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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 16d

When 45 was pushing the false idea that hydroxychloroquine treated COVID-19 a patient came to ED with a severe allergic reaction after taking hydroxychloroquine.

I'm really not looking forward to the downstream harms of 47 incoherently declaring babies and pregnant people should avoid paracetamol.

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 18d

Somehow I don't think it's likely we're getting Disney money for #DoctorWho Season Three: The Search for Susan.

Bluesky post by Kevin M Kruse reposting a bluesky post by Team Canada Forever showing a recent fall in Disney stock value.

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 21d

#DoctorWho unfolding text rule: If an actor makes an appearance but isn’t referred to by name, the actor is playing their Doctor.

Good old Sylv!

Emaux @emauxstylo.bsky.social · 21d

BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 29d

Sometimes, despite all the everything, I'm reminded that something I wrote a very long time ago (before Millie Gibson even existed…) still finds and entertains listeners.

I've always preferred to let it speak for itself, but I will say: thank you.

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James H-B @fitgeekuk.bsky.social · Aug 31

Double #SFDFWho ...Ish
In keeping with the theme of the story, I find new meanings in this pretty much each time I listen! Episode 2 has a discussion about the limitations of LLM AIs, so it's definitely not topical at all. It's a story that pretty much ONLY sixie could carry and it definitely

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James H-B @fitgeekuk.bsky.social · Aug 31

Requires full attention whilst listening to it to keep track of what state some characters are in. The beeping joke in part 4 always makes me smile and whilst some bits are a tad predictable, I still always find this a very relaxing and warm story to listen to. A thoroughly charming 8/10

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · Sep 6

Fear Death By Water by Emily Cook is an excellent #DoctorWho adventure, a different kind of celebrity historical. It left me thinking about fame as an ouroboros, and using history and genealogy to rewrite generational trauma. It also has a reference which brought a smile to this old timelashologist…

The Doctor Who novel Fear Death By Water by Emily Cook.

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · Aug 22

How do they present the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna comic? When originally published in Doctor Who Magazine 598, it was printed as two-page spreads. If they've found a way to print it legibly here it gives us hope for future comic anthologies of 60s and 70s comics printed in similar two-page layout.

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · Aug 12

I once went to a general practitioner who told me everyone has a finite number of heartbeats and when you run out… you die!

I'd much rather see that GP again than a "doctor" who feels incapable of functioning without a chat bot typing up notes, just to squeeze a few more consults ($) into the day.

Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · Aug 12

We doctors often assess capacity to make decisions: a patient has to take in what's said, reflect, then give their view.

If I was so slop-brained that I was unable to listen to a patient, synthesise the info and document a decision myself, I'd have failed to show capacity!

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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · Aug 11

When Australian AI expert Dr Kobi Leins declined a medical specialist’s request to use AI transcription software during her child’s upcoming appointment, the practice told her the practitioner required the technology be used and Leins was "welcome to seek an alternative" provider.

Read more:

Kobi refused a doctor's AI. She was told to go elsewhere

Unregulated AI scribes raising privacy, security concerns.

ia.acs.org.au

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · Aug 5

If Adrian Rigelsford had just waited a few decades, his “interviews” with Stanley Kubrick and William Hartnell could’ve been framed as chats with their “AI avatars”.

He’d not only have got away with it, he’d have money thrown at him by venture capital’s dumbest.

www.theguardian.com/film/2004/no...

Feature: What Stanley Kubrick didn't say

Six months after Stanley Kubrick died, a 'world exclusive' was published - a supposed last interview on the set of Eyes Wide Shut. Odd, thought Anthony Frewin, the director's long-time friend: this di...

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · Jul 26

2006: Doctor Who: Den gådefulde maskinmand is published in Danish, an adventure of the Ninth Doctor.

2025: Bastard Down Stairs Cafe is operating in København.

Another example of the global cultural influence of #DoctorWho …

Cover of the Danish translation of Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man (Den gådefulde maskinmand) by Justin Richards.

Post from Bluesky by Dr Fiona Moore of a cafe in Copenhagen with a TARDIS-like door, named Bastard Cafe.

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · Jul 19

The New Forest Murders by Matthew Sweet held my interest throughout. A tale of espionage, cryptography, and the brutal subtexts of Beatrix Potter, it is dense with references to 1940s broadcast culture and cinema.

And also, as the leads start to express mutual feelings, paraphrases Terrance Dicks.

The novel The New Forest Murders by Matthew Sweet, recently released in hardback.

Screen from Doctor Who : The State of Decay part three, a scene in which the Doctor finally looks Romana in the eye and tells her how he feels.

Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · Jul 17

On the way to #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub

Several Target novelisations (The church on Ruby Road by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson, The Zygon Invasion by Peter Harness, and Meglos by Terrance Dicks), a t-shirt with the opening line from Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth, and a passport.

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · May 30

Yes, that’s it. #DoctorWho #spoilers

Despite the title, neither Audrey Hepburn nor Ayn Rand appear in the story story, but their (let’s say) competing philosophies are discussed by the Fourth Doctor and a thinly-disguised parody of a spaceship-building, morally ambiguous billionaire called Stench.

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · May 30

Last year I watched Breakfast at Tiffany’s then read the book (inspired by a very odd story by Christopher H Bidmead in a DWM special edition).

In the novella Mr I.Y. Yunioshi has none of the hateful stereotyping added by Mickey Rooney. Capote’s prose does however manage to be racist in other ways…

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · May 24

Thanks, Mr Smith. I look forward to reading the Black Archive @blackarchive.co.uk on The Devil’s Chord!

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · May 24

Evet, Doktor Kim 15 birkaç zaman “Hadi ama!” diyor. Neden? Bilmiyorum.

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · May 24

Perhaps there's someone who can help explain the use of this idiom in #DoctorWho. Mr Goss @gossjam.bsky.social as a student of Turkish, any thoughts?

Until The Intergalactic Song Contest, I thought they may have quietly dropped it. But no., it's the Fifteenth Doctor's catchphrase now. Hadi ama(./!)

Screen with BBC subtitles from the Doctor Who episode The Intergalactic Song Contest (2025). The Fifteenth Doctor punches the air in front of a group of people. The subtitle reads: "Hadi ama!"

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · May 24

I don’t speak Turkish so I asked what "hadi ama" means to someone I work with who does. She even checked with her Dad and told me it’s just a way of saying “come on”. We’d had a good chat, so I asked for more detail, but when she found out it was about #DoctorWho … she no longer replies to my texts.

Unrelated photo of Jenna Coleman in the BBC mini-series The Jetty (2024).

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · May 24

So in Türkçe the two-word phrase "Hadi ama!" seems to actually mean "Come on!" as in "Come off it, are you serious?" rather than "Come on, let's go!" as the Fifteenth Doctor uses it. Perhaps because a writer / showrunner typed "come on" into an online translator and nuance got lost?

But am I right?

Russell T Davies looking direct to camera over his glasses.

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · May 24

In fact, all the times characters in Disney #DoctorWho say "come on" (yes, I did check) I found only twice where the Turkish subtitles use "hadi ama". Donna sarcastically telling the Doctor "Oh, come on!" and Lindy Pepper-Bean frustrated, dismissively saying "Come on."

"Hadi ama!" isn't "Allons-y!"

Screen from the Turkish subtitled version of the Doctor Who special Wild Blue Yonder (2023). The Fourteenth Doctor and Donna lean out of the TARDIS up an apple tree. The Doctor cajoles the Doctor, saying “Hadi ama!”

Screen from the Turkish subtitled version of the Doctor Who episode Dot and Bubble (2024). Lindy Pepper-Bean in her bubble looks at a screen showing Ruby. Ruby asks “Kim o alti kişi?” (“Who were the six people?”) and Lindy replies, “Hadi ama.”

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · May 24

But none of the times the Doctor says "Come on!" in Ncuti's first season do the Turkish subtitlers render it specifically as "Hadi ama!"

Even when it's the Fourteenth Doctor saying "Allons-y!" they don't use "Hadi ama!" but instead leave it as italicised French or it becomes "Gidelim" ("Let's go").

Screen from the Turkish subtitled version of the Doctor Who special The Star Beast (2023). The Fourteenth Doctor gets into a taxi, telling the driver “Hadi şimdi… Allons-y.” (“Come on now… Allons-y.”)

Screen from the Turkish subtitled version of the Doctor Who special The Giggle (2023). The Fourteenth Doctor, about to regenerate, says “Gidelim.” (“Let’s go.”)

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · May 24

The Doctor often uses “hadi”, a common Turkish interjection meaning "come on", somewhat like "follow me".

For example, fleeing the Bogeyman in Space Babies it's "Hadi!" Later that episode, Ruby taking the lead and telling the Doctor “Well, come on!” down a corridor is “Gel, hadi.” (“Come, follow.”)

Screen from the English subtitled version of the Doctor Who episode Space Babies (2024). The Doctor and Ruby running in terror, as the Doctor urges Ruby, “Come on!”

Screen from the Turkish subtitled version of Space Babies. The Doctor and Ruby running in terror, as the Doctor urges Ruby, “Hadi!”

Screen from the English subtitled version of Space Babies. Ruby sets off down a corridor, telling the Doctor, “Well, come on.”

Screen from the Turkish subtitled version of Space Babies. Ruby sets off down a corridor, telling the Doctor, “Gel, hadi.”

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Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · May 24

I'm no Turkish expert, but language interests me. So when “Hadi ama!” was spoken in The Devil’s Chord, I looked it up. I think "Hadi ama!" means "Come on!" not so much in an "Allons-y!" sense, but "Come on” in another way.

In Turkish translation, the Fifteenth Doctor doesn't tend to say "Hadi ama!"

Screen with BBC closed captioning from the Doctor Who episode The Devil’s Chord (2024). The Fifteenth Doctor turns from Ruby about to run away, while shouting“Hadi ama!” A bemused-looking Ruby says “Right…”

Screen with Disney Plus Turkish captioning from The Devil’s Chord. The Fifteenth Doctor turns from Ruby about to run away, saying “Tamam” (which means “Okay”).

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