When 45 was pushing the false idea that hydroxychloroquine treated COVID-19 a patient came to ED with a severe allergic reaction after taking hydroxychloroquine. I'm really not looking forward to the downstream harms of 47 incoherently declaring babies and pregnant people should avoid paracetamol.

Somehow I don't think it's likely we're getting Disney money for #DoctorWho Season Three: The Search for Susan.

#DoctorWho unfolding text rule: If an actor makes an appearance but isn’t referred to by name, the actor is playing their Doctor. Good old Sylv!

Sometimes, despite all the everything, I'm reminded that something I wrote a very long time ago (before Millie Gibson even existed…) still finds and entertains listeners. I've always preferred to let it speak for itself, but I will say: thank you.

Double #SFDFWho ...Ish In keeping with the theme of the story, I find new meanings in this pretty much each time I listen! Episode 2 has a discussion about the limitations of LLM AIs, so it's definitely not topical at all. It's a story that pretty much ONLY sixie could carry and it definitely

Requires full attention whilst listening to it to keep track of what state some characters are in. The beeping joke in part 4 always makes me smile and whilst some bits are a tad predictable, I still always find this a very relaxing and warm story to listen to. A thoroughly charming 8/10

Fear Death By Water by Emily Cook is an excellent #DoctorWho adventure, a different kind of celebrity historical. It left me thinking about fame as an ouroboros, and using history and genealogy to rewrite generational trauma. It also has a reference which brought a smile to this old timelashologist…

We doctors often assess capacity to make decisions: a patient has to take in what's said, reflect, then give their view. If I was so slop-brained that I was unable to listen to a patient, synthesise the info and document a decision myself, I'd have failed to show capacity! bsky.app/profile/info...

If Adrian Rigelsford had just waited a few decades, his “interviews” with Stanley Kubrick and William Hartnell could’ve been framed as chats with their “AI avatars”. He’d not only have got away with it, he’d have money thrown at him by venture capital’s dumbest. www.theguardian.com/film/2004/no...

The New Forest Murders by Matthew Sweet held my interest throughout. A tale of espionage, cryptography, and the brutal subtexts of Beatrix Potter, it is dense with references to 1940s broadcast culture and cinema. And also, as the leads start to express mutual feelings, paraphrases Terrance Dicks.

On the way to #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub

Last Saturday's episode of #DoctorWho has led to much discussion, about real world crimes against humanity, about nostalgic returns, and about Dugga Doo. But what I want to unpack from The Intergalactic Song Contest is "[speaks indistinctly]". 🧵 A thread about Doctor Who and the phrase “Hadi ama!”

#DoctorWho is broadcast all over the world. There are many stories by writers who grew up watching it in London or Swansea or Sydney. But what does Doctor Who look like by a writer from Singapore or Mparntwe or Jos? Inua Ellams has shown us how engaging and expansive this never-ending story can be.

Farewell Jean Marsh, a great actor who, among many other achievements, was the go-to in twentieth century Doctor Who for playing a woman with broken love for her brother.

#doctorwho #spoilers On Women’s Hour Varada Sethu mentioned a flashback scene trimmed from The Robot Revolution. Where in that episode it would fit? During the Blinovitch Limitation Kaboom? And would jathakam (horoscopes) and predestination clash with the story’s advocacy for consent and autonomy?

“It’s from Alan.” #doctorwho #spoilers

I’ve worked for nearly a decade and a half as an emergency department doctor and, you know, she’s not wrong. #DoctorWho #spoilers

The Polish translation of the title of the third story of Ncuti Gatwa's first season is BUM. (The title is also the same in the Czech, Slovak and Turkish versions, and nearly in Hungarian.)

Last time I was here, it wasn’t Vivienne Westwood’s picture hanging over the baggage carousel in the arrivals hall at Wellington Airport… It was Beep the Beeping The Meep.

It's not every day you go to a suburban rugby league club and compliment an author on the authenticity of triantiwontigongs. Another great @audiosirens.bsky.social event.

The release of a slopconstruction of #DoctorWho The Macra Terror episode 1 has reminded me of my unproven theory that Chromophone Band, the story's majorette tune written by Dudley Simpson and realised by Delia Derbyshire, shares a musical genealogy with Koji Kondo's soundtrack to Super Mario Bros.

Uranus2324 (dir. Thanadol Nualsuth, 2024) starts as though it will be about space exploration — all orbital physics, burn times, apsis and periapsis — then becomes several other stories including wartime fists-and-guns action, and more recent tragedies of water and memory. A freedive through genres.

"No Unnamed Baby of key biblical and mythological importance was harmed during the production of this motion picture." #DoctorWho

Credit where it’s due. On a recent episode of the Power of Three podcast, discussing the @blackarchive.co.uk range, Stuart Douglas says some nice things about the impact of a short book I wrote about Timelash. Thanks! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/p...

Recently read: All That We O̶w̶n̶ Know by Shilo Kino (Moa Press, 2024). Following the protagonist Māreikura through a year in an immersion course in te reo Māori, I found this novel an education, as she works through the collisions of neurodiversity, takatāpui identity, and decolonising her whakapapa.

In the behind the scenes interviews on this installment of The Eternity Club, the new Bernice Summerfield audio sitcom, something I wrote a very long time ago is described as 'early', 'experimental' and 'amazing'. He's a good man, that James Goss. I recommend this rhubarb.

I did enjoy the Robbie Williams ape movie. There's something about a chimpanzee's face that helps the viewer to empathise with its challenging protagonist. I found Better Man really quite a moving story about self-acceptance, choosing how not to die, and the redemptive qualities of The Two Ronnies.

Better Man (dir. Michael Gracey, 2024) in early scenes shows the formation of Take That by music producer Nigel Martin Smith. Any inane evil feeling erased by this film could always, I suppose, release a £50 minimum pay-per-view AI-generated video to depict their role in the true version of events…

Babies — Space Babies! — is full of corrections. Rubathon Blue's indignation at incorrect accusation. The butterfly compensation switch. "They're not tomatoes!" The Nan-E filter. "Don't call me Rubes!" And, most frequently, the Doctor corrects himself to say "Space Babies" instead of babies. Why?

Hadley’s Orient Hotel in Hobart has over the years hosted Nellie Melba, Noël Coward and Tony Hancock. But today, I’m here to see Sylvester McCoy.

I think this could be an interesting variation on the musical biopic. I do wonder though if the 'venomous cockroaches' dared include in Better Man a scene with heavy product placement for Mars, Nestlé and Cadbury… www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVeH...

Enjoying a rewatch of Goodnight Sweetheart. In series 2, episode 7 (Would You Like to Swing on a Star) Ron describes the time-travelling Gary to a curious antique dealer as "Doctor Who's nephew." Two other members of the extended family spring to mind, but are there more out there? Niblings of Who.