Dale Smith
@dalesmithonline.com
Writer of things mostly about #DoctorWho and infrequent conversationalist. Also works with #Drupal / #PHP
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This was one of the inspirations behind my @translunartl.bsky.social story A Twist of Nothing translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/a...
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If we're starting "what is a Christmas movie" discourse early this year, I will tap the sign
*It’s cold outside
*Friends gather for a meal together
*Everyone is thinking about a very special little baby
*An important visitor comes in through the ventilation system
Alien is a Christmas movie
*Friends gather for a meal together
*Everyone is thinking about a very special little baby
*An important visitor comes in through the ventilation system
Alien is a Christmas movie
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If we're starting "what is a Christmas movie" discourse early this year, I will tap the sign
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Every one should do everything for free because it grows your everything audience - at no point should anyone be paid. Just an infinite loop of audiences enlarging each other, never to be charged.
November 29, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Every one should do everything for free because it grows your everything audience - at no point should anyone be paid. Just an infinite loop of audiences enlarging each other, never to be charged.
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Is Foxes' "Don't Stop Me Now" in Mummy on the Orient Express the only time a cover version of an existing song has been created for a Doctor Who story?
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Is Foxes' "Don't Stop Me Now" in Mummy on the Orient Express the only time a cover version of an existing song has been created for a Doctor Who story?
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It's weird to remember that new tech used to make you go "Ooh that's cool". Not all the time, but fairly regularly.
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It's weird to remember that new tech used to make you go "Ooh that's cool". Not all the time, but fairly regularly.
Finished #TheDiplomat last night, and it's been a bit more patchy than usual. It forgot the whole conspiracy aspect for half a season, ham-fistedly dropped a bomb on the relationship with the Foreign Secretary, and really made its lead look like an idiot in the dying moments.
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Finished #TheDiplomat last night, and it's been a bit more patchy than usual. It forgot the whole conspiracy aspect for half a season, ham-fistedly dropped a bomb on the relationship with the Foreign Secretary, and really made its lead look like an idiot in the dying moments.
Caught up on a bit of #StrangeNewWorlds and I can see why you like it: it's been long enough since TNG that a bit of good, honest anthology space exploration can happen without triggering complaints.
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Caught up on a bit of #StrangeNewWorlds and I can see why you like it: it's been long enough since TNG that a bit of good, honest anthology space exploration can happen without triggering complaints.
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Oh wow, I saw someone mention this was OpenAI's defence and I thought they were joking.
November 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Oh wow, I saw someone mention this was OpenAI's defence and I thought they were joking.
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Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.
I've been listening to Lionel Ritchie All Night Long and boy are my arms tired.
November 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I've been listening to Lionel Ritchie All Night Long and boy are my arms tired.
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This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
A quick #Moonlighting last night, a bid to be SF as Maddie and David provide security consultancy for a weapons manufacturer making battlefield lasers. It starts off a bit Doctor Strangelove, all uniforms and a thankfully non-Nazi scientist wheelchair user inspecting the scene.
November 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
A quick #Moonlighting last night, a bid to be SF as Maddie and David provide security consultancy for a weapons manufacturer making battlefield lasers. It starts off a bit Doctor Strangelove, all uniforms and a thankfully non-Nazi scientist wheelchair user inspecting the scene.
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OTD 1997: #DoctorWho Alien Bodies by Lawrence Miles
One of the greatest, most influential, funniest Doctor Who adventures
“It was a dead body! Dead! Its biodata was of no use!”
“A legend never dies, Cousin. You should know that.”
Time War looms:
Suddenly the future of the Time Lords isn’t assured…
One of the greatest, most influential, funniest Doctor Who adventures
“It was a dead body! Dead! Its biodata was of no use!”
“A legend never dies, Cousin. You should know that.”
Time War looms:
Suddenly the future of the Time Lords isn’t assured…
November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
OTD 1997: #DoctorWho Alien Bodies by Lawrence Miles
One of the greatest, most influential, funniest Doctor Who adventures
“It was a dead body! Dead! Its biodata was of no use!”
“A legend never dies, Cousin. You should know that.”
Time War looms:
Suddenly the future of the Time Lords isn’t assured…
One of the greatest, most influential, funniest Doctor Who adventures
“It was a dead body! Dead! Its biodata was of no use!”
“A legend never dies, Cousin. You should know that.”
Time War looms:
Suddenly the future of the Time Lords isn’t assured…
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This is definitely one of my favourite Connery episodes. And the one I was thinking of, when I suggested maybe Connery acted awkward around Marion at the start because they were leading to this. (Still not convinced myself by that though!)
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This is definitely one of my favourite Connery episodes. And the one I was thinking of, when I suggested maybe Connery acted awkward around Marion at the start because they were leading to this. (Still not convinced myself by that though!)
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You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
A #RobinOfSherwood that does something new: there have been weird episodes and mystical episodes, but this week Richard O'Brian comes back to say a word and laugh maniacally in the series' first proper Folk Horror episode. The gang get trapped in Evil Brigadoon and only Tuck can save them!
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A #RobinOfSherwood that does something new: there have been weird episodes and mystical episodes, but this week Richard O'Brian comes back to say a word and laugh maniacally in the series' first proper Folk Horror episode. The gang get trapped in Evil Brigadoon and only Tuck can save them!
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I cannot think of anyone else who could possibly make the line "To know death, Otto, you have to fuck life... in the gall bladder!" work.
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I cannot think of anyone else who could possibly make the line "To know death, Otto, you have to fuck life... in the gall bladder!" work.
Quick #HamishMacBeth and it's the S1 finale, which is ... a little lacking. The setting has always been in the mix of the show's appeal, but this one takes it into scenery porn as MacBeth escorts Isobel and a doomed climber up the local mountain and ... well, that's about it TBH.
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Quick #HamishMacBeth and it's the S1 finale, which is ... a little lacking. The setting has always been in the mix of the show's appeal, but this one takes it into scenery porn as MacBeth escorts Isobel and a doomed climber up the local mountain and ... well, that's about it TBH.
Take more money away from universities? Sure, why not. We don't need them anyway, do we?
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Take more money away from universities? Sure, why not. We don't need them anyway, do we?
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November 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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happy doctor who day
"The man who makes the noise of the TARDIS" - John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
YouTube video by knifedog
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November 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
happy doctor who day
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Happy #DoctorWhoDay!
We're always crystal clear in our adoration of #DoctorWho, as we celebrate it and understand why it means so much to us all. It's a lifelong passion.
Join us for a special 62nd anniversary celebration.
on.soundcloud.com/dmEfRPEQLdoA...
We're always crystal clear in our adoration of #DoctorWho, as we celebrate it and understand why it means so much to us all. It's a lifelong passion.
Join us for a special 62nd anniversary celebration.
on.soundcloud.com/dmEfRPEQLdoA...
462: The 'lost' Third Doctor story by Jon Pertwee
It's Doctor Who's 62nd anniversary - hurrah!
To commemorate the occasion, we take an in-depth look at Dr Who and the Spare-Part People (also known as The Brain Drain, but given Big Finish recently did
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November 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Happy #DoctorWhoDay!
We're always crystal clear in our adoration of #DoctorWho, as we celebrate it and understand why it means so much to us all. It's a lifelong passion.
Join us for a special 62nd anniversary celebration.
on.soundcloud.com/dmEfRPEQLdoA...
We're always crystal clear in our adoration of #DoctorWho, as we celebrate it and understand why it means so much to us all. It's a lifelong passion.
Join us for a special 62nd anniversary celebration.
on.soundcloud.com/dmEfRPEQLdoA...
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Gathering from far and wide to wish #DoctorWho a very happy 62nd Birthday!
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Gathering from far and wide to wish #DoctorWho a very happy 62nd Birthday!
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
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OK #DavidLynch BlueSky people: I went to visit my brother at Liverpool University in the late 90s and his flatmate doing Drama/Film had a book that went through all of Lynch's then films and #TwinPeaks in detail, particularly what they "meant". I doubt I'll find the same book, but any similar recs?
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
OK #DavidLynch BlueSky people: I went to visit my brother at Liverpool University in the late 90s and his flatmate doing Drama/Film had a book that went through all of Lynch's then films and #TwinPeaks in detail, particularly what they "meant". I doubt I'll find the same book, but any similar recs?