It is in one sense and isn’t in another. Someone saying “basic biology” is generally ignorant of the wide world of biology out there, either through lack of exposure or purposefully so.

The truth is that biology’s definitions are all humans’ ways of dividing up phenomena into neat little categories, but nature just exists as it is and doesn’t need to follow our linguistic rules.

For every definition we come up with, there are invariably multiple exceptions that don’t cleanly fit, because that’s just not how nature works. Even basic definitions like “sex,” “species,” and “life” itself start to get shaky the moment we try to eliminate all the exceptions.

The truth is that for humans there is no single, universally accepted definition of sex or gender. And even attempts to reduce them to something tangentially related like genotype quickly fall apart when you start looking at the exceptions. The person who says that there being two human sexes (usually to the exclusion of gender identity) is “basic biology” is not only categorically wrong, but they’re either ignorant of or ignoring the granularity of our own species. The whole of human sex and gender identity cannot be neatly summed up as “Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina” from Kindergarten Cop.

So are the slugs relevant? I would say yes, because if you’re not aware of the variation in nature on the obvious macro scale you have no prayer of appreciating it on the more subtle micro scale.

But it’s not, though. It’s the watered down children’s version of biology people half remember from elementary school. It’s not actual human biology.

Epictetus. “Some things are up to us and some are not up to us.”

His Rasputin dance alone sold me on him. Sacha is probably #3 for me, after Michelle Gomez and Roger Delgado.

13 was a good doctor. I liked that they tackled issues like segregation in the US and Partition. I liked The Fam, including The Doctor and Yas being attracted to each other and Graham and Ryan’s relationship.

I didn’t care for Flux or Legend of the Sea Devils, but everything else was fine. I really liked Sacha Dhawan’s Master and The Timeless Children (We need more Fugitive Doctor.) The only part of that I didn’t like was The Master randomly destroying Gallifrey again.

It’s actually a reference to the blockbuster bomb.

It sucks that the studio forced Amy Lee to add the Nu Metal rap backup vocals to Being Me to Life. It’s aged the worst out of any of her songs because of it.

I remember on a browser-based multiplayer game in the early 2000s, the vets would tell annoying or cheating newbies that they were using the “CTRL+WIN” to see their moves. Of course, as soon as they hit CTRL+W…

36 minutes? No one’s got time for that.

Susan’s the Doctor’s granddaughter, who traveled with the First Doctor through Season 1 and the first two serials of Season 2. She was supposed to be about 15 years old.

She leaves the show after The Doctor saw her flirting with an older guy in post apocalyptic London. The Doctor, knowing what was best for her, came up with the pretense of going into the Tardis briefly to repair one of her shoes, then locked the door and took off so she could continue her relationship.

To recap, The Doctor left a 15 year old kid in a post apocalyptic hellhole with some guy she just met and no change of clothes, no toothbrush, and only a single shoe.

The First Doctor was kind of a dick.

Changing

What a terrible title.

Breakfast for dinner. I find deserts too arid for my taste.

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Horror has always been a source of social commentary, though. Going all the way back to at least Frankenstein, published in 1818.

Most controversial story: The Timeless Children.

The most recent episode references it with a Fugitive Doctor cameo.

Finally they get the title right!

Wow, this completely changes the punchline but is also way funnier than the original.

So prior to Win 7 or so, Ctrl+Alt+Del brought up the task manager. Now it brings up a lock screen from which you can select additional options.

Ctrl+Shift+Esc pulls up the task manager, like it did back when you learned it.

Why not Ctrl+Shift+Esc?

Yep, back in the 90s they were in some places. My local supermarket had one like this, except without the annoying ad on the left side.