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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 4d

This week's (😢) sabbatical readings were taken from... 🙈 #booksky

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 4d

This week's (😢) sabbatical readings were taken from... 🙈 #booksky

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 8d

'core skills'...nothing soft about them... 😉🙈

ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 8d

That CCTV is clearly keeping an eye on the moggy. A cat scan you might say... 🙈

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 9d

Northwest weirdies! Join us and @bobfischer.bsky.social for our GHOST STORY SPECIAL at Dukes Lancaster on Wednesday 29 October - a big group chat about all things spooky!

Tickets: bit.ly/3HK5duQ

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 9d

Doubtless you're the motivation for the attack. Taytos had better review their supply chain before they're fried too... 🙈

a man in a suit and tie is screaming with his arms outstretched in a foggy room .

Alt: Dr What from Carry On Screaming cries 'Frying tonight!'.

media.tenor.com

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 9d

By the hairy kneecaps of the sky goddess, this was a cracker! 🙈

The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who @worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 9d

30th September, 1978:
"Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet" part 1. #DoctorWho

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 9d

Ah. Perhaps The Two Doctors, and The Flux were made purely to invoke criticism... 🙊😈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 9d

That's the last time I go out wearing ruby slippers... 🙈

Upside down house. Looks like it's fallen out of the sky.

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 10d

Just over four weeks to go till our Ghost Story Special live show! Come and share your memories of all things spooky with us and @bobfischer.bsky.social 👻

Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 23d

BOO! Fancy sharing your spooky stories this Halloween? Join us and @bobfischer.bsky.social for the SCARRED FOR LIFE UNPLANNED GHOST STORY SPECIAL at Dukes Lancaster on Wednesday 29 October! We'll also have a natter about scary old telly programmes and the like...

Tickets: bit.ly/3HK5duQ

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 14d

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Part Three (24th September 1979).

"Poor loves. Trained to Empire. Trained to rule the waves. Englishmen could be proud then."

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 16d

Wrangling. I meant 'wrangling'! What did you think I was trying to type? 🙈

a woman wearing a blue dress and blue gloves is standing in front of a sign that says free coffee .

Alt: The late Dick Emery doing his thing...

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 16d

Managed to sacrifice a little time to contemplate the equinox in the absence of Jean Michel Jarre... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 16d

Somewhere out there in the ether, racing lost Doctor Who episodes to the stars, is a lovely, tear-jerking farewell from Sandra Benes answering that question. Copyright wangling is preventing the opportunity to see it but it was there once... 🙈https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283478/

Message from Moonbase Alpha (Short 1999) ⭐ 7.9 | Sci-Fi, Short

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 17d

Solstician salutations... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 18d

What's your sign? 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 18d

What's your sign?

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · Aug 14

Someone's been dumping furniture at the bottom of the street with 'Free' notices on it. Today, 3 chairs appeared. I couldn't resist a small addition to each... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 18d

The last sabbatical readings of the year were taken from... 🙈 #booksky

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 19d

And the template for the manikins that supported (almost) the costumes at the Doctor Who Exhibition that opened in Blackpool in 1974...🙈
blackpoolremembered7485.wordpress.com/download/

ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 21d

It's a disgrace that this is still up from last year. Does no one observe the 6th of Jan. deadline?

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 22d

English roundabouts you say. Sacré bleu (chat)... 🙈

a stuffed dog is laying down in a field with flowers and trees in the background

ALT: a stuffed dog is laying down in a field with flowers and trees in the background

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 28d

How many drones got together in the disguise of a civilian cargo vessel? 🙈

a cartoon squirrel is wearing a white coat and a blue hat

ALT: a cartoon squirrel is wearing a white coat and a blue hat

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · Sep 8

Now my brain isn't just a pile of mush due to sickness, I've bashed out a blog post on some of the things I've been up to over the last month.

Come for the links to works on cybersecurity, stay for the rambling about the switch to the Gregorian Calendar in 1582.

dannypalmer.co.uk/blog/f/month...

Monthly work update: September 2025

Well, I've made a second post on my blog which now officially makes this a monthly series. I'm still trying to figure out how best to title these posts and it's very much a work in progress that could...

dannypalmer.co.uk

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Lisa Ventura MBE FCIIS @cybergeekgirl.bsky.social · Sep 7

I knew it was coming at 3pm but it scared me to death! It sounded EXACTLY the emergency alarm in the Council in #Threads warning that they were all about to be nuked 😫😫xx

#JesusChristTheyveDoneIt #EmergencyAlert #ColdWar

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