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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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There's no resolution to the racism in Dot and Bubble. No big #DoctorWho speech and no redemption; even the Doctor can only cry in anguish against the self-inflicted stupidity of it all. That's harrowing.

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This lamppost was the hero of Dot and Bubble. #DoctorWho

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Genuine chance Joanne might read this, now. I'd just like to say, from the bottom of my heart... Can you put me in touch with Phillip Pullman, instead? He's very good.

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@JamieHComedy @ErlingHaaland Disrespectful to Her Majesty to be fielding Haaland at this time IMO

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People are going to say that the aging make-up in 73 Yards was disappointing, but what do you mean a woman in these glasses with this wine pose isn't 30?? She is absolutely into minion memes and Pointless. #DoctorWho #DoctorWhoSpoilers

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Go and read "A Tale for the Time Being" by Ruth Ozeki. A beautiful book written by a woman who, as far as I am aware, is nothing but a so-cool-it-hurts kick-ass Zen Buddhist teacher, filmmaker, author, and professor.

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@barista__morg "Watch me prepare the nice drinks people like in my job as a nice-drink-preparer, the literal thing I am paid to do."

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@strutterhead Go for it, it's called "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".

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@EdmundOris Pep's first buy. Played as a pure six for a year and we got a hundred points. Turned into Benzema for two months in 20/21 to lead us on a 21-game streak and win the league. Scored the iconic winner at Villa to win the league again. Now he's Captain. A massive, massive legacy.

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@Jessebourbs She writes that the only reason Hagrid wasn't able to turn Dudley into an actual pig is that he was too much like a pig already in the very first book. Malfoy calls Neville a "great lump" and a "fat crybaby" in the same book, and we're expected to tut out loud at him.

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@KongsTardis His Dad also died at that time. Must be a lot of bad memories.

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@Lawrenc96025925 I know what you mean, but I think it's been justified in all instances and Ncuti just fucking rocks the emotional-eyes look.

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@BaldtBaldtar @capybaroness And how was your journey in the time machine from 2009

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@tensallonsy I read it as she wasn't fully the Woman but trapped inside the woman; the spirit of her calling towards Ruby from a distance forever, like a cocktail of her own soul and the force of the circle itself.

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@DiaLancea Speak for yourself, I've been stanning him ever since the Richard Coomes days! There since he was under 50k!!

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@SafeSpaceDrWho A solid six. Mostly mediocre up until this line, which is one of the best moments of character writing since Twelve/Clara. From then on, it was pure acidic brilliance.

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@NyxGreenfyre If only her name had been Lindy Aardvark.

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@RadioTimes The Husbands of River Song and Hell Bent in the bottom half should be considered a war crime.

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@Jessebourbs Your reply might be "Well, Dudley is bad and Neville is good", in which case I'm glad you agree with me that Joanne sees fatphobic bullying as a morally ambivalent social tool to be levelled at children or slow/stupid/spoiled people when they "deserve" it.

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"Dot and Bubble" Food for Thought: Should the Doctor's reaction to racism have been more proactive? Should he have even offered racists his compassion? Crucially - how would these things have been written differently if the episode were penned by a black writer? #DoctorWho

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@Wingy_Tunes The "great effort" here presumably being "reading one of her books and noticing the fairly obvious hypocrisy". If this is "great effort for nit-picking" to you, I think that actual critical discourse of art might make you faint.

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It might be bonkers, it might make no sense, but I'm sorry - #insideman is one of the most gripping and inventive television shows you'll see this year. Episode Three was like being trapped in a car as it sinks under the waves. Moffat is a mad-man, an idiot, a fraud, a master.

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@DanInRL Russell in his "I fucking hate us all" bag is a different beast.

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@lynchinist I'm not defending him for the other things, but the second quote is him talking about fictional elves - him being a hobbit and making them fall down, etc. It's a bad joke in bad taste, for sure, but to call it outright "rape apology" and post it without context is unnecessary.

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@tsudonym_ @barista__morg No life is just more fun without you in it

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@councilofgeeks Hell Bent is pretty clear, I thought. It's Doctor Who mythology shattered open from the base and given to a human woman; it's moving how humanity relates to the transcendence of this universe from being a passenger to being the entire centre. Clara IS the Doctor.

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@Simplykatie_xo The main point is the textural contrast between the high-tech world of Finetime and the slimy, organic threat of the slugs; it shows how people avoid the ugliness around them in favour of a more aesthetic pastel world which is ultimately fake and part of it.

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@SteveDecker11 @BernieTranders (6, last count)

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@andie1105 Yes, Andrea, because Clarkson was famously fired by the BBC for tweeting something; yes, for tweeting something - his fist, into the face of another person, a colleague, while at work. It was a kind of post-stucturalist, three-dimensional tweet. The kind that resembled a punch.

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@RonnaLina @guardian Aye, typical of the BBC to cast an upcoming and exciting actor for one of their biggest roles. What's the world coming to!

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@tm11999 @guardian Apology accepted

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@theblucasthe Stephen King's "The Raft" is basically just Chad, Beta, Becky, and Stacey in a short-story and we are expected to take it entirely seriously.

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@JCDenton220 @guardian The writing in the Capaldi era was excellent.

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@technocrate_tx Or it could just be that I noticed a funny contradiction in a book and wrote a two-sentence tweet about it. It's not that deep, classical-portrait-man.

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@realgirl_fieri @NateHB13 People saying "this".

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@lysleslily He means when Thirteen started, I think, but we will get there. I'm holding out for the Muslim-coded Sixteenth Doctor and the "RIP DOCTOR WHO 1963-2028" posts.

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@HannibalBarcids @shaun_vids no monarchy

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@josh_snares Spot on. This is about primal emotions and fears. It isn't about people coming up to the Woman and hearing "Don't forget to subscribe to the official Doctor Who YouTube channel", or something.

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Donna in "The Runaway Bride". We have the entire hat-trick.

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/lh I love both of these episodes but this was so bizarre 😭

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@drborgle Incredible that this story has the villain say "Hello, friends - or should I say... PLANE-STEALERS?" and it isn't even the worst bit of dialogue in the episode.

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@zuza_real @shaun_vids I remember when Ricky was talented, down-to-earth, and likeable. Not sure I know of any like, non-criminal celebrity who's had such a poor character arc.

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@RoyalLord2101 @JonDenton Liverpool fan try not to make it about them for ten seconds challenge.

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@Charlie38164567 @thatotherharry But this isn't this world lol It's a piece of fiction with a script I agree, it's just a weird moment Just say he's off setting up his telescope for the night and we are all happy

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@Duran1097 @ESPNUK Disrespect is even taking Trent in the squad at the moment

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@ContraPoints I think part of this (another part is obviously sexism) is that "girlbossing" tends to pushed by capitalism as this progressive thing, with inspirational pop songs playing and a woman quipping to a man or something. The whole "Go girl, command that nationalist party!" vibe.

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@valdavermillion @ScarvesandC Missing the point by such a wide margin that you actually came back around and skimmed past the other side of it.

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@SailorGoonR @barista__morg Didn't ask

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@Wingy_Tunes I do not think that noticing things about books in any manner other than blind worship is "the most stupid thing ever". Like it or not, JK has an uncomfortable pattern of hypocritical body-shaming in her work. She wrote about wondering how an overweight man washed his penis once.

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@ShayProd The superficial relationship Lindy has with Ricky - prideful lust which comes from him boosting her social status - is the perfect echo of the head-in-a-bubble narcissism of the concept. RTD can be so excellent at this flaw-exploring character work; give some to Ruby Sunday!

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@MitchelComstein @EoinHiggins_ Congratulations on your impressive lack of reading comprehension.

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@brandybongos Uhhh... I don't buy into the whole genocide thing either but mate, "some of them survived and continued so it doesn't count as genocide" might not be the best look you can have on Twitter. You know, like, Jews still exist.

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@SafeSpaceDrWho I'm bordering close to a ten. The political stuff was undercooked and Ruby was written too passively for a solo episode, but those are quibbles; that was haunting, powerful, and great.

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@vamtired That's actually an excellent point.

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@TavaresOUT @steven_parry92 @liamgallagher I identify as someone who lost their virginity before April of this year, now reply to this, I dare you <3

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@CoolsomeXD Long-haired men who love to read books are peak.

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@Jessebourbs You might want to read back some of her books. Fat piggy bottom is basically verbatim from the text. There's also killer-whale boys, sausage fingers, stomachs like aprons of fat, and in her adult book she wonders how an overweight man might even wash his penis.

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@DanBrown_Actor The slugs were pretty fucking chill.

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@acesbaseballbat It amazes me that people still characterise the Moffat era entirely as the Smith era, and just memory-hole the subtle, character-driven glory of S8-10.

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@Wingy_Tunes It is also not "dissecting" to notice something this obvious. Don't try and frame it like you need to pore over the Harry Potter books to find this stuff, as if she's not literally trying to turn overweight characters into actual pigs in the first few chapters of the first one.

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@Jessebourbs I am both honoured and concerned to be your introduction to the concept of a joke.

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@freespeechds @guardian But enough about you

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@scribblesscript Agreed on Ruby. The issue with the episode is that even with a solo showcase, she still feels both bland and passive - can you imagine Rose just silently letting her mum go off towards the monster without any protestation? The politics were shallow, but effective, for me.

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@Naldrag You leave this 40-year-old wine-mum alone!

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@thiiirdperson @zuza_real @shaun_vids Not talking about his comedy. Him. XFM days, Office days, he was funny as fuck. Unique, took the piss out of pompous celebrities, wrote great stuff, was even a fantastic actor. None of those things now. This moment was his peak as a performer/writer:

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@Wingy_Tunes "I'm sure worse things were written in books" might be the single weakest defence of a critique I've ever seen. Like, yes, I agree, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is not as bad as say, "Mein Kampf", but it's still fine to critique the obvious hypocrisy in the text.

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@Ztrangefolk I actually did agree with him until Boom; it felt like I was watching Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson having fun, which is enjoyable, but not engaging dramatically. But then Ncuti gave us a literal all time Doctor performance in Boom. It was fresh, different, but the Doctor.

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@CulturePopBHop @RadioTimes They're all #1 because they were all iconic.

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@dicaprios_ @vamtired Even the "nice" people in racist societies end up pretty racist 🤷‍♂️

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@AllanODonohue46 @ladbible Because the shape-shifting alien Doctor Who is of course entirely comparable to a historical black-rights activist Numpty

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@BiteBiteBadger Words become a struggle - wow. For a character defined by his ability to talk his way through any situation, seeing him put into that position hits hard, thanks for your thoughts.

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@fiestyfaith "This much fervour" being... one tweet? You'll be happy to know that I've been involved with real-life organisations to help the homeless get food near Manchester, then, and also to over-turn the Tory government. I hope that gives me a "Can Now Discuss Harry Potter" Card.

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@Scrooge671 Because he's likeable and fun, yeah. Glad you figured it out.

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@acesbaseballbat 1/? Series Nine had a consistent theme of reacting to death and experiencing grief, culminating in a three-parter that brought together both that AND completing the arc of The Doctor's toxic love for Clara and her ascendency to being "The Doctor" where he is forced to let her go

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@rtalalay @thepostmonument The return of the Moff??

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@snartdeco @ShenDoodles @Zenzenzenzen12 Amazes me that the best solution she could come up with for how chores get done at Hogwarts (that is, the magical school Hogwarts where things can be done using magical spells by all the magical wizards) was that there is a slave race who are born to serve who do it. Incredible.

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@damechatprrr @Simon_Whitten @rfhrfhrfhrfh He is quite literally stating things which are demonstrably true. A cat could go through a lobotomy and still be able to defend what he's said, sunshine.

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@teganstrapvanka I'd like it if it wasn't part of a strange trend of Ruby being incredibly passive and bland in 73 Yards. I get that she saves the day in the end, but even that seems strange when Mad Jack doesn't symbolise anything about her own psychology the way the Woman seems to. Hmm.

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@17woid You just put an unproven kid from the Argentinian league ahead of the top scorer of the entire Pep era and our literal top scorer of the last season.

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@ItsLB_City Akanji purchase looking crucial already.

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@DimensionsInJen Deep Breath, Listen, Mummy on the Orient Express, Flatline, Dark Water, Last Christmas, Under the Lake, and Face the Raven/Heaven Sent/Hell Bent. AND Husbands of River Song. I mean, I like "It Takes You Away" and "Villa Diodati" as much as the next man, but come on now.

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@hxll_mxtt Compare how the characters and the world in this series have been built up compared to in the actual Series One. An insane gap.

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@JavierGaliani @rickygervais Feel free to add in some thirteen-year-old-who-just-discovered-atheism humour and a tired routine about how Joanne identifies as a broomstick to complete the Gervais vibes, if you like.

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@shaun_vids "Harry Potter is an overrated book series" said the handsomely-haired young man named Steven. "No, it's really good!" said the snivelling little bitches, in response to his tweet.

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@shaun_vids I think the distance from the opponent is part of it - there's a kind of frustrating loneliness to it when you're just getting beat because of your own ineptness by a force that's too far away for you to take your frustration out on.

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@alessabcd We will still need big glasses and smug wine grins, though. They're timeless.

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@councilofgeeks It's also wrapping up the grief-theme of S9 as well as Clara and Capaldi's arcs from the last two series. It's quite beautiful, in the end.

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@Jessebourbs This cannot possibly be your introduction to exaggeration being used to make a point in a jokey way.

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@MoonsproutWitch As someone losing weight, I don't quite follow. In good-faith: If moving to a healthy weight leads to increased life-expectancy, increased ability to do activities, better mental health, and less general strain on your body, how could that not be seen as a form of self-love?

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@nicwzl @HelenVonPeas The overreaction to this clip is astounding lol As if Peterborough fans wouldn't be doing the exact same thing if they drew a team leagues below them, the guy is openly not a football expert and is having a laugh

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@TrilbeeReviews 7B and 8A are rough, but Series 9 is one of the best ever made.

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@fmc_james @SusiePeaceCora @Balticduke @PhilipProudfoot She was an incestuous racist who protected paedophiles, pretended her disabled cousins were dead, personally advocated for mass murders in the colonies, oversaw concentration camps in Africa, attempted to use poverty funds to heat her palace, exempted herself from laws...

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@TheCyberdevil The telling of Rosa Parks in the most white-washed, clandestine and middle-class way possible was one of the most disappointing parts of the era, for me.

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@hirofan17 @Wingy_Tunes In the first Harry Potter book, one of the likeable and positive characters literally tries to disfigure a ten-year-old overweight boy into being an actual pig. We're all supposed to be happy about it. Hagrid is being as much of a bully as Dudley could ever hope to be just then.

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@City_Xtra @ManCity Embarrassing replies on these tonight.

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@SteveDecker11 @BernieTranders It's not bad English, it's just cringe.

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