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Toby Hall

@tobyhallwriter.bsky.social

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Writer looking for a job and an agent. Likes Doctor Who, reading, cheese, steampunk, folklore + lots of other stuff. Eclectic music taste. Youtube Channel (Link to CV In Channel Description): https://www.youtube.com/@TobyAJHall

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Toby Hall @tobyhallwriter.bsky.social · 9h

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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Ban Israel from Eurovision or the UK should withdraw

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t stress enough how utterly embarrassing it is to see experienced artists suddenly use AI

I can never have a shred of respect for someone who used to be a peer & who decided to embrace something that’s the opposite of any craft & any human endeavour

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 1d

Jeremy Clarkson just killed his first calf after a TB outbreak even after bragging he’d “shot all the badgers.”

Guess what, Jeremy? It wasn’t the badgers. It’s your broken testing system.

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The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who @worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 1d

"I think what we've got here is a good old-fashioned doppelganger..."

"Doctor Who: Meglos" part 3 (1980). #DoctorWho #DrWho

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 1d

THIS.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 1d

END THE CULL.

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The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who @worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 21h

"Scary stuff in "Doctor Who", tonight at 7.35 on BBC1..."

BBC trailer for "Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks" part 2 (1988). #DoctorWho

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 19h

Rebarbative [ree-BAR-buh-tiv]
(adj.)
- Causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent.
- Unattractive and objectionable.
- Fearsome; forbidding.

Use:
“Harold’s rebarbative disposition lingered in the air like mothballs and melancholy; even the dusty old taxidermy seemed to recoil.”

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Toby Hall @tobyhallwriter.bsky.social · 1d

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The Doctor Who Theme (In-Between Mix)

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Toby Hall @tobyhallwriter.bsky.social · 1d

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We Can Make an Impact.

Oppose the Faroe Islands hosting the 2027 Island Games

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Toby Hall @tobyhallwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Also, impossible to hear the phrase 'Titanic Sinks Tonight' without fitting it to the tune of 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 2d

This has to stop. We back a ban on the sale of these items, especially to under 18s.

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 2d

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 2d

I find it bleak that ChatGPT now has more users than Wikipedia. Many people would rather be spoon-fed information by a machine than read and research for themselves. Tech isn't just making us dumber. Worse than that: it's killing curiosity itself and the desire to learn.

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 1d

Cultrivorous [kul-TRIV-uh-rus]
(adj.)
- Pertaining to one who devours knives.
- Related to, or descriptive of the act of swallowing, or pretending to swallow knives.

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Doctor Who @bbcdoctorwhom.bsky.social · 2d

okay you can stop asking now

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 3d

Famous bloodsport enthusiast to front new nature film on Amazon Prime..

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 3d

"It is vital this legislation is brought forward with urgency before another season of unnecessary suffering."

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MP calls on government to REALLY ban fox hunting

Labour promised to strengthen the Hunting Ban to stop foxes being terrorised, but that still hasn't happened

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 3d

Guillermo Del Toro is 61.
Here he is on the Weinsteins:

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The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who @worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 3d

"Who the heck are you?"

"Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet" episode 1 (1966). #DoctorWho

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 2d

Leptosomatic [LEP-tuh-soh-MAT-ik]
(adj.)
- Having a slender, thin, or frail body.

Used in a sentence:
”Lisbeth’s leptosomatic frame was ideal for fainting, swooning, and otherwise collapsing decoratively upon the nearest chaise longue.”

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Toby Hall @tobyhallwriter.bsky.social · 2d

To be fair to Russell he said 'a season every year' was a plan, not a promise. Plans change whether by design or as a result of other things and I imagine in the back of his mind, he thought something like this could happen.

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Ben Williams @wenbbilliams.bsky.social · 3d

We have streamers willing to grab this endless sandbox of an IP and all they ask of RTD is that he slightly changes his storytelling approach to be in line with what they want. Or a new showrunner. Just... come on, I'm losing my fucking mind here, just give them modern genre TV, not Space Babies!

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Ben Williams @wenbbilliams.bsky.social · 3d

The BBC are ready to make the show, so many writers, actors, directors waiting to make their mark, so many stories waiting to be told... drop the Mouse and move on. FFS. I'm going mad.

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Ben Williams @wenbbilliams.bsky.social · 3d

The current state of the show is that we are getting new Doctor Who, eventually, when the spin-off comes out, eventually, when the deal is re-negotiated, which it won't, and Billie Piper may or may not be involved in something that might not be happening.

"sEaSoNs eVeRy yEaR"

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