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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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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 12m
It certainly seems to be in the 1970s
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 18m
Currently watching Inferno. There are several 70s Doctor Who stories that only happen because people can't resist shoving their unprotected hands into puddles of unidentified green goo that they've found unexpectedly.
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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 4h
Be under no illusion: this is a significant victory for everyone who stuck their neck out and defended jury trials, day after day, clause by clause. But it is not a comprehensive victory. Magistrates should not be allowed to send people to prison for two years.
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 15h
I really like it but I accept it's an acquired taste.
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 15h
Sword fight- Zorro's raid in the hacienda in The Mask of Zorro Gun fight - the Mariachi cleans out the Dorasco bar in Desperado Unnamed fight - Martin Blank Vs Felix Lapubelle in Grosse Point Blank Vehicle chase - Corben Dallas escapes the Police in The Fifth Element
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not watched that in decades. Need to revisit it.
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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This industry's limitless capacity for stomping about on copyright in the name of creating things no one wants or asked for is the only thing that's impressive about it.
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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"That film we want you to do homework for is REALLY gonna bum you out!"
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Remember when these films used to be fun?
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm laughting at the idea that thinking no one needs a billion dollars is a controversial stance
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And yet Putin himself has done precisely that. He has brought into being a Russia which exists primarily to service war - a war he started through poor judgement and imperialist hubris and on which his regime now depends.
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There was always a ceiling, chasing perpetual growth is like trying to find the end of the rainbow. Like many streaming services they are constantly chasing new subscribers rather than retaining the ones they have.
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Rob “Bloody” Valentine @mrrobvalentine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
# You say “Mandragora”, I say “Mandragora”… # Joe, Joumana, Lucy and I decide NOT to call the whole thing off as we talk all over “Doctor Who: The Masque of Man<cough cough cough>”. 🐹 🔪
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's a handy guide. If the media are saying a politician is doing socialism, they're not doing socialism. If a politician is doing socialism, the media is telling you they're doing islamic terrorism, destroying western civilization, turning your kids gay and in league with china.
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Damn that's a good answer. This is why you get paid the bucks.
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What idiot put the snooze and off buttons so close together?
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Cartoon Beardy @cartoonbeardy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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
ALT: Ab Quintanilla: You Have To Pay Us More
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Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pfft, that's she she'd have you believe.
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I can understand that. When you find a good bin liner it's hard to pass up.
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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This sounds excellent
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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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Sexy Plato's Cave @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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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I remember having similar thoughts after I watched it for the first time.
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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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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They did kind of do that
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Dr Who Missy Dance with Daleks
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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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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's great that kids love him. There's always cosplaying as him and he goes out of his way to give them a lackluster fist bump
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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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