Philip Purser-Hallard
@purserhallard.com
I write stuff -- most recently Sherlock Holmes: The Monster of the Mere. Posting about writing, TV, SF, Doctor Who, politics, language, crosswords, things I like, things I'm interested in, things. He/him.
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The Space Museum
“No future. No future. No future for you.” In the post on The Web of Fear a few weeks back, we touched upon how most Doctor Who stories come with a couple of...
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January 10, 2026 at 6:08 PM
buttondown.com/cooray_smith... For paid subscribers, but why not join them and find out why I think The Space Museum is good, actually?
(I admit I've been vexed a couple of times when I've googled, say, "Gridlock" or "Cold War" or "Oxygen" and haven't got the Doctor Who episode. But that's because Google wasn't catering to a specific hobby, not because it was.)
January 10, 2026 at 5:23 PM
(I admit I've been vexed a couple of times when I've googled, say, "Gridlock" or "Cold War" or "Oxygen" and haven't got the Doctor Who episode. But that's because Google wasn't catering to a specific hobby, not because it was.)
I just wanted a quick link to the Wikipedia article, which is titled "Liverpool", while the page for the team is called, as I'd have expected, "Liverpool F.C."
January 10, 2026 at 5:10 PM
I just wanted a quick link to the Wikipedia article, which is titled "Liverpool", while the page for the team is called, as I'd have expected, "Liverpool F.C."
"Jenny" short for "Generative AI", presumably.
January 9, 2026 at 8:37 PM
"Jenny" short for "Generative AI", presumably.
Does that really say in so many words "We shouldn't do what our members want"? What do they think membership is?
January 9, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Does that really say in so many words "We shouldn't do what our members want"? What do they think membership is?
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If they had enforced existing laws around the largest copyright infringement exercise in human history, we would not be having the conversations we are having today.
But time and time again they are exempting a group of billionaires from the law so they can freely ruin the world.
But time and time again they are exempting a group of billionaires from the law so they can freely ruin the world.
January 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
If they had enforced existing laws around the largest copyright infringement exercise in human history, we would not be having the conversations we are having today.
But time and time again they are exempting a group of billionaires from the law so they can freely ruin the world.
But time and time again they are exempting a group of billionaires from the law so they can freely ruin the world.
Vauxhall Nova by Samuel Delany.
January 8, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Vauxhall Nova by Samuel Delany.
Swan of the Dead.
January 7, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Swan of the Dead.
So much great stuff on that site in the first few years of the century. It's a huge shame it was felt it couldn't coexist with a TV series.
January 6, 2026 at 6:35 PM
So much great stuff on that site in the first few years of the century. It's a huge shame it was felt it couldn't coexist with a TV series.
K-madrigal hobgoblin mechanicals.
January 6, 2026 at 4:55 PM
K-madrigal hobgoblin mechanicals.