Colton Lazars
@coltonlazars.bsky.social
Writer. Unfashionably rational.
Author of the novel Thirty Things To Do After You Die.
www.coltonlazars.com
Not here often.
Author of the novel Thirty Things To Do After You Die.
www.coltonlazars.com
Not here often.
As it's international blasphemy day, can I just say that my dinner (a lovely piece of halibut) was good enough for Jehovah 🐟😀
Oh yes, there is no god, there is no such thing as islamophobia, and transwomen are men.
Oh yes, there is no god, there is no such thing as islamophobia, and transwomen are men.
September 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
As it's international blasphemy day, can I just say that my dinner (a lovely piece of halibut) was good enough for Jehovah 🐟😀
Oh yes, there is no god, there is no such thing as islamophobia, and transwomen are men.
Oh yes, there is no god, there is no such thing as islamophobia, and transwomen are men.
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Good night, Bob. You were anything but "ordinary". #RIPRobertRedford
September 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Good night, Bob. You were anything but "ordinary". #RIPRobertRedford
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A gender-critical book at Scotland’s National Library is the latest in a long line of cancellations | Susanna Rustin
A gender-critical book at Scotland’s National Library is the latest in a long line of cancellations | Susanna Rustin
The UK supreme court’s ruling earlier this year has not stopped a wave of unfair boycotts and exclusions in the arts, says author Susanna Rustin
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A gender-critical book at Scotland’s National Library is the latest in a long line of cancellations | Susanna Rustin
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
- Salvor Hardin, Foundation, Isaac Asimov
- Salvor Hardin, Foundation, Isaac Asimov
September 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
- Salvor Hardin, Foundation, Isaac Asimov
- Salvor Hardin, Foundation, Isaac Asimov
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There isn’t one political point where I stand with Charlie Kirk. Disagree loudly, debate fiercely — but violence is never acceptable.
September 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
There isn’t one political point where I stand with Charlie Kirk. Disagree loudly, debate fiercely — but violence is never acceptable.
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The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible.
In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.
In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.
September 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible.
In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.
In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.
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I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Political violence has no place in our country.
September 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Political violence has no place in our country.
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Houses of Parliament - 1904 #artbots #monet
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10922
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10922
September 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Houses of Parliament - 1904 #artbots #monet
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10922
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10922
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This is "hate speech" nonsense again, or policing what Kemi Badenoch called "hurty words", which I've been accused of using. Graham asked for my email address, in case I got arrested. I just got a caution.
Wish I'd had £5 for every threat I'd received on Twitter.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Wish I'd had £5 for every threat I'd received on Twitter.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Graham Linehan: Father Ted co-creator arrested at Heathrow over his X posts
Graham Linehan was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence and bailed pending further investigation.
www.bbc.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is "hate speech" nonsense again, or policing what Kemi Badenoch called "hurty words", which I've been accused of using. Graham asked for my email address, in case I got arrested. I just got a caution.
Wish I'd had £5 for every threat I'd received on Twitter.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Wish I'd had £5 for every threat I'd received on Twitter.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Cleared of ALL charges.
Bring on the Tribunal and may the fires of hell rain down on bit NHS Fife and Dr Upton.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2531691...
Bring on the Tribunal and may the fires of hell rain down on bit NHS Fife and Dr Upton.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2531691...
Sandie Peggie cleared of gross misconduct allegations
Sandie Peggie has been cleared of all internal misconduct allegations following a dispute over changing room access with trans colleague Dr Beth…
www.heraldscotland.com
July 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Cleared of ALL charges.
Bring on the Tribunal and may the fires of hell rain down on bit NHS Fife and Dr Upton.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2531691...
Bring on the Tribunal and may the fires of hell rain down on bit NHS Fife and Dr Upton.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2531691...
Irrationality and delusion are among our oldest and most dangerous failings. Now they are enjoying an internet-powered renaissance. Worrying times.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Our sister died because of our mum's cancer conspiracy theories, say brothers
Paloma Shemirani’s brothers say she refused chemotherapy because of their mother’s beliefs.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Irrationality and delusion are among our oldest and most dangerous failings. Now they are enjoying an internet-powered renaissance. Worrying times.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jesus and Mo deal with theodicy, but come up with the same explanation for evil.
whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/06/04/j...
whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/06/04/j...
Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ theodicy
The latest Jesus and Mo strip, called, “trite,” is correctly captioned “The idiocy of theodicy.” Indeed, this is the kind of babble you encounter when you read “sophi…
whyevolutionistrue.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Jesus and Mo deal with theodicy, but come up with the same explanation for evil.
whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/06/04/j...
whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/06/04/j...
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Young women are flogged, abused and imprisoned indefinitely in SA.
Their crime? Disagreeing with their father. Kissing a boy without permission. Being gay. Talking back. Having an independent thought in their head.
This World Cup is not for women.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Their crime? Disagreeing with their father. Kissing a boy without permission. Being gay. Talking back. Having an independent thought in their head.
This World Cup is not for women.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s secretive rehabilitation ‘prisons’ for disobedient women
Girls and young women describe facing flogging and abuse in so-called ‘care homes’ after arguing with their fathers or husbands
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Young women are flogged, abused and imprisoned indefinitely in SA.
Their crime? Disagreeing with their father. Kissing a boy without permission. Being gay. Talking back. Having an independent thought in their head.
This World Cup is not for women.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Their crime? Disagreeing with their father. Kissing a boy without permission. Being gay. Talking back. Having an independent thought in their head.
This World Cup is not for women.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Kurt Vonnegut in 1972. The man saw around corners. #AmReading 📚
May 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Kurt Vonnegut in 1972. The man saw around corners. #AmReading 📚
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This is a Kurt Vonnegut graph of a Kafka story
May 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This is a Kurt Vonnegut graph of a Kafka story
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Per Douglas Adams, the British consider food a means of atonement for unspecified national sins.
May 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Per Douglas Adams, the British consider food a means of atonement for unspecified national sins.
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Internet exchange that will never leave my head is a guy kept talking about how much he loves scott adams' work and then soon reveals that he was thinking of Douglas Adams, and then a different person was like "i thought hitchhikers was by clive barker"
May 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Internet exchange that will never leave my head is a guy kept talking about how much he loves scott adams' work and then soon reveals that he was thinking of Douglas Adams, and then a different person was like "i thought hitchhikers was by clive barker"
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Well, there's that. There's also the possibility that doing something gratuitously stupid might not help the cause.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Kneecap say terror charge is part of ‘witch-hunt’ to prevent Glastonbury gig
Northern Irish rappers say charge is ‘political policing’ to stop them speaking out about ‘genocide in Gaza’
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Well, there's that. There's also the possibility that doing something gratuitously stupid might not help the cause.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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This Dutch Jewish lad was gassed upon arrival at Auschwitz. He was only two. Had he lived, he'd be 84 today.
23 May 1941 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Robert Spiero, was born in The Hague.
He was deported to #Auschwitz in February 1944 and murdered in a gas chamber.
He was deported to #Auschwitz in February 1944 and murdered in a gas chamber.
May 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This Dutch Jewish lad was gassed upon arrival at Auschwitz. He was only two. Had he lived, he'd be 84 today.
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I've been reading Vonnegut for decades. Occasions upon which I stumble across something he said that I haven't read before are becoming increasingly rare. And yet every time they only make me love him more.
Compare Vonnegut buying an envelope with this tech bro running from his life
May 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I've been reading Vonnegut for decades. Occasions upon which I stumble across something he said that I haven't read before are becoming increasingly rare. And yet every time they only make me love him more.
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We need a root and branch transformation of unions to ensure the maximum involvement of the mass of members in activity and decision making. Women are too often shut out or impeded from making our voices heard. Time for change /1
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Unions and bosses are flouting trans ruling
Implementing the Supreme Court’s judgment that ‘woman’ means female requires Keir Starmer to speak up for the law
www.thetimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
We need a root and branch transformation of unions to ensure the maximum involvement of the mass of members in activity and decision making. Women are too often shut out or impeded from making our voices heard. Time for change /1
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...