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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I find the use of "warriors" rather than soldiers somewhat infantilizing.
As if US service members are playing dress up with swords.
As if US service members are playing dress up with swords.
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I find the use of "warriors" rather than soldiers somewhat infantilizing.
As if US service members are playing dress up with swords.
As if US service members are playing dress up with swords.
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These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
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Tim Davies getting the sack for not being right wing enough is legitimately hilarious given he was handpicked by the last Tory Govt for the role and has spent his entire time at the beebs pandering to Reform. The Labour govt will definitely pick somebody even more right wing.
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Tim Davies getting the sack for not being right wing enough is legitimately hilarious given he was handpicked by the last Tory Govt for the role and has spent his entire time at the beebs pandering to Reform. The Labour govt will definitely pick somebody even more right wing.
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Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
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This sounds dark, but no, it’s way way weirder and worse than that.
On May 11, 1950, while working on the Rawlins National Bank in Wyoming, a construction crew unearthed a whiskey barrel that contained a human skeleton with its skull cap sawed off & an odd pair of shoes. Dr. Lillian Heath, now in her 80s, was asked if she knew anything about it...🧵
November 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This sounds dark, but no, it’s way way weirder and worse than that.
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"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!"
The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:
The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:
July 29, 2025 at 4:08 AM
"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!"
The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:
The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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yeah with that sort of death toll on his hands the best he can hope for is a podcast
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
yeah with that sort of death toll on his hands the best he can hope for is a podcast
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Does anyone want anyone to be Prime Minister any more? It's there an MP that you think... Yep. That one should be in charge. I don't want Keir Starmer to be in charge, but I don't trust anyone else to be either. This is the first time in my lifetime that I despise everyone in the House of Commons.
November 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Does anyone want anyone to be Prime Minister any more? It's there an MP that you think... Yep. That one should be in charge. I don't want Keir Starmer to be in charge, but I don't trust anyone else to be either. This is the first time in my lifetime that I despise everyone in the House of Commons.
This is disgusting. We are a disgusting country with a disgusting government. A shameless, nasty, sanctimonious, grim promontory full of bitter failures, perched on a damp rock in a grey sea. Just awful.
Keir Starmer's spokesman insisted on Monday that "clearly these changes will not be retrospective" for those already granted asylum, as Reform have been demanding.
Now we learn they will be
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Now we learn they will be
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is disgusting. We are a disgusting country with a disgusting government. A shameless, nasty, sanctimonious, grim promontory full of bitter failures, perched on a damp rock in a grey sea. Just awful.
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Labour, extraordinarily, doing the exact same thing (changing the rules so that they retrospectively apply to people who'd followed the rules and done everything right) that they expressed outrage at the Tories for suggesting just a few weeks ago.
Keir Starmer's spokesman insisted on Monday that "clearly these changes will not be retrospective" for those already granted asylum, as Reform have been demanding.
Now we learn they will be
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Now we learn they will be
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
November 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Labour, extraordinarily, doing the exact same thing (changing the rules so that they retrospectively apply to people who'd followed the rules and done everything right) that they expressed outrage at the Tories for suggesting just a few weeks ago.
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I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future, available from all good book stores.
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future, available from all good book stores.
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Winter is Coming - in the not unknown form of fateful alliances between the traditional right and the centre-right and technocratic centre-left with no better idea than to compete on cultural illiberalism. It won’t end well.
Strongly suspect that this is what will happen here in 28/9. Tories will replace Badenoch with a leader prepared to try it and Farage (as per 2019 but this time as the senior partner) will continue to deny he'll do a stand-down deal - right up until the point he does one.
French conservatives are inching towards a pact with Le Pen that could enable a far-right takeover of the country | Paul Taylor
In trying to woo Le Pen’s voters, Les Républicains risk destroying France’s Gaullist legacy and putting Paris on a collision course with the EU, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Winter is Coming - in the not unknown form of fateful alliances between the traditional right and the centre-right and technocratic centre-left with no better idea than to compete on cultural illiberalism. It won’t end well.
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this island is 2 op eds in The Sun away from reinstitution of prima nocta
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
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Criminals will be stopped from “gaming the system” by choosing trial by jury in order to increase the chances of proceedings collapsing, the courts minister has said, promising to enact radical changes to limit jury trials by the next election.
Drug dealers and career criminals were “laughing in the dock” knowing cases can take years to come to trial, Sarah Sackman told the Guardian, saying inaction would be a road to “chaos and ruin”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
this island is 2 op eds in The Sun away from reinstitution of prima nocta
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
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In 2020 Keir Starmer and Alf Dubs urged the then Conservative Government to restore their commitment to family reunion for child refugees, saying there was a “moral argument” to protect desperately vulnerable young people.
Five years later Dubs condemns Starmer for doing the complete opposite
Five years later Dubs condemns Starmer for doing the complete opposite
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
In 2020 Keir Starmer and Alf Dubs urged the then Conservative Government to restore their commitment to family reunion for child refugees, saying there was a “moral argument” to protect desperately vulnerable young people.
Five years later Dubs condemns Starmer for doing the complete opposite
Five years later Dubs condemns Starmer for doing the complete opposite
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why can they not just fix it
![[Scene is MCcDONALDS PICKUP POINT but for the most part we can only see the close up faces of tha CUSTOMER and the McDONALDS EMPLOYEE at the serving point].
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CUSTOMER:
Hi - I’m afraid this isn’t what I ordered
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McDONALDS EMPLOYEE:
Number 187?
CUSTOMER:
Yes
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CUSTOMER:
Maybe I pressed the wrong thing?
I just ordered one strawberry milkshake.
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EMPLOYEE:
Oh - yeah sorry
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EMPLOYEE:
The milkshake machine’s not working.
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EMPLOYEE:
The only flavours we can do are vanilla, banana, and Labour Leader Pretending to be Nigel Farage.
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CUSTOMER:
Is that a new flavour?
EMPLOYEE:
Yeah
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[We now see that the employee has placed a gigantic milkshake cup on the counter]
EMPLOYEE:
If you look inside, there’s a Labour leader pretending to be Nigel Farage.
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[Customer looks inside the cup]
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[Show Keir Starmer dressed as Nigel Farage inside the cup]
CUSTOMER:
So there is
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CUSTOMER:
Is that something people want, then?
EMPLOYEE:
No! No, not at all.
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EMPLOYEE:
It just keeps happening when we press banana.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
why can they not just fix it
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Remember, always, that the post-Brexit-vote Tory government, and specifically Home Secretary Sajid Javid, deliberately and with malice aforethought reduced to almost zero the timely processing of asylum claims in the UK. They literally created the "overwhelming backlog" that traps people in hotels.
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Remember, always, that the post-Brexit-vote Tory government, and specifically Home Secretary Sajid Javid, deliberately and with malice aforethought reduced to almost zero the timely processing of asylum claims in the UK. They literally created the "overwhelming backlog" that traps people in hotels.
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“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.”
Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.”
Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
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People really ought to be more embarrassed about putting shit like this up in public.
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
People really ought to be more embarrassed about putting shit like this up in public.
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"We're worried the far-right are going to take power?"
"What are you going to do?"
"Get a lot of practice in on all the stuff they want to do, so we can really hit the ground running..."
"What are you going to do?"
"Get a lot of practice in on all the stuff they want to do, so we can really hit the ground running..."
Any politician who is taking seriously that the next election might be lost to a far-right populist party, should be doing all they can to strengthen protections for vulnerable people. If this is lost, it will go down in history as a moment where everything collapsed.
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"We're worried the far-right are going to take power?"
"What are you going to do?"
"Get a lot of practice in on all the stuff they want to do, so we can really hit the ground running..."
"What are you going to do?"
"Get a lot of practice in on all the stuff they want to do, so we can really hit the ground running..."
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In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
"We're worried the far-right are going to take power?"
"What are you going to do?"
"Get a lot of practice in on all the stuff they want to do, so we can really hit the ground running..."
"What are you going to do?"
"Get a lot of practice in on all the stuff they want to do, so we can really hit the ground running..."
Any politician who is taking seriously that the next election might be lost to a far-right populist party, should be doing all they can to strengthen protections for vulnerable people. If this is lost, it will go down in history as a moment where everything collapsed.
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"We're worried the far-right are going to take power?"
"What are you going to do?"
"Get a lot of practice in on all the stuff they want to do, so we can really hit the ground running..."
"What are you going to do?"
"Get a lot of practice in on all the stuff they want to do, so we can really hit the ground running..."