Well, the marking of the anniversary of broadcast of The Impossible Planet is in full swing. But I'm guessing the wanderer who will bring blood in her wake when she arrives is the Fugitive Doctor. <https://www.doctorwho.tv/unit/mission/re-mysterious-stone> #doctorwho

The choices society makes have an impact on how we can divest ourselves of private car ownership. Why is the public transport so bad it takes you 2 hours to do what is otherwise a 30 minutes car journey? What can we do to improve the public transport? This is one of the many types of responses […]

Everytime I toot about how we need better public transport and fewer cars. Several people will respond with something along the lines of "I have to drive to work, it's a 30 minutes drive or 2 hours by public transport". The problem here is which is the cause and which is the effect? Did the […]

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Occasional reminder to BSky friends that I can't see your posts/replies, or follow you, if you aren't Bridged: https://tlmb.net/bridge

Talk me into, pay me into, potato potato

Working on important hairbrush skillz

Which reminds me, why aren't Peel episodes subject to censure like other DJs episodes? #totp

Saw the Wandue Project live about 7 months after this. Very nice. #TOTP #1999watch

Kate saying "no-one, absolutely no-one is to check their email until Monday morning" more or less guarantees that they'll find the building fully occupied by cybermen on Monday morning, doesn't it? <https://www.doctorwho.tv/unit/mission/deep-breath-everyone> #doctorwho

Meanwhile over on the UNIT HQ tie-in site, it seems that the Pete's-World cybermen are invading UNIT headquarters so slowly that UNIT is going to get knocked over by The Wire before they can complete said invasion. <https://www.doctorwho.tv/unit/mission/beware-the-wire> < […]

Happy birthday @penwing!

"Philadelphia leaning" just doesn't have the same ring.

"Leaning out your window"

Thank you, Next, for delivering my new sunhat just *after* I'd had a 90-minute gardening session including the time of solar zenith.

Driving around the 'hood, Detroit leaning, blasting Hall and Oates out the windows like a badass

Winter haters in the UK are hilarious, like winter barely exists anymore, spring and autumn are like 3 weeks each. Summer is endlessly encroaching on the whole year

Sade's favorite mathematical process: integrate(exp(-(x-y)^2)f(y)dy)

Patch of sunlight for that extra-snatched look

We have been very happily singing along to both the Chicken Song and Snooker Loopy. #totp

I know all the words to this #totp

Play The Bangles! #totp

Yay Rock Lobster! #TOTP #1986watch

The week of this #TOTP #1986watch#totp I was at Butlin's Minehead. I could just fancy a go on the monorail.

Ooh, they lifted her up. Clever that. #totp

Geri was at the laundrette with two guys when the call for an emergency #totp appearance came in.

Geri in with the over-literal hand dancing. #TOTP #1999watch

This one has crashed my Mastodon client. #TOTP #1999watch

Ooh, I do like What I Am. Even if I'm still not entirely sure I know what Emma means. #TOTP #1999watch

Ooh, I remember liking this! Generic as hell, but oddly soothing #totp

A good chance we're skipping #totp tonight. Work has been ridiculously stressful this week but now we've got heat, glorious sunshine, a garden full of bees to simply watch and smile at, a speaker to stream music to, and a fridge overflowing with craft ales.

It’s a muffin but sure, go ahead

Happy Friday

22nd May 2016 Ten years ago today I took a picture of a dog looking at a feather tied to a guitar neck held by an arm belonging to man who is playing the guitar from inside a bin. If you're not from Cambridge then I can assure you this is normal.

That's Billie in the second image, right? This sequence is creeping closer and closer to providing some sort of reveal for the main show. <https://www.doctorwho.tv/unit/mission/re-infostamp> #doctorwho

🥳Congrats to @cometinterceptor.bsky.social on the completion of its 1st instrument! Fun fact: it'll launch before we know where it's going, to lie in wait in an L2 "parking orbit". On the discovery of an interesting comet heading into the solar system: off it will go to intercept! Launch 2029 🧪🔭⚛️

It's been over 48 hours now without any "reply from Shirley" to <https://www.doctorwho.tv/unit/mission/void-stuff-mystery-unit-staff-infection>. I'm calling it: Shirley Bingham has been cyber-converted. #doctorwho

I’m amazed anyone needs reminding of this, but local government spending power per person fell by 18% from 2010 to 2024 (would have been 26% but for increases in council tax). At the same time, social care pressures on local govt have grown a lot. The decay of the public realm is NOT a mystery

So many people in so many companies, city councils, NGOs, think tanks, are bending over backwards to transition to renewable energy and stop using fossil fuels. Meanwhile: "More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity". We need to make new fossil fuel connection […]

And now the UNIT HQ tie-in website has six people from Pete's World dimension-cannoning themselves into and out of the UNIT Tower <https://www.doctorwho.tv/unit/mission/void-stuff-tracking-report>. (And has a member of UNIT staff called Songul Mantar, which appears to be Turkish for "last rose […]

We do have formative assessments but, point well taken. (Although even if formative assessments are draft versions of summative, there’s still space there to test an idea on the one side, or identify and challenge egregious AI usage on the other).

Gordon should have called a bigot a bigot; and Ed in his leadership days should have challenged a nascent UKIP (he didn’t because he thought they would split only the Tory vote). And the whole progressive left could have pushed back harder on Brexit (but didn’t, for the same reason).

I see it as a long-term tactical error as much as it is a moral failing (and it is very definitely a moral failing) of successive party leaders. Frankly Gordon Brown should have stuck to his guns.

I’m immensely sympathetic to students working (for money) many hours per week, often after bedtime, trying to fund their way through an undergrad course that may or may not benefit them economically in the long run, and who may be looking for whatever supports can get them through the term.

This of course pans out to the question about wider purpose of (higher) education- which got muddied the minute it turned into a market regulated by the CMA rather than a public service funded by HEFCE. I don’t blame the students exactly, they’re stuck with the worst of all worlds.

FPTP is one part of the problem, agreed; but there is something about legitimising the views of that portion of the population by not firmly and clearly pushing back on factual error. You may never win *their* votes by doing so, but you set out a clear stall for the non-rabid population.

But absolutely- one discussion we have been having is that the purpose of an essay or other written assignment is not to tell your tutor something they don’t already know, it’s to bring together sources and think about the topic, and argue with yourself a bit to find a position.

Play Captain Sensible and let Debsey brong her bass on! #TOTP #1984watch