Dan Cooper
@danielwcooper.bsky.social
Journalist, Broadcaster, Goof.
All flowers, in time, bend toward the sun.
All flowers, in time, bend toward the sun.
Don’t read this on a train, lest your laughter spook the entire carriage.
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Don’t read this on a train, lest your laughter spook the entire carriage.
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Roller derby implies the existence of roller nottingham
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Roller derby implies the existence of roller nottingham
Free marketing idea: Get the worst people in the world to buy literally any awful old shit you have lying around. Just add “Dubai-style” to the name and you’ll sell out in minutes.
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Free marketing idea: Get the worst people in the world to buy literally any awful old shit you have lying around. Just add “Dubai-style” to the name and you’ll sell out in minutes.
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USA: Of course, in this post-"Sopranos" world, we should acknowledge that "Babylon 5" (1994) was the first SF show to address serious political themes.
UK: Episode one of #Blakes7 (1978) has the police-state frame Blake as a paedophile to avoid making him a martyr. We remember this series as silly.
UK: Episode one of #Blakes7 (1978) has the police-state frame Blake as a paedophile to avoid making him a martyr. We remember this series as silly.
October 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
USA: Of course, in this post-"Sopranos" world, we should acknowledge that "Babylon 5" (1994) was the first SF show to address serious political themes.
UK: Episode one of #Blakes7 (1978) has the police-state frame Blake as a paedophile to avoid making him a martyr. We remember this series as silly.
UK: Episode one of #Blakes7 (1978) has the police-state frame Blake as a paedophile to avoid making him a martyr. We remember this series as silly.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
Watching the Scotland highlights this morning and I cannot be happier. The crowd noise when the final goal goes in breaks the damn broadcast!
November 19, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Watching the Scotland highlights this morning and I cannot be happier. The crowd noise when the final goal goes in breaks the damn broadcast!
British Politics is essentially someone in power spinning a roulette wheel with classifications of people on it, with a big neon sign hanging above it that reads "Who shall we make an un-person today?" while staring frantically at the audience for any nod of approval.
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
British Politics is essentially someone in power spinning a roulette wheel with classifications of people on it, with a big neon sign hanging above it that reads "Who shall we make an un-person today?" while staring frantically at the audience for any nod of approval.
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⚡📮Nice work @royal-mail.bsky.social, who have just announced the launch of a new fleet of over 100 micro electric vehicles, replacing 52 vans.
Better for the climate and for deliveries. This is exactly the kind of move we need to see for cities free of diesel vans!
#ElectrifyLondon
Better for the climate and for deliveries. This is exactly the kind of move we need to see for cities free of diesel vans!
#ElectrifyLondon
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
⚡📮Nice work @royal-mail.bsky.social, who have just announced the launch of a new fleet of over 100 micro electric vehicles, replacing 52 vans.
Better for the climate and for deliveries. This is exactly the kind of move we need to see for cities free of diesel vans!
#ElectrifyLondon
Better for the climate and for deliveries. This is exactly the kind of move we need to see for cities free of diesel vans!
#ElectrifyLondon
"I'm a rigorous centre-right columnist for an apparently serious financial publication. I am a moderate, cosmopolitan conservative with a rigorous worldview. Also, I believe that Zohan Mamdani is the cause of the obdurate homelessness in San Francisco."
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"I'm a rigorous centre-right columnist for an apparently serious financial publication. I am a moderate, cosmopolitan conservative with a rigorous worldview. Also, I believe that Zohan Mamdani is the cause of the obdurate homelessness in San Francisco."
Are you telling me screaming slurs in a room full of clapping edge lords is *not* a useful preparation for a career in comedy?
Watch US comic William Montgomery have an on-stage meltdown : News 2025 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
Watch US comic William Montgomery have an on-stage meltdown - Kill Bill regular booed off at Texas gig
www.chortle.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Are you telling me screaming slurs in a room full of clapping edge lords is *not* a useful preparation for a career in comedy?
The Framework 16 is a groundbreaking machine, the first gaming laptop where the CPU and GPU have been meaningfully updated two years after it was launched.
I mean, you can shove a 5070 into this thing! If only it wasn't noisier than a helicopter taking off from inside a wind turbine.
I mean, you can shove a 5070 into this thing! If only it wasn't noisier than a helicopter taking off from inside a wind turbine.
Framework Laptop 16 (2025 upgrade) review: The RTX 5070 is the star
Framework launches a groundbreaking CPU and GPU upgrade for its existing gaming laptop.
www.engadget.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The Framework 16 is a groundbreaking machine, the first gaming laptop where the CPU and GPU have been meaningfully updated two years after it was launched.
I mean, you can shove a 5070 into this thing! If only it wasn't noisier than a helicopter taking off from inside a wind turbine.
I mean, you can shove a 5070 into this thing! If only it wasn't noisier than a helicopter taking off from inside a wind turbine.
I can't quite remember if That Author was a villain or not.
But that their comeback tour is being heralded by the Times, Telegraph, Spiked and the Critic probably indicates something.
But that their comeback tour is being heralded by the Times, Telegraph, Spiked and the Critic probably indicates something.
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I can't quite remember if That Author was a villain or not.
But that their comeback tour is being heralded by the Times, Telegraph, Spiked and the Critic probably indicates something.
But that their comeback tour is being heralded by the Times, Telegraph, Spiked and the Critic probably indicates something.
I heard there was a secret digit,
When spake the youths all lost their shit.
But you don't really care for SIIIIIIXXX SEVVVVEEEEN do ya?
When spake the youths all lost their shit.
But you don't really care for SIIIIIIXXX SEVVVVEEEEN do ya?
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I heard there was a secret digit,
When spake the youths all lost their shit.
But you don't really care for SIIIIIIXXX SEVVVVEEEEN do ya?
When spake the youths all lost their shit.
But you don't really care for SIIIIIIXXX SEVVVVEEEEN do ya?
The poetry of the line "never gives up her dead" is all the more impactful when you learn Lake Eerie is too cold, still and deep to induce bacterial growth in corpses which would cause them to, eventually, float to the surface.
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
n.pr
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The poetry of the line "never gives up her dead" is all the more impactful when you learn Lake Eerie is too cold, still and deep to induce bacterial growth in corpses which would cause them to, eventually, float to the surface.
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There’s a good chance the British Prime Minister’s main adviser on AI is an OpenAI shareholder - but the government refuses to say whether she is.
🧵 1/5
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November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
There’s a good chance the British Prime Minister’s main adviser on AI is an OpenAI shareholder - but the government refuses to say whether she is.
🧵 1/5
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@dennisperkins5.bsky.social I had no idea Joel Hodgson had ever been on SNL, thank you so much for referencing that in your latest review!
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
@dennisperkins5.bsky.social I had no idea Joel Hodgson had ever been on SNL, thank you so much for referencing that in your latest review!
'By Dawn's Early Light' is great for all the usual reasons, but also because it puts Columbo on his opponent's turf. This, like 'A Matter of Honor' and 'Troubled Waters' rips him from his comfort zone, and it's all the better for it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
'By Dawn's Early Light' is great for all the usual reasons, but also because it puts Columbo on his opponent's turf. This, like 'A Matter of Honor' and 'Troubled Waters' rips him from his comfort zone, and it's all the better for it.
Well, after seeing [First Episode of new Prestige TV show], turns out it's not just the '90s...
I'm suddenly fascinated at how many sci-fi properties in the '90s used collective consciousness as a plot point. Was there a resurgence in interest in Jungian psychology in the late '80s that would have trickled down? I can't seem to find any literature that would hint at it.
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Well, after seeing [First Episode of new Prestige TV show], turns out it's not just the '90s...
I always thought The Line was daft, but it's not until you get to the visualizations of its scale against the real world that you see how hysterically daft it truly is.
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I always thought The Line was daft, but it's not until you get to the visualizations of its scale against the real world that you see how hysterically daft it truly is.
"Apple needs to make a low-cost laptop to compete with Chromebooks, which has eaten its lunch in the education market!"
Wal*Mart sells a $599 M1 MacBook Air that, even five years on, would whip the trousers from the fanciest Chromebook on sale.
Wal*Mart sells a $599 M1 MacBook Air that, even five years on, would whip the trousers from the fanciest Chromebook on sale.
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"Apple needs to make a low-cost laptop to compete with Chromebooks, which has eaten its lunch in the education market!"
Wal*Mart sells a $599 M1 MacBook Air that, even five years on, would whip the trousers from the fanciest Chromebook on sale.
Wal*Mart sells a $599 M1 MacBook Air that, even five years on, would whip the trousers from the fanciest Chromebook on sale.
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Fascinating to see a Right wing think tank be this open about how it doesn't care about enabling young parents to pursue opportunities in labour markets.
policyexchange.org.uk/publication/...
policyexchange.org.uk/publication/...
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Fascinating to see a Right wing think tank be this open about how it doesn't care about enabling young parents to pursue opportunities in labour markets.
policyexchange.org.uk/publication/...
policyexchange.org.uk/publication/...
Your Halloween costume is the word “Sexy” followed by the last thing you Googled.
I’m sexy federal minimum requirements for nuclear containment vessels.
I’m sexy federal minimum requirements for nuclear containment vessels.
October 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Your Halloween costume is the word “Sexy” followed by the last thing you Googled.
I’m sexy federal minimum requirements for nuclear containment vessels.
I’m sexy federal minimum requirements for nuclear containment vessels.
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All that I ask is that the culture secretary not ask questions which reveal she couldn’t tell you who *this year*’s Bafta shortlistees and winners were.
Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?
October 31, 2025 at 11:36 AM
All that I ask is that the culture secretary not ask questions which reveal she couldn’t tell you who *this year*’s Bafta shortlistees and winners were.
The more the BBC and Disney brief against each other, the harder it is to see what anyone was thinking when the pair entered into the co-pro deal in the first place.
Why Disney Ditched ‘Doctor Who’: Sources Say Ratings, Big Ticket Budget & MAGA Politics Were Factors In BBC Deal Failing To Regenerate
The BBC confirmed on Tuesday that its 'Doctor Who' co-production deal with Disney had vaporized. What went wrong on the series starring Ncuti Gatwa?
deadline.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The more the BBC and Disney brief against each other, the harder it is to see what anyone was thinking when the pair entered into the co-pro deal in the first place.
I mean, it's a shocker.
I can't believe Doctor Who is back so soon
Doctor Who will be back in 2026 with a Christmas special and, probably afterward, a new series, too.
www.engadget.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I mean, it's a shocker.