Listening to this episode in preparation for tonight’s very special @untitledstartrekproject.com recording. #StarTrek untitledstartrekproject.com/53

trump: we're gonna bomb those children. they'll all be dead, and we'll kill their fuckin' families too media: can you BELIEVE he said the F word?? he is UNHINGED

It says something really ugly and frightening about us as a country that we can have a president spouting deranged threats to commit unambiguous war crimes & it’s just another week; no immediate action to remove him from office.

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

The leaders of the US and Israel are fascistic, blood-crazed war criminals, and anyone who collaborates with their barbarism - including my own government - deserves prosecution and punishment as much as they do.

Has anyone studied the psychic toll of years spent waking up to the unhinged rantings of a vicious madman who could kill us all — and then going about one’s day per usual?

Tonight, John Frobisher’s relationship with the 456 deteriorates, while Captain Jack Harkness's day starts with humiliation and ends with death. In contrast, the British PM and his advisors are unusually active and productive, which is a worry. #DoctorWho 500yeardiary.com/s4/e4/

There is no way to watch the new 'Harry Potter' show subversively. If you're watching, you are buying in.

Bible: In the end times there are gonna be charlatans who use my name to trick you into supporting evil and it will be incredibly obvious to everyone except you. Evangelicals: This section of the Bible has always been mysteriously vague.

Maybe time for somebody near the guy to do the thing?

The ban on trans women in snooker is important; it clearly reveals that all trans sports bans are political rather than based on science or “preserving women’s sports”. Even if you - wrongly - regard trans women as “men” trans women snooker players still have no competitive advantage over cis women.

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Laurie Webb, aka Mr Ollis from Doctor Who’s The Three Doctors, was one of my favourite Who people. He also delivered one of its best lines (“You’d never believe me woman: supper ready?”). Laurie died, peacefully, on Sunday, just five weeks short of his 102nd birthday. What a life: he was adorable.

You could set your fucking watch by it.

A reminder: you cannot fight against fascism while embracing transphobia. Authoritarian governments work by enforcing patriarchal gender norms and policing people based on their genitals or chromosomes. We can only defeat this kind of politics by refusing transphobia, as well as racism and misogyny.

Torchwood (2006)

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I think the regime trials being held in the regime ballroom would be a nice touch personally, if it gets finished. Then demolition.

Everything I don’t like is “bad writing” says more about the person saying it than the art they’re not even bothering to critique. It’s lazy, ignorant, and pandering to the lowest common denominator.

What gets me about people like Weir though is that by stating "I don't put politics in my work", you have inadvertently put politics in your work. Now your entire body of work can only be interpreted through the lens of smooth-brained centrist spinelessness

The Far Side from 1987

If you're having a shit Monday, chin up and remember, you'll get to watch two more episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan before the week is out.

My hot Star Trek take is that 10 to 15 episode seasons are our only possible defence against Dramatis Personae, Twisted and The Royale. #StarTrek

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

Tonight, Jack finally works out why everyone wants to kill him (and it's not the reason you might expect), while mere miles away the 456 arrive in Thames House and immediately run up an upsettingly large cleaning bill. #DoctorWho 500yeardiary.com/s4/e3

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If you pay for anything Harry Potter-related, if you take part in anything Harry Potter-related, you are sending money to the person who does this and uses the money to pay legal costs for bigots just like her. She is a vile, sick, dangerous misery. A hollow mess who will leave a putrid legacy.

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"And now gay TV shows. Coronation Street is gay, as is Casualty, Bake Off and Repair Shop, EastEnders is bi-curious, and according to Russell T Davies this morning, Doctor Who is very gay. Chris."

Haidt is virtually lying out of his ass here. Man is selling snake oil. www.techdirt.com/2024/10/11/j

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

You haven't created a "visual podcast", fuck off with that shit. You've created the world's most boring panel show.

Anyway, Doctor Who, Reacher and Star Trek are all gay shows, apart from Enterprise and the TNG episode The Outcast. From now on, straight people are only permitted to enjoy I’m a Celebrity, Spooks, Young Sheldon and Knight Rider (apart from the scenes where Michael talks to the gay car). #gayshow

Russell roars into the Discourse with the brutally direct and challenging “In many ways, I kind of think of Doctor Who as a gay show.”

There need to be much harsher sentences for people who make their webpages inaccessible to people using ad blockers .

It’s shocking how the motivation behind almost every single bad tech bill is about hating LGBTQ people and specifically trans people

My production of The Importance of Being Earnest closes this week. Tickets are still available for Wednesday ($25 all tix) Friday, and two shows Saturday. Come see what our rave reviews are about! And yes, that moustache is real. www.trybooking.com/events/14773... #theatre #Sydney #OscarWilde

Captian Kirk on cancellation of Starfleet Academy

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "We Are All Dogs In God's Hot Car" Patch. Not only is God refusing to crack a window, but he also cranked the heat and locked us inside. With all due respect, God is being a total dick. collabs.shop/78zf16

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

The 456 said they’d drop round this evening, so while we wait, we chat with @johnnyspandrell.bsky.social and @melvinpena.bsky.social about villains, childlessness, and whether Torchwood really is appropriate viewing for adults. #DoctorWho #Torchwood 500yeardiary.com/s4/e2

A thing that’s fun to think about is that when it happens it will be a GLOBAL celebration. Like there will be video from around the world of people dancing and laughing and singing

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The core problem with treating 400+ million people across the region as orcs or zombies, as a lawn that needs to be constantly mowed with airstrikes and white phosphorus so that Israel and the US can continue acting with total impunity, is not “it doesn’t work very well”.

I miss when billionaires used to implode 3000 m underwater