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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I saw Digger. I had the theater to myself. You should see it before it's gone.

Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Particularly strange given that direction is a strong point of Series 7, even (and maybe especially) on the otherwise weak episodes. A Town Called Mercy is downright cinematic.

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

With all love and respect to the original designers, I would be all over Battles in Time if it weren’t for the unattractive card format. They’re simply not nice-looking objects in the way Magic: The Gathering or Pokémon cards are.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yes, but the problem isn't 'safeguards', it's the underlying philosophy that it assembles a database of all of us, on the off-chance someone on there commits a crime later. It doesn't prevent or investigate crime. Let's just skip to the 'Flock sued to oblivion' stage, and save ourselves two years.

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I feel as though Marvel villains in general avoid direct confrontation if they don’t clearly outclass the hero (Leader, Zemo, Thor 1 Loki). Most actual fights feature the hero as the apparent underdog, unless it’s an in inconsequential fight toward the start of the film (Batroc, for instance).

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

He’s returning for a run of Big Finish stories next year. I don’t think Tennant returning is a good idea nor is it likely, but he generally seems game to do Doctor Who stuff so I’m not sure his desire is the disqualifying factor.

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Having seen the film (more or less by accident, story for another day), while it wasn’t great, I honestly do not think more adult scenes would have helped. The best scenes, and the ones I wish had been expanded, had very little to do with those adult situations. I think Gluck made the right call.

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There are preschoolers older than generative LLMs. I recognize that there will always be people who support this tech more than I do, but I will never understand treating it as though we’ve always needed it.

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Title text: "As a side effect of the research, mice are now the only known animals other than humans to have developed a Backrooms mythology." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3280#Transcript

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I can’t find any evidence of signed Duggan cards posted online, but I remember reading that McGann was sent an early copy of his card to approve the rendition of his likeness, so - if that story is true and represents standard practice - Chadbon likely saw the card, at least.

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

He got a Magic: The Gathering card, so either somebody knows or Hasbro committed accidental copyright infringement.

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Chet Scareville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In a world where two roads diverged One Man must choose the one less travelled by

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This tagline is literally beyond parody. We’re still doing “how Batman got his utility belt” movies?

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 06/07/2026

I would like to underline for anybody joining soccer fandom this week that 90% of matches are not like this

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I picked a good year to get into soccer.

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

provides a type of enjoyment very different from the normal flavor of Big Finish goodness. It’s the most *fun* I’ve had with a BF release *ever*. You can just tell that @johndorney.bsky.social has been chomping at the bit to work in this genre. (2/2)

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I’d be shocked if this ends up being surpassed as my favorite Big Finish release of 2026. I’m tempted to say it’s my favorite Big Finish in years, until I remember the home runs of last year (Hooklight, Dark Gallifrey: Missy) - but that temptation remains given that The Meddling Monks (1/2)

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I think it’s something to do with the fact that film more obviously evolves as a medium. A 2020s film looks incredibly different from a 1950s film, so it makes sense that people become interested in “what would this film look like if it was made today?” Not defending the practice, but I do get it.

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It remains strange and disturbing to me not only how AI is invading human spaces, but how a vocal portion of the population seems to believe that things we did just fine for decades and centuries before AI have now, in the span of only three years, become impossible to do without it.

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Wuthering Heights Ender’s Game Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 13/05/2026

Encouraging NPR segment this morning about school districts moving away from "Whole Language" snake oil and back to phonics to teach reading, which, to the shock of no one, has improved reading scores

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

1. Heaven Sent / Hell Bent 2. World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls 3. A Christmas Carol 4. Boom 5. Wild Blue Yonder 6. The Magician’s Apprentice / The Witch’s Familiar 7. Mummy on the Orient Express 8. Midnight 9. Dalek 10. Time of the Doctor #DoctorWho

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

That Doctor Who top NuWho episode article (which was a completely fine list) has provoked a lot of discourse, so like everyone else, I feel the need to shout my top ten list into the howling void:

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

A new short is out on the Bow Ties for Your Brain channel: Investigating A Library That Doesn’t Exist It's an analysis of "Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist" and "Destroying a Minecraft World That Doesn't Exist" by Wifies. youtube.com/shorts/V1fIk... #minecraft #wifies #kinginyellow

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Investigating A Library That Doesn’t Exist #shorts #wifies #minecraft #kinginyellow #hastur

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Best Big Finish trailer ever. “No Jackie Tyler” made me actually laugh out loud. 10/10.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 03/04/2026

More seriously, I don’t write to have written. I write because there are things in my head and getting them out gives me more dopamine than anything else. Life is unbearable if I don’t do the thing, and even if AI actually worked, it wouldn’t do the thing.

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Probably doesn’t help that the first book had the least amount of material cut for the film, so we’re starting with the most redundant bits.

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

We’ve had three Spider-Man and Superman film franchises in that time, sure, but comic adaptations are different because they aren’t just re-adapting the *one* same storyline over and over. Harry Potter is one definitive tale with one beginning and one end. This is a multibillion dollar retread.

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I feel very strangely about this. On the one hand, I’ve always believed that TV is theoretically a better format for an adaptation of HP. On the other hand… the movies were so well done and were so recent. Watching the trailer made this whole exercise feel pointless. It’s just Harry Potter “again.”

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Is there a world where, actually, all you need for consciousness is information processing, and it turns out *most* technology is conscious to some degree? Sure, I guess… but I’d need some strong evidence to even start considering that. This skeet might as well be asking us to disprove leprechauns.

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

“Challenge for those who are very confident that generating a Minecraft world isn’t the same thing as starting a new universe: Explain how the universe even exists.” This just doesn’t seem like a very compelling argument.

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Maybe this is a simplistic perspective, but the very fact that we *know* how these systems work, yet can’t explain how human consciousness works (the very premise of this skeet), seems to be itself a basic argument that LLMs are incomparable to human consciousness.

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

“Oh great, robot mummies who’ve read Alice in Wonderland…”

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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

@acollierastro.bsky.social says it better than I did. "Everyone can have maximum output while accomplishing nothing." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF...

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this is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

also not ranked, TV stories only 1. The Pyramids of Mars 2. City of Death 3. The Curse of Fenric 4. Dalek 5. Midnight 6. A Christmas Carol 7. The Day of the Doctor 8. Mummy on the Orient Express 9. Heaven Sent / Hell Bent 10. World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls 11. Boom

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slicedlime @slicedlime.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Please get me off this timeline. youtube.com/shorts/zRB4j...

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Sora2 just broke reality

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Jody Houser ✒️🗯️🎲 @jodyhouser.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Maybe we give the birds a shot at running the internet, to see if it makes things better.

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Penguin Bean. +10 points if they can have a monocle and/or bow tie.

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noahtweetsdaily @noahtweetsdaily.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

this is the most dystopian article I've ever read. wow. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

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malicent hightower 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @shellsbian.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Been chatting with friends tonight and came to the conclusion that Doctor Who is still suffering from the impact of Spyfall Part 2 and if it can’t escape it it will not recover

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 18/05/2025

Anybody else ever become temporarily frozen in horror while thinking of something really idiotic that you *almost* did once? Like you can see this alternate timeline of bad decisions unspooling in your imagination +it feels so close to reality that you get a kind of panic response? Or is it just me?

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Gonna take this opportunity to say that I can personally deliver no script for as little as 7 million, and I know some other writers who can do it for as little as five million.

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Jacob Taylor @jacob-taylor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

In this case, I think you’re incredibly justified. What a great parallel they made - perfectly sums up the feelings that moment is meant to create. #Severance

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 18/02/2025

If you want to write heroes in the year 2025, you have to decide what they stand for, and then stand for it. The mealy-mouthed, offend-no-one approach no longer works. People respond to the Walter Whites bc you can put truth in their mouths. So put truth in the mouths of the good guys.

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

We made information basically free. Anyone with internet can get the correct and real answer to almost any question. But free just means worthless. It's not *hard* to get the answer, so there's no *value* in the answer. Free Knowledge cannot compete against "Lies that reinforce my worldview."

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This is 67 cases--a tiny fraction of TB's global burden, which exceeds 10,000,000 active cases per year. But the longer we allow a curable illness to infect and kill millions, the more TB we'll see in the U.S. Tuberculosis is an airborne disease, and TB anywhere is a threat to humans everywhere.

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