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Nathaniel Tapley

@thatnatt.bsky.social

Terrible news, chums... Gleeful Beast, head writer on Netflix's Bad Dinosaurs. Jokemonger for shows you hate. Maker of historical podcasts. Chief Sparkle Enthusiast at Sparklegoose! He-flapper.

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Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.

www.ft.com/content/ac77...

06.03.2026 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 564    πŸ” 280    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 28
A car with the license plate GN11 CDE

A car with the license plate GN11 CDE

Out walking the dog, when I found that Netenyahu had parked around the corner...

07.03.2026 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Charley's *unt

07.03.2026 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Wim Wenders' Lysistrata

If we could turn back time I would love to see Rob Reiner direct a Young Ones feature film.

04.03.2026 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Google photos memory (fine, it's Worthing pier if you really need to know) with "Has it really been 20 years?" As a caption. Fuck your computer pretending it can experience time.

Google photos memory (fine, it's Worthing pier if you really need to know) with "Has it really been 20 years?" As a caption. Fuck your computer pretending it can experience time.

Fuck you, Google Photos. Fuck you a billion. Fuck your machine-synthesised simulacra of emotions, designed only to make me engage with your app. Machines can't experience time. I am ACTUALLY 20 years closer to death. Fuck you into outer space.

04.03.2026 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

James Whale's Anything-by-Wilkie-Collins. Big, camp, fun, gothic, short

04.03.2026 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Also #worthing

04.03.2026 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custodyβ€”the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Centerβ€”he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

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tucson.com/news/local/b...

04.03.2026 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2418    πŸ” 1534    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 159

Such a huge difference between Yo Mama and Yo-yo Ma.

04.03.2026 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Google photos memory (fine, it's Worthing pier if you really need to know) with "Has it really been 20 years?" As a caption. Fuck your computer pretending it can experience time.

Google photos memory (fine, it's Worthing pier if you really need to know) with "Has it really been 20 years?" As a caption. Fuck your computer pretending it can experience time.

Fuck you, Google Photos. Fuck you a billion. Fuck your machine-synthesised simulacra of emotions, designed only to make me engage with your app. Machines can't experience time. I am ACTUALLY 20 years closer to death. Fuck you into outer space.

04.03.2026 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Blobby in a black turtleneck.

03.03.2026 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Inventum coffee maker circa the 1970s it has a delightful shape and appealing color palate of orange, yellow, umber and white and a pattern of flower stalks

it doubtless makes undrinkable swill, but has rizz for days

Inventum coffee maker circa the 1970s it has a delightful shape and appealing color palate of orange, yellow, umber and white and a pattern of flower stalks it doubtless makes undrinkable swill, but has rizz for days

contemporary Inventum drip coffee maker looking like a piece of sterile lab equipment with a little digital clock

makes better coffee, but at what cost?

contemporary Inventum drip coffee maker looking like a piece of sterile lab equipment with a little digital clock makes better coffee, but at what cost?

look how far we've fallen

03.03.2026 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 670    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 14

There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on.

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02.03.2026 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1121    πŸ” 247    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 18

It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored.

People's work is not the government's to give away.

If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP!

/end

02.03.2026 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1106    πŸ” 266    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 4

In the House of Lords today, a government minister refused to rule this out.

To be clear, this would amount to legalising theft. It would fly in the face of public opinion on what is fair, and would mean a surrender of British creatives' work by this Labour government.

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02.03.2026 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1043    πŸ” 219    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Brits: Please scream. This is a Labour govt proposing to hand the property of individual British workers to largely US corporations.

@davidpintod.bsky.social

02.03.2026 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 201    πŸ” 140    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer | Speech Writer I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down and it’s difficult to see.
He had a thriving writing business until AI came along but now he’s struggling to find work.
Please repost this far and wide in the hope that he can find some writing work.
www.mathew-owen.co.uk

28.02.2026 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 250    πŸ” 427    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 13

there really is something immensely clarifying about realizing that "death cult" is not an ironic or jokey term

28.02.2026 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 366    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Operation I Raped Dozens of Girls and Maybe Just Maybe Murdered One Or Two And Everything Is In Those Files But I Make Kaboom And You Forget

28.02.2026 12:43 β€” πŸ‘ 159    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

28.02.2026 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 19211    πŸ” 3950    πŸ’¬ 317    πŸ“Œ 118

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics.

But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

28.02.2026 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2232    πŸ” 614    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 8
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The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

28.02.2026 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3296    πŸ” 828    πŸ’¬ 283    πŸ“Œ 128

At one point I wrote a horrible joke about the Landis family being "men who just can't keep control of their choppers". It's unpleasant but solid work.

27.02.2026 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Max Landis, Whose Career Imploded During #MeToo, Returns with β€˜G.I. Joe’ Movie at Paramount (Exclusive) At the same time, Danny McBride will also be writing a separate 'G.I. Joe' script, with both projects potentially being combined down the line.

Fucking hell when I pointed out this morning Ellison had a history of hiring (untalented) men who faced allegations of sexual harassment, had no idea a new one would drop in hours www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

27.02.2026 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2399    πŸ” 659    πŸ’¬ 102    πŸ“Œ 421

Wait, isn't this the government that refused food a year, until forced with gritted teeth to scrap the "cruel two-child limit of which at we were completely in favour at our first Budget".

27.02.2026 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh yes! That should absolutely be on the list!

27.02.2026 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Based entirely on my becoming aware of it in about 2001, I'd say mine is Audition, The Ring, The Grudge...

27.02.2026 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

26.02.2026 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 13115    πŸ” 3033    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 49
Musk at World Economic Forum

Musk at World Economic Forum

This guy's smiling photograph is appearing today, in normal news coverage of an elite gathering.

He has killed 215,000 adults and 445,000 children with USAID cuts, as of the most recent estimates. 14 million deaths are expected by 2030.

24.02.2026 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 393    πŸ” 177    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 12
Select magazine from 1993 with a picture of Justine from Elastica on the front with the headline THIS IS THE FUTURE!

Select magazine from 1993 with a picture of Justine from Elastica on the front with the headline THIS IS THE FUTURE!

Dear Select magazine from 1993, The Future here, and I'm afraid I've got some bad news for you...

24.02.2026 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0