Steven Schapansky 🇨🇦
@legopolis.bsky.social
Doctor Who podcaster, LEGO person, hockey fan. Bounder.
As expected, our G.B.H. video has been taken down from YouTube, along with our video for A Very Peculiar Practice thanks to the BBC suddenly changing their minds. Uncut videos for both episodes are still on our Patreon, which is free to join: www.patreon.com/WorldofTelly
Got my Alberta Referendum ballot in the mail. Here’s how I intend to vote for each of these ridiculous questions, and I strongly urge all Albertans to do the same.
What do you get when you merge an iPhone that’s too wide to use with an iPad that’s too small to do anything with?
iPhoneinCanada.ca@iphoneincanada.ca · 2d agoApple Reveals iPhone Duo With Its Largest iPhone Display Yet Apple has unveiled iPhone Duo, a foldable iPhone roughly the size of a passport when closed that opens to reveal the largest display… https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/2026/09/09/apple-reveals-iphone-duo-with-its-largest-iphone-display-yet/
The Blue Jays are playing in Sacramento tonight, where it sounds like every loudmouth fan has their own microphone.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
Fred Van Lente@fredvanlente.bsky.social · 3d agoRT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
The video version of our latest episode is currently in a copyright dispute and may not be released on YouTube. However, an uncut and ad-free version is now available to view for all our members over at Patreon. And it's completely free to join! www.patreon.com/WorldofTelly
MORE FUN WITH GEOGRAPHY The U.N. General Assembly voted 164-1 to encourage use of the Equal Earth map, which depicts the relative size of Africa more accurately than the Mercator projection. The United States was the sole no vote www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
STAR TREK premiered in Canada on this day in 1966.
The Trial of a Time Lord premiered 40 years ago. It made such a mark on me when I bought my first cheap keyboard, the first things I taught myself to play were the Doctor Who theme, and Dominic Glynn’s trial theme. So here is my own musical tribute to both. youtu.be/GghYGGeHE6w?...
The Trial of a Time Lord at 40
YouTube video by Steven
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Doctor Who - Ghetto Blasters: The Early Years presented by Sylvester McCoy
John Rain🥇@johnrain.co.uk · last wk.GHETTO BLASTERS FTW
On this day in 1978, part one of The Ribos Operation was broadcast.
I have an essay in this month's Uncanny Magazine, called Being A Brief History of It's Storytime With Wil Wheaton! I requested payment in a paper check, so I can frame it, since it's the first time I've been paid the professional rate for an essay.
Being A Brief History of It’s Storytime With Wil Wheaton
I have an essay in this month's Uncanny Magazine, called Being A Brief History of It's Storytime With Wil Wheaton! I requested payment in a paper check, so I can frame it, since it's the first time I've been paid the professional rate for an essay.
wilwheaton.net
Me, yesterday: looking forward to a light work day for once! Me, an hour into today:
Giving the podcast another bump with a link to the Patreon newsletter which delves into the casting of the two lead roles. www.patreon.com/WorldofTelly...
World of Telly Episode 22: G.B.H. | World of Telly
A new episode of World of Telly is now available wherever you get your podcasts. The video version is running a bit late and will be releas
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John Williams@worldoftelly.bsky.social · 2w agoWe're back from our break with a big slice of Bleasdale. There's also a newsletter to accompany the podcast on our free Patreon as usual.
The Uncanny Magazine Podcast 72A features “Horse Boy” by Natalia Theodoridou, as read by Matt Peters; “Huangdi” by Kailee Pedersen, as read by Erika Ensign; “Being a Brief History of It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton” by Wil Wheaton, as read by Wil Wheaton! buff.ly/eIF2wQp
The key is getting the Remain voters out (mail-in ballot requests have been very high, thankfully), and the holding noted turncoat Premier Danielle Smith to honouring the results.
Polling Canada@canadianpolling.bsky.social · last wk.Alberta Separation Referendum: Leger (Aug 23): 🔴Remain In Canada: 74% 🔵Start A Referendum Process: 26% Research Co (Aug 26): 🔴Remain In Canada: 74% 🔵Start A Referendum Process: 22%
I only ever watched GBH on CBC late night because I was lured in by the content warning and yet I only remember the scene with Dalek at the costume party. Looking forward to revisiting.
World of Telly@world-of-telly.bsky.social · 2w agoA brand-new episode of World of Telly is out now and this time we take a look at Alan Bleasdale's G.B.H. You can listen to it now wherever you get your podcasts and a video version of the episode will be released later this week.
I’m running the Great North Run Half Marathon for the first time, along with other Big Finish writers, to support the Lewy Body Society. Genuinely daunted for reasons you’ll read in the link. I’d be so grateful if you could donate any amount to help. www.justgiving.com/page/andrew-...
Andrew's fundraiser for The Lewy Body Society
Help Andrew Smith raise money to support The Lewy Body Society
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We won a Hugo Award last night!
Uncanny Magazine@uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 2w agoSpace Unicorns! Uncanny Magazine (Publisher/Editor-in-Chief Michael Damian Thomas, Managing Editor Monte Lin, Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki, and Podcast Producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky) won the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine! THANK YOU! buff.ly/tWKBUng
status update: it’s half past two in the morning and I’m watching The Sandbaggers a ridiculously cool and under-appreciated series
Visit the @montrealworldcon27.bsky.social, @brisbane28.org, @dublin2029.bsky.social, and @edmontonin2030.bsky.social tables in the vendor room to find out more about the locations and details of future, and potential future, Worldcons!
What if Dr Who gets marooned on Earth again and has to solve murders as if they’re puzzles while he tries to fix his TARDIS?
Radio Free Skaro 🇨🇦@radiofreeskaro.bsky.social · 2w agoRadio Free Skaro #1083 - Journey Through Ignorance - Is BBC's Ludwig better at Doctor Who than Doctor Who? - All quiet from the Edinburgh TV Festival - Gallifrey One guest updates!
TONIGHT - 7:30 p.m. ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Edmonton) In 2030 Bid Party! Hilton Room 5-124 - Join the ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Edmonton) team for snacks, Canadian music, and Alberta's inexplicably-shellfish-related mixed drinks. @edmontonin2030.bsky.social (This is a private party only for Worldcon members)
Milchick Dancing in Severance (Apple TV)
Alt: Milchick Dancing in Severance (Apple TV)
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I wrote the Canadian Encyclopedia entry on Cheezies They have resisted countless efforts over the years by larger, often American, companies that wanted to mass produce them and distribute in the US Snacking as resistance to American cultural hegemony How about that (and a bag of chips?)
David Moscrop@davidmoscrop.com · 2w agoAn act of patriotic defiance.
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