Phil Pascoe
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Words and other toxins.
Getting complimented in the final week of my current job…
January 29, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Getting complimented in the final week of my current job…
Edge 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.
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.
January 22, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Edge 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.
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.
At 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.
But if I posted a clip here, I'd likely get banned from re-entry to the United States… and from bluesky for incitement.
January 8, 2026 at 1:45 PM
At 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.
But if I posted a clip here, I'd likely get banned from re-entry to the United States… and from bluesky for incitement.
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This 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.be/HM-E2H1ChJM?...
January 7, 2026 at 8:16 PM
This 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.be/HM-E2H1ChJM?...
“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
#TWBTLATS
December 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
“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
#TWBTLATS
I 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.
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.
December 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I 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.
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.
The Sea Devils IN COLOUR!
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The Sea Devils IN COLOUR!
I tried the #DoctorWho tuna madras recipe, though for tuna I substituted jackfruit seasoned with kelp salt 🌱. I enjoyed it, as I like all the ingredients, though I did just make it the once.
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I tried the #DoctorWho tuna madras recipe, though for tuna I substituted jackfruit seasoned with kelp salt 🌱. I enjoyed it, as I like all the ingredients, though I did just make it the once.
Congratulations 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?
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?
Meet the new TARDIS twosome... introducing Jasmine Bayes as Eleanor Fong. 💥
Doctor Who: The First Question is due for release in March 2026. Pre-order at bgfn.sh/first11
Doctor Who: The First Question is due for release in March 2026. Pre-order at bgfn.sh/first11
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Congratulations 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?
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?
Perhaps, just like Rob Shearman cogently observed that a 3 second smile and a hello is not much of a basis on which to imagine new stories, that sense of foreshortened future has made fans uncomfortable enough to avoid the subject? “What was your favourite facial expression? Bewilderment or wonder?”
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Perhaps, just like Rob Shearman cogently observed that a 3 second smile and a hello is not much of a basis on which to imagine new stories, that sense of foreshortened future has made fans uncomfortable enough to avoid the subject? “What was your favourite facial expression? Bewilderment or wonder?”
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I 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.
October 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I 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.
Saw 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.
Nobody asked about The Reality War nor the 2026 Doctor Who Christmas special.
November 2, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Saw 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.
Nobody asked about The Reality War nor the 2026 Doctor Who Christmas special.
On the train I overheard a French couple debating the meaning of the word ‘schmick’ they’d read on a poster advert.
They eventually settled on ‘élégant’. I didn’t interrupt their evening, but surely ‘chic’ is right there? Le Freak, c’est schmick.
They eventually settled on ‘élégant’. I didn’t interrupt their evening, but surely ‘chic’ is right there? Le Freak, c’est schmick.
October 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
On the train I overheard a French couple debating the meaning of the word ‘schmick’ they’d read on a poster advert.
They eventually settled on ‘élégant’. I didn’t interrupt their evening, but surely ‘chic’ is right there? Le Freak, c’est schmick.
They eventually settled on ‘élégant’. I didn’t interrupt their evening, but surely ‘chic’ is right there? Le Freak, c’est schmick.
When 45 was pushing the false idea that hydroxychloroquine treated COVID-19 a patient came to ED with a severe allergic reaction after taking hydroxychloroquine.
I'm really not looking forward to the downstream harms of 47 incoherently declaring babies and pregnant people should avoid paracetamol.
I'm really not looking forward to the downstream harms of 47 incoherently declaring babies and pregnant people should avoid paracetamol.
September 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
When 45 was pushing the false idea that hydroxychloroquine treated COVID-19 a patient came to ED with a severe allergic reaction after taking hydroxychloroquine.
I'm really not looking forward to the downstream harms of 47 incoherently declaring babies and pregnant people should avoid paracetamol.
I'm really not looking forward to the downstream harms of 47 incoherently declaring babies and pregnant people should avoid paracetamol.
Somehow I don't think it's likely we're getting Disney money for #DoctorWho Season Three: The Search for Susan.
September 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Somehow I don't think it's likely we're getting Disney money for #DoctorWho Season Three: The Search for Susan.
#DoctorWho unfolding text rule: If an actor makes an appearance but isn’t referred to by name, the actor is playing their Doctor.
Good old Sylv!
Good old Sylv!
BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.
September 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
#DoctorWho unfolding text rule: If an actor makes an appearance but isn’t referred to by name, the actor is playing their Doctor.
Good old Sylv!
Good old Sylv!
Sometimes, despite all the everything, I'm reminded that something I wrote a very long time ago (before Millie Gibson even existed…) still finds and entertains listeners.
I've always preferred to let it speak for itself, but I will say: thank you.
I've always preferred to let it speak for itself, but I will say: thank you.
September 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Sometimes, despite all the everything, I'm reminded that something I wrote a very long time ago (before Millie Gibson even existed…) still finds and entertains listeners.
I've always preferred to let it speak for itself, but I will say: thank you.
I've always preferred to let it speak for itself, but I will say: thank you.
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Double #SFDFWho ...Ish
In keeping with the theme of the story, I find new meanings in this pretty much each time I listen! Episode 2 has a discussion about the limitations of LLM AIs, so it's definitely not topical at all. It's a story that pretty much ONLY sixie could carry and it definitely
In keeping with the theme of the story, I find new meanings in this pretty much each time I listen! Episode 2 has a discussion about the limitations of LLM AIs, so it's definitely not topical at all. It's a story that pretty much ONLY sixie could carry and it definitely
August 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Double #SFDFWho ...Ish
In keeping with the theme of the story, I find new meanings in this pretty much each time I listen! Episode 2 has a discussion about the limitations of LLM AIs, so it's definitely not topical at all. It's a story that pretty much ONLY sixie could carry and it definitely
In keeping with the theme of the story, I find new meanings in this pretty much each time I listen! Episode 2 has a discussion about the limitations of LLM AIs, so it's definitely not topical at all. It's a story that pretty much ONLY sixie could carry and it definitely
Reposted by Phil Pascoe
Requires full attention whilst listening to it to keep track of what state some characters are in. The beeping joke in part 4 always makes me smile and whilst some bits are a tad predictable, I still always find this a very relaxing and warm story to listen to. A thoroughly charming 8/10
August 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Requires full attention whilst listening to it to keep track of what state some characters are in. The beeping joke in part 4 always makes me smile and whilst some bits are a tad predictable, I still always find this a very relaxing and warm story to listen to. A thoroughly charming 8/10
Fear Death By Water by Emily Cook is an excellent #DoctorWho adventure, a different kind of celebrity historical. It left me thinking about fame as an ouroboros, and using history and genealogy to rewrite generational trauma. It also has a reference which brought a smile to this old timelashologist…
September 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Fear Death By Water by Emily Cook is an excellent #DoctorWho adventure, a different kind of celebrity historical. It left me thinking about fame as an ouroboros, and using history and genealogy to rewrite generational trauma. It also has a reference which brought a smile to this old timelashologist…
How do they present the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna comic? When originally published in Doctor Who Magazine 598, it was printed as two-page spreads. If they've found a way to print it legibly here it gives us hope for future comic anthologies of 60s and 70s comics printed in similar two-page layout.
August 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
How do they present the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna comic? When originally published in Doctor Who Magazine 598, it was printed as two-page spreads. If they've found a way to print it legibly here it gives us hope for future comic anthologies of 60s and 70s comics printed in similar two-page layout.
I once went to a general practitioner who told me everyone has a finite number of heartbeats and when you run out… you die!
I'd much rather see that GP again than a "doctor" who feels incapable of functioning without a chat bot typing up notes, just to squeeze a few more consults ($) into the day.
I'd much rather see that GP again than a "doctor" who feels incapable of functioning without a chat bot typing up notes, just to squeeze a few more consults ($) into the day.
August 12, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I once went to a general practitioner who told me everyone has a finite number of heartbeats and when you run out… you die!
I'd much rather see that GP again than a "doctor" who feels incapable of functioning without a chat bot typing up notes, just to squeeze a few more consults ($) into the day.
I'd much rather see that GP again than a "doctor" who feels incapable of functioning without a chat bot typing up notes, just to squeeze a few more consults ($) into the day.
We doctors often assess capacity to make decisions: a patient has to take in what's said, reflect, then give their view.
If I was so slop-brained that I was unable to listen to a patient, synthesise the info and document a decision myself, I'd have failed to show capacity!
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If I was so slop-brained that I was unable to listen to a patient, synthesise the info and document a decision myself, I'd have failed to show capacity!
bsky.app/profile/info...
When Australian AI expert Dr Kobi Leins declined a medical specialist’s request to use AI transcription software during her child’s upcoming appointment, the practice told her the practitioner required the technology be used and Leins was "welcome to seek an alternative" provider.
Read more:
Read more:
Kobi refused a doctor's AI. She was told to go elsewhere
Unregulated AI scribes raising privacy, security concerns.
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August 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
We doctors often assess capacity to make decisions: a patient has to take in what's said, reflect, then give their view.
If I was so slop-brained that I was unable to listen to a patient, synthesise the info and document a decision myself, I'd have failed to show capacity!
bsky.app/profile/info...
If I was so slop-brained that I was unable to listen to a patient, synthesise the info and document a decision myself, I'd have failed to show capacity!
bsky.app/profile/info...
If Adrian Rigelsford had just waited a few decades, his “interviews” with Stanley Kubrick and William Hartnell could’ve been framed as chats with their “AI avatars”.
He’d not only have got away with it, he’d have money thrown at him by venture capital’s dumbest.
www.theguardian.com/film/2004/no...
He’d not only have got away with it, he’d have money thrown at him by venture capital’s dumbest.
www.theguardian.com/film/2004/no...
Feature: What Stanley Kubrick didn't say
Six months after Stanley Kubrick died, a 'world exclusive' was published - a supposed last interview on the set of Eyes Wide Shut. Odd, thought Anthony Frewin, the director's long-time friend: this di...
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
If Adrian Rigelsford had just waited a few decades, his “interviews” with Stanley Kubrick and William Hartnell could’ve been framed as chats with their “AI avatars”.
He’d not only have got away with it, he’d have money thrown at him by venture capital’s dumbest.
www.theguardian.com/film/2004/no...
He’d not only have got away with it, he’d have money thrown at him by venture capital’s dumbest.
www.theguardian.com/film/2004/no...
2006: Doctor Who: Den gådefulde maskinmand is published in Danish, an adventure of the Ninth Doctor.
2025: Bastard Down Stairs Cafe is operating in København.
Another example of the global cultural influence of #DoctorWho …
2025: Bastard Down Stairs Cafe is operating in København.
Another example of the global cultural influence of #DoctorWho …
July 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
2006: Doctor Who: Den gådefulde maskinmand is published in Danish, an adventure of the Ninth Doctor.
2025: Bastard Down Stairs Cafe is operating in København.
Another example of the global cultural influence of #DoctorWho …
2025: Bastard Down Stairs Cafe is operating in København.
Another example of the global cultural influence of #DoctorWho …