Iain Coleman
@iaincoleman.bsky.social
Writer/Producer of the Thought & Belief channel on YouTube https://youtube.com/@thoughtbelief
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One of the key things here is that the modern Anglophone right is specifically opposed to people who have normal jobs, because their base consists solely of retirees, small business owners, and horrid unemployable groypers
But overall, "lanyard class" is *such* a stupid phrase. Hospital porters wear them. Secondary school teachers generally do. Peers of the realm, including Glassman, are meant to wear them around parliament and most are polite enough to do so.
December 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
One of the key things here is that the modern Anglophone right is specifically opposed to people who have normal jobs, because their base consists solely of retirees, small business owners, and horrid unemployable groypers
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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
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Mulder and Scully doing the meme before it was a meme.
November 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Mulder and Scully doing the meme before it was a meme.
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sorry everyone, Your Party was a skit I organized on leftist factionalism that got out of hand. I honestly thought the name was a big enough clue.
Zarah Sultana uses Your Party Conference Day Two address to talk about how unacceptable the Your Party Conference Day One was.
November 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
sorry everyone, Your Party was a skit I organized on leftist factionalism that got out of hand. I honestly thought the name was a big enough clue.
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
July 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
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star at 3 billion years old: i have so much light and warmth to share
star at 12 billion years old: when i finally get to die im taking all of you with me
star at 12 billion years old: when i finally get to die im taking all of you with me
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
star at 3 billion years old: i have so much light and warmth to share
star at 12 billion years old: when i finally get to die im taking all of you with me
star at 12 billion years old: when i finally get to die im taking all of you with me
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„Lutheraner also. Nenn mir alle 95 Thesen du Bastard.“
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
„Lutheraner also. Nenn mir alle 95 Thesen du Bastard.“
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I know I’ve said this before but I keep finding it very funny seeing people (mostly Americans) reacting to all this by saying “Wow Zarah Sultana needs to get out of that toxic party and join the Greens”, like saying Keith Richards needed to escape the Rolling Stones because they had a drug problem
Chaos has engulfed the first 24 hours of the inaugural 'Your Party' conference in Liverpool, with Zarah Sultana boycotting the first day of the event, Jeremy Corbyn facing "witch-hunt" allegations, and an entryism row
@siennarodgers.bsky.social & @tomscotson.bsky.social report from Merseyside
@siennarodgers.bsky.social & @tomscotson.bsky.social report from Merseyside
“End The Witch-hunt”: The First 24 Hours At The Chaotic ‘Your Party’ Conference
Chaos has engulfed the first 24 hours of the inaugural conference of ‘Your Party’, the new political party being founded by Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Su...
www.politicshome.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I know I’ve said this before but I keep finding it very funny seeing people (mostly Americans) reacting to all this by saying “Wow Zarah Sultana needs to get out of that toxic party and join the Greens”, like saying Keith Richards needed to escape the Rolling Stones because they had a drug problem
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Just arrived at the Your Party conference. Buzzing!
November 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Just arrived at the Your Party conference. Buzzing!
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I mean the most centrist MP in Parliament during the Brexit years was Jeremy Corbyn and his “neither pro-hard leave or against it, but somewhere in between”, so I guess it tracks.
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I mean the most centrist MP in Parliament during the Brexit years was Jeremy Corbyn and his “neither pro-hard leave or against it, but somewhere in between”, so I guess it tracks.
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“Behold the beam for thine own eye.”
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“Behold the beam for thine own eye.”
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If we're starting "what is a Christmas movie" discourse early this year, I will tap the sign
*It’s cold outside
*Friends gather for a meal together
*Everyone is thinking about a very special little baby
*An important visitor comes in through the ventilation system
Alien is a Christmas movie
*Friends gather for a meal together
*Everyone is thinking about a very special little baby
*An important visitor comes in through the ventilation system
Alien is a Christmas movie
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If we're starting "what is a Christmas movie" discourse early this year, I will tap the sign
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Like sure "you can talk to the computer and it does stuff"is appealing since that's Star Trek and we want to live in Star Trek. But "you can talk to the computer and then it lies to you" is 2001: A Space Odyssey and we don't really want to live in that.
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Like sure "you can talk to the computer and it does stuff"is appealing since that's Star Trek and we want to live in Star Trek. But "you can talk to the computer and then it lies to you" is 2001: A Space Odyssey and we don't really want to live in that.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Some birds
Some other kinds of birds
A street fox
A dead (?) snake
Fucking midges
Some birds
Some other kinds of birds
A street fox
A dead (?) snake
Fucking midges
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Soprano Pippistrelle bats
Rabbits
Foxes
Water voles
Herons
(all in my local park)
Soprano Pippistrelle bats
Rabbits
Foxes
Water voles
Herons
(all in my local park)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Pigeons
Wood pigeons
Collared doves
Stock doves
More pigeons
Pigeons
Wood pigeons
Collared doves
Stock doves
More pigeons
November 29, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Some birds
Some other kinds of birds
A street fox
A dead (?) snake
Fucking midges
Some birds
Some other kinds of birds
A street fox
A dead (?) snake
Fucking midges
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Having first journeyed through Tolkien fan art - for reasons that are Mysterious - I have graduated to music, and have spent today listening to various fan version of "Old Tom Bombadil". Join me in a journey through my discoveries!
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Having first journeyed through Tolkien fan art - for reasons that are Mysterious - I have graduated to music, and have spent today listening to various fan version of "Old Tom Bombadil". Join me in a journey through my discoveries!
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Imagine being turned away from a bathroom, hospital, or cinema for “not looking female enough”. The leaked EHRC guidance could do just that. Along with my Lib Dem colleagues, I’ve written to the Minister calling for new, inclusive, practical guidance that protects everyone’s rights.
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Imagine being turned away from a bathroom, hospital, or cinema for “not looking female enough”. The leaked EHRC guidance could do just that. Along with my Lib Dem colleagues, I’ve written to the Minister calling for new, inclusive, practical guidance that protects everyone’s rights.
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Weird the way the entire world went mad and only the creator of the IT Crowd was unaffected.
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Weird the way the entire world went mad and only the creator of the IT Crowd was unaffected.
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I would situate any dynamic particular to the White House press corps within a larger USian phenomenon of self-perceived egalitarian frankness and actual extreme status-conscious conflict aversion
There's a weird collective self-justification among reporters on this beat that their job is not to push back but to be stoic in order to observe an endlessly fascinating natural phenomenon. It's all nonsense. He is a public servant. Demand decency, and slap back hard and fast when you don't get it.
I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face
November 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I would situate any dynamic particular to the White House press corps within a larger USian phenomenon of self-perceived egalitarian frankness and actual extreme status-conscious conflict aversion