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Dave Probert

@daveprobert.bsky.social
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He/Him. Occasional podcaster, writer, and doodler. Sci-fi & fantasy fan, predominantly Hitchhiker's Guide, Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and Star Trek.

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Cartoon Beardy @cartoonbeardy.bsky.social · 6h
If only it was just that. Sadly it’s purely financial. It’s the diminishing of skills and abilities as a first step to making everyone lazy, unimaginative and creatively desolate. Once that’s achieved creativity will only be available via subscription for the low low price of £15 per month.
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Ab Quintanilla: You Have To Pay Us More
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Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 6h
On October 3, I'll be in the darling town of Clinton, New Jersey at an indie book shop, Read Mill Books. Come buy books and cat comics while I'm there before setting out to enjoy the town's Haunted Happenings! www.elizabethamberwr... #SistersInCrime #books #comics
promo image of Amber, the books overlaying each other, in the background the shop, at the bottom the address and details. 27 Center St, Clinton, NJ
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 7h
The more I think about it, the more it feels like the push from tech bros for AI creative arts is like Syndrome from The Incredibles. Jealous of those with genuine skills and thinking technology can replace hard work and learning. "When everyone is special, no one will be"
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 16h
I considered myself pretty attuned and aware, for a guy, but MeToo just opened my eyes. Every woman I know has been abused, molested, or assaulted. And my first reaction was 'I mean ... what are we counting?' and they describe their experience and I run screaming going 'that counts'.
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Glauber Gleidson Peres @glaubergperes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@worldsofdrwho.bsky.social Dr Who' song theme by Sing Sound System on Facebook Link: www.facebook.com/share/r/14jS...
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*Curb Your Enthusiasm music intensifies*
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"... And went on to establish the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off"
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ouch, this hurts.
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jj @lajellybean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not just art, anything visual. Any time I see a cute animal video, "yeah but is it even real?" The other week I learned about a new (to me) deer-looking creature, *and I had to go look up whwther it even really existed* Gen AI is a fucking curse on awe and wonder
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jonathan Creek
Caroline Quentin and Alan Davies in "Jonathan Creek".
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Cartoon Beardy @cartoonbeardy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hugh Lawrie in House feels very much in the 12 style gruff, take no shit Doctor
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Andrew Blair @andrewblair.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Paterson Joseph in Neverwhere too, though that is a deliberate choice of the writing
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David Evans-Powell @davidep82.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Samuel Barnett in Dirk Gently
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Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow.
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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Billie Piper's Cassandra in KAOS. Also, obvs fuck Neil Gaiman, but Millie Hikasa as Lettie in the stage play of Ocean at the End of the Lane definitely showed that she should be steering a TARDIS 10 to 20 years from now.
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Christian Honore @dkdinodrawer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mary Poppins. I'm not joking.
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Mary Poppins' Magical Purse
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New word: CLICKWALL. (n) The opposite of clickbait. A headline so unappealing, promising so little reward even by the standards of these things, that it is physically impossible to tap the link to the article.
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Martin @thompmartin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bertie Carvel as Jonathan Strange in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and Eddie Redmayne as Newt in Fantastic Beasts.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What's the opposite of the increasingly excited wrestling man meme
Headline which reads "Kelly Macdonald Exits Dept. Q Ahead of Season 2, James Corden Will Take On Role Of New Forensic Psychologist"
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Emma Southon @emmasouthon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
nice to be addressed by my proper title
Screenshot of an email from the British museum that begins ‘dear example primary salutation’
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What good are notebooks? @whatgoodrnotebooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It may just be because Stephen Mangan shares the hair and the scriptwriter is just zis guy, you know? But the BBC version of Dirk Gently.
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This has me thinking, who are your favourite quasi-Doctors? The characters and performances that feel very Doctor like.
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Been watching The Marlow Murder Club. As well as Jo Martin being in it I'm also enjoying Samantha Bond being very Doctor-esque as a retired archaeologist turned amateur sleuth.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All of this. Tech companies are desperate to have the public believe that AI can "go rogue" and make its own decisions because that abnegates them of responsibility. "Whoops, sorry, made the AI super intelligent and now it's doing what it wants. Nothing to do with me"
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a bat hangs upside-down from a telephone line at sunset. The bat is in front of a billboard advertising the Florida Mega Jackpot, which is valued at $5,318,008 - represented with a digital ticker. Panel 2: the POV flips to the bat’s upside-down perspective, which makes the digital numbers look like they spell “BOOBIES”. The bat appears delighted.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i think the british media can be pretty adequately described as "an elite in search of underclasses"
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Good Squiddance @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dave's 100% right here. These are the exact same people who a century ago were insisting firing squads were too good for cowards with shell shock.
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Imagine replacing this with any physical illness. "Is your cancer diagnosis really helping you?" Because there are no physical symptoms that can be pointed at and because columnists absolutely have no empathy they can't wrap their heads around something that they can't see physical evidence of.
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🏳️‍⚧️Trevorlynn 🦇David🦇 Cooper🏳️‍⚧️ @awholedamntown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Always thinking of this #TwinPeaks meme from Reddit. Blows my mind.
A map showing how James's "Just You" song led to the death of BOB in "Twin Peaks: The Return"
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Truth Comes Out of her Well to Shame Mankind
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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Murderbot made The Beat! www.comicsbeat.com/murderbot-gr...
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MURDERBOT DIARIES becoming a graphic novel
Cosmic Lighthouse will launch a Kickstarter for a graphic novel based on the first book in Martha Wells's Murderbot series in October.
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have pre-ordered the shit out of this. Fart sticks in pin sharp crikey vision!
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's very "funny" this is happening at the same time the AI companies got away with stealing everyone's books
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Aaron J. Waltke @goodaaron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For any UK #StarTrekProdigy fans out there… Both seasons of our show are coming to ITVX this October 1st! 🖖
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/09/2026
“First of all, he’s got my face as his profile picture, so that right there gave me a high degree of confidence, because I know what I look like.” — Kash Patel
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Kash Patel Phished By Scammer Posing As Kash Patel
WASHINGTON—Despite carefully checking and double-checking the credentials of the man who reached out to him via email, FBI director Kash Patel was reportedly phished Friday by a scammer posing as FBI ...
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Cartoon Beardy @cartoonbeardy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#JustWatched It Ends (2026) - If you want a slow burn existential horror which is a metaphor for life, aging and moving on from your youth, which unnerves more than it shocks. Then this is the film for you #film #filmsky #movie
Movie poster for the film It Ends
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jj @lajellybean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Are we counting time served? Coz like, some of us have been living with this shit for decades, being misdiagnosed with all kinds of other illnesses, and given drugs that almost killed us. So like, we're owed.
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JLP @jlp.systems · 24/09/2026
I had to make this a jingle
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jj @lajellybean.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I HAVE AN ILLNESS
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 24/09/2026
Pals I see you sharing links to London Daily & need you to know it's AI bullshit. The Louise Michel is real, Banksy really funded it, but that started in 2020 & the LD link people are sharing is timestamped to today but written as if it's 2020 & elides all the actual journalism about it.
Screenshot reads as follows: 

Welcome to London Daily, an innovative and unique news experiment driven by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Our AI system conducts extensive research and fact-checking, presenting a non-biased and diverse perspective on each topic. It meticulously filters out biased or manipulated content, offering you factual summaries essential for your knowledge as an informed citizen.

Our aim is not to replace mainstream media but to provide you with succinct summaries of key headlines, encouraging you to explore these stories in greater depth through your favorite mainstream news sources.

As a privately funded, non-profit initiative, our mission is to provide a concise and comprehensive overview of current events as part of a broader project to enhance fact-checking and AI journalism for journalists and publishers worldwide.

We are building a tool that will help professional journalists and traditional mainstream news outlets enhance their news delivery, boost their readership, ease their workload, and lower their costs while increasing their productivity—all aimed at improving content reliability and readability.
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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My company @cosmiclighthouse.co.uk is putting out a Murderbot graphic novel, All Systems Red, with a new @marthawells.com Mb short story too! @ericaschultz42.bsky.social @garyerskine.bsky.social @stillwintercraft.bsky.social @simonbowland.bsky.social ! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...
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Coming soon: Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel | Multi-award-winning SF!
The official adaptation of the international bestselling multi-award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, part of The Murderbot Diaries series.
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I can confirm this as correct.
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Cartoon Beardy @cartoonbeardy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well after 2.5 hours in a queue to reach an overhead bridge to look down on a portion of the Bayeux tapestry we saw the rest of the queue, double the length of our one to actually get to see it. We cut bailed and were automatically handed a refund form. The whole thing was a fucking shambles
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Neomints - Comms on Sale! @ragadollite.neomints.com · 23/09/2026
#commsopen #commissions #vgencomms yumyumyum angry bear wip yum
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Followed up with Hamlet in the original Klingon language
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General Chang (Christopher Plummer) with Eye-Patch
Alt: General Chang (Christopher Plummer) with Eye-Patch
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 23/09/2026
no it fuckin won’t
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No such thing as Olde English, but sure…
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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Book clubs, please make clear upfront you're a real book club and not a scam seeking to charge the writer $300 to feature their book, otherwise they'll probably just delete the email.
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