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Writer | Support Worker | Communist (RCP/RCI) 🌟

Interested in the political philosophy of stories ✍

Lots of planets have a north!

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JK Rowling writing a bully: - "Oi, fatty" said Malfoy, being bad and wicked for laughing at someone's weight.

JK Rowling writing a stupid person: - His big fat face swivelled around like a fat load of fat. He sat on his fat piggy bottom. "Hello", he said, like a big fat bastard.

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@repeatvisitors @insomniblvck Not really. I'd have Reflektor over Neon Bible, for instance.

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@insomniblvck Arguables that come to mind:

- Oasis
- Bon Iver
- Nas
- The Strokes

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@leeejohnston Ally can be repetitive and a bit much, but at least he comes across as a human being who enjoys watching football. Same with Peter Drury. I understand the try-hard allegations, and they're true, but still light years ahead of the likes of Dixon or Danny Murphy.

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@Dani_WSDK God, this is so good. Proper television, genuinely invested in it's characters, treating all of them with dramatic weight, putting them in situations where all their flaws ache and their heroic qualities shine. We have not had anything remotely like this in a very long time.

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@Simplykatie_xo Fucking brilliant.

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@ellemccoole It does. Like being stuck in the corner of a damp, drab, flat-roof pub with the most boring man in the world.

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Lee Dixon should be put down for his own good.

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@gothoperas When people compare episodes like "Villa Diodati" and "The Well" to the best of the show's golden age (S1-S6A), I really think they're forgetting just how good Doctor Who used to be capable of being.

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@emopunkgrrrl Agreed.

Even as a Moffat-era guy, this never bothered me. The Master is there to be evil and fun, and while Missy was a beautiful twist on that, I don't think later stories have any obligation to not write The Master as they have been written for the five decades otherwise.

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If I was a writer and came up with something like this, I’d be insufferable to talk to for the rest of my life. Hard to dwell too hard on any of the Moffat era’s shortcomings when he was capable of pulling off a dozen strokes of genius per episode.

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@BenoitBlancFan Eviscerates.

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The Capaldi era is an outlier for being high quality but low in populist appeal. It's true that Doctor Who hasn't had an uncontroversially good and popular season since 2010, though, and that is indeed the core issue.

[J @Joshua4570]

The truth that no one wants to hear is that Doctor Who has been in a very slow decline since series 6

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"Greedy for an exciting life" is a game-changer for me.

[thefunnyguys.eth/tez @thefunnyguysNFT]

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money — I think that can be a burden — I’m greedy for an exciting life.”

David Hockney, 1937-2026

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@ruviexo Are there many studies to back that up?

It sounds unlikely to me that the body adjusts to the point where regular exercise becomes meaningless to weight loss. It does affect CICO. There is a reason Michael Phelps ate 8,000 calories a day during Olympic training, after all.

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@ruviexo I do agree that diet is vastly more important than exercise, though, and also people underestimate the other factors around CICO (sleep, resistance training, quality of nutrition, hydration, stress levels, etc).

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@ruviexo I think this is only true to a limited extent. CICO is the driving force of weight loss. Your body may adjust, but if you use exercise to overall burn more calories than you consume, you will lose weight. There are dozens of factors beyond that, but CICO is the driving force.

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Ehsan Ali is free! THIS is the power of international solidarity in action ✊✊✊✊

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@emopunkgrrrl @empatheticcain I don't think they intended the universe to end when they blew up the TARDIS, it was an unforeseen consequence of trying to kill the Doctor.

Personally I think the Hybrid arc is brilliant and concluded to perfection, so it might just be a matter of taste in how arcs end.