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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Nathaniel Tapley
@thatnatt.bsky.social
· Nov 13
All right - I've done a comedy writer and producers starter pack for everyone who's into that sort of thing. And YES, I've forgotten you, so remind me that you exist and YES I will put you on it (unless you have slighted me in some unremembered way in the last 20 years). go.bsky.app/AkQCH7U
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Considering the news of what Federal Authorities are doing in America a more sensible Home Secretary may have questioned the wisdom of announcing this right now, or ever.
Once again Mahmood showing she only cares about looking "tough", while Labour comms continue to be utterly dire.
Once again Mahmood showing she only cares about looking "tough", while Labour comms continue to be utterly dire.
January 25, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Considering the news of what Federal Authorities are doing in America a more sensible Home Secretary may have questioned the wisdom of announcing this right now, or ever.
Once again Mahmood showing she only cares about looking "tough", while Labour comms continue to be utterly dire.
Once again Mahmood showing she only cares about looking "tough", while Labour comms continue to be utterly dire.
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In 2023 the UK government legislated that veterans who, like US ICE officers, shot their fellow citizens dead, on camera - for protesting, would never answer in any court - Civil, Criminal or even Coroners. With no pushback from the left or electorate.
In case you think it couldn’t happen here
In case you think it couldn’t happen here
January 24, 2026 at 10:52 PM
In 2023 the UK government legislated that veterans who, like US ICE officers, shot their fellow citizens dead, on camera - for protesting, would never answer in any court - Civil, Criminal or even Coroners. With no pushback from the left or electorate.
In case you think it couldn’t happen here
In case you think it couldn’t happen here
1996: Let's go to a club in some arches and neck pills of some sort
2006: Let's go down on each other until our jaws hurt & watch Big Brother with a bottle of Jacobs Creek Turning Leaf
2016: Won't someone look after our children for us?
2026: Can we just not think about Donald Trump for 12 minutes?
2006: Let's go down on each other until our jaws hurt & watch Big Brother with a bottle of Jacobs Creek Turning Leaf
2016: Won't someone look after our children for us?
2026: Can we just not think about Donald Trump for 12 minutes?
January 23, 2026 at 8:29 PM
1996: Let's go to a club in some arches and neck pills of some sort
2006: Let's go down on each other until our jaws hurt & watch Big Brother with a bottle of Jacobs Creek Turning Leaf
2016: Won't someone look after our children for us?
2026: Can we just not think about Donald Trump for 12 minutes?
2006: Let's go down on each other until our jaws hurt & watch Big Brother with a bottle of Jacobs Creek Turning Leaf
2016: Won't someone look after our children for us?
2026: Can we just not think about Donald Trump for 12 minutes?
If there's no Orko, I'm out.
January 22, 2026 at 5:49 PM
If there's no Orko, I'm out.
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Just amplifying for the excellent use of 'bananapants' tbh
I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud
Delicious to me
January 22, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Just amplifying for the excellent use of 'bananapants' tbh
Really regretting my decision to go back in time and give teenage Donald Trump that Sports Almanac now.
January 21, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Really regretting my decision to go back in time and give teenage Donald Trump that Sports Almanac now.
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I feel like America plotting to annex Greenland while masked state goons terrorise their own communities at will should encourage British press and politicians to reflect on what happens when you act like "far right" is an unfair slur rather than a necessary descriptor of a real political position.
January 19, 2026 at 8:26 AM
I feel like America plotting to annex Greenland while masked state goons terrorise their own communities at will should encourage British press and politicians to reflect on what happens when you act like "far right" is an unfair slur rather than a necessary descriptor of a real political position.
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Some people say Keir Starmer has been dealt a bad hand.
We're still in January and he's already signed a defence deal with Palantir - knowing full well how unpredictable and dangerous the US President is.
We're way past the point of giving pleading appeasement speeches.
We're still in January and he's already signed a defence deal with Palantir - knowing full well how unpredictable and dangerous the US President is.
We're way past the point of giving pleading appeasement speeches.
When Trump says "one way or another we're going to have Greenland" - we should sit up and listen.
Time for British leaders to stop burying their heads in the sand.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Time for British leaders to stop burying their heads in the sand.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Trump's threat to Greenland must be a wake up call for Britain
For too long our politicians have toadied to a dangerous president
www.newstatesman.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Some people say Keir Starmer has been dealt a bad hand.
We're still in January and he's already signed a defence deal with Palantir - knowing full well how unpredictable and dangerous the US President is.
We're way past the point of giving pleading appeasement speeches.
We're still in January and he's already signed a defence deal with Palantir - knowing full well how unpredictable and dangerous the US President is.
We're way past the point of giving pleading appeasement speeches.
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there have been better days to launch an ambitious project to fund original scripted audio comedy from the likes of joel & ben (pictured), but it’s been in the diary for ages. please take a look at our store: Leadmojo.co.uk/smelt
January 19, 2026 at 10:18 AM
there have been better days to launch an ambitious project to fund original scripted audio comedy from the likes of joel & ben (pictured), but it’s been in the diary for ages. please take a look at our store: Leadmojo.co.uk/smelt
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
![You’ve got super fans pausing and zooming in on individuals frames of your documentary. One allegedly shows one of the Duffers with a ChatGPT tab open on their computer. In your presence, what did they use ChatGPT for?
I mean, are we even sure they had ChatGPT open?
I’m personally not, but the internet seems sure.
Well, there’s a lot of chatter where [social media users] are like, “We don’t really know, but we’re assuming.” But to me it’s like, doesn’t everybody have it open, to just do quick research?
I do.
How can you possibly write a storyline with 19 characters and use ChatGPT, I don’t even understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7t2urmt3i33jl6tjgiolio6g/bafkreidw2tmcr2ayq74oqmjm5pn2tdox6hlxnpqevhuqqj6oa7nsslx3oi@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
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Holy shit, that’s just actual theft.
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Holy shit, that’s just actual theft.
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Video was leaked today of UK police setting dogs on and using CS spray on people seeking asylum, protesting their detention under the "one in, one out" policy, inside a detention centre (in case you thought the UK immune from what ICE is doing in the US): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
More than 100 asylum seekers stage ‘one in, one out’ protests at detention centres
Officers with riot shields, dogs and teargas called in to quell action at Harmondsworth and Brook House facilities
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Video was leaked today of UK police setting dogs on and using CS spray on people seeking asylum, protesting their detention under the "one in, one out" policy, inside a detention centre (in case you thought the UK immune from what ICE is doing in the US): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Oh wow. Trump got a hand-me-down Nobel Peace Prize! Did you know:
It would not be the first time a Nobel laureate has given his or her medal away: in 1943 Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun gave his medal to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
It would not be the first time a Nobel laureate has given his or her medal away: in 1943 Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun gave his medal to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
January 16, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Oh wow. Trump got a hand-me-down Nobel Peace Prize! Did you know:
It would not be the first time a Nobel laureate has given his or her medal away: in 1943 Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun gave his medal to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
It would not be the first time a Nobel laureate has given his or her medal away: in 1943 Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun gave his medal to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
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I'll be forever grateful that I was a child in the historical hiccough that meant my schools pushed Alan Garner and Michelle Magorian at me rather than David Williams and David Baddiel.
January 16, 2026 at 12:08 AM
I'll be forever grateful that I was a child in the historical hiccough that meant my schools pushed Alan Garner and Michelle Magorian at me rather than David Williams and David Baddiel.
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While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
January 15, 2026 at 7:57 PM
While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
PHWOAR! Look at how beautiful this is. Look at how beautiful the things we used to give our children were. The care put into every disposable object. Smallfilms. Orson Welles as Omicron. Willo The Wisp. Oink! was a satirical comic for kids, with puppets made by Fluck and Law.
January 15, 2026 at 11:56 PM
PHWOAR! Look at how beautiful this is. Look at how beautiful the things we used to give our children were. The care put into every disposable object. Smallfilms. Orson Welles as Omicron. Willo The Wisp. Oink! was a satirical comic for kids, with puppets made by Fluck and Law.
Yep. Yep, that's pretty much the only stuff World War I is known for...
January 15, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Yep. Yep, that's pretty much the only stuff World War I is known for...
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Minor digression, but one thing I am going to need everyone to start internalising now is that there is not going to be a moment where Trump stands up on stage and says “I declare Civil War”
that is not how it works. These things get named by the outside and after the fact
that is not how it works. These things get named by the outside and after the fact
You really have to wonder whether the guys behind this DHS account are hoping for civil war
January 15, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Minor digression, but one thing I am going to need everyone to start internalising now is that there is not going to be a moment where Trump stands up on stage and says “I declare Civil War”
that is not how it works. These things get named by the outside and after the fact
that is not how it works. These things get named by the outside and after the fact
My friend got it from HMV on the first morning of release. We bought a bottle of Dubonnet from Oddbins on the way back to his room (best ABV to price ratio). WE WERE GOING TO HAVE A MORNING. Put it on. Gasped. Half-laughed. Settled for a morning of Dubonnet & crumpets with no bangers instead.
WHERE WERE YOU when you heard the full song? Me and everyone else on my floor of the halls of residence, watching Top of the Pops. The RAGE. People stood up. Dropped plates. Carnage
January 15, 2026 at 2:12 PM
My friend got it from HMV on the first morning of release. We bought a bottle of Dubonnet from Oddbins on the way back to his room (best ABV to price ratio). WE WERE GOING TO HAVE A MORNING. Put it on. Gasped. Half-laughed. Settled for a morning of Dubonnet & crumpets with no bangers instead.
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typical ai use case
January 15, 2026 at 1:10 PM
typical ai use case
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And invests no money in content or creators or any infrastructure of programme making, does no training, cannot support collaborative projects efficiently, and has an opaque payment system that mitigates against what the public would understand as “making television”.
January 15, 2026 at 9:11 AM
And invests no money in content or creators or any infrastructure of programme making, does no training, cannot support collaborative projects efficiently, and has an opaque payment system that mitigates against what the public would understand as “making television”.
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Okay. I need a boost here.
Looking for artists.
We're talking about some potential comic book style art and/or concept art for the #iHunt film. We're privately funding development, so budget isn't Hollywood.
I want queer and/or nonwhite artists. I want cool styles.
Links? Tags? Self-promo?
Looking for artists.
We're talking about some potential comic book style art and/or concept art for the #iHunt film. We're privately funding development, so budget isn't Hollywood.
I want queer and/or nonwhite artists. I want cool styles.
Links? Tags? Self-promo?
January 13, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Okay. I need a boost here.
Looking for artists.
We're talking about some potential comic book style art and/or concept art for the #iHunt film. We're privately funding development, so budget isn't Hollywood.
I want queer and/or nonwhite artists. I want cool styles.
Links? Tags? Self-promo?
Looking for artists.
We're talking about some potential comic book style art and/or concept art for the #iHunt film. We're privately funding development, so budget isn't Hollywood.
I want queer and/or nonwhite artists. I want cool styles.
Links? Tags? Self-promo?
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When I did This Guilty Land, I spent the year before its publication carefully & consistently framing its argument and its approach, and I do feel it's incumbent on someone making a serious game on a sensitive topic to do that. But to demonstrate your thoughtfulness you need to *be* thoughtful. 🧵
And one thing I want to make clear: I dont think anyone who saw this and reacted negatively has to give it the benefit of the doubt.
If you are designing a game on a sensitive issue, it is on *you* to show that you did the work and it is *your* job to convince the audience that this should exist.
If you are designing a game on a sensitive issue, it is on *you* to show that you did the work and it is *your* job to convince the audience that this should exist.
January 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
When I did This Guilty Land, I spent the year before its publication carefully & consistently framing its argument and its approach, and I do feel it's incumbent on someone making a serious game on a sensitive topic to do that. But to demonstrate your thoughtfulness you need to *be* thoughtful. 🧵
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Shouldn't it be a bigger story that the immigration cops are seizing and imprisoning people who CANNOT POSSIBLY BE IMMIGRANTS
Oglala Sioux Tribe demands the release of Lakota men detained by ICE www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Oglala Sioux Tribe demands the release of Lakota men detained by ICE
The Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota has demanded the Department of Homeland Security release tribally enrolled citizens held by ICE, according to a statement released by the tribe.
www.mprnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Shouldn't it be a bigger story that the immigration cops are seizing and imprisoning people who CANNOT POSSIBLY BE IMMIGRANTS
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If you cannot make “these people are leaving BABIES in CARS in WINTER and then returning them to their carekeepers with BRUISES” into popular sentiment as a politician, you’re either inept or you want this to keep happening.
January 14, 2026 at 3:03 PM
If you cannot make “these people are leaving BABIES in CARS in WINTER and then returning them to their carekeepers with BRUISES” into popular sentiment as a politician, you’re either inept or you want this to keep happening.