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Molly! @ DS9 @mollinko.bsky.social · 14h

Guess what’s finally happening!!!!!!!

Ink chibi drawings of all the main Star Trek deep space 9 cast

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Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social · 4h

Episode 7 of Starship Alexandria goes live tomorrow. We discuss The Ministry of The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. The end blooper is one of my favourites, mostly because making @aptshadow.bsky.social dissolve into giggles with the opening line of the show made me so happy! starshipalexandria.com

Starship Alexandria

The Sci-fi and Fantasy podcast from the best of futures! In this future, humanity has solved its problems and is now sending spaceships from Earth, not in a desperate attempt to escape the apocalypse...

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 19h

You know who doesn't integrate? People like Robert Jenrick. You think he works out at the local leisure centre? Goes to the Tuesday night pub quiz? You think his golf club lets anyone play? Or his private members' clubs let anyone in? He puts the ick in prick

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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 19h

The man does grow a very robust moustache.

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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, he kept trying to replicate Androzani without realising he wasn't Robert Holmes.

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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 21h

Saward never got the Doctor generally. He seemed to mostly consider the character a nuisance to be written around and sidelined while he wrote what he wanted.

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Matt Michael @cybermatt.bsky.social · 1d

Not allowed? Me? I'm allowed everywhere!

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 1d

There's something very "Ford Prefect" about a process that arrives at "Harper Collins" as a sensible name for a pornbot

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

Ah but do you get pornbots like Jonn?

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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 1d

He's one of my favourite Doctors, though often underserved by some of his stories. When he's given a chance to shine he is fantastic.

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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 1d

It's an absolute masterpiece given everything he had to include, remove, and rewrite at the last moment.

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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 1d

Dicks had a real talent for marrying the core aspects of the Doctor's character with the temporary characteristics of any given incarnation. I think it could be argued that no other writer understood the central character better than he did.

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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, the Fifth Doctor politely if cynically, hears him out and would be willing to entertain the idea with more proof which the Master then has to admit was confiscated by another Doctor and the 5 reacts like a teacher who has been told by a student that a dog ate their homework.

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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 1d

The juxtaposition of the Master's encounters with the Third and Fifth Doctors really highlights that. The Third Doctor immediately blames the Master for his predicament and calls bullshit on anything the Master produces to show he's on the level and confiscates the seal he's been given.

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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 1d

Every so often I remember just how good The Five Doctors is and reflect that it's a tragedy that Terrence Dicks didn't get to write for the Fifth Doctor more. He really nails character and writes him as a more charming, less irritable version of the Third Doctor and Davison seems to enjoy that.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 1d

on the final day of the Tory conference, attendees will lay out Thatcher's blue suit on a table, join hands, and attempt to raise her from the dead and fill out her clothing, like that scene in Beetlejuice

a collection of Thatcher's clothes at the tory conference

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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 1d

If this is the case then I think there should also be a decriminalisation of more extreme anti theft ideas. You should be able to electrify your bike, cover it with razor wire, add explosives, ejector seats. Make stealing a bike a game of Russian roulette where life and limb is at stake.

Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 1d

The British Transport Police (BTP) says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 2d

@squidfromspace.bsky.social You may find this interesting.
youtu.be/ee_fWtmhBJE?...

Star Trek : The Maquis

YouTube video by Feral Historian

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Jackalope @jackalope1981.bsky.social · 4d

ITS A FUCKING POND ITS AN ENTIRE GODDAMN FUCKING LAKE ITS A FUCKING GODDAMN POND WHAT THE FUCK DO THEY THINK TRANSGENDER PEOPLE ARE LURKING UNDER THE FUCKING SURFACE TO JUMPSCARE PEOPLE LIKE THEY'RE FUCKING JASON VOORHEES?! FUCKING LUNATIC SCUMBAG BIGOTS I HOPE SOMEONE SHITS IN THE POND

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Hampstead Heath swimming ponds considering limiting transgender users’ access

Trans swimmers currently able to use a mixed pond or either of the segregated ponds for the gender they identify as A consultation has been launched on transgender swimmers’ access to Hampstead Heath ponds, which could result in them being banned from using the pools for the gender they identify as. The Kenwood Ladies’ and Highgate Men’s ponds are gender-segregated, with trans people currently able to swim in whichever they feel most appropriate, or use the Heath’s mixed-gender pond instead. Continue reading...

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 5d

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 5d

The famed limestone ostracon listing workers and their reasons for missing work is from the reign of Ramses II, circa 1250 BCE. Making beer (for the Gods) and taking care of one’s mother and fetching stone for a scribe are indeed valid excuses for missing work. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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CartWoooooon Beardy @cartoonbeardy.bsky.social · 5d

Timelapse process video of my #zombieskulltober day 3 drawing
#art #darkart #zombie #skull #process #video #timelapse #undead

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Zaki Hasan @zakiscorner.bsky.social · 5d

I think of this tweet often.

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 5d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 5d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 5d

Valid post about prices rising relentlessly. It's a concern for most people and a hardship for many. However as a fellow Gen Xer, I'm more bothered by seeing the violent and unchallenged sexism, racism and other bigotry of my childhood and teens reappear to be normalised once again.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

What a £5 coffee (or a £100 Pizza Express) tells us about a changing Britain | Gaby Hinsliff

For many Gen Xers, it feels like we’re sliding back towards the land of our childhoods: where eating out was for special occasions, and Thermoses were king, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 5d

If you're a fan of Ghostwatch this is worth seeking out. A similar idea but executed in a different way and telling a different story.

Spooky Will @dc20willsave.bsky.social · 5d

Film #339 - Day 2.2: WNUF Halloween Special

One of my favorite Halloween films. Just an incredibly creative film that does a near perfect job of recreating late 80s/Early 90s syndicated television. Also, it is genuinely scary at times. #2025Films

Poster for the film WNUF Halloween Special

A still from the film WNUF Halloween Special

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