Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 13hI often wonder how successful a populist left party could be if it could manage to hold mainstream foreign policy positions. I guess we'll never know. 031
Reposted by Iain ColemanLaura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 17hLet asylum seekers work: it'll fix a few problems in our labour market, save taxpayers some cash and mean we don't need giant asylum sites like MOD Bicester. Or we could keep being performatively awful to asylum seekers for no benefit. 22611
Reposted by Iain ColemanLauren Flans @laurenflans.bsky.social · 10/03/2024Oh; I concur that this is not my circus, but those ARE, in fact, my monkeys. And therein lies the problem, constable: this circus has obtained my monkeys by nefarious means. 6958265
Reposted by Iain Colemanheresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026the obvious parallel which i am surprised isn’t invoked more is CRISPR. “we can edit genes directly in situ like a text file” is a potentially terrifying, literally species altering technology—which the scientific community soberly considered, and set out rigorous guidelines for. It worked! 211
Reposted by Iain ColemanSmall Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What. 5283732636
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Of course, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was absolutely published as a trash sci-fi paperback. It was only towards the end of his life that PKD started to get the recognition as a literary novelist that he had always sought. 041
Reposted by Iain ColemanBut Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 03/10/2026What I always find fascinating about this stuff is that the "non-brewed condiment" label isn't, as you'd think, to do with modern food-labelling laws. It's because of the temperance movement more than a century ago. 16415
Reposted by Iain Coleman🎃Simon Threadgold🎃 @sthreadgold.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I prefer the original BBC version of 'Blue Velvet'. 1429
Reposted by Iain ColemanBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I guarantee you there are Jesuits right now engaged in a skeptical but serious inquiry into the question of AI sentience and what the theological implications would be. 3459764
Reposted by Iain ColemanJames Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This seems a good thing but I’m not sure it’s ideal that the UK’s cordon sanitaire against the far right is a random number generator mediated by an unevenly distributed set of levers poorly labelled “Tactical Vote?” 3153
Reposted by Iain ColemanNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick. 161483386
Reposted by Iain ColemanMat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 30/09/2026This isn't a post about Dominic Cummings But he was a fan of the same stuff and, well, I did love that pic of him with the cardboard box 096
Reposted by Iain ColemanGeorge Potter 🔶 @georgepotter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I know the Jenkins Commission is old enough to be a parent by now, but it took just 9 months to come up with a range of options for voting reform, including a preferred option. Nothing has changed since then, so there's no reason why Labour couldn't use their majority to implement it right now. 173
Reposted by Iain ColemanMongoose Publishing @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Want to try the Traveller RPG? What to try it for free? The Traveller Starter set includes the core rules, and two free adventures for you to dive right into - Stranded, and the classic Death Station. Start rolling up your Travellers now! www.mongoosepublishing.com/products/sta... #ttrpg #RPG 26637
Reposted by Iain ColemanJohn Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 28/09/2026RAF Fairford latest: Organiser spotted. 310921
Reposted by Iain ColemanNick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Out of all of them I'd actually choose Badenoch, because I'd want to see how weird she could make the whole experience. It'd take her half an hour to order as she works out which beer is the least woke. 122
Reposted by Iain Colemanmickft.bsky.social @mickft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Orange Book is often misquoted on BlueSky as an economic Liberal trope. Actually, its authors included several Social Liberal writers. It did not present a single view, nor indeed a single philosophy. Those using it to trash LibDems ought perhaps to read it, not rely on the views of others. 013
Reposted by Iain ColemanSb @xtasbe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You do realise that scrapping the pension triple lock will fuck us over and not current pensioners 3146
Reposted by Iain ColemanBeau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026To be fair, you honestly can’t say that Enid Blyton isn’t prepared to move with the times. 24669119
Reposted by Iain ColemanDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on. 3249672750
Reposted by Iain ColemanJerry @allhailjerry.myatproto.social · 05/07/2024It's funny in Return Of The Jedi when the gang tricks the Ewoks with a false golden god so that many will die in a war that doesn't involve them. 414416
Reposted by Iain ColemanJack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 26/09/2026I disagree with much of this by @modernlockey.bsky.social, but I think the points he makes tell us something interesting about the shortcomings of the Starmer project and the problems that Labour faces today.futureoftheleft.substack.comWhat is politics for?Do we still live in a material world? 26620
Reposted by Iain ColemanIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The British Opinion Columnists make sense when you realise they're a clique of Year 10 girls who've all decided to call Kelly From Maths a bitch and a crybaby and a virgin and a slag until she leaves school (one way or the other), except they're 55. 423763
Reposted by Iain ColemanWendy Chamberlain MP @wendychambld.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Following my Urgent Question last week on concerns about DEFRA's approval of a new definition of English Single Malt Whisky, I wrote to the Secretary of State alongside fellow APPG officers, in my capacity as Chair of the APPG for Scotch Whisky, seeking further clarification. 112
Reposted by Iain ColemanRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵 41659249
Reposted by Iain ColemanRemain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 24/09/2026Despite Cromwell's dictatorship and the Restoration, the English Civil War/Revolution was still a good thing, because it established the principle that the King rules only by the consent of Parliament, as proven in arms in 1688. I don't know whether the Russian Revolution will be vindicated. 1184
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Open mic night at the rock bar. Guy just got on stage with a haircut and a guitar I have not seen since 1992. 020
Reposted by Iain ColemanMark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 24/09/2026Why, that’s the kind of lenient treatment they would give a tout and there is no way that the leader of the black shorts is a tout. 24616
Reposted by Iain ColemanIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/09/2026Saw a woman on TikTok who said she quit corporate at age 46 to become a beekeeper because “I would literally rather get stung by 10,000 bees than write ‘per my last email’ again” and you know what? I respect that 332403418
Reposted by Iain ColemanMat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 24/09/2026static.klipy.comRed Dwarf HollyAlt: Red Dwarf Holly "we are talking jape of the decade" 073
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Open mic night at the rock bar. Just had the first Dolly Parton cover of the evening. 040
Reposted by Iain ColemanTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear. 261457343
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026OK, this could take a while. First up, John McVie. Learning all the basslines on Rumours was a milestone in my own bass playing.youtube.comFleetwood Mac ~ The Chain ~ Live 1982YouTube video by Lindsey Buckingham Gems 110
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's time for a midweek mood check! Use a vid, GIF, or pic to share how you're feeling today 🖤 030
Reposted by Iain ColemanAlex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Happy #BiVisibilityDay! On this day of the year I’m always reminded of a certain Doctor Who adventure where a pinky-blue spray reveals the completely shocking presence of Them! on the Planet of the Them. ‘Somewhere on this planet there are ten thousand bisexuals!’ #DalekInvisibilityDay 2146
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So many quintessentially American replies to this. 231
Reposted by Iain ColemanSam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"uh, the Bible says Adam and Eve, not Adam or Eve" 717237
Reposted by Iain ColemanDaniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Scientists [scribbling down the description of the aliens after they sent a poet instead of Jodie Foster] “Okay so um — sorry to keep going back to this but were their exoskeletons literally made of a crystalline lattice of nostalgia or is that you doing your thing” 14519
Reposted by Iain ColemanMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i... 31544161
Reposted by Iain ColemanEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 23/09/2026[a british journalist, as they are led up the gallows steps with their hands tied and a hood over their head]: a lot of everyday people support this, you know 218542
Reposted by Iain ColemanJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026Rorschach test for how online you are. 2728445
Reposted by Iain Colemanryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/09/2026"We are in a moment where you could plausibly argue that Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nick Land are the most influential policy intellectuals in the US conversation. Just look at the state of the two of them. This is not a good thing." www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go...programmablemutter.comMachine god metaphors eat your brainThere are other ways of thinking about AI 514931
Reposted by Iain ColemanScarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The first episode of WORZEL GUMMIDGE (1979) sees the loveable scarecrow come alive for the first time, and it's directed like a scene from an Italian zombie film. Lucio Fulci would approve! 26448126
Reposted by Iain ColemanAllan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Two constants of polling: "how would you react if..." hypotheticals are useless because people are bad at predicting how they will react if..., and asking Scots when they want another Independence referendum the answer is always "oh aye in a few years, just not now" 1229
Reposted by Iain ColemanJay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026i genuinely think about this every time theres any mention of narnia. one of the funniest things that have ever happened 920962
Reposted by Iain ColemanStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Okay, so I have a plan to get everyone on our side. First, we be absolutely as viscerally unpleasant as possible. Next, we downplay any time we get what we want, say it's the bare minimum and so forth. Finally, if anyone gives up and says we win or apologizes, we belittle them. 471830300
Reposted by Iain ColemanJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Wrote something about SNL:UK and what I learned by going to see it being made… joelmorris.substack.com/p/live-from-...joelmorris.substack.comLive from London, it’s SATURDAY NIGHT!What seeing this week’s episode of SNL UK taught me about comedy. 3723872
Reposted by Iain ColemanJack @jhol95.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Every year, it's just the same. 3 articles in 19 hours. Get fucked you absolute babies. 4234
