s bad that the Nazi tattooed rapist ostensible progressive was replaced by a candidate with exactly the same expressed policy positions
We have it.
We have the next Thunderbirds story.
We have the next Thunderbirds story.
Clearly we will never agree on one place to put an expanded hub airport in Britain, so let's just press ahead with a commercial aircraft carrier.
September 26, 2026 at 3:49 PM
We have it.
We have the next Thunderbirds story.
We have the next Thunderbirds story.
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Guardian reports Rayner's continued defence of migrants care workers from in Cabinet. Seems to have won that argument for care workers with No 10 + Home Office
Big unknown: will anyone protect 250k non-care workers (chefs, vets, architects) from being thrown out
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Big unknown: will anyone protect 250k non-care workers (chefs, vets, architects) from being thrown out
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Angela Rayner stands by attack on care worker visa reforms ahead of Labour conference
Housing secretary says Home Office moved goalposts with ‘disruptive’ change to permanent residence rules
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Guardian reports Rayner's continued defence of migrants care workers from in Cabinet. Seems to have won that argument for care workers with No 10 + Home Office
Big unknown: will anyone protect 250k non-care workers (chefs, vets, architects) from being thrown out
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Big unknown: will anyone protect 250k non-care workers (chefs, vets, architects) from being thrown out
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Incredibly the substance of this is all benefits claimants should automatically be enrolled in weight loss programmes, implicitly ozempic which is ~£100 a month, representing an effective 25% boost to universal credit to own the libs
September 26, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Incredibly the substance of this is all benefits claimants should automatically be enrolled in weight loss programmes, implicitly ozempic which is ~£100 a month, representing an effective 25% boost to universal credit to own the libs
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Snapshot from next week's JUDGE DREDD:
September 26, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Snapshot from next week's JUDGE DREDD:
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Comics folk - if you read just one thread this weekend it needs to be this one. It’s important.
Very anxious about posting this, but I feel strongly compelled to share. I know it’s a lot to take in for a Saturday morning and I appreciate anyone for taking the time to read it.
September 26, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Comics folk - if you read just one thread this weekend it needs to be this one. It’s important.
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This should be back in print ASAP
September 26, 2026 at 9:22 AM
This should be back in print ASAP
one of the most Scarlet Traces panel in all of Scarlet Traces:
September 26, 2026 at 11:39 AM
one of the most Scarlet Traces panel in all of Scarlet Traces:
There's a very interesting cyberpunk story in the future console cowboys and razorgirls having to switch constantly from supercool high tech hack action to "put this wig on and fake handwriting to get into a restaurant" like it's still the mid-20th century's crime/spy fiction
Some unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create:
1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all.
2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person.
3. Businesses that operate without websites.
1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all.
2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person.
3. Businesses that operate without websites.
September 26, 2026 at 11:31 AM
There's a very interesting cyberpunk story in the future console cowboys and razorgirls having to switch constantly from supercool high tech hack action to "put this wig on and fake handwriting to get into a restaurant" like it's still the mid-20th century's crime/spy fiction
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Fundamentally, the median voter has had a tax cut since 2010 and the result is that nothing works.
Kind of grimly fascinating as always, coming from the former director of strategy to a Labour PM. There just isn't a future for a centre-left politics that is this hostile to pretty basic progressive values.
September 25, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Fundamentally, the median voter has had a tax cut since 2010 and the result is that nothing works.
one for you #alternatehistory and regular history fans, the man behind Sea Lion Press's articles on wartime France goes live around 11 with WW2TV to chat research: www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/dreams-...
Dreams From The Dark Years... Live!
Paul Hynes' series of articles on WW2 France goes from the page to the screen today, as Paul will be discussing his research live on the Youtube channel WW2TV! The chat will begin at 11AM BST here but will be recorded for future viewing as well.Discuss this Article
www.sealionpress.co.uk
September 25, 2026 at 8:37 AM
one for you #alternatehistory and regular history fans, the man behind Sea Lion Press's articles on wartime France goes live around 11 with WW2TV to chat research: www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/dreams-...
Right, that's it.
Greggs? Start opening overseas branches in the Deep South. It's war.
Greggs? Start opening overseas branches in the Deep South. It's war.
Can’t believe no one has ever thought of the idea of selling us hot food. I, for one, am both excited and, if I’m honest, a little apprehensive about the idea of warm food.
www.ft.com/content/bdb6... Subway rival bets hot sandwiches will sell in UK’s ‘cold and rain’
www.ft.com/content/bdb6... Subway rival bets hot sandwiches will sell in UK’s ‘cold and rain’
September 25, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Right, that's it.
Greggs? Start opening overseas branches in the Deep South. It's war.
Greggs? Start opening overseas branches in the Deep South. It's war.
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I was worried Red Dwarf: Titan wouldn't be good, that Rob Grant and his co-writer couldn't nail it (Grant's solo books had been a bit all over the place)
They smegging nail it! Absolute blast of a book
They smegging nail it! Absolute blast of a book
September 24, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I was worried Red Dwarf: Titan wouldn't be good, that Rob Grant and his co-writer couldn't nail it (Grant's solo books had been a bit all over the place)
They smegging nail it! Absolute blast of a book
They smegging nail it! Absolute blast of a book
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"Super! It's Marvin! Your cousin, Marvin Man!"
Person who said "This is a job for Superman" in 1909 be like:
September 24, 2026 at 8:43 PM
"Super! It's Marvin! Your cousin, Marvin Man!"