Pete Dillon-Trenchard

@pdt.bsky.social

Writer, sub-editor, general content person. Doctor Who fan who occasionally masquerades as an expert for money. Den of Geek and others. Once did a joke that made Terry Pratchett sad.

(a true headline might be "guy on podcast makes joke about how many comments there were from Harry Potter fans in a consultation process, relating to cable project which was obviously never going to go straight through area of natural beauty in national park"

Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 2w ago

For some reason people lose all critical judgment when interpreting jokes made by infrastructure people at conferences or on a podcast. This just isn't what happened.

I hope Sadie Sink has been paid way more than usual for the Spider-Man: Brand New Day press tour. Marvel doesn't want anyone discussing who she's playing, but they've sent her out to help a thousand interviewers fill seven minutes with nothing anyway.

The year is 1990. Doctor Who remains off the air, its future uncertain. Sylvester McCoy is the closest thing we have to a current Doctor. The year is 2026. Doctor Who remains off the air, its future uncertain. Sylvester McCoy is the closest thing we have to a current Doctor.

He was also in Sirens, a film I stayed up late to watch one time as a teenager. It was quite dull, which is strange considering how much of the screen time was given over to Elle Macpherson's breasts.

This simply won't happen (as much as I want it to). Frogface got over 21,000 votes at the last GE. Even if, optimistically, only half vote for him this time, that's still 11,000 who need to vote for a joke candidate. Labour, Lib Dem and the Greens barely totalled that in 2024.

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