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Nathaniel Tapley

@thatnatt.bsky.social
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Terrible news, chums. Head writer on Netflix's Bad Dinosaurs. Jokemonger for shows you hate. Maker of historical podcasts. Chief Sparkle Enthusiast at Sparklegoose!

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You came into power and raised the cost of employing people, especially for entry level jobs and have been non-stop talking about how amazing AI is to boost productivity, which in reality comes through reducing entry level roles, and now have decided the cause of youth unemployment is welfare
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
It is really important to understand that anyone trying to claim this is a "technological transition" is either deeply misguided or trying to sell you something. What this is, is a deliberate act of harm being done by people with names and addresses.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.
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Sans Strings Studio @sansstrings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Congratulations to @netflix.com  and the entire Bad Dinosaurs team on the announcement of Seasons 2 and 3! 🦖 We’re especially proud of our Executive Creative Directors, @thatnatt.bsky.social  & @rathergood.bsky.social , the brilliant show runners behind the series. Excited for what's next! 🙌
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Big "Say what you like about National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos," energy here
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 25/09/2026
my humble newsletter turned three this week! to celebrate I assembled a top 25 (a format we all know and love) of my favourite pieces so far, and I am also offering you a sale, if you would like to become a paying subscriber an read all my pieces: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/young-vulg...
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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What's this? What's this? More... Bad Dinosaurs? Oh my. I wonder how bad they will be this time... (Answer: very bad)
Headline in Deadline announcing more Bad Dinosaurs...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
I don't know what you're going to do, England. In Northern Ireland, they let the fascists riot for a bit and then threaten to take their government funding away and they stop for a year or so. England seem to be taking the same policing approach but with no off switch. Not good.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Fantastic news Latest records show that RNLI donations have increased by 5000% over the past couple of weeks after far-right backlash. The RNLI is on track to record its highest annual fundraising total in its almost 200-year history" via Daniel Lismore Donate here rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on
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Magdalen Libraries & Archives @magdlibandarch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One of Magdalen's most legendary figures, Martin Routh was born #OnThisDay in 1755. He served as our President for 63 years, between 1791–1854. This daguerreotype of Routh was taken on his 99th birthday on 18 September 1854, making him one of the earliest born people to be photographed.
Black-and-white daguerreotype portrait of an elderly man leaning forward and looking down, displayed behind glass in a distressed yellow mat speckled with blue and a red velvet frame.
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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So Reform have launched an app that tracks small boats arriving in the UK in real time, and already their supporters are complaining that it's boring because there are hardly any boats. They are SO close to getting it.
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Grumpyrocker @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This Labour government has been a massive disappointment from the off. But its failure to protect the #RNLI has me genuinely seething with anger.
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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I worked in a factory with a part-time lifeboatman once. His beeper would go off every now and then and he'd drop whatever he was doing and RUN out to his car. No-one would say a word, we'd just work around him, what with the guy being an actual real life hero and everything.
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scribbleghoul @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
YOU NEED THIS
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Me, dying after six days of agony because I survived a battle but slipped in someone’s guts and grazed myself on their rusty spur, “thanke god, I did not live to see Magic Thee Gathering becomme a troublesome thinge”
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Joel Veitch @rathergood.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
How 9/11 and Osama bin Laden kick started the UK's underground internet creative hotbed that shaped early 2000s web culture, in the words of its creator.
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b3ta @b3ta.com · 12/09/2026
25 years ago today B3ta launched Well, 25 years ago today, we launched the version of the website you are familiar with, we were going for at least three months beforehand, if you check newsletter dates on issue 1. However most b3tans look at the board post date - so happy birthday us. Sort of.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The way British democracy is being bought by crypto billionaires is simply obscene - and a direct result of Labour’s unforgivable inaction
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Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Never thought I'd hear an orange man advocate for a united Ireland
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband; son of a man who had to flee the Nazis: I'm Jewish BBC News: 😠 are you, though? You're doing it wrong Fascist Daniel Thomas, in between attacking teenage cricketers and rnli volunteers: I'm Christian BBC News: 😊
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 12/09/2026
You’ve got priests, pensioners and disabled people who’ve been arrested for terrorism charges for peaceful protest, while the national public broadcaster is glazing a uniformed paramilitary for launching a campaign of attacks on infrastructure. Forgive me for seeing a scale and a thumb.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
we’re all agreed the bacon sandwich thing was antisemitic now, right
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Perpetual mood these days
Still from the movie Cabaret: An elderly man looks depressed. Around him people are singing "Tomorrow belongs to me!"
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I believe the RNLI are responding to legitimate concerns that people might drown.
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Gill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
For comparison www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
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Port of Dover: Arrests made as Insulate Britain blocks port
Queues form at Europe's busiest ferry terminal as Insulate Britain shift their protest from the M25.
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 06/09/2026
I always think about how my grandmother learned how to put text on her pictures and somehow would create the sort of shit you'd see on an indie horror poster or a niche album drop & you can't fake the pure elegance of someone who has no idea what they are doing bsky.app/profile/most...
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Water use was commercially confidential." No, that is not acceptable. If you are using a scarce, essential, valuable _public_ resource, you have to be transparent about it, and prepared to justify it www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England
Exclusive: As millions of people face hosepipe bans, many companies are not required to report, let alone cut, use of public supply
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Return of the Blackshirts. Dozens of men dressed in black, wearing balaclavas blocked the road at Dover. Organised to frighten people Crime and Policing Act 2026: "the wearing or otherwise using of an item that conceals identity when in an area designated by police" is a criminal offence.
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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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The Scottish Rewilding Alliance @scotrewilding.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We want the government to bring together land managers, fire services, gamekeepers, farmers, scientists and policy makers to pool knowledge, find common ground and develop a joined-up approach to reducing wildfire risk. 👉 Read our press release: www.rewild.scot/news-and-blo... 🧵 3/3
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Campaigners call for Landscape Resilience Summit to build two-tier defence against escalating wildfires - The Scottish Rewilding Alliance
The Scottish Rewilding Alliance is calling on Scottish Ministers to convene a national Scottish Landscape Resilience Summit to bring together land managers, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS)...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/08/2026
“Why didn’t scientists warn us?”
Newspaper clipping:

Thr Rodnen & Otamatea Times
WAITEMATA & KAIPARA GAZETTE
PRIOE~10s perannum in adrance
WARKWORTE, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 14, 1912
3d per Copy.
Science Notes and News.
COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECT.
ING CLIMATE.
The furnaces of the world are now
burning about
2,000,000,000 tons of
coal a ycar.
When this is burned,
uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the carth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.
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calliesue.bsky.social @calliesue.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
S. Knutson - I always liked Geography so I was curious to see the names given to the Great Lakes by the First Peoples. Even then, 'Ontario' was part of the name. It was the Laurentide Ice Sheet which was part of the Wisconsin Glaciation that created those lakes.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 30/08/2026
oh man wait until all the people who thought trump would be good for free speech hear about his threats to meet the pr- oh really? not a single one? wow how unexpected of them
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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Most of the centre of Glasgow is closed off right now for filming the new Batman movie, which is great because they have continuity and people will recognise the locations from when they closed it off to film 'Batgirl'. Oh.
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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Saw it the other day, and it was a hoot. Pretty sure we shouldn't design a tax system that incentivises binning pieces of art before anyone gets to see them.
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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 28/08/2026
5/5...modern corporations in this late stage capitalist nightmare we're wading through would rather engage in social engineering to make us buy a middling product than actually innovate. And the longer we let them, the harder it will be to actually innovate.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
your nephew is hooked on opioids because cops took the drug prevention money and spent it on flock cameras to stalk their ex wives
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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A Penguin pretty much as soon as we didn't have to pay him any royalties.
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Our taxes are paying for this and it should be a matter of deep shame to policy makers and tax payers that we are letting these clowns get away with it. The Sec of State claims UK HE is autonomous. BS. Gov sets the price of the product, who can buy it (visas etc), and what can go into it (via OFS).
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Vince McMahon reaction meme, with the judge showing increasingly dramatic impressed faces. 

First panel: Peatland rewettung improves drainage (he looks interested)

Second panel: It also sequesters carbon (he looks excited)

Third panel: It can also be a solar farm (he looks ecstatic)

Fourth panel: The solar panels increase wildlife! (He’s glowing red and gaping with glowing eyes)
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Simon Treanor @simonjtreanor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
1. There's doings a-transpirin' 2. If these trends continue... ayyyy! 3. He card read good 4. Unlikely, sir. They spell and pronounce their names differently 5. Couldn't hurt! Unless [...] which it almost certainly would
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