I find it difficult to believe anyone would call a tech startup "Hugging Face" after the thing on the left rather than the thing on the right. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Can't imagine.

Deeply unimpressed by the DWM installation of the Circuit Breaker story. Titan's Origins comic made storytelling capital of the Fugitive Doctor's edgy relationship with her Division employers, and of her earlier place in Gallifreyan history. This doesn't care about any of that.

Have the Doctor Who extended media ever done a Tractators vs Menoptera story? Why not?

Er, this is a surprise. Is it because I'm unimpressed by Andy Burnham, or because I was complimentary about Stephen Moffat?

I can't think of any other story that's been so thoroughly rewritten -- and all without changing a single line. A spokeswoman for the Doctor's actual, verifiable future, turning up in her past through what could only be time travel. An amazing feat for a writer who deals in Doctor Who as myth.

By beautifully recontextualising her over 13 subsequent episodes, Moffat achieves the appearance of an 11th Doctor regular here, a year early, with all her memories of that era intact. The writing's totally good enough that her death hurt the first time round, but it's so much more effective now.

Even in the two-parter, it's clear that River Song is not just the Doctor's future companion, but his soulmate (and that Moffat has been reading The Time-Traveller's Wife). At the time I didn't imagine we'd see her again -- the Doctor has had unrealised futures before -- but I was very wrong.

Freshly in awe every time I watch Silence in the Library / The Forest of the Dead. Not just one of the best and most intellectually exciting stories of Russell T Davies' era, it's become a time-travelling exclave of Steven Moffat's era, a manifesto foreshadowing his own approach to the series.

When I wrote the character of Kyme Janute in Of the City of the Saved, my one-line description was "Ann Widdecombe as played by Mr T."

“I will make a statement on my future in public life at 2pm.”

Foiled again.

(The human kids also play notorious plague-themed game Ring-a-ring-a-roses at the bottom left of the screen around the 10m30s mark. Damn, I wish I'd paid them more attention before.)

Apropos my Black Archive on The Ark, where I said we don't see Monoid children at any point? @stuartdouglas.com has just pointed out this 10-second scene just under 15 minutes into "The Steel Sky", where all the Monoids are, at least, very much shorter than we see at any other point in the story.

Not forgetting the chutzpah it must have taken to get these three published.

Justin Richards midwifed some amazing work as editor of the Doctor Who books.

It's really difficult to focus on what an excellent actor Natalie Dormer is, because of how distractingly sexy she also is.

This guy and his two friends, one of whom is a bot, must have a lot to talk about.

More obvious because they were both played by Alec Guinness, of course.

Doctor Who story where the Daleks build a Yellow Dalek out of Bessie's remains just to taunt the Doctor.

(Historical note: Johnson died when Coleridge was 12, years before Byron or Shelley were born.)

Remembered a couple more overnight.

Obviously it's far too early to be speculating about the next Doctor, but I hope whoever wins the contract takes my earlier suggestions into consideration.

Every year Facebook reminds me of this photo I took in 2017 of the inside of my trouser pocket.

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone. #ProofOfCat

Post a poster you used to have on your wall. (When I was a student I had a bit of a pre-Raphaelite thing going on. I still have.)