@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2025-07-03 20:20:08
Oh my word, what the hell are we doing? #libre
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2025-07-03 20:20:08
@pre@boing.world2025-05-27 19:06:58
Content warning: re: Doctor Who - Wish World
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.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-06-30 19:19:29
The gender-fluid flag reminds me that it’s okay to dress however the hell I want at different times, and that gender doesn’t have to fit into strict boxes.
I can be any gender at any time, or whenever my body feels like being something else, I love me.
Here’s what the gender-fluid flag colors stand for, from top to bottom:
- Pink represents femininity
- White stands for the absence of gender or agender identities
- Purple is for a mix or blending of masculinit…
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-05-27 15:05:10
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to2025-04-24 14:16:20
"The first medium for humor was plain text, as was the first age of the Internet. There are Usenet groups entirely dedicated to jokes, such as rec.humor.funny or alt.humor.best-of-usenet. It was through those pre-web media that some classics were published first, like the epic Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH) series, or the DEC WARS! storyline, a parody of Star Wars adapted to the world of UNIX and VMS minicomputers."
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster2025-05-31 19:20:17
What the hell just happened?
#DoctorWho or #Eurovision you decide
@rachel@norfolk.social2025-06-29 17:11:06
I’m hearing multiple reports of the ABR Festival having too many nobheads this year. What the hell??
#Motorcycles
@pre@boing.world2025-06-23 22:44:30
Interesting thing about tomorrow's tarot show, rendering now, is that I upgraded from Blender 4.0 to blender 4.4 and it's quite a bit nicer to look at the timeline editor.
Was sad to find that the render time was up though. From about 3 seconds per frame usually to more like 12!?
Trying it with an old version I see that the lights and textures look way better with 4.4 than 4.0 though. A substantial step up in the way the show looks without me even doing anything other than waiting four times longer per frame.
Seems to be heavily dependent upon lighting now. The slow frames are like 12 seconds but the fast frames with minimal lighting and close up on the video are more like 2.
Looks too beautiful now to go back though. Upgraded my cloud-remote render machines too. We will render on four machines tonight. FOUR! The power of it all.
g3.4xlarge is no faster than g3.large but g6.xlarge seems to be twice the speed.
But hard to be sure really coz of the massive variance in time depending on the lighting.
Anyway, great show coming tomorrow. Sometimes I wonder what the hell I'm trying to do with it but tomorrow's show is the answer. Hide the angry bitter political rant behind a strange CGI tarot show. When the rant comes together well I like it.
https://wordcloudtarot.com/@wordcloudtarot/statuses/01JYFF0GQV1680Z0VG0YTFZDTP
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2025-06-27 15:42:35
OpenStreetMap doesn't have as many streets documented as Google, but we can make it a killer app by mapping what Google won't! For an easy first destination, I propose we have a group of FOSS-loving volunteers commit ritual suicide and then map ring 2 of the 7th circle of Hell in accordance with Dante's Inferno
@salrandolph@zirk.us2025-04-17 13:16:58
Whenever her phone rang or her doorbell sounded, Dorothy Parker would say, “What fresh hell is this?” I’ve taken to repeating it under my breath every time I open my social media apps.
This may sound dark, but it reminds me that I can approach the onslaught of news and opinion with my own attitude: with humor and, above all, with curiosity.
@ruario@vivaldi.net2025-05-18 07:14:19
If you watched #Eurovision and wondered what the hell just happened after Israel received nearly five times more points from the public than from the juries you should read this:
https:…
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.world2025-06-21 15:37:26
What the hell was Willis talking about anyway? Little dude had a point.
@cjhearn@mastodonapp.uk2025-05-15 19:47:39
I've felt that Remember Monday had a great chance at doing well with What The Hell Just Happened?, but I'm seeing mixed comments here and now I'm sad. I'm hoping it's just the usual, self-deprecating anti-UK voices out there. Great staging, great, fun vocals. If we get to the top of right hand side of the final leaderboard, I'd be happy with that. #GBR #UnitedKingdom #Eurovision
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2025-04-21 11:25:12
Sonnet 119 - CXIX
What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distilled from limbecks foul as hell within,
Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears,
Still losing when I saw myself to win!
What wretched errors hath my heart committed,
Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never!
How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted,
In the distraction of this madding fever!
O benefit of ill! now I find true
That better is by evil s…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-06-10 16:16:33
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social2025-06-06 19:41:23
What in the fresh hell is this movie?!
@XavizardKnight@mastodont.cat2025-05-18 12:02:17
L'#Eurovision2025 es pot resumir amb el nom dol cançó del Regne Unit: "What The Hell Just Happend?"
(en veritat sabem el que ha passat, Israel ho ha manipulat i blanquejat tot)
L'única gala que va estar bé va ser la 1ª semifinal, grŠcies al fet que Israel no hi era
I dol final el millor moment i amb diferència va ser l'
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.social2025-04-09 13:25:23
Always document your builds! I have to rebuild a #ProxMox cluster with #Thunderbolt support and I forgot what the hell I did to get it working last time. 🙄
#debian
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2025-05-13 11:25:11
Sonnet 119 - CXIX
What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distilled from limbecks foul as hell within,
Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears,
Still losing when I saw myself to win!
What wretched errors hath my heart committed,
Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never!
How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted,
In the distraction of this madding fever!
O benefit of ill! now I find true
That better is by evil s…