Iain Coleman

I do wonder if excluding people who complain about other people's toilet use from the facilities would be a legitimate aim in terms of preventing alarm, distress and general exasperation from everybody who isn't obsessed with strangers' genitalia.

Of course they can, you silly billy.

When I see Fkriday afternoon Bluesky full of people complaining about meetings, I imagine that Friday afternoon LinkedIn is crammed full of bosses talking about how great it is to check in with the team before the weekend and make sure they dont forget about work until Monday.

Ah, le beaujolais Américain.

So as far as I can tell, the Labour Party's theory of how it will be re-elected is that a grateful nation will flock to their banner once they have personally experienced having to prove their gender to the toilet bouncers before they can go for a pee.

Journal of a Plague Year A killer plague wiping out most of humanity? ALWYN TURNER remembers Terry Nation’s Survivors.

"With the speed this thing is travelling, we have no way of stopping it. In a few days the dead will outnumber the living, the cities will be like open cess-pits."

Terry Nation, creator of SURVIVORS, was born 95 years ago today.

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Peter Jackson arrives for a meeting in Hollywood. Executives watch him with narrowed eyes and set jaws. He goes to a whiteboard and their eyes widen as he writes BAD TASTE. He points with the marker. They begin to shudder. He then adds an S, revealing BAD TASTES. They howl like primates in heat.

The thing that *terrified* me about him was how vociferously antisemitic many of his followers were, in the name of supporting him. This is the kind of abuse you’d only really know about if you were a constant target of it.

It was rampant from day one, in CLPs, online, all around him.

Imagine having to implement a clean desk policy in your own home.

At this point, the only Tolkien movie strategy that makes sense is "wait for the Silmarillion to come out of copyright and make a series of self-contained but linked films out of it".

A colleague of mine had a long and ultimately futile fight with an American astronomy journal over the word "outwith".

Very high eccentricity though. Seasons would be a bitch.

As an over-50 guy, my advice is to choose to be a weirdo (complimentary) rather than a weirdo (derogatory).

It is currently Friday in China, if that helps.

"Ally", like "nice guy", is one of those terms that is fine when other people apply it to you, deeply dodgy when you apply it to yourself.

The Simpsons. Krusty the Clown. “They drove a dump truck full of money to my house.”

Whenever an actor signed to a Harry Potter project issues a statement

With the launch of GPT-5 today, let me be the first person to say: oh all those problems with it? That's because GPT-5 is garbage. The technology has advanced so far since it was launched and GPT-6 will fix every single one of those flaws, for real this time.

Brexit has been a resounding disaster. Starmer must find the courage to change course | Ed Davey Poll after poll shows most voters think leaving the EU has been a failure. Closer ties with Europe would bring huge rewards, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey urges Starmer to join a Customs Union with the EU, to turbocharge the economy and pave the way back to the Single Market.

🔊 TfL is consulting on bringing the congestion charge in line with public transport ticket prices, which go up every year, while costs for people driving remain static. haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/congestion-c...

I've responded today and you are welcome to use my response to shape yours.

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Normal Iain, that's what they call me.

In future I shall employ an elaborate pulley system.

Personally I hate science so much that I got a PhD in astrophysics and spent eight years doing solar-terrestrial physics research at the British Antarctic Survey before becoming a science writer. I think human settlement on Mars is a daft idea with any current or foreseeable technology.

And the women's razors are shelved right next to the men's! It's a calamity waiting to happen.

I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in Mars colonisation amzn.eu/d/aKOikWP

oh. my opening question made it super angry and everything went downhill from there.

they really captured the middle management disdain. kudos.

pls ignore my dude voice. 🙏🏻

Breaking: UK Labour Party outflanked to the left by the Death Planet, the sentient world-eating black hole star set to devour the Earth in 2029, which said on Good Morning Britain that trans women should be allowed to work as baristas. A Labour staffer with a 2:2 in Political Science called it woke.

I channel my joy through my bass. My anger I reserve for the workplace.

Labour is to the right of Anne Widdecombe and Nigel Farage.