Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm giving a short talk in London next month — grâces soient rendues à Ti. 041
Reposted by Phil PascoeJames Goss @gossjam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026« Et zut ! Ça recommence ! » Quelle surprise! La traduction de Meglos est très intéressante. Un soi-disant discours académique pour #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub depuis Phil Pascoe (@philpascoe-ish.bsky.social) Billets: bit.ly/smallbluebox 2142
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Thoughts after …che Dio perdona a tutti: Eating too many sciù manifests an audience with il Papa, but as it's the hyperglycaemic spike that does this, not the other ingredients, could you achieve the same effect with trentacinque 🌱-sciù con ricotta di latte di mandorla? Another way of loving Flora. 000
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Human, presented by Dr. Ella Al-Shamahi (BBC, 2025). 020
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 08/09/2026How Nietzsche's encounter with the horse in Turin should have turned out. 120
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 08/09/2026In Saint-Pierre, after finding a dead man called John Steed, Arch seeks out then quotes from The Avengers: The Fear Merchants. Except… on all French / Canadian streamers that'd be the second episode listed. So when, on a very busy quatorze juillet, did Arch find time to watch two Avengers episodes? 100
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 26/08/2026#Bookish #DoctorWho A Sneed at a seance, could this be Gabriel Sneed's grandson? And a circus run by a Rossini… Luigi / Lew Russell / Ross's uncle? A great start to the second series of Bookish! 130
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I talk to patients, then type my own notes. Now and then, a typo in the ED notes gets copied and pasted into the inpatient ones, all the way through to the discharge letter. The idea that a doctor who's burnt out to the extent of using an "AI" scribe would read and check its output is… optimistic. 010
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I seem to be mainly watching television made in Aotearoa-NZ lately. And looking forward to season five of Wellington Paranormal going on the list! 000
Reposted by Phil PascoeMatthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Farewell Bill, most radical of the Goodies. Present at Grosvenor Square with Tariq & Vanessa. Turned his harassment by the Met into slapstick TV comedy for kids. Angry, hairy, furiously talented. 271468290
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Rewatched the NHS episode of The Goodies, one we had off air on VHS and saw many times. The background song "I'm…Gonna Be A Doctor", an under-recognised Bill Oddie jam, kept me motivated during medical school. After the sad news, I found myself humming it again at work tonight. Thanks Bill, for joy. 040
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 24/07/2026It is the early 1990s. Doctor Who is not in production but Sylvester McCoy is still making in character (or near enough) appearances. Doctor Who Magazine are publishing short stories in the Brief Encounters series. I hope one day to have read all the Key to Time novelisations. It is the mid 2020s. 2161
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 02/07/2026To anyone who may have followed my profile recently, I'm an occasional Bluesky participant who sometimes posts about my interests which include: Doctor Who, old Hollywood films, extending personhood, toxicology, and the work of Luciane Buchanan. It's vary rare that I post about narcissistic injury. 151
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The online critic who posted this edgelord shit about someone whose death has been announced and whose many contributions to Doctor Who are justly celebrated, might want to reflect on who has squandered chances, whose work is disposable, and who like a lurking troll has been hanging around too long. 106613
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I've probably missed something but in the latest Rutans vs Sontarans story Peri is so strongly anti-Rutan it seems inexplicable. After Planet of Fire she might understandably be suspicious about shape-shifters, yet if that was the case imagine the tension in the TARDIS when the Whifferdill moves in… 040
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I'm not sure whether the 2023 movie The Tank quoting The Wind in the Willows has any deep significance beyond loose association — modernity encroaching upon, then retreating from, the Wild Wood. The film's monster, ostensibly ambystomatid, does have somewhat lutrine, talpid, and batrachian features. 130
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Matthew Sweet often references Doctor Who during his radio broadcasts, but this episode’s allusion to General Grugger of the Gaztaks was quite a deep cut. 🌵 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...podcasts.apple.comSatire and Gulliver's TravelsPodcast Episode · Arts & Ideas · 12 June · 57min 010
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 15/06/2026On this planet there live far more people than there are human beings. 010
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I enjoyed Ladies They Talk About, particularly Barbara Stanwyck's Nan and her swaggering derision for the carceral state and well-meaning reformists. Half comedy half drama, the light tone of this Pre-Code film is set every time (without explanation) the prison "parrot" (clearly a cockatoo) appears. 100
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Like the Loch Lamond song it quotes, Far End of the Sea, from Naoero, is a traversal, taking high and low roads, crossing boundaries of water and language and sanity and death. And though "the broken heart it kens nae second spring again" this touching film shows there's sometimes value in greeting. 110
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I gave a presentation to FACEM colleagues today about diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar hyperglycaemia. 030
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 23/05/2026#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched — Another gowns by Orry-Kelly movie. — Not Orry-Kelly, more an orrecchiette movie. Una pittura di Dorian Gray. — Is recognition of detectivehood a step towards sheepishly accepting ovine personhood? — "Inspired by a true story" yes, there is no plastering in this. 080
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 20/05/2026The absurdity of Gareth Roberts explaining to Spectator readers the concept of rap beef reminds me an audio play I wrote about language theft had a trying-to-be-cool character affirmatively reply "Word!" A please explain note came from the director asking "Why would anyone just say the word 'word'?" 230
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 17/05/2026An unexpected but delightful mention of Lano and Woodley in this #DoctorWho related audio sitcom. I've got a feeling, got a bit of an inkling, Mr Dorney might have slipped in some other references to late twentieth century Australian television viewing habits. This episode's title: Monky Magic. Ooh. 021
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 15/05/2026From a 1945 Meanjin: "Palestine Variation". There are many voices to listen to on a day of remembrance, those of survivors, of future generations despite the catastrophe. But here too, a recognition that Palestine existed, before the Nakba, with singing amid the red poppies, the women bearing water. 020
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 08/05/2026#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched — Fragmenting psycheDelia, surely an inclusion on The Collection Season One? — Suppressing the invention of everlasting matches prolongs the power of Kroll. — Un Étranger autiste, for a time when Arab lives remain devalued. — Luciane Buchanan reads Kenneth Grahame. 0110
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Socio-trichology of the space year 4000 in #DoctorWho The Daleks' Master Plan: - surveillance state functionaries: fully bald - lumpenproletarians trapped within the carceral system: hairy and beardy - galactic traitor: the eyebrows of a Willie Wagtail 051
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 03/04/2026"So for the moment, we do nothing. And by doing nothing, we do everything. Do I make myself clear?" "Come off it, Doctor. What's that supposed to mean?" #FOAMed #EmergencyMedicine #DeliberateClinicalInertia 110
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 03/04/2026"But cactic power isn't strong enough to kill anyone!" 010
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 30/03/2026A #filmsky question for Classic Hollywood historians. My great-grandmother's cousin, costume designer Orry-Kelly, had an on/off relationship with Cary Grant. Very rarely pictured together, here they are outside with three women. The photo is undated, I think 1940s? Any suggestions who the women are? 051
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Well done to @filmisfabulous.bsky.social for this recovery! I would very much like to make a donation to Film is Fabulous but the link on their website isn’t working right now… I’ll check later. #DoctorWho #filmsky 140
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 13/03/2026That happiness that only comes about once per decade is here again… With the bonus joy that this time there could be comparison videos of inane, evil slopconstructions versus the original episodes! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukLost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collectionThe Doctor's assistant Peter Purves was invited to a screening of the episodes in Leicester. 031
Reposted by Phil PascoeThe Black Archive @blackarchive.co.uk · 05/03/2026It's WORLD BOOK DAY, so here's a 10% off voucher for any Black, Silver or Gold Archive (or any other book on the Obverse website, actually). WBD2026 obversebooks.co.ukobversebooks.co.ukObverse Books – Obverse, not Obvious. 0105
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Pepperpot Team report the French version of #TWBTLATS has been recorded, suggesting Disney+ will release it soon…but also the usual translation team who've brought #DoctorWho to the French audience were dumped without being informed. Disney trying to cut its losses? Je ne suis pas d'Accord avec ça. 073
Reposted by Phil PascoeObverse Books @obversebooks.co.uk · 25/02/2026We have the beginnings of a Starter Pack (thanks to @emma.best for the suggestion!) go.bsky.app/1At7oC 64518
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou (1965) has a couple of uses of the phrase "Allons-y, Alonso!" Turns out this is a mid-twentieth century rhyming idiom like "See you later, alligator" or "Let's go, Daddy-O!" The influence of Godard and the Nouvelle Vague on Russell T Davies remains an open question. 040
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I get that all taxonomies, like the neurodivergences that produce them, are compromised attempts to order a chaotic world, but when the latest episode of The Muppet Show isn't listed on Serializd, and yet is listed on Letterboxd… "I love humans, always seeing things that aren't there in patterns." 010
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 04/02/2026I've worked for a few aeromedical retrieval services. The nature of the work being similar to firefighters waiting at the station house for a fire, often retrieval clinicians experience downtime. Just imagine the downtime at Stoke Air Ambulance, which has no helicopter! www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comStoke Air Ambulance 'breached code' over non-existent aircraftStoke Air Ambulance falsely suggests it operates a functional air ambulance service. 000
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Surely it's only a matter of time before Make Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who: The Audio Adaptations Vol. 1… 030
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Getting complimented in the final week of my current job… 010
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Edge of Darkness (1943, directed by Lewis Milestone). For some reason, it felt like the right time to watch a film about the people of an Arctic country fighting back against fascist occupiers… Gowns by Orry-Kelly. 020
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 08/01/2026At the end of the 1941 film I Thank You, Charlie Forsythe sings "Let's Get Hold of Hitler" in front of an engaged and enthusiastic audience of Londoners sheltering from the blitz. But if I posted a clip here, I'd likely get banned from re-entry to the United States… and from bluesky for incitement. 020
Reposted by Phil Pascoealexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026This is a great place to start. Casablanca came out in 1942. When they filmed this, they did not know how the war would end. youtu.be/HM-E2H1ChJM?...youtu.beCasablanca La MarseillaiseYouTube video by CortoMaltese86 516129
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 23/12/2025“What do you mean they just… they just kiss! That’s all it takes? Was my whole career for nothing? Did I go to underwater medical school for nothing? Just a snog! No xenotransplantation surgery? Not even a big hypodermic needle? Ah. All right. There’s still a hypodermic needle, at least.” #TWBTLATS 150
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 12/12/2025I do wonder what the people who say "nothing happens" in Pluribus would like to have happen that isn't. Take this week's episode … #spoilers Carol bathes in a hot spring. Carol has a nice meal in a restaurant. A man gets stung by a Varga Plant from the planet Skaro. Carol plays golf. That's plenty. 020
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Congratulations to these young actors on their casting… in a download-only release. My First Question is: as Big Finish moves more and more towards ephemerality, when Miles Taylor and Jasmine Bayes go to events, what do #DoctorWho fans ask them to sign? 230
Reposted by Phil PascoePaul Scoones @paulscoones.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I was in the audience for a Q&A with Billie Piper earlier this week. Astonishingly, no one asked about her appearance in the most recent episode. No vetting of questions or restrictions on what could or couldn't be asked. It just simply never came up. 2152
Phil Pascoe @philpascoe-ish.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Saw Billie Piper's question and answer session at the Adelaide Showground today. She was aksed about I Hate Suzie, Wednesday, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Penny Dreadful, working class representation in media, and Austin. Nobody asked about The Reality War nor the 2026 Doctor Who Christmas special. 150
![The cover of the medical journal Emergency Medicine [Aotearoa/Australia], volume 30: issue 2, from April 2018. The cover is blank white with no artwork, just the words "Doing nothing". A short day for the cover designer.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hjkjifrvwn23mfuhya245cwt/bafkreia5uytjh6q6zesji3nd3c7l2cgzfajfk45uw4k4vjlupk322isami)
