IceColdCole
@icecoldcole.bsky.social
European tofu-eating wokerati. Spreadsheet jockey. Über-sarcastic iconoclast. Hawk. "Humans, not my favourite species" *insert - all views own - blurb here*
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When the interior ministry declares its militia to be above the law in terms that equate dissent with treason there really isn’t any question of whether or not we are looking at an authoritarian regime.
January 14, 2026 at 4:05 PM
When the interior ministry declares its militia to be above the law in terms that equate dissent with treason there really isn’t any question of whether or not we are looking at an authoritarian regime.
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I'm sure the people of Greenland, currently attached to the best-run country in the world, are watching videos of ICE murdering people and thinking: "how can I get me some of that?"
January 8, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I'm sure the people of Greenland, currently attached to the best-run country in the world, are watching videos of ICE murdering people and thinking: "how can I get me some of that?"
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A reminder of what a pathetic but dangerous bully Trump is - and why the UK and EU need to stand up to him
Q: The premier of Greenland said today, 'We prefer to stay with Denmark.'
TRUMP: Who said that?
Q: The premier of Greenland
TRUMP: Well, that's their problem. I disagree with him. I don't know who he is. Don't know anything about him. But that's gonna be a big problem for him.
TRUMP: Who said that?
Q: The premier of Greenland
TRUMP: Well, that's their problem. I disagree with him. I don't know who he is. Don't know anything about him. But that's gonna be a big problem for him.
January 14, 2026 at 8:58 AM
A reminder of what a pathetic but dangerous bully Trump is - and why the UK and EU need to stand up to him
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And they seem not to care about "free speech" when it's about creating unsafe online spaces for women.
January 12, 2026 at 8:37 PM
And they seem not to care about "free speech" when it's about creating unsafe online spaces for women.
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So we can look forward to Grok hallucinating an imaginary enemy nation, firing a barrage of nuclear missiles at Hawaii, making nude deepfakes of the Pope and ordering 25,000 pepperoni pizzas for the Pentagon before shutting off the power to the entire Eastern seaboard. Cool.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the integration of Elon Musk's xAI platform, Grok, into military networks as part of a new "AI acceleration strategy" during a visit to SpaceX.
January 13, 2026 at 5:54 AM
So we can look forward to Grok hallucinating an imaginary enemy nation, firing a barrage of nuclear missiles at Hawaii, making nude deepfakes of the Pope and ordering 25,000 pepperoni pizzas for the Pentagon before shutting off the power to the entire Eastern seaboard. Cool.
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Reform UK, which says it represents “change” from Conservative failures, has so far accepted defections from:
- A disgraced Tory minister sacked for tax-dodging
- Disgraced Tory vice chairman suspended for racism
- Disgraced former minister suspended for abandoning constituents for a reality TV gig
- A disgraced Tory minister sacked for tax-dodging
- Disgraced Tory vice chairman suspended for racism
- Disgraced former minister suspended for abandoning constituents for a reality TV gig
January 12, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Reform UK, which says it represents “change” from Conservative failures, has so far accepted defections from:
- A disgraced Tory minister sacked for tax-dodging
- Disgraced Tory vice chairman suspended for racism
- Disgraced former minister suspended for abandoning constituents for a reality TV gig
- A disgraced Tory minister sacked for tax-dodging
- Disgraced Tory vice chairman suspended for racism
- Disgraced former minister suspended for abandoning constituents for a reality TV gig
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Undergraduate essay question: How can Reform be so good at social media yet so bad at social media?
Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
January 12, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Undergraduate essay question: How can Reform be so good at social media yet so bad at social media?
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Zahawi can lead Reform's crackdown on tax avoidance. Plenty of experience.
January 12, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Zahawi can lead Reform's crackdown on tax avoidance. Plenty of experience.
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All those Transatlanticists arguing now that Trump would never be so stupid to attack Greenland and thereby a NATO do sound a bit like the Russia apologists saying in late 2021/early 2022 that Putin would never be so stupid as to attack Ukraine.
January 11, 2026 at 3:53 PM
All those Transatlanticists arguing now that Trump would never be so stupid to attack Greenland and thereby a NATO do sound a bit like the Russia apologists saying in late 2021/early 2022 that Putin would never be so stupid as to attack Ukraine.
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who could have predicted that stopping international students, care workers and nurses from coming to the UK would damage the economy/public finances while yielding precisely no political benefits?
Oh. Me.
[& lots of others obviously]
Oh. Me.
[& lots of others obviously]
January 10, 2026 at 1:50 PM
who could have predicted that stopping international students, care workers and nurses from coming to the UK would damage the economy/public finances while yielding precisely no political benefits?
Oh. Me.
[& lots of others obviously]
Oh. Me.
[& lots of others obviously]
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Guy just unironically living this ancient comic. If one side of the issue is masked agents murdering people in broad daylight on a whim why would we ever want a *middle path*??
January 10, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Guy just unironically living this ancient comic. If one side of the issue is masked agents murdering people in broad daylight on a whim why would we ever want a *middle path*??
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Trump is playing with fire 🔥
Here's the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and the German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul making it pretty clear that an American attack on Greenland would destroy NATO and probably cause a military conflict within NATO itself.
#TrumpMustGo
Here's the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and the German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul making it pretty clear that an American attack on Greenland would destroy NATO and probably cause a military conflict within NATO itself.
#TrumpMustGo
January 6, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Trump is playing with fire 🔥
Here's the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and the German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul making it pretty clear that an American attack on Greenland would destroy NATO and probably cause a military conflict within NATO itself.
#TrumpMustGo
Here's the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and the German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul making it pretty clear that an American attack on Greenland would destroy NATO and probably cause a military conflict within NATO itself.
#TrumpMustGo
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Searches article in vain for evidence that these people are or were “left-leaning”. Remembers that the Times is no longer a serious newspaper. Notes that Mumsnet’s Justine Roberts has “robust” views on immigration. Remembers where transphobes always end up
"Left-leaning mothers of Mumsnet are deserting Labour for Reform" [Times]
I can't stop laughing long enough to come up with something sarcastic to say about this headline.
I can't stop laughing long enough to come up with something sarcastic to say about this headline.
January 4, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Searches article in vain for evidence that these people are or were “left-leaning”. Remembers that the Times is no longer a serious newspaper. Notes that Mumsnet’s Justine Roberts has “robust” views on immigration. Remembers where transphobes always end up
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Reminder: The US has refused to join the International Criminal Court because it argues extraterritorial justice is incompatible with national sovereignty and citizen's rights.
Vance pushes back and says this was not illegal, arguing "Maduro has multiple indictments in the United States for narcoterrorism. You don't get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the United States because you live in a palace in Caracas."
January 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Reminder: The US has refused to join the International Criminal Court because it argues extraterritorial justice is incompatible with national sovereignty and citizen's rights.
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It also has the advantage of not actively concealing geopolitical and economic realities from your electorate, so there is that.
January 3, 2026 at 12:33 PM
It also has the advantage of not actively concealing geopolitical and economic realities from your electorate, so there is that.
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Didn't Trump criticise an *alleged* attack on Putin's residence? But now he's gone after Maduro personally. So to go after a leader directly is okay now, so long as it's not Putin? This is total geopolitical chaos.
January 3, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Didn't Trump criticise an *alleged* attack on Putin's residence? But now he's gone after Maduro personally. So to go after a leader directly is okay now, so long as it's not Putin? This is total geopolitical chaos.
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One of the first things a Farage government will do will be to make sure "the young are
taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)
taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)
January 1, 2026 at 4:58 PM
One of the first things a Farage government will do will be to make sure "the young are
taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)
taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)
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Toby Young - who now sits as Baron Young of Acton in the House of Lords following his 2024 political peerage from the Conservative Leader of the Opposition - has tweeted bemoaning "handing out honours to a motley crew of woke failures" in policing, the NHS and the National Trust
December 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Toby Young - who now sits as Baron Young of Acton in the House of Lords following his 2024 political peerage from the Conservative Leader of the Opposition - has tweeted bemoaning "handing out honours to a motley crew of woke failures" in policing, the NHS and the National Trust
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It's really beyond belief. Now, the "Romanians propped up UK's economy" (though I notice the Mail have now changed the headline). Then, they were taking our job/ scrounging welfare/ committing crimes. As, ofc, the Mail now says non-EU immigrants are doing.
Mail report: 70,000 more EU nationals left than arrived in the 12 months June 2024- June 2025, while somewhere around 3.5 million to 4 million EU nationals live in the UK
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Up to 1m Romanians propped up UK's economy - now they are going home
The numbers of Romanians leaving the UK are higher than for any other EU nationality, dwarfing the 25,000 Poles who left Britain to return to their low-tax homeland in the year up to last June.
www.dailymail.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It's really beyond belief. Now, the "Romanians propped up UK's economy" (though I notice the Mail have now changed the headline). Then, they were taking our job/ scrounging welfare/ committing crimes. As, ofc, the Mail now says non-EU immigrants are doing.
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Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:
Populists attack London because it is ‘progressive and successful’, says Sadiq Khan
Rightwing attacks on one of the world’s most visited cities at odds with reality, says mayor
www.ft.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:
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WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN
December 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN
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Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
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Magnum's masculinity isn't ideological. He simply *is* a sexy, goofy, confident icon of his gender without telling us about it.
Contrast to Zuckerberg or Joe Lonsdale calling for ever more manliness, like it is a scarce resource they can hoard like a dragon.
Contrast to Zuckerberg or Joe Lonsdale calling for ever more manliness, like it is a scarce resource they can hoard like a dragon.
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Magnum's masculinity isn't ideological. He simply *is* a sexy, goofy, confident icon of his gender without telling us about it.
Contrast to Zuckerberg or Joe Lonsdale calling for ever more manliness, like it is a scarce resource they can hoard like a dragon.
Contrast to Zuckerberg or Joe Lonsdale calling for ever more manliness, like it is a scarce resource they can hoard like a dragon.
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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.