Roger Delgado Strikes Back!!!

And you will obey me!

[rogerdelgado]

[rogerdelgado]

[universtellar]

Third Doctor Era: Vehicles

[rogerdelgado]

[rogerdelgado]

[watcherwiki]

Watcher Pride Merch 2026

This year Watcher has chosen to donate "100% of profits from the Pride collection [to] be donated to National Center for Transgender Equality and The Okra Project!"

Watcher's 2026 Pride merch collection features three designs, each with a black or white variant to choose from. All merch was designed by Jared Sosa, who has worked on multiple series such as Mystery Files, Travel Season, and The Quizard's Pit.

Pride shirts are available for purchase through their official merch site: Watcher Store.

[64mpg]

i think that other people have access to an Energy source that i don’t but that’s okay i’m happy for them i do wish that was me though

[dailycatsblog]

[gotyouanyway]

looms only bc no 2 people could’ve produced this guy alone but ‘ladled out of a genetic soup and raised by 44 lunatics’ just about tracks

[daughterofheartshaven]

This does raise the question of where Tom Baker came from.

[slutdge]

"make an account to-"

[quasi-normalcy]

[ahumanbeena]

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

[shwetanarayan-deactivated202504]

so I believe it was actually more complicated than that, in interesting ways. Because at first, when they did blind auditions, they were STILL hiring more men.

…Then they put down a carpet, so that high heels didn’t clack on the floor,  and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.

The testers didn’t even know that’s what they were picking up on, which just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in.

[isaacsapphire]

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

[small-witch-big-hat]

You can be sexist without knowing it. You can be racist without knowing it. This is not a moral failing; it is a moral imperative to remember that you are fallible, and take steps to limit the damage your squishy ape brain’s foibles can cause.

[mindfulwrath]

The final chapter in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink (2005) describes this in detail.

What you don’t usually hear about when discussing this blind audition process is that after the blind auditions were implemented, when women had gotten many positions in the orchestra, men no longer saw being a member as prestigious and the salaries for the entire orchestra dropped.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

That happens in basically any field the moment women start to show up. The most famous examples are: teaching, which lost prestige and absolute pay when it became “women’s work”; certain scientific fields, especially in biology, which has lost prestige and is now considered a “soft science” because women became biologists en masse; and in Russia, medical doctors no longer enjoy the high status they still have in the West, because in Russia a lot of women became doctors.

In the other direction, when men en masse join a field that was previously primarily women, the pay and prestige both rise. The most famous example is computer programming.

[randomnessoffiction]

We’re seeing the same thing in higher education. There are more female than male students. So more prospective male students are turned off by the idea of higher education seeing it as frivolous and just want to “make money”.

[pcos-and-endo-awareness]

If you haven’t heard, today PolyCystic Ovarian Syndrome has been renamed to Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. This change reflects that this is not a reproductive “problem” but a whole body disease.

[leahstuff]

For reference, from the WHO website:

(Text: PCOS affects an estimated 10-13% of reproductive-aged women. It is estimated that up to 70% of women with PCOS worldwide do not know they have this condition.)

[laziestgirlintown]

The Lancet link about shift to PMOS. Spread this to everyone who works in health care now. People with uteruses and ovaries are in agony - yes, the whole body suffers a crisis every fkn month - and health care should help

[amygdalae]

How i look when I see a loud noise

[amygdalae]

if I saw a loud noise I'd look at it just like this

[rogerdelgado]

Late last night, I noticed The Creep Tapes, Season 2 was available, so I started watching the first episode. I fell asleep about halfway through, and had a dream where The Ghoul Boys ended up getting lured to a "haunted house" only to get murdered by Peachfuzz!

[solarishashernoseinabook]

South Africa withdraws AI policy after it was found written by AI

At least six of the document’s 67 academic citations did not exist

Oh what delicious irony

[teaboot]

I will forever maintain that genuine fortune-telling and psychic medium junk is a load of bull, but as a person who owns tarot decks and regularly uses them as a tool for self-reflection I also have to admit that it does kind of work for that and it's very very funny when it does

Once I laid out some cards before I left the house and couldn't figure out an interpretation of the symbolism that made sense outside of "stop focusing and pay attention", which was of course absurd, so I was puzzling over that all the way to my bus stop and was so distracted the whole time that I walked face-first into a massive fucking spiderweb

[teaboot]

It always hits so good