Dale Smith
@dalesmithonline.com
Writer of things mostly about #DoctorWho and infrequent conversationalist. Also works with #Drupal / #PHP
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Boddah
by Dale Smith
"I assure you I will be the worst ever Kurt Cobain."
The house had cost Cobain over a million dollars when he had bought it: three stories and nearly three quarters of an acre surrounded...
calendaroffools.com
So this year I had a story in @calendaroffools.bsky.social's #IntergalaticRejects, a collection of great #SF stories that had gone the long way around to find their home. My story was Boddah, and I'm pleased to say you can now read it for free. I hope you enjoy it calendaroffools.com/stories/bodd...
"The morning is all singing" www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... CC @johnkendell7.bsky.social @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social @philyarrowactor.bsky.social
BBC Radio 4 Extra - Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
The lives and dreams of a Welsh seaside village called Llareggub. Stars Richard Burton.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM
"The morning is all singing" www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... CC @johnkendell7.bsky.social @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social @philyarrowactor.bsky.social
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I had something to do with all of this, back when.
Another fine podcast from @finishedzine.bsky.social on #DoctorWho Corpse Marker: soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/.... If you fee like the host and want more Carnell and some kind of direct sequel but haven't listened to the EXCELLENT Kaldor City audios, fix that now www.kaldorcity.com/orders.html
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The Robots of Death return!
Decades for Big Finish's excellent spin-off series The Robots, Chris Boucher returned the Fourth Doctor and Leela to Kaldor, for a BBC Past Doctor Adventure.
We speak to e
soundcloud.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I had something to do with all of this, back when.
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An Oxbridge man replying to Brittney telling him her latest struggles
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
An Oxbridge man replying to Brittney telling him her latest struggles
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The Celestial Toyroom Annual 2026 is released on November 23… and here’s a look at what’s inside!
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The Celestial Toyroom Annual 2026 is released on November 23… and here’s a look at what’s inside!
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This is a brand new outlet for free fiction and the only source of funding for it is you guys: if you enjoy any of it, why not subscribe for a month or two? www.dreamtheory.media/support-us/
November 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is a brand new outlet for free fiction and the only source of funding for it is you guys: if you enjoy any of it, why not subscribe for a month or two? www.dreamtheory.media/support-us/
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As the other stories in the collection get their moment in the spotlight, this story will get bumped off the website. So if you're thinking you might want to read it, why not set aside 20 minutes today?
So this year I had a story in @calendaroffools.bsky.social's #IntergalaticRejects, a collection of great #SF stories that had gone the long way around to find their home. My story was Boddah, and I'm pleased to say you can now read it for free. I hope you enjoy it calendaroffools.com/stories/bodd...
Boddah
by Dale Smith
"I assure you I will be the worst ever Kurt Cobain."
The house had cost Cobain over a million dollars when he had bought it: three stories and nearly three quarters of an acre surrounded...
calendaroffools.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
As the other stories in the collection get their moment in the spotlight, this story will get bumped off the website. So if you're thinking you might want to read it, why not set aside 20 minutes today?
Another fine podcast from @finishedzine.bsky.social on #DoctorWho Corpse Marker: soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/.... If you fee like the host and want more Carnell and some kind of direct sequel but haven't listened to the EXCELLENT Kaldor City audios, fix that now www.kaldorcity.com/orders.html
454: Corpse Marker
The Robots of Death return!
Decades for Big Finish's excellent spin-off series The Robots, Chris Boucher returned the Fourth Doctor and Leela to Kaldor, for a BBC Past Doctor Adventure.
We speak to e
soundcloud.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Another fine podcast from @finishedzine.bsky.social on #DoctorWho Corpse Marker: soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/.... If you fee like the host and want more Carnell and some kind of direct sequel but haven't listened to the EXCELLENT Kaldor City audios, fix that now www.kaldorcity.com/orders.html
Watching - and enjoying - the latest season of #TheDiplomat but can't help but notice they seem to have completely forgotten about the escalating conspiracy implicating the now President of the United States in favour of saying it's tricky have two jobs they wouldn't let one person have.
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Watching - and enjoying - the latest season of #TheDiplomat but can't help but notice they seem to have completely forgotten about the escalating conspiracy implicating the now President of the United States in favour of saying it's tricky have two jobs they wouldn't let one person have.
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Going to sleep after reading an Alastair Reynolds book, I dreamed about a society that had both smart matter and LLMs, and you couldn't trust your fucking dishwasher not to generate new utensils you didn't need, which wouldn't have worked if you did.
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Going to sleep after reading an Alastair Reynolds book, I dreamed about a society that had both smart matter and LLMs, and you couldn't trust your fucking dishwasher not to generate new utensils you didn't need, which wouldn't have worked if you did.
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It’s only “Liz Truss from appointment till resignation” days till Christmas!
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
It’s only “Liz Truss from appointment till resignation” days till Christmas!
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
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Mamdani is going to impose Shania Law. It won't impress you much.
Mamdani is going to impose Salvia law. Parsley, rosemary, and thyme will be hunted to extinction.
Mamdani is going to impose Sha Na Na law. Everyone will be forced to wear gold lamé, have pompadour haircuts, and go to the hop
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Mamdani is going to impose Shania Law. It won't impress you much.
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This 100 times over, the BBC is definitely in need of improving but the fact it is the only network outperforming YouTube in the UK and still produces stuff like The Traitors, Doctor Who, Stage Race UK, Strictly, etc that are all widely popular (to varying degrees) is impressive
Obviously right to criticise it when it makes mistakes but the BBC is broadly very good and British people don’t realise how lucky they are to have it.
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
This 100 times over, the BBC is definitely in need of improving but the fact it is the only network outperforming YouTube in the UK and still produces stuff like The Traitors, Doctor Who, Stage Race UK, Strictly, etc that are all widely popular (to varying degrees) is impressive
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November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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People are doing year wrap-ups already (give December a chance, people!) buuuut I'm curious -- What's the thing that's most dear to you that you've published this year and why?
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
People are doing year wrap-ups already (give December a chance, people!) buuuut I'm curious -- What's the thing that's most dear to you that you've published this year and why?
Without a doubt, it's As A Kang Should Be from @obversebooks.co.uk: I've had a busy year this year, but this one felt like lots of things came together to make this a fun book to write that was perfectly in my wheelhouse but also needed to exist in this moment. obversebooks.co.uk/product/para...
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Without a doubt, it's As A Kang Should Be from @obversebooks.co.uk: I've had a busy year this year, but this one felt like lots of things came together to make this a fun book to write that was perfectly in my wheelhouse but also needed to exist in this moment. obversebooks.co.uk/product/para...
As the other stories in the collection get their moment in the spotlight, this story will get bumped off the website. So if you're thinking you might want to read it, why not set aside 20 minutes today?
So this year I had a story in @calendaroffools.bsky.social's #IntergalaticRejects, a collection of great #SF stories that had gone the long way around to find their home. My story was Boddah, and I'm pleased to say you can now read it for free. I hope you enjoy it calendaroffools.com/stories/bodd...
Boddah
by Dale Smith
"I assure you I will be the worst ever Kurt Cobain."
The house had cost Cobain over a million dollars when he had bought it: three stories and nearly three quarters of an acre surrounded...
calendaroffools.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
As the other stories in the collection get their moment in the spotlight, this story will get bumped off the website. So if you're thinking you might want to read it, why not set aside 20 minutes today?
Today the void asked me WTF I was staring at.
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Today the void asked me WTF I was staring at.
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A long, long post on the novelisation Doctor Who The Revenge of the Cybermen by Terrance Dicks, the first to feature the bohemian Fourth Doctor: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/11/doct... #books #booksky #DoctorWho
Doctor Who The Revenge of the Cybermen, by Terrance Dicks
0tralala.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A long, long post on the novelisation Doctor Who The Revenge of the Cybermen by Terrance Dicks, the first to feature the bohemian Fourth Doctor: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/11/doct... #books #booksky #DoctorWho
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I think Sunder’s spot on here. Someone who just enjoys visiting NT properties and likes a cup of tea and a nice scone is quite likely to receive this as a bit hysterical and/ or a reason to back away slowly.
This latest defeat may exemplify a broader ecosystem/bubble problem for the right: so used now to preaching to the converted in media outlets and online that it struggles to understand how this language (the NT as run by or capitulating to "woke terrorists") might be received by the median member
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I think Sunder’s spot on here. Someone who just enjoys visiting NT properties and likes a cup of tea and a nice scone is quite likely to receive this as a bit hysterical and/ or a reason to back away slowly.
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my love language is being given thirty seven thousand pounds
November 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
my love language is being given thirty seven thousand pounds
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Hamster Book Club - Ghost Light by Marc Platt. Quintessence of wickedness! Corruption incarnate! Until all the Atlas is pink! The Cream of Scotland Yard! Will @2broad2deeppod.bsky.social and I finally get the answers we seek from the Ghost Light novelisation...
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November 9, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Hamster Book Club - Ghost Light by Marc Platt. Quintessence of wickedness! Corruption incarnate! Until all the Atlas is pink! The Cream of Scotland Yard! Will @2broad2deeppod.bsky.social and I finally get the answers we seek from the Ghost Light novelisation...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
