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[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think it's worth mentioning, assuming the National is a respectable publication (I really don't know my UK media).

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's like how I try not to begrudge YouTubers who make those thumbnails, no matter how much they enrage me.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago (7 children)

The BBC’s announcement came during the second semi-final, reportedly just minutes after Israel’s entrant Yuval Raphael qualified for the final.

Are they trying to draw a connection here, and if so, does it hold any weight?

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had never heard that "Father's Day" had been set to be an unplanned Doctor-lite episode.

one went verbatim, in its entirety: “Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa withdraws from BBC role - and here’s who’s replacing him”

The baitiest clickbait of all.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, we've seen similar circumstances with Shirley and Morris. And, I guess, Rose Noble.

In principle, I don't hate the idea - it can help make the organization seem big and busy, if they do it right. Sending Mel off to investigate Sydney Harbour in "Lucky Day" was a fun way to lay some groundwork for the spinoff.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'd completely forgotten that Susan Triad joined UNIT at the end of season one...

I'm not normally one for fan chants, but that was good comedy.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Depending on the circumstances, they could just be respecting the families' wishes.

I was never any good with music theory, but I knew someone would appreciate it.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Clothes very similar to the stereotypical “african clothes”

Could you expand on that, ideally with pictures of what you're talking about? L'Rell's outfit, for example, hardly screams "Africa" to me.

they got the actor of Tyler as a way to have an “exotic” accent

"Exotic" meaning what? Which race is he mimicking?

voodoo religious rituals

I know very little about the Voodoo religion, so could you please tell me which of its rituals were incorporated into the show?

they commit terrorist suicide attacks as well

And this is a known racist trope about Africans (since you seem to have settled on African, or at least "Black" stereotypes)? Because otherwise, you seem to be saying it's a racist depiction of...a bunch of different races, based on the fact that the characters do things that humans also do sometimes.

Or to make it more obvious, they are shown like “exotic brown people who hate the white ones

"Brown"

 

LoglineIn Lagos, the mysterious Barber reigns supreme. The Doctor discovers a world where stories have power, but can he stop the Spider and its deadly web of revenge?

Written by: Inua Ellams

Directed by: Makalla McPherson

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29859271

Starting now, we are changing the dev update to a monthly schedule. This is more predictable and gives us more time to write it.

Last month saw the release of Lemmy 0.19.11. It included a lot of changes backported from the development branch. This way improvements can already reach users while the main branch is still under heavy development in preparation for the 1.0 release.

There were numerous other contributions:

On the 1.0 front Dessalines was busy with different rewrites of the database to improve pagination, adding read, liked, and hidden content endpoints, speeding up compilation time, and also getting lemmy-ui updated.


For Lemmy to have a future, it's been a long-term goal to ensure that donations can cover the two full-time devs' living expenses, and possibly add more developers to the co-op. Nutomic worked on various tasks to aid this, including:

  • A redesign of the donation page on join-lemmy.org.
  • A new donation dialog shown directly in the Lemmy web interface.
  • A call for donations which was widely shared and discussed.

Although the goal is not reached yet, it looks like a success as the amount of recurring donations was almost doubled within a few days. It also helped to clarify and resolve some of the reasons why people were unwilling to donate.

You can see the full list of changes for April at the links below:

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