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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic Random Comics-Related Stuff in the forum Comics talk</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:18:42 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is there really much interest in Byrne going back to the X-Men? Grouchy old man with a load of prejudices and grudges tidying up fan-fiction of how he would have done the X-Men decades ago that he published to his core audience already on his message board. About the level of decision I expect from Chris &#8220;hey let&#8217;s tank our successful Transformers&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-133251"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/random-comics-related-stuff/page/10/#post-148389" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic Politics and Current Affairs in the forum The Loveland Arms - pub chat</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:01:43 +0000</pubDate>

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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic Politics and Current Affairs in the forum The Loveland Arms - pub chat</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:14:53 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know, you wait over 100 years for your constituency to get an MP who&#8217;s not a Tory and he gets himself arrested in under two years.</p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic The Toy Thread in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:35:15 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m as surprised as any one. But yeah, I am well up for a full line of these: the 12 original guys, Galadria and Virulina, Merklynn, maybe the Sun Imps, hell, if it goes well maybe they&#8217;ll even do the unreleased 88 characters.</p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic The Video Games Thread in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:26:11 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I started playing Cuphead this weekend, as it had a sale to go with the announcement of the 8 Bit sidequel at SGF. Absolutely gorgeous presentationally. It is as hard as you&#8217;ve heard. It&#8217;s taking me about an hour for each level (most of which are just a boss fight) and at several points I&#8217;ve thought &#8220;maybe I should just put it down to the lower&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-133161"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/the-video-games-thread/page/8/#post-148282" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic The Toy Thread in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:15:12 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some pics of the Super7 Visionaries leaked (over a week ago &#8211; not sure how I missed it given I’ve been looking regularly) and while they’re just render mock-ups they look like they might be quite good (font choice on the packaging aside). And they’re doing proper holograms, surprisingly. I like the addition of staff hold back accessories/options.</p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic Doctor Who: now discussing The War Between the Land and the Sea (spoilers!) in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:46:21 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RTD2 has me hesitant to put anyone on a pedestal and JMS has been responsible for some notable stinkers himself (not just the tail end of his Spider-Man run but that Superman arc where he just walked for some reason), but yeah, I&#8217;d take him running the show. Better than the other mooted alternatives (McTighe). But he needs to bring a production&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-133121"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/doctor-who-flux-fourteen-and-the-future/page/8/#post-148227" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic Doctor Who: now discussing The War Between the Land and the Sea (spoilers!) in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:33:35 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yep, I think Ian summed it up nicely with &#8220;absolute shambles&#8221;. If he&#8217;d just ended with an unfinished regeneration, it would be far less of an issue, but he had to amuse himself by throwing Billie Piper in there without seemingly even thinking about what it could possibly be. Now, not only is it someone else&#8217;s problem, but it&#8217;ll quite possibly&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-133111"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/doctor-who-flux-fourteen-and-the-future/page/8/#post-148215" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic The Toy Thread in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:14:22 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Damn, I&#8217;m going to have to get one now to try out.</p>
<p>I do wonder what they&#8217;re going to do when they complete the SF2 set. I mean, obviously they can move on to 3, Alpha, Final Fight etc. But as they get into the weeds on the objectively less popular characters from those (Rose, Rolento etc) will they keep doing reissues of these main SF2 characters&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-133098"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/the-toy-thread/page/10/#post-148202" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic You Have Been Watching in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:39:16 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, I had no idea they were sourced from the same show.</p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic The Toy Thread in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:21:36 +0000</pubDate>

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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic Television News in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:20:46 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah. The only real sticking points of accessibility if you continue on from the original series are a) that humanity has spaceships now and b) a Lucian Alliance Goa&#8217;uld transport ship blew up on Earth in an episode of Universe (which I took to be a watershed moment of them having to reveal the existence of aliens to the general populace, but I&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-133046"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/television-news-2/page/6/#post-148139" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic Random Comics-Related Stuff in the forum Comics talk</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:18:30 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh god, yes, Chrononauts was awful. Just paint by numbers emotions tied to a sort of alright but not that original concept.</p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic Random Comics-Related Stuff in the forum Comics talk</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:01:56 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I certainly did. He&#8217;s definitely a writer that appeals to, broadly, an adolescent mindset, which presumably doesn&#8217;t have a huge crossover with people able to fund Kickstarters. Is he even still associated with Netflix if he&#8217;s doing stuff through Kickstarter? I haven&#8217;t heard of any of his work in years now, but I don&#8217;t really follow comics news&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-133040"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/random-comics-related-stuff/page/10/#post-148132" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic Television News in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:57:07 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, and everything Gero had said was stressing that it was going to be accessible to new viewers, wasn&#8217;t going to just be a nostalgia revival for SG-1.</p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic You Have Been Watching in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:01:34 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I saw that new He-Man, sorry,  film today. Overall, I thought it was pretty rubbish.</p>
<p>It certainly has good bits. Sir Idris Elba is as solid as you’d expect and Alison Brie is great as Evil Lyn. But beyond that, it has many problems, which I&#8217;m going to spoiler tag.</p>
<p>I think this film is going to do well for the same reasons the Michael Bay T&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132984"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/you-have-been-watching-2/page/15/#post-148068" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic Television News in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:58:49 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Infuriating. If it&#8217;s far enough along to have announced it, it should be far enough along that it gets to at least make a pilot.</p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic The Video Games Thread in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:20:02 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I finished <strong>Live A Live</strong> last night, which took me longer than I expected. It&#8217;s a HD-2D remake of a mid-90s JRPG by Square which was released only on the Super Famicom. It&#8217;s a staple of the SNES fan translation canon though, as it was translated by the early 00s. Given it didn&#8217;t leave Japan, I was a bit surprised it got a modern remake and English&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132939"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/the-video-games-thread/page/8/#post-148015" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic Random Comics-Related Stuff in the forum Comics talk</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 08:32:55 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Robert Kirkman&#8217;s licensed the Gold Key characters, so I guess this means we&#8217;re mere weeks away from Turok: Dinobot Hunter.</p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic News thread in the forum The Loveland Arms - pub chat</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 08:20:43 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New Zealand was going to do it first, as well as reducing the amount of nicotine in cigarettes (which seems like a pretty good policy even if you don&#8217;t want to ban them) but backed off it when the government changed.</p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic Doctor Who: now discussing The War Between the Land and the Sea (spoilers!) in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 10:49:38 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 4K restoration of the TVM came out yesterday, which I completely forgot about. The Beeb&#8217;s put the restored titles on YT and man, that ominous last line of the voice over and that version of the theme tune still gets me, like I&#8217;m 9 years old again.</p>
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<p>And they got McGann to do the subscription beg for&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132845"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/doctor-who-flux-fourteen-and-the-future/page/8/#post-147909" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic News thread in the forum The Loveland Arms - pub chat</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 10:07:26 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But food, even junk food, has a positive benefit of being, you know, food. It&#8217;s misuse (and in some cases not even that) which causes obesity. You could even argue alcohol has the same limited positive health benefits when taken in moderation. Cigarettes don&#8217;t. It&#8217;s an artificial product we created entirely for a recreational activity that causes&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132842"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/news-thread/page/8/#post-147906" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic News thread in the forum The Loveland Arms - pub chat</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 08:44:00 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Honestly, anyone under the age of about 45 who smokes is an unmitigated idiot. It has been common knowledge for that long that cigarettes are incredibly harmful to health. To choose to take up smoking at any point since the late 90s ish is just a moronic decision and your resultant health issues shouldn&#8217;t be the state&#8217;s burden.</p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic The Toy Thread in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 09:38:15 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Various bits of Japanese Beast Wars tat</strong><br />
So I’ve discovered an affordable (for the moment at least) Japanese proxy shipping service and have mainly been using it to get vintage Beast Wars merch. First amongst these were a set of character magnets, chibi versions of the original 10 characters from the show (unfortunately, Black Arachnia, Inferno, T&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132803"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/the-toy-thread/page/10/#post-147848" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic The Toy Thread in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 09:30:15 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Blokees Transformers Defenders</strong><br />
I got really into Blokees when they first started but that burned out pretty quickly after half a dozen of the Galaxy class models. But the Defender line has started adding in Beast Wars characters and I am a sucker for Beast Wars (more on that later). So after getting Cheetor as a test, I bought a full case of wave&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132802"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/the-toy-thread/page/10/#post-147842" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic The Toy Thread in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 09:23:40 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>MOTU Origins</strong></p>
<p><strong>200X Skeletor</strong></p>
<p>It’s ironic, given I’ve been slowly trying to sell off my 200X collection, that I’m finding myself really into these 200x cartoon collection figures. I picked up Skeletor first, from the Entertainer (which seems to be the only High Street chain stocking them) when I intended to get Panthro. I figured there was less&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132801"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/the-toy-thread/page/10/#post-147841" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic The Toy Thread in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 09:16:58 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here’s a big dollop of things I’ve picked up in recent months and again keep forgetting to talk about.<br />
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MOTU x Thundercats</strong></p>
<p>I ended up getting the rest of the proper T-Cats from this.</p>
<p><strong>Tygra</strong> – who is mostly good. He comes with loads of translucent green Eternian parts. I don’t really know why (presumably a reference to… something?) but they’re n&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132800"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/the-toy-thread/page/10/#post-147840" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 20:41:29 +0000</pubDate>

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				<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 19:47:47 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have my reservations about Discord (the age verification stuff, the push for Nitro) but it is functional and has been a decent enough fallback for the other former-message-board-community I&#8217;m part of. It&#8217;ll be a shame to see the Carrier go, one of the last of a dying breed of old style forums, but I get that it makes sense financially. There is&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132785"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/the-random-thread-of-randomosity/page/11/#post-147821" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 10:54:48 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’ve been helping to clear out my parents’ lofts (yes, weirdly there are two for the one house) recently, and floorboard the main one. Amongst the various forgotten junk up there was a bag with a few PC mags from 98/99. Three PC Formats (the boring mag that would have articles about how to use Internet Explorer etc) and two PC Zones (the games mag&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132754"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/the-random-thread-of-randomosity/page/11/#post-147776" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 09:21:17 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Colbert very succinctly spelling out what will happen with the Trump IRS slush fund.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Insurrectionists Hit The Jackpot | A Middle East Chill Pill | How The Ballroom Ties Together" width="1060" height="596" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GMYvgmjVAqI?start=108&#038;feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 09:19:08 +0000</pubDate>

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				<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 09:30:53 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My problem with Starmer is that he is completely lacking in principles and backbone. He stood to become Labour leader on a very clear set of pledges, heavily playing on Corbyn&#8217;s existing platform and support, and immediately abandoned pretty much all of them. I&#8217;ve highlighted in green the ones he&#8217;s actually followed through on.</p>
<p>Then as leader&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132648"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/politics-and-current-affairs/page/32/#post-147652" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 10:46:29 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think with Burnham, the fact that this constituency that&#8217;s been vacated is within Greater Manchester makes the move less odious than it if it was Kent or something. And I don&#8217;t think the aspiration to go from GM mayor to PM is that bad. I mean, obviously, it is self-serving and opportunistic, any attempt to become PM is, but I think it can&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132626"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/politics-and-current-affairs/page/32/#post-147627" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 09:18:21 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Burnham&#8217;s now found a Labour MP with a safe seat in Manchester who will stand aside for him. He just has to hope that a) he wins the by-election (everyone will be gunning for him) and b) it happens before any leadership election.</p>
<p>Not that I want to cheer on the further descent into chaos of the UK political scene, but it would be quite funny if&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132606"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/politics-and-current-affairs/page/32/#post-147597" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:30:42 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wes Streeting&#8217;s resigned, now let&#8217;s see if he can 81 (or however many it is) Labour MPs to publicly admit they want him to be PM.</p>
<p>I saw polling earlier, of the Labour membership, which suggests Starmer would lose to Burnham, Rayner or Ed Miliband, but beat Streeting.</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 22:28:36 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m currently reading Iron Man epic collection Age Of Innocence, which covers Timeslide, Teen Tony and Onslaught. I read the Teen Tony stuff in a different trade a few years ago and back then I thought it was better than its reputation. This time around, with the added context of Timeslide, well, it’s crap. But I still think it’s a concept with&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132572"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/random-comics-related-stuff/page/10/#post-147558" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic You Have Been Watching in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 08:53:56 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was a serious question, though I realise it sounds a bit silly, as I&#8217;ve not seen the first but I understand it focused on some new character (Cole?) rather than the ones from the game.</p>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 16:35:14 +0000</pubDate>

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				<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 10:34:03 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, one more thing: that clipping BB opened of Ben writing about Fisk; that can&#8217;t have happened, surely? Fisk wasn&#8217;t outed as a crime boss before he killed Ben, was he? He killed Ben after Ben found his mother in the care home, which was when Fisk had outed himself as a philanthropist, but before the crime stuff was broken, IIRC.</p>
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				<title>Martin Smith replied to the topic Television News in the forum Movies, TV and other media</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 10:04:27 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d be disappointed if L&amp;O is cancelled, but it&#8217;s really not as good as the original run. I watched a random episode of that recently (Everybody Loves Raymondo&#8217;s, I think it&#8217;s called) and every scene was dripping with wit and charm. The new one&#8230; not so much. And as much as I like Maura Tierney, I don&#8217;t think her lieutenant character works that&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132491"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/television-news-2/page/6/#post-147434" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 20:11:04 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That sure was a lot of stuff that happened.</p>
<p>Only thing I really found interesting was Heather’s unravelling mental state.</p>
<p>Hopefully that Punisher thing next week will be better, as will whatever it might be (if anything) that picks up with Luke and Jessica (and Danny?)</p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 08:04:06 +0000</pubDate>

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				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:29:20 +0000</pubDate>

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				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:57:39 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The thing with the governor in this last episode summed up some of my problems with this season. Fisk needs the governor out of the way so he can have her compliant Lt Gov installed in her place. So instead of digging up dirt on her (admittedly they said she was too clean for this, but given she&#8217;s working with Shaggy from the CIA, that seems&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132403"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/daredevil-born-again-with-spoilers/#post-147326" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:23:39 +0000</pubDate>

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				<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:06:25 +0000</pubDate>

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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:25:58 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’ve been increasingly underwhelmed by this season. It definitely hasn’t been as entertaining as the first. While there’s been some highlights &#8211; Swordsman was fun, especially his Reign of Terror commentary on his trial &#8211; it’s far less than the sum of its parts and feels like it doesn’t actually know how to escalate tension or stakes really. M&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132303"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/daredevil-born-again-with-spoilers/#post-147189" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:51:18 +0000</pubDate>

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<p>Porsche&#8217;s new Gen 4 Formula E car for next season (starts end of this year/beginning of the next). I think this is just a test livery &#8211; the dazzle pattern is a bit of cliche on that front and kinda pointless given the series has spec body work that all the teams get from the same supplier &#8211; but still, it looks gorgeous. Big improvement over the&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132270"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/sports-discussion/page/4/#post-147140" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:16:14 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been buying a lot of stuff from Japan recently. Mainly Beast Wars tat, video game stuff (GameCube controllers in Japanese exclusive colourways but also a complete copy of Kid Icarus for the Famicom Disk System. I do not have a FDS), but also blu-rays of the <strong>Ginger Rogers &amp; Fred Astaire</strong> canon.</p>
<p>I first watched them all around 2012, when BBC&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-132253"><a href="https://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/you-have-been-watching-2/page/15/#post-147123" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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