Paul Trueman
@paulwtrueman.bsky.social
Copywriter, creative, beach bum, and very occasional maniac. I do words and ideas for brilliant causes and companies.
www.truemancommunications.co.uk
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I really liked Predator: Badlands, but just once I'd like to see the Weyland/Yutani Corporation catch a break. Won't someone please think of the shareholders.
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I really liked Predator: Badlands, but just once I'd like to see the Weyland/Yutani Corporation catch a break. Won't someone please think of the shareholders.
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Got the remembrance service on the radio. My goodness, Nimrod really is the absolute best, isn’t it? Gets me every single time.
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Got the remembrance service on the radio. My goodness, Nimrod really is the absolute best, isn’t it? Gets me every single time.
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I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that
Hang on a mo. Who's Esme? Who's died? (yes I've not listened much recently) #thearchers
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Hang on a mo. Who's Esme? Who's died? (yes I've not listened much recently) #thearchers
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Rage against group think, writes Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, by reading out a paragraph of what *I* think at the beginning of every BBC editorial meeting.
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Rage against group think, writes Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, by reading out a paragraph of what *I* think at the beginning of every BBC editorial meeting.
But isn't that....the whole point of them?
November 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
But isn't that....the whole point of them?
If we can knight Becks for stuffing his trousers with cash and his face with fillers, surely we can knight this absolute legend for his amazing charity work tonight. #celebritytraitors
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
If we can knight Becks for stuffing his trousers with cash and his face with fillers, surely we can knight this absolute legend for his amazing charity work tonight. #celebritytraitors
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Only Alan could win, upset the faithful, and then immediately have them comforting him for being so upset, he is a national hero #CelebrityTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Only Alan could win, upset the faithful, and then immediately have them comforting him for being so upset, he is a national hero #CelebrityTraitors
Well. One did.
This guy literally laughed his head off when he was asked if he was a faithful and these muppets still didn’t get it 🤣🤣🤣
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Well. One did.
Villa fan here. Maybe, just maybe, no English club should be expected to play a team from a country that has spent the last two years killing nearly a hundred thousand men, women and children and injuring many, many more? Sanctions exist for a reason. #avfc
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Villa fan here. Maybe, just maybe, no English club should be expected to play a team from a country that has spent the last two years killing nearly a hundred thousand men, women and children and injuring many, many more? Sanctions exist for a reason. #avfc
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Of course I'm worried about socialism. I mean, just imagine if Mamdani one day becomes President and nationalizes industry, imposes historic tax hikes, goes after the media, builds a secret national police force, militarizes the country, and sends people to camps.
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Of course I'm worried about socialism. I mean, just imagine if Mamdani one day becomes President and nationalizes industry, imposes historic tax hikes, goes after the media, builds a secret national police force, militarizes the country, and sends people to camps.
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this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
Genius
On my dog walk I often chat with right wingers. I pretend I am an ex-Reform voter put off by the utter fuck up of our county council. Then they see me as one of their own, don't get defensive and shouty, and start to question their own opinion of Reform. Honey, not vinegar.
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Genius
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left-winger wins: BUT WILL HE DELIVER
right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH
right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
left-winger wins: BUT WILL HE DELIVER
right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH
right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH
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Today is the 79th anniversary of a perfectly ordinary party at the Officers’ Club of the Army War College in Washington, D.C., to mark the disbanding of the task force that organised atomic bomb tests in the Pacific, at which the attendees enjoyed a perfectly ordinary cake
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Today is the 79th anniversary of a perfectly ordinary party at the Officers’ Club of the Army War College in Washington, D.C., to mark the disbanding of the task force that organised atomic bomb tests in the Pacific, at which the attendees enjoyed a perfectly ordinary cake
Such a good read
In particular Aneesh Bhoopathy, from the design coop Forge, who designed the identity. A brilliant reminder to *employ human creatives!*
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo
The bodega-influenced visual language of an outsider campaign.
www.curbed.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Such a good read
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Well done Zohran! And of course the real victor of the day - typography.
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Well done Zohran! And of course the real victor of the day - typography.
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Dick Van Dyke has OUTLIVED Dick Cheney
November 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Dick Van Dyke has OUTLIVED Dick Cheney
I'm starting to think that no-one at LinkedIn understands what being "on a roll" actually entails.
November 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I'm starting to think that no-one at LinkedIn understands what being "on a roll" actually entails.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
An overwrought 80s Queen song is the perfect soundtrack to that none-more-dramatic new Stranger Things trailer.
October 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
An overwrought 80s Queen song is the perfect soundtrack to that none-more-dramatic new Stranger Things trailer.