Reposted by Iain ColemanIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 4hTerry Gilliam bent double, hands on knees, wheezing, Cleese is miles ahead of him with his Worst Python trophy now, he's going to have to animate himself some sort of awful jet pack to catch him at this rate 315921 159
Reposted by Iain ColemanLev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Celebrity Traitors, 1976 edition. John Cleese Mike Yarwood Clive James David Bowie Noddy Holder Penelope Keith Fanny Cradock Richard Burton Angela Rippon Tony Gubba Andre Previn Judith Chalmers Dolly Parton Ray Reardon Diana Rigg Malcolm Muggeridge Clive Dunn Host: Joanna Lumley 2510819 108
Reposted by Iain ColemanAndrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 16/10/2026I’m watching Doctor Who for the first time, and it's taken me a while, but I’ve finally crossed the 100 episode mark! I figured it’s worth noting some observations/impressions/hot takes for posterity as I reach this milestone and embark on the mere...[checks notes]...900 episodes still ahead of me: 1151 15
Reposted by Iain ColemanGabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026AI researchers warn technology 'months away' from being able to connect to wifi using eduroam 231165307 1.2K
Reposted by Iain ColemanJoel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 16/10/2026I think we have a rich body of evidence that going all in on “these people are massively corrupt” is an effective tactic against the far right 213623 136
Reposted by Iain ColemanSpinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 17/09/2025A Brian Blessed convention story from @cooraysmith.bsky.social In 1998, there was airtight secrecy for The Phantom Menace. He was asked about the film, and span a ridiculous yarn. On release: Jim realises that Blessed had given a completely accurate summary of the story *from Boss Nass’s POV* 1125 12
Reposted by Iain ColemanJames Cooray Smith @ Midday Matinées / Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · 16/10/2026This time without autocorrect mandated misspelling in the blueksy post: On The Texas Chain Saw Massacre‘s first London run at the PCC over @middaymatinees.bsky.social. www.patreon.com/MiddayMatine... Free to read on patreon, with free and £1 subs available.patreon.comHorrOctober: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) @ the PCC | Midday Matinées"Well, everything means something, I guess." The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974) was refused a certificate for theatrical exhib 054 5
Reposted by Iain ColemanDave Watson @balkandave.bsky.social · 16/10/2026The little-known 14th century battle that has shaped English, Scottish and French relations. Why is the battle of Neville’s Cross (1346) one of the least publicly known but decisive battles in English history? theconversation.com/the-little-k...theconversation.comThe little-known 14th century battle that has shaped English, Scottish and French relationsWhy is the battle of Neville’s Cross (1346) one of the least publicly known but decisive battles in English history? 083 8
Reposted by Iain ColemanCount Mysterioso @mysteriosox.bsky.social · 16/10/2026This does NOT go where you're expecting. It goes somewhere much much better. 8353118 353
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026A wonderfully dry comment from "Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity" by Diarmaid MacCulloch 000 0
Reposted by Iain ColemanLGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Today's announcement from NHS England was as bad as we expected. It is cruel and unworkable, and is phrased such that it is likely cost the NHS a vast amount of money as it is subjected to even more gender-critical lawfare. Trans+ people, and the NHS, deserve better than this. 519465 194
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Now imagining Pride and Prejudice done Peep Show style. 001 1
Reposted by Iain Colemanit's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 15/10/2026a field guide to Skarsgårds: if silver fox he be, that's Stellan you see unsettling but hot, Alexander you've got only dread doth you fill, then behold, that is Bill 1617186 617
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Nietzshe was a man before his time. Specifically, before the invention of microblogging. 0101 10
Reposted by Iain Coleman~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I really love that someone was just very quick-witted in an unpleasant moment almost 30 years ago and it's now a classic viral tweet that thousands of people have seen enough times to remember it fondly. 523343 233
Reposted by Iain ColemanMister Alex @awp.christies.org.uk · 14/10/2026Scientists: "Finally we have created the Sirrus Cybernetics Corporation from the classic sci-fi work, 'They're a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes'" 1188 18
Reposted by Iain ColemanDavid Brunt @davidbrunt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026On this day in 1066. Northumbrian police release a photo of a man they wish to question in connection with the assassination of King Harold. 1124 12
Reposted by Iain ColemanBethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Who called it “cultivating a sourdough starter” and not “growing pains” 023242 232
Reposted by Iain ColemanHelen O'Hara @helenlohara.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Billion dollar idea: Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing holidays. Swan around a Tuscan villa in white dresses and no bra, looking hotter than anyone has ever looked, eating grapes and making fun of men in leather trousers. 1112125 121
Reposted by Iain ColemanBooniss Everdrunk @bookiesnacksize.bsky.social · 14/10/2026a bluesky fable 1198 19
Reposted by Iain ColemanRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/10/2026Rejected Space Mission Profiles xkcd.com/3310/ 433843533 3.8K
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I have heard it said by veterans that Apocalypse Now is the most unrealistic film about the Vietnam War ever made, and also the truest. 021 2
Reposted by Iain ColemanJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026>we’ve reached the worrying about prison phase of the Trump Presidency 521923286 1.9K
Reposted by Iain ColemanPickwick The Dodo @lesleyhustler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Well said. How many of Tommy Robinson’s Sport’s Direct paramilitary division go and help or worship at the churches they claim they want to protect. It’s much easier to don a balaclava and shout at the RNLI. #HopeNotHate 24906373 906
Reposted by Iain ColemanSpinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 14/10/2026If you can forgive me wheeling this Brian Blessed story again, here’s what he does for an audience of two: 04716 47
Reposted by Iain Colemanlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The advent of social media meant Normal People come to learn that around 20-30% of the Rich People Countries are perennially mad stupid fascists, while they in turn never-quite-learn-but-keep-bumping-into-the-fact-that they're not the Silent Majority they thought they were. A normal century ensues. 414317 143
Reposted by Iain Coleman"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/10/2026...did not have this on my bingo card for today. LOL. Well, you all know the rules: drink! 1039444 394
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026If it's any consolation, just think of the amount of absolute shite that you will never hear. 140 4
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Having just re-read Crash and The Atrocity Exhibition, this short film is a timely posting by Jonathan, and well worth a watch. 092 9
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026First time hearing this one. Christ Jesus. The chorus is bad enough, but that guitar solo should be a criminal offence. 110 1
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"We Didn't Start The Fire" is certainly not the worst song ever written (that's by Peter Wyngarde), but it may well be the worst song to ever reach the charts. 110 1
Reposted by Iain ColemanBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Very important Star Trek image 663322712 3.3K
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Queen's Greatest Hits was a permanent fixture on my dad's in-car stereo. Those songs are permanently burned into my memory. 110 1
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026For me, seeing some of their 70s live concerts was when I really appreciated how much they kicked ass as a rock band. 110 1
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The thing I find with Queen is they have so many great songs - the big hits and some deep cuts - but I don't think they ever had a great definitive album. Unless we count Queen's Greatest Hits, which perhaps we should. 110 1
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Ok, so The Rule of Three is around 200 pages. That's around 20 pages per hour of television. Why would you mistreat a book this way? 000 0
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026You know what they say, a stranger is just a person making silly assertions who you haven't met yet. 000 0
Reposted by Iain ColemanTom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“Outta Context” and yet I feel enough is provided here 36813 68
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026More time, sure. Another eight hours? I just think a lot of people in this discourse haven't given serious thought to what ten hours of television entails. 100 1
Reposted by Iain ColemanLady Death Becomes Her @aelixnt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Ruin a book by adding a word: Licking The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich 0185 18
Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This is quite a startling feature of the 21st century. Imagine the RAF and the Luftwaffe exchanging messages in the small ad pages of the Times. 010 1
![In 1997, outside a McDonald's on Queen Street, an older woman told two young Korean men to "speak English," and one of them fired back with a sarcastic impression: "Ooooo I want a nice cup of tea look at me I'm English I want to eat [dry/plain] toast."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gzx4bgaxmbpx7x4wnt5ql4ha/bafkreihbi2eleygbszo4atmo6vypn4a5efgyvgxkj7rvv7wbzz2sdqxvnq)
![Comic: Rejected Space Mission Profiles. (1) Jupiter Rover [rover falling through clouds screaming AAAAA!] (2) Voyager 2 Orbiter [Small spacecraft orbiting the space probe] (3) Crewed Pluto Flyby [Spacecraft passing planets. Voice from inside says, “Uh, bye, I guess.”] (4) Neptune Core Return [Rocket pulling core out of planet which is dragging the surface of the planet with it.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigccvesphlwvhdojrg2qsmyg5mjclyagu7bny2trktsjh4ajh6lwa)
