Month: December 2023

A great advertisement for the service, sure…

Yeah, Alex Jones is back on Twitter, despite what Oolong once said about how that would never happen:

A sentiment of perfect nobility, obviously, except for the fact that it didn’t happen that way, according to his by then ex-wife:

OOF. And it now turns out he was lying about not letting Jones back on Shitter; I don’t believe for a second that he only did it because he posted a poll on there that ended up in favour of Jones’ return, he wouldn’t have posted the poll if he weren’t already thinking of doing it, this just made it look like “the will of the people” or some shit. From that BBC article:

After Musk posted the poll, Jones shared a video online in which he called on his supporters to vote in favour of his ban being overturned.
Jones’s old account was reinstated hours after the poll ended.
Responding to one user on Saturday, Musk said he “vehemently” disagreed with Jones’s statements about Sandy Hook, adding: “but are we a platform that believes in freedom of speech or are we not?”
He said the move would be “bad for X financially” but “principles matter more than money”.

I mean, the answer to his question is “no, don’t be so fucking stupid“. And there’s no principle involved here; Musk was right about hating people profiting from the deaths of children, but somewhere along the way that principle’s fallen by the wayside. I don’t know whether he or Jones is the bigger moral vacuum in this situation.

“The Giggle”

HOLY SHIT but the people who wet themselves over the Timeless Child are really going to lose the plot over the end of the third Doctor Who special, aren’t they? That’s if their heads haven’t already exploded by the fact that this guy…

…isn’t wearing any pants on the show. But, of course, it’s the people screaming about Ruth Madeley crossing her legs a couple of weeks ago who’ll REALLY shit the bed this week when she STANDS UP. It’s almost like Russell knew exactly how people would respond to that bit of business and so decided to really rub it in their faces this time round…

So, yeah. The Toymaker’s back and instead of being a Chinese stereotype he’s packing a “wacky” German accent cos apparently he needs to be racist towards someone, it’s a nice bit of continuity I suppose… Neil Patrick Harris is very good, I imagine his line about turning God into a jack in the box will raise certain eyebrows, and there’s some weirdly disturbing stuff when our dynamic duo get stuck in his realm (really, some of the creepiest shit I’ve ever seen in the show). And isn’t it kind of delightful to see Mel again? Even if it does rather complicate the timeline (given that when she leaves with Sabalom Glitz in “Dragonfire” it’s about two million years in the future, how does she return to Earth in the 21st century?), but it wouldn’t be Doctor Who without details like that being hand-waved away…

They are, of course, not going to be able to do that with the whole “bigeneration” thing…

“Well, fancy seeing ME here…” “Where are your pants?”

I did see a spoiler a few days ago that this was how Tennant would turn into Gatwa, i.e. by frankly pushing him out of himself, which is basically what happens (I’ve seen a number of fan “theories” about the 60th specials and I think this is the only one that was right)… I know Russell promised us canon-breaking developments and I suppose this fits that bill, but at the same it’s actually a throwback to Tennant’s beginnings and how his dismembered hand from “The Christmas Invasion” later becomes a full clone of himself… it’s just that this time he pops out his actual next incarnation. Who, it should be noted, is the most immediately fully functional newly regenerated Doctor in the show’s history, which I suppose is another canon-breaking detail; he’s ready to go as soon as he’s been pulled out, even if he’s… casually dressed. I must say I’m actually glad I read that spoiler, though, cos I’m not sure the show itself actually explains what happened too clearly. Also, I’m sure people will complain about how you can’t have multiple Doctors roaming around time and space as if they haven’t crossed paths multiple times…

Anyway—on the whole, a satisfying episode, satisfying end to the specials (and technically to the series itself; I understand now why they’re calling the next series “series 1” now), and I’m less bothered about RTD coming back to the show than I was before I saw any of them. I think this show might go far once Ncuti puts some pants on…

A matter of scale

So we’ve also seen pictures of Oolong Husk’s Cybertruck(kk), but I think this is the first time I’ve realised the actual size of it:

Jay Leno is five foot eleven, apparently. That’s what a nearly six-foot man looks like inside one of these fucking things. Seeing that gave me a sudden understanding of the actual size of Cybertruck(kk)… and it now feels uglier to me than ever before; if it didn’t look bad enough in the pictures of it I’d seen, it seems a whole lot worse now…

Men having a normal one, part 5089

So I’m not particularly a Taylor Swift fan (I recall I did quite like Folklore, mind you), and the news that Time magazine declared her their Person of the Year fills me with indifference much like Time‘s Person of the Year almost always does. It had a… different effect on some people.

There’s always got to be someone like this posting this sort of bullshit, hasn’t there. Especially after they’ve also posted this sort of bullshit:

For Eric, I guess, the sight of a woman on a magazine cover is one of those exceptions that prove the rule, and you should instead be quick to anger at that. Oy.

I’ve pontificated here in the past about matters of personal identity and how I’ve never not felt like a man but I’ve also never felt like much of one, and how I don’t seem to feel the same need other MEN evidently do to prove what MEN they are and how I find such MEN off-putting (and obviously I capitalise the word advisedly). Eric Conn is exactly the sort of MAN I mean, the sort that has to beat his big masculine chest about how virile he is by hosting podcasts called the Hard Men Podcast (“Reclaiming biblical masculinity in a world of softness“) and The King’s Hall (“exists to make self-ruled men who rule well and win the world“), identifying as a “Western native” and “avid hunter”, and being threatened by the success of a… woman. An aging (34 next week) woman at that. And goddamn, though I may be a “failure” as a man, if THIS thing represents “success” at being one, I’ll settle for failure. I like me more.