Keep up the good work - these days, I’m an advocate for decentralisation away from lemmy.world and so it is good to see this getting traction, especially as [email protected] is dead.

I’d like to see content covering the greater Whoniverse - Big Finish audios, books, comics, you name it. The trouble is, I’m not really engaged with that stuff personally, so this is my invitation to the community to build that stuff out.

Yes, there’s so much Who stuff out there you could run an entire Who Instance, so you won’t ever be short of content, even between series. I get quite a bit in my newsfeed so will throw in what I get.

That’s great - I’ve seen a few in the wild but never one in a garden and that’s a fine specimen.

My understanding is they need special soil conditions to grow, so your garden must be perfect for it. I’d buy some seeds and try and get some more going.

"Many exotic species, have now established themselves throughout wild places across the UK, after being dumped and released when the 1976 Dangerous Animals act came into force.

This is often trotted out as an explanation but that was nearly 50 years ago so there would have to be viable breeding populations of these animals.

Wolves also tend to hunt in packs, unlike some of the purported Alien Big Cats, so you might not expect to see a solitary one. Where you might see a rather wolf-like dog on it’s own chasing deer.

The mother being completely unable to be found the whole time, then suddenly UNIT finds all her info after the 3rd act finale was really what was frustrating after the buildup of the series.

It was all very convenient. The police have tracked down criminals using their DNA on genetic genealogy sites and don’t need the actual individual’s DNA just someone close enough to narrow things down. I know someone who was adopted and their father’s name was unknown but she did DNA testing that unearthed some of his family and she now knows who he was.

At the start of the screening of the new episode in cinemas, Millie Gibson popped up saying all mysteries will be resolved. That definitely wasn’t. I have to assume that she’s being set up as a future villain or the Mary Poppins look at the end suggests she’s Missy or it was just a throwaway thing from RTD which means nothing.

And we love him doing it.

“Out of context” eh, Nige? I think the context of the murder of Jo Cox makes a nasty comment downright appalling and a genuine threat to democracy.

Not now and not 20 years ago.

I got mine from Screwfix.

Wait! What? I’m off to… fact-check this, I may be some time.

8 hours? No thanks.

From the slides they seem to do a decent job with the occult influences on the Nazis but you are better off reading Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke’s books (which this likely drew heavily from), like The Occult Roots of Nazism.

They do a worse job with the Communist side because the links aren’t really there.

He only likes the white ones.

#NotAllTicTacs

They are developing their own extremist-infused AI models, and are already experimenting with novel ways to leverage the technology, including producing blueprints for 3D weapons and recipes for making bombs.

Given thr way AI is prone to hallucinations, they should definitely have a go at building them. Might solve our problems for us.

So the idea to make people think that Nazis are using AI, might have come from a Nazi AI? 🤯

It gets better - between the movies and TV shows you get a range of Lostprophet songs. It’s not like the lead singer is one of the worst pieces of scum alive. 🤔

Exorception

That might need to be built into Lemmy.

When Kate died in the first minute I was sad, then everyone else died, and all of the tension went out of the episode, because the stakes became too ridiculous to actually be worried about.

I saw it in the cinema and a number of people gasped “no!”. I thought this would be a good way of changing the status quo and putting UNIT and the Doctor on a back foot, so they have to fight back harder (and a less competent UNIT would be more interesting for a spin-off). Then you see the great wave of dust wiping everyone out and you realise they are going to come up with some way to resolve this by the end of the episode. A real rollercoaster ride, unfortunately one leading to disappointment.

I didn’t think I had as many issues with this episode as I did until I started writing this.

Yes, the more my thoughts crystallised discussing the episode, the more I realised how much I disliked it.

The intrinsic problem is the classic Lovecraft story is: scholar discoveries some terrible, ancient evil and goes mad or runs away. Thus doesn’t lend itself to a big movie adaptation and the most successful Lovecraftian films have worn their inspiration lightly. I’d have loved to see what GdT did with MoM but I don’t quite know how you could jazz it up for the general movie-going audience.

I saw that in the cinema but was underwhelmed.