Tom Coates
@tomcoates.bsky.social
English technologist, founder and product designer living in San Francisco. Prev: BBC, Yahoo, Time Out, Nokia, Jawbone, Wired & Eero. Founded things too. Currently trying to find something to get excited rather than angry about. Http://plasticbag.org
Do these people genuinely not hear the things they say out loud?
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Do these people genuinely not hear the things they say out loud?
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It makes me wonder whether Prescott actually consulted the original source himself & doctored it or simply took dictation from someone else. A person, for example, who had helped insert a right-wing lobbyist who hadn’t done journalism for over 20 years into such a potentially important position…
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It makes me wonder whether Prescott actually consulted the original source himself & doctored it or simply took dictation from someone else. A person, for example, who had helped insert a right-wing lobbyist who hadn’t done journalism for over 20 years into such a potentially important position…
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
While we’re forced to listen to Vance condemn … ibuprofen …
This is all anyone should show anytime Just Dance Vance answers a question
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
November 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
While we’re forced to listen to Vance condemn … ibuprofen …
Apologies for the Instagram link, but I have finally found a sport I might be interested in watching, and I wanted to share it with you all. www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7LIuP...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Apologies for the Instagram link, but I have finally found a sport I might be interested in watching, and I wanted to share it with you all. www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7LIuP...
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The problem after 14 years of damage wreaked by the Tories is that we now have a f***ed up BBC and a f***ed up NHS.
But, remember, the f***ing up has come from outside. It is not intrinsic
We desperately need a properly functioning BBC and properly functioning NHS
DEFEND THEM!
But, remember, the f***ing up has come from outside. It is not intrinsic
We desperately need a properly functioning BBC and properly functioning NHS
DEFEND THEM!
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The problem after 14 years of damage wreaked by the Tories is that we now have a f***ed up BBC and a f***ed up NHS.
But, remember, the f***ing up has come from outside. It is not intrinsic
We desperately need a properly functioning BBC and properly functioning NHS
DEFEND THEM!
But, remember, the f***ing up has come from outside. It is not intrinsic
We desperately need a properly functioning BBC and properly functioning NHS
DEFEND THEM!
A gay man running one of the world’s most powerful countries!? That would be amaz… …. Oh, it’s Streeting. Move along. Nothing to see here. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Why some in No 10 think Wes Streeting is plotting to become prime minister
Health secretary has always been open about his ambitions but recent actions hinted at reasons for potential coup plot
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A gay man running one of the world’s most powerful countries!? That would be amaz… …. Oh, it’s Streeting. Move along. Nothing to see here. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
Turns out becoming the party that your base hates is not a good electoral strategy.
One thing I haven’t seen the “Democrats need to move to the right” camp of the Democratic elite reckon with is the complete and utter failure of Keir Starmer’s drastic move to the right on immigration. He has failed to halt Nigel Farage’s rise in polls
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G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris)
Waleed raises a problem for the “moderation”/“heterodoxy” crowd, especially on immigration: The graveyard of incumbents is full of politicians who pivoted hard to the center and lost anyway. (Re:…
substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Turns out becoming the party that your base hates is not a good electoral strategy.
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uh, holy shit? apnews.com/article/trum...
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
uh, holy shit? apnews.com/article/trum...
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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
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Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
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Oh, we’re here again:
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Oh, we’re here again:
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Broadcaster and writer Afua Hirsch explaining how Tim Davie the now former BBC Director-General looked her in the eye and said Black staff supporting anti-racism “breached impartiality” www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4fxa6...
November 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Broadcaster and writer Afua Hirsch explaining how Tim Davie the now former BBC Director-General looked her in the eye and said Black staff supporting anti-racism “breached impartiality” www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4fxa6...
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Tim Davie thinks anti-racism is contentious and a political ideology. What does that say about him? Draw your own conclusions! And once more, Black people pay the fucking licence fee
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Tim Davie thinks anti-racism is contentious and a political ideology. What does that say about him? Draw your own conclusions! And once more, Black people pay the fucking licence fee
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If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.
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Donald Trump just called Lauren Boebert to ask her to remove her name from the petition to release the Epstein files.
She does not plan to do so.
She does not plan to do so.
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Donald Trump just called Lauren Boebert to ask her to remove her name from the petition to release the Epstein files.
She does not plan to do so.
She does not plan to do so.
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BOSS: Quick, I need 20,000 words about the product.
WRITER: Have ‘em for you after lunch.
BOSS: And a five or six-word slogan.
WRITER: Gimme three months, a partner, and a budget.
WRITER: Have ‘em for you after lunch.
BOSS: And a five or six-word slogan.
WRITER: Gimme three months, a partner, and a budget.
November 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
BOSS: Quick, I need 20,000 words about the product.
WRITER: Have ‘em for you after lunch.
BOSS: And a five or six-word slogan.
WRITER: Gimme three months, a partner, and a budget.
WRITER: Have ‘em for you after lunch.
BOSS: And a five or six-word slogan.
WRITER: Gimme three months, a partner, and a budget.
One thing I think has occurred to me since my earlier post is that the problem most of us on the left are feeling right now is *powerlessness*. The right are entrenching themselves. They’re visible AF. They have all the media. They frame every debate.
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
One thing I think has occurred to me since my earlier post is that the problem most of us on the left are feeling right now is *powerlessness*. The right are entrenching themselves. They’re visible AF. They have all the media. They frame every debate.
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The Farage Factor.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%
Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The Farage Factor.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This morning everything feels overwhelmingly f***ed, like I’m watching the ship of state corrode in real time with us all on it, brown and green rust seeping icy grey salt water, and the captain is insane, uncontactable and surrounded by sycophantic dullards, piloting us out of the range of rescue.
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This morning everything feels overwhelmingly f***ed, like I’m watching the ship of state corrode in real time with us all on it, brown and green rust seeping icy grey salt water, and the captain is insane, uncontactable and surrounded by sycophantic dullards, piloting us out of the range of rescue.
Reposting this thread of mine from a week ago about the situation at the BBC. The pervasiveness of right-wing interference and assaults on journalism, and the way they choose to misrepresent reality to further their own aims is … honestly crushing.
I hear there’s an argument going on in the UK right now about whether or not Donald Trump incited the crowds to violence around January 6th. Apparently the BBC in a documentary showed edits of his speech that misrepresented what he said.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Reposting this thread of mine from a week ago about the situation at the BBC. The pervasiveness of right-wing interference and assaults on journalism, and the way they choose to misrepresent reality to further their own aims is … honestly crushing.
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These are the questions BBC staffers weren't allowed to ask the DG and Chair at yesterday's town hall meeting. Spot a pattern?
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
These are the questions BBC staffers weren't allowed to ask the DG and Chair at yesterday's town hall meeting. Spot a pattern?