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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 39m

There was a rumor about a decade ago about an African warlord sitting on a stash of missing Who stories (this is not a joke), but there’s not been a recovered episode in several years.

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@murderxbryan.bsky.social real limp bizkit fans here

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ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social · 11h

The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 2h

#47 The Reign of Terror (1964)

As this first season closes, it’s fun to see it come full circle. The Doctor, offended by a slight offhand comment, determinedly tries to get Barbara and Ian home and out of the TARDIS. The French Revolution, a topic of study for Susan at Coal Hill School, is the…

screencap from the Doctor Who story The Reign of Terror #doctorwho

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 2h

…politics, tracking down spies and counter-intelligence, and running into celebrities like Maximilien Robespierre and Napoléon Bonaparte. It’s a good early use of location work for the show, and generally the production looks great, as most period work done by the BBC at this point did. A good romp.

𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 2h

…setting of their adventure. The Doctor thrives here, apparently his favorite historical period. He plays a conman and thief naturally, slipping into positions of authority and ignoring any restrictions of movement. Ian and to a lesser extent Barbara get fairly tied up in the local revolutionary…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 2h

#47 The Reign of Terror (1964)

As this first season closes, it’s fun to see it come full circle. The Doctor, offended by a slight offhand comment, determinedly tries to get Barbara and Ian home and out of the TARDIS. The French Revolution, a topic of study for Susan at Coal Hill School, is the…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 4h

This is actually a kit that I’m interested in getting. Game Boy was a foundational part of my upbringing.

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 6h

Listening to @danthurot.bsky.social’s latest interview with @amabel.bsky.social, and Dan’s remarks around the 1h9m mark make me sudden want to read a Zinn-esque People’s History of the Bible.

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 9h

Finally picked what I wanted from this wave of New Mill card games. The art and bidding of Vegeterrors looks great, and the elevator gimmick in Yonkai no Yokai seems goofy enough to be awesome. #boardgames @dnlnwmn.bsky.social

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dirté @dirte.net · May 9

got invited to the goblin group chat but none of them speak common so I'm just fire reacting random shit

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

GBBO?

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

#48 Logopolis (1981)

It was the end of an era. There was a whole audience that hadn’t ever seen a Doctor other than Tom Baker. After seven years, in the middle of a story arc about the Master returning and through a story about mathematics fighting against entropy, the Fourth Doctor died. This is…

screencap from the Doctor Who story Logopolis #doctorwho

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

…most brooding yet, dwelling on entropy and upcoming battles, unwilling to accept that the universe is moving on without him. He doesn’t even know Logopolis’s secret when he decides to go there, and it’s sparing the universe from the impact of that secret that kills him. At least he’s among friends.

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

…mental projection of the Doctor, possibly from some other time. Maybe he was the same as Cho-je was to K’anpo in Planet of the Spiders. Maybe this is why the Doctor was so weak and distracted during Castrovalva. It’s a mystery that doesn’t benefit from being truly resolved. The Doctor is at his…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

…in future stories. I love the music in this story; it’s one of the best scores in the whole show, with meditative synthesizer-driven tracks capturing the monastic life of Logopolis and the endearing mystery of the Watcher. The Watcher is another figure not entirely explained, implied to be a…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

…solving a problem in the physical world by determining its solution in the abstract, by just calculating an answer of new reality, is tremendous. It makes sense that Adric is able to adapt to this new concept immediately, but also a good thing for the narrative that he never overuses this ability…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

…act of destruction of death in this story, accidentally wiping out a quarter of the known universe by unleashing the held back entropy, an unprecedented act of villainy. The question of mathematics, and specifically block transfer computation, looms heavily on this story, and the next. The idea of…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

…capitalizes on her potential, despite also only coming into the story midway through. Anthony Ainley gets his full story debut as the Master (again, halfway through), contrasting with the calm compassion of Tremas and evoking the calculating menace of Roger Delgado. The Master achieves his largest…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

…only ever see the Police Box. It’s a story that teases a thousand ideas but only resolves a handful. There are two new companions here. Tegan would be almost as iconic to the Fifth Doctor’s era as he was. Nyssa, who was soft-launched in the previous story, has one of her few stories that…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

…a meanderingly chaotic story. We hear about the planet of Logopolis in the first episode but don’t arrive until midway through the second. We see a complex paradox trap involving multiple TARDISes, but we never get to understand its purpose. We watch the Doctor repair the chameleon circuit, but we…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

#48 Logopolis (1981)

It was the end of an era. There was a whole audience that hadn’t ever seen a Doctor other than Tom Baker. After seven years, in the middle of a story arc about the Master returning and through a story about mathematics fighting against entropy, the Fourth Doctor died. This is…

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 1d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

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The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

you could give an infinite number of reactionaries an infinite number of typewriters over an infinite timeline and they would never invent a sesame street

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 2d

#49 Black Orchid (1982)

This is a light period mystery, something that Peter Davison fits into so well that this story could almost be his audition tape for Campion. It’s a country estate in 1925, with a cricket game, a costume ball, and a disfigured son hidden away behind secret passages so that…

screencap from the Doctor Who story Black Orchid #doctorwho

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