Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

*goes to a website for a piece of software*

What does it do?

*website has download links, a manual, a history, installation instructions... but no description of what the program is for*

If you want to delete an empty folder, you might be tempted to use

rm -r

but this is dangerous - you could delete the wrong folder by accident and loose a lot of files.
Luckily, there's this command:

rmdir

which allows you to delete an empty directory, and will refuse to do anything if it's not empty!

... why is there a folder called ~ inside my home directory

oh my gods

I'm watching clips from Series 10 – it's the only modern series I haven't seen (it was broadcast last year).

And there's a point where they meet missy, and she's playing Erik Satie on a piano

aa

Did you know: they didn't copy the footage from the previous week's cliffhanger scene for the start of the next episode. They re-performed the scene, on a new tape.

Earlier on, this was very obvious, but it's been much less obvious with the last 2 seasons!

The villain in The Invasion has a huge moving wall that hides a secret machine, and the wall takes several seconds to open or close. I'm surprised he hasn't been caught with it open

"yes, we saw 2 women walk into the building - one fair, one dark"

heck, you wouldn't hear that nowadays – people would think you're describing their skin colour!

I'm excited for Doctor Who next week...

(even though I'm 31 seasons behind in my watch through)

holy gosh it took until 2013 for Doctor Who to have any smartphones

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/doctor-who-phones/

Aside: I've stopped putting the story name in the CW, because the Content Warning was getting too long. If this site was structured more like Tumblr, where the posts are rather wide, then I'd definitely make the post title the full thing, but this UI isn't wide enough

I'm up to episode 5 of The Mind Robber, which is the shortest episode of Doctor Who ever

"Only a man-like creature can write fiction!"

what. why would you make that a part of your story? why would you want to make non-humanoid aliens incapable of creativity???

Happy Hatchday to @softgoat , the loveliest and most important goat in my life ♥

In the second episode of the Mind Robbers, they had to add a scene at the last minute – the actor for Jamie was ill, and so they replaced him with a different actor. But they needed to explain why his face changed between episodes.

Luckily, the story is already set in a weird hallucinatory reality, so it's relatively easy to explain.

snooze...