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?
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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.
More on the crisis in open-source maintenance as exemplified by libxml2: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1025971/73f269ad3695186d/
Some money *has* to start flowing into this community or the foundations we all rely on will start rotting away. Given the many-bi…
Sittich-Strolch mittels mobiler Gewahrsamszelle verhaftet
https://www.polizei.bremerhaven.de/blog-leser/sittich-strolch-in-geestemuende-polizei-nimmt-schraegen-vogel-in-gewahrsam-2.html
check out this 😳 update to my home insurance policy:
Allstate Indemnity Company
Policy effective date: August 9, 2025
Amendment Of Policy Provisions – AP4995
The following change is made to the provisions throughout your policy documents:
Any reference to gender, including but not limited to, his/her him or he/she also includes any preferred pronouns of identity including, but not limited to, they/them/theirs.
Our coffee machine died this morning. That makes 4 Kuerig machines in 9 years, and our last one ever. We ordered an 8-cup drip maker with carafe this morning. No more feeling guilty about using pods (I'm sorry, Mother Earth), cost per cup will be cheaper, I can control my flavor and strength, and the coffee grounds are great in our compost. Yes, it took me a decade to figure out I was a slave to convenience and waste. No judging, please.
My fair city of Roanoke attained “Bee City USA” status in 2022, which aims to “promote healthy, sustainable habitats for bees and other pollinators, responsible for the reproduction of nearly 90% of the world’s flowering plant species and one in every three bites of food we eat.”
Last night, a couple of garden clubs teamed up with the city to screen a new PBS Nature documentary, “My Garden of a Thousand Bees”.
Semiconductor giant Intel has officially begun a new round of layoffs, following through on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's warning two months ago that job cuts were "inevitable" as part of a wider restructuring strategy.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/inte
There's obviously something like a Rule 34-C: no matter what your fetish is, there's a crowdfunding for a device to help you enjoy it.
Groove Thing | The World's First Internal Music Player https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/groov…
Leider werden viele Leute keinen Widerspruch bei Meta eingelegt haben gegen die KI-Verwendung ihrer Facebook/Instagram-Daten, weil sie dachten "Boah, schon wieder so ein nutzloser Ich-widerspreche Post der nicht funktioniert."
Bin da wohl nicht ganz unschuldig dran, hab vor 11 Jahren einen Scherz gepostet, den viele nicht erkannten (siehe ab Zeile 10)
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