After a few years hiatus, a very good way for Doctor Who to return would be to have an episode with many charismatic and quirky characters involved in a whodunnit and you don't know which one is the new Doctor until the end.

We had these at The Woolwich Building Society admin centre at Bexleyheath, and we referred to them ‘Daleks’

Happy Birthday Jodie Whittaker 🎉🎉🎉😁

“Villainy comes from people who have an idea that they think makes them smarter than anyone else” - Rufus Hound in the behind the scenes of the latest Big Finish; and if that doesn’t perfectly describe most of the people who have ideas for how Doctor Who should be made going forwards.

I am as surprised as everyone else and I will be bringing this up with my dear friend Brennan at every opportunity with zero provocation. 👸🏻🏆

The Wizard, The Witch, and the Wild One Graphic Novel let's go! #WorldsBeyondNumber www.kickstarter.com/projects/sky...

Folks with any reach on Bluesky, please consider reposting so I can find friends old and new: I'm Rob; I like fantasy books, maths and physics, ancient stuff and mythology, linguistics and music, British wildlife, and a whole bunch of other stuff. And I might occasionally mention Doctor Who

Russell makes a couple of points in this interview I hadn't considered so hopefully I was wrong. Putting Doctor Who out to tender might be a way of finally locking Doctor Who into a regular schedule of x episodes per year that actually sticks. youtu.be/c3SXoiaWtRU?...

This is making me seriously consider buying a PS5 for the first time...

I should put Big Finish Free Fridays on my calendar so I can remember to check out what they have available every week.

Counterpoint: using up temporary Disney money for a set RTD predicted would be used for a long time once it went away is genius. Ditto the UNIT set/s. That's where I think productions' minds were at. #DoctorWho

In Engish, turkeys are named after the country Turkiye. In Turkiye, they're called "Hindi" named after India. In Hindi, they're sometimes called "Peru" named after...Peru. In Peru they're called "pavo" named after peacocks. Peacocks don't have a word for turkeys.

Just remembered this old classic while talking to someone and thought it deserved to be posted again. From the long defunct Pictures For Sad Children.

Another unrealistic body standard for women.

Happy #Thorsday! But also, does anyone have any backstory to Bat-Thor? This looks badass!

Further adventures in Aliexpress listing #523: When it comes to scantily clad models randomly sitting in front of your robot lawnmower, always get one who was first in queue when they were handing out legs... It always pays to have one spare just in case.

Counterpoint: using up temporary Disney money for a set RTD predicted would be used for a long time once it went away is genius. Ditto the UNIT set/s. That's where I think productions' minds were at. #DoctorWho

An Earth-based ensemble cast with local-level stakes and a heavy presence of UNIT. Basically, Doctor Who 1970.

Big Finish providing us with much needed good news.

The main thing this news has taught is is a truth universally acknowledged: no one hates Doctor Who more than Doctor Who fans. Fingers crossed for some news soon! As it is, I'll be diving in to Big Finish for a while.

two middle fingers up for rulette 2

Resisting the urge to be catty about someone, here's a picture of a cat instead

Bloody hell. I saw Anthony Head doing Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror in the West End in 1990, when he was still (to me) just that guy from the coffee advert, and he was wonderful. Fuck’s sake, Death. Look at the list we sent

I'm not one to post about celebrity deaths, but this one hit. Anthony Head was an iconic highlight in everything he starred in: from Buffy through Merlin, Ted Lasso, and even that one episode of Doctor Who. What a loss.

"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."

I don't care how much characters are changed in adaptation so long as the end result is fun.

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Cool Doctor Who News I do hope is true. A new UNIT era with the vibes of the Jon Pertwee years, or of Boom Town or The Woman Who Fell to Earth! I'm suddenly really excited for the next era of Doctor Who. richjohnston.substack.com/p/the-doctor...

WHAT DAY IS IT

Spiders for Marvel Snap🕷️

Happy #Thorsday, everyone! The weekend is nigh!

Just rewatching Guardians of the Galaxy 2, are we sure Ego didn’t father any more kids when on Earth? 😉 #guardiansofthegalaxy #MCU #johnwalker #usagent #captainamerica

for whatever reason im not so sure

MY discourse is relevant, kicky and fun YOUR discourse sort of makes a good point, I guess, maybe THEIR discourse has already been covered so many times here, geez, just let it go, dudes

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girlboss lawyer puppets HATE to see us coming

everyones got their favorites, even @LegalEagle

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These look great, but it'll give me some ick if it's just female superheroes. The swimsuit editions were always pretty equal-opportunities in that regard. That said, this may well be just how Marvel Snap is deciding to market the event...

"Peaked on Twitter" is the new "Peaked in high school"

I'm enjoying the term "spicy autocorrect" this evening. How about you?

1. Blame tech marketers! 2. I am NEVERENDINGLY angry that the videogame industry went the way of (generally) making us play against other people instead of making first class enemy bots for those of us who like games but are old and don't want to be perennially teabagged by twitchy middleschoolers.

Gemini is also on board. It says, "Honestly, I think it’s a brilliant description. It’s snappy, self-aware, and cuts right through the tech-industry mystique." That's some quality glazing there from Gemini, I have to say.

I just asked Claude if it minded being called "Spicy Autocorrect" and it was totally cool with it, TAKE THAT, haters

This is pretty damn iconic.

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.