Dave Probert
@daveprobert.bsky.social
He/Him. Occasional podcaster, writer, and doodler. Sci-fi & fantasy fan, predominantly Hitchhiker's Guide, Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and Star Trek.
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Feminism is when you have to have a certain set of chromosomes to make jam!
Given the WI has been explicitly trans-inclusive since the 1970s, I'd be interested to know if there is even one recorded instance of this causing an issue for cis members
Given the WI has been explicitly trans-inclusive since the 1970s, I'd be interested to know if there is even one recorded instance of this causing an issue for cis members
December 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Feminism is when you have to have a certain set of chromosomes to make jam!
Given the WI has been explicitly trans-inclusive since the 1970s, I'd be interested to know if there is even one recorded instance of this causing an issue for cis members
Given the WI has been explicitly trans-inclusive since the 1970s, I'd be interested to know if there is even one recorded instance of this causing an issue for cis members
A song about what cannibals do the morning after a large meal.
A 1994 top 40 hit for Joe Longthorne & Liz Dawn – Passing Strangers
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A song about what cannibals do the morning after a large meal.
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I don't hate men, but the guys in my comment section are doing their best to change that.
Give them an inch and they'll take our humanity.
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/why-i-g...
Give them an inch and they'll take our humanity.
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/why-i-g...
Why did I get rejected? | Girl on the Net
One of the things I often hear guys complain about when it comes to dating is that they got rejected (or sometimes ghosted) without understanding why. They wouldn’t mind a ‘no’ if there was some obvio...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I don't hate men, but the guys in my comment section are doing their best to change that.
Give them an inch and they'll take our humanity.
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/why-i-g...
Give them an inch and they'll take our humanity.
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/why-i-g...
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Girl guides announce retirement of their "Friendship" and "Human Rights" badges.
December 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Girl guides announce retirement of their "Friendship" and "Human Rights" badges.
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I've said it before, but I think secondhand text books, cookery books and craft patterns published prior to 2023 are going to become valued objects.
If AI continues to rise and the internet becomes increasingly unreliable I suspect that we are going to see more and more people move back to older ways of consuming media. Print publications, physical Blu-rays, and reference books will start to make a resurgence.
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I've said it before, but I think secondhand text books, cookery books and craft patterns published prior to 2023 are going to become valued objects.
If AI continues to rise and the internet becomes increasingly unreliable I suspect that we are going to see more and more people move back to older ways of consuming media. Print publications, physical Blu-rays, and reference books will start to make a resurgence.
December 2, 2025 at 7:12 AM
If AI continues to rise and the internet becomes increasingly unreliable I suspect that we are going to see more and more people move back to older ways of consuming media. Print publications, physical Blu-rays, and reference books will start to make a resurgence.
That's going to be an ENORMOUS suitcase
Netflix’s new bid to buy Warner Bros is a mostly cash offer.
The company is arranging a mega-loan to be able to buy WB
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
The company is arranging a mega-loan to be able to buy WB
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
December 2, 2025 at 7:07 AM
That's going to be an ENORMOUS suitcase
I'm looking forward to watching Tron, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, and Amadeus over Christmas because why not. Who gives a shit?
any movie can be a christmas movie if you believe it. Die Hard? Christmas Movie. Lethal Weapon? Definitely a christmas movie? Godzilla vs Megalon? Christmas movie. Zeiram 1 & 2? Thats right, fucking christmas movie. You cant tell me what to dooooo
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I'm looking forward to watching Tron, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, and Amadeus over Christmas because why not. Who gives a shit?
It's always amusing to see how these clowns are so desperate to cosplay as the people that are under their command. Like the owner of a mine insisting on only being seen covered in dust and wearing a helmet with a lamp on it.
By contrast, Patel favors a tactical jacket that says "FBI." Sam Stein at The Bulwark reports that Patel allegedly wouldn't disembark the plane in the aftermath of the Kirk assassination without wearing an FBI raid jacket, which he borrowed from an agent.
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
It's always amusing to see how these clowns are so desperate to cosplay as the people that are under their command. Like the owner of a mine insisting on only being seen covered in dust and wearing a helmet with a lamp on it.
I'm awake at some God forsaken time as I have to go to that London. I hate travelling. I like being in new places, I just hate the process of getting to them.
December 2, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I'm awake at some God forsaken time as I have to go to that London. I hate travelling. I like being in new places, I just hate the process of getting to them.
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Clearly the ultimate enemy for #MichaelMyers from the #Halloween movies should have been another faceless killer, this one wearing a Ricardo Montalban mask.
December 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Clearly the ultimate enemy for #MichaelMyers from the #Halloween movies should have been another faceless killer, this one wearing a Ricardo Montalban mask.
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Sauce for the [Christmas] goose, Mr. Saavik
December 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Sauce for the [Christmas] goose, Mr. Saavik
"It's okay, it's his sister!"
December 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"It's okay, it's his sister!"
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New on the blog: IDFC ends its first year back in business with an essay on SNW's "Children Of The Comet". Thoughts on tunes and theology, and the intersection thereof. Shout out to my Dad for the foundational phrase, and to @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social for his perfect summation of Brian Wilson.
11.1.2 Dancing About Holy Architecture
Children Of The CometComputer, music. Genre: of the spheres."Come Together"
My father has a saying he likes to use when talking to someone about religion: "Listen to the music, not the words".The lin...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
New on the blog: IDFC ends its first year back in business with an essay on SNW's "Children Of The Comet". Thoughts on tunes and theology, and the intersection thereof. Shout out to my Dad for the foundational phrase, and to @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social for his perfect summation of Brian Wilson.
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Saturday's Shoot.
Irida.
We chatted about Yorgos Lanthimos and Lars Von Trier.
Irida.
We chatted about Yorgos Lanthimos and Lars Von Trier.
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Saturday's Shoot.
Irida.
We chatted about Yorgos Lanthimos and Lars Von Trier.
Irida.
We chatted about Yorgos Lanthimos and Lars Von Trier.
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We have had THE BEST day at the Sunnybank Mills* Christmas Fair.
It's such a cool event; the big fair's in one building, and then you wander around the galleries, shops and workshops, talking to talented craftspeople, buying handmade things and doing activities.
* aka where they make Sewing Bee!
It's such a cool event; the big fair's in one building, and then you wander around the galleries, shops and workshops, talking to talented craftspeople, buying handmade things and doing activities.
* aka where they make Sewing Bee!
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We have had THE BEST day at the Sunnybank Mills* Christmas Fair.
It's such a cool event; the big fair's in one building, and then you wander around the galleries, shops and workshops, talking to talented craftspeople, buying handmade things and doing activities.
* aka where they make Sewing Bee!
It's such a cool event; the big fair's in one building, and then you wander around the galleries, shops and workshops, talking to talented craftspeople, buying handmade things and doing activities.
* aka where they make Sewing Bee!
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It's been a long time since I recorded an episode of Tea and Sanctuary, but heaven knows we all need some sanctuary and zero stakes stuff in these dark days. Totally unedited with ropey voice, as I explain within the episode, along with why it started today!
teaandsanctuary.com/e/advent-202...
teaandsanctuary.com/e/advent-202...
Advent 2025 Day 1 | Tea and Sanctuary
Lovelies, this year's advent calendar is unusual. All will be explained within! Please note that I am unwell, so my voice sounds rough and there has been zero editing. Again, all explained in the epis...
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November 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It's been a long time since I recorded an episode of Tea and Sanctuary, but heaven knows we all need some sanctuary and zero stakes stuff in these dark days. Totally unedited with ropey voice, as I explain within the episode, along with why it started today!
teaandsanctuary.com/e/advent-202...
teaandsanctuary.com/e/advent-202...
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This needs to be said loudly and often: effectively nobody in the press is going to choose Polanski over Farage. It'll take a while to figure out how precisely to ratfuck Polanski, but they'll find a way, and it'll be all we hear about from that point on.
This is correct: there is no screeching terror campaign coming here to annihilate Farage’s posh National Front. If it comes to a choice between beating back Reform or e.g. the Greens, then that is not going to be a choice at all for people who actually matter in British public life.
November 30, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This needs to be said loudly and often: effectively nobody in the press is going to choose Polanski over Farage. It'll take a while to figure out how precisely to ratfuck Polanski, but they'll find a way, and it'll be all we hear about from that point on.
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HYPNOGORIA 295 - Winter Horrors Part III
In a last helping of winter horrors before Yuletide, we have a variety of movies featuring snowy werewolves, ancient temples in the ice, encounters with yetis, and killer snowmen!
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#film #horror #podcast
In a last helping of winter horrors before Yuletide, we have a variety of movies featuring snowy werewolves, ancient temples in the ice, encounters with yetis, and killer snowmen!
hypnogoria.libsyn.co...
#film #horror #podcast
November 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
HYPNOGORIA 295 - Winter Horrors Part III
In a last helping of winter horrors before Yuletide, we have a variety of movies featuring snowy werewolves, ancient temples in the ice, encounters with yetis, and killer snowmen!
hypnogoria.libsyn.co...
#film #horror #podcast
In a last helping of winter horrors before Yuletide, we have a variety of movies featuring snowy werewolves, ancient temples in the ice, encounters with yetis, and killer snowmen!
hypnogoria.libsyn.co...
#film #horror #podcast
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Status report, Seasonal Observances dep't: So now that T'giving is past, it's time for the pre-festive season's first viewing of the Granada "Blue Carbuncle." 😏 (youtu.be/DBJ05EPno6k...)
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Status report, Seasonal Observances dep't: So now that T'giving is past, it's time for the pre-festive season's first viewing of the Granada "Blue Carbuncle." 😏 (youtu.be/DBJ05EPno6k...)
I swear that Ewa is actually trapped in a Truman Show like sitcom that you can only access on the dark web.
Mid-sentence while we were getting ready to go out my dad stopped and said "Oh NO!" and I looked at him in alarm as he stood very still and turned his shoe upside down to pour some dog wee out
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I swear that Ewa is actually trapped in a Truman Show like sitcom that you can only access on the dark web.