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This week, Simon and Eugene finally come to the end of the 2025 season of Doctor Who and the end of the Gatwa era, when they look at the final two episodes, Wish World and The Reality War.

They discuss Ncuti Gatwa’s performance as the Doctor, compare the Deadly Assassin with the Reality War, whether it would have been more or less tasteless to joke about Ernest Borgnine’s death if he was still alive, if it makes Dimensions in Time canon, and oh, so many more things than this story actually deserves.

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https://fusionpatrol.com/2025/06/07/739-doctor-who-wish-world-the-reality-war/

#DoctorWho #Podcast

I started my career in tech as a technical writer, but that was only because I wanted to become a webmaster (which I achieved after a year). Living the web dream in the 90s…

“I'm a fucking webmaster
Back in 1993, you weren't a designer, developer, copywriter or in devops. You were a fucking webmaster, and your name was at the bottom of every page.”
https://justinjackson.ca/webmaster/

In a complex system, detection and repair of minor issues happens continually. If you aren't aware of these sorts of activities going on within your own system, you don't actually understand how your system stays up.

I didn't believe my wife when she told me Micky Dolenz from The Monkees had taught her a magic spell that turns people into dogs with a single stare. Then I saw her face, now I'm a retriever.

@neil Fantastic panel - thank you.

It's still quite chilling how nebulous the regulations are and how the (whispered) suggestion (not necessarily from you, to be clear) for tiny services is 'hope that you're too small for Ofcom to care and that no one will weaponise the Act against you maliciously'.

I feel the headline for me was that there's a bunch of work obligated for me to do, which will have zero impact on safety, and will never be enforced by Ofcom anyway.

If you push code to production on a Friday, your commit message automatically changes to "YOLO!" and includes a GIF of a dumpster fire. I don’t make rules.

You might have reasonably assumed I was joking. I was not. I make no apologies for who I am. #doctorwho

https://werd.io/2025/the-darkest-day-a-fantasy-doctor-who-season

Original ‘Doctor Who’ Season 2 Ending Revealed by Insider – And It Changes Everything #DoctorWho
https://voicefilm.com/original-doctor-who-season-2-ending-revealed-by-insider-and-it-changes-everything/

If you have not followed the news lately, allow me to summarise:

The guy who stole the data of all US citizens is now fighting the guy who has the US nuclear codes.

@tim @Viss @mjg59 I love all kinds of astronomy.

Twitter's new encrypted DM system stores your private key material on Twitter-owned services, protected with nothing more than a 4-digit PIN. If hostile, or if legally compelled to, Twitter could easily decrypt all your messages. It's also MITMable and doesn't secure metadata. Use Signal.

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/71646.html

Oops! Civil war in Reform? Bring it on!

"“Eleven months ago I became chairman of Reform. I’ve worked full time as a volunteer to take the party from 14 to 30%, quadrupled its membership and delivered historic electoral results. I no longer believe working to get a Reform government elected is a good use of my time, and hereby resign the office.”

Don't let the door hit you on the way out!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/05/zia-yusuf-quits-as-chair-of-reform-uk-after-new-mp-burqa-ban-row

After a close to 6 month journey along a low energy transfer trajectory, the Japanese ispace Hakuto-R Mission 2 RESILIENCE lander will attempt to land on the moon on Thu, June 5 at 19:17 UTC (3:17 p.m. EDT).

Hakuto-R M2 was launched on Jan 15, alongside the Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander. The mission will deploy a European-built mini rover named TENACIOUS and other science payloads on the lunar surface.

https://ispace-inc.com/m2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakuto-R_Mission_2
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The following is the exchange between users memecucker, Latining and Chicken Lore, from an ancient, cherished post on Tumblr. It goes as follows:

memecucker: "You can tell when someone’s frame of reference for “normal people” is more “people at the church sponsored ice cream social” and less “people on the bus”"

Latining: "the people in the notes saying “people on the bus aren’t normal” are the people this post is talking about."

Chicken Lore: "I took the bus for three years when I lived in Honolulu and haven’t lived anywhere with even usable public transit since, but in those three years I had dozens of utterly bizarre experiences that were also Perfectly Normal. This is because the human condition is vast and also Very fucking Weird.

Kid one the bus next to me whose backpack starts moving and it turns out he’s got three chickens and a painted turtle he caught in there? This is Perfectly Normal. Humans have been catching small game and transporting it home in whatever they had since we invented bags to put chickens and turtles in.

I traded him three king-size snickers bars I had on me for the turtle because I vaguely remembered that many freshwater turtles were toxic to eat (incorrectly, as it turns out, but this was when I still had a Nokia Brick that lived a blissful, internet-free existence), and didn’t want him accidentally poisoning his family, but didn’t want to just. Steal his hard-won turtle. This is Perfectly Normal. Humans have been cautious about poisons, looking out for strangers kids and bartering shit since before we were technically humans, probably.

Having acquired a turtle, I now needed to transport the turtle to the on-campus pond that effectively served as an Invasive Freshwater Turtle Containment Zone, but did not have a bag that could adequately contain him so I had to sit the rest of that bus ride, at the station and all through the next bus ride holding the turtle like the world’s angriest hamburger. Multiple people were curious about and delighted with the turtle. This is Perfectly Normal. Humans love an animal, especially one that is capable of appearing grumpy, and hands are for holding things.

By the time I got back to Campus, the anthropology and child psychology building that the Invasive Turtle Containment Pond was in had closed, so I had to figure out how to climb the tree over the wall and get down off the roof while holding The World’s Angriest And Sharpest Hamburger. I eventually ended up having to briefly shove the turtle into by bra to get up to the initial branch and off the roof without breaking an ankle. This is Perfectly Normal. Humans are, as a species, a bunch of barely-evolved arboreal frugivores and really good at Tree Physics, and I don’t know a single titty-having bitch out there that hasn’t used their bra as Emergency Pockets at least once, if not daily.

I released the turtle into the Turtle Containment Pond and then had to solve the problem of getting back OUT of the locked building, but Nokia Brick never loses a signal or drops a call (including that time I accidentally dropped it off a 13-story building in the middle of a call to my parents and the damn thing BOUNCED but kept the line open. I miss that phone every day.) and while campus security has been carefully trained to not let people IN to places without proper ID and a call to someone inside, they assume that if you got locked in somewhere, that you got in by legitimate means and not Lemur Shenanigans, so i just called them, apologized that I’d been working late with headphones on and didn’t realize I’d been locked in. This is Perfectly Normal, people have been lying to cops since laws were invented, and will continue to do so because all cops are bastards.

Anyway, everyone should have access to good public transportation because freedom of movement is a human right and meeting a broad spectrum of humanity is good for your mental health and spiritual welfare."

Chicken Lore's post: https://gallusrostromegalus.tumblr.com/post/698929946564935680/i-took-the-bus-for-three-years-when-i-lived-in

The ispace Hakuto-R M2 landing webcast will begin at 2:10 p.m. EDT (18:10 UTC).

Landing is scheduled for 3:17 p.m. EDT (19:17 UTC).

https://www.youtube.com/live/BVSMXQPeTcw
https://ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=7631
#Moon #Space
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When we released post editing for #Mastodon, we first released a version that supported processing and displaying edits incoming from other servers, before releasing a version that flipped a switch allowing anyone to make edits. We're taking an identical approach with quote posts, as the upcoming 4.4 version of Mastodon will begin displaying quote posts from other servers and software. Once this is widely deployed on the network, 4.5 will bring the long awaited ability to quote posts.