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Alistair Coleman

@alistaircoleman.bsky.social

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Former internet celebrity. Former journalist. Current author and @apiln.bsky.social Supreme Leader. fizzandnonsense.bsky.social completes me.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · Oct 10

Once more with the Lo-fi lookalikes in foreign media, then.

Every celebrity has a lookalike in foreign media no.???: Turkish Nick Knowles out off of Strictly Come Dancing

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 2h

Let’s just say that the big chippy up there is called Codfathers.

Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 2h

Hey, don’t go dragging the Isle of Portland into this. I’ve been up there. They’d eat the national guard alive.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 5h

@carlafrancome.bsky.social Carla! Carla! Carla! You’re an angry person in a local-ish newspaper

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 7h

Then we are all agreed. Yes!

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 7h

Also yes.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 7h

Heaven knows. I’ve only just noticed it’s from four months ago.

Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 7h

In video it’s even better/worse.

a man in a suit and tie is shaking hands with a man in a military uniform in a room .

Alt: Trump saluting a North Korean army general.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 7h

Standard rate at Reach plc in 2018 was £100, which was also the price of Ron.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 7h

The guy speaks fluent Dutch ffs, which to the average Briton is something akin to witchcraft. I often wonder what changed him.

Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 8h

When I wrote the Angry People in Local Newspapers book, it took me far longer to chase down (and pay for) the image and text rights than it did to write the thing. Because that’s how it works.

(Only one publication said no, but then they didn’t own the image rights anyway. Copyright, eh?)

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 8h

This is, Nick, how long-established international copyright laws work, I’m afraid.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 8h

Whenever there’s a new technology, the question is “How long before it’s exploited by criminals?” and the answer is always “Immediately”.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 9h

It belongs in a museum, obviously.

Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 11h

@tokyosexwhale.bsky.social It arrives. I’ve put it next to the Grail.

A “Punching Nazis since 1936” card by Tokyo Sexwhale, next to the actual Holy Grail.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 11h

“A cloud in a jar”

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 13h

They’re having a “pub night” with fish and chips at the village hall this weekend, and I sincerely hope that the fish doesn’t come looking like that. 🤢

AI slop representing fish and chips on newspaper next to a pint. The battered fish looks like a child’s drawing of a fish.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. That’s just idiotic.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Middenface McNulty would like a word.

Middenface McNulty, out off of Strontium Dog.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Ok ok ok ok you twisted my arm, and then I’ll forget I’ve ordered it and end up with two copies.

Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 1d

True. His dad might want an upgrade.

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov badly photoshopped on a jet ski.

Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 1d

“Be they king adorned with gold, or be they peasant tilling the land - each man must face the trial of the Bullseye Prize Board” M.K. Gandhi, 1937.

Turkmenistan President Serdar Berdimuhamedov in from a of fucking great wreath that looks (if you squint) like a dart board. It being Turkmenistan, he is on a carpet despite being outdoors.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Mother of God.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 1d

They’re on a ship.

Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 1d

At the grand opening of the new hospital in Pyongyang (years behind schedule, he was FURIOUS).

“Sir, you can’t smoke in here, it’s a hospital”
“Don’t worry lad, they’re menthol”

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