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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’d be rooting for Shaun Evans. (While preparing myself to settle for Luke Evans.) Eve Myles clearly a shoo-in for the surprise “end of S1” regen.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/10/2026

She called it in 1983! > Bainbridge argues that new, severe problems are caused by automating most of the work, while the human operator is responsible for tasks that cannot be automated. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies...

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And fwiw, I went in having already learned the gist of the story’s central “rug pull”. Prior to that, I’d pretty much written off bothering to see it at all. Very glad I went. Reckon it’ll stay with me a long while.

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

JW “Digger”. Look past the superficial echoes of Kubrick - of which there are *many* - and it hangs together far better than I’d expected. Flawed certainly, but an extraordinary production all the same. Pics reflect just a few of the other remarkable works it brought to mind along the way…

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I can see that. And somewhere, out there in the multiverse, a *very* different version of “Day of the Doctor”…

static.klipy.com

If You Hit Him, It'S Murder.

ALT: If You Hit Him, It'S Murder.

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

True or not, this is now my headcanon.

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also: how long till they announce Chris Eccleston as his surprise replacement?

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey” 😋

John, Lalla, Matthew & Tom.

(You decide.)

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just finished #BlueLights Season 4. *Class* 🥲 💯 🥰

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Drop some Transformations:

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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(Screams From The) Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dune 3: You Should Have Someone Take A Look At That

Poster for Dune Part Three depicting a phallic object with an unsightly bulge on one side

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, it's not like Spooner didn't have form... 🙂

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Feels to me like the setup for a rather delicious two-hander play. Both men, nearing the end of their lives, holed up in a slightly scuzzy Blackpool hotel. Each with a distinct take on what their dear old show should be, and a stack of variable quality fan fiction to review by the end of the week. 🤔

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But is it *Renwick & Marshall* surprising? #Stuff

ALEXEI SAYLE (glaring at camera): WHO ARE YOU looking at?
WOMAN (into mic): But it doesn't end there.

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I figured they're all supposed to be pretty dreadful! Still, I guess you'll want to avoid *this bit* like the plague... 🤭 youtu.be/nFKOWiPVvNg?...

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Alexei Sayle's Stuff (1988) - Series 1 - Episode 4 "Dobsey Twins Isolate Radium" - Upscaled.

YouTube video by dynamohums

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Correction to the above (based on the LG entry): the site was announced for closure in 1999; the silos were demolished in 2004.

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Henceforth, my headcanon is that S18 of #DoctorWho was massively retro-inspired (probably via tachyons) by the films of Christopher Nolan.

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fair enough, I can see that. Wasn't familiar with HDM at the time, so Khan was what my mind latched on to when I first saw it. Or is Pullman part of the entanglement too? 😵

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(Or indeed the 2010 riff, which actually did.)

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is it the same quantum entanglement as twenty years ago, when they sent this back to 1982?

Rose Tyler: Not very Spock, is it, just asking?

Rose Tyler: Gimme some Spock for once! Would it kill ya?

Rose Tyler and The Doctor. Hands raised, tearful, trapped on opposite sides of an impenetrable barrier.

Jim Kirk and Mister Spock. Hands raised, tearful, trapped on opposite sides of an impenetrable barrier.

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And whether or not you already know what “Paul is dead” refers to, you might well enjoy this… gwern.net/doc/philosop...

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm going to tell you a story and then, at the end, I'm going to ask you if anyone happens to have the niche knowledge I need to help... The story begins, as so many of my stories do, in an ancient church in the middle of a city. But it's not now. And it's not hundreds of years ago. It's the 1960's

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Play it cool, Rob. Play it cool. 😂

Steven O'Shea (as Robert Jardine) and Joanna Lumley (as Sapphire) in a behind-the-scenes picture from "Sapphire & Steel : Adventure One". Joanna is stony faced, while Steven smirks into the camera.

https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/steven-o'shea-robert-joanna-lumley-sapphire---791843z

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All the same, some links should *not* be clicked where there is life. 😱

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh my word. I'm sure it wasn't *that* long ago I went on a bit of an online hunt for behind-the-scenes photos from Sapphire & Steel. I largely drew a blank. Maybe I missed a trick? Maybe something changed since then? Either way - there's no longer a shortage. 🤩 www.shutterstock.com/editorial/im...

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nothing at all against the magnificent Ian McDiarmid - and fgs spare us any ai travesties if you can’t just enjoy picturing it yourself - but I am rather loving the thought of Sid *as* the Emperor… 🤔😆

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Who better than the Great Maker? 🤩

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Tony Roberts @phatcontroller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Literally every story involving a genie and a bottle ends up with the genie back in the bottle. Read more children's fiction people ffs.

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

cool, thanks for your patience!

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*derived directly from experience* is I guess what I was angling at, not *born with*

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sorry, muddying waters now - realise “innate” is thoroughly unhelpful…

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Okay, so specifically *innate* know-how? (Things I might do, or learn to do without necessarily needing to have the process articulated first…?)

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m not familiar with Ryle, but can see how the distinction is useful. Curious though - how does this accommodate knowledge-that which articulates practical methods, habits, even heuristics that lead towards knowledge-how. Tutorials, recipes, how-tos : where do they fit in?

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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Politics with a small ‘p’ : saying “bollocks” without actually saying “bollocks”.

Laura Kuenssberg: [If business isn’t making more cash, then the] economy will be in a worse position.
Steve Rotheram: That is demonstrably not true.

Steve Rotheram: Through the devolved authorities, we have seen you can get better growth [than the centre would provide for those areas.]

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.

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