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@pre@boing.world
2025-05-27 19:06:58
Content warning: re: Doctor Who - Wish World
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A wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
🤨🤔
Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.
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@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-26 17:42:02

In which I recommend that if you’re building or upgrading a moderately serious music-listening system, you use Qobuz and include a cheap Mac Mini: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

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@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-06-26 11:44:53

Found a bunch of BSides with fediverse accounts I wasn't following. I should probably update my fediverse #BSides index... 😅
Bsides & InfoSec Cons by Region
📌⁠ infosec.exchange/@catsalad/111

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-07-26 14:00:50

"World’s smallest snake rediscovered in Barbados after 20-year absence"
#Barbados #Snakes #Animals

@vosje62@mastodon.nl
2025-07-27 04:38:07

Global Water Supplies Threatened by Overmining of Aquifers: New Study — @…
propublica.org/article/water-a

So much groundwater is now being pumped that it is filling the oceans as it drains off land, becoming one of the largest drivers of global sea level rise.
Water From Land Has Become a Leading Driver of Sea Level Rise

Most of the water lost from drying regions is from groundwater pumping, which ultimately shifts fresh water from aquifers into the oceans.


Drying land
and aquifers

Melting
glaciers

Note: Glaciers refer to the parts of the continents covered in glaciers but excludes the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica. Drying land and aquifers refer to the water lost by the continents in areas not covered by glaciers, including river flow …
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-07-26 13:30:55

New on blog: "EPYTEST_PLUGINS and other goodies now in #Gentoo"
"""
If you are following the gentoo-dev mailing list, you may have noticed that there’s been a fair number of patches sent for the #Python eclasses recently. Most of them have been centered on #pytest support. Long story short, I’ve came up with what I believed to be a reasonably good design, and decided it’s time to stop manually repeating all the good practices in every ebuild separately.
In this post, I am going to shortly summarize all the recently added options. As always, they are all also documented in the Gentoo Python Guide.
"""
blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2025/0

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-07-27 16:20:33

Records show China's Starlink rivals have only ~120 satellites in orbit, less than 1% of their goal, vs. SpaceX's ~8,000, underscoring how far behind they are (New York Times)
nytimes.c…

@usul@piaille.fr
2025-06-26 04:53:58

Affaire de Bétharram : en 1998, les ratés de la justice face aux agresseurs présumés
lemonde.fr/societe/article/202

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-26 18:11:47

More on the crisis in open-source maintenance as exemplified by libxml2: lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1025971
Some money *has* to start flowing into this community or the foundations we all rely on will start rotting away. Given the many-bi…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-26 20:15:48

Sources: Instagram and TikTok are working on versions of their apps customized to run on TV screens, following YouTube's success in attracting a TV audience (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/ti