Iain Coleman
@iaincoleman.bsky.social
Writer/Producer of the Thought & Belief channel on YouTube https://youtube.com/@thoughtbelief
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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1 beer: What a nice day
2 beers: Love my friends!
3 beers: I could probably drive a forklift
4+ beers: I'm too handsome to work
2 beers: Love my friends!
3 beers: I could probably drive a forklift
4+ beers: I'm too handsome to work
June 8, 2024 at 9:14 PM
1 beer: What a nice day
2 beers: Love my friends!
3 beers: I could probably drive a forklift
4+ beers: I'm too handsome to work
2 beers: Love my friends!
3 beers: I could probably drive a forklift
4+ beers: I'm too handsome to work
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A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
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ironically what makes star wars stuff best is when it is 'something else, but also star wars'
e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)
e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)
November 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
ironically what makes star wars stuff best is when it is 'something else, but also star wars'
e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)
e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)
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Great article for all the dorks out there www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-t...
Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics | Quanta Magazine
Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of the theory into a new era of inquiry.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Great article for all the dorks out there www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-t...
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Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”
I’m going to regret asking this, but… what mechanism are people proposing whereby AI will “end scarcity”?
This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people
This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”
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The debate about the greatest actor to have played the part of The Doctor may never end but surely we can all agree on the horniest.
Very excited for Film Is Fabulous to announce the discovery of another Troughton family.
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The debate about the greatest actor to have played the part of The Doctor may never end but surely we can all agree on the horniest.
I would so run this.
tempted to write a Night's Black Agents campaign framework where you are Jesuits engaged in spiritual warfare and covert action against the forces of evil that have taken over the US government.
The Jesuits have the chance to reclaim their position as Theological Shock Troops doing battle with an unwanted Reformation
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I would so run this.
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Social network where every post also reveals your average daily screentime
November 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Social network where every post also reveals your average daily screentime
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I still love pointing this out every so often.
August 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I still love pointing this out every so often.
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Being a Brit on BlueSky means seeing 1000x more messaging about an election in New York than your local council. Might as well message Zohran about my bin collection.
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Being a Brit on BlueSky means seeing 1000x more messaging about an election in New York than your local council. Might as well message Zohran about my bin collection.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
@binkybird.bsky.social for your consideration.
Sexiest Man Alive?
We want Sexiest Man Dead!
Reply with images of late, lamented, beautiful men.
I will kick things off with perennial top choices Paul Newman and Toshiro Mifune
We want Sexiest Man Dead!
Reply with images of late, lamented, beautiful men.
I will kick things off with perennial top choices Paul Newman and Toshiro Mifune
November 4, 2025 at 7:03 AM
@binkybird.bsky.social for your consideration.
Proposal: a Bluesky Main Character feed, which provides a daily alert of who that day's main character is and the inciting post.
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Proposal: a Bluesky Main Character feed, which provides a daily alert of who that day's main character is and the inciting post.
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I suppose you gotta be philosophical, like those great English stage actors who, when asked, say, “No, I don’t mind being known for Zorglap the Devourer, the toy royalties alone paid for my house and the 36-month run of an all-transgender cast of ‘The Cherry Orchard’ I directed at the Haymarket.”
November 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I suppose you gotta be philosophical, like those great English stage actors who, when asked, say, “No, I don’t mind being known for Zorglap the Devourer, the toy royalties alone paid for my house and the 36-month run of an all-transgender cast of ‘The Cherry Orchard’ I directed at the Haymarket.”
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Normalise calling people who are obsessed with bringing trans people up in every argument “weirdos” and “perverts” instead of debating them
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Normalise calling people who are obsessed with bringing trans people up in every argument “weirdos” and “perverts” instead of debating them
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Best. Pumpkin. Ever!!! #AlienFranchise
November 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Best. Pumpkin. Ever!!! #AlienFranchise
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I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
Just realised I'm also three from Jeffrey Epstein and Jimmy Savile.
I'm at most three hops from the King and Gerry Adams.
Off the top of my head, in terms of degrees of separation I managed to get from myself to *Jimi Hendrix* in "three hops," this is a WILD assertion to make
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Just realised I'm also three from Jeffrey Epstein and Jimmy Savile.
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One thing about the whole Andrew Windsor shitshow that hasn't been broached in the UK at all is that his protection only lasted as long as his mother was alive. Would be interesting to see the implications of that sinking in to the British nation as a whole.
November 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
One thing about the whole Andrew Windsor shitshow that hasn't been broached in the UK at all is that his protection only lasted as long as his mother was alive. Would be interesting to see the implications of that sinking in to the British nation as a whole.
I'm at most three hops from the King and Gerry Adams.
Off the top of my head, in terms of degrees of separation I managed to get from myself to *Jimi Hendrix* in "three hops," this is a WILD assertion to make
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I'm at most three hops from the King and Gerry Adams.
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I sat through a presentation on using AI to generate maths test questions - which is actually not the worst use - I was open minded. But the questions and matching answers displayed as examples were all wrong. They looked like maths questions but they were number salad.
November 2, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I sat through a presentation on using AI to generate maths test questions - which is actually not the worst use - I was open minded. But the questions and matching answers displayed as examples were all wrong. They looked like maths questions but they were number salad.
How I'm going to look when you dislike my posts
a woman wearing a black top and diamond earrings smiles
Alt: Servalan saying "Well I'd LOVE to stay chatting with you, you can imagine."
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:48 AM
How I'm going to look when you dislike my posts
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I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.
November 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.