The view from Starmer's window at Chequers this weekend. #DoctorWho

I see Labour have reached the "Bringing back Billie Piper" stage of crisis management.

As Sir David Attenborough turns 100 today, here's his memo from December 1966 as Controller of BBC2 to Dennis Scuse at Television Enterprises, turning down the idea that Terry Nation's planned colour Dalek series could find a home on his channel.

Eluned Morgan, Labour first minister in Wales has lost her seat. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all now have govts which reject Westminster rule. In a normal country that would provoke a constitutional crisis, but in the UK the Labour govt and London centric media will try and ignore it.

Compounding the grimness is how the press continue to lionise a bona fide racist and homophobe while completely concealing her general hatred for minorities because it's inconvenient

Worse than limited opening hours, it's the withdrawal of 2/3 of the archive for curiosity-driven research that is the real scandal for what is supposed to be a public-service organization.

Anyone who was a kid in the '80s has residual trauma from all of the nuclear nightmares they instilled in us, and today is triggering the ever-livin' fuck out of me.

Space: 1999 quilt. I made this a few years ago. It’s one of my favorites I have made. This is handquilted. #Space1999 #quilt #handquilting #tapestry #textileart #alphamoonbase

It's so incredibly jarring to have someone threatening to destroy a whole civilization in the language of someone promoting a reality television finale. What the fuck is happening. Get him out of power and put him in the fucking Hague.

I was really hoping that I wouldn’t have to relive my 80s childhood fears of nuclear war but there we are now.

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

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...

Do you know your 1960s Dalek stories? How much do you know about #DoctorWho The Daleks Masterplan? #CrypticWho crypticwho.com

There is no joy like realising your nightshift will be 1 hour less because of the clock change -possibly the only person happy with losing an hour tonight!

New pins to help me fund my transition 🏳️‍⚧️ Please share! These ones change what flag you see depending on the angle you're looking from. I'm very proud of them and I really hope you like them! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4478...

The stories of the women who experienced massive human rights violations due to sport-related chromosomal testing are fucking heartbreaking. (See, eg, www.hrw.org/report/2020/... ). It's shameful the Olympics are taking us back there and anyone cheering it on can go straight to fucking hell.

And still no consequences, charges or financial recovery. Mone still walks free. Hancock and his cronies untouched. Sunak and Johnson untroubled by any real punitive actions. Whitewashing takes a long time when it's based on kicking a can down the road.

I will never not be angry about the way that Covid happened and some people have just moved on like nothing ever happened. I worked in healthcare during all of it and so many of us are scarred by things we heard or saw. The lack of consequences for mismanagement is just so frustrating

Scratch a transphobe, find a misogynist. They don’t care about protecting women, they care about controlling us. Transphobia is a threat to all women’s rights.

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Imane Khalif is a cis woman. So *perhaps* our metric for what constitutes fairness in sport categorisation shouldn’t actually be gender? Or should only female athletes under 5 ft 7/120lbs who look like a Disney princess, give birth frequently and smell like a freshly mown daisy be able to compete?

But now it's crept into "any woman who fails a DNA test is actually a man." They're not protecting women's sports. They're policing womanhood itself.

If I were City Property Arm's Length Unaccountable Entity LLP, I would not expect too many hand-made Christmas cards this year.

Tip: do not anger visual artists. They are quite good at making signs. bsky.app/profile/scot...

🔔 Another ill-fated Glasgow cultural hub is in its final four days before tenants must sign a new lease or get kicked out. The landlord is the council's City Property, and tenants aren't too happy with them. 🧵 (Photo: Neil Scott)

Capybaras are so chill that this is their idea of being "on the run"

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

Restoration by R3Store Studios Film is Fabulous! recovered 2 missing episodes of “The Daleks’ Master Plan”, and have worked closely with the BBC Archives to ensure their return. The BBC commissioned R3Store Studios in London to undertake the restoration r3storestudios.com

Wes Streeting having the chutzpah to tell the story about the NHS. He doesn't tell the bit about how much he's accepted from private healthcare and the risk our NHS is at under this Labour Government. And most of all, lots of questions about his meetings with Palantir. #BBCQT

Post vet appointment walk for a dog who was pronounced “practically perfect” and was very dramatic for his kennel cough vaccine!

It’s warmer and sunny today in Paisley but I think the bare chested man who has proclaimed taps aff today is perhaps overstating things!

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Doctor Who Restoration by R3Store Film is Fabulous! have collaborated with the BBC Archives, and R3Stores Studios in London, to ensure that the two recovered episodes of Doctor Who look and sound great, when released on the BBC iPlayer. r3storestudios.com

All the talk of Daleks today has reminded me of this embroidery that I designed for my Royal School of Needlework course - a very shiny Dalek!

Actor and Film United Peter Purves, actor, and star of both the recovered episodes of Doctor Who, posses with the original can in which the 16mm film was found, and Film is Fabulous! founder, John Franklin.

Apparently they also found copies of episodes that weren't missing: The Daleks 2 and 3, The Web Planet 1 and The Chase 1. It'll be interesting to see if they're better quality than the existing copies. #DoctorWho #DaleksMasterPlan

Some far cleverer soul than I has kindly clipped @tobyhadoke.bsky.social's Doctor Who missing episodes report on BBC Breakfast this morning. Cheers DanTheMan! 👏 #DoctorWho youtu.be/HlJpKllRNhw

Exciting news for all #DoctorWho fans. Unseen in 61 years. Not just Daleks, Hartnell & Purves but more Douglas Camfield & Terry Nation, Nick Courtney's DW debut & two more eps with Adrienne Hill as short-lived Katarina. Here's @radiotimes.bsky.social coverage from 1965 👏 @filmisfabulous.bsky.social

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Missing Doctor Who Recovered! The Film is Fabulous! team are pleased to announce the recovery of two missing episodes of Doctor Who, from the serial entitled, ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’: The Nightmare Begins (Broadcast: 13th Nov 1965) Devil’s Planet (Broadcast: 27th Nov 1965)

Well this is very exciting!!

“She’s the exception, I am the rule.” Such articulate cutting through of the nonsense around puberty blockers and eg Keira Bell’s detransitioning from Stephanie Lynnette on GMB this morning. It is also a refreshing relief to see a trans person actually being allowed to speak for once!

University of Oxford is recruiting women who have had keyhole surgery for pelvic pain to understand their experiences! They are also recruiting health care providers. If this is of interest check it out... forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

Dear everyone, As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included. A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

Look so this isn't really OP's the point, but one of the weirdest things about the prequels *even at the time* was the disconnect between their /relatively/ astute politics & big-picture work on the one hand and their clunky writing & scene-work on the other

"Our members' voices had to be the wake-up call [to governments] to say 'We cannot normalise this.'" Today, Prof. Nicola Ranger appeared before MPs emphasising how RCN leadership on corridor care has led to action to address it - & why this is so important for nursing staff & patient safety. (1/2)

Injustice for All

Said this before, but Arthur Askey's first TV appearance was on Baird's experimental transmissions and his last was on Channel Four

Put aside Levine's AI. One had not truly experienced Shada unless one has read it in its original Middle English. #DoctorWho