[SFX depiction of humanoid being eaten by fictional creature] I suggest they're not so much ribs as motile structures for gripping and drawing in prey, as seen on the Nazi-eating giant slugs in #doctorwho. That's not unheard of in real-life molluscs, right?

Having re-watched Flux this week, I think that season got way too much hate

Austria’s military has switched from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice “Austria’s military has completed a major IT overhaul, replacing Microsoft Office with the open-source LibreOffice suite across all its desktop systems. The change, finalised this month, affects approximately 16,000 […]

#ukpolitics (alert I guess) Supporting racist policies DOES make you a racist. Speaking as a white bloke, we white folks really don't like to tell other white folks that they've gone and done a racist. This, sadly extends to triangulating politicians such as our Chancellor. &, just to say it […]

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

#NowPlaying on DeeperXtra #MadWaspRadio #DeeperX Ace Of Spades by Hayseed Dixie @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social - the best in advert free music, accept no substitutes!

"This or Leadworth: what will Amy Pond choose?" Nice foreshadowing. #DoctorWho #bbc3

The Rani calling humans "the beasts below" was a deliberate homage to this, right? #DoctorWho #bbc3

Of course, we now know both where the ducks went, and that Prsoner Zero's conviction was quashed on appeal. #DoctorWho #bbc3

Boom! #DoctorWho #bbc3

Nice callback to Spearhead from Space. #DoctorWho #bbc3

Wait a minute. Prisoner Zero needs to take on the appearance of someone whose photo is not present in Rory's phone, and chooses Amy. #DoctorWho #bbc3

All this action is set, in Earth chronology, in 2008, presumably between Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords and Voyage of the Damned. #DoctorWho #bbc3

No ducks in Amy's pond. #DoctorWho #bbc3

First portentous retro lampposts of the Moffat era. #DoctorWho #bbc3

Why does Amy's police officer character have such a posh accent? #DoctorWho #bbc3

Most on-trend actor in smallest role moment. #DoctorWho #bbc3

And there's Amy's theme. So evocative. #DoctorWho #bbc3

There really should have been some broader significance to Amelia having a beehive in her garden. #DoctorWho #bbc3

Everything's going to be fine. #DoctorWho #bbc3

Disappointing truncation of Beautiful South masterpiece there. #TOTP #1989watch

Does anyone remember the remix in 1996 with him walking across car roofs in the video ? It vanished #totp

Absolute Tune Cars #totp

Yeah beasties!!! #totp

Beastie Boys. Utterly superb. #totp

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it. Yes, they might. And he should wear it as a badge of honour. Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet. Where's the hazard in that?

Hut look like this best designer

The Freeview channel "That's Oldies" is currently playing the Foo Fighters, and I am deeply chagrined.

Dear BBC. Trump’s claims aren’t ‘extraordinary’ or ‘controversial’. They’re total bollocks, and very dangerous. Thank you for your attention to this matter. #r4today

If anyone ever says to you "heat pumps don't work at low temperatures", ask them "What the fuck do you think is happening in your freezer?" #climatediary

I want to see a super group of every artist with a tool-based name, including all of Tool. #totp

Oh God, he's painted a red cross on his snare drum. We've found who started it. #TOTP #1998watch

My TV gave up the ghost last night, and the old one I dug out to replace it doesn't have an HD tuner, so you find me watching #totp in the original 625-line format as God intended.

The piano line on 10cc's "I'm not in love" sounds just like the calendar reminder on my mobile phone, and it's making me anxious.

The first rule of charity governance is ‘don’t appoint your family and friends to the board’, to ensure independence of thought and oversight. It’s a good rule for other kinds of governance, too - one that has been consistently overlooked by the party of government.

Suddenly had the realization that I took particle physics modules in both the final year of my bachelor's degree (1997-1998) and my master's degree (1998-1999), and no-one ever mentioned the Higgs field or its boson in either case, and that seems quite weird.

It's wild to think we used to watch TV on particle accelerators.

No doubt, (far-)right leaders will complain about this clear example of two-tier policing

Anyone who is aware of the horrendous time we had a while back, you might like to know that the youngest is back at work, passed her driving test this week, and is doing an A Level online. We’re not out of the woods, but the future looks far brighter than it did. Thanks for all your support x

Oh yes! #TOTP #1988watch

#totp He appears to be singing into something he found in the back of the kitchen drawer.

I presume that hand is Powell's, so one last time: Powell! Hands! #TOTP #1988watch

Blue lipstick. I like the look. #totp

Subtitlers putting their own spin on the lyrics there. #TOTP #1998watch

Having off-site backups of your data is a good idea, they said. There exist cloud storage providers with open (NextCloud) standards, they said. Some have the servers located within the jurisdiction of GDPR, they said. You can encrypt on client-side with rclone to maintain privacy, they said […]

Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3

#NFL season and a quick mention or reminder to #bluesky people that your posts, likes, comments, or any desire for me or anyone else over here on Mastodon to interact with any of you is utterly reliant on you bridging your account. Look up how to do it, do it, thank you. It's better connected.

If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer. This thread explains why. 1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power. 🧵

I think it needs to be said here: This Labour government has enacted some decent legislation. Some good laws, They have done positive things that the Tories would not have done. Mostly minor, and getting hardly any notes. I think it is important to give them credit for this. It does not take […]

Have to say: solid W for the UN here. https://skwawkbox.org/2025/09/07/un-general-assembly-votes-overwhelmingly-to-move-from-nyc-to-geneva-after-us-bans-palestine-reps/