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Jamie Beckwith

@terriblezodin.bsky.social

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One half of the team behind The Terrible Zodin fanzine, Yes Virginia, This is a Podcast and Black Archive: A Christmas Carol http://doctorwhottz.blogspot.com https://m.soundcloud.com/user-420543381/sets/yes-virginia-this-is-a-podcast

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M Beattie, PhD @thanatos-kalos.bsky.social · 9h

If they're like a mosquito then they have anticoagulants in presumably their saliva so the clots would likely dissolve. So, maybe closer to like melting chocolate in something.

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 9h

If a vampire bites someone with blood clots is that just like Boba tea to them?

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 13h

How many Bandrils could a Mandrel mangle if a Mandrel could mangle Bandrils?

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 13h

Gallifreyan tongue twisters: How many Nimon could Soldeed see today if today Soldeed could see Nimon?

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 21h

The after effects of that day on 12 October 1492 are felt over 500 years later. A whole continent of people born from that moment and at what cost? I can celebrate who I am but I will not hide from the truth of that lineage no matter how uncomfortable it may be.

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 21h

Christopher Columbus is symbolic of atrocities later committed against peoples across a whole continent and enslavement of people from a whole different continent to do the work for the conquerors and their descendents

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 21h

We don’t have to shoulder personal accountability for crimes past but any good citizen who cares about the society he lives in and loves the country he was born to should and must shoulder accountability for the present they’ve inherited and do better.

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 21h

The civil war, the drugs trade, land grabs and of course good old fashioned poverty shrinks populations and shrinks habitats. These things affect all Colombians true but with Latino Colombians making up 88% of the population it’s a lot easier to forget the Wayuu and the Chibcha in the margins.

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 21h

We need to have the uncomfortable conversation though in order to truly move forward as a society. We cannot say this is the past when the treatment of indigenous people remains appallingly poor both in the USA and Colombia.

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 21h

So I get why there is resistance in the USA to hearing the unvarnished version of Christopher Columbus, to be reminded that you benefit from the spoils of conquest.

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 21h

And I get that, from my privileged position I don’t like to be reminded of it either, if I think about it too hard it implies I’m illegitimate for the lottery of being the descendant of conquistadors and the people they subjugated

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 21h

See how I coyly use a phrase like “mingling” rather than the reality which is we are a race descendent from the rape of one people by another. This is true of all history of course the further back you go but people don’t like to be reminded in such stark terms.

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 21h

How can they fail not to be when they conquer and colonise the very language itself; the name of the country, the grouping of over 85 disparate tribes as “Pre-Columbian”.

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 21h

Of course even that it a sanitised view. People who cry “cancel culture” and dismiss the horrors of the past precisely because they are gone fail to see they are ever present.

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 21h

In Colombia we call today Dia de la Raza, a day less about celebrating Columbus and more about the birth of the subsequent mingling of European and Indigenous Pre-Columbian peoples to form the race we call Latinos today.

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 21h

Being unapologetically passionate about things that interest me is perhaps the more obvious indicator of a Latin temperament.

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 21h

Being Colombian is central to my very being, just as being British is. Yet the Colombian part of my soul often feels hidden, it’s not obvious in a way that being British is. My shading is subtle, more evident in summer than winter.

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 21h

I’m from a country that’s literally named after Colon or Columbus as my Anglophone friends will know him. This despite Columbus never setting foot on the shores of what we now call Colombia, much as he never set foot in North America. 🧵

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 21h

This morning we turn it on and it’s a 1950s movie about a mining accident. Yesterday it was an episode of Space Patrol. Tomorrow it will probably be Batman.

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 21h

We don’t watch live television very much but we’ve set the default channel when the TV turns on to Talking Pictures TV because we know no matter what time of day it will be something completely unpredictable.
Love that a channel exists that we show 1930s dramas and 1960s dramas interchangeably

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 1d

That’s the one!

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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, it's extremely well done on every level - direction, script, acting, SFX, etc. There's one awkward bit when Ratcliffe, the girl and the Black Dalek leave the room for no real reason so the Doctor can zap the Time Controller, but apart from that it's very well plotted too.

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 1d

That’s very annoying especially as the earlier series are much more serialised

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Symon @crayonsandspam.bsky.social · 1d

For me, it's absolutely the best classic era story. And yep, that's largely down to how developed the characters are and how real the dialogue feels. Add in some very good action and a rock solid story and it's solid gold all the way.

Which makes it all the more baffling how Battlefield was so bad.

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 1d

I do really want to watch that!

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