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@pre@boing.world
2025-06-02 20:28:08
Content warning: re: Doctor Who - Reality War
:tardis:

Confusing episode. Let me clear it all up.
The world is sinking into the doubt needed to rescue Omega, remember, and The Doctor is falling with a balcony that's separated from the building.
How does he get out of that?
Well, saved by a literal magic door that pops out of nowhere, leading back to the time hotel. 🤨
Anita, who he spent a year with once a couple of Christmases ago, has been popping around the Doctor's entire long life, peeping on him with the Daleks and stuff. Trying to find him on the Earth's last day. Today.
And now he's rescued, today turns into a groundhog day. Same day over and over again. 😆
There's another woman that's been stalking him through time lately, Mrs Flood. She was following him everywhere, but she had Xmas off she reckons, so didn't see the Time Hotel bit. Thus the element of surprise in the deus ex machina rescue. 😀
The Doctor is broken free of the wish spell now anyway, popped his conditioning, and can use the time hotel's door to recall Unit and break them all out of the wish too.
The Rani pops in to say hi and explain her plans. 😝
How did the Rani survive the end of the Timelords? She flipped her DNA to sidestep the genetic bomb apparently? Well that makes no sense, but nor does anything else so no time to ponder.
The end of the Time Lords made them all Barons... No, made them barren. There can be no more children of the time-lords.
She's popping Omega back out of the underworld for his DNA because the timelords are all barren and she wants to recreate Galifrey.
But wait a minute: Poppy is the Doctor's kid in wish world! So she should have Timelord DNA too! Maybe that could work?
No. The Rani is a nazi, don't like the kid's contaminated blood. She's got human all over her DNA. Eww.
Rani pops off back to her Bone Palace, and makes the bone beasts attack.
The Doctor explains that the Giant dinosaur skeletons are beasts that pop in to clean up the world when there's a reality flux, and the Rani has turned them on Unit HQ.
So the UNIT HQ turns into some kinda ship? Like the Crimson Permanent Insurance. Lol. It's blasting lasers at the bone beasts and turning around, and has a steering wheel like pirate ship now. 🤣
During the battle, the Doctor pops out to take a ride on the sky-bike, looking like something from Flash Gordon, and crashes into the Bone Palace.
Too late though! Omega is pretty much here now. He's a giant boney CGI zombie, become his own legend. Looks great but doesn't really seem like Omega, who ought to be held together by pure will.
Omega eats the Rani! One of the Ranis anyway. Mrs Flood avoids being eaten. She pops off with the time bracelet. "So much for the Two Rani's. It's a goodnight from me!" as she disappears off into time. Great gag. 😁
The Doctor just shoots Omega to get him back into his box. Pops a rifle off the wall. The Vindicator has apparently also got a built in laser as well as locator beacons. So that's handy. The Doctor doesn't use guns but some of his devices work like one. 🔫
So all is well! The day is saved and the wish is over and baby Poppy survives in a time box! 🍻
They're going to take the space baby off to do space adventures. Ruby is jealous of seeing The Doctor and Belinda vibing like that, as they plan a life in space with the space baby. Aww. Poor Ruby. 😭
But then Poppy pops off! Disappears entirely, and everyone other than Ruby forgets. Ruby remembers because she's disappeared from time herself in the past they say.
Okay: to save his child and on Ruby's word alone, the Doctor will sacrifice himself to turn reality one degree.
He goes off to commit suicide by Regeneration, but Thirteen is here! She's popped out of her timeline to stop him! Or maybe to help, with a motivational chat instead. Gives him a pep talk then pops back off again.
The Doctor zaps reality with his Tardis, dying but holding off on the actual regeneration for a few moments to go check on the kid.
The kid is safe! But isn't his own kid any more. Poppy has popped all her Timelord DNA and is just all human now. Poppy's pop isn't the doc, it's someone called Richie.
And Belinda has been so keen to get home all this time in order to get back to her Baby! Who isn't a timelord, and definitely didn't exist until she was wished into being.
This may not be the most ethical action The Doctor has ever taken: To bend the whole universe in order to recreate a baby that was accidentally wished into being out of nothing. Twisting time to give a child to a nurse who didn't previously have a child, or even remember the wish. Then it's not even the same child that disappeared, coz this one is all human. 🤷
But the doc is popping off to regenerate with Joy in the stars, and... Turns blonde: "oh. Hello?" 🤯
It's Rose! Billie Piper is back? Fantastic!
Is Rose doing a David Tennant Impression there?
Billie playing the Doctor, doing a Tennant impression as Bad Wolf? Amazing. Can't wait.
:tardis:
#doctorWho

@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
2025-06-01 00:29:05

"That is the real reason why Starship was doomed to fail from the beginning. It’s not trying to revolutionise the space industry; if it were, its concept, design, and testing plan would be totally different. Instead, the entire project is optimised to fleece as much money from the US taxpayer as possible, and as such, that is all it will ever do."
Wow, this is an interesting piece..
planetearthandbeyond.co/p/star

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-29 18:21:32

Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
AVON: What do we get?
KLEGG: You'll be teleported onto the surface of the nearest planet. You can build your security into the computer program. It won't respond to me until you are safely off the ship.
blake.torpidity.net/m/302/498

Claude Sonnet 4.0 describes the image as: "This scene appears to be set in a futuristic interior, likely aboard a spacecraft or space station, with characteristic sterile walls and technological elements typical of science fiction television. The setting has a clinical, institutional feel with neutral-colored panels and structured lighting.

The scene depicts what appears to be a tense confrontation or negotiation between three characters. One figure is dressed in dark leather-like clothing sug…
@robpike@hachyderm.io
2025-05-12 03:22:00

As a Mass Effect aficionado It seems unfair to me that Shepard has a cabin full of cool ship models but I can't have any. Until now. Martin at printables.com posted an SR-1 3d model. My printer is single filament and low-resolution, so I had to do more work than him to pull it together. Plus painting PLA is a bit of a struggle. But now I have a model, however rough.
I'd still rather have what Shepard has.

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-05-26 06:17:45

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: [To Avon] Could it be altered?
AVON: What?
BLAKE: The running log. Could the readings be faked?
AVON: Only by a top-line technician. Nobody on this ship could do it.
BLAKE: Except you.

Claude 3.7 describes the image as: "This image appears to be from a science fiction television series, set in what looks like a spacecraft or space station interior. The scene takes place in what appears to be crew quarters with bunk beds visible in the background.

The image shows three people in conversation. One person is standing in the center wearing a dark vest over a light-colored shirt. To the right, someone is seated in dark clothing with a thoughtful expression. On the left, partially…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-05-26 06:17:45

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: [To Avon] Could it be altered?
AVON: What?
BLAKE: The running log. Could the readings be faked?
AVON: Only by a top-line technician. Nobody on this ship could do it.
BLAKE: Except you.

Claude 3.7 describes the image as: "This image appears to be from a science fiction television series, set in what looks like a spacecraft or space station interior. The scene takes place in what appears to be crew quarters with bunk beds visible in the background.

The image shows three people in conversation. One person is standing in the center wearing a dark vest over a light-colored shirt. To the right, someone is seated in dark clothing with a thoughtful expression. On the left, partially…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-16 09:06:03

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
MELLANBY: I don't know. [Lauren enters]
LAUREN: [Enters] Do you hear it, Father?
AVON: Any idea where it came from?
LAUREN: There's nothing inside the ship.
blake.torpidity.net/m/301/257 B7B2

Claude 3.7 describes the image as: "This image appears to be from a science fiction television series from the late 1970s or early 1980s. The scene shows three people in what looks like a futuristic spacecraft or space station interior with metallic walls and distinctive lighting.

The image captures a tense conversation between three characters. On the left is a person wearing glasses and a uniform with what appears to be a badge or emblem. In the center is someone dressed in black attire, loo…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-06-12 19:44:43

On the new BC Ferries being built in China.
Do we all remember the last time the BC NDP went down the road of “building a shipbuilding industry to build ferries”?
It has its own Wiki, of course.
"In addition to major delays and cost overruns, the ferries never fully met their original specifications, and only operated briefly in a reduced capacity, before being auctioned off at a substantial loss by the subsequently elected BC Liberal Party government.”
No, I'm not thrilled that China, an authoritarian state, is going to be building these ferries. But no BC or Canadian firms bid on the contract. And right now, the expertise in ship building is in China and Europe (the Island and Salish class vessels were built in Europe).
I don't blame the NDP for not repeating the same mistake 30 years later.
And the ferries will still be refit and maintained for their full service life within BC.
#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_fer