haverholm @ haverholm @kbin.earth

I used to make comics. I know that because strangers would look at my work

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a massive gust of wind ripped through the set… and suddenly, it was raining rose petals!

Reading the interview over morning coffee, this stood out as a peculiar thing to happen. Showbiz, huh?

(youmeanharbinger)

Yet he doesn't preemptively credit his influences...?

Great deal, and all I have to do is join the worst site in the world LinkedIn?

"LOL", I guess?

Let's hope an earthbound, Doctor-less miniseries sets some kind of precedent for how and if UNIT exists on a regular basis :) I'd still hope for some cosmic adventuring in the main series, even without the Doctor.

As for Bezos, wasn't he in the 2009 Star Trek movie already?

Edit: Sorry, it was Star Trek Beyond that he was in

Thanks for the clarification on speculative posts, I agree with your reasoning both on the story and showbiz parts. And also thanks for the "meat and potatoes" info on changing Disney management.

I'll be disappointed but not entirely surprised if Gatwa's Doctor becomes a casualty of these combined circumstances. It would be interesting to see him complete a three season run — or four since the plan was to shoot seasons in pairs — but we're in no way entitled to that as viewers, especially not at the risk of his career prospects.

If he's unavailable for the foreseeable future, or altogether, my suggestion will always be to do a fully Doctor-lite season. The Doctor has disappeared, possibly regenerated, and their friends from all of time and space band together to find them. Start with the surviving companions and the Fugitive Doctor, and throw in a grab bag of side characters from the show's recent history. At the end of the season we meet the new Doctor, or pass the lead to Jo Martin.

Call me, Russell! 😛

how and why the Disney deal didn't include the back catalogue

That's the real head scratcher. Maybe BBC wanted to have their "complete archive" iPlayer launch first, and hold out to sweeten the extension deal with Disney? Or the Disney people looked at classic stories like "Talons of Weng Chiang" and said, 'Nope, we have yellowface at home'?

Either way, I don't recall who has the international streaming rights for the 2005-22 seasons, but that would probably be a good place to start looking for new partners... And again, maybe offer to throw in an extra 26 vintage seasons.

"50p...? Thanks mate, I'll go invest that somewhere it'll turn into a whole pound over the course of five years."

While true, doesn't have anything to do with my comment?

Probably no connection (any more than the recurring spoons are), but back in "Church on Ruby Road" Mrs Flood told the Doctor "You look like you've lost a pound and found a sixpence," and in this episode the Doctor finds 50p. Which he immediately gives to Conrad, so that was money well spent /s

I use markdown for pretty much everything, and I agree with the overall notion of this rundown, but —

Seeing weird characters when you copy-paste from AI? That’s because ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others use Markdown to format their responses.

Yeah, maybe that's not the gotcha the author thought it would be.

Markdown — so stupid simple even stochastic parrots can figure it out is a slogan that will age like milk.

And there Sam was, face to face with journos and unable to have his AI assistant come up with a burning retort 😰

Yes... In society... What else?

Look, fuck "AI" and all, but can we not post the same already viral link three times to the same community in a day? I mean, tell me without telling me that you're just spreading the link indiscriminately without checking the timeline first.

You all are obsessed with Elon, that's your job — like, more power to you

Not at all passive aggressive or insincere there.

Most of their operations are now running with money as the motivation

Let's be real, that was always their end goal. They were never "open" except in name. Their free services were only to a) build a user base, and b) use it as unpaid beta testers.

Seeing hos much the update looks like it was made at Fisher-Price, they probably do:

NoProvider2Push is a good call! Haven't paid attention to that, thanks!

Yeah, as I said earlier it wasn't completely clear to me if this was only a question about push notifications or just all-round play services replacement. That is why I also mentioned SunUp which uses UnifiedPush.

"Criticize"? How dare you! 😂 It was only intended as light ribbing as far as I'm concerned, I fully acknowledge the "foolish" part.