Nick C
@nickjdc.bsky.social
Engineer, Larper (Writer/GM), Video and Board Game Enthusiast, Wannabe Film Nerd (he/him)
Is This Thing On?: As probably noted elsewhere more a reflection of long term marriage than someones rise to comedy fame. I would say its bold in the last not being about a standout performance but in the relationship between Arnett and Dern. I enjoyed it a lot.
February 12, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Is This Thing On?: As probably noted elsewhere more a reflection of long term marriage than someones rise to comedy fame. I would say its bold in the last not being about a standout performance but in the relationship between Arnett and Dern. I enjoyed it a lot.
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A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds
Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time
www.independent.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 12:22 PM
A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Rental Family: A sweet but not overly ambitious film. Person is recruited to be in people's lives, gets too close, minor consequences, their getting too close inproves everyone around them to be better. Exactly what the trailer told you.
January 28, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Rental Family: A sweet but not overly ambitious film. Person is recruited to be in people's lives, gets too close, minor consequences, their getting too close inproves everyone around them to be better. Exactly what the trailer told you.
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We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...
January 19, 2026 at 9:12 AM
We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple - Sometimes hard to watch for the torture gore but considering who they are invoking you have to make Jack O'Connell's character completely irredeemable. Fiennes humanist Ian is the core of the film and in one sequence clearly had a great time.
January 19, 2026 at 9:56 AM
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple - Sometimes hard to watch for the torture gore but considering who they are invoking you have to make Jack O'Connell's character completely irredeemable. Fiennes humanist Ian is the core of the film and in one sequence clearly had a great time.
Sentimental Value: A masterclass in words unspoken in a film about a family having difficulty to communicate with one another. Also great in telling you what is correct but making you believe something else. Skarsgård really should be leading the pack on awards talk.
January 19, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Sentimental Value: A masterclass in words unspoken in a film about a family having difficulty to communicate with one another. Also great in telling you what is correct but making you believe something else. Skarsgård really should be leading the pack on awards talk.
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While there was so much to love about tonight’s Traitors - including some outstanding barrister-on-barrister action - I think the most perfect moment was a criminal barrister being rejected by his audience for giving a truly unpersuasive hammy speech.
Bro - we’ve all been there.
#TeamHarriet
Bro - we’ve all been there.
#TeamHarriet
January 3, 2026 at 9:35 PM
While there was so much to love about tonight’s Traitors - including some outstanding barrister-on-barrister action - I think the most perfect moment was a criminal barrister being rejected by his audience for giving a truly unpersuasive hammy speech.
Bro - we’ve all been there.
#TeamHarriet
Bro - we’ve all been there.
#TeamHarriet
Right this year I'm going to try to keep up with short film reviews as I watch them. Still I have the ranking list 65 new films I watched last year. These are a reflection of my personal opinion not meant to be a definitive list. There is no such thing objective truth in art. Given Worst to Best.
January 2, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Right this year I'm going to try to keep up with short film reviews as I watch them. Still I have the ranking list 65 new films I watched last year. These are a reflection of my personal opinion not meant to be a definitive list. There is no such thing objective truth in art. Given Worst to Best.
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Sharing this again as today's news programmes seem yet again full of those pushing the obscene suggestion of us leaving the #ECHR
Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?
YouTube video by The Guardian
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Sharing this again as today's news programmes seem yet again full of those pushing the obscene suggestion of us leaving the #ECHR
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This is why you should never even try to accommodate extremists; Watson went out of her way to avoid antagonising Rowling, and Rowling has blown up anyway, because Watson isn't and won't completely submit to Rowling's transphobia.
Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has hit out at Emma Watson in a lengthy statement on X, saying: “She has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is.”
J.K. Rowling Brands Emma Watson “Ignorant” in Lengthy Post Defending Anti-Trans Stance: “She Has So Little Experience of Real Life”
Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has hit out at Emma Watson in a lengthy statement on X, saying: “She has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is.”
bit.ly
September 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is why you should never even try to accommodate extremists; Watson went out of her way to avoid antagonising Rowling, and Rowling has blown up anyway, because Watson isn't and won't completely submit to Rowling's transphobia.
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Please make sure that everyone knows how vile and extremist Linehan's views are.
September 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Please make sure that everyone knows how vile and extremist Linehan's views are.
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gender activism. get fucked guardian
How Graham Linehan’s gender activism led to career armageddon
How Graham Linehan’s gender activism led to career armageddon
What began as a nasty Twitter spat seven years ago has led to a peculiar metamorphosis for the comedy writer
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
gender activism. get fucked guardian
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Forthcoming statutory guidance could have a profound impact on trans people's lives.
I've written to the Women and Equalities Minister to urge her to reject anything that undermines trans people's rights, inclusion, privacy or safety, and for Parliament to have proper oversight.
I've written to the Women and Equalities Minister to urge her to reject anything that undermines trans people's rights, inclusion, privacy or safety, and for Parliament to have proper oversight.
August 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Forthcoming statutory guidance could have a profound impact on trans people's lives.
I've written to the Women and Equalities Minister to urge her to reject anything that undermines trans people's rights, inclusion, privacy or safety, and for Parliament to have proper oversight.
I've written to the Women and Equalities Minister to urge her to reject anything that undermines trans people's rights, inclusion, privacy or safety, and for Parliament to have proper oversight.
Mild doesn't cut it...
I too have some mild criticisms of JK Rowling I’d like to share.
Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.
August 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Mild doesn't cut it...
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Legally, there isn't the slightest basis to the complaint, even on the most extreme possible interpretation of the Supreme Court judgement. A shop floor is not a single sex space, regardless of whether they sell bras or not. This is just hatred and spite, unleashed.
The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.
August 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Legally, there isn't the slightest basis to the complaint, even on the most extreme possible interpretation of the Supreme Court judgement. A shop floor is not a single sex space, regardless of whether they sell bras or not. This is just hatred and spite, unleashed.
Section 28 was an appalling piece of legislation that not LGBTQIA+ people not understanding who they were and those of who were not understanding who they were leading to a lack empathy. This more than wiffs of exactly the same problems.
We've moved from 'don't say gay' to 'ban trans'. But this time, it's the policy of a 'Labour' Government.
🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will:
- Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender"
- Teaches children the laws about "biological sex"
- Removes all references to the word transgender
What we know so far 🧵
- Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender"
- Teaches children the laws about "biological sex"
- Removes all references to the word transgender
What we know so far 🧵
July 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Section 28 was an appalling piece of legislation that not LGBTQIA+ people not understanding who they were and those of who were not understanding who they were leading to a lack empathy. This more than wiffs of exactly the same problems.
I disagree this is worse than 2003 it was a charade but at least it had a pretense of due process.
The people of Iran have suffered under a brutal regime for far too long.
But a US President planning regime change in the Middle East feels like 2003 all over again. We’ve seen where that path leads and it does not end well.
But a US President planning regime change in the Middle East feels like 2003 all over again. We’ve seen where that path leads and it does not end well.
June 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I disagree this is worse than 2003 it was a charade but at least it had a pretense of due process.
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The EHRC paper on the post-Supreme Court code of practice is not a real consultation exercise at all. It is a charade.
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
June 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The EHRC paper on the post-Supreme Court code of practice is not a real consultation exercise at all. It is a charade.
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Andor continues to be the most urgent and best iteration of Star Wars. I use to say it had little business other than being fun with slight political undertones and dark and gritty was not its vibe. But any sci-fi willing to THIS hard deserves every plaudit its getting.
May 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Andor continues to be the most urgent and best iteration of Star Wars. I use to say it had little business other than being fun with slight political undertones and dark and gritty was not its vibe. But any sci-fi willing to THIS hard deserves every plaudit its getting.
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Lots of very high profile UK biologists sign a letter saying that biological sex isn't binary or immutable and that the Supreme Court's ruling is scientifically wrong!
We really need to hammer home how the anti-trans side is anti-science
(you can add your name still if you are in a relevant field)
We really need to hammer home how the anti-trans side is anti-science
(you can add your name still if you are in a relevant field)
May 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Lots of very high profile UK biologists sign a letter saying that biological sex isn't binary or immutable and that the Supreme Court's ruling is scientifically wrong!
We really need to hammer home how the anti-trans side is anti-science
(you can add your name still if you are in a relevant field)
We really need to hammer home how the anti-trans side is anti-science
(you can add your name still if you are in a relevant field)
Nope, membership resignation form filled out. I'll vote labour for individuals but the party can't have my general support anymore.
Asked if Keir Starmer still believes that a trans woman is a woman, his spokesman replies "no".
Says that trans women must now use men's bathrooms
Says that trans women must now use men's bathrooms
April 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Nope, membership resignation form filled out. I'll vote labour for individuals but the party can't have my general support anymore.
This is a mess we're going to have male presenting people legally having to use female spaces because they were assigned female at birth. I bet the TERFs will love that.
I suspect most will break the law but this shouldn't be the default on any LGBTQIA+ person just trying to live thier lives.
I suspect most will break the law but this shouldn't be the default on any LGBTQIA+ person just trying to live thier lives.
6/ It now seems legally defensible in the UK to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces under any circumstances 👇
April 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This is a mess we're going to have male presenting people legally having to use female spaces because they were assigned female at birth. I bet the TERFs will love that.
I suspect most will break the law but this shouldn't be the default on any LGBTQIA+ person just trying to live thier lives.
I suspect most will break the law but this shouldn't be the default on any LGBTQIA+ person just trying to live thier lives.
The entire engineering industry is neurodivergent bingo.
WATCH | RFK Jr claims autistic children will never go on dates or pay taxes
Read the recent CDC autism report here: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Read the recent CDC autism report here: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
April 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The entire engineering industry is neurodivergent bingo.
I think Lewis gets pretty close to my thinking. This will embolden Transphobes much in the same way Brexit emboldened racists.
Parliament, not the Supreme Court should have decided today. I've written about why that's so problematic and why I fear today's judgment will be used to further delegitimise trans people, even though that is not what the Court intends.
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/why-i-worr...
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/why-i-worr...
Why I worry this Supreme Court ruling will be used to delegitimise trans people
And why Parliament ducked its responsibilities
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I think Lewis gets pretty close to my thinking. This will embolden Transphobes much in the same way Brexit emboldened racists.