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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 4d

Colonel Breen had the right idea...half inch Quatermass' moonbase for a 'dead man's switch'... 🙈

With a nagging feeling that I should have announced my intentions on the Jimmy Young show (look that one up kids!), I'm ever-grateful to my policy@Manchester colleagues (including - but not restricted...

ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 4d

What connects Malvolio, a Victorian hero of sailors, and the Law of Requisite Variety? @manchester.ac.uk @digitaluom.bsky.social @ncsc.gov.uk #cyber #resilience #policy Party Piece
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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 10d

This week's (😢) sabbatical readings were taken from... 🙈 #booksky

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 10d

This week's (😢) sabbatical readings were taken from... 🙈 #booksky

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 14d

'core skills'...nothing soft about them... 😉🙈

ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 14d

That CCTV is clearly keeping an eye on the moggy. A cat scan you might say... 🙈

a man in a suit and tie is screaming with his arms outstretched in a foggy room .

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 15d

Northwest weirdies! Join us and @bobfischer.bsky.social for our GHOST STORY SPECIAL at Dukes Lancaster on Wednesday 29 October - a big group chat about all things spooky!

Tickets: bit.ly/3HK5duQ

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 14d

Doubtless you're the motivation for the attack. Taytos had better review their supply chain before they're fried too... 🙈

Alt: Dr What from Carry On Screaming cries 'Frying tonight!'.

ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 14d

By the hairy kneecaps of the sky goddess, this was a cracker! 🙈

The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who @worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 15d

30th September, 1978:
"Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet" part 1. #DoctorWho

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 15d

Ah. Perhaps The Two Doctors, and The Flux were made purely to invoke criticism... 🙊😈

ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 15d

That's the last time I go out wearing ruby slippers... 🙈

Upside down house. Looks like it's fallen out of the sky.

a woman wearing a blue dress and blue gloves is standing in front of a sign that says free coffee .

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 16d

Just over four weeks to go till our Ghost Story Special live show! Come and share your memories of all things spooky with us and @bobfischer.bsky.social 👻

Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 29d

BOO! Fancy sharing your spooky stories this Halloween? Join us and @bobfischer.bsky.social for the SCARRED FOR LIFE UNPLANNED GHOST STORY SPECIAL at Dukes Lancaster on Wednesday 29 October! We'll also have a natter about scary old telly programmes and the like...

Tickets: bit.ly/3HK5duQ

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 20d

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Part Three (24th September 1979).

"Poor loves. Trained to Empire. Trained to rule the waves. Englishmen could be proud then."

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 22d

Wrangling. I meant 'wrangling'! What did you think I was trying to type? 🙈

Alt: The late Dick Emery doing his thing...

ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 22d

Managed to sacrifice a little time to contemplate the equinox in the absence of Jean Michel Jarre... 🙈

Message from Moonbase Alpha (Short 1999) ⭐ 7.9 | Sci-Fi, Short

ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 22d

Somewhere out there in the ether, racing lost Doctor Who episodes to the stars, is a lovely, tear-jerking farewell from Sandra Benes answering that question. Copyright wangling is preventing the opportunity to see it but it was there once... 🙈https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283478/

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 22d

Solstician salutations... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 24d

What's your sign? 🙈

ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 24d

What's your sign?

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · Aug 14

Someone's been dumping furniture at the bottom of the street with 'Free' notices on it. Today, 3 chairs appeared. I couldn't resist a small addition to each... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 24d

The last sabbatical readings of the year were taken from... 🙈 #booksky

a blurry picture of a christmas tree with bbc on the bottom right

ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 25d

And the template for the manikins that supported (almost) the costumes at the Doctor Who Exhibition that opened in Blackpool in 1974...🙈
blackpoolremembered7485.wordpress.com/download/

ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 27d

It's a disgrace that this is still up from last year. Does no one observe the 6th of Jan. deadline?

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a stuffed dog is laying down in a field with flowers and trees in the background

ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 28d

English roundabouts you say. Sacré bleu (chat)... 🙈

ALT: a stuffed dog is laying down in a field with flowers and trees in the background